virili parte expedivimus atque illustravimus Fulleri Miscel. c. 4. l. 6. c. 19. Inter harum literarum studiosos meritò primas tenet Nicolaus Fullerus Pocock Not. Miscel. In Portam Mosis He intended to put forth a Lexicon Sicuti in Lexico nostro apertius ostendamus sigillatim modo vita supersit aâ studiis conâtibusque nostris propitius adsit calestis Pater Deus noster in secula benedictus Fulleri Miscel. l. 3. c. 10. and c. 20. of the same book he saith Quemadmodum in Lexico nostro dilucidè docuimus Vide Praefat. ejus ad l. 4. Miscel. l. 4. c. 7. The End of the third Book THE FOVRTH BOOK Of such as were Famous for ZEAL IN THE True RELIGION Or in any Kinde of Learning CHAP. I. G IO Gagneius He hath written upon all the New Testament Rob. Gagwin He wrote the French History Erasmus his intimate friend cals him a most discreet Historiographer He compares him to Salust and Livy for purity of speech and composition of his History He was sent Embassadour by the King of France into Italy England and Germany He put out some Poems Petrus Galatinus He takes all from Raimundus or Porchetus Galeacins Caraccielus an Italian Marquesse He renounced Popeây and became a good Protestant Beza hath written his Life Galen a Learned Physitian of Pergamus the chiefest Physitian next Hyppocrates He coming to a shop and finding a Book under his name which he knew not of nor never saw before he wrote a Book de libris propriis The like hath Cardane and Caius of Cambridge done that their genuine writings might be known they having published many Works Some say he lived sevenscore years Galenus homo Graecus summi judicii aâ doctrinae vir ut si quis alius sui aut insequentis temporis Caius de Pronunciat Graec. Lat. Ling. His Philosophicall and Physicall Books were printed in Greek by Aldus Manutius at Venice being distinguished into Tomes with the most copious Prefaces of Camerarius Gemaseus and Fuchsius most famous men They were Printed at Basil in a great Folio Petrus Gallandius Turnebus in the 2 d Book of his Adversaria c. 1. much commends him Inter primos liberales disciplinas in Gallia jacentes politioris doctrinae luce illustravit Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg. Many of the famous learned men of France were his Scholars amongst which Adrian Turnebus was one as he ingenuously confesseth in his Adversaria Gulilaeus Galilaeus of Florence a famous Philosopher and Mathematician He hath published many things in the Hetrurian and Latine Language Henricus Gandavensis He was born at Gaunt in the Low-Countries and was a Doctor of Sârbonne and explained the Scriptures many years at Paris He wrote besides Learned Commentaries upon Aristotles Physicks and Metaphysicks a Theologicall summe and a great Volume of Quodlibeticall Questions as they called them Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester a Scholar good enough as his Works shew but a great enemy to the Protestants in Q. Maries daies He died miserably as M r Fox and others bear witness He hath written a Book De vera Obedientia and other Works in English Petrus Gassendus Professor of the Mathematicks at Paris the greatest Astronomer now living Thomas Gataker of the Gatakers of Gataker in Shropshire a solid judicious and pious Divine as his divers learned Latine and English Treatises shew For the Hebrew he acknowledged himself much beholding to Lively in the 9 th Ch. of the 2 d Book of his Cinnus and for the Greek to Iohn Boyse c. 9. of the first Book See his Life He was my worthy Friend and receiving a kinde Letter from him not long before his death he thus concluded it Thus with hearty salutation of your self and yours recommending your pious indeavours and indefatigable labours to the Lords gracious protection I rest Yours assured in him T. G. Lucas Gauricus He flourished at Venice Anno Christi 1550. He was made Bishop for his Learning He wrote many things His Works are in two Tomes Pomponius Gauricus a Learned man also was his brother He hath written De Sculptura Theodorus Gaza Omnium sui temporis hominum doctissimus habitus est Boiss Icon. He was born in Greece and brought up in Italy Vir graecus ut doctis etiam videtur eruditissimus Polit. Miscel. Cent. 1. He did so happily translate Tullies Book de Senectute into Greek that he hath excellently there represented the Majesty of Tullies eloquence When he presented to Sixtus Quartus the Pope of Rome Aristotles Books de Animalibus translated out of Greek which could not be done but by one most learned in both Languages and the Book was adorned with golden plates The Pope asked what the adorning of it cost his servant telling him fourty pieces of gold he commanded so many to be given him and no more Alsted Encyclop Many of his Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Geber a Learned Arabian a great Chymist and a most acute Writer but very obscure The Alchimists have on set purpose saith Theuet Vies des hommes Illustres l. 2. obscured their manner of teaching not only thereby to make their Science more wonderfull but also to hinder the most part of men from attaining it He saith there that William Postell his good Friend and companion of his Travels in the East Greece and Asia had the Almagest of Geber which is an excellent Work in the Arabick Tongue containing the Explanation of the state of the years and Ceremonies according to the Feasts and Solemnities of the Israelites Nestorians Persians and Syrians which he had got from a Jew There is in Sion Colledge Alchimia De Metallorum Investigatione Perfectione De Fornacibus construendis Explicatio librorum Gebri Raym. Lullii Gelasius primus Papa Gelasius the first of that name Pope published five Books of the two Natures of Christ against Eutiches Nestorius Two Books against Arius Sigism Gelenius He hath written Observat. Emendat in Tit. Livium Aulus Gellius In the year of our Lord 98. Ludovicus Vives censures him somewhat harshly but Stephanus defends him in his Notes upon him His Book more pleaseth with its variety then its order Agellius potius quà m Gellius dictus videtur scriptor noctium Atticarum Voss. De Anal. l. 1. c. 6. Aulus Gellius huic legiturque Agellius illi Nominibus priscis heu malè tutâ fides Steph. Paschas Icones Some dislike the title of his Book because it shews the time when he wrote it rather then the subject of the book Geminus Sir Henry Savill terms him Elegantissimum and acutissimum Georgius Gemistius Pletho a Grecian and great Scholar He put out a defence of Plato he was Professour in Greece and taught only those of his own Nation amongst whom Bessario was one many of whose Epistles to him are extant Volat. Anthropol l. 21. Gemma Frisius a great
the Hebrew Text the second and third answer to the Greek Text and Chaldee Paraphrase In the fifth Volume the New Testament is contained in Greek and Syriack with a double Latine Interpretation one of which is the vulgar the other expresseth the propriety of the Syriack Text being written by Guido Fabricius Boderianus one very skilfull in the Syriack In the sixth seventh and eight Tomes is the Apparatus Sacer. In the sixth the Old Testament in Hebrew with the Latine Interpretation of Pagnine and Arias Montanus and the New in Greek with the vulgar Latine Interpretation and the other of Arias Montanus In the seventh Tome the Grammatical precepts of the Languages and the Dictionaries of them Hebrew Syriack Chaldee and Greek are contained In the eighth and last Tome there are singular Books of Arias Montanus his and the Variae Lectiones gathered by the most learned with greatest study with two Indexes Since that came out Iay the Advocates Bible in France who hath been at great charge in printing the Bible in Hebrew and in other oriental Languages wherein there are two Volumes supernumerary which have the Samaritane Pentateuch and a Translation of it a Syriack Translation of the Old Testament and an Arabick Translation of the whole Bible with Latine Translations to each of them but it hath not the Interlineary nor any Apparatus It is very corruptly printed Now there is here printing in England a Bible which will exceed the French Bible because it sets forth all uno conspectu whereas that is in several Volumes and hath the best Editions of each the vulgar Latine of Clement the 8 th and the LXX of Sixtus Quintus their authentick Editions and it hath the variety of readings of the Alexandrian Copy on the LXX in the Margent the Chaldee Paraphrase of Buxtorfs Edition It hath also the Interlineary Translation of the Hebrew Bible and the Ethiopick Translation of the New Testament Some emendations of the Latine Translation of the Samaritane Pentateuch and in the Apparatus the variety of readings of all the Texts There are Biblia Hebraica with the Targum and divers Commentaries of the Rabbies There are Biblia Tigârina begun by Leo Iudae and finished by other Reformed Divines published by Robert Steven with Notes annexed There are Biblia Latina à Sixto Edita There is the Latine Bible translated by Immanuel Tremellius and Francis Iunius with their Notes There is the Latine Bible with the ordinary Glosse of Strabus Fuldensis the brother of Beda the Postils of Nich. de âyra and the additions of Paulus Burgensis There is the French Bible reviewed by the Professours of Genevah There is the Italian Bible by Diodate Scaliger saith he makes use of it stil at his study There is the Spanish Bible of Cypriano Valera well approved of Theodorus Bibliander was a good Linguist Vir multijugae eruditionis Thuanus Besides many other learned Works which he hath written he hath also published a Commentary De Ratione Communi omnium Linguarum Literarum Gab. Biel. 1480. Nicolaus Biesius a learned Dutchman He published an Oration Pro Studiis Literarum two Books De dicendi Arte two Books De Universate five Books De Natura and four De Republica a little Book De Opinionum varietate Commentaries in Galeni Artem the Method and Theory of Physick Hieron Bignonius Who may be called the Varro of this Age. Eberardus Bilichius He died at Trent coming thither to the Councel Iacobus Billius Primaeus a very learned man He was famous for his exact knowledg in the Greek Tongue which he specially exercised in illustrating the Greek Fathers He translated Nazianzene into Latine and illustrated it with Scholia There are also Sacrae Observationes and Sacra Anthalogia of his with divers French works mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Thomas Bilney a learned and godly Martyr I have spoken of him elswhere Thomas Bilnius Concionator vehemens litterarum virtutis existimatione celebris Camp Narrat Divârt Henrici octavi Thomas Bilson His rising was meerly by his Learning He hath written Survey of Christs Sufferings De perpetua Ecclesiae Christi Gubernatione Answer to the Apology Lâlius Bisciola an Italian His Hârae subcesivae are commended by Alegambe containing excellent things in all kinde of Philology Bilibaldus Birkheimerus He was born at Norimberg Anno 1501. A great Mathematician and most familiar with Erasmus for his great learning He wrote a Description of Germany and divers other works mentioned by Boissard Peter Blesensis 1160. a worthy learned man he spared not at times sharply to reprehend the enormities of the Clergy Divers of his Epistles are yet to be seen wherein he rebuketh the arrogancy of Thomas Becket Archbishop first in England then at Roane David Blondell In antiquitate Ecclesiastica versatissimus Rivetus Grot. discript dialys Sect. 10. He is very well versed in Ecclesiastical Antiquities Bochart speaking of Church-Government saith Blondellus vir piissimus supra fidem in hisce doctus Bocharti Epist. He hath published many learned Works in Latine and French Pseudo Isidorus Turianus Vapulantes Modeste Delaration De La Sinceritè Veritè Des Eglises Reformees de France An Answer to Cardinal Perâon and other Works Flavius Blondus a famous Historian and Secretary to many Popes deserves well of Antiquity for the age in which he lived He died poor at Rome Ut Philosophum decuit as it became a Philosopher saith Boxhornius He wrote three Decads De gestis Romanorum a Book of Epistles and another of Orations and divers others He died Anno salutis Christianae 1363. Ludovicus Blosius Abbas Laetiensis Ioannes Bocatius a famous Poet of Hetruria as Petrarch also but too obscene Petrarch was his Master His Life is written by Papirius Massonus He put forth a Book De Genealogia Deorum which contains fourteen Tomes and many others mentioned by Boissard in his Icones He died in the â3 year of his age Trajanns â Boccalinus Sir Isaac Wake called his Collections of Pernassus the first Satyre in prose and Master Selden said he would rather lose any humane Book in his study then that Samuel Bochart an able French Divine Pastor of the Church of Canâ who hath written a learned Treatise De Geographia Sacra M r Pocock in his learned Miscellaneous Notes in Portam Mosis c. 3. styles him Virum longe doctissimum and quoting that Book saith In illo diffusae eruditionis opere Peter du Moulin dedicates his Antibar barian to him and styles him his Nephew CHAP. VIII JOhn Bodin a Papist but an ingenuous and judicious Writer of great and good note as well among Protestants as Papists Scriptis ad posteritatem victuris satis clarus Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 63. Possevine dislikes his Methodus Historica because he makes such honourable mention of the Protestants there Voetius in his Biblioth l. 2. Sect. prior c. 1.
M r Fox shews in his Book of Martyrs He wrote two Sermons one of Repentance on Mat. 4. 17. the 2 d of the L. Supper I finde also in the Oxford Catalogue mentioned His holy Meditations upon the Lords Prayer Belief and ten Commandments A Dialogue of Predestination and Free-will Two Letters for men afflicted in Conscience William Bradshew He hath written well of Justification M r Gataker cals it Aureum quantivis pretiâ libellum There are also Meditations of his upon the Psalms Thâ Bradwardine Archbishop of Canterbury King Edward the thirds Confessor A man reputed so pious in those dayes that the Kings prosperous successe then was chiefly imputed unto his piety who followed him in his warres in France as Preacher in the Camp Above three hundred years ago he valiantly defended the truth against the Arminian Doctrine Gratiâ Dei streâuissimus assertor D r Ward in Phil. 2. 12. Henricus Brandius a learned and Pious Divine He hath written a Book entituled Examen Consulationis Lessianae religionis capessendâ And Analysis in Catechesin religionis Christianae Quae in Ecclesiis Scholis tum Belgii tum Palatinatus traditur Tycho Brahe a Dane and a Knight a great Astronomer Stellae describuntur à Ptolomaeo Alphonso Tychone Brahe triumviris reipub Astronomicae Alsted Eucyclop l. 7. part 1. c. 15. There are divers of his Works published Astronomiae illustratae Progymnasnatum Liber 1. Mechanica Oratio dâ Disciplinis Mathematicis De munâs Aetherei recentioribus Phaenomenes liber secundus Epistolâ Astronomicae Edw. Brerewood He was the first Astronomy Lecturer in Gresham Colledge He hath written Enquiries touching the Diversities of Languages and Religioâs through the chief parts of the world an excellent piece De ponderibus pret vet nummorum âleâânta Logicae Treatises of the Sabbath Iohn Brentius He was born Anno 1499. A Divine of great name amongst the Protestants saith Thuanus Vir est gravis modestus doctus sed desiderari in eo nonnihil potest Zanch. Epist. l. 2. ad Bezam His Works are printed in several Tomes in Folio Gâido de Bres He hath written against the Anabaptists in French Of the Authority of the Magistrate and Immortality of the soul. Henry Brigges a famous Mathematician and a pious man His Works are Arithmetica Logarithmica Triganometria Britannica Thomas Brightman a learned and godly man Bishop Andrews in his Answer to Bellarmines Apol. ad cap. 9. is too sharp and bitter towards him I have heard that M r Thomas Cartwright counted him a bright Star in the Church of God He hath put out a Comment in Latine on the Canticles and Revelation And Disputatio de Antichristo Refâtatio de Bellarmini Antichristo Io. Brinsley A learned man He hath published Ludus Literarius or The Grammar-School The posing of the Accidens The true Watch and Rule of Life in four parts The Calender Reformation Barnabas Brissonius the learned Chief Justice of France whom one calleth Varro Galliae Ios. Scaliger l. 1. Epist. Epist. 8. 9. speaks somewhat against his book De Regno Persarum and de formulis c. but that De formulis is an excellent work Stephanus Paschasius in the second Book of his Epigrams hath these Verses to him Mirantur eunctis animum te intendere caussis Cùm tot pervoluas noctè dieque libros Queis ego sic Balbus nihil est mirabile factu Plurima nam dicit plurima qui didicit Iohn Briton Bishop of Hereford of profound judgement in the Common-Law He composed a learned Work of the Law and published it in 5. E. 1. by the commandment of Edward the first our Justinian Erasmus Brockman a learned Lutheran He hath put out Theologiae universâ Systema vol. 3. De speculo veritatis Pontificiae Controversiarum sacrarum qua in salutari Religionis negotio intercedunt orthodoxis cum schola Pontificia partes duae Ioan. Brodaeus a man of stupendious and wonderfull reading of incredible memory and industry Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 34. He hath written divers Miscellanies and learned Commentaries upon Euripides his Tragedies and Xenophon Sir Robert Brook Chief-Justice of the Court of Commonpleas His Abridgement was first published in Anno 16. Reg. Eliz. long after his decase a worthy and painfull work an excellent Table for the year Books of the Law Hugh Broughton well skilled in Hebrew and Greck if he had been as judicious and humble He hath put forth several works his Concentus Sacrae Scripturae is best liked He said it was portended by his Arms that he should be a Grecian for he gave the fowl of Athens for his Arms. Christoph. Browerus a learned man He hath written Fuldensium Antiquitatum l. 4. and other works Henricus Brucaeus Fr. Lucas Brugensis a famous Divine He hath written Notationes in sacra Biblia and Commentarios in quatuor Iesu Christi Evangelia and other works Petrus Brunellus There are Epistles of his published Guil. Bucanus D r Prideaux was wont to say sive Buchanus sive Buchananus they being both ours These are his Works Institutiones Theologicae In Orat. Dominicam Meditationes Aphorismi de controversiis de Religione determinandis Georgius Buchananus A most famous Poet and good Historian for the Scottish affairs Namque ad supremum perducta Poetica culmen In te stat nec quo progrediatur habet Imperii fuerit Romani Scotia limes Romani eloquii Scotia finis erit Jos. Scalig. in Epitaphio Buchanani Vir ingenii felicitate scribendi facultate quod ejus scripta ad omnem aeternitatem victura vel fatente invidia testantur nostra aetate incomparabilis Thuanus Hist. Tom. 3. l. 76. There he commends his History also Ego Psalmorum tuorum lectione incredibiliter delector qui tales sunt quales à te uno proficisci potuerunt Beza in Epist. Carolus Utenhovius saith thus of his Translation of the Psalms Tres Italos Galli senos vicere sed unum Vincère Scotigenam non potuere virum The six Italians were Michael Hospitalis Adrianus Turnebus Ioannes Auratus The three French A. Sannazarius H. Fracastorius A. Flaminius H. Vidas A. Naugerius P. Bembus Martin Bucer born Anno 149. a great instrument of God as well as Martin Luther both Germains and Monks formerly The two judicious Commentators Bucer and Martyr Quam multiplicem in Bucero jacturam fecerit Dei Ecclesia quoties in mentem venit cor mââm propè lacerari sentio Calvin in an Epistle to Viretus After the Assembly of Regenspurge when Iohn Gropper Embassadour to the Archbishop of Collen was returned home he commended Bucer exceedingly and said he was meetest of all others to take in hand the Reformation of Religion for he was both well learned a lover of peace and of pure life Sleid. Comment l. 14. p. 187. Abraham Bucoltzer Opere Chronologico magnam gloriam adeptus Thuanus Ludovicus Buccaferrens a
1503. a very Learned Protestant Vir doctus literarum humaniorum apud Basilienses Professor Zanch. Epist. He hath put out Miscellanies a Book De amplitudine regni Dei De utilitate legendae Historiae and other Works Vide Boissard Icones His sonne also Caelius Aug. Curio hath published Hieroglyphicks and other Works Quintus Curtius writes pure Latine He flourished under the Emperour Vespasian Petrus Curtius He hath published a Work De Civitate Castellana Faliscorum Nic. de Cusa or Cusanus a Germane by Nation Doctor of Divinity and afterward Cardinall He is commended by Trithemius for the most skilfull in the Scriptures of all the Divines of his time D. Cypriauus Anno Dom. 250. 244 saith Helvicus 240 Illyricus He was Bishop of Carthage and Crowned with Martyrdom He wrote a famous Treatise of Mortality to comfort men against death in the time of a great plague His Book de Unitate Ecclesiae is most cited and commended Eruditissimus Cyprianus tam vitae sanctitate quam facundia clarus Pier. Valer. Herog l. 22. c. 4. His Deacon Pontianus wrote the story of his Life and Sufferings Cyrillus Alexandrinus Cyrill Bishop of Alexandria 430. He is styled Fortis Athleta by Photius that valiant Champion of the Church nay he is styled Beatus Cyrillus twice for condemning the Nestorian Heresie Lives of the Primitive Fath. He wrote ten Books against Iulian the Apostate which being joyned to his other works are full of Learning Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus Cyrill Bishop of Ierusalem Anno Dom. 370. His Cateshism is yet extant Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople There is his Confessio Fidei CHAP. XV. D JOhn Daillè a Learned French Divine My Lord Falkland and M r Chillingworth made very much use of him in all their Writings against the Romanists The Lord Falkland was wont to say it was worth a voyage to Paris to be acquainted with him he cals him our Protestant Perron He hath written severall Books in French and Latine One Of the Right use of the Fathers translated into English and highly esteemed Against Milletier A most accurate Commentary De Imaginibus An Apology for the French Churches A most accurate Demonstration of Faith out of the Scriptures De Satisfactionibus Poenis De Pseudepigraphis De Iejuniis Quadragesima an elegant Piece Iohn Damascene 740. He was born in Damascus See Act. 9. 2. One that laid the Foundation of School Divinity amongst the Greeks as Peter Lombard afterward did among the Latines He was the first amongst the Greeks which hath handled Divinity in Philosophicall terms and who wrote for the adoration of Images therefore they put him among their Saints Nicolaus Damascenus Vastissimae eruditionis vir nec sine laude nominandus Vossius de Rat. Stud. Pet. Damianus There are his Epistolae cum aliis opusculis De Institut Ecclesiast and other Works Damasus the first Pope a Spaniard He had an elegant wit in composing verses as Ierom and Suidas say He appointed the Psalms to be sung alternis vicibus in the Church and in the end of them these words were added Gloria patri filio spiritui sancto Matth. Westm. alii He first gave authority to Ieroms Writings when before the Writings of the Septuagint were only esteemed Platina Lambertus Danaeus a French Divine of Orleance Petrus Danesius He was most skilfull in the Greek tongue and Professor of it in the reign of Francis the first King of France Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 64 He was at the Councell of Trent and a Doctor of Divinity of Paris there making an Oration against the abuse of Benefices at Rome another mocking said to his fellows Gallus cantat the Frenchman sings or the Cock crows to whom Petrus Danesius wittily replied Utinam Gallicinio Petrus ad resipiscentiam fletum excitetur Olim Francisci 11. praeceptor ob id Vaurensi Episcopatu donatus homo doctissimus quanquam nullis editis scriptis meruit ut inter doctrina literis politioribus praestantes hujus aevi viros numeretur Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 63. Vide Scaev. Samarth Elog. Gall. Dante 's Aligherius Poeta sui saeculi nulli secundus Italus natione patria Florentinus Boissard Icon. His Life is written by Paprius Massonus Dante 's the first Italian Poet of note being a great and wealthy man in Florence He lived in the time of Ludovicus the Emperour about the year of our Lord 1300. and took part with Marsilius Patavinus against three sorts of men which he said were enemies to the truth that is the Pope Secondly the order of Religious men Thirdly the Doctors of Decrees and Decretals His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Dante 's quidam Aligherius quintus ut aiebat à Dante Florentino poeta Polit Miscel. Cânt 1. c. 19. Vide Pier. Valer. De Literatorum infelicitate l. 1. Claudius Dausqueius He hath put out these Works S. Pauli Apostoli sanctitudo in utero extra in solo incaelo Conciliabuli Dordraceni ascia Antiqui novique Lat. Orthographica Iohn Davenant Bishop of Salisbury a Learned and Judicious Divine as his Exposition of the Colossians his Praelectiones de duobus in Theologia Controversis capitibus de Iudice Controversiorum de Iustitia habltuali actuali his Determinations and other Works both in Latine and English shew Philippus Decius The most famous Lawyer of Italy in his time He died Anno salutis Christianae M. D. XXXV His Works are mentioned by Boissard and many of them in the Oxford Catalogue Pontificem Iulium secundum defendit Gerh. Confess Cath. l. 1. General part 2. c. 3. Iohn Dee a Learned Englishman There are severall Works of his published De praestantioribus naturae viribus Monas Hieroglyphica Propaedeumata Aphoristica Mathematicall Preface to Euclides Elements Parallaticae Commentationis praxeosque nucleus quidam Eruditus is tractatulus sanè appriméque ingeniosus nec parùm ad Paralaxium differentias enucleandas atque ab invicem discernendas conducens Tych. Brah. De nova Stella c. 9. His generall and rare Memorials Martinus Antonius Delrio is much commended by Philippus Alegambe in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Iesu as a great Linguist and generall Scholar but Ioseph Scaliger in his Elench Trihaeres Serar as much slights him He hath published divers Works many of which are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Demosthenes his force in pleading is commended Qui populum flectit de mulcet mitigat urget Nominat hunc tellus Attica vim populi Paschasii Icones His Book de Corona is most esteemed He wrote out Thucidides eight times that he might better imitate him in his Orations See in Plutarks Lives a witty reply of his to the thief Chalcus Thomas Dempster a Learned Scotchman Multisciae lectionis eruditionis vir Dilher Disput. Acad. Eruditus Scotus beneque de literis meritus Voss. de vitiis Sermonis l. 1. c. 10. He
the Arts and three principal Languages first in Oxford in Magdalen Colledge He wrote elegantly in Latine as appears by what he added to D r Haddon against Osorius and one part of his Acts and Monuments Medit. in Apoc. De Christo Crucifixo Concio De Christo gratis Iustificante Disputatio contra Iesuitas contra inherentem justitiam His English Works His Acts and Monuments A Treatise of Gods Election Sermons Translation of Urbanius Regius of Faith and Hope and others mentioned by Maunsell Sebastian Fox a most elegant and learned Spanish Philosopher Thuanus in his History often makes honourable mention of Paul Fox and once of Francis Fox Of which last saith Scaevola Sammarthanus in his Elogies of learned Frenchmen Iure igitur tanto alumno superba laetatur Gallia hoc abundè per te consecuta ut Italiae suos Mirandulas invidere jam desinat Hieronimus Fracastorius a most famous Philosopher He is called by many Divinus Fracastorius Vir consummatissimae doctrinae Medicus enim Poeta Astrologus Philosophus fuit sua aetate doctissimus Ejus Poemata tanti fiunt apud omnes literatos ut illa conferaât cum Vergilianis Boissardi Icones He died at Padua Anno Christianae salutis 1553. His Works are mentioned by Boissard Franciscus Monachus an Italian Frier an ignorant man for Learning but witty and the more for that his wit was shrouded under the shadow of great simplicity He was the Founder of the Franciscans Bonaventure hath written his life Francis the first King of France Anno 1515. The several courses he took for the restoring of Learning in France Antoine du Verdier mentions in his learned Preface to his Bibliotheque and in his Book he saith He was deservedly called the father of Learning because he planted in his Kingdom both Hebrew Greek and Latine and gave great salaries to the choice men of all Europe in all Learning to reade publickly in the University of Paris See more there To one that desired pardon for another that had used ill speeches of his Majesty this King said Let him for whom thou art a Sutor learn to speak little and I will learn to pardon much Thevet and Postellus travelled into the East to procure him rare Books for his Library The death of King Francis chanced unfortunately for Students and learned men For he loved all Liberal Sciences no man better not shewed more liberality to advance the same Through long use and custom he had gotten much knowledge For dining and supping his talk was commonly of Learning and that most earnestly using many years for the same purpose Iames Coline a learned man and in the vulgar tongue most eloquent And after him Peter Castellan Of these two had he learned whatsoever was written in the books of Poets Historiographers and Cosmographers Moreover he knew perfectly whatsoever Aristotle Theophrastus Pliny and such other like have written of the nature of Plants Herbs Beasts Metals and precious Stones and by daily use and hearing did remember them He was wont also to conferre much of the Mathematical Sciences and to reason oft of the Scriptures In his own Tongue he was alwayes accounted right eloquent and grave Throughout Greece and Italy he had those that sought and copied out for him the Works of old Writers and he made a great Library The Keeper whereof was Castellane Sleid. Comment l. 19. p. 283. Evangelium in Gallia perumpit sub Francisco 2 o. Kings might soon be learned who might learn the holy Word of both Testaments in two moneths and the Concent of Scripture in an hour and might command that every Sermon should either abridge the whole Bible as S t Paul doth to the revolting Hebrews or tell the afflictions of our Lords Family as Daniel doth seven times over or weaknesse of Salomens Kings or how Aarons twelve stones tell the Tribes story or the golden chain of Chronicle and Jubilees or the Mysteries of Moses Ceremonies or Collations of Prophecies with event or like Revolutions to shew Gods facility in teaching Christ or some whole book in one Sermon Brought of the Revelat. in c. 12. Marquardus Freherus He was born Anno Christiano 1565. a great Antiquary His Works are mentioned by Melch. Ad. in his life Ioh. Tho. Freigius a very learned man Anno Christi 1564. He was famous for his knowledge in Philosophy Philology Law Peter Ramus his Scholar and diligent follower all his life time He writ his Life and this Epigram on him being dead Invictus Rame es nam bis duo pectore gestas Socratis Euclidiâ Tullii Aristotelis Arte es Aristoteles methodo Plato Tullius ore Ingenio Euclides Rame quid ulterius Melchior Adam mentions his works Nicolaus Frischlinus a learned man Iohn Frith a learned Divine and Martyr Io. Froissardus a French Historian Libertus Fromondus He hath written well of Meteors Lucas Fruterius Lipsiâs mentions him among the prime wits of the Low-Countreyes There are published three Books of his verisimilium There are also Epistolae Philologicae of his Leonardus Fuchsius Anno Salutis humanae 1501. He rightly called his Book Compendinm medicinae but not Methodum medicinae as Caius de libris propriis shews These Works of his are published Compendiara ac succiucta admodum in medendi artem introductio Liber sextus Epidemiorum Hippocratis è Graeco in Latinum translatus cum Commentariis luculentissimis Paradoxorum medicinae libri tres in quibus multa à nemine hactenus prodita Arabum aetatisque nostrae medicorum errata confutantur And others mentioned by Melchior Adam B. Fulgentius Ruspensis Episcopus Fulgentissimum Ecclesiae sidus Voss. Hist. Pelag. l. 1. c. 21. In the time of his sicknesse this was his familiar speech Da Deus mi hic patientiam post indulgentiaâ Here ô God give me patience and then pardon and mercy Fulgentius Ferraâdus 530. Baptista Fulgosius William Fulk Doctor of Divinity and Master of Pembrook Hall in Cambridge That profound ready and resolute Doctor the hammer of Hereticks the Champion of Truth D. Hall first Decad. of Epist. Epist. 7. His English Works are fully mentioned by Maunsel in his Catalogue of English printed Books His Latine are Our anomachia Resp. ad Ep. Stanislai Hosii de expresso Dei verbo De successione Ecclesiastica contra Stapletonum Praelectiones in Apocalypsiâ Nic. Fuller He is styled Doctissimus vir by Constantiâe L'Empereur not is in Benjaminâm and by Buxtorf Dissertat de Nomin Heb. His Miscellanies and his Exposition of Rabbi Mardochie Nathans Hebrew roots with Notes upon it in a Manuscript kept in Archivis in Oxford Library shew his excellent skill in the Hebrew and in other Philologicall Learning Per multa sunt difficilia obscura in Opere illo utilissimo concordantiarum Hebraicarum à R. Mardochâo Nathane constructo Quae partim in ipsa versionâ nostra partim in notis eidem insertis pro
Deus D r Iacks on the Creed first Vol. l. 1. c. 30. There are his Works in two Volumes mentioned by Melch. Ad. CHAP. IX L LActantius Firmianus Anno Dom. 300. He was Tutor to Constantines Sonne Crispus but that was as Hierom saith in extrema senectute He was so poor that many times he wanted even necessaries Gâneb out of Euseb. Chron. Hic est Cicero Christianorum quemadmodum Cyprianus eorundem Caesar. Alsted Encyclop l. 32. c. 7. Institutionum divinarum opus sub Diocletiano aggressus est ut ipse testatur libro quinto capite quarto tempore Constantini magni edidit ad ipsum Constantinum sermone converso Forbes Instruct. histor Theol. l. 7. c. 8. Quem obsecro ad pietatem accendit Lactantius atque nihil âo nitidius Dicas Christianum Ciceronem loqui quanquam ille non tractat Scripturas sed cum Ethnicis digladiatur Eras. Epist. l. 27. Epist. 38. Inter omnes Patres audit Ciceronianus Ames Bell. Enerv. He was called Firmianus from his Countrey Firmi or Firmii a Town of the Picenes in Italy Lactantius à lacteo eloquentiae flumine solidiorique orationis genere Wolfii Lect. mem Cent. 5. Arnobii discipulus quidem similis fortunae Nam utramque ex Oratoriae artis professione religionis Christianae doctorem evasisse ex Hieronymo constat Voss. Hist. Pelag. l. 3. part 1. Thes. 1. Franciscus Lambertus There is his Commentary on the Revelation Dionysius Lambinus A learned man and a Protestant say some though Thuanus make him a Papist He hath commented well on Lucretiâs Horace Plautus Turnebus often honourably mentions him in his Adversaria Dionysius Lambinus vir omnibus literis egregiâ doctus Graecè Latinè imprimis eruditus nunc linguâ Graecae professione Parisiânse gymnasium ornans Turneb Advers l. 11. c. 26. Carolus Langius Ioannes Langius a learned Physician of Germany Illustrissimi Principis Pulatini Rheni Medicus cujus extant Epistâlarum medicinalium Tomi duo ab Opâriâo nostro Basilea impressi opus stupendum eruditum varium Medicum Physicum Phylologicum planéque tale ât ob rerum in illo opere pulcherrimarum variarum ac scitu dignissimarum copiam non solum medicinae candidatis sed etiam omnibus eruditae ac Philologicae doctrinae studiosis plurimum sit emolumenti allâturum Extat etiam ejusdem medicuâ de Repub. symposium ejusdem planè argumenti cum Epistolis medicinalibus Neand. Geog. part 1. Steph. Langton a learned Englishman Hubertus Languetus Non minus doctrina quam diuturnâ totius Europae peragratione clarus Bod. Meth. Hist. c. 4. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 74. Thomas Lansius His Consultatio de principatis inter provincias Europae is a learned Work Cornel. à Lapide a Jesuite of Flanders He publickly taught the Hebrew and expounded the Scriptures at Lovaine more then twenty years He hath Commented almost on all the Scripture He was of very low stature as I have heard from one that I think saw him and so I finde him described in Valeri Andrâae Bibliotheca Belgica Pusillus quidem corpore at ingenio magnus fuit Iohannes Lascares Lud. Lavaterus A Learned and diligent Preacher of the Church at Zârick His Book de Spectris hath been often published in Latine High Dutch Low Dutch French Italian He first got himself a name by this Book Perlegi Lavateri Doctissime non sine voluptate fructu eruditissimum libellum tuum de Spectris Placet argumentum sententia tua methodus perspicuitas Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Lavatero He hath Commented upon Ezekiel Ecclesiastes and Esther Ruth Nehemiah Io. Baptista Laurus He hath written two Centuries of Epistles Theatri Rom. orchestra de viris illustribus Iacobus Laurentius a Learned Minister of Holland In his singular Tractate intituled Reverentia Ecclesiae Romanae erga S. Patres veteres subdola D r Featlies Stricturae ad Lyndomastigem He hath Commented upon the Epistle of Iames both the Epistles of Peter hath written in loca difficiliora Epist. Pauli Gaspar Laurentius These Works of his are publiâhed Observatio de publicis disput de Religione De natura in Sacramentis cum Christi Iesu Conjunctione Iacobus Latomus Pater âive Senior an eloquent and learned man most skilfull in three Languages He wrote two Dialogues de trium Linguarum studii Theologici ratione And divers other Works Iacobus Latomus filius âive Iunior He turned some of the Psalms into verse Hugh Latimer sometimes Bishop of Worcester Martyr There is his Conference with Ridley and his Sermons Iohannes Latiâs or de Laet. Olaus Wormius in his Museum Wormianum often honourably mentions him He hath put out the work of the severall Commonwealths America seu novi orbis descriptio cum Tabulis Hispania sive de Regis Hispaniae regâis oppibus Comment A learned Tractate de Gemmis Lapidibus De Imperio magni Mogolis Novus Orbis seu descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis l. 18. Persia seu Regni Persici status Pierre De Launey a French Gentleman He hath written upon all Pauls Epistles in two Volumes in French in quarto The same man by another name hath written on Daniel and the Revelation Wolfgangus Lazius He hath published Com. Reipub. Rom. De gentium aliquot migrat De Bello Turcico De rebus Graecis Rerum Viennensium lib. 4. with other Tracts Iac. Ledesma He hath written a book De divinis Scripturis in quavis lingua non legendis Legenda It was called Aurea Legenda the golden Legend by the Papists for the excellency that it seemed to have above all other stories It contains a report of the Lives and Miracles of the Saints a book written by a man of a leaden heart for the basenesse of the errours that are without wit or reason and of a brasen forehead for his impudent boldnesse in reporting things so fabulous and incredible Io. Lelandus a famous Antiquary He wrote four books de viris illustribus âive de scriptoribus Britannicis It is pity it is not printed That Manuscript is in Oxford Library Hoc opus magna diligentia cura labore congessimus atque adeò jam in temos quatuor digessimus ne Britanniae nostrae fama tot eruditorum elegantium scriptorum deperiret Quotus enim quisque est hac nostra âtate vel inter eruditos qui rectè norit quos literarum flores Britanniae hortus protulerit Certè ut ingratitudiniâ notam multi in hac parte âluant nunquam profectò desidiae maculam abstergent Lelandi Comment In Cygneam Cantionem Civis Londinensis sum nec me patriae paenitet meae Speroque aliquando futurum ut nec illam sui qualiscunque poeniteat alumni Nulli nota magis domus est sua quà m mihi certè Omnia Londini sunt monumenta mei Id. ibid. There are some of his Works published Assertio inclytissimi Arturi Regis
Maecen c. 3. He put out Variarum lectionum libri when he was scarce 19 years old he cals it ingenii sui tyrocinium Some much commend his Politicks others think he is much beholding to others for it Cest Juste Lipse qui n'a rien mis du sien dans ses Politiques que des adverbes des conjânctions Apologie Pour M. De Balzak Thompson in his Vindex veritatis adversus Iustum Lipsium saith thus of his Diva virgo Aspricollis Hic tuus truncus non magis est Diva non magis est Virgo quam tu Iustus etsi illi Divae Virginis nomen dedisti tibi Justi arrogasti Habeat ergo uterque suum sit illa truncus tu Iodocus What pity is it that so high a wit should in the last act be subject to dotage All the masculine brood of that brain we cherished and if need were admired but these his silly Virgins the feeble issue of distempered age who can abide D r Hals Dec. Epist. 5. When he lay a dying he prayed thus ô mater Dei adsis famulo tuo cum tota aeternitate decertanti nec me deseras in ista hora à qua pendes aeternae animae meae salus Miraeus Drexellius Melch. Ad. and he cried out Domine Iesu da mihi patientiam Christianam Henry Stevens hath written a Book De Lipsii Latinitate He reckons up there tres seculi nostri Ciceromastiges Angelus Politianus Desiderius Erasmus and Lipsius To Lipsius that is objected saith he Quod Ciceronis stylum non satis aptum Scribendis Epistolis dixerit Praeterea laudantur ab ipso Epistolae Politiani qui primus inter Ciceromastiges collocatur His accedit quòd Ciceronianistas qui vulgo Ciceroniani vocantur ac nominatim Petrum Bembum alicubi insectatur Some entitle his Book de Constantia liber plant aureas yet others say he was very inconstant himself Literae variae Letters or Epistles Una quidem Epistola est quae literarum nomine signatur sed ea verè multis constat literis Voss. De Anal. l. 1. c. 38. There are certain most godly fruitfull and comfortable Letters of such true Saints and holy Martyrs of God as in this Realm gave their lives for the defence of Christs holy Gospell written in the time of their affliction and cruell imprisonment Thomas Littleton a grave and Learned Judge of the Court of Common-pleas sometimes of the Inner Temple His Tenures is a Book of sound and exquisite Learning comprehending much of the Marrow of the Common Law I affirm and will maintain it against all opposites whatsoeâââ that Liâtletons Tenures is a Work of as absolute perfection in his kinde and as free from errour as any Book that I have known to be written of any humane Learning Edw. Lively the Professour of Hebrew in Cambridge and very skilfull in that Language He hath written an Exposition on five of the small Prophets and a little book of Chronology in English But there is a large Latine Chronology also of his which Casaubone commends as worthy to be published This Book B. Usher hath and he quotes it in his Book De Macedonum Asianorum Anno Solari c. 3. in Chronologiâ nondum editâ vir doctissimââ Edovardus Liveleius Titus Livius Petrus Crinitus â 7. De Honesta Disciplina c. 12. saith his History was divided by him into Books not Decades Neque partitiones decadum ab ipso Livio sunt quod professorem Humanitatis ignorare non decebat antiqui enim Grammatici non Decades sed libros agnoscunt Pignor. Symb. Epist. Ep. 44. Benius criminatur Livianam phrasiâ facere operae precium quod neque Ciceroniâ sit neque Terentiana at num ideo minus Latina affirmet cui cornea fibra est Ego utique non affirmabo qui sciam linguam Latinam debere uni Livio magnam copiam genuinae elocutionis quam apud Ciceronem Terentium frustra quaerimus Ut ââre vocaverit novitius Livii editor omnis latinitatis refertissimum Id. ibid. Vide plura ibid. CHAP. X. A Loysius Lollinus Episcopus Bellunensis There are his Episcopalium curarum characteres Peter Lombard Anno Dom. 1140. the Father of the Schoolmen He was sirnamed Master of the Sentences because of the four books of Sentences composed by him and collected out of the Fathers He died in the year 1164. The Commentary which Thomas Aquinas made on Lombards Book of the Sentences was so well liked that he was after Commented upon by fourscore Divines whose names and lift are to be found within the laborious Book of Gesners Bibliotheca Quamvis in eo opere Papatum confirmet pro virili multa tamen exciderunt quae Pontificio errores oppugnant Illyr Catal. Test. Ver. l. 15. Lombardus inter omnes Papistas optimus doctissimus Apol. Rog. Aschani pro Caena Domini Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Quid non Lombardo Parasina Academia debet Qui sanctae reserat limina prima Scholae Dionysius Longinus a very great Master of Rhetorick He hath written a small Book ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã de grandi sive sublimi genere orationis Christ. Longomontanus a great Mathematician He hath put out these Works Astronomia Danica Cyclometria verè absolutè in ipsa natura Circuli cum rectilineo inventa Christopher Longoly born at Machlinia a famous Town in Germany buried at Padua a man excellently Learned and a great Ciceronian omnium Ciceronianissimus Lud. Viv. de Caus. Corrupt art l 4. Longolius l. 4. Epist. Nic. Draconi commends Tully much He hath written three Orations four Books of Epistles He died when he was scarce 34 years old Exilis est in sententiis non luculentus in verbis ut tamen de eo si vitae contigisset usura diutur nior bene censeam sperandum fuisset Sed ut nunc est mea quidem sententia nullus est quid enim affert exquisitum quid singulare quid non vulgatum non ex quotidiana consuetudine usuque sumptum Paul Manut. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 4. Vide plura ibid. Eum ut in sententiis exilem in verbis minimè luculentum aspernantur Itali homines qui parem in hoc laudis genere nullum ferre possunt Scaev. Samarth Gallorum doctrina illust Elog. Vide Boxhorn Theat Holland p. 299. Petrus Lorichius Abbas He hath put out Poems Io. Lorinus a French man He was Professor of Divinity at Paris Millain Rome He hath written upon a great part of the Scripture Lucanus His life was written by Suetonius Lucanus ardens concitatus sententiis clarissimus ut dicam quod sentio magis oratoribus quam poetis annumerandus Quintill Instit. Orat. l. 10. c. 1. Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Carmina mellistui non ambio docta Maronis Sunt sua Lucano sunt sua Virgilio Lucian the Atheist he doth promiscuously scoff at all Religion he
Hebraeos celebratissimus Merc. praefat in lib. Iob. Celeberrimus inter Iudaeâs Maimonides Constant. L'Empereur praefat ad Itin. Benjam Diligentissimus Rabinorum Mosche ben Maymon Schickardi Ius Regium Hebraeorum c. 1. Io. Major Scotus Johannes Major qui in studio Theologiae magnum nomen me puero habuit Buchan Rer. Scot. Hist. l. 7. He hath written Historiam Majoris Britanniae and on four Books of the Sentences Cum scateat nugis solo cognomine Major Nec sit in immenso pagina sana libro Non mirum titulis quod se veracibus ornat Nec semper mendax fingere Creta solet Buchan Epig. lib. 1. This was much in Buchanan Major being his Master M. Ant. Majoragius He hath written upon Aristotles Rhetorick upon some of Tullies Works and Orations of his own Maldonate a Spaniard and a Jesuite Whose skill in expounding Scriptures save only where doting love unto their Church hath made him blinde none of theirs few of our Church hath surpassed D r Iackson upon the Apost Creed first Vol. l. 3. c. 13. The most judicious Expositor among the Jesuites Id. ibid. c. 15. Some think him very arrogant and bitter Vide Scalig. Elench Trihaeres Serar cap. 11. Others say that he read Lectures in Paris by way of preface before his Exposition of the Evangelists of the Scriptures and said that there was more Divinity in one Chapter of S t Pauls Epistles then in all Aquinas his Summes Many Protestants frequented his Lectures and he was suspected to be too favourable to them Ne ipsi quidem Calvinistae Calvinistarum ministri ipsius praelectionibus abstinerent Alegambe Biblioth Script Soc. Ies. Vide plura ibid. Gulielmus Malmesbùriensis a famous Historiographer of our own Anno Dom. 1130. Io. Manaraus a famous Physitian who wrote 20 Books Epistolarum Medicinalium M. Manilius sive Manlius He was a Poet at Rome in the time of Augustus the Emperour to whom he dedicated his five Books of Astronomy made in Hexameter verses Baptista Faustus Mantuanus a Monk born at Mantua as Virgill also was Poeta fuit doctus pius Bellarm. de Script Eccles. He was a Learned and pious Poet. Of that fame that he was made equall by some to the more ancient Poets even under Augustus Amougst other verses of his wisely written also those are wont often to be used and rehearsed Ambitiosus honos opes foeda voluptas Haec tria pro trino numine mundus habet Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Mantua foelicem genuit foecunda Maronem Haec eadem faustis me tulit auspiciis His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones He often grievously accuseth the Church of Rome Thâuet Vies des hommes Illustres l. 6. confesseth he was Satyricall and discovered the abuses of Rome and then saith he was a bastard and gives many examples of famous men that were bastards Aldus Manutius Senior He collected and published two famous Volumes one which Henry Stevens lately reprinted at Genevah Another which in 2 Tomes gives 700 Epistles 40 Volumes of Greek Authours rare and yet full of Learning Wisdom and Eloquence He first also published a Volume of Greek Grammers Paulus Manutius his sonne homo diligentissimus doctissimus Turneb Advers l. 8. c. 24. Besides many other Learned Writings as his Epistles he also published ten Books of the Roman Antiquities Aldus Manutius minor Vir quidem eruditus in Antiquorum monumentis indagandis accuratissimus Ang. Roccha Aâgelus Roccha in his Appendix Bibl. Vatican De Bibliothecis quae adhuc extant mentions three Manutii Aldus and his sonne Paulus and Pauls sonne Aldus Aldus senior publicae consuluit utilitati dum impressoriam artem miro exercuit studio ut Latinam linguam Graecam quas optime callebat in pristinum splendorem Ioanne Baptista Alberto Nicolao Peroto Episcopo Sipontino Francisco Philelpho Io. Iucundo Theodoro Gaza Trapezumtio Lascare Chrysolora Musuro Urbano Bessarione ad eandem rem praestandam inscribendo ad laborantibus typis perpulchris restituere Paulus autem Aldi filius Paulus Aldi filius alter Cicero in Latine scribendo Romanam linguam collabentem in pristinum nitorem studuit revocare dum Latinorum monumenta diligenter scrutatus est Aldus denique junior Aldi nepos Pauli filius dum Avum Patrem typis ac scriptis imitatur utriusque linguae non ignarus Avum Patrem imitatione repraesentat Gualt Mapes Archdeacon of Oxford a man of an excellent wit who in his verses points forth in lively colours the life of the Popes and he describes also the exactions rapines of the Court of Rome the riot and pride of the Prelates in a book of his entitled Diversa Poemata de corrupto Ecclesiae statu Samuel Maresius a Learned French Divine Professor of Groning His books are mentioned Vit. Profes Groningae Ammianus Marcellinas In the year of our Lord 361. He writes a military and rough style as himself confesseth He wrote 30 Books beginning from the rule and dominion of Nerva even to the death of Valens in whose Court he flourished but 13 of these are lost Scriptor suae aetatis fide judicio probatissimus Riviâ Justin. Defens adversus Alemannum Io. Mariana a Learned Jesuite He hath written Scholia upon the Old and New Testament Maximus Margunus Cytherorum Episcopus Sir Henry Sâvill in his notes on Chrysostoms Psalmes cals him Graecorum Neotericorum longè doctissimum and publisheth there an Epistle of his sent to David Haeschelius Psalterium B. Mariae our Ladies Psalter Bonaventure the authour thereof to shew himself a devout servant to his Lady hath taken every Psalm of Davids Psalter which he peculiarly made and referred to Almighty God and hath in divers of the said Psalms and verses put out the Name of the Lord and placed in the name of our Lady This being done through the whole Psalms and every one of them it is now called our Ladies Psalter used to be sung and said in the praise and service of our Lady Alsted in his Encyclopaed l. 35. saith this book is falsly ascribed to Bonaventure for he on Lombard saith Cavendum est ne dum matris excellentia ampliatur filii gloria minuatur Marianus Scotus He hath put out Chronicorum lib. 3. Augustine Marlorat one of the Ministers of the Reformed Church at Roan in France A man excellently Learned and of an unblameable life who had the testimony even of the Papists themselves that in his Sermons he never uttered ought that tended to sedition or rebellion He hath written upon Genesis Esaey and the Psalmes and an Ecclesiasticall Exposition upon the New Testament which last is generally well esteemed of and D r Willet somewhere wisheth that the like had been done by some on all the Old Testament Enchiridion locorum Communium Philippus Marnixius Anno Christi 1538. a Learned and famous Writer
His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his life His Alvearium Romanum Romish Beehive it is translated into English and Table of the differences of Religion are very well liked Gruterus wrote these verses of him being dead Orbis delities amorque Marnix Quo digno poteris tegi sepulcro Defunctis aliis satis sepulâro est Pars terrae brevis orbis ipse dignum Vix totus fuerit tibi sepulcrum Orbis delities amorque Marnix Clâm Marot a French Poet. Poëte de Princes Prince de Poëtes de son aage Antoin Verd. Biblioth In the Vulgar tongue he surmounted far all Poets that either were before his daies or that lived also in his time He turned 50 of Davids Psalms into French Meeter which are read with admiration of his excellent wit He set them forth at Genevah for he might not safely longer abide in France for suspition of Lutheranism See Pasquiers Recherches de la France l. 7. c. 5. Marguerite Queen of Navarre Sister to Francis the first There are her Memoires In the Epistle to the Reader are these words Que Rome vante tant qu' il luy plaira les Commentaires de son premier Empereur La France a maintenant les memoires d' une grande Roine qui ne leur cedent en rien Her Poeticall Works are joyned together Marsilius de Sancta Sophia He was the sonne of Nicolas Sancta Sophia He wrote many things most worthy to be known of healing sicknesses His Opera varia are in Oxford Catalogue M. Valârius Martialis a witty Poet but too obscene Scriverius hath many Elogies of him in his Comment Matthias Martinius Professor of Divinity and Rector of Brema Some much prize Theologos Bremenses Salmurienses His Lexicon Philologicum is very well esteemed of Petrus Martinius He hath put out an Hebrew and Chaldee Grammer which is englished by Iohn Udall with Observations upon it Peter Martyr a Learned Italian He was born at Florence the most flourishing City not onely of Hetruria but of all Italy Of whom I cannot speak without great reverence B. Iewels Def. of his Apol. At Padua he first obtained a full knowledge of the Greek tongue and of Philosophy afterward at Bonânia he diligently studied the Hebrew tongue and Divinity He was at first a Monk and was counted the chief of his order but when he more seriously punished their loose lives he got thereby much envy He hath written Common-places a large Book in defence of Bishop Cranmer against Gardiner of the Eucharist and excellently expounded divers books of Scripture Genesis Iudges Kings Samuell the Epistle to the Romans the first Epistle to the Corinthians and hath published other Treatises He was Canon of Christ-Church in Oxford as is said in his life and as he himself affirms in his Epistles Andreas Masius a great Linguist He hath written Learnedly on Ioshua and assisted Arias Montanus in the edition of the King of Spains Bible and first of all illustrated the Syriack Idiome with Grammaticall Precepts and a Lexicon There was a great familiarity between him and Laevinus Torrentius and Augerius Busbequius and at Rome he was intimate with Antonius Augustinus and other Learned men He saith in his Preface to his Grammer of the Syriack tongue that Moses Mardenus was his Master Ipsum Romae privatim interdum audiebam doctorom Masorites They observed not only how many words but also how many syllables all the Books of Scripture contained Christianus Massaeus He hath written Chronicorum l. 20. Papyrius Massonius Such a Writer of the French Chronicle as Camden of the English Papyrii Massoni Annalium libri quatuor Quibus res gestae Francorââ explicantur Antonius Matthaeus a Learned Lawyer His father was Conradus Matthaeus Professor at the University of Marpurg He had three brothers famous for Learning and four sonnes Professors in four Universities Vide vitas Profes Groningae There his Works are mentioned Petrus Matthaeus a famous Historian Pierre Matthieu in French He hath written opus Historicum politicum and divers historicall things in French Petrus Andreas Matthiolus a great Herbalist He hath written Learned Commentaries on Dioscorides his six Books de medicâ materia Maximilian the Emperour was learned himself he imitating the example of Iulius Caesar did write in Latine his own Acts and Feats done and that very exactly He was also a singular Patron and advancer of Learned Students as may well appear by the erecting and setting up of the University of Wittenberg Barthol Mayerus a very Learned man as his Philologia Sacra shews CHAP. XII JOseph Mede a Learned Divine of our own There is his Clavis Apocalyptica and many English Works De Medicis The House de Medicis in Florence hath been and still is a great favourer of Learning and Learned men See Les Vies Des Hommes Illustres du nom de Medicis by Le Brillant They give three Pills still for their Arms. Cosmi de Medicis was a lover and preferrer of Learned men for he brought unto Florence Argyropylus a Grecian born and in that time of singular Learning that the youth of Florence might be by him instructed in the Greek tongue and other good Learning He intertained in his house Marsilius Ficinus a second Father of the Philosophy of Plato and entirely loved him Machiav Hist. of Florence l. 7. His Sepulchre in the Church of Laurence in Florence is of Marble with this inscription Decreto Publico Pater Patriae Vide Leand. Alb Descript. Ital. in Thuscia Laurentius de Medicis his grandchilde was a lover of Learning Papyrius Massonus hath written his life well He greatly esteemed men that excelled in any Art He marvellously delighted in Musick Architecture and Poetry as many of his own verses and Commentaries yet extant do testifie He erected an University in Pisa whither he brought the most excellent men of all Italy Laurentius Medicis maxima hac tempestate studiorum patronus qui missis per universum terrarum orbem nunciis in omni disciplinarum genere libros summa ope conquirit Polit. Epist. l. 2. Epist. 6. Vide etiam l. 3. Epist. 6. l. 4. Ep. 2. l. 8 Epist. 1. l. 11. Epist. 25. Pope Leo the tenth was his Great Grandchild Petrus Medices Non minus jam sua quam familiae gloria scilicet in quo patris ingenium patrui virtus patrui magni humanitas avi probitas proavi prudentia pietas abavi reviviscit omnium vero majorum suorum liberalitas omniumque animus Petrus Medices Laurentii filius vir Graecis Latinis litteris optimè quod omnes fâteâmini peritus Nam hoc scripta ejus indicant quaedam ex Plutarcho de Amore conjugali quae vidimus traducta ab eo locupletissimè testantur Pier. Valer. De Litteratorum infelicitate l. 2. Vide plura ibid. Io. de Medina There were three famous Medina's Iohn Michael
Monum vol. 2. p. 353. And my L. Herbert of Henry the 8 th out of Fox He was so given to jesting and scoffing that he continued it unto his death One of the Officers at the Tower demanding his upper garment for his Fee meaning his Gown he answered that he should have it and gave him his Cap saying it was the uppermost garment he had Coming to the Tower-gate a poor woman called unto him and besought him to declare that he had certain evidences of hers in the time that he was in Office which after he was apprehended he could not come by and that he would intreat that she might have them again or else she was undone He answered Good woman have patience a little while for the King is so good to me that even within this half hour he will discharge me of all businesses and help thee himself Also when he went up the stair of the Scaffold he desired one of the Sheriffs Officers to give him his hand to help him up he said When I come down again let me shift for my self so well as I can Also the hang-man kneeled down to him asking him forgivenesse of his death as the manner is To whom he answered I forgive thee but I promise thee that thou shalt never have honour of the striking off my head my neck is so short Also even when he should lay down his neck on the block he having a great gray beard stroaked out his beard and said to the hang-man I pray you let me lay my beard over the block leaât you should cut it others relate it thus that he said it never committed treason thus with a moâk he ended his life His English Works are mentioned by Maunsel in his Catalogue Ioh Morinus a Learned Papist There are his Exercitationes Biblica de Hebraeo Graecoque Textâ Exercit. Ecclesiasticae Phil. Mornay Lord of Plessis His Work concerning the truth of Christian Religion was written in French against Atheists Epicures Paynims Jews Mahumetists and other Infidels began to be translated by Sir Phil. Sidney and at his request finished by Arthur Golding His other Works translated into English are mentioned by Maââsel Thom. Morton Bishop He hath written learnedly against the Papists confuting them from their own Authors There is his Apologia Catholica Causa Regia Catholick Appeal other Works Thomas Morton He hath written a learned Commentary in Latine upon the first Epistle of Pâul to the Corinthians And some English Tracts Simeon Muis an excellent Hebrician He hath written well on all the Psalms and also learnedly asserted the Hebrew truth against Morinus Sebastian Munster a Germane a learned Hebrician and Mathematician He was born Anno 1489. Marcus Antonius Muretus a very eloquent and diligent Writer What Latine Author hath he passed by either Historian Oratour or Poet which he hath not explained amended and restored to his purity either with his Commentaries Scholia or Notes Terence Petronius Tibuââus Catullus Propertiâs Tully Seneca Salust Tacitus and how learned he was his book of divers readings sheweth His excellent Orations shew his great eloquence Quis humilia subtilius ampla sublimius mediocria temperatius potuit dicere quibus virtutibus perfecti oratoris laus continetur Jani Nicii Erythraei Pinacotheca Vide plura ibid. Gesner mentions his Latine works and Antoine Du Verdier his French Musaeus He wrote the loves of Leander and Herûs he lived saith Vossius De Poetis Grâcis c. 9. sub Augustis quidem post quartum seculum Wolfangus Musculus a judicious and solid Divine Anno 1497. He hath written Commentaries In Genes In Psalmos Fol. In Isaiam Fol. In Matthaeum Fol. In Iohannem Fol. In Ep. ad Rom. Corinth In Epist. ad Gal. Ephes. In Ep. ad Phil. Colos. Thess. ad Tim. And Loci Communes Theologi Ioachimus Mynsingerus Anno Christ. 1514. His Commentary upon Iustinians Institutions is well liked He hath written other Works mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue The End of the fourth Book THE FIFTH BOOK Of such as were Famous for ZEAL IN THE True RELIGION Or in any Kinde of Learning CHAP. I. N CN Naevius A famous ancient Poet. Naevius in manibus non est mentibus haeret Poene recens adeo sanctum est vetus omne Poema Horat. l. 2. Ep. 1. Petrus Nannius a general Scholar thought worthy to succeed Conradus Goclenius in Collegio trilingui at Lovain He died there Anno 1557. he hath written much His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Franciseâs Nansius Vossius in his Book De Constructione c. 62. cals him Doctissimum praeceptorem suum and quotes his Notes on Nonnus Iohn Napier a Scot. L. of Marcheston younger He was the inventer of the Logarithmes He hath written well upon the Revelation Natalis Comes Venetus a most learned Writer He composed thirty Books of History in a learned and grave style and wrote ten Books of Mythology a learned and laborious Work in which he demonstrates that almost all the opinions of Natural Philosophy was contained under the fables of the Ancients R. Mardochai Nathan Inscriptis Talmudicis versatissimus L'Empereur Talmud Babyl Cod. mid cap. 4. Sect. 1. There is His Hebrew Concordance of the Bible Gabriel Naudaeus a learned Frenchman He wrote Advis pour dresser une Bibliotheque De Studio Liberali Syntagma Ioannes Nauclerus nobilis Suevus fuit filius Ioannis Vergae vulgo Vergenhaus quod nantam notat unde Nauclerus Graeca appellatione vocatus Voss. De Hist. Lat. l. 3. p. 581. Ioannes Reuclinus was his Scholar Andreas Navagerius A most compleat Poet Orator and Historian He hath written a History De rebus Venetis Two most elaborate Orations and divers Poems Annotations upon all Ovids works Gregory Nazianzene Anno Dom. 370. 361. Helv. Chron. He was famous for his piety and learning zeal and patience He was Ieroms Master It is generally received that he was Bishop of Nazianzum by Ierome himself in Catal. Bellarm. De Script Eccles. Camerarius Yet by Gregorius who wrote Nazianzens Life and indeed by Nazianzen himself in his Epistles it appears that he was there an assistant to his Father being old and weak and thereupon it is commonly thought that he himself enjoyed the place That Gregory which bears the name of the place where his Father was Bishop though he never enjoyed the Bishoprick it self M r Gatak 2 d Answ. to Lilie Constantinopolitanam sedem ab Arianis Episcopis purgavit Geneb Chronol lib. 3. Aelius Antonius Nebrissensis There is a Dictionary of his Nicander A Physician and most excellent Poet. There are his Theriaca Alexipharmaca Poemata Gr. Lat. Nicephorus Callistus He hath written an Ecclesiastical History in two Tomes consisting of eighteen Books Nicephorus Gregoras Anno Dom. 1340. There are these Works of his Hist. Gr. Lat. Hist. Byzantinae Niceâes Choââates Anno Dom. 1210.
