Brayntrey in Essex which was the best preferment I think he had He was a person esteemed by most men to have been replenished with all kind of vertue and learning to have been profound in Philosophical and Theological learning a great Canonist and so familiar and exact in the Fathers Councels and Schoolmen that none in his time scarce went beyond him Also that none have written with greater diligence I cannot say with a meekermind because some have reported that he was as foul-mâ—â—ched against the Papists particularly M. Ant. de 〈…〉 was afterwards against them and the Prelatists or with better truth or faith than he as by those things of his extant do appear the titles of which are these Sermons As 1 Serm. of Sanctification preached on Act Sunday 12. Jul. 1607. on 1 Thes. 5. 23. Lond. 1608. qu. 2 Inaugurat Serm. of K. Jam. at Pauls Cross 24. Mar. 1608. on 2 Chron. 9. 5 6 7 8 9. Ibid. 1609. qu. 3 Serm. of Predestination on 2 Pet. 1. 10. Lond. 1620. 23. qu. Justinian the Emperour defended against Card. Baronius Lond. 1616. in 7 sh in qu. Introductio in Metaphysicam lib. 4. Oxon. 1619. in a little oct Defence of Constantine with a treatise of the Popes Temporal Monarchy Lond. 1621. qu. Logicae libriquinque de praedicalibus praedicamentis c. Lond. 1622. c. Ox. 1677. in a large qu. Appendix de Sillogismo Sophistico Tractatus de providentia Dei Cantab. 1622. c. qu. Defensio Eccl. Anglicanae contra M. Anton. de Dominis Archiep Spalatensis injurias Lond. 1625. qu. Published by Dr. Joh. Barcham Which book was held to be the most exactest piece for controversie since the time of the Reformation Virgilius dormitans Or a treatise of the first General Councel held at Constantinople an 553. under Justinian the Emperour in the time of Pope Vigilius Lond. 1631. fol. Popish falsifications Or an answer to a treatise of a Popish Recusant intit The first part of Protestants proofs for Catholicks Religion and Recusancy taken only from the writings of such Protestant Doctors and Divines of England as have been published in the Reign of K. James an 1607. MS. This book I saw at Oxon in the hands of Mr. Edw. Benlowes the Poet who in his younger days was a Papist or at least very Popishly affected and in his elder years a bitter Enemy to that Party Whether the said book was ever printed I cannot tell Animadversions on Cardinal Baronius his Annals MS. Either lost or embezil'd after the authors death MSS. The copies of which were formerly if not still in the Tabarders Library in Qu. coll De caelo Physica In Aristotelis Organon I have seen also several of his Epistles written to Dr. Hen. Airay Provost of Qu. coll stitch'd up with Dr. Joh. Rainolds his Declamations and other things among the MSS. in the Library of Dr. Thom. Barlow afterwards B. of Lincoln What else he hath written I find not nor any thing more of him only that he dying at Blacknotly before-mentioned for want of a Bishoprick as K. Jam. 1. used to say was buried in the Chancel of the Church there 25. year 1624 Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and four At which time Dr. Joh. Barchem Dean of Rockyng in Essex did Preach his Funeral Sermon before several Gentlemen and Ministers of the neighbourhood shewing to them in the conclusion the great piety and learning of him who then lay as a spectacle of mortality before them Had that Sermon been printed I might have thence said more of this worthy author but it being quite lost I presume after that Doctors death we must be content with those things that are already said of him PETER BOWNE or Bounâ—â—u as he is sometimes written was a Bedfordshire man born admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Apr. 1590. aged 15. of which he was afterwards Fellow and M. of Arts. This person having a great Genie to the Faculty of Medicine entred on the Physick line practiced in these parts and at length became Dr. of his Faculty Afterwards he wrote Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia Lond. 1624. qu. At which time he practiced Physick in the great City and was much in esteem for it in the latter end of King Jam. 1. and beginning of King Ch. 1. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing of his last days GEORGE MORE Son of Sir Will. More beloved of Q. Elizabeth for his many services done in the Common-wealth was extracted from the Mores of Devonshire but whether born there or in Surrey in truth I cannot tell After he had spent some time in Oxon particularly as it seems in Exeter coll he went to the Inns of Court but took no degree there or here In 1597. he had the honour of Knighthood conâ—erâ—ed upon him being about that time a frequent Speakâ—â— in several Parliaments and much in esteem for his excellent parts In 1604. he being about that time Treasurer to Henry Prince of Wales did by the name of Sir George More of Surrey give several MSS. to the Publick Library at Oxon and 40 l. to buy printed books and in the year following he was actually created Master of Arts. In 1610 he became Chancellour of the most Noble Order of the Garter and about 1615. Lievtenant of the Tower in the place of Sir Jervase Elwaies imprisoned for the consenting to the poysoning of Sir Thom. Overbnry He hath written A demonstration of God in his Works against all such that deny either in word or in life that there is a God Lond. 1598. 1624. qu. Parliamentary Speeches and other things which I have not yet seen He was living at Losely or Lothesley near Guildsord in Surrey where he had a fair Estate descended to him from his Father in sixteen hundred twenty and four and after and there died and was buried He had a Son named Rob. More who was a Knight and a Daughter who was married to the famous Dr. Joh. Donne afterwards Dean of Pauls I have made mention of another George More in the Fasti an 1573. WILLIAM BROWNE Son of Tho. Br. of Tavystock in Devonsh Gent. was born there spent some time among the Muses in Exeter coll after K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown whence retiring to the Inner Temple without any degree confer'd upon him became famed there for his Poetry especially after he had published Britannia's Pastorals Esteemed then by judicious persons to be written in a sublime strain and for subject amorous and very pleasing The first part of it was printed at Lond. 1613. fol. and then usher'd into the World with several copies of verses made by his learned acquaintance as by Joh. Selden Mich. Drayton Christoph Brook c. The second part or book was printed at Lond. 1616. fol. and then commended to the World by various copies made by John Glanvill whom I shall mention elsewhere for his sufficiencies in the Common Law Joh. Davies of Hereford George Wither of Linc.
what reason it appears not he did petition that he might be discharged from assuming that Degree which was accordingly done to his desire and in the 22. of the said Kings Reign he obtained the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastings in Sussex He hath written a Book Entit Arbor Reipublicae c. It is penned in a Juridic Stile and is now or at least lately was reserved as a choice Monument in the Cottonian Library Whether ever Printed I cannot tell At length after King Henry 7. who favoured his actions because he brought Grist to his Mill being dead his Successor King Henry 8. did for the Peoples satisfaction issue out his special Precept for the Execution of the said Dudley then a Prisoner in the Tower of London Whereupon he had his Head smitten off on Tower-Hill 28. Aug. 2. Henry 8. being the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ten year 1510 leaving then behind him several Sons the eldest of which was John afterwards Duke of Northumberland Father to Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick and to Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester JOHN HOLTE called by some Holtigena was born in the County of Sussex and from being Usher of the School joyning to the common gate of S. Mary Magdalen College and Bachelaur of Arts was elected Probationer of the said College in 1490. and within the compass of an year following was admitted true and perpetual Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the Degree of Master of Arts and carried on the profession of Pedagogy so zealous that by his admirable way of teaching the Faculty of Grammar many from his School were transplanted to several Colleges and Halls in this University that were afterwards eminent in the Nation Since which time and that of King Henry 7. hath been a singular care of Royal Authority and of worthy learned men to lay a solid Foundation of all kind of Learning by producing a right Grammar-Institution For tho before the said King's time a great part of our English men had little leisure and less care of good Arts yet when the Houses of York and Lancaster were united by the Counsel of Dr. John Moreton Bishon of Ely and the times thereupon became more peaceable our Author Holte made a Grammar Entit Lac Puerorum c. Printed about the year 1497. and Dedicated to the said Moreton then Archbishop of Canterbury Which Grammar Printed also with the Works of John Stanbridge being the first of note or most fit for use that was ever Printed in England was much used and taken into the hands of all sorts of Scholars Afterwards the said Stanbridge and his Scholar Robert Whittington with others did put forth divers Treaties of Grammar but more especially Dr. John Colet the learned Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral who compiled the Eight parts of Speech and William Lilye the first Master of S. Paul's School an English Syntax whereunto Cardinal Thomas Wolsey did afterwards prefix an Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes or Forms in Ipswich School The learned Erasmus also intreated by Dr. Colet to revise Lilyes Syntax made a new Latin Syntax in 1513. upon which Henry Pryme a School-Master in a certain Monastery and Leonard Cox of Carleon in Monmouthshire Commented the former in 1539. and the other in 1540. But these things being spoken by the by I shall only say that our Author Holte being esteemed the most eminent Grammarian of his time there is no doubt but that he did Compose other things belonging to Grammar which perhaps are now quite lost and past recovery as the time of his death and place of burial is One Holte who was Master to Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England did publish an Accedence and Grammar about the same time that Lac Puerorum was made extant Which Holte is in the Auction Catalogue of Mr. Richard Smith sometimes Secondary of the Poultry Compter written Nich. Holt. Qu. whether not mistaken for John NICHOLAS MAGWIRE was born in Idron within the Kingdom of Ireland Educated among the Oxonians and took one or more Degrees Afterwards returning to his Country he was made Prebendary of Hillard in the Diocess of Laighlin being then and after accounted famous among his Country-men for his great Learning and constant Preaching among them In 1490. he was by provision from the Pope promoted to the Bishoprick of Laighlin aged about thirty one years Where being settled he began to write several Books but being untimely snatch'd away by death finished only these following Chronicon Hiberniae of which Thaddeus Dowling made use when he Composed his Annales Hiberniae and Vita Milonis de Rupe Episc quondan Laighliensis This our Author Magwire year 1512 died in fifteen hundred and twelve 4. Hen. 8. and was buried as it seems in his own Church of Laighlin In his Bishoprick succeeded one Thomas Halsey Doctor of both the Laws whom I shall remember in his proper place among the Bishops that have received their Education in Oxon. MAURITIUS de PORTU otherwise called O-Fihely who in his time was for his great Learning and Virtue called and written by many The Flower of the World was born in the County of Cork near to a celebrated Port called Baltimore in Ireland where the antient Seat of the O-Fihely's was placed instructed for some time in Grammaticals and Trivials in this Universiâ—â— and not unlikely in other Learning after he had taken upon him the Habit of S. Francis in the Convent of the Brethren of that Order situated in the South Suburb of Oxon wherein the person that he admired beyond all the World John Duns Scotus had spent some years in Religion and Learning and in the Library of which place many of his Books had been Religiously preserved From Oxon he Travelled into Italy and setling in the University of Padöua or Padua then flourishing in Learning made very great proficiency in Philosophy in the Monastery of the Franciscans called S. Antony and at riper years applied himself severely to the study of Metaphysicks School-Divinity and above all to the Doctrin of John Duns whom he had in so great veneration that he was in a manner besotted with his Subtilities After he had taken the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in which Faculty he for some time Read with great applause among the Brethren he became known to and much respected by Pope Julius 2. who for a reward of his Learning and Vertues conferred on him the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland in the year 1506. In 1512. he was present at the two first Sessions of the Council of Lateran and in the year following minding to return to his Native Country he obtained a Faculty from the Pope of granting Indulgences to all such that should retire to Tuam to hear the first Mass that he should Celebrate there but at his arrival at Galloway being overtaken with a deadly Disease died before he could Celebrate it His Works which have been much admired and
learned exposition upon the Proverbs of Solâ—mâ—n When this last was first Printed I know not Sure 't is that being translated into English by one Marcelline Outred for the benefit of his Country-men was Printed at London in 1580. in a thick qu. Whether this Mich. Cope was of the same Family with that of Sir Anthony's before-mentioned or was educated in Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN REDMAN or Redmayne descended from those of his name in Yorkshire was near allied to Cuthb Tonstall Bishop of Durham by whose counsel and advice he became conversant from his Childhood in the Study of Learning At the first Foundation of Corp. Ch. Coll. he was a Student there for some time under the care and government of Mr. J. Claymond the first President Thence he went to Paris where he improved his Studies till he was 21 Years of Age. Afterwards returning to his native Country of England he settled in St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge where by his and Joh. Cheeks example of excellency in learning of godliness in living of diligence in studying of counsel in exhorting by good order in all things were bred up so many learned Men in that one Coll. as 't was thought by one the whole University of Lovaine in many Years was never able to afford In 1537 he commenced Doctor of Divinity and about that time was made Orator of that University and afterwards the first Master or Head of Trinity Coll. and a Dignitary in the Church But that which is most observable is that when he came first to that University being then very well vers'd in the Greek and Lat. tongues and adorn'd with knowledge by the diligent reading of Cicero it so fell out that Joh. Cheek and Tho. Smyth being at that time young Men but afterwards Knights were stirred up with a kind of emulation of his parts and the honor that was daily done unto him Whereupon being very desirous to follow that which he had gained and then did profess and teach they threw aside their sordid barbarisms and applied themselves to the Eloquence of Plato Aristotle and Cicero The truth is by Redman's profound knowledge in the Tongues Humanity and Divinity he obtained many admirers and thereby gained Proselytes to the great advantage of the refinement of the Gr. and Lat. Tongues in the University of Cambridge He hath written Opus de justificatione Antw. 1555. qu. Hymnus in quo peccator justificationem quaerens rudi imagine describitur Printed with the former work The complaint of Grace containing in it much godly learning and verity of matter Lond. 1556. in oct published by Tho. Smith Servant to Qu. Mary This I suppose is the same Book with that which Bale and Pits intitle De gratia lib. 1. translated into English by Joh. Young of Cambridge This Dr. Redman also took pains in compiling the first edition of the Liturgie or Common-prayer in the Year 1549. and dying in the College of Westminster of which he was Prebendary was buried in the North Isle of the Abby-Church there dedicated to St. Peter about the latter end of Nov. year 1551 in Fifteen hundred fifty and one aged 52. See more of him in Lelands Encomia and in the Epistles of Roger Ascham his sometimes friend and crony as also in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. where you 'll find his conference or communication had with Rich. Wilks 2. Nov. 1551 the Doctor being then sick at Westminster and another conference with Mr. Alex. Nowell then Schoolmaster in Westminster and certain others with notes of his censure and judgment touching certain points of Christ's Religion which was made when the Doctor laid on his Death-bed Whether this John Redmayne was Archdeacon of Taunton and Preb. of Mylverton in the Church of Wells in the time of Ed. 6. I cannot justly say because he died in 1551 and that those Dignities were not fill'd up till May 1554. when then John Fitz-James was collated to them per mortem Johannis Redmayne See more in the Fasti an 1508. 1524. and 1543. DAVID TOLLEY or Talley called by Leland the Antiquary Tavelegus and by himself Taulaeus was born at a Mercate Town call'd Kingsbridge in Devonshire became a Student of this University about 1517. 9. H. 8. took the Degrees of Arts as a Member of the Hall of St. Mary the Virgin that of Master being compleated 1527. About that time he applyed his Genie to the faculty of Medicine took the Degree of Bachelaur and in 1534. and before he was dispens'd with by the venerable Regents to proceed in the said faculty but whether he was admitted or proceeded it doth not appear Sure I am that he was then noted to be very able for the practice therein in this University accounted also a good Latinist and Grecian and to be a Person praeclari ingenii atque optimarum artium cognitione locupletus He hath written Progymnasmata Grammaticae Graecae Written for the use of Prince Ed. and to him dedicated by the Author with an Epistle before it beginning thus Octavus jam agitur annus c. Grammatica Regia Themata Homeri With other matters pertaining to Grammar In 1547. or thereabouts I find this Dav. Tolley to be made one of the senior Students of Ch. Ch. by the name of David Towle being then 41 Years of Age after K. Hen. 8. had settled the Cathedral there at which time and before he taught Grammar to young Students of this University When he died I know not nor any thing else of him only that his name occurs among the senior Students that were Theologists of that house in the Years 1551. and 52. Joh. Baleus in his Manuscript De Scriptoribus Anglicis stiles this Dav. Tolley Angliae Papistarum Malleus being probably then temp Ed. 6. so accounted but in his Printed Book published at Basil 1559 he mentioneth no such matter which makes me think that Tolley conform'd in the time of Qu. Mary if he was then living JOHN MORWEN or Morenus as he writes himself was a Devonian born admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 23. Feb. 1535. and afterwards Fellow and Master of Arts. About which time entring into holy Orders he became noted soon after for his profoundness in Divinity and his great knowledge in the Greek tongue being in the latter end of King Hen. 8. Reader thereof in his College and a private instructer of John Jewell though afterwards a hater of his Opinions In 1551 he was admitted Bach. of Divin and about the same time studied Physick as having no good wishes for reformation which tended to the ruin as he thought of the Church He is stiled by a learned Author not of his opinion to be homo Graecè doctus sed idem Graecorum more leviculus bibaculus c. Afterwards he was patronized in his studies by Will. Roper Esq whose Daughter by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Sir Thomas More he instructed
as it seems at Digges Court educated for a time in this University but in what house unless in Univ. Coll. I know not where laying a foundation of greater learning departed without a Degree and afterwards became a most excellent Mathematician a skilful Architect and a most expert surveyour of Land At length lest it should be thought that he studied only for himself and not for the benefit of others he published a book entit Tectonicon Briefly shewing the exact measuring and speedy reckoning of all manner of lands squares timber stones steeples c. Lond. 1556. qu. Augmented and published again by his Son Tho. Digges Lond. 1592. qu. Printed there again 1647 qu. Our Author Leon. Digges wrot also A Geometrical practical treatise named Pantometria in 3. bookes Which being attempted in his younger years his said Son Thomas supplied such parts of it after his death as were left obscure and imperfect adjoyning thereunto A discourse Geometrical of the five regular and Platonical bodies containing sundry Theorical and Practical propositions arising by mutual conference of these solides Inscription Circumscription and Transformation Lond. 1591. fol. Prognostication everlasting of right good effect or choice rules to judge the weather by the Sun Moon Stars c. Lond. 1555 56. and 64 qu. corrected and augmented by his said Son Thomas with divers general tables and many compendious rules Lond. 1592. qu. what else he wrot I find not nor certainly when he died unless about the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and four or whether his death was at Eltham in Kent or at another place There is some memory of him and his Family in whose veines hereditary learning doth seem to run on a Monument in Chilham Church in Kent not to shew that he was buried there but to shew the genealogie of his Family set up by his Grandson Dudley Digges of whom I shall make mention in 1638 which being too long for this place I shall pass it by at present for brevity sake RICHARD WILLS who in his books writes himself Willeius which is the reason why some call him Willey was a Western Man born educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and in Academical for a time in his Coll. at Oxon but before he took a Degree or was made Fellow he left the University and travelled into France Germany and Italy where spending some years in several Universities return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman And being noted for his admirable dexterity and honorable advance in the Latine Empire as Joh. Brownswerd was at the same time wrot and published Lond. 1573. oct Poematum liber ad Gul. Baronem Burghleium De re poetica disputatio In suorum poemat Librum Scholia With other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen In the Year 1574 Apr. 24. he by the name and title of Rich. Wills Master of Arts of the University of Mentz in Bavaria supplicated the ven congregation of Regents that he might be incorporated into the same Degree in this University but the said Regents suspecting his opinions did grant his desire conditionally 1 That he produce a testimony of his creation under the seal of the University of Mentz 2 That he render a testimony of his faith before the Vicechanc. and Proctors and 3 That he acknowledge the Queen to be his legitimate Governess or Monarch of all England c. whether he performed these conditions or was really incorporated appears not in any of the registers RICHARD TAVERNER Son of Joh. Taverner of Brisley in Norfolke was born at Brisley or else in that County in the Year 1505 descended from an ancient Family of his name living sometimes at North Elmham near to Brisley before-mentioned educated for a time in Logick in Bennet Coll. in Cambridge but before he had consummated an year and an half there did with others of that University go to Oxon for preferment about the same time that Card. Wolsey did begin his Coll. there At length being admitted one of the Junior Canons of that Coll. he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts in the Year 1529 and about that time obtaining a competent knowledge in Philosophy the Greek tongue and Divinity left Oxon some time before the said Coll. came into the Kings hands by Wolseys fall and forthwith went to an Inn of Chancery near London call'd Staire Inn otherwise Strond Inn pulled down when Edw. D. of Somerset built Somerset house in the Strond or Strand and thence to the Inner Temple for before his time and some years after students were not admitted into the Inns of Court before they had read the ground of Law in one of the Inns of Chancery where his humour was to quote the Law in Greek when he read any thing thereof In 1534 he went to the Court and was there taken into the attendance of Tho. Cromwell then Principal Secretary to K. Hen. 8. by whose commendation he was afterwards made by the said King one of the Clerks of the Signet in ordinary an 1537. Which place he kept till the first of Q. Mary having been in good repute not only with K. Hen. 8. but also with K. Edw. 6. and most of all with Edw. Duke of Somerset Lord Protector In 1552 he tho a mere Lay-man obtained by the name of Rich. Taverner Master of Arts being Master of Arts of both the Universities a special licence subscribed by K. Ed. 6. to Preach in any place of his dominions and the more for this reason because the scarcity and slackness of Preachers was so great that some of the Kings Chaplains were appointed to ride circuit about the Kingdom to preach to the People especially against Popery I have been informed by some notes of him written by his Grandson that he preached before the King at Court and in some publick places in the Kingdom wearing a velvet bonnet or round cap a damask gown and a chain of gold about his neck in which habit he was seen and heard preaching several times in St. Maries Church in Oxon. in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. In like manner other Lay-Gentlemen such that had been educated in the Universities did either preach or else write books concerning controversies in Religion or else make translations from Divinity books Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks. Esq whom I have mention'd in Joh. Jewell sometimes of Univ. Coll. was often seen in the same habit in Pulpits in London and in his own Country and would often give the printed Catechismes in the book of Common-Prayer to Children as he walked in London streets to learn without book and would after call out those children and examine them and for encouragement would give especially to the poorer sort of them money silk points ribbands c. Sir Tho. More also after he was called to the bar in Lincolns Inn did for a considerable time read a publick Lecture out of St. Austin De civitate Dei in the Church of St.
the north parts of England In 1560. the Queen design'd him to be Bishop of Norwich but he altogether refused it for no other reason as 't was suppos'd but that he was much disaffected to the Hierarchy and Ceremonies of the Church of England In the latter end of the said year in the beginning of March he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of this University that whereas he had for the space of 16 years studied Divinity he might be admitted to the reading of Epistles of S. Paul that is to the degree of Bach. of Divinity which was before the time of Reformation to the reading of the Book of Sentences This supplicat was granted by notwithstanding he had taken no Degree before among them as it appears from the publick Registers In the same congregation he supplicated also that after he was admitted Bach. of Divinity he might have liberty to proceed in the same Faculty but to that no answer was given Afterwards he supplicated that he might not only use the habit of Master of Arts in the time of his admission to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity but afterwards also while he continued in that state Which request though granted simpliciter yet it doth not appear that he was admitted to that Degree In Michaelmas term 1561. he was installed Dean of Christ Church in Oxon in the place of Dr. George Carew and soon after in the month of November he supplicated the congregation of Regents that it might be lawful for him to Preach within the limits of the University in a doctoral habit Which desire being as they thought unreasonable yet because he was a Dean they granted it only to continue till the Act following At that time there being a great scarcity of Divines in the University and but very few Masters he the said Sampson and Laur. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. another severe Calvinist preached by turns every Lords day either at St. Maries or elsewhere to the Academians and soon after got another brother of Allsouls Coll. as 't is said to joyn with them but who that was unless Andrew Kingsmyll LL. B. who afterwards out of pure sanctity went to Geneva I know not But Sampson being too severe a Calvinist if not worse to govern such a noted Coll. as Ch. Ch. for he was an enemy to Organs ornaments of the Church clerical vestments the square cap he always in imitation of Humphrey wearing the round cap and rather a perswader from than encourager to use them he was at length after a great many of admonitions from authority to conform and entreaties from certain Bishops so to do removed from his Deanery by the sentence of Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury an 1564. Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston at Leycester besides the Penitentiaryship or the Prebend of St. Pancras in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul where continuing for some time in teaching he was by the leave and favour of the Queen permitted to be a Theological Lecturer in Whittingdon Coll. in London but before he had enjoyed that place 6 years he was taken with the palsie Whereupon retiring to his hospital spent the remaining part of his days in preaching and writing Those works that go under his name are these Letter to the professours of Christs Gospel in the Parish of Allhallows in Bredstreet Lond. Strasburg 1554 oct A warning to take heed of Fowlers Psalter Lond. 1578. oct See in John Fowler under the Year 1578. Brief collection of the Church and Ceremonies thereof Lond. 1581. oct Prayers and meditations Apostolike gathered and framed out of the Epistles of the Apostles c. Lond. 1592. in 16o. He also corrected and caused to be published Two Sermons the first of repentance the other of the Lords Supper Lond. 1581. oct written by his friend Joh. Bradford with other things of that Author At length Tho. Sampson having lived beyond the age of Man in a perpetual motion as 't were for the carrying on of the holy cause laid down his head and gave up the ghost on the 9. Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston before-mention'd Over his grave was a monument soon after fastned to the South wall thereof with an inscription on it erected by his Sons John and Nathaniel Sampson A copy of which with other matters of the said Author which I have not here mention'd you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 254. From this Tho. Sampson is if I mistake not descended Tho. Sampson a pretender to Poetry Author of Fortunes fashion portrayed in the troubles of Lady Elizab. Gray Wife of Edw. 4. Lond. 1613. qu. a Poem dedicated to Henr. Pilkington of Gadsby in Leicestershire JOHN BROWNSWERD or Brunswerdus as he writes himself a most noted Master of the Latin Tongue was born as I conceive in Cheshire and had a considerable part of his education in this University but mostly as 't is thought in Cambridge where I presume he took one or more Degrees After his retreat thence he setled at Macclesfield in Cheshire where he taught the Free-school with very good success and having obtained a good report and honourable advancement in the Latin Empire was deservedly numbred amongst the best Latin Poets that lived in the Reign of Qu. Elizab. His works are Progymnasmata aliquot poemata Lond. 1590. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen He took his last farewel of this world on the 15. Apr. year 1589 in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Macclesfield before-mentioned In which year Tho. Newton his sometimes Scholar did publish a book of Encomia's of certain illustrious Men of England in which he hath this Distick of Brownswerd Rhetora Grammaticum Polyhistora teque poetam Quis negat is lippus luscus obesus iners And soon after the said Newton whose respect to his memory was great set up a Monument on the South wall of the said Chancel with an inscription thereon stiling Brownswerd Vir pius doctus and concluding with these two verses Alpha poetarum Coryphaeus Grammaticorum Flos Paedagogorâ—a hac sepelitur humo GEORGE PETTIE a younger Son of John le Petite or Pettie of Tetsworth and Stoke-Tatmach in Oxfordshire Esq was born in that County and at about 16 years of age an 1564 was a Scholar or Student of Ch. Ch. under Mr. Tho. Barnard Canon thereof and took one Degree in Arts as a member of that house in the latter end of the Year 1568. Soon after he left the University travelled beyond the Seas and at length became excellent for his passionate penning of amorous stories equal for poetical invention with his dear Friend Will. Gager and as much commended for his neat stile as any of his time He hath written a book intit A Petite pallace of Pettie his pleasure containing
time partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine He was a Person of a strict life and conversation as those of his Perswasion say of great gravity of severity and a lover of vertue and vertuous men He hath written A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholicks Lov. in oct and other things as I have been told but such I have not yet seen which if printed few or no copies come into England He dyed at Doway in Flanders in the house of Alice Fowler the Widdow of John Fowler an Englishman on the 9. year 1597 May in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Church of St. James there near to the horn of the Gospel leaving then behind him this character that he was a most fierce hater of Vice and a capital Enemy to Sects and Heresies CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON a most excellent Latin Poet Philosopher and Physician of his time was born at Kiddesley in Derbyshire education in Wykeham's School before-mentioned made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1555. 2. and 3. of Ph. and Mar. left it after he was M. of Arts and in 1560. became chief Master of the said School in the place of Tho. Hyde where by his industry and admirable way of teaching were many good Scholars sent to the Universities All the time that he could get at vacant hours he spent upon his beloved study of Physick which he practiced in the City of Winchester but not to the neglect of his School At length taking the degree of Doctor of that Faculty did shortly after resign his School and repairing to London practiced with good success in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West where being accounted eminent was admitted as it seems a Member of the Coll. of Physicians He hath written and published Ortus atque vita Gul. Wykehami Winton Episcopi Written in 140 long and short Verses 14. Dec. 1564. Printed 1 on the broadside of a sheet of Paper with Wykehams Arms encompassed with the Garter before them 2 At the end of the Latin Poems of Rich. Willeius Lond. 1573. And 3 in a Book intit A brief view of the State of the Church of England as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James's Reign c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 37 38. Written by Sir Jo. Harrington Knight an 1608. and made publick by Joh. Chetwind his Daughter's Son then no Friend to the Church of England Custodum sive Praefidum Coll. Winton Series Written in Verse also and put at the end of the said Lat. Poems Didasculorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus In Verse also at the end of the said Poems Counsel against the Plague or any other infectious Disease Lond. 1577. oct Question Whether a man for preservation may be purged in Dog-days or no Printed with the Counsel c. Ranarum murium pugna Latino versu donata ex Homero Lond. 1580. in about 3 sh in qu. with other things as it is probable but such I have not yet seen See more of him in Rich. White under the year 1612. This Dr. Johnson died in the beginning of July year 1597 in fifteen hundred ninety and seven within the Parish of St. Dunstan before-mentioned whereupon his Body was buried in the Church there as it seems situated and being in Fleetstreet He dyed wealthy left several Sons and Daughters behind him and Mr. Joh. Heath his Son in Law a Student in Physick his Executor who had all his Physical and Philosophical Books and succeeded him in his Practice JASPER HEYWOOD a quaint Poet in his younger days Son of Joh. Heywood the Famous Epigramatist of his time was born in London sent to the University at about 12 years of age an 1547. educated in Grammar as well as in Logic there took a degree in Arts in 1553. and forthwith was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll where remaining about 5 years in all which time he bare away the Bell in disputations at home and in the publick Schools did upon a third admonition from the Warden and Society of that house for several misdemeanors for he and his Brother Ellis Heywood were for a time very wild to the great grief of their Father resign his Fellowship to prevent expulsion on the 4. Apr. 1558. In June following he took the degree of Master and in Nov. ensuing he was elected Fellow of All 's coll where abiding for a little while left the University and soon after England and entred himself into the Society of Jesus But before he left us he wrote and translated these things following Various Poems and Devises Some of which are Printed in a Book intit The Paradise of dainty Devises Collected and Printed by Hen. D'isle of London Printer an 1573. in qu. He also translated into English Verse 1 Thiestes the second Tragedy of Seneca Lond. 1560. oct Published again with other Tragedies of that author by Thom. Newton Lond. 1581. qu. as I shall tell you when I come to him in an 1607. 2 Hercules furens another Trag. of Seneca And 3 Troas a third published also by the said Newton 1581. qu. In 1561. our Poet left England and was made a Priest after the R. Cath. fashion and in 1562. being then at Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus 21. May in the then professed house of the Jesuits there After he had spent two years in the study of Divinity among them he was sent to Diling in Switzerland where he continued about 17 years in explaining and discussing controverted questions among those he called Hereticks in which time he was promoted to the degree of D. of Divinity and of the four Vows At length P. Gregory 13. calling him away in 1581. he sent him with others the same year into the mission of England and the rather because the Brethren there told his Holiness That the Harvest was great and the Labourers few Being setled then in the Metropolis of his own Country and esteemed the Chief or Provincial of the Jesuits in England it was noted by all that knew him That he kept many Men Horses and Coaches that also his port and carriage was more Baron-like than Priest-like c. At length going into France about publick matters relating to the Order was when ready to land in Normandy drove back by a contrary wind on the English shore where being taken and examined was with 19 more R. Priests put into a Ship and set on shore in France in Feb. 1584. Upon his being taken and committed to Prison and the Earl of Warwick's offer thereupon to relieve his necessity he made a copy of verses mentioned by a noted Poet of his time concluding with these two Thanks to that Lord that will me good For I want all things saving Hay and Wood. Afterwards he went to the City of Dole where he was troubled much with Witches thence to Rome and at length fixed in the City of Naples where as at Rome he became familiarly
