went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
Haward Duke of Norfolk written curiously on Vellam and sometime in the Library of Joh. Theyer of Coopershill near to the City of Glocester Gent. Which with the rest of the MSS belonging to that person coming by sale into the hands of Rob. Scot of London Bookseller he sold them for the use of the Kings Library at S. James Robert Earl of Alesbury had a Copie of the said History of Joseph but whether it was the very same that belonged to Mr. Theyer I cannot justly say He had also these following MSS written by the said Will. Forrest viz. Poems upon several Occasions MS. fol. Certain meditations and Prayers necessary of a Christian MS. fol. in prose and verse Treatise of Hereticks and their properties Of faith works and justification Glass of charity on the seven penitential Psalmes Consolation against temptation Of Pennance Against desperation of the last judgment A Mirrour of Christianity That Hereticks are not to be disputed withal Several Tracts in defence of the Articles of the Church of Rome MS. in two vol. in fol. What other Books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was in great esteem among the Rom. Catholicks in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight which was part of the last Year of Queen Mary and part of the first of Qu. Elizabeth JOHN FEILD a Londoner born was as it seems educated in this University because I find several of both his names and of his time to have taken one degree or more therein and one John Feild to have supplicated for a degree in Arts in the month of July 1519. Afterterwards leaving the University he went to another as 't is probable and at length retiring to his native place wrote and published Ephemeris pro an 1557. To which is prefixed a Learned Epistle written by Dr. Jo. Dee Fphemerides trium annorum an 1558 59. 60 c. ex Erasmi Reìnholdi tabulis accuratissimè ad meridianum Civitatis Londinensis supputatae Lond. 1558. Octob. 28. in qu. Canon Ascensionum obliquarum cujusvis stellae non excedentis 8 gradus Latitudinis confectus Printed with the Ephemerides Tabula stellarum fixarum insigniorum qua ortus occasus ac utriusque caete meditationes earum ad ooulum patebant c. Printed with the said Ephemerides also What else he hath published I find not nor any thing memorable of him besides only that he was much in renown for his learning in the Reigne of Q. Mary and beginning of Queen Elizabeth I find another John Field or Feld who was a Citizen of London a zealous Protestant and a great enemy to Sir Thomas More John Fisher Bishop of Rochester and John Rastal who having published certain matters is numbred among the English writers by John Bale who tells us that he died at London an 1546. See another John Field under the year 1587. JOHN PLOUGH Son of Christopher Plough of the Borough of Nottingham and Nephew to John Plough Rector of St. Peters Church in the said Town was born there spent several years in obtaining Academical learning in this University supplicated in the latter end of 1543. for the degree of Bach. of the Civil-Law but whether he was ever admitted it appears not At that time if I mistake not he was Rector of the said Church the advouson of which for one turne his Uncle bought for him of Thomas Hobson the Prior and Convent of Lenton before the year 1538 for in that year the Uncle died Afterwards our Author John Plough became a zealous Minister of Gods word in the time of King Edward VI. but flying beyond the Sea in Queen Maries Reigne wrote one or more of the Books following at Basil where he mostly resided An Apology for the Protestants Written in answer to a Book against the English Protestants that was pen'd and published by one Miles Hogeard of London Hosier the first Trader of Mechanick that appeared in Print for the Catholick cause I mean one that had not received any Monastical or Academical breeding Beside our Author Plough wrote against him one William Keth an Exile at Frankford in the Reigne of Queen Mary and Robert Crowley The said Plough also wrote Treatise against the mitred men in the Popish Kingdom The sound of the doleful Trumpet When or where either of these three was printed I cannot tell for I have not yet seen them He was living at Basil in great esteem among the Exil'd Protestants in the latter end of Queen Mary and whether he lived to return when Queen Elizabeth succeeded I cannot yet find GEORGE LILYE Son of William Lilye the famous Grammarian whom I have before mention'd was born as I conceive near to S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London educated for a time as it seems in Magdalen Coll. which house was seldom or never without a Lilye understand me not that it bears Three Lilyes for its Arms from the first foundation thereof to the latter end of Queen Elizabeth After he had left the University without a degree he travelled to Rome where he was received with all humanity into the protection of Cardinal Pole and became noted there for his singular parts in various sorts of Learning Some time after his return he was made Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral and afterwards Prebendary of Canterbury which last dignity he had I suppose by the gift of the said Cardinal when he was Archbishop of that place While he was Canon of S. Paul he set up a Monument to the memory of his learned Father in the Inscription of which this George is stiled Canon of that Church His writings are Anglorum Regum Chronices Epitome Ven. 1548. Francof 1565. qu. Bas 1577. c. Lancastrii Eboracensis de regno contentiones Regum Angliae Genealogia Both Printed with the former Book Elogia Virorum illustrium Cat. sive Series Pontificum Caesarum Romanorum besides a Table or Mapp of Britaine with other things which I have not yet seen At length taking his last farewell of this world in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 which was the first year of Queen Elizabeth was buried as I suppose near the body of his Father CUTHBERT TONSTALL a singular ornament to his native Country and a person notwithstanding the baseness of his birth being begotten by one Tonstall upon a Daughter of the Commers as Leland saith of great learning and judgment received his first breath at Hatchford in Richmondshire in the year 1476. or thereabouts became a Student in the University of Oxon. about 1491 particulary as some will have it in Balliol College and whether he took a degree or degrees we have no Register of that time to shew it Afterwards as 't is farther added he was forc'd to leave Oxon. because of a Plague that hapned in his time and went to Cambridge but making no long stay there he travelled to the University of Padoüa
trial of a Christian's sincere love to Christ in four Sermons ca 1 Cor. 16. 22. on Ephes 6. ver ult c. Oxon. 1630. c. in tw He died much lamented in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 30. year 1629 or thereabouts and was buried in Magd. coll leaving then beâ—â—â—â— him other things fit to be printed as I have been informed by those that were well acquainted with the man HENRY YELVERTON Son â—f Sir Christop 〈◊〉 of Eston-Manâ—uit in Northamptonshire one of the Justices of the Kings 〈◊〉 and a descendant from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living sometimes at 〈◊〉 in Norfolk was born on S. Peters day in 1566. educated for a time 〈◊〉 the Oxonians and afterwards among the Students 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Inn near London where after some time of continuance in the degree of Inner Barrâ—ster he was elected Lent-Reader in 1606. being then accounted a religiâ—us Gentleman and a person well read in the Municipal 〈◊〉 In 1613. he was made Solicitor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the endeavours of Carr Earl of 〈◊〉 March 1616. he was constituted Attorney 〈◊〉 that time committed Prisoner to the Tower for denying to appear and plead publickly against his Patron Carr in the matter of Sir Thomas Overbury's death In 1621. May 5. he was discharged of his office of Attorney fined and committed Prisoner to the Tower again upon a late sentence in the Star-Chamber for passing some clauses in the City-Charter of London when he was Attorney Gen. not agreeable to his Majesty's Warrant These things being mostly done by the power and aggravation of the D. of Bucks who hated him because he had been a friend to Somerset Yelverton continued where he was without any hopes of release or future advance At length upon some things utter'd in Buckingham's care when he came incognito to speak with and examine him concerning certain matters in the Tower he was afterwards released taken into favour and in 1625. was made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and afterwards of the Common Pleas which last he enjoyed to the time of his death and had not the Duke been untimely cut off he would in all probability been made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Under his name goes Several Speeches spoken in Parliament One of which was in answer to matters charged against him by the Commons before the H. of Lords in 1621. Soon after the Lords declared that for sundry things uttered in the said Speech which touched the Kings honour he should be fined to the K. ten thousand marks be imprisoned during the Kings pleasure and make a submission to his Majesty And for the scandal committed in some words against Buckingham he should pay him five thousand marks and make his submission to him Several years after his death was published under his name this book following Reports of divers special cases in the Court of Kings Bench as well in the latter part of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth as in the first ten years of K. James Lond. 1661. and 74. fol. It was printed by the original in French written with the authors own hand remaining with Sir Tho. Twisden Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and published by Sir Will. Wild Knight and Baronet then 1661. Serjeant at Law the Kings Serjeant and Recorder of the City of London and since one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench He died near Westminster 23. Nov. or thereabouts 1679. Rights of the People of England concerning impositions Lond. 1679. oct He also gathered and published 32 Sermons of Edw. Philips a zealous and Puritannical Preacher as I have told you under the year 1603. and other things as 't is probable of the like nature but such I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 in winter time before February and was buried I suppose where his chief Seat was viz. at Eston-Manduit or Maudet in Northamptonshire leaving then behind him a Son named Robert and a Brother called Sir Christopher who was about that time one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. From this Sir Hen. Yolverton was descended Charles Yelverton who was called up to the House of Lords by the name of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen as being the Son and Heir of Sir Hen. Yelverton Baronet by Susan his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen JOHN ELYOTT or Elliot â— Cornish man born and an Esquires Son became a Gent. Com. of Exeter Coll. in Mich. Term an 1607. aged 15 years left the University without a degree after he had continued there about 3 years went to one of the Inns of Court as it seems and was made a Barrester In 1618. May 10. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj at Whitehall and ever after to the time of his death was either elected a Knight of his County or a Burgess for some Borough therein to serve in all Parliaments But so it was that he shewing himself in them an active man for the publick a generous assertor as he pretended of the ancient liberty of the Subject and an enemy to the incroachments made by rising Favourites was several times committed to custody He hath going under his name Several Speeches spoken in Parliament as 1 Speech against George Duke of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 grievances 2 Sp. by way of Epilogue concerning the Duke of Bucks impeachment These two were spoken in 1626. and soon after he with Sir Dud. Digges who spoke the Prologue to the said impeachment were committed both prisoners to the Tower but soon after were released whereupon Elyott spoke 3 A Sp. to clear himself as to the particulars charged against him In the same year he was imprison'd in the Gatehouse at Westm for refusing to part with money on the Loan and thereupon in a Petition to the King he set forth the illegality of the said Loan or of any Tax without a Parliament Which way he took when his Council would not assist him otherwise alledging farther that his conscience could not submit to it and prayed for his liberty but could not obtain it 4 Speech upon the Kings giving notice to both Houses that he did intend shortly to end the Session of Parliament an 1628. 5 Sp. against the D. of Bucks interrupted in it by the Speaker 6 Sp. concerning Religion an 1628. This was printed in 1641. in one sh in qu. 7 Sp. against particular persons spoken in 1628. and therefore a little before the dissolution of the Parl. he with other Members were committed to the Tower All which Speeches with Certaine Debates of the said Sir Joh. Elyott you may see in the first vol. of Historical Collections made by John Rushworth What more to be added is that about the same time 1628. was an information exhibited against Sir John in the Court of the Kings Bench for a sower of discord for his murmurings seditions c. against the King Nobles Prelates
moity of the Church of Cotgrave He gave way to fate about the beginning of Dec. as it seems in fifteen hundred fifty and five year 1555 whereupon one Thomas Milner was instituted in the said moity on the 18. of Dec. the same year and Cuthb Scot. D. of D. of Cambridge was much about that time nominated to succeed him in the See of Chester the temporalities of which were given to him 25. of Sept. 1556. ARTHUR BOKELY or Bulkley was descended from an ancient Family of his name living in the Isle of Anglesie but in what coll or hall he was educated unless in New Inn I cannot justly tell About the time that he took the degree in the Canon Law he was beneficed and dignified in Wales where he was held in esteem for a good Canonist At length being promoted to the See of Bangor and consecrated thereunto had the temporalities of that See given to him on the eleventh of Febr. 1541. After his death which happened in fifteen hundred fifty and five year 1555 succeeded in the said See Dr. Will. Glynn of Qu. coll in Cambridge an excellent Scholar and a very good disputant of his time who dying about the latter end of May 1558. was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Bangor under that very place where the Sepulcher on Goodfriday and in Easter time use to stand Not long after his death Qu. Mary nominated to succeed in that See one Maurice Clennock a Welsh man Bach. of Law of this University Preb. of York and an Officer in the Prerogative Court under Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury but the said Queen dying before he was consecrated thereunto he with Goldwell Bish of S. Asaph fled beyond the Seas and going to Rome Clennock some years after became the first Rector of the English Hospital there after it was converted into a college for English students where he was mostly called by the name of Dr. Maurice and much noted by the said students for his great partiality used towards his own Country-men of Wales which always caused during his time a great faction between the Welsh and English students abiding in that college ROBERT ALDRICH Doctor of divinity of this University an eminent Orator and Poet of his time became Bishop of Carlile in 1537. and died in the latter end of the year fifteen hundred fifty and five under which year you may see more among the writers In the See of Carlile succeeded Dr. Owen Ogelthorpe of whom I shall make large mention among these Bishops under the year 1560. JOHN HARLEY was born as it seems in Herefordshire or at least extracted from those of his name there admitted Fellow of Magd. coll about 1537. being then Bachelaur of Arts and Master of the Free-school joyning to that college Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy orders became Preacher to the Earl of Warwick and Tutor to his children a zealous Preacher in Oxon against the R. Catholicks upon the coming to the crown of K. Ed. 6. as I have elsewhere told you and at length chaplain to that Prince who for the zeal Harley had in Preaching up the reformed religion gave him a Prebendship in the Church of Worcester on the decease of Humph. Webley Bach. of Div. an 1551. Where being settled he had the rectory of Vpton upon Severne and the Vicaridge of Kederminster in Worcestersh bestowed on him he being then Bach. of Div. Afterwards the See of Hereford being void by the death of Joh. Skipp he was elected Bishop of that place So that being consecrated thereunto on the 26. May 1553. was within few months after deprived of it by Qu. Mary for his wilful avoiding the hearing of Mass and for being married Joh. Leland the famous Antiquary who knew the said Harley well doth in an high manner praise him for his great vertue and learning especially in the classical Authors and Poets for his fine vein in Poetry c. but what he hath published that author tells us not nor Baleus or his follower Pitseus Afterwards Harley absconding for a time did at length go from place to place in an obscure condition to consolate the poor remnant of Protestants and confirm them in their belief but died soon after in his wandring to and fro in England In the See of Hereford succeeded one Rob. Perfey sometimes called Warbington and VVarton formerly Abbat of the exempt Monastery of S. Saviour of Bermondsey educated in the University of Cambridge of which he was Bach. of Divinity who dying in the time of winter 1557. was buried in his own Church at Hereford Afterwards Tho. Raynolds D. D. Dean of Exeter and Warden of Mert. coll was design'd to succeed him by Qu. Mary but she dying before he was consecrated he was laid aside whereupon Joh. Scory a Norfolcian born Doct. of Div. and Chaplain to the Queen succeeded in 1559 having been a sufferer upon account of religion during Qu. Maries reign in which time he wrote An Epistle unto all the faithful that be in prison in England or in any other trouble for the defence of Gods word c. printed at Waterford in Ireland 1555. oct Wherein he doth by the example of divers holy Martyrs comfort encourage and strengthen them particularly to suffer for Christs sake persecution In the same year also he published his translation of S. Augustin's two books the one of Predestination of Saints the other of Perseverance unto the end with the determination of two general Councils concerning that matter Printed in oct And in the year following he published his translation of S. Ciprian's Sermon of Mortality or the willing for saking of this life Also his Exhortation to Martyrdom and his Exhortation to keep and endure the faith of Christ c. Printed in oct This Joh. Scory dyed in his house or palace at VVhitbourne in the country of Hereford 26. June 1585. and was as I suppose buried there He left behind him a Son named Silvanus Scory a very handsom and witty man and of the best education both at home and beyond the Seas that that age could afford His Father lov'd him so dearly that he fleec'd the Church of Hereford to leave him an estate but Silvanus allowing himself the liberty of enjoying all the pleasures of this world reduced it to nothing so that his Son Edm. lived by hanging on Gentlemen and by his shifts Silvanus was also esteemed a learned man and upon that account did Ben. Johnson dedicate to him a piece of his Poetry but whether he published any thing I cannot yet tell nor any thing else of him only that he giving way to fate in the Parish of S. Peter near Pauls Wharff in London in Sept. or Oct. 1617. was buried in the chancel of S. Leonards Church by Shore-aâ—tch near to the grave of his Mother Elizabeth who dyed 8. March 1592. JOHN BELL a Worcestershire man born as it seems had most of his education in Balliol