Du Serenissime Roy De La Grand Bretagne Les Diverses Oevres c. Du Sainct Sacrement De L'Eucharistie Les Ambassades Negotiations My Lord Faulkland cals him the great eloquent and judicious Cardinall Perron and prefers him before Bellarmine and Baronius and saith of his Book against K. Iames that he was the Architect of the most glorious building which ever in his opinion was erected to the honour of the Church of Rome Peter du Moulin in his Preface to his Answer to Cardinal Perron or his Nouueauâè Du Papisme saith of Perrons Answer to K. Iames le ne trouue point entre les adversaires d'ouurage tant elaborè I finde not so elaborate a work amongst our enemies Mais son peu desçavoir en la langue Grecqué és lettres humaines le fait souuent broncher But his little knowledge in the Greek tongue and in humane Learning makes him often stumble His book is well answered by Rivet Peter du Moulin and Blondell Nicolaus Perottus Cornucopia Correctio Plinii Epist. ad Titum Aulus Persius Flaccus Ierom cals him the most eloquent of Satyrists Barten Holyday consulted with above a dozen Expositors yet in the Preface to his translation of Persius hath these words I may without ambition say it is a new thing Persius understood To have committed no faults in my Translation saith he according to his elegant way of writing had been to Translate my self and put off man CHAP. V. DIonysius Petavius a learned Jesuite He wrote against Scaliger and Salmasius That Scaligero mastix Greg. de Aeris Epochis Qui ad omnia non solum falsa aut inania verùm etiam vera certa omnium consensu approbata vellicanda carpenda natus esse videtur Croii Observat. in N. T. c. 9. Samuel Petitus a very learned man There are these Works of his Miscellaneorum lib. 9. Variarum lectionum lib. quatuor Eclogae Chronologicae Com. in leges Atticas Francis Petrarke an Italian a witty and sententious Orator and Poet. One of the great restorers of Learning Vir omnium saeculorum memoria dignissimus Pignor. Symbol Epist. Ep. 14. He was born in the year 1304 and died in the year 1374. having lived 70 years wanting but a day There is in his Latine Works a neat expression a spirit sinewy and sententious a style short and concise He was another Seneca He calleth Rome the Whore of Babylon the School and mother of errour the Temple of heresie the nest of treachery and seemeth plainly to affirm that the Pope was Antichrist declaring that no greater evil could happen to any man then to be made Pope His life is written by Papirius Massonus There was great flocking after him from France and all Italy Sacras literas ut humiles incomptas humanioribus impares nimio illarum amore contemptu harum opinione de se falsa atque impotenti inventa diù tumidus adolescens fugit Verùm liber confessionum divi Augustini aditus ei postremò fuit ad omnes sacras literas sibique librum illum praedicat autorem fuisse ut adolescentiae vitia dimitteret Papir Masson ib. He wrote De vita solitaria De remediis utriusque fortunae De Communi mundi contemptu De vita sapientis Bucolica Eclogae alia venustissima Poemata quae scripsit lingua Hetrusca and other Works mentioned by Boissard in his Icones His Ancestors were Florentines and lived in exile but he returned home and died in his own Country of an Apoplexy He was buried at Arquato Montanere a village belonging unto Padita where in honour of him a Sepulchre of Marble was built and an Epitaph of his own making inscribed part whereof is as followeth Frigida Francisci lapis hic regit ossa Fessusque in terris caeli requiescit in arce Petronius Arbiter an obscene Writer yet his Latine is pure and elegant Elmenhorstius in the life of Iohn Wower cals Petronius Impurissimùm scriptorem purissimae latinitatis Suffridus Petrus He was a Frisian and wrote the history of Frisia and of the Writers of Frisia Gasper Peucer a learned Physitian well skilled in Philosophy and the Mathematicks He hath written a singular book of his own imprisonment and freedom Christ. Pezelius a learned Writer Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue He died Anno Dom. 1606. Demetrius Phalereus He hath written De Elocutione De Interpretatione Praecepta Rhetorica Philo Indaeus He lived in Christs time and was born at Alexandria a famous Town in Aegypt Though he was a Jew yet he was altogether unskilfull in the Hebrew as the Jews of Alexandria and almost all the Hellenists were Homo Graecè tantum loquens Hebraismi autem adeo imperitus ut dubitem an etiam legere sciret Hebraicè Scalig. Elench Trihaeres Serar c. 18. The Greek tongue was so common at Alexandria that the Bishops as Athanasius Cyrill Theophilus c. there preached to the people in Greek The Apostle therefore writing to the Hebrews alleadgeth to them the Scripture according to their translation Pet. du Moulins Antibarb c. 10. Il fut tellement versè en toute bonne literature que non seulement envers câux de sa secte mais aussi envers les Chrestiens Philosophes prophanes il estoit en grand credit estinâe Theuet Vies des hommes Illustres l. 2. Philo natione sapientia Iudaeus Graecanicae verò facundiae leniter fluens amnis aut in alâeo scripturarum potius dulcè canens cygnus Ovid. Fabrit In N. T. Syr. Lat. Interpret praefat The book of Wisdom was written by him living after Christs passion resurrection and ascention yet he never beleeved in Christ. Doctor Twisse against Ford. He was Iudaorum dâsertissimus Ierom. A great imitator of Plato so that it was said of him ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã He wrote among other things of the life of Moses His allegorizing so much is disliked Iâ Philoponus Anno Dom. 602. He wrote 7 books on the first Chapter of Genesis concerning the creation of the world Iohn Philpot. He and Bishop Ridly were the most learned of our English Martyrs in Q. Maries dayes Fl. Philostratus Franciscus Philelphus Gul. Philander a very learned man There is his Epitome in omnes Georgii Agricolae de mensuris ac ponderibus libros Photinus He was learned but a great Heretique He denied the Deity of the Sonne and Holy Ghost Whence the Photinians There are two main parts of the Socinian Religion The first concerning the Person of Christ Photinianism The other the Grace of Christ Pelagianism Photius Patriark of Constantinople he flourished in the 9 th age Anno Dom. 860. the learnedst man of his time Casaubone in his Epistles much commends his Bibliotheca Acerrimo vir ingenio perspicacissimóque in omni genere doctrinarum praestantissimus Scriptor Photius Patriarcha Constantinopolitanus Fulleri Miscel. lib. 2. cap. 3.
Christian faith He published divers Works in which he both discovered the devises of the refractary Jews and promoted Learning A book De sexcentis tredecim Mosaica sanctionis seu Pentateuchi dictis Philosophia prophetia ac Thalmudistica pro veritate Christiana tuenda cum juniori Hebraeorum synagoga disputatio mirabili ingenii acumine in tres divisa tractatus Farrago ex Thalmudis codice Isagoge in Caballistarum doctrinam which Erasmus commends in his Epistles And other Works he also published which are mentioned by Melchior Adam Nicholas Ridley Bishop of London the most learned Martyr in Queen Maries daies He wrote a Book in prison of the Lords Supper which is turned into Latine with an Epistle prefixed wherein he and that Tract are commended Petrus Riga There is his Aurora Nicolaus Rigaltius There are his Observationes notae in Auctores finium regundorum In Glossas Agrimensorias Glossarium Funus Parasiticum Vita S. Romani Notae in Martialem Ioh. Riolanus both the Father and the Sonne There is the Fathers Anthropographia The Sonnes Anotomica Ioachimus Fortius Ringelbergius He was born at Antwerp Nullum perfecit librum nisi dum a typographo excuderetur The manner which he observed in writing books Melchior Adam mentions in his life and himself in his Book De Ratione Studii p. 85. seems to intimate His Works were published in one Volume at Leyden and the particular Treatises are mentioned by Melchior Ad. vit Germ. Philos. Fridericus Risnerus He was Ramus his helper in the Mathematicks he hath written four books of the Opticks Conradus Ritterhusius He was born at the City Brunswick in Saxony Anno Christi 1560. when Melancthou died He was acquainted with the learned and famous men of his age Ioseph Scaliger Iustus Lipsius Casaubone Thuanus Lectius Ortelius Canterus Bongarsius both the Douzas Heinsius Freherus Gruterus Stenius the Camerarii Remus Caselius Velserus Dionysius Gothofredus Melissus Posthius Stuckius Monavius Beza Mornie and many other great Schollers His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Sir Thomas Rives the Kings Advocate These are his Works The poor Vicars Plea Regiminis Anglicani in Hibernia Defensio Adversus Analecten Historia Navalis in two parts Defensio Justiniani contra Nicolaum Alemannum Andrew Rivet a learned and godly French-Divine He hath very well expounded Genesis Exodus the Prophetical Psalms and Hosea and wrote learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius Criticus sacer seu censura Patrum Isagoge in S. Scripturam Synopsis doctrinae de natura gratia Other learned Treatises hath he published in Latine and French William Rivet his brother is also a learned man He hath published a Book De Iustificatione a most exact French Treatise as some say De Invocatione Adoratione Sanctorum defunctorum Epistola Apologet. Mart. de Roa There are his Singular loc ac rerum l. 5. Singul. l. 6. Observat. in Proverb Do die natali sacro profano Franciscus Robortellus There was a great difference between him and Carolus Sigonius There are his Ephimerides Patavinae Adversus Carolum Sigonium Ang. Roccha There is his Bibliotheca Vaticana Bibliothecae Theot Scripturalis Epitome unà cum Scriptoribus qui in Biblia scripserunt And other Works Robert Roollock a learned Scotch Divine He hath commented on Daniel some Psalms the Gospel of Iohn the Epistle to the Romans and Galatians the Epistle to the Ephesians Colossians Thessalonians and Philemon He hath written De vocat modo revel foed Adrianus Romanus There is his Methodus Polygoniorum Gulielmus Rondeletius an excellent Physician His Life is copiously written by Laurentius Ioubertus in the second part of his Works and his Works are mentioned by him There are these Works of his De piscibus marinis De ponderibus Methodus Curandi morbos De dignosc morbis cum aliis opusc De morbo Gallico Emendatiores Tabulae De dosibus Peter Ronsard Prince of the French Poetâ Some call him the French Homer and Pindar Petrus Ronsardus Poeticam nostrâ aetate ad summum eâlmen evexit Thuan. Hist. Tom. 5. lib. 117. part 1. Post Augusti aetatem poetâ praestantissimus Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 36. Vide ejus Hist. Tom. 4. l. 82. This Epitaph was made of him Hac tegitur Ronsardus humo tot notus in oris Quot patrius flavas Leda percurrit arenas Bartas in his second Week saith thus of him L'autre ce grand Ronsard qui pour oruer sa France Le Grec le Latin despouille d' eloquente Et d' vn esprit hardy manie hereusement Toute sorâe de vers de sty la d' argument Cardinal Perron made a Funeral Oration upon his death He much extols him there Il s' est bien ven aux siecles passez des hommes excellens en vn genre de Poesie saith he mais qui ayent embrassé toutes les parties de la Poësie ensemble comme cestuy-cy à faict il ne s' en est point veu jusques â maintenant See more there Io. Rosinus He hath written ten Books of Romane Antiquities Alexander Rosse a learned Scotchman He hath written many good Books in Latine and English in Prose and Verse Virgilius Evangelizans Virgilius Triumphans De rebus Iudaicis Additions to Wollebius and Ursinus Observations upon Sir Walter Rawleigh Marrow of History Chronology Medicus Medicatus Of all Religions And several others Herebertus Rosweydus a learned Jesuite There are these Works of his Dissertatio de fide haereticis servanda Historia Eremitica Anti Capellus Vindiciciae Campensis Lex Talionis 12 tabularum Corollarium contra Coecysmât Capelli de fide haereticis servanda Vetus Martyrologium Romanum Hieronymus Roverius Hier. Rubeus a famous Physician There are these Works of his Disputatio de Melonibus De distillat Hist. Ravennatum Rudolphus II. Imperator There are Tabulae Rudolphinae Astronomicae Exhortatio ad omnes S. Roman Imperii statu pro communi bello adversus Turcam Oratio in Comitiis Generalibus Cracoviae Ioannes Râellius There are these Works of his De Natura stirpium Collect. interpret Medicinae veterinariae Rufinus Presbytâr Anno Dom. 390. He was much esteemed by many David Rungius He was skilled in Hebrew Greek and Latine and in the Liberal Arts. He hath published several Works Analysis Ep ad Romanos Praelect in Gen. in Exod. De norma judice Controversiarum Disp. in Ep. ad Rom. Cor. Disput. 8. in Acad. Rupertus Tuicensis vel Tuitiensis Abbas Abbot of Tây He was esteemed one of the most learned men of his age The many Volumes which he hath left written do testifie the eminency of his Learning Some of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Io. de Rupescissa a Monk An. 1350. For rebuking the spiritualty for their greaâ enormities and neglecting their office and duty was cast into prison
is his Eucharisticon pro Adventoria de Regionibus Ecclesiis suburbiciariis Censura conjecturae Anon. Scriptoris de suburbicariis regionibus Ecclesiis Propempticum Cl. Salmasio adversum ejus Eucharisticon And other Works Io. Sleidanus He hath by his Commentary of the state of Religion got himself a great reputation it being translated into divers Languages Germane French and Italian The Latine is very elegant There are Orations 2. De quatuor Imperiis De Capta Buda Henricus Smetius He was learned in many Languages and Arts but especially in Philosophy History and Physick His Prosodia Nova was much liked and printed nine times Hoc opus ejus majore studio quam judicio collectum est Scriv. Animadvers in Mart. l. 6. Erasmus Schmidt There is a Greek Concordance of his published and a little Book De Dialectis Graecorum Miles Smith Bishop of Glocester and one of the Translators of the Bible There are Learned Sermons of his Sir Thomas Smith Secretary to Queen Elizabeth He hath published these Works De recta linguae Gr. pronunciatione De recta linguae Anglicae scriptione De Republica Anglorum Rodolphus Snellus a most excellent Mathematician He was Professour of the Mathematicks in Holland his own Countrey He was most skilfull in Greek and Hebrew His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Willebord Snellius Son to Rodolphus He hath put out Cyclometricus Doctrinae Triangulorum Canonicae lib. 4. Hassiacae observat Coeli Syderum Erhardus Snepsius Anno Christi 1495. His mother being a pious woman consecrated this her eldest Sonne as Hannab Samuel to God and Divinity Theodoricus Snepsius Anno Dom. 1586. His Comentaries upon the Prophet Esay are mole parvi eruditione magni Other Works of his are also published In 44. postremos Psal Davidis CHAP. XIV LAelius Socinus Senensis natus Anno 1525. Calvin in his Epistles writes to one Lelius Sozinus an Italian who seemed to doubt of the Resurrection of the body I suppose it is the same Lalius Socianus He carried the matter with such a cleanly conveyance that he was scarce taken notice of though he received some checks and admonitions yet most men thought charitably of him during his life his black designs were not fully discovered till after his death Faustus Socinus the Nephew of Laelius was born in the year 1529. He had more subtilty then learning He wrote a Book about the Authority of the Scripture in which he doth slily pervert the Scriptures and lay a ground for all his heretical blasphemies Marianus Socinus a learned Lawyer Several Works of his are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Socrates Scholasticus Anno Dom. 440. He wrote from the time of Constantine the Great Emperour unto the Empire of Theodosius the younger a Volume of Ecclesiastical History and an Epitome of the affairs of Rome Socrates Theodoret and Sozomen composed a History Epiphanius Scholasticus translated these three into Latine Aurelius Cassiodore requiring it and called the whole Book from these three Historians The Tripartite History C. qulius Solinus Polyhist Anno Dom. 68. Helv. Julius Solinus Plinii simiolus vel verius Compilator Lud. Viv. de tradend Disc. lib. 4. Georgius Sohnius George Sohn Doctor of Divinity in Heildeberg Sophocles Anno Dom. 3486. How much Virgil esteemed him he shews sufficiently in his Eclogues Solo Sophocleo tua carmina digna Cothurno Tully in his second Book De Divinatione cals him a Divine Poet. Dominicus Soto A Spanish Divine of great fame None of those Divines who were at the Councel of Trent were more learned then those three of Spain Andradius Vega Dominicus à Soto Hermias Sozomen He lived under Theodosius the younger and dedicates his Ecclesiastical History consisting of nine Books to him Frederick Spanheme a learned and pious Divine His Dubia Evangelica Chamierus contractus exercitationes de gratia universali his Epistle to Buchanan of the English Controversies and to Cottierus of the reconciliation of Universal Grace shew his great abilities Aelius Spartianus He lived in the time of Diocletian There is his History of divers Emperours before his time Sir Henry Spelman a learned and painfull Antiquary De prisca literatura bene meritus Olaus Wormius His Book De Conciliis is well-liked and for our English Ecclesiastical Antiquities held the best Edmund Spencer the Prince of Poets in his time His Monument stands in Westminster-Abbey near Chaucers with this Epitaph Hic prope Chaucerum Situs est Spenserius illi Proximus ingenio Proximus ut tumulo Hic prope Chaucerum Spensere Poeta Poetam Conderis versu Quam tumulo propior Anglica te vivo vixit Plausitque Poesis Nunc moritura timet Te moriente mori He wrote many Poems in English which are printed together in one Volume He wrote a Book also of the State of Ireland and a Dialogue in prose between Eudoxus and Irenaeus Ad. Spigelius a learned Physician There are these Works of his De humani corporis fabrica Isagoge in rem herbariam De formato foetu cum figuris arthritide Io. Stadius A great Mathematician Sir William Stamford Sometimes of Grayes-Inne a man excellently learned in the Common-Laws He wrote a Book in the Common-Law of the Pleas of the Crown and the Prerogative of the King Sir Edw. Cooks Pref. to his tenth Rep. Richard Stanihurst a learned Irish Papist bred up in the University of Oxford His Works are these Catena Dialectica in Porphyrianas institutiones which he wrote in Oxford and published when he was eighteen years old De rebus Hibernicis l. 4. A Description of Ireland in English Hebdomada Mariana Hebdomada Eucharistica Virgil in English And Praemonitio pro Concertatione cum Jacobo Usserio He was brother to Bishop Ushers mother Thomas Stapleton a learned Englishman The famous Professor of the University of Lovain He died Anno Dom. 1598. His Relectio Principiorum fidei doctrinalium is much commended Papin Statius a good Poet. Doctor Iosuah Stegman He usually cals the Socinians Photinians and therefore entitles his own book Photinianismus Didacus Stella Iohn Ferus and he were two of the most famous Popish Preachers Aug. Steuchus Eugubinus a good Grecian His Works are in two Volumes in Sion Colledge Catalogue Godeschalcus Stewichius He hath written De particulis Linguae Latinae Henricus Stephanus There were four Stevens Frenchmen Henry the Father and Robert his Sonne thirdly Henry Roberts Son and Paul the Sonne of that Henry all learned and Printers Robert Stevens the Printer at Paris Secundum Aldum Manutium Romanum qui Venetiis Joannem Frobenium qui Basileae eandem artem summâ laude exercuerunt clarissimus quos ille longo spatio supergressus est acri judicio diligentiâ accuratâ artis ipsius elegantiâ cui ob id non solùm Gallia sed universus Christianus orbis plurimum debet Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1.
morte Joh. Buxtorfii Georgius Trapezuntius He was born in Crete but took his name from Trapezunte a City in Cappadocia because his Fathers stock came from thence a most learned Interpreter of the Greek and Latine Tongue He died very old at Rome Et literarum penitus oblitus His Works are mentioned by Boissard Walter Travers a learned and pious Divine There are his Vindiciae Anglicanae Ecclesiae or A Justification of the Religion now professed in England His Answer to a supplicatory Epistle of G. T. for the pretended Catholicks written to the Right Honourable Lords of her Majesties Privy-Councel Lucas Trelcatius He was Francis Iunius his Colleague and had one sonne of his own name He was wont to call Iohn Mercer and Peter Ramus honoris causa his masters He was in England a long time and taught School There is his Locorum Communium Sacr. Theol. Institut Immanuell Tremellius He hath put forth a Commentary on Hosea A Chaldee and Syriack Grammer He professed Hebrew at Heidelberge where he turned the Syriack Interpretation of the New Testament into Latine and afterward with the help of Iunius he translated all the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Latine and illustrated it with most learned Notes Iac. Triglandius There are his Dissertatio de civili Ecclesiastica potestate Meditationes in opiniones variorum de voluntate Dei gratia universali de scientia media Io. Trithemius Anno Dom. 1462. Calv. Chron. He was a subtil Philosopher an ingenious Mathematician a famous Poet a compleat Historian a very eloquent Oratour He was very skilfull in Magick Michael Rothardus in his Crâx Saulitica p. 70. tels a notable Story of him Vide Naudaeum de Studio militari l. 1. p. 425 426. He hath written De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis De viris illustribus ordinis S. Benedicti Epistolae familiares Opusc. quaedam Theologica And many other Works Mart. Trostius He hath put out Novum Testamentum Syria Latinum Lexicon-Syriacum Adrianus Turnebus the King of France his Professour of Philosophy and Greek in Paris Grande nostri seculi ornamentum Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 35. He was admirable both in the Greek and Latine Languages and in knowledge of all Antiquity as his Books entitled Adversaria do evidently testifie Illa aeternitate digna Adversaria Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 36. Utinam non tanta brevitate in suis Adversariorum libris esset usus Paulo enim luculentior plenior quorundam locorum explanatio majorem illi eperi gratiam laudâmque conciliasset lectori multo magis satisfecisset Henr. Stephani Pseudo Cicero Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones saith thus of him Quicquid in arcano condebat avara vetustas Turnebus tacitis eruit è latebris He hath mended Plinies Preface to his Natural History by ancient Copies and added Annotations upon it He hath commented also upon Horaces first Book of Verses and upon his obscurer places Benedict Turretine a learned Frenchman These Books of his are published in the French Defense de la fidelité des traductions de la S. Bible faictes à Geneve Recheute du Iesuite Plagiaire Profit des Chastiments Franciscus Turrianus Famous in Theological Antiquities and for his skill in the Greek and Hebrew Languages Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue and Appendix Iacobus Tusanus a singular Grecian D r William Twisse a learned Divine of our own famous beyond Sea for his excellent writings against the Arminians Vindiciae Gratiae Potestatis ac Providentiae Dei Dissertatio de Scientia media contra Penottum Suarez c. Animadversiones ad Arminii Collationem cum Junio ad Corvini defens sententiae Arminianae contra Tilenum And many English Tracts that way also Pontus Tyardaeus Bissianus Episcopus Many of his Works are mentioned by Ludovicus Iacobus De Claris Scriptoribus Cabiolânensibus and his French Works by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque I finde in Oxford Catalogue Tyard Discours 1587. Philosophiquez William Tyndall an exile for his Religion and a Martyr under Charles the fifth He was brought up from a childe in the University of Oxford where he by long continuance grew up and increased as well in the knowledge of Tongues and other liberal Arts as specially in the knowledge of the Scriptures whereunto his minde was singularly addicted Insomuch that he lying then in Magdalen-Hall read privily to certain Students and Fellows of Magdalen-Colledge some parcell of Divinity instructing them in the knowledge and truth of the Scriptures Whose manners also and conversation being correspondent to the same were such that all they that knew him reputed and esteemed him to be a man of most virtuous disposition and of life unspotted Fox Act. and Monum vol. 2. p. 361 c. He translated the New Testament into English and five Books of Moses He wrote also divers other Books which are all published in one general Volume as also the Works of Iohn Frith and Barns He was put to death in Flanders at Filford Anno Dom. 1536. crying thus at the Stake with a fervent zeal and a loud voice Lord open the King of Englands eyes He is drawn with a Bible in his hand and this Distick Hac ut luce tuas dispergam Roma tenebras Sponte extorris ero sponte Sacrificium CHAP. IV. V JOach Vadianus the chiefest Cosmographer of his time Qui tam foelix est in describendis regionibus ut non scribere sed pingere videatur His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones and many of them in Oxford Catalogue Matthaeus Vayerius a learned and eloquent Frenchman but a patron of Pelagianism He hath put out a French Book De virtute Ethnicorum Petrus Valadanus P. de la Vallada a learned French Minister He hath put out Apologie pour l' Epistre de messieurs les Ministres du S. Evangile de l' Eglise de Paris Greg. de Valentia a very learned Jesuite He hath written A Commentary in summam Aquin. Tom. 4. De rebus fidei controversis Apol. de Sacrificio A Bookseller seeing him passe by one day said Hic est ille qâi suis libris saepius impressis bibliopolas plures magnas ad divitias opesque perduxit Jani Nicii Erythraei Pinacotheca secunda Vide plura ibid. Valerius Maximus His History is a good Book for Themes Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these Verses of him Et brevitas me variè commeâdat acumen Haec Emblemata tu vermiculata pââââs Laurentius Vâlla Proprietatis Latini sermonis ãâã Scriv. in Mart. He was a Senator of Rome The Prince of Grammarians in his Age. Trithemius cals him Theologâââ praestantissimum a most excellent Divine He preferring Latine eloquence before the Greek hath composed many things for its ornament though he was most skilfull both in the Greek and Latine Languages Carpis majores te quoque Valla minores
cognitionem utriusque linguae videlicet Britannicae Saxonicae tanquam ad coronidem adjecisset Id. ibid. Vide plura ibid. Publius Virgilius Maro the âtately Poet. Lilius Gyrald and Politian write him Vergilius Some compare him with Homer nay prefer him before him others style him Homer in Latine This was said upon the coming forth of Virgils Aeneads Cedite Romani scriptores cedite Graii Nescio quid majus nascitur Iliade He set this Distick upon the Palace-gate of the Emperour Augustus Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula mane Divisum imperium cum Jove Caesar habet As much to say God sheweth his power by the night rains Caesar his magnificence by the pomps of the day These two Verses were very well liked and brought to the Emperours Majesty who took great pleasure in them and willed the Authour should be known A sausie Courtier pretended to be the man and had a good reward given him for the Emperour himself was not only learned but very munificent toward all learned men Virgil seeing himself by his overmuch modesty defrauded of the reward which an impudent person had gotten by abuse of his merit came the next night and fastened upon the same place this half Metre four times iterated thus Sic vos non vobis Sic vos non vobis Sic vos non vobis Sic vos non vobis And there it remained a great while because no man wist what it meant till Virgil opened the whole fraud by this devise He wrote about the same half Metres this whole Verse hexameter Hos ego versiculos feci tulit alter honores And then finished the four half Metres thus Sic vos non vobis Fertis aratra boves Sic vos non vobis Vellera fertis oves Sic vos non vobis Mellificatis apes Sic vos non vobis Nidificatis aveâ And put to his name Publius Virgilius Marâ This matter came by and by to the Emperours ear who taking great pleasure in the devise called for Virgil and gave him not only a present reward but also held him ever after upon larger triall he had made of his Learning and Vertue in so great reputation as he vouchsafed to give him the name of Amicus which among the Romans was a great honour and special favour He made a Talisman or brazen Fly which he set upon one of the gates of the City Naples which for the space of eight years kept all manner of Flies from coming into the City Gaffarels Unheard of Curiosities Part. 2. Chap. 7. See more there The purity of his style and conceptions is generally known and the purity of his manners was once admired by those of Naples which for this reason commonly called him Parthenius Virgilius Latinae linguae columen vocatur à Servio Cicero cùm jam senex in hujus adolescentis opusculum incidisset de illo sic fertur augurasse Magnae spes altera Romae Campianus de Imit Rhetor. c. 3. Vitae Lives Diogenes Laertius hath written the Lives of the Philosophers in two Books There are the Lives of the Fathers illustrated with Notes by Rosweyde the Jesuite There are the Lives of many famous Romans written well by Plutark The Lives of Sophisters written by Eunapius There are the Lives of the Popes written well by Platina Vitae res gesta Pontificum Romanorum S. R. E. Cardinalium ab initio nascentis Ecclesiae usque ad Urbanum 8 um by Ciaconius The Lives of the Germane Divines Lawyers Physicians and Philosophers written by Melchior Adam The Lives of Cardinal Contarenus and Bembus by Iohn Casa The Life of Pinellus written by Paulus Gualdus Of Cardinal Pool written by Dudithius The Life of Calvin written excellently by Beza and the Life of Galeacius Caracciolus written first in Italian and translated into Latine by Beza and into English by M r Crashaw Of Iuel by D r Humfrie Of Whitaker by Abdias Asheton Of Whitgift by Sir George Paule Of Bernard Gilpin written by Bishop Carleton Of Sadeel by Lectius Of Gesner by Simler Of Bellarmine by Fuligat in five Books Iunius hath written his own Life Buchanan his Cardaâ his And so hath Thuanus his in six Books Sir Thomas Bodlie also wrote his own Life and Bale Io. Annaeus Viterbiensis A Monk by profession who lived some two hundred years ago having attained to more then ordinary knowledge both of the Tongues and Histories applied himself by his knowledge and proficiency not to help but to cheat the world To that end he counterfeited divers ancient Historians of best note and greatest antiquity as Berosus Manetho Catonis Origines and the like which had not been heard of in many ages and wrote Comments upon them these passed so current for a long time that even to this day though descryed by divers learned men of all Nations and professions many can scarce perswade themselves that so many fine titles and shows should be but a piece of juggling Scaliger in his Elench Orat. Chronol Parei cals him Fanaticum Dominicanum And elsewhere in that Book he saith Ut doctior videatur mendacia sua auctoritate priscorum auctorum firmare conatur Propterea commentus est Myrsilos Xenophantas De aequivocis Metasthenes alios nescio quos qui aut non fuerunt aut ea non scripserunt quae planus ille eos scripsisse mentitur Got fridus Vitehergensis He was learned in the Hebrew Greek Chaldee and Latine Tongues and many vulgar ones He got himself a great name by his universal Chronicle which because it contains a History of all Princes and they are styled Gods in Scripture he named it Panthâon Vitellio He hath written excellently on the Opticks Iacobus de Vitriaco Anno Dom. 1220. There is his Praefatio in Historiam Orientalem Historia Hierosolymitana five Orientalis Ric. Vitus Basingstoch Hist. l. 8. cum Notis antiquitatum And other Works Io. Lud Vives Lewes Vives At the intreaty of Cardinal Wolsie leaving his own Countrey he came to Oxford where being incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law he continued in Corpus Christi Colledge whose Learning grew so famous that not onely many of the University but of the Court would flock thither to hear him reade the Greek Lecture in Corpus Christi Colledge Hall King Henry the 8. sometimes Si Latinae Linguae puritatem excipias bene literatus Steph. Epist. Dedicat. ad Aul. Gel. Noct. Attic. Ulphilas He lived under Valens the Emperour about the year of Christ 380. He was not Literarum Danicorum inventor as some say Olai Wormii Literatura Danica c. 6. 20. Ulpian a great Lawyer There are his Tituli Gisbertus Voetius A learned Dutch Divine Professour of Divinity at Utrect His Bibliotheca and his Book De Desperata Causa Papatus are very well esteemed His Selectae Disputationes Theologicae both first and second Part are of good use Raph. Volaterannus Anno Dom. 1500. Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these
wonder B. Halls 1. Dec. of Epist. Ep. 7. All his Works are in one Volume Ieremy Whitaker my worthy friend a learned and pious Divine of the Assembly lately dead who was a man mighty in the Scriptures of a humble melting Spirit laborious in his ministerial function zealous for Gods glory and wonderfully patient in all the time of his heavy affliction D r Iohn White He hath written the way to the true Church and a Defence of the same which Book is well esteemed Thomas White an English Papist Books written by him Three Dialogues De mundo Institutiones Peripateticae ad mentem Digbaei Institutiones sacrae in 2. Tom. Quaestio Praevia mens Augustini de Gratia De Medio animarum statu Meditationes in Gratiam Sacerdotum Cleri Anglicani Richworths Dialogues or the judgement of common sense in the choise of Religion A Catechism in Religion Meditations in English A Contemplation of Heaven with an Exercise of Love and A Descant on the Prayer in the Garden Obedience and Government Tabulae Suffragiales by which it appears he wrote a piece called Sonitus Buccinae which was condemned at Rome by the Cardinals Iohn Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury He had an Uncle called Robert Whitgift Abbot of the Monastery of Wellow in Lincolnshire who teaching divers young Gentlemen took like pains also with him In which time as he was pleased often to remember he heard his Uncle the Abbot say That they and their Religion could not long continue because said he I have read the whole Scripture over and over and could never finde therein that our Religion was founded by God And for proof of his opinion the Abbot would alledge that saying of our Saviour Matth. 15. 13. Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out He never preached but he first wrote his Notes in Latine and afterward kept them during his Life There were several writings between him and Thomas Cartwright about the Ceremonies CHAP. VIII IOhn Wicliff a most incomparable Schoolman He followed William Ockam much he is often quoted by him and styled Inceptor Ockam Iohn Hus was his Scholar he brought his Books and Doctrine into Bohemia He being the publick Reader in the University of Oxford was for the rude time wherein he lived famously reputed for a great Clerk and expert in all kinde of Philosophy He flourished about the year of our Lord 1371. Edward the third reigning in England He was called Doctor Evangelicus He was born in the North and to this day some of his name and family do there yet remain to whom I am allied He was brought up in Merton Colledge in Oxford and removed thence to Queens Colledge He was beloved of all good men for his good life and greatly admired of all his adversaries for his Learning and knowledge both in Divinity and humanity He was Doctor in Divinity almost thirty years and for some time Parson of Lutterworth in Leicestershire See Camden there Divers Works of his in written-hand remain in our Oxford-Library He translated the whole Bible into English with Prefaces and Arguments to every book In his Trialogus or Body of Divinity l. 4. c. 7. he saith Ideo si centum essent Papae omnes fratres essent versi in Cardinales non deberet concedi sententiae suae in materia fidei nisi de quanto se fundaverit in Scriptura He also saith Papa est abominatio desolationis in abstracto And Ch. 36. Olim Episcopi nostri dicuntur pseudofratres tanquam Diabolos odivisse cum in tempore Domini Armachani dicuntur ipsum in sumplibus contra hos pseudo ordines defendisse Sed modo facti sunt amici Herodes Pilatus qui prius inter se fuerant inimici There is also his Dialogus and De Veritate Scripturae and divers other Manuscripts of his well worthy the publishing Yet he had his errours lib. 2. of that Book cap. 10. he saith Angelos adoramus See those Scriptures against that opinion Deut. 4. 19. 17. 3. Col. 2. 18. Apoc. 9. 10. 20. 8 9. He grants Purgatory also l. 4. c. 22. of that book Yet he was the first saith Bale who in that dark age brought truth to light and was bold openly to confesse Christ before the whole Synagogue of Satan and to reveal the filthinesse of the great Whore Fuit Wicleffus sectarius plane nostrorum hodie Evangelicorum vervex fuit omnium quae tam longe latéque grassantur haeresion seminarium Harpsf Praefat. ad Histor. Anglic. Eccles. Roger Widdrington a learned School-Divine as his Works both in English and Latine shew His right name was Preston for Widdrington was a plain illiterate man He and Blackwell took the Oath of Allegiance He wrote to the Pope and earnestly beg'd of him that the Papists here might take that just Oath of Allegiance âo the King and refuted Bellarmine who opposed it with strong reasons This Oath viz. of Allegiance according to every part and parcel of the same may be lawfully taken by any Catholick as have averred both M. Widdrington Sir William Howard and others Widdrington in his New-years-gift hath sufficiently proved that besides the authority of many famous Divines it was the opinion of the chiefest secular Priests in England Doctor Featleys Animadvers on Vert. Rom. Albertus Widmanstadius a famous man and well skilled in the Orientall Tongues He was Chancellor to Ferdinand the wise Prince of the Romans and by his commandment and great liberality was imployed in the Edition of all the New Testament in Syriack in a fair character save the * Apocalypse and four Epistles the 2 d of Peter the 2 d and 3 d of Iohn that of Iude which Work was generally much esteemed by Christians Ioannes Wierus a learned Germane Some commend his Book De praestigiis Daemonum for a most learned and elegant piece Io. Wigandus He was born at Mansfield Anno Christi 1523. Many years before his death he made this Epitaph for himself In Christo vixi morior vivoque Wigandus Do sordes morti caetera Christe tibi The sayings of the Scripture with which he sustained himself against temptations on his death bed were these Ioh. 3. 16. Mat. 11. 29. 1 Ioh. 1. 7. The bloud of Iesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin He left many Works which are mentioned by Melchior Adam Andrew Willet A laborious godly Divine He printed thirty three Books Nigellus Wireker an ancient Poet. He largely toucheth the corrupt living and hypocrisie of his time chiefly in Bishops Priests Abbots Monks Canons and Nuns His Book is all in old Latine Verses and is named Speculum stultorum the glasse of fools that every dissolute Prelate might behold his folly therein Ralph Winterton Greek Professour in Cambridge There are his Observations on Hesiod printed with the minor Greek Poets And he hath translated some others Io. Wolfius Anno Christi 1537. He was born at
Zurick a famous City of the Helvetians he was a great Philosopher and Divine skilfull in the chief Languages an excellent Historian He had learned Masters Andivit virâs undiquaque doctissimos Argentorati Germaniae Tullium J Sturmium Wittembergae politioris literaturae parentem Melancthonem Tubingae sui seculi Philosophorum principem Jacobum Scheckium Biturigibus Gallorum legalis prudentiae Coryphaeos Jacobum Cuiacium Franciscum Rossardum Antonium Contium Hugonem Donellum Melch. Ad. in ejus vita He used this Symbole Pietate Labore which he excellently exprest in his whole life His Works are mentioned by Bâissard in his Icones That Book of his entitled Lectionum memorabilium reconditorum Centenarii XVI is well esteemed Hieronymus Wolphius a general Scholler but an excellent Grecian He was famous for his faithfull turning many Greek Authours into Latine as Zonaras Nicetas Gregoras the chief writers of the Constantinopolitan History Isocrates Demosthenes He died ex calculo litteratis ferè fatali of that disease which is almost fatal to Students the Stone Olaus Wormius Professor of Physick in the University of Hafnia There are these Works of his Liber aureus Philosophorum Monumenta Danica Literatura Danica Museum Wormianum in Folio He refers to four Classes Rariora quae Museum suum tenet Fossilium Vegetabilium Animalium quae ex his Ars elaboravit Anthony Wotton a learned Divine as his Book De Iustificatione Reconciliatione peccatorum shews Edw. Wotton a Physician born at Oxford He hath written a learned Book of living Creatures Sir Henry Wotton Provost of Eaton Colledge His Works are common Io. Wouvverius Councellor to the Prince of Holsatia He was very learned as his Works shew especially his Polymathiâ and his Epistle and Book De Umbra Syntagma de Bibliorum interpretatione Some much commend his Panegyrick to the King of Denmark Joannes à Woweren nosti credo hominem Regi Daniae optimo incomparabili principi optimum quoque incomparabilem Panegyricum scripsit Epist. Wow Dominicus Baudius Incomparabiliamicâ Ioannî à Wower Incomparabilis vir Joannes à Woweren quo nemo hodie vivit quem pluris astimem cujus canssamagis velim Baud. Epist. Cent. 4. Epist. 22. He fell off from his Religion and turned Papist Baudius Cent. 1. Epist. Epist. 69. Christophoro Puteano fratribus speaks of him homo sui oftentator magnificus Dempto certe hoc vitio multa habet ing enii naturaeque donâ quibus supra vulgus sapit illustrium virârum amicitiam meretur Illud pre certo habetur cum Romae publicitus religionem abjurasse nullo metu qui in virum constantem cadere possit sed contemptu inscitia pietatis vel quod his potentius est apud mentes praecipiti ambitione afflatas spe consequendae alicujus optimae largitionis Sed ut audio esca elapsa est solum hamum retinuit Vide plura ibid. George Wirth or Wyrth He professeth that in his old age when he had served as a Physician in Brussels and in King Philip the second his Court many years he applied himself to the difficult collating of the Evangelists being then turned Protestant for his last refreshing He hath written De vita Christi ex quatuor Evang. Epit. lib. reliq N. T. Hortulus Animae militantis Memoriale Apostolicum CHAP. IX X FRancis Xavier He is called by the Papists The great Apostle of the Indies Horace Turseline in his Life hath one whole Chapter to shew how he was once beaten by the Devil as D r Hoyle in his Rejoynder pag. 632 633 634. quotes out of him Ierome Xavier or Sciavier a Jesuite of Navarre He hath written the History of Christ in the Persian Language which he dedicated to Acabaâ the great Emperour of Mogâll and hath corrupted it with idolatrous fables and superstitions Ludovicus De Dieu hath turned it into Latine and written Animadversions upon it Xenophon Auctor ille praecaeteris decori observantissimus quâm non minuâ quà m Platonem Cicero sequitur Naudaeus De Studio Militari l. 1. p. 188. His Works are in Greek and Latine in two Tomes Scipio Africanus had alwayes with him his books of the institution of Cyrus King of Persia. Francis Ximenes Cardinal the Archbishop of Toledo He is famous for the Biblia Complutensia and for the magnificent University at Complute which he built at his own charge Io. Xiphilinus There is his Epitome Dionis Gr. Lat. William Xylander He was born Anno 1530. He was very skilful in the Latine and Greek and in all Antiquity and Learning scarce to be matched with any in his time He was both a faithfull and diligent Professour of the Greek at Hidelberg His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones and by Melchior Adam in his Life CHAP. X. Y Dr. THomas Young a Member of the Assembly of Divines and a learned Divine One very well versed in the Fathers He was the Authour of that excellent Treatise entitled Dies Dominica and one of those five that made SMECTYMNUUS CHAP. XI Z FRanciscus Zabarella a famous Canonist and Cardinal of Rome He publickly interpreted the Law at Padua and Florence and wrote most learnedly on the Decretals Clementines of Canonical hours of Schism Extant ornatissimae orationes plurimae quas variis de rebus inter praesentes habuit Itemque alio volumine elegantiores Epistolae collectae quas scripfit ad absentes Omnium verò libros oratorum ac Poetarum Historicorum quoque qui sunt apud nos cogniti habentur in usu ita diligenter legerat ut eiam familiares haberet Bernardinus Scardeonius De Clar. Iurecons Pat. He died at Constance being commended highly in a funeral Oration by Poggius an eloquent man Iacobus Zabarella a good Philosopher He hath written several Logical and Physical Tracts Zaccutus Lusitanus These are his Works De Hist. Principum Medicorum praxis Historiarum pharmacopaea praxis medica admir Fol. 2. Vol. Hieronimus Zanchius a solid and pious Divine He was one of the most Scholastical among the Protestants His Works are in three Tomes in Folio Iosephus Zarlinus a famous Musician Ioannes Ulricus Zasius Anno Dom. 1461. Humani juris intelligentia cum exactissimis scriptoribus conferendus saith Paulus Iovius of his Father One of the chief Germane Lawyers His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Bibliotheca and Melchior Adam in his Life He put out his Fathers Book Responsorum singularium and the second part Singularium intellectuum Zenodotus Guliel Zepperus a learned Protestant Writer There are several Works of his De politia Ecclesiastica Legum Mosaicarum forensium explanaetia Ars. habendi audiendi conciones Sylva Hom. in Textus Dom. De Sacramentis Iacobus Zieglerus He was born and brought up among the Gothes yet wrote pure Latine He was skilfull in the Mathematicks De Christierno 20 R. Denmarcheae Christiani Daniae
in the hearing of some of our Bishops Before God and Christ Jesus my Redeemer I will acknowledge from my heart and professe openly That the Church of England is a true and orthodoxal Church of Christ. His shiftings in Religion The Papists urge two things much against the Reformed Religion 1. Our divisions and differences amongst our selves as Fitz Simons in his Britannomachia ministrorum in plerisque Fidei fundamentis Articulis dissidentium Secondly The Novelty of our Religion as if it were no ancienter then Luther To the first I might answer with Zanchy That this is rather an Argument that we are the true Churches of Christ. For there are saith he three kindes of Churches 1. Where God onely reigns without contradiction This is the Triumphant Church in Heaven 2. Where Satan only reigns This is the Church of the wicked and Idolaters such are the Turkish Jewish Popish Churches 3. Where God truly reigns but not without the snares and assaults of Satan This is the true Church of Christ which is called Militant This alwayes fights with the flesh the world Hereticks and the Devil The Confessions of Faith of the Churches professing the Gospel having been long ago exhibited to the several Princes of the Countreys States and Kingdoms where these Churches are are now of late very profitably published to the conviction of all such as slander the Reformed Churches to be variably distracted and rent in sunder with infinite differences of Faith Travers answer to a Popish Treatise written to the LL. of the Councel Amyraldus de Secessione ab Ecclesia Romana pag. 67. saith The chief controversies inter Evangelicos may be reduced to four heads 1. Concerning the Nature of the Sacraments 2. About the Person of Christ and the Properies of both Natures in it 3. How the Doctrine of Predestination is to be explained 4. What is to be held concerning the Providence of God especially as it is conversant about the ill actions of the reasonable creature and shews there also how far yet they agree in all these D r Hall in his Peace of Rome shews That Bellarmine acknowledgeth and numbers up above three hundred differences of opinions maintained in the Popish Church and that Navarre confesseth near threescore differences amongst their own Doctors in one only point of their Religion There are many Sects risen since the Gospel was first published but none are so guilty of division as the Papists though they extoll their own Church for Unity They unchurch all the Churches of Christ through the world besides themselves the Greek Church and divers others What a State were all former ages in before the Popes Supremacy was acknowledged The pure and primitive times The reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue is condemned amongst them as a capital crime in Spain and Italy but allowed in England and France Albertus Pighius dissents from Cajetane Thomas from Lombard Scotus from Thomas Occam from Scotus Alliacensis from Occam Their nominals disagree from their reals What difference is there between the Franciscans and Dominicans concerning original sinne in the blessed Virgin What difference among the Jesuites and other Papists concerning Councels being above the Pope The Jesuites hold that the Pope is above a Councel Bellarmine confesseth lib. 2. de Concil cap. 17. parag 1. that Proposition That the Pope is absolutely above a Councel is not simply de fide and those are not Hereticks properly who hold the contrary The Pope in two Councels those of Constance and Basil was declared to be inferiour to a Councel 2. For the other Objection of the Novelty of our Religion as if it were no ancienter then Luther I answer there are books written to refute this calumny The Waldenses for divers hundred years before Luther successively opposed Popery professed the truth of the Gospel and sealed it with their bloud Campian in his third reason cals them Majores nostros Vide Gerhard Epist. Ded. ad Confess Cathol Illyricus in his Catalogus Testium veritatis and Wolfius in his Lectiones Memorabiles Reconditae And Gerhard in his Confessio Catholica sufficiently refute this Objection Errours often lie hid under the venerable Cloak of ancient custom Matth. 5. 21 27 31 33 38 43. But on the contrary sound and orthodox Doctrine is undeservedly taxed with the crime of novelty Mark 1. 27. Act. 17. 19. therefore judgement is to be made of both by Scripture Act 17. 11. Secondly We may retort this Question on them Where was your Religion before the Councel of Trent Cardinal Contarenus holding the same with us for substance in point of Justification and many of those learned and modest men which are reckoned for Papists groaning under the corruptions of their Church and desiring a Reformation of many abuses as well as we Bishop Iewels challenge of the Papists is commonly known with which Peter du Moulin also accords There is rather a conspiracy amongst the Papists then true union as on the contrary the difference amongst us is rather a diversity then a division in circumstances or things of lesse moment and among persons rather then generally We are reproached beyond Sea for our unsettlement in matters of Religion and for the diversity of opinions and sects now in the Land Some amongst our selves also will be ready to object That there are so many religions and opinions that they know not which course to take 1. Such should therefore take the Scripture onely for the rule of their faith and life 2. They should study faithfully to know the plain meaning of the Scripture they should reade it diligently seek Gods direction come to it not with forestalled conceits but with love of the truth 3. They should resolve to obey what they shall finde upon such diligent inquiry to be the plain minde of God beyond dispute They should practice what all Christian Sects agree in they all confesse that God is above the creature and to be preferred before it that the pleasures and profits of this world are far short of the glory to come CHAP. VII Of the Syncretisme of Religion or of a friendly Reconciliation of the different parties amongst themselves THey are Christians which professe Christian Religion therefore those which either know not Christ as the Pagans or deny him to be the Saviour of the world as the Mahometans or that contemn and blaspheme him as the Iews are excluded There are several opinions about this matter The first is of those who hold That whosoever they be who differ about Religion so they be Christians they may and ought to be reconciled and agree together in an Ecclesiastical Syncretism so the Socinians Libertines Polititians Machivillians The second opinion is of those which denieth that Christians differing in Religion can or ought to be so reconciled So the Papists especially the Jesuites think and teach requiring a full consent with the Church of Rome as that which cannot erre and out
call Rules or Canons and by reason of the end because it was collected and confirmed to that end that it may prescribe a Rule of Ecclesiastical Government The Canon-Law contains The Decree of Gratian for the most part collected out of the sentences of Fathers and Decrees of Councels The Decretals of Gregory the ninth The sixth of the Decretals of Boniface the eighth The Clementines and Extravagants collected out of the Epistles and replies of the Popes Corpus Canonum à Gratiano Monacho consarcinatum ab Eugenio 111. Pontifice Rom. comprobatum authoritate firmatum fuisse constat qui ut in Academiis doceretur propéque Tribunali in Iudiciis reciperetur ut postea factitatum est praecepit Gentil Apol. c. 1. Lancelots Institutions are commended for the Canon-Law as Minsinger on Iustinians Institutions for the Civil-Law In the Body of the Canon-Law the Canons are sometimes diametrially opposite one to the other Archidaconus Panormitan Innocentius Rebuffus were famous Canonists Of Philosophy It is either Natural or Moral called Ethicks Natural Philosophy De mundo aut de iis quae sunt in mundo quaerit Pier Valer. Hierog l. 38. c. 10. Tully cals Philosophy in his Offices Studium sapientiae in his Tusculanes virtutis indagatricem expultricemque vitiorum How many several sorts of Philosophers are mentioned who were severed by their distinct Schools of Academicks Peripatetiques Stoicks Epicures Pythagoreans too numerous to be rehearsed Of all which see Desiderii Iacotii De Philosophorum doctrina libellum ex Cicerone Aristotle was the Prince of the Peripateticks Zeno the chief of the Stoicks Epicurus of the Epicureans and Pythagoras of the Pythagoreans Philosophiam optimè docebit Plato Aristoteles atque hujus Discipulus Theophrastus tum utrinque mixtus Plotinus Erasm. De Ratione Studii As the Grecians for the title of wise men called themselves lovers of wisdome that is Philosophos so also the Doctors of the Jews often were not called wise men but Scholars of wise men that is studious of wisdome Ubi desinit Philosophus ibi incipit Medicus ubi desinit Medicus ibi incipit Theologus Ethicks or Moral Philosophy It is so called because it is conversant about the manners of men The adequate object of it are humane actions not considered any way but as honesty hath place in them and as they are capable of vertue D r Ames hath a Theological Disputation against it and shews that all Aristotles practical vertues are to be found in the Scripture Physick The subject of it is mans body the end health It is lawfull it was before the promulgation of the Law Gen. 50. 2. The Poets brought in Apollo as the chief god of Medicine to whom they have assigned Aesculapius for his sonne Christ was a Physician both of soul and body Omnibus est aliis Medicus praestantior unus Is Homers verse Physical Institutions are a ãâ¦ã llificium compounded out of the choisest flowers A long series of times ha ãâ¦ã brought forth many famous Grecians Physicians some Latines and some Arabians Among the Grecians Hippocrates and Galen excelled Dioscordes also was a good Physician Amongst the Latine Physicians Cornelius Celsus was the first Of late Fernelius and Sennertus Amongst the Arabians Avicenna Rhazes Averrhoes Avenzoar Mesue Serapio and Alsaharavius were chief In Plants there is much difficulty Vide Voss. De vitiis Sermonis l. 1. c. 28. Rondeletius Matthiolus Bellonius Camerarius Bauhinus Spigelius have done well about Herbs Alexandria of old and Padua of late is famous for the Profession of Physick Metaphysicks It is the highest part of all Philosophy from the subject of it because it treats De causa altissima D r Ames hath a Theological Disputation against Metaphysicks and saith it is but an imaginary science M r Baxter in his Reply to M r Kendall saith he hath above thirty Tracts of Metaphysicks by him and seems to value Suarez Schibler and Burgersdiciâs before all the rest History Historia est testis temporum nuncia vetustatis lux veritatis vita memoriae Magistra vitae Cic. 2 do de Oratore Historia est rerum publicè gestarum diffusa continuata narratio Muretus The end of it is double profit and pleasure Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci. Ferdinand King of Sicily and Alphonsus King of Spain recovered their health by reading of History the first by reading Livy the second by reading Q. Curtius Some have observed that the being versed in Books of History makes men wiser then in those of Policy for that those furnish us with instances as well as rules and as it were personate the rule and draw it out more into the full lineaments M r Herles Morall prudence ch 19. History is either 1. Ecclesiasticall which handleth Church matters and is for its Antiquity and Dignity to have the precedence Vide Sixt. Senens in Praefat. ad Lectorem in Bibliotheca Sancta Or 2. Politicall which handleth civil matters in Kingdoms States or Commonweals Just or perfect History is of three kindes according to the nature of the object which it propounds to represent for it either represents a portion of time or some memorable Person or some famous Act. The first we call Chronicles or Annals the second Lives the third Relations Of these Chronicles seem to excell for celebrity and name Lives for profit and examples Relations for sincerity and verity S r Francis Bac. Advancem of Learn l. 2. c. 7. The History of Times is either universall or particular This comprehends the affairs of some Kingdom or State or Nation That the affairs of the world Amongst Histories Itineraries have the preheminence when one shall faithfully relate the most memorable things he hath observed by travelling into many and strange Countries And amongst Itineraries that of R. Benjamin a Jew hath been very much esteemed by many saith Constantine L'Empereur because he did not only travell over Europe and Africa but professeth that he entred into the most inward and extream regions of Asia where he witnesseth that he saw rare things and yet unknown to our world and therefore his little book abundantly affords examples of very many things so that it cannot but be read with delight The first Law given to an Historian saith Tully de Oratore is Nequid falsi dicere audeat deinde nequid veri non audeat ne qua suspicio gratiae sit in scribendo ne qua simultatis The composing of a History consists in things and words for things he must have respect to the order of time and the description of places the manners lives counsels sayings deeds and events of men for words the kinde of speech must not be large yet adorned with a pure and famous brevity T. Livius in the opinion of all Learned men is the Prince of Latine History there are only two books of Salusts Caesars Commentaries contain famous things but done in a few years