was married to John Marston of the City of Coventry Gentleman Which John dying 25 June 1634. was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples in London near to the body of John Marston his Father sometimes a Councellour of the Middle Temple JEREMY CORDEROY a Gentlemans son of Wiltshire of the same family with those of Chute in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans-hall in 1577. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts studied Divinity many years and being a frequent preacher in Oxon was made one of the Chaplains of Merton coll in 1590 at which time and during his stay in Oxon which was at least 13 years after his life and conversation was without exception He hath written A short dialogue wherein is proved that no man can be saved without good works Oxon. 1604. in tw sec edit The dialogue is between a Gallant and a Scholar He wrote another book also intit A warning for worldlings or a comfort to the godly and a terror to the wicked in a dialogue between a Scholar and Traveller Lond. 1608. in tw At which time tho the author was a deserving person yet he was not preferr'd to a living and whether he was afterwards he being scrupulous of taking one I know not nor of any other books that he hath published BARNABE BARNES a younger son of Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham was a Yorkshire-man born and at about 17. years of age 1586. became a student in Brasn coll but left the University without a degree and what became of him afterwards I know not His works are these A divine Century of spiritual Sonnets Lond. 1595. dedicated to Tob. Matthews B. of Durham Four books of Offices enabling private persons for the special service of all good Princes and policies Lond. 1606. Fol. The Devils charter a Trag. containing the life and death of P. Alex. 6. Lond. 1607. oct One Barnabe Barnes of the City of Coventry died in the time of the civil War about 1644. leaving behind him a widdow named Margery but what relation there was between this and the former Barnabe or whether the same I cannot tell WILLIAM OVERTON one of the prime preachers in the reign of Q. Elizabeth was born in London became Demy or Semicommoner of Magd. coll 25. Jul. 1539. aged 15 Perpetual-fellow in 1551. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy orders left the coll and absented himself during the reign of Qu. Mary In 1565 he took the degrees in Divinity being then well beneficed and dignifi'd and in 1579. was made Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry where he was much commended for his hospitality to the poor and the good reparation he kept of his house which a married Bishop as he was seldom did or doth He hath published Sermon against discord on Rom. 16. vers 17. Lond. in oct Oratio doctiss graviss habita in domo capitulari Lichfield ad Praebendarios reliquum clerum in visitatione Ecclesiae suae cathedralis congregatum an 1600. Lond. 1600. He died in a good old age in the beginning of April in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 and was buried in the Church of Eccleshall in Staffordshire near to the bodies of his two Wives In the See of Lichfield succeeded Dr. Rob. Abbot as I shall tell you elsewhere EDWARD STRADLING son of Sir Tho. Stradling Knight by Cath. his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho Gamage of Coyty Knight was born of and lineally descended from an antient and Knightly family of his name living at S. Donates castle in Glamorganshire educated in several sorts of learning in this University but before he took a degree he left it travelled into various Countries spent some time at Rome returned an accomplished Gentleman and retiring to his Patrimony which was large did build a firm structure upon that foundation of literature that he had laid here and elsewhere In 1575. or the year after he received the Honour of Knighthood was made a Justice of Peace became a very useful Man in his Country and was at the charge of such Herculean works for the publick good that no Man in his time went beyond him But above all he is to be remembred for his singular knowledge in the British Language and Antiquities for his eminent encouragement of learning and learned Men and for his great expence and indefatigable industry in collecting together several Monuments and ancient Manuscripts of Learning and Antiquity All which with other books were reduced into a well ordered Library at St. Donates to the great credit and renown of that place and his Family He hath written A Welsh Grammar When or where printed I know not Of which book written mostly in Latin one of his Country-men gives this character Hae institutiones Grammaticae adeò concinnè sunt compositae omnibus suis numeris absolutae ut nec eis addi quicquam nec ab eis demi meo judicio quicquam poterit nisi secundam hujus operis author in posterume editionem maturet He hath also written The winning of the Lordship of Glamorgan or Morgannwe out of the Welsh-mens hands c. Of which book you may see more in The History of Cambria now called Wales c. Printed 1584. p. 122. and 141. This learned and worthy person hath written other things but such I have not yet seen nor can I say more him only that he paid his last debt to nature in the Summer time in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 aged 80. or more and was buried in a Chappel built by his Father dedicated to the Virgin Mary joyning to the Parish Church of St. Donate between the bodies of his Great-Grandfather and Grandmother on the North side and the body of his Father on the South side He died without Male Issue whereupon the Estate went to his next Kinsman Sir John Stradling Knight who was soon after made a Baronet From whom was descended Sir Edw. Stradling Baronet a Colonel in the Army of K. Ch. 1. buried in Jesus coll Chappel 21. June 1644. MICHAEL RENNIGER commonly called Rhanger received his first being in this World in Hampshire became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll in 1547. afterwards Master of Arts and a Preacher in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. being then esteemed by those that knew him a person truly pious and of singular erudition But when Q. Mary came to the Crown he with others of the said coll voluntarily left the Land for Religion sake and lived mostly at Strasburg in Germany After her death he returned was made one of the Chaplains to Q. Elizabeth became a zealous assertor of the Protestant Religion but refusing considerable preferments that were then offered to him he accepted only of a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester for the present as also the Rectory of Crawley near to the said City In the year 1573. he took the degrees in Divinity and in 75. was upon the resignation of Dr. Joh. Ebden
in the year of his age 16 or thereabouts being then Pupil to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker who made use of his and the judgment of George Cranmer when he compiled his books of Ecclesiastical Policy In 1579. Jan. 23. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that House being then Bach. of Arts and on the 17. March 1581. he was collated to the Prebendship of Wetwang in the Church of York Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he left his Fellowship travelled into several Countries and at his return grew famous for his learning prudence and vertue In the month of May 1602. he resign'd his Prebendship on the 11. of May 1603. he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by K. Jam. 1. and was afterward by him imployed in several affairs of great trust and moment He was very dexterous in any great employment kept as constant time in all Parliaments as he that held the Chair did and was esteemed an excellent Patriot in all transactions faithful to his Country without any falseness to his Prince But this I must say that being found factious and too daring in the Parliament held 1621. he was with Selden committed to custody to the Sheriff of London 16. June in that year and not delivered thence till the 18. July following Which matter being ill resented by the House of Commons they on the eighth of Nov. following did dispute the matter tumultuously taking it for a great breach of their Privileges that any one of them should be imprison'd At length Secretary G. Calvert protesting before them that neither he or Selden were imprisoned for any Parliamentary matter a stop was thereupon put to the dispute What I find farther of Sir Edwin is that he was Treasurer to the undertakers for the Western Plantations which he effectually advanced that he was a person of great judgment and of a commanding Pen a solid Statesman and as my author saith ingenio gravitate morum insignis Farther also that he was as famous for those matters he published as his Brother George was for his Travels and Poems This worthy Knight Sir Edwin hath written Europae Speculum Or a view or survey of the state of Religion in the Western part of the World Wherein the Roman Religion and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same are notably displayed c. Written by the author at Paris and by him finished 9. Apr. 1599. A copy of which coming into the hands of an unknown person in England an impression of it full of errours stole into the world without the authors name or consent an 1605. besides another the same year or soon after Notwithstanding which the book was esteemed so much by Scholars and thereupon cried up at home for a brave piece of ingenuity that it was forthwith translated into French and printed I think at Paris But as soon as 't was finish'd the printer to his great sorrow received information that it would be called in and suppress'd as it was shortly after whereupon he dispersed most of the copies into remote parts before he did disperse any at home and so was a gainer by his Politicks At length after the author had taken great care that the English impressions should be called in and the Printers punished he caused a true copy thereof to be printed a little before his death anno 1629. From which were printed the impressions of 1632. and 37. at London in quarto and another there in 1673. in oct One copy under the authors hand as 't is said I have seen in Bodlics Library and another in that of Dr. Barlow which I suppose were dispersed to vindicate the author from spurious printed copies that flew abroad I find one Sir Edwin Sandys who paraphrastically turned in English verse Sacred Hymnes consisting of 50 select Psalms of David c. set to be sung in 5 parts by Rob. Taylor Printed at Lond. 1615. in qu. Whether this version was performed by Sir Edwin Sandys before-mentioned or by another of both his names of Latimers in Bucks I know not Our Sir Edwin Sandys author of Europae Speculum died about the beginning of Octob. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine leaving then 1500 l. to the Univ. of Oxon for the endowment of a Metaphysick Lecture and was buried in the Ch. of Nortbourn in Kent where he had a Seat and a fair Estate joyning to it Over his grave is a handsome monument erected but as I have been informed there is no inscription upon it He left behind him at the time of his death at least 5 Sons namely Henry Edwin Richard Robert and Thomas Who all one excepted proved zealous Parliamenteers in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642. The outrages of the Second then called Colonel Edwin Sandys which he made against the Church and the vengeance that followed him for so doing the common prints that in those times fâ—ew abroad do sufficiently testifie He published or rather one for him a Pamphlet intit Col. Sandy's travailes 〈◊〉 Kent which gives an account of the Sacrileges and outtages he had committed for the sake of the Blessed Parliament then sitting and another called His Declaration in vâ—nâ—icatiâ—n of himself from those calumnious aspersions cast upon him by Lucius L. Falâ—land and Secretary Nicholas 11. Oct. 1642. printed at Lond. 17. of the same month Which was followed with another Pamphlet intit A vindication of Câ—l Sandys's Honour and Loyalty from a Declaration pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester 11. Oct. 1642. But whether the said Colonel was educated in Oxon 't is not worth the enquiry nor any thing else of him And therefore I shall only let the Reader know that he died of his wounds which he had received in the Parliaments Cause near to Worcrster from the hands of a French-man called Arnold de L'isle a Captain of a Troop of Horse in Sir Joh. Byron's Regiment for which service he was soon after Knighted whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester in the month of Oct. 1642. I find one Edwyn Sandys an Essex man born and a Knights Son to be entred a Gent. Com. of C. C. coll in 1608. aged 17. But this person must not be taken to be the same with the Colonel who was then but one or two years of age WILLIAM PINKE a Hampshire man born was entred a Commoner in Magd. hall in Mich. Term 1615. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and soon after became Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll Which office he performing with great commendation was elected Fellow of that house in 1628. being then accounted by some a serious person in his studies devout and strict in his conversation and therefore a Puritan by others He had in him a singular dexterity in the Arts a depth of judgment acuteness of wit and great skill in the Hebrew Greek and Arabick languages which made him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reverenced by the Academians He wrote The
the 35. year of her age was buried by her husband in Feb. 1646. Soon after was composed a book by one John Duncon a sequestred Divine intit The returns of spiritual comfort and grief in a devout soul Represented by entercourse of Letters to the right honourable the Lady Letice Vi-countess Falkland in her life time And exemplified in the holy life and death of the said honourable Lady c. Lond. 1648. c. oct To the said book if it may be had I refer the Reader wherein he may soon perceive the unspeakable piety of the woman and the great command of her Pen. By her husband Lucius L. Falkland she had several children of which the eldest named Lucius became a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of the year in Lent time 1646. being then a young man of great hopes but died soon after at Paris as I have heard The next was Henry not educated in Academical learning but so exceeding wild and extravagant that he sold his Fathers incomparable Library for a Horse and a Mare as I have been informed by Sir J. H. who married his Widdow Afterwards he took up and prov'd a man of parts which might have been much advantaged if he had submitted himself to education was elected one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament that began at Westminster 27 Jan. 1658. Burgess for the City of Oxon for that called the Healing Parliament which began 25 Apr. 1660. and a Knight again for the said County to serve in the Parliament that began in May in the year following and at length by his Majesties favour he was made about that time Lord Leiutenant of Oxfordshire He died 2 Apr. 1663. aged 29. or thereabouts and was buried by the graves of his Father and Mother leaving then behind him issue by Rachel his Wife Dau. of Sir Anth. Hungerford of Blackbourton in Oxfordshire Kt. a Son named Anthony now L. Falkland Treasurer Paymaster to the Navy during the raign of K. Jam. 2. a person of great parts and worth HENRY FERRERS Son and heir of Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley-Clynton in Warwickshire Esq was born in that County became a Student in this University in Hart hall as it seems in the beginning of the raign of Qu. Elizabeth but whether he took a degree it doth not appear Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony which was considerable and prosecuting his natural Genie to the study of Heraldry Genealogies and Antiquities became highly valued for his eminent knowledge in them whereby he did not only give a fair lustre to his ancient and noble family whereof he was no small ornament but also to the County of his nativity He was well known to and respected by the Learned Camden who in his Discourse of the antiquity of the City of Coventry in Warwickshire doth make this honorable mention of him Thus much of Coventry yet have you not all this of me but willingly to acknowledge by whom I have profited of Henry Ferrers of Baldesley a man both for parentage and for knowledge of antiquity very commendable and my special friend who both in this place and also elsewhere hath at all times curteously shewed me the right way when I was out and from his Candle as it were hath lightened mine What this Mr. Ferrers hath published I know not sure I am that he made several volums of choice collections one of which in fol. containing Pedegrees I have seen in the Sheldonian Library now in that of the college of Arms from which but chiefly from those of Sir Sim. Archer of Vmberslade in the parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire a person naturally qualified with a great affection to Antiquities Will. Dugdale Gent. afterwards a Knight laid a large foundation of that elaborate work which is his Master-piece intit The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated c. Lond. 1656. fol. After Sir Will. Dugdales death several of Mr. Ferrers collections that had come into his hands were reposited in the Ashmolean Musaeum see the book marked with Z. He had also in his younger days a good faculty in Poetry some of which I have seen scattered in divers books printed in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth At length dying on the tenth day of Oct. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 aged 84. was buried in the middle of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Baldesley-Clynton before mentioned leaving behind him the character of a well bred Gent a good neighbour and an honest man WILLIAM FOSTER a Londoner born became a Student in S. Johns coll in Mich. Term 1609. aged 18. afterwards M. of A. Chaplain to Rob. L. Dormer E. of Carnarvan and Parson of a little Town called Hedgley near to Beconsfield in Bucks He hath published Sermon on Rom. 6. 12. printed 1629. qu. Hoplocrisma-Spongus Or a Sponge to wipe away the weapon salve Wherein is proved that the cure taken up among us by applying the Salve to the weapon is magicall and unlawful Lond. 1631. qu. In the composure of which book he had some light from Johannes Roberti a Jesuit and D. of D. who because some Protestants practice this and characterical cures which notwithstanding are more frequent among Roman Catholicks he therefore calls them Magi-Calvinists Characterists c. He makes that generally in them all doctrinal which is but in some few personally practiced But our author Foster tho he hath written rationally and in his book hath shew'd great reading yet he hath been answered not without some scorn by Rob. Fludd Doctor of Physick as I shall tell you elsewhere This Will. Foster lived some years after the publication of his Sponge but when he died or what other things he hath extant I cannot yet tell EDWARD WESTON Son of Will. Weston sometimes of Linc. coll afterwards one of the Society of Lincolns Inn by his Wife Daughter of John Story LL. D. of whom I have made mention under the year 1571. was born in London and at about 12 or 13 years of age an 1578. was sent to the said coll of Lincoln where he had a Tutor that taught him Grammar and Logick for a time Afterwards being taken thence by his Parents he was put under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Case who with licence from the University read to Scholars Logick and Philosophy in his house in S. Mar. Magdalens parish Under him he profited in several sorts of learning to a miracle became a good Disputant and very well read in Philosocal authors But his Parents who were R. Catholicks taking him away from his conversation with the Muses after he had spent at least 5 years in Oxon. without the taking any degrees was sent into France where for a short time he setled in the English coll at Rheimes Thence he went to the English coll at Rome where partly in Philosophy and partly in Divinity he spent six years and at length took the degree of Doctor of Div. in the
antient copies particularly with a MS. in Vniversity Coll. Library entit Octoteuchus two Greek MSS. translated into Arabick in the Bodlcian Library and an antient MS. formerly in that of Sir Robert Cotton but lost in the hands of a French Man to whom it was lent the said Pat. Young did promise to publish with notes added thereto and accordingly had compared the said copy with the others above named to the 15 Chapt. of Numbers and no farther if Dr. Br. Walton saith right The effect of this undertaking being much expected and desired by learned Men especially beyond the Seas certain Brethren of the Presbyterian perswasion were very zealous with the Assembly of Divines at Westminster to have the business encouraged Whereupon in the latter end of the year 1645 they sent to the house of Mr. Pat. Young to desire him to go forward with the work and an ordinance was read for printing and publishing of the said Testament of the Septuagint translation At which time also John Selden and Bulstrode Whitlock did undertake the printing of it but what hindred them in going on with the work I find not In 1649 P. Young who had sided with the Presbyterians left his place of Library keeper to the King the books there being mostly embezell'd whereupon the said Whitlock succeeding Young continued still a sojournor at Bromfield in Essex where I think he died an 1652 for in Sept. that year his next relation administer'd Afterwards Dr. Walton beforemention'd printed Youngs notes and annotations with his own continuation of collations in the sixth vol. of his Polyglot Bible and Dr. Jo. Fell the first Epistle of St. Clement from Youngs edition and Latine translation with some short running notes added thereunto Oxon. 1669. in tw In 1638. Young put out Expositio in Cant. Canticorum in qu. written by Gilb. Foâ—iot Bishop of London in the time of Hen. 2. and was one of the three Gottefridus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius being the other two who interpreted S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians Lond. 1687. oct After his death all or most of his Greek and Latine MSS. collected and written with his own hand came into the possession of Dr. John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Oct. 21. Daniel Calendar M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland These Persons following were incorporated while K. James 1. was entertain'd at Oxon. Aug. 30. Alexander Serle LL. Bach. of Cambridge To whose name is this added in the publick register ad causas negotia ecclesiastica civilia maritima forinseca Procurator regius generalis Thom. Howard Earl of Suffolk Rob. Cecill Earl of Salisbury M. A. of Cambr. The first of these two Counts was afterwards Lord Chamberlain of the Kings houshold L. Treasurer of England after Cecill Knight of the Garter and founder of the stately house called Aâ—dley Inne near to Walden in Suffolk He died in 1626 and was buried at Walden The other Ro. Cecill who was Son of Will Lord Burleigh was now Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge afterwards Lord Treasurer of England and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter He died in 1612 and was buried at Hatfield in Hertfordshire George Thomson M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland He was born in that City and afterwards became Pastor of the reformed Church at Chastegneraye in France He hath written several books among which are 1 De pompa in Jac. 1. introitâ— in Londinum Sylva Lond. 1604. oct 2 Vindex veritatis adversus Lipsium lib. 2. Lond. 1606. oct 3 Quatre harmonies sur la Revelation print 1607. oct 4 La Chasse de la Beste Romaine etc. Rochel 1611. oct c. Tho. Dempster in his Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam hath two George Thomsons that were Writers viz. George Thomson a Priest an 1595 and George Thomson a Heretick as he calls him an 1599 which last I presume is our Author who was incorporated at Oxon and the same whom Joh. Dunbar a Scot doth celebrate for his learning in his book of Epigrams George Ruggle M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge One Ruggle of the said hall was Author of that celebrated Comedy called Ignoramus acted before K. Jam. 1. at Camb. 8. Mar. 1614. Whether the same with George I cannot yet affirm … Craig a Scot Doctor of Phys of the University of Basil This is all that appears of him in the publick register So that whether he be the same with Dr… Craig the Kings Physician who died in Apr. 1620 I know not or whether he be Joh. Cragg Dr. of Phys Author of a MS. intit Capnuraniae seu Comet in 〈◊〉 subâ—mationis refutatio written in qu. to Tycho Brahe a Dane I am altogether ignorant One Dr. Joh. Cragg was buried in the Church of St. Martins in the Fields near London about 1653. Barnab Gouge Goch or Gooche Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr He was about this time Master of Magd. Coll. in that University afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Worcester and died at Exeter where he had an office or dignity in the latter end of 1625. One of both his names translated into English The pâ—pish Kingdom or Reign of Antichrist Lond. 1570. qu. written in Latine verse by Tho. Naogeorgius and Four books of husbandry Lond. 1586. qu. written in Lat. by Conr. Heresbachius and something of Palengenius But this translator if I mistake not was Barnab Gooche of Albin 〈◊〉 or Alvingham in Lincolnshire Grandfather to Barnab Gooche living there in 1634 and after John Hammond Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He was now Physician to Prince Henry and Father to Henr. Hammond afterwards the learned and celebrated Theologist Creations Jun. 28. Henry Rowlands Bach. of Div. and Bishop of Bangor was actually created Doctor of that faculty Aug. 13. Hen. Ashworth of Oriel John Cheynell of C. C. Coll. These two who were eminent and learned Physicians were then actually created Doctors of Physick because they were designed by the Delegates appointed by Convocation to be Opponents in the disputations to be had before the King at his entertainment by the Muses in the latter end of the said month of Aug. John Gourden Gordonius of Balliol Coll. was created D. of D. the same day Aug. 13. because he was to dispute before the King his kinsman After his disputation was ended he had his Degree compleated by the Kings Professor of Divinity purposely not that there was a necessity of it to shew unto His Majesty the form of that Ceremony This noble Person was born in Scotland of the house of Huntley was instructed in his youth in the Schools and Colleges as well in Scotland as in France in liberal Arts and Sciences and in the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Languages and other Orientals Afterwards he was Gentleman of three Kings Chambers in France viz. Charles 9. Hen. 3. and 4 and while he was in the flower of his age he was there assailed with many corruptions as well spiritual
by me viz. of Sir Joh. More the Father and his Lady Sir Thomas the Son and his Lady John the Grandson Margaret Elizabeth and Cicely the Grand Daughters c. were most admirably well depicted by the curious hand of Hans Holbin well known to and acquainted with Sir Thomas More Which piece being an original remaineth to this day 1689 in the House â—f the Lenthals at Besills-Lee near to Abendon in Berks. Round which is an Inscription shewing the names and matches of those that are there depicted but now scarce legible To conclude if any curious Person is desirous to know more of this noted Author Sir Tho. More who hath been and yet is wonderfully celebrated throughout the learned World let him consult 1 His life written by Will. Roper before-mention'd 2 Dr. Tho. Stapleton his Book entit De tribus Thomis mostly as to this Sir Tho. More taken from that written by Roper 3 His life written by Thom. More before-mention'd much of which is taken from the former two 4 His life written by J. H. Haddesdon I think collected from Stapleton and More especially the last which was and is scarce to be had 5 A Book written by Maur. Channey or Chawney sometimes a Carthusian near London intit Historia aliquot nostri saeculi c. which Book and its Author I shall mention elsewhere 6 His life intit The mirror of virtue in worldly greatness Paris 1616. in oct 7 A MS. of his life whether a Copy of that MS. written by Roper I know not in the Library of the Free-School at Colchester The Reader is now to know that Will. Roper before-mentioned who married Margaret More was born in Kent and educated for a time in one of the Universities Afterwards he succeeded his Father John Roper in the Office of Prothonotary of the Kings Bench which after he had kept and faithfully performed 54 Years he resign'd it to his Son Thom. Roper The said William was very bountiful both at home and abroad merciful meek and a Staff to such that were poor oppressed and imprison'd At length after he had lived a Widower 33 Years and 82 in this vain World he submitted to fate 4. Januar. 1577. Whereupon his body was buried next to that of Margaret his Wife in a Vault under a Chappel joining to the Chancel belonging to the Church of St. Dunstan in Canterbury The life of Sir Tho. More before-mentioned written by this Will. Roper I have several times perused the beginning of which is Forasmuch as Sir Tho. More Knight c. HENRY STANDISH descended from a right Ancient Family of his Name in Lancashire became when young a Franciscan or Greyfrier but in what convent I know not as yet studied for some time in the convent of his Order at Oxon and partly at Cambridge proceeded D. of D. of this University as a certain Register belonging to his Order tells us made Guardian of the Franciscan convent in London Provincial of his Order and in 1519. being nominated Bishop of St. Asaph received consecration thereunto in the conventual Church of the Franciscans at Oxon before-mention'd on the eleventh of July the same Year In 1526 he with Sir John Baker were sent Ambassadors to Denmark and in 1530 he was one of the Bishops that assisted and directed Qu. Catherine in the sute concerning her divorce from K. Hen. 8. He was esteemed a learned Man of his time and a most zealous favourer and assertor of the Catholick Religion for which had he lived longer he would have suffer'd much He hath written Several Sermons preached to the People Treatise against Erasmus his translation of the New Testament With other things as 't is probable He gave up the Ghost at London in the beginning of August in Fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans commonly called Greyfriers in the said City now known by the name of Christ-Church Over his Grave was soon after a Tomb erected with the 13 l. 6. s. 8 d. which he bequeathed for that purpose He gave 40 l. to pave the Choir of the Cath of St. Asaph and for other necessaries five marks to the Franciscans of Oxon to be prayed for ten marks also for the reparation of their Church and for the building of an Isle joining to the said Church forty pounds For exhibition of Scholars in Oxon forty pounds besides legacies to Ralph Standish Lord of Standish in Lancashire his near Kinsman to Agnes Worthington his Sister and Will. Standish his natural Brother See more of this H. Standish in Rich. Kedermyster under the Year 1531. JOHN KYNTON was by rule or order a Minorite or Greyfrier and being a Man of parts and noted for his proficiency in Divinity the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Reader of that faculty within their House Which Office he performing with great honour for several Years the Doctors and Bach. of Div. of the University elected him Margaret Professor in the place of Joh. Roper being then D. of D. and a Person of great note in the University He wrot at the command of the King an 1521. Tract contra doctrinam Mart. Lutheri Whether this or any thing else that he did write were ever printed I know not He died in Fifteen hundred thirty and five and was as I conceive buried in the Chappel of Durham now Trinitie College in Oxon. for on a little Grave-stone there yet remaining is written this Obiit Johannes Kynton Frater minor sacrae Theologiae professor 20. Januar. 1535. WILLIAM TYNDALE otherwise called Hitchins was born on the borders of Wales brought up from a Child in Grammar Logick and Philosophy in this University particularly for the most part in St. Mary Magdalens Hall where having sucked in the Doctrine of Luther read it privatly to certain Students and to some of the Junior Fellows of Magd. Coll. adjoining Whether he took a Degree either by the name of Tyndale or Hitchins it doth not appear in our Registers and whether he was one of the Junior Canons of Cardinal Wolseys Coll. as some think there is no ground or footstep left to perswade us to it From Oxon he went to Cambridge where being well ripened in Gods word he was entertained by one Sir Joh. Welch a Knight of Glocestershire and by him made Tutor to his Children While he continued there he shewed himself so much a friend to Luther and foe to the Pope before several Abbats Doctors and other Men of the Clergy living in the neighbourhood that he was forced merely for the security of his Person to leave that place So that journying to London he endeavoured to get into the Family of Cuthb Tonstall Bishop thereof but being frustrated of his design he was desirous for the good of his Country to translate the New Testament into English but finding no place to do it in England he left his native Country and
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
sent forth for his welfare and blessed proceedings in the Reformation then in hand This great Person who was also Duke of Somerset died on Tower-hill near London by the stroke of the ax 22. January in Fifteen hundred fifty and two which was the sixth Year of K. Ed. 6. but where he was buried I cannot yet tell NICHOLAS UDALL whom Leland stiles Odovallus was born in Hampshire and descended from those of his name living sometimes at Wykeham in the said County was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in June 1520. aged 15 or more Probationer Fellow in Sept. 1524. being then Bach. of Arts and two Years after supplicated for the Degree of Master but took it not at that time being as 't is probable denied because he was much addicted to the opinions of Luther Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of Eaton School near Windsor and proceeded in Arts 1534 but in 1540-41 had like to have lost that place as being suspected to be conscious to a robbery committed by two Scholars of his School who having stole images plate and other matters belonging to the College of Eaton were with Udall examined by His Majesties Council in the beginning of March that Year What became of the matter I know not sure 't is that our Author Udall was made Canon of Windsor in the beginning of Edw. 6. and is stiled by a certain Author to be Elegantissimus omnium bonarum literarum magister earum felicissimus interpres He hath written Flowers for Latin speaking selected and gathered out of Terence and the same translated into English together with the exposition c. newly corrected When this was first Printed I cannot tell That Edit which I have seen was Printed at Lond. 1568. in oct Which Book being esteemed good in its time and very useful for young Scholars Joh. Leland and Tho. Newton wrot Verses in commendation of it not only set before the Book but Printed in their respective Encomia's c. Commentary on the Apothegms of Erasmus Epistolae Carmina ad Gul. Hormannum Joh. Lelandum Comedies Epistles and divers Verses He also translated into English at the request of Qu. Cather Parr 1 Paraphrase on the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles Lond. 1551. fol. written by Erasmus 2 Pet. Martyrs Treatise wherein he openly in the Univ. of Oxon. declared his whole and determinate judgment concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Lond. in qu. and 3ly The Tragedy of Popery and other things as Bale will tell you When this our Author Udall died I know not nor any thing else of him only that his Memory is celebrated by polite Verses written by Joh. Leland Joh. Parkhurst and Tho. Newton of Chestire to which I refer to the Reader I have seen the Copy of a commission granted in the beginning of the Year 1572 to one Catherine Yerbury otherwise Udall Daugh. of Nich. Udall of Fenne in Somersetshire giving her power to administer the goods debts and chattels of him the said Nich. Udall lately deceased Whether this Nic. Udall be the same with him that was the Writer the Reader is to judge RALPH RADCLIFF was born of and descended from an ancient Family of his name in Cheshire received part of his Academical Education in this University particularly as I conceive in Brasenose Coll. about the time of its first foundation but whether he took a Degree it appears not The genie of this Person being strangely addicted to the instruction of Youth he obtained part of the Carme's House at Huchin or Hitchin in Hertfordshire an 1538. being about that time dissolved wherein he not only opened a School but framed out a lower room into a Stage for his Scholars to act Latin and English Comedies to the end that they might be emboldened for speaking and pronuntiation Which practice being used by them several Years his School was in great renown he grew rich and was had in much veneration in the neighbourhood He had many Tragedies Comedies Epistles Orations c. laying by him in the time of K. Ed. 6. which as he would often tell his Friends he would never publish till they had remained by him 9 Years And whether they were ever published I cannot yet learn The titles of some of his labours were these Dives and Lazarus a Comedy Patient Greseld Com. Friendship of Titus and Gisippus Com. Chaucers Melibie Com. Job's afflictions Trag. Delivery of Susanna from the Elders The burning of Sodom Pugna nominis verbi De pueroum institutione Epistolae ad Tyrones Epigrammata c. With other things which may be seen in Baleus who further tells us that he was in great renown at Huchin in Fifteen hundred fifty and three He lived several Years after died and was buried there but when I cannot yet learn One or more of his descendants for he was married and had issue were Knights particularly Sir Edw. Radcliff of Hitchin living in the time of K. James 1. JOHN RHESE or ap Rise or Prise or Priseus so many ways I find him written by Authors was born of a gentile and ancient Family in Wales but in what County is yet uncertain or in what House in Oxon educated unless in the ancient hostle called Broadgates now Pembroke Coll. wherein several of both his names and time have studied Among them was John Prise Bac. of the Civil Law who in the Year 1530. supplicated for the Degree of Bac. of Can. Law and two Years after John ap Rice a secular Chaplain was admitted to the same Degree which probably may be the same with Joh. Price Bach. of the Civil Law Farther also I find that in 1523. one John Prise of Allsouls Coll. was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law and that he died 1554 And in 1534. occurs another Joh. Price of Broadgates Hall I think who was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law without any title added to it which perhaps may be the Author that I am further to mention who being encouraged in his studies by William Earl of Pembroke made great advances therein especially as to the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country In 1546. March 2. he with many others received the honor of Knighthood from the hands of Edward Lord Protector of England About which time our Author observing the great and manifold errors which were made by Pol. Virgil in his Historiae Anglicae Libri 27 wherein many things redounded to the dishonor of the British Nation he thereupon published Fides Historiae Britannicae Defensio Regis Arthuri And wrot about the Year 1553. 1. Mar. a Book intit Historiae Britannicae defensio But the Author dying before he could have it published was at length in the Year 1573. put out in qu. under the name of Joh. Priseus by his Son Rich. Prise D. D. He the said Sir John did also write A description of Cambria now called Wales Augmented and made perfect by Humph. Lloyd and