Perne in the book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under the year 1557. written by John Fax wherein you 'll find him a zealous Man for the Cath. cause in the Reign of Qu. Mary One of both his names who was M. of A. and sometimes Fellow of Katherine hall in Cambridge afterwards Minister of Wilby in Northamptonshire was a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament that began at Westminster an 1640 ran with those times and published several Sermons I find another And. Perne LL. D. sometimes an Inhabitant of Westwratting in Cambridgshire who died in 1680. An. Dom. 1554. An. 1 2 Mariae Chanc. the same Vicechanc. John Warner Doct. of Phys and Warden of All 's Coll. was designed by letters from the Chancellour Proct. Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll. Christop Hargrave of Linc. Coll. Which Proctors taking their places on the nones of April Maur. Bullock and Gilb. Mounson of Ch. Ch substitute to Mr. Spencer receeded Bach. of Arts. Jul. 4. Will. Barker of Magd. Coll. One of both his names translated into English An exhortation to his kinsman to the study of the Scriptures Lond. 1557. oct written by St. Basil the Great Whether he be the same with the Bach. of Arts Quaee Anth. Russh of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Jul. 11. John Bodye One of both his names supplicated to be admitted Bach. of the Civil Law an 1552 which I take to be the same with this who was Bach. of Arts but not the same who was executed at Andâ—ver in Hampshire an 1583 for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England See more in these Fasti among the Masters of Arts an 1575. Jul. 16. Tho. Atkyns He was elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Mert. Coll. this year in whose Cat. or Alb. of Fellows this addition is put to his name Fuit procurator generalis regius apud Wallos Reginae Elizabethae à consiliis ibidem ad audiendum determinandum malefacta cujuscunque generis justitiarius c. He was born in the Dioc. of Worcester but took no higher Degree in this University Mar. 13. John Bridgwater Aquepâ—ntanus either now of Brasnose Coll. or of Hart hall He was afterwards a learned Jesuit Admitted 48. Doct. of Musick Apr. 21. John Shepheard who had been a Studenâ— in Musick for the space of 20 years did then by his Dean supplicate the ven congregation that he might be licensed to proceed in that faculty that is to be admitted Doctor of Musick but whether he was admitted or stood in any Act following it appears not in our registers The words of some of his Church services are made publick in The Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in Cathedrals c. Lond. 1663. oct collected and published by James Clifford as I have told you under the year 1548. I have seen some of his compositions of six parts in six MS. Books remaining at this day in the Archives of our publ Musick School containing Church Musick or Anthems and certain Songs Mast of Arts. But 13 were admitted this year among whom Will. Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll. was one afterwards a Cardinal and Archb. as I have before told you and Sextus Quaterman of New Coll. another In an Act celebrated 16. July were 19 that stood of whom the said Allyn was junior whom we usually call Junior of the Act who with the Senior perform exercise in the name of the rest of the Masters Bach. of Div. Jun. 7. Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. sometimes Cross-bearer to Cardinal Wolsey now Fellow of Eaton Coll. and Canon of Windsore was adm to the reading of the Sentences by Dr. O. Oglethorp Dean of Winds in a certain Chamber belonging to his Lodgings there by power and authority given to him for that purpose by Dr. Rich. Smyth Provicechancellour of the University This Mr. Cole had his grace granted in order to the taking of that Degree in 1545 and in 1555 he succeeded the said Dr. Oglethorp in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. Jul. 5. John Boxall of New Coll. He was now Archdeacon of Ely and Warden of the Coll. near Winchester c. Besides these two were but 3 more admitted this year Doct. of Civil Law Jul. 13. Tho. Huyck of Mert. Coll. He died at London 1575 having a little before been made the first and original Fellow of Jesus Coll. to which he was a Benefactor Rob. Raynold of New Coll. was licensed to proceed the same day He was now Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near to Winchester Prebendary of Linc. and Chichester and about 1557 Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near to Winton Will. Awbrey of All 's Coll. was admitted also on the same day See before under the year 1549. A Person he was of exquisite learning and singular prudence and therefore mention'd with honour by Thuanus and others He was born in Bricknockshire particularly as I conceive at Cantre wrot divers things but not printed among which are several letters to his Cousin Dr. John Dee concerning the Sovereignty of the Seas some of which I have seen and dying 23. Jul. 1595 was buried within the Cath. Church of St. Paul in London Afterwards there was a Mon. with his bust set over his grave which with the Cathedral it self was consumed in that dismal conflagration which hapned in that great City in the beginning of Sept. 1666. Doct. of Physick May 9. Rich. Master of All 's Coll. On the 14. of March 1562 he was installed Prebendary of Fridaythorpe in the Church of York being about that time Physician of the Chamber to Qu. Elizabeth His eldest Son George Master setled in the Abbey at Cirencester in Glocestershire where his posterity yet remaineth Another Son named Robert was Doctor of the Civ Law in 1594 as I shall tell you when I come to that year Rich. Caldwell or Chaldwall lately of Ch. Ch. but originally of Brasnose Coll. was admitted the same day Thom. Francis of Ch. Ch. was also admitted the same day After this Person had taken the Degree of M. of A. he applyed his studies to the Theological faculty but the encouragement thereof being in these days but little he transfer'd himself to the School of Physicians and with the consent and approbation of Dr. Wryght the Vicechancellour was entred on the Physick line 4. Aug. 1550. In the year after I find him supplying the place and office of the Kings Professor of Physick being I presume only Deputy for Dr. John Warner and on the 9. Mar. 1553 he was admitted Bach. of Phys In 1561 he succeeded Hugh Hodgson in the Provostship of Qu. Coll. and was afterwards Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much respected by her Jul. 14. John Symings or Symmings In what Coll. or Hall educated I know not Sure I am that he was one of the Coll. of Physicians in London where he was in great practice and dying in his house in Little St. Barthelmew in Smithfield 7. July 1588 was buried in the Church
municipal Laws Feb… James Baylie a Scot now of Exeter Coll. who 14 years before this time was made M. of A. of the University of Glascow and 8 years since Bachelaur of the Laws of the University of Anjou in France where he performed not only his exercise for that degree but also for the degree of Doctor of that Faculty was actually created Doctor of the Laws of this University Dr. Zouch the Kings Professor of that Faculty then executing his office in the solemnity He was now Tutor to James Earl of Arran a Noble man of Exet. Coll. afterwards Duke of Hamilton I find one James Bailâ—ie M. of A. and a Scot born to have published Spiritual Marriage or the Vnion between Christ and his Church Serm. at Westminster on Hosea 2. 19. Lond. 1627. qu. But his name being written different from the former I cannot say he had any relation to him Baldwinus Hamaeus a learned German was admitted a Student into the publick Library See among the Incorporations an 1629. So also was Tho. Gardiner of the Inner Temple Esq afterwards Recorder of London a Knight his Majesties Sollicitor General and eminent for his knowledge in the Municipal Law He died in Octob. 1652 and was buried as I conceive in the Church at Cudesdâ—n near Oxford in which Town he had an Estate Qu. An. Dom. 1622. An. 20 Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Piers again Jul. 17. Proct. Griffin Higgs of Mert. Coll. Rich. Steuart of All 's Coll. May 2. Bach. of Musick May 17. Will. Heather or Heyther At the same time Orlando Gibbons did supplicate for the same degree but occurs not admitted See more of him and of Heather among the Doctors of Musick following Bach. of Arts. June 27. Will. Morice of Exet. Hen. Hibbert of Brasn Oct. 22. Nich. Darton of Ex. Nov. 28. Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Dec. 4. Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll. See among the created Doctors of Div. 1648. 6. John Sedgwick of Magd. Hall lately of Qu. Coll. 9. Joh. Strickland of Qu. 11. Hen. Hammond of Magd. Feb. 17. Joh. Marshan of S. Jo. 18. Rob. Codrington of Magd. 19. George Hughes of Corp. Chr. Coll. Charles Gibbs was admitted the same day All these will be largely mention'd elsewhere Adm. 257 or thereabouts Doct. of Musick May 17. Will. Heather or Heyther who accumulated the degrees in Musick This person who was born at Harmsworth in Middlesex near Colebrook in Bucks was now one of the Gentlemen belonging to his Majesties Chappel and so great an encourager of his Faculty that soon after he founded the Musick Lectures Theory and practick in this University as I have elsewhere told you He died in the latter end of July 1627 and was buried on the first of Aug. in the broad or south Isle joyning to the Choir of S. Peter's Church in Westminster See more of him in Nath. Giles following Jul. 5. Nathaniel Giles Bach. of Musick was then licensed to proceed in that Faculty In 1607 he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents to be admitted Doctor which desire of his was granted conditionally that he compose a choral Hymn of 8 parts to be publickly sung in the Act wherein he should proceed but for what reason he did not perform that obligation I cannot justly say Sure I am that in the Act this year wherein he proceeded were certain Questions appointed to be discussed between him and Dr. Heather before mention'd which being pro forma only and not customarily to be done were omitted The Questions were 1 Whether discords may be allowed in musick Affirm 2 Whether any artificial Instrument can so fully and truly express musick as the natural Voice Negat 3 Whether the practick be the more useful part of musick or the theory Affirm This Dr. Giles who was noted as well for his religious life and conversation a rarity in Musitians as for the excellency of his Faculty was born in or near to the City of Worcester was one of the Organists of S. George's Chap. at Windsore and Master of the Boys there afterwards one of the Organists of the Chappel Royal to K. Ch. 1. and Master of the Boys thereof was famous for his compositions of Divine Hymns and Anthems the words of some of which are remitted into a Book entit Divine Services and Anthems sung in the Cathedrals and collegiate Choires in the Church of England published by Jam. Clifford an 1663 oct He the said Dr. Giles died about the year 1635 and was buried in one of the Isles joyning to S. George's Chap. before mention'd On the 17 of May Orlando Gibbons one of the Organists of his Majesties Chappel did supplicate â—â—e venerable Congregation that he might accumulate the degrees in Musick but whether he was admitted to the one or licensed to proceed in the other it appears not However the Song of 6 parts or more which was performed in the Act for Will. Heather was composed by him as one or more eminent Musitians then living have several times told me This Orlando who was accounted one of the rarest Musitians and Organists of his time hath extant A set of Madrigals of five parts for voices and viols had also a hand in Parthenia mention'd before under the year 1592 and composed Several divine Services and Anthems the words of which are in Jam. Clifford's Book before mention'd besides admirable Compositions that are printed in several Books of Musick At length being commanded to Canterbury to attend the solemnity of the Nuptials between K. Ch. 1. and Henrietta Maria a Daughter of the King of France in order to which he had made vocal and instrumental Compositions died there of the Small-pox to the great reluctancy of the Court on the day of Pentecost an 1625. Afterwards was a monument erected over his grave in the body of the Cathedral there with an Inscription thereon beginning thus Orlando Gibbonio Cantabrigiae inter musas musicae nato sacrae R. Capellae Organistae sphaerarumque harmoniae digitorum pulsu aemulo cantionum complurium quaeque dum non canunt minus quam canuntur câ—nditori c. From which monument set up at the charge of Elizabeth his Widow who gave instructions what to be inscrib'd thereon but not the time of his age we are given to understand that the said Orlando Gibbons was born at Cambridge yet the Reader is to know that one Orlando Gibbons was baptized in S. Martins Parish in the City of Oxford 25 Decemb. 1583 which some have been pleased to take to be the same that was afterwards the famous Organist who as those that knew him have told me was not quite 45 years of age when he died But to let these scruples pass as also another Orlando Gibbons M. A. of Cambridge who was incorporated at Oxon an 1607 I shall go forward Mast of Arts. May 9. Philip Nye Will. Pinke of Magd. Hall The last was afterwards of Magd. Coll. Jun. 26. Joh. Maynard of Magd. Hall a
Arts of Cambridge now of Ball. Coll. See before among the Masters of Arts this year Creations July 22 Joh. Chudleigh Bach. of Arts of Wadham Coll. the eldest Son of Sir George Chudleigh of Alston in Devonshire Baronet was created Master of Arts he being a little before elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament Nov. 20. Leonard Digges Bach. of Arts of Vniversity Coll. in Academiis transmarinis bonarum artium studiis diu versatus as the publick register saith earumque cognitione optimè excultus was actually created Master of Arts. On the 27. of Dec. this year Edward Michelbourne a Gentlemans Son of Hampshire originally a Commoner of St. Maries hall and afterwards for many years of that of Glocester was buried in the Parish Church of St. Thomas the Martyr in the W. Suburb of Oxford aged 62 or thereabouts The reasons why I set him down here are 1 Because he took no Degree being a Rom. Catholick otherwise I would have put him in that year wherein he took a Degree 2 Because he was the most noted Latine Poet of his time in the University as divers copies of his composition printed in several books shew which if put together would make a Manual 3 That the Poets of his time did mostly submit their labours to his judgment before they were made publick particularly Charles Fitz-Geffry who dedicates his Assaniae to him Rich. Broughton a Sojournour in Oxon. was entred a Student into the publick Library on the 19. of June this year under the title of a Minister of Gods word This Person who had formerly studied in Oxon. to gain materials for the publishing of certain books was born of gentile Parents at Great Steukley in Huntingdonshire but descended of an antient Family of his name living at Broughton Tower in Lancashire Sent when young to Rheimes in France where passing his course among the English became a good Philosopher and Theologist and well skill'd in the Greek and Heb. tongues Afterwards he being made Priest was sent into the Mission of England continued there many years in good repute for his religion learning experience and publick spirit For which he was thought to be the fittest Person to be chosen Assistant to the Archpriest that had been then lately appointed by his holiness the Pope He hath written 1 Apologetical Epistle 2 Moderate answer to a most calumniating Libel which endeavours to prove that a Rom. Catholick cannot be a good Subject 3 Continuations of the Cath. Apologie made up out of Protestant Authors 4 Ecclesiastical History of Gr. Britain deduced by ages or centuries from the nativity of our Saviour unto the happy conversion of the Saxons c. Doway 1633. fol. Tho 't is a rapsodie and a thing not well digested yet there is a great deal of reading shew'd in it 'T is said in the title to be the first Tome as if another was to follow 5 True memorial of the antient most holy and religious estate of Great Britain flourishing with Apostles Apostolical Men Monasteries religious Rules and Orders in great number in the time of the Britains and Primitive Church of the Saxons c. printed 1650. oct published by G. S. P. 6 Monasticon Britanicum Or a historical narration of the first founding and flourishing state of the antient Monasteries religious Rules and Orders of Great Britain in the times of the Britains and Primitive Church of the Saxons c. Lond. 1655. oct This Book I have the title of which running almost verbatim as the former which I have not yet seen makes me to guess that it is in many things the same Quaere This industrious Author who probably hath written other matters died in a good old age on the fifteenth of the Kal. of Febr. an 1634 and was buried near to the bodies of his Father and Mother and other of his relations in the Church of Great Steuckley beforemention'd Over his grave was soon after a Mon. with an inscription thereon put wherein he is stiled Presbyter Anglus innocentia morum Angelicus Majorum prosapiam quorum ipse nemini impar sacra functione longè superavit claro virtutum ingenitarum praeconio perennavit c. Antiquariorum sui saeculi exquisitissimus Ecclesiasticoruns Monumentum aurifodinam haereditatem omni thesauro pretiosiorem raro scientiss virorum sed optabili exemplo posteris reliquit c. An. Dom. 1627. An. 3. Car. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Juxon again July 19. Proct. Hugh Halswell of All 's Coll. Franc. Hyde of Ch. Ch. Apr. 4. Upon the resignation made by the said Proctors of their office 22. Apr. 1628. Mr. Will. Hyde and Mr. Isaac Taylor were Procuratores nati till the 13. of June following the controversie of electing Proctors being not till that time finish'd See more in Hist Antiq Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 330. b. 331. a. Bach. of Arts. June 1. Joh. Webberley of Linc. Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Div. in 1640. 11. Sam. Fisher of Trin. Coll. afterwards of New Inn and of all religions in the time of the grand rebellion Rog. Lorte of Wadham Coll. the Poet was admitted the same day July 3. Rich. Chalfout of New Inn afterwards of Linc. Coll. See more among the Bach. of Div. 1637. Oct. 23. Joh. Archer of Exeter 25. Robert Maton of Wadh. Coll. Feb. 18. Rob. Randolph of Ch. Ch. This Person who took no higher Degree in this University was a most ingenious Poet as several of his copies of verses printed in various books shew He collected together the Poems Plays and other matters of his Brother Tho. Randolph the celebrated Poet of his time as I have before told you This Rob. Randolph who was first Vicar of Barnetby and after of Donnington in Holland in Lincolnshire was buried in the Church at Donnington 7. July 1671. aged 60 or thereabouts 21. Hen. Carpenter Sam. Austin of Exet. Coll. 27 Joh. Aris of Magd hall See among the Masters 1630. As for Fisher Lorte Archer Maton and Carpenter they are to be mention'd at large hereafter Adm. 240. or thereabouts Bach. of Law But seven were admitted this year of whom Morgan Godwin of Pemb. Coll. was one Edw. Lake whom I shall anon mention another and a third called Oliver Lloyd of All 's Coll. Mast of Arts. Apr. 17. Rich. Allen of Pemb. Coll. June 1. Thom. Ford of Magd. Hall 2. Hen. Beesley Steph. Goffe of St. Alb. Hall 2. Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. Joseph Caryll of Ex. Coll. July 2. Christop Elderfield of S. Maries Hall 6. Reg. Turner of Exet. Coll. This Person who was afterwards beneficed near Southampton and the place of his nativity hath published The userers plea answered in a Sermon preached at Southampton 18. Jul. 1633. on Matth. 25. 27. Lond. 1634. qu. and another on 2 Kings 11. ver 12. Printed in 1661. qu. and not unlikely others Mar. 14. Francis Davies of Jes Coll. Adm. 131. or thereabouts ☞ Not one Bach. of Physick was admitted this year