doth so expresly forbid Magick as doth the Law of Moses as if the Law would thereby purposely prevent this slander Benno the Cardinal in the life of Hildebrand relates that five Popes Sylvester the 3 d Benedictus the 9 th Iohn the 20. and 21 Gregory the 7 th did wholly give themselves to the Devil that they might be Popes He hath a notable story there of Hildebrand about his carring a book of Necromancy still with him Libels or Libri famosi are to be forbidden blasphemous books to be abolisht but Magical books are to be burnt Act. 19. 19. Alchimy an Art full of errours and vanity yet this right is due to it that it may truly be compared to the Husbandman whereof Aesop makes the Fable That when he died told his sonnes he had left unto them a great masse of gold buried under ground in his vineyard but did not remember the particular place where it was hidden Who when they had with spades turn'd up all the vineyard they found no gold but by reason of their stirring and digging the mold about the roots of their Vines they had a great vintage the year following so the painfull search and stirre of Alchymists to make gold hath brought to light a great number of good and fruitfull experiments as well for the disclosing of nature as the use of mans life The Alchymists or Chymicks too much extoll their spirits The chiefest Chymicks among the Ancients Tycho Brahâ who was given to the study also himself reckons up to be these Hermes Tresmegistus Geber Rupescissa Arnoldus de Villa-nova Raymundus Lullius Thomas Aquinas Roger Bacon Albertus Magnus To which he addes Isaack Holland and Theophrastus Paracelsus The Cabbalisticall Art is also vain though magnified too much in these dayes The Jews hold that Moses received a double Law from God in the Mount one in writing or delivered in writing the other by mouth or delivered by mouth This last say they was successively delivered by Moses to posterity first to Ioshua by him to the Elders and by them to the first Prophets and then to the last Prophets amongst whom the last of all were Zachary Haggai Malachi these delivered it to the men of the great Synagogue which were Ezra with his company who restored the Law to its ancient purity from whom the wise men following received it in succeeding generations and this double Exposition which the Jews glory in is yet found among their wise men they name the Cabala Ioannes Picus de Mirandula first amongst the Latines made mention of this Cabal of the Hebrews Because there are six Alephs in the first verse of the first Chapter of Genesis and Aleph signifies a thousand therefore they say the world shall last six thousand years Some learned men as Chamier and others likewise tax School-Divinity Mihi quidem satis est si quando succisivis horis huc diverto ad Thomam aut Petrum de Aquila aut Majorem aut Nicolaum de Orbellis aut Cardinalem de Aliaco hujusmodi molestissimorum hominum turbam non equidem ut delectationem capiam sed âò tantum ut animum satiem non aliter quà m si quis aliquando palatium visitans post aularum cubiculorum coenaculorum magnificentiam etiam latrinas non dedignetur aspicere sed paucis ob faetorem Chamier Epist. Iesuit Gaudeo saith Luther me è Scholastica Theologia erutum gratias ago Christo Deo meo And in his first Tome de octavo praecepto Vocantur Doctores Scholastici hoc propriissimo veroque nomine Scholastici enim sunt id est ludicri lusores imò illusores tam sui quam aliorum See Antonie du Verdier his learned Preface of Learning to his Bibliotheque Before I proceed to speak of the Languages I shall say something of that usefull Art of Prinâing Cardan lib. 17. de artibus saith It is an Art inferiour to none neither in profit dignity nor subtilty How speedily doth it conveigh Learning from one Nation and Age to another Imprimit ille die quantum vix scribitur anno Pasquiâr saith One may see the world traversed in these two inventions a Monk the Inventer of Artillery and a Souldier of Printing Recherch de la France lib. 9. cap. 29. By printing many Greek and Latine Authors have been preserved from destruction Auctores plurimos tam Gracos quam Latinos ab omni prorsus interitus periculo vindicavit Polyd. Virg. De Invent. rerum l. 2. c. 7. It is commonly said That Tullies Offices was the first book that was printed Ciceronis officia prima omnium librorum typis aeneis impressa sunt Exemplar officiorum istorum habeo in membrana impressum Schol. Mathem Rami l. 2. There were some famous Printers Aldus Manutius and after him Paulus his Sonne in Venice in France Crispinus Henry Stevens the Father to Charles and Charles to Robert Robert to Henry and Henry to Paul all Printers Christopher Plantine of Antwerp a most famous and learned Printer There is a Book intituled Index Libroram Qui ex Typographia Plantiniana prodierunt Oporinus Celebris parentum aevo Basilâae Typographus fuit cui nomen Ioanni Oporino Voss. de vitiis Sermonis c. 9. Frobenius he was Eâasmus his faithfull Printer Daniel Bomberguâ who deserves special praise for his care and diligence in setting forth the Bible with the Chaldee Paraphrase Rabins Commentaries and the Masora besides many other Hebrew books R. Gedaliah in his Shalsheleth doth speak honourably of him in this respect Some Printers are to be blamed who for lucre sake are ready to print any book though never so corrupt and pernicious I have heard that George Bishop the Printer in London would not sell any Popish Books either to Papists or any that were like to be seduced by them CHAP. VI. Of the Languages COnstat Graecos Latinos peregrina linguae voces dum suae linguae decoro compositioni student prodigiosè corrupisse Leland Comment in Cign Cant. Languages do often much change in processe of time The French Spanish and Italian coming from the Latine are much fallen from the purity of the Latine tongue None of the French will now understand the Laws of England published by William the Conqueror in the Norman without an Interpreter Languages differ much in common names but not in proper all Languages say almost in the same manner Adam Abraham Moses David Iesus Socrates Plato Caesar C. Caro Carolus and in the like The Confusion of Languages was brought in at the building of the Tower of Babel as Moses the Hebrew Prophet in the 11 th Chapter of Genesis and Iosephus the Hebrew Historian in the 4 th Chapter of his first book of Jewish Antiq. evidently demonstrate The punishment of strange Languages was a heavy punishment next to our casting out of Paradise and the Flood M r Wheat Protot ch 7. The holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles in
the shape of tongues Quid autem linguâ dissectae aliud saith one quam variarum linguarum cognitionem portenderunt Bibliander saith There are seventy seven Languages commonly reckoned De ratione communi omnium Linguarum c. 1. The Hebrew Language was the first and most ancient and the onely Language before the building of the Tower of Babel Austen saith It is better to be in the company of a known dog then in a mans society whose speech is unknown to us The Hebrew tongue kept its purity and remained uncorrupted though other tongues were added to it and derived from it It is reported of Mithridates that he spake two and twenty Languages Gesner therefore writing a Book of divers Languages styles it Mithridates Gesneri Vide R. Episc. Uss. Annal. partem posteriorem p. 142. Et Theodorum Bibliandrum De Ratione Communi omnium Linguarum c. 1. Benedictus Arias Montanus in his Preface to the King of Spains Bible professeth that he understood ten Languages Godeschalcus Praetorius a man of great wit and vast memory and famous in all kinde of Learning once a singular ornament of the University of Francford in Germany understood fourteen Tongues saith Nâander in the first part of his Geography Postell shews that he was skilfull in fifteen Languages Schindler and De Dieu were Polyglottists Ioseph Scaliger and our Bishop Andrews had also knowledge in severall Languages Theodorus Bibliander De Ratione Communi omnium Linguarum cap. 1. saith thus of himself Equidem ut de uberiori aliqua perfusione divini spiritus gloriari non possum nec debeo ita beneficia Christi servatoris minimè vel modestum vel religiosum est dissimulare Fateârque me non tam labore diligentia ingenii quodam acumine singulari quam ex merito gratia doâo principis nostri opt max. Iesu Christi consecutum esse facultatem aliquam scribendi loquendi aut certè judicandi de iu linguis quae totum orbem terrarum longè lateque possident Vide plura ibid. The common use of all Languages is twofold One That others may discover their minde to us Another That we likewise may reveal our mimde to them As the confusion of tongues at Babel had caused the casting off of the Gentiles by severing them from the participation of the true Religion which was onely professed and known in the Hebrew tongue so was the gift of tongues to be a needfull means to bring them into Religion again when every one may hear of the things of God in his own Language The Languages may be divided into Oriental and Occidental 1. Oriental Hebrew Chaldee Samaritan Syriack Arabick Aethiopick Persian Armenian Coptick 2. Occidental Greek Latine Spanish French Italian German English and Sclavonick which is spoken very generally The Oriental tongues are written and read from the right hand to the left except the Aethiopick and Armenian The Grecians at first did write forward and backward whence that phrase Literas exarare and lineae are called versus and thence that was a most profitable and grave Decree of the Councel of Vienna celebrated under Clement the 5 th That there should be in Universities publick professours of the Hebrew Chaldee and Arabick tongues which should teach them and translate books out of them into Latine for the propagation of the Faith and more easie conversion of the Infidels Sigismundus Gelenius hath written Lexicum Symphonum Quo quatuor Linguarum Europae familiarium Graecae scilicet Latinae Germanicae ac Sclavinica concordia judicatur Bibliander De ratione communi omnium linguarum layes down an easie method of learning a Language Qui enim dictiunculas principales themata singulis diebus discat aliquid tribuat regulis derivandi flectendi cââpoâeâdi utque ordinem constructionis leges cognoscat centesimo die per otium linguam perdidicit He saith there That there are a thousand original words of the Latine tongue and themata bis mille linguae Hebraeae two thousand roots of the Hebrew tongue There are three principal or learned Languages the Hebrew Greek and Latine I. Of the Hebrew Of Languages the Hebrew as it is the first and most ancient of all so it alone seems to be pure and sincere all the rest almost are mixt for there is none of them which hath not certain words derived and corrupted from the Hebrew So the Latines have not onely borrowed many words of Art from the Grecians but also of things which they found in their books So the Latine tongue was corrupted by the Gothes in Italy France and Spain Some think that the English Language is most mixt and corrupt of all Munster in the second Book of his universal Cosmography saith The English tongue is compounded of many Languages In times past he saith it was pure Germane as one may know by Beda who was born in England The Mysteries of God and our salvation were delivered by God and received by the holy Fathers and Prophets in the Hebrew tongue The Hebrew tongue excels all others in dignity pleasure profit and necessity The antiquity of it demonstrates its dignity the simplicity and grace of it its pleasure It is the fountain of all other Languages of the Indian Persian Babylonian Armenian Syriack Arabick the Egyptian Aethiopick and therefore profitable Beckman shews that many Greek words are derived from it By it we are instructed in the knowledge of God and the Church and our selves therefore it is very necessary The Punique tongue was the Canaanitish or old Hebrew Language that which was vulgarly spoken among the Jews before the Captivity Amongst Christians for more then a thousand years from Christ none scarce did adorn the Hebrew Language unlesse very few The Jews were in such hatred that their very Language was vilified Origen of Alexandria learned it of a Jew called Hill not without trouble and the publick upbraiding of Celsus Ierom also of Stridona a Monk and Presbyter learned this Language at Bethlehem especially in the night time of a Jew fearing his Countreymen whose name was Barhanina whence Ruffinus becoming his enemy objected to him that leaving Christ he followed Barabbas He neglecting that calumny went on stoutly and taught many religious Virgins this Language that they might sing Hebrew Psalms After Ierom who flourished in the year of Christ 385. followed Iohn Damascene who lived in the year of Christ 730. Nicholas Lyra was converted from Judaism in the year of Christ 320. Afterward Paulus Burgensis was converted from Judaism And this was the lot of that holy Language even unto the year of Christ 1440. when Printing was invented and the studies of Languages and Learning began to flourish Here among the Christian restorers of the holy tongue Reuclin was the first He learned the Greek tongue of Greek exiles amongst whom was Chalcondylas and the Hebrew of the Jews and he illustrated both The ice being broken by
Authours and c. 7. what Authours are most to be read and also some Elogies of the Latine Tongue by divers Learned men Pasquier Recherches de la France l. 9. c. 29. reckons up the Authours which excelled in the Latine Tongue The Latine Tongue grew to perfection by certain degrees and in Caesar and Cicero's times whereof the one for purity the other for copiousness were the best that ever writ it came to the highest flourish together with the Empire Among the Poets Plautus Naevius Accius Pacuvius Ennius and Virgill most refined it among the Orators and Historians M. Cato Sisenna Caesar and Cicero The Spanish Writer of the Book which is called the Triall of Wits ch 4. collects thence that there is a speciall agreement of the Latine Tongue with the reasonable soul because mad men which never learned Latine nevertheless sometime speak it of their own accord The Latine Tongue is usefull for all Arts and Nations Iulius Scaliger and Ioseph his sonne hold that the Originals of the Latine speech are many of them drawn from the Greek Crinesius de Confusione Linguarum cap. 10. proves by many instances that the Latine Tongue proceeded from the Hebrew It is very commendable to speak good Latine freely and to write in a pure and elegant style That is much which Fanchimus Fortius Ringelbergius in his truly golden Book De Ratione Studii reports of himself Of the Italian French and Spanish Languages One Bense hath written a Book entitled Analogo-Diaphora seu Concordia Discrepans Discrepantia Concordans trium Linguarum Gallicae Italicae Hispanicae The disagreeing concord and the agreeing discord of those three Languages French Italian and Spanish The Language of the Spaniards is said to be Manly the Italian Courtly and the French Amorous Brerewood conceives these tongues are more ancient and that they have not sprung from the corruption of the Latine Tongue by the inundation and mixture of barbarous people in these provinces but from the first unperfect impression and receiving of it in those forraign Countries One of the Councels cals the French Tongue Linguam Romanam rusticam whence Romances because they were written in that Tongue The genuine pronunciation and reading is the most difficult in the French Tongue for many letters which are written are not pronounced or otherwise pronounced Crinesius in his Discourse of the Confusion of Languages c. 10. gives seven generall rules of the French pronunciation and many speciall ones There are many severall Dialects of the French Tongue Nam in Gallia certè nostra tot ferè linguae sunt aut certè tot ejusdem linguae dialecti ac diversi pronuntiandi modi quot sunt Galliae non dicam provinciae sed urbes Casaub. Comment in l. 4. Strabonis The Spanish Tongue is near to the Italian and seems to come nearer to the Latine Tongue then the French but not so near as the Italian Brerewood in his 6 th Chapter of Enquiries touching the diversity of Languages saith he hath seen an Epistle written by a Spaniard whereof every word was both good Latine and good Spanish and an example of the like is to be seen in Merula Cosmog part 2. l. 2 ch 8. Scaliger Epist. Casaub. saith Quartapars Hispanicae linguae merè Arabica Scaliger commends the French for a most elegant and sweet Language and prefers it before the Spanish and Italian The people leave out many of their consonants in their pronunciation which makes it the sweeter In aulis omnium propemodum principum maximè occidentalium viget illa lingua floret Petrus Bense in Epistola Dedicatoria The people speak the best French in Blois or Orleance and the best Italian in Hetruria and the best Spanish in Castile Antoine Du Verdier in his excellent Preface to his Bibliotheque highly commends the French Language Quant à la phrase elegante maniere de parler pour exprimer belles conceptions ie ne sai si les Grecs mesmes se peuvent vanter d'estre pareils à nous De ma part ie croy que nostre langue ait estè composee de toutes les fleurs d'eslite qui sont esparses par la Grecque la Latine l' Italienne autres celebres renommees tant antiques que modernes CHAP. VII Of Universities and publick Schools ACademies which at this day are called Universities were in times past called Synagogues as the Synagogue of Hierusalem Antioch Ephesus and Alexandria and Studia They alwaies built their Academies in some famous City as at Ierusalem Athens Rome Constantinople The use of Academies is very necessary many waies therefore those Common-wealths most flourished which did most esteem them Nothing is more Princely then to defend and provide for Schools and Universities Ne quid detrimenti capiat literaria Respublica Nothing more conducible to the profit of Scholars then to indow Colledges with great Immunities and Priviledges So in times past did many Learned Heroes cherish Learning and favour Learned men in Greece Alexander in Asia Mithridates in Egypt Ptolomy in Spain Alphonsus in Germany Charles the Great and the 4 th in Bohâmia the Founder of the University of Prague in Prusia Albertus the Elder in Italy Iulius Augustus Maecenas in France Francis the first in England Edward the 3 d Henry the 7 th and Elizabeth his wife Henry the 8 th Edward the 6 th Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth King Iames. Zanchius reckons up four most weighty causes of publick Divinity Schools 1. That the Propheticall and Apostolicall Writings might be preserved in them from corruption or destruction which is the cause why Libraries were alwaies wont to be added to these Schools in which other Books being written out faithfully in Hebrew Greek and Latine were kept 2. That there might be perpetuall witnesses in Schools which might testifie by a continuall succession what Books were truly Canonicall and what Apocryphall 3. That these Schools might also testifie what was the native and genuine sense of such Writings and what doctrine was truly Apostolicall The last cause was That from those Colleges those might be drawn out which were indeed fit to teach others and to govern Churches The whole Kingdom of Israel was filled with Theologicall Schools according to the commandement of God Samuel was the first builder of Colledges that we reade of he called his Colledge Najoh that is even beauty it self In Ramah the Prophets dwelt with the Students which were called Sonnes of the Prophets Amos saith I am not a Prophet nor the sonne of a Prophet that is I was never taught in the Schools of the Prophets and the Learned They had Schools amongst the people till the destruction of Ierusalem The Jews being dispersed among other Nations alwaies endeavoured to keep their Schools which they called Synagogues which were Colledges as it were in which the Law of God was interpreted among the more Learned and wherein they conferred and disputed
knowledge of the Tongues and Divinity by the Jesuites This City hath deserved no small praise and commendation of all Christendom for that ingenious and most necessary Art of Printing there first invented and put in practise by the famous and worthy Gentleman Iohn Gutenberg in the year 1459. Imprimit ille die quantum vix scribitur anno O Germania muneris repertrix Quo nihil utilius dedit vetustas Libros scribere quae doces premendo Wirtsburg In the year of Salvation 1403. Iohn the 2 d of that name and 55 th Bishop of Wirtsburg instituted therein an University priviledged and authorized by Pope Boniface the 9 th and called thither out of the most renowned Schools of Christendom divers Learned Professors of Philosophy Divinity and other inferiour Studies Trier The University here is thought to be one of the oldest Academies in Europe the Citizens thereof have no Record when it was first erected by reason of the manifold and often changes it hath endured It appeareth manifestly by an Epistle of Gratian the Emperour to Antonius Regent of Gaule that all Studies universally flourished in this City Heidelberge It is the Metropolis of the Palatinacy of Rheine wherein the Palsgraves or Countes Palatines continually hold their Courts and residence Rupertus the 10 th Palatine of Rheine erected in this City an University Anno Dom. 3346. which in succession of time grew to be reckoned among the most worthy and famous Nurseries of the Arts Pope Urban the 6 th confirmed the same with the Priviledges and Prerogatives of Paris This Academy hath fostered many Learned men as Rudolphus Agricola William Xilander Thomas Erastus Zachary Ursin Conradus Pellicanus Munsters Master Pareus Also in this University did that industrious excellently learned Scholar Sebastian Munster publickly profess the Hebrew Tongue Tubing The University was erected there in the year 1477. Many Learned Scholars have issued from it Iohn Reuclin Gabriel Biel and Iohn Nauclerus taught here Iohn Stofler a most Learned Astronomer Martin Crusius was a most famous Professor of Eloquence Arts and Languages in this University Ingolestat This University was Instituted in the year of Salvation 1459. The Jesuites Govern here Eccius and Staphylus lived here Erford An University was therein instituted by Dagâbert the French King in the year 1391. which with many Priviledges was confirmed and authorized by Pope Boniface the 9 th and Pius the 2 d. Leiptzige A University was here erected about the year 1408. and the year following confirmed by Pope Pius the 2 d and Alexander the 5 th and repaired by George Duke of Saxony in the year 1554. They are much given to drunkenness here Aeneas Sylvius in the first book of Panormitane de gestis Alphonsi regis writeth that when one Leonardus a Noble Gentleman came to visit a certain kinsman of his that was then Student in Leiptzige enquiring among Students how he did and how he had profited in Learning he was answered by one of the young mans companions that he carried himself very well quia inter mille quingentos hic unus bibendi palmam obtinet among fifteen hundred he hath the name of the best drinker Wittenberge Duke Frederick the son of Ernestus Elector erected in this City an University about the year 1502. which since in this later age is grown famous by reason of the Controversies and Disputations of Religion there handled by Martin Luther and his adherents Many worthy Writers received their education here as Wesenbechius Henningus and Oldendorpius two Lawyers famous for their Works through all Germany and in our later age Martin Luther and Philip Melancthon there have flourished Frankford upon Oder There are in Germany two Frankfords both Cities of great fame and worth the one lieth in Franconia upon the River Meine well known to all Merchants and travellers by reason of two rich and famous Marts or Fairs held therein every year viz. at mid-lent before Easter and in the middle of September The other is situated near to the Oder a goodly River passing through the Dominion of the Marquess of Brandeburge one of the seven Electors Ioachim Marquess of Branderburg first founded in this later Frankford an University in the year of Grace 1506. and bountifully provided for the maintenance thereof indowing the same with large Revenews and rich Possessions as it was afterward authorized by Pope Alexander the 6 th and by Pope Iulius the 2 d and Maximilian the first of that name Emperour enfranchised with many priviledges In this City the three Tongues are with great and profound Learning professed also the Civil Law Physick and the Mathematiques are there publikely taught Reinerus Reineccius the great Historian lived here Iacobus Ebertus who was Professor of Ethicks here was a great Linguist Rostoche In the year of Christs Nativity 1415. the Princes of Mekleburge and the Citizens of Rostoche obtained licence to erect in this City an University wherein the Arts in generall have ever since been Learnedly professed Gripswalde About the year of our Lord 1456. lived herein a certain Learned Doctor of the Laws which being Proconsul or Burgomaster of the Town obtained for the same many goodly Priviledges and licence to erect an University which being by him only begun was perfected and enlarged by the great care and diligence of Philip Duke of Pomerland in the year 1547. Friburge In the year of our Saviour 1460. or as some say 1450. Albert Duke of Austria founded in this City an Academy and liberally endued the same with large revenews and possessions In the year 1467. this University received many Statutes and Ordinances from Vienna in Austria from whence also came many great and Learned Clerks here publikely to profess Theology the Laws Civil Canon and the other Arts. And at length the Emperour Fredericke in the year 1472. much augmented and increased the same the chiefest Colledge herein is that which is called Domus Sapientiae Udalricus Zasius a Lawyer taught here many years with great praise and left divers Commentaries upon the Civil Law Martpurge An University was instituted in this City about the year 1526. which was afterward repaired and reinstituted by Philip the Landgrave of Hesse in the year 1536. It was authorized by Charles the 5 th at Regeusburge who endued it with priviledges of Vienna Iohn Oldendorp the most famous Lawyer of Germany also Iohanno Draco and Andrew Hyperius most famous Divines lived here Diling In the year 1564. Otto Truchses Cardinall of the Roman Church Bishop of Ausburge and Protector of Germany for the great and singular love wherewith he alwaies embraced Learning brought the Jesuites into this City and erected therein an University of his own charge and expence wherein the Arts have ever since been with great diligence and Learning professed Vienna It is the most renowned Metropolis and residence of the Archdukes of Austria a City for wealth most opulent and for strength most invincible the only
another Kingdom who holds Oxford to be the ancienter Oxford also hath been famous for Learned Scholars Mathematicians and Schoolmen for the later there is no question and I shall mention divers of them when I speak of Merton Colledge For the first Roger Bacon Bradwardine Simon Bredon and Oddington were famous The first Professor in Civil Law in England viz. Vacarius was of Oxford Oxford lies in a Champion plain It is a fair and goodly City whether a man respect the seemly beauty of private houses or the stately magnificence of publick buildings together with the wholesom sight or pleasant prospect thereof It is formed in the figure of a Cross two long streets thwarting one another each of them near a mile in length containing in that compass thirteen Parish Churches and a See Episcopall founded here by King Henry the 8 th Anno 1541. For the Stateliness of the Schools and publick Library and Gallery the bravery and beauty of particular Colledges all built of fair and polished stone the liberall endowment of those houses and great incouragements of Industry and Learning in the salary of the Professors in most Arts and Sciences it is say some not to be paralleled in the Christian world D r Iames hath set out two Catalogues of the publick Library in Oxford One published in the year 1605 which mentions the Books Alphabetically distinguished according to the four Faculties The other 1620. in which there is only a care had of the Alphabeticall order by this more exact Catalogue one may readily finde any Authour and all the Works of that Authour uno intuitu If the Library be inferiour to the Popes Vaticane in sumptuous building yet in Printed Books if not in Manuscripts there being many choice ones given by Sir Thomas Bodlie and of late by my Lord of Pembroke and Archbishop Laude in almost all Languages it may well contend with it for a Superiority Reckon the number of Volumes in the publick Library whereof the greatest part are in Folio which amount to 11 or 12 thousands of divers Authours the plurality of Languages the diversity of Sciences wherein these Books are written the condition of the Books whether written or printed by Protestants or Papists or any other the use for six hours every day throughout the whole year Sundaies and Holydaies excepted and we shall finde that the like Library is no where to be found D r Iames of the Corrupt of Script Counc and Fath. part 5. In Oxford there are 18 Colledges endowed with Lands besides 7 Halls where Students live at their own charges in both of them Professors of the Arts and Sciences as also of Divinity Law Physick and the learned Languages with Liberall Salaries University Colledge Founded 872. Alfred or Allured King of the West Saxons being addicted to Religion and good literature for the increase and study of Divinity Philosophy and other Arts in the 2 d year of his reign founded this Colledge by the name of University Colledge George Abbat Archbishop of Canterbury was of this Colledge Baliol Colledge Founded 1262. Iohn Baliol born at Bernads Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham a worthy Warriour to King Henry the 3 d in his civil Warres against his Barons with his wife Dervorgilla a Lady of Honourable Parentage Parents of Iohn Baliol King of the Scots Founded this Colledge giving thereunto both Lands and Revenews for the maintenance of a Master 10 Fellows and 11 Scholars which is Recorded to be the first and most anciently endowed Colledge in this University as some late Historians constantly affirm Iam Fundatoris imprimis Balioli Regis Scotiae nomen jactat quasi tum olim Scotia suos Reges Academiae nostrae propitios in Baliolo suo sposponderit quod in Iacobo nostro jam faeliciter appropinquante praestitit Wake Rex Plat. Iohn Wiclefe was of this House Wiclefus ille Restaurator Religionis cui non notus Baliolensis Alber. Gent. Laud. Acad. Perusin Oxon. Merton Colledge Founded 1274. Walter de Merton sometimes L. Chancellour of England Counsellour to King Henry the 3 d and Edward the first Bishop of Rochester Founded this Colledge by the name of Merton Colledge endowing it in effect with all the Lands and Revenews which at this present are belonging thereunto ordaining in the same a Warden and no definitive number of Fellows It may be styled Collegium Scholasticorum Bacon Burlie Occham Scotus Bradwardine Gatisdene Dumbleton Nicholas Gorrham Suitzaeus great lights of Europe were of this Colledge What one Colledge ever yielded at one time and from one Country three such Divines as Iewell Raynolds and Hooker or two such great Wits and Heroicall spirits as S r Thomas Bodley and S r Henry Savill D r Hackw Epist. Dedicat. to Oxford before his Apology Of this Colledge also were Bishop Carleton S r Isaac Wake the University Orator Excester Colledge Founded 1316. Walter Stapleton being descended of Noble Parentage for his Wisdom Gravity and Learning was often employed in Embassages from King Edward the 2 d who made him Bishop of Excester Lord Treasurer of England and one of his Privy Councell Founded this Colledge it was much augmented by Sir William Peter D r Hakewell Fellow of this House erected and finished the new Chappell D r Prideaux was Head of this House D r Holland was of this House Orial Colledge Founded 1337. King Edward the 2 d erected it it was so called because it was indeed a work which might beseem a King Queens Colledge Founded 1340. Robert Eglesfield Batchelor of Divinity Chaplain to Queen Philippa wife to King Edward the 3 d founded this Colledge in his own ground by the name of Queens Colledge commending the Patronage thereof to his Lady the Queen and to the Queens of England successively which he endowed with Lands and Revenews They are called to Dinner and Supper by the sound of a Trumpet Doctor Ayrie who wrote so well upon the Philippians was Provost of this Colledge Learned D. Langbane is now the Provost of it and worthy M. Barlow the Publick-Library-Keeper a Fellow of it New Colledge Founded 1375. William Wickam principal Secretary to King Edward the 3 d Keeper of the Privy-Seal Bishop of Winchester Lord High Treasurer and Chancellour of England founded this Colledge He also founded a Colledge at Winchester wherein he established one Warden ten Fellows two Schoolmasters and seventy Scholars with Officers and servants which all are maintained at his charge out of which School he ordained should be chosen the best Scholars alwayes to supply the vacant places of the Fellows of this Colledge Thomas Chaundlerus librum de Wiccami vita rebus gestis sane perelegantem conscripsit Waynfleti ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Wickamus celebratur ab erudito Iurisconsulto Martino Of this Colledge was Philpot the famous Martyr and S r Thomas Rives Bishop Lake D r Twisse and D r Iames. Lincoln Colledge Founded 1420. Richard
Fleming Bishop of Lincoln in the eighth year of the reign of King Henry the 5 th founded this Colledge by the name of Lincoln Colledge which was afterward in Richard the thirds time in the year of our Lord 1479. by Thomas Rotheram Bishop of the same Sea and Secretary to four Kings much augmented and increased D r Kilbie a learned Hebrician was Head of this Colledge and that learned School-Divine D r Sanderson was Fellow of this House All-Souls Colledge 1437. Henry Chichley Archbishop of Canterbury layed in Oxford the foundation of two goodly Colledges this and that of S t Iohns Colledge the last being reedified by S r Thomas White Lord Maior of London There is Vita Henrici Chichele Descripta ab Arthuro Dââk Magdalen Colledge Founded 1459. William Wainflet Bishop of Winshester founded first Magdalen Hall after that this Colledge dedicating the same to the honour of S. Mary Magdalen He builded also a great part of Eaton Colledge before begun by King Henry the sixt Prince Henry was of this Colledge Claimund and Doctor Bond were Presidents of it Brazeâ-Nose Colledge Founded 1515. William Smith Bishop of Lincoln during the reign of King Henry the 7 th laid the foundation of this Colledge After whose death Richard Sutton Esquire took upon him to perfect the same which he accomplished Alexander Nowel was of this house M r Bolton and I think M r Iohn Ball. Corpus Christi Colledge Founded 1516. Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester and Godfather to King Henry the 8 th founded this Colledge It nourished Iewel Rainolds Wâtton Hooker Cardinal Pool who was chosen Pope D r Featley and other learned men Christ-Church Colledge Founded 1546. Thomas Wolsey Cardinal Archbishop of York and Lord high Chancellour of England laid the foundation of a most ample and spacious Colledge but he falling his design failed with the Founder Henry the eight enriched the same with many goodly revenues annexing thereunto Canterbury Colledge It hath a spatious Court or quadrangle nay divers and a Hall both spatious and splendid wherein is a most beautifull glasse Lanthorn there is also a very fair Kitchin which only was finished by the Cardinal and gave oceasion to that scoff of an outlandish man Egregium opus saith he Cardinalis Collegium incepit popinam absolvit Sanna vix è coquina deprompta adeo sale caret saith Sir Isaac Wake in his Rex Platonicus Peter Martyr was once Prebend of this Colledge as his own Epistles shew He writes thus Amico cuidam in Anglia Ego cum essem Oxonii vestibus illis albis in Choro nunquam uti volui quamvis essem Canonicus mei facti ratio mihi constabat Toby Matthew Archbishop of York was of this House and M r Burton who wrote of Melancholy upon whose Tomb there is this witty Epitaph Paucis notus paucioribus ignotus Hic jacet Democritus Iunior Cui vitam pariter mortem Dedit Melancholia Trinity Colledge Founded 1556. Sir Thomas Pope Knight founded this Colledge in the fourth year of the Reign of King Philip and Qu. Mary dedicating the same to the Trinity S t Iohns Colledge Founded 1557. Henry Chichley Doctor of the Civil-Law Archbishop of Canterbury among other building laid the foundation of this Fabrick it was enlarged by William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury Iesus Colledge Founded 1572. Hugh Prise Doctor of the Civil Law founded this Colledge it was perfected by Queen Elizabeth it hath had many other Benefactors Wadham Colledge Founded 1613. Nicholas Wadham Esquire in the seventh year of the raign of King Iames founded it Pembrok Colledge Founded 1620. It was first Broadgate-Hall but was called Pembroke Colledge from William Earl of Pembroke then Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Visitor of that Hall There are also in this University seven Hals in which there are many Students living at their own charge viz. Glocester-Hall Which being first built for Monks was after converted to a House for Scholars by Sir Thomas White Knight Edmund Hall It was builded by S. Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury Albon Hall It was builded by the Abbot of S t Albons for their Monks to study in Hart Hall It was built by Walter Stapleton Bishop of Excester M r Selden was of this House New Inne Heretofore it was called Turlocks Inne S t Mary Hall It was founded by King Edward the second Sir Thomas More Chancellour of England was of this Hall Cardinal Allen was principal of it about the same time Magdalen Hall It was founded by William Wainfleet Bishop of Winchester and D r Budden who writes his life and death cals it Aulam Magdaelene parentem Collegii and a little book which mentions the several Colledges in Oxford and Cambridge makes the Hall a eleven years elder then the Colledge Cambridge THis is the other University and eye of England a most famous Storehouse of good Literature and Godlinesse it standeth upon the River Cam which divideth it into two parts and hath a Bridge over it whence arose the name Cambridge There is not wanting any thing here which a man may require in a most flourishing University were it not that the air is somewhat unhealthfull arising as it doth out of a Fenny-ground hard by That Cantaber a Spainard 3751. years before Christs Nativity first began and founded this University is affirmed by Caius but Leland the great Antiquary and Camden also confute that conceit and M r Camden saith It was a seat of learning about the time of King of Henry the first and that under the reign of Edward the first some think it should be the second Grantbridge of a School was made an University such as Oxford is by the Court of Rome Hugh Balsham Bishop of Ely in the year 1284. built the first Colledge called Peter House and endowed it with lands whose example the other Founders did imitate and follow saith the same Camden That which some relate also That a publick Academy was erected at Cambridge by King Sigebert Anno Christi 630. Id vero dubia annalium fide nititur Cantabrigiensium quoque aemuli Oxonienses pernegant fortiter Et ut quaedam fuerit instituta procul dubio rudis fuit nec in longum tempus Caeterum nono seculo majori verisimilitudine laus illa competit Coring De Antiq. Academ Dissertat 3. Vide plura ibid. p. 73. See Petrus Blesensis at the end of Ingulphus That which some urge for the honour of Cambridge of Bedes reading there is a fable well confuted by Sir Isaac Wake in his Rex Platonicus in his Acts of the fourth day Bedam vero ipsum unquam Cantabrigiae fuisse quis nisi cerebri laesi putat Quum ipse dissertissimis scriptis suis asserat se nunquam extra monasterium suum operam literis dedisse ac ne inde unquam ferè egressum à pueritia Cantabrigiam verò sua aetate adeò Academiam celebrem non fuisse ut fuisse planè
of Sussex Aunt to the renowned Sir Philip Sidney widow of Thomas Ratcliffe Earl of Sussex founded this Colledge by the name of the Colledge of the L. Frances Sidney Sussex It is much inlarged since by divers Benefactors Doctor Ward was Master there and M. Gataker Fellow CHAP. XIV Of the Universities of Scotland and Ireland THe learned men of Scotland have been these 1. Marianus sirnamed Scotus 2. Hector Boetius both Historians 3. Iohn Major a well known Schoolman Since the Reformation George Buchanan an excellent Poet. King Iames his Scholar and a good Poet also Napier the Laird of Marchiston Barclay the Father and the Sonne Iohn Skeine the Antiquary of this Nation Doctor Iohn Maxwell the learned Bishop of Rosse Rolloc Baronius Cameron Melvin The Universities I. Aberdein King Alexander with his Sister Isabella adorned this with many priviledges about the year 1240. Doctor Iohn Forbes was Professor of Divinity here Glasco It is honoured with an Archbishops See and an University founded here by Archbishop Turbal An. 1454. S t Andrews It is the chief Town of Fife an Archiepiscopal See and an University erected in the year after our Saviours Incarnation 1411. The University of Ireland THe Christian Faith was first preached among the Irish by S t Patrick The Irish Scholars of Patrick profited so notably in Christianity that in the Age next following Ireland was termed Sanctorum Patria that is the native Countrey of Saints and the Scottish Monks in Ireland and Britain highly excelled for their holinesse and learning Out of Ireland came Caelius Sedulius a Priest Richard Fitz-Ralf commonly called Armachanus is of famous memory who turned the edge of his style about the year 1355. against the mendicant Friers as detesting in Christians such voluntary begging Dublin or Divelin There is a beautifull Colledge consecrated unto the name of the holy and indivisible Trinity which for the exercising and polishing of wits with good Literature Queen Elizabeth endowed with the Priviledges of an University and it is furnished with a good Library Bishop Usher was born there and was the first Scholar of that Colledge Thus much of Dublin saith Camden in his Britaine for the most part of which I acknowledge my self beholden unto the diligence and learning of Iames Usher Chancellor of S t Patricks Church whose variety of knowledge and judgement are far above his years The End of the second Book THE THIRD BOOK Of such as were Famous for ZEAL IN THE True RELIGION or any Kinde of Learning CHAP. I. A ISaac Abarbinel a Jew of great note both amongst the Jews and Christians He is the best Expofitor of the Jews upon the Text. His Hebrew Comment upon the Pentateuch and Prophets are much esteemed by those who are so well skilled in the Hebrew that they are able to make use of them He hath Commented say some upon all the Scripture Some Jews of malice study to pervert all Christian Doctrine as this man Abrabbanââl or Barbanel a Rabbin of great pains and wit but not of grace and only to be followed when he clearly is on our side H. Broughtons Observat. upon the first ten Fathers Robert Abbot a pious and Learned Bishop His excellent Writings are much esteemed Some much commend his Book de Antichristo others his Answer to Bishop others his Treatise de gratia perseverantia Sanctorum He wrote a most accurate Commentary in Latine upon the Epistle to the Romanes with large Sermons upon every verse in which he handled as his Text gave him occasion all the controverted points of Religion at this day They who withhold this work from the publick view as they wrong the Church in generall so in speciall the City and Cathedrall Church of Worcester to which he bequeathed it as a kinde of legacy as the Authours own words in his Dedicatory Epistle to B. Babington printed with his Sermons upon the 110 Psalm import Petrus Abelardus vel ABAELARDUS a person of great note in his time contemporary with Bernard See Pasquiers Recherch de la France l. 6. c. 17. Two of the verses of his Epitaph are these Ille sciens quicquid fuit ulliscibile vicit Artifices artes absque docente docens Scripsit opera quam plurima in unum volumen edita opera Studio Francisci Amboesi equitis Abelfoedus a great Cosmographer Alpbonsus Tostatus Abulensis Episc. 1430. Had he lived in any other age save his own we should not have needed now to envy either Hippo for Augustine or Strido for Ierom nor any other of those ancient noble Worthies of the Church Possevine in his Apparatus saith that at the age of 22 years he attained the knowledge of almost all Arts and Sciences For besides Philosophy and Divinity the Canon and Civill Laws History and the Mathematicks he was well skilled in Greek and Hebrew Hic stupor est mundi qui scibile discutit omne He wrote so many Books and they not ill ones that the world computed a sheet for every day of his life Some conceive they meant after he came to the use of reason and the state of a man others say he wrote more sheets of paper then he lived daies It is related by a very credible Author Fr. Ximenes Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of all Spain that reckoning the daies that he lived from his first infancy untill his dying day you shall finde three sheets of paper that he wrote for every day He is styled Voluminous Abulensis or the Voluminous Writer Accursius He flourished in the year 1223 or as some say 1230. He was the first that wrote a Gloss upon all the Civil Law and as yet the last saith Genebrard in his Chronology Iacobus Acontius He hath written a book called Stratagemata Satanae See D r Cheinels Triunity Adrian the Emperour was a very Learned Prince and Facetious a great Grecian he was called by many Graeculus Pope Adrian the fourth an Englishman he was bred and born at S t Albons Oft times in familiar talk with Iohn of Salisbury his Countryman he used these sentences To take the Papacy saith he is to succeed Romulus in murder and not Peter in sheep-feeding None is more wretched then the Romish Bishop neither is any mans condition more miserable then his Iohan. Salisb. de nugis aulicorum l. 8. His breath was stopt with a fly which entred into his throat Pope Adrian the sixth a poor mans sonne of Utrecht He was a Learned man and Schoolmaster to Charles the 5 th who sent him to Rome to negotiate for him for the Popedom thinking thereby to sway much if he could get both the Swords but they chose Adrian who would not change his name as the custom is when he was made Pope Marcellus Cervinus being elected Pope also retained his name shewing that his dignity had not changed him See the Hist. of the Counell of Trent l. 5. p. 389 390. He
saith there that the changing of the Popes names began because Dutch men were made Popes to whose names Roman ears were not accustomed all that followed observed the same use signifying thereby that they had changed their private affections into publick and divine cares Platina saith Sergius the 2 d was first called Os Porci Swines mouth and because of that filthy name he took the Name of Sergius when he was made Pope and that that custom continued after that those which were made Popes changed their names although this was not observed by them all Adrians memorable speech was Nihil sibi imperio infelicius in vita accidisse That nothing befell him more unhappy in his life then his Dominion He was severe and purposed to reform corruptions and said he would begin with the Court but was thereupon poysoned as some think Vide Sleid. Comment lib. 3. Quod bonus recti custos quod pacis amator Correctorque Aulae luxuriantis eras Scilicet hac una ex causa vir sancte peristi Vixisses annos Nestoris improbior Laurent Pignor. in Symbii Epistol Epist. 33. ad Johan Thuilium He wrote as the genius of that age was twelve Quodilibeticall Questions and Questions on the fourth book of the Master of the Sentences Is erat illius saeculi apud Theologos genius ut quae in controversiam vocarentur graves in primis atque difficiles Quaestiones quòd de re qualibet cuilibet disserere liceret Quodibeticae appellarentur Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg. Aegidius Romanus Anno Christi 1280. Aelian His Books de animalibus and de varia historia are commended though some prefer the first Paulus Aemylius of Verona He beginning with the first Kings of France hath written a French History of above a thousand years yet with laconicall brevity He is reported to have spent thirty years about this famous work and by it got himself a great Name Gerardus Vossius lib. 3. de Hist. Lat. cap. 12. cals him an elegant and eloquent Writer Aeneas Sylvius an Italian after called Pope Pius the 2 d he lived in the year 1464. Being seven years old sporting with his playfellows of the same age he was saluted Pope by them all of them kissing his feet as the Papists do the Popes Historians report the like of Ambrose how he was made a Bishop being a boy by his companions He was very Learned an excellent Orator a great Poet Philosopher and Cosmographer he could speak eloquently Magna quidem in dicendo Pii laus fuit quòd cùm saepius iisdem de rebus loqueretur diversa semper visus est dicere tanta erat in homine elegantia copia Platina de vitis Pontificum Romanorum Scientia sane insignis pari utinam conscientia Sed Papalis Cathedrae vis in eo statim enituit Morn Myst. Iniq. He was at the Councell of Basill wrote every thing praising the Decrees that were there made exceedingly But when he was advanced to this high degree of dignity he changed his opinion and would have the Counsell subject to the Popes Sleid. Comment l. 2. Whence that scoff of him Quod Aeneas probavit Pius damnavit He is said to be the Author of that famous Dystick Non audet Stygius Pluto tentare quod audet Effrenis Monachus plenaque fraudis anus Ioannes Aepinus a Learned Divine His severall Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Aeschines the Orator he was an Athenian there was a great contest between him and Demosthenes Demosthenes caused him to be banished Plenior Aeschines magis fusus grandiori similis quo minus strictus est carnis tamen plus habet lacertorum minus Quintil. Instit. l. 10. c. 1. Aeeschylus an Athenian He first published Tragedies saith Quintilian Institut Orat. l. 10. c. 1. When he heard that he should die with a stroak coming from above he shunned houses and was wont to remain in the open air but he was killed by a Tortoyse falling from the mouth of an Eagle upon his baldhead See Plin. l. 10. c. 3. Agapetus Diaconus a most Learned and holy man These are his Works De Officio Regis Gr. Lat. Expositio Capitum Paraeneticorum ad Iustinianum Caesarem Gr. Lat. Agobardus Bishop of Lions in France Anno Christi 840. Peracris ingenii doctrinae Possev a man very acute and Learned CHAP. II. ROdolphus Agricola He was a very eminent Scholar a Musician a Painter and very studious of other Arts and learned in them Inter Graecos graecissimus inter Latinos latinissimus Amongst the Grecians a speciall Grecian amongst the Latinists a pure Latinist In verse you would have thought him another Virgill in prose he resembled Angelus Politianus in wittiness in majesty he exceeded him Swertii Athenae Belgicae Hermolaus Barbarus made these verses on Agricola Invida clauserunt hoc marmore fata Rudolphum Agricolam Frysii spemque decusque soli Scilicet hoc vivo meruit Germania laudis Quicquid habet Latium Graecia quicquid habet Beissard in his Icones mentions his Works Thuanus Tomo primo Hist. l. 16. p. 459. much commends Georgius Agricola He goes beyond all in those subjects Dere Mâttallica Statica Henricus Cornelius Agrippa a great Scholar but too much given to Magick as his Book De occulta Philosophia shews which I wonder any will justifie Adhuc cum plausu à multis exceptum volumen de vanitate scientiarum alium addidit librum de occulta Philosophia curiosis admodum pestilentem quod opus ex censura Christiana edicto vetatur apud unos impios reperitur Paul Jov. Elog. Doct. Vir. homo cumprimis eruditus Magicis superstitionibus infamis Thuan. Hist. Tom. 4. lib. 89. Vanissimus ille vanitatum effictor Tych. Brah. lib. 1. de Nova Stella Ainsworth a Brownist but a learned Hebrician and good Commentator on the five Books of Moses the Psalmes and Canticles He hath published also other Works all which are much liked by some of our Divines William Alablaster an excellent Poet he wrote a Poem called Elisaeis of the chief things in Q. Elizabeths Reign but it was not perfected There is his Apparatus in revelat Iesu Christi Albategnius an Arabian Anno 1070. a famous Mathematician and Physitian He hath written De Numero Stellarum Motibus Albertus Magnus for his Learning and exact knowledge of all good Disciplines he was sirnamed Great He left many Scholars and two principall ones among the rest Thomas de Aquino and Bonaventure He died when he was fourscore years old He left many Books which are now Printed and do much elucidate Philosophy and Divinity Although he was as it were the chief of the Schoolmen yet he hath some things not agreeable to the Doctrine of the Papists Illâr Catal. Test. verit l. 16. His Works were many the principall are reckoned up by Boissard in his Icones Leander Albertus His Italia and his
Book De viris Illustribus ordinis Praedicatorum shew his great abilities Leo Bapt. Albertus he was a Learned man of the same family Gabriel Albaspinaeus Bishop of Orleance He published a Book de Eucharistiae Mysterio and two Books De veteribus Ecclesiae ritibus cum notis in Concilium Eliberitanum aliquot Tertulliani libros M r Selden and M r Gillespie cite his observations on Tertullian and speak of him as a great Antiquary This was his Epitaph Clauditur hoc tumulo spinâ cui nomen ab Albâ Successor patriae fidei successor honoris Regis deliciae procerumque plebis amores Dives opum bene partarum sed ditior usu Munificus facilisque aditu studiisque politus Ingenuis rectique tenax simplice lingua Egregium decus oris erat maturius annis Consilium cani juvenili in corpore mores Denique florebat summae spes proxima laudi Cùm brevis humanis semper virtutibus aetas Ter denâs juvenem vetuit numerare Decembres Tot bona quam parvo rapuerunt tempore fata Edmundus Albertinus a Learned French Protestant Divine of Paris There is a Learned Book of his de Sacramento Encharistiae lately published with a Preface of Blondels to it Andreas Alciatus was the first that wrote Learned notes on the Civil Law after him Budeus and Cujacius and many others Erasmus stiles him Unicum hujus aetatis miraeulum ac studiorum delicium the only miracle of this age and the darling of the Muses By Lilius Gyraldus he is intitled Iurisperitorum eloquentissimus eloquentium juris peritissimus polyhistor bonusque poeta His Emblems are much commended by Iulius Scaliger Arias Montanus made these verses of him Eloquio jus Romanum lucebat arte Turba obscurarunt barbara legulei Andreas prisco reddit sua jura nitori Consultosque facit doctius inde loqui Our age saith Learned Pasquier Recherch de la France l. 9. ch 30. brought forth four great persons in the same time Erasmus a Dutchman Budeus a Frenchman Alciate an Italian Vives a Spaniard and yet we have with us saith he Adrian Turnebus and Peter Ramus which last hath made many Books full of learning and knowledge and for Turnebus his Adversaria consisting in Humanity it is a work unimitable in variety of knowledge In his 29. ch of that Book he speaks of the Lawyers in the year 1500 which joyned the study of the Law with humane learning where he makes honourable mention of also Budeus Alciate Cujacius and divers others Stephanus Paschafius likewise in his Icones hath these verses of Erasmus Budaus and Alciate Qui leget hos leget ille sui tria lumina secli Lumina non ullo non celebranda die Hic Italus Gallusque alius Germanus alter Quos triplex uno tempore fama tulit Flaccus Albinus or Alcuinus vir illis temporibus longè eruditissimus a learned English man for those times Schoolmaster of Charles the Great one of the Founders of the University of Paris He lived 800 years after Christ saith Helvicus in his Chronol Camden in his Britane in Yorkeshire makes honourable mention of him So doth Caius Histor. Cantabr Academ l. 1. p. 37. That which many Writers observe of his being Bedes Scholar will not be made good Ulysses Aldrovandus percelebris ille de animalibus scriptor so he is styled by Gassendus in vita-Peireskii l. 1. His Books de Animalibus printed at Bononia are commended Hieronymus Aleander Cardinall was Learned in Latine Greek and Hebrew ad stuporem usque whose labour Leo the Pope used against Luther He was of so great a memory that though he greedily read over many Volumes yet he remembred all and would rehearse it long after Neand. Geog. parte â a. Alexander the Great He was tam Marti quam Mercurio a great Scholar and Souldier both He was bred and taught under Aristotle who Dedicated divers Books of Philosophy unto him He was attended with Calisthenes and divers other learned persons that followed him in Camp and were his perpetuall Associates in all his travailes and conquests He expostulates with Aristotle for publishing the mysteries of Phylosophy and gave him to understand That himself esteemed it more to excell others in Learning and Knowledge then in Power and Empire Alexander de Hales He was an English man and Princeps Scholasticorum one of the chief Schoolmen He was first called Fons vitae then Doctor irrifragabilis the Master of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure He flourished in the year of Christ 1245. He wrote by the Commandment of Pope Innocent the 4 th an excellent and most copious summe of Divinity which is generally known Bellarm. de Script Eccles. He wrote other things also as Gesner shews in his Bibliotheca Camden in his Britain in Glocestershire mentions Hales a Monastery there whence this our Country man came Alexander Alesius a Scotchman of later times magni inter suos nominis Theologus Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2 do l. 36. Anno Dom. 1551. Alexander ab Alexandro a Neapolitane He hath written a book styled Genialium dierum which it were good to reade with Tiraquellus his Annotations because he shews what Authours he was beholding to for those things he hath Iuris consultus Neapolitanus reliquit Genialium dierum libros sex verè promptuarium antiquitatis veterisque historiae etsi nec pauca in âo sint ad verborum proprietatem aliaque studia pertinentia Unum autem hoe meritò in hisce praeclaris Commentariis improbari solet quòd eorum unde profecisset dissimularet autores Sed huic vitio medicinam fecit doctissimus Tiraquellus qui digitum ad fontes intendens unde quaeque hausta essent judicavit Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 3. c. 8. Alhazen Tycho Brahe cals Vitellio ejus imitatorem Inter Optices scriptores praecipui sunt Alhazen Vitellio Tych. Brah. De Nova Stella c. 1. Leo Allatius a Learned Scholer a naturall Grecian He hath put out a Book entitled Apes Urbanae of all the famous men which were at Rome in the years 1630 1631 1632 and have published Books Muhamedes Alfraganus a great Astronomer He is translated out of Hebrew by Iacobus Christmannus and put out in Arabick and Latine by Golius There are his Chronol Astron. Elementa Alfred King of England He divided the day and night into three parts if he were not let by Warres and other great business eight hours he spent in Study and Learning other eight hours he spent in Prayer and Almes-deeds and other eight hours he spent in his naturall rest sustenance of his body and the affairs of his Kingdom He was not only very Learned himself but also a worthy maintainer of the same through all his Dominions Thomas Allen he hath put out Notes on Chrysostem and Sir Henry Savill often styles him Doctissimum he was skilled both in Greek and Divinity Peter de Alliaco Bishop of Camray in France and
Cardinall of the Church of Rome 1400. He was a famous Mathematician and Divine a Germane He observing many superstitions and errours in the Church wrote a Book De Reformatione Ecclesiae and in the year 1414 he left it with the Councell of Constance to judge of it Alphonsus King of Arragon He much favoured the wits of his age and therefore he honourably maintained at his Court Bartholomaeus Facius Georgius Trapezuntius a Grecian Laurentius Valla Antonius Panormitanus and other Learned men in great number His vertues are most amply celebrated by Blondus Sabellicus Bernardinus Corius Antonius Panormitanus Simoneta and other Learned Writers A most excellent Philosopher and Astronomer as any of his time a great lover and advancer of Learning He was wont to say Se malle privatim vivere quam eruditione carere he had rather live privately then want learning and that an unlearned King was but a Crowned Asse When he was sick of a great disease and his Physitians applied many medicines in vain he began to reade the history of Curtius concerning Alexander and was so much delighted with it that being restored to health he is reported to have said Valeant Avicenna Hippocrates medici caeteri Vivat Curtius sospitator meus Anton. Panorm lib. de rebus gestis Alphonsi Petrus Alphonsus a Jew and first called Moses he left Judaism and was converted to the Christian Faith and was by Baptism ingraffed into Christ in the year of our Lord 1106 on Peters day when he was 44 years old whence he had the name of Peter given him and because Alfonsus the King of Spain was his Surety in Baptism he was called Alfonsus Illyr Catal. Test. Verit. l. 14. Iohn Henry Alstid an industrious Writer but a great Collectour Henricus Alting He and Conradus Vorstius were Piscators Scholars Piscator was wont to call Alting Theologum optimum Vorstins Pessimum Spinola invading the Palatinate and the place taken where he remained a bloudy fellow used these words to him with a Poleax in his hand I have killed with these hands ten men to day to which D. Alting shall be speedily added if I knew where he did lie hid but who art thou he answered I was the Schoolmaster in the Colledge of Wisdom and so escaped His works are these Scripta Theologica Heidebergensia tribus Tomis Exegesis Augustanae confessionis unà cum Syllabo controversiaram Lutharanarum Methodus Theologiae Didacticae Catecheticae Henry Alting his sonne who wrote Hebraeorum Respublica Scholastica Didatus Alvarez a famous Spanish Divine and for the most part orthodox in the controversies concerning Predestination as likewise Dominicus Bannes and the Dominicans generally are who follow Thomas as the Franciscaens do Scotus Sixtinus Amama a Dutchman both learned and modest His Antibarbarus Biblicus and Censura are usefull One that had a natural genius to enlighten the Text of Scripture and to finde the notion of the sacred Language Ambrose Bishop of Milane He hindred Theodosius the Emperour from entring into the Church for a murther committed at Thessalonica To whom when the Emperour said That David the King was also an adulterer and manslayer Ambrose answered Qui secutus es errantem sequere poenitentem Thou that hast followed him sinning follow him repenting Hence the Emperour underwent a publick penance imposed upon him by the Bishop He stoutly defending the Catholick Faith and Ecclesiastical Discipline converted many Arians and other hereticks to the truth of the Faith It is reported of him that when he was an Infant a swarm of Bees setled on his face as be lay in his Cradle and flew away without hurting of him whereupon his Father said If this childe live he will be some great man He flourished anno Christi 361. Helv. Chron. Cardinal Baronius at the commandment of Pope Sixtus wrote S t Ambrose his life with all diligence Before he was Bishop he was a secular Judge and no Divine nay no Christian at all but his Christianity and Divinity began both together after he was chosen Bishop of Milane For he was fain to be Christened before he could be consecrated Bish. Andrews Answ. to the 20 th Ch. of Cardinal Perrons Reply CHAP. III. VVIlliam Ames Doctor of Divinity a judicious and solid English Divine witnesse his Medulla Sacrae Theologiae his five Books De Conscientia ejus jure vel casibus His Bellarminus Enervatus his Corronis ad collationem Hagiensem and his other works Amiraldus a learned French Divine He hath written divers learned Tracts both in Latine and French De libero arbitrio de gratia contra Spanhemium de secessione ab Ecclesia Romana Gulielmus de Sancto Amore a Master of Paris and chief Ruler then of that University He was a worthy and valiant Champion of Christ and adversary of Antichrist He wrote against the Friers and their hypocrisie but especially against the begging Friers In his dayes there was a most detestable and blasphemous book set forth by the Friers which they called Evangelium aeternum or Evangelium Spiritus Sancti The Everlasting Gospel or The Gospel of the holy Ghost it said The Gospel of Christ was not to be compared with that Gospel no more then darknesse to light That the Gospel of Christ should be preached but fifty years and then this Everlasting Gospel should rule the Church He mightily impugned this pestiferous Book Foxes Act. and Monum Tom. 1. p. 410. to 416. Ammonius Alexandrinus an eloquent man and great Philosopher Amphilochius He flourished about the year 380. Anacreon The learned and noble Poet Anacreon was born in Perche in France His Poem concerning Gems and precious Stones deserves the Laurelwreath Anastasius the Popes Library-keeper he hath written faithfully the lives of 109 Popes of Rome Anastasius Synaita In the year of our Lord 640. He is by some called Nicenus by others Sinaita and Antiochenus Petrus Ancharanus sive Ancoranus Bononiensis He was of the illustrious Family of the Farnesii He wrote in both the Laws He wrote five Books upon the Decretals one Book on six of the Decretals one Book on the Clementines one Book concerning the Rules of the Law and others Bishop Andrews De cujus alta doctrina in omni genere disciplinarum quicquid dixero minus erit Casaub. ad Front Duc. Epist. Some learned men much commend his Tortura Torti Exactissimae fidei diligentia scriptum Casaub. ubi supra Vulgarem secutus sermonem vir longè doctissimus qui pro Iuramento Fidelitatis in Anglia Matthaeo Torto respondens opus suum Torturam Torti inscripsit Vossius De vitiis Sermonis l. 3. c. 53. Anselme There were two Anselmes ours Archbishop of Canterbury and the other of Laon in France Anselmus Laudanensis the Author of the interlineary glosse who lived anno Christi 1110. I shall speak of the first who was an Italian This Anselme though he was learned and