Bekinsau did dedicate it to K. Hen. 8. with whom as also with K. Ed. 6. he was in some value but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown and endeavoured to alter all what her Father and Brother had done as to the reformation of the Church then did he wheel about change his mind and became a zealous Person for the Church of Rome and a hater of Protestants After Queen Elizabeth was fetled in the Throne he retired to an obscure Town called Sherbourne in Hampshire where giving way to fate in great discontent was buried in the Church of that place 20. year 1559 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine aged about 63 years leaving then behind him this character among the R. Catholicks that As he was a learned Man so might he have been promoted according to his deserts had his principles been constant ALBAYN HYLL was a Britaine born as one that knew him tellus partly educated in this and partly in another University beyond the Sea as it seems where applying his studies to the faculty of Physick he proceeded Doctor and became famous for it at London not only for the Theoretic but practick part and much beloved and admired by all learned Men especially by Dr. John Cay and Dr. Joh. Fryer two eminent Physicians of Cambridge One that lived in his time stiles him Medicus nobilissimus atque optimus in omni literarum genere maxime versatus and tells us that he wrot several things on Galen which are printed and by others cited This is all that I know of this learned Person only that he died 26 Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 and that he was buried not far from the grave of his friend and contemporary Dr. Edw. Wotton in the Church of St. Alban situated in Woodstreet in London in which Parish he had lived many years in great respect and was esteemed one of the chief Parishioners Alice his Widow who died on the last day of May 1580. was buried by him and both had a substantial Grave-stone with an inscription on it laid over them but that of it which was left part in 1666. was utterly consumed in the grand conflagration of London NICHOLAS BRIGHAM Esquire was born if I mistake not at or near to Caversham in Oxfordshire where his elder Brother Thom. Brigham had lands of inheritance and died there 6. Ed. 6. but descended from those of Brigham in Yorks received his Academical education in this University particularly as I conceive in Hart Hall wherein I find several of his Sirname without Christian names before them to have studied in the time of Hen. 8. but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear in our registers that are somewhat imperfect in the latter end of that King's Reign When he continued in the University and afterwards in one of the Inns of Court he exercised his muse much in Poetry and took great delight in the works of Jeffry Chaucer For whose memory he had so great a respect that he removed his bones into the South cross Isle or trancept of St. Peters Church in Westminster in the Year 1556. Which being so done he erected a comely Monument over them with Chaucers Effigies and an Epitaph in Prose and Verse which to this day remains against the East Wall of the said Isle At riper years our Author Brigham addicted himself much to the study of the municipal Law became noted for it and without doubt had not death snatched him untimely away he would have communicated some Specimen of that faculty to the World His genie also was much inclin'd to English History in which faculty he published a Book which some entitle De venationibus rerum memorabilum It contains the discovery or finding out of several memories of eminent Men of and things done in England Which being perused by John Bale he hath cull'd out many things thence for his purpose and quotes it when he hath occasion to mention several eminent Writers See in his Book De Scriptorib Maj. Britan. cent 10. nu 72. cent 11. num 6. 42. 52. 95. c. and in cent 12. nu 24. 79. 82. 95. c. Memoires by way of Diaâ—e in 12 Books And wrot also his youth Miscellaneous Poems with other things which I have not seen being as I suppose irrecoverable and quite lost This ingenious and curious Person who was admirably well vers'd in Histories and Antiquities yeilded up his last breath to the great regret of all those that knew his worth within the City of Westminster in the month of Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 which was the second year of Queen Elizabeth but where buried unless near to the bones of Chaucer I cannot tell JOHN WHYTE Brother to Sir Joh. Whyte L. Mayor of London an 1563. Son of Rob. Whyte of Farnham in Surrey Son of Joh. Whyte of the same place Son of Thom. Whyte of Purvyle in Hampshire was born at Farnham before mentioned educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1527 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated 23 March 1533-4 left his Fellowship in 1534. being about that time Master of the said School in the place of Rich. Tuchiner Afterwards he was made Warden of the College near to Winchester was elected Bishop of Lincolne upon the deprivation of Dr. Joh. Tayler the Temporalities of which were restored to him 2. May 1554 he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of Octob. 1555. he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty and soon after upon the death of Dr. St. Gardiner he was translated to Winchester the Temporalities of which were also restored to him 30. May 1557. Of some of which gradual rises Dr. Christoph Johnson one of his successors in the Mastership of Winchester School made this distick Me puero custos Ludi paulo ante Magister Vitus hâc demum praesul in urbe fuit He was a Man of an austere life and much more mortified to the World than Step. Gardiner his Predecessor He was eminent also for piety and learning was an eloquent Orator a solid Divine a nervous Preacher poetica facultate ut tempora ferebant tolerabilis as Camden tells us His fame and actions did well answer his name and so did all Men say how contrary soever to him in Religion only for one black Sermon that he made he gave offence yet for the colour it may be said he kept decorum because it was a funeral Sermon of a great Queen by birth and marriage I mean Qu. Mary The offence taken against him was this His Text was out of Eccles 4. 2. Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes feliciorem utroque judicave qui nec dum damnatus est And speaking of Qu. Mary her high parentage her bountiful disposition her great gravity her rare devotion praying so much as he
violent and busie Person had got a license to read and preach it hapened that in a Lecture of his delivered at Thistleworth near to London he did therein inveigh much against the Poyson of Pelagius which had then infected the People very much in all parts of the Nation This Lecture of his being answered in print by one who was his auditor he staightway come out with a reply entit A Preservative or Triacle against the poyson of Pelagius lately renewed and stirred up again by the furious sect of the Anabaptists Lond. 1551. in tw which Book being dedicated to Hugh Latimer was usher'd into the world by several copies of Lat. and Eng. verses set before and at the end of it made by Nich. Grimoald of Merton Coll Tho. Norton of Sharpenhoe Randol Hurleston or Huddleston and Tho. Soame a Preacher Afterwards our Author Turner published A new Book of spiritual Physick for divers diseases of the Nobilitie and Gentlemen of England Said to be printed at Rome but false an 1555. oct by Marcus Antonius Constantius otherwise called Thraso miles gloriosus 'T is printed in an English Character and in the title are 4 Lat. verses directed by Turner ad nobilem Britannum The hunting of the Fox and the Wolfe because they did make havock of the Sheep of Jesus Christ printed in oct A Book of the natures and properties as well of the Bathes of England as of other Bathes in Germany and Italy Collen 1562. in a thin fol. and in an Eng. Char. Treatise of the Bath at Baeth in England Printed with the former Book Of the nature of all waters Printed with the former also The nature of wines commonly used here in England with a confutation of them that hold that Renish and other small Wines ought not to be drunken either of them that have the stone the rume or other diseases Lond. 1568. oct Of the nature and vertue of Triacle Printed with the next Book going before The rare treasure of English Bathes Lond. 1587. qu. Several things in this Book were published from his former Books of Bathes He also translated into English 1 A comparison between the old learning and the new Printed in Southwarke an 1538. originally written by Urb. Regius 2 The Palsgraves catechismi Lond. 1572. oct What else he hath written and translated you may see in Joh. Bale cent 8. nu 95. At length after all the rambles and troubles that our Author Turner had made and did endure he did quietly lay down his head and departed this life 7. year 1568 July in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight Whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Olaves in Hertstreet in London leaving then behind him several Children of whom Peter a Doctor of Physick was one Father to Samuel and Peter as I shall tell you elsewhere WILLIAM BARLOWE was bred a Canon Regular of the order of St. Austin in the Monastery of St. Osith in Essex and partly among those of his order in Oxon where besides a nursery for was an Abbey and Priory of that order and there obtained a competency in Theology of which faculty as 't is said he was a Doctor Afterwards he was made Prior of the Canons of his Order living at Bysham near Maydenhead in Berkshire and by that name and title he was sent in an Embassie to Scotland as I shall tell you elsewhere About the time of the dissolution of his Priory he was elected to the Episcopal See of St. Asaph the temporalities of which being delivered to him on the second day of Febr. 27. Hen. 8. Dom. 1535. he was consecrated to the said See 22. of the same Month. Thence he was translated to St. Davids in the Month of Apr. 1536. and thence to Bathe and Wells in 1547 being then a zealous Professor and Preacher of the reformed Religion In 1553 upon Qu. Maries coming to the Crown he was deprived of his Bishoprick for being married whereupon retiring with many others into Germany under pretence of Religion lived there in a poor and exile condition At length when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he was made Bishop of Chichester in Decemb. 1559 where he sate to the time of his death and in 1560 he was made the first Canon or Prebendary of the first stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster then founded by Qu. Elizabeth which Dignity he held with his Bishoprick five years His works are these A Dialogue describing the original ground of these Lutheran factions and many of their abuses Lond. 1553. in oct Printed in an English Char. Christian Homelies Cosmography which two last I have not yet seen He departed this mortal life in the Month of Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1568 and was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester After this William Barlowe had been a Prior and a Bishop he took to Wife one Agatha Wellesbourne by whom he had issue five Daughters that were all married to Bishops viz. 1 Anne who after she had buried her first Husband named Austin Bradbridge bridge of Chichester sometimes Fellow of New College married Harbert Westphaling Bishop of Hereford 2 Elizabeth Wife of Will. Day Dean of Windsore afterwards Bishop of Winchester 3 Margaret Wife of Will. Overton B. of Lichf and Cov. 4 Frances who after she had buried her first Husband named Matthew Parker a younger Son of Dr. Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury was married to Tobie Mathew who died Archb. of York 5 Antonia the Wife of Will. Wykeham Bishop of Winchester The said Will. Barlowe had also a Son of both his names whom I shall mention in his proper place JOHN MAN being the next according to time to be mentioned I must tell you that he was born in the Parish of Lacocke in Wiltshire elected from Winchester School Probationer of New Coll. in 1529. and was made perpetual Fellow two Years after In 1537 he proceeded in Arts was the Southern Proctor of the University three years after and in 1547 he was made Principal of Whitehall since involved into Jesus Coll. After Qu. Elizabeth was settled in the Throne he became Chaplain to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury who having a respect for did put him in Warden of Merton Coll. 1562. upon a dissent among the Fellows in an Election of one for that office as I have told you at large elsewhere In 1565 he was made Dean of Glocester in the place of Will. Jennings deceased who from being a Monk of that place was made the first Dean 1541. and in 1567. in the Month of Aug. he was sent by the Queen her Ambassador to the K. of Spain who the Year before had sent to our Queen his Ambassador called Goseman or Gooseman de Sylva Dean as 't was said of Toledo Of which Ambassadors Qu. Eliz. used merrily to say that as her Brother the K. of Spain had sent to her a Goos-man so she had sent to him a Man goose
at this day maintain against the Church of England and upon any good proof of any such one allegation to yield up the bucklers and reconcile himself to Rome Now tho Thom. Hardyng and some others undertook him about the controverted articles yet as those of the reformed party say they came off so poorly and Jewell on the contrary so amaz'd them with a cloud of witnesses in every point in question that no one thing in that age gave the papacy so deadly a wound as the said challenge at Pauls cross so confidently made and bravely maintain'd This say the Protestant writers but let us hear what a grand zealot for the Romish cause saith concerning the said matter After this Man meaning B. Nich. Rydley stepped to Pauls cross in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days about the Year 1559 and 1560 Mr. Joh. Jewell otherwise called Bishop of Salisbury and he proceeded yet farther in this brag and fiction meaning that what the Fathers said made for the Protestants for he protested there even with feigned tears that if any one authority place sentence or asseveration of any one Father Doctor Council or authentical History within the first 600 years after Christ could be brought forth by any man living for any one of those points of Catholick Religion which he there recited to be in controversie that then plainly and sincerely he would subscribe Against which vain and shameless bragg when Dr. Hardyng and divers other learned men of our side began to write from Lovayne and to bring forth authorities of all Fathers Doctors Councils and Histories in great abundance the first effect of this challenge that appeared to the world was a severe proclamation that no such book written in English by the Catholick party should be received or read in England under great punishments By which Provision Mr. Jewell thinking meetly well defenced he plyed the pulpit often and renewed his challenges many times and perceiving notwithstanding that Dr. Hardyngs confutation was come into England he answered the same with a long volume of Rhetorical words and stuffed the Margent thereof with the shew of infinite Authors as tho the whole world had been for him and none for the other side And with this he deceived the People then and doth to this day such I mean that have not commodity or learning or other means to examine those places and to find out the manifold lyes and falsifications therein contained And this was the gain by all likelyhood that Mr. Jewell pretended to his cause by that work knowing full well that this sort of Men is far the greater which would be gained and settled in his doctrine before the learneder sort who are but few in comparison of the other could have time books and commodity to discover and refute him and when they should do it they should hardly be believed c. How many learned Men lightly of our Nation have taken upon them seriously to go over that book of Mr. Jewells and to examine it by the Authors themselves with any indifferency of mind have for the most part been thereby converted to Catholick Religion though never so great Protestants before Of which sort I have heard relation of many but of some I can testifie my self for that I have heard it from their own mouths who of earnest Protestants were made most zealous Catholicks by that means principally of which number I think it not inconvenient to name here some two or three omitting others which for just respects may not be named The first of them is Sir Tho. Copley made Lord afterwards in his banishment by the King of France who oftentimes hath related unto one with much comfort of his soul how that being a zealous Protestant and very familiar to Robert the late Earl of Leycester in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days when Mr. Jewells book was newly come forth he being also learned himself in the Latin tongue took pains to examine certain leaves thereof and finding many falshoods therein which were inexcusable as they seemed to him he conferred the same with the said Earl who willed him that the next time Mr. Jewell dined at his table he should take occasion after dinner to propose the same which he did soon after And receiving certain trifling answers from Mr. Jewell he waxed more hot and urged the matter more earnestly which Jewell perceiving told him in effect That Papists were Papists and so they were to be dealt withal and other answer he could not get Which thing made the good Gentleman to make a new resolution with himself and to take that happy course which he did to leave his Country and many great commodities which he enjoyed therein to enjoy the liberty of conscience and so both lived and died in voluntary banishment c. The second example which I remember of mine own knowledge is Mr. Doctor Stevens a learned Man yet alive who being Secretary or Chaplain to Mr. Jewell and a forward Man in the Protestant Religion at that time espyed certain false allegations in his Masters book whilst it was under the print in London whereof advertising him by Letters for that he supposed it might be by oversight the other commanded notwithstanding the print to go forward and passed it over as it was Which this Man seeing that had a conscience and sought the truth indeed resolved to take another way of finding it out And having found it in the Cath. Church where only it was to be found he resolved also to follow it and so he did and went voluntarily into banishment for the same where yet he liveth to this day in France c. As for the third example which is Will. Rainolds I shall remember from my before quoted Author when I come to speak of him and in the mean time proceed to speak of Jewell In the beginning therefore of the Year 1565 he tho absent was actually created Doctor of Div. and the year following when the Queen was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses he shew'd himself a profound Theologist in moderating at Divinity disputations in St. Maries Church The learned Camden saith that he was a wonderful great and deep Divine a most stout and earnest maintainer of our reformed Religion against the adversaries by his learned books That he was a Man of a singular ingenie of exquisite erudition in Theologicals and of great piety As for Jewells writings the titles of them follow Exhortatio ad Oxonienses See in his life written by Laurence Humphrey printed in 1573. p. 35. Exhortatio in Coll. Corp. Ch. sive concio in fundatoris Foxi Commemorationem See there again p. 45. 46. c. Concio in templo B. Mariae Virg. Oxon an 1550 in 1. Pet. 4. 11. preached for his Degree of Bach. of Div. A Copy of which is printed in his life written by L. H. before-mention'd p. 49. Translated into English by R. V. Lond. 1586. oct Oratio in Aula C. C. Chr. spoken to
Will Bishop of Rurimund in Gelderland wherein is detected and made manifest the doting dangerous doctrine and haynous heresies of the rash rablement of the hereticks This book was by Lew. Evans entit The betraying of the beastl iness of the Hereticks c. Antw. 1565 in tw Afterwards the said Evans being reconcil'd to the Ch. of England by some of his friends did to shew his zeal for the love he had to it write and publish a book as full of ill language against the Roman Catholicks as the other was as full of good for them entituled The Castle of Christianity detecting the long erring estate as well of the Rom. Church as of the Bishop of Rome Lond. 1568. oct Which being dedicated to Queen Elizab. he saith in his Epistle to her that he himself had once drank of the puddle of ignorance of the mud of idolatry of the pond of superstition c. whereupon great distast being taken by the R. Catholicks the common report flew abroad by their endeavours that he was gone over again to the Church of Rome in which being settled he died in great ease and content These reports being often told to Evans while he was in Oxon by the learnedest there he soon after published a book entit The hateful hypocrisie and rebellion of Romish Prelates Lond. 1570 in tw to which he added these two treatises following A view of certaine rebellions and their ends Four paradoxes First a Bishop and a Minister is all one 2 A Bishop c. Afterwards if I mistake not our Author Evans was a Schoolmaster and was the same Person I think that revised and increased with phrases and necessary additions A short dictionary for young beginners compiled at first by John Withals and by him published at Lond. 1566. in qu. but when the additions of Evans came out I find not Afterwards the said Dictionary was augmented with more than 600 rythmical verses whereof many are proverbial by Abr. Flemmyng a native of London printed at Lond. 1594 qu. In my travels and searches I find one Lew. Evans a Flintshire Man to be a Student of Ch. Ch. in the time of Ed. 6. and to have taken the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1557 but this Person I presume is not the Author because the Author doth not stile himself in his Books Bach. or Master of Arts. Another Lew. Evans a Brecknockshire Man became Fellow of Oriel C. an 1566 Mast of Arts 1570 and resign'd his Fellowship 1577. A third who was a Monmouehshire Man was matriculated as a Member of Gloc. hall 1574 aged 28. And a fourth also I find to be a Minister of God's word who in the 31 year of his age or more was matric as a member of the same Hall and as a Native of Monmouthshire an 1581. and in 1585 took the Deg. of M. of A. Whether either of these was the Author before-mention'd is to me as yet doubtful or whether the same with Lew. Evans who by the favour of Dr. Piers B. of Sarum became Prebend of Warmister in that Church an 1583 which he resigned in May 1598 I cannot tell or whether the same with Lew. Evans Clerk Parson of Westmeane in Hampshire who died there about the beginning of 1601 leaving then behind him a Wife and Children and houses in Winchester JOHN PARKHURST Son of George Parkhurst was born at Guildford in Surrey sent when very young to Oxon where he was educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to Magd. Coll. common gate under the famous Mr. Thom. Robertson was elected Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1529 and three years after proceeding in Arts entred into holy orders tho better then for poetry and oratory than Divinity At length he became Rector of the rich Church of Cleve called by some Bishops Cleve in Glocestershire where he did a great deal of good by his hospitality and charity After the death of K. Ed. 6. he left all for Religion sake and went into voluntary exile to Zurich where remaining till the death of Qu. Mary not without great dangers and afflictions returned when Qu. Eliz. succeeded and was by her made Bishop of Norwych To which See being elected 13. Apr. was consecrated on the first of Sept. and installed by John Salisbury Dean of that Church 27 of the same month an 1560 and about six years after was made D. of D. He hath written and published Epigrammata in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Caroli Henrici Brandon Lond. 1552. qu. They were the Sons of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke and died of the sweating sickness Some of which Epigrams were afterwards published in his Ludicra which I am now to mention Ludicra sive Epigrammata juvenilia Lond. 1573. qu. Which book tho written in his younger days and contains therein more obscurity than the Epigrams of Martial as some say tho I my self cannot perceive it yet while he was Bishop he must needs have it printed alledging that he would not be like Heliodorus to lose his Bishoprick for it He also view'd took pains about and published John Shepreve his Dislicks on the New Test and added thereunto of his own Epigrammata Seria Lond. 1560. oct Most of which seem to be taken from his former book while it remained in MS. See more in Job Shepreve under the Year 1542. At length this Bishop yielded up his last breath in Fifteen hundred seaventy and four and was buried in the body or middle Isle of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych Over his grave was soon after a fair monument of marble raised between two pillars on the S. side of the said middle Isle on which Mon. was his proportion engraven on brass with a gown and square cap on holding his hands together in a praying posture with this inscription engraven on brass also but taken away in the civil war Johannes Parkhurstus Theologiae professor Gylfordiae natus Oxoniae educatus temporibus Mariae Reginae pro nitida conscientia Tigurinae vixit exul voluntarius Postea praesul factus sanctissime hanc rexit ecclesiam 16 annis mortuus est secundo die Februarii an 1574. aetatis suae 63. Another inscription which is on one of the said pillars runs thus Viro bono docto ac pio Johanni Parkhursto Episcopo vigilantissimo Georgius Gardiner posuit hoc Which George Gardiner who was D. of D. was installed Dean of Norwych 24. Dec. 1573 in the place of John Salisbury deceased Ralf Gualter Father and Son both of Zurich and entirely beloved of this our Author Parkhurst have written Epiceds on his death which if they could be procured being very scarce might satisfie a curious reader concerning some actions of him the said Parkhurst LEONARD DIGGES second Son of James Digges of Digges Court in the Parish of Berham in Kent by Philippa his second Wife Daughter of John Engham of Chart in the said County was born in the Province of Kent particularly
the English Sectaries and of their foul dealing herein by partial and false translations c. Rhemes 1582. oct Answered in a book intituled A defence of the sincere and true translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue c. Lond. 1583. oct Written by Will. Fulke D. D. Master of Pembroke hall in Cambridge Treatise of Christian Peregrination and relicks Printed 1583. oct Epistles to certain of his friends The last of which which is the largest dat 15. Oct. 1575. was written to Dr. Tho. Whyte then lately Warden of New Coll. touching his following the world and dissembling in Religion against his conscience and knowledge Of the love of the soul with questions to the Protestants Printed at Roan in Normandy He hath also written other books which remain in MS. in several Libraries beyond the Sea as I conceive treating of Divinity In the Year 1584 was set forth a certain book which one calls a horrid piece of Popish malice against Queen Elizab. wherein her Gentlewomen were exhorted to act the like against the Queen as Judith had done with applause and commendations against Holofernes The Author was never discovered but the suspicion lighted upon Gregory Martin one very learned in the Greek and Lat. tongues as my Author before quoted saith but how he could be Author having been dead two years before that time I cannot say He also was the chief Man that translated the New Testament printed at Rhemes 1582 for which work his name remains precious to this day among those of his party He also made other translations which are preserved in MS. in certain Libraries among which is the Tragedy of Cyrus King of Persia which is as some say in the Library of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon. See the titles of other books which are remembred by one that knew him while I in the mean time tell you that our Author dying 28. year 1582 Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Parish Church of St. Stephen at Rheimes There is an Epitaph over his grave comprehended in 16 verses the two first of which are these Quem tulit umbrosis tenerum Southsaxia sylvis Gallica qua spectat regna Britannus ager The rest I shall now omit for brevity sake and proceed to the next in order who was a Romanist also WILLIAM HART a most zealous young Man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Somersetshire entred in his puerile years into Lincoln Coll. an 1572 where after he had been instructed in Grammar and Logick left it without a Degree his relations and Country and going beyond the Seas to Doway compleated his studies in Philosophy Afterwards he travelled to Rome studied Divinity and was there made a Priest At length being sent into the mission of England before he was 24 years of age settled in Yorkshire where he administred comfort to the afflicted Catholicks for a considerable time with little or no interruption At length being taken and imprison'd at York he wrot Letters to certaine Catholicks Letters to his spiritual Sons Letters to the afflicted Cath. and to those that suffer in Prison Letters to a noble Matron All which at least 10 in number were as I presume written by him in the English tongue The Latine copies with many things of their Author you may see in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia p. 104. mention'd in Joh. Bridgwater among the writers following under the Year 1594. This Will. Hart was hang'd drawn and quarter'd for being a R. Priest at York on the 15 of March in Fifteen hundred eighty and two and his quarters afterwards hanged up in publick places In his time were several young Scholars of Lincoln Coll. educated and afterwards professed themselves openly to be R. Catholicks having received instructions from some of the Fellows that were inclined that way but chiefly from the Rector thereof Job Bridgwater before-mentioned who always at last his Rectory to prevent expulsion Some of them I shall mention as they lay in my way NICHOLAS HARPESFEILD an eminent Theologist well skill'd in both the Laws and in Greek History and Poetry in all or most of which faculties having written very well do report him renowned by those of his own perswasion His first being in this World he received in the Parish of St. Marie Magd. in Old Fishstreet within the City of London and his Grammaticals in Wykehams School near to Winchester In 1536 he was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served 2 years of probation there about which time having with great industry gone through all the parts of Philosophy he applyed himself to the study of the Civil and Canon Law wherein he became very eminent In 1544 he being then Bach. of the Civ Law of about an year standing was admitted Principal of an ancient hostle mostly for Civilians called White hall on the Site of which Jesus Coll. was afterwards partly built and in 1546 he was appointed by K. Hen. 8. to be the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue in the University In 1553 he left his Fellowship took the Degree of Doctor of his faculty and had then considerable practice in the Court of Arches In 1554 he was made Archdeacon of Canterbury in the place of Edm. Crammer Brother to the Archb. deprived for being married and in the beginning of Qu. Elizab. he was one of the 7 R. Cath. Divines who were to dispute with those of the Protestant party concerning matters of Religion when Qu. Eliz. was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England But that matter coming to nothing he was soon after imprison'd for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church and thereupon had opportunity given to write several books some of which follow Dialogi sex contra summi pontificatûs monasticae vitae sanctorum sacrorum imaginum oppugnatores pseudo-Martyres Antw. 1566. qu. Which book being put into the hands of his friend Alan Cope he put it out under his name lest danger should befall the Author in Prison See before in Alan Cope an 1580. Our Author Harpesfeild wrot also Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica à primis gentis susceptae fi dei incunabilis ad nostra fere tempora deducta Duac 1622. fol. published by Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit 'T is a book no less learnedly than painfully performed and abating his partiality to his own interest he well deserves of all posterity The original of this Ecclesiastical history written with the Authors own hand is in the Cottonian Library under Vitellius C. 9. num 12. and a copy of it in two volumes is in the Archbishops Library at Lambeth L. 3. and 4. But in that copy in the Cottonian are several things expunged by the Licenser and not at all remitted into the printed copy Among which are these to be in p. 422. cap. 2. lin 4. and to come in between the words inter exitialem and Qui omnis c. Non
favour with Dr. Bonner Bishop of London and with Gardiner B. of Winton became Chancellour to the last and of noted repute during the Reign of Qu. Mary who had so great a respect for him and his abilities that she commissionated him with Dr. Storie to go to Oxon to trie and examine Archb. Cranmer He published A treatise proving that the marriage of Priests and professed Persons is no marriage but altogether unlawful Lond. 1554. qu. Whereupon Joh. Ponet or Poynet Bishop of Winton came out with an answer thus entit An apology fully answering by Scriptures and antient Doctors a blasphemous book gathered by Dr. Steph. Gardiner Dr. Rich. Smyth Albertus Pighius and other Papists as by their books appears and of late set forth under the name of Tho. Martyn Doct. of the Civ Law c. Printed beyond the Sea an 1555-56 in oct In which book fol. 9. Ponet saith thus Thy book hath betrayed thee Martyn for thy fondness was not known before it came abroad but assoon as that shewed it self in Mens hands they might easily perceive that in playing the Christmas Lords minion in New Coll. in Oxon in thy fools coat thou didst learn thy boldness and began to put off all shame and to put on all impudence By the aforesaid title we are given to understand as if B. Gardiner Dr. Smyth c. were Authors of or at least had considerable hands in it with whom agrees Baleus before-mention'd who stiles Martyn Winchesters voice but whether true I cannot say it The book hath been commended by many learned Persons and no doubt but he had helps in it but whether by any of the former is doubtful About the same time came out another answer entit A defence of Priests marriages establyshed by the imperial laws of the Realm of England c. printed in qu. To which tho no name is set to it yet it is said to be written by Dr. Mathew Parker who was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury The same year Tho. Martyn put out A confutation of Dr. Joh. Poyners book entit A defence for the marriage of Priests c. Lond. 1555 qu He hath also extant Oration to Dr. Cranmer Archbishop 12 March 1555. The beginning of which is Albeit there are two governments c. Discourse between him and Archbishop Cranmer concerning conscience and matters of Religion The beginning is Mr. Cranmer you have told here a long glorious tale c. Which oration and discourse you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Ch. by Jo. Fox under the Year 1555 besides Examinations and Conferences under the Year 1556. Vita Gul. Wicami Wintoniensis Episc Lond. 1597 Ox 1690 in a large qu. Printed after the death of the Author who took much of his matter from the life of the said Bishop written by Tho. Chaundler sometimes Warden of New Coll. There is a copy of this book in the Library of the said Coll. and in a leaf before the title are curiously delineated with a Pen the effigies of the said W. Wykeham setting in a chaire On the right hand is Chichley founder of All 's and on the left Waynfleet of Magdalen College both holding the pictures of their respective Colleges in their hands and presenting them as 't were to the founder of New Coll. they having had their education therein As for our Author Th. Martyn he concluded his last day in Fifteen hundred eighty and four year 1584 for in that year several books of his gift or bequest were sent to New Coll. Library to be there reposed for the use of the Fellows thereof In my former searches among records I found one Joan the relict of Tho. Martin lately of Isfield in Sussex to have received a commission from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury dated 26. June 1584 to administer the goods debts chattels c. of the said Th. Martin lately deceased but without the addition of Doctor of Civil Law or of that of Gent. or Esq However he may be the same with the Doctor because as I have observed many whose names have been odious among some or have retired in private because of their Religion their names in wills or administration are barely written without addition of a title or town sometimes only in general of the County EDMUND PLOWDEN Son of Humph. Plowden by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Joh. Sturey of Rosshall in Shropshire was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Plowden in the said County spent 3 years in the study of Arts Philosophy and Medicine at Cambridge and afterwards as I conceive was entred into the Inns of Court Soon after coming to Oxon he spent 4 years more in the same studies there and in Nov. an 1552 he was admitted to practice Chirurgery and Physick by the Ven. Convoc of the said University But as about that time Dr. Tho. Phaer did change his studies from common Law to Physick so did our Author Plowden from Physick to the common Law being then about 35 years of age In 1557 he became Autumn or Summer reader of the Middle Temple and three years after Lent reader being then a Serjeant at and accounted the Oracle of the Law He hath written in old French The Commentaries or Reports of divers cases being matters in Law and of arguments thereupon in the times of the Reigns of K. Ed. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth In two parts Lond. 1571. 78. 99. c. fol. To which was a table made by Will. Fleetwood Recorder of Lond. They are esteemed exquisite and elaborate commentaries and are of high account with all professours of the Law Afterwards they were abridged in the French tongue Lond. 1659. oct and several times before translated by Fabian Hicks Esq and printed also in oct There goes also under our Author Plowdens name Plowdens Queries or a moot-moot-book of choice cases useful for the young Students of the common Law This was several times printed and afterwards translated from French into English methodised and enlarged by H. B. of Lincolns Inn Esq Lond. 1662. oct At length as this famous Lawyer Plowden mostly lived a R. Cath. in his heart so he dyed in that faith on the sixth day of Feb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples between the body of Catherine his Wife Dau. of Will. Sheldon of Beoly in Worcestershire Esque and the North wall near the East end of the choire leaving then this character behind him which shall serve instead of his Epitaph notwithstanding there is one already over his grave that ut in juris Anglicani scientia de qua scriptis bene meruit facile princeps ita vitae integritate inter homines suae professionis nulli secundus He left behind him a fair estate in lands lying at Plowden before-mention'd at Shiplake in Oxfordshire and at Burfield in Berks as also a Son of both his names to enjoy it who dying in less than