Author saith who adds that he died at London in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 which was the eight and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. FRANCIS BYGOD a Yorkshire Man born spent some time among the Oxonian Muses but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood from the King and wrot A Treatise concerning impropriations of Benefices The Epistle before which dedicated to K. Hen. 8. is printed or reprinted at the latter end of Sir Hen. Spelman's Larger work of Tithes by the care of Jerem. Stephens an 1647. The said Treatise seems to have been written after the breach which K. Hen. 8. made with the Pope his Marriage with Anna Bolein and the Birth of Q. Elizabeth as 't is conjectured by circumstances The Author's purpose was chiefly bent against the Monasteries who had unjustly gotten very many Parsonages into their possession as it had been complained of long before his time especially be Dr. Tho. Gascoigne a Yorkshire Man born The said Bygod translated also certain Latin Books into English which I have not yet seen At length being found very active in the commotions in Yorkshire called The holy pilgrimage an 1536 at which time he with his party endeavoured to surprise Hull was thereupon apprehended imprison'd and at length executed at Tyburn near to London with other Knights and Esquires in the Month of June in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 which was the nine and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. ROBERT WAKFELD a Northern Man born and the greatest Linguist of his time was as he saith ex fidelibus natus fidelis ex Christianis Christianus and afterwards being fitted for the University he was sent to Cambridge where he took one or more degrees in Arts. But his desire being solely bent to improve his natural Genie in the Tongues he went to travel and in short time attained to a very considerable knowledge in the Greek Hebrew Chaldaic and Syriac Tongues About that time he read and taught the said Tongues at Tubing in Germany at Paris and in 1519 I find him to be Hebr. Professor at Lovaine in Brabant in the place of one Matthew Adrian But continuing there only 4 Months he returned into England where being made known to the King by his great friend and admirer Rich. Paice Dean of St. Pauls he was made one of his Chaplams took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity was beloved of many and patroniz'd in his studies by Thom. Bulleyn Earl of Wilts When the unlawfulness of Matrimony between the King and Catherine of Spayne Widow of his Brother Prince Arthur was called into question he began to defend the Queens cause and therefore gained the love of many bâ—t being afterwards courted by fair promises to change his mind and the rather because of his great skill in the Tongues and Divinity and therefore able to say more than another Man he came over to the Kings Party whereby he gained the hatred of many I have seen a Letter written by him to the King dated from Sion in Middlesex 1527. wherein he tells him that he will defend his cause or question in all the Universities in Christendome c. and afterwards tells him that if the People should know that he who began to defend the Queens cause not knowing that she was carnally know of Pr. Arthur his Brother should now write against it surely he should be stoned of them to death or else have such a slander and obloquy raised upon him that he would rather dye a thousand times than suffer it c. Afterwards upon the intreaty of the University of Oxon made to the King Wakfeld was sent thither about 1530. and at his first coming he made a publick Speech in the Hall of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. since called Ch. Church before the University and afterwards read publickly the Hebrew Lecture there as his Brother Tho. Wakfeld did at Cambridge by the Kings Authority beginning to read there in 1540. In 1532 he was made by the King the twelfth or junior Canon of his College at Oxon founded on the site of that of the Cardinal and in the same Year he was incorporated B. of Divinity So that continuing there some Years after and-instructing many in the Tongues I have therefore put him among the Oxford Writers In 1536 when he saw the King make havock of Religious Houses he carefully preserved divers Books of Greek and Hebrew especially those in the Library of Ramsey abbey which were partly composed by Laur. Holbeach a Monk of that place in the Reign of Hen. 4. among which was his Hebrew Dictionary As for the works of Wakfeld they are mostly these that follow Oratio de laudibus utilitate trium Linguarum Arabicae Chaldaicae Hebraicae atque idiomatibus hebraicis quae in utroque testamento inveniuntur Printed by Winand Worde in qu. Paraphrasis in librum Koheleth quem vulgo Ecclesiasten vocant succincta clara atque fidelis Printed in a black char in qu. Kotser codicis quo praeter ecclesiae sacrosanctae decretum probatur conjugium cum fratria carnaliter cognita illicitum omnino inhibitum interdictumque esse tum naturae jure tum jure divino legeque evangelica atque consuetudine catholica ecclesiae orthodoxae Printed at Lond. 1528 in qu. This is the same with his Book entit by Bale and Pits De non ducenda Fratria Syntagma de hebraeorum codicum incorruptione Printed in qu. In which Book are several things against Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester concerning Matrimony and the unlawfulness of the Kings Marrying with his Brothers Wife Oratio Oxonii habita in Coll. Regio Printed with the former in qu. De Laudibus Agriculturae Epistolae ad D. Th. Bulleyn comitem Wilts Joh. Fisherum Ep. Roff. Rich. Paceum c. Besides other things mentioned elsewhere which I have not yet seen He died at London on the eighth day of Octob. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven leaving Thomas his Brother his Heir but where he was buried I cannot yet tell Jo. Leland in one of his Books gives him the name of Polypus noting thereby he way of contumely that he was a crafty man for craftily conveying away the Hebrew Dictionary before-mention'd Rich. Paice Dean of Pauls in a Letter to K. H. 8. dat at Sion 1527. saith that Rob. Wakfeld is a Person of excellent learning as well in Divinity as in wonderful knowledge of many and divers Languages The University of Oxon in an Epistle to the said King doth also say that besides his various accomplishments he gives place to none for his admirable knowledge in the Hebrew Syriac and Arabick Tongues JOHN CLAYMOND who used to write himself Eucharistiae servus because he frequently received the blessed Sacrament and in the latter part of his life took it every day was the Son of Joh. Claymond and Alice his Wife sufficient Inhabitants of
life on the 28. year 1558 Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Hadley in Middlesex I have seen a Copy of his Will wherein the stiles himself one of the Justices of the Common-pleas under the King and Queen and desires that his Body may be buried in the Parish Church of Islyngdon Hadley or Houndsworth His posterity remaineth in Staffordshire Warwickshire and elsewhere to this day ROBERT TALBOT was very much esteemed in his time and after for his singular knowledge in the antiquities of England and for his care in preserving and collecting antient Books and Monuments decayed by time His cronie John Leland is full of his praises and not a little are Joh. Baleus Joh. Cajus Abr. Ortelius Camden and others the last of which stiles him Vir antiquitatis bene peritus in hac Angliae parte meaning in the Iceni i. e. Norfolk Suffolk c. versatissimus He the said Talbot was born at Thorpe in Northamptonshire but whether at Thorpe Mandevil or Thorpe Longa. I know not and seems to be of the same Family with the Talbots of Grafton He was educated in Grammaticals in Wykeham's School near to Winchester in Logicals and Philosophicals in New Coll. of which he became Fellow after he had served two Years of probation an 1523. and left it 5 Years after being then only Bach. of Arts supplicated for the Degree of Master 1529 but not admitted as I can find in the Register of that time However that he was written Master and Doctor afterwards it doth manifestly appear in various writings so that I presume he took those Degrees elsewhere On the 23. Jun. 1541 he was admitted to a Prebendship in the Church of Wells called Wedmer secunda and on the 9. Apr. 1. Ed. 6. Dom. 1547. the Dean and Chapter of Norwych did by their Letters Pat. confer a Prebendship or office of Treasurer of their Church on him void by the death of one Will. Herydans On the 27. Aug. 5. and 6. of Phil. and Mary Dom. 1558. he gave to John Harpesfeild Dean and to the said Chapter of the Cath. of Norwych three Acres of Land in Lakenham and soon after died as I shall tell you afterwards But that which is chiefly to be noted is that during his abode at Norwych he wrot a Book thus intit Roberti Talboti Annotationes in eam partem Itinerarii Antonini quae ad Britanniam pertinent The beginning of which is Itinera hic sunt in Britanniâ numero xv c. It endeth at the word Luguvallo at the end of the fifth Itinerary and goeth no farther Which Book the learned Camden in his Britannia and Will. Burton in his Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary and others did much use It is not Printed but remains in MS. in obscure places And for ought I know there are but three Copies of it in being viz. one in the Library of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge another in that of Sir Joh. Cotton at Westminster which if I mistake not did sometimes belong to Mr. Tho. Allen of Glouc. Hall got out of his hands by Rich. James of C. C. C. for the said Library and a third in Bodlyes Vatican Our Author Talbot hath also written a Book called Aurum ex stercore vel de Aenigmaticis propheticis MS collected from old Books of verses and rimes that have been long since lost The beginning of which is Certe non est rarum c. In this Book are verses called Magistrates every one of which was worth an ordinary Groat Mr. Allen before mention'd had a Copy of valued it much and would often repeat verses thence at times of refection but where that Copy is now I know not Sure I am that one written in qu. in the archives of C. C. C. bound with the observations from humanity Authors made by John Twyne was given thereunto by Brian his Grandson Our Author Talbot hath also made choice Collections De Chartis quibusdam Regum Britannorum MS. in the Library of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge What else he hath written I know not nor any thing more of him only that he took his last farewell of this World a little after the 27. year 1558 Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight and was buried in the Cathedral Church there as I have been instructed from the researches of Mr. afterwards Dr. Hump. Prideaux Prebendary of that Church made from several Registers and Charters belonging thereunto By Rob. Talbot's Will dated 20. Aug. 1558 which is almost three Months before Qu. Mary died he left the best and rerest of his MSS. to New Coll. in Oxon. Which MSS. did then lye at Thorpe and Cranesley and maintenance also for an Anniversary to be kept at Thorpe for himself Father Mother his Brother John and for his Unkle Sir Rich. Whitryns Which Anniversary was to be performed for the present by Sir Christopher his Priest at Thorpe before-mention'd But this last I presume was never performed The Reader is to know now I am got into the name of Talbot that after Rob. Talbots time lived one Tho. Talbot commonly called Limping Talbot from a lameness in one of his legs Son of John Talbot of Salebury in Lancashire Esq who died 30. Aug. 1551. which Thomas heing promoted to the Clerkship of the Records in the Tower of London did at length by the help of a good memory become a most excellent Genealogist and a Man of singular skill in our antiquities Camden in his Britannia doth acknowledg his help in the succession of the Earls of each County since the Norman conquest and Tho. Abingdon the sometimes Antiquary of Worcestershire in his MS. History of the Bishops of Worcester saith thus of him But these first meaning the first Bishops of Worcester I had out of the Collections of an excellent Antiquary Mr. Thomas Talbot who gathered the same out of a Leiger of the Priory of Worcester which I think is now perished He left choice Collections behind him some of which coming into the hands of Sir Rob. Cotton he put them into his Library as choice Monuments and being bound in one Volume in fol are thus intit by a late hand Analecta quamplurima diversi generis viz. ex quibusdam chronicis cartis aliisque autenticis registris Epitaphia Gencalogiae alia ad rem historicam spectantia besides several Collections of Antiquities in Yorkshire I have seen also in the Sheldonian Library now reposed in the Heralds Office divers of his Collections viz. among them is a thin fol. intit Escaetorum inquisitiones de tempore Reg. Ed. 4. c. Now whether this Tho. Talbot who was living an 1580 and for ought that I know was living ten Years after was of kin to Robert before-mentioned I know not nor can I safely believe that he is the same Thomas Talbot who was admitted Bach. of Arts of Oxon. in July 1533. I
Academical learning either in St. Albans or Broadgates hall or both Thence he went to an Inn of Chancery in Holbourne near London called Thavies Inn where he studied and made sufficient progress in the common Law and thence as 't is probable to Lincolns Inn. Afterwards he applied his muse to the searching of Histories especially those belonging to his own Country wherein he became so curious and critical that he wrot and published A Dictionary in English and Welsh much necessary to all such Welshmen as will speedily learn the English tongue thought by the Kings Majesty very meet to be set forth to the use of his gracious Subjects in Wales Lond. 1547. qu. whereunto is prefixed A little treatise of the English pronunciation of the Letters From the said Dictionary and treatise Dr. Joh. Davies obtained many materials when he was making his Dictionarium Britannico-latinum A playne and familiar introduction teaching how to pronounce the Letters in the Brytish tongue now commonly called Welsh whereby an English Man shall not only with ease read the said tongue rightly but c. Lond. 1550. qu. Afterwards perused and augmented by the Author Lond. 1567. in 7. sh in qu. Battery of the Popes bottereulx commonly called the High Aultar Lond. 1550. in oct He also published The Laws of Howell Da and other things relating to his own Country which I have not yet seen He was living in the house of Humph. Toy a Bookseller in St. Pauls Ch. yard in London in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven which was part of the ninth and tenth years of Qu. Elizabeth being then esteemed a Person to be much meriting of the Church and British tongue but when he died I find not ARMIGELL WADE or Waad a Yorkshire Man born spent some years in Logick and Philosophie in St. Mary Magd. Coll. as it seems took a Degree in Arts 1531 went afterwards to one of the Inns of Court travelled into various Countries and after his return became Clerk of the counsel to K. Hen. 8. and afterwards to K. Ed. 6. He is charactariz'd thus Qui in maximarum artium disciplinis prudentiaque civili instructissimus plurimarum linguarum callentissimus legationibus honoratissimis perfunctus inter Britunnos Indiarum Americâ—rum explorator primus He made many observations in his travels especially in America being the first English Man that discovered it which are remitted into the Volums of voyages collected and published by another hand This Person who was a Justice of Peace for the County of Middlesex died at Belsie or Belsise in the Parish of Hampsted in the said County 20. June in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1568 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Hampsted Soon after was a fair Monument of Alabaster erected over his grave by Sir Will. Waad his eldest Son Clerk of the Counsel to Qu. Elizabeth WILLIAM TURNER a noted and forward Theologist and Physician of his time was born at Morpeth in Northumberland educated in Cambridge in Trivials and afterwards for a time in the study of Medicine This Person who was very conceited of his own worth hot headed a busie body and much addicted to the opinions of Luther would needs in the height of his study of Physick turn Theologist but always refused the usual ceremonies to be observed in order to his being made Priest And whether he had orders confer'd upon him according to the R. Cath. manner appears not Sure it is that while he was a young Man he went unsent for through many parts of the Nation and Preached the Word of God not only in Towns and Villages but also in Cities In his rambles he settled for a time in Oxon among several of his Countrymen that he found there purposely for the conversation of Men and Books which is one reason I put him here the other I shall tell you anon But whether he took a Degree in Arts or Medicine I cannot yet find At the same time and after following his old trade of preaching without a call he was imprison'd and kept in close durance for a considerable time At length being let loose and banished he travelled into Italy and at Ferrara he was made a Doctor of Physick and as much there in esteem for his faculty as after his return into England he was among the reformed party In the latter end of K. Hen. 8. he lived at Colen and other places in Germany where he published one or more Books and returning to his native Country when K. Ed. 6. reigned had not only the Prebendship of Botevant in the Church of York bestowed on him by the Archb. of that place but a Canonry of Windsore and the Deanery of Wells by the King About which time tho the day or month or scarce the Year appears he was incorporated Doctor of Physick with us which is another reason I put him here for if I could have found the certain time which appears not because the Register of that Kings Reign is imperfect I would have remitted him into the Fasti About that time he procured a licence to read and to preach as many Lay-men did that were Scholars practised his faculty among the Nobility and Gentry and became Physician to Edward Duke of Somerset L Protector of England After Q. Mary came to the Crown he left the Nation once more went into Germany with several English Theologists thence to Rome and afterwards for a time settled in Basil But when Qu. Eliz. succeeded he return'd and was restored to his Deanery and had other spiritualities I presume confer'd upon him being then a Person had in much esteem for his two faculties and for the great benefit he did by them especially in his writings to the Church and common-wealth The titles of those Books published under his name are these The hunting of the Romish Fox which more than 7 years hath been hid among the Bishops of England after that the Kings highness had commanded him Turner to be driven out of his Realm Basil 1543. oct Published under the name of Will Wraughton Avium praecipuarum quarum apud Plinium Aristotelem mentio est brevis succincta historia Colon. 1544. in tw Rescuing of the Romish Fox otherwise called the Examination of the hunter devised by Steph. Gardiner Doctor and defender of the Popes Canon Law and his ungodly Ceremonies Printed 1545. in oct published also under the name of W. Wraughton The hunting of the Romish Wolfe Printed beyond the Sea in oct Dialogue wherein is contained the examination of the Masse and of that kind of Priesthood which is ordained to say Mass and to offer up for the remission of sinne the body and blood of Christ againe Lond. in oct New Herball wherein are contained the names of herbs in Greek Lat. Engl. Dutch French and in the Apothecaries and Herbaries with the properties degrees and natural places of the same Lond. 1551. and 68. fol. It must be now noted that after this
and that religious Protestants are indeed right Catholicks Lond. 1587. qu. The Schoole of vertue and book of good nurture teaching Children and Youths their duties Lond. 1588. oct c. This book is composed in Engl. meter hath at the end of it certain prayers and graces and is at this day commonly sold at the stalls of Ballad singers Dialogue between Lent and Libertie wherein is declared that Lent is a meer invention of Man Lond. in oct He also translated into English the Psalter of David The Letany with Hymnes and turned into meter Davids Psalmes All printed in the time of Ed. 6. in qu. an 1549. c. He also first of all published The Visions of Pierce Plowman Lond. 1550. qu. Which hath since been once or twice made extant with corrections At length this most zealous Person having lived to a fair age mostly spent in continual action for the settlement and propagation of the Protestant Religion submitted to the stroke of death in Fifteen hundred eighty and eight year 1588 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church dedicated to St. Giles situated and being near to Cripplegate in Lond. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid with this inscription engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Here lyeth the body of Robert Crowley Clerk late Vicar of this Parish who departed this life the 18 day of June an dom 1588. GEORGE ETHRYG or Etheridge or as he writes himself in Latine Edrycus was born in a mercate town in Oxfordshire called Thame admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. in Nov. 1534 being then put under the tuition of John Shepreve and in Feb. 1539 was made Probationer-Fellow In 1543 he was licensed to proceed in Arts and two years after was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Aphorismes of Hypocrates At length being esteemed by all to be a most excellent Grecian he was made the Kings Professor of that language in the University about 1553 and kept that lecture till some time after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown and then because he had been a forward Person against the Protestants in Qu. Maries Reign was forced to leave it So that following the practice of his faculty of Medicine with good success in and near Oxon especially among those of his opinion gained a considerable stock of wealth He mostly lived and kept a Family in an antient decayed place of literature called George hall opposite almost to the South end of Catstreet in St. Maries Parish in Oxon in which he took to him in the condition of Sojournours the Sons of divers Catholick Gentlement to be instructed in several arts and sciences among whom was Will. Gifford afterwards Archbishop of Rheimes who received from him rudiments in Grammar Musick and partly in Logick He constantly adher'd to the R. Catholick Religion wherein he had been zealously educated for which he suffer'd at the reformation by losing his lecture perhaps his Fellowship too and by continual imprisonments to be great impoverishment of his health and estate In a word he was esteemed by most Persons especially by those of his opinion a noted Mathematician well skill'd in vocal and instrumental Musick an eminent Hebrician Grecian and Poet and above all an excellent Physician as it appears in certain books of his composition the titles of which follow Musical compositions Diversa Carmina MS. Acta Henrici octavi carmine Graec. Presented in MS. to Qu. Elizabeth when she was in Oxon. 1566. Hypomnemata quaedam in aliquot libros Pauli Aeginetae seu observationes medicamentorum quae hâc aetate in usu sunt Lond. 1588 oct He also turn'd the Psalmes of David into a short form of Hebrew verse and translated most if not all of the works of Justin Martyr from Greek into Latin with other things which I have not yet seen He was living an antient Man in fifteen hundred eighty and eight but when or where he died I know not nor where buried unless in the ayard of St. Maries Church in Oxon in which his Father and Mother were before buried John Leland who was his familiar friend did celebrate his memory by verse while he lived and told him thus Scripsisti juvenis multâ cum laude libellos Qui Regi eximiè perplacuere meo PETER LEVENS or Levins was born at or near Eske in Yorkshire became a Student in the University an 1552 was elected probationer-Fellow of Madg. Coll. into a Yorkshire place 18. Jan. 1557. being then Bach. of Arts and on the 19. Jan. 1559 was admitted true and perpetual Fellow In 1560. he left his fellowship and one Thomas Dunne M. A succeeded him but whether our Author Levens proceeded in Arts or took a degree in Physick or was licensed to practise that Faculty it appears not in our Registers Afterwards he taught a Grammar-School and practised Physick which is all I know of him only that he wrot and published these things following A Dictionary of English and Latine words c. the English going before the Latine necessary for Scholars that want variety of words and for such as use to write in English metre Lond. 1570. in 18. sh in qu. A right profitable book for all diseases called the Path-way to health wherein are most excellent and approved medicines of great vertue as also notable potions and drinks and for the Distilling of divers waters and making of Oyles and other comfortable receipts Lond. 1587. qu. The Author is stiled in the title page Master of Arts of Oxon. and student in Physick and Chirurgerie This Book was afterwards several times printed with corrections and one Edition came out at Lond. 1664. what else Peter Levens hath written I cannot yet tell THOMAS SAMPSON was born about the year 1517 educated in Grammar and Academical learning amongst the Oxonian Muses afterwards studied the municipal Laws in one of the Temples where being converted to the Protestant Religion did shortly after as 't is said convert John Bradford the Martyr Whereupon they both taking Orders from Nich. Ridley Bishop of London became noted Preachers in the Reign of Ed. 6 and about that time Sampson as 't is said was made Dean of Chichester In the beginning of Qu. Mary he absconded at which time being well acquainted with one Rich. Chambers a zealous Protestant they collected moneys in the City of London from the well affected there to be distributed among such poor Scholars of each University that were haters of the Roman Catholick Religion Which matter being at length discovered he with his wife the Neice of Hugh Latimer were forced with Chambers to go beyond the Seas to Strasburge where wholly applying himself to the study of Divinity as much advanced in the knowledge thereof by his often associating himself with learned Tremelius After Queen Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to his native country and became a frequent Preacher in London and much followed by the reformed party there and afterwards in
