2 Sermon of St. Cyprian of the mortality of Man 3 Picus Earl of Mirandula his rules of a godly life 4 The gathered Councils of Isidore Which four translations were printed at Lond. 1560. in 8vo He hath also written Epistolae variae ad Edw. Leium Nisenum Paynellum Written from C. C. C. in Oxon as by their dates it appears Those to Edw. Lee Archb. of York were written in behalf of Erasmus between whom and the said Lee were learned bickerings and are printed in a Book entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum ex quibus perspicuum quanta sit Edwardi Lei virulentia Basil 1520. qu. Which virulence was against Erasmus In Ciceronis philippicas Sermones ad Clerum Preached mostly at Calais See the titles of other of his labours in Pitseus This Tho. Lupset submitted to the stroke of Death 27. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred thirty and two year 1532 aged 36 or thereabouts having two Years before been admitted Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury on the Death of John Fox Archdeacon of Winchester and was buried in the Church of St. Alphaghe or Elphaghe within Cripplegate in London which Church was translated afterwards to the Church now called St. Alphaghe by Sion Coll. Over his Grave tho there be no memory of him by Inscription yet Joh. Leland celebrates him in his Encomia Trophaea c. Near to his Grave was the body of Alice Lupset his Widow buried in 1545. JOHN BOURCHIER Lord Berners Son of Humph. Bourchier eldest Son of Sir Joh. Bourchier Knight Lord Berners of Hertfordshire the fourth Son of William Earl of Ewe by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. de Wodestock Duke of Glocester the sixth Son of K. Edw. 3. was instructed in several sorts of learning in this University in the latter end of K. Edw. 4 in whose Reign and before were the Sons of divers of the English Nobility educated in Academical literature in Balliol Coll. wherein as 't is probable this our Author was instructed also After he had left the University he travelled into divers Countries and returned a Master of several Languages and a compleat Gentleman But that which made him first known to the World was his valour shew'd in quelling the fury of the Rebels in Cornwall and Devon under the conduct of Michael Joseph a Blacksmith about 1495 whereby he greatly gained the favor of K. Hen. 7. In the 6. Hen. 8. he was made Chancellor of the Kings Exchecquer for life and about that time attended the Lady Mary the Kings Sister into France in order to her Marriage with K. Lewis 12. Afterwards being made Lieutenant of Calais and the Marches adjoyning in France spent most of his time there and wrot Of the duties of the Inhabitants of Calais Comedie called Ite in vineam meam Usually acted in the great Church at Calais after vespers He also translated into English 1 The life of Sir Arthur an Armorican Knight 2 The famous exploits of Hugh of Bordeaux 3 The castle of Love a Romance And besides something of Marc. Aur. Ant. must not be forgotten that noted translation of his which he performed at the command of K. Hen. 8. viz. The Chronicles of France and England composed originally in the French Tongue by Sir Joh. Frossard Canon and Treasurer of Chinay Clerk and Servant to K. Edw. 3. as also to Queen Philippa These Chronicles have been more than once if I mistake not printed in English in an English Letter in fol. This worthy Lord Sir Joh. Bourchier died at Calais beforemention'd 16 March in Fifteen hundred thirty and two aged 63 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of our Lady there where was if not still a comely Mon. over his Grave JOHN FRYTH Son of Rich. Fryth an Inholder of Sevenoake in Kent was born there some say at Westram in the said County and educated in Kings Coll. in Cambridge till he was Bachelaur of Arts. Afterwards being incited to go to Oxon for preferment was for his towardly parts made one of the junior Canons of Cardinal Wolsey's College and soon after viz. in Dec. 1525. he was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same degree of Bachelaur But before that time falling into the acquaintance of Will. Tyndale a zealous Lutheran they conferred together privately about the abuses in Religion So that in short time after he being by him converted to his opinion Fryth made a publick profession of it Whereupon being seized and examined by the Commissary of the University he was imprisoned within the limits of the said College At length being freed thence in 1528 or thereabouts he went beyond the Seas where improving himself much in his religious opinions returned into England about two Years after leaving his Wife behind But then again finding few Friends there that favoured his opinions he wandred to and fro and in fine was taken for a Vagabond at Reading in Berks. set in the Stocks and endured misery for want of relief At that time his condition being made known to Leonard Cox the Schoolmaster of that Town who presently understood the merits of the Person by his discourse procured his releasment refreshed his hungry stomack and gave him money Afterwards he went to London where endeavouring to gain Proselytes he was by the care of Sir Tho. More Lord Chancellor seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower where he had several disputes with Sir Tho. and others At length being examined by the Bishops sitting in St. Pauls Cath. who persuaded him to recant his opinions but in vain they condemned him to be burnt So that being delivered to the L. Mayor and Sheriffs was committed to Newgate where he remained in the Dungeon till he was conveyed thence to be burnt His works are Treatise of Purgatory Answer to Joh. Rastal's Dialogues of Purgatory This Jo. Rastal was Son in-Law to Sir Tho. More Answer to Sir Tho. More 's Dialogue concerning Heresies Answer to Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester The Subsidie or Bulwark to his first Book against Jo. Rastal His judgment upon Will Tracy of Todington in Glocestershire his Testament an 1531. Letter unto the faithful followers of Christ's Gospell Written from his Prison in the Tower 1532. A Mirror or Glass to know thy self Written in the Tower 1532. Mirror or Looking-glass wherein you may behold the Sacrament of Baptisme Written 1533. An Antithesis between Christ and the Pope Of the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ in answer to Sir Thom. More 's letter which he wrot against the first little treatise of Fryth made concerning the Sacrament c. an 1533. Lond. 1548. oct Articles wherefore he dyed Written in Newgate Prison 23. June 1533. All which treatises were reprinted at London in fol. an 1573. He also translated into English Patricks places written by Patr. Hamilton At length after he had remained in the said Prison about a Fortnight or more he was carried thence to Smithfield on the 4.