many pretty stories in comely colours and most delightful discourses Printed at Lond. twice at least in an English character one of which editions bears date 1608. in qu. written in imitation of a book intit The pallace of pleasure beautified adorned and well furnished with pleasant histories and excellent Novells c. Lond. 1569. qu. written by Will. Painter Clerk of the ordinance and armory within the Tower of London The aforesaid Petite pallace c. I have in my study and for the respect I bear to the name of the Author he having been uncle to my Mother Maria la Petite I will keep it but 't is so far now from being excellent or fine that it is more fit to be read by a School-boy or rustical amoratto than by a Gent. of mode or language The said George Pettie translated from French into English with a preface of his own put to it The civile conversation of M. Stephen Guazzo in 4. books Lond. 1586. qu. written originally in the Italian tongue which I have also Three of the said books were translated by the said Pettie the fourth was begun by him but finished by Barthelm Young of the Middle Temple Gentleman being the same Barthelmew as I think who lived afterwards at Ashurst in Kent and died therein 1621. What other matters G. Pettie hath written or translated I cannot tell nor do I know any thing material of him besides only that he died in the prime of his years at Plymouth in Devonshire being then a Captain and a Man of note about the latter end of July in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 and was buried as I have been told in the great Church there The Lands which he had by his Fathers gift in Aston-Rowant in Kingston in the Parish thereof and at Tetsworth in Oxfordshire he gave to his Brother Christopher Pettie JOHN GARBRAND alias Herks Son of Garbrand Herks a Dutch Man and Bookseller living sometimes in St. Maries Parish in Oxon was born within the City of Oxon educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1562 being esteemed then a good Poet. Afterwards he by the favour of Bishop Jewell who had been well acquainted with his Father while he lived in the University became Prebendary of Yatesbury in the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of Tho. Whyte LL. D. in Nov. 1565 being then only Bach. of Arts and Prebendary of Minor pars Altaris in the said Church In 1567 he left his Coll. and on the 18. of March 1568 he was made Preb. of Chute and Cheesenbury in the said Church of Sarum on the deprivation of Joh. Fuller Garbrand being then Rector of North-Crowley in Bucks In 1582 he took the Degrees in Divinity was then accounted an eminent Theologist and a noted Preacher but withal a severe Puritan He hath gathered together corrected and compleated several things of the said B. Jewell whome he in a marvellous manner had admired as i A view of a seditious bull sent into England from Pius 5. Pope of Rome an 1569. 2 A short treatise of the Holy Scriptures Lond 1582. oct Both which Jewell delivered in divers Sermons in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury an 1570. 3 An exposition on the two Epistles to the Thessalonians Lond. in oct 4 Certain Sermons preached at Pauls Cross Lond. 1583. oct They are in number six 5 Treatise of the Sacraments gathered out of certain Sermons preached at Salisbury Lond. 1583. oct This Dr. Garbrand died in the Winter time about Christmas in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 and was buried in the Church of North-Crowley before-mention'd He gave by his will several books to New Coll. Library And all such books and papers that were given to him by B. Jewell as also all such loose sheets which he the said Garbrand had drawn for common places gathered out of that Bishops books he gave to Rob. Chaloner and John Rainolds Doctors of Divinity LAURENCE HUMPHREY or Humfredus as he sometimes writes himself was born at a mercate Town called Newport Paynell in Bucks educated in Latine and Greek learning at Cambridge made Demie of Magd. Coll. in Oxon 1547 perpetual Fellow two years after being then Bach. of Arts and Master of the said faculty in 1552. About that time he was made Greek reader of his Coll. took holy orders and became a zealous and forward student in the Theological faculty In June 1555 2. and 3. of Phil. and Mary the President Vicepresident Deans c. of that Coll. gave leave to the said Humphrey who in the opinion of all was much commended for his life and conversation as also for the excellency of his learning and wit that he might freely for the cause of study travel into trasmarine parts for one year conditionally that he contain himself from those places that are suspected to be heretical or favourers of heresie and that also he refrain from the company who are or were authors of heresie or heretical opinions c. Which leave being procured he went forthwith to Zurich and associated himself with the English exiles there that had fled from the Nation for Religion sake After the death of Qu. Mary he returned to his Coll. and was restored to his Fellowship having been expelled thence because he did not return thereunto after his time of leave was expired In the Year 1560 he was constituted the Queens Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxon being then about 34 years of age at which time was a very great scarcity of Theologists throughout the body of Students and in the year following he was elected President of his Coll. In 1562 he took the Degrees in Divinity and in 1570 he was made Dean of Glocester upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Cooper to the See of Lincoln In 1580 he was constituted Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Watson promoted to the See of Winchester which was the highest preferment he had among the Clergy and the reason for it as 't was guested was because that in matter of ceremony or indifferency he altogether consented not to the Church of England For the truth is that from the City of Zurich remarkable for the Preachings and death of Zwinglius and the correspondence that he had at Geneva he brought back with him at his return into England so much of the Calvinian both in doctrine and discipline that the best that could be said of him was that he was a moderate and consciencious Nonconformist Whence 't was that by his being many years President of Magd. College publick Professor of Div. in the University and several times Vice-chancellour he did not only upon advantage issuing from those place stock his Coll. with a generation of Nonconformists which could not be rooted out in many years after his decease but sowed also in the Divinity School such seeds of Calvinisme and labored to create in the younger sort such a
Office of a Serjeant Major Lond. 1590. qu. Written in Spanish by Francisco Valdes Master of the Camp I shall make mention of another Joh. Thorius in the Fasti 1627. and of the Name of Thoris in other years there and elsewhere but whether the Thoryes of Boston and Ingoldmells in Lincoluishire who lived there in the time of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. and after were of Kin to the aforesaid Joh. Thorie I know not Besides all these I find one Raphaei Thorius commonly called Thoris a Frenchman whom I shall set down among he Writers under the year 1625. JOHN BRIDGWATER or Aquepontanus as he writes himself was born in Yorkshire as the Reg. here quoted saith but descended from those of his name in Somersetshire applied his Muse to Accademical Studies at his first coming to Oxon in Hart Hall whence translating himself to Brasenose soon after took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1556. and about that time entred into Holy Orders In 1562. May 1. he was admitted to the Rectory of Wottoâ—-Courtney in the Diocess of Wells and on the 14. Apr. 1563. he was elected Rector of Lincoln College on the resignation of Dr. Francis Babington On the 23. of May following he was admitted Rector of Luccomb in the said Diocess of Wells being then also Archdeacon of Rochester and soon after being made Canon Residentiary of Wells was admitted Rector of Porlock in the Diocess thereof 16. Apr. 1565. In 1570. Nov. 28. he was admitted Master of the Hospital of St. Catherine neay to Beâ—mystre and in 1572. March 29. to the Prebendship of Bishops Compton in the Church of Wells In 1574. he resigned his Rectory of Lincoln College to prevent as I presume expulsion because he was actually or very near it a Roman Catholick and had given great incouragement during his Government to the Students under him to embrace Religion The same year he left Oxon carried away with him several Goods belonging to the said College and taking with him certain young Scholars left all his preferments acquaintance and relations and went beyond the Sea to Rheimes Where continuing for a time did at length as it is said enter himselfe into the Society of Jesus He was esteemed by those of his Profession a good Scholar and well read in various Authors as many of his Writings shew all which being published beyond the Sea I have only seen these following Confutatio virulentae disputationis Theologica in qua Georgius Sohn professor Academiae Heidelbergensis conatus est docere Pontificem Romanum esse Antichristum à Prophetis Apostolis praedictum Aut. Trev. 1589. qu. It must be now known that one Joh. Gibbon a Jesuit and John Fenne having taken a great deal of pains in writing the lives and sufferings of several Popish Martyrs with other matters relating to the Roman Catholick cause their labours were published under this Title Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia adversus Calvino-Papistas Puritanos c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in a prerty thick oct But many things therein being wanting or defective our author Bridgwater took more pains in enlarging and adding to it other matters with an account of 100 or more Popish Martyrs which were partly written by the said Gibbon and Fenne which being so done it was printed with this Title like almost to the former viz. Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia adversus Calvino-Papistas Puritanos sub Elizabetha Regina quorundam hominum doctrina sanctitate illustrium renovata recognita c. Aug. Trev. 1594. in a thick qu. and divided in 3 parts The Preface to it dedicated to John Archbishop of Trier was writ by our author who subscribes himself at the end by the Name of Joh. Aquepontanus who hath also written Apologia Martyrum qua ipsorum innocentia variis rationibus demonstratur c. Printed in the third part of the said Concertatio Ecc. Cath. De persecutione Anglicana So Pet. Ribadeneira but his continuatour Phil. Alegamb doth attribute that work to Rob. Persins Entitling it De presecutione Anglicana Epistola c. It is printed in the first part of Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae A Treatise or Discourse against the six articles which are wont to be proposed to Martyrs This I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing more of the author only that he was living in great esteem at Trier in Germany in fifteen hundred ninety and four From the said Concertatio Eccles Cath. did Thom. Worthington take most of his materials when he composed his Catalogus Martyrum pro religione in Angliae accisorum c. Which though but a six penny book when it first came forth yet eleven shillings and more was given for it in a certain Auction An. 1682. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of the said Worthington GEORGE TURBERVILE de turbida villa a younger Son of Nich. Turbervile of Whitchurch in Dorsetshire Son of Hen. Turb of the said place and he the fifth Son of Joh. Turbervile of Bere Regis a right ancient and gentile Family in Dorsetshire was born at Whitâ—â—urch before-mentioned educated in Wâ—keham's School near to Winchester became perpetâ—â— Fellow of New Coll. 1561. left it before he was graduated the year following and went to one of the Inns of Court where he was much admired for his excellencies in the art of Poetry Afterwards being esteemed a Person fit for business as having a good and ready command of his Pen he was entertained by Tho. Randolph Esq to be his Secretary when he received commission from Queen Elizabeth to go Embassador to the Emperour of Russia After our author's arrival at that place he did at spare hours exercise his muse and wrote Poems describing the places and manners of the country and people of Russia an 1568. Written to Edw. Dancie Edm. Spencer c. at London See in the Voyages of R. Hakeluyt printed 1598. vol. 1. p. 384 385 c. After his return he was esteemed a most accomplished Gentleman and his company was much sought after and desired by all ingenious men especially upon his publication of his Labours entit Epitaphs Epigrams Songs and Sonnets Lond. 1570. oct Some if not most of which were published a little before that time This Book was the same as I conceive which was printed with additions under his name in oct An. 1587. with this Title Tragical Tales Epitaphs and Sonnets c. He also translated in English The Eglogues of John Bapt. Fiera Mantuan Lond. 1594. Which Eglogues Turbervile turned in English Verse and added an argument to every Eglogue Also about the same time he translated into English Verse and set out The Heroical Epistles of the learned Poet Pub. Ovid. Naso with Aul. Sabinus Answers to certain of the same Printed in oct twice as it seems one edition whereof came out at Lond. 1600. The said Eglogues were afterwards translated by
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
notwithstanding those poysonous assertions against the Regal Power which are to be found in them Now altho this is generally confessed that the said three books are not genuine yet some Nonconformists and among these chiefly Mr. Rich. Baxter do urge seemingly probable reasons to induce a belief that these posthumous books as published by Dr. Gauden are to be accounted the true and authentick Writings of Mr. Hooker yet this must be known that the reason why the said Mr. Baxter contends so eagerly for their genuineness is because the said three books but more especially the eighth do contain certain popular and false Principles concerning the true Nature of the Legislative Power the Original of Government and the Office of Kings it self as derived from the People And on this account it is that he seems to take a more than ordinary delight in so often telling the World that the Abettors of these seditious positions have so great a Chruch-man as our author was justly esteemed on their side It was these and such like Prelatist's principles as he saith meaning I guess Bish Jewell but chiefly Bish Bilson in his book of Christian Subjection c. which he frequently cites as defending the resistance of Superiours in some cases and such like pernicious tenets and whom he usually joyns with Mr. Hooker in quotations of this kind that led him to what he did and wrote in the book of Holy Commonwealth which he hath retracted And that he may charge these destructive Assertions home on our author he saith if any do causlesly question whether the eighth imperfect book be in those dangerous passages above-mentioned his own let them remember that the summ of them is in his first book which is old and highly honoured by the Prelatists And after all this to shew himself an Enemy to the above-named Principles he examines and confutes the first and eighth books so far as they make for popularity with some strictures intermixed on Bishop Bilson's false Notes of subjection whereby he makes but a scanty satisfaction for the malignant influence those many traiterous opinions with which his Political Aphorismes are fraught have had on the minds of many giddy People towards the withdrawing them from yielding cheerful obedience to their lawful Superiours and this notwithstanding he hath sometime since called this piece in The eighth book is commonly supposed to have been first published together with the sixth and seventh by Bish Gauden yet Mr. Baxter affirms that the said eighth book was in print long before that time which is true for the sixth and eighth were printed at Lond. 1648. in qu. nay all the eight books with certain Tractates and Sermons together with the author's Life were published in two vol. in fol. 1617. As for the other Books and Sermons that our author Hooker hath written are these following Answer to a supplication preferred by Mr. Walt. Travers to the H. H. Lords of the Privy Council Oxon. 1612. qu. Causes of contention concerning Church-Government Oxon. 1641. qu. As for his Sermons they are these 1 Discourse of Justification Works and how the foundation of Faith is overthrown on Abak 1. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. 2 Of the Nature of Pride on Abak 2. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. 3 Remedy against Sorrow and Fear Fun. Sermon on Joh. 14. 27. Ox. 1612. qu. 4 Of the certainty and perpetuity of Faith in the Elect on Abak 1. 4. 5 Two Sermons upon part of St. Jude's Epistle viz. ver 17 18 19 20 21. Oxon. 1614. qu. All which Sermons with Wickliffs Wicket were published by Henry Jackson Fellow of C. C. coll reprinted at London the Wicket excepted an 1622. fol. at the end of the five books of Ecclesiastical Policy c. and again at the end of the eight books Lond. 1682. fol. 6 Serm. on Matth. 7. 7. Found in the study of Dr. Andrews Bishop of Winchester and published by Isaac Walton at the end of Dr. Saunderson's Life Lond. 1678. oct What other things our most renowned author Hooker hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that paying his last debt to Nature on the second of Nov. year 1600 in sixteen hundred leaving then behind him the character of Schismaticorum Malleus was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Bishops-Bourne in Kent before-mentioned Over his Grave was 35 years after a Monument erected by Will. Cowper Esq with the Statua of Bust of the Defunct to the middle part of his Bodyâ— From which Statua was taken the picture of him set before his Life written by the said Isaac Walton of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know that he was born in the ancient Borough of Stafford in Aug. 1593. that he was by Trade a Sempster in Chancery-lane in London where continuing till about 1643. at which time he found it dangerous for honest men to be there he left that City and lived sometimes at Stafford and elsewhere but mostly in the Families of the eminent Clergy-men of England of whom he was much beloved He hath written the lives of Dr. Joh. Donne Sir Hen. Wotton Mr. Rich. Hooker Mr. George Herbert and of Dr. Rob. Sanderson sometimes B. of Lincoln All which are well done considering the education of the author as also The compleat Angler or the contemplative Man's recreation c. He ended his days in the great Frost at Winchester in the house of Dr. Will. Hawkins Preâ—endary of the Church there who had married his Daughter on the 15. Dec. 1683. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at that place GEORGE CRANMER a Gent. sometimes of singular hopes eldest Son of Tho. Cranmer Son of Edm. Cranmer Archdeacon of Canterbury who died in the beginning of 1571. Brother to Tho. Archb. of that place was born in Kent admitted Scholar of C. Ch. Coll. 10. Jan. 1577. aged 13. or thereabouts and was then or soon after put under the tuition of the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker who found him afterwards very useful to him when he was compiling the books of Ecclesiastical Policy In 1583. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that house and six years after was licensed to proceed in Arts. About which time he betook himself to the service of Will. Davison Esq one of the Secretaries of State After whose removal he went in place of Secretary with Sir Hen. Killegrew in his Embassage into France and after his death he accompanied that worthy and learned Gent. Sir Edwyn Sandys in his travels into France Germany Italy and other parts for the space of three years After his return he was sought out by the most Noble Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy with whom he went into Ireland in the quality of Secretary where he remained until his unfortunate Death He hath written Letter to Mr. Richard Hooker concerning the new Church discipline Feb. 1598. Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Remitted into the Life of R. Hooker written by Is Walton Lond. 1670. p. 123. Our author Cranmer hath
Government he was hang'd at Tyburn near London 30. March in sixteen hundred and one year 1601 So that his body being afterwards buried obscurely without a Memorial or Epitaph be pleased to take this for him made by one that knew him well Doctus eras Graecè felixque tibi fuit Alpha At fuit infelix Omega Cuffe tuum The execution of which person and his unhappy end is brought in by a certain author as a very proper and sutable instance to verifie the great reasonableness of one of his advices to his Son thus Mingle not your interest with a great Man's made desperate by debt or Court-injuries whose breaking out prove fatal to their wisest followers and friends averred in the last Earl of Essex but one where Merick his Steward and Cuff his Secretary tho of excellent parts were both hanged For such unconcocted Rebellions turn seldom to the hurt of any but the parties that promote them being commonly guided by the directions of their Enemies as this was by Cecil whose creatures persuaded Essex to this inconsiderate attempt c. that is to seize the Queen and change the Government Thus far Francis Osborn here quoted of whom and his Works the Reader may please by the way if not too tedious to know these things That he was younger Brother to Sir Pet. Osborn and both the Sons of Sir John Osborn of Chicksand near Shefford in Bedfordshire which Sir John and his Father did both enjoy a quiet happy and plentiful Fortune under Q. Elizabeth That he was bred mostly at home not so much as in a Free School or University being altogether void of such kind of Faculties that Universities afford At ripe years he frequented the Court became a Servant in the Pembrochian Family and at length Master of the Horse to that most Noble Count William Earl of Pembroke In 1641. he ran with the times having been Puritannically educated had publick employments then and under Oliver conferr'd upon him and in his last days lived in Oxon purposely to Print certain books of his compostion that then laid by him and to have an eye on his Son John whom he got by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors to be Fellow of Allsouls coll 1648. Those things of his which I have seen extant are these 1 A seasonable expostulation with the Netherlands declaring their ingratitude to and the necessity with their agreement with the Commonwealth of England Ox. 1652. qu. in two sh and half 2 Perswasive to mutual compliance under the present Government Ox. 1652. qu. in two sh 3 Plea for a Free State compared with Monarchy Printed with the former in 4 sh qu. 4 The private Christians non ultra or a plea for the Lay-man's interpreting the Scriptures Ox. 1656. in 3 sh and half in qu. There is no name to it only strongly reported to be Fr. Osborn's 5 Advice to a Son in two parts The first was printed at Ox. in oct an 1656. and within 2 years after were five more impressions of it The second part was printed at Ox. 1658. oct but being not so well liked as the first I cannot justly say whether it had a second impression Both especially the first being greedily bought up and admired in Oxon especially by young Scholars it was then noted among the Godly Ministers that they did instill principles of Atheism into them Whereupon a publick complaint being put up against the said books to the then Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. Conant there was a proposal made to have them publickly burnt But it taking no effect it was ordered 27. July 1658. that no booksellers or any other persons should sell the books which afterwards made them sell the better 6 Political reflections upon the Government of the Turks to which are added in the same book or vol. A discourse upon Nich. Machiavell Observations upon the K. of Sweden's descent into Germany Discourse upon Piso and Vindex who both conspired the death of Nero. The greatness and corruption of the Court of Rome Discourse upon the election of P. Leo XI Political occasions of the defection from the Church of Rome Discourse in vindication of Mart. Luther All these were printed at Ox. in oct at least 3 times 7 Traditional Memoires on the Reign of Q. Eliz. Lond. 1658. oct 8 Trad. Mem. on the Reign of K. James Lond. 1658. oct 9 Miscellany of sundry Essays Paradoxes and Problematical Discourses Letters and Characters Lond. 1659. oct 10 Deductions from the History of the Earl of Essex who was executed for Treason under the Reign of Q. Eliz. Lond. 1659. oct These are all that I have seen and whether he hath any others published I cannot say After his death appeared in publick a book intit A modest plea for an equal Commonwealth against Monarchy c. with other things added to it as An Apology for younger Brothers and A lift at Tythes All printed twice in 1659. in qu. and oct These three Treatises tho they were published by another person as his yet some Scholars more envious than prudent did not stick to say that the publisher found them among the papers of Fr. Osborn with whom he had intimate acquaintance after his death and disguising the Language or making some alterations in published them as his own However all that knew him well and were intimate with him as the writer of these matters was knew him able to write such a book as that was As for Fr. Osborn he died at Nether-worton near to Dedington in Oxfordshire in the house of Will. Draper Esq an Oliverian Colonel whose Sister he had married on the eleventh of Feb. 1658-9 aged 70. or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there Over his Grave is a Monument with an inscription but the contents I know not yet RICHARD LATEWAR a Londoner born educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of St. Johns coll 1580. and eight years after M. of Arts and a noted Preacher In 1593. he was elected one of the Proctors of the University being about that time Rector of Hopton in Suffolk Afterwards he became Rector of Finchley in Middlesex D. of D. and at length Chaplain to the illustrious Heroe Charles Lord Mountjoy Lieutenant of Ireland He was a most ingenious Latin Poet as his Epigrams and copies of Verses occasionally printed in books published in his life-time do shew He composed Carmen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coll. S. John Bapt. Which was restored and augmented by Rich. Andrews M. D. and Fellow of the said coll Conc. Lat. ad Academicos Oxon. 1594. It was Preached when he was admitted Bac. of Div. but upon what subject or when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it What other things of his are published I cannot find neither is there any need to be said more of him than what the learned Camden hath delivered of the overthrow of the Rebels in Ireland near to Carlingford given by the L. Mountjoy before-mentioned thus On
of England to Geneva in the beginning of Q. Maries reign and there joined with Joh. Knox as quiet a spirit as himself that was the firebrand of his country of Scotland c. The truth is Goodman was a most violent Nonconformist and for rigidness in opinion he went beyond his friend Calvin who remembers and mentions him in his Epistles 1561. There was no man more ready than he as Knox was for Scotland to oppose in the beginning of Q. Eliz. the settlement of the Ch. of England according to the way used in the time of K. Ed. 6. What his preferments were when the said Queen came to the crown and where if any they were unless at Chester or in the county I know not Sure I am that when Sir Hen. Sydney was Deputy of Ireland and had much to do with the popish rebels there Goodman shewed his faithful diligence in that service His works are these How superiour powers ought to be obey'd of their subjects and wherein they may be lawfully by Gods word be disobey'd and resisted Genev. 1558. in tw c. W. Whittyngham hath a preface to it The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women Printed beyond Sea 1558. oct wherein Qu. Mary is called a wicked woman traitress bastard Proserpine c. But most of his doctrines in the said two books being destructive to the sacred persons of princes and their state and government were not only condemned by the Episcopal Clergy of England in the time of Q. Elizab. and after but also by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon past in their convocation held 21. Jul. 1683. Nay The first blast of the trumpet c. was esteemed by all especially the R. Catholicks a wicked seditious and base book and not fit to be taken into the hands of a Christian and the rather for this reason because as a Poet of that time saith No Queen in her Kingdom can or ought to sit fast If Knocks or Goodmans books blow any true blast He hath also written A commentary on Amos This I have not yet seen Nor can I say any thing else of him only that when he laid on his Death-bed at Chester year 1602 in sixteen hundred and two he was visited by Mr. Jam. Vsher afterwards Archb. of Armagh at what time he came from Ireland into England to buy books for Dublin Library several of whose stories he heard with great delight which he would afterwards when an ancient man repeat to his friends He the said Goodman died that year and was as I have been informed by some of his relations buried in the Church of St. Werberg in Chester His sometimes friend and crony Job Parkhurst hath an Epigram upon him which you may take instead of an Epitaph Nemo bonus Servator ait sed solus Olympum Qui regit is bonus est Gudmane nemo bonus Yet an English Presbyterian who saith that Goodman was a learned Scotch Divine was according to his name good and holy WILLIAM HARRYS became Fellow of Lincoln Coll. about 1567. being then Bach. of Arts Afterwards taking the degree of Master he left the Coll. his friends religion and the little all he had and went to the English College then newly erected at Doway where spending divers years in the study of Theology was at length made a Priest Afterwards returning to his native country to serve the afflicted Catholicks and gain Proselytes lived there several years and composed a large volume intit The Theatre or Mirrour of the most true and ancient Church of Great Britaine founded by Apostolical men and propagated from generation to generation even to our time by most holy Doctors and Catholicks in 10 books What else he wrote I find not not any thing material of him besides year 1602 only that he died in England in sixteen hundred and two Contemporary with him was Thomas Marshall Bach. of Arts 1562. and about that time Fellow of the said college but soon after leaving his Fellowship he went to Lovaine where he entred into the Society of Jesus Afterwards he went to Doway where he spent 9 years in reading and explaining Philosophy and at length became Confessor to the English coll at Rome where he died in 1589. leaving behind him the character of a learned person HAYWORD TOWNSHEND eldest Son of Sir Hen. Townshend Knight Justice of Chester by Susan his first Wife daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London Knight was a Shropshire man born became a Gentleman Commoner of St. Maries Hall about the beginning of the year 1590. took one degree in Arts being about that time a Student in the Municipal Law in Lincolns-Inn and was afterwards a Barrester In 1601. he was elected a Burgess for Bishops Castle in his own country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 27. Oct. the same year where shewing himself an observing man made an Historical collection of the proceedings therein to which adding other collections for three Parliaments preceeding viz. 1. For that which began 4. Feb. 1588. 2. For that which began 19. Feb. 1592. and thirdly for that which commenc'd 9. Feb. 1597. he made a compleat collection in folio At length when the press was open and the author had been dead many years his labours were published under this title Historical collections or an exact account of the proceedings of the four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth wherein is contained the compleat Journals both of Lords and Commons taken from the original records of their Houses As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy Members during all the last notable sessions c. Lond. 1680. fol. In the title of which book the publisher hath set down Heywood instead of Hayward Townshend whose time of death tho unknown to me yet sure I am that he died without Issue some years before 1623. See more in Will. Monson under the year 1606. In 1681. was published in octavo a book intit The connexion being choice collections of some remarkable passages in K. James his reign c. which may supply the vacancy between Townshend and Rushworths collections but who the author of it was I cannot tell 'T is a trite thing WILLIAM FULBECK a younger Son if I mistake not of Thom. Fulbeck who died in his Mayoralty of the City of Lincoln 1566. was born in that City particularly as it seems in the parish of St. Benedict wherein his Father lived and died became a commoner of St. Albans Hall in 1577. aged 17. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 23. January 1579. took the degree of Bach. of Arts two years after and then translated himself to Glocester Hall Where continuing a severe Student till he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had compleated it by standing in the Act 1584. he went to Greys-Inn in Holbourn near to London where he addressed himself to the study of the Municipal Laws and as 't is said had
reading in ancient authors of the Church and indeed beyond his age What became of him when he left Greenwich I know not for he died not there as I have been informed by an ingenious person who lives in those parts THOMAS KINGSMILL born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Sidmanton in Hampshire became a Student in this University in 1555. or thereabouts and Fellow of Magd. coll in 1560. being then Bachelaur of Arts. In 1565. he was elected Publick Orator and in 69. he was made Hebrew Professor of the University In 1572. he was a candidate for the degree of Bachelaur of Div. but whether he was really admitted I find not Soon after being distempered in brain by too much lucubration the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker of C. C. coll supplied his place of Professor in 1579. and for some years following What became of him afterwards I know not nor any thing else of him only that he recovering his Senses wrote and published A complaint against Security Lond. 1602. oct Classicum Paenitentiale Ox. 1605. qu. Tractatus de Scandalo Printed with the Classicum There was another Tho. Kingsmill who was M. of A. Preacher of God's Word at Hyth one of the Cinque Ports in Kent an 1631. and the publisher of a Sermon called The Drunkard's Cup on Prov. 23. 21. Lond. 1631. oct but whether he hath published any thing else or was of this University I cannot justly say it THOMAS CAREW descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living in Devonshire and Cornwall was educated for a time either in Broadgates hall or Exeter coll but took no degree here Afterwards taking upon him the Sacred Function became a Minister of God's Word a frequent Preacher and a publisher of Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Psal 90. 12. 2 Serm. on S. Jo. 3. 3. called Necessity of Mans renovation 3 Serm. on 1 Tim. 3. 16. 4 On 1 Pet. 3. 3. 4 5 On Jam. 5. from ver 1. to 5. Which five Sermons were published in oct an 1603. Four godly Sermons viz. 1 Against Popery or false Religion on Matth. 16. 18. 19. 2 Against Atheism the Enemy to Religion on Psal 53. 1. 3 Against Hypocrisie the counterfeit of Religion on Matth. 7. 5. 4 Against Apostasie the falling from Religion on Matth. 12. 31. 32. Which four Sermons were published at Lond. in oct an 1605. and dedicated by the author to Sir George Carew Baron of Clopton Lord President of Mounster Vice-Chamberlain and Receiver-general to the Queen's Majesty and Lievtenant of the Ordinance FRANCIS TRIGGE a noted and godly Preacher did first begin to be conversant among the Oxonian Muses in Vniversity coll an 1564. aged 17. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and at length became Rector of Wellbourne near to Beckyngham in Lincolnshire in which County if I mistake not he was born His Works are An Apology shewing that the days wherein we live are more good and blessed than those of our Forefathers Lond. 1589. qu. Analysis capitis 24 Evangelii secundum Matthaeum c. Oxon. 1591. Comment in cap. 12. ad Rom. Ox. 1590. Comemnt in Rev. S. Joh. Printed 1590. Serm. Preached at Grantham an 1592. on Isay 24. 1. 2. 3. Ox. 1594. oct Touchstone of Cath. Faith Printed 1599. qu. The true Catholick formed according to the truth of the Scriptures Lond. 1602. qu. At length paying his last debt to Nature at Welbourne before-mentioned was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the 12. of May in sixteen hundred and six year 1606 He was the first Founder of the Library at Grantham in Lincolnshire on the wall of which are these Verses written which you shall have instead of his Epitaph Optima Franciscus donavit Biblia Triggus Welbourniae quondam concionator amans Plurima permultis largitus munera Sanctis The saurum nobis condidit usque Sacrum Sic pie talis opus voluit sic pignus amoris Sic Christum coluit sic docet esse pium Beside the said Benefaction he and his Wive's Mother named Elizab. Hussey of Hunnington gave to the poor of Grantham 3. lib. 6 sol 8. den per an and for so doing they are entred among the Benefactors There goes about those parts a memorable story concerning the prediction of the death of this our author a very strict Puritan in his time but whether any credence may be given to it forasmuch as 't is propagated by dissenting Brethren I doubt it and therefore I shall now pass it by JOHN ARGALL third Son of Thom. Argall by Margaret his Wife Daughter of John Talkarne of the County of Cornwal was born in London entred a Student in Ch. Ch. in the latter end of Q. Mary took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1565. and was Senior of the Act celebrated the 18. of Feb. the same year Afterwards he studied the Supream Faculty was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and at length became Parson of a Market Town in Suffolk called Halesworth He was always esteemed a noted Disputant during his stay in the University was a great Actor in Plays at Ch. Ch. particularly when the Queen was entertained there 1566. and when at ripe years a tolerable Theologist and Preacher But so much was he devoted to his studies that being withal unmindful of the things of his World he lived and died like a Philosopher He hath written and published De vera paenitentia Lond. 1604 oct Introductio ad artem Dialecticam Lond. 1605. oct In which book ver facete and pleasant the author saith of himself in the Postpredicaments under Simul tempore that whereas the great God had raised many of his Cronies and Contemporaries to high dignities in the Church as Dr. Tho. Bilson to the See of Winton Mart. Heton to Ely Hen. Robinson to Carlile Tob. Mathews to Durham c. yet he an unworthy and poor old Man was still detained in the chains of poverty for his great and innumerable sins that he might repent with the Prodigal Son and at length by God's favour obtain Salvation What other things he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was reputed by the neighbouring Ministers of Halesworth a great Scholar and that being at a Feast at Cheston a mile distant from that Town he died suddenly at the Table Afterwards his body being carried to Halesworth it was buried in the Church there 8. year 1606 Octob. in sixteen hundred and six Now I am got into the name of Argall I must let the Reader know that in my searches I find one Rich. Argall to be noted in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. for an excellent divine Poet having been much encouraged in his studies by Dr. Jo. King Bishop of London but in what house educated in Oxon where he spent some time in study I cannot now tell you He wrote and published