continent all his life time yet being obstinate in his opinion he often swerved from the truth and doctrine of Christ and rather loved the glory and vain fame of Christian praise then truth it self He first in England forbad Priests marriage He flourished in the year of our Lord 1080. For his witty inventions forecastings policies disputations and other laborious affairs about the overthrow of princely Authority and uprearing of Antichrists tyranny Pope Urbanus appointed both him and them that should afterward succeed in the Patriarchal seat of Canterbury to sit at his right foot in every general Councel and that he also ratified by a special decree Thus it was proclaimed when that place was given him in the open Synod Includamus hunc in orbe nostro tanquam alterius orbis Papam Marcus Antoninus Emperor He was the greatest Philosopher of his time When he was going to make warre upon the Germans the Philosophers generally came with Questions to him to answer least he dying in that expedition they should be unresolved For his clemency and modest behaviour he had the name of Pius and is for the same in Histories commended Antoninus of Florence Anno aerae Christianae 161. He hath written three Tomes of Chronicles and four Parts of Summes in great Volumes Marcus Antonius de Dominis His Books De Republica are much commended Marcus Antonius Genuae cui veterum doctrinarum arcana patent quo nemo peritior Aristotelis interpres Manut. Epist. l. 4. Epist. 5. Alex. Aphrodisaeus One of the first Interpreters of Aristotle Petrus Apianus a famous Mathematician Mathematicus superioris aetatis celeberrimus Tych. Brah. Petrus Aponensis seu Aponius a chief Physician in his time He wrote Commentaries upon Aristotles Problems Vir Philosophiae Medicinae famâ tam clarus ut ab discrepantes in iis disciplinis sententias in consonam aptamquâ unius sensus concordiam revocatas vulgò Conciliator appelletur Castellanus De vitis Medicorum Apollinaris the Father and Son both Hereticks Apollinaris the Syrian was excellently skilled in the Greek Language Sâââmen âaith He wrote in Heroick verse the Antiquity of the Hebrews after the imitation of Homer even to the times of King Saul after the number of the letters in 24 Volumes He translated also the Psalms in Heroick verse which are yet extant He also imitating Menander is said to have written Comedies and Euripides Tragedies and Pindar Lyricks Lil. Gyrald De Poet. Histor. Dial. 5. This Apollinaris brought in a new Heresie those which follow him are called Apollinarists he held that Christ took the body but not the soul of a man but when he was urged with reasons he somewhat changed his opinion saith Ruffinus He lived from Constantine to the time of the elder Theodosius Lil. Gyrald De Poet. Hist. Dial. 5. Sidonius Apollinaris a Frenchman anno Christi 557. About 450. saith Peter du Moulin in his Antibarbarian cap. 12. He was Bishop of Cleruant in Aâvernie He married the daughter of the Emperour Avitus by whom he had children Apollonius being a Roman Senator wrote and recited in the Senate his Apology for the Christians and was after crowned with Martyrdom Apollonius Pergaeus a great Mathematician Magnus Giometra nulla ratione Archimede inferior quam mira quam abstrusa in suis conicis in lucem profert Blancani Dissertat De Natura Mathemat Apollonius Rhodius He only of the Greek Poets after Pindar wrote Argonautica of which subject there are four Books of his He was Callimachus his Scholar although Alexandria was his Countrey yet he was called Rhodius after he came from Alexandria to Rhode and lived there long in great honour Appianus Alexandrinus He is called deservedly by Ios. Scalig. animad Euseb. p. 163. Alienorum laborum fucâs yet is a profitable writer because many of those whom he exscribes are lost He lived in the time of Adrian and hath written De Bello Civilli Romanorum Apuleius a Platonick Philosopher anno Domini 161. Scriptor eruditissimus Casaub. de Satyr poesi a most learned writer There are twelve Books of his De aureo asino ex Graco Asino Luciani descripta orationis genere tali ut rudere verius quam loqui ibi Apuleius viris eruditis videatur Neand. Geog. parte 3. Aquila a Translator of the Bible He was converted from Judaism to the faith afterward being again made a Proselyte he translated the Old Testament into Greek Aquila Ponticus ex Gentili Christianus posteaque Iudaeus factus cum Hebraicè didicisset sub Caesare Hadriano anno 129. veteris instrumenti libros Graecè ita transtulit ut verbum verbo redderet Vossius De Arte Grammatica l. 1. c. 3. Tho. Aquinas born at Aquinus a Town in Abruzza in Italy He is the great Dictator of the Schools For his profound Learning and great piety he is commonly called in the Popish School Divus Thomas because he was canonized by Pope Iohn the 22. Doctor Angelicus ob acumen ingenii He was a great maintainer of the Authority of the Bishops of Rome Upon whose Scholastical Works by Popish Divines are published as many Commentaries as upon the holy Scripture and his Summes are more frequently read in their Schools and Academies then the Bible it self yet he when he was near his end taking the Bible is said to have uttered this speech Credo quicquid in hoc libro scriptum est I believe whatsoever is written in this book It is said he got his knowledge rather by prayer then labour and industry therefore he would still pray before he did write reade or dispute He was so intent upon his studies that supping at Court with Lewis the French King whilst others were discoursing of pleasant matters he was so deep in his Meditation that forgetting himself he strook the Table with his hand saying Iam conclusum est contra Manichaeâs Now it is concluded against the Manichees Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of Thomas Aquinas Cedite Pythagorae qui dogmata vana putatis Redditus in terris alter Aristoteles He was more then 1200 years after Christ and was both overwhelmed with the corruption of his time and wholly wedded to the See of Rome B Bils Differ betw Christ. Subject and unchrist Rebel Aratus an ancient Poet there is nothing of his but his Phoenomena which Tully translated into Latine Archimedes the Syracusan Mathematician See of him Plin. Natural Hist. l. 7. c. 37. and Plutark of Marcellus and himself God would have some singular Idea as it were to be in all Arts which all that are studious of that Art should propound to themselves to imitate as Demosthenes and Tully in eloquence Hippocrates and Galen in Physick Archimedes in the Mathematicks He had an admirable Genius or wit for the Mathematicks and by study he perfected it He did so bend his thoughts that way that he almost neglected other necessaries If he were at
any time led to the Bath by his servants he would make figures in the ashes and upon his anointed body He is said to have composed a Sphere of transparent glasse representing unto the life the whole frame of the Heavens wherein the Sun Moon and Stars with their true motions periods and limits were shewed to the sight in such sort as if it were natural Petrus Aretinus He wrote so well on the Penitential Psalms that he was called Divine Aretine yet he hath written very lasciviously in Italian He was studiosissimus morum Explorator Leonardus Aretinus a most learned Historian Orator and Philosopher his works are mentioned by Boissard Benedictus Aretius inter suos plerisquc scriptis editis clarus Thuanus His three Works viz. his Commentary upon the New Testament his Problems or Common-places and his Examen Theologicum made his name illustrious He was Professour of Divinity at Bern. Architas Tarentinus He was esteemed the rarest Mathematician of his time Ioannes Argyropylus he was of Constantinople He was Politians Master in Philosophy and a learned Scholar He translated some Books of Aristotles more elegantly then faithfully Ioannes Argenterius a learned Physitian but too forward in censuring Galen and other of the Ancients Aristophanes a great Comedian He was the first that called himself Philologus as Pythagoras was the first that called himself Philosophus Facetissimus quidem sed obscaenissimus veteris Comaediae scriptor Dilher Disput. Acad. Chrysostom laid him under his pillow Gregorius Ariminensis 1386. A learned and a famous man He disputed about the Doctrine of Grace and Free-will as we now and dissented from the Sophisters and Papists counting them new Pelagians CHAP. IV. ARistotle he was born at Stagira in Macedon He was Plato's Scholar and the chief of the Peripateticks Sectam condidit omnium longè nobilissimam quam Peripateticam vocarunt eo quòd inter ambulandam artes commentationesque suas discipulis tradâret Castellanus de vitis Medicorum He was not only the Master and Patriark of Philosophy Logick and Rhetorick but also especially learned in Poetry both in respect of the Art and the composing of verses Lil. Gyrald de Poet. Hist. Dial. 3. He was Master to Alexander the great of whom he was much esteemed for his sake he repaired his Countrey Stagira being much decayed He alone both invented and perfected the whole Art of Logick Vide Crakanth Log. l. 4. c. 4. 16. Crakanthorpe in his Treatise De Providentia proves that Aristotle did not deny Gods Providence and that the Book De mundo is his He is called the Philosopher by an excellency Richard Fitzrauf or Fitzraf Armachanus 1350. Among those famous Clerks that lived in the family of Richard Angervill Bishop of Durham in the dayes of Edward the third Thomas Bradwardine who was afterward Bishop of Canterbury Richard Fitzrause afterward Archbishop of Armagh and Robert Holcot the Dominican were of special note Richard of Armagh my Countrey-men commonly call S. Richard of Dundalk because he was there born and buried B. Ush. Answ. to the Jes. Challenge of Merits He wrote against the Mendicant Friers and should have been canonized but for them A man for his life and learning so memorable as the condition of those dayes then served that the same dayes then as they had but few good so had they none almost his better He was first brought up in the University of Oxford in the study of all liberal knowledge wherein he did exceedingly profit under Iohn Bakenthorp his Tutor There were thirty thousand Students in Oxford in his time Foxes Act. and Monum Vol. 1. p. 532. to 543. He wrote seven Books De paupertate Salvatoris wherein he proves that Christ was not a beggar Iacobus Arminius He was a learned man and as some say of a strict life for a Dutchman He hath written Disputat 24. de diversis Christianae Religionis capitibus Orationes Controversiae Theologicae Examen libelli Guil. Perkinsii De Praedestinatione amplitudine gratiae divinae analysis cap. 9. ad Romanos De gemino sensu cap. 7. ad Romanos Amica cum Fr. Junio per literas habita collatio de Praedestinatione Arnobius lived in the year of our Lord 300. He was the chiefest man of his time for Latine eloquence He was Lactautius his Master both of them wrote seven very learned books against the Heathens consisting of many of their own testimonies produced against them Arnoldus de Villa Nova a Spaniard a man famously learned and a great writer anno 1250. whom the Pope with his spiritualty condemned among Hereticks for holding and writing against the corrupt errours of the Popish Church Caius de antiqu Cantab. Acad. l. 1. saith He lived an Dom. 1300. when Raimundus âullius and Roger Bacon flourished in England Arianus a Greek Historian very faithfull he writes the things done by Alexander the Great as Q. Curtius doth in Latine in an elegant style He imitates Xenophon therefore he is called another and a lesser Xenophon He wrote well also upon Epictetus Arzahel a great Astronomer Asconius Pedianus a famous Historian Roger Aââham Secretary for the Latine to Queen Elizabeth the only Englishman who hath written a Volume of Latine Epistles they were published by Doctor Grant He was very intimate with Io. Sturmio as the Epistles written between them shew though he never saw him Two only of his Books Toxophylus and his Schoolmaster with a little Tract of his Travels in Germany are published in English He flourished in the year of our Lord 1540. Aspasia a great Philosopher she was the Mistresse of Pericles and at length his wife Plut. in Pericles Angelus Politianus in an Epistle to Cassandra that learned Venetian maid mentions Aspasia and many other learned women and saith that Sex is not naturally slow or dull So doth Thevet Vies des hommes illustres in Sappho Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria He was worthy in honour to be immortal in the Church according to his name He was the wonder of all the world for his learning piety and constancy standing like an unshaken Rock against the Sea of Arian Errors He was called Haereticorum Mallens and was one of the chiefest in the Councel of Nice He foretold the destruction of Iulian the Emperour when by his Edict he was cast out of Alexandria he said to his hearers bewailing his exile Bono animo estote filioli nubecula est brevi evanescet Be of good courage my children it is but a little Cloud and will soon vanish away He lived say some six years in a Well without the light of the Sun forsaken of friends and every where hunted by enemies The Great Athanasius he was Great for his learning for his vertue for his labour and for his sufferings but above all Great for his Creed B. And. Opusc. Posth Speech in Star-Chamb against M. Trask Athenagoras an Athenian Philosopher who
wrote an Apology for Christi ãâ¦ã Athenaâs He lived in the time of Marcus Antoninus the Emperour His Works are put out in Greek and Latine by Isaac Casaubone with learned Notes Ioannes Aventinus He was born anno 1466. Beatus Rhenanus gratulates him to his Germany and cals him Eruditissimum Aventinum variarum cognitione disciplinarum prastantem Erasmus styles him Hominem studio indefatigabili ac reconditae lectionis his just Epitaph styles him Rerum antiquarum indagatârem sagacissimum No man in his History can tell his Religion He wrote ten Books of Germany illustrated of which see the heads in Neander his Geog. parte 1 and the Titles in Gesners Bibliotheca Averroes a Physician at Corduba in Spain a Commentator upon Aristotle He flourished in that time when Gratian the Monk Peter Lombard and Peter Comestor flourished Avicenna e stirpe regia he was also a famous Philosopher and Physician of Corduba anno Christi 1002. Averroes and he were two famous Arabians Besides Physicks he wrote a Metaphysick also much esteemed of Augustine Bishop of Hippo. Bishop Andr. in his Opusc. Post. de Decimis cals him Decus Aphricae He was the most accomplished that ever writ since the dayes of the Apostles Kellets Miscel. lib. 1. cap. 8. Dr. Field hath the like of him De Eccles. lib. 3. cap. 32. p. 170. B. Usher also ascribes as much to him Magnum est ejus in Ecclesia nomen Whitak de sacr Script Controv. 16. Quaest. 6. His name is great in the Church of God He is the most Doctrinal among the Ancient Fathers The Doctrine of S t Augustine was approved anciently by the Catholick Church and till this new fangled age generally and commonly allowed and embraced both by the Romanists and by the Protestants B. Dav. Animadvers upon Gods Love to Mankind p. 103. His Works are published in magne folio in ten Tomes purged by Erasmus It is pity that so great a Pillar of the Church was no better skilled in the Originals of the sacred Tongue He was famous for two of his Works especially his b Retractations which are the Confessions of his errours and his Confessions which are the Retractations of his life In Ludovicus Vives his time there was none that had imitated him in such a work of Retractations Bellarmine hath since wrote a Book of Recognitions wherein he makes some things worse Vide Casaub. Epist. ad Front Duc. p. 39. He doth the most accurately of any handle the Controversie de Gratiâ against the Pelagians yea and against the Papists He confutes the Brownists in his Book against the Donatists and the Socinians in that De Utilitate Credendi He defended the truth against whatsoever errour prevailed in his age His Book de Doctrina Christiana is a good Body of Divinity His Books de Civitate Dei are full of humane learning Some most dislike amongst Augustines interpretation of Scripture his Exposition on the Psalms though it be full of excellent matter Nunquam infelicius in Scripturis sanctis versatus quam in Psalmorum enarratione Smeton ad Hamile He died in the 76 year of his Age. Antonius Augustinus very skilfull in all Ecclesiastical Antiquity History and in the ancient Law a great light of Spain Tarraconensis Archiepiscopus vir Romanarum antiquitatum melioris litteraturae peritissimus Merul. Cosmog part 2. l. 2. The History of the Councell of Trent mentions him l. 6. p. 494 495. Antonius Augustinus Bishop of Lerida an Antiquary c. There are several Epistles of Manutius to him Epist. 6 7 8 9 10. wherein he much commends him Divers of his Works are published mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue and more fully in the Oration of Andreas Schottus in Funere Ant. Augusti His four Books Emendationum Iuris he published when he was scarce twenty five years old Qui libellus si molem spectes in speciem exiguus sin rerum utilitatem ponderumque momenta sinuosis aliorum voluminibus anteponendus And. Scot. Orat. in fun Ant. August Ioannes Auratus He was much respected by Charles the ninth King of France the Regius Professour for Greek in Paris and the chiefest Poet of his time He was most skilfull in Latine and Greek Ronsard Bayfius and Bellay were his Scholars Some of his Poems are published Auratam nemo te dicat magne Poeta Aurea namque tibi Musa lepósque fuit Papir Masson Decius Ausonius A French Poet of Burdeaux as himself shews Burdegallia est mihi natale solum Ubi mitis est Coeli clementia He wrote this of himself Diligo Burdegalam Roman colo civis in hâc sum Consul in ambabus He was Master to Gratian the Emperour by whom he was made Consul He was very skilfull in Greek and Latine he wrote many things in Prose and Verse His saying was Beatum esse non qui habet quae cupit sed qui non cupit quae non habet He is blessed not which hath the things which he desires but who doth not desire the things which he hath not Therefore the Aquitanes did boast of him Quemadmodum Ausonius neminem sibi proposuit imitandum ita Ausonium nemo nunc potest imitari As Ausonius propounded none to himself to imitate so no man can now imitate him Scis quam non vulgaris eruditio sit in poematis Ausonii Ios. Scalig. N. M. in opusc Azo a Bononian he brought a great light to the Laws O dofredus and Accursius were his Scholars Azorius a learned Jesuite His Institutiones Morales are published in three Volumes He hath gone over the ten Commandments in Case Divinity Mart. ab Azpilzenta who also is commonly called Doctor Navarrus or Navarrus The honour of Navarre Martinus Azpilzenta at ninety years finished the fourth Edition of that his elaborate Manual of Cases of Conscience He was very dear to three of the Popes Pius Quintus Gregorius Decimus tertius and Sixtus Quintus so that they would not use any other Counsellour in iis dijudicandis quibus conscientia constricti tenemur Iani Nicii Erithraei Picanotheca He had many famous Scholars among which Didacus Covarruvias was one CHAP. V. B ROger Bacon was notable and famous in his time and in all respects comparable then with the best He was able to judge of the Latine Greek and Hebrew Tongues as appears by his Book De Idiomate Linguarum B. Iewels Defence of his Apol. part 4. c. 15. Divis. He was a famous Mathematician and most skilfull in other Sciences He was also very skilfull in the Hebrew and Greek as the Greek and Hebrew Volumes yet extant long ago written with his own hand do abundantly witnesse Twine Apol. Acad. Oxon. l. 3. He hath a Manuscript entituled Opus magnum to shew that all Sciences conduce to the understanding of the Scripture Sir Francis Bacon He is called by one the Aristotle of our Nation He cals Philosophy some where
his darling as I remember His learned writings shew his great parts Peireskius often lamented that he went not to him when he was at Paris Gassend de vita Peireskii l. 6. Iohn Baconthorpe Trithemius and others call him Bacon Iudocus Badius Ascensius the most famous Philosopher Rhetorician and Poet of his time Erasmus in his Ciceronian Dialogue compares him with Budaeus the ornament of France He hath commented upon Tullies Offices and Epistles and Boâthius de Consolat Philos. Paul Bain a judicious Divine as his Exposition on Eph. 1. and other works shew Rod. Bainus a Learned Englishman Professour at Paris Io Bale Bishop of Ossory in Ireland in King Edward the sixths time and one of the first English Preachers of Protestantism in time of King Henry Dr. Humfrie in his Prophesie of Rome hath these verses Plurima Luterus patefecit Platina multa Quaedam Vergerius cuncta Balâus habet He hath written fourteen Centuries of the Englishmen that were famous in Learning and vertue An Apology against a rank Papist and a brief Exposition upon the 30 th Chapter of the Book of Numbers Notes on Bonners Articles and of Popish Votaries Franciscus Balduinus He was a Lawyer at Genevah but fell off from the Protestant Religion to Popery Calvin and Beza wrote against him and he against them Balduinus nunquam gustavit de brodio juris nisi primoribus labris unde meritò juris dolor non doctor habebatur Quinimo multis vicibus appellatus est Doctor necessitatis hoc est sine legibus quia necessitas non habet legem Strigilis Papirii Masson Paschasius hath this Epitaph of him Franciscus jacet ille Balduinus Mirum quà m varius sub hoc sepulchro Nam quicquid tibi proferebat aetas Quicquid pagina sacra vel profana Pulchrè calluit unus inter omneis Consultissimus utriusque juris Anceps ut patria haesitarit illum Baldum diceret anne Balduinum He hath published divers books One De Historiae cum jurisprudentia cognatione Another De Legibus 12 Tab. Com. ad Leges de famosis libellis de Calumniatoribus with others Baldus Perusinus a famous Lawyer he was the hearer and Scholer of Bartholus and Master to Gregory the 11 th before he was Pope His brother Angelus Perusinus almost equalled him both in Learning and Writings in the same Faculty He flourished in the year of our Lord 1346. He wrote Commentaries upon the whole body of the Civil Law and after that he professing the Civil Law for 47 years got a great fame Bernardinus Baldus Urbinas a great Artist and Linguist Vir undecunque doctissimus cujus utinam omnia lucem vidissent Gerard. Ioan. Vos Ars Histor. c. 9. Vide Iani Nicii Erythraei Picanothecam Iohn Ball a holy and learned Divine who lived by faith having but a small maintenance He was of Brasen-nose in Oxford His Books of Living by Faith of the Covenant and those against Cam and others shew his great Abilities Balsac an eloquent Frenchman Theodore Balsamon Patriarch of Antiech He and Zonaras were the chief of the Greek Canonists Dominious Bannes a famous Dominican Gulielmus Barâlaius William Barelay He published these books De potestate Papae in Principes Christianos Contra Monarchomachos Com. in Tit. Pandectarum de rebus credit is de jure juraâdo Oâglisseâii Iudicium de examine cum Buchanano Ioannes Barclaius a Learned French man There is his Paraenesis ad Sectariâs and his Pietas His Argenis and Euphârmiâ Franciscus Barbarus Venetus Utraque lingua eruditns scripsit de re uxoria libellum orationes quoque Epistolas nonnullas Volatter Anthropol l. 21. Hermolaus Barbarus Francisci ex fratre nepos a Venetian by Nation one of the great restorers of Learning Gloria erat nobilitatis Venetae sui saculi splendor Boissard Barbariae suo tempore victor solidam sibi apud erudito gloriam peperit victurum omni aevo nomen Salmas Praefat. ad Plinian Exercitat Ardeo cupiditate juvandi recta studia Nullus est tam magnus labor nullum munus in literis tam sordidum quod defugiam Polit. Epist. l. 1. Epist. Hermolaus Barbarus Angelo Politiano Vide Miscel. Cent. 19. c. 10. Etenim summo loco natus amplis opibus innutritus egregiis honoribus perfunctus fastigium disciplinarum prope omnium tenes professores ac studiosos artium bonarum quamvis humili fortuna plerunque sumus ita complecteris amas ut aeque cunctis tuae quasi majestatis fasces ac vexilla submittas Polit. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 12. Politianus Hermâlao Barbaro Homo ââ mihi quidem videtur unus ex reliquiis aurâi seculi quamvis ipse longè doctior non illi sanctiores Polit. Epist. l. 2. Epist. 8. Vide l. 9. Ep. 4. Vide l. 5. Epist. 1. Petrus Angelus Bargaeus There are these of his works published Syrias Com. de obelisco Votinum Carmen in D. Catharinam Petrus Baro. Martinius in his Preface to his Hebrew Grammer makes honourable mention of him In primis verò haec excipiet Cantabrigiensis Academia lumen Augliae cum aliis nominibus mihi chara tùm quòd Petrum Baronem habet Theologia professorem mihi jam inde ab adolescentia conjunctissimum Hadrianus Barlandus a Learned Dutchman who hath written severall Works Casparus Barlaeus Dubium poeâa meliâr an Philosophus Voââius de Arte Grammat l. 1. c. 3. There are Poems published of his Athenaeum Dissertatio de bânâ Principe Caesar Baronius was born in Naples he was the Popes Confessor He hath made a long and learned Collection of Ecclesiasticall story and digested it into a good method and will be usefull for a distinct comprehension of Ecclesiasticall story But he was no Grecian and is not much to be trusted for 1. He makes use sometimes of spurious authours and gives them for faithfull witnesses 2. He indeavours by all means to advance the Popes Supremacy He is the Papists great Champion for Ecclesiasticall history as Bellarmine is for Controversies they esteemed him the Father of Church-story Alsted cals Baronius his Annals the Tower of Babel and Bellarmines books of Controversie Goliahs sword Illustrissimus Cardinalis Baronius cui intima totius vetustatis penetralia tam erant cognita familiaria quam est mihi domus mea Montacut Appaerat Vide ejus praefat ad Apparat. Annales suos amplius quadraginta annorum studio elucubravit Rainold Vide Whear Meth. Leg. Hist. parte 2 da Sect. 44. Spondanus hath epitomized that Voluminous work he follows Baronius too superfluously in asserting the Popes omnipotency else it is well done Iustus Baronius Calvins name is so odious to the Papists that he ran from Mentz to Rome to change his native name of Calvinus into the adoptive of Baronius Bâ Mârt Epist. Dedicat. to his Appeal Robertus Baronius a Learned Scotchman as his Works shew Arthur Iohnston hath these verses
si en ce mien liure des Illustres personnages ie deuoie faire mention d'vn certain Berengier le nom duquel a mon grand regret nest que assez cogneu pour la nouvelle opinion qu'il tascha de mettre sus contre la realitè du sacrement Eucharistique D'vne part me retiroit la memoire odieuse d'vn tel homme d' antre costé sa publique confession retractation louable penitence effacans les playes chancrenses de son offence quil a de cueur et de faict exhibees me provoquent à n' espargner vn fuellet pourlu faire place et ce d' autant plus volontiers qu' il pourra seruir de mirouer et exemple à plusie urs desuoyez Bernard was Abbot of Claravon in the year 1108. of whom sprang the Bernardine Monks He continued with the Papists and tels the Pope his own Recentissimus est vixitque post confirmatam Episcopi Romanui tyrannidem Cham. de Oecumen Pontif. From erring Bernard that frequent Proverb of Writers erring drew its originall Bernardus non vidit omnia Neither is it a wonder when he flourished in the darkest midnight as it were of Popery Vir dignissimus meliori aevo qui vel in tantis tenebris veritatis lucem salutarem aspexit vicesque suas saepe deplorabat Mortoni causa Regia c. 3. Sect. 7. His book de gratia libero arbitrio is much commended by Vossius Qui praeconio nostro saith he non indiget cum in deliciis esse omnibus soleat qui Catholicam sententiam sequuntâr Philippus Beroaldus He was a Bononian most skilfull in Latine and Greek the Prince of the Grammarians and all the Orators of his age He bath left many excellent Monuments of his Learning Vide Bembi l. 4. Epist. Fam. Philippo Beroaldo minori p. 132. Two Beroaldi Philippi flourished in Italy and both lived in the same age both Learned and Bononians Matthaeus Beroaldus an excellent Hebrician Vir doctus quod familiam ducit pius Jos. Scal. Epist. l. 3. Ep. 229. yet he saith he would not pollute his Library with his Chronology Diu est postquam illius Chronologiam legi qua bibliothecam meam pollui nollem Scal. Elench Orat. Chronol Parei Cujus utinam Chronologia tam proba esset quam vita ejus fuit Id. Elench Orat. 1. Chronol Parei Bertramus so he is commonly called or Ratrannus Anno Dom. 876 Helv. Chron. 841. a Learned man of that time who lived in the Monastery of Corbey whereof Paschasius Raebertus was Abbot He joyned with Rabanus in refuting the errour of the carnall presence at the first bringing in thereof by Paschasius Rabertus The book which he wrote de Corpore Sanguine Christi to Carolus Calvus the Emperour was forbidden to be read by order from the Roman Inquisition confirmed afterward by the Councell of Trent The Divines of Doway perceiving that the forbidding of that book did not keep men from reading it but gave them rather occasion to seek more earnestly after it thought it better policy that Bertram should be permitted to go abroad but handled in such sort as other ancient Writers that made against them were wont to be B. Ush. Answ. to the Jes. Challenge p. 18 19. He speaks of him also in his Goteschalcus c. 11. p. 175 176. and mentions there another book of Bertrams de Nativitate Christi in which he defends the same doctrine which he delivered in his book de Corpore Sanguine Domini Bish. Ridley Praefat. ad Coenam Domini hath a great commendation of this Bertram Bonaventure Cornelius Bertram a famous Hebrician and very skilfull in the Jewish Antiquities as his Works shew He had the chiefest part in the French Version of the Bible He put forth Pagnines Thesaurus of the Hebrew Tongue with the Observations of Mercer Rodolphus Cevallerius and his own His Works are Commentarius de Politia Iudaica ex omnibus ejus operibus maximè commendatur Thuanus Hist. Tom. 5. l. 109. Vide plura ibid. CHAP. VII BEssarion a Grecian and Monk of S t Basil made Cardinal for his Learning by Eugenius the fourth his house was the shop of liberal Arts whilst he lived he especially honoured Plato in defence of whom he put out Commentaries against Trapezuntius He and Chrysoloras and Trapezuntius and Argyropilus brought Greek and pure Latine into Europe He gave his Library to Venice Venetiis Bibliothecam libris Graecis Latinis instructissimam exexit quos ex Graecia in Italiam multis impensis emptos transportari curavit Boiss Icon. He wrote many learned Works which are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Bessarion Cardinalis Nicaenus ea fuit morum gravitate doctrinarum cultura ut nemo eo Christiana probitate spectatior Paulo Jovio teste nemo fuerit doctrina admirabilior Is Cornelium Tacitum in delitiis habuit scriptorem civilis prudentiae magistrum quod non minima laus est Livio nostro in hac etiam parte proximum Pignor. Symb. Epistol Epist. 21. Xystus Betuleius a Learned Writer Theodore Beza Anno mundi 5661. His translation of the New Testament and his accurate Notes upon it have made him famous Beza edidit Psalterium suum jucundum opus utile Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Danaeus Zanchio His French Psaltery was so well liked that it was well translated into the Germane Bohemian English Scottish and many Languages and all the Orthodox Churches use it and much esteem it He lived 86 years and towards his later end began to forget what he had spoken He would saith Thuanus repeat whole Psalms in Hebrew and what ever Chapter one could name out of Pauls Epistles he would rehearse it all in Greek for the things he had formerly learned his judgement failed him not but he presently forgat what he had spoken His French Works are mentioned by Verdier in his Bibliotheque His Latine are known Bibles divers There are Biblia Latina by Sebastian Castalio with his Annotations an ethnical Translation he using Lotio for baptismus Respublica for Ecclesia Beza often reproveth him in his Annotations upon the New Testament Biblia Hebraica printed at Venice by Bombergus in four Volumes and by Iohn Buxtorph in two Volumes with the emendation of the Chaldee Translation Biblia Hebraea Hutteri Biblia Hebraica vulgò Complutensia in six Volumes the Chaldee Greek and Latine Interpretations being added by Cardinal Ximenes Archbishop of Toledo published in the year of Christ 1515 a little before Luther an excellent work which made way for the Gospel since both the original languages of the Bible before only in the hands of the Jews and Grecians were now generally made known The King of Spains Bible in eight Tomes with Apparatus Sacer printed by Plantine The Old Testament in the four first Volumes in Hebrew Chaldee and Greek with a threefold Latine Interpretation the first of which is the vulgar and is annexed to
condemns Posseâânes Bibliotheca as maimed because out of his envy and pretended hatred against heresie he passeth by many excellent Authors Joannes Bodinus homo multiplici eruditione notus Thuan. Hist. Tom. 4. l. 94. Olim Protestantium doctrinae addictus nec ab ea multum unquam postea alienus Some commend his Theatrum Naturae for a choice piece a Book full of natural curiosities Tycho Brahe l. 1. De nova Stella c. 10. chargeth him with grosse errours in matters of History Sir Thomas Bodlie a great Scholar and prudent Statist His Parents were rather good then great What liberal Education they bestowed on him he shews in his own Life written in English by himself which is put into Latine by D r Hackwell and is in Oxford Library He living in the troublesome times of Queen Mary his Parents took him beyond Sea At Genevaâ he heard Beroâldus for Greek Cevallerius for Hebrew in Divinity Calvin and Beza He was very skilfull in the Oriental Tongues Linguarum Orientalium callentissimus vir Thomas Bodlaeus Drus. Not. in Tetragram He was the great Founder of our famous Oxford Library which is therefore called Bibliotheca Bodleiana He gave many Hebrew Books to the Library and was imployed in many honourable Embassies to the Kings of France and Denmark the Lantgrave of Hesse the Duke of Brunswick the States of Holland He gave for his Arms three Crowns with this Inscription Quarta perennis erit Bâetius Severinus Anno Dom. 520. Thevet Vies des hommes Illustres l. 6. mentions the several names given to him and the reasons of them He was called Severinus to shew his Cato like severity and integrity He was very famous in his dayes being Consul a long time at Rome and a man of rare giftâ and abilities Some say in prose he gave not place to Tully and had none that exceeded him for Poetry a great Philosopher Musician Mathematician He was put to death by King Theodoricus King of the Gothes He was a most excellent Peripatetick after he was slain Peripatetick Philosophy decayed and almost all Learning in Italy Barbarism wholly invaded it and expelled good Arts and Philosophy out of its borders saith Heereboord Epist. Dedicat. ad Disputat ex Philos. select Albertus Magnus and Aquinas have commented upon him Anicius Manlius Severinus Boetius vir dignitate opulentia virtute eruditione longe maximus Aristotelicam Philosophiam Romae docuit Coring de Antiq. Acad. Disser 3. Quis Boetio vel in dialecticis acutior vel subtilior in Mathematicis vel in Philosophia locupletior vel in Theologia sublimior Polit. Miscel. Cent. 1. cap. 1. Iohn Bois both a good Grecian and Divine He hath published some Notes upon Chrysostome which are in the eighth Volume upon Chrysostome put out by Sir Henry Savill who cals him Ingeniosissimum doctissimum Boisium and styles his Notes Doctissimas ejus Observationes He saith thus to Sir Henry Savill in his Notes upon Chrysostoms Homilies upon Genesis Emendationes enim omnes quas affero meae sunt conjecturae fortasse multis in locis parùm probabiles nec satis scitè confictae Sed ut non omnes dignas existimo quae eruditorum calculis approhentur ita nonnullas tamet si paucissimâ eae sunt meliore sidere natas credo quas ne emunctissimae quidem naris Critici sint prorsus aspernaturi Daniel Bombergus a famous Printer who alone almost hitherto hath printed at Venice great and large Volumes in Hebrew with invaluable expences Those Hebrew Books which he printed at Venice are conveyed into all the parts of the world where the Jews are into Africk Ethiopia India Aegypt and other places He printed 1. The Hebrew and Chaldee Bible with Commentaries of divers Rabbies upon all the Books of the Old Testament in royal paper 2. The Talmud an immense and stupendious work divided into some Volumes 3. The Volumes of Rabbi Moses which contain both his own Expositions and also those of other Rabbins upon the Talmud with other Hebrew Books Bonaventure first a Monk and then a Cardinal He was called Doctor Seraphicus a Seraphical Doctor His Works are in seven Tomes His Notes on Lombard are good Gerson commends his Opuscula for devotion He joyned together so much sanctity of life and integrity of manners with his great knowledge of Scholastical Divinity and Philosophy that Alexander of Hales his master was often accustomed to say of him That Adam seem'd to him not to have sinned in Bonaventure Sixt. Senens Bibliothec. Sanct. l. 4. Anno 1265. About this time flourished Thomas of Aquine Reader at Paris among the Dominick Friers and Bonaventure among the Franciscan Friers Foxes Act. and Monum Tom. 1. p. 433. Thomas Aquinas coming to him to salute him and finding him writing the life of S t Francis as the Papists term him he called him a Saint though living saying Sinamus Sanctum pro Sancto laborare Let us suffer a Saint to labour for a Saint Ang Roch. Biblioth Vatic He was canonized by Pope Sixtus the 4 th anno 1482. for a Saint in the Kalendar Franciscus Bonamicus There are some of his Works published De alimento De motu Lazarus Bonamicus A most famous Professour of Eloquence and the Greek Tongue at Padua He hath put out some learned Orations and Poems It is reported of him that when he once asked the Devil in a possessed woman what verse in Virgil he judged to be best he answered Discite justitiam moniti non temnere divos Cardin. Borromaeus He was of Millain he had Francis Alciate a most famous Lawyer his Master Pope Paulus Quintus made him a Saint He escaped a great danger from some loose Friers as Thuanus relates Hist. Tom. 2. l. 38. p. 627. He hath put out a Tract De Concionatorum Pastorumque Instructione cum aliis Opusculis There are also Epistolae cum ejus vita Franciscus Bosquetus a learned Lawyer He hath written a History of the Popes of Rome which were Frenchmen thus entituled Pontificum Romanorum qui à Gallia oriundi sunt historia Arnold Boot Doctor of Physick a Dutchman lately dead He hath written a learned Book entituled Animadversiones Sacrae ad Textum Hebraicum Veteris-Testamenti He wrote also two Tracts against Ludovicus Capellus his Sacra Critica I received this passage from a learned Friend of mine whom I informed of his death in a Letter The losse of that man is great for he was well furnished with that kinde of learning and besides very judicious very industrious very zealous He wrote ââââ in a more general way but so as he hath indeed cut the sinews of that Sacra Critica Henricus Bracton a learned Lawyer Henry de Bracton a Judge of the Court of Commonpleas in the Reign of K. H. 3. and a writer of the Laws Iohn Bradford As holy a man as any lived in his time and learned also as
26. Epist. 45. I pray to God continually saith Casaubon Epist. Append. Ep. 88. Georgio Remo ut excitet Camerarios in vestra Germania in nostra Gallia Scaligeros that he would ââise up Camerarii in your Germany Scaligers in our France Vivet viri illius aetatem florebit lauâ intemerata nec quisquam erit qui hoc publicum ipsius Elogium Optimum Doctissimum Seculi sui fuisse unquam queat âripere Dilher Dâsput Acad. Dissertat 18. de Censoribus Philippus Camerarius His Historicall meditations are larger in Latine then English and of good use Iohn Cameron a Learned Scotchman as his Praelectiones Myrothecium Evangelicum opuscula Miscellanea and his Amica Collatio de Gratiae voluntatis humanae concursu in vocatione de Gratia Libero Arbitrio and other Works shew Io. Camers There is Tabula Cebetis of his Thomas Campanella He hath written De sensu rerum magia lib. 4. Apologia pro Galilaeo Prodromus Philosophiae restaurandae Astrologicorum lib. 7. Philosophia sensibus demonstrata Quâst Philologicae Polit. morales Metaphisicarum l. 18. Thomas Campegius He hath written De Pastorum residentia De Rom. Pontifice cum aliis opusc De Auctoritate S. Conciliorum Varia opuscula and other Treatises Laur. Campegius There is his Oratio ad ordines Imperii Ioannes Campensis His Hebrew Grammer and Learned Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Ecclesiastes according to the Hebrew are published Edm Campian a good Orator Tanto Bellarmino inferior eruditione atque doctrina quanto superior cura verborum Rainold de lib. Apoc. Tomo primo praelect 11. Though the Papists brag much of him yet our Learned Whitaker hath sufficiently refuted him Angelus Caninius a good Linguist as his Works shew Grammaticorum eruditissimus so he is styled by Downes in his Notes on Chrysostome Henricus Canifius and Petrus Canisius both Learned men Petrus Canisius his Catechism is much approved of by some CHAP. X. GUliel Canterus he is preferred before his brother Besides his own Belgick Tongue he was skilled in Latine Greek Hebrew the Germane French and Italian Siquis absolutum specimen desideret hominis studiosi ejus qui literis promovendis totus se consecravit in Gulielmo Cantero ad amussim expressum reperiat Suffrid Pet. de Script Fris. Besides his Novae lectiones the third time reviewed and inlarged he wrote Notes upon Tullies Offices and Epistles Scholia upon Propertius and he turned the Works of divers out of Greek into Latine His Works are mentioned by Suffridus Petrus Theodorus Canterus the others brother He hath published a Book styled Variae Lectiones and Arnobius with his own Annotations Melchior Canus a Spaniard Inferiour to none in the Church for Learning and for a Papist a man of a singular ingenuity D r Iacks Comment on the Creed Vol. 1. l. 3. c. 13. His Common places are most esteemed Whear in his Method of reading Hist. parte 1 a Sect. 33. saith Melchior Canus magni nominis apud pontificios nec immerito Theologus He is commended by the Jesuite Pererius tom in Dan. l. 12. c. 6. for the most famous Divine that was in the Councell of Trent who explained the mysteries of the holy Scripture more fully then any since his time Hieronymus Capivacceus or Capinacca a famous Professor of Physick in Padua Iacobus Cappellus he was elder brother to Lodovicus Capellus His Historia sacra exotica ab Adamo usque ad Augustum is most approved He hath written de Mensuris Observationes in ãâ¦ã lam ad Hebraeos Apologie pour les Eglises Reformees Ludovicus Capellus a great Hebrician now living at Somers in France His Critica Sacra are more commended by Grotius then by some of his own Countrymen and other Learned and Orthodox Writers Vir summus meus olim praeceptor Bocharti Geograph Sac. parte prior l 2. c. 8. His Spicilegium and Diatriba de Voto Iephtae are well liked Ludovicus Carbo Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Hier. Cardanus he was a great Scholar but some much dislike his XII geniturae exemplares wherein he speaks strangely of his good and evil qualities he cast also our Saviour Christs Nativity shewd that he should be a Prophet and die a violent death Cardanus eo dementiae fuit progressus ut horoscopum Christi ex astrorum positu meditatus sit ex sinistris quibusdam aspectibus nato Christo natis fataele illi praedixerit crucis suspendium Alsted Encyclop l. 32. c. 10. His Books de Subtilitate and Varietate are most commended He wrote a Book de libris propriis Imitatus sum saith he in hoc scribendi genere Galenum Erasmum qui ambo catalogum librorum suorum scripserunt George Carleton he was one of our Divines of Great Britain that was at the Synod of Dort His Consensus Ecclesiae Catholicae contra Tridentinos and his Jurisdiction Regall Episcopall and Papall are most commended though he hath published other Works Iohn Carion His Chronicle with the additions of Philip Melancthon and Gaspar Peucer is commended and was highly esteemed by M r Bolton Carolus M. Charles the Great Anno Dom. 800. Heros verè magnus veritate pietate sapientia eruditione rerum gestarum celebritate nulli cedens Helv. Chron. He was Learned in the Greek and Latine Languages Philosophy the Mathematicks and other Sciences he called his pastimes A Prince great in Warre and Peace a great favourer of Justice and Learning without question the greatest of all Emperours since Constantine the Great the Phoenix of Germany another Romutus and Lycurgus Ioachimus Camerarius makes a rhetoricall comparison between Charles the Great and Augustus Caesar. Pezel Mellif Histor. parte ter ãâ¦ã Every Calling hath a promise from God which Charles the Great exprest in this verse Nenti fila Deus mentem conjungit Olympo Carolus quintus King of France He reigned about the year of our Lord 1360. He was called Charles the Wise for his great Wisdom and Piety and especially because he caused the holy Scriptures to be translated into the Vulgar Language that the common people might understand them Illyr Catal. Test. Verit. Exercitui raro praesse solebat aut si praelium conserendum esset periculo sese subducebat ac propterea Sapiens est appellatus Bod. De Repub. l. 5. c. 4. Carolus nonus Charles the 9 th King of France Anno 1560. His Life is written by Papyrius Massonius He was a Prince that had excellent naturall gifts but mingled with vices wherewith his Governours and Schoolmasters had corrupted his young minde which at the first was more virtuously inclined delighting in Musick and Poetry But as he was a great Hunter that lov'd to shed the blood of wilde beasts so he suffered also during his reign the Protestants blood to be shed and in revenge thereof in his sickness before his
death great store of blood issued out by vomiting and by other passages of his body in the two last weeks of his sickness wherein he endured as much pain and torment as the strength of youth could suffer in the last pangs of death Andrew Melvin hath these verses to Charles the 9 th dying with an unusuall flux of blood Naribus orâ oculis atque auribus undique anâ Et pene erumpit qui tibi Carle cruor Non tuus iste cruor sanctorum at caede cruorem Quem ferus hausisti concoquere hand poteras Nath. Carpenter an able Scholar as his Geography and Philosophia libera shew Des Cartez Heereboord in his Epistola Dedicat. to his select Disputat ex Philos. hath a great commendation of him Dionysius Carthusiensis For his singular holiness of life he was called Doctor ãâ¦ã taticus He wrote divers Works which are in twelve Volumes Thomas Cartwright a Learned and Pious Divine honourably mentioned by Protestants of other Countries His Evangelicall Harmony Comment on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes Confutation of the Rhemists Translation Glosses and Annotations Reply to B. Whitgift Commentaria practica in totam historicam Evangelicam and other Works shew his great abilities Christopher Cartwright A Learned Pious Divine of Peter-house in Cambridge not only well skilled in the three Learned Languages Hebrew Greek and Latine but also well versed in the Hebrew Rabbins for which he is honourably mentioned by Voetius in the last Edition of his Bibliotheca and his Annotations on Genesis and Exodus are well liked by the Learned generally M r Pocok styles him Virum eruditssimum in not Miscel. c. 4. Bartholomaeus Casa He hath explained this question Utrum Reges vel Principes jure aliquo salvâ conscientia cives a regia Corona alienare possint Iohn de Casa Archbishop of Benevent He wrote a Book in Italian rime wherein he praiseth and exalteth that horrible sinne of Sodomitry and names it a Divine work and affirmeth he took great pleasure therein He hath written the life of Bembus and Gasp. Contarenus Then the question was saith Thuanus concerning Claudius Espencaeus a Divine of Paris and Iohn Case the Popes Secretary about making them Cardinals Nobleness of birth and learning commended both of them although different for one of them being brought up in the study of Divinity grew old in his profession the other in eloquence and in the skill of writing elegant Latine was to be compared with the Ancients but their manners were very different Espencaeus excelled in holiness of life and chastity of manners but Casa in licentiousness and using the liberty of the place in which he lived he led his life wantonly therefore both of them were accused to the Pope by their Competitors Espencaeus that he had in a Sermon spoken disgracefully of the golden Legend as they commonly call it and that he said it was rather to be called an iron Legend and afterward he was compelled publickly to recant as Sleyden relates the other because he was reported in his youth in verse to have praised that which is abominable and so for severall causes both of them lost that dignity Io Casus a Learned Oxonian He hath put out Ethicks and Politicks and other Works Isaac Casaubone a great Linguist but a singular Grecian and an excellent Philologer He hath written in 12 Books of his Exercitat Animadversions on those 12 Tomes of Baronius his Annals Scaliger in an Epistle to Casaubone commends his Book de Satyra and in another his Theophrastus hââ Charecters It were no difficult task out of Scaligers Epistles to excerpe Elogââ upon most of Casaubons Woâks Incomparabilis vir Isacius Casaubonus divinis in Augustam historiam Commentariis Scalig. Animadvers in Euseb. Nihil vidi absolutius Commentario Casauboni in Suetonium Scalig. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 29. Vide ejus Epist. l. 1 Ep. 35. Epist. 40. 50. 92. l. 2. Epist. 104 106 115 117. l. 3. Ep. 272. l. 4. Ep. 384. D r Merick Causabone is also the heir of his Fathers Learning as his Works shew Georg. Cassander Vir doctus moderatus Thuanus A man professing himself a Roman Catholick though of wonderfull modesty moderation and Learning Mountag Answ. to the Gagger of Protest Sect. 36. A man famous for his immoderate moderation in Controversall points of Religion Smect He was a man of such note and eminency in his time that two Emperours viz. Ferdinand the first and Maximilian the second made choice of him above all as a man most meet to compose if it might be the difference betwixt Protestants and them of the Church of Rome as D r Featly hath observed Cassandra Fidelis Veneta Nata 1465. Puella doctissima Politian writes a whole Epistle in her commendation He begins it thus O Decus Italiae virgo quas dicere grates quasve referre parem quod etiam honore me tuarum literarum non dedâgnaris mira profecto fides tales proficisci a foemina quid autem a foemina dico immo vero a puella virgine potuisse Again At vero aetate nostra qua pauci quoque virorum caput altius in literis extulerunt unicam te tamen existere puellam quae pro lana librum pro fuso calamum stylum pro acu tractes Afterwards Scribis Epistolas Cassandra subtiles acutas elegantes latinas quanquam puellari quadam gratia virginali quadam simplicitate dulcissimas tamen etiam mire graves Cordatas Orationem quoque tuam legimus eruditam lâcupletem sonoram illustrem plenamque laeta indolis Sed nec extemporalem tibi deesse facultatem accepimus quae magnos etiam oratores aliquando destituit Mirari equidem ante hac Ioannem Picum Mirandulam solebam quo nec pulchrior alter mortalium nec in omnibus arbitror doctrinis excellentior Ecce nunc etiam te Cassandra post illum protinus caepi fortasse jam cum illo quoque venerari Io. Cassianus Anno Domini 430. He was Chrysostoms Scholar Most of his Works are mentioned in Oxford and Sion-Colledge Catalogue M. Aurel Cassiodorus he wrote about the year of our Lord 520 or 530. His Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Petrus Cassiodorus He hath written de tyrannide Pontificis Romani Petrus Castellanus Aureliarum Episcopus Francisco rege Errico literis in Gallia nostra velut Apollo alter praefuit Turneb Advers l. 24. He hath written four Books de Esu Carnium Petrus Castellanus a Learned Physitian He hath written a Book entitled Vitae illustrium Medicorum veterum recentiorum Alphonsus à Castro one of the Doctors of the Councell of Trent He is commended by Vega for the most forcible Adversary against Luther Vega l. 16. de Iustif. He hath written contra Haereses Ambrosius Cathurinus His Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Frier Dominicus Soto who had a great part in the Synod of Trent in
as slander the Reformed Churches to be variably distracted and rent in sunder with infinite differences of Faith Beza hath put out the Harmony of Confessions with Notes upon it The most famous is the Augustane Confession The Elector of Saxony with the other Princes and Protestant Cities joyned with him presented to the Emperour Charles the fifth the Confession of their Faith written in Latine and Dutch which afterward from this place where it was read was called Augustana It contained two parts in the first was expounded one and twenty Articles of their Creed In the second were expounded the Doctrines which were different from the Church of Rome and the abuses which the Confessionists reproved The Cities which followed the Doctrine of Zuinglius presented apart the Confession of their Faith not differing from the former but onely in the point of the Eucharist History of the Councel of Trent translated by Sir Nathan Brent l. 1. p. 54. See Sleid. Comment lib. 7. and Melch. Ad. in vita Brentii Conformities There was printed at Bononia in Italy Anno 1590. a book intituled Liber Conformitatum Beati ac Seraphici Patris Francisci written by one Bartholomeus Pisanus a Franciscan Frier and published by one Hieronymus Buchius of which book it is affirmed in the Title page that it is Liber Aureus a golden book There he paints a tree at the top whereof is Christ and at the root S t Francis the tree hath twenty branches on the right and twenty on the left side and every branch hath four particular fruits in all eighty These are equally divided between Christ and S t Francis fourty to the one and fourty to the other and each couple or pair of these is one point of Conformity between Christ and S t Francis consisting in all upon fourty particulars wherein they begin at the birth and the conception nay at the very Prophecies and Promises made of Christ and so proceed to his life his death his resurrection and ascension and in all and every of these and every thing else whatsoever may be said of Christ the very same do they not shame to affirm of that man Francis This was not the superfluity of idle and superstitious Monks brains but the publick Act of their Church and many Popes one after another allowed it and by their Charters have confirmed the truth of this Story Constantine the Great was born in Britain of Helena a Britain as Baronius shews Tom. 3. Annal. Eccles. ad ann 306. and B. Usher De Primord Eccles. Britan. cap. 8. M r Selden in his Notes on Eutychius Constantine the sonne of a Bretan Lady Helena rarely godly but as women too often are too zealous beyond knowledge See Balaeus his first Century of the Writers of Britain concerning Helene Ut fidei forma cunctis videretur Evangelium Iesu Christi ante se semper ferri fecit Biblia sacra ad omnes provincias derinari diademaque monarchicum primus Brittannis regibus dedit Balaeus de Script Britan. Cent. 1. Robert Constantine He was Beza's great friend he was saith Thuanus trium linguarum peritissimus most skilifull in three Languages especially in Greek and Latine He lived till he was a hundred and three years old his senses of body and minde being perfect and his memory strong These are his Works Lexicon Graeco-Latinum Nomenclator insignium Scriptorum Dictionarium abstrusorum vocabulorum Gasper Contarenus a Cardinal a learned and pious man say some The Doctrine of Justification is handled by him conformable to the Doctrine of Luther and Calvin and directly against that which was concluded in the Councel of Trent this he wrote in the year 1541. a little before that Councel His Works are in one Volume He hath written De Elementis corumque mixtionibus De Potestate Summi Pontificis Summa de Conciliis De Rep. Veneta and other Works Ant. Contiâs a great Lawyer He hath written many Works about the Civil-Law Adam Contzen a subtill Jesuite He hath written Politicorum l. 10. Coronis omnium Iubilorum anno saeculari Evangelico Scriptorum In quatucr Evangelia Comment Comment in Epistolam ad Romanes Aulae speculum sive de Statu vita aulicorum Methodus doctrinae Civilis and other things Sir Edward Cook very expert in the municipal Laws of our Land as his Reports Commentary on Littletons Institutes and other learned Works in the Law shew Robert Cook of Leeds in Yorkshire hath published a learned Book styled Censura quorundam Scriptorum veterum Nicolaus Copernicus a great Mathematician Tycho Brahe cals him Alterum Ptolomaeum Nay he saith Epist. Astronom l. 1. Chrystoph Rothman Hypothesium concinnitate compendiosa Harmonia invenienda eum longè exuperaâat scientia ingenio si quis alius eminebat quaeque à Geometria Arithmeticaque ad hanc Artem constituendam requirebantur perfectissimè callebat He held That the Earth moved and the Heavens stood still by occasion of which Hypothesis our Countreyman William Gilbert brought in his Magnetical Philosophy Hinc ergo videtur fuisse primùm facta Gulielmo Gilberto occasio cudendae atque invehendae Philosophiae magneticae quatenus terram magnum magnetem magnetem terellam seâ parram terram habuit ac à diurna terrae circa suum axem verticitate pendere eam quae est in magnete magneticisque corporibus statuit Gassend in vita Copernici Nec tot inconvenientia à terrae motu proveniunt quot plerique arbitrantur qui quoniam naturalis erit insensibilis âvadit Tych. Brah. Epist. Astron. lib. 1. Christ. Rothman Maturinus Corderius His Latine Works are reckoned by Gesner in his Bibliotheca and his French by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Corinnas There were three learned women of that name The first a Thebane which is reported to have overcome Pindar the Prince of the Lyricks five times and to have put forth five Books of Epigrams Propertius in his second Book speaks of her Et suae cum antiquae committit scripta Corinnae The second was a Thespian very much celebrated by the Ancients The third flourished in the times of Ovid and was most dear to him Iohannes Cornarius a most famous Physician Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi she hath left Epistles written most accurately From her the eloquence of her sons did proceed Nam Gracchorum Eloquentiae multum contulisse accepimus Corneliam matrem cujus doctissimus sermo in posteros quoque est Epistolis traditus Corradus Vir doctissimus eruditus Ciceronis interpres Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 1. Io. Arn. Corvinus as subtill an Arminian as any next Arminius himself Joannes Arnoldi Corvinus solus plura pro hac Remonstrantium causa scripsit quam omnes reliqui cujus adversus Tilenum responso Tileni à nobis ad ipsos defectionem acceptam ferunt Walaei Epist. Dedicat. ad Respons ad ejus censuram Fr. Costerus Our Bishop Hall met with him in his