Haward Duke of Norfolk written curiously on Vellam and sometime in the Library of Joh. Theyer of Coopershill near to the City of Glocester Gent. Which with the rest of the MSS belonging to that person coming by sale into the hands of Rob. Scot of London Bookseller he sold them for the use of the Kings Library at S. James Robert Earl of Alesbury had a Copie of the said History of Joseph but whether it was the very same that belonged to Mr. Theyer I cannot justly say He had also these following MSS written by the said Will. Forrest viz. Poems upon several Occasions MS. fol. Certain meditations and Prayers necessary of a Christian MS. fol. in prose and verse Treatise of Hereticks and their properties Of faith works and justification Glass of charity on the seven penitential Psalmes Consolation against temptation Of Pennance Against desperation of the last judgment A Mirrour of Christianity That Hereticks are not to be disputed withal Several Tracts in defence of the Articles of the Church of Rome MS. in two vol. in fol. What other Books he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was in great esteem among the Rom. Catholicks in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight which was part of the last Year of Queen Mary and part of the first of Qu. Elizabeth JOHN FEILD a Londoner born was as it seems educated in this University because I find several of both his names and of his time to have taken one degree or more therein and one John Feild to have supplicated for a degree in Arts in the month of July 1519. Afterterwards leaving the University he went to another as 't is probable and at length retiring to his native place wrote and published Ephemeris pro an 1557. To which is prefixed a Learned Epistle written by Dr. Jo. Dee Fphemerides trium annorum an 1558 59. 60 c. ex Erasmi Reìnholdi tabulis accuratissimè ad meridianum Civitatis Londinensis supputatae Lond. 1558. Octob. 28. in qu. Canon Ascensionum obliquarum cujusvis stellae non excedentis 8 gradus Latitudinis confectus Printed with the Ephemerides Tabula stellarum fixarum insigniorum qua ortus occasus ac utriusque caete meditationes earum ad ooulum patebant c. Printed with the said Ephemerides also What else he hath published I find not nor any thing memorable of him besides only that he was much in renown for his learning in the Reigne of Q. Mary and beginning of Queen Elizabeth I find another John Field or Feld who was a Citizen of London a zealous Protestant and a great enemy to Sir Thomas More John Fisher Bishop of Rochester and John Rastal who having published certain matters is numbred among the English writers by John Bale who tells us that he died at London an 1546. See another John Field under the year 1587. JOHN PLOUGH Son of Christopher Plough of the Borough of Nottingham and Nephew to John Plough Rector of St. Peters Church in the said Town was born there spent several years in obtaining Academical learning in this University supplicated in the latter end of 1543. for the degree of Bach. of the Civil-Law but whether he was ever admitted it appears not At that time if I mistake not he was Rector of the said Church the advouson of which for one turne his Uncle bought for him of Thomas Hobson the Prior and Convent of Lenton before the year 1538 for in that year the Uncle died Afterwards our Author John Plough became a zealous Minister of Gods word in the time of King Edward VI. but flying beyond the Sea in Queen Maries Reigne wrote one or more of the Books following at Basil where he mostly resided An Apology for the Protestants Written in answer to a Book against the English Protestants that was pen'd and published by one Miles Hogeard of London Hosier the first Trader of Mechanick that appeared in Print for the Catholick cause I mean one that had not received any Monastical or Academical breeding Beside our Author Plough wrote against him one William Keth an Exile at Frankford in the Reigne of Queen Mary and Robert Crowley The said Plough also wrote Treatise against the mitred men in the Popish Kingdom The sound of the doleful Trumpet When or where either of these three was printed I cannot tell for I have not yet seen them He was living at Basil in great esteem among the Exil'd Protestants in the latter end of Queen Mary and whether he lived to return when Queen Elizabeth succeeded I cannot yet find GEORGE LILYE Son of William Lilye the famous Grammarian whom I have before mention'd was born as I conceive near to S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London educated for a time as it seems in Magdalen Coll. which house was seldom or never without a Lilye understand me not that it bears Three Lilyes for its Arms from the first foundation thereof to the latter end of Queen Elizabeth After he had left the University without a degree he travelled to Rome where he was received with all humanity into the protection of Cardinal Pole and became noted there for his singular parts in various sorts of Learning Some time after his return he was made Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral and afterwards Prebendary of Canterbury which last dignity he had I suppose by the gift of the said Cardinal when he was Archbishop of that place While he was Canon of S. Paul he set up a Monument to the memory of his learned Father in the Inscription of which this George is stiled