made Archdeacon of Winchester His Works are Carmina in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandon c. Lond. 1552. qu. De Pii V. Gregorii XIII furoribus contra Elizabetham Reginam Angliae Lond. 1582. oct An Exhortation to true Love Loyalty and Fidelity to her Majesty Lond. 1587. oct Treatise against Treasons Rebellions and such Disloyalties Printed with the Exhortation to c. Syntagma hortationum ad Jacobum Regem Angliae Lond. 1604. oct and translated from English into Latin An apology or defence of Priests Marriages written by Joh. Poynet or Ponet B. of Winchester The other Works done by him may be seen in a certain author who knew Rhenniger well which made him therefore say of him In omni bonarum literarum ac linguarum genere it a se exercuit ut famam non vulgarem inde meruit He died on the 26. of Aug. year 1609 in sixteen hundred and nine aged 89 years and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Crawley before-mentioned under the Communion Table Over his Grave was soon after a Marble Stone laid with an inscription thereon in prose and verse a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. b. This Dr. Rhenniger died rich left a fair Estate some of which laid in Lincolnshire and a Son named Samuel to injoy it In his Archdeaconry of Winchester succeeded Dr. Ranulph Barlow of Cambridge THOMAS SMITH was born of sufficient Parents in a Town called Abendon in Bâ—rkshire educated in Grammar learning there in the Free School founded by Joh. Royse Citizen and Mercer of London an 1563. became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 78. and six years after was elected one of the Proctors of the University About that time he being esteemed a religious and a discreet Gentleman was made Secretary to that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex who had an especial respect for him So that being thereupon introduced into the Court raised himself meerly by his own merits to considerable eminency as first to be Clerk to the High Court of Parliament afterwards to be one of the Clerks of the Council a Knight in 1603. Secretary of the Latin Tongue and one of the Masters of the Requests 'T is supposed by some and confidently reported by others that are learned that tho he lived not to publish any thing yet several matters he left behind him fit for the Press but of what Subject or Faculty they treat I could never learn He deceased in the prime of his years whereby a stop was given to his father promotion at his house called Parsons Green near to London 28. Nov. in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Fulham in Middlesex on the 7. of Dec. following Over his grave was soon after erected a comely monument by his disconsolate Widdow Frances the Daughter of William Lord Chandois afterwards the Wife of Thom. Earl of Exeter by whom he had a Son named Robert who was entred a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term an 1620. aged 15. and became an Inheritor for a time several Lands which his Father left to him particularly the Mannor of Barwick upon Tease in Yorks The said Sir Thomas bequeathed a considerable sum of Money to this University to buy books for the new or East part of the Publick Library as also a Mathematical instrument gilt besides 100 l. to the poor of Abenaon for their relief All which was accordingly done and setled by his younger Brother Rich. Smith sometimes a Member of Ch. Ch. also who had been prime Mourner at his Brothers Funeral I find another Sir Tho. Smyth to have been of Bidborough in Kent second Son of Tho. Smith of Ostenhanger in the same County Esq who dying 7. June 1591. was buried in the Church of Ashsord adjoyning Son of John Smith of Corsham in Wilts Gent. Which Sir Thomas who had sarmed the Customs in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth and therefore by some called Customer Smith was so much in favour with K. James that he sent him Embassador to the Emperour of Russia 19. Mar. 1604. From whence returning he was made Governour of the Society of Merchants trading to the East-Indies Musâ—â—ie the French and Summer Islands and Treasurer for the Colonies and Companies of Virginia There goes under this Man's name a book intit Sir Thomas Smith's voyage and entertainment in Russia with the tragical ends of two Emperours and one Empress within one Month during his being there c. Lond. 1605. qu. But him I take not to be the author because it was published unknown to him and without his consent What else I find of him is that his fair and magnificent house at Deptford near to London was burnt on 30. Jan. 1618. and that upon several complaints against him for certain frauds used by him in withdrawing sums of Money in his Rectorship and place of Treasurer before mentioned he was removed from those imployments in Apr. 1619. His eldest Son Sir Joh. Smith married Isabel Daughter of Rob. Earl of Warwick and another the Natural Daughter of Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy without the consent of his Father in Nov. 1618. but in the middle of July following he upon some discontent left England without taking leave of his Father or Wife Besides these two I find another famous Sir Tho. Smith who went before them not only in time but eminence His native place was Saffron-Walden in Essex his Parents John Smith of the same place and Agnes the Daughter and Heir of one Charnock Gent. and the place of Academical education Queens coll in Cambridge where at riper years he was made choice of such was his proficiency in learning to be sent into Italy at the King's charges and there to be educated in certain kinds of learning which our Universities at home could not then yield or rather for the compleat polishing of his parts and studies After his return he became so eminent for his acquired learning that he was not only made the publick Orator of Cambridge but also the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue and at length the King's Professor of the Civil Law in which Faculty he was incorporated Doctor at Cambridge in 1542. and afterwards at Oxon but the particular time when it appears not through the imperfectness of the Registers of that time In the Reign of Ed. 6. he found so much favour with the Duke of Somerset that he was made one of the Secretaries Sir Will. Cecill being the other to that King a Knight Steward of the Stanneries and Dean of Carlile in the place of one Lancelot Salkeld then ejected About the same time also he became Provost of Eaton coll whereof he had very well merited but when Q. Mary came to the Crown she deprived him of those dignities assigning
16. or thereabouts where continuing an indefatigable Student several years took the degrees in Arts and then as 't is said translated himself to St. Maries hall In 1596. he became the first Astronomy Professor in Gresham coll in London wherein as in Oxon he always led a retired and private course of Life delighting with profound speculations and the diligent searching out of hidden verities It was also observed that tho he never published any thing while he injoyed this earthly Tabernacle yet to avoid the fruitless curiosity of that which some take upon them to know only that they may know he was ever most ready in private either by conference or writing to instruct others repairing unto them if they were desirous of his resolution in any doubtful points of learning within the ample circuit of his deep apprehension The things that he wrote were many the first of which that was published was as I conceive this De ponderibus pretiis veterum nummorum eorumque cum recentioribus collatione lib. 1. Lond. 1614. qu. Published by his Nephew Rob. Brerewood of Chester who was Commoner of Bras coll 1605. aged 17. Remitted into the eighth vol. of the Criticks and in the Apparatus before the first vol. of the Polyglot Bible He also wrote Enquiries touching the diversity of Languages and Religion through the chief parts of the World Lond. 1614. 23. 35. c. qu. and in 1647. c. in oct published by the said Rob. Brerewood who if I mistake not hath written a large and learned Preface to it Elementa Legicae in gratiam studiosae juventutis in Acad. Oxon. Lond. 1614. and 15. c. in oct Tractatus quidem Logici de Praedicabilibus Praedicamentis Oxon. 1628. 37. c. oct Treatise of the Sabbath Oxon. 1630. qu. Which coming in MS. into the hands of Nich. Byfield a Minister in Chester and by him answered was replied upon by our author in A second Treatise of the Sabbath Ox. 1632. qu. The Puritans it seems then before our authors death 1613. did verily think there was a Plot against the power of godliness but could never be pulled down whilst the Sabbath stood upright and therefore the Patrons of impiety as they said did rightly project to take that out of the way which stood so much in theirs Rich. Byfield did vindicate his Brother against Brerewood and Joh. Ley wrote partly against him in his Sunday a Sabbath An old and zealous Puritan named Theophilus Brabourne an obscure Schoolmaster or as some say a Minister of Suffolk was very stiff for a Sabbath in his books published 1628. and 31. and endeavoured to take off all objections that might be said against one yet by maintaining the indispensable morality of the fourth Commandment and consequently the necessary observation of the Jewish Sabbath did incline several of his Readers to Judaism Tho. Broad who was esteemed an Anti-Sabbatarian did write almost to the same effect that Brerewood did tho Brerewood's first book did dissent from his opinions in those points opposed by George Abbot in his Vindiciae Sabbathi wherein are also surveyed all the rest that then had lately written on that subject concerning the Sabbath viz. Francis White B. of Ely Pet. Heylyn D. D. and Christop Dowe whose several treatises on the said subject he calls Anti-Sabbatarian Tractatus duo quorum primus est de meteoris secundus de oculo Oxon. 1631. Published by Tho. Sixesmith M. A. and Fellow of Bras coll Commentarii in Ethica Aristotelis Ox. 1640. qu. Published by the said Sixesmith and 't is called by some Brerewood de moribus The original MS. of which written with his own hand in the smallest and neatest character that mine eyes ever yet beheld was by him finished 27. Oct. 1586. The Patriarchal Government of the ancient Church declared by way of answer unto four questions c. Ox. 1641. qu. He ended his days in Gresham coll of a Feaver to the great reluctancy of all good men that knew the learning and the excellencies of the person year 1613 on the fourth of Nov. in sixteen hundred and thirteen and was buried the eighth day of the same month near to the Readers Pew in the Chancel of the Church of Great S. Helen within the City of London In his Lectureship of Astronomy in the said coll succeeded Edm. Gunter as I shall tell you elsewhere WILLIAM WESTERMAN was entred a Commoner of Gloucester hall in the latter end of 1583. took one degree in Arts translated himself to Oriel coll proceeded in that Faculty and by continual study and unwearied industry he became a proficient in Divinity and Minister of Sanbridge in Hertfordshire Afterwards his merits introducing him to the knowledge of Dr. Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury was by him made his Chaplain so that taking the degree of Doctor of Div. was also by him prefer'd to a Dignity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A prohibition of revenge on Rev. 12. 19. Lond. 1600. oct 2 Sword of maintenance on Amos 5. 15. Lond. 1600. oct 3 Faithful Subject or Mephibosheth on 2 Sam. 19. 29 30. Lond. 1608. oct 4 Salomons Porch or a Caveat c. on Eccles. 4. 17. Lond. 1608. oct 5 Jacobs Well on Joh. 4. 6. Lond. 1613. oct c. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of the author JOHN DUNSTER born of a Family of his name living at Doneat near to Ilminster in Somersetshire was made Demy of Magd. coll in 1598. aged 16. perpetual Fellow 1602. afterwards Master of Arts Proctor of the University 1611. and at length Chaplain to Archb. Abbot who bestowed on him a Benefice or Dignity about 1613. in which year Dunster resigned his Fellowship He hath published Caesar's Penny Serm. on 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. Oxon. 1610. oct Prodromus Or a literal exposition of the 79 Psalm concerning the destruction of Jerusalem Lond. 1613. oct In his younger days being esteemed a noted Poet by his Contemporaries had several copies of verses printed in various books especially in that made by the Society of Magd. coll on the death of a noble young Man of that house named Will. Grey Son of Arth. Grey Baron of Wilton who died 18. Feb. 1605. WILLIAM SYMONDS an Oxfordshire Man born was elected Demy of Magd. coll in 1573. and perpetual Fellow six years after but whether he was M. of A. it appears not About the time that he was made Fellow he entred into holy Orders and had a Spiritual Cure bestowed on him at Halton Holgate in Lincolnshire by Sir Rob. Bertie Lord Willoughby where continuing several years was called thence and became at length Preacher at S. Saviours Church in Southwarke and D. and D. 1613. He was a person of an holy life grave and moderate in his carriage painful in the Ministry well learned and of rare understanding in Prophetical Scriptures He hath written Pisgah Evangelica according to the method of the Revelation presenting the
History of the Church and those Canaanites over whom she shall triumph Lond. 1605. qu. Virginia Serm. at White-chappel in the presence of many honourable and worshipful the Adventurers and Planters for Virginia 25. Apr. 1609. on Gen. 12. 1 2 3. Lond. 1609. qu. What other things he published I cannot yet find nor to what year he lived WILLIAM CHEEKE who writes and entitles himself Austro-Britannus became a Student in Magd. coll in the beginning of the year 1592. took one degree in Arts as a Member of Madg. hall in Lent Term 1595. which being compleated by Determination he left the University and afterwards wrote and published certain matters of which one is intit Anagrammata Chronogrammat a Regia Lond. 1613. oct In which book are several copies of Latin and Greek verses which shew the author to have been a good Poet in the time he lived ROBERT HOVEDEN a Kentish Man born was elected Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1565. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1570. and in the year following being then 27 years of age he was elected and confirmed Warden of the said coll About the same time entring into holy Orders he was made Domestick Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury afterwards Prebendary of the Cath. there Prebendary of Henstridge in the Church of Wells Prebendary of Clifton in the Church of Lincoln and at length Doctor of Div. He hath written Henrici Chichleii Cantuar. Archiepiscopi collegiique Omnium Animarum apud Oxonienses fundatoris vita Written in Dec. 1574. and hath this beginning Henricus Chichleius in pago prope Northamptoniam c. It is a short thing and is kept in MS. under the authors hand in All 's coll and served as an Apparatus of a larger life written by Dr. Arth. Duck. Catalogus Custodum Sociorum coll Om. Animarum MS. It commences at the foundation of the college and reaches down to Hoveden's days and by others continued to these times This Catalogue tho it is trite and slender and now and then faulty yet it hath instructed me in many things when I was in composing this and a preceedent work It is commonly in the custody of the Warden and hath in the beginning of it the life of the Founder before-mentioned This worthy Doctor died on the 25. of March in sixteen hundred and fourteen and was buried towards the upper end of All 's coll chappel year 1614 A copy of his Epitaph you may see in Hist Antiq. Vnivers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 185. a. JOHN SPENSER a Suffolke man born was originally one of the Clerks of C. C. coll and being Bach. of Arts in 1577. was elected Greek Reader of the same 9. June in the year following not without great opposition of Mr. Joh. Rainolds whose resignation it was On the 7. May 1579. he was admitted Fellow and the year after took the degree of Master of Arts. So that entring into Orders he became a noted Preacher Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. and a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Rainolds before mention'd On the death of the last he was elected President of the said coll and reverenced by all good men for his knowledge learning and piety At the time of his death he left several things fit for the Press among which was a Sermon publish'd by Hamlet Marshall his Curate bearing this title A learned and godly Sermon at Pauls Cross on Esay 5. 2. 3. Lond. 1615. qu. But this is not all that he is to be remembred for for for several years before his death he took extraordinary pains together with a most judicious and compleat Divine named R. Hooker before mention'd about the compiling of a learned and profitable work which he published I mean some of the books of Ecclesiastical Policy yet would not he be moved to put his name to tho he had a special hand in it and therefore it fell out that tulit alter honores Our Author Spenser also did about four years after Hooker's death publish the five Books of Eccles Policy together in one Volume with an Epistle before them subscribed by J. S. and reprinted at London with some of his smaller works which had been before published by Hen. Jackson an 1622. fol. He the said Dr. Spenser gave way to fate 3. Apr. it sixteen hundred and fourteen year 1614 and was buried in Corp. Ch. coll Chappel Over his Grave is a fair Monument with his bust and an inscription a copy of which you may read in Histor Antiq. Vnivers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. His Picture is painted on the Wall of the School gallery in Oxon among our eniment English Divines WILLIAM BATHE was born within the City of Dublin in Ireland Studied several years in this University with indefatigable industry but whether in any of the three houses wherein Irish men of his time studied viz. in Vniv. coll Hart or Glocester-hall or whether he took a degree I find not Afterwards under pretence of being weary with the Heresie professed in England as he usually call'd it left the Nation the Religion that he was brought up to and entred himself into the Society of Jesus in 1596. being then between 30. and 40. years of age After he had spent some time in that order he was sent from Flanders to Padua to increase his studies which being compleated he went into Spain where at Salamanca he presided the Seminary of that Nation ad formationem spiritus He was endowed with a most ardent zeal for the obtaining of Souls and was beloved of and respected by not only those of his own Order but of other Orders for his singular vertues and excellencies of good conditions He hath written Introduction to the Art of Musick wherein are set down exact and easie rules with arguments and their solutions for such as seek to know the reason of the truth which rules he means whereby any by his own industry may shortly easily and regularly attain to all such things as to this Art do belong Lond. 1584. qu. This book he wrote while he was a young Student in Oxford being then much delighted in the faculty of Musick Janua linguarum seu modus maxime accomodatus quo patefit aditus ad omnes linguas intelligendas Salam 1611. Published by the care of the Irish Fathers of the Jesuits Order living at Salamanca and is used at this time there for the instruction of Youth He also wrote in the Spanish Tongue Preparation for the administring of the Sacrament with greater facility and fruit of repentance than hath been already done Millan 1604. Published by Joseph Creswell under the name of Pet. Manrique He also W. Bathe wrote in English but his name not put to it A methodical institution concerning the chief mystesteries of Christian Religion Method for the performing of general Confession At length our author taking a journey to Madrid in Spain about several concerns of the Order died there 17 June in sixteen
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
taken into the hands of all Juniors and have undergone several impressions Grammat Graec. Enchyridion in oct This goes under the name of Joh. Flavell but whether written by the former I know not for I have not yet seen it He died in the flower of his youth on the 10. year 1617 Nov. in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in Wadham coll Chappel I find another Joh. Flavell after the former in time author of a little thing intit A Prayer or Treatise of God's mighty power and protection of his Church and People c. Lond. 1642. and another if not the same author of Husbandry spiritualized c. Lond. 1669. qu. of A Saint indeed c. Lond. 1670. oct and of several other things but whether he was ever of this University I know not He occurrs Minister of Dartmouth in Devon 1672. and several years after THOMAS CORYATE Son of George Coryate mentioned under the year 1606. was born in the Parsonage house at Odcombe in Somersetshire became a Commoner of Gloucester hall in the beginning of the year 1596. aged 19. where continuing about three years he attained by the help of a great memory to some competency in Logick but more by far in the Greek tongue and in humane learning Afterwards he was taken home for a time then went to London and was received into the Family of Henry Prince of Wales At which time falling into the company of the Wits who found him little better than a Fool in many respects made him their Whetstone and so became notus nimis omnibus In the beginning of the year 1608. he took a Voyage into France Italy Germany c. and at his return published his travels under this title Crudities hastily gobled up in five Months travels in France Savoy Italy Rhetia Helvetia some parts of High Germany and the Netherlands Lond. 1611. qu. Which book was then usher'd into the world by an Odcombian banquet consisting of near 60 copies of excellent verses made by the Poets of that time which did very much advantage the Sale of the book Among them were Ben. Johnson Sir Jo. Harrington of Kelston near Bathe Dudl Digges afterwards Master of the Rolls Rich. Martin Recorder of London Laur. Whittaker Hugh Holland the traveller Jo. Hoskyns Sen. Inigo Jones the surveyour Christop Brook Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. Joh. Chapman Thom. Campian Dr. of Phys. Jo. Owen the Epigrammatist Sam. Page of C. C. C. Tho. Bastard of New coll Tho. Farnaby sometimes of Mert. coll Jo. Donne Mich. Drayton Joh. Davys of Hereford Hen. Peacham c. In the year following 1612 after he had taken leave of his Countrymen by an oration spoken at the Cross in Odcombe he took a long and large journey with intentions not to return to his native Country till he had spent 10 years in travelling to and fro The first place he went to was Constantinople where he took special notice of all things there observable In which place he found very great respect and encouragement from Sir Paul Pindar then and there Embassadour Being there for some time he took his opportunities to view divers parts in Greece and in the Helespont he took special notice of those two Castles directly opposed each to other called Sestos and Abydot which stand on the several banks that bound that very narrow Sea Which places Musâ—â—u makes famous in his very antient Poem of Hero and Leander He saw Smyrna famous at that time for trade but not religion and what then remain'd of the ruins of sometimes great Troy but the very ruins of that place were almost all gone to ruine From Smyrna he found a passage to Alexandria in Egypt and there near Grand Catro antiently called Memphis he observed what remain'd of the once famous Pyramids Returning thence back to Alexandria he found a passage by Sea to Joppa and travelling thence 20 English miles he arrived at Jerusalem but found it a very solitary rocky and uncomfortable way full of danger by reason of the wild Arabs who keep about those passages to make poor travellers their prey and spoil In Jerusalem he saw Mount Calvery where our Saviour suffered then enclosed within the Walls Bethlem where he was born about 5 English miles from Jerusalem and Mount Olivet whence he ascended From Jerusalem he took his way to make a view of the Dead Sea the place where Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim once stood Thence he went to have a sight of the River Jordan which dischargeth it self into that most uncomfortable Lake and from thence he journied north-east through the Ten Tribes till he came to Mount Libanus Thence back to Sidon where he got a passage by Sea unto Alexandretta now called Scanderoon which is one of the most unwholesome places in the world Thence he took his way to Aleppo in Syria about 70. miles distant from Scanderoon where he was kindly received by the English Consul and tarried with him till he could get the benefit of a Caravan which consists of a great multitude of people from divers parts which get and keep together travelling in those parts for fear of the incursions and violences by Thieves and Murderers which they would undoubtedly meet withal if they travelled single or but few together With these he after set forward towards and to that City anciently called Nineveh in Assyria which we find in the Prophecy of Jonah was sometimes a great and excellent City of three days journey but then so exceedingly lessen'd and lodg'd in obscurity that passengers could not say this was Nineveh From thence he journied to Babylon in Chaldea situated upon the River Euphrates once likewise so great that Aristotle called it a Country not a City but now very much contracted From this place he proceeded through both the Armeniaâ—s and either did or else he was made to believe that he saw the very mountain Ararat whereon the ark of Noah tested after the flood From thence he went forward towards the Kingdom of Persia and there to Vspahan the usual place of residence for the great King Thence to Seras antiently called Shushan where the great King Ahasuerus kept his Royal and most Magnificent Court Afterwards to Candahor the first Province north-east under the subjection of the Great Mogul and so to Lahore the chiefest City but one belonging to that great Empire of very great trade wealth and delight From Lahore he went to Agra which is 400 English miles planted with great Trees on both sides which are all the year cloathed with leaves exceeding beneficial unto travellers for the shade they afford them in those hot climes At Agra he made an halt being there lovingly received in the English Factory where he staid till he had gotten to the Turkish and Morisco or Arabian Languages some good knowledge in the Persian and Indostan Tongues in which study he was always very apt and in little time shewed much proficiency The first of those two the Persian
most lofty insolent and passionate As for the remaining part of his life it was sometimes low and sometimes in a middle condition and often tossed by fortune to and fro and seldome at rest He was one that fortune had pickt up out of purpose of whom to make an example or to use as her Tennis-Ball thereby to shew what she could do for she tost him up of nothing and to and fro to greatness and from thence down to little more than to that wherein she found him a bare Gentleman not that he was less for he was well descended and of good alliance but poor in his beginnings and for the jest of Edw. Earl of Oxon. the Jack and an upstart Kt. all then knew it savoured more of emulation and his humour than of truth France was the first School wherein he learn'd the rudiments of War and the Low Countries and Ireland the military Academies of those times made him Master of that discipline for in both places he expos'd himself afterwards to Land-service but that in Ireland was a Militia which then did not yeild him food and raiment nor had he patience to stay there tho shortly after in 1580. he went thither again and was a Captain there under Arthur Lord Grey who succeded Sir Will. Pelham in the Deputy-ship of that Kingdom Afterwards gaining great credit he was received into the Court became a person in favour and had several boons bestow'd on him afterwards particularly the Castle of Shireborne in Dorsetshire taken from the See of Salisbury In the latter end of 1584. he discovered a new Country which he in honour of the Queen called Virginia received the honour of Knighthood from her and was afterwards made Captain of her Majesties Guards Senceschal of the Duchies of Cornwall and Exeter Lord Warden of the Stanneries of Devon and Cornwall Lord Leivtenant of Cornwall and Governour of Jersey In 1588. he shew'd himself active against the invincible Armada of the Spaniards and in 1592. being about that time a Parliament man wherein as in other Parliaments in the latter end of Q. Eliz. was he a frequent Speaker he went to America with 15. men of War to possess himself of Panama where the Spaniards Ship their riches or to intercept them in their passage homewards but returned successless and was out of favour for a time not only for that but for divirginating a maid of Honour Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Nich. Trockmorton whom he afterwards married and for some few months being kept under custody was at length set free but banished the Court. Afterwards to follow the directions of of his own Genie that was always inclined to search out hidden regions and the secrets of nature he undertook a navigation to Guiana that bears Gold in 1595. purposely for the improvement and honour of his Country both by getting store of wealth and by molesting the Spaniard within the inward coasts of America which he thought would be more profitable than on the Sea coasts where there are never any Towns laden with any riches but when they are conveyed thither to be carried over into Spain He set out from Plymouth on the 6. of Febr. and arrived at the Island Trinidada 22. March There he easily took a little City called S. Joseph and the Governour thereof Don Antonio de Bereo but sound not so much as a piece of Silver there Having enquired many things of this Antonio about the mines of Gold in Guiana he left his Ship in Trinidada and entred the vast River Orenoque with little Barks and some hundred Souldiers He searched up and down Guiana for the space of 4 Miles among the crooked and short turnings of the water several ways where being parched with the reflecting beams of the Sun just over his head and too much wet sometimes with Showers and having long wrestled with such like difficulties he yet continued so long till that it growing wintry cold in Apr. the waters all over-spread the earth insomuch that now he could pass away in no less danger of the waters than he came thither in danger of his enemies After his return he was constituted one of the chief persons in the expedition to Cadiz where he performed notable service and obtained to himself at home a great name In 1603 he presented to K. James at his entrance to the Crown of England a Manuscript of his own writing containing valid arguments against a peace to be made with Spain which was then the common discourse But the King being altogether for peace 't was rejected and the same year just after he had been deprived of the Captainship of the Guard which K. James bestowed on Sir Tho. Erskin Viscount Fenton in Scotland we find him in a plot against the King generally called Sir Walter Raleighs Treason for which being brought to his Tryal with others at Winchester in 1603. was at length found guilty and condemn'd to die But being repreived he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for life where he improved his confinement to the greatest advantage of learning and inquisitive men In Apr. 1614 he published the History of the World a book which for the exactness of its Chronology curiosity of its contexture and learning of all sorts seems to be the work of an Age. In 1617. power was granted to him to set forth Ships and men for the undertaking an enterpize of a golden Mine in Guiana in the southern parts of America and on the 28. March in the year following he left London in order for that Voyage notwithstanding Didacus Sarmiento de Acunna Earl or Count of Gundamore the Spanish Embassador to the K. of England endeavoured to hinder him with many arguments proposed to his Majesty But at length Sir Walter going beyond his Commission in taking and sacking the Town of St. Thome belonging to the Spaniard which was much aggravated by Gundamore the K. on the 9. June 1618 published his Royal Proclamation for the discovery of the truth of Raleigh's proceedings and for the advancement of justice Whereupon when Raleigh arrived at Plymouth Sir Lewis Steukeley Vice-Admiral of the County of Devon seized him and brought him up to London 9. Aug. following But Raleigh finding the Court wholly guided by Gundamore as 't is said notwithstanding I find elsewhere that he left England 16 July going before he could hope for little mercy Whereupon wisely contriving the design of an escape was betrayed by Steukley taken on the Thames and committed to a close Prison Afterwards being often examined by the Lord Chancellour and Privy-Councel was at length on the 24 Oct. warned by them as they had been commanded by the King to prepare for death The particulars of which proceedings as also of his Voyage to Guiana you may see at large in a book intit A Declaration of the demeanour and carrige of Sir W. Raleigh Knight as well in his Voyage as in and sithence his return and of the true
motives and inducements which occasion'd his Majesty to proceed in doing justice upon him Lond. 1618. in 8 sh in qu. On the 28. of the month of Oct. he was conveyed to the Court called the Kings-Bench in Westminster where it being proposed to him what he had to say for himself why the sentence of death pronounced against him in 1603. should not be put in execution he fell into a long discourse and vindicated himself so much that most wise men thought then and all Historians since that his life could not be taken away upon that account Afterwards being conveyed to the Gatehouse suffered death the next day notwithstanding David Noion Lord of Chesne acted much to save him Authors are perplex'd as some are pleased to say under what topick to place him whether of Statesman Seaman Souldier Chymist or Chronologer for in all these he did excell And it still remains a dispute whether the age he lived in was more obliged to his Pen or his Sword the one being busie in conquering the new the other in so bravely describing the old World He had in the outward men as an observing writer saith a good presence in a handsome and well compacted person a strong natural wit and a better judgment with a bold and plausible tongue whereby he could set out his parts to best advantage and to these he had the adjuncts of some general learning which by diligence he enforced to great augmentation and perfection for he was an indefatigable reader whether by Sea or Lâ—nd and none of the least observers both of men and of the times And I am confident that among the second causes of his growth that variance between him and the Lord Grey in his descent into Ireland was a principal for it drew them both over to the Councel Table there to plead their cause where he had much the better in telling of his tale and so much that the Qu. and the Lords took no slight mark of the man and his parts for from thence he became to be known and to have recess to the Qu. and the Lords and then we are not to doubt how such a man would comply and learn the way of progression c. He had giuen the Queens ear at a trice and she began to be taken with his eâ—cution and loved to hear his reasons to her demands And the truth is she took him for a kind of an Oracle which netleâ— them all yea those that he relyed on began to take his sudden favour for an allarum and to be sensible of their own supplantation and to project his So that finding his favour declining and falling into recess he undertook a new peregrination to leave that Terra infirma of the Court for that of the Wars and by declining himself and by absence to expect his and the passion of his Enemies which in Court was a strange device of recovery c. The truth is he was unfortunate in nothing else but the greatness of his wit and advancement his eminent worth was such both in domestick Policy forreign expeditions and discoveries Arts and literature both practive and contemplative that they seem'd at once to conquer both example and imitation Those that knew him well esteem'd him to be a person born to that only which he went about so dextrous was he in all or most of his undertakings in Court in Camp by Sea by Land with Sword with Pen witness in the last these things following tho some of them as 't is credibly believed were written by others with his name set to them for sale sake Discovery of the large rich and beautiful Empire of Guiana with a relation of the great and golden City of Manoa and of the Provinces of Emeria Arromaia Amapaia c. performed in the year 1595. Lond. 1596. qu. Printed at Francof and Norib in Latine 1599. qu. This book of Guiana with the authors Presatorie Epist to the Hist of the World are as 't is said full of proper clear and Courtly graces of speech History of the world in 5 books Lond. 1614. c. fol. Abbreviated and animadverted upon by Alex. Ross a Scotchman in a book entit The marrow of History Lond. 1662. oct 2d edit But of Raleigh and his History hear what an ingenious writer saith Hes autem sequi possunt nonnulli ex recentioribus quos inter principem locum obtinere meretur Gualterus Raulaeus nostras eques auratus vir clari nominis ob singularem fortitudinem ac prudentiam meliori fato dignus Is universalem historiam ab initio mundi usque Macedonici imperii sive tertiae monarchiae occasum ex probatissimis auctoribus coagmentavit nostrae quidem gentis idiomate vernaculo sed accurato admodum judicio methodo perspicua stylo eleganti ac virili c. He was delivered of that Exquisite Minerva during his tedious imprisonment in the Tower of London for being clapt up there for Treason during his Life as I have before told you did improve his confinement far better than his enlargment He had composed a second part which reached down to the time he lived but he burnt it a little before his death Afterward Alex. Ross before mentioned continued it in a book intit The History of the World the second part in 6. books being a continuation c. beginning where he left viz. at the end of the Macedonian Kingdom and deduced to these later times that is from the year of the World 3806. or 160. years before Christ till the end of the year 1640. after Christ c. together with a Chronology of those times c. Lond. 1652. fol. Here having made twice mention of Alexand. Ross I desire the reader to observe by the way these things of him that he was D. D. and a native and minister of Aberdene in Scotland which Country he leaving upon what account I know not came into England succeeded Tho. Parker Son of Robert author of the book De traductione peccatoris in the Mastership of the free School at Southampton and was Chaplain in ordinary to K. Ch. 1. a little before the civil war began He hath written many books in Latine and English and in Prose and Verse the titles of which are now too numerous to insert He died in the Park-house at Bramsell in Hampshire belonging to one Henley one of the Prothonotaries in the beginning of the year 1654. aged 64. or thereabouts at which time he bequeathed many rich legacies by his Will dat 21. Feb. 1653. and proved 19. Apr. 1654. among which were 200 livers to the Senate of Aberdene to remain for ever towards the maintenance of two Scholars that shall be born in the town of Aberdene and educated in Grammer there 50 l. to the town of Southampton for the better maintenance of the Schoolmaster 50 l. to the poor houshold keepers of Allsaints parish there 50 l. to the publick library at Cambridge 5 l. to that of Oxon