the Allens or Allyns of Staffordshire from whom he is descended are Parted per Chevron Gules and Ermine two Lyons heads erased in the upper part or The next Card. that the English Nation hath been honoured with is Philip Howard third Son of Henry Earl of Arundel and younger Brother to Henry Earl of Norwich and Duke of Norfolk who at this day is living at Rome He was born in Arundel House in the Parish of St. Clement Danes without Temple-Bar near London an 1629. and there educated under several Tutors till he was 14 years of age At length upon the eruption of the Civil War he left the Nation and travelled with his Grandfather Thomas Earl of Arundel into Italy and at 15 years of age became a Dominician or Black-Frier at Cremona After several years spent there he returned into England and upon the Marriage of King Charles 2. with Katherine the Infanta of Portugal he became Lord Almoner to her and continued in her service several years Afterwards upon the People's being exasperated against Popery he quitted that Noble Office and went to Bornheim in Flanders where having a Convent of English Fryers of his Order had not continued there long but at the desire of his sometimes Tutor then Confessor to Pope Clement 10. had a Cardinals Cap sent to him by the said Pope in the month of May 1675. by his Messenger Seignior Con at which time Father Howard was at Antwerp with the Bishop of that place By vertue of which and the instrument with it he was made Cardinal Priest Sub tt Ecclesiae S. Mariae supra Minervam which Church was in most ancient time built upon the ruines of the Temple of Minerva at Rome where the said Card. is now generally stiled The Cardinal of Norfolk and by some The Cardinal of England Afterwards taking his journey towards Rome he was attended by his Uncle William Viscount Stafford beheaded in 1680. upon account of being engaged in the Popish Plot Mr. John Howard Son of the said William Lord Thomas Howard Nephew to the said Cardinal and younger Brother to the present Duke of Norfolk Seignior Con before-mentioned Dr. Joh. Laybourne President of the English or Clergy College at Doway then Secretary or Auditor to the Cardinal and others He took his journey through Flanders to Doway where he was with great solemnity received and lodged in the said Coll. The next day he designing to visit the College of English Benedictines at that place he was received by the whole Convent in their Church in a solemn procession with Copes a Te Deum and other Ceremonies as appointed in the Ritual for such receptions From the Church he was conducted into the Cloyster and entertained with a banquet and a Panigyrick spoken to him by a Student of that college All which was so well performed that Visâ— Staâ—â—ord was pleased to say that it was the only fit reception his Eminence had met with in all his journey Afterwards his Eminence went to Paris where he continued for some time incognito At length with other Nobility and Persons of Quality added to the former company he journeyed to Rome and made his entry for the defraying of which and his journey he had the assistance of the Pope and not of King Charles 2. and Queen Catherine as the common report then went ADAM HYLL a most noted and eloquent Preacher of his time was elected Fellow of Baliol Coll. in 1568. being that Bachelaur of Arts stood in the Act to compleat the degree of Master of that Faculty in 1572. and on the 12. of Jan. following he resigned his Fellowship About that time he being noted for his practical way of Preaching he became Vicar of Westbury in Wilts in which County he was as it is probable born Parson of Goosage in Dorsetshire and at length Prebendary of Gillyngham Minor in and Succentor of the Cath. Church of Salisbury In 1591. he took the degrees in Divinity and had he not been untimely snatched away by Death he would have been advanced to an high degree in the Church He hath written and published Several Sermons Among which are 1 Godly Sermon shewing the Fruits of Peace and War on 2 Cor. 20. 1 Lond. 1588. oct 2 Serm. On Gen. 18. 21 22. Lond. 1593. oct 3 Serm. concerning Christs descent into Hell Preached 28. Feb. 1589. but on what Subject I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it It was answered by Alex. Humo a Scot whereupon our Author Hyll came out with a Book intit A defence of the Article Christ descended into Hell with an Answer to the arguments objected against the truth of the said Doctrine by one Alexand. Hume c. Lond. 1592. qu Afterwards Hume came out with A Rejoinder wherein the answer to Dr. Hylls Sermon is justly defended Printed 1593. qu. But before our author Hyll could come out with another answer he gave way to fate which hapning at Salisbury about the 16. of Febr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Cath. Church there on the nineteenth day of the same Month. Soon after his dignity or dignities in the said Church were bestowed on one Tho. Crump As for the said Alex. Hume he was Master of Arts of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated here as I shall tell you in the Fasti and wrote besides what is before mentioned A Treatise of Conscience c. 2 Treatise of the Felicity of the World to come c. 3 Four discourses of praises unto God c. All which were printed at London in 1594. in oct JOHN THORIE or Thorius Son of John Thorius Doctor of Physick who intitles himself Balliolanus Flandrus was born in London matriculated in this University as a Member of Ch. Ch. 1 Oct. 1586. aged 18. but whether he took a degree it appears not though in one of his Books he writes himself a Graduat of Oxenford He was a Person well skilled in certain Tongues and a noted Poet of his time as several pieces of his then published shew All the things that I have seen of his writing or translating are these A Spanish Dictionary Lond. 1590. qu. Added to his translation into English of a Spanish Grammar written by Auth. de Corro which Dictionary contains the explication of all the Spanish Words cited in the said Grammer and is as a Key to open every thing therein Letters and Sonnets to Gabr. Harvey An. 1593. See at the end of a book entit Pierces Superarogation written by the said Harvey And at the end of another called Have with you to Saffron Walden c. written by Tho. Nash anoted Poet of his time and a Dramatick Writer as his published Comedies shew Our author Thorius also translated from Spanish into English a book entit The Councellour A Treatise of Councils and Councellours of Princes Lond. 1589. qu. written by Barth Philip. L. L. D. and another entit The Serjeant Major or a Dialogue of the
book of Jests or Clinches which at length was sold on the stalls of Ballad-mongers This person was living in his middle age in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but when or where he dyed I cannot tell for so it is and always hath been that most Poets dye poor and consequently obscurely and a hard matter it is to trace them to their Graves FABIAN à NIPHO Son of James à Nipho was born in Italy left his Country for Religion sake went to London where obtaining Letters of recommendation from Robert Earl of Leicester Chanc. of this Univ. dat 19. Oct. 1581. he retired to Oxon for relief So that by virtue of those Letters wherein the Members thereof found that he was a person recommended to them for his great skill in Physick and Philosophy they were pleased to confer on him the degree of Bachelaur of Physick in January following and permitted him to read a Shagling Lecture in that Faculty to gain contributions from the Students thereof How long he continued with us I know not nor how long he read that Lecture Sure it is if you 'l believe him That he having suffered oppression by the wickedness of certain People in England upon what account he tells us not unless we suppose that they suspected him to be a Papist and so dealt with him accordingly he retired to Leyden in Holland where as it farther appears after he had made himself to be believed that he was an honest man the States encouraged his Studies and forthwith he wrote a book which he dedicated to them bearing this title Ophinus seu de caelesti animarum progenie divinatio Lugd. Bat. 1599. qu. There is no doubt but that he hath published other things but such I have not yet seen neither do I yet know to the contrary but that he made a return again to this University THOMAS WILCOCKS or Wilcox a grave and reverend Divine in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth was originally of St. Johas coll but whether ever Fellow thereof their Register shews not His Name stands in the Matricula of the University sub tit coll S. Jo. Bapt. in the year 1564. but I cannot find him Graduated in the publick Register of that time belonging to the University One Tho. Wilcocks a Kentish man was as a Member of St. Albans hall admitted Master of Arts in Febr. 1589. But this I cannot affirm to be the same with the former unless we suppose him to be about 40 years of age when he took that degree as many did in those times at that age after they had been Parsons or Dignitaries many years As for Tho. Wilcocks whom we are farther to mention he retired to London after he had left the University where he became a very painful Minister of God's Word a frequent Writer and Translator and was much resorted to by wavering and dubious Persons for relief and settlement of their Consciences His Writings are Exposition on the book of Canticles or Solomon's Song Lond. 1585. qu. Exposition on certain Verses of the 8. Chap. of the Rom. namely upon Vers 18 19 20 21 22 23. Lond. 1587. oct Short and sound Commentary on the Prov. of Solomon Lond. 1589. qu. Expos on the whole book of Psalms wherein is contained the division and sense of every Psalm c. Lond. 1591. qu. All these were reprinted in one fol. at Lond. 1624. by the care of Dr. Jo. Burges who married the author's Daughter and had this general Title put to them The Works of the Reverend Divine Mr. Tho. Wilcocks Summary and short meditations touching certain points of Christian Religion Lond. 1579. oct Concordance or Table containing the principal words and matters which are comprehended in the New Testament Lond. 1579. oct Answer to Banister the Libertine Lond. 1581. oct Glafs for Gamesters and namely for such as delight in Cards and Dice wherein they may see not only the vanity but also the vileness of those Plays plainly discovered and overthrown by the Word of God Lond. 1581. oct Form of preparation to the Lord's Supper Lond. in oct On the substance of the Lord's Supper shortly and soundly set forth together with c. Lond. 1581. oct Comfortable Letter for afflicted Consciences written to a godly man greatly touched that way Lond. 1584. in tw Three large Letters for instruction and comfort of such as are distressed in Conscience c. Lond. 1589. oct Narration of a fearful Fire at Wooburn in Bedfordsh Lond. 1595. oct He also translated into English 1 A Catechism Lond. 1578. oct originally written by Joh. Fountein 2 Three propositions the first on the 1. Chap. of St. Joh. ver 1. to 5. c. Lond. 1580. written by Jo. Calvin 3 Treatise of the Church wherein the godly may discern the true Church from the Romish c. Lond. 1582. oct written by Bertrand de Loques 4 Discourse of the true visible marks of the Cath. Church Lond. in oct written by Theod. Beza 5 Two Sermons on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Lond. 1588. oct written by the said Beza whereunto is added The substance of the Lord's Supper mentioned before 6 Bertram the Priest concerning the Body and Blood of Christ c. Lond. 1582. oct See more in Will. Hugh under the year 1549. 7 Meditations on Psal 101. Lond. 1599. oct written in French by Phil. Mornay Lord of Plessis What else our author hath written and translated I know not nor any thing of him beside only that he was living and much in esteem in fifteen hundred ninety and nine Two or more of his Sirname studyed in Broadgates hall in the time of K. Ed. 6. whos 's Christian Names being not in a possibility to be discovered I cannot judge farther of them RICHARD HOOKER that rare and admirable Theologist was born in or near to the City of Exeter about the time of Easter an 1554. of which City some of his Name and Family have been Mayors was exhibited to while a School-boy by John Jewel B. of Sarum became one of the Clerks of C. C. coll in 1567. Scholar 24. Dec. in 73. Fellow and Master of Arts in 77. DeputyProfessor of the Hebrew Language in the University 14. July 1579. entred into Orders and became a frequent Preacher married a clownish silly Woman and withal a meer Xantippe became Rector of Drayton-Beauchamp in Bucks an 1584. Master of the Temple in the year following in the place of Rich. Alvey Bach. of Div. deceased who was the first Canon of the fifth stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster Rector of Boscomb in Wiltshire Sub-dean of the Church of Salisbury and prebendary of Netherhaven in the same Church both which he obtained by the resignation of Dr. Nich. Balgay in July 1591. and at length Rector of Bishops-Bourne near Canterbury by the presentation thereunto of the Queen in 1595. There hath been no learned college in the World that hath yet yielded at one time almost and from
one County three such Divines as Jewel Hooker and Rainolds of the second of which hear I pray what the learned Camden saith In this year meaning 1599. which is false dyed too many in that one Rich. Hooker born in Devonshire and bred in C. C. coll in Oxford a Divine very moderate temperate and meek and vertuous even to the best imitation and besides very famous for his learned works as his Books of Ecclesiastical Policy set forth in the English but worthy to speak Latin do testifie of him c. At Boscomb he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy which were entred into the Register in Stationers hall 9. March 1592. and afterwards came out with this Title The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in four books Lond. 1594. fol. To which he added a fifth book which is larger than the first four printed by its self at Lond. 1597. fol. Part of the first four being read by Dr. Tho. Stapleton in Latin to P. Clement 8. who before had heard much in their commendation he the said Pope in conclusion said thus There is no learning that this Man hath not searched into nothing too hard 〈◊〉 his Vnderstanding This man indeed deserves the Name of an Author His books will get reverence by age for there are in them such seeds of Eternity that if the rest bâ— like this they shall last till the last Fire shall consume all learning c. At the same time K. James of Scotland afterwards of England did put an high esteem upon the said books and usually said They were the pictures of a Divine Soul in every page of Truth and Reason King Ch. 1. had read them over several times was well vers'd in and commended them to be read by the Prince afterwards K. Ch. 2. and his other Children next to the Bible The learned Vsher Primate of Ireland Morton B. of Durham Hales of Eaton c. had the same high opinion of the author and his Works and Gauden Bishop of Worcester said he had been highly esteemed of all prudent peaceable and impartial Readers But before the fifth book had been extant two years was published a Pamphlet intit A Christian Letter of certain English Protestants unfeigned Lovers of the present state of Religion authorized and professed in England unto that reverend and learned man Mr. Hooker requiring resolution in certain matters of Doctrine expresly contained in his five books of Ecclesiastical Polity Printed 1599. in qu. which matters of Doctrine as they say seem to overthrow the foundation of Christian Religion and of the Church among us But therein it doth appear that their ignorant malice hath done him great honour who in an argument so distasted by them and coming with a proud confidence to reprehend have only carped sillily at some things neither of moment or importance whereof humility and charity would have craved no answer But these being willing and desirous to find something to oppose have only discovered Mr Hookers great mature and grave judgment and their own small undigested and shallow learning Soon after came out an answer to the said letter entit A just and temperate defence of the 5 books of Ecclesiastical polity c. against an uncharitable letter of certain English protestants c. Lond. 1603. qu. written and published by Will. Covel D. D. born in Lancashiâ—e near the place where Dr. Chaderton B. of Lincoln received his first breath bred in Christs and Queens coll in Cambridge and a writer of other books that came out soon after As for the other three books of Ecclesiastical Policy which our author Hooker compleated before his death they with the consent of his unlucky Widdow were seized on in his study soon after his decease by Will. Charke a noted Puritan and another Minister that lived near to Canterbury who making the silly Woman believe that they were writings not fit to be seen did either burn them in the place or convey them away secretly So that the foul copy being only remaining with many interlinings Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll in Oxon. his ancient and entire Friend got it into his hands who using the assistance of Hen. Jackson of the said coll as an Amanâ—ensis and otherwise did compleat it as much as could be and kept it by him till his latter end with an intent that it should be published but upon what account he was hindred I cannot tell Sure it is that when he lay on his death-bed he bequeathed the said copy containing the three last books fairly transcribed by the hand of the said H. Jackson to Dr. Jo. King B. of London After his death the copy rested in the hands of his Son Henry who became B. of Chichester 1641. till Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury commanded them out of his custody authorizing Dr. Joh. Barcham to require and bring them to him to Lambeth which accordingly was done The said Archbishop esteeming them as rarities did put them into the Library there where remaining till the decollation of Archb. Laud were then by the Brethren of the Predominant Faction given with the Library to that most notorious Villain Hugh Peters as a reward for his remarkable service in those sad times of the Churches confusion And though they could hardly fall into a fouler hand yet there wanted not other endeavours to corrupt and make them speak that Language for which the Faction then fought which was to subject the Soveraign Power to the People From the said copy several transcripts were taken not only I presume while it remained in the said Library but while it continued in the hands of Peters differing much in words There was a copy of the sixth and eighth books published at London in 1648. in qu. and said by the Editor of them to be collected and compared with five copies viz. with that in Bodley's Library that at Lambeth that in Bish Andrew's that in Archb. Vsher's Library and in that of the Lord Edw. Conway at Ragley but whether the publisher may be believed I know not Sure I am that the said three last books which are said to be true and genuine but from whence obtained I cannot tell were published by Dr. Joh. Gauden under this title The Works of Mr. Rich. Hooker that learned godly judicious and eloquent Divine vindicating the Church of England as truly Christian and duly reformed in eight books of Ecclesiastical Polity now compleated as with the sixth and eighth so with the seventh c. out of his own MSS. never before published with an account of his holy Life and happy Death Lond. 1662. fol. But whether the said MSS. were of his own hand-writing we have good reason to question as also the greater part of his Life which he the said Gauden hath falsly written who with great confidence hath used divers arguments to satisfie the World that the before-mentioned three books were pen'd by Mr. Hooker