travels he saith thus of him more teasty then subtil and more able to wrangle then satisfie His Enâhiridion Controversiarum is most commended Peter Cotton an eloquent French Jesuite Cotonus Rhetoricus jactantiâr quam dialecticus acutior Cham. Praefat. ad 2 dam partem Epist. Iesuit A more boasting Orator then acute Logician Sir Robert Cotton So renowned for his great care in collecting and preserving all Antiquity For which he is often honourably mentioned by B. Usher and M r Selden Vir praestantissimus Robertus Cottonus Condus ille ac promus vetustatis longè locupletissimus Seldeni Praefat. ad Marm. Arund Iohn Covel A learned Scholar as his Interpretation of words and his Institutiones Iuris Anglicani shew Miles Coverdale sometimes Bishop of Excester an exile a long time for the profession of the Gospel There are these Works of his His Confutation of a Treatise which Io. Standish made against the Protestation of D. Barns His Translation of the Bible and others mentioned by And. Maunsell in his Catalogue of English Books Didacus a Covarruvias He was most skilfull in the Civil and Canon-Laws and in all Learning Richard Crakanthorp Doctor of Divinity Archbishop Abbot said His Defensio Ecclesiae Anglicanae contra M. Anton. de Dominis injurias was the most exact piece for controversie since the time of Reformation His Defence of Constantine and others of his Works of Logick and Physick are good Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Martyr He was the first Archbishop of Canterbury that cast off Antichrist As Britain was most blessed under Edward the sixths Reign so much by his means That he might settle the Doctrine of the Gospel in both the Universities he sent for the most famous Divines out of forraign Naions and drew them into England Peter Martyr Bucer Fagius Lascus Immanuel Tremellius Bernardus Ochinus All which with their wives and children were liberally maintained by him This way he spent his yearly revenew so that nothing remained to himself He studied the Scriptures diligently and wrote against that grosse opinion of the Papists affirming the carnal presence of Christ in the Sacrament a Book filled with so much learning and plenty of arguments that that controversie seems to be handled by none more accurately against the Papists Steven Gardiner Bishop of Winchester being prisoner in the Tower by stealth and largely inveighed against this Book in that Book which he named Marcus Constantius This Peter Martyr learnedly refuted Cranmer being dead After the death of King Edward when Cranmer was advised by his friends to flie If I were saith he accused of theft treason parricide or any other wickednesse I could be induced to flie much more easily then in this cause For when the Question is not concerning my faith toward men but toward God and concerning my constancy in the truth of the holy Scripture against Popish errours I would rather in this case lose my life then leave the Kingdom When King Henry purposed to imprison his Daughter Mary being stiffe for the Popish faction only Cranmer interceded and mitigated the Kings anger but the ill will that Queen Mary bore him for having a hand in her Mothers Divorce that inveterate hatred I say toward him blotted out all his friendly Offices to her Io. Crato He was born at Uratislavia the chief City of Silesia anno 1519. a great Philosopher and Physician and excellent Poet. He was Counsellour and chief Physician to the Emperours Ferdinand the first Maximilian the second Rodulphus the second for twenty six years His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones CHAP. XIV CHristophorus Crinesius Professour of Divinity at Altdorph in Norimberg He was well skilled in the Hebrew Chaldee Syriack He died of an Apoplexy These Works of his are published Gymnasium Siriacum Lexicon Syriacum Babel sive discursus De Confusione Linguarum Analysis Novi Testamenti tabulis 27. comprehensa Exercitat Hebraic Pars prior Gymnasii Chaldaici Petrus Crinitus He hath written five Books De Poetis Latinis though he be held inferiour to Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus who hath written also of that Argument De honesta Disciplina peâamaena ac copiosa varietate lib. 25. delectabiles posteris reliquit Neand. Geog. part 1. Ludovicus Crociâs Doctor in Divinity and Professor at Brema He hath written an excellent instruction De Ratione Studii Theologici His Syntagma Theologiae is very well approved He hath published divers other Works Commentarius in Titum in Ephesios Apologeticus pro Augustana Confessione Assertio Augustanae Confessionis De perseverantia Sanctorum Paraeneticus de Theologia Cryptica Apodixis paeraenâtica de Messia ad Iudaos per orbem dispersos Orator Ecclesiasticus in Nahum Prophetam Iohn Croy a Learned French Divine He hath written a Treatise entitled Observationes Sacra Historioae in nâvâm Testamentum which title though a Learned Writer of our own reprehends and in the book he seems somewhat too sharp against Heinsius yet that book and his Specimen conjecturarum observationum in quadam loca Origenis Irenaei Tertulliani Epiphanii c. and his French book entitled La veritè de la Religion Reformee declare him to be a good Linguist and an able Scholar generally Hannibal Cruceius Gasparus Craciger a Learned Divine He was born Anno 1504. His Works are mentioned by Boissard He was very swift in writing so that of him that of the Epigrammatist might be used Currant verba licet manus est velocior illis Nondum lingua suum dextra peregit opus Therefore when in the year 1540. there was a conference at Wormes amongst those which differed in Religion he was the Notary and received Melancthons and Eccius his words with incredible swiftness and often admonished Melancthon what he had not answered of Eecius his subtilties therefore Granvelbane Caesars Deputy at that Conference said Lutherani scribam habent omnibus Pontificiis doctiorem Melch. Adam in ejus Vita Henry Cuffe a Learned man and of Oxford He hath written a book of the differences of the ages of mans life Iacobus Cujacius a great light of France His Life is written by Papyrius Massonus He is celebrated by Peter Faber whose Master he was and Casaubon and others as the greatest Lawyer of his time Pasquier Recherch de la Frânce saith in many Universities of Germany when those in the Chair alleadge Cujacius and Turnebus they put their hands to their hats for the respect and honour they bear them He cals him the great Cujacins A Protestantium partibus non alienus He was thought to be somewhat inclinable to the Protestant Religion but when any Theologicall question was asked him he was wont to answer Nihil hoc ad edictum Praetoris Petrns Cânaeus There are his Animadversions in Nonni Dionysiaca Satyra Menippea in castrata D. Iuliani Imperatoris Satyra His three Books De Repub. Hebraorum are much valued Caelius Secundus Curio He was born Anno
hath published Antiquitatum Rom. corpus absolutissimum Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam Scotorum Scriptorum nomenclatura De Iuramento l. 3. and other Works Iohn Deodate an eminent Divine as his Annotations on the Bible in Italian and French shew Videlius Rational Theol. l. â c. 6. cals them Aureas Annotationes He was sent from Genevah to the Synod of Dort Vir Reverendus jampridem optimè de Ecclesia mereus D. Ioannes Deodatus doctissima versione Gallica notis Cocc Praefat. ad Iob. Edward Dering a solid Divine He defended Bishop Iewell against Harding And hath published some Sermons and Lectures on some of the first Chapters of the Hebrews Io Despauterius the Prince of the Grammarians of his age so Vossius de Arte Grammatico l. 1. c. 3. He had but one eye Hic jacet unoculus visu praestantior Argo Nomen Ioannes cui Ninivita fuit Ioannes Ninivita sine malis Despauterius Nec enim vir bene adeò de literatura pro illo quidem tempore meritus indignus est vulgatiore nomine chartis nostris signari etsi aliter Grande quid spirantibus videatur Nobilis ille Grammaticus Vossius De vitiis Sermonis l. 1. c. 6. Antonius Deusingius a Learned Physitian Burgersdicius was his Master in Physick and Logick Golius for the Mathematicks and Arabick He was intimate with Constantine L'Empereur Ludovicus de Dieu and Elichmannus who were skilfull in many of the Orientall Languages His Works are mentioned Vit. Profes Groningae Paulus Diaconus These Works of his are published Hist. Miscellae auctae à Landulpho Sagaci illustratae ab Hen. Canisio Ab Ant. Augustino Epitome De gestis Romanorum David Dickson a good Scottish Expositour He hath written Notes on all Pauls Epistles in Latine on the Psalms Matthew and the Hebrews in English Didymus Caecus Anno Dom. 360. Ieroms Master he was much regarded by the ancient Fathers He was an Ecclesiasticall Writer and an excellent Mathematician He much troubled the Arians whilst he constantly defended the doctrine of the Councell of Nice Antony that great Monk of Egypt coming to Alexandria thus spake to him Non grave tibi nec molestum debet esse Didyme illis carere oculis quorum lacertae mures alia minuta abjectaque animalia participia sunt sed beatum jucundum potiùs quod oculos habes similes Angelorum quibus verè Deum contemplaris Sozom. l. 3. c. 14. Aubertus Miraeus in the 7 th Decade of his Elogia Belgica mentions Carolus Fernandus Parsevaldas Belligenius and Nicasius Vordanus for Learned though blinde men Ludovicus de Dieu a French Minister well skil'd in the Orientall tongues and who hath Commented well on the Evangelists and Acts and also a pious man Ille Phoenix sacrae Philologiae Dilh. Disput. Acad. Tom. 1. He hath translated a Persian book written by Xaverius into Latine and hath published it together with the Persian Originall and Notes Sir Iames Dier a Reverend Father of the Common-Law and Chief Justice of the Common-pleas His Book entitled Un Abridgement de tous les cases was printed after his decease in Anno 25. reg Eliz. Everard Digby He hath published these Works Admonitioni Fran. Mildappetti de unica Pet. Rami methodo retinenda responsio De duplici methodo lib. 2. Theor. Anal. De arte Natandi Sir Kenelm Digby is an ingenious Learned Gentleman and an ornament of this Nation as his Book of Bodies shews Leonard Digges There are these Works of his Prognostication everlasting a Mathematicall Discourse of Geometricall Solids Thomas Digges his sonne There is a Book of his named Stratioticos Another styled Pantometria lib. 3. Nova Corpora Regularia And another styled Alae seu scalae Mathematicae Of which Work Tyche Brahe l. 1. De Nova Stella c. 9. gives this censure Etsi verò admodum eruditum ingeniosum sit hoc scriptum atque Mathematum excellentem peritiam prae se ferat tamen si liceat id quod res est dicere in recessu intimo quod primo accessu tam magnifico speciosoque titulo spondet quà m minimum prastat Nam ne Stellae quidem novae eujus principaliter ratio habenda fuit Phoenomena prout decuit commodè explicata nedum ut Planetarum omnium itinera inaccessa novo modo expediat Vide plura ibid. Iohn Michael Dilher Gerhards Scholar Publick Professor at Iena a Learned Critick as his Electa Eclogae his Disputationes Academicae shew Diodorus Siculus He searched out the Antiquities of Nations with greatest diligence A most famous Writer and to whom for the knowledge of Antiquity Greece hath scarce his equall He saith he bestowed thirty years about his History Paulus Aemilius spent thirty yeares about his French History Paulus Iovius thirty seven in his History Diogenes Laertius He hath written well the Lives of the ancient Philosophers Dio Cassius Anno aerae Christianae 218. Helv. Chron. An ancient grave Historian a Consull himself Vir doctrinâ prudentiâ nobilitate insignis Nam viro Consulari natus ipse bis consulatum gessit Praetor Africae Dalmatiae ac Pannoniae praefectus est Crakanth de Providentia Dei It is one of the Laws of History to relate only things memorable this Law he diligently observed Nusquam ad minutias dilabitur vel si quid quod levius videatur minimè praeterire volet excusatione utitur ut facilè liqueat neutiquam imprudentiâ vel inscitia peccare Ger. Joan. Vos Ars Histor. c. 11. Dion Chrysostomus He was sirnamed Chrysostom for his Eloquence whose 80 Greek Orations were long since published at Venice Amongst other of his Orations that Oration is of all most copious de Ilie à Graecis nunquam Capto CHAP. XVI DIonysius Areopagita Dionysius falsly called the Areopagite whom neither Eusebius nor Hieronymus nor Gennadius gatherers of all Ecclesiasticall Writers before their time did know Fulke Answ. to Sand. Cavils on the L. Supper One of that name was born at Athens the most famous City of all Greece the mother of all Arts and Sciences He and his wife Damaris were converted by S t Paul to the true faith Act. 17. 34. There are his Greek Works cum Scholiis Maximi Paraphrasi Gregorii Paychymeri and his Latine Works per Ioach. Perionium cum Scholiis His Epistles and Greek Liturgy and other things go under his name but our Divines generally hold them to be supposititious and so some of the Learned Papists hold Utrum libri qui ejus nomine circumferuntur genuini sint controvertitur Nam quam vis illorum Author pro Dionysio Areopagita haberi velit nihilominus ex Adversariis ipsis viri quidam Doctissimi id incertum esse aiunt Rhodiginus Rhenanus Roffensis Cajetanus alii simpliciter nobiscum negant Faventius Gaza Valla Erasmus apud Erasmum Grocinus Cassander novissimè Hubertus ac licet
non ex professio satis apertè tamen Sirmondus ac Launaeus denique Petavius Reliqui minus in Grâcis versati vehementer affirmant Baronius Possevinus Perronius Bellarminus qui tamen vacillat Delrio Alloix alii nonnulli Albertinus de Sacramento Eucharistiae l. 2. c. 1. He proves further there in that Chapter and Chap. 2. by severall Arguments that it is a Pseudonysius Vide Gerhard Patrologiam Dilher Disput. Acad. Tom. 2. De Areopago p. 310. Dionysius Halycarnasseus a famous Historian Scalig. de Emendat Temp. l. 5. cals him a most sweet and diligent Writer Sigonius Diligentem antiquitatum investigatorem Gravis sanè auctor cui non minimum debet Historia Romana Pignor. Symbol Epistol Ep. 44. Vide plura ibid. Dioscorides an ancient Herbalist His Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Rembertus Dodonaeus His Herball is commonly known Editis in lucem plantarum historiis magnum sibi nomen comparavit Castellani vita Illust Med. He hath written also other Physick Treatises Steven Dolet a Learned Frenchman He hath written Commentaries of the Latine Tongue as Budaeus hath of the Greek In quibus utique ordo est aliquis talis qui arguat ingenium magnum in istis viris Methodi tamen ordo non est Bibliand de Rat. Com. omnium Ling. His French and Latine Works are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Aelius Donatus a great Grammarian He hath Commented excellently on Terence Marcellus Donatus Vir caetera doctissimus medicus excellens Meibomii Mecenas c. 23. He hath published In Tacitum dilucidationes in Livium Suetonium alios and severall Physicall Treatises Hieronymus Donatus He was a Poet Orator Philosopher Divine Mathematician yet was so troubled about his houshold affairs and his inferiours so disobedient to his commands that unless he had eased his cares with study he had been a most miserable man Pier. Valer. de Litteratorum infelicitate Hugo Doneââus a great Lawyer Vera pietate atque eruditione Clarus Zanch. Epist. His Works are mentioned by Boissard He taught the Civil Law some years in Heidelberg the chief University of all Germany and was Rector of that University Tanta saâe laude Ius Civile explanavit ut veterum Iuriscensultorum aliquis Paulus Ulpianus aut Papinianus revixisse illorumque animam ex Pythagorae sententia recepisse videretur Lud. Jacob. Declar. Scrip. Cabclon l. 1. Ianus Douza Anno Christi 1545. He was famous for Warlick Valour and Learning both He was one of great reading incredible memory skil'd both in Greek and Latine History Ancient and Modern He would answer well to any questions ex tempore He was employed in many Embassies for his Country Nec ullius ore saepiùs locuta est Batavia quam Dousico Melch. Adam His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his life His son Ianus Douza was also an eminent Scholar and died in his prime Vide Woweri Epist. Cent. 1. Epist. 11. George Downeham A Learned and godly Bishop He hath written excellently upon Ramus his Logick and de Antichristo and many usefull English Treatises of Justification the Covenant and other Subjects Andrew Downes the Regius Professour of Greek in Cambridge He hath published some notes on Chrysostome which are in the 8 th Volume put out by Sir Henry Savill He hath also put out Praelectiones in Philippicam primam Demosthenis Sir Francis Drake He first of all men sailed about the whole world Franciscus Dracus famosissimus ut Hispani vocant pyrata sive ut citra odium dicatur celeberrimus universi orbis lustrator Thuan. Hist. Tome quinto parte prima l. 114. Hier. Drexelius a Learned Jesuite Ioannes Driedo Aubertus Miraeus in his Elogia Belgica commends him for a Learned man His Works are published in 4 Tomes Io. Drusius He was a great Hebrician and well versed in the Rabbins and hath given great light to a large part of the Scripture by his notes upon a great part of it and his Observations Paralells Miscellanies Questions Tract De quaesitis per Epistolam De tribus sectis Iudaeorum and other Philologicall Treatises Fr. Duarenus a Learned Lawyer His Works are in one Volume Fronto Ducaeus a Learned and candid Jesuite Vir doctissimus cui Chrysostomus noster plurimum debet Savil. not in Psalm Chrysost. Guil. Durandus a most famous Bishop Pasquier Recherch de la France l. 9. c. 35. saith there were these remarkable excellencies in him he was a great Poet a great Divine a great Lawyer He put out a Book entitled Speculum Iuris divided into three great Tomes As Lombard among Divines is not quoted by his own name but by that of Master of the Sentences so among the Lawyers he is not quoted by the name of William Durand but he is styled Speculator He delivered this sentence about the Sacrament Verbum audimus modum sentimus modum nescimus praesentiam credimus Durandus à S. Portiano a Schoolman He hath written upon the Sentences Of him those verses were written Durus Durandus jacet hic sub marmore duro An sit salvandus ego nescio nec ego curo Samuel Durant a holy man when he lived and an eloquent Preacher at Paris Tantae eloquentiae ut cum Pericle non tam loqui quam fulgurare fulminare videretur Vit. Profes Grâvingae Sam. Mares Ioannes Stephanus Durantus President Senatus Tholosani He hath written a learned Book de Ritibus Ecclesiae of Ecclesiasticall Rites his tumultuating Citizens killed him Claudius Duret a great French Lawyer He hath written Thresor de l' histoire des langues a Treasure of Languages and their Originals Ludovicus Duretus a most Learned Physitian and as Heurnius was wont often to say In medicorum ordine tertius Prisca quod Hippocrati venerando debuit aetas Dureto cur non debeat Hippocrates Ille suâ morbos immaneis arte fugavit Hic à morte sui vendicat Hippocratem Stephanus Paschasius Heurnius heard him diligently three whole years so that he would not miss a Lecture And when Duretus saw him once coming in late he let fall this passage more then once Mi adolescens doâeo jam quadam dicta quorum non es particeps a great token of his affection toward Heurnius CHAP. XVII E KIng Edward the 6 th our English Iosiah Hayward hath written his Life well He was admirable by reason of his rare towardness and hope both of Vertue and Learning which in him appeared above the capacity of his years Favour and love of Religion was in him from his childhood Such an instrument given of God to the Church of England he was as England never had better Cardan saith this of him Being but fifteen years of age he asked of me in Latine in which tongue he uttered his minde no lesse readily and eloquently then I could do my self what my Books which I
Haec uno obtutu conspicienda patent Evagrius Scholasticus Nic. Everardus Several of his Works are published Ordo studendi Consil. in materia monetaria loca legalia which last is much commended by Aubertus Miraeus Also Theses Iuridicae ex ministeria de regalibus collectae and other things He left four Sonnes Everardum Nicolaum Nic. Grudin Hadr. Marium Io. Secundum partim Iuris Civilis partim Poeticae tractatione clarus Euclide He was of Megara He fitly answered to one asking many things of the gods Caetera quidem nescio illud scio quod odè resos There hath not been any thing of any worth added to his Labours in Geometry by posterity in so many Centuries of years since he flourished God hath raised up certain singular and heroical wits in all Sciences Demosthenes and Tully excelled in eloquence Aristotle in Philosophy Euclide Archimedes and Ptolomy in the Mathematicks Therefore the Profession of the Mathematicks is is called Professio Euclidea Archimedea Ptolemaica Alsted Eucyclop l. 4. c. 14. Euclides Artis elementa continuo ordine magna solertia ita tradidit ut à quovis mediocris ingenii acumine praedito non difficulter percipi possent Tych. Brahe Orat. De Disciplinis Mathematicis Euripides It is a great Question Which was the better Poet he or Sophocles though they went a different way Quintilian determines it after a sort There is all moral Philosophy in Verse in him Eusebius Anno Domini 330. He was made Bishop of Caesarea in Palestina He flourished under Constantine and his Son Eusebius Pamphili not Pamphilus as he is commonly called He had that name from Pamphilus the Martyr whom he dearly loved He is taxed for an Arian Gerhard in his Patrologia saith he was so and alledgeth authority for it yet he is justified by others he is therefore to be read with the greater caution as to that partcular for he much favoured that opinion though he subscribed the Nicene Councel It is the ancientest Ecclesiastical History now extant See a commendation of him in Crakanth Defence of Constantine c. 6. p. 107. and several Elogies of him in Gerhards Patrologia Eusebius Emissenus Anno Christi 330. There are Homilies abroad in the name of another Eusebius Emissenus which is said to have flourished about the year 430. upon the Gospels of the whole year and also fifty most eloquent Homilies of divers subjects Though some Question Whether the man be the same Author of those short Homilies upon all the Gospels who is of those fifty Homilies of divers arguments seeing the style in both is very different Eustathius He lived under the Emperour Andronicus in the year about 1180 from Christs birth He was Archbishop of Thessalonica He hath written Commentaries upon Hâmers Books and on Dionysius his description of the world From Aristarchus old Didymus made his Commentary upon Homer and Eustathius from both and many more ancient Brought Exposition of the 21 th of the Revel Valde inclinata jam magnas mutationes passa Graeca lingua erat aetate Eustathii Steph. De Bene Instit. Ling. Graec. Stud. Eustochium a learned woman of whom Ierom makes honourable mention Euthymius Zigabenus Anno 1080. He wrote Commentaries on all the Psalms and the four Gospels and Panopliam adversus omnes haereses Eâtropius He lived under Valentinian the elder Aben Ezra a most learned Grammarian He lived about the year of Christ 1140. The sharpest and best learned that ever ye bred Broughtons Require of Consent Schickard in his Bechinath Happeruschin shewing how the Jews magnifie Rabi Salomon Iarchi addes At si me arbitro res ista disceptaretur palmam ego deferrem sequenti Aben Ezrae quia non tantùm magis perspicuus est methodicus in stilo multùm elegantior Scripturaeque idiotismorum tenax sed etiam prudentior cantior nugarum parcior Cum vicissim ille à fabulis abstineat minus obscurior sit in Orthographiam alicubi impingat ut cum Kimchaeo interdum non agat mitius quam nostrates pueri cum Prisciano CHAP. XIX F JAcobus Faber Stapulensis skilled in all Learning especially in Divinity Farel and Calvin were his Scholars He was very low of a modest countenance and a sweet disposition his minde wholly estranged from all injustice Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Petrus Faber Iacobus Cuiacius was his master His Agonisticon and Somestria are well esteemed Ioan. Faber He hath written several Works Quod studiis primus lucem intulit omnibus artes Et doctum cunctum haee regit urâa Fabrum Heu tenebrae tantum potuere extinguerâ lamen Si non in tenebris lux tamen ista micet Buchanan Epig. l. 2. Nic. Faber Master to Lewis the. 13 th King of France Guido Nicolaus Fabricii Boderiani fratres Bibliorum Veteris Testamenti Hebraicorum Latina interpretatio opèra olim Santis Pagnini nunc vero Benedicti Ariae Montani Hispalensis Francisci Rafelengii Guid. Nicol. Fabriciorum fratrum collato studio ad Hebraicam dictionem expensa There is also Dictionarium Syrochaldoicum Guidono Fabricio Boderiano collectore auctore He was a famous French Poet. Divers Works of his in French are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Georgius Fabritius Chemnicensis M. Laurentius Fabricius There is a Book of his called Partitiones Codicis Hebrai Steph. Fabricius He hath put out Conciones in Proph. Minores in Decalogum Barth Facius Alphonso Aragonicae Siciliae ac Neapolis regi ab Epistolis fuit vitam res gestas Alphonsi conscripsit Ubert fol. Elog. Paulus Fagius born Anno 1504. a great Hebrician As the Jews say of Moses Ben Maimon à Mose usque ad Mosen non surrexit sicut Moses viz. Maimonides so the Germanes may say of Paulus Fagius à Paulo ad Paulum non surrexit sicut Paulus viz. Fagius There is a Catalogue printed of all the Books published by him many excellent ones His Annotations upon Oukelus his Targum on the Pentateuch which he turned into Latine are a special Work Anton. Faius a French Divine He hath written these Works In Epist. ad Romanos In priorem ad Timotheum In Ecclesiastem Enchiridion Theologicum De vita obitu Theod. Bezae Emblemata Epigrammatâ Miscel. Abraham Faius his Sonne hath put out Linguae Gallicae Italicae hortulus amaenissimus Horarum subcisivarum libri duo Gabriel Fallopins He hath published both Commentaries De rebus metallicis and also Anatomical Observations and Institutions with other Works Guliel Farel a learned and godly Minister of Genevah He hath written De Uray Usage de la Crâix Of the true use of the Crosse and Summaire ou brifue declaration â aucuns lieux fort necessaires à vn Chacun Chrestien pour mettre sa confidence en Dieâ a ayderson pro chain Salvus sit optimus
senex optimè meritus de Ecclesia D. Farellus primus istarum partium Apostolus Calv. Epist. Bullingerus Calvino There is Beza's Epigram In tres eximios aetatis nostrae Ecclesiastas Gallia mirata est Calvinum Ecclesia nuper Quo nemo docuit doctins Est quoque te nuper mirata Farelle tonantem Quo nemo tonuit fortius Et miratur adhuc fundentem mella Viretum Quo nemo fatur dulcius Scilicet aut tribus his servabere testibus olim Aut interibis Gallia Fasciculus Temporum A Book full of complaints against the Popes and grosse things in Popery The Fathers They were eminent for Learning holinesse of life and eloquence Antiquos Patres nos amplectimur ita accipimus ut nec sine justa evidenti ratione ab uno pluribusve nec ad unanimi ipsorum consensu unquam in causis fidei dissentiamus Crak Log. l. 4. c. 26. In the division of the Decalogve four precepts and one of those about not worshipping Images are rehearsed in the first Table by Philo Iosephus Origen Athanasius Ierome Gregory Nazianzen Chrysostom but six in the second Only Austen propter Trinitatis mysterium puts three in the first Table and seven in the second dividing the last precept into two and referring the second which forbids worshipping of Images to the first D r Daniel Featly a learned Divine and a most acute Disputant as his Grand Sacriledge several Conferences and Answers to the Papists and other Works shew Minutius Felix an eloquent Father Lucius Fenestella a famous Historian of whom Plinie Plutark Gellius make mention He lived in the time of Tiberius Caesar. Dominicus Floccus Florentinus was the Author of the little Book De Magistratibus Sacerdotiis Romanorum ascribed to him Dudlie Fenner a learned Divine Thomas Cartwright and Walter Travers were his Scholars There is his S. Theologia methodicè digesta and several English Tracts His Commentary on the Canticles The order of Houshold Government An Interpretation of the Lords Prayer An Interpretation upon the Epistle to Philemon A short Table orderly disposing the principles of Religion out of the first Table of the Law A Treatise of the Sacrament A profitable Treatise of lawfull and unlawfull Recreations Art of Logick and Rhetorick plainly set forth with examples for the practice of the same c. Answer unto the Confutation of the Recantation of Iohn Nicols especially in the matters of Doctrine of Purgatory Images c. Ioannes Fernelius a learned French Physician to Henry the second of France Medicinam universam doctissimis politissimis scriptis complexus est Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 21. Arnoldus Ferronus Iohn Ferus He is no suborned or counterfeit Authour but the famousest Preacher that was in Mentz or in Germany in all his time His Commentaries upon Iohn were eight times at least printed in ten years Crashaws Prolegom to the English Papists before his Romish Forger and Falsificat Iacobus Fevardentius That railing Franciscan answerable to his name Ioannes Fichardus He was born at Francford ad Moenum Anno 1512. Decus ornamentum eorum quibus cumvixit patriae imò Germaniae totius saeculi sui Boissardi Icones He hath written De vitis Iurisconsultorum recentiorum and other Works mentioned by Boissard Marsilius Ficinus of Florence a famous Philosopher Physician and Divine He wrote many excellent Works Tu Platonem quanquam alios veteres sed Platonem tamen ipsum maxime Platonicosque omnes Latinè loqui doces uberrimis Commentariis locupletas Polit. Epist. l. 9. Ep. 13. Polit. Marsil Fic Eo saltem facto meritus ut qui tot clarorum virorum memoriam in occulto latere passus non est ipse quoque oblivioni minimè sit tradendus Melch. Ad. in ejus vita Richard Field a learned Divine He hath written learnedly of the Church and in defence of such parts of his Book as have been excepted against Thomas Fienus a very learned Physician who hath published a very rational and scholastical Treatise Concerning the Power of the Imagination Io. Filesacus a learned Writer as his Books shew Opera varia De sacra Episcoporum auctoritate De Idololatria De Politico legitimo Principis cultu Comment Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester Vir singulari pietate eruditione Eras. Epist. l. 290. Epist. 42. Sir Anthony Fitzherbert His Abridgement was painfully and elaborately collected and published in the 11 th year of K. Henry 8. by him then Serjeant at Law and he wrote also another Book called his Natura brevium an exact Work exquisitely penned and publishin the 26. year of Henry 8. When he was Knight one of the Judges of the Court of Common-pleas about the same time he wrote his Treatise of Justices of the Peace L. Florus He lived in the Raign of Trajane and Hadrian Ubertus Folieta He hath published divers Works One De Latinae Linguae usu praestantia And Clarorum Ligurum Elogia Patrick Forbes a learned Scotch Divine Iohn Forbes his Son He put out Instructiones Historicae Theologica a Book well esteemed of and Irenicum Iohn Ford or Foorth a learned English Divine He hath written several Works Synopsis Politica In Apocalypsin The Necessity and Antiquity of catechizing and on Heb. 6. 1. The Covenant between God and man Franciscus Forerius He said as much as possibly could be said in the Defence of the Vulgar Translation altering the Hebrew Vowels for this purpose at his pleasure yet it seemeth the errours discovered by him in his Comment upn Esay hath hindered the setting forth of his other Commentaries upon the Prophets which he had finished as appears by the later part of his Epistles to the Trent Fathers so the Church would have approved them D r Iackson on the Creed Vol. 1. l. 2. c. 31. He that wrote the Spanish Bibliotheque in the second Tome saith He is said to have written besides that on Esay which I have not seen upon the other greater Prophets the twelve lesser Iob Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Canticles Sixtus Senensis saith He wrote upon all the Prophets Petrus Forrestus a learned Physician He read the first Lecture in Physick and made the first Oration for its praise in the University of Leyden then restored He hath published many learned Works CHAP. XX. JOannes Forsterus He was Professour of the Hebrew Tongue at Wittenberg and very much illustrated and amplified it with a Lexicon published at Basil in folio Sir Iohn Fortescuâ an excellent Antiquary and of profound knowledge in the Common-Law He hath written a book De laudibus Legum Angliae This Book was written in the Raign of K. H. 6. in commendation of the Laws of England containing with all much excellent matter worthy the reading Iohn Fox sometime exile for the profession of the Gospel that Saint-like Historian M r Fox D r Hall He studied
Mathematician Ut gemma quaedam rarior inter aevi sui Mathematicos illuxit Quo nomine Carolo V. Caesari harum artium non ignaro in primis gratus saepe Bruxellam est evocatus vicissim ab aulicis Lovanii salutatus Caestell Vita Illust. Med. Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica He hath left many Writings in the Mathematicks De Orbis Divisione Dâ locorum describendorum ratione deque eorum distantiis inveniendis âsââ anâali Astronomici De usu Globi Astronomici De Radio Astronomico Geometrico Also Cosmographia cum aliis Libellis De Astrolabio Catholico Qui liber ultimus erat eorum quos conscripserat adâò ut fatis praereptus non ipsemet sed post ipsum filius Cornâlius Gemma eum absolverit ideóque verisimile est eum postremâââuas haâ de re cogitationes sensus qui plaerunque solâât meliores veriorésque esse patefecisse Tych. Brah. l. 2. De Cometâ Anni 1577. c. 7. Cornelius Gemma a famous Physitian and Philosopher of Lovain Illustris parentis Gemmae Frisii non obscurus filius Tych. Brah. De Cometa Anni 1377. l. 2. c. 6. Eruditionis paternae haeres praesertim quoad Artes Mathematicus quibus ille si quis alius excelluit Id. ibid. l. 2. c. 10. Reliquit Cornelius filium Philippum Doctorem medicum rarò certè exemplo filium patrem avâm eruditos iisdem deditos studiis ut in Italia nostro aevo Manâtios flornisse Aubertus Miraeus Elog. Belg. Gilb. Genebrard a Divine of Paris and the Kings Professor of Hebrew A good Hebrician but a most petulant Writer By whom saith B. And. it is verified that much Learning and railing may be accidents in one subject Gennadius Scholaris 1450. Innocentius Gentiletus He hath put out Examen Concilii Tridentini An Apology for the French Christians of the Reformed Religion both in French and Latine Apologie pour les Chrestiens de France de lâ Religion Evangelique on Reformee foundâe sur la Saincte Escriturâ approveè par la raison par les aâciââs Canons Alberiâus Gentilis an eloquent Italian the Regins Professor of Civil Law in Oxford His Works are most of them mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue and the Appendix Iohn Gerhard Doctor of Divinity and Professor in the University of Iena A laborious and Learned Lutheran as his Supplement of Cheminitius his Harmony and his Common places of Divinity Commentaries on the Hebr. and Peter Meditationes sacrae shew At the end of Gerhardi Patrologia there are Funerall Orations had in divers Universities at Gerhards death where he is deservedly magnified CHAP. II. JOhn Gerson Anno Salutis 1410. 1363. saith Theuet A Divine of Paris right famous he was present at the Councell of Constance and in books written he commendeth highly the Decree whereby it is agreed that the Bishop of Rome should be subject to the Counsell And saith the thing is worthy to be written in all Churches and publick places for a perpetuall memory For he saith they are pestilent flatterers which bring this Tyranny into the Church as though the Bishop of Rome ought neither to obey the Counsell nor be judged by the same as though the Counsell should take all its force and authority from him as though it could not be called but at his pleasure as though he were bound to the observation of no Laws nor no accompt might be taken of his doings These monstrous sayings must be utterly rejected which are against all Laws equity and reason For all the authority of the Church dependeth on the generall Counsell and it is lawfull to appeal from the Pope unto it and those which inquire whether the Bishop of Rome or the Church be greater make as wise a question as if they should ask whether the part be more or the whole for it appertaineth to the Counsell to constitute to judge and to depose the Bishop of Rome as lately it was declared at Constance Sleid. Comment l. 1. The greatest Learned man of his time and the only Doctor and leader of the Councell of Constance B. Iewels Pref. to his Defence of his Apol. He was counted a subtill Disputer and profound School-Doctor and for his Wisdom and Learning was thought worthy to be the Director of all the Bishops in the Councell of Constance that is all the Bishops of the world Iewels Def. of his Apol. part 4. c. 15. The Learned and devout Chancellor of Paris B. Bedell Waddesw lett p. 107. He wrote a Book de auferibilitate Papae ab Ecclesia intimating that it is in the power of a Generall Councell to cast the Pope out of his place and to choose another He was singularly acquainted with temptations and wrote a Book De variis Diaboli tentationibus He was sirnamed Doctor Christianissimus Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Quid potuit Sorbona doces meritissimè Gerso Magni Gerso luxque decusque chori His Works are Printed in four Volumes his French Works are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Conradus Gesnerus He was born at Zurick the chief Town of the Helvetians Anno Christi 1516. He was scarce 49 years old when he died He died Anno Christi 1565. Neander in the first part of his Geography highly commends him especially for those three Works his Historia Annimalium and Stirpium and Bibliotheca Verè sanctissimus doctissimus omnibusque numeris absolutissimus totius Enropae ornamentum Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Bulling Nobilis ejus fama quam praeclaris scriptis suis sibi peperit jampridem in omnes Orbis provincias emanarit Waseri ad Mithridatem Gesireri Commentarius Caius in his Book de Libris propriis commends him highly and much bewails his death He practised Physick in Zurick and taught Philosophy for a publick stipend 25 years Vir pius omni genere virtutum ornatissimus omnia naturae arcana perscrutatus in omni literarum genere praesertim verò in medicina Philosophia naturali atque Philologia clarissimas lucubrationes edidit lumen Germaniae decus Helvetiae Boissardi Icones He mentions his Works William Gibieuf Doctor of Sorbonne He hath written two Books De libertate Dei Creaturae which are often cited by Bishop Davenant and others Obertus Gifanius Vir eruditissimus mihique obrarat excellentissimi ingenii dotes carissimus Jos. Scal. Com. in Copam He hath published Observationes in Linguam Latinam Gulielmus Gilbertus an English man He hath written a painfull and an experimentall Work touching the Loadstone Bac. Advancem of Learning l. 2. c. 13. That admirable searcher of the nature of the Loadstone D r Gilbert by means of whom and of D r Harvey our Nation may claim even in this later age as deserved a Crown for solid Philosophical Learning as for many ages together it hath done formerly for acute and subtill speculations in Divinity Sir Ken. Digb Treat of
Bodies c. 20. Learned Peireskius was wont to lament that when he was in England he was not acquainted with this William Gilbert the Author of the Book de Magnete nor Thomas Lydiat the famous Mathematician Gassend de Vita Peiresk l. 2. Gassendus l. 4. de vita Peiresk makes honourable mention of his Book de Magnete p. 378. We had not any certain or satisfactory knowledge of Magneticall properties untill such time as it pleased God to raise up one of our Countrymen D r Gilbert who to his evelasting praise hath troden out a new path to Philosophy and on the Loadstone erected a large Trophy to commend him to posterity Carpent Geog. first Book chap. 3. See more there Pet. Gillius a most Learned man Aquitanus Duo magna hujus saeculi lumina Petrus Gillius Gulielmus Philander Thuan. Hist. Tom. 4. l. 82. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 16. Sylvester Giraldus a man elegantly Learned for those times Sylvester Giraldus Cambrensis a Britain by birth though by descent rather an Englishman or a Norman as he makes himself but a very Learned man for those times There is published of his Itinerarium Cambriae cum Annotat. Descriptio ejusdem De rebus Hybernicis Victor Giselinus Besides divers Poems he wrote Learned Notes upon Prudentius the Christian Poet Noteâ and a Chronology upon the Works of Sulpitius Severus Ranulphus Glanvile de Glanvilla Chief Justice in the reign of King Henry the 2 d wrote Learnedly and profoundly of part of the Laws of England He wrote a Book De Legibus consuetndinibus Regni Angliâ Henricus Glareanus an excellent Mathematician He hath written well of Musick upon Livy Salust and divers other Works Salomon Glassius a Learned Lutheran and the great ornament of Germany for sacred Philology His Christologia Mosaica Philologia Sacra and other Works are very Usefull Rodolphus Goclenius He hath written Learnedly of divers subjects in Humanity Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Conradus Goclenius He was first Professor of the Latine tongue at Lovain Annos ipsos XX. quibus publicè professus est auditoribus suis adeo gratus fuit ut eos nec assiduitate satiarit unquam nec diuturnitate lassarit Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg. Fr. Godwin Bishop of Landaff His Rerum Anglicarum Annales and his Tract De Praesulibus Angliae shew his Learning Thomas Godwin His Roman and Jewish Antiquities are very usefull Dâmianus A Goes Lusitanus It happened to him as to Homer heretofore for the excellency of his wit severall Cities strove for his birth as those of Paris would have Christophorus Longolius to be theirs the Romans challenged him for theirs those of the Low-Countries for theirs because of his great Eloquence Iacobus Golius well skilled in the Orientall Tongues Admirabilis ille Arabizantium Phoenix Hotting Analect Histor. Theol. Cl. V. Iacobus Golius in praestantissimo illo linguae Arab. Thesauro Pocock Not. Miscel. in Portam Mosis c. 7. Vir summus in linguis orientalibus Mathesi Jacobus Golius Salmas de Annis Climactericis Whom the States of Holland for his excellent skill in the Arabick and Mathematicks have substituted to two famous Professors of the University Thomas Erpenius and Willebrord Snellius He travelled into the East and observed the condition and state of the Eastern people and got thereby knowledge of the Orientall Languages and affairs and brought divers Orientall Books thence which are now at Leyden He hath put out lately an excellent Arabick Lexicon Hubertus Golthzius a great Antiquary Dilher cals his Book De re Antiquaria libellum Aureolum Franciscus Gomarus a Learned and Judicious Divine All his Works Exegeticall and Polemicall are published together in one Volume in Folio Christopher Goodman a Learned Scotch Divine and according to his name good and holy Abraham Gorlay He had more then four thousand exquisite Medals of Gold more then ten thousand of Silver and more then fifteen thousand of Brasse all choice ones Ios. Scal. Lettre au Sieur De Bagar There is a Book of his styled Dactyliotheca published Io. Goropius Becanus A Physitian Philosopher and Historian He obtained an exact knowledge of the Hebrew Greek and Latine Divino planè vir ingenio qualem vix singulae aetates ferant seu Philosophiam seu Philologiam in utraque enim ad miraculum usque excelluit tractaret ut seculi sui Varra nominari meritò potuerit Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica Castellani Vitae Medic. Illust. Dionysius Gothofredus an excellent Lawyer He hath written short Notes upon all the Civil Law and all Tullies Works He hath written also upon Seneca and Notes ad Varronem Festum Nonnium Iacobus Gothofredus his sonne He wrote first de Ecclesiis Suburbicariis He set out some Orations of Libanius with Notes and his Oratio de Iuliane William Gouge Doctor of Divinity a Learned and Pious Divine He was counted whilst he lived the Father of the London Ministers A good Text-man as his Whole Armour Exposition of the Hebr. Exposition of the Lords Prayer and other Learned Works shew him to be and he is often Honourably mentioned by Voetins Streso and other outlandish Divines He was eminent for three graces his Humility Patience and Faith He would begin his prayer very audibly and distinctly which was the more commendable because of his great Congregation at Blackefriers Sim. Goulartius a Learned and godly French Minister There is his Morum Philosophia Historica and Histoires admirables de nostre temps and other Tracts mentioned in the Appendix of Oxford Catalogue Ioannes Goverus sive Gouerus a Learned English Knight and Poet Laureate Hic nomen suum extulit partim iis quae Gallicè eleganter Anglicè elaboravit Sane is Gualterus Chaucerus primi Anglicam linguam expolire caeperunt Vossius de Histor Lat. l. 3. c. 3. Io. Grammaticus He hath written upon divers books of Aristotle and de Differentiis Linguarum and other Works Saxo Grammaticus He was called Grammaticus for his elegancy in the Latine Tongue He hath written the History of the Danes in very elegant Latine for those times Lud. Granatensis His Works are in three Tomes He hath written De ratione Concionandi De frequenti Communione Sylva locorum Communium Dux peccatorum De Officio Pastorali Catechismus sive Introductionis ad Symbolum Fidei libri quatuor and other Works D r Edward Grant He was one of the Learned Schoolmasters of Westminster Camden was his Usher He hath put out a Greek Grammer styled Graecae Linguae spicilegium which Camden hath contracted He hath also published Aschams Epistles and Poems with his Life and Death Conradus Graserus He went some miles to the Jews to understand some Hebrew words Vide ejus ultima verba p. 31. in Praef. Exquisitissimus ille ac divinitus aetate nostra excitatus antichristo-mastix juxta doctrinae Christianae propugnator Conradus Graserus Francus
Lud. Croc. in Ficin De Relig. Christ. c. 27. Aurei Commentarii eruditissimi Graseri in Apocalypsin Danielem Id. ibid. Franc. Gratianus 1170. A Monk of Bononia he compiled the book called The Popes Decrees or The Canon Law Also his brother Peter Lombard Bishop of Paris which is called The Master of the Sentences compiled his 4 Books of the Sentences These two brethren were the greatest doers in finding out and establishing the blinde opinion of the Sacrament that the only similitude of Bread and Wine remained but not the substance of them and this they call the Spirituall understanding of the Mystery Gâilhelmus Gratarolus an excellent Philosopher and Physitian Et verè pius bene doctus peritusque medicus In Patria ea sua honoratus erat dives sola pietas illum reddidit pauperem Zanch. Epist. lib. 2. Iusto Vultâio There are severall of his Works published mentioned by Boissard One de Conservanda Valetudine Literatorum Gratius the Faliscian An antient Latine Poet contemporary with Virgill and Ovid who bore an high esteem in that pure age when the greatest Wits flourished and Poetry underwent the severest Judges His style is every where concise chast and florid His Book De Venatione is now Englished by M r Wase Ovid speaks of him Aptaque venanti Gratius arma daret Iohannes Gravius a Learned Oxonian Elementa Linguae Perficae Anonymus Persa de Siglis Arabum Persarum Astronomicis Epochae Arabum Celebriores and his other Works shew his Abilities The Lady Iane Gray She was both Learned and Religious Ascham in his Epist. and Schoolmaster and divers others commend her for her Learning He saith when he came to her once whilst others were hunting and following their pleasures he found her reading Platos Phaedon and that she understood it so that he admired her No marvell if she were well skilled in the Greek Miraris Janam Graio sermone valere Quo primum natae est tempore Graia fuit Ingenium Graiis dedit ore rotundo Musa loqui Horat. Richard Greenham an eminent and experienced Divine His Works are in one Volume CHAP. III. GRegorius M. Gregory sirnamed the Great the first Bishop of Rome of that name Anno Dom. 1600. He was an humble devout and holy Bishop and had many pious Martyrs his Predecessors as Popes or Fathers in that See of Rome he deserved the title of Gregory the Great for abhorring the name of Universall Bishop Bede cals him Apostolum nostrum our Apostle and he gives this reason for it quod nostram id est Anglorum gentem de potestate Satanae ad fidem Christi sua industria convertit because he converted our Nation by his own industry from the power of Satan to the faith of Christ. He sent Austen the Monk and other Legates hither See Pet. du Moulins Antibarbarian ch 13. He first wrote Servus Servorum Dei putting the Roman Bishops in remembrance thereby both of their humblenesse and also of their duty in the Church of Christ. Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of Gregory the first Leo the first and Nicholas the first Pontifices quot Roma tulit celeberrima sanctos Majores nullos Nicolao Gregorioque Sive Leone habuit re sunt ut nomine primi Gregory Thaumaturgus Episcopus fuit Neocaesariensis He was called Thaumaturgus from the greatnesse of his miracles Basil saith he was called by the enemies of the truth another Moses Ierom styles him Virum Apostoliâorum signorum virtutum When he was Bishop of Neocesarea in Pontus he blessed God that when he came first to his charge he found not above seventeen Christians and when he departed from them he left not in all his Diocesse so many unbaptized or unbelievers He was present at the Synod of Antioâh celebrated against Samosatenus Anno 266. He wrote a Metaphrase upon Ecclesiastes An Exposition of Faith M r Gregory of Oxford His two Books shew him to be a good Linguist Gregorias Turonensis He hath put out these Works Hist. Francorum De gloria Martyrum De gloria Confessorum De vitis quorundam Patrum Iac. Gretzerus a Learned Jesuite a good Grecian He hath commandment from Claudius de Aqua viva Generall Governour of the society of the Jesuites to second Bellarmine in all his attempts and observeth in his own Writings these two qualities temere dicere astute reticere He is unreasonably bitter against those which are both Learned and Modest. The defender of Bellarmine the most scurrile Writer that this or the former age hath seen D r Crakanth in a Serm. on 2 Chron. 9. 5 6 7 8 9. He was chosen for the Papists Champion in the famous Disputation holden at Regensperg 1600 whom Possevine the Jesuite cals the very hammer of the Heretiks Grindall a Learned Divine Iohannes Groperus of Collen was offered the Cardinalship by Paul the 4 th but he was then old and thinking to honour his memory much more by refusing a Dignity desired even by great Princes then by keeping it a few daies he sent the Pope many thanks together with his excuse and refusing the Ornaments would neither have the Name nor Title Hist. of the Counc of Trent lib. 5. p. 396 397. This was after a sort commendable but his forsaking the Gospel mentioned by Sleidan in his 15 Book of Commentaries was most wicked Hugo Grotius He was born at Delph in the Low-Countries in the year of our Lord 1583. He hath written upon all the Old and New Testament His Books De Veritate Religionis Christianae and De Satisfactione Christi are well esteemed Piscator sent these verses to him when he published Martianus Capella Magnus es ingenio doctrina magnus es idem Nomini magni Magna cupido tibi est Non temere ergo tibi sed cum ratione locuta Cognomen Grotî Belgica lingua dedit He was a very Learned Lawyer but fell off much from soundness and Orthodoxy in the true Religion in his later daies Voetius in his 2 d part of Select Theolog. Disputat De Conversione Iudaeorum reckons him among the men dubiae ant variatae Religionis Some Learned and Orthodox French Divines as Rivet Maresius and others also have written solidly against him Therefore his diligent Translatour might perhaps have been better imployed then in turning into English his Vow for the Churches Peace a book so empty and Heterodox and so well refuted by the Learned Rivet in his Apoligeticus pro vera Pace Ecclesiae Ianus Gruterus a famous Critick He wrote Thesaurus Critiâus and Criticall Notes on Seneca's Tragedies Statius his Poems on Martiall Titus Livius Tacitus Velleius Paterculus and others a great and large Volume of the Inscriptions of the ancient Romans and divers other Works Simon Grynaeus born Anno 1493. Incomparabiliâ vir Simon Grynaeus in quo pietatem Christianam virtutes omnes musas atque
charites habuisse domicilium existimo Bibliander de Ratione Communi omnium Linguarum He hath written De utilitate legendae Historiae A Dissertation De Cometis and other Works Io. Iac. Grynaeus He hath expounded severall parts of Scripture and published two Books of select Epistles with other Works Epistolae selectae plenae gravissimarum rerum lectuque dignissimae Melch. Ad. in ejus vita He said Erasmus did more hurt the Pope of Rome jocando quam Lutherus stomachando He answered thus to Chytrans Si non amplius in his terris te visurus sum ibi tamen conveniemus ubi Luthero cum Zuinglio optimè jam convenit Melch. Ad. in ejus Vita â Rudolphus Gualtherus a Poet and Divine He was born at Zurick the chief City of the Helvetians Anno 1518. His son also of the same name was a Learned Divine There are extant his verses in imagines Doctorum nostri seculi virorum Rodolph Gualterus the sonne hath written Homilies upon the lesser Prophets and other Learned Works Baptista Guarinus Stephanus Guichardus Estienne Guichard a Learned French Linguist He hath written a French book entitled L' Harmonie Etymologique des Langues an Etymologicall Harmony of Languages in which he compares at least twelve Languages with the Hebrew and excellently shews their originall and signification out of the Hebrew Language Franciscus Guicciardinus He seems to be inferiour to none of the Ancients for he excels in faith diligence prudence and other vertues and in the relation of things done in discovering of Counsels in noting the manners of men in describing of persons and in recounting Orations he hath many things which are wanting in others who have written the History of those times Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him A Tito nullus si quis mihi credat in orbe Clarior hoc uno floruit Historiâ Melchior Guilandinus Vir fuit sine dubio literatissimus qui instar Gorgiae de qualibet re proposita copiosè atque disertè poterat disputare Caâtellanus de vitis Medicorum Iohannes Guinterius Andernacus a Learned Physitian His Works are mentioned by Castellanus De vitis Medicorum Gyldas He wrote the Annals of the British Nation Lylius Gregorius Gyraldus Petrus Crinitus and he have both written of the Poets but he farre better Longe hoc viz. Crinito doctior diligentior Voss. De Histor. Lat. lib. 3. part 4. c. 1. Cujus extat Historia dialogis decem perscripta de Poetis antiquis opus sicut magni ingenii judicii sic ingentis doctrinae atque industriae ita ut exspectandum non sit ne quis deinceps hanc denuo provinciam suscipiat Vossius De Poetis Latinis cap. 7. CHAP. IV. H GEorge Hackwâll Doctor of Divinity A very Learned and Pious man There are these Works of his published An Apology of the Power of God in the Government of the world King Davids Vow for Reformation His Answer to Carrier And some Sermons Theodoricus Hackspanius Professor of the Hebrew at Altdorph He hath put out Quadriga Disputationum and other Tracts Gualterus Haddonus Walter Haddon an Eloquent and Learned Doctor of the Civil Law There are published his Lucubrationes Poemata Oratio in Funere Mart. Buceri Responsio contra Hier. Osorium Continuata per Jo. Foxum l. 3 Hadrianus the Cardinall A man of profound Learning as appeareth by what he hath written of the Fundamentals of Christian Religion There is a Book also of his published De Sermone Latino modis Latinè loquendi Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayck Bohemus Aulae Caesareae medicus most skillfull in Physick Philosophy and Astronomy Sunt sanè hi quatuor viri D. Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayck M. Bartholomaeus Scultetus Gorliciensis D. Andreas Nolthius Embecksensis D. Nicolaus Winklerus Halae Suevorum Physicus tum in aliis Doctrinarum generibus tum praesertim in Mathematicis scientiis excellenter periti quorum duo priores mihi ex facie noti sunt Amicitia diuturna conjunctissimi Tych. Brah. De Cometa Anni 1577. l. 2. c. 10. membrum secundum Iohn Hales a great Grecian one who when he was young wrote Notes on Chrysostom and is often honourably mentioned by Andrew Downes the Greek Professor of Cambridge He hath printed a Sermon concerning the abuse of obscure and difficult places of Scripture Ioseph Hall Bishop of Exceter a Learned and pious man He hath written Three Volumes of Contemplations on the Old and New Testament An Explication of all the hard Texts of Scripture And divers other Treatises Bertholdus Hallerus a Learned Helvetian Divine Dionysius Halycarnasseus a grave Historian He lived under Augustus Caesar. He hath written De Rom. Antiq. Gr. Praecepta Rhetorica Opuscula varia De Thycididis historia Iudicium D r Henry Hammod a Learned Divine of Magdalene Colledge in Oxford He hath published severall Works Large Annotations on all the New Testament A practicall Catechism And divers other Works in English And a Latine Tract against Blondell of Church-Government Thomas Harding A Doctor of Lovane an English man the Target of Popery in England as he is styled by Peter du Moulin He wrote a Confutation of the Apology and Replied severall times to Bishop Iewell Iohn Lord Harrington He was both Learned and pious M r Stock the Divine hath written his Life William Harvey Doctor of Physick Gassendus makes honouaable mention of his book De Circulatione Sanguinis De vita Peireskii l. 4. p. 323. And other outlandish men mention him with great respect The Anatomicall part of Physick seems to be rising toward the Zenith of perfection especially since our never sufficiently honoured Countryman D r Harvey discovered the wonderfull secret of the blouds circular motion Webst. Exam. Acad. c. 6. Scientiam humani Corporis Physicae partem utilissimam in libris suis de motu Sanguinis de Generatione Animalium mirabili sagacitate detexit demonstravit Gulielmus Harvaeus R. R. Iacobi Carolique medicus primarius solus quod sciam qui doctrinam novam superata invidiâ vivent stabilivit Hob. Praefat. ad Elem. Philos. Sect. 1. De Corpore He hath put out Exercitatio Anatomica de motu Cordis Sanguinis in animalibus D. Haymo a Monk of Fulda Anno Dom â40 One of the learnedest of his time He hath written upon all the Scriptures De varietate Librorum and other things besides Casparus Hedio He was a most faithfull and diligent Pastor of the Church of Argentine for 23 years and a good Historian His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Alexander Hegius Erasmus was his Scholar He first brought the Greek learning into the Low-Countries as Rudolphus Agricola did restore it to Germany Daniel Heinsius Publick Professor of History at Leyden Secretary and Bibliothecary of the same University appointed to be Notary in the Synod of Dort He hath published Exercitations upon the New Testament and
many Philologicall Works Heliodorus a most eloquent and sweet Greek Writer whose ten Books of the Ethiopick History in Greek being snatcht out of the fire of the Library of Buda Buda being burnt by Soliman were Printed at Basill Christ. Helvicus His Chronology of the last edition is much commended as most compleat and very usefull for any sacred or prophane Story There are also other Works of his De Chaldaicis Bibliorum Paraphrasibus Lexicon Heb. diaacticum Vindicatio locorum V. Testamenti à corruptelis Pontificiorum Tr. Historicus Theologicus De Chaldaicis Bibliorum phrasibus De Carminibus atque Dialectis Graecorum Hieronymus Henninges a godly and Learned Divine He hath put out Theatrum Genealogicum in 4 Volumes Which Work Neander styles Opus rarum egregium spissum atque stupendum and shews the heads of every Tome Henry the first of that Name for his knowledge and science in the seven liberall Arts was sirnamed Clerk or Bâââ Clerk Henry the 8 th He set forth a book entitled A necessary Doctrine and erudition for any Christian man See a commendation of his Learning and Severity Eras. Epist. l. 6. Epist. 12. to him Of his Learning also in Epistola Thomâ Mori ad Academ Oxon. Amongst the most famous Contradictors which the Doctrine of Luther found was Henry the 8 th King of England who not being born the Kings eldest son had been destinate by his Father to be Archbishop of Canterbury and therefore in his youth was made to study But the eldest being dead and after him the father also he succeeded in the Kingdom Esteeming it a great honour to imploy himself in so famous a Controversie of Learning he wrote a Book of the seven Sacraments defending also the Popedom and oppugning the Doctrine of Luther a thing so gratefull to the Pope that having received the Kings book he honoured him with the title of Defender of the Faith But Martin suffered not himself to be scared with that most illustrious glittering name of a King but answered his Majesty with as much acrimony vehemency and as small respect as he had answered the petty Doctors The Hist of the Councell of Trent l. 1. p. 16. He drew many Learned men into England Desiderius Heraldus a Learned Frenchman He hath written a Comment on Martiall Animadvers in Salmas Observat ad Ius Atticum Romanum and other Learned Works Herbert Lord of Cherbury He hath published a Book De Veritate Causis Errorum and hath written the Life of K. Henry the 8 th in English Hermes Trismegistus the most ancient Doctor of the Egyptians He hath written De Lapidis Philosophici secreto and other Miscellanies Conradus Herebachius Anno 1â08 a Learned Papist He was a compleat Scholar skilfull in many Languages the Latine Greak Hebrew Italian French Dutch His friends were the Learned men of that time Erasmus Sturmius and others He hath written a most Learned Commentary on the Psalmes de re Rustica He put out two Books De institutione principis deque Republica Christiana administranda Lexicon Graeco Latinum locupletavit Hermannus Contractus a Germane Anno 1032. 1058 say some He was descended of a Noble Count of Swedland and was crooked and lame from his infancy which gave him the surname of Contractus He spake Latine Greek and Hebrew as his naturall Language He published all his Works with his contracted and paralytick hands Membris planè erat contractis unde Contracti nomân accepit fortasse ea propter monachus factus fuit Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 2. c. 44. He was the inventer of the Astroâabe Hermogenes He was of Tarsus in Asia minor Being scarce 18 years old he wrote the Art of Rhetorick in six books but when he was old he forgat Learning Thence they spake of him jestingly that he was old in his childhood and a childe in his old age Heâedian an eloquent and faithfull yet free Historian He wrote 8 books of Histories Stylus Photio teste est elegans perspicuus ac talis planè ut vix historicorum ulli ulla virtute cedat Veritati etiam studuit nisi quod fides ejus mutat in Alexandro Maximino Voss. de Histor. Graec. l. 2. c. 15. Herodotus Although he relates stories that may seem fabulous yet the whole body of his History is composed with singular fidelity and a diligent desire of truth but he often prefaceth concerning other narrations that he rehearseth them not because he thinks them to be true but as he hath received them from others Hic pater historiae mendacia plurima finxit Quippe suam Musis dedicat historiâm Steph. Paschas Icon. Hesiod 37 annis Hesiodus artis suae specimina publicè edidit ante Homerum Seldem Marm. Arund It is an ancient aud famous question of the age of Homer and Hesiod and whether was ancienter Accius the Poet and Ephorus the Historian make Hesiod the first Vide Agellium l. 3. c. 11. Iohn Hessels he hath put out severall Works mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue William Landgrave of Hessen was the first Protestant Prince in Germany He died of a burning Fever 1637. Many of the Landgraves of Hessen were Learned men Helius Ebanus Hessus He was born in the year 1488. His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Hesychius Grammaticus Anno Dom. 400. The most Learned Glossary but corruptly printed He was a Christian though some seem to question it as Casaubone on Athenaeus Henry Stevens and D r Price shew Learned D r Langbane in his Notes on Longinus styles Eustathius Hesychius and Pollux Literaturae Graecae Triumviri Ioannes Heurnius He was intimately familiar with the most famous men of that age Ianus Dousa Franciscus Iunius Lucas Trelcatius Hugo Donellus Everard Brâhârst Ioseph Scaliger Iustus Lipsius Francis Raphelengius and others His Works either published by himself or his son are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life CHAP. V. HIeronymus Anno Aerae Christi 375. Helv. Chron. 390. say others He matched any of his time in Learning in the Tongues skill of humanity and knowledge in holy Scripture yet was that time so plentifull of Learned men as almost no time since Linguarum Historiarum locorum situs peritissimus vir Ful. Miscel. l. 2. c. 8. Vide c. 11. 15. He was mainly taken with Origen so that he called him by way of praising him Suum his own His Epistles are approved of in Italy France Spain all Germany and Africk he was honoured and sought to farre and near by Bishops by Noble Matrons by great Rulers many great personages came farre having seen his Works to see the Author He had excellent skill in the Hebrew which he got of a Jew Barhanin-aâ as Erasmus relates in his Life Vir perfecto omnium doctrinarum genere praeditus Hebraeam praeterea linguam Syram Chaldaicam Graecam Latinam callens Ang. Roch. Bibl. Vatic He