neither any Register belonging to the Cathedral and therefore I have put him under the year 1620. wherein he was in great esteem for his learning MICHAEL WIGMORE was born of a gentile Family in Somersetshire entred a Commoner in Magd. hall 1602. aged 14. elected when Bach. of Arts as a native of the Dioc. of Gloucester Fellow of Oriel coll an 1608. After he had proceeded in his Faculty he took upon him the Sacred Function and became a painful and zealous Preacher and a publisher of Several Sermons as 1 The holy City discovered besieged and delivered on Eccles. 9. 14 15. Lond. 1619. qu. 2 The way of all flesh on Prov. 4. 1. Lond. 1619. qu. 3 The good adventure on Rev. 4. 2. 3. Lond. 1620. qu. c. one Mich. Wigmore was author of a Serm. intit The dissâ—â—tion of the brain on Isa. 9. 15. Printed 1641. which person I take to be the same with the former When our author Mich. Wigmore of Oriel died or where he was beneficed I cannot yet tell Quaere ROBERT STAFFORD a Knight's Son was born within the City of Dublin in Ireland entred a Sojournour in Exeter coll under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Prideaux an 1604. aged 16. but took no degree as I can yet find He published A Geographical and Anthological description of all the Empires and Kingdoms both of Continent and Islands in this Terrestial Globe c. Lond. 1618. and 34. qu. Usher'd into the World by the commendatory verses of Tho. Rogers Caspar Thomannus of Zuriche sometimes an Oxf. Student Joh. Glanvill and Joh. Prideaux Which last was supposed to have had a chief hand in the campiling the said book as the tradition goes in Exeter coll The said Rob. Stafford lived afterwards in Devon at Dowlton I think and had a Son of the same coll GEORGE GYFFARD or Gifford was a Student in Hart hall several years before 1568 10. Elizab. at which time did also study there others of his Sirname and allies as Humphrey Walter and Rob. Gifford but whether our author George was originally of this University or that he took a degree in Arts Law Physick or Divinity therein it doth not at all perhaps by the imperfectness of the registers appear Several persons in his time and before did tho they were beneficed retire to this University purposely to improve themselves in learning and by conversation and 't is supposed that this Gifford did the like Afterwards he became Minister of Maldon in Essex a very noted preacher and one most admirably well vers'd in several sorts of learning which were rare and much in esteem in his time but withal a great Enemy to Popery His works are Country divinity containing a discourse of certain points of Religion which are among the common sort of Christians with a plain confutation thereof Lond. 1581. 1. oct Dialogue between a Papist and a Protestant applied to the capacity of the unlearned Lond. 1583. oct Against the Priesthood and Sacrifice of the Church of Rome wherein you may perceive their impiety in usurping that office and action which ever appertaineth to Christ only Lond. 1584. oct Catechism giving a most excellent light to those that seek to enter the path-way to salvation Lond. 1586. oct Discourse of the subtile practices of Devils by Witches and Sorceres c. Lond. 1587. qu. Short treatise against the Donatists of England whom we call Brownists wherein by answer unto their writings their heresies are noted Lond. 1590. qu. Plain declaration that our Brownists be full Donatists by comparing them together from point to point out of the writing of Augustin Lond. 1591. qu. Reply to Mr. Joh. Greenwood and Hen. Barrow touching read Prayer wherein their gross ignorance is detected These two last are dedicated to Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh Chanc. of Cambridge Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcrafts In which is laid open how craftily the Devil deceiveth not only the Witches but many other c. Lond. 1593. and 1603. qu. Treatise of true fortitude Ibid. 94. oct Comment or Sermons on the whole book of the Revelations Ibid. 96. qu. Exposition on the Canticles Lond. 1612. oct Besides all these books he hath Several Sermons extant as 1 Sermon on the parable of the Sower on Math. 13. ver 1. to 9. Lond. 1581. oct 2 Sermon on 2 Pet. ver 1. to 11. Lond. 1584. oct 3 Serm. on Jam. 2. ver 14. to 26. Ibid. 86. oct 4 Sermon on the first four chapt and part of the 5. of Ecclesiastes c. Pr. at the same place 1589. oct 5 Serm. at Paul's cross on Psal. 133. Lond. 1591. oct 6 Two Sermons on 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. wherein is shewed that the Devil is to be resisted only by a stedfast faith c. Lond. 1598. oct 7 Four Sermons upon several parts of Scripture Lond. 1598. oct The first Sermon is on 1 Tim. 6 17 18 19. c. 8 Fiveteen Sermons on the Song of Solomon Lond. 1620. oct He also translated into English Prelections upon the sacred and holy Revolations Lond. 1573. qu. Written in latin by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge This George Gifford hath written and translated other things which I have not yet seen and lived to a good old age but when he died it appears not LUDOVISIO PETRUCCI or à Petruccioli or as he writes himself Ludovicus Petruccius infelix Eques Son of Ariodant or Aridante â—etrucci was born at Sienna à Petigliano in Tuscany educated partly in juvenile learning in his own country but before he had made proficiency in Academicals he became a Souldier of fortune first in Creet for the Venetians where he was Sarjeant-major in 1602. secondly in the Hungarian wars where he was Captain of a Foot-company in the regiment first of Count Salma and afterwards in that of Colonel Ferdinand de Colonitsch serving for the Emperour and at length in the services of the Prince of Brandiburg and Nuburgh But being unfortunate in all his undertakings he left the trade of war and retiring into England took a journey to Oxâ—â— in 1610. and was entred into the publick Library in the beginning of the year following About that time he was a Commoner of S. Edmunds hall as he was afterwards of Ball. coll wore a gown spent four years or more in Academical learning and frequented the Prayers and Sacraments according to the Church of England But being notwithstanding suspected for a Papist or at least popishly affected and to keep intelligence with that party were several objections made against him for the inconveniency and evil consequence that might happen for his long continuance in the University Whereupon he was forced or at least desired to depart such were the jealousies of the puritanical party in the University He hath written Farrago Poematum diversis locis temporibus conscriptorum c. Oxon. 1613. in Ital. and Lat. in qu. Oratio ad D. Joh. Bapt. Bernardum Praetorem Patavinum universam curiam in
Vigiliis Paschatis Printed with the former book Apologia contra calumniatores suos Lond. 1619. qu. Emblemata varia dedicata Regibus Principibus Magnatibus Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae Poemata varia Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614. Which four last things were printed with his Apologia c. 1619. what other books he hath published I cannot justly tell However from those before mention'd it appears that the author was a phantastical and unsetled man and delighted as it seems in rambling CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire was born in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote An Apology for women or the womans defence Lond. 1620. oct Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks Afterwards he retired into the Country studied Divinity had a benefice conferr'd upon and tho he never took any degree in Arts in this University yet he took that of Bach. of Div. 1631 which is all I know of him JOHN KING Son of Philip King of Wormenhale commonly called Wornal near to Brill in Bucks by Elizazabeth his wife Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire Son of Thom. King brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon was born at Wornal before mention'd educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth successor to Will. Day 1565. at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferr'd upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University In 1611. he had the Bishoprick of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year had restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See made to him 18 of the same month at which time he was had in great reverence by all people He was a solid and profound Divine of great gravity and piety and had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often 〈◊〉 of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time When he was advanced to the See of London he endeavoured to let the world know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit shewing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too In which office he was so frequent that unless hindred by want of health he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London Deus bone quam canora Vox saith one vultus compositus verba selecta grandes sententiae Allicimur omnes lepore verborum suspendimur gravitate sententiarum orationis impetu viribus flâ—ctimur c. He hath written Lectures upon Jonâ—s delivered at York Lond. 1594. Ox. 99. c. qu. Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon at Hampton-Court on Cantic 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. 2 At Ox. 5. Nov. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. 3 At Whitehall 5. Nov. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2 3 4. Ox. 1608. qu. 4 At S. Maries in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration on 1 Chron. ult 26. 27 28. Ox. 1608. qu. 5 Vitis palatina Serm. appointed to be preached at White-hall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614. qu. 6 Serm. at Pauls cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. 7 At Pauls cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal 123. 3. and a third on Psal 146. 3. 4. c. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature 30. March in sixteen hundred twenty and one year 1621 aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight Soon after Bishop Kings death the Rom. Catholicks endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit The Bishop of London his Legacy Or certain motives of Dr. King late B. of London for his change of religion and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England Printed by permission of the superiours 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter his son Hen. King not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Pauls cross soon after but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former who published a Sermon entit Abels offering c. on Gen. 4. ver 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh and whether he was of this Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN GUILLIM or Agilliams son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain I find one of both his names who was a student in Brasnose coll in the year 1581. aged 16 and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were according to the Matricula born in Herefordshire in which County the author of The worthies of England places Jo. Guillim the Herald of whom we now speak who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire was soon after called thence and made one of the Society of the coll of Arms. commonly called the Heralds Office in London by the name of Portsmouth and on the 26 Feb. 1617. Rouge Croix Pursevant of Arms in Ordinary He published The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. Written mostly especially the scholastical part by John Barcham of C. C. coll in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant superfluous and needless additions to it purposely to gain money from those
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
in tw being the third edit This book is the effect of certain Lectures in Queens coll publick Refectory when he bore the office of Rhetorick Reader Brief direction how to examine our selves before we go to the Lord's Table how to behave our selves there and how to try our selves afterwards Lond. 1622. or thereabouts in oct Confutatio cujusd libelli de amplitudine regni caelestis sub ementito C. Secundi Curionis nomine in lucem emissi Ox. 1627. qu. He hath also translated from Lat. into English A Manuduction to Theology Lond. 1622. or thereabouts and 26. in oct written by Barthelm Keckerman Before which translation is a copy of verses made by Mich. Drayton the Poet an attestation by Ad. Airay B. D. and a dedication to Aâ—â—e the Wife of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester One Tho. Vicary published The Surgeons directory in 1651. oct who was as I suppose a Chirurgion by profession and therefore not to be taken to be the same with Tho. Vicars before mentioned SIXTIN AMAMA was born in the Province of Westsricsin in Holland educated for a time in the University in Franaker where obtaining considerable knowledge in Oriental tongues took a journey into England and about 1613. setled in Oxford taught the Hebrew tongue and for the sake of Dr. Prideaux Rector of Exeter coll whose person and doctrine he much admired became a Sojournour of that house and a zealous Student in the Sacred Faculty After he had continued there some years he retired 〈◊〉 a degree conser'd on him to his native Country where at Franaker he was made Hebrew Profess 〈…〉 length D. of D. and held much in esteem for his great learning He hath written 〈…〉 quinque librorum Mosis c. Franak 1620. qu. Supplex 〈◊〉 ad Synodos Episcopos Super-intendentes 〈…〉 〈…〉 Franak 1625. oct Coron ad Gram. Martino-Buxtoâ—sianum Ibid. Anti-Barbarus Biblicus in 3. libros distributus c. Amstel 1628. oct To which was added a fourth book Franak 1656. qu. De Decimis In the first Tome of the Criticks p. 1326. Responsio ad censuras D. Marini Marsenni Theologi Paris Franak 1628. oct See in the first Tome of the Criticks p. lx De nomine Tetragrammato dissertatio cum responsione ad argumenta cl viri D. Nich. Fulleri Angli quibus pro vulgatae lectionis Jehovah certitudine disputavit Fran. 1628. oct He hath also written the Preface before Joh. Drusius his Commentary on the more difficult places of the Pentateuch an 1617. which is remitted into the first Tome of the Criticks p. 50. and corrected and published with some additions his Commentary on the 12 Minor Prophets and his Com. de Sectis Judaicis He hath also written and published certain Dissertations and Orations in Latin but these I have not yet seen He was living and in great renown at Franaker in sixteen hundred twenty and eight having then as always before a natural Genie to enlighten the Text of Scripture and to find the notion of the Sacred Language When he died and what other books he hath written I cannot yet tell WILLIAM VAUGHAN Son of Walt. Vaughan of the Goldon Grove in Caermerthenshire Esq and younger Brother to Sir John Vaughan the first Earl of Carbury was born at the Golden Grove became a Commoner of Jesus coll in Mich. Term an 1591. aged 14. took the degrees in Arts and entred on the Law line but before he took a degree in that Faculty he went to travel and performing some exercise in order thereunto at Vienna did proceed Doctor there and at his return was incorporated at Oxon in the same Faculty an 1605. In which tho indifferently learned yet he went beyond most men of his time for Latin especially and English Poetry Afterwards spending much time in rambling to and fro did take a long journey for the honour and benefit of his Nation and became the chief undertaker for the Plantation in Cambriol the southermost part in New-found-land now called by by some Britaniola where with pen purse and person did prove the worthiness of that enterprize He hath written 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pium continens canticum canticorum Solomonis Psalmos aliquot selectiores una cum quibusdam aliis poematis e Sacrae Scripturae fontibus petitis Lond. 1597. oct Elegia gratulatoria in honorem illustriss Herois Caroli Howard Comitis Nottingham 23. Oct. 1597. meretiss creati Printed with the former Varia Poemata de Sphaerarum ordine c. Lond. 1589. oct Poemata continent Encom Roberti Comitis Fssex Lond. 1598. oct The Golden Grove moralized in 3 books A work very neeessary for all such as would know how to govern themselves their houses or their country Lond. 1600. and 1608. oct This book which is written in prose was commended to the World by some Poets or at least pretenders to Poety then 1600. living in the University as Dr. Joh. Williams Marg. Professor Will. Osbourne one of the Proctors Hen. Price Bac. of Div. of S. Johns coll Griffin Powel of Jesus Joh. Budden LL. D. Nich. Langford and Tho. Came Masters of Arts Gabr. Powel B. A. Sam. Powel Tho. Storer and Jo Rawlinson Masters of Arts Charles Fitzjeffry of Broadgates Tho. Michelbourne c. Cambrensium Carolcia Quibus nupiae regales celebrantur memoria regis pacifici renovatur praecepta necessaria ad rempub nestram faeliciter administrandum intexuntur reportata a Colchide Cambriola ex australissima Novae Terrae plaga Lond. 1625. oct 'T is a Latin Poem and dedicated by our author Vaughan under the name of Orpâ—eus Junior to King Charles 1. The Golden Fleece divided into three parts under which are discovered the errours of Religion the vices and decays of the Kingdom c. Lond. 1626. qu. in prose Transported from Cambrioll Colchos out of the southermost part of the Island commonly called New-found-land by Orphcus jun. alias Will. Vaughan There is no doubt but this our ingenious author hath other things extant but such tho with great scrutiny I cannot yet discover nor can I find any thing else relating to the author only that he was living at Câ—â—â—â—iol before-mentioned in sixteen hundred twenty and eight I find one will Vaughan a Physician who among several things that he hath published is a book intit Directions for health natural and artificial derived from the best Physicians as well modern as ancient c. Printed several times as in 1617. oct Lond. 1626. qu. the sixth edit and there again 1633. c. Another book also he wrote called The Newlanders cure with rules against the Scurvey Coughs c. Printed 1630. oct c. Whether this Physician was originally of Oxon. I cannot tell notwithstanding we have had several of both his names and time matriculated as Members of Ball. coll Jesus c. There is also another Will. Vaughan a Physician who published Disputatio medica de febre continuata Printed 1671. qu. GEORGE CAREW Son of Mr. George Carew sometimes
c. in Parliament which were pleaded against by several persons on his behalf and that many years after his death year 1629 which hapned as I conceive about sixteen hundred twenty and nine were Votes passed in the H. of Com. that 5000. pounds should be given to his children because he had suffered in the 3 of Car. 1. Dom. 1627. for opposing the illegalities of that time The said Votes passed in 1646. and no doubt there is but all or at least some of the money was paid WILLIAM THORNE a most noted Linguist and Rabbie of his time and therefore well known to and respected by that noted Belgick Critick John Drusius who dedicates to him his Opuscula Gramaticalia received his first breath at Semeley in Wilts his Grammatical education in Wykchams School and his Academical in New coll of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1587. being then esteemed to be well grounded in humane learning In 1593. he proceeded in Arts and five years after was constituted Hebrew Professor of the University Afterwards being promoted to the Deanary of Chichester in the room as it seems of Dr. Martin Colepeper deceased he proceeded in Divinity at which time he was reputed eminent not only for his incomparable skill in the Oriental Sacred Tongues by men unmatchable in them worthily famoused on this side and beyond the Sea but also for other learning His writings are Tullius sive Rhetor in tria stromata divisus Oxon. 1592. octavo A kenning Glass for a Christian King Serm. on Joh. 1â— latter part of the 15. verse Lond. 1623. oct and other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He died 13. Feb. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried two days after in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester In his Deanry of Chichester succeeded Dr. Francis Dee of Cambridge about that time Chancellour of the Chat Sarum and afterwards Bishop of Peterborough LEWIS OWEN a native of Merionithshire became either a Servitor or a Student of Ch. Ch. in Summer time an 1590. aged 18. but left the University without a degree having some petty employment bestow'd on him about that time Afterwards he travelled in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and beginning of K. James into several countries of Europe and in Spain making a longer continuance than elsewhere he entred himself if I mistake not into the Society of Jesus at Valladolid where he continued a curious observer among them for some time At length being fully satisfied of their intregues which tended as he said to worldly policy rather than true religion he left and became a bitter enemy against them as well in his discourses as writings as it may appear in these things following The running Register recording a true relation of the State of the English Colleges Seminaries and Cloysters in all foreign parts together with a brief discourse of the lives practices c. of Engl. Monks Friers Jesuits c. Lond. 1626. qu. The unmasking of all Popish Monks Friers and Jesuits Or a treatise of their genealogy beginnings proceedings and present state c. Lond. 1628. qu. Speculum Jesuiticum Or the Jesuits looking Glass wherein they may behold Ignatius their Patron his progress their own pilgrimage his life their beginning c. Lond. 1629. qu. A true Catalogue of all their Colleges professed houses houses of Approbation Seminaries and houses of residence in all parts of the World And lastly a true number of the Fellows of their Society taken out of their own books and catalogues printed with the Speculum Jesuiticum and both at the end of Europae Speculum 1629. written by Sir Ed. Sandys before mention'd This Lew. Owen who had a rambling head was living in sixteen hundred twenty and nine but what became of him afterwards I cannot find Besides this Lew. Owen was another of both his names born in Anglesie first a Student in S. Edm. Hall 1578. afterwards of Hart hall and a Benefactor to Jesus coll WILLIAM HERBERT Son and Heir of Hen. Earl of Pembroke was born at Wilton in Wilts 8. Apr. 1580. became a Nobleman of New coll in Lent-term 1592. aged 13. continued there about two years succeeded his Father in his honours 1601. made Knight of the Garter 1. Jac. 1. and Governour of Portsmouth six years after In 1626. he was unanimously elected Chancellour of this University being a great Patron of learning and about that time was made Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Household He was not only a great favourer of learned and ingenious men but was himself learned and endowed to admiration with a poetical genie as by those amorous and not inelegant Aires and Poems of his composition doth evidently appear some of which had musical Notes set to them by Hen. Lawes and Nich. Laneare All that he hath extant were published with this title Poems written by William Earl of Pembroke c. many of which are answered by way of repartee by Sir Benj. Rudyard with other Poems written by them occasionally and apart Lond. 1660. oct He died suddenly in his house called Baynards Castle in London on the tenth of Apr. in sixteen hundred and thirty year 1630 according to the calculation of his nativity made several years before by Mr. Tho. Allen of Glouc. hall whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury near to that of his Father See more of him in the Fasti among the Creations an 1605. He had a younger brother named Philip who was also a Nobleman of New coll at the same time with his brother was afterwards created Earl of Montgomery and upon the death of his brother William succeeded in the title of Pembroke But this Philip was quite different in temper from his brother for he was esteemed by all that knew or had to do with him a very cholerick man a frequent Sweater and so illiterate that if the report be true he could scarce write his name He also turn'd Rebel when the Civil Wars began in 1642. was one of the Council of State by Olivers appointment after K. Ch. 1. was beheaded and a most passionate enemy to learning which notoriously appeared when he deeply engag'd himself in the undoing of this University of which he was Chancellour in 1648. I have seen several rambling and confus'd Speeches that he with great confidence uttered in Parliament and Committees which were afterwards printed under his name and others very witty and Satyrical that were father'd upon him The Reader is to know that besides the former Will. Herbert hath been others of both his names that have been writers as one who was a Knight in the time of Qu. Elizab. an 1586. and another of Pointington in 1646. who dedicates his book called Herberts belief c. to his Son Benjamin and one William Harâ—ert who published The Prophecy of Cadwallader c. SAMUEL PAGE a Ministers Son and a Bedfordshire man born was admitted Schollar of C. C. coll 10 June 1587. aged 13 or
or caused to be printed but such I have not yet seen As for the youngest Brother Rob. Sherley before-mentioned whether he was of Hart hall I know not for his name occurs not in the Matricula only that of John Sherley a Sussex man and the Son of a Gent. matriculated as a Member of that hall in 1582. aged 14. The said Robert whom also I find to occur by the title of Knight was a great man of his time and so highly valued by the Emperour of Persia that he not only sent him Embassadour to Sigismond the 3. King of Poland as also to K. Jam. 1. of England an 1612. for he arrived at London 26. June that year but was pleased to give him his Neice in Marriage and to confer upon him honour and riches As to the general performances of the aforesaid 3 Brothers I know the affidavit of a Poet carrieth but a small credit in the Court of History and the Comedy made of them intit The travailes of three English Brothers Sir Thomas Sir Anthony and Rob. Sherley printed at Lond. 1607. in qu. is but a friendly foe to their memory as suspected more accommodated to please the present spectators than inform posterity The before-mentioned Sir Thomas the elder Brother and Traveller had a Son named Thomas who was a Knight also and suffer'd much in the time of the Rebellion for adhering to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. of ever Blessed Memory And that Sir Thomas the Sufferer had to his eldest Son another Thomas commonly called Dr. Tho. Sherley born in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster and baptized there 15. Oct. 1638. lived when a boy with his Father in Magd. coll during the time that Oxon was a Garrison for the King and was bred up in Grammar learning in the Free-School joyning to the said College Afterwards he went into France studied Physick and was graduated in that Faculty there After his return he became noted for his practice therein and at length was made Physician in Ordinary to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. and I think Doctor of his Faculty He hath published A Philosophical Essay declaring the probable causes whence stones are produced in the greater World From which occasion is taken to search into the original of all bodies being a prodromus to a medicinal truth concerning the causes and cure of the stone in the Kidneys and Bladder of Man Lond. 1672. oct An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical transactions num 81. p. 1030. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Cochlearia Curiosa or the Curiosities of Scurvy-grass Lond. 1676. oct written by Dr. Andr. Molimbrochius of Leipsig An account of which book you may also see in the said Phil. Transact nu 125. p. 621. 2 Medicinal Councels or Advices written originally in French by Theod. Tarquet de Mayerâ—e put into Latin by Theoph. Bonettus M. D. Lond. 1676. and translated from French into Engl. A treatise of the Gout Lond. 1676. written by the said Tarquet de Mayerne He the said Dr. Tho. Sherley died of grief 5. Aug. 1678. and was buried in the S. W. Vault under part of St. Brides Church near to Fleet street in London His grief arose upon a just suspicion that he should be totally defeated of an Estate in Sussex worth about 3000 l. per an descended to him from his Great-Grandfather Sir Tho. Sherley mostly detained from him by Sir Joh. Pagge Baronet Concerning which matter the two Houses of Parliament were engaged in a quarrel a little before Dr. Sherley's death SAMUEL AUSTIN Son of Tho. Austin of Lystwithiel in the County of Cornwal was born there became a Batler of Exeter coll in 1623. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1630. About which time being numbred among the Levites was beneficed in his own Country He hath written Austin's Urania Or the heavenly Muse in a Poem full of meditations for the comfort of all Souls at all times Lond. 1629. oct dedicated to Joh. Prideaux D. D. a favourer of the studies of the author then Bach. of Arts. What other things he hath written or published besides various copies of verses printed in Lat. and English in other books I know not nor any thing else of him only that he had a Son of both his names a conceited Coxcomb who endeavoured to Patrizare but through his exceeding vanity and folly he was made use of as another Tho. Coryate by certain Poeâ—s of Oxon in their respective copies of verses set before his Naps on Parnassus c. printed 1658. as I shall tell you in my other volume of writers JOHN BAYLY Son of Dr. Lew. Bayly Bish of Bangor was born in Herefordshire became a Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1611. aged 16 years or thereabouts made Fellow the year following and by the help of a good Tutor Dr. Prideaux did advance himself much in Academical learning After he had compleated the degree of M. of Arts he took holy orders from his Father by whose procurement he had one or more Benefices confer'd upon him At length being made one of his Maj. Chaplains and Guardian of Christ's-Hospital in Ruthym took the degrees in Divinity and published Several Sermons as 1 The Angel-Guardian on Psal. 34. 7. Lond. 1630. qu. 2 The light enlightning on Joh. 1. 9. Printed at Lond. the same year I have been informed he had published other things but such I have not yet seen JOHN BARNES or Barnesius as he writes himself was descended from those of his name in Lancashire but whether born in that County I know not was educated for a time in this University but being always in animo Catholicus he left it and his Country and going into Spain was instructed in Philosophy and Divinity by the famous Doctor J. Alph. Curiel who was wont to call Barnes by the name of John Huss because of a spirit of contradiction which was always observed in him After he had finished his course of studies he took upon him the habit of S. Benedict with a resolution then to live and dye in it and about that time was sent into the Mission of England to strengthen the Brethren but being taken and imprisoned was sent into Normandy with certain Priests and Jesuits Soon after he was by his Superior sent into Lorain where he taught Divinity in the English Monastery of Benedictines called Dieuward or Dieuleward and was there by the fraternity and others too esteemed profound in that great faculty tho he cared not to make shew of it much less to have any thing of his composition published After he had left Dieuleward he became a Professor either of Div. or Philosophy in Marchein college in Doway where also he gained to himself the name of an eminent Divine and Philosopher Thence he crossed the Seas and setled for a time in England where he fell out with his Superiors for refusing to submit to the Union
the late Soveraign K. James Lond. 1625. a Poem and other things which I have not yet seen but he was not the author of the Appendix to the Commentary of Engl. Bishops as one or more think He died within the City of Westminster having always been in animo Catholicus in sixteen hundred thirty and three whereupon his body was buried in the Abby Church of S. Peter there near to the door entring into the Monuments or the door thro which people enter to see the Monuments on the three and twentieth day of July in the same year I have seen a copy of his Epitaph made by himself wherein he is stiled miserimus peccator musarum amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus c. and another made by a second person which for brevity sake I now pass by In my searches I find one Hugh Holland to have been admitted Bac. of Arts with Tho. Worthington afterwards a Jesuit in Mich. Term an 1570. and another Hugh Holland an Esquires Son of Denbighshire to be matriculated as a member of Ball. coll an 1582. aged 24. with others of that Sirname of the same house but whether any of them were authors I cannot yet tell or whether the last was the same with the Poet. Qu. GEORGE ABBOT younger brother to Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd under the year 1617. was born in the same Town and house where Robert was bred also in the same School under Mr. Franc. Taylor entred a student in Ball. coll 1578. aged 16. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow thereof 29. Nov. 1583. being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into holy Orders and became a celebrated preacher in the University In 1597. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in the same year being elected Master of Vniversity coll gave up all right that he had to his Fellowship In the latter end of 1599. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Martin Heton promoted to the See of Ely Which Dignity he keeping till 1609. succeeded then Dr. Thom. Morton Dean of Glocester On the third of Dec. 1609. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 29. of the same month In Febr. following he was translated to London and being elected soon after to the See of Canterbury had the Kings consent to it 29. March 1610. On the 9. of Apr. 1611. he was translated to the said See of Canterbury and on the 4. of May following had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto On the 23. of June ensuing he was sworn a member of his Majesties Privy Council and accordingly took his place So that he having never been Rector or Vicar of a parish and so consequently was in a manner ignorant of the trouble that attended the ministers of Gods word was the cause as some think why he was harsh to them and why he shew'd more respect to a Cloak than a Cassock He was a person pious and grave and exemplary in his life and conversation He was also a learned man and had his erudition all of the old stamp He was stiffly principled in the doctrine of S. Augustine which they who understand it not call Calvinism and therefore disrelish'd by them who incline to the Massilian and Arminian Tenets Those that well remember him have said that tho he was a plausible preacher yet his brother Robert was a greater Scholar and tho an able Statesman yet Robert was a deeper Divine The things that he hath written are these which shew him to be a man of parts learning vigilancy and unwearied study tho overwhelm'd with business Questiones sex totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theologicâ Oxomiae pro formâ habitis discussae disceptatae an 1597 in quibus è sacra scriptura Patribus quid statuendum sit definitur Oxon 1598. qu. Francof 1616. qu. which last edition was published by Abrah Scultetus Exposition on the Prophet Jonah contained in certain Sermons preached in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Lond. 1600. and 1613. The reasons which Dr. Hill hath brought for the upholding of Papistry unmasked and shewed to be very weak c. Oxon. 1604. qu. Which book was in answer to one intit A quartron of reasons of Cath. Religion with as many brief answers of refusal Antw. 1600. qu. written by Tho. Hill D. D. then living at Phalempyne beyond the Sea who a little before had left the Church of England to embrace the Doctrine of that of Rome He was also answer'd by Franc. Dillingham Bac. of Div. of Cambridge in a book intit A quartron of reasons composed by Dr. Hill unquartered and proved a quartron of follies Cambridge 1603. qu. Preface to the examination of George Sprot London 1608. qu. Sermon at Westminster 26 May 1608. at the funeral solemnities of Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord High Treasurer of England on Isaiah 40. 6. London 1608. qu. Brief description of the whole world Lond. 1617. qu the 9th edition Other editions in oct followed and the book is commonly called Abbots Geography Treatise of perpetual visibility and succession of the true Church in all ages Lond. 1624. qu. His name is not set to this book only his Arms empaled by those belonging to the See of Canterbury are put before it and 't is generally reputed to be his and none but his History of the Massacre in the Valtoline At the end of the third vol. of Joh. Fox hs book of Acts and Mon. of the Church Lond. 1631. 41. c. His Judgment of bowing at the name of Jesus Ham. 1632. oct Several Speeches and Discourses in Parliament and elsewhere At length he being found guilty of casual homicide the particulars of which are mention'd by Historians he retired for a time to Guildford in Surrey the place of his nativity where he had erected an Hospital for men and women Afterwards removing to Croyden he gave way to fate in his Pallace there on the fourth day of August year 1633 in sixteen hundred thirty and three aged 71. Whereupon according to his desire his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady within Trinity Church in Guildford Over his grave was soon after built a sumptuous Altar or Table-monument with his proportion in his Pontificalia lying thereon supported by six pillars of the Dorick order of black Marble standing on six pedestals of piled books with a large inscription thereon beginning thus Sacrum memoriae honoratiss Archipraesulis c. At the east end of the said Mon. is another large inscript which begins also thus Aeternae memoriae Sacrum Magni hic Hospes Hospitis monumenta vides c. Besides this Dr. George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury I find another of both his names to have been a writer also but later in time and author of The whole book of Job Paraphrased c. London 1640. qu. Dedicated to
admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1589 took the degrees in Arts and at length was numbred among the best of Preachers in that house In 1597 he left the coll being then beneficed at Westmean in his own Country was afterwards made Prebendary of Winchester and in the year 1614. took the degrees in Divinity His younger years were adorned with variety of learning and his elder with solid and substantial Divinity which last made him as much respected in his native country towards his latter end as he was before in the University for this book following of his writing and publication when he was a young man Diarium Historico-poeticum In quo praeter constellationum utriusque Hemisphaerii Zodaici ortus occasus numerum Stellarum causarumque ad Poesin Spectantium varietatem declaratur cujusque mensis dies fere singuli Regum Imperatorum Principum Pontificum virorumque doctorum natalibus nuptiis inaugurationibus morte denique aut ralia quacunque insigniores celebriores sic ut nihil c. Lib. 12. Oxon. 1595. qu. What other things he hath published I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he died on the 20. of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and nine having had for some years before divers contests with Neile his Diocesan for his introducing certain ceremonies into the Cath. at Winchester and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Westmean before mention'd Over his grave was soon after a Monument put with six verses thereon the two first of which run thus Ortus stirpe bonâ titulo Doctoris adauctus Oxonii conjux bis deciesque pater PHILIPP MASSINGER Son of Phil. Massinger a servant belonging to the Pembrochian family made his first entry on the stage of this vain world within the City of Salisbury was entred a Commoner in St. Albans hall in the seventeenth year of his age 1601. where tho incouraged in his studies by the Earl of Pembroke yet he applied his mind more to Poetry and Romances for about four years or more than to Logick and Philosophy which he ought to have done and for that end was patronized Afterwards leaving the University without the honour of a degree he retired to the great City to improve his fancy and studies by conversation At length being sufficiently fam'd for several specimens of wit wrote divers Comedies and Tragedies for the English Stage besides other things much applauded and cryed up in their time when acted and published Their names are these The Duke of Millaine a Tragedy Lond. 1623. qu. Powerfull Favourite or the life of Sejanus a Hist Printed 1628. qu. Roman Actor Tr. Lond. 1629. qu. Renegado Picture Tr. co Lond. 1630. qu. Virgin Martyr Tr. Lond. 1631. 1661. qu. In this Trag. he was assisted by Tho. Dekker a high flier of wit even against Ben Johnson himself in his Com. called The untrussing of The humerous Poet. Emperour of the East Maid of Honour Tr. co Lond. 1632. qu. Fatal Dowry Tr. Lond. 1632. qu. assisted therein by Nathan Field New way to pay old debts Co. Lond. 1633. qu. Great Duke of Florence A comical Hist London 1636. qu. The Bond-man An antient story Lond. 1638. qu. Tr. Lond. 1639. qu. Unnatural Brother Unnatural Combate Lond. 1655. oct with the authors picture before them Bashful Lover Tr. Co. The Guardian Co. Hist Very Woman or the Prince of Tarent Tr. Co. City Madam Com. Lond. 1659. qu. published by one who calls himself Andr. Penniewicke He was also one of the three Thom. Middleton and Will. Rowley being the other two who had a hand in The old Law Com. Lond. 1656. qu. and was sole author if a cat of Plays at the end of The old Law may be believed of Virtuous Octavia Trag. and of Rom Alley Com. As to this last there is without doubt a mistake for all readers of Plays cannot but know that Ram Alley or merry Tricks was pen'd by the Lord Barry an Irish man and that it was acted by the Children of the Kings revels before 1611. As for our author Ph. Massenger he made his last exit very suddenly in his house on the Bank-side in Southwerk near to then Play-house for he went to bed well and was dead before morning Whereupon his body being accompanied by Comedians was buried about the middle of that Ch. yard belonging to S. Saviours Church there commonly called the Bull-head Church yard that is in that which joyns to the Bull-head Tavern for there are in all four yards belonging to that Church on the 18. day of March in sixteen hundred thirty and nine Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet in his Choice Poems of several sorts c. Lond. 1658. oct hath in pag. 186. an Epitaph on Mr. Joh. Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger who as he saith lye buried both in one grave in St. Mary Overies Church alias S. Saviours in Southwerk See more in Sir John Beaumont under the year 1628. where you 'll find more of those two persons One Walt. Messenger or Massenger was a student in S. Alb. hall in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths raign whom I take to be either Father or Uncle to Philip the Poet. JOHN VICCARS was originally of the University of Cambridge where taking one degree in Arts retired to Oxon setled in Lincolne coll in the condition of a Commoner an 1624 and the next year proceeded in Arts as a member of that house Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas visited divers Academies and Recesses of learning and gained from them and their respective Libraries great experience and knowledge He hath written Decapla in psalmos Sive commentarius ex decem Linguis antiquis paetribus Rab. Historicis Poetis c. Lond. 1639. fol. which book doth plainly demonstrate that he was a most admirable Linguist and the best for the Oriental tongues in his time I shall make large mention of John Vicars the Poet among the writers under the year 1652. JOHN SPEED Son of Jo. Sp. the Chronologer was born in London elected Scholar of S. John's coll from Merchant Taylors School in 1612. aged 17. Afterwards he was made Fellow thereof M. of A. Bach. and Doctor of Physick of this Univ. In which last faculty he became eminent especially for the practick part among the Academians and had if death had not snatched him too soon away published several matter of it He hath written 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 utriusque sexus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 MS. written in Latine dedicated to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cantab. and reserved in S. John's coll Library as a rarity The said MS. points at and hath relation to the two Skeletons one of a man another of a woman standing at the north end of the Mathematick Library of the said college which Skeletons were made and given to the said Library by our author Dr. Speed who hath also written Stonehenge a pastoral Acted before Dr. Rich. Baylie the President and Fellows of the said coll in their common
resigning his Archdeaconry of the East-riaing of Yorksh Will. Poteman sometimes Warden of All 's coll as I guess was installed on the 16. of the same month in the same year who dying 25. March 1493. Hen. Cornbull succeeded him Afterwards Edm. Audley was translated to the See of Hereford upon the death of Thom. Myllyng sometimes a Student among the Benedictines of Gloucester coll in the Suburbs of Oxon the temporalities of which were given to him 26. Dec. 1492. and from thence to Salisbury the temporalities of which See also were put into his hands on the 2. of April 1502. and about that time was made Chancellour of the most Noble Order of of the Garter In 1518. he gave 400 l. to Linc. coll to purchase lands for the use thereof and about that time bestowed upon the said house the Patronage of a Chauntry which he had lately founded in a Chappel built by him in the north part of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury He also was a Benefactor to the reparation of the Congregation-house sometimes a Library on the north side of S. Maries Chancel in Oxford to the erection of that curious piece of workmanship the stone Pulpit in the said Ch. finished 1508. at the bottom of which were his Arms a Fret impaled by the See of Sarum and gave 200 marks for the supply of Chichleys chest belonging to the University which had before been robb'd of its treasure But whether he built the choire or chancel of S. Maries church or gave the old Organs as a certain author is pleased to tell us I find it no where to appear At length departing this mortal life in a good old age at Ramsbury in Wilts year 1524 on the 23 of Aug. in fiveteen hundred twenty and four was buried in the chappel before-mention'd built by him in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary within the cath ch of Sarum to the reparation of which cathedral he bequeathed threescore pounds After his death Laur. Campegius Cardinal of S. Anastasius was made Bishop of Salisbury but whither he being almost continually absent or any of his Successors till the time of Dr. Seth Ward an 1671. were ever chancellours of the order of the Garter in doth not appear THEODORICK O-BRIEN sometimes written Terence and Terlach O-brien was descended from an ancient and noble family of his name in Ireland and after he had spent some time in good letters here in Oxon became Bishop of Killaloe in the said Country and a person of great name there for his liberality and hospitality yet addicted to warfare more than became his coat He paid his last debt to nature in fiveteen hundred twenty and five Several years before his time was another of both his names Bishop of that place and another after him whereupon by writers this Bishop was commonly written and called Terence O-Brien the second JOHN YOUNG received his first breath in this world at Newton-Longvill in Bucks was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1482. and left it in 1502. being then or about that time Doct. of Div. and Rector of S. Martins Church in Oxon. Afterwards he became well known to Cardinal Tho. VVolsey by whose endeavours he was made Dean of Chichester Bishop titular of Callipolis or Galipoli a City in Thrace about 1517. Judge as 't is said of the Prerogative of Canterbury and Warden of New coll in 1521. He died 28. year 1526 March in fifteen hundred twenty and six and was buried as I suppose in the Chappel of the said College under a Marble-stone that he had lain there some time before his death with an inscription thereon and a blank for the time of his death to be filled up by his Executor or Overseer of his last Will and Testament but was never performed The reader is to know that there was another John Young who from being Prebendary of Apesthorpe in the cath ch of York was admitted Dean of that Church by the name and title of Jo. Younge LL. D. on the 17. of May 1514. being at that time Master of the Rolls But he dying 25. Apr. 1516. and buried in the chappel of the Rolls in chancery-lave near London must not be taken to be the same with the former Besides the said two I find others of both their Names as 1 John Young a Monk of Ramsey who being well skill'd in the Hebrew tongue saved many books of that Language that were in the Library of that Monastery when 't was dissolved in 1535. or thereabouts 2 Joh. Young Giovanus a native of Yorkshire educated in Trin. coll in Cambridge afterwards Master of Pemb. hall and Vice-chancellor of that University of whom and his writings Baleus and Pitseus will inform you 3 Jo. Young one of the Bonhoms or Good men of the Monastery of Ashrugg in Bucks Who being turn'd out thence at the dissolution by K. Hen. 8. entred himself a Sojourner in Exeter coll about 1539. He was of kin to Jo. Young B. of Galipoli but what name or eminence there was in him I find not 4 Jo. Young born at Newton Longvill before mention'd Fellow of New coll 1512. Rector of his native place in 1525. and died therein 1545. which Jo. was nearly related to the Bishop WILLIAM HOW a Buckinghamshire man born as it seems or at least descended from those of his name living at or near the Wycombs was educated in all kind of Learning in this University and by the title of Master of Arts thereof and the Kings chaplain did supplicate the Ven. congregation of Regents in 1512. that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences but whether he was really admitted it appears not Afterwards he travelled was admitted Doct. of Div. in an University beyond the Seas and at his return retir'd to the University in the beginning of the year 1526. where by the name of Will. How Episcopus Aurensis supplicated the said congregation that whereas he had been created Doct. of Divinity beyond the Seas and had been a student in this University many years he might be incorporated in the same faculty which being granted simpliciter he was forthwith incorporated This Bishoprick in the same I presume with Auriensis or Orensis commonly called Orense under the Archbishoprick of Compostella in Spain to which courtry as 't is probable this W. How was sent about business by Catherine of Spain Queen of England the Royal consort to K. Hen. 8. I find one Will. How M. of A. presented by the King to the Church of Shipton-Mallet in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Reynold West in the beginning of Aug. 1516. and about that time became Rector of Alre or Aller in the same county but this Will. How dying in 1521. or 22. must not be understood to be the same with the former To this last was Joh. How prior of Plympton in Devonshire related who living to see
cause both short and wearisome afterwards unto him Thus Dr. Will. Allen in his Answer to the Libel intit The execution of justice in England The said Dr. Ogelthorp was deprived of his Bishoprick about Midsomer in the year 1559. and about the beginning of the next year died suddenly of an Apoplexy year 1560 otherwise had he lived 't is thought the Queen would have been favourable to him He founded at Tadcaster before-mention'd a Free-School and Hospital dedicated to our Saviour Jesus Christ called The School and Hospital of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of Tadcaster The School is endowed with 40 l. per an and the Hospital with revenues for 12 poor People each to have one shilling every week In the beginning of Ch. 1. there were but six in pay how many now I know not The said Bishop built a fair house in Headley upon Bramham in Yorkshire where there is a memory by verses and his Arms over the door I think yet remaining After his deprivation and death Bernard Gilpin the northern Apostle was designed to succeed him in Carlilâ— but vhe refusing tho much pressed to it the Bishoprick was confer'd on one Joh. Best a learned and pious man RICHARD PATES an Oxfordshire man born was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 1. June 1522. and the year following Bach. of Arts. Which degree being compleated by Determination he went to Paris where he was made Master of Arts and at his return Archdeacon of Winchester on the resignation of Joh. Fox in 1526. In 1528 he resigned that dignity being that year made Archd. of Lincoln upon the death of Will. Smyth Doctor of decrees By which title as also that of Bach. of Arts of this University and Master of Paris he supplicated on the 17. Jan. 1530. that he might not be bound to be present at Exequies in S. Maries Church which shews that he was not then incorporated Afterwards he was imployed in several Embassies and in 1534. I find him resident in the Emperours Court and there again in 1540. in which year wss a pass-port made for him by Secretary Cromwell to Calais in order to reside with the Emperour as Embassador for the K. of England In which pass-port he is stiled Dr. Rich. Pates Archdeacon of Lincoln In 1542. he was attained of High Treason whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on George Heneage and his Prebendship of East-Harptre in the Church of Wells on Joh. Heryng LL. D. In the year 1554. he being preferr'd by Q. Mary to the Episcopal See of Worcester had restitution made to him by the name of Rich. Pate only of the temporalities belonging thereunto 5. March the same year at which time Hooper his Predecessor had been dead about 3 weeks After Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was not imprisoned in the Tower of London as Jo. Fox saith but being deprived he went beyond the Seas sate in the Council of Trent uninvited as one saith as he had done before and whether he died there or at Rome I cannot tell He was a learned man of a peaceable disposition zealous in the Faith he professed yet always against inflicting corporal punishments on such that were opposite in Religion to him In the said See of Worcester succeeded Edwin Sandys Son of Will. Sandys of Furnes in Lancashire Justice of the Peace and the Kings Receiver of that County by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Joh. Dixon of London To which See being elected upon Pates his deprivation by the name and title of Edwin Sandes Capellanus regius SS Thol Professor had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging to it 23. March 2. Elizab. dom 1559. JAMES TURBERVYLE a younger Son of Joh. Turbervyle son and heir of Richard second son of William first son of Sir Robert Turbervyle of Bere and Anderston in Dorsetshire Knight who died 6. Aug. 1424. by Margaret his Wife of the Family of the Carews Barons was born at Bere before-mentioned which is now a little Market Town in the said County educated in Wykchams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1514. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated in July 1520. and on the 8. of March following was elected the publick Scribe or Registrary of the University on the resignation of Tho. Fykes M. A. and Fellow of the said coll In 1529. he left his Fellowship which he kept with his Scribes place being then promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice as he was soon after to a Dignity and taking the degree of Doct. of Div. in another University was incorporated here in 1532. In 1555. he being then Preb. of Winchester and elected to the Episcopal See of Exeter on the death of Joh. Harman was consecrated thereunto in St. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London with Will. Glynn to Bangor on the eighth day of Sept. the same year and on the 21. of the said month had the temporalities of the said See delivered to him and there sate with due commendations for about four years In 1559. 2. Elib he was deprived of his Bishoprick for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church and afterwards lived a private life saith one and another that he lived at his own liberty to the end of his life adding that he was an honest Gentleman but a simple Bishop and a third that he lived a private life many years and died in great liberty But at length a fourth person who comes lagg as having lately appeared in print I mean Richard Izack then Chamberlain of Exeter tells us in his Antiquities of the City of Exeter full of mistakes that he died on the first of Nov. 1559. and in another place in the said book that after his deprivation he lived a private life ANTHONY DUNSTAN a Benedictine Monk of Westminster received his Academical education in Glocester coll in the N. W. Suburb of Oxon in an apartment therein built for such young Monks of Westminster that were designed for the University In 1525. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences having a little before opposed in divinity in the School of that faculty and in the year following he occurs by the name and tit of Anth. Dunstan Prior of the Students of Gloc. coll before-mentioned In 1538. he proceeded in divinity being then Abbat of the Benedictine Monks of Einsham near to and in the County of Oxon and in 1545. he by the name and title of Anthony Kechyn the Kings Chaplain and Bishop elect of Landaff received the temporalities belonging thereunto on the 8. of May the same year being then about 68 years of age He is much blamed by one of his successors in the See of Landaff for impoverishing his Bishoprick accounted by some to have been before his time one of the best in England and since to be the worst He gave way to fate 31. Oct. in fifteen hundred sixty and
that no other Church hath any salvation in it but only so far as it concurs with the Faith of the Church of Rome My body to be buried in S. Marg. Ch. in Westminster near to the Font in the meanest manner according to the deserts of my Sins Item I give 20 s. for the painting or otherwise of the said Font. It. I give my tenement in Yale and the two tenements in Caernarvanshire Cordmaur and Tudne to the Town of Ruthyn in Denbighshire where I was born c. The rent of the tenement in Yale he bequeathed to several uses and among the rest was 20 l. to be given to some Gentleman who should desire to travel and that he together with good security should undertake within the compass of two years to live two months in Germany two months in Italy two months in France and two months in Spain and that his own kindred be chosen before others for that purpose c. The books that he designed for Chelsey college he gave to Trin. coll in Cambridge but with this condition that if Chelsey coll be ever restored the books should be restored thereunto He gave 16 l. to outed and sequestred Ministers of the Loyal Party and a 100 l. to poor distressed Church-men Rom. Catholicks according to the discretion of his Executors Gabriel Goodman and Mrs. Sib. Eglionby He desired also that his collection of notes be perused by some Scholar and if any thing should be found worthy of printing that they be published c. It must be now known that in hate and detestation of Socinianism he did in his younger years examine all the mysteries in Religion and all the miracles in Scripture how far they agreed with natural reason and wherein they transcended and thereupon did publish a book intit The fall of man or the corruption of nature proved by natural reason Lond. 1616. and 1624. qu. And then he undertook to proceed in the rest of the Mysteries Together with these he drew up an History from the beginning of the World to his time and so he ended with the Church of England as seâ—led by Laws little regarding the opinion of particular men but Statutes Acts of State Proclamations Injunctions c. In which work he was much beholding to Sir Tho. Cottons Library But these with the rest of his goods were lost and whether they were ever recovered before his death I know not He hath also written Arguments or animadversions and digressions on a book intit An apology or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World c. written by Dr. George Hakewill Which arguments and digressions are with Hakewills answere involved in the sixth book of the said Apology printed at Oxon the third time 1635. fol. See more in G. Hakewill among the writers an 1649. Bishop Goodman also wrote The Court of K. James by Sir A. W. reviewed 'T is a MS. in a thin fol. in Bodl. Library and hath this beginning I cannot say that I was an eye and ear-witness but truly I have been an observer of the times and what I shall relate of my own knowledge God knows is most true My conjecturals I conceive c. The conclusion which is imperfect is this Yet notwithstanding I have given him Sir A. W. the name of a Knight because he hath pleased so to stile himself and that I might not offend him This manuscript book was made in answer to a published book intit The court and character of King James Lond. 1650. oct written and taken by Sir A. W. Which book being accounted a most notorious Libel especially by the Loyalists and Court-party was also answered in print by Anonymus intit Anlicus Coquinariae or a vindication in answer to a Pamphlet intituled The Court and Character of K. James c. Lond. 1650. The author of the said Court and Character was one Sir Anth. Weldon of Kent whose Parent took rise from Queen Elizabeths Kitchin and left it a legacy for preferment of his Issue Sir Anthony went the same way and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth in which place attending K. James into Scotland he practiced there to libel that Nation Which at his return home was found wrapt up in a Record of that Board and by the hand being known to be his he was deservedly removed from his place as unworthy to eat his bread whose birth-right he had so vilely defamed Yet by favour of the King with a piece of money in his purse and a pension to boot to preserve him loyal during his life tho as a bad creditor he took this course to repay him to the purpose In his life-time he discovered part of this piece to his Fellow-courtier who earnestly disswaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandal which as it seems in Conscience he so declined I have also been credibly informed that Sir A. Weldon did at the beginning of the Long Parliament communicate the MS. of it to the Lady Elizab. Sedley Mother to Sir Will. and Sir Charles accounted a very sober and prudent Woman who after perusal did lay the vileness of it so much to Sir Anthony's door that he was resolved never to make it publick Which perhaps is the reason why a certain author should say that with some regret of what he had maliciously written did intend it for the fire and died repentant tho since stolen to the Press out of a Ladies closet And if this be true our exceptions may willingly fall upon the practice of the publisher of the said libel who by his additions may abuse us with a false story which he discovers to the Reader in five remarkable passages and therefore in some manner gives us occasion to spare our censure on Sir Anthony who was dead some time before the said libel was published The second edition of it printed at Lond. in oct an 1651. is dedicated to the said noble Lady Elizab. Sedley and hath added to it 1 The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. 2 Observations instead of a character upon this King from his Childhood 3 Certain Observations before Q. Elizabeths death But these are not animadverted upon by Aulicus Coq or B. Goodman because they came out after they had written their respective answers The said Bishop Goodman hath also written The two mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity and wonderful incarnation explicated c. Lond 1653. qu. Dedicated by one Epist to Oliver Cromwell L. General and by another to the Master Fellows Scholars and Students of Trin coll in Cambridge Also An Account of his sufferings which is only a little pamphlet printed 1650. BERNARD ADAMS was born in Middlesex in the diocess of London admitted Scholar of Trinity coll in 1583. aged 17 years fellow five years after and when Master of Arts he went into Ireland where by the favour of the Lord
Dignitaries in the Church as Deans Archdeacons Chancellours of Churches and Dioceses Chauntors c. as also of Heads of Colleges and Halls Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 5. Abbats Priors Gardians c Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 6. Monks and Friers supposed to be eminent for Place Learning or published Writings c. Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 7. Martyrs either for the Rom. Catholic or Protestant Cause Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 8. Many learned Men. who have not been Writers and Men of Note in the way they profess'd with their Characters Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 9. Writers and Translators of inconsiderable Account such I mean that have published but one Sermon or a little Pamphlet or have Translated but one or two Books with the Titles of such Sermons and Books or Pamphlets that they have written or translated Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 10. All Doctors of what Faculty soever whether Writers or not Writers Bishops then or afterwards or 〈◊〉 Bishops eminent or not eminent c. with the Day and Year when they were admitted or licensed to proceed in their respective Faculties 11. Those that have been incorporated or embodied or taken into the bosom of the said University as such who have been of any Note in the Univ. of Cambridge or of any Univ. in the learned World with their Characters and Titles of Books 〈…〉 they have written and published The Incorporations also of Princes Dakes Marquesâ—es Earls c. Archbishops Bishops Abbaâ—s Priors c. Deans Archdeacons c. with their Characters c. 12. Those that have been actually created or inveâ—ted with Degrees or have had Degrees confer'd upon then without any or but little Scholastical Exercise performed for them I mean the Names of such only who have been Princes Dukes Marqueâ—ses c. Archbishops Bishops Temporal Lords Baronets Knights eminent Common Lawyers c. The Names also of certain Writers who have been created and of such who have been supposed to have had something of Eminence in them or have 〈…〉 in Church or State with their Char. c. 13. 〈◊〉 Scholars and Writers with their Characters and sometimes an Account of their Works who have 〈◊〉 in Oxon purposely to advance themselves in Learning or for the sake of Libraries An. Dom. 1500. An. 15-16 Hen 7. The Chancellour of the University this year was Dr. John Moreton Archb. of Canterbury and Cardinal of S. Anastasius But he dying in the Month of Sept. Dr Will. Atwater became Câ—ncellarius 〈◊〉 and in his Absence W. Herward D. D. and others At length in the beginning of Nov. following the Members of the University elected for their Chancellour Dr. Will. Smith Bishop of 〈◊〉 Which honorable Office he upon notice by Letters accepting the said Members delegated Mr. John Reede Chaplain to the Prince afterwards Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester and Mr. John Dunham Bâ—ch of Div. to give him his Oath which being taken he was admitted to his Office The 〈◊〉 or Vicechancellour of the University was this year Mr Will. 〈◊〉 D. D 〈◊〉 S. Mary Magdâ—â—â—â— Coll. Proctors 〈…〉 〈…〉 The Senior Proctor who was Fellow of Line Coll. was afterwards Archdeacon of Stow in the place as I conceive of Hugh Hanworth who dying the 7th of March 1518 was buried in the Cath. Church of Lincoln He the said Darby also was Canon resident of Line and Prebendary of Ketton in the said Church and dying in 1542 was buried in Chanter Isle joyning to the Cath. Ch. of Line before mentioned See more of him and his Benefaction to Learning in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxom lib. 2. p. 161. Masters of Art Or such who were licensed to proceed in Arts or admitted among the number of Masters of the Faculty of Arts in order to their proceeding or being compleated in that Degree in the Act or Comitia following Will Gray or Grey The same as I have just reason to conceive who was some years after this time Archdeacon of Berkshire in the place of Christop Twinkley as also Prebendary of Horton in the Church of Sarton He died in the Year 1521 at which time he bequeathed twenty Marks to the University Chest four Marks for the Reparation of S. Mary's Church and four Pounds to buy a new pair of Organs to be plaid upon in the said Church For which and other his good Deeds was yearly a Dirige and Mass said for the health of his Soul In his Archdeaconry succeeded Rob. Audley nearly related to Edm. Audley B. of Sarum 14 Feb. 1521. Opponents in Divinity Or such who opposed in Divinity disputations in the School belonging to that Faculty in order to their Admission to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity Tho. Browne He was about this time Prior of the Cell at Dunster in Somersetshire The said Cell or Priory was for Benedictines or Black Monks and stood as Jo. Leland tells us in the roots of the North-west side of the Castle at Durster and was a Cell to the Priory at Bathe Bachelaurs of Divinity Or such who were admitted to the reading of the Master of the Sentences or to the Sentences of Pet. Lombard John Storke or Sterke Prior of the House or Coll. of the Fryers of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit This Coll. was situated in the North Suburb of Oxon. On the scite of which place Wadham Coll. was afterwards built John Hakebourne Prior of the Coll. of S. Mary the Virgin a Nursery for 〈◊〉 Regulars of the Order of S. Austin within the University of Oxon The great Gate of this Coll. which is now standing is almost opposite to that of New Inn in a Lane commonly called New Inn Lane This John Hâ—keboâ—n I take to be the same with him who is sometimes written John Haukebourn who was after this time Doctor of Divinity and Lord Abbat of the Monastery of our Lady at Cirencester a place for Black Canons in Glocestersâ—re John Holwel of Exeter Coll. In the year 1505 he occurs Principal of Black Hall near to that of Hart about which time he was Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter Doctors of the Civil Law Or such who were 〈◊〉 to proceed in the Civil Law or admitted Doctors of the Civil Law in order to proceed or to be compleated Doctors in the Act following Henry Wilcocks now or about this time Principal or chief Moderator of the Civil Law School in the Parish of S. Edward being Deputy for Dr. Will. Warham Master of the Rolls and afterwards Archb of Canterbury This Civil Law School and the Church of S Edward both which joyned together have been time out of mind demolished They stood in or near that Lane which we now call Blew-â—oar Lane near to the Back-gate of the 〈◊〉 Inn. This Dr. Wilcocks was Archdeacon of 〈◊〉 in which Dignity he was succeeded by Ric. Mawdly or
Mawdion D. D and Vicar gen to Dr. Smith Bishop of Lincoln Doctors of the Canon Law Or such who were licensed to proceed in the Decrees or Canon Law c. Roger Sandyford or Sandford Principal of Broadgates Hall in the Parish of All Saints Upon the Resignation of Philip Agard an Inceptor in the sacred Canons or Decrees the said Rog. Sandford succeeded in the Principality of that Hall in 1498. which Hall did once stand where now is a Yard containing divers Tenements belonging to Magd College the Gate leading to which is almost opposite to the sometimes Inn called the Swâ—n in that part of the High Street between the Churches of All 〈◊〉 and S. Mary Will. Horsley Principal of Pâ—ckwaters Inn. This Inn is involved in that Quadrangle belonging to Ch Ch. now called Peckwater This year was a Supplicate made in the venerable Congregation of Regents for one Tho. Dalby to be admitted to a Degree in Decrees but whether he was admitted I cannot yet tell This Tho. Dalby whom I find afterwards written Doctor of Decrees was installed Archdeacon of Richmond in Oct. 1506 upon the Promotion of James Stanley to the See of Ely was made about that time Prebendary of the Prebend of Stillington and Canon residentiary in the Church of York afterwards the thirty seventh Provost of the Church of S. John at Beverley Treasurer of the Pallace of Tho. Savage sometimes Archb. of York Chaplain and Counsellor to King Hen. 7. and Dean of the Chappel to the Duke of Richmond and Somerset This Dr. Dalby died 26 Jan. 1525 and was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cath. Church of York I find another Tho. Dalby who was Archdeacon of Richmond and Residentiary in the Church of York but he dying in 1400 must not be supposed to be the same with the former Doctors of Divinity Or such who were licensed to proceed in Divinity or admitted Doctors or Professors of Divinity or of the Holy Writ in order to their proceeding or being compleated in that Degree in the Act following William Vavasor Gardian or Warden of the House or Coll. of the Franciscans or Grey Fryers in the South Suburb of Oxon. This Coll. was situated without Little Southgate commonly called Watergate where now a Brewer and a Tanner besides other People live and the Gardens and Grove belonging thereunto situated on the West side of the said Coll. are now called by the Name of Paradise Garden This College was one of the famousest Places for learned Fryers in the Christian World and therein did Roger Bacon the Miracle of his Age for Learning live and die in the Habit of a Franciscan Another Miracle also did live and study there about Roger's death named John Doâ—â—s highly famed at this day beyond the Seas for those Books which he hath written yet so little valued now among many English Men that the Philosopher of Malmsbury doth not stick to say that any ingenious Reader not knowing what was the design meaning the Pope's design to carry on his Authority would judge him to have been the most egregious Blockhead in the World so obscure and senseless are his Writings Hugh Saâ—ders alias Shackspear of Merton Coll. He was afterwards Principal of S. Albans Hall and is stiled in one of our publick Registers Vir literis virtute percelebis John Stanywell Prior of the Benedictine Monks of Glocester Coll. now Gloc. Hall He was the same Person with John Stonywell who was soon after Lord Abbat of Pershore a Monastery for Benedictines in Worcestershire and a Bishop by the Title of Episc Poâ—etensis as I have among the Bishops told you Joh. Avery of Lincoln Coll. He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University John Percivall the seven and fortieth Minister or Provincial of the Minorites Franciscans or Grey Fryers in England did proceed about this Year in Divinity See among the Writers under the year 1502. Joh. Kynton a Minorite or Franciscan did also proceed this year but when admitted I find not An. Dom. 1501 An. 16 17 Hen. 7 Chancellour Dr. Will. Smyth Bishop of Lincoln afterwards the worthy Founder of Brasnose Coll. Commissaries Will. Atwater beforemention'd Tho. Bâ—â—ke D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll. Hugh Saunders D. D. beforemention'd Proctors John Game of Allsoules Coll. elected for the Southern Proctor Will. Dale elected for the Northern Proctor Bachelaurs of the Civil Law Or such who were admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Institutions Thomas Howell Archdeacon of Cardigan c. Mast of Arts Or such who were licensed to proceed in Arts c. William Hew He was afterwards Bishop of Oâ—â—se in Spain John Longland of S. Mar. Magd. Coll. He became Bishop of Linc. in 1521. Tho. Randolph of New Coll. did proceed about this year He was afterwards Canon and Prebendary of the Cath. Church at Lincoln Bach. of Divinity Tho. Brynknell of Linc. Coll. See more among the Writers under the year 1521. Clement Lychfeld a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of Eâ—â—sham in Worcestershire He was afterwards Abbat of that Place and continuing there till towards the dissoultion of Religious Houses with a resolution not to surrender his House for a profane use was at length by the tricks of Tho. â—romwel Secretary of State to K. Hen 8. perswaded to resign his pastoral Staff to one Philip Hawford alias Ballard a young Monk of Evesham which being done accordingly not altogether to the content of Lychfeld was a Surrender of that Monastery soon after made into the hands of the said King For which Service Ballard had not only a considerable Pension allowed but also the Deanery of Worcester given to him an 1553 â— Mar. upon the deprivation of one John Barlow M. A. who had been installed Dean in June 1544 in the place of Hen. Holbeach alias Rands the first Dean afterwards Bishop of Lincoln As for Lychfeld who was a most pious and zealous man in the way he professed he expended much Money in building the Abbey of Evesham and other places belonging to it as also in building and adorning the Choir He made also a right sumptuous and high square Tower of Stone in the Cemitery of Evesham This Tower had a great Bell in it and a goodly Clock and was as a Gatehouse to one piece of the Abbey This Abbat builded at his Mâ—â—or at Vssâ—nham about a mile above Evesham This good man died at or near Evesham and was buried in a Chappel which he before had built joyning to the Abbey-Church there 9 Octob. 1540. In memory of whom was in his life time an Inscription set up in a Window of the said Church running thus Orate pro anima Domini Clementis Lychfeld Sacerdotis cujus tempore turris Eveshamiae â—dficata est John Colet M. A. was about this time admitted to the reading of the Sentences Henry Rytoner Abbat of Rewley a Monastery for Cistercians in the West Suburb of Oxon.