Registers which are in the time of K. Ed. 6. very imperfect shew not Afterwards retiring to his Native place he became the first Chamberlain thereof an 1554. about which time applying himself to the study of Astronomy and English History became noted in his time for them especially after he had published his labours for the benefit of Posterity in these books following Order and usage of keeping the Parliaments in England Lond. 1572. qu. The Events of Comets or blazing Stars made upon the sight of the Comet Pagonia which appeared in the month of Nov. and Dec. 1577. Lond. in oct An addition to the Chronicles of Ireland from 1546. where they ended to the year 1568. Lond. 1587. fol. This addition is in the second vol. of the Chronicles first collected and published by Raphael Holinshed Will. Harrison and others The said Chronicles of Ireland did begin an 1186. about which time Giraldus Cambrensis concluded his Irish History and were continued by several hands to the said year 1546. A Catalogue or History of the Bishops of Exeter from Werestan as he calls him to John Woolton an 1579. Remitted into the third vol. of Ra. Holinshed's Chronicles Lond. 1587. fol. pag. 1300. He also translated into English the Irish History of Giraldus before-mentioned and put Scholias to the same which being by him dedicated to Sir Walt. Raleigh with a large Epistle were remitted into the second vol. of the Chronicles of Ra. Holinshed Will. Harrison and others Lond. 1587. fol. He also took great pains in augmenting and continuing to the year 1586. the said first and second vol. of Chronicles which were also printed at London 1587. fol. The first impression of the said Chronicles were made at Lond. 1577. in fol. by the said R. Holinshed descended from those of his name that lived at Boseley in Cheshire educated in one of the Universities was a Minister of God's Word as I have heard and died at Bramcote in Warwickshire towards the latter end of 1580. Whereupon all or most of his notes collections books and MSS. came into the hands of Thom. Burdet Esq an inhabitant if not Lord of the said Town of Bramcote As for our author John Hooker he lived to a fair age and dying in Nov. year 1601 in sixteen hundred and one was buried at Exeter He gave up his Chamberlains place about a quarter of a year before he died and was succeeded therein by Will. Tickell There hath been two of the Hookers that have been Mayors of Exeter viz. Joh. Hooker in 1490. and Rob. Hooker in 1529. from one or both of which I presume our author Joh. Hooker was descended as also Rich. Hooker the eminent author of Eccles Policy CROMWELL LEA a younger Son of Sir Anth. Lea or Lee of Burston in Bucks Knight by his Wife the Daughter of Sir Thomas Wyat Knight descended from the Lees of Quarendon in the said County was educated in all inferiour Arts in this University and afterwards travelling and spending several years in Italy he attained to so great knowledge in the common Language of that Country that at his return he wrote A Dictionary in Italian and English Which tho it reaches but to the Word Tralingnato and so consequently wanteth the following Letters to the end of the Alphabet yet it is as big as a Church-Bible This book the author giving in MS. to the Library of St. Johns coll in this University of which coll he had been sometimes a Commoner about its first foundation the Society did so highly value it that one of them named Tho. Poticarie M. of A. and Bach. of the Civil Law did transcribe it in a very fair character Which being so done it was reposed in their Library as a choice thing and is at this day among the printed books B. 31. This Crom. Lea who had married Mary the Relict of Rich. Taverner mentioned under the year 1575. died at his house in Halywell in the North Suburb of Oxon about the beginning of Winter in sixteen hundred and one year 1601 but where buried I know not Whereupon this Epitaph was made on him by an Oxford Scholar Here lyeth old Cromwell Who living lov'd the Bum well When he dy'd he gave nothing to the poor But half to his Bastards and half to his Whore JOHN CHARDON or Charldon a Devonian born became a Sojourner of Exeter coll in 1562. or thereabouts made Probationer thereof 3. March 1564. perpetual Fellow in Octob. two years after entred into Holy Orders in Aug. 1567. being then Bach. of Arts and resigned his Fellowship on the 6. Apr. in the year after About that time being beneficed in his own Country particularly within the City of Exeter he proceeded soon after in Arts became a noted Preacher and wonderfully followed for his edifying Sermons In 1581. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences or the Epistles of St. Paul as it was then among the Puritans stiled proceeded in Divinity five years after and in 1596. in May he was consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor in the Church of St. Patrick at Dublin in Ireland All that are extant of his writing are only Several Sermons Preached in the Churches of St. Peter in Exeter St. Maries in Oxon and at S. Pauls-Cross in the City of Lond. viz. 1 Sermon of the World on Luke 21. 25. Lond. 1580. oct 2 Serm. at S. Mar. in Ox. on Joh. 9. 1 2 3. Ox. 1586. oct 3 Serm. at S. Mar. Ox. 11. Dec. 1586. on Joh. 9. 4 5 6 7. Lond. 1587. oct 4 Serm. at Pauls-cross 29. May 1586. on Matth. 6. 19 20 21. Lond. 1586. oct 5 Fun. Serm. on 1 Thes 4. from 13. to 18. verse Ox. 1586. oct He hath another Sermon extant on Isay 1. ver 1 2. Lond. 1595. but this and others which he hath printed as I conceive I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing of him besides save only that he died in Ireland in sixteen hundred and one year 1601 but where buried unless in his own Cath. Church I cannot tell The next in order according to time to be mentioned is a most reverend and learned Divine and an ornament to his profession in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth ALEXANDER NOWELL the second Son of John Nowell of Great Meerley in Lancashire was born in that County in 1511. and at 13 years of age became a Commoner of Brasmose college where profiting much in Grammar Logick and Philosophy took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1536. He was afterwards Fellow of that house Master of Arts and grew very famous for Religion and Learning In the Reign of Ed. 6. and perhaps before he taught School at Westminster where he very zealously trained the Youth up in Protestant principles but when Q. Mary began to Reign he among other Divines much averse to the R. Cath. Religion did leave the Kingdom for Conscience sake and lived as opportunity served in Germany Upon the coming of Q. Elizabeth to the Crown he
1 The Song of Songs which was Solomons metaphrased in English heroicks by way af dialogue Lond. 1621. qu. dedic to Hen. King Archd. of Colchester Son to the Bishop of Lond. 2 The Brides ornament Poetical Essayes upon a Divine Subject In two books Lond. 1621. qu. The first dedic to Jo. Argall Esq the other to Philip Brother to Henry King 3 Funeral Elegy consecrated to the memory of his ever honoured Lord John King late B. of London c. 1621. He also wrote a Book of Meditations of Knowlege Zeal Temperance Bounty and Joy And another containing Meditations of Prudence Obedience Meekness God's Word and Prayer Which two books of Meditations were intended by the author for the Press at the same time with the former Poetry But the ever lamented loss of his most honoured Lord which did change all his Joys into Sorrows and Songs to Lamentation did defert their publication and whether they were afterwards published I know not HENRY BILLINGSLEY Son of Roger Billingsley of the City of Canterbury did spend some time among the Muses in this University as others did who were afterwards Traders in London particularly Benedict Burnham of St. Albans hall afterwards a rich Citizen Sheriff and Alderman of London But before our author Billingsley had continued there three years in which time as 't is probable he became known to an eminent Mathematician called Whytehead then or lately a Fryer of the Order of St. Augustine in Oxon he was taken thence and bound an Apprentice to an Haberdasher as it seems in London Afterwards setting up for himself he became so rich that he was made successively Sheriff Alderman one of the Queen's Customers in the Port of London and at length 1596. Lord Mayor thereof and a Knight But the chief matter which I am to let the Reader know concerning him is that when the said Whytehead was put to his shifts after the demolition of his house in the latter end of Hen. 8. he was received by Billingsley into his Family and by him maintained in his old age in his house in London In which time he learned Mathematicks of him and became so excellent in them that he went beyond many of his time whether Lay-men or profess'd Scholars When Whytchead died he gave his Scholar all his Mathematical observations that he had made and collected together with his notes on Euclids Elements which he had with great pains drawn up and digested Afterwards our author Billingstey translated the said Elements into English and added thereunto plain Declarations and Examples manifold additions Scholias annotations and inventions from the best Mathematicians both in time past and in the age he lived in Which being done he published them under this title The Elements of Geometry of the mos ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara faithfully translated into the English tongue Whereunto are added certain Scholias annotations c. Lond. 1570. fol. To which book Dr. Joh. Dce did put a large Mathematical Preface containing a great deal of Learning pertaining to that Science As for Billingsley he departed this mortal life in a good old age 22. year 1606 Nov. in sixteen hundred and six and some weeks after his body was buried in a little Vault under his Pew in the Church of S. Catherine Colman in London What or where was the end of Whytehead I cannot tell yet thus much I know that what I have said relating to him and Billingsley concerning Mathematicks I had from the Mathematical observations of our Antiquary Brian Twyne and he from the information of that noted Mathematician Mr. Th. Allen of Glouc. hall and he from an eminent Physician called Reb. Barnes M. D. who was elected Fellow of Merton coll 29. Hen. 8. dom 1537. and remembred and had some acquaintance with Whytehead and Billingsley I find also one Rob. Billingsley who was not long since a teacher of Arithmetick and Mathematicks and author of a little book of Arith. and Algebra called An Idea of Arithmetick c. Whether he was descended from or related to Sir Henry I know not JOHN SAVILE elder Brother to Sir Henry Son of Henry Savile of Over-Bradley in Staneland near to Eland not far from Halifax in Yorkshire Esq was born in that County particularly as it seems at Over-Bradley became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1561. or thereabouts where laying a considerable foundation of Acad. learning was taken thence before he could attain to a degree in the University and sent to the Middle-Temple where making great proficiencie in the Municipal Laws was called to the Bar fell into considerable Practice became Autumn-reader of that house 28 Elizab. dom 1586. Steward of the Seigniory or Lordship of Wakefield in his own Country called to the degree and honour of the Coif in 1594 made one of the Barons of the Exchequer 98. and about that time one of the Justices of Assize When K. James came to the Crown he not only continued him in his Barons place 4. Apr. but also conferred on him just before his Coronation the honour of Knighthood 23. July following an 1603. being then one of the Judges that was to attend that Solemnity He left behind him at his death certain things fit for the Press of which only this following is as yet made publick Reports of divers special Cases as well in the Court of Common Pâ—eas as of the Exchequer in the time of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1675. in a thin fol. Printed in old French in a black character and published by John Richardson of the Inner-Temple Sir Jo. Savile paid his last debt to nature at London on the 2. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and six aged 61. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of St. Dunstans in the West in Fleetstreet London and his heart carried to Medley in Yorkshire where it was buried in an Isle joyning on the South side of the Church belonging to that place Soon after was a very fair Monument erected over it with the Effigics thereon of the Defunct in his Judges Robes cut out from stone laying thereon The Reader is to know that there was one John Savile a great pretender to Poetry in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. patronized in his studies by his kinsman a young Spark called George Savile Son of Sir George Savile Knight which John wrote among several things K. James his entertainment at Theobalds with his welcome to London and a salutory Poem Lond. 1603. qu. This I thought fit to let the Reader know lest Posterity may take him to be the same with Sir Jo. Savile before-mentioned The Name and Family of the Saviles are numerous in Yorkshire and pretend to be descended from the Savelli in Italy a Family accounted by some to be the ancientest in the World having been in Italy about 3000 years some of which have been Consuls before and after the time of our Saviour But how any of our Saviles in England can make it out that
Delapre in Northamptonshire Esq was born there or at least in that County became a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. aged 17. where laying a foundation of leâ—rning for a greater structure to be erected thereon departed without a degree to the Middle Temple 〈…〉 became a noted Counsellour a person of great 〈…〉 in the Law and eminent for his knowledge in 〈◊〉 and in the Saxon Language In the latter â—nd of Q Elizabeth he was a Parliament Man and in the 5. Jac. 1. he was Lent-Reader of the Middle Temple and about that time one of the Justices Itinerant for S. Wales He hath written several matters relating to Antiquity which being crept into private hands the publick is thereby rob'd of the benefit of them However some of them I have seen which bear these titles Nomina Hydarum in com Northampton MS. much used by Augustine Vincent Son of Will. Vincent of Wellingborough and Thingdon in Northamptonshire in his intended Survey or Antiquities of Northamptonshire I have a copy of this lying by me Explanation of the abbreviated words in Domsday book Used also the by said Vincent who after he had been Rouge Croix and Windsore Herald as also had published A discovery of Errors in two Editions of the Catalogue of Nobility written by Raphe Brook did yield to nature on the 11. Jan. in 1625. and was buried in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls Wharf in London The said two MSS. of Franc. Tate were reserved as rarities in the Library of Christop Lord Hatton of Kirkly in Northamptonshire but where they are now I know not His opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England See more in Joh. Doderidge under the year 1628. Learned Speeches in Parliaments held in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen He lived a single Man and dying so on the 16. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 was buried I suppose in the Church belonging to the Temples He had a Nephew Son of his elder Brother Sir William Tate of Delapre called Zouch Tate who became a Gentleman Com. of Trinity coll in 1621. aged 15. but took no degree In 1640. he was chosen a Burgess for Northampton to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year where siding with the Factious Crew took the Covenant and became a zealous Enemy to the King and his Cause Two or more Speeches of his are printed one of which was spoken in a Common Hall at London 3. Jul. 1645. containing Observations on the King and Queens Cabinet of Letters Lond. 1645. qu. Which Speech with that of John L'isle and Rich. Browne were animadverted upon by Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. as hereafter it shall be told you There were also Annotations printed at the end of the said Cabinet of Letters taken at Naseby Battle where the King was worsted Printed at Lond. 1645. qu. but who the author of them was I cannot tell RICHARD FIELD received his first being in this World in the County of Hertford was entred a Student in Magd. coll in 1577. where continuing in drudging at his book till he was about Bachelaurs standing retired to Magd. hall took the degrees in Arts and afterwards for about 7 years was not only a daily Reader of Logick and Philosophy but also a Moderator and every Sunday a discusser of controversies against Bellarmine and other Pontificians before his Fellow-Aularians and many others Afterwards being Bach. of Divinity he became first a Reader thereof in the Cath. Church of Winchester and afterwards in Lincolns Inn and when Doctor Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Elizab. and after her death to K. James the last of whom not only gave him a Prebendship of Windsore on the death of Jo. Chamber an 1604. but also the Deanry of Gloucester in 1609. in the place of Dr. Tho. Morton promoted to the Deanry of Winchester Both which he kept with the Rectory of Burcleere or Burrowcleere in Hampshire and all little enough for the encouragement of so right learned a Man as this our author Dr. Field was who in his time was esteemed a principal mountainer of Protestancy a powerful Preacher a profound Schoolman exact Disputant and so admirable well knowing in the Controversies between the Protestants and the Papists that few or none went beyond him in his time as it doth plainly appear in these his labours Of the Church four books Lond. 1606. fol. To which he added a fifth book Lond. 1610. fol. with an Appendix containing A defence of such passages of the former books that have been excepted against or wrested to the maintenance of the Romish Errours All which were reprinted at Oxon 1628. fol. He also published A Sermon Preached before the King at Whitehall on Jude ver 3. Lond. 1604. qu. He surrendred up his pious Soul to the great God that first gave it on the 21. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 being then reviewing the said books and about to give answer to such that had oppugned them and was buried in the outer Chappel of St. George at Windsore a little below the Choire Over his grave was soon after laid a plank of black Marble and thereon this inscription engraven on a Copper plate fastned thereunto Richardus Field hujus olim coll canonicus Ecclesiae Glocestrensis Decanus verè Doctor Theologiae author librorum quinque de Ecclesia Vna cum Elizabetha Harrisia Sanctissima Charissima conjuge ex qua sex reliquit filios filiam unicam Hic sub communi marmore expectant Christi reditum qui faelicitatem quam ingressi sunt adventu suo perficeat ac consummet Obierunt in Domino ille an sal 1616. aetatis suae 55. Haec an sal 1614. aetatis suae 41. In Dr. Field's Deanry of Gloucester succeeded Dr. William Land and in his Canonry of Windsore Edm. Wilson Doctor of Physick and Fellow of Kings coll in Cambridge RICHARD HAKLUYT was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Yetton in Herefordshire elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School in 1570. took the degrees in Arts lived for some time in the Middle Temple where I presume he studied the Municipal Law Afterwards he entred into holy Orders and at length became Prebendary of the fourth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of one Dr. Rich. Webster an 1605. and Rector of Wetheringset in Suffolk But that which is chiefly to be noted of him is this that his Genie urging him to the study of History especially to the Marine part thereof which was encouraged and furthered by Sir Francis Walsingham made him keep constant intelligence with the most noted Seamen at Wapping near London From whom and many small Pamphlets and Letters that were published and went from hand to hand in his