was over-sharp and vehement in his Epistles with Austen and with others in his Controversall Writings Ut ubique vehemens ita in Eristico contradicendi genere parum interdum attendendus Montac Appar 9. Omnium Traditionum Curiosissimus explorator Id. Hilarius Pictaviensis Antistes Bishop of Poictou in France Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him Et nos exhilaras Hilari sanctissime Praesul Et monitis victa est Arria secta tuîs. Hilarius Arelatensis Episcopus He lived in the time of Pope Leo about the year 458. Hildefonsus Toletanae sedis Episcopus There are Opuscula varia of his Arthur Hildersam a Learned and Judicious Divine who quotes Scripture Texts pertinently His Comment on the 51 Psalm and his Lectures on the 4 th of Iohn and other Works are excellent Treatises Hincmarus Anno Dom. 850. There are his Opuscula Epistolae Admonitio de potestate Regia Pontificia Hipparchus a great Astronomer He lived about 125 years before Christ was born Pliny much commends him in the 2 d Book of his Naturall History c. 26. There are his Enarrationes Gr. Lat. Ad Arati Eudoxi Phaenomena Hippocrates He was the first that wrote Methodically the Art of Physick all Greece admiring him because of his knowledge His Works are in Greek and Latine in two Volumes His Aphorisms are much esteemed and quoted by Physitians Hippolytus He hath written some Homilies and De Consummatione mundi de Antichristo secundo adventu Christi David Hoeschelius a very Learned man to whom we owe many good books Rob. Holcot an English man a Learned Dominican Monk He hath written On the Proverbs Questions and Speeches upon the Sentences De imputabilitate peccati quomodo longa Determinations of other Questions Iacobus Hollerius Magni illius Hollerii dignissimus filius Jacobi Augusti Thuani De vita sua l. 1. He hath written De morbis internis Observat. ad Consilia curandi Lucas Holstenius a Learned Papist Franciscus Hottomannus a Learned Lawyer well skilled in History and all Antiquity and a Protestant Divers of his Works published Concerning the Law and other things for the illustration of Antiquity and politer Learning are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Homer Seven Cities contended about his birth Leo Allatius hath written a book de Patria Homeri Homers Poetry is twofold his Iliades and Odysses In the Iliades he represents the strength of his body in his Odysses that of his minde both is described in an Heroick verse the most absolute of all Meeters Amongst all Homers verses his Iliades and Odysses are especially celebrated in which the light of all Philosophy Oratory and Poetry is seen Lil. Gyrald De Poet. Hist. l. 2. Est perfecto regium quid Homeri poesis praesertim Ilias paraemia quidem ait malorum Ilias haec vero omnis boni Ilias Possev Biblioth Select Tomo 2 do l. 17. c. 10. Homer and Virgill the two Poets that have been the admiration of all ages which have afforded men of judgement Philosophers and others ascribed little less then Divine authority to Homer Alexander the Great put Homers Iliades in a curious Casket which he took from Darius and laid it still under his pillow when he slept Homero vati haec est propria peculiarisque tribuenda laus quod neque ipse de patria sua quicquam prodidit pleraeque illum nobilissimae civitates suum quaeque fuisse alumnum contendunt Polit Orat. in Exposit. Hom. Vide plura ibid. Alcibiades the Athenian coming into a School commanded them to bring him Homers book when they answered they had him not he struck the Master and went away counting it an unworthy thing for a Schoolmaster to be without Homer Festus Hommius He was in the Synod of Dort and opposed the Arminians There is his Specimen controver siarum Belgicarum And his Disputationes Theologicae Petrus Cornelius Hoofduis a Learned Dutch Knight Richard Hooker For his solid Writings he was sirnamed the Iudicious and entitled Theologorum Oxonium He hath published a Learned Book Of the Laws of Ecclesiasticall Polity written in Defence of the Government then established against the new desired Discipline Iohn Hooper the Learned and godly Bishop of Glocester and Worcester and Martyr These are his Works His Answer to my L. of Winchesters book entituled A Detection of the devils Sophistry wherewith he robbeth the unlearned people of the true Belief in the Sacrament of the Altar Confession of the Christian Faith Declaration of the 10 Commandments Sermons on Ionas And other Tracts mentioned by Maunsell in his Catalogue Ioacbimus Hopperus He hath written divers Works Paraphrasis in Psalmos De usu Psalmorum De vera Iurisprudentia Isagoge in Iurisprudentiam De Iuris Arte. Dispositio Lib. Pandectarum More of his Works are mentioned by Suffridus Petrus De Scriptoribus Frifiâ Horatius Flaccus an ingenious Poet. Qui unus plura Criticorum judiciò quam caeteri omnes innovavit Dilher Disputat Acad. Tom. 1. Robert Horne sometime Bishop of Winchester Et bene sonantem Hornum D r Humph. There is his Answer to Fecknam Conradus Hornaeus Lutheranus Vedelius terms him Virum doctissimum and commends his book De processu disputandi Lambertus Hortensius Divers of his Works are published De Anabaptistis De Bello Germanico Explanationes in Lucanum in Virgilii Aeneida Dissertatio de Trajecto Epistolis Rerum Ultrajectinarum Stanislaus Hosius He was imployed by three Emperours successively Charles the 5 th his Brother Ferdinand and Maximilian the sonne of Ferdinand He was President in the Councell of Trent All his Works are in one Volume Rod. Hospinianus He hath written De Festis Iudaeorum Ethnicorum De Templis De Monachis Michael Hospitalius Unicum aevi nostri decus Grot. Prâfat ad Poem Chancellour of France under Charles the 9 th but removed from the Court and made a prisoner as it were only because he opposed those wicked counsels against the Protestants in the Massacre at Paris Beza mentions him in his Icones Virorum illustrium There are these of his Works published Six Books of Epistles in Latine verse De Caleto expugnato Epistola carmen cum aliis In the Preface to his Epistle one saith it appeared by a most ancient Coin that he much resembled Aristotle Summum illum omnium Philosophorum principem Aristotelem sic ore toto retulit ut alterius ex altero imago expressa videri posset Io. Howson Bishop of Oxford a Learned man He hath written De Divortiis and Sermons Rogerius de Hoveden a famous Historian who flourished about the year 1190. He wrote two Books of Annals Robert Hues He hath written well of the Celestiall and Terrestiall Globes and their use Hermannus Hugo He hath written a good Book de Origine scribendi rei literariae antiquitate Hugo
been in the Church within this thousand years B. Down Defence of his Serm. l. 3. c. 4. He hath learnedly interpreted almost all the Old and New Testament He hath written twenty Books of Etymologies wherein he hath not only shewed himself a Grammarian but a compleat Artist Isidorus Pelufiota floruit anno 482. Bell. de Script Eccles. For his famous sanctity he was called by a peculiar name ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã that is carrying God in him Isocrates He was very bashfull and never spake in publick but once Tully cals him the father of eloquence Dilher that Attick Syren Isocrates quidem suavitatem habuit vim Demosthenes Notae Dounaei in 36. Hom. Chrysost. in Epist. prim ad Corinth Henricus Isselburgius Professor and Pastor of Brema Doctor in Divinity There is a Book of his published styled Digeries praecipuarum quarundam Controversiarum Theol. Iohn Iuel Bishop of Salisbury exile in Queen Maries time for the Profession of the Gospel He was born in Devonshire Iohn comes from the grace of God Iuel is the same in our Language with Gemma in Latine as lately a learned Writer was called Gemma Frisius The Jewel of Bishops the worthiest Divine that Christendom hath bred for some hundreds of years saith incomparable Hooker Doctor Hackwell Apol. lib. 5. Hardly is there any Controversie of importance handled at this day of which in his Works is not to be found some learned and probable resolution His Apology was esteemed not only by the Tigurines but by all Protestants It was translated into the Germane French Italian Spanish Tongue and into the English by the Lady Anne Bacon wife to the Lord Chancellour Bacon The first part of it is an illustration of the true Doctrine and a certain paraphrastical Exposition of the twelve Articles of our Christian faith The second a succinct and solid Refutation of Objections He had at hand a great paper-paper-book as it were a rich treasury of Sciences in which he wrote his divine and humane collections out of Poets Philosophers and Divines We call it a Common-place book Doctor Rainolds in his Letter to his friend concerning his advice for the study of Divinity saith thus Touching noting you know I do not like the common custom of Common-place Books The best in my judgement is to note in the Margent or in some paper-paper-book for that purpose the Summe and Method of that which you reade In other little Books which he carried about with him an Ephemerides or Diary he diligently wrote all the Apophthegmes and witty speeches or jests which he heard from others or observed any way by which means he much increased his knowledge yearly He was very affable and courteous amiable in his whole life in speech witty and pleasant in his writings he is solid and yet facetious He fled in Q. Maries dayes and returned when Q. Elizabeth ruled Iulian the Emperour a Learned Prince but an Apostate Quo tetrius magisque Deo simul hominibus exosum animal orbis vix vidit Crak De Provid Dei He was given to Eusebius Bishop of Nicomedia to be instructed of whom also he learned the Doctrine of the Church and was made a Reader in the Church of Nicomedia But he was a hearer secretly of Libanius the Rhetorician and was familiarly acquainted with the most famous Philosophers of that time He was drawn back by these by degrees to the Heathenish Religion He wrote Books against the Christians and reproved their Doctrine especially the prohibitions of revenge delivered which though they properly belong to private revenge yet he wrested them for publick revenge and he said by these Magistrates punishments lawfull warres were taken away and all the sinews of retaining humane Societies Ammianus Marcellinus commends his Temperance in meat and drink and his continual watching and the partition of the night into private publick and divine offices He took away the great Gifts and holy Vessels which Constantine the Great had given to the Churches use and Ministers maintenance with this scoff See in what goodly vessels this Nâzarite is served It was one of his scoffs when he robbed the Churches and the Christians He did it that the Galileans so he contumeliously called the Christians might go more readily to heaven He not onely killed the Christians but scoffed at Christ himself and the Scriptures He had scarce raigned two years when warring against the Persians he was struck and mortally wounded with a Spear in that warre as Nazianzene Theodoret Socrates Sozomen and others uno ere docent and filling his hand with bloud casting it into the air he cried out Vicisti Galilaeâ Ita simul victoriam confessus est blasphemiam evomit saith Theodoret. Franciscus Iunius The glory of Leyden the oracle of Textual and School-Divinity rich in Languages subtil in distinguishing and in Argument invincible D r Halls Dec. of Epist. Epist. 7. He saith in his own Life written by himself that he being once in the times of trouble very hungry came by accident into the house of a Countreyman and desiring some food he entertained him most courteously Hic ô sapientiam Dei admirabilem saith he optimam scholam Christianitatis Dominus meus mihi paraverat There they discoursing together about the troubles for Religion Sic effecit Deus admirabiliter saith Iunius ut bonus rusticus sanctissimum Zelum quem habebât operante Domino mihi quasi instiââarââ ego verò malus Christianus siquidem Christianus ei scientia praelucerem Una eadem hora suam gratiam in utroque explicavit ostendit Deus à me scientiam rustico ab illo Zeli semina quâdam mihi ingenerans And so being each of us some way bettered by the other we departed saith Iunius He is censured by Doctor Twisse as too obscure but by Thuanus over-harshly Vir desultorio ingenio qui multa conatuâ an adsecutus sit quod moliebatur doctorum erit judicium Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 79. from whom he is vindicated by Vossius His Works are in two Volumes in Folio Migravit ad Christum anno 1602. His Son Francis Iunius whom I know well hath written a learned Book De Pictura veterum Hadrianus Iunius a Physician One of the great Lights of Holland as Erasmus also was Vir eruditissimus variaeque lectionis Ful. Miscel. l. 4. c. 5. Fuit Medicus Criticus Poeta Historicus exactissima antiquitatis cognitione egregiè clarus linguarum plurium peritus Melch. Ad. vit Germ med Many Monuments of his wit full of Learning witnesse his great ability His Nomenclator six Books of Animadversions Copiae Cornu and other Works Ptricius Iunius Patrick Young a Scotchman a great Grecian There is his Catena Pat. Graec. in Iob Gr. Lat. Clementis ad Corinthios Epistola cum ejus notis Fr. Iuretus He hath put out Notes on Seneca Christ. Iustellus a learned Protestant He hath published these two excellent Works Codex Canonum Ecclesiae
Affricanae Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Universa Iustinian the Emperour He was born at Prisdena in Sertia He was most Orthodox in Religion a most constant Defender of the true Doctrine against the Arians Nestorians Eutychians and Manichees He wrote four Books of Institutions in which the Summe of all the Romane Laws is briefly comprehended Of these Melancthons Distich is memorable Continet hic tenuis legum praecepta libellus Primaque Romani semina juris habet Augustinus Iustinianus Episcopus Nebiae Paulus Iovius saith when he passed from Genua into the Corsick Island he was thought to be drowned or to be intercepted by Pyrates Sodalitatis praedicatorum eximius theologus Graecis Hebraeis Arabis Chaldaeisque literis ornatus qui ex Graecis Hebraicisque Latinitati plurima donavit Ingensque volumen historiarum Genuensium lingua vernacula cum insulae Corsicae descriptione condidit Leand. Albert Descript. tot Ital. in Liguria Laurentius Iustinian the Patriark of Venice was also of the same house Leonardus Iustinianus His Family had the same felicity that the Curios had that there were three famovs Orators of it two Leonards the Grandfather and the Grandchilde and Bernard the Grandchildes sonne Volat. Anthropel l. 21. Iustin Martyr A famous Philosophâââ and a great Defender of Christian Religion who first exhibited unto the Emperour Antoninus Pius and to the Senate an Apology in the Defence of the Christians and afterward himself also died a Martyr He flourished in the Church after Christ about the year 150 so Zanchy Others say 163. He is the ancientest of the Fathers whose writings remain except Clement He lived in the very next Age to the Apostles and Tertullian lived the next Age to him He was first allured to the Faith by the cruelty of Tyrants and by the constancy and patience of Gods Saints In the year of Christ 163. he suffered Martyrdom for the faith under Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Philosopher and Lucius Verus Emperours His Works were printed in Greek and Latine by Coâimelinus Anno 1593. Iustin the Historian He lived under the Emperour Antoninus Iunius Iuvenal He is commended by learned men for the best Satyrist That Censor morum liberrimus He is a rare Poet is testified by his Verse flowing like a River when the winde breaths gently smooth besides the banks strong in the current He was a true Philosopher who with inimitable sweetnesse of Language and majesty of Sentences sets before our eyes the lovelinesse of virtue and the deformity of vice So the learned Sir Robert Stapleton in his Preface to his exact Translation of Iuvenals Satyrs Iuvencus Presbyter a Spaniard He flourished in Constantines raign Anno Dom. 330. He wrote four Books of Verses in which he hath comprized the Evangelicall History CHAP. VIII K BArth Keckermannus He hath written almost on all Arts All his Works are in two Volumes in Folio Thomas de Kempis or Kempensis His Book De Imitatione Christi is translated into sundry Languages He is translated into the Turkish Language A Merchant going to Algiers in Mauritania to redeem some Captives from their miserable slavery found this Authour translated and by the King wonderfully enriched with pearls and kept as he saith in a more glorious Cabinet then ever Alexander kept his Homer in Liber quotidianarum pagiâarum erat ei Thomae à Kempis divinum opusculuââ de Imitatione Christi de quo in libro de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis Ego inquit ab adolescentiâ mea usque ad senectam hoc Opusculum saepissimè volvi revolvi usum per mihi novum apparuit nunc etiam mirificè cordi meo sapit Fuligattus in vitae Bellarmini Aureus ille De Christi imitatione libellus non modò de manibus nunquam deponenduâ sed ad verbum ediscendus tanquam pietatis myrothecium ut jure omnium gentium linguis hodiè legatur Aubert Miraei Elog. Belg. Vide plura ibid. Ioh. Keplerus a famous Mathematician He hath put out many Works that way Vir ingenio industria quod omnium instar foelicitate inventorum Admirabilis saith D r Ward of him in his Preface to the Reader before his Inquisitie in Bulliald Astronomiae Philolaicae Fundamentâ Iacobus Kimedoncius he was Professour at Heidelberg in the Palatinate He wrote De verbo Dei De Redemptione generis humani De Divina Praedestinatione Oratio lugubris in obitum Io. Casmiri R. David Kimchi a most learned Rabbin and deadly enemy to Christians The King of Grammarians Broughton of the ten first Fathers He hath styled his Grammatical Work Michlol Liber Radicum that Book of his roots or Hebrew Lexicon is Hebraicae literaturae locupletissimus thesaurus Comment in Psalmos 10. priores There is he and other Rabbins upon the lesser Prophets Adversus Christianos R. Moses Kimchi There is his Introductio ad sapientiam cum Exposit. D. Eliae annot Const. L'Empereur Hebraicè Lat. 80. Athanasius Kircherus a learned Germane Jesuite now living at Rome He hath written these Works Lingua Aegyptiaca restituta Prodromus coptus sive Aegyptiacus Consule eruditissimum de magnete opus Athanasii Kircheri Musaeum Wormianum l. 1. Sect. 2. c. 9. Conradus Kircherus His Greek Concordance of the Old Testament is much esteemed entitled Concordantiae Veteris Testamenti Graecae Hebraeis vocibus respondentes Petrus Kirstenius a great Arabist of Germany He hath published divers things about the Arabick Tongue Iohn Knewstub a Learned Divine There are his Lectures on Exod. 20. 7. first 17. vers on 1 Cor. 13. v. 4 5 6 7. on Gal. 3. v. 10. on 3 Ioh. v. 16. on Mat. 6. v. 9 10 11 12 13. Answer unto certain Assertions Confutation of monstrous and horrible heresies taught by H. N. and embraced of a number who call themselves of the Family of Love Iohn Knox a learned Scotch Divine Iohannes Major a famous Scotchman also was his Master Beza and Calvin write several Epistles to him Calvin three and Beza two Calvin cals Knox and Goodman his Brethren and excellent men He had a Prophetick Spirit by which he fore-told many things that came to passe afterwards as Whitaker observes He was the Restorer of the Gospel among the Scots His Sermons and other English Works are mentioned by Maunsell in his Catalogue Albertus Krantzius or Crantzius A man as of an excellent Spirit so of farre greater Place and Authority in Germany then Luther was and one that from as earnest detestation of the Romish Churches pride and insolencies notified as great a desire of Reformation as Luther yet thought he should have but lost his labour in oppugning the greatnesse whereto it was grown The same Bishop a little before his death being made acquaiuted with Luthers purpose after approbation of his good intents to reform the abuse of Indulgences burst into these despairing speeches of his good successe Frater frater abi in cellam dic miserere mei
Britanniae Geâethliacon Edw. 6 ti Cignaea Cantio with a Comment which is his best book printed He himself in his Peroration saith thus of it Iam praestiti quod sum pollicitus Commentarii qualescunque mei in Cygneam cantionem prodeunt opusculum ex penetralibus reconditae sacrosanctae antiquitatis religiosè erutum diligentia cura fide quantâ potui planè maxima in lucidum ordinem redactum Laevinus Lemnius a Learned Physitian He wrote Explanationem similutudinum quae ex fructibus herbisque in sacris bibliis desumuntur De habitu constitutione corporis De occulâis naturae miraculis ac variis rerum documentis libros quatuor multipliâi eruditione refertos with others Leo Hebraeus Fortasse Mutiensis qui scripsit de ritibus Hebraeis Leo the first Pope A Learned man but proud enough Leo M. primus Episcopus fuit Romanus quidem ambitiosissimus Cham. de Occumen Pontif. l 3. c. 4. His Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Leo decimus Leo the tenth Anno Dom. 450. As one whose birth and education was noble he adorned the Papacy with many good parts which he brought into it amongst which were his singular Learning in humanity goodnesse and a marvellous sweet manner in treating of affairs together with a pleasing behaviour more then humane joyned with incomparable liberality and a great inclination to favour those that were Learned and endowed with any extraordinary quality which vertues were not found in that Sea of a long time before neither equall nor near unto his And he would have been a Pope absolutely compleat if with these he had joyned some knowledge in things that concern Religion and some more propension unto piety of both which he seemed carelesse Hist. of the Counc of Trent l. 1. parag 12. He was son unto Laurence Medices and had to his great grandfather Cosmus that was the great honour of that House Leo was made Cardinall when he was but thirteen years old his successor was Adrian the 6 th a Hollander Slâid Commânt l. 3. p. 34. He died at Rome in the year of his age 47 of his Popedome the 8 th He departed not without the suspicion of poysoning Paulus Iovius hath written four Books de vita Leonis decimi See his 3 d and 4 th books especially There is a medall where there is Leo the tenth of one side of it and Roma aeterna on the other and this a little before the rise of Luther Leo Imperator His Works are in Greek and Latine There are his Tactica sive de re militari cum notis Iomeursii Canticum compunctionis and other Works Ioannes Leo of Africa A man for his fidelity amongst the Learned in the Eastern Languages and Histories of very good esteem There is his Geographicall description of Africa Nicolaus Leonicenus a Learned Physitian He taught above 60 years at Ferraria and lived till 96. He said Se viridi vegetaque uti senecta quia castam juventutem virili aetati tradidisset There is his Quaestio de tribus doctrinis ordinariis De falsa quarundam herbarum inscriptione à Pliniâ De morbo Gallico and other Works Nicolaus Leonicus Thomaeus a Learned Venecian Leonardus Lossius Anno salutis 1554. He hath written De Iustitia Iure and other subjects He hath written a book entituled Consultatio quae fides Religio sit Capessenda which was translated into English It is answered by Meisner but better by Henricus Brandius in his Examen Consultationis Lessianae R. Levi Ben Gerson He hath written a Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon Io. Lewenclaius a Learned and famous man who hath translated many of Gregory Nazianzens Works into Latine and added Greek expositions translated also by him He hath written severall Treatises Iuris Graeco-Rom tam Canonici quam Civ To. 2. Historiae Musulmanae Turcarum cum aliis Tractat. and many other Treatises Libanius the Sophister was born at Damascus A very eloquent man Many of his Greek Orations were printed at Rome in one Volume among which also there is one which contains the Elogy and Encomium of Iulian the Apostate his Scholar There be many Epistles of his to Basill and his answers again to him Library Chrysologus saith a good Library is the only Paradise in the world Some much commend that famous Library of Ptolomeus Philadelphus at Alexandria Ramâ highly extols that of Cosmo de Medicis at Florence Some magnifie the Popes Vaticane at Rome Others and justly that of ours in Oxford Paulus Gualdus in the Life of Pinellus much commends his Library Bibliotheca ejusdem quae inter omnes penè Italicas ac fere dixerim Europaeas una eminebat Quinquaginta annorum opus fuit magni ex eo saltem aestimandum quod accuratissimus vir in illud unum contulerit curas suas omnes cogitationes Librorum numerum mihi incompertum ex eo investigare quis poterit quod Neapolim post ejus obitum capsae librariae plus minus centenae tricenae delatae sunt Lipsius hath written a book De Bibliothecis And Angelus Roccha at the end of his Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana hath an Appendix De Bibliothecarum Inventione Incremento Duncanus Liddelius a Scottish Doctor of Physick He hath put out these Works Ars Medica De Febribus De Diaeta He was an eminent Professour of the Mathematicks Scholar to Tycho Brahe Fridericus Lidembruchius He hath written Observations upon Ammianus Marcellinus and also Observations upon Iornandes Isidore and Paulus Diaconus Iohn Lightfoot A Learned Doctor of Divinity well skilled in the Hebrew Text and the Rabbines as his divers Learned Works shew Harmony on the Old Testament Harmony of the New Testament On the Acts. Temple Service Miscellanies and Sermons Gulielmus Lilius One of the prime Poets of those times Insignem ex optimis literis laudem tulit Gulielmus Lilius qui primus cives suos Latinè atque disertè loqui feliciter docuit Pauli Jovii Britannia Thomas Linacer vel Linacrus an Englishman He was the Physitian of Henry the 8 th and Master to Prince Arthur A great Physitian and Grammarian excellently skilled in Greek and Latine He eloquently turned many of Galens Works into Latine Galeni nitidissimus interpres He put forth an excellent Work a litttle before his death de emendata structura Latini Sermonis Linacer Grammaticorum doctissimus Beza in Act. 10. v. 15. Gulielmus Lindanus He was born at Dort in Holland He was commended by Gregory the 13 th in the Conclave of Cardinals Petrus Lindebergius He hath put out Hist. rerum in Europa gestarum Poemata Aloysius Lippomanus He hath published Catena in Gen. In Psalmos 10 Priores De Sanctorum Historiis Iustus Lipsius He was born at Bruxels Criticorum phosphorus nitidissimus J. Lipsius Dilh. Disput. Acad. Tom. 1. Criticorum superioris seculo princeps Meibom
Bartholomew Io. de Medina hath written De Paenitentia restitutione contractibus Michael Medina He hath written De Sacrorum hominum continentia De recta in Deum fide Barth à Medina hath written In primam Secundae In tertiam D. Thomâ usque ad quaestionem sextam Ioannes Henricus Meibomius He hath published Commentarium in Ius jurandum Hippocratis Maecenatis vitam Marcus Meibomius He hath âut out Greek Authours of the Ancient Musick in two Volumes with Notes Balthasar Meisnerus Learned but haughty Adolphus Mekerckus vulgò Meetkercke a Learned searcher of Antiquities He wrote De veteri recta pronunciatione linguâ Graecae Pomponius Mela a Learned ancient Geographer Philip Melancthon He was a great Mathematician Fuit Philippus vir certè magnus ut totus novit orbis Christiaâus singulari pietate summa eruditione non vulgari judicio Cui omnes Scholae Ecclesiae omnesque literati debent plurimum Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Pezelio He was excellently learned not only in Divinity but also in the Tongues and Sciences and generally in all good Learning For what Art or Science was not polished with his Learned hand He fyled the Tongue with his Precepts of Rhetorick He made reason more reasonable by his skilfull rules of Logick He lift up our heads to behold the starres and taught us to look back into the times that are past Travers Answ. to a Popish Treatise David Chytraeus Adhortat Ad Orat. Melancth saith Plus Rerum doctrinâ ac sapientiae salutaris in una Philippi orationum pagina inesse quà m in Ciceronianis aut Demosthenicis aliquot utcunque verborum splendore copia collocatione concinna praestent There is a Book they say but I cannot meet with it styled Crisis Melanctoniana or Iudicium de legendis Authoribus his judgement of Authors collected out of his Works Melancthon thus wrote down before his death the motives of his willingnesse to leave this world A Sinistris A Dextris Discedes à Peccatis Venias in Lucem Liberaberis ab ârumnis à Rabie Theologorum Videbis Deum  Intuebiris filium Dei  Disces illa mira arcanâ quae in hac vita intelligere non potuisti  Cur sic simus conditi  Qualis sit copulatio duarum naturarum in Christo. Fearfulnesse was a stain in all his excellencies Dominus eum fortiore spiritu instruat ne gravem ex ejus timiditate jacturam sentiat posteritas Calvinus Joanni Sleidano Philippus timidus est ita ut saepenumero agat quae non probet Zanch. Epist. l. 2. Bullingero Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these Verses of Melancthon Doctrina volito clarus super aethera quamvis Cognomen dederit terra nigella mihi Andrew Melvin A learned Scotchman an excellent Poet. Some of his Poems are printed He was committed for writing Verses against the Altar in White-Hall and the Lady Arabella was committed for being contracted to the Earl of Hartford thereby having a greater Title to the Crown and so in likelihood of causing Commotions He made these Verses of the Lady Arabella Causa mihi tecum communis Carceris ara Bella tibi causa est Carceris ara mihi Dr. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln made these Verses of him Cor âib felle nigrum est aceto lingua redundat Ex melle vino quam male nomen habes Menander an ancient Poet. Menasseh Ben Israel a learned Jew living at Amsterdam He hath put out a Book in Latine entitled Conciliator in which he endeavours to reconcile out of the Writings of the Rabbins Loca Pentateuchi ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Iacobus Menochius A learned Lawyer of great fame His Works are in nine Volumes in Oxford Stephanus Menochius He hath written a brief and literal Explication of all the Scripture collected out of the best Authors and also a learned Treatise De Republica Hebraeorum Paulus Milissus Schedius a learned Poet. He hath put out Schediasmata Poetica Epigrammata in urbes Italia Gerard Mercator a most famous Mathematician and Cosmographer and the Ptolomy of our age he was born at Rapelmonda in Flanders Io. Mercerus a learned Protestant A man singularly versed in the Hebrew Tongue and Hebrew Writers He succeeded Vatablus in the profession of the Hebrew Tongue at Paris He escaped as I have heard at the great Massacre at Paris being thrown into the River and lived after and put forth his learned Commentary on Genesis Ioannâs Mercerus vir totius humanioris literaturae intelligentissimus Regius Hebraeae linguae Professor eruditione solertiae diligentiáque praestantissimui Franc. âun Orat. Funeb in obitum Lucae Trelcatii Vide Ludovic Elsevir Praefat. ad Lectorem ante Comment Mercer in lib Job Iosias Mercer a Frenchman and Sonne to Iohn Mercer as Thuanus and others say He hath written learnedly upon Tacitus Iosias Mercerus praestantissimi ingenii vir nec doctrina tantùm eruditione sed singulari rerum agendarum solertia clarus Salmasii socer notis suis ad Novium Grammaticum Herald Animadvers In Salmas Observat. Ad Ius Att. Rom. lib. 4. cep 1. Hier. Mercurialus a learned Physician of Padua His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Mercurius Trismegistus A noble and excellent Mathematician called by the Aegyptians Trismegistus because he was a most excellent Philosopher a soveraign Priest and a most vertuous King His Works are in one Volume Marinus Mersennus Leo Allatius in his Apes Urbanae speaks honourably of him and M r Selden often mentions him with respect His Life is lately written in French by a French man where his several Works are mentioned Quaestiones celeberrimae in Genesin cum accurata textus explicatione La veritè des sciences L' Harmonie vniverselle contenant la Theorie la Pratique de lae Musique with many others Merlinus He is commonly called Merlin the Prophet though some question whether there were such a one There is in Oxford Catalogue under him Expositio de arcano lapidis and in the Appendix Ses propheties histoires Peter Merlin a godly and learned French Divine who was Bezas Scholar and miraculously preserved when there was a great Masâacre of the Protestants at Paris on Bartholomew-day He hath put out an Exposition upon Iob and Esther Georgius Merula There are in Politians sixth Book of Epistles the second and the third and the eighth against him and in his eleventh Book of Epistles Epist. first and second against him to which Merula answers Epist. 5 th and 7 th and Politian replies Ep. 6 th and 10 th Paulus Merula After many voyages he was made Professour of History in his own Countrey in Holland He hath three Books of General Cosmography and four Books of particular Geography D. Methodius a Christian Poet and Martyr Io. Meursius a most learned man Quo vix alius literis minori tractabat ambitione Vossius De vitiis Sermonis l. 2.
c. 2. Vir meritorum in Remp. litterariam clarissimorum Dilh. Disputat Acad. Minutius Foelix Octavius Anno Dom 230. He was a famous pleader of Causes at Rome contemporary to Tertullian Io. Picus Mirandula He was skilled in the Greek Latine Hebrew Chaldee and Arabick Tongues Iohannes Picus Earl of Mirandula That Phoenix of Learning as appears in the entrance of his Apology proposed openly at Rome nine hundred Questions in all kinde of faculties to be disputed inviting all strangers thither from any part of the known world and offering himself to bear the charge of the travel both coming and going and during their abode there His Epitaph composed by Tibaldeus runs thus Iohannes jacet hic Mirandula caetera norunt Et Tagus Ganges forsan Antipodes D r Hackw Apol. l. 3. c. 6. Sect. 2. Vir saneprae omnibus quae sint quique fuerint admirandus Polit. Epist. lib. 7. Epist. 5. Bacâius Ugâlinus Roberto Salviato Qui tam multis unus bonis abundat ut unus omnium laudes exhauriat Polit. Ugolino Ep. 6. ibid. Gratulatus sum huic saeculo virum tanta doctrina ut nihil feré tanta cura ut nihil omnino sâire videatur Video te poetam egregium oratorem eminentissimum Animadverto te Philosophum prius Aristotelicum nunc etiam Platonicum esse factum Videris literas Graecas quae in te solae desiderari poterant sine quibus nihil eras futurus non didicisse modâ sed hauâisse Polit. Epist. lib. 9. Ep. 3. Manil. De isto prae cunctis admirando non Pico jam sed ut ipse appellare soleo phoenice potius qui nunc in tua lauru indificat Polit. Praefat. ad Miscel. Ad Laur. med Vide âtiam Miscel. Cent. 1. ad finem Iohan. Franc. Picus Mirandula his Nephew was also most learned in Greek and Latine Extant ejus sacra poâmata suis quoque Commentariis illustrata ne legentibus minus clara viderentur libri de veritate fidei Christianae in quibus disciplinarum omnium aceruus eminet Paul Jov. Elog. Doctorum virorum Both their Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Aubertus Miraeus very skilfull in Ecclesiastical History CHAP. XIII LEo Modena a Learned Jew now living He hath many things in his Italian History of the Rites Customes and manner of Life of the present Jews throughout the world of the Jewish matters which are not in others It is translated into English by M r Chilmead of Christ-Church in Oxford but I have heard that Master Selden had a Manuscript of Modenas which had much more in it then there is in that in English Michoel Moestlinus These of his Works are published Alterum examen Gregoâiani Calendarii De dimensionibus orbium juxta Tabulas Prutenicas ex sent Nic. Copernici Epitome Astronomiae Ioannes Molanus He hath written divers Works mentioned by Anton. Sanderus De Scriptoribus Flandriae l. 2. Carolus Molinaeus a Learned Lawyer and a Protestant His Life is written by Papirius Massonus Petrus Molinaeus Peter du Moulin a Learned and pious French Divine yet living Idò admire him upon the Eucharist and on Purgatory he hath my heart when I reade his Consolations to his Brethren of the Church of France as also in treating of the love of God I would willingly learn French to understand him only and have a long time desired and still do to get any thing that he hath written D. Twisse Dominicus Molinus Cujus benevolentia erga probos omnes doctos viros quotquot Sol âspicit Solum sustinet Patrio non clauditur Agro sed latè conspicua pervagatur Pignor. Symbol Epist. Ep. 43. Henricus Mollerus He hath written well on Esay on the Psalms Hosea and Malachy Richard Montague a very expert Grecian and a great Antiquary but an Arminian There are his Analecta Ecclesiasticarum exercitationum Antidiatribae ad priorem partem diatribarum Jul. Caes. Bulengeri adversus exercitationes Is. Casaub. Apparatus ad Origines Ecclesiast Diatriâe upon the first part of Mr. Seldens History of Tithes and other Works Arias Montanus a great Linguist He was skilled in ten Languages De me ac de meo labore industria quantâlacunque ea est nihil profiâeor Hoc tamen unum recensebo me scilicet continuo immortales Deo gratias agere quòd deceiu idiomatum cognitionem mihi pro sua clementia benignitate imperitus sit Arias Mont. Prâfâiâ Sac. Bib. Quadril Reg. Edit A man that for his sincere dealing about the Kings Bible procured unto himself much hatred and ill will Insomuch that he was constrained to write an Apology of set-purpose for to prove his integrity wherein is contained a full satisfaction to all his Adversaries Objections and the whole History of his troubles the beginning successe and progresse of that costly Work written in the Spanish Tongue never yet printed The Copy was found at the surprize of Cales D Iam. his Def. of Bellum Papale Vir toto orbe celeberrimus qui Bibliis Regiis Antwerpiae praefuit Gomarus Michael Montanus Michel De Montaign His elegant Books of Miscellanies written in French and modestly styled Essayes full of various Learning and in which he freely discovers his own spirit shew his love to the Muses He hath by that Book gotten a great opinion of his Learning and wisdom and Rome hath chosen and adopted him for one of her Citizens Vide Scaev. Samarth Gallorum Elog. Bibliotheque D' Antoine Du Verdier Ant. Montecatinus an exquisite Aristotelian He hath written on Aristotles Politicks and on some part of his Physicks On Plato's Book De Rep. Legibus Olympia Fulvia Morata a learned and pious woman Audivimus eam in aula ita latinè declamantem Graecè loquentem Ciceronis paradoxa explicantem ad quaestiones respondentem ut cum veterum puellorum quavis qua quidem ingenii laâde excelluerit conferri posse videatur Est literis discipliniâ tum Graecis tum Latinis suprà quam quis credere possit exculta scientia Religionis illustrata Caelii S. Cur. Epist. l. 1. Xyâto Betuleio Vide plura ibid. There are Orations Dialogues Epistles Verses both Greek and Latine of hers with the Testimonies of the Learned concerning her and their Elogies There is an Epistle in the second book of her Epistles written by her husband Andreas Grunthler Doctor of Physick of her pious Death to Câliuâ Secundus Curio Sir Thomas More sometimes L. Chancellor of England He was esteemed a man both witty and learned but he was a bitter persecutor of good men and a wretched enemy against the truth of the Gospel as by his Book may appear wherein he writeth most slanderously and contumeliously against Luther Zuinglius Tindal Frith Barns Bayfield Bainham He stood wilfully in the Popes quarrel against his own Prince though the Papists reckon him and Fisher among the number of their Martyrs Foxes Act. and
There are these Works of his De ordine qui observatur cum quis à Saracenismo ad Christianam fidem venit Thesauri orthodoxae fidei Contra Iudaeos cum notis Nicolaus quintus Papa He was a great favourer and Patrone of Learning and learned men therefore many great Scholars flocked to him as Georgius Trapezuntins Georgius Valla Demetrius Graecus Nicolaus Perottus and others by whose help many Authours were brought out of darknesse and illustrated and turned out of Greek into Latine He incouraged learned men also by rewards to the study of Learning they easily obtaining the chiefest places of honour Of whom that might well be verified Sint Maecenates non deerunt Flacce Marones When it was told him that there was some at Rome which would make good Verses he denied that they were good Cum enim inquit ad me non veniunt qui Poetis etiam malis patco Molestè tulit homo sapiens in urbe sua esse qui literas sâirent nescirentur Polit. Epist. l. 12. Epist. 119. His holinesse is reported to be such that he never sold to any one the Magistrates place for money Singulos Homeri libros ducentis aureis latinis versibus reddendos curavit Waynfleti ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Io. Nider He hath written Consolatorium Conscientia timoratae A Consolation of an affrightted Conscience Doctor Hall and Doctor Twisse mention this Book sometimes at least the later He acknowledgeth there that every childe of God hath the direction of the Spirit to lead him into all truth necessary to salvation He hath also written De Reformat Religiosorum Decaelogi Explicatio And other Works Theod. à Niem He was Secretary to three Popes He lived at Rome under Urban the sixth Boniface the ninth Innocent the seventh Gregory the twelfth Vixit in aâla quinque Paparum intimus eorum Scriba tandem Episcopus Verdensis factus Gerh. Confess Cathol l. 2. Spec. Artic. 3. c. 4. He hath written De Schismate in Ecclesia De potestate Imperiali Papali P. Placidus Nigidius He hath put out Mariale seu de devotione erga Virginem Dominam 4. opuscula In Cantica Canticorum Expositio duplex Io Nirembergius an eloquent Author De arte voluntatis 8â De origine Sarae Scripturae Fol. Stromata Sacra Fol. Spiritualium Institutionum Pandectae Fol. Marius Nizolius He hath put out Thesaurus Ciceronianus Flaminius Nobilius He hath put out several Works De hominis foelicitate De vera falsa voluptate De honore Quaestiones Logicae variâ Andreas Nolthius A great Mathematician Nonnus Pampolit There are his Dionysiaca Lat. Gr. Metaphrasis Evang. Iohannis Graecè Alexander Nowel Dean of Pauls A learned and pious Divine and Uncle to the famous Whitaker There is his reproof of a Book entitled A Proof of certain Articles in Religion denied by Mr Jewel set forth by Thomas Dorman Bachelour of Divinity Reproof of M r Dormans proof continued with a Defence of the chief Authority of Princes as well in Causes Ecclesiastical as Civil within their Dominions by Dorman maliciously impugned Confutation as well of Mr Dormans last Book entitled A Disproof c. as also of D r Sanders Causes of Transubstatiation His larger and lesser Catechism written by him in Latine Gregory Nyssene he flourished Anno Dom. 380. in the raign of Gratiaâ Valentinian and Theodosius Basil was his brother he was contemporary to Epiphanius and Ierom. CHAP. II. â BErnhardinus Ochinus Of Sene being had in great estimation among the Italians for his eloquence and vertue forsaking the monastical kinde of life gave himself to the Doctrine of the Gospel And coming first to Geneva and after to Auspurge set forth certain Sermons in print Sleid Comment l. 19. p. 298. He was a Socinian Vide Boxhorn Hist. univers p. 74 75. An Heretick See Beza's Epist. 1. Ch. Oclandus a famous English Poet. He hath written Anglorum praelia Guliel de Ockam A learned Englishman The Scholar of Iohn Scotus a famous Divine Once a worthy Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford He was sirnamed Doctor invincibilis in argumento qui excessit modum ingenii humani Scalig. He flourished in the time of the Emperour Lewis the fourth about the year of our Lord 1320. Odo Abbot of Clun is commended for his knowledge in divine and humane learning Io. Oecolampadius He made good the splendor of his own name when dying of the plague he could lay his hand upon his brest and say Hic abunde lucis est There was a great league of friendship between him and Zuinglius so that the tidings of Zuinglius his death as Sleidan and Thuanus report was a means to hasten his Oecumenius He hath collected short and perspicuous Expositions out of divers Commentaries of the Fathers upon the Acts of the Apostles the seven Canonical Epistles all Pauls Epistles Ogilvy a Scotch Poet. His Translation of Virgil and of the Fables of Aesop in very excellent English verses is commended Caspar Olevian Legeram antea quae in Epistolam ad Galatas scripseras nunc quaedam quae ad Romanos placet brevitas analysis perspicuitas fidelis explicatio atque etiam aculei Credo laborem istum tuum non futurum Ecclesiae inutilem Zanch. l. 2. Epist. Casp. Oleviano Onkelos He made the Chaldee Metaphrase of the Pentateuch Onuphrius Panvinius Romae instaurator pater Historiarum Scriv. Animad vers in l. 8. Mart. A great Humanist who wrote the lives of the Popes Boxhornius in his general History from Christs time cals him Diligentissimum Onuphrium Manutius helluonem antiquitatis Scaliger patrem historiae Lipsius principalis Historiae Fastorum rerum patrem Ioannes Oporinus Professour of the Greek and Latine Tongue and Printer at Basill He was born Anno 1508. A religious and sincere man very liberal to all Scholars and very respective to his Father His Works are mentioned by Melch. Ad. in his Life Oppian a famous Greek Poet. He received for every verse a piece of gold of the Emperour Antoninus Optatus in the year of our Lord 370. That learned Bishop of Milleuita There are his Works together among which one is De Schismate Donatistarum Origen He was Scholar to Clemens Alexandrinus His errours were so great and hainous that thence the Sect of Origenists is called If any man desire to see a Catalogue of Origens errours he may have recourse to the learned Epistle of S t Ierom Ad Avitum Vincentius Lyrinensis adversus Haereses c. 23. writes Errorem Origenis propter ejus tum doctrinam tum zelum magnam in Dei Ecclesia fuisse tentationem Vide August de Haeres p. 199 200. Bezae Praefat. ad Annot. in N. T. He lived in the year of our Lord 230. 193. saith Helvicus 203. Calvisius He was almost wholly of the third Age. Hic amore castitatis
se castravit Novum vetus Testamentum memoriter novit Iam senex Hebraicam didicit linguam Wolfii Lect. memor Centen 3. He wrote exceeding much yet there remaineth now little in comparison of that he wrote and that so corrupted that it nothing answereth the famous report of Learning which he had in the Church in his time All his Works now extant revised by Erasmus were printed at Basil by Frobenius 1536. He was in his Age a mirrour of gravity integrity constancy zeal piety learning of all sorts both divine and humane of so happy a memory that he had the Bible without book of such admirable eloquence that not words but honey seemed to drop from his lips of so indefatigable industry that he was called Adamantius and was said by some to have written six thousand books Dr. Crakanth Vigilius Dârmitans Est certè hic scriptor adeò omnibus modis impurus sive ita ipse scripsit sive depravata postea fuerunt ejus scripta ut nullam in Ecclesia authoritatem in rebus controversis mereatur Bezae Epist. 29. He often reproves him also in his Annotat. on the New Testament Orontius Fineus Professour of the Mathematicks at Paris under Francis the first He was born at Brianson a Town in Dauphinè the year of our Lord 1494. He composed five Books De Arithmetica practica Two Books De Geometria practica Five Books De mundi Sphaera Commentaries upon the six first Books of the Elements of Geometry by Euclide And divers other Works mentioned by Thevet Vies Des hommes illustres l. 6. Paulus Orosius He was Austens Scholar Nobilissimus ille rerum Christianarum Historicus Montac Exercit. 11. Orpheus a very ancient Poet long before Homer There is little of his extant Abraham Ortelius He was born in Antwerp that famous Mart of the world He was given to Geography from his youth and spared no cost or pains to perfect his knowledge therein travelling far and often for that purpose Cosmographus ad miraculum usque politissimus laboriosissimus Chyt Scol in Paraph. Ps. Buchanani His Thesaurus Geographicus is an excellent Work instar omnium and his Theatrum Lipsius Gesner and others much magnifie it Edito pulcherrimo orbis terrarum Theatro renovatâ antiquorum locorum per tabulas propriâ industria eleganter depictas memoriâ Thuan. Hist. Tom. 5. l. 120. Quo in opere saith Melchior Adam in his Life ita omnibus suam probavit industriam ut à Philippo II. illo Principe Principum Geographi Regii insignibus sit orornatus Scripsit Thesaurum Geographicum in quo omnium totius terrae regionum montium promontoriorum collium silvarum insularum portuum populorum urbium oppidorum pagorum item Oceani marium fretorum fluviorum ejusmodi nomina appellationes veteres additis magna ex parte etiam recentioribus opus eruditum lectuque jucundum Andreas Osiander Anno Christi 1498. the Epitomizer of the Centuriators skilfull in the Hebrew Greek and Latine Beza Epist. 59. cals him Phanaticum impurissimum Ecclesiarum turbatorem He held that the righteousnesse of Christ by which we are justified was his essential righteousnesse as God But 1. That is incommunicable to us 2. If that had been required to our Justification Christ needed not to have been incarnate Paul saith Rom. 5 19. We are made righteous by the obedience of one man Hier. Osorius An eloquent man and too precise a follower of Tully In his Book against Luther and Doctor Haddon he dares not name the words of Justification or Predestination And I wonder saith Mr. Fox that he dares insert the name of Christ in his Books since it is not found in Tully Nec Iustificationis aut praedestinationis vocabula ipsa vel nominare audes Ac miror equidem quod Christi nomen quod apud Ciceronem nunquam legitur non dubites libellis tuis inspergere His Book De gloria is most esteemed Arnald Ossat a French Cardinal His and Cardinal Perrons French Letters are esteemed usefull both for the understanding of Ecclesiastical and State-affairs He was Scholar to Petrus Ramus Otto the second Sonne to Otto the first He being overcome at a Sea fight by the Grecians and carried away by Pyrates being unknown by reason of his skill in the Greek tongue he escaped safe into Sicilie and afterward he punished them William Oughtred a very learned Mathematician He hath published Clavis Mathematica He hath put out these Works in English The Circle of Proportion The Horrizontal Instrument The Artificial gauging Line or Rod. Ovid. He had a natural genius to Poetry Quicquid conabar dicere versus erat Nascitur Poeta fit Orator Lactantius cals his Metamorphosis Opus praeclarissimum As Tibullus and he were born in one day so he and Livie died on another that his birth and death might be nobly accompanied Sands in the Life of Ovid. CHAP. III. P RIchard Pacie Dean of Pauls He was Secretary for the Latine Tongue to King Henry the eighth He was of great ripenesse of wit learning and eloquence also expert in forraign Languages He was sent in the Kings affairs Embassadour to Venice which function there he so discharged that it is hard to say whether he procured more commendation or admiration among the Venetians for his dexterity of wit and specially for the singular promptnesse in the Italian Tongue For opinion and same of Learning he was accepted not onely here in England with Linacro Grocinus More and others but also known and reported abroad in such sort that in all the great heap of Erasmus his Epistles he wrote almost to none so many as to him Foxes Acts and Monum Vol. 2. p. 247. c. 1. He was after distracted but he prettily well came to his wits and began to study the Hebrew Tongue with Wakefield He hath written upon Ecclesiastes He begins his Book De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur thus Ric. Pac. Ad Scient Profes Epist. Librum doctissimi viri non adeo brevem unius spatio mensis scriptum mirabimini He saith further that it was composed Constantiae in publico hypocaâsto Fabius Pacius His several Works are mentioned by Tomasinus in his Elogia virorum Literis Sapientia Illustrium Iulius Pacius his younger brother An. M. D. L. in lucem editus ingenium politiorum literarum studiis pari cum fratre contentione excoluit eoque profectu Ut juvenis nondum exacto tertio decimo atatis anno Arithmeticae libellum magnâ facilitate conscripserit Thomas Elog. He was an excellent Grecian he illustrated Aristotles Organ with most copious Notes and published many learned Commentaries upon many of his books of Philosophy and elucidated many books of the Civil-Law with Commentaries or Notes Besides his knowledge of the Civil and Canon-Law he was skilled with knowledge of all Learning the Mathematicks History Poetry much given to the reading of the ancient Fathers and
Ecclesiastical History skilfull in the Latine Greek and Hebrew Languages Marcus Pacuvius a famous Tragaedian There are some fragments of his remaining Iohn Paget a learned Divine as his Arrow against the Separation of the Brownists shews Santes Pagninus an Italian and a Dominican Frier a man excellently learned in the Hebrew Tongue There is his Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae cum recognit Merceri Fol. Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae And other Works Petrus de Palude vel Paludanus Anno Dom. 1320. He hath written upon the Gospels on the third and fourth Book of the Sennces De Causa immediata Eccles. potestatis De audientia Confessorum Iacobus Pamelius He was born at Bridges in Flanders Anno 1536. He was excellently versed in both prophane and sacred History He hath not only made Cyprian and Tertullian better but also illustrated them with learned Commentaries Guido Pancirolus He hath published Com. in notitiam utramque dignitatum tam Orientis quam Occidentis Thesaurus variarum lectionum utriusque juris And other Works Franciscus Panicarola Three at that time in concionibus dicendi laude florebant Panicarola Tolet Lupus There being three things required of an Orator Ut doceat ut delectet ut moveat it was commonly said then Lupus movet Toletus docet Panicarola delectat Anton. Panormita Privy-Councelour to Alphonsus King of Spain and Naples He hath published his memorable sayings and deeds in four Books A most famous Poet and Oratour Abbas Panormitanus Anno Dom. 1440. The most learned of the Canonists He hath put out In Libros Decretalium tomos 4. Consilia Quaest. Repertorium Iuris Henricus Pantaleon Anno Christi 1522. He wrote Prosopographiae illustrium virorum Germaniae Diarium Historicum And divers other Works mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Paphnutius Famous in Ecclesiastical History Papinianus A famous Lawyer he lived under Septimius Severus Ioannes Pappus a learned Lutherane He was born in the year of Christ 1549. He published many Works mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue He died in the year which he expressed in this Verse familiar to him in his Inscriptions Ad fine M sI qVis se parat I LLe sapit Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombast ab Hohenheim a learned Physician He had divers names He held there were three principles of things Sulphure Salt and Mercury He said Physick was supported by four pillars the first of which is Philosophy or Physick which is a knowledge of earth and water and all things thence begotten the second Astronomy which is a knowledge of the other two Elements and all heavenly bodies Thirdly Alchimy which demonstrates the Compositions and dissolutions of all Bodies The last is Vertue which requires that a Physician should be pious toward God just constant and faithfull toward men and a lover of all good He often censures and reproves the Ancients Hippocrates Galen and Aristotle not excepted Daniel Pareus He hath written Universalis Historiae Profanae Medulla Mellificum Atticum David Pareus his Son a learned Divine of Germany He hath written Commentaries and Adversaria upon all the Books of the Scripture Io. Philip Pareus his Sonne He hath written Thesaurus linguae Latinae Electa Plantina Lexicon Plantinum Musae fugitivae Theatrum Philosophiae Christianae Narratio historica de vita obitu D. Parei patris ejus A Commentary upon Philemon and Iude. And other Works Matthaeus Paris sive Parisius Anno Dom. 1250. A Benedictine Monk of the Monastery of S t Albane here in England a very faithfull and diligent Authour He wrote Historiam Anglicanam the English History from the year of the Lord 1066 even unto the year 1201. Vir omnium citimae aetatis historicorum Anglorum nisi cui placeat Willielmum Malmesburiensem excipere eruditissimus Casaub. ad Front Ducaeum Epist. Gul. Parisiensis His Works are in two Volumes Robert Parker a Reverend Divine There are these Works of his De Descensu Christi De Politia Ecclesiastica Christo Hierarchiae opposita A Scholastical Discourse about the Sign of the Crosse. Iohn Parkins an Utter-barister of the Inner-Temple He put forth a little Treatise in the Reign of King Edward the sixth of certain Titles of the Common-Laws wittily and learnedly composed Rob. Parsons an English Jesuite He was most skilfull in railing and reviling able to put Shimei Rabshakeh and Thersites himself to school See Charles Paget his Book against him and Watsons Quodlibets fourth Answ. to second Artic. and Quodlibet 3 d Answ. to the sixth Artic. There is a Book commonly called Resolutions which goes under his name which the Papists much magnifie as also his Treatise of the three Conversions of England But Doctor Iames somewhere denies the first to be his Protestants have published some Books of Papists as Parsons Resolutions Granadoes Meditations with some altering of the Sentences though if these Books had never come out the scandal had been lesse Doctor Iames his myst of the Ind. Expurgat Carolus Paschalius a learned man He hath written Legatus Ceusura animi ingrati De optimo genere elocutionis CHAP. IV. STeven Pasquier a learned Frenchman He flourished Anno à Christi Nativitate 1546. He hath written an excellent Treatise in French styled La Recherche de la France He hath published also Icones Epigrammes and Epitaphs and several other Works Iohn Passeratiusa a learned Frenchman the Kings Professour of Eloquence in Paris an excellent Orator and Poet. He hath put out Orations and Prefaces a Commentary on Catullus Tibullus and Propertius Varia Opuscula His French Works are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque George Passor Professor of Divinity and Hebrew at Herborn of Greek at Frankere He hath put out a Lexicon Greek and Latine upon the New Testament Manuale Graecarum vocum N. T. Syllabas vocum N. T. Oratio funebris in obitum Jo. Piscatoris Paedagogus Christianus Matthias Pasor Son to George Pasor a learned Professor at Groning There is his Oratio pro linguae Arabicae professione Marsilius Patavinus Franciscus Patricius Venetus He taught Philosophy at Rome and Padua His learned Works are Paraleli militares Liber male quidem amplus ac magnus sed rerum quae in ea continentur aestimatione ac pondere longe maximus atque gravissimus Jan. Nic. Eryth Pinac Nova de Universis Philosophiae Nova Geometria novaque Rhetorica De scribenda historia tres Dialogi De Arte Poetica tres decades And other Works C. Velleius Paterculus an elegant Historian but he was a great flatterer of Tiberius Patrick the first or second Archbishop of Ireland Anno gratiae 491. Sanctus Patricius secundus Hyberniae Archiepiscopus anno aetatis suae 122. in domino quievit Matth. Westm. Flor. Hist. 93. Vide Rivii Regim Anglic. in Hibern defens adversus Analecten l. 2. p. 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