See among the Doctors of Law in 1542. In the month of July I find a Supplicate made for one Roger Haskham to be incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge but whether he was incorporated I find it not to stand in the Register having been probably neglected as things of that nature when the Supplicates are set down have frequently been done I take this person to be the same with Reg. Ascham who was born at Kirby wiske in Yorkshire an 1515 educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge where he attained to great excellency in the Latin and Greek Tongues took the degree of M. of A. in that University 1537 and was a great Tutor and did much good by his admirable Learning there This Person by the way I must let the Reader know was a passing good Orator had a great faculty in writing Greek Lat. and Engl. Epistles which were not only excellent for matter but for the neatness of the hand-writing adorned with Illumination which we now call Limning in the margin And being the best of all Scholars in his time for those matters he was entertained as an Instructor in them by Prince Edward the Lady Elizabeth and the two Brothers Henry and Charles Dukes of Suffolk In 1544 he succeeded John Cheek in the Oratorship of the University of Cambridge which he performed to the wonder and applause of all and in the Reign of Ed. 6. he accompanied Sir Rich. Mâ—rysine in his Embassy to the Emperor Charles 5. where continuing about three years in which time he became acquainted with many learned men among whom John Sturmius was one he returned upon the news of the death of K. Ed. 6. from whom he had not only received an annual Pension in his absence but also the gift of the Latin Secretariship so that at the present being destitute of convenient maintenance and Friends was by the endeavours of the Lord Paget and Dr. Steph. Gardiner Bish of Winchester made Secretary of the Latin Tongue to Qu. Mary In 1554 he married one Margaret Hâ—w by whom he had a considerable Portion yet notwithstanding that and his Place he lived and died not according to his condition being given to Dicing and Cock-fighting After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was not only continued in his place of Secretary and made Tutor to her for the Greek Tongue but also by her favour was installed Prebendary of Wetwang in the Church of York by the deprivation of George Palmes LL. D. on the eleventh day of March 1559. This Person whose Memory is celebrated to this day among learned men for Oratory Poetry and the Greek Tongue hath written 1 Toxophilus the School or partitions of Shooting contained in two books written 1544 c. Lond. 1571 qu. As in his later days he delighted much in Dicing and Cockfighting so in his younger while at Cambridge in Archerâ— wherein he much excelled 2 The Schoolmaster or a plain and perfect way of teaching Children to understand write and speak the Latin Tongue c. in two Books Lond. 1570 and 1589 qu. 3 A report and discourse of the affairs and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his Court during certain years while he was there printed in qu. 4 Familiarium Epistolarum libri tres c. Lond. 1577 78. oct 5 Quaedam poemata printed with the Epistles 6 Apol. contra missam ejus praestigias c. printed about 1577 in oct This eminent Scholar R. Ascham died on the 30 of Dec. 1568 and was buried without any funeral Pomp on the 4 of Jan. following in the church of S. Sepulchre without Newgate London leaving behind him this character by a learned person that he inter primes nostrae nationis literas Latinas Graecas stylique puritatem cum eloquentiae laude excoluit An. Dom. 1542. An. 34 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. John Estwyke of Mert. Coll. Will. Pye of Oriel again Elected in the beginning of Easter Term by the Suffrages of the Doctors and Heads of Colleges and Halls Bach. of Arts. May 16. Tho. Neale of New Coll. now in much esteem for his great knowledge in the Greek Tongue Nov. 16. Henry Pendleton of Brasn Coll. In all about 27 and but two that supplicated for that degree who were not admitted Bach. of Law Five this year were admitted Bachelaurs of the Civil Law and but two there were that supplicated for that degree One of them was named Will. Copinger a Civilian of New Coll. but whether he was really admitted I find not This Person who was a Londoner born I take to be the same who was afterwards a Servant to Dr. Steph. Gardiner B. of Winchester and Bearer of the Great Seal before him while he was Lord Chancellour After Gardiner's Death which hapned in 1555 he became one of the Benedictine Monks of Westminster where continuing till Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown was soon after committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where as one saith falling mad died in a short time after I find another Will. Copinger who was M. of A. of this University long before the other man's time who in his Works in MS. which are in Ball. Coll. Library and therefore thought by some to have been of that House did shew himself to be a very pious Divine and a Pronouncer of the men of this World to be vain in whom the knowledge of God reigneth not He wrot 1 De vitiis virtutibus lib. 1. The beginning of which is Vani sunt omnes homines c. 2 Sacramentale quoddam and other things which hath made his name famous to Posterity When he lived or in what Kings Reign he was renown'd for his Learning I cannot tell neither doth Bale himself know Mast of Arts. Jul. 12. Simon Bellâ—stre He was about this time Archdeacon of Colchester occurring by that Title 1545 but whether he succeeded Rob. Aldridge or Hugh Weston in that Dignity I know not Besides him were but eleven more that were admitted Bach. of Div. June 19. Will. Cheadsey of C. C. Coll. Afterwards President of that House and a Writer Three more were admitted and three there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom was John Marlow or Merlow of Mert. Coll. mention'd under the year 1527. Doct. of both the Laws Oct. 18. Joh. Cottrell of New Coll. This Person who was lately Principal of S. Laurence Hall involv'd afterwards within the limits of Jesus Coll. in the Parish of S. Michael was now Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of one Will. Skipp who occurs Archd. of that place in 1537. He the said Dr. Cottrell was afterwards Vicar General to Paul the first Bish of Bristol did succeed Pol. Virgil in the Archdeaconry of Wells an 1554 or thereabouts being the first year of Qu. Mary at which time Virgil was in Italy among the living In the same year also he was made Prebendary of Tymberscombe in the Church of Wells
Creations Apr… Marmaduke Middleton Bishop of St. David and much deserving of the Church of Ireland was actually created Doct. of Div. of Dr. Humphrey and both the Proctors Jul. 12. Thom. Thornton Vicechanc. of this University Canon of Ch. Church in Oxon. of Worcester and Hereford of which last place he was also Chauntor and about this time Master of Ledbury Hospital in Herefordshire was actually created D. of D. He surrendred up his last breath on the 15. April an 1629. aged 88. and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Ledbury Over his grave was a handsome monument set up for him in the North wall of the Chancel with a large inscription thereon wherein 't is said that he was born at Harrew on the Hill in Middlesex that he was purioris Latini Sermonis Author primarius that he was a benefactor to the poor People of Ledbury Hospital that he adorned and repaired the Library at Hereford and enriched it with books that he was a common refuge for young poor Scholars of great hopes and parts and tutor to Sir Philip Sidney when he was of Ch. Ch. c. To which I add that he was also Tutor to the Learned Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Arms. An. Dom. 1584. An. 26 Elizab. An. 27 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. John Vnderhyll D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll. Jul. 16. Proct. Thom. Smith of Ch. Ch. Rich. Mercer of Exet. Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Nov. 12. Francis Bradshaw of Magd. Coll See among the Doctors of Div. 1607. 28. Richard Latewar of St. John Coll. Feb. 1. Hen. Salesbury of St. Alb. Hall Since the life or character of this Person was printed which you may see in p. 226. num 265. I find that he was of the Family of the Salesburies of Dolbelider in Denbighshire and that after Joh. David Rhese whom he stiles Vir ingenio felix literarum ac linguarum cognitione insignis had published his Cambro Brytannicae institutiones rudimenta he wrot and published Grammatica Britannica in usum linguae studiosorum Juccinctâ methodo perspicuitate facili conscriptae Lond. 1593. oct dedic to Henry Earl of Pembroke which is all I know of him yet only that he was living at Denbigh in that year 9. John Randall of Trinity afterwards of Lincolne Coll. Mar. 15. Sim. Wastell of Qu. Coll. Admitted 93 or thereabouts Bach. of Law Apr. 31. John Favour of New Coll. Jul. 10. Pet. Vâ—erheile sometimes written Varahiâ—ius Burgensis Belga which is all I know of him Rich. Meredith of New Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree Jul. 1. but was not admitted See among the Bach. of Divinity 1606. Admitted 4. Mast of Arts. May 25. John Philipps of St. Maries Hall He was the same who took the Degree of Bach. of A. 1579 and the same as it seems who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man 30. Will. Fulbeck of Glocester Hall lately of C. C. Coll. June 2. Rich. Field of Magd. Hall 3. Jerem. Corderoy lately of St. Alb. Hall Jun. 22. John Milward of Broadgates Hall lately of Ch. Ch. One John Milward D. D. Chapl. to K. Jam. 1. was among other things Author of Jacobs great day of trouble and deliverance Serm. at Pauls cross 5. Aug. 1607 upon his Maj. deliverance from Gowries treasons on Jerem. 30. 7. Lond. 1610. qu. Whether he be the same with John Milward M. of A. who was a Derbysh Man born I know not He that was D. D. and an Author died on the Kal. of Aug. 1609 and the next year the Sermon was published by his Brother Matthew Milward Jul. 6. Owen Wood of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards made Dean of Armagh in Ireland by the favour as I suppose of Rob. E. of Essex while he was a Lieutenant of that Kingdom in whose treasons he was engaged 1600 and an especial benefactor to his College One of both his names was a practitioner in Physick and wrot An alphabetical book of Physical secrets as also A small treatise of the judgment of Vrines Both printed at Lond. 1632. and 39. oct Jul. 7. Rob. Wright of Trin. Coll. Jan. 18. Tho. Savile of Merton Coll. This Person who was younger Brother to Sir Hen. Savile did afterwards travel into various Countries beyond the Seas whereby he improved himself much in several sorts of learning After his return he was by his Brothers endeavours made Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsore where being noted for his excellencies caused Rich. Mountague Fellow of that house to number him among the great Philologers of this nation and to be equal with the learned Camden unfortunate Hen. Cuffe Rich. Thompson old Andr. Downes c. to all whom he was well known especially to the first as by many learned Letters written between them appears This Tho. Savile died in his Proctorship of the University 12. Jan. 1592 and was buried in the choire of the Church or Chappel of Merton College where I find this character of him Fuit Sidus lucidissimum qui apud suos exteros literarum virtutis fama ac morum urbanitate perceâ—ebris c. I find another I cannot say the same Thom. Savâ—le whom Camden calls his right learned friend an 1582. and a third who writes himself Gentleman Author of 1 The Prisoners conference handled by way of dialogue between a Knight and a Gentleman being abridged of their liberty Lond. 1605. oct 2 The raising of them that are fallen c. Lond. 1606. qu. Jan. 20. John Lloyd of New Coll. Feb. 20. Will. Suttâ—n of Ch. Ch. Admitted 87. Bach. of Div. May 10. Richard Lewes He was Author of a Sermon preached at Pauls Cross intit Isaac his testament c. on Gen. 21. ver 1. to the 10th Oxon. 1594. oct dedicated to Sir Hen. Vnton of Wadley in Berks. Knight and no doubt of others but such I have not yet seen Jun. 22. John Prime of New Coll. Jul. 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. 15. Rob. Cooke of Brasn Coll. Feb. 1. Miles Smith of Ch. Ch. Admitted 13. Doct. of Law Mar. 17. John Drewry of Linc. Coll. In 1592 he succeeded Dr. John Kennall in the Archdeaconry of Oxford and dying in the Cathedral close at Chichester where he had a Dignity 9. June 1614 was succeeded by William Bridges Son of Dr. Bridges Bishop of Oxon as I shall elsewhere tell you This Dr. John Drewry was near of kin if not Son to Will. Drewry Doct. of the Civil Law and Commissary or Master of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury who died in the latter end of 1589 and to Sir Will. Drewry of Westâ—n in Oxfordshire Knight sometimes Lord Justice of Ireland who died 1579. ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 6. John Walsall of Ch. Ch. 15. Rob. Chaloner of the same house a compounder In 1589 he was installed Canon of Windsore being then double beneficed at least and tho not eminently
Bonham afterwards drawn into method and form as now they are in the said book by Edward Poeton of Petworth Licentiat in Physick and Chirurgery late and long servant to the aforesaid Dr. Bâ—nham Nov. 11. Franc. Kinaston M. A. of Cambridge lately of Oriel Coll. Mar. 9. Will. Young M. A. of Aberdeen in Scotland now a Student in Lincoln Coll. In the latter end of this year one Matthew Evans a Gentleman of London well skill'd in the Hebrew Greek Lat. and Vulgar tongues sojourned in the University purposely to compleat certain writings lying by him for the benefit of the learned republick c. Thus in the license granted to him by the ven congregation in order to his admission into the pub Library But what writings they were that he was about to finish with the help of the said Lib. I know not nor any thing else of the Man An. Dom. 1612. An. 10. Jac. 1. Chanc. theâ— same Vicechanc. the same July 28. Proct. Tho. Seller of Trin. Coll. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. Ap. 22 The junior of which was afterwards Bishop of Oxon and Norwich Bach. of Arts. May 5. Richard Steuart of Magd. hall afterwards of All 's Coll. 14. Rob. Weldâ—n Barten Holyday of Ch. Ch. July 1. Jerem. Stephens Vivian Molineux of Brasn Coll. The last of these two who was Son of Sir Rich. Molineux of Sefton in Lanc. and Visc Molineux of Marybourgh in Ireland travelled afterwards into several forreign Countries was at Rome where tho puritanically educated under the tuition of Sam. Radcliff of Brasn Coll he changed his Religion returned a well bred Man was 〈◊〉 and in the grand Rebellion suffer'd for the royal cause 〈◊〉 translated from Spanish into English A treatise of the difference betwixt the temporal and eternal Lond. 1672. oct written originally by Eusebius Nieremberg S. â— Feb. 8. Will. Thomas of Bras Coll. Of about 198 Bachelaurs of Arts that were admitted this year I only find the aforesaid five Persons Molineux being excepted who were afterwards Writers as in the other volume you shall see at large Bach. of Law Nov. 16. Robert Gentilis of All 's Coll. Son of Aubrey Gentilis Besides him who will be mention'd also in the next vol. were only three more admitted Mast of Arts. May 5. Gilb. Ironside of Trin. Coll. 14. Edw. Boughen Gabriel Clarke of Ch. Ch. The last of these two I take to be the same Gabr. Clarke who was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland by Dr. Neile Bishop of Durham upon the resignation of Dr. John Craddock 7. Aug. 1619. Which G. Clarke who is stiled D. D. in the Registers of the Church of Durham became Archdeacon of Durham by the same hand on the death of Will. Moreton Bach. of Divinity in the beginning of Sept. 1620. Tho. Dugard of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day Quaere 23. Sam. Smith Accepted Frewen of Magd. Coll. June 30. Percivall Burrell of Ch. Ch. This Person who was originally of Hart hall and afterwards Preacher at Suttons Hospital called the Charter-house near London published Suttons Synagogue or the English Centurion Serm. on Luke 7. part of the 5. vers Lond. 1629. qu. and perhaps other things Jul. 2. Edw. Cotton of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was Son of Will. Cotton Bishop of Exeter and was about this time Archdeacon of Totness in the Dioc. of Exeter He departed this life in 1647 whereupon his Archdeaconry continuing void till the restauration of K. Charles 2. Franc. Fulwood D. D. then succeeded 9. Thom. Hayne of Linc. Tho. Howell of Jesus Will. Greenhill of Magd. Coll. Jan… John Heath Hen. Welstede of New Coll. The last of these two who was now Chaplain as I conceive of New Coll. but lately of Broadgates hall was the same Welstede who wrot and published The cure of a hard heart printed 1624. 5. Mar. 5. Nathaniel Grenfeild of St. Edm. hall He was afterwards Preacher at Whitfield in Oxfordshire and the writer and publisher of The great day or a Sermon setting forth the desperate estate and condition of the wicked at the day of Judgment on Rev. 6. 15 16 17. Lond. 1615. oct and perhaps of other things Quaere 18. Anthony White Chaplain of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Wargrave in Berks. and the writer and publisher of 1 Truth purchased on Prov. 23. ver 23. 2 Errour abandoned on Jam. 1. 16. Both which were preached at St. Maries in Oxford and were printed at Oxon. 1628 and dedicated by the Author to his Patron Sir Hen. Nevill of Billingbere Admitted 110. Bach. of Div. July 9. Will. Bridges Will. Twisse of New Coll. The first of these two who was Son to Dr. John Bridges Bishop of Oxon was by his Fathers endeavours made Archdeacon of that Diocess in June 1614 he being then one of the Fellows of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester which dignity he holding to the time of his death was succeeded by Barten Holyday of Ch. Ch. before the year 1626. July 9. Franc. James Hâ—n Byam of Ch. Ch. Of the first you may see more among the D. of D. an 1614. Admitted 22. Doct. of Law Jun. 30. Nathaniel Harris of New Coll. He died at Blechingley in Surrâ—y 1625. Basil Wood of All 's Coll. He was about this time Chancellour of St. Asaph and of Rochester July 9. Arthur Ducke Dec. 7. Charles Caesar of All 's Coll. The last who was a younger Son of St. Julius Caesar Master of the Rolls was afterwards a Knight Judge of the Audience and Master of the Faculties ☜ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jun 30. John Prideaux John Whetcomb of Exet. Coll. July 2. Will. Whyte of Trin. Coll. 16. John Brookes of Vniv. Coll. He was about this time Canon residentiary of York and in Apr. 1615 became chauntor thereof in the place of Hen. Banks D. D. who had been admitted thereunto in Apr. 1613 on the death of John Gibson LL. D. and Knight which hapned 28. Feb. 1612. As for the said Brokes he died 23 March 1616. aged 49 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at York Janu. 27. John Abbott of Ball. Coll. Incorporations June 30. George Ramsey a Scot was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood elsewhere On the 14. Jul. being the day after the publick Act had been celebrated these Cantabrigians following were incorporated July 14. Henry Burton M. A. This Person who made a great noise and disturbance in his time was born in an obscure town called Birdsall in Yorkshire educated in St. Johns Coll. in the said University afterwards was Tutor or Master to the Sons of Robert Lord Carey of Lepington whose Lady was Governess to Pr. Char. when a Child sole officer which some call Clerk in the Closet of Pr. Henry and after his death to the said Prince Charles removed from his Service when that Prince became Kings for his pragmaticalness and impudence in demonstrating by a letter which he presented to the said King how popishly affected
two last you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1624. and of the other in my discourse of George Carew among the Writers under the year 1629. 18. Will. Lucy of Trin. Dec. 1. Joh West of Magd. 17. Jam. Howell of Jes Coll. The first of these last three was afterwards Bishop of S. Davids and the second was Son of the Lord de la Warr. Feb 9. Jo. Angell 10. Alex. Huish of Magd. Hall The last of these two was afterwards one of the original Scholars of Wadham Coll. and a Writer of note Feb. 17. Bevill Grenevil of Exeter Coll. the eldest Son of a Kt. was then admitted not only Bach. of Arts but about the same time the senior Collector of the Bachelaurs that determined this year He was afterwards a Knight and much famed for his exemplary Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. in the beginning of the Rebellion which was raised by a prevalent Party Presbyterians in the two houses of Parliament an 1642. He was killed in his Majesty's Service at Lansdowne near Bathe 5 July 1643 leaving a Son behind him named John sometimes a Gent. Com. in Gloc. Hall made the first Earl of Bathe of his name by K. Ch. 2. Soon after Sir Bevil's death came out a Book of Verses made by several Oxonians wherein you 'll find much of his Worth and Gallantry He had a Brother named Sir Rich. Grenevill who had received some Education in this University was afterwards a stout maintainer of the Kings Cause in the said Rebellion was High Sheriff of Devon 1645 and Author of A narrative of the affairs of the West since the defeat of the Earl of Essex at Lestithiell in Cornwal an 1644. in 3 sheets in qu. Feb. 17. Henry Carey of Exeter Coll. the eldest Son of a Knight was also then admitted Bachelaur and the junior Collector He was afterwards Earl of Monmouth and a frequent Translator of Books as I shall hereafter tell you Thom. Carey of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day This Themas who was younger Brother to the said Henry Carey was born in Northumberland while his Father Sir Robert Carey was Warden of the Marches towards Scotland proved afterwards a most ingenious Poet and was Author of several Poems printed scatter'dly in divers Books one of which beginning Farewel fair Saint c. had a vocal Composition of two parts set to it by the sometimes famed Musitian Henry Lawes Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1642 he adhered to his Majesty being then of the Bedchamber to and much esteemed by him But after that good King had lost his head he took it so much to heart that he fell suddenly sick and died before the expiration of the year 1643 aged 53 or thereabouts Soon after his Body was buried in a Vault the burying place of his Family under S. Joh Bapt. Chappel within the precincts of S. Peter's Church in Westminster Mar. 3. Will. Pemble of Magd. Coll. As for Cox Parr Morgan Potter Singe Lucy Howell Angell and Huish will be large mention made in the other Volume of this work or elsewhere Adm. 189. Mast of Arts. Apr. 28. Nath. Carpenter of Exet. Coll. June 10. Nich. Grey of Ch. Ch. July 8. Christop Potter of Qu. Dec. 3. Humph. Sydenham of Wadham Jan. 27. Giles Widdowes of Oriel Coll. Jasper Fisher of Magd. Hall was admitted the same day Adm. 102. Bach. of Phys. March ult Tobias Venner of S. Albans Hall Not one besides him was admitted this year Bach. of Div. June 17. Thom. Powell of Bras Coll. He hath published A Sermon preached at S. Maries in Oxon on Exod. 28. 34. Oxon. 1613. qu. and perhaps others or else certain Theological Tracts which is all I know of him only that he was a Caernarvanshire man born Jul. 8. Will. Symonds of Magd. Dan. Faireclough of C. C. Coll. Nov. 25. Rich. Tillesley of S. Joh. Dec. 1. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. Adm. 13. Doct. of Law Apr. 28. Joh. Hoskâ—ns of New Coll. He was commonly called John Hoskins junior as I have among the Writers told you Doct. of Phys June 21. Dan. Price Lew. Bayly of Ex. Coll. Jul. 8. Will. Symonds of Magd. Coll. who accumulated Nov. 9. John Flemmyng Warden of Wadham Coll. formerly Fellow of that of Exeter and about this time one of his Majesties Chaplains 29. Will. Ballow of Ch. Ch. He died in Dec. 1618. Dec. 1. George Carleton of Mert. Coll. Joh. Wilkinson of Magd. Hall The last of the said two Doctors was now Principal of the said Hall of S. M. Magd. and afterwards was President of Magd. Coll. but hath published nothing One John Wilkinson hath written An Exposition of the 13 chapt of the Revelations of Jesus Christ Printed privately in 1619. qu. The publisher of which tells us that it was the purpose and desire of the Author of the said Book to have published his judgment of the whole Book of the Revelation but through the malice of the Prelates as he adds who divers times spoiled him of his goods and kept him many years in prison he was prevented of his purpose He tells us also that after his death some of his Labours coming into the hands of his Friends in scatter'd and imperfect papers they laboured with the help of others that heard him declare his judgment therein to set forth the said little Book or Treatise Whether this Joh. Wilkinson was of Oxon. I cannot yet tell neither whether he was the same Joh. Wilkinson M. of A. who became Rector of Babcary in Somersetshire in Apr. 1587. Another Joh. Wilkinson was a Lawyer of Bernards Inn near London who hath published A treatise collected out of the Statutes of this Kingdom concerning the Office and Authority of Coroners and Sheriffs And another entit An easie and plain method for the keeping of a Court Leet Both printed in 1620 c. in oct Whether he was ever bred in any University I know not sure I am one Rob. Wilkinson was who applying his study to Divinity proceeded in that Faculty at Cambr. I think was Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark and a publisher of several sermons as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you He died in the year 1617. Incorporations Apr. 3. Christianus Rumphius Doctor of Philosophy and Physick chief and principal Physician to Frederick 5 Prince Elect. of the Palat. and to the illustrious Lady Elizabeth daughter of K James 1. of England was incorporated Doctor of Phys as he had stood at Basil and Heydelberg in the house of Sir Joh. Bennet Knight situated in Warwick lane within the City of London by vertue of a Commission from the Vicechancellour directed to the said Sir Joh. Bennet Joh. Spenser D. D. President of C. C. Coll. Tho. Clayton Doctor of Phys and others The Incorporations of the Cantabrigians are this year omitted by the publick Scribe Creations Mar. 30. Will. Hakewill of Lincolns Inn Esq sometimes a Student in Exâ—ter Coll. was then actually created M. of A. being the
Doct. of Div. May 12. Thomas Sutton of Qu. 23. Edw. Brunker of Wad Coll. Jun. 26. Anth. Morgan Principal of St. Albans hall formerly Fellow of Magdalen Coll. Dec. 18. Richard Hall of All 's Coll. Incorporations May 28. Thomas Rhead Rhaedus M. of A. of Aberdene in Scotland He had before been a Student in this University and this year published Paraphrisis Psalma 104. Lond. 1620. in oct and about the same time as it should seem Epist ad Episcopum Roffensem in oct Alex. Rhead M. of A. of the same University was incorporated the same day One Alex. Rhead was Proctor of the University of Cambr. four years before this time whom I take to be the same Person who was afterwards Minister of Yeatley in Hampshire where he died about 1628. I shall make mention of another of both his names among the Creations following June 6. Festus Hommius D. D. of the University of Leyden was incorporated in that Degree in a meeting called Simile primo or Assimilatio parva held at six of the Clock in the morning Hommius then having on his legs a green pair of stockings and a habit not altogether proper for his profession He was at this time a Divine of great note in the Low Countries and had lately been Scribe at the Synod of Dort The occasion of his coming into England with the Catalogue of the books he wrot John Meursius will tell you He was born at Hielsem in the territory of Leenwerden in Westfriesen and dying 5. July 1642 aged 66 years and six months was buried at Leyden in the Church of St. Peter as I conceive having been Pastâ—r of that Church forty and Rector of the College there twenty years June 26. Peter Chamberlayne Doct. of Phys of the University of Padua He hath written 1 The poor mans Advocate or Englands Samaritan c. Lond. 1649. qu. 2 Vindication of publick artificial Bathes and other things and from his Papers was published The accomplished Midwife c. printed with cuts in 1673. in oct Afterwards it was inlarged by others and several times published One Tho. Chamberlaine who was called and written Doct. of Phys did practise his faculty in the Parish of St. Gregory in London and died as I think in Mark-lane 1666 but whether he was ever of the Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell Jul. 7. Henry Briggs M. A. John Bainbridge Doct. of Phys of Cambr. Of the first I have spoken largely among the Writers under the year 1630 and of the other I shall God willing make mention in the 2. Vol. of this work July 11. Will. Jackson M. A. of the same University Perhaps he may be the same Will. Jackson who was now Term-Lecturer at Whittington Coll. in London and who before had published The Celestial husbandry or the tillage of the Soul Serm. at Pauls Cross 25. Feb. 1615 on Osea 10. 12. Lond. 1616. qu. Thomas Whitfield M. of A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day I take this Person to be the same Tho. Whitfield who was afterwards Minister of Great Yarmouth in Norfolke Author of 1 A refutation of the loose opinions and licentious tenets wherewith those Lay-preachers which wander up and down the kingdom labour to seduce the simple People Or an Examination of the erroneous Doctrines of Thomas More late a Weaver in Wells near Wisbich in his book The Universality of Gods free grace to mankind Lond. 1646. qu. 2 Full answer to the Arminian tenets concerning election redemption conversion and perseverance printed there the same year 3 Discourse of the Liberty of conscience c. Lond. 1649. qu. 4 The righteous mans rejoycing Or a treatise tending to shew the nature of true joy whence it ariseth and to whom it belongs c. Lond. 1649. in tw 5 Extent of divine providence c. print 1651. qu. 6 Doctrines of Arminianisme and Pelagianisme stated Print 1652. qu. 7 Perswasive to peace amongst the sons of peace c. pr. 1655. in tw and other things This Thomas Whitfield being a Person that ran with the times of the interval removed to the rectory of Bugbrook in Northamptonshire where a neighbour of his named Tho. Pierce animadverted upon one or more of his books as I shall hereafter tell you He had a Son named John Whitfield M. A. and sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Rector of Bugbrook beforementioned and a publisher of one or more Sermons I find one Thomas Whitfield admitted Bach. of Arts as a member of Magd. hall 4. May 1631 and another of Hart hall 9. February the same year but what relation they had to the former Thomas I know not July 11. John Johnson D. D. of Cambr. One of both his names and D. of D. also was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester 24. Nov. 1598. in the place of Godf. Goldsborough promoted to the See of Glocester Which Archdeaconry the said Johnson resigned an 1610. Qu. whether the same July 12. Rich. Evans D. D. of the University of St. Andrew of Scotland Creations May 18. Thom. Grent of New Coll. was actually created Doctor of Phys He was afterwards famous for the making of artificial Bathes and discovering those that were natural but wanted money to make them fit for use 29. Alexander Rhead or Read Reidus a Scotch Man was actually created Doctor of Phys in the house of Convocation by virtue of the Letters from K. James 1. for that purpose This learned Scot who was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physitians in London and a Brother of the Company of Barber-chirurgions hath written and published 1 A description of the body of Man by artificial figures representing the members c. Lond. 1616. oct 2 Chirurgical Lectures of tumours and ulcers Lond. 1635. qu. 3 Treatise of the first part of Chirurgery which teacheth re-unition of the parts of the body disjoynted Lond. 1638. qu. 4 Treatise of the muscles of the body of Man Lond. 1637. qu. All which except the first were reprinted in 1650. qu. the Author being then dead after he had practised his faculty about 50 years 5 The manual of Anatomy or the dissection of the body of Man c. in 6. books Lond. 1638. in tw I think it is the same which some call his Epitome of Crookes Anatomy 6 Approved Medicines and Remedies for the diseases of the body of Man when printed I know not In his last Will he bequeathed 200 l. to the Marischal College in Aberdene in which house I presume he had been educated and all his books to the Library there Nov. 4. A young Man named Will. Moyle the eldest Son of an Esquire was created M. of A in Convocation He was then sent to the chief members of this University by Francis Viscount Verulam with his learned book Instauratio magna I think to be presented from the Authors to the publick Library In the month of September this year came into England the famous Theologist named Daniel Tilenus and published at
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
of Mrs. Mary Swaine the Wife of Mr. Will. Swaine at St. Botolphs without Aldersgate on Luke 10. 42. Lond. 1611. oct and perhaps other things He died about the beginning of November this year 1614 and was buried I presume in his Church of St. Martin beforementioned Mar. 23. Philip King M. A. of the same University Another of both his names was of this University as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1618. and 1645. This year Charles de Beauvais of the Isle of Guernsey a young Man most conversant in the study of learned arts was entred a Student in Bodies Library but whether he was matriculated as a member of any Coll. or Hall it appears not He is the same Ch. de Beauvais without doubt who was afterwards Author of 1 Dedisciplinis scientiis in genere de recto ordine quo sunt in Scholis Academiis docendae c. 2 Recta delineatio disciplinae Vniversalis seu primae Philosophiae itemque Logicae Which two were printed at Lond. 1648. in oct 3 Exercitations concerning the pure and true and the impure and false religion Lond. 1665. oct at which time the Author was Rector of Witheham in Sussex An. Dom. 1615. An. 13. Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Lord Egerton Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again July 17. Proct. Hugh Dicus of Brasn Coll. Richard Baylie of St. John Coll. Apr. 19. Bach. of Arts. May 4. John Bayly of Exet. Coll. 5. Steph. Geree of Magd. Hall July 5. Cornelius Burges of Wadh. 7. Charles Herle of Exeter Nov. 9. Francis Gough of New Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Dec. 13. James Lamb of Brasn College afterwards of St. Maries Hall Feb. 5. Thom. Twittie of Oriel 6. Thom. Paybody of Merton Coll. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1633 and of the other among the Masters of Arts an 1624. 7. John Brian of Queen Coll. I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same John Brian who published a funeral Sermon called The vertuous Daughter on Prov. 31. ver 29. Lond. 1636. qu. c. and perhaps other things Quaere 26. Alexander Gill Son of Alexander lately of Trin. Coll. now of Wadham and afterwards of Trinity again Five of these Bachelaurs namely Geree Burges Herle Lamb and Gill will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 203. Bach. of Law June Tho Merriot John South John Crook of New Coll. The first who will be mention'd in the next volume was a good Latinist and Orator The second was afterwards the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue and at length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Hyde Chauntor of Salisbury 24. Sept. 1666. He died at Writtle in Essex of which place he was Vicar in August 1672 and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Chauntorship was confer'd on Dr. Dan. Whitbye of Trin. Coll. As for the last John Crook he was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. 〈◊〉 Winchester Prebendary of the Cathedral there and Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magd. near to that City Admitted 9. Mast of Arts. May 3. Jerem. Stephens of Brasn 20. Will. Nicholson of Magd. Coll. Jun. 15. Rob. Weldon Barten Holyday of Ch. Ch. 17. Will. Thomas of Brasn Tho. Vicaâ— of Qu. 27. Griff. Higgs of Mert. Coll. Admitted 106. Bach. of Div. July 13. Sampson Price of Exeter Coll. Nov. 23. Edm. Gunter Samuel Fell Hen. Whistler of Trin. of Ch. Ch. Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. March 4. Fredericus Dorvilius of Exeter Coll. He writes himself Aquisgranensis natione Palatinus educatione being at this time a Sojournour in the said Coll. for the sake of Dr. Prideaux the Rector whom he much admired Adm. 15. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick July 3. Clement Westcombe of New Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in Physick He was about this time held in great value for the happy success in the practice of his faculty in and near the City of Exeter where he died in 1652 or thereabouts Doct. of Div. Mar. 27. Sam. Radcliff Principal June 17. John Barnston of Brasn Coll. The last of which who was now Chaplain to Egerton Lord Chancellour of England was about this time Canon Residentiary of Salisbury and afterwards a Benefactor to learning as I have told you elsewhere He lived to see himself outed of his spiritualities and dying 30. May 1645 was buried as it seems at Everton in Wilts Jun. 27. â—arnab Potter of Queens July 6. John King of Merton Coll. The last of these two was installed Canon or Preb. of the twelfth and last stall in the Collegiat Church at Westminster on the death of Dr. Will. Barlow Bish of Linc. an 1613 and this year 1615 Nov. 23 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Mardoche Aldem deceased He died 7. Aug. 1638 and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. See more among the Creations in the year following Feb. 27. Jasper Swyft of Ch. Ch. March 14. John Barcham of C. C. 21. John Davies of Lincoln Coll. Incorporations July 11. Will. Spicer Bach. of Law of Cambridge See among the Incorporations 1618. Abraham Gibson M. A. of the said University was incorporated the same day and again on the 15. July 1617. This Person who was afterwards Preacher to the Temples in London hath published 1 The Lands mourning for vain swearing Sermon on Jerem. 23. 10. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Christianae-polemica or a narrative to War Serm. at Wool-church in London before the Captains and Gentlemen of exercise in the Attillery-garden on Judg. 7. 18. Lond. 1619. oct and not unlikely other things He was afterwards D. of D. and dying in or near one of the Temples was buried near to the Communion Table in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Temples 5. Januar. 1629. July 11. Godfrey Goodman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge See more of him among the Bishops in Miles Smith an 1624. Samuel Purchas Bach. of Div. of the said University was incorporated the same day This worthy Divine who is by some stiled our English Ptolemy was born in the County of Essex either at Dunmow or Thacksted but in what Coll. or Hall in Cambridge educated I cannot yet tell After he had left the University he became Minister of Eastwood in Rochford hundred in his own Country but being desirous to forward and prosecute his natural Genie he had to the collecting and writing of voyages travels and pilgrimages left his cure to his Brother and by the favour of the Bishop of London got to be Parson of St. Martins Church within Ludgate He hath written and published 1 Pilgrimage or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered from the Creation to this present c. in 4 parts Lond. 1614. fol. second edit and there again 1626. fol. 2 Purchas his Pâ—â—grims
in 4. volumes or parts each volume containing 5 books Lond. 1625. fol. 3 Purchas his Pilgrim Microcosmus or the history of Man c. Lond. 1619. oct 4 The Kings tower and triumphant arch of London pr. 1623. oct By the publishing of which books he brought himself into debt but died not in prison as some have said but in his own house a little while after the King had promised him a Deanery about 1628. aged 51. What other things he hath published besides a Funeral Sermon on Psal 39. 5. printed 1619 in oct I know not and therefore be pleased to take this character given of him by a learned Person which may serve instead of an Epitaph Samuel Purchas Anglus linguarum artium divinarum atque humanarum egregie peritus Philosophus Historicus Theologus maximus patriae ecclesiae antistes fidelis multis egregiis scriptis in primis orientalis occident alisque Indiae vastis voluminibus patria lingua conscripta celeberrimus One Samuel Purchas A. M. hath published A theatre of political flying Insects c. Lond. 1657. qu. July 11. John Wood Rob. King John Bowles D. D. Cant. The first of these three died in the Parish of St. Dionise Backchurch in London being Minister as it seems of that place an 1624. and the last who was a Native of Lancashire and Fellow of Trinity Coll. in the said University became Dean of Salisbury in the latter end of July an 1620 upon Dr. John Williams his being made Dean of Westminster At length upon Dr. Walt. Curle's translation to the See of D. and Wells he became Bishop of Rochester in 1630 and dying in an house situated on the Bank side in Westminster 9. Octob. 1637 was buried in St. Pauls Cathedral He hath extant Concio ad clerum in Act. cap. 15. 4. printed 1631. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Jan. 2. Eleazer Hodson Doct. of Phys of Padua He was afterwards eminent for his practice in the City of London where he died in the Parish of St. Stephen in Colemanstreet about the latter end of 1638. His Brother Phineas Hodson I have mention'd in the Incorporations under the year 1602 Joh. Radolphus Stuckius and Jo. Waserus both of Zurich were this year Students in the University Afterwards they became learned Men and Writers as I shall tell you in the second Vol. in my discourse of Dr. John Prideaux An. Dom. 1616. An. 14. Jac. 1. Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton created this year Viscount Brackley but he voluntary resigning his office of Chancellour of this University on the 24. Jan. William Earl of Pembroke Knight of the Garter Chamberlaine of the Kings Houshold c. was unanimously elected into his place 29 of the same month Vicechanc. Arth. Lake D. D. Warden of New Coll. July 17. Proct. Robert Sanderson of Linc. Coll. Charles Croke of Ch. Ch. Apr. 10. Bach. of Musick July 4. John Vauter of Linc. Coll. John Lake of New Coll. had his grace granted for the Degree of Bach. of Mus but whether he was admitted it appears not Or that he or Vauter have made any publick compostions in their faculty Bach. of Arts. Apr. 19. Nich. Hunt of Exet. June 19. John Speed of St. Joh. Coll. One Nich. Hunt hath several things extant who being I presume the same with the former is hereafter to be mention'd at large 26. Anth. Faringdon of Trin. Jul. 3. Jo. Allibond of Magd. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the created Doctors of Div. an 1643. 5. John Langley of Magd. hall Oct. 24. Charles Robson of Qu. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1629. 26. Bruno Ryves of New afterwards of Magd. Coll. Will. Price of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day See among the Masters 1619. Nov. 4. John Doughtie Dec. 14. Rob. Grebby of New Coll. See more among the Masters of Art 1619. Jan. 29. Will. Hayes of Magd. hall See among the Bach. of Div. 1627. Feb. 28. John Gee of Exet. John Thorie of Magd. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Incorporations an 1627. As for Faringdon Langley Ryves and Doughtie you are to expect large mention of them hereafter Admitted 223. Mast of Arts. April 19. Rich. Parre of Brasn Coll. June 4. Morgan Owen of Hart Hall 12. Immanuel Bourne of Ch. Ch. George Singe of Ball. Coll. 20. Tho. Goffe of Ch. Ch. 21. John Scull of Lincoln lately of Mert. Coll. He hath published Two Sermons on Math. 10. 16. printed 1624. qu. being the same person as it seems who was afterwards Rector of Shinfold in Sussex where he died in 1641. 26. Franc. Potter of Trin. Coll. July 5. John Angell of Magd. Hall Deâ— 17. Alex. Huish of Wadham Coll. Feb. 25. Will. Jemmat of Magd. Hall lately of Magd. Coll. Adm. 117. Bach. of Phys … Francis Anthony Olevian of Glocester Hall was admitted but the day or month when appears not He was a German of the Palatine of the Rhine and had studied ten years in the faculty of Physick in the Universities of Heidelberg Mountpelier Paris and Oxon. He afterwards practised his Faculty being licensed by the University at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire where he died in 1642 but whether he hath written or published any thing let the Physitians seek Bach. of Div. May 15. Sim. Birckbek Thom. Sutton of Qu. Coll. June 4. Tho. Godwin of Magd. July 10. George Wall of Brasn Coll. The last was about this time beneficed in his native Country of Worcestershire and afterwards published A sermon at the Archbishop of Canterbury his Visitation metropolitical held at Allsaints in Worcester by Dr. Bâ—ent his Grace's Vicar General 3 June 1635. on 2 Cor. 5. 20. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things Quâ—ere Dec. 13. Henr. Rogers of Jes. Coll. Besides these were 13 more admitted of whom Joh Flavel of Broadgates Hall was one and Evan Morgan of Linc. Coll. another both Compounders ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 18. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. May 11. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch. 15. Tho. Holloway of Ball. Coll. June 13. Sam. Clark of Magd. Hall a Compounder He had a son of both his names of Vniversity Coll. an 1635 but neither of them as I can yet find were Writers which I thought fit to let the Reader know because there have been several Samuel Clarks that have been Authors as 1 Sam. Clark of Merton Coll. whom I shall mention in the second Volume of this Work 2 Sam. Clark sometimes Minister of S. Bennet-Fink in London born at Wolstan in Warwickshire 10 Oct. 1599 being of the same Family with those of Willoughby in that County as Sam. Clark the Compounder before mention'd was afterwards a severe Calvinist and a scribling Plagiary as his Works mostly the lives of Presbyterian Divines shew a Catalogue of which you may see in one of his books entit The lives of sundry eminent persons in this later age In