it of that Religion by Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury who sent for him upon notice received that he had been at the doleful Even-song in the Black-Friers in London 26. Oct. 1623. became a bitter Enemy to the Romanists and studied to do them what mischief he could by these books following The Foot out of the Snare with a detection of sundry late practices and impostures of the Priests and Jesuits in England c. Lond. 1624. qu. A gentle excuse to Mr. Greg. Musket for stiling him Jesuit These two which go and are joyned together were printed four times in the said year 1624. because all the copies or most of them were bought up by R. Catholicks before they were dispersed for fear their lodgings and so consequently themselves should be found out and discovered by the catalogues of all such Priests Jesuits Popish Physicians Chyrurgions c. with the names of the streets lanes c. in London where they mostly lived which were printed at the end of the Gentle Excuse before-mentioned Our author Gee hath also written and published Hold fast Sermon at Pauls Cross on Rev. 3. 11. Lond. 1624. qu. New shreds of the old Snare containing the apparitions of two Female Ghosts the copies of divers letters c. especially Indulgences purchased at Rome c. Lond. 1624. qâ— For the publishing of which books and for his mutability of mind he was very much blamed by both parties especially by those of the Rom. perswasion as I have been several times informed by a grave Bach. of Div. Mr. Rich. Washbourne Chanter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon who had been his contemporary in Exeter coll Which person having known Gee well and what he was as to his life and conversation blamed the writer of this book much for honouring the memory of such a sorry fellow as he was in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. He was afterwards beneficed at Tenterden in Kent where he died and was buried but when I cannot yet tell leaving then behind him a young Brother named Orlando Gee afterwards a Knight One Joh. Gee was Minister of Dunsford in Devon who died about the beginning of 1631. leaving a Relict behind him called Sarah Which Joh. Gee was perhaps Father to the aforesaid Joh. Gee the writer Qu. RICHARD VERSTEGAN or as some call him Rich. Rowland a great reviver of our English antiquities and a most admirable Critick in the Saxon and Gothick languages ought with all due ceremony to crave a place among these writers not only because he is little remembred among authors but also for that he had received part of his education among the Oxonians His Grandfather who was called Theodore Rowland Verstegan was born in the Duchy of Gelderlandt and there descended of an ancient and worshipful Family From which Duchy when it had been much ruined wasted and depopulated by the intestine Wars there raised and continued by Charles Duke thereof and Philip the Archduke and Charles the fifth his Son he the said Verstegan being then a young man and deprived of his Friends in the said Wars came into England about the latter end of Hen. 7. and there married and soon after died leaving behind him a Son but nine months old which gave cause of making his fortune meaner than else it might have been Afterwards when the said Son grew up to be about 16 years of age he was bound an Apprentice to a Cooper Nor is this any discredit Wolfgangus Musculus his Father being of that Trade This Cooper was Father to our author Rich. Verstegan born in the Parish of St. Catherine near to the Tower of London where his Parent mostly lived and gained so comfortable a subsistence by his Trade that he made shift to give his Son ingenious and Grammatical education which being improved by Academical in his University where he was mostly known by the name of Rowland became esteemed for some parts of learning that were not then among the Academians regarded Afterwards to avoid Oaths he left the University without a degree and being by that time a zealous R. Catholick he left England went into the Spanish Netherlands and setled at Antwerp where he composed Theatrum crudelitatum Hereticorum nostri temporis Antw. 1592. qu. in 12 sh Whether ever printed before as some say it was I cannot tell This book is full of Cuts representing the hanging quartering and beheading or butchering of Popish Martyrs engraven from the delineations made with the Pen of Verstegan who was observed while in England to be much delighted in drawing and painting The verses under to explain the meaning of them were made by one Joh. Bochius born at Bruxills and then 1592. Register if I mistake not at Antwerp Afterwards the Rebellious League beginning he conveyed himself and books to Paris where the English Embassadour complained of him to K. Hen. 3. and desired that he being born a Subject to the Q. of England and then a Fugitive and one that had abused her by his representation of Cruelties he might be delivered into his hands to be sent to England there to receive reward And the Embassador had reason for his request if that be true which is reported that K. Hen. 3. was so much possest with those cruel pictures and did put so much credit in them that he accused Q. Elizabeth of great cruelty calling her wicked and cruel woman Yet at the Embassadors desire Verstegan was imprisoned at which Jean Bouchier that active fire-brand of the League is not a little troubled and layeth it as an heretical fault on K. Hen. 3. At length Verstegan is released quits France and returns to Antwerp where as 't is said he reprinted his book exercised the Trade of Printing and by his rising up only as one tell us by Brocage and Spierie for the Hispanish'd Jesuits lived then and there 1602. as if he were an Hidalgo as who may not be a Gentleman who lives so far from home where he is not known c. At that time and before the Jesuits and Secular Priests falling out in England each party defended it self by the Pen. In this quarrel Verstegan concerns himself joyning with the Jesuits and writing in their behalf though not one of their number but rather a Secular shewing himself as zealous a railer as the best of them And indeed never was there quarrel composed of so many hard words either side considered yet whether Verstegan hath published any of his railings or whether they are done in other books I cannot tell for I have seen nothing of that nature Sure I am that about the death of Q. Elizabeth he employed his studies on a more noble subject which being finished he published it under this title A restitution of decayed intelligence in antiquities concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation Antw. 1605. qu. Before which Rich. Whyte of Basingstoke and Rich. Stanyhurst whom I have elsewhere mentioned have commendatory verses In this book are several
the Royal Society At length after our author Briggs had spent most of his time for the benefit and advancement of Geometry he paid his last debt to nature in his lodgings in Merton coll 26. Jan. in sixteen hundred and thirty aged 70. or more and was three days after buried at the upper end of the Choire of the Church belonging to the said Coll. under the honorary monument of Sir Hen. Savile At which time the Heads of several Colleges and Halls being present a learned Sermon and an eloquent Oration were delivered the former by Mr. Will. Sellar the other by Mr. Hugh Crossâ— Fellows of that College In both which were many things said to the honour of the Defunct Over his grave was soon after a plain stone laid neither Marble nor Free with only his bare name engraven thereon and therefore instead of an Epitaph you may take this character of him as it stands in the publick Register of that Coll. Vir doctrina clarus stupor Mathematicorum moribus ac vita integerrimus c. JOHN ANDREWS a Somersetshire man born was entred a Student in Trin. coll 1601. aged 18. took one degree in Arts left the University became a painful Preacher of Gods word and a publisher of these books following The converted Man's new birth describing the direct way to go to Heaven c. Lond. 1628. oct second edit Celestial Looking-glass to behold the beauty of Heaven and the perfect way to it Lond. 1621. in tw There again 1638. Andrews resolution to return unto God by repentance c. Lond. 1621. in tw There again 1630. A Caveat from God on S. Joh. 5. 14. Lond. 1627. with other things which I have not yet seen When he died or where he was buried I know not WILLIAM SPARKE Son of Tho. Sparke whom I have mentioned under the year 1616. was born at Bletchley in Bucâ—s became a Commoner of Magd. hall in Lent-Term 1602-3 aged 16. Demie of Magd. coll 5. June 1606. and soon after Fellow thereof Afterwards being M. of A. he was made Chaplain to the Duke of Bucks Rector of Bletchley after his Father's decease Divinity Reader of Magd. coll and in 1629. Bach. of Div. He hath written Vis naturs â—irtus vitae explicata ad univâ—â—sam doctrine ordinem constituendum Lond. 1612. oct The mystery of Godliness A general discourse of the reason that is in Christian Religion c. Oxon. 1628. qu. These are all that I have seen that go under the name and therefore I can say no more of him only that he was living at Bletchley in sixteen hundred and thirty I find one of both his names of Magd. coll who was admitted Bac. of Physick 3. Dec. 1645. by vertue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the Univ. which say that 〈◊〉 deserved well for having 〈◊〉 very 〈◊〉 against Enemies and contributed much of his skill to his and our Loyal Friends c. This Will. Spark who became a Student in Magd. coll an 1639. was Son to the former ANTHONY SHERLEY second Son of Sir Tho. Sherley of Wistneston commonly called Wiston in Sussex Knight by Anne his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho. Kempe Knight was born there matriculated as a Member of Hart hall in the beginning of the year 1579. aged 14. admitted Bac. of Arts in the latter end of 1581. and about the beginning of Nov. following he was elected Probat Fellow of Allsouls coll being of kin to the Founder thereof by his Mother's side But before he proceeded in Arts he left the University and retired to one of the Inns of Court or went to travel beyond the Seas or both successively Soon after he became known to that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex whose heroick spirit and vertues he so much admired that he resolved for the future that he should be a pattern to him in all the civil actions of his life The first adventure that he made was his voyage into America particularly to S. Jago Dominica Margarita c. an 1596. From which voyage wherein great valour was shewn against the Portuguese he returned the year following Afterwards having received the honour of Knighthood from the said Earl of Essex in Ireland if I mistake not he went beyond the Seas again made long voyages and was employed as Embassador several times by Foreign Princes In which voyages his Exploits were so great that the K. of Spain taking an affection to allowed him an yearly pension made him Admiral of the Levant Seas and next in place to the Viceroy of Naples So that his greatness making our King jealous of he sent for him to return but he refused to come and therefore was numbred among the English Fugitives About that time he was known by the title of Earl of the Sacred Empire as having been created so I suppose by the Emperour of Germany and had from his Catholick Majesty a Pension of 200 Ducats yearly Ever after so long as he lived he shew'd himself so zealous a Servant to that King that he became a great plotter and projector in matters of state and undertook by Sea-stratagems if you 'll believe an author of no great credit to invade and ruine his native Country the whole story and passages of which would make a just volume He hath written Voyage to America See R. Hakeluyts third and last vol. of Voyages Printed at Lond. 1600. p. 598 599 c. Account of M. Hamets rising in the Kingdom of Morocco Fez c. Lond. 1609. qu. History of his travailes into Persia Lond. 1613. qu. Which voyage was began 24. May 1599. and is epitomiz'd in the second vol. or part of Sam. Purchas his Pilgrims printed 1625. fol. in the ninth book Voyage over the Caspian Sea and thorough Russia Publish'd by W. Parry an 1601. involv'd in the Pilgrims of Purchas before-mention'd History of his Embassages See Purchas vol. 2. book 6. 9. and in Rich. Hakluyt before-mentioned What other matters he wrote or caused to be published of his composition I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was living in the Court of Spain in sixteen hundred and thirty and that he had taken to Wife long before Francis the Sister of Rob. Vernon of Hodnet Knight He had an elder Brother named Thomas Sherley who was entred into Hart hall at the same time with his Brother an 1579. aged 15. where continuing about two years or more was called home married and in 1589. Knighted But this person being asham'd to see the trophies and atchievements of his two younger Brothers Anthony before-mentioned and Robert a great Hero worn like flowers in the breasts and bosoms of Foreign Princes whilst he himself wither'd upon the stalk he grew on left his aged Father and as 't is said a fair inheritance in Sussex and forthwith undertook several voyages into Foreign parts to the great honour of his Nation but small enrichment of himself A narration of which voyages he printed
when K. James came to Oxon. the Vicechancellour appointed him to read in Natural Philosophy in the publick Schools and to be one of the Disputants before him Afterwards â—he grew well studied in the Metaphysicks Mathematicks and in all School Divinity especially in Thomas Aquinas some of whose works he had read over once or twice About that time he retired to his own Country where he had like to have been carried over to the Church of Rome by one Anderton his country man and school-fellow but their meeting together to confer about the matter being disappointed by Anderton it took no effect This Anderton by the way let it be known was after he had left Blackbourne Schoole sent to Christs coll in Cambridge where for his eloquence he was called golden mouth'd Anderton But his mind hanging after the R. Cath. religion he left that coll and his Country and shipping himself beyond the Seas entred into R. Cath. Orders and became one of learnedest among the Papists Whether this person be the same with Laurence Anderton a Lancashire man born and a Jesuit who published books in 1632. and 34. I know not as yet As for Bolton he returned soon after to Brasnose where falling into the acquaintance of Mr. Tho. Peacock a learned and godly man of that house he was by him setled a most sober and religious person having been before a swearer a Sabbath-breaker and a boon companion In the 35 year of his age he entred into Orders and two years after which was in 1609. or thereabouts he had the Parsonage of Broughton in Northamptonshire confer'd on him by Mr. after Sir Augustin Nicolls Serjeant at Law The same year in Dec. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and then leaving the coll for altogether in the latter end of 1610. the University thereby lost a singular ornament He was a painful and a constant preacher a person of great zeal towards God in his profession charitable and bountiful but above all a reliever of afflicted consciences which he acquired by that manifold experience he had in himself and others and grew so famous for it that he was sought to far and near and divers from beyond the Seas desired his resolution in several cases of conscience He hath transmitted to posterity A discourse about the state of true happiness delivered in certain Sermons in Oxon and at Pauls Cross on Psal. 1. ver 1. 2. Lond. 1611. c. qu. Which for the godliness of the matter and eloquence of the stile therein contained was universally bought up and the sixth edition of it was printed in 1631. Instructions for the right comforting afflicted consciences Lond. 1631. qu. Helps to humiliation Oxon. 1631. in tw Sermons as 1 Directions for walking with God on Gen. 6. 8. 9. Lond. 1625. qu. 2 Serm. at Lent Assize at Northampton on 1 Cor. 1. 26. Lond. 1633. qu. Published by his great admirer Edward Bagshaw senior 3 Serm. on Prov. 29. 2. London 1635. quarto 4 Cordial for Christians in the time of affiction on Micah 7. ver 8. 9. Lond. 1640. qu. c. Of the four last things death judgment hell and heaven Lond. 1633. c. qu. Published by the said E. Bagshaw Funeral notes on his Patron Sir Aug. Nicolls Kt. Judge of the Com. Plea Lond. 1633. qu. Publ. by the said Bagshaw Carnal Professor of woful slavery of man guided by the flesh Lond. 1634. tw The Saints sure and perpetual guide or a treatise concerning the word on Psal. 119. 105. Lond. 1634 qu. The Saints self enriching examination or a treatise concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Sup. c. 1 Cor. 11. 28. printed with the former book viz. The Saints sure c. The Saints Soul-exalting humiliation or Soul-fatting fasting c. on 2 Cor. 20. 3. printed also with the former book Devout Prayers upon solemn occasions Lond. 1638. in tw Publ. by Bagshaw before mention'd A short and private discourse between him and M. S. concerning usury Lond. 1637. qu. publ also by the said Bagshaw This is animadverted upon in a book intit Vsury stated c. by T. P. The last visitation conflicts and death of Mr. Tho. Peacock Bach. of Div. and Fellow of Brasnose coll Lond. 1661. Published also by the said Bagshaw This our religious and learned author Mr. Bolton died at Broughton in Northamptonshire before mentioned year 1631 17 Dec. in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried two days after in the Chancel of the Church there At which time Nich. Estwick Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Christs coll in Cambr. and at that time Minist of Warkton in the said county of Northampton did preach his funeral Sermon wherein he spoke many things to the honour of the Defunct About two years after Edw. Bagshaw before mentioned published his life with some of his works to which I refer the reader for more satisfaction of him He the said Mr. Bolton left behind him a Son named Samuel born at Broughton educated in Linc. coll and afterwards became an eminent preacher in London and much followed by the precise party After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made Prebendary of Westm and actually created D. of D. of this Univer which is all that I know of him only that he dying on the eleventh of Feb. 1668. was buried in the Abby Church of St. Peter at Westminster on the south side of the Choire near to the stairs leading up to the Pulpit The Reader is now to observe that whereas many things were published under the name of Sam. Bolton he is to understand them not to have been written by this Samuel but by another Sam. Bolton educated in Cambridge Master of Christs coll there one of the Assembly of Divines 1643. Preacher to the Congregation of S. Saviours in Southwark in the time of the Rebellion and interval who dying the 15. Octob. 1654. aged 48 years was buried in the Church of St. Martin within Ludgate in London much lamented by the Brethren of the Presbyterian perswasion JOHN HOWSON received his first breath in the Parish of S. Bride in London educated in Grammaticals in S. Pauls School became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1577. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and some time after was made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire On the 15. May 1601. 43. Eliz. he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and in Dec. following he took the degrees in Divinity In the next year 1602. he had the office of Vicechanc. of the University confer'd upon him in which being setled fell out a controversie between him and certain Divines thereof called Puritans or Calvinists who for their number were not few For so it was that he a zealous man for the Church of England as it was established in the time of K. Ed. 6. having heard and beheld with patience for several years the grand enormities committed in Preaching by many if not the generallity of the Divines in the
the 15. Ap. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet near London As for Albert Morton before mention'd who was Nephew to Sir Henry Wotton was elected Scholar of Kings coll 1602. went with his Uncle in the quality of Secretary when he went on his Embassie to the States of Venice Afterwards he was thrice Agent in Savoy Secretary to the Lady Elizabeth in Heidleburg and there imployed as Agent for the King with the Princes of the Union Afterwards he became one the Clerks of the Council and a Knight as I have before told you and at length one of the Secretaries of State He ended his days in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster in the winter time in Nov. as it seems an 1625. having a little before been elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the Univ. of Cambridge He then left behind him a Widdow named Elizabeth by whom he had if I mistake not a Son of both his names who was elected Scholar of Kings coll in the said University 1638. but left that house soon after and became a Leiuetenant Colonel in the Wars in Ireland NATHANIEL TORPORLEY a Shropshire man born applied his Muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church an 1579. aged 16. about which time he became one of the Students of that house Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University and whether he then travelled beyond the Sea I cannot tell For that he was in France for two or more years and was Amanuensis to the celebrated Mathematician Fran. Vieta of Fontenay in the Province of Poictau is notoriously known but the time when whether before or after he was M. of A. we cannot tell Sure it is that his Genie being mostly enclined to the Mathematicks and Astronomy in which faculties he had obtained in his absence a sufficicient knowledge he returned to the University and entring himself into Brasnose coll did as a member thereof take the degree of Master of Arts an 1591 being then eight years standing in that of Bachelaur Afterwards he retired to the great City and became so famous for his singular knowledge that being made known to the great Earl of Northumberland named Henry Piercy the generous favourer of all good learning was received into his Patronage and had a pension paid yearly unto him for several years from his Purse About the same time he was made Rector of Salwarp in his native Country in the place of Tho. Forest deceased 1608. where residing sometimes but mostly in Sion coll in London of which he was a Student and a most eminent member continued in the last till the time of his death He hath transmitted to posterity Diclides Caelometricae seu Valvae Astronomicae universales omnia artis totius munera Psephophoretica in sat modicis finibus duarum tabularum methodo nova generali facilimâ continentes Lib. 2. Lond. 1602. qu. Tabula praemissâ—is ad declinationes caeli mediationes Printed with the former book in five parts Directionis accuratae consummata doctrina Astrologis hac tenus plurimum desiderata Written by way of Preface to the two former books He hath also printed something against Fr. Vieta under the name of Poulterey which is Torpurley's name transpos'd but that book I have not yet seen and hath also written MSS. in Bib. coll Sion Congestor Opus Mathematicum Imperfect Pholosophia Atomorum atopia demonstrata Imperfect Corrector Analyticus artis posthumae Imperfect He took his last farewel of this world in Sion coll before mention'd and was buried in the Church of St. Alphage near to that college on the seventeenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 By his nuncupatory Will which he spake on the 14. day of the same month he gave to the use of those that study in the Library of the said coll all his mathematical books and others all his Astronomical instruments notes mapps and his brass clock Among the said books were some few MSS. of which one contained Certain definitions of the Planisphere made by Walter Warner a most noted Mathematician of his time LEWES BAYLY was born in the antient Borough of Caermerthen in Wales but in what house educated unless in Exeter coll or what degrees he took in Arts I find not only that as a member of the said coll he was admitted to the reading of sentences an 1611. being about that time Minister of Evesham in Worcestershire Chaplain to Prince Henry and Minister of St. Matthews Church in Friday-street in London and that he proceeded in Divinity two years after Much about the same time he being fam'd for his eminence in preaching was made one of the Chaplains to King James 1. who nominating him Bishop of Bangor in the place of Dr. H. Rowlands was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth with Dr. Lake to the See of B. and Wells on the 8. of Dec. an 1616. On the 15. July 1621. I find this passage of him Episcopus Bangoriensis examinatur in Le Fleet datur sed paulo post liberatur What his crime was my author tells me not nor do I lift further to inquire unless it concern'd the Princes match with the Infarta of Spain He hath published The practice of Piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God Printed about 40 times in oct and tw the eleventh edition of which was printed at Lond. 1619. It was also printed once or more in the Welsh tongue and once or more in the French an 1633. c. And in France having been much cried up did therefore cause John Despagne a French writer and a Preacher in Somerset-house Chappel an 1656. to make some complaint of not for any ill thing in it because the generality of the Plebeians do look upon the authority of it equal with that of the Scripture It is said by an author who takes all advantages to speak against the Bishops and Church of England that this book called The practice of Piety was written by a Puritan Minister and that a Bishop not altogether of a Chast life did after the Authors death bargain with his Widdow for the Copy which he received but never paid her the money Afterwards he interlopating it in some places did publish it as his own c. But let this report which hath been common with some as also that which saith it was written by one Price Archdeacon of Bangor remain with their authors while I tell you that Dr. Bayly dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two was buried in his Church of Bangor year 1632 He left behind him four Sons Nicholas John Theodore and Thomas John was Fellow of Exeter coll and a publisher of certain Sermons as I have already told you Thomas Bayly the youngest Son was not educated in