Alexander Piccolominy Archbishop of Sienna a good Linguist and Artist Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Francis Piccolominy Many of his Works are also mentioned in Oxfhrd Catalogue Pet. Picherellus a learned Frenchman We may judge of his great abilities by those little Tracts de Coena Dominica de Missae sacrificio de Igne purgatorio de Imaginum usu and some other things that way and likewise of his little difference from us in the weightiest points of our Religion the more pity is it that his excellent Notes on a great part of the New Testament should so unhappily perish after his death as Thuanus relates Io. Pierius Valerianus He hath written an admirable Discourse of the Egyptian Hieroglyphicks Elegans opusculum Ioannis Pierii Valeriani quo agit de litteratorum infelicitate Vossius de Histor. Lat. Albertus Pighius The greatest learned man of your side B. Iewell often stiles him so in his Reply to D r Cole Pontificiorum Archilles adversus Lutherum qui totus noster est in causa Iustificationis Episc. Mortoni Antidotum contra merita cap. 7. sect 1. Albertus Pighius felici ac versatili vir ingenio qui cùm Theologiae atque Astronomiae cognitione naturalem quoque prudentiam rerumque publicarum usum intelligentiam conjunxit eximia Latinae dictionis elegantia quae scriberet ageretve comitante Auberti Miraei Elog. Belg. Vide plura ibid. Stephanus Pighius Vir de universâ antiquitate Romanâ praeclarè meritus Voss. de Construct c. 25. Laurentius Pignorius the great ornament of Italy born Anno 1571. Vossius styles him Clarissimum diffusae reconditaeque eruditionis virum He hath written Symbolae Epistolicae Epistolicall Symbols The title of that Book is Symbolarum Epistolicarum Liber primus In quo nonnulla ex Antiquitatis Iuriscivilis Historiae penu depromuntur illustrantur multaque Auctorum loca emendantur explicantur There are also these Works of his Characteres Aegyptii hoc est Sacrorum quibus Aegyptii utuntur Simulacrorum accurata delineatio De servis eorum apud veteres Ministeriis Commentarius With other Latine and Italian books of his printed mentioned there before his Epistles As he was well acquainted with Ioannes Vincentius Pinellus Marcus Velserus Paulus Aicardus Ianus Gruterus Hieronymus Aleander and many other learned men so he had Imagines virorum Clarissimorum in his study many of those before mentioned and also Bellarmine Baronius Francis Petrake Pancirolus Torquatus Tassus Tully Onufrius Panvinius Pindar one of the chief Greek Lyrick Poets To whom it is peculiar suddenly to strike as it were with a Divine Scepter the mindes of men by rare short sentences S r Francis Bacons Advancem of Learn l. 8. c. 1. Pineda he hath written a large Commentary on Iob in two Volumes Ioannes Vincentius Pinellus a learned Italian He was skilled in Hebrew Greek Latine Spanish French He adorned the most inward rooms of his house with greater Geographicall Tables or Mapes and with the Icones of illustrious men He had Books sent him out of all Europe He is much commended by Gassendus in vita Peireskii p. 30 31. Iohn Piscator He was an excellent Scripture-Divine but no School-Divine and therefore no marvell if he want the accuratenesse of Scholasticall expressions D r Twisse against Hoord l. 2. He hath written upon all the Scripture and other Works Io. Pistorius Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Io. Pitsaeus He hath written a Book de Scriptoribus Illustribus Britanniae He seems to slight Balaeus and saith he took many thing out of Leland whereas he never saw Leland but took all out of Balaeus CHAP. VI. FRanciscus Pithaeus brother to Peter Pithaeus He hath put out Collectanea on Petronius Pet. Pithaens Casaubone never saw him as Thuanus in the 6 th book of his Commentaries concerning his own life saith yet how doth he extoll him He had rare and exact knowledge in all Antiquity Ecclesiasticall history and other wayes His disposition was sweet and he farre from all ambition and deceit he was very prudent and skilfull in mannaging affairs Thuanus in the first part of the fifth Tome of his Hist. l. 117. much commends him and at last concludes thus of him that in the Civill Law of the Romans he came to that height that it might be justly said of him and his most famous Master Cuiacius Hunc discipulo praeripuisse ne primus Iurisconsultas esset illum praeceptori ne solus All the great men of this age saith Papirius Massonus in his Elogia make honourable mention of him in their books and some of these dedicate their Writings to him and his brother Francis as the lights of France Many of his Books are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Bartholomaeus Pitiscus A Divine of profound Learning of an acute wit very methodicall and perspicuous in teaching and writing He was a very great Mathematician and hath written severall Treatises of Triangles He saith in the Preface to one of his Books Alii schacchia ludunt talis ego regula circino si quando ludere datur Plantavitzius He hath written a great Dictionary for the Hebrew and other Works Qui summo conamine libros Ebraicos sibi affatim comparavit adjuvante praeceptore suo Ludovico Mathniensi Seldenus de Syned l. 3. c. 13. Christopher Plantine A learned Printer who hath been very usefull to the Commonwealth of Learning by Printing the King of Spains Bible and many other excellent Works Christophori Plantini viri de Typographicae arte qua caeterae omnes illustrantur vivunt optime meriti summam ingenii dexteritatem admirabilem prudentiam sedulam operam infinitos labores ac denique omnibus in rebus insignem diligentiam nemo satis admirari ac dignis laudibus extollere potest Ariae Montani praefat In Sac Bib. Quadriling Reg. edit Bartholomaeus Platina a most learned man Some call him Baptista Platina so Iac. Bergomus in suppl Ch. and Albertus Leander in his description of Lombardy others call him Bartholomaeus Platina so Ang. Roccha and Volaterane his Epistle to Iacobus Picolominaeus is so Barth Platina Ia. Cardinali Papiensi He was especially famous for his Work de vitis Pontificum usque ad Paulum II. by whom he was cast into prison and detained four whole moneths when he undertook to defend the cause of Pomponius Laetus and other learned men which were said to have conspired against him He was great with Pope Sixtus the 4 th and by him made keeper of the Vaticane Library Felix Platerus a learned and pious Physitian Ioannes Posthius thus played on his name Cùm felix animo felix sis divite censu Felicis nomen convenienter habes His Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Plato he was an Athenian Philosopher he was called ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã that is Divine for his rare wisdom When Tully commended any of the Philosophers he
still added Semper excipio Platonem Pliny cals him Sapientiae Antistitem Plato ille sublimis apex philosophorum columen Arnob. Adversus Gentes l. 1. He had his name Plato from his broad shoulders His Works are in one Volume Plantus He is called Musarum decima linguae Latinae decus musarum ille Gratiarum hortus He was born at Sarsina an ancient City at the foot of the Appenine in Lombardy Taubman before his excellent Commentary hath many Elogia of Plautus C. Plinius He wrote 37 Books of the History of the world and was Uncle to him who wrote the Epistles as the Epistle 16. l. 6. ad Cornelium Tacitum shews The whole Epistle is about the death of the elder Pliny and begins thus Petis ut tibi avunculi mei exitum scribam c. He sometimes labours more to write much then exactly Plinius ille diligens totius antiquitatis pervestigator qui nullam bibliothecam praetermisse videtur quam non excusserit perlustrarit Onid Fab. In N. T. Syr. Lat. Interpret Praefat. Passeratius hath these verses In Plinii naturalem Historiam Cuncta suo amplexu magnus si continet orbis Plinius totum solus complectitur orbem Quisquis erit magni complexus scripta Secundi Ipso major eris rerum qui maximus orbe C. Plinius Caecilius He wrote six books of Epistles and a Panegyrick to Trajane the Emperour Plinius secundus the purest Writer in mine opinion of all his age I except not Suetonius his two Schoolmasters Quintilian and Tacitus nor his most excellent learned Uncle Stephanus Paschasius hath these verses of him in his Icones Me lege nec Plinium credas legisse secundum Nulli ego dum vixi quippe secundus eram Rursus auctorom tu ne legisse putato En tibi sum larga Bibliotheca penu Edm. Ployden a grave man and singularly well learned in the Law His Commentaries consisting of two parts both of them learnedly and curiously polished and published by himself the one in Anno 13. Reg. Eliz. and the other in the 21 year of the same Queen Works as they well deserve with all the professors of the Law of high account The author was an ancient Apprentice of the Law of the middle Temple of great gravity knowledge and integrity Plutarke was born in the City of Chaeronea Ammonius was his Schoolmaster He was a grave and very learned Authour He lived under Domitian and Nerva but flourished especially under Trajane He was his Schoolmaster and dedicated the Collection of his Apothegmes to him It was said of him if all Authours were lost he alone might supply Ita judico caeterorum scriptorum jacturam vel unius Plutarchi operibus resarciri posse Frischlinus in defensione Aristophanis His Lives and Morals were his best Works His Lives make an abridgement of all the best things contained in the Greek and Latine Histories He was a follower of Plato but an enemy to the Epicures and Stoicks Plutarchus totius antiquitatis rimator indagator tam curiosus libro aureo de sera numinis vindicta Herald Animadvers In Salmas Observat. Ad Ius Att. Rom. l. 4. c. 4. Historiam hic alii mores sophiamque colamus Nullus erit geminum qui tibi praestet opus Hoc Cherronensis studium conjuxit utrunque Historiae mores moribus Historiam Steph. Paschas Icon. Theodorus Gaza a Grecian born of singular learning being once asked by his familiar friends which saw him so greatly affectioned to his study what Authour he would choose amongst many if he could keep but one alone he answered Plutarke because there is none so profitable and delightfull also to reade as he Edward Pocock the worthy Professor of the Hebrew and Arabick Tongues in Oxford He is honourably mentioned by Gerhard on Peter and other outlandish men His learned notes in Specimen hist. Arabum and Miscellaneous Notes in Portam Mosis give good evidence of his abilities and I hope as he in the book last quoted very learnedly and profitably handleth the places of Scripture which he treateth of so he will improve his knowledge in the Orientall Tongues for the illustrating of divers passages in Scripture Ioannes Franciscus Poggius Florentinus a Lawyer and Doctor of Divinity naturally eloquent especially in accusations and invectives He was facetious but too bitter he wrote two books sharply against Laurentius Valla to whom Valla replied as sharply His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones He wrote some obscene things worthy to be burnt rather then read He was at the Councell of Constance where he is said to have found Quintilian and Asconius Pedianus Amandus Pâlanus the ornament of the University of Basill His Syntagma Theologiae Christianae Commentary upon Daniel Malechy and other learned Works shew his abilities Angelus Politianus so called à Monte Politiano a Town in Hetruria He had not his fellow among all those that flourished in his age as we may see by his Works He was most skilfull in the Greek and Latine tongue a famous Grammarian Oratour and Poet. Huic me puero à multis primae deferebantur Mira ejus omnino eruditio vehemens paratum ingenium jugis frequens lectio sed calore potius quam arte versus scripsisse videtur judicii utique parum cùm in seligendo tum in castigando habuisse visus est Lil. Gyrald De Poet. nost Temp. Dial. 1. In his youth he did first make the Greek Poet Homer to speak in the Latine Tongue Politian in the preface to his Miscel. saith thus Ac non id quaesivimus ut aliquam doctis hominibus veluti labeculam aspergeremus sed id cavimus potius ne sub illorum auctoritate studiosorum fides periclitaretur See a commendation of his Miscellanies l. 3. Epist. 18. 19. l. 6. Epist. 4. l. 7. Epist. 4. His severall Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Iulius Pollux He lived in the time of Commodus the Emperour There is his Onomasticon Gr Lat. Reginaldus Polus Cardinalis He was of a very Noble extraction being near of kinne to King Henry the 8 th both by the Father and Mothers side and a good Scholer In quo sanguinis nobilitas nam proxima cognatione Regem contigebat morum gravitas cum eximia doctrina conjuncta extitit Godw. Rerum Anglic. Annal. l. 2. p. 95. Vide etiam l. 3. p. 133. In Calvins Epistles and Answers Bullinger writes to Calvin that England had returned to the Pope and Popery and that the devil to recover it had used two speciall instruments the Bishop of Winchester within the Kingdom and Cardinall Poole without it who then was made Archbishop of Canterbury And he shews there that Cardinall Poole was received with great solemnity at Pauls Crosse in London and that the Bishop of Winchester in that Assembly revoked the Oration which he had before published under Henry the 8
th de Obedientia and that Cardinall Poole when he spake to Queen Mary blasphemously used the words of the Angell Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum He died the same day that Queen Mary died CHAP. VII POlyander à Kerckoven Doctor of Divinity in Leyden He hath put out Concertatio Anti-Sociniana Polybius A learned Historian Polycarpus a Tree that bare much fruit according to his name He lived in the time of Ignatius and drew the doctriue of the Gospel from the mouth of the Apostles as a most pure fountain Irenaeus saith of him Hic docuit semper quae ab Apostolis didicerat Ecclesiae tradidit quae sola sunt vera Arnoldus Pontacus Vossius terms him doctissimum diligentissimum and l. 2. De vitiis Sermonis c. 3. Arnoldus Pontacus in iis quae ad B. Hieronymi Chronicon magnâ industriâ nec doctrina minore annotavit Io Isaacius Pontanus the King of Denmarks Historiographer a learned Historian Vossius honourably mentions him lib. De constructione c. 63. Iohannes Iovianus Pontanus Nulli sui saeculi Poetae aut Oratori scribendo vel docendo cessit Boissardi Bibliotheca His Works are mentioned by Boissard Lud. de Ponte Romanus Ludovicus Pontanus commonly sirnamed Romanus because among all the Doctors of the Law he chose his dwelling within Rome He had so happy a memory that he never alleadged the Law and he alleaged it often but he presently rehearsed its text all along without book Ausonius Popma Suffridus Petrus mentions three of his brethren as learned Cyprianus a Popma Sixtus a Popma and Titus a Popma His book De differentiis verborum is of good use Porchetus Some say Galatinus took all out of him Porchetus and he both out of Martinus Raymundus his Pugio There is his Victoria adversus Hebraeos a book well esteemed of Porphyrius He was Plotinus his Scholer and Iamblichus his Master he wrote fourteen books against the Christians which he deadly hated He was a wicked and ungodly Jew of the kindred and sect of the Sadduces an enemy of Christ a hater of God and his Word He wrote many books in Philosophy Rhetorick Grammer and commented upon some of Aristotles books Ejus adeo exosum execrabile nomen ut in edictis Imperatorum profligatissimi quique haeretîci Porphyriani dicerentur Crakanth De providentia Dei Gilbertus Porretanus Anno Dom. 114. There are his 6 Principia In quatuor Lib. Boethii de Trinitate Io. Baptista Porta He discovers many rare and exquisite things He hath published severall Works De miraculis naturae De Furtivis literarum notis Magia naturalis De hum Physiognomia De Distillationibus and other Works Ioan. Vincentius Porta Ioannes Posselius a pious and learned man Hesiodus Analyticus Syntaxis Graecae linguae Colloquia Apophthegmata Graecae linguae Calligrophia Oratoria linguae Graecae a book most profitable to get the propriety elegancy and plenty of the Greek language Liber hic certe magno labore studio ex variis acctoribus Graecis est collectus continetque tum phrases ac formas loquendi elegantiores tum vocabula simplicia synonima item particularum usum additis ubique tabulis probatorum auctorum illustribus exemplis dignus qui ab omnibus serio Graecari Graece ac Latine scribendi exercitium conjungere volentibus nocturna diurnaque manu versetur Melch. Ad. in ejus vita Ant. Possevinus an Italian of Mantua Some dislike him he hath put all Campians reasons into his book D r Raynolds therefore styles him Campiani haeres ex asse and was wont to say of him that he had need of a broom Ioannes Posthius a learned Physitian and Poet. He wrote excellent Poems intitled Parerga poetica Some Anotomicall Observations and other things belonging to Physick Gul. Postellus a good Linguist but he was mad he held that Adams soul was in him and other gross opinions He was the first of Christians which published the rudiments of the Arabick Grammer There are these Works of his De Linguarum 12 differentium Alphab Clavis absconditorum aeternae veritatis De Phaenicum Lit. De Orbis Terrae concordia De Etruriae Origine Gabriel Powel There is his Disput. de Antichristo De adiaphoris His resolved Christian. His Positions of Usury in two Volumes in 8 o and other Works Godeschalcus Praetorius A noble Poet made this Verse upon him Bis septem linguas sophiam omnem calluit unus Regnerus Praedinius the learned Rector of the School at Groning His Works are published in one Volume Hieronymus Pragensis a Bohemish Divine who was truly worthy of a holy name a Martyr also of Christ as Iohn Hus was and was burned at Constance Anno 1416. D r Iohn Preston a learned and profound Divine His Treatise of the Divine Essence and Attributes and his Sermons upon the Sacraments with other Works are of great use Iohn Prideaux Doctor of Divinity and Bishop of Worcester the Learned Professor of Divinity heretofore in Oxford His Lectures and Orations in Latine and other Works have made him famous both here and beyond sea Sylvester de Prierio He hath written Case-Divinity called Summa Sylvestriana and severall books against Luther for which the Pope sent him a golden Rose Gilbert Primerose A learned Scotchman who was a French Preacher at Bourdeaux and after one of the Preachers in the French Church at London He hath put out severall French books La Trompette de Syon Le Voeu de Iacob opposè aux voeux des Moynes La defense de la Religion reformee par passages de l' Escripture Many of his Works are translated into English David Primerose his son was Preacher at Roane in France He put out Theses Theologicae De Peccato in genere specie De Necessitate satisfactionis pro peccato per Christum De Divina praedestinatione annexis articulis A Treatise against the morality of the Sabbath Priscianus a famous Grammarian Priscus nomine fide Grammaticus Voss. l. 1. De Analog c. 19. We call incongrnous Latine the breaking of Priscians head as if to speak and write well by a speciall right belonged to him Proclus Casaubone faith he had the best memory of any that he ever saw or read of He was a great Mathematician and famous Platonick Philosopher Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Procopius Gazeus Anno Dom. 530. a most grave Historian of the Romans who lived in the times of the Gothes and Vandals and was well skilled in the Originall and Manners of both Nations Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Propertius He was excellent and singular saith Pliny in Elegies Propertium qui non amat eum profecto Musae non amant Lipsius l. 2. antiq lect cap. 10. Umbria parva tibi tantum debere fatetur Quantum Callimacho Graecia magna suo Steph. Pasch. Icones
He hath written De 5 a Essentia De remed genere De Confectione veri lapidis Philosophorum Lib. lucis Ianus Rutgersius He is called Ianus Rutgarius in the Appendix to Oxford Catalogue CHAP. XI S EManuel Sa. One of the most famous Fathers of the Society of the Jesuites Doctor in Divinity who vaunts in his Aphorismes of Confession that he was fourty whole years in making that holy Work which he esteems certain in its Propositions since he cals them Aphorisms which he hath framed after the order of the Alphabet Pasquier des Recherches de la France l. 3. Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus His several Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Raymundus de Sabunde He hath written an excellent Book called Theologia naturalis sive Liber Creaturarum Io. de Sacro bosco a famous Philosopher and Mathematician He flourished Anno 1230. His Book of the Sphere is well liked Pantaleon makes him a Germane Dempster a Scotchman Hist. Eccles. Scot. l. 17. Stanihurst an Irishman Descript. Hib. but Leland and others say he was an Englishman Antonius Sadeel Antonius Burbon King of Navarre loved him well and was wont to hear him preach His friends in France were especially Beza Hottoman Goulartius Faius and others Elsewhere Grynaeus Tossanus Stuckius Fontanus Bovius L'Estraeus Iac. Sadoletus a Learned Cardinal He was thought to be poisoned Peter Bembus in the fifth Book of his familiar Epistles writing to Cardinal Pool of Sadoletus his Book concerning Philosophy saith he read it over often and then gives this approbation of it Equidem ab illis Augusti temporibus quae profecto maxime omnium summis ingeniis praestantibus scriptoribus claruerunt nullum legi librum scriptum ut mihi quidem videtur appositius splendidius nullum melius nullum Ciceroniano mori stilo facundiae denique vicinius Vide etiam l. 6. Epist. Fam. Paulo Sadoleto p. 327 328. Iac. Salianus There are his Annales Ecclesiastici Vet. Testamenti in divers Tomes Cl. Salmasius a learned French Critick De omni hujus ludi scil calculorum sive tesserarum ratione accuratius à nemine scriptum quà m maximo Salmasio nunquam satis laudatis ad Historiae Augustae scriptores notis Vossius De vitiis sermonis l. 3. c. 52. He hath written Notes upon Tertullian de pallio De Transubstantiatione contra Grotium De primatu Papae vel de ordine Ecclesiastico De Episcopis Presbyteris with divers Philological and other Works Accuratè de hisce annulis Salmasius eruditâ Epistolâ vel libro potiùs de Caesarie ac coma mulierum Voss. De vitiis sermonis l. 3. c. 51. Two or three years plus minus before he made his Books entituled De usuris deque usurarum modo Samuel Petitus published the Attick Laws with a Commentary He though learned was unfurnished with helps to compleat such a Work Salmasius therefore then reading of him or coming newly from him took many things from him and without a diligent search inserted them into his Books Hinc ex parte tot errores imo tot monstra quae in libris illis incubant ubi his de rebus agitur Herald Animadvers in Salmas Observ. ad jus Att. Rom. l. 2. c. 12. Salmasius librum inscripsit de usuris quae inscriptio tractatum juris premittebat In eo libro verborum proprietates origines tractavit feliciter multas infeliciter plurimas atque ea in re pars maxima ejus laboris consumpta est Et sic liber quem juridicum volebat efficere in grammaticum abiit sive exiit Id. ib. l. 2. c. 4. Alph. Salmeron Com. in Script Novi Test. Tom. 16. His Work upon the Parables is well liked Rabbi Salomo a learned Jewish Expositor Unus ex praecipuis Iudaeorum Commentatoribus Paul Fag Annot. in Chald. Par. in Gen. 49 10. Salvianus Anno Dom. 460. 480 alii A learned Father His Book of Gods Providence is well liked Salustius Crispus Salust is a wise and worthy Writer but he requireth a learned reader and a right considerer of him Aschams Schoolmaster 2 d part Crispus Romana primus in Historia Mart. l. 14. Epig. 191. Scaevola Samarthanus a learned French Poet. He hath published Poems and Elogies of the learned Frenchmen Stephanus Paschasius in the 4 th Book of his Epigrams hath these Verses to him Seu Latios scribas seu Gallos Scaevola versus Nil Latia aut majus Gallica terra tulit Roma suum jactet miretur Gallia nostrum Cur ita pro patria vovit uterque manum Rob. Sanderson A Learned School-Divine of our own He hath put out divers English Sermons and a learned Treatise De Iuramento Gaspar Sanctius A Learned Spaniard He hath put out Commentaries In Ruth Ezram Neh. Esther In quatuor libros Regum In librum Job In Prophetam Isaiam In Jeremiam In Ezech. Dan. In Prophetas minores In Zachariam Antonius Sanderus He hath written Elogia Cardinalium Sanctitate Doctrina Armis illustrium De Scriptoribus Flandriae Hagiologium Flandriae De Gandavensibus Eruditionis fama claris l. 3. Gandavum sive de Antiquitatibus De Burgensibus eruditionis Fama claris l. 2. De Claris sanctitate eruditione Antoniis l. 3. Nic. Sanderus There are divers Works of his De visibili Monarchia De Clave De Iustificat contra Colloquium Altenburg De honoraria adorat Imaginum De schismate Anglicano And several English Books Hugo Sanfordus He hath written a learned Book De descensu Christi ad inferos Iacobus Sannazarius or Accius Sincerus a Learned Poet. Inter poetas primum locum obtinuit vir eximius Cujus ingenium monumenta non vetusta non oblivio delebit ulla ut ex tot Regum triumphis haud paullo clarior quam ex unius hominis doctrina atque ingenio Parthenope sit futura Manut. Praefat. in Sannaz He put out a famous Poeme De partu virginis in quo de perfectione poëseos videtur cum antiquis decertare Boissardi Bibliotheca He was Virgilii aemulus There is this Epigramme of Cardinal Bembus upon his Sepulchre at Naples Da sacro cineri flores hic ille Maroni Syncerus musâ proximus ut tumulo Sappho Lesbia a woman so called from the place of her birth viz. the Isle of Lesbos She lived 515. years before the birth of Christ one of the first which practised the science of Poetry The Romans erected a Statue of Porphiry richly wrought in memory of her She was very expert in the composition of Lyrick Verses She invented also a sort of Verses called Sapphick from her name Alex. Sardus He hath written a Book De moribus ritibus gentium Erasmus Sarcerius a learned Divine He was born Anno 1500. His several Works are mentioned by Boissard and many of them in Oxford Catalogue Io. Sarisburiensis There is his Metalogiâus Polycraticus sive de nugis Curialium
never heard him dispute of the controverted points of Religion or that he knew was he accustomed to write to others about them Neque vero saith he nisi provocatus de iis nec nisi invitissimus disserebat and concludes thus Quasi vero extra Religionis caussam non multa praeclara supra captum quantum ad literas humanum in ea admiranda essent quae bonus quisque ab eo cognoscere doceri merito cuperet propter tam raras in eum à Deo cumulatas dotes non ipse observari ac praecipua veneratione à bonis quibusque mereretur Desiderius Heraldus seems to question his Book De re nummaria cum libellus post ejus obitum editus sit nec ab eo ante recognitus Animadvers in Salmas Observat. ad Ius Att. Rom. l. 2. c. 20. Eusebii Chronica castigavit notisque illustravit quibus nihil hic sol videt eruditius Voss. De Hist. Graec. l. 2. c. 17. Chr. Scheiblerus He wrote Opus Logicum compendium Philosophia Metaphysica cum additionibus T. Barlow Will. Schickardus a great Linguist There are his Horologium Hebraeum Bechinath Happeruschim Institutiones Hebraeae Ius Regium Hebraeorum Epitome Bibliorum seu Eclogae sacrae and his Tarich Regum Persic Valentine Schindler singularly skilled in the Hebrew and the Oriental Tongues He wrote Lexicon Pentaglotton Martinus Schoockius He is Professor of Logick and Physick in Groning He hath published these Works De bonis Ecclesiasticis Accurata de reip Belgicae faederata descriptio With several other Works Caspar Schoppius He and Andrew Schoppius are good at railing He hath written sharply against Ioseph Scaliger styling his Book Scaliger Hyperbolimeus He hath published also other Works Cornelius Schonaeus a Poet of a most elegant wit His holy Comaedies entituled Terentius Christianus which are commonly used shew that And. Schottus a most learned and candid Jesuite He hath written Notes upon Seneca and several other Works Io. Duns Scotus a learned Englishman and the wittiest of all the Schoolmen An. Dom. 1300. He wrote at Oxford in Merton Colledge upon the four Books of the Sentences whence his Work is called Scriptum Oxoniense If I must ake any thing in this part of Philosophy on trust I confesse Scotus his credit will go as farre with me as any man that ever writ not guided by an unerring infallible spirit M r Baxters Friendly Accomod He being sick of an Apoplexy was buried before he was dead Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue An ancient Poet composed these two Verses of him Doctor subtilis nomen subtilia donant Quem vestis vilis pes nudus corda coronant Iohannes Scotus Erigena an Irishman for Ireland is called by the Inhabitants Erin Balaeus saith he was King Alphreds Master An. Dom. 850. He was many years before Duns Scotus Vide Voss. De vitiis Sermonis lib. 3. cap. 8. Iohannes Scotus a famous Countreyman of ours wrote a Book of the same Argument and to the same effect that Bertram had done viz. of the Sacrament This man for his extraordinary Learning was in England where he lived in great account with King Alfred surnamed Iohn the Wise and had very lately room in the Martyrology of the Church of Rome though now he be ejected thence B. Ush. Answ. to the Jes. Challenge He is described to be of a sharp wit of great eloquence and well expert in the Greek Tongue pleasant and merry of nature and conditions as appeareth by divers his doings and answers First He coming to France out of his own Countrey of Scotland so saith M r Fox by reason of great tumults of warre was there worthily entertained and for his Learning had in great estimation of Carolus Calvus the French King whom he commonly and familiarly used to have about him both at Table and in Chamber Upon a time the King sitting at meat and seeing something belike in this Iohn Scot which seemed not very courtly cast forth a merry word asking of him What difference there was betwixt a Scot and a Sot Whereunto the Scot sitting over against the King somewhat lower replied again suddenly rather then advisedly yet merrily saying Mensa tantúm that is the Table onely importing thereby himself to be the Scot and so calling the King a Sot by craft Another time the same King being at Dinner was served with a certain dish of fish wherein were two great fishes and a little one After the King had taken thereof his repast setteth down to Iohannes Scotus the foresaid fish to distribute unto the other two Clerks sitting there with him which were two tall and mighty persons he himself being but a little man Iohannes taketh the fish of the which the two great he taketh and carveth to himself the little fish he reacheth to the other two The King perceiving his division thus made reprehended the same Then Iohannes whose manner ever was to finde out some honest matter to delight the King answered to him again proving his division to stand just and equal For here saith he be two great and a little pointing to the two great fishes and himself and likewise here again is a little one and two great pointing to the little fish and two great persons I pray you saith he what distribution can be more equal Whereat the King with his Nobles being much delighted laughed merrily He was impiously murthered and slain by his Scholars with their pen-knives at Malmesbury D r William Sclater a learned School Divine There are several Works of his published Utriusque Epistolae ad Corinthios Explicatio An Exposition with Notes upon the second Epistle to the Thessalonians On two Chapters of the Romans Of Tithes Sermons and other Tracts Carolus Scribanius a Jesuite under the name of Clarus Bonarscius which is an An agram to his name made four Latine Books which he entitleth Amphitheatrum honoris horroris he might have said That he was the Author of that Book appears both by an Epistle of Andreas Schottus the Jesuite whose Antograph is yet kept and also by the Catalogue of the Writers of that Society published by Ribadeneira at Antwerp in which it is expresly mentioned that Carolus Scribanius was the Authour of the four Books of the Amphitheater of honour He saith there That all those who adhere not to their holy Society are no better then Calvinists Sed omittamus Amphitheatralem istum sciptorem melioris omnis doctrinae pus atque venenum Iâ Casaub. ad Front Duc. Epist. Pet. Scriverius He hath written learnedly on Martial Tot ac tanta sunt quae tu in eo praestitisti ut praedicationem meam longè supergressa sunt Equidem Belgii nostri fortunae gratulor penes quos servati Martialis gloria est J. Rutgersius Scriverio Anna Maria à Schurman a very learned and also pious woman whom Spanhem cals Ultimum naturae in hoc sexu conatum decimam Musam
She hath put out Opuscula Hebraea Graeca Latina Gallica Prosaica Metrica In the third Edition of which Book and the end of it there are divers Elogia of her by many learned men Bartholomaeus Scultetus a great Mathematician Abraham Scultetus a most eloquent Preacher and learned Divine He hath written Medulla Theol. Patrum in four Volumes Exercitationes Evangelicae Deliciae Evangelicae Pragenses In Epistolas Pauli ad Timotheum duas Titum Philemonem Annalium Evangelii Decas 1 a 2 da. De curriculo vitaesive de actionibus Pragensibus cum aliis De Imaginibus Idololat sermo Scultetus Orthodoxus seu responsio ad Theses de Imaginibus CHAP. XIII CAelius Sedulius Scotus Anno Dom. 490. 430. saith Barclay Sedulius Presbyter vir quidem ille doctus in sacris literis interpretandis exercitatus Rivii Reg. Angl. in Hibern defens adversus Analecten l. 2. Vide R. Episc. Usser De Brit. Eccles. primord c. 16. Iohn Selden a learned Lawyer of the Inner-Temple He got his great knowledge in the Oriental Languages after he fell to the study of the Law Some like his Marmora Arundeliana some his Books concerning the Jewish Rites and Customes others much commend his Titles of Honour but I must confesse my self to be most taken with that De Diis Syris wherein he opens many places of Scripture Others I believe also are of the same judgement He is honourably mentioned by many outlandish men He wrote in all his Books ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã above all Liberty to shew that he would examine things and not take them upon trust Nicolaus Selneccerus Doctor of Divinity and Professor of the same in the University of Lipsia He wrote this Distick for himself Quid sum Nil Quis sum Nullus sed gratia Christi Quod sim quod vivo quodque labore facit His many Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Philosopher was born a little before the death of Augustus Caesar. The divine Moralist he is a great reprover of vices he was the Prince of the Stoicks who were the strictest of the Heathen Philosophers Morum Apelles ille singularis Censor Scriv. Animadv in Mart l. 10. He was Nero's Schoolmaster who was a young Prince of great hope and in youth he shewed himself gentle tractable obeying his Schoolmasters instructions who delighted to manure this plant hoping all the world should have joy of him He had an excellent memory He was too covetous which caused his death Seneca the Tragick Poet. This and the former Seneca and Lucan the Poet were born at Corduba in Spain Duosque Senecas unicumque Lucanum Facunda loquitur Corduba Mart. Epig. l. 1. Ep. 29. Sixtus Senensis He is commended by Bellarmine l. 1. De verbo Dei for a singular Divine and by D r Stapleton Doct. Princ. for one writing most accurately of the Scripture Doctissimus sagacissimus veterum Scriptorum Censor Savil. Not. in Chrysost. Vir doctissimus prodigiosae lectionis industriae Montac Exercit. 5. sect 4. Immensi laboris scriptor diligentiae stupendae lectionis variae eruditionis admirandae Id. Exercit. 5. c. 3. Dan. Sennertus a learned Physician There are his Institutiones Medicinae Io. Genes Sepuluenda Cordubensis A grave learned Historian sometimes Chronicler to Charles the fifth Nic. Serarius a good Hebrician Hebraearum antiquitatum callentissimus vir utinam paulò modestior Montac Exercit 3. sect 2. He hath written a Commentary on Ioshua Iudges Ruth Esther the books of the Kings and Chronicles the Canonical Epistles Opuscula Theologica Prolegomena in universa Biblia Disputatio de loco Paradisi Baronius call'd him Ecclesiae Germaniae jubar Servius a most learned Grammarian He hath commented excellently on Virgil. Sulpitius Severus after Tertullian of the same standing with Augustine Epiphanius and Chrysostom a Writer for skill in the Persian story deserving great commendation and to the true understanding of Ezra and Nehemiah and Daniels Weeks bringeth such light as is not in any ancient Writer that I have read to be found the like Livelies Chronology of the Persian Monarchy Robert Sheringham He hath put out a Thalmudical book of Sacrifices D r Richard Sibbes a grave and solid Divine Famous for his piety learning devotion and politenesse of his two genuine writings The bruised Reed and Souls Conflict Sir Philip Sidney a learned Gentleman and of Oxford He married the sole daughter and heir of that worthy Statesman Sir Francis Walsingham Of whom I may say as Austen did of Homer that he is very sweet and delightfull even in his vanities Yet he was not so fond of his Arcadia as the Bishop Heliedorus of his amorous book for he desired when he died having first consulted with a Minister about it to have had it suppressed Lipsius dedicates to him his Dialogue De Recta Pronunciatione Latinae Linguae and hath this passage in his Epistle O Britanniae tuae clarum sidus cui certatim lucem affundunt virtus Musa Gratia Fortuna Sigebertus Monachus Gemblacensis Natione Gallicus Anno Dom. 1100. 1056. Helv. Chron. Sigebert Monk of Gemblaux wrote his Chronicle and other Histories in the seventh Age. Carolus Sigonius a most accurate Writer Erroribus Livii exhauriendis bonam fidelemque navavit operam vir eruditissimus Carolus Sigonius quem ego antiquitatis peritissimum bonorum scriptorum intelligentissimum eruditissimum nominare merito possum Turneb Advers lib. 11. cap. 18. Silius Italicus Vossius De Poetis Latinis c. 3. gives the reason why he was called Italicus Iacobus Silvius a learned man and great Physician but very covetous Buchanan made these Verses of him Silvius hic situs est gratis qui nil dedit unquam Mortuus gratis quod legis ista dolet Ios Simlerus He expounded the Scriptures with a great commendation in his own Countrey De Republica Helvetiorum praecipuam laudem meretur Melchior Adam Voetius much commends his Epitome Bibliothecae Gesneri cum supplemento usque ad annum 1570 quo studiosi saith he carere non possunt Voet. Biblioth Studiosi Theol. l. 2. There is in Oxford and Sion Library an Edition of Gesners Bibliotheca viz. 1583. wherein there is the Appendix both of Simlerus and Iohannes Iacobus Frisius In the Title are these words Opus non Bibliothecis tantum publicis privatisve instituendis necessarium sed studiosis omnibus cujuscunque artis aut scientiae ad studia melius formanda utilissimum Simonides An ancient Greek Poet. There are his Carmen Gr. Elogia de vanitate vitae Simplicius The Prince of Philosophers in his time These of his Works are published A Commentary on Aristotles Predicaments And on other Books of his And on Epictetus his Enchiridion Gabriel Sionita A great Linguist There is his Geographia Nubiensis ex Arabico in Latinum versa Iacobus Sirmondus a Learned French Jesuite There
l. 23. He not only printed but made excellent Works himself His Thesaurus linguae Latinae never had its fellow Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque commends him and this Work Dictionarium seu Latinae linguae thesaurus non singulas modo dictiones continens sed integras quoque Latine loquendi scribendi formulas ex optimis quibusque Latinae linguae scriptoribus Opus excusum Parisiis apud authorem divisum in Tomos tres anno 1542. Gesner Biblioth Henry Stevens His Thesauri linguae Graecae and his other Works shew his great abilities Scaevola Samarthanus in his second Book of Epigrams hath these Verses In Gellii Noctes Atticas ad H. Stephanum Quis Stephanum esse neget Phoebi de semine cretum Obscuris adfert noctibus ille diem Henry Stevens Roberts Son made also the Greek Concordance Stephanus Stephanius Io. Stobaeus There be his Loci Communes Eclogae Gr. Lat. Sent. Gr. Lat. D r Thomas Stoughton a learned and pious Divine There are Sermons of his in his younger years His form of sound words with the Righteous mans plea to true Happinesse Heavenly Conversation Strabo that faithfull Historian and Geographer He lived in the time of Augustus and Tiberius He hath written seventeen Books of Geography in which all Nations with their deeds the mountains seas limits of all parts of the world which came to his knowledge in his time may be seen as in a glasse Walafr Strabo Anno Dom. 840. a great Scholar He hath written De rebus Ecclesiasticis Strabus Monachus Fuldensis Praecaeteris celebratur Glossa Ordinaria in Scripturam universam Vossius De Poetis Latinis c. 6. He first of all collected the Glosse which was afterward called Ordinary upon the Bible out of the sayings of the Fathers some afterward enlarged it by adding sentences of the Fathers Famianus Strada a famous Oratour Poet and Historian There are his Orationes variae ad facultatem Oratoriam Historiam Poeticam spectantes And his Belgick History Streso a learned Divine His Meditatio Theologica de usu abusu rationis in interpretandis aestimandis rebus scripturis divinis adversus Socinianos novos Weigelianos and his Comment upon some part of the Acts are commended Victorinus Strigelius Anno Christi 1524. His chief Work was his Hypomnemata in utriusque Testamenti libros which he finished a little before his death Codicis sacri partem maximam Commentariis haud prolixis sed nec infructuosis prorsus tamen strictim illustravit Cl. Gatakeri Cinnus c. 2. Kyriacus Strozza a great Philosopher Peter Bembus and Iacobus Sadoletus speak of him in their Epistles Flaminius Nobilius in his Commentaries upon Aristotles first Book De ortu interitu Theodorus Zuingerus in Prolegom ad Polit. Arist. Laurentia Strozza was his Sister Fratrem habuit Kyriacum Strozzam nobilem Peripateticum qui utrum sorori an sorâr ipsi maius lumen ac decus attulerit incertum est adhuc ita in vario laudis genere uterque pari inter se gloria certant Jani Nicii Erythraei Pinacotheca Io. Guliel Stuckius Casaubone Epist. 353. to Stuckâus commends his learned laborious Work entitled Antiquitates Convivales De quibus omnibus omnium eruditissime doctissimus stupendae lectionis vir Johannes Stuckius in explicatione doctissima in Periplum Erythraei maris sive rubri Ariani historici Graeci Philosophi doctissimi Neand Geog. part 2. Ioannes Sturmius Anno Christi 1507. He is styled by Grynaeus Christianus noster Theophrastus See in his first Book of Epistles ninth Epistle a comparison between them His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life Iacobus Sturmius He was born at Argentorate Anno Christi 1490. Thuanus much commends Iacobus Sturmius Tom. 10. Hist. l. 12. and cals him the ornament of the Germane Nobility Tres ei virtutes praeter eximiam verecundiam praecipuè tributae sunt orationis doctrinae prudentiae Melch. Ad. in ejus vit Fr. Suarez His Metaphysical Disputations are much esteemed by some Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue and Appendix C. Suetonius Tranquillus a very faithfull Historian He lived in the times of Trajan and Hadrian Auctor Emendatissimus Candidissimus cui familiare sit amare brevitatem Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 1. c. 31. ex Vopisco Suidas Anno Dom. 1250. Erat Suidas non admodum vetustissimus Grammaticus nullius judicii doctrinae autem mediocris Montac Exercit. 7. Sect. 1. Matthew Sutlive a great Writer of our own who hath written many things against the Papists in Latine and English Most of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Some commend that Book of his styled The Practisâ Proceedings and Laws of Arms described out of the doings of most valiant and expert Captains Eman. Suyvo Fran. Swertius a learned Writer There are his Athenae Belgicae Liberatae urbis deliciae Epitaphia Ioco-seria 12 Caesarum Imagines Historica narratio Rogerus Swinset or Suisset a famous English School-Divine of Merton Colledge in Oxford Anno Dom. 1350. Baleus reckons up his Works Some of them are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Hic scripsit Ephemeridas in arte Cabalistica calculationes Astronomicas admirandae perfectionis Wolf Lect. Memorab Tomo 10. Caspar Schwenckfeldius an Heretick These Works of his are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Stirpium Fossilium Silesiae Catalogus Thesaurus Pharmaceuticus Therio trophaeum Silesiae Frid. Sylburgius He helped Henry Stevens much in his Treasure of the Greek Tongue Vir Graecè doctissimus Meibomii Maecenas c. 26. Fuit vere vir eximius humilis industriae incredibilis candidus apertus Melch. Ad. in ejus vita Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Symmachus He is eloquent in his Epistles Vide Camer Medit. Hist. Cent. 3. c. 56. That saying is often cited out of him Servanda est tot seculis fides sequendi sunt nobis parentes qui sequuti sunt feliciter suos Epist. l. 10. Ep. 54. Michael Syncellus Anno Dom. 890. There is of his Libellus de vita Ignatii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani Gr. Lat. Synesius Cyreneus Anno Dom. 410. A learned Philisopher at the first and afterwards a worthy Father of the Church Synesius is a man well known among Schollers He was made Bishop against his will for his great fame and worth a better Platonist then found Christian. D r Casaub of Enthus ch 3. Gul. Symsonus He hath written De Accentibus Hebraeis Edward Symson likewise is a learned man who wrote Chron. Cathol The End of the Fifth Book THE SIXTH BOOK Of such as were Famous for ZEAL IN THE True RELIGION Or in any Kinde of Learning CHAP. I. T COrnelius Tacitus Maximus prudentiae magister sincerus humanarum actionum arbiter He hath a singular style both in respect of his words and the contexture
and form of them Philippus Beroaldus Tacitum typis excusum primus Orbi dedit Chistetii Anastasis Childerici Reg. c. 19. His History and Annals are translated into English by S r Henry Savill Some preferre his History before his Annals Tadaeus seu Thadaeus Florentinus He taught Physick at Bononia amplissimo honorario and with such an opinion of all men that he was extolled in those times for a second Galen His Works are mentioned by Castellanus de vitis Medicorum Audomarus Talaeus Professour of Eloquence at Paris There are his Rhetorica Prâfatione Epistolae Orationes ejusdem praelect in Cic. Porphyr Arist. Talmud As if you should say Doctrinale in which the Jews have made as it were their Canon Law and their Divinity out of the sentences and examples of their ancient Doctors after the same manner that Peter Lombard the book of Sentences and Gratian the Decrees among the Papists That work was first begun as the Jews themselves Masius Genebrard and Petrus Galatinus have recorded within two hundred years from the Nativity of Christ although it was long after finished at least the Babylonian Talmud for the Talmud of Ierusalem was sooner published See Buxtorfs Bibliotheca concerning the Editions of these two Talmuds There are two parts of the Talmud the Mischna containing the Text of the Talmudical Law This came out about the year of Christ 150. This was read explained and disputed in the Academies of Ierusalem and Babylon Those disputations and the decisions of them were called Gemara So of the Mischna and Gemara came the Ierusalem Talmud Anno Christi 230. But the Babylonish Talmud more perfect and copious finished about the year of Christ 500. L' Emperour hath written a Book which he entitleth Clavis Talmudica Vide Seldenum De Iure Naturali Gentium l. 1. c. 2. p. 34 35. Ruardus Tapperus Charles the fifth Emperour and Philip the King of Spain sometimes the Pope himself required his pains and industry There are his Opera Theologica Io. Tarnovius A learned Lutheran as his Exercitationes Biblicae and Commentaries on the small Prophets shew Paulus Tarnovius he hath written well on Iohn Alex. Tartagnus a learned Italian Lawyer Tatianus Alexandrinus Anno Dom. 180. There is his Oratio contra Gentes Harmonia Evang. Fridericus Taubmanus a learned and pious man There are his Schediasmata Poetica Melodâsia sive Epulum Musaeum Commentariolus posthumus in Moretum incerti authoris His Commentary on Plautus and Virgil. Ioh. Taulerus a Preacher of Argentine in Germany Anno 1350. He taught openly against all mens merits and against Invocation of Saints and preached sincerely of our free Justification by grace Francis Taylor A learned Linguist and worthy Divine of the Assembly at Westminster He and D r Boot wrote Examen Praefationis Morini In Biblia Graeca de Textus Ebraici corruptione Graeci authoritate He hath put out other Works himself Tractatus de Patribus Rabbi Nathan Pirke Aboth Capitula Patrum and other Works D r Thomas Taylor a solid and judicious Divine There are divers usefull Treatises of his published A Comment on Titus the twelfth Chapter of the Revelat. A Book in Folio containing divers Tracts And other Treatises mentioned in the late Catalogue of Divinity-Books Sir William Temple a learned Gentleman and great Ramist There is his Analysis Logica 30 Psalmorum Scholia upon Ramus his Logick And other Works Io. Temporarius a miracle in nature if that be true which is reported of him He was made Knight by Charles the Great in the fifteenth year of his Age. He hath written Chron. demonstrat Publius Terentius Terence Erasmus somewhere saith thus of him Plus est exacti judicii in una Terentianâ Comaediâ absit Nemesis dicto quam in Plautinis omnibus Tully ad Atticum quotes Terence to justifie his own Latine Tertullian He was born in Carthage a famous Town in Africa Anno Dom. 200. The ancientest of the Latine Fathers He was expert both in Greek and Latine was a great Philosopher Lawyer would dispute well was eloquent in writing When the Christians were vexed with wrongs and falsly accused of the Gentiles Tertullian taking their cause in hand defendeth them against their persecutors and their slanderous accusations Cyprian Bishop of Carthage so esteemed his writings that he read somewhat in them every day and called him his Master he would say to his servant Da Magistrum that is Tertullian Ierom also commends him much in his Apologeticall Book against the Gentiles Some much commend his Apology Heraldus and others have commented on that Others his Book De pallio Iunius and Salmasius have written upon that Libellus mole exiguus sed dignitate grandis ut qui maximé Jun. in Epist. ad Not. in Tertul. lib. de Pallio He was a Montanist and a Millenary Scis quam durus sit asper sermo Tertulliani Certe stridet magis quam loquitur Calv. Epist. N. S. p. 373. See in Minutius Foelix Tertullianus perturbatissime loquitur ut Afer Ludov. Viv. de trad discip l. 3. Testamentum Novum There is Testamentum Graecum cum notis Stephani Scaligeri Casauboni Testamentum Graecum Latinum interpret Bezae Testamentum Novum opera Eliae Hutteri 12 Linguis Testamentum Novum Arabice ex Editione Thomae Erpenii Testamentum Novum Syriacè sed Charactere Hebr. cum interpret Imman Tremellii Testamentum Novum Graecè ex editione Rob. Stephani Testamentum Novum Germanicè per Mart. Lutherum Testamentum Novum Anglicè cum notis Rhemensibvs CHAP. II. JO. Ravisius Textor was born at Nevers in France A certain Frenchman called Textor writeth a Book which he named Ossicina wherein he weaveth up many broken ended matters and sets out much râff raff pelsery trumpery baggage and beggery ware clampard up of one that would seem to be fitter for a shop indeed then to write a Book Aschams Toxophilus pag. 26. Themistius a wise man and great Philosopher All his Works are in one Volume Themistocles Plutark writes his Life Theocritus a famous Greek Poet. There are his Ioyllia Epigrammata Theodoret Bishop of Cyrus in Syria Anno Dom. 430. He propounded Chrysostom as his worthy patern in forming his style of writing and by this means he proved so fluent and eloquent full of grace and learning in his Works The Lives of the Primit Fathers He hath written part of the Ecclesiastical History and other Works Theodotio Ponticus He hath turned the Old Testament into Greek Theon a great Mathematician He hath written in Greek upon Aratus Euclide Ptolomy Exercitationes Rhetoricae Gr. Lat. Theophanes There are his Hymus in Deiparam Oratio Gr. Lat. ante exaltationem crucis Theophilus Antiochenus Anno Dom. 170. He hath written upon the four Gospels Against the calumniators of the Christian Religion Philippus Theophrastus He was so called from his divine speaking before he was
called Tyrtamus He is the only Greek Writer of Characters Arte an sorte datum Theophrasti sit tibi nomen Nescio divino nomen ab eloquio Steph. Paschas Icon. He was one of Aristotles own Disciples and succeeded him in his School much commended by him an excellent Philosopher certainly by those Works of his not the twentieth part of what he had written that remain to this day D r Casaub. of Enthus c. 3. Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Theophylact Archbishop of Bulgaria Anno Dom. 930. Calvis 912. Helv. Others say 1070 1071. saith Baronius He is the Epitomator of Chrysostom Andrew Thevet the King of Frances Cosmographer He hath written an universal Cosmography in French in two Tomes in Royal-paper it came forth Anno 1575. in which he doth not only rehearse what he learned from the books of others but what he himself had seen by travelling almost over the world and by viewing all the Seas So that some think there is nothing more learned and more orderly disposed published in that kinde Thuanus and Casaubone slight him He hath written also Les Vies des hommes illustres the Lives of illustrious men in French in a great Folio with their Pourtraicts Herbert Thorndike a learned Divine His Works are commonly known Iacobus Augustus Thuanus a most faithfull Historian and the chief of those of this last Age. President of the Parliament at Paris He writes a History of things done throughout the whole world from the year of Christ incarnate 1545 even to the year 1608 in a most elegant style Incomparable Mounsieur De Thou who is a glory to the Romish Synagogue it self and whose History the most exact and excellent that ever was written by a humane pen ought alwayes to be dear to the Christian world Sir Simonds D' Ewes his Primitive practice for preserving Truth Sect. 16. His History and other Works are in four Volumes in Folio Thucidides Historicorum omnium qui in Graecia floruerunt longè clarissimus Naudaeus De Studo militarâ l. 1. A most famous Historian both for his eloquence and faithfulnesse The beginning continuance and end of the Peloponnesian warre is most exactly described by Thucidides an Athenian Gentleman the Penner thereof who flourished in that time and saw the warre with his eyes from the beginning to the end yea was a chief Captain therein a Writer for certain truth of History and perfect reckoning of time most excellent and of such account in the Ages following that even the best followed him and gave credit to him Demosthenes the famous Oratour of Athens took pains to copy out his Books eight times with his own hand as Lucian reporteth Livelies Chronology of the Persian Monarchy Multum fidei si quis alius scriptor hic meretur Nam egregium veritatis in eo studium elucet illa scripsit quibus interfuit Voss. De Hist. Graec. l. 1. c. 4. Vide plura ibid. Tibullus a most elegant Poet. Daniel Tilenus a learned man but inconstant he fell off from us to Arminianism He hath written Notes and Observations upon Bellarmines Disputation De Christo Capite And on his Book De Summo Pontifice and his Book De verbo Dei Parenaesis ad Scotos Amica collatio Tileni Cameronis de Gratia voluntatis humanae concursu Disput. de Antichristo Consideratio sent Jac. Arminii de Praedestinat gratia Dei Libero Arbitrio Syntagma Disputationum in Academia Sedanensi Andreas Tiraquellus He is styled by Conradus Ritterhusius Varro ille Gallicus He hath written well upon Alexander ab Alexandro his Book Genialium dierum what Alexander hath written briefly and without mention of Authours he hath illustrated with his Commentary and shewed to whom he was beholding for what he had Iacobus Tirinus a learned Jesuite he hath commented on all the Scripture CHAP. III. FR. Toletus a learned Cardinal and Jesuite Beza much commended his Commentary on Iohn to Casaubone as Casaubone relates in his Epistle to Fronto Ducaeus and deservedly saith he Nam in ejus scriptis quae legi cum excellente rerum Philosophicarum Theologicarum notitia par erat modestia quae judicio meo tum in alio quovis scriptore tum in Theologo potissimum laus est vel praecipua He hath commented also upon Luke on the Epistle to the Romans And put out several other Works Cardinal D'Ossat in the second Book of his French Letters saith When he perceived himself near death he sent to the Pope then to desire his holy Benediction as it is the custom of people of quality when they finde themselves in such extremity and his Holinesse saith he without an example of the like in our time went from his lodging to give it him in person and stayed with him about half an hour comforting him and weeping bitterly and in the end taking his leave of him he kissed him in the forehead and after his death caused him to be buried with great and publick solemnity Iacobus Philippus Thomasinus There are his Elogia virorum doctorum Italiae And Laurentii Pignorii Bibliotheca Musaeum Georgius Tompsonus George Thompson Vir egregie doctus gente Scoto-britannus mihique obtulit recens à se Londini editum libellum Opus est sane non ineruditum quod arguat scriptorem multae lectionis nisi quod supra modum modestiae effervescit quo nomine etiam serio reprehensus est ab Heroe Scaligero Baud. Epist. Cent. 2. Ep. 56. Vide etiam Epist. 91. That Book is his Vindex veritatis adversus Iustum Lipsium He hath put out another Work entituled La Chasse de la Beste Romaine Cuthbert Tonstall Bishop of Durham famous in those times for Learning and integrity of life He hath written De veritate Corporis Sanguinis Domini in Eucharistia De arte supputandi In Ethica Aristotelis Synopsis Torquatus Tassus a learned Poet. Aug. Torniellus a learned and diligent Italian Historian There are his Annales sacri ab orbe condito ad Christi passionem in 2 Tomes Levinus Torrentius Episcoporum superioris seculi doctissimus Meibomii Maecenas c. 12. He hath published a learned Commentary upon Suetonius his Caesars upon Horace a work De bello Turcico He was a great Poet Efferant Bembos Pontanos Flaminios Itali attollant caeteri suos Nos Torrentium vel ipsorum Italorum judicio Lyrici carminis post Horatium principem laudemus qui perennis perpetuique torrentis instar sacra carmina ad extremam usque aetatem mira ubertate profudit Aub. Mir. Elog. Belg. Ioannes Tortellius He hath written De Orthographia Dan. Tossanus He hath written upon Ieremies Lamentations divers parts of the New Testament and several other Works Synopsis de Patribus quo tempore vixerint quantum eis deferendum qua cautione legendi Paul Tossanus He hath written Index in S. Biblia part 2. De vita
himself to the searching of the Scripture and had considered diligently that Article of Justification comparing the sentences together he giveth place and judgeth the Bishop of Romes Doctrine to be false Whereupon they rejoyced together And as the duty of Bishops is began to instruct the people in Istria and preach diligently the benefit of Christ imploy'd upon mankinde and declare what works God requireth of us to the intent they might call men again to the true Religion Iacobus Verheidenus That Book of his is of good use Effigies Elogia Theologorum qui Romanum Antichristum praecipuè oppugnarunt Andreas Vesalius He was born at Bruxels in Brabant Anno Christi 1514. A famous Physician He professed Anatomy at Basil Padua and almost in all the Universities of Italy He wrote Opus admirandum De humani corporis fabricâ in which he so expressed all its members in figures that he even seems to expose them to view and this he put forth at 28 years Et sanè opus illud De corporis humani fabricâ certissimis demonstrationibus aptum gravissimo dicendi genere conditum robusti ingenii divinum vigorem eruditionemque pertinaci studio auctam longè lateque ostentat Castellani vitae Illust. Medic. Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Sextus Aurelius Victor A most elegant Historian who lived under Constantius and Iulian. There is his Origo gentis Rom. De viris illustribus De Caesaribus Histor. Augustae Epitome which was rather anothers of the same name Hugo de S. Victore His Works are in three Tomes Many of which are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue Richardus de S. Victore He flourished in the time of Hugo de S. Victore about the year 1130. and lived in the same Monastery with him His Works are extant in two Tomes and many of them mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Fr. à Victoria Professour at Salamanca Clenard in his second book of Epistles pag. 241 242. makes honourable mention of him Ignorat Salmantica saith he quem possideat thesaurum in nostro Victoria gratulentur sibi Dominici monasteria quod tale decus meruerunt So called from Victoria a Town of Cantabria in Spain There be his Relect. Theologicae Summa Sacramentorum Ecclesiae Victorinus Afer Anno Dom. 270. There are these Works of his Adversus Arianos De Trinitate Hymni tres De Macchabaeis fratribus Liber contra Manichaeos Item de principio diei Petrus Victorius a singular Grecian Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Marcus Hieron Vidas He so excelled in Poetry Ut proximè ad Vergilianam excellentiam illum pervenisse omnes judicent Cujus rei insigne testimonium praebet insigne illud nunquam satis laudatum opus Christiadâs Poema proculdubio quod tam materia quam compositione stylo debet meritò praeferri caeteris omnibus scriptis quae à nostri saeculi Poetis melioribus tradita sunt Continet enim vitam Christi ac gesta libris 6. Scripsit eadem felicitate De arte Poetica lib. 3. Boissardi Bihliotheca Vide plura ibid. Franciscus Vieta a learned French Mathematician There are his Opera Mathematica Vol. 2. Relatio Calendarii vere Gregoriani cum aliis opusâ Universalium inspectionum ad Canonem Mathemat lib. singularis De Aequatione recognitione emendatione Nic. Vignerius a learned French Historiographer There are To 3. de la. Bibliotheq Hist. and other Works of his Nic. Vignerius Sonne to the other a learned Divine He hath published an excellent Treatise in French styled Theatre de l' Antichrist and a Dissertation in Latine of the Excommunication of the Venetians against Cardinal Baronius And Theses of the Satisfaction of Christ which Rivet highly commends and annexeth unto his own Disputations Io. Bapt. Villalpandus A learned Divine and Mathematician He hath written well upon Ezekiel Arnaldus de Villa-novax or Villa-novanus There is a Town in Catalouia in Spain which is called Villa-nova His several Physical Works are mentioned by Castellanus De vitis Medicorum Longolius commends Simon Villa-novanus Longolius Epist. lib. 3. Octaviano Grimoaldo hath this passage of him Non dici potest quam de Villanovano laborem nec co tam amicitia nostra quae quidem summa est adductus moveor quà m humanitate naturameâ qui tam praeclarum ingenii lumen tam misere extingui doleam Otium illi ad aliquot annos est opus non quo vel cum Budaeis vel cum Erasmis nostris quos jam elegantia dicendi subtilitate vicit sed cum veteribus illis aliquando contendat See also there several Epistles of his to Baptista Egnatius wherin he commends him Alexander de Villa Dei Loquendi quondam magister singularis habebatur Ram. Orat. Refor Par. Acad. Laurentius Villa-vincentius a Spaniard He wrote a Book De rectè formando Theologiae studio which he took from Hyperius who wrote of the same Argument viz. De ratione studii Theologici So Solinus takes all he hath from Plinie Vide Salmos Prolegom in Solinum Vincentius Belluacensis seu Bellovacensis He made four Tomes and gave them the name of a Glasse Speculum Historiale l. 32. Speculum Naturale l. 33. Speculum Doctrinale l. 13. Speculum Morale l. 3. Vincentius Lirinensis Anno Dom. 430. He writes against the Pelagians and Nestorians Scripsit opusculum parvum mole sed virtute maximum Bellarm Vossius Hist. Pelag. lib. 1. cap. 9. reckons him among the Semi-Pelagians and thinks his Commonitorium was either written against Austen himself or those at least who followed Austens opinion concerning Predestination Et fortè saith he hac ratio est cur nomen suum praeterierit quod adversariis illis suspectum esse sciret Nam sub Peregrini nomine commonitorium suum edidissâ ex Praefatione cognoscimus Petrus de Vineis He hath written Epist. l. 6. Elias Vinetus a most learned and eloquent man he hath written a Commentary and illustrations upon Ausonius A Preface and Annotations on Persius Upon Aurelius Victor Antonius Viperanus There is an Oration of his at the funeral of the Emperour Charles the fifth A Work Describenda Historia And other Works CHAP. VI. PEt. Viretus an eloquent French Divine whom Calvin desired for his Colleague His French Books are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque Virgilius a Bishop in Bavaria much renowned for his Piety and Learning being seen in all Sciences especially in the Mathematicks was condemned for an heretick for affirming that there were Antipodes Polyd. Virgilius or Vergilius a man not much to be trusted for his relation of English affairs Vir multis nominibus clarissimus Lel. Comment in Cygneam cantionâm Utinam Polydorus tam oculatus fuisset testis in rebus Britannicis quam interim est tersus nitidus elegans Nae ille tum exegisset opus immortalitate planè dignissimum modo eadem opera