the Nobility of them some of whom he taught and for their use made the first ruder draughts of several of his pieces now extant After his return he as a Member of Ch. Ch. proceeded in the Faculty of Physick an 1605. About which time he practiced in London and became Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians there He was esteemed by many Scholars a most noted Philosopher an eminent Physician and one strangely profound in obscure matters He was a zealous Brother of the Order of Rosa-Crucians and did so much dote upon the wonders of Chymistry that he would refer all Mysteries and Miracles even of Religion unto it and to that end fetch the pedigree of it from God himself in his holy word Nay he did so much prophane and abuse the word by his ridiculous and senseless appllcations and interpretations in which none hath exceeded more even to the heighth of blasphemy than he that the learned Gassendus could not otherwise but chastise him for it as others since have done His books which are mostly in Latin are many and mystical and as he wrote by clouding his high matter with dark language which is accounted by some no better than canting or the phrase of a Mountebank so he spoke to his Patients amusing them with I know not what till by his elevated expressions he operated into them a faith-natural which consequently contributed to the well working of Physick They are looked upon as slight things among the English notwithstanding by some valued particularly by Selden who had the author of them in high esteem The Foreigners prize and behold them as rarities not that they are more judicious than the English but more inquisitive in such difficulties which hath been the reason why some of them have been printed more than once the titles of which and the rest are as follow Apologia compendiaria fraternitatem de Rosâ cruce suspicionis infamiae maculis aspersam abluens abstergens Leydae 1616. oct Tractatus Theologo-Philosophicus de vitâ morte resurrectione lib. 3. Openheim 1617. qu. Dedic to the Brethren of the Rosie-Cross and published under the name of Rudolfi Otreb that is anagrammatically Roberti Flud Vtriusque cosmi majoris scil minoris Metaphysica Physica Technica historia in duos tomos secundum cosmi differentiam divisa Tomus primus de macrocosmi historiâ in duos tractatus divisus prior tract impr Openh 1617. fol. Tractatus secundus de naturae simiâ seu Technica macrocosmi historia in partes xi divisa Openheim 1618. fol. Francof 1624. fol. Tomus sec de supernaturali naturali praeternaturali contr anaturali microcosmi historiâ in tract tres distributa Openheim 1619. fol. This is the first sect of the first treatise Tomi sec tractatûs primi sect secunda de Technicâ microcosmi historiâ in portiones 7. divisa Printed with the very next book going before Tomi secundi tract secundus de praeternaturali utriusque mundi historiâ in sect tres divisa Francof 1621. fol. This is but the first section of the three there mentioned And the whole third treatise of this second tome is wanting which perhaps never came out Veritatis proscenium in quo Aulaeum erroris tragium dimovetur Siparium ignorantiae scenicum complicatur ipsaque veritas à suo ministro in publicum producitur seu demonstratio quedam Analytica in quâ cuilibet comparationis particulae in appendice quadam à Johanne Keplero nuper in fine harmoniae suae mundanae edita factae inter harmoniam suam mundanum illam Roberti Fludd ipsissimis veritatis argumentis respondetur Francof 1621. fol. Johan Kepleri Mathematice pro suo opere harmonices mundi apologia adversus demonstrationtem analyticum Cl. V. D. Roberti de Fluctibus Medici Oxoniensis In qua ille se dicit respondere ad appendicem dicti operis Francof 1622. fol. Monochordum mundi Symphoniacum seu replicatio c. viri clariss in Mathesi peritiss Joh. Kepleri adversus demonstrationem suam analyticam nuperrime editam in qua Robertus validioribus Johannis objectionibus harmoniae suae legi repuguantibus comiter respondere aggreditur Francof 1622. fol. Anatomiae amphitheatrum Effigie triplici more conditione varia designatum Francof 1623. fol. Philosophia sacra verè Christiana seu meteorologia cosmica Francof 1626. fol. with the authors picture before it Sophiae cum Moriâ certamen in quo lapis Lydius à falso structore Frat. Marino Marsenno monacho reprobatus celeberrima voluminis sui Babylonici in Genesin figmenta accurat◠examinat Franc. 1629. fol. Summum bonorum quod est verum Magiae Cabalae Alchymiae Fratrum Roseaecruicis Verorum verae subjectum In dictarum scientiarum laudem in insignis calumniatoris Fr. Mar. Marsenni dedecus publicatum per Joachim Frizium Anno 1629. fol. Altho this piece goes under another name yet not only Gassendas gives many reasons to shew it to be of our authors composition Fludd but also Franc. Lanovius shews others to the same purpose and Marsennus himself against whom it is directed was of the like opinion Gassendus upon Marsennus his desiring him to give his judgment of Fludd's two books wrote against him drew up an answer divided into three parts contained in the Opuscula Philosophica above named The first of which sifts the principles of the whole System of his whimsical Philosophy as they lie scattered throughout his works The second is against Sophiae cum moria certamen and the third answers this Summum bonum as his Our author indeed sullied these two treatises by mixing a great deal of ill language in them but Gassendus complains that Marsennus himself had given him a too broad example in this kind for some of those epithites which he thought fit to bestow on him are no better than Caco-magus Heretico-magus faetidae horridae magiae Doctor Propagator And among other exasperating expressions he threatned him with noless than damnation it self which would in a short time seize him Medicina Catholica seu Mysterium artis medicandi sacrarium in tomos divisum duos In quibus Metaphysica Physica tam sanitatis tuendae quà m morborum propulsandorum ratio pertractatur Francof 1629. fol. Tract 1. Integrum morborum mysterium sive Medicinae Catholicae tomi primi tractatus secundus in sectiones distributus duas Francof 1631. fol. with his picture before and verses under it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Medicorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In quo quasi speculo politissimo morbi presentes more demonstrativo clarissimè indicantur futuri ratione prognosticâ apertè cernuntur atque prospiciuntur Sive tomi primi tractatus secundi sect secunda de morborum signis Francof 1631. fol. The whole second tome mentioned above in the title to Medicina Catholica is here wanting if it was ever published Pulsus seu nova arcana pulsuum historia è sacro fonte radicaliter
and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore John Leland numbers him among the learned men of his time and saith That he was Hebraei radius chori Several other Bachelaurs of Divinity were admitted this year but not registred among whom Rich. Turner of Magdalen College was one ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick Feb… Tho. Hughes or Hewes of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Physitian to Qu. Mary and one of the College of Physitians at London He died at London in the Month of August 1558 and was a Benefactor to the College which had given him Education Edmund Crispyne of Oriel Coll. lately a shagling Lecturer of Physick now one of the Proctors of the University did supplicate to be licensed to proceed in Physick Also Henry Bayli◠the other Proctor did in like manner do so and were without doubt licensed tho not registred so to be because I find them afterwards to be written and stiled Doctors of Physick ☞ Not one Doctor of Divinity was admitted or licensed this year Incorporations Feb… Pet. Martyr Doct. of Div. of the University of Padua was then incorporated Doct. of Div. He was this year designed by the King to read a Divinity Lecture in the University which he accordingly began to do in the beginning of the next year One Edward Banke and John Chaundler were incorp Bachelaurs of Arts but of what University they had been is not set down which is all I know of them An. Dom. 1548. An. 2 Ed. 6. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Coxe Dean of Ch. Ch. Vicechanc. Dr. Walt. Wryght Proct. John Redman of Magd. Coll. Thomas Symons of Mert. Coll. adm 20 April Bach. of Arts. The Admissions of Bachelaurs and Catalogue of Determiners being this year omitted by the Registrary I cannot give you the Names of any who were afterwards Bishops Writers c. only David de la Hyde whom I have mention'd among the Writers an 1580. Bach. of Law Maurice Clenneck was admitted but the day or month when appears not He was afterwards elected to the Episcopal See of Bangor but Queen Mary dying before his Consecration thereunto he fled beyond the Seas and what became of him there I have told you already in Arthur Bokely among the Bishops under the year 1555. Mast of Arts. James Neyland of All 's Coll. This person who was Fellow of that House and an Irish man born is reported by one of his Countrymen to be a learned Physitian John Boxall of New Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Chichester Windsore c. and a man of note in the Reign of Queen Mary Besides these two were but nine more stood in the Act celebrated this year 16 July The Admissions of them and many other are omitted in the Register Doct. of Civ Law David Lewes of All 's Coll. He was afterwards the first Principal of Jesus Coll. Judge of the High Court of Admiralty Master of S. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London one of the Masters of the Chancery and of her Majesties Requests He died on Munday 27 April 1584 in the Coll. called Doctors Commons at London whereupon his Body was conveyed to Abergavenny in Monmouthshire where it was buried on the 24 of May following in the North Chancel of the Church there under a fair Tomb erected by him while living which yet remains as an Ornament to that Church Doct. of Div. Richard Beisley of All 's College The day and month when he was licensed to proceed is omitted One of both his names was an Exile in Queen Maries Reign Incorporations Christopher Tye Doct. of Musick of Cambridge This person who seems to be a Western man born was now one of the Gentlemen of the Chappel belonging to K. Ed. 6. and much in renown for his admirable skill in the theoretical and practical part of Musick The Words of several of his Divine Services and Anthems are in a Book entit Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals and Collegiate Choires in the Church of England Lond. 1663. oct collected and published by Jam. Clifford Petty Canon of Pauls sometimes Chorister of Magdalen College in Oxon. We have also some of his Compositions among the ancient Books in the publick Musick School of six parts but long since with others of that time antiquated and not at all valued He also translated into English Meeter The Acts of the Apostles with notes to sing each Chapter by printed 1553 in oct An. Dom. 1549. An. 3 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. the same Proct. Leonard Lyngham of Brasn Rich. Hughes of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Arts. James Calfill of Christ Church Will. Good of Corp. Ch. Coll. He was afterwards a Jesuit Hieronimus Philippides of Ch. Ch. Alan Cope Lawr. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. Both which were afterwards noted Writers John Abulines an Helvetian of Ch. Ch. He is the same I suppose who is written but false Johannes ab Vlmis The Admissions and names of the Determiners are omitted this year by the carelesness of the publick Scribe and therefore the number of them is uncertain Bach. of Law Will. Awbrey of Allsoules College He was afterwards successively Principal of New Inn the Kings Professor of the Civil Law in this University Judge Advocate of the Queens Army at S. Quintins in France Advocate in the Court of Arches one of the Council of the Marches of Wales Master of the Chancery Chancellor to John Archbishop of Canterbury throughout his whole Province and lastly by the special favour of Queen Elizabeth he was taken to her nearer Service and made one of the Masters of Requests in Ordinary What other Bach. of this Fac. were admitted I find not for they are not inserted in the Register Four occur that supplicated who I presume were admitted among whom Joh. James or Jamys was one who was afterwards one of the first Fell. of S. Johns Coll. and on the 24. of March 1563 succeeded Thom. Curteys in the Subdeanery of Salisbury and he Rob. Elyot in Dec. 1561. Mast of Arts. Michael Renniger Arth. Saule of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Exiles for their Religion in the time of Queen Mary Of the first I have made mention among the writers an 1609. The other Arthur Saul became Prebendary of Bedmynster and Radclive in the Church of Sarum which is a Residentiary in January 1559 and had other Dignities besides benefices confer'd upon him One of both his names was Author of The famous game of Chesse-play lately discovered and all doubts resolved c. Lond. 1614. oct dedicated to Lucy Countess of Bedford Whether this Ar. Saul who writes himself Gent. was descended from the former I cannot justly say it Thom. Hyde of New John Piers of Magd. Coll. The former was afterwards an Exile for the R. Cath. Religion in the time of Queen Elizab. the other was an Archbishop in her Reign The admissions of Masters are also omitted this year but the number of those that stood in an
Chappel Oxon where is a large Epitaph over his grave Edw. Ratcliff Doct. of Phys of Cambr. was incorporated the same day 15. Rob. Williamson Richard Neile D. D. of the same University The last of these two Doctors of Div. was one who passed through all Degrees and Orders in the Church of England and thereby made acquainted with the conveniences and distresses incident to all conditions He served the Church as Schoolmaster Curate Vicar Parson Master of the Savoy Dean of Westminster in the place of Lanc. Andrews promoted to the See of Chichester in which Dignity he was install'd 5. Nov. 1605. Clerk of the Closet to both Kings Jam. 1. and Ch. 1. successively Bishop of Rochester 1608 with which he kept his Deanery in Commendam Lichfield and Cov. two years after Lincolne 1613 Durham 1617. Winchester 1628 and lastly in 1631 Archbishop of York in which honor he died 31. Oct. 1640 being but three days before the Long Parliament began and was buried in St. Peters Church in Westminsteâ— He was born of honest Parents in Kingstreet in the City of Westminster his Father being a Tallow Chandler and educated in the College School there whence being elected into St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge made great proficiency in Academical learning Afterwards entring into Orders he became after some petite employments Chaplain to Sir Will. Cecill L. Burghley and to Rob. his Son afterwards Earl of Salisbury who put him into the road of prefement Many good offices he had done to the Church and Church-men in his attendance at the Court crossing the Scots in most of their suites for Ecclesiastical preferments which greedily and ambitiously they hunted after whereby he drew on himself the general hatred not only of the Scots but scotizing English He died as full of years as he was of honours an affectionate Subject to his Prince an indulgent Father to his Clergy a bountiful Patron to his Chaplains and a true friend to all who râ—lâ—ed upon him These things tho generally known yet inveterate Prynne spares not to call him a Popish and Armiâ—ian Prelate a persecutor of all Orthodox and Godly Ministers a preferrer of popish Arminian Clergy men with a great deal of such stuff not here to be mentioned He is supposed to be Author of a book intit Spalato's shiftings in Religion written against Marc. Ant. de Dominis Archb. of Spalato and of other matters Quâ—re Jul. 16. Randolph Baâ—low M. of A. of Cambridge I take him to be the same with Ranulph Barlow Master of Arts of Pembroke hall in that University afterwards Doct. of Divinity Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Mich. Renniger deceased 1609. and Archb. of Tuam in Ireland 1629. Rich. Senhouse M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day He was the Son of Rich. Senhouse of Alnborough hall in Cumberland was Fellow of St. Johns Coll. in the said University installed Dean of Glocester in the place of Dr. Laud promoted to the See of St. David 13. Dec. 1621 and shortly after became Bishop of Carlile He died in the beginning of the year 1626. 2. Car. 1 leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Preacher Theophilus Field M. A. of the same University was also incorporated with Senhouse He was Son of John Field mentioned among the Writers under the year 1587 was educated in Pemb. hall consecrated Bishop of Landaff 10. Oct. 1619 and thence was translated to Hereford and soon after died He hath written A Christian preparation to the Lords Supper printed 1624. in oct besides several Sermons and other things Rob. Newell M. A. of the same Univers was also then incorporated with Senhouse This Person who was half Brother to Dr. Rich. Neile beforemention'd became Archd. of Buckingham in the beginning of the year 1614 Prebendary of the ninth stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter at Westminster in the place of one Cuthb Bellot an 1620 and was afterwards or about the same time Treasurer of Chichester Canon of Lichfield Subdean of Linc. and Preb. of Durham He died at Winchester I think in 1643 and was succeeded in his Prebendship of Westminster by Gilb. Wimberley D. D. and in his Archdeaconry by Giles Thorne D. D. but who in his other Dignitaries I cannot yet tell At the same time was incorporated M. of A. one John Owen whom I take to be the same with John Owen who was bred in Jesus Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph Besides the said four Masters of Arts who were incorporated 16. July were incorporated one and twenty more This year also was incorporated Joh. Hone Doct. of the Civil Law of Cambridge but the month or day when appears not neither for John Cowell Dr. of the same faculty for whom there was a supplicate made which being granted simpliciter there 's no doubt but that he was incorporated Of him I desire the reader to know that he was a Devonian born was elected from Eaton School to be Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1570. and was made Proctor of the said University an 1586. Afterwards he became Master of Trinity hall there the Kings Professor of the Civil Law Vicechancellour Doctor as 't is said of the Arches and Vicar-general to Dr. Bancroft Archb. of Canterbury His writings are 1 Institutiones juris Anglicani ad methodum institutionum Justiniani compositae Cantab. 1605. oct c. 2 The Interpreter or book containing the signification of words c. Cambr. 1607. qu. c. afterwards printed in fol. But several passages therein relating to the Kings Prerogative giving offence because in some cases he saith it is limited the said book was called in and on the 26. March 1610. there was published an edict against it This being the reason as most Scholars think I cannot be of the same opinion with one no friend to the memory of King Jam. 1. who tells us that in the said Interpreter 't is said that that King took not the usual Oath all Kings are bound unto at their coronation c. One John Cowell or Covell LL. D. became Prebendary of Timbrescombe in the Church of Wells upon the deprivation of Joh. Faber an 1554. temp Mariae 1. but what relation there was between him and the former I know not An. Dom. 1601. An. 43 Elizab. An. 44 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Thom. Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. George Râ—ves D. D. Warden of New Coll. Jul. 17. Proct. George Benson of Qu. Coll. Gerard Massey of Brasn Coll. Apr. 22. The junior was afterwards nominated Bishop of Chester 〈◊〉 died before consecration Bach. of Arts. Jul. 1. Dudley Digges of Vnivers Coll. He was afterwards Master of the Rolls 6. John Ferebe or Ferriby of Magd. hall See among the Masters 1606. 10. Dan. Price of Exet. Coll. Oct. 23. Nathan Canon of St. Maries hall Nov. 3. Sam. Browne of All 's Coll. Jan. 26. Francis Windebank of St. Johns Coll. He was the eldest Son of