chanced one the rest looking upon to fall down by sudden death This Waldus being one of them who beholding the matter more earnestly then the other and terrified with so heavy an example Gods holy Spirit working with all was stricken with a deep and inward repentance whereupon followed a new alteration with a carefull study to reform his former life He admonished others also to repent and ministred large alms of his goods to such as needed Many people therefore daily resorting to him and he seeing them ready and diligent to learn he began to give out to them certain rudiments of the Scripture which he had translated himself into the French Tongue The Bishops seeing him so to intermeddle with Scriptures and to have such resort about him albeit it was but in his own house under private conference threatned to excommunicate him if he did not leave so to do He despising their Excommunication they ceased not with prison with sword and banishment to persecute him till at length they had driven both Waldus and all the favourers of his true preaching out of the City Whereupon came first their name and they were called Waldenses or Pauperes de Lugduno because they being thrust out both of Countrey and goods were compelled to live poorly whether they would or no. See Doctor Chalon Credo Ecclesiam Sanctam Catholicam part 2. pag. 91 92 93 94. D r Iohn Wallis the learned Professor of Arithmetique and Geometry in Oxford and one of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster There is his Grammaticâ linguae Anglicanae Another Work in English Nich. Waltherus an eminent Divine in East-Frizeland He hath published Spicilegium Controversiarum 22. De SS Dei nominibus Officina Biblica Harmonia Biblica sive Conciliator locorum Bibliorum Harmonia totius Scripturae Iâ Wamesius De Appellat Consilia Samuel Ward a learned and pious Divine There is his Magnetis reductorium Theologicum And divers English Sermons D r Samuel Ward Professor of Divinity in Cambridge His Gratia discriminans is an excellent Sermon and opposite to the Arminian Doctrine Sir Iames Ware He hath written De Scriptoribus Hiberniae Antiquitates Hiberniae Casper Waserus a learned Linguist He hath written De antiquis nâmmis mensuris Hebraeorum De nummis Ebraeis in usu Scriptor diligentissimus doctissimusque Selder uâ De Iure Naturali Gentium l. 6. c. 17. Dr. Gilbert Wats a learned Englishman now living Gulielmus Watsius an English Divine whom Vossius in his Book De vitiis Sermonis often honourably mentions He hath translated Austens Confessions and added Notes to it Geo. Weiganmeierus There are these Works of his published Iustit Heb. Linguae per Tab. Abbreviat Hebr. in Com. Hebr. Abbreviat Hebr. explicatio Crinesius De Confas Linguarum c. 3. commends him for a most accurate writer and mentions him with Drusius Schindler Buxtorf as one of the most approved Grammarians of our age Mar. Frider. Wendelinus He hath put forth these Works Christiana Theologia Admiranda Nili Institutiones Logicae Contemplationes Physicae And some Theolog. Exercit. lately Io. de Wesalia See Foxes Acts and Monum Vol. 1. p. 948. There are his Paradoxa Matthaeus Wesenbecius was born at Antwerp Anno à Salute partâ 1531. a learned Lawyer Fuit Theoricus instructissimus practicus excellentissimus Melch. Adam in ejus vita Nostri seculi alter Papinianus conjunxerat ille verae religionis studium professionem cum juris prudentia Gryn Epist. l. 1. Epist. 11. Melchior Adam in his Life relates the manner of his conversion from Popery His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones and Melchior Adam in his Life He made this Epitaph for himself before his death Matthaeus placidâ sopitus pace quiesco Iustitiae juris praeco Wesenbecius Vita mihi studium fuit impensique labores Et dolor gemitus assiduaeque preces Iova pater miserere mei miserere meorum Solius in Christi sanguine nostra salus Wesselus Groningensis otherwise named Basilius He preceded Luther he was excellently learned in Physick Divinity in the Greek Hebrew and Latine and therefore of the people he was called Lux mundi the light of the world whom Luther was wont to call his prodromus He demonstrated that the Pope was Antichrist whom the Disciples of Christ ought in no wayes to follow He wrote a Book De dignitate potestate Ecclesiastica in which book he saith That Subjects should be absolutely and simply bound to beleeve the Pope is so irrational and full of blasphemy that it is found more pestilent then any heresie whatsoever Being aged upon a certain time when a young man called M. Ioannes Ostendorpius came to him he said these words Well my childe thou shalt live to that day when thou shalt see that the doctrine of these new and contentious Divines as Thomas and Bonaventure with others of the same sort shall be utterly rejected and exploded from all true Christian Divines And this which Ostendorpius then being young heard Weselus to speak he reported himself to Noviomagus which wrote this story Anno 1520. and heard it of the mouth of the said Weselus Anno 1490. Foxes Act. and Monum vol. 1. p. 955 956. Vide Effig vit Profes Acad. Groningae Omlandiae Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Matth Westmonasteriensis Anno Dom. 1370. A famous Historian Elizabeth Weston a learned English woman commended by Ioseph Scaliger and Ianus Dousa She hath written a Book of Poetry called Parthenicon Angla vel Angelica es vel prorsus es Angelus immo Si sexus vetat hoc Angelus est animus So Dousa as I remember William Whateley a Divine well versed in the original Text both Hebrew and Greek a frequent and powerfull Preacher and whose Life was answerable to his Doctrine There are his Exposition of the ten Commandments A Care-cloath or Treatise of the Cumbers of Marriage Prototypes And some Sermons Deg. Wheare both learned and godly he was History-Reader in Oxford He hath put out a Book entitled De ratione as methodo legendi Historias dissertatio Where he reckons up the several Greek and Latine Historians and censures them and shews the method of reading them Abraham Wheelock He was the first Arabick Professor in Cambridge He hath put out Beda in Latine and Saxon with Notes D. William Whitaker a learned and pious Divine He was Master of S. Iohns Colledge in Cambridge and the Kings Professor in Divinity Famous for his admirable skill in the Arts and Tongues and for his controversal Works especially his Confutation of Campian Sanders Paree William Rainolds Stapleton and Bellarmine That honour of our Schools and Angel of our Church learned Whitaker then whom our Age saw nothing more memorable What clearnesse of judgement what sweetnesse of style what gravity of person what grace of carriage was in that man Who ever saw him without reverence or heard him without
learned and pious Divine 126 Baliol. Colledge 96 Balsac an eloquent Frenchman 126 Theodorâ Balsamon one of the chief of the Greek Canonists ib. Dominic Bannes a famous Dominican ib. William and Iohn Barclay 127 Francis Barbarus a learned Venetian ib. Hermolaus Barbarus one of the great restorers of Learning ibid. Petrus Angelus Bargaeus a learned Poet ib. Peter Baro ibid. Gaspar Barlaeus a great Poet ibid. Caesar Baronius 127 128 Iustus Baronins changed his name ibid. Robert Baronius a learned Scotchman ib. Verses of him ibid. Gul. Sallustius Bartasse an excellent French Poet. ibid Gaspar Barthius a learned Germane ibid. Bartoluâ de Saxoferrato a great Lawyer 129 Basil the Great 129. Why so called ib. Basil Bish. of Seleucia when he lived 129 Basil an University when founded 68 Dominious Baudius an elegant Poet 129 Bernardus Bauhusius made a Book of the Virgin Mary by changing one Verse a 1022 wayes 129 Martinus Becanus a learned Jesuite ibid. Christoph. Beckman a learned Linguist ib. Beda an Englishman the learnedst man of his time 130 Why called venerable 130 William Bedwell skilfull in the oriental Tongues 130 W. Bedle a learned Bishop of Ireland 131 Robert Bellarmine commended 131 William Bellay 132 Francis de Belleforest a learned French Historian 132 Petrus Bellonius 132 Peter Bembus a learned Venetian and Cardinal 132 133 R. Benjamin a famous Jewish Geographer ib. Antonius Benivenius 133 Paulus Benius 133 Berengarius a learned Frenchman the first that was counted an heretick for denying Transubstantiation ib. Bernard when he lived 133. A learned Writer in those obscure dayes 133 134 Philippus Beroaldus 134 Two Philippi Beroaldi both Bononians and of the same age and learned ibid Matthaeus Beroaldus both learned and pious ib. Bertramus a learned man 134 Bonaventure Cornelius Bertram a famous Hebrician 135 Bessarion made Cardinal for his Learning 135. He and two others brought Greek and pure Latine into Europe ibid. Xystus Betulâius a learned Writer ibid. Theodore Beza commended 135 Bibles divers 136 137 Theodorus Bibliander a good Linguist 137 Gabriel Biel 137 Nicolas Biesius a learned Dutchman ibid. Hier. Bignonius 137 Eberardus Bilichius 137 Iacobus Billius Prunaeus a great Grecian 138 Thomas Bilney 138 Bishop Bilson rose by his Learning 138 Laelius Bisciola a learned Italian 138 Bilibaldus Pirkheimerus a great Mathematician 138 Peter Blesensis 138 Davil Blondel a learned French Divine 138 Flavius Blondus a famous Historian and Secretary to many Popes 138 Ludovicus Blosius a good Linguist 138 Iohn Boccace a famous Poet of Hetruria but too obscene 138 Trajanus Boccalinus an elegant Italian 139 Samuel Bochart a learned French Divine 139 Iohn Bodin a judicious Papist 139 Sir Thomas Bodly a great Scholler and prudent Statist 139 Skilfull in the oriental Tongues the great Founder of the publick Library at Oxford 140 His Arms ibid. Bisanson 86 Boetius Severinus when he lived and why called Severinus 140 He was a great Peripatetick slain by Theodoricus King of the Goths ibid. Iohn Bois a good Grecian and Divine 140 Hath published learned Notes on Chrysostom ibid. Daniel Bombergus a famous Printer who hath printed many excellent works 140 Bonaventure called a Seraphical Doctor 141 His Opuscula commended by Gerson 141 Alexander of Hales his Speech of him and when he flourished ibid. Why he was called a Saint by Thomas Aquinas though living and when he was canonized by the Pope 141 Franciscus and Lazarus Bonamicus 141 Books The benefit of good Books 30 D. Boot a learned Dutchman 141 His Works commended 141 142 Cardinal Borromaeus 141 Franciscus Bosquetus a learned Lawyer 141 He hath written a History of the French Popes ib. Henry de Bracton a learned Lawyer 142 Iohn Bradford a learned and holy Martyr 142 William Bradshew a learned Divine 142 Thomas Bradwardine Archbishop of Canterbury and Confessor to King Edward the 3 d 142 He opposed the Arminian Doctrine stoutly in those times 142 Henricus Brandius a learned and pious Divine 142 Tycho Brahe a Danish Knight a great Astronomer 142 Bredah 74 Edw Brerewood the first Astronomy Lecturer in Gresâam-Colledge 143 Iohn Brentius a learned Divine 143 Guido de Brâs a French Martyr 143 Henry Brigges a famous Mathematician and pious 143 Thomas Brightman a learned and godly Divine 143 Iohn Brinsley a learned man 143 Barnabas Brissonius the learned Chief Justice of France ib. Paschasius his Verses of him ib. Iohn Briton a great Lawyer 143 Erasmus Brockman a learned Lutheran 143 Ioannes Brodaeus a man of stupendious reading and incredible memory ib. Sir Robert Brook a great Lawyer 144 Hugh Broughton a great Hebrician and Grecian but injudicious and haughty ibid. Christopher Brower a learned man 144 Henricus Brucaeus a great Geometrician ibid. Fr. Lucas Brugensis a famous Popish Divine 144 Petrus Brunellus 144 Guil. Bucanus 144 George Buchanan a famous Scotch Poet and Historian 144 Verses of him ib. Martin Bucer a judicious Commentator 145 Abraham Bucoltzer a good Chronologer 145 Iohn Buckeridge 145 William Budy when and where born 146 He accused the Pope Bishops and Priests before Luther 145 Buchanans Distich and Paschasius his Verses of him 145 146 Io. Bugenhagius 146 Henry Bullenger 146 Henry Bunting 146 Aegidius Burdinus 146 Francis Burgersdicius 146 Paulus Burgensis a converted Jew 146 Walter Burley the Master of King Edward the 3 d. 146 Iohn Buridan 146 Burgundius 146 Part of his Epitaph ib. Robert Burhill 147 Anne du Burg a learned Lawyer and Martyr 147 Aâgerius Busbequius a great Embassador and learned man 147 Ioannes Busaeus 147 Iohn Buxtorf the Father and Son both learned Hebricians 147 C CAbbalistical Arts condemned 53 Iulius Caesar a great Souldier and Scholler 148 149 Thomas de Vio Cajetanus a learned and candid Popish Cardinal 148 Caius Colledge in Cambridge 53 Iohn Caius a learned Doctor of Physick 148 Taxed 100 101 Domitius Calderinus Veronensis a good Grammarian 149 Ambr. Calepinus 149 Georgius Calixtus a most learned man ib. Iohn Calvin a most learned and judicious Divine 149 150 Sethus Calvisius a learned Chronologer ib. Giraldus Cambrensis 150 Cambridge 100 101 102 Not founded by Cantaber 100 Nor Sigebert ibid. Bede read not there ibid. William Camden our British Pausanias 150 Ioach. Camerarius the great Light of Germany 151 Philippus Camerarius 151 Iohn Cameron a learned Scotchman 151 Io. Camers 151 Thomas Campanella 151 Thomas and Laurence Campegius 151 Ioannes Campensis 152 Edmund Campian a good Orator 152 Cane 85 Angelus Caninius a good Linguist 152 Henry and Peter Canisius 152 William and Theodore Canter both learned men 152 Melchior Canus a learned and ingenious Spaniard 152 153 Ierom Capivacceus or Capivacca a famous Professor of Physick in Padua 153 Iacobus and Ludovicus Capâllus both learned French men 153 Ludovicus Carbo 153 Ierome Cardane a great Scholler 153 George Carleton 153 Iohn Carion 154 Charles the Great why so called 154 Charles the 5 th and 9 th Kings of France 154 Nic Carpenter 155 Des Cartez 155 Dionysius
Donatus Marcellus Donatus and Ierom Donatus 182 Hugo Donellus a great Lawyer ib. Doway 73 Ianus Douza the Father and Sonne 182 George Downham a learned and godly Bishop ib. Andrew Downs the Kings Professour of Greek in Cambridge 183 Sir Franân Drake the first that sailed about the whole world ib. Ierom Drexelius a learned Jesuite ib. Iohn Drusius ib. Fr. Duarenus a learned Lawyer ib. Dublin 104 Fronto Ducaeus a learned and candid Jesuite 183 Gul. Durandus a great Poet Divine and Lawyer 183 Why called Speculator ib. Durandus a S. Portiano 184 Samuel Durant 184 Ioanes Stephanus Durantus ib. Claudius Duret a great French Lawyer ib. Ludovicus Duretus a learned Physician ib. E KIng Edward the sixth both learned and pious 184 185 Edmund Hall in Oxford 99 Egesippus when he lived 185 Eginhardus 185 Elias Levita a most learned Jewish Grammarian 185 Queen Elizabeth a learned Queen 185 186 Sir Thomas Elyot 185 Emanuel-Colledge 103 Ubbo Emmius a learned man Professor of History and Greek at Groning 186 Constantin L' Empereur a famous Hebrician 186 England suffered most shamelesse servitude under the Pope heretofore 7 The first Kingdom that received the Gospel 7 By whom the Christian Religion was first brought into England 7 England had the first Christian King and Emperour ib. Learned men in England 91 The Universities in England 91. to 97 Quintus Ennius 186 Ephraem Syrus and Antiochenus 186 Epictetus the Philosopher 186 Epiphanius Bishop of Salamina in Cyprus famous for learning and skill in five Tongues 186 187 Epiphanius the Deacon 187 Epistles what they are much learning in them 188 Who write the best Epistles ib. Desiderius Erasmus where born 187 His Statue at Roterdam in brasse on the market place with an Inscription 188 Verses in the house where he was born ib. A great Scholler and the authour of many excellent Works 188 189 An Epitaph of him 189 Erasmus a learned Bishop 189 Tho. Erastus a learned Physician 189 Eratosthenes 190 Erford 70 Erinnas a learned Poet 190 Thomas Erpenius excellently skilled in the Oriental Tongues ib. Claudius Espencaeus a learned French Bishop 190 191 Petrus Espinacus Archbishop of Lions 191 William Estius a learned and modest Doctor of Paris 191 He doth well on all Pauls Epistles 191 His Epitaph ib. Ethicks whence so named 45 m. What it is conversant about ib. Ethiopick Language 60 61 Evagrius Scholasticus 191 Euclide a great Geometrician 191 Nic. Evârardus 191 Evora 90 Euripides 191 Eusebius Caesariensis when he lived and flourished 192 Why called Eusebius Pamphili but not Pamphilus 192 The ancient Ecclesiastical History ib. Eusebius Emissenus 192 Eustathius Archbishop of Thessalonica 192 When he lived ib. Eustochium a learned woman 192 Euthymias Zigabenus 192 Eutropius 193 Excester Colledge 96 Aben Ezra a most learned Jewish Grammarian 193 F IAcobus Faber Stapulensis a very learned man 193 Petrus Faber 193 Buchanans Epigramme of him 194 Nic. Faber Master to Lewis the 13 th King of France 194 Guido and Nicolaus Fabricii 194 Georgius Fabricius 194 Steph. Fabricius 194 Paulus Fagius a great Hebrician 194 The Germans speech of him ib. Anton. Faius 194 Abraham Faius his son 195 Gabriel Fallopius 195 William Farel a learned and godly Minister of Genevah 195 Bezas Epigram of Calvin Viret and him ibid. Fasciculus Temporum 195 The Fathers They were eminent for learning holinesse of life and eloquence 195 D r Featly 195 Minutius Felix an eloquent Father 195 Lucius Fenestella a famous Historian not the Author of the Book De Magistratibus Sacerdotio Romanorum 196 Dudlie Fenner a learned Divine 196 Ioannes Fernelius a learned French man Physician to Henry the 2 d King of France 196 Ferrara 78 Fulgentius Ferrandus 201 Arnoldus Ferronus 196 Io. Ferus a famous German Preacher 196 Iacobus Fevardentius a furious Franciscan 196 Ioannes Fichardus 197 Marsilius Ficinus of Florence a famous Philosopher Physician and Divine 199 Richard Field a learned Divine 197 Io. Filesacus 197 Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester 197 Sir Anthony Fitzherbert a learned Lawyer 197 Lucius Florus when he lived 197 Ubertus Folieta 197 Patrick and Iohn Forbes 198 Franciscus Forerius 198 Pertus Forrestus a learned Physician 198 Ioannes Forsterus Professor of the Hebrew Tongue at Wittenberg ib. Sir Iohn Fortescue an excellent Antiquary and Lawyer 198 Iohn Fox a Saint-like Historian 198 Wrote elegant Latine 199 Sebastian Fox a most elegant and learned Spanish Philosopher ib. Hieronymus Fracastorius a famous Philosopher 199 France famous for three things 81 It hath bred many learned men ib. Its Universities 81. to 87 Francis the Monk 199 Francis the first King of France when he lived 199 A great restorer of Learning 199 200 Franckford two places of that name 70 Franekere 74 Marquardus Freherus 200 Io. Tho. Freigius famous for his knowledge in Philosophy Philology Law 200 Ramus his Epigram of him ibid. French Language 64 Friburg 71 Nicolaus Frischlinus 200 Iohn Frith a learned Divine and Martyr 200 Iohn Froissard a French Historian 201 Libertus Fromondus 201 Lucas Fruterius 201 Leonardus Fuchsius 201 B. Fulgentius 201 Baptista Fulgosius 201 D r Fulk 201 Nic. Fuller 201 202 G IO. Gagnâius 203 Robert Gagwin ibid. Petrus Galatinus 204 Galeacius Caracciolus 204 Galen a learned Physician of Pergamus ibid. Petrus Gallandius Master to many famous men in France ibid. Galilaeus Galilaeus of Florence ibid. Henricus Gandavensis ibid. Steven Gardiner Bishop of Winchester 205 Petr. Gassendus the greatest Astronomer now living ibid. Thomas Gataker ibid. Lucas and Pomponius Gauricus ibid. Theodorus Gaza ibid. Geber a learned Arabian but very obscure 206 Gelasius primus Papa ibid. Sigism Gelenius ibid. Aulus Gellius when he lived and whether he should be written so or Agellius ibid. Taxed by Ludovicus Vives but defended by Stephanus ibid Geminus ib. Georgius Gemistius Pletho a Grecian and Professor in Greece ibid Gemma Frisius a great Mathematician ib. Why called Gemma ib. Cornelius Gemma a famous Physician and Philosopher of Lovain 207 Gilbert Genebrard a good Hebrician but a most petulant Writer ibid. Geneva 86 87 Innocentius Gentiletus 207 Albericus Gentilis the Regius Professour of Civil Law in Oxford ib. Geometry what it is its excellencies and who first invented it 41 42 Iohn Gerbard a laborious and learned Divine 207 Germany Divers great Schollers bred there 68 The Universities of Germany 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 Iohn Gerson the learnedest man of his time and the onely Doctor of the Councel of Constance 208 He was sirnamed the most Christian Doctor ibid. Paschasius his Verses of him ib. Conradus Gesnerus where and when he was born 208 His Works commended ibid William Gibieuf a learned Doctor of Sorbonne ibid Obertus Gifanius ibid. William Gilbert a famous Englishman 209 His Book of the Loadstone commended ibid. Petrus Gillius a most learned man ibid. Sylvester Gyraldus ibid. Victor Giselinus ibid. Ralph Glanvile a great Lawyer 210 Henricus Glareanus an excellent Mathematician 210
ibid. Conradus Pellicanus a learned Germane Divine a great Linguist ibid. William Pemble a learned and pious English Divine 285 His speech about Justification when he died ib. Pembroke-Colledge in Oxford 99 Pembrook-Hall in Cambridge 101 Iohn Pena Professor of Mathematicks to the King of France in Paris 285 Gabriel Penottus ib. Benedictus Pererius a learned Jesuite ib. William Perkins a learned and godly Divine ib. Commended ib. Cardinal Perron 286 Commended ib. His Books against the Protestants well answered and by whom ib. Nicolaus Perottus 286 Persian Language 61 Aulus Persius Flaccus the most eloquent Satyrist yet obscure 286 Dionysius Petavius a learned French Jesuite 286 Commended and censured ib. Peter-House in Cambridge 101 Samuel Petitus a very learned Frenchman 287 Francis Petrark a witty and sententious Italian Orator and Poet ib. When he was born and died ibid. Commended ib. He inveighs against Rome ib. His Life written and by whom ibid. Part of his Epitaph ibid. Petronius Arbiter an obscene Writer yet his Latine is pure ibid Suffridus Petrus a Frisian who wrote the History of Frisia and of the Writers of Frisia 288 Gasper Peucer a learned Physician and Mathematician ib. He wrote a singular Book of his own imprisonment ib. Christ. Pezelius a learned Writer ibid. Demetrius Phalereus ib. Philo Iudaeus who lived in Christs time or after his passion but was unskilfull in the Hebrew ib. Commended ib. The Book of Wisdome written by him ibid Io. Philoponus ibid. Philosophy natural and moral 44 45 Philosophers the several sorts 44 The chief Philosophers ib. m Iohn Philpot one of the most learned of our English Martyrs 289 Fl. Philostratus ibid. Gul. Philander a very learned man ibid. Franciscus Philelphus ibid. Phisiognomy 51 52 Phoenicians the inventers of Arithmetick 41 Photinus learned but a great Heretick 289 Photius Patriark of Constantinople the learnedst man of his time ibid Physick 45 Alexander and Francis Piccolomny 289 Pet. Picherellus a learned Frenchman ibid. His Notes on a great part of the New Testament unhappily lost ib. Io. Pierius Valerianus 290 Some of his Works commended ibid. Albertus Pighius a learned Papist ibid. He by reading Calvin altered his judgement 290. m. Stephanus Pighius 290 Laurentius Pignorius the great ornament of Italy commended ibid. Pindar one of the chief Lyrick Poets ibid. Commended ibid. Pineda 291 Ioannes Vincentius Pinellus a learned Italian skilled in many Languages ib. How he adorned his house ib. Iohn Piscator an excellent Scripture-Divine but no School-Divine ib. Io. Pistorius ib. Io. Pitsaeus ib. Franciscus and Peter Pithaeus 291 292 Bartholomaeus Pitiscus a learned Divine and Mathematician 292 Plantavitzius ib. Christopher Plantine a learned Printer ib. Bartholomaeus or Baptista Platina a most learned man ib. Felix Platerus Verses on his name ib. Plato was called Divine for his rare wisdom 293 Whence he had his name ib. Plautus where born ib. C. Plinius the Uncle and Plinius secundus the younger ibid. Verses of the younger Pliny 294 Edmund Ployden a great Lawyer ib. His Commentaries commended 294 Plutark where born ib. A grave and learned Writer ib. Commended ib. Verses of him ib. Edward Pocock Professor of Hebrew and Arabick in Oxford ib. Poetry 48 49 50 The several sorts of Poets 49 50 Ioannes Franciscus Poggius Florentinus 295 Poictiers 83 Amandus Polanus 295 Angelus Politianus why so called 295 Commended ib. Iulius Pollux ib. Reginaldus Polus Cardinalis 296 Commended and censured ib. Polyander à Kerckoven ib. Polybius a learned Historian ib. Polycarpus when he lived 290 Arnoldus Pontacus 296 Io. Isaacius Pontanus 97 Lud. de Ponte Romanus or Pontanus 297 Popery what it is 13 The contrarieties in it ib. God had his people in the midst of Popery 15 The Popish Church not holy ib. Ausonius Popma 297 Porchetus ib. Porphyrie an enemy to Christians ib. Gilbertus Porretanus ib. Io. Baptista Porta ib. Ioan. Vincentius Porta 298 Posnavia 87 Ioannes Posselius a pious and learned man 298 Antonius Possevinus ib. Ioannes Posthius a learned Physician and Poet ib. Gul. Postellus a great Linguist ib. The first of Christians which published the rudiments of the Arabick Grammer ib. Odeschalcus Praetorius ib. A Verse upon him ib. Regnerus Praedinius ib. Hieronymus Pragensis when burnt at Constance 299 Prague 87 D r Iohn Preston 299 D r Prideaux ib. Sylvester de Prierie ib. Gilbert and David Primrose ib. Printing an usefull Art by whom invented 53 54 Famous Printers 54 Priscianus a famous Grammarian 299 Proclus had a great memory ib. A great Mathematician and Philosopher ib. Procopius Gazaeus ib. Propertius singular in Elegies 300 Verses of him ib. Prosper of Aquitane ib. Protestants why called Lollards in England and Huguenots in France 21 Proverbs 300 Aurelius Prudentius when he lived ib. Commended ib Claudius Ptolomaeus when he flourished 301 Commended ib. Ptolomaeus Philadelphus a favourer of Learning and famous for a magnificent Library 301 Erye Puteanus 301 Claudius Puteanus commended ib. Samuel Purchas our English Ptolomy 301 302 Pythagoras the Philosopher where born 302 The illustrator if not inventer of the Mathematicks ib. His Schollers highly honoured him ib. Q QUeens Colledge in Oxford 97 In Cambridge 102 Iohannes Quinquarboreus Regius Professor of Hebrew and Chaldee at Paris 302 Quintilian commended 302 R RAbanus Maârâs when he lived 303 Commended ib. Franciscus Rabelaesus a witty but Atheistical French Physician ibid. Iacobus Ranardus a great Lawyer ibid. Georgius Ragusius commended ib. D r Iohn Rainolds a learned and pious Doctor of Oxford ibid. Commended ib. Sir Walter Raleigh ib. Ralph a Monk of Fulda 304 Petrus Ramus commended ib. Verses of him ib. Slain at the great Massacre at Paris ib. Ranulphus ibid Francis Raphelengius a learned Linguist ibid. Rasis or Rhasis a great Physician of Arabia ib. William Rastall a great Lawyer 304 305 Franciscus Ranchinus 305 Ioannes and Pet. Ravennas ibid. Hermannus Ravenspergerus ibid Reconciliation of different Religions how far justifiable 23 24 Whether the Protestants may be Reconciled with the Papists 24 25 Reformation of the Church of Rome necessary 14 15 The Reformed Religion maintained 17 18 19 The means taken by the first Reformers for promoting the work of Religion 19 Reformed Writers commended 19. 20 And the purity of their Doctrine asserted 20. Nicknamed by the Papists 20 The Papists two great Objections against the Reformed Religion answered 21 22 Ioannes Mullerus Regiomontanus one of the famousest Mathematicians of Germany 305 When he lived ib. He found out the tenth sphere and its diurnal motion ibid. Iacobus Reihingius 305 Erasmus Reinholdus a famous Astronomer ibid. Religion that it is 1 What it is 2 The Hebrew Greek and Latine words for Religion opened ib Defined ib. It is true or false ibid. It s antiquity ibid. Rules to know the true Religion 2. 3 Christian Religion planted by the power of God 3 Wherein the glory of Religion lies 3 4 Means to keep us constant in the true Religion 4 Whether men may be saved in
any Religion ibid. Of the chief false Religions 5. to 17 Of the Reformed Religion 17 18 19 The Papists use both violent and fraudulent means to propagate their Religion 16 17 Reliques the worshipping of them condemned 16 Remigius commended 305 306 Georgius Remus ibid. Iohn Reuchlin commended 306 Iovius makes him the author of that Book Epistolae obseurorum virorum ibid. He bred many excellent Schollers ib. Nicolaus Reusnerus 306 Rhemes 85 Beatus Rhenanus commended 306 Verses of him ibid. Rhetorick what it is and whence derived 39 Iohannes Rhodius 307 Ludovicus Coelius Rhodiginus when he lived ibid. Commended ibid. His Epitaph ib. Pet. Ribadeneyra ibid. Fr. Ribera a learned Jesuite ib. Antonius Riccobonus ib. Christophorus Riccius ib. Paulus Riccius a learned Germane Jew converted to the Christian Faith 308 Bishop Ridley the most learned Martyr in Queen Maries dayes ibid. Petrus Riga ibid. Nicolaus Rigaltius ib. Ioh. Riolanus both the Father and the Son ib. Ioachimus Fortius Ringelbergius ibid Fridericus Risnerus ibid. Couradus Ritterhusius when and where he was born 308. 309 Commended ibid. m. Sir Thomas Rives 309 Andrew and William Rivet ib. Mart. de Roa ibid. Franciscus Robortellus ib. Angelus Roccha ib. Robert Rollock a learned Scotch Divine 310 Romances whence the word comes 64 Adrianus Romanus 310 Rome 75 76 Gulielmus Rondeletius an excellent Physician 310 Peter Ronsard Prince of the French Poets ibid. An Epitaph of him ib. Bartas and Cardinal Perrons speech of him 310 311 Io Rosinus 311 Alexander Rosse a learned Scotchman ibid. Rostock 71 Herebertus Rosweydus a learned Jesuite 311 Hieronymus Roverius ib. Hier. Rubeus a famous Physician ibid. Rudolphus secundus Imperator ib. Ioannes Ruellius ibid. Ruffinus Presbyter ib. David Rungius 311 312 Rupertus Abbot of Tuy commended 312 Io. de Rupescissa ib. Ianus Rutgersius ibid. S EManuel Sa 312 Marcus Antonius Cooceius Sabellicus ibid. Raymundus de Sabunde ib. Io. de Sacro bosco a famous Philosopher and Mathematician 313 When he flourished ib. An Englishman ibid. Antonius Sadeel commended 313. m Iac. Sadoletus a learned Cardinall 313 Thought to be poisoned ibid Salamanca 8â Salern 80 81 Iac. Salianus 313 Cl. Salmasius a learned French Critick 313 314 Commended and censured 314 Alph. Salmeron ibid. Salvianus 314 Salustius Crispus ib. Samaritan Language 58 59 Scaevola Sammarthanus a learned French Poet 314 Verses to him ibid. D r Sanderson ibid. Guspar Sanctius a learned Spaniard 315 Antonius and Nic. Sanderus ib. Hugo Sanfordus ibid. Iacobus Sannazarius a learned Poet ibid Cardinal Bembus his Epigram upon him ib. Sappho Lesbia when she lived ib. The Sapphick Verses so called from her 316 Saragossa 90 Erasmus Sarcerius a learned Divine 316 Alex. Sardus ib. Io. Sarisburiensis ib. Adam Sasbout ib. Hieronymus Savanarola a Dominican and famous Preacher ib. Sir Henry Savill a great Mathematician and expert Grecian ib. Commended 317 Scaligers both Iulius and Ioseph ib. Verses of them ibid. Iulius Caesar Scaliger ibid. Commended and censured ibid Ioseph Scaliger commended 317 Ch. Scheibler 319 William Schickard a great Linguist ib. Valentine Schindler ib. Martinus Schoockius ib. School-Divinity 38 Schools Grammer schools the Nurseries of Learning ib. The most famous trivial Schools in England 92 Gaspar and Andrew Schoppius 319 Scotland 53 D r Sclater 321 Learned men of Scotland and its Universities 103 104 Cornel. Schonaeus a Poet of most elegant wit 319 And. Schottus a learned and candid Jesuite ibid. Io. Duns Scotus a learned Englishman the wittiest of all the Schoolmen 320 When he lived ib. Verses of him ib. Iohannes Scotus Erigena an Irishman Master to King Alfred 320 Witty and pleasant ib. He was murthered by his Schollers with their penknives 321 Caelius Sedulius Scotus 322 Carolus Scribanius censured 321 Pet. Scriverius ib. Anna Maria a Schurman a learned Dutchwoman ib. Bartholomaus and Abraham Scultetus 322 Iohn Selden a learned English Lawyer ib. His Books commended ib. What he wrote in all his Books ib. Nicolaus Selneccerus Doctor of Divinity in Lipsia 322 His Distick for himself ib. Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Philosopher when born 323 The Prince of the Stoicks ib. Nero's Schoolmaster ib. Seneca the Tragick Poet ibid. Sixtus Senensis commended ib. Dan. Sennertus a learned Physician ibid. Nic. Serarius a good Hebrician ib. Servius a most learned Grammarian ibid. Sulpitius Severus commended 324 Robert Sheringham ib. D r Sibbes ib. Sir Philip Sidney 324 Sidney-Sussex-Colledge in Cambridge 103 Sienna 80 Sigebertus Monk of Gemblaux 324 Carolus Sigonius a most accurate Writer ib. Siguenca 90 Silius Italicus 324 Iacobus Silvius a learned man and great Physician but covetous ib. Buchanans Verses of him ib. Io. Simlerus 324 325 Simonides 325 Simplicius ib. Gabriel Sionita ib. Iacobus Sirmondus a learned French Jesuite ib. Siville 88 Iohn Sleiden 325 Henricus Smetius 326 Erasmus Schmidt ibid. Bishop Smith and Sir Thomas Smith ib. Rodolphus Snellus 326 Ernardus and Theodoricus Snepsius ibid. Laelius and Faustus and Marianus Socinus 327 Socinianism sprung from Mahometism 9 The main parts of Socinianism 327 Socrates Scholasticus ib. C. Iulius Solinus Polyhist ib. George Sohn Doctor of Divinity in Heidelberg 327 Sophocles ib. Commended 328 Sore or Sorre 75 Dominicus Soto a Spanish Divine of great fame ib. Sozomenâ ib. Spain The famous learned men there 88 The Universities there 88 to 91 Frederick Spanheme a learned and pious French Divine 328 Spanish Language 64 Aelius Spartianus 328 Sir Henry Spelman a learned and painfull Antiquary ib. Edmund Spencer the Prince of English Poets in his time ib. His Epitaph ib. Ad. Spigelius a learned Physician 328 Io. Stadius a great Mathematician 329 Sir William Stamford a great Lawyer ib. Richard Stanihurst a learned Irish Papist ibid. Thomas Stapleton a learned Englishman ib. Papinius Statius a good Poet ib. D. Iosiah Stegman ib. Didacus Stella ib. Godeschalcus Stewichius ib. Henry and Robert Stevens 329 330 Stephanus Stephanius 330 Io. Stobaus ibid Stoicks the strictest Sect of the Philosophers yet farre short of Christians 5 D Stoughton a learned and pious Divine 330 Strabo and Walfr Strabo ibid. Strabus Monachus Fuldensis ib. Authour of the Ordinary Glosse ib. Famianus Strada a famous Orator Poet and Historian ib. Sâreso a learned Divine 331 Victorinus Strigelius when he lived ib. Commended ib. Kyriacus Strozza a great Philosopher ib. Io. Guliel Stuckius commended ib. Ioannes and Iacobus Sturmins ib. Fr. Suarez 332 C. Suetonius Tranquillus a very faithfull Historian 332 When he lived ibid. Commended ibid Suidas ib. D. Sutlive ib. Emanuel Sayno ib. Fran. Swortius ib. Roger Swinset or Suisset a famous English School Divine ib. Commended 332. m. Caspar Schwenckfeldius 333 Frid. Sylburgius a great Grecian ib. Symmachus ib. Gul. Sympsonus and Edward Symson ib. Michael Syncellus ib. Synesius Cyreneus ib. Syriack Language 59 60 T COrnelius Tacitus when he lived 335. m. Commended ibid. His History preferred before his Annals ibid. Tadaus or Thadaeus 336 Audomarus Talaeus Professor of eloquence at Paris 336 Talmud what it is
Bonifacii aliorum Pontificum sunt additae hoc Decretorum Decretalium volumen vocatur Jus Pontificium quia autoritate Pontificis confirmatum de rebus Pontificiis more Pontificio sive Papali autoritativo disserit ad stabilendam Pontificis majestatem autoritatem vel maxime est directum Gerb. ibid. Compilatae sunt Decretales perquendam Barchinonensem fle penna forti Raymundum Natione Catalanum Generalem Praedicatorum Magistrum Capellanum Poenitentiarium Gregorii noni circa annum 1230. Socrates Plato Aristoteles tres viri constituendae Philosophiae sine dubio divinitùs excitati Casaub. Praefat. ad Theophrast Charact. Philosophiae probè locatis fundamentis fine quibus de Galeni sententia nemo medicus bonus dici potest sedulam medicis operam dedit Melch. Adam in vita Opsopaei Nominatur Ethica à Graeca voce ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã id est mos seu coÌsuetudo quia versatur circa hominum mores quapropter latine sciontia moralis appellatur Definiri potest Scientia practica humanarum actionum quatenus in illis honestas locum habere potest Walaei compendium Ethicae Aristotel * Qui delectantur fusa polydaedala varietate remediorum Avicennam amplectantur Cuncta enim hujus aevi remedia ex eo manant Heurnii De studio medicinae bene Instituendo medit Vide plura ibid. In plantis Hebraeis multùm debemus LXX interpretibus Nam absque illis foret paucis Aquilae Theodotionis aliorumque fragmentis non video quid certi statuere possimus de multis plantarum vocabulis quae in veteri instrumento se offerunt Vossius De vitiis Sermonis lib. 1. cap. 28. Amianus l. 22. pro omni experimento dictitat sufficere medico si Alexandria se dixerit eruditum Alexandrinam autem Academiam excepit nostras Patavina in hoc genere laudis cum abundè constet medicum apud nos docturam consecutum majoris fieri quam alterum qui alibi Pignor. Symb. Epist. Epist. 9. This is called by some Theologia naturalis Si quid tamen laudis Metaphysicae sit tribuendum illud erit quod inanes quosdam portentosarum distinctionum fumos invexerit ad obscurandam simplicem veritatem Ames Disputat Theol. advorsus Ethicam See of the Etymology of History and the difference between History and Annals in Vossius his Ars Historica cap. 1. Annales tantummodo referunt quid quoque anno gestum sit Historia etiâm addit quo consilio ac ratione Strad l. 2. prolus. 2. Hist. exercit 10. parte 1 a Sect. 7. Vide Spanhem censuram Dub. Evangel parte 2 da Dub. 2. p. 63. Semper laudata fuit historia quae singularia facta aâque res gestas nobis ostendens cujuscunque temporis ac secuii exempla suppeditat Nec unius regionis cancellis constringitur sed quam laâè terrarum termini extenduntur expatiatur Verum enimverò cum varia sint historiarum genera nullum huic praeferendum videtur quo quis ea pretexit quae multis longeque ac late dissitis regionibus perlustratis maximè notatu digna scripto consignans lectores ne latum quidem unguem progressos per longinquas regiones deducit Hujusmodi historiae itineraria audiunt quae bona fide contexta hac prae reliquis praerogativa gaudent quod majorem fidem mereantur adeoque lectorem certiorem reddant utpote quae ex ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã res gestas casus ac eventa enaârent Constantini L'âmpereur Epist. Dedicat. Ad Itinnerarium D. Benjaminis A Catalogue of some of the chiefest Historians In Historia apud Graecos floruit Thucydides Herodotus Theopompus Apud nos T. Liviâs rispus Salustius plerique alii Polyd Verg. De Invent. Rerum lib. 1. cap. 12. Vossius hath written an excellent book De Historicis Graecis Latinis There are severall Writers joyned together in two Volumes who have written de Historia Bodins Methodus Historica Patritii de Historia Dialogi Pontani de Historia Dialogus Balduinus de Institutione Historiae universae ejus cum Juris prudentia conjunctione Viperanus Robertellus de Scribenda Historia Dionisii Halicarnassei de Thucydidis Historia Judicium Ubertas Felieta de Ratione Scribendae Historiae de Similitudine Normae Polibianae David Chytraeus de Lectione Historiarum recte Instituenda Lucianus de Scribenda Historia Simon Grinoeus de Utilitate Legendae Historiae Christophorus Milaeus de Scribenda Universitatis reâum Historia Caelius Secundus Curio de Historia Legenda Christ Pezel de Argumento Historiarum Theodorus Zuingerus Ioan. Sambutus de Historia Ioannis Thomae Freâgii Historiae Synopsis Epocha est certum atque illustre principium temporis à quo reliqui anni numerantur Epocha autem dicitur à Graeco verbo ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã i. e. retinere inhibere quia est temporis quaedam retentio inhibitio quâ tanquam certo fixóque signo Historiae continentur Apellantur etiam Aera quae vox ab Hispanis primum inventa usurpata est qui temporum computationes ab anno 16 Augusti Caesaris ordiri solebant Incerti Auctoris epitome Praecognitorum Historicorum Cosmographiam brevissimè tradit Pomponius mela doctissime Pâolimaeus diligentissime Plinius Eras. de Ratione Studii Strabo Eruditissimè ac fusè orbis situm cujus magnam partem peragraverat descripsit Blancani Chronol Mathem Vide Fulleri Miscel. Sac. l. 1. c. 20. Spec. Arab. Iohan. Fabric p. 170. ad 178. Eras. Epist. l. 9. Epist. 120. Sir Fran. Bac. Advanc of Learn l. 2. c. 13. Poetica ars multis mehercle de causis reliquas antecellit disciplinas vel quia homines nullam penè artem assequi possunt nisi in illam diu incubuerint ut quod scientias fere ut Strabo in primo Geographiae adversus Eratosthenem pulchrè demonstrat in se continet omnes vel demum quod ex omnibus artibus quae ab humani excellentia proficiscuntur sola poetica divino furore percipitur NaÌ poetae furore affiââi res omni admiratione stupore dignas canunt tuncque veri vates sunt cum insâniunt Polyd. Verg. de Rer. Inâ l. 1. c. 8. Poets were the first Priests Prophets Legislators and Polititians the first Philosophers Astronomers Historiographers Ora tors and Musicians in the world Metri origo à Deo optimo maximo est qui hunc terrarum orbem omnia ab eo contenta certa ratione quasi metro disposuit harmoniam enim ut Pythagoras docuit in Caelestibus terrenisque rebus nemo hercle esse dubitat Nam quo pacto mundus consisteret nisi certa ratione numeris praefinitis ageretur Omnia quoque instrumenta quibus utimur mensura quadam id est metro fiunt Quôd si hoc in caeteris rebus accidit quanto magis in oratione quae cunctas complectitur Polyd. Verg. de Invent. Rerum l. 1. 6. 9. Mirus gentium consensus in poëseos rhythmicae itan
Mathematicarum artium ac praecipue Astronomiae quam doctissimis scriptis illustravit cognitionem summam judicium admirabile ingenium attulit quo multa ab antiquis aut ignorata aut secus accepta adinvenit explicavit medicinam ut honestissime ac citra lucrum ita foelicissime fecit Poeticam verò ita excoluit ut ad Virgilianam majestatem proximè accessisse eum faterentur aemuli Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 12. b Anno Aerae Christianae 1199. Helv. Chron. See of St Francis in Matthew Paris Histor. Anglic. in Henrico tertio Sanctorum vitae c Franciscus Rex primus regias linguas atque artium liberalium professiones instituit Rami Schol. Math. l. 1. Franciscus Rex Gulielmum Budaum ab umbra pulvere literario in quibus delitescebat ad honores splendorem auâae evehebat honorifica ad Leonem X qui ipse summo amore doctos prosequebatur legatione ornabat Ex hujus consilio postea professores linguae sacrae Graecae Latinae Philosophiae item medicinae mathematicarum disciplinarum instituit qui attributis pro tempore amplissimis stipendiis in ludo Cameracensi publicè praelegerent horum ope discussis ignorantiae tenebris lux literis per literas ueritati in Gallia atque ad eo tota Europa restituta est ut cum alii principes ambitiosis aliunde conquisitis titulis vanam gloriamau cupentur ipse parens litterarum appellari meruerit circa se doctos homines semper habuit quos dum cibum caperet de rebus pulcerrimis disserentes avidissimè audiebat praecipuéque naturalis historiae enarratione delectabatur in qua tantum audiendo profecerat ut quamvis à pueritia nullis literis imbutus quicquid de animalibus plantis metallis gemmis ab antiquis recentibus scriptoribus memoriae proditum est meminisset apte edistereret Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 11. Vide plura ibid. Franciscus Franciae vel hoc uno bonarum artium ac literarum amore à Francis Magnus cognominatus ut aâtea Cosmus à Florentinis Rami Praefat. Mathem 3. C'est ce Roy qui institua les douze Lecteurs Royaux en son Université de Paris auquel principalement ce titre par droict de preciput luy est Escheu de Pere nourissier amateur des bonnes lettres lesquelles il a conduit à telle perfection qu'elles sont arrivees au feste de leur gloire jusques à Ce poinct quâ le siecle d'Auguste fils adoptif de Jules Caesar n'a point esté si copieux en hommes de grande literature pleins de diversirè de scauoir que le temps qui nous à menè mis au siege Royall ce François pere de Muses Thevet Vies des Hommes Illustres l. 4. Jurisconsultus altae eruditionis vir Germaniae suae ocellus Casaub. ad Theephr Charact. Optimus doctissimus Freherus Germaniae decus juris omnis eruditionis peritissimus Principi Palatino à Consiliis Casaub. Animadvers in Sueton. * Praeter bonarum literarum reconditam eruditionem in utraque lingua Latina Graeca doctissimus evafit Baleus De Script Brit. Cent. 8. * Anno Aerae Christianae 1378. Helv. Chron. a Amaenissimi ac politissimi vir ingenii doctrinae lection is omnisariae atque in Mathesi rerumque coelestium indagatione non infeliciter quoque vetsatus Valeri Andreae Bibliotheca Belgica Quae scripta quanquam adfecta potius quà confecta sunt mors enim intervenit limam omnem abrupit tamen facilè adolescentis ingenium judiciumque indicant Aubert Mirai Elog. Belg. b Duabus maximè rebus in docendo necessariis veram consequebatur laudem methodo sermonis perspicuitate Melch. Ad. in vita Fuchsii Vixit Anno Aerae Christi 500. Calvis Chron. 491. Helv. Hic in exilium missus est in Sardiniam una cum centum aliis viginti Episcopis Africae à Trasymundo Uvandalorum rege duriusculus inprimis affectatior stylo est adeò ut in scriptis suis spinas verborum asperiâates si non aculeos potius pro verbis inseruisse videatur Et inprimis in mythologico Nam alia quidem piè Christianè scripta non tam horrida sunt Lil. Gyrald De Poet. Histor. Dial. 4. Fulgentius Augustini sententiis adeò delectatus est ut eas pluribus in locis non tam imitatus sit quam expresserit Gomarus De Provid Dei c. 12. d In Baptisto Fulgosio qui patrum nostrorum aetate principatum in patria obtinuit tanta fuit ac tam multiplex eruditio tantáque vetustatis atque omnium aetatum cognitio ut quem cum illo conferas haud facile reperias id quod manifeste docet opus laboriofissimum quo Valerium Maximum imitatus de factis dictis memorabilibus conscripsit In quâ omnium nationum omniumque temporum exempla ita collegit ut cunctorum saeculorum historiam brevi perstrictam ante oculoâ hominum posuisse videatur quae res immensi operis atque infiniti pene laboris fuit Ubert Fol. Clar. Lig. Elog. Vide plura ibid. As for the Centuries I dare say I never read five leaves of them together or in parts But I dare shew to any man that doubteth of my reading of the most ancient Writers my Book of Notes written with mine own hand more then fifteen years past Doctor Fulkes Rejoynd to Bristows Reply Robertus Gagulnus ãâã Galliâ scriptor egregius Ludovico XII inprimis cârus vir certè non in historia modò sed in Oratoria quoque aâ poetica facultate omnique politâori litteratura egregiè versarus Aâberââ Miraei Elog. Belg. a Scito illos libros esse compendium duorum ingentium voluminum quibus titulum Pugionem fidei fecit auctor Raimundus Sebon Monachus Dominicus eximius Philologus Scalig. Epist. âasaub Vide Scalig. l. 1. Epist. 44. 93. Observat. Ioseph de Voisin in Proaemium Raym. Mart. Pug. Fid. Galatinus nec à se quae scripsit habuit nec etiam rem intellexit Notum est illum Raymundi Martini Pugionem compilasse ex eo quaecunque habuit in solidum hausisse Qua de re ego âestari possum qui uttumque habeo Ioan. Buxtorf Simeoni de Muis. Vide Cartw. Praeâat ad Annotat in Genes b Genevam patre conjuge ac liberis relictis concessit cum aloquoties cum patre primum in Italia postea cum patre ac conjuge simul collocutus nec illius reverentia nec amore hujus aut liberorum collo paterno haerentium blandiciis ac lacrymis adduci posset ut propositum mutaret Postremo Genevam reversus quasi uxor secum prima divortium fecisset aliam duxit primum consultis Pastoribus sicuti scribunt qui res eas prodidere Tâuan Hist. Tom. 4. l. 85. Vide plura ibid. Anno Aetae Christi 143. Calvis Chron. 138. Helv. Chron. Hic
Trogus Pompeius who composed the Greek Histories and those of the whole world in Latine and in fourty four Volumes hath written the affairs of all ages Kings Nations and people is wholly lost but that we have in Iustin a short little body as it were of the flowers of it Suetonius Tacitus Q. Curtius are good Historians and many later then them Orosius Paulus Diaconus Eutropius and others of later time yet Blondus Antoninus Sabellicus Cellenutius Machiavell Aretinus Platina Carius Simoneta Capreolus Merula and those yet later Paulus Iovius Sleiden Guicchardine the last being the best Historian The best Greek Historians although some of them be imperfect are Herodotus Thucydides Xenophon Polybius Dionysius Halicarnasseus Dion Eusebius and others Chronology and Topography are the two eyes of History In Chronology The Epochae are to be observed The Epochae are two fold 1. Ecclesiasticall which are noted in the Scriptures and Ecclesiasticall Histories of which eleven as more famous are mentioned from the beginning of the world the Flood the building of the Tower of Babel Abrahams peregrination the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt the year of Sabbath the year of Jubilee Solomons Temple the Babylonish Captivity Daniels Seventies the birth of Christ. The Christian Aera that is the way of numbering times from Christ being born although it be most laudable yet began lately and hath not been long used in designing publick or private affairs Helvic in System Chron. 2. Politicall which are observed in prophane Histories and are used in civil affairs Of these some most famous are 1. Of the Olympiads which is of the Grecians Olympias est spacium quinque annorum à Latinis Lustrum dictum in the beginning of the fifth year the Olympian games were wont to be celebrated with great concourse of all Greece so called from Olympia a City in Thessaly in which those sports were exercised This is the noblest computation of time among the Heathens 2. Epocha urbis conditae id est Romae 3. Est C. Iulii Caesaris from whence the Roman Emperours are numbred Aera pro quo Era dicitur pro Epocha sive supputationis initio In Gothicarum ac Hispanicarum rerum scriptoribus plurimisque conciliis est crebrum atque ab eo tempore inchoat quo Hispani jussu Augusti recepere formam anni Iuliani quod factum XXXVIII annis ante natum Iesum Christum ex vulgari aera Christi Vossius de vitiis Sermonis l. 3. c. 1. 2. Topography the description of some certain place Of Poetry It is referred to the imagination and is a kinde of Learning in words restrained in matter loose It is an art of deceit which measureth expressions not by the truth of the subject but by the strength of imagination working upon it It principally serves for venting extraordinary affections Poetry is the quintessence or rather the luxury of Learning The Originall of this Art is very ancient and as Euseb. l. 2. de praeparat Evang. first flourished with the most ancient Hebrews who were long before the Poets of the Grecians Moses made an exhameter Verse wherein he gave thanks to God for their deliverance at the red Sea David composed many Hymns Quid Deutoronomii Esaiae cantico palchrius Quid Solomone gravius Quid perfectius Iob quae omnia hexametris pentametris versibus apud suos composita decurrunt Polyd. Verg. de Invent. Rerum l. 1. c. 8. Orpheâs saith Porphyrius first illustrated this Art then Homer and Hesiod It is taken in a double sense as it respects words and so it is a kinde of character of speech for verse is a kinde of style and form of elocution and pertains not to matter for a true narration may be composed in verse and a faigned in Prose Or as it respects matter so it is imitation of History at pleasure It is either Narrative or Representative or Allusive Narrative is a meer imitation of History but that often it extols matters above belief Dramaticall or Representative is as it were a visible History it sets out the Image of things as if they were present History as if they were past Parabolicall or Allusive is History with the Type which brings down the Images of the understanding to the objects of sense Because neither our senses are moved with extraordinary effects of Gods power nor our mindes bent to observe the waies of his wisdom so as we might be stricken with true admiration of them we have fewer good sacred Poems then of any other kinde But as the Ancients chief learning did consist of Poetry so the excellency of their Poetry was chiefly seen in the proper and native subject of this faculty that is in matters of sacred use or observation Whence the title of Vates did descend to secular or prophane Poets which retained the number and manner of speech used by the former The Book of Psalms Iob and the Songs of Moses are the only pattern of true Poesie D r Iacksons Comment upon the Apost Creed Vol. 1. c. 14. The Greek and Latine Poesie was by verse numerous and metricall running upon pleasant feet sometimes swift sometime slow their words very aptly serving for that purpose but without any rime or tunable concord in the end of their verses as we and all other Nations now use But the Hebrews and Chaldees who were more ancient then the Greeks did not only use a metricall Poesie but also with the same a manner of rime as hath been of late observed by Learned men Our manner of vulgar Poesie is more ancient then the artificiall of the Greeks and Latines ours coming by instinct of nature which was before Art and observation and used by the wilde and savage people who were before all Science or Civility In the time of Charlemaine and many years after him the Latine Poets wrote in rime The School of Salerne dedicated their book of Medicinall rules unto our King of England beginning thus Anglorum Regi scribit schola tota Salerni Si vis incolumem si vis te reddere sanum Curas telle graves irasci crede prophanum Nec retine ventrem nec string as fortiter anum All the rest go on in the same way well to the purpose of their Art One wrote these verses against the whole rable of Monks O Monachi vestri stomachi sunt amphora Bacchi Vos estis Deus est testis turpissima pestis Hugobald the Monk made a large Poem to the honour of Carolus Calvus every word beginning with C which was the first letter of the Kings name thus Carmina Clarisonae Caluis Cantate Camenae There were 1. Heroick Poets such as wrote long Histories of the noble acts of Kings and great Princes and the great matters of peace and warre whereof Homer was chief and most ancient among the Greeks Virgil among the Latines 2. Lyrique Poets quòd eorum ferè carmina ad sonum Citharae recitarentur
Cardinal a Dominican He hath written learnedly on all the Scripture Antonius Hulsius a learned man He hath put out Theologia Iudaica and Notes on the Psalms in Latine Humbertus Episcopus Whom Leo the 9 th made Cardinal for the rare Learning and vertue which was in him and sent him to Constantinople to suppresse the andaciousnesse of another Leo Bishop of the Bulgarians Laurentius Humphredus Laurence Humfrey Doctor of Divinity and President of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford a learned and pious man He hath written Bishop Iuels life in Latine and Iesuitismus De Interpretatione Linguarum He hath written in English Of Civil and Christian Nobility shewing the Original Nature Duties Right and Christian Institution thereof Also a Treatise by Philo a Jew of the same Argument translated Seven Sermons Iohn Hus a Bohemian born in a Town named Hassenitz He died as a Martyr of Christ at Constance Anno 1415. His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones He and Ierom of Prague were condemned in the Councel of Constance against the publick faith given them Hus in the year 1415. but Ierâm in the year following which Bodin though a Papist disliked De Repub. l. 5. c. 5. The people which were present at the execution of Hus so admired his constancy and pious death that they said What that man taught or did before we know not certainly those things are great evidences of true piety for he prayed most servently to God a little before his death Hulrichus Huttenus a Knight and Poet laureate born Anno 1488. He was Luthers good friend and encouraged him to constancy His Works are mentioned by Boissard In Vallam de donat constant Huttenus captivus Huttenus illustris Satyra nemo De Schismate extinguendâ Exhortatio in Concil Basil. contra decimas De laude Germanorum De morbo Gallico Arminius Dialogus His Poetical Works are in one Volume There was this Epitaph made of him Hic eques auratus jacet oratorque disertus Huttenus vates carmine ense potens C. Iulius Hyginus Hypatia or Hypathia a most learned woman daughter to Theon the Geometrician she taught publickly at Alexandria many flocking thither to hear her Andreas Gerhardus Hyperius a most learned and diligent Divine Anno 1511. His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones CHAP. VI. I Dr THomas Iackson a learned Divine as his Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed and other Works shew Mr. Arthur Iackson a Reverend Divine and good Exposââor of Scripture He hath commented on the Pentateuch on the Historicall Part and five Poetical Books King Iames a learned and wise Prince His several Works shew his great Learning I finde in the Appendix of the Oxford Catalogue these words Opera Regis Lat manu propria inscripta Acadomiae suae Oxoniensi donâ data in perpetuam Regiae munificentiae memoriam in Archivis reposita In the Catalogue it self his Poeticall Exercises and other particular Works are enumerated He died in March Non miror regem si Martius abstulit Anglis Pacificis semper Mars inimicus erat Arth. Jonstoni Epig. Iacobus De Voraigne He wrote the golden Legend Richard Iames. M r Selden speaks of him and Patrick Young as his Assistants in his Work of Marmora Arundelliana Sed ut expeditiùs res absolveretur rogo ut in operae societatem adsciscerentur amici communes eruditissimus Patricius Iunius multi jugae doctrinae studiique indefatigabilis vir Richardus Iamesius For this Richard Iames there is this censure of him that he preached three Sermons one without a Text another against his Text and a third besides it D r Thomas Iames. He was a laborious man As His Corruption of Scriptures Councels and Fathers The Downfall of Jesuites Bellum Papale and other Works shew Iamblychus a famous Philosopher and Porphyrius his Scholar He hath written a Book of the mysteries of the Egyptians Chaldeans and Assyrians and three Books of the Sect of Pythagoras with Commentaries of Simplicius the Philosopher Io De Ianduno Cornelius Iansenius He was born at Hilstane in Flanders One of the Papists learnedest and best Expositors of the Gospel He was sent by King Philip the second King of Spain to the Councel of Trent Fuit in hoc viro praestans ingenium exacta linguarum trium Latinae Graecae Hebraicae cognitio singularis prudentia eximius rerum usus inprimis verò summum religionis ac pietatis studium Quantus Theologus fuerit clamant doctissimi in Concordiam suam Evangelicam orbis judicio probatam Commentarii qui aequales aliquot in his Salmeronem Beauxamamum in eadem arena desudantes à suis tunc edendis deterruerunt Auberti Miraei Elog. Belg. He was uncle to the other Iansenius Bishop of Iper who wrote Sanctus Augustinus This Iansenius wrote another Book also against the French and styles it Patricius Armachanus whence Petavius cals the Jansenians Armachani or because Iansenius was so much beholding to the Archbishop of Armaghs Goteschalci Historia for his Book Rabbi Salomon Iarchi a learned French Jew who hath commented on the whole Bible and to whom Lyra is much beholding for what he hath of the Hebrew Iason Maynus His Works are in six Volumes Iesuitae The Jesuites In the fifth year of Pope Urbane the fifth began first the Order of the Jesuites Men of famous industry and excellent reach in all subtill and profound Arts but ignorant and besotted in matters of faith and mysteries of salvation D r Iacks on the Creed Vol. 1. l. 2. c. 1. Thuanus and Pasquier though Papists speak against the titles of Jesuites as proud and blasphemous Novo atque ut plerisque visum est superbo nomine appellati sunt Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 15. See Thuan. Hist. tom 2. l. 36. at the beginning and Pasquiers Recherches de la France l. 3. c. 42 43. against them A Book called the Jesuites Rule discovers what they are See also Monarchia Iesuitica Arcana Societatis Iesu Mysteria Patrum Iesuitarum De studiis Iesuitarum abstrusioribus and the Jesuites Catechism The best Expositors amongst the Papists are Pererius Ribera Tolet Maldonate Estius all which except Estius were Jesuites The ablest for controversies are Bellarmine Stapleton Gregory De Valentia two of which were also Jesuites The best Philologers are Sirmondus Andraeas Schottus Fronto Ducaeus Serarius all Jesuites Some of the Papists are very bitter and malicious as Genebrard Gretzer Scioppius Others more candid and ingenuous Schottos Frontones Acostas Petavios Rosweydos aliquos alios viros eruditos modestos excipio Montac Appar 7. Ignatius Anno Dom. 102. 96. Helv. Chron. He was the Scholar of S t Iohn the Evangelist Bishop of the Church of Antioch a man of great Sanctity and a most ardent lover of our Lord Jesus Christ he was was wont to say of him My love was crucified Bishop Usher and Vedelius shew