said Degree He was born of and descended from the antient and gentile family of the Barlows of Barlâ—w in Lancashire was about this time Fellow of Trinity hall in the said University became Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Edw. Grant deceased Dean of Chester in 1603 upon the death of Joh. Nuttall and in 1605 Bishop of Rochester from whence being translated to Lincolne sate there to the time of his death and kept his Prebendship in Commendam with it He hath written and published several things the Catalogue of all or most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue By his will which I have seen proved 13. Oct. 1613 for in that year he died he desires to be buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincolne if he dye near it or in the collegiat Church at Westminster if he dye there and to have such a tomb over his grave that may resemble that which Dr. Good Goodman Dean thereof set up for himself in the Church of Westminster He was a considerable benefactor to St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge as it there appears being Founder of the London Fellows and Scholars of that house I have made mention of another Will. Barlow and his works among the Writers an 1568. and of a third an 1625. Casparus Thomannus one of the Pastors or Teachers of the School at Zurich of which City his Grandfather by the male line had born the office of Pretor having been recommended by the Professors Teachers and Ministers of the Church and School there to live among and receive an exhibition from the Oxonians an 1599 did spend several years there and occurrs one of the first Persons that was entred a Student in the publick Library when first opened for use He was a learned Man and read a Lecture in the University but his education having been mostly at Geneva did with other strangers of the like breeding so corrupt the Students with their calvinistical Doctrine that it was many years before it could be rooted out An. Dom. 1602. An. 44 Elizab. An. 45 Elizab. Chanc. Thomas Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. John Howson D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. Jul. 15. Proct. Daniel Pury of Magd. Coll. Walt. Bennet of New Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Musick Jul. 13. William Weelks of New Coll. was then admitted Bach. of Musick What he hath composed or published I know not sure it is that Thom. Weelks who was at this time Organist of Wâ—kehams Coll. near to Winchester did publish 1 Madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voyces Lond. 1597. in a large qu. Which being the first fruits of his labours he dedicated them to his singular Patron George Philpot Esq 2 Ballatts and Madrigals to five voyces with one to 6. voyces Lond. 1598. qu. 3 Madrigals of six parts apt for the viols and voyces Lond. 1600. qu. besides compositions in The triumphs of Oriana printed 1601 Hymns and Anthems to be sung in Cathedrals and Collegiat Churches the words of which may be elsewhere seen and other compositions which are remitted among the books reposited in our pub Musick School at Oxon. Quaere whether the Scribe or Registrary of the University hath not set down William for Tho. Weelks Bach. of Arts. May 7. Tho. Anyan lately of Linc. Coll. â—ow of that of Corp. Christi See among the Doctors of Div. 1614. Jun. 8. Benjam Culme of St. Alb. hall See among the Masters an 1605. Jun. 25. Franc. James of Ch. Ch. See among the Bach. of Div. 1612. 26. Rice or Rees Prichard of Jes Coll. 30. Jam. Rowlandson Lancelot Dawes of Qu. Coll. Jâ—n 30. Tho. Aylesbury Rich. Corbet Rob. Burton alias Democritus junior Hen. Byam of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these last four you may see more among the Masters an 1605. Dec. 13. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards B. of Rochester Prichard Dawes Byham and Warner are to be mention'd in the other vol. of Writers and Bishops Admitted 156. Bach. of Law Jul. 8. Joh. Budden of Magd. Coll. Besides him were only 3 admitted and one incorporated named Joh. Crook Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. George Hakewill of Exeter Coll. May 18. Arth. Duck of Hart hall Jun. 6. Norwich Spackman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Proctor of the University Chaplain to James Bishop of Bath and Wells and the publisher of A Sermon before the King at Whitehall on Matth. 9. 13. Lond. 1614. qu. and perhaps of other things which is all I know of him only that he was a Worcestershire Man born 30. Barnab Potter of Queens Jul… Rob. Bolton of Brasn 7. Tho. Broad of St. Alb. hall Coll. Feb. 22. Isaac Wake George Gerard of Mert. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Master of Suttons Hospital called commonly the Charter-house Admitted 71. Bach. of Phys June 14. Rich. Haydock of New Coll. Besides him was only one more admitted viz. Joh. Cheynell of C. C. Coll. and six admitted to practice Bach. of Div. Jun. 8. Will. Goodwin of Ch. Ch. See among the Doctors of Divinity following Jul. 8. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. Adm. 14. Doct. of Law July 8. Joh. Budden of Magd. Coll. He accumulated Oliver Lloyd of Allsouls Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Chancellour of Hereford and in 1615 became Canon of Windsore Which last dignity he changed for the Deanery of Hereford with Dr. Rich. Mountagâ—e of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1617. This Dr. Lloyd died in the City of Hereford in 1625. whereupon Dr. Dan. Price succeeded him in the said Deanery ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 20. Joh. Spenser of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards President of that house June 8. Will. Goodwin of Ch. Ch. who accumulated In 1590 I find this Person to be Subalmoner to Qu. Elizabeth well beneficed in Yorkshire and Prebendary of York Also in 1605. Oct. 25. I find him collated to the Chancellourship of the Church of York on the death of Mr. Will. Palmer as also to another Prebendship in that Church and a Rectory in the said Diocess In 1611 he became Dean of Christ Church and afterwards Archdeacon of Middlesex and dying on the eleventh of June 1620. aged 65 was buried in one of the North isles joyning to Ch. Ch. choire He hath published A Sermon before the King at Woodstock 28. Aug. 1614 on Jer. 1. 10. Oxon. 1614. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Roger Bradshaw of Jesus Coll. the Kings Chaplain was admitted the same day 14. Will. Swaddon of New Coll. On the 10. of Nov. 1610. he was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester on the resignation of John Johnson D. D. and dying 2. Aug. 1623 was buried as I suppose in that North isle of the Cathedral Church of Worcester which adjoyns to the Parlor of the Senior Prebend In his Archdeaconry succeeded Hugh Lloyd D. D. who was admitted thereunto 18. Aug. the same year and dying in 1629 Edward Thornborough M. A. second Son by the first
receipts and experiments in Cookery with the best way of preserving c. printed 1658. in tw 4 Praxâ—os in morbis internis praecipue gravioribus chronicis Syntagma c. Lond. 1690. oct with his picture before it aged 82 published by his Godson Theod. de Vaux From the experiences also of the said Sir Theod. Mayerne and from those of Dr. Chamberlaine and others was written a book entit The compleat Midwife's practice c. printed several times in oct Before he came into England he wrot Apologia c. Rupel 1603. oct and perhaps other things He paid his last debt to nature in the beginning of the year about 26. March 1655 and was buried 30. of the same month in the Chancel of the Church of St. Martin in the Fields near to London by the bodies of his mother first Wife and five of his Children at which time Thom. Hodges a Presbyterian Divine and Minister of Kensington in Middlesex preached his funeral Sermon in the conclusion of which he spoke much in praisâ— of Sir Theodore who left behind him a Widow named Isabella and a rich Daughter called Adriana de Mayerne Baroness of Aubon afterwards married to a French Marquess of Mountpellion Over his grave was soon after a fair Monument put with a flourishing and high flown Epitaph thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by and only tell you that Quercitan and several famous Men of France and Germany did make honorable mention of him near 60 years before his death Jul. 10. Sam. Walsall Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He was afterwards Doct. of that faculty and Master of C. C. C. commonly called Bennet Coll. in that University on the death of Tho. Jegon He hath published The life and death of Jesus Christ Serm. before the King at Royston in Esay 53. 4. Lond. 1615. in oct and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen He died in the Summer time an 1626 and was buried in the Chap. of that Coll. 12. Thom. Morton D. D. of the same University He was of St. Johns Coll. and through various promotions became at length the most learned and religious Bishop of Durham His life is at large written by John Barwick D. D. printed at London 1660. qu. to which I refer the reader 14. Tho. Sheafe D. D. of Cambridge He was Son of Tho Sheafe of Cranbroke in Kent was bred Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University where he had the repute of a good Scholar was installed Canon of Windsore 29 March 1614 being about that time Rector of Welford in Berkshâ—re and beneficed at another place in that County When he was about 80 years of age he wrot Vindiciae senectutis or a plea for old age c. Lond. 1639. oct Which being published the Author soon after died viz. 12. Dec. 1639. Whereupon his body was buried in St. Georges Chap. at Windsore He left behind him a Son named Grindall Sheafe sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. beforementioned afterwards D. of D. Vicar of Colâ—shall and Horstead in Norfolk Archdeacon Canon and Prebendary of Wells and had other preferments in the Church From which raking and scraping a great deal of wealth together for he troubled himself not with learning or the encouragement thereof it had redounded much to his honour and name to have left it to the Church which he did not but to Lay-people and Servants who cared not for him only for pelf-sake He died 28. Apr. 1680 and was buried in the Cathedral Church at Wells Whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed by the Bishop on Charles Thirlby Vicar of St. Cuthberts Church in Wells his Canonry on Henry Dutton Bachelaur of Divinity sometimes of Corp Chr. Coll. in Oxon. and his Prebendary commonly called the Golden Prebendary on Edward Waple Bachelaur of Divinity of St. Johns Coll. in the said University Thomas Erpenius born at Gorcome in Holland studied in this University in the condition of a Sojournor about this time but how long his stay was here I cannot tell He was admirably well skill'd in the Oriental tongues the Hebrew Chaldee Arabick Syriack Aethiopick Persian and Turkish He is celebrated throughout the whole Christian World as the restorer of the Arabick tongue and died at Leyden in the flower of his Age an 1624. An. Dom. 1607. An. 5 Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Joh. King D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 17. Proct. Nath. Brent of Mert. Coll. Joh. Tolson of Oriel Coll. Apr. 15. Bach. of Musick Jul. 11. Thom. Tomkins of Magd. Coll. This eminent and learned Musitian was Son of Thom. Tomkins Chauntor of the Choir at Glocester descended from those of his name of Listwithyel in Cornwal educated under the famous Musitian Will. Bird and afterwards for his merits was made Gentleman of his Majesties Chappel Royal and at length Organist as also Organist of the Cath. Church at Worcester He hath composed 1 Songs of three four five and six parts printed at London in qu. but not said when 2 Musica deo sacra ecclesiae Anglicanae or Musick dedicated to the honor and service of God and to the use of Cathedrals and other Churches of England especially of the Chappel Royal of K. Ch. 1. in ten books c. when first printed I cannot tell 3 Divine Services and Anthems the words of which are published by James Clifford in his Book entit Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals c. Lond. 1663 Oct. 4 A set of vocal Church Musick of four and five parts MS. given to Magd. Coll. Library in Oxon by Jam. Clifford before mention'd where they yet remain in the Archives thereof and also hath Compositions in the triumphs of Oriana published by Tho. Morley 1601. qu. He was living after the grand Rebellion broke out but when he died I cannot justly tell you He had a Son named Nath. Tomkins Bach. of Div. of Oxon who was Prebendary of Worcester from the Month of May 1629 to the 21 of Oct. on which day he died an 1681 as also several Brethren among whom were 1 Giles Tomkins a most excellent Organist and Organist of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury who died about 1662. 2 Joh. Tomkins Bach. of Musick who was one of the Organists of S. Pauls Cathedral and afterwards Gentleman of the Chappel Royal being then in high esteem for his admirable knowledge in the theoretical and practical part of his Faculty At length being translated to the celestial choir of Angels on the 27 Sept. an 1626 aged 52 was buried in the said Cathedral 3 Nich. Tomkins one of the Gentlemen of the privy Chamber to his Majesty Charles 1. who was also well skill'd in the practical part of Musick and others but their order according to seniority I cannot tell Bach. of Arts. Apr. 21. Hugh Robinson of New Coll. 23. Tho. Prior of Broadgates Hall See among the Mast of Arts 1611. Joh. Seller of Oriel Coll. was admitted the same day See more of
among the Creations following 19. Ranulph Adams a Sect Bach. of Arts of the said University Feb. 24. Joh. Viccars Bach. of Arts of Cambridge now a Commoner of Linc. Coll. Creations Aug. 25. The honourable James de la Mariniere Baron of Montmartin Gruchy Borrivet le Vignies and Guhebert Ordinary Prefect of the Horse belonging to the most Christian King was actually created Master of Arts. Will. Browne of Exeter Coll. had leave then given to him to be actually created M. of A. but 't was not put in execution till 16 Nov. following He is stiled in the publick Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione instructus This person is the celebrated Poet whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1024. num 516. Peregrin Langford had then also the degree of M. of A. given to him when he would be pleased to come to the University for it On the 11 of Dec. following he supplicated the ven Congregation being then absent that his Creation might be deferred till Trinity Term following but whether he was then created it appears not Jan. 18. Gilb. Primerose mention'd before among the Incorporations was actually created D. of D. in the house of Convocation just after he had been incorporated by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University wherein is contained a large testimony of his singular probity and great learning and that he had spent twenty years in the study of Theology backed by recommendations from the King in consideration of his learning and worth He was a Scotch man born had been one of the French Preachers of the Protestant Church at Bourdeaux in France but now of the French Church in London and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King In 1628 Jul. 21 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. John Buckridge promoted to the See of Ely for he had kept that dignity several years in commendam with Rochester which place he keeping till his death Mr. Hugh Cressy sometimes of Merton Coll. was designed by his Majesty to succeed him but was never installed because he afterwards changed his Religion This Dr. Primerose hath written many things as you may see in the Oxford Catalogue among which are 1 Jacob's vow opposed to the vows of Monks and Friers Bergerac 1610. oct in 4 Tomes or Vol. All which were written in good French and the first Vol. containing two books was translated into English by John Bulteel a Minister Lond. 1617. qu. 2 La Trompette de Sion c. Bergarac 1610. oct in 18 Sermons translated into Latin under this Title Tuba Sionis seu Exhortatio ad poenetentiam jejunium Dantsic 1631. oct 3 The righteous mans evils and the Lords deliverances Lond. 1625. qu. in 9 Sermons 4 The Christian mans tears and Christs comforts Fast-sermon 7 Oct. 1624 on Matth. 5. 4. and on Luke 6. 21. Lond. 1625 in two parts in tw 5 The table of the Lord whereof 1. The whole service is the living bread c. Lond. 1626. oct in 3 Serm. c. He paid his last debt to nature in his house in Chisell street near the Artillery Yard in the Suburbs of London in Oct. or Nov. 1642 leaving then behind him several sons viz. 1 James Primerose Doctor of Physick 2 David Primerose Minister of the French Church at Roan in Normandy 3 Stephen who was born 1606 Jan. 12 new stile who after he came to age always rejected his Fathers counsel and would never follow any calling Afterwards he became a presumptuous and vain glorious person tho very ignorant did precipitate himself into divers and damnable Heresies would abuse his Father at his own Table in the presence of his elder Brother and others and would several times tell him that Jesus Christ was come to put division between Father and Children c. upon which account his Father left him nothing in his Will but six pence 4 John Primerose born 24 Nov. 1608 who had spent so much money at Paris London and in the Low Countries that he could give him no more in his Will Joh Durie a Scotch man became a sojourner in the University in the month of July this year for the sake of the publick Library but how long he continued there I cannot tell He afterwards travelled into various Countries beyond the Seas especially thro most parts of Germany where he visited the chief recesses of the Muses and by long continuance spoke the German Tongue so well and fluent that many English men after his return took him to be a German Native He was by profession a Divine was in Orders and a Preacher but whether he took them according to the way of the Church of England which he always scrupled it doth not appear He was a great pretender towards the making of a reconciliation between the Calvinists and Lutherans beyond the Seas or as he himself used to say For the making and setling a Protestant union and peace in the Churches beyond the Seas c. In which work he received encouragement from Archb. Laud tho Pryâ—nâ— his inveterate Enemy saith not but found so small encouragement from him that he oft complained thereof to his friends You may be pleased to see more of these matters and of various Transactions of the life of the said Durie in a Letter written by him to his antient Acquaintance Sam. Hartlib Esq who published it when the said Durie fell into the displeasure of the Presbyterians for shewing himself false to them in several respects with this Title The unchanged constant and single-hearted Peace-maker drawn forth into the World Or a Vindication of Mr. Jo. Dury from the aspersions cast upon him in a nameless Pamphlet called The time-serving Proteus and ambidexter Divine uncased to the World wherein c. Lond. 1650 in three sheets in quarto Upon the turn of the times occasion'd by the Presbyterians an 1641 he sided with them was one of the Preachers before the Long Parliament the members of which appointed him one of the Assembly of Divines and took from them several places of Employment Afterwards he sided with the Independents took the Engagement as he had the Covenant before and all other Oaths that followed till his Majesties Restauration 1660 at which time and after he was living He hath written and published about twenty Books and Pamphlets among which are 1 Consultatio Theologica super negotio pacis Ecclesiast Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Epistolary discourse to Tho. Goodwin Ph. Nâ—e and Sam. Hartlib Lond. 1644 c. qu. This being written against Toleration was answer'd by H. Robinson 3 Of Presbytery and Independency c. print 1646. qu. 4 Model of Ch. government print 1647. qu. 5 Peace-maker the Gospel way print 1648. qu. 6 Seasonable discourse for reformation Lond. 1649. qu. published by Sam. Hartlib 7 Considerations concerning the Engagement print 1650. This being answered Dury came out with a Reply 8 The reformed School Lond. 1650 in