Canon of that Church His writings are Anglorum Regum Chronices Epitome Ven. 1548. Francof 1565. qu. Bas 1577. c. Lancastrii Eboracensis de regno contentiones Regum Angliae Genealogia Both Printed with the former Book Elogia Virorum illustrium Cat. sive Series Pontificum Caesarum Romanorum besides a Table or Mapp of Britaine with other things which I have not yet seen At length taking his last farewell of this world in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 which was the first year of Queen Elizabeth was buried as I suppose near the body of his Father CUTHBERT TONSTALL a singular ornament to his native Country and a person notwithstanding the baseness of his birth being begotten by one Tonstall upon a Daughter of the Commers as Leland saith of great learning and judgment received his first breath at Hatchford in Richmondshire in the year 1476. or thereabouts became a Student in the University of Oxon. about 1491 particulary as some will have it in Balliol College and whether he took a degree or degrees we have no Register of that time to shew it Afterwards as 't is farther added he was forc'd to leave Oxon. because of a Plague that hapned in his time and went to Cambridge but making no long stay there he travelled to the University of Padoüa
Ch. Ch. by the players in their gowns for they were all Scholars that acted among whom were Miles Windsore and Thom. Twyne of C. C. C. before the Queen came to Oxon was by them so well liked that they said it far surpassed Damâ—n and Pythias than which they thought nothing could be better Likewise some said that if the Author did proceed to make more plays before his death he would run mad But this it seems was the last for he lived not to finish others that he had laying by him He also wrot Several Poems in Engl. and Latine Those that speak English are for the most part extant in a Book intit The paradise of dainty devises Lond. 1578. qu. Which Book being mostly written by him was published by Hen. D'isle a Printer with other Mens Poems mix'd among them Among which are those of Edward Vere Earl of Oxford the best for Comedy in his time who died an aged Man 24 June 1604. Will. Hunnys a crony of Tho. Newton the Lat Poet who hath about nine Copies in the said collection Jasp Heywood Nich. Lord Vaux Franc. Kynwelmersh who hath about 8 Copies therein R. Hall R. Hill T. Marshall Tho Churchyard a Salopian Lodowyke Lloyd one Yâ—oop and several others At length this noted Poet and Comedian R. Edwards made his last Exit before he arrived to his middle age year 1566 in Fifteen hundred sixty and six or thereabouts When he was in the extremity of his sickness he composed a noted Poem called Edwards Soulknil or the Soules knell which was commended for a good piece One George Turbervile in his Book of Epitaphs Epigrams Songs Sonnets c. which I shall hereafter mention printed at Lond. the second time 1570 hath an Epitaph on his death made by Tho. Twyne of C. C. Coll. and another by himself ROBERT POINTZ to whom Alderliâ— in Glocestershire where his Family was gentile gave breath and Wykehams School near to Winehester education was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1554 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being confer'd upon him in 1560 but went away before he compleated it by standing in the Comitia Afterwards leaving his Relations Country and all future expectation for Religion sake settled at Lovaine in Brabant as it seems became a Student in Divinity and published Testimonies for the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar set forth at large and faithfully translated out of six ancient Fathers which lived far within six hundred years Lov. 1566. oct Certain notes declaring the force of those testimonies and detecting sometimes the Sacramentaries false dealing Printed with the former book Miracles performed by the Eucharist This last with other things that he hath written as 't is said I have not yet seen An 100 years after this R. Pointz lived another of both his names and of the same Family a writer also and a Knight of the Bath whom I shall remember hereafter ANTHONY BROWNE Son of Sir Weston Browne of Abbesroding and of Langenhoo in Essex Knight by Eliz. his Wife one of the Daughters of Will. Mordant of Turwey in Bedfordsh Esq Son of Rob. Browne by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Charlton Son of Rob. Browne of Wakefield in Yorkshire by Joane Kirkham his second Wife Son of another Rob. Browne of the West Country was born in Essex and being made soon ripe for the University was sent thereunto but before he had taken a Degree he was transplanted to the Middle Temple of which after he had been some years an Inner Barrester he was elected summer-Reader 1 o Mariae but did not read till the Lent following In the 2 Year of the said Queens Reign he with several others were by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law and was the antientest of the call and soon after was made Serjeant to the King and Queen In oct 1558. 5. and 6. of Ph. and Mar. he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-pleas but the said Qu. Mary dying soon after and Elizabeth succeeding she remov'd him thence and placed in his room Sir James Dyer Whereupon A. Browne was made for a time as it seems a Justice of the Common-pleas and soon after one of the Justices of the Common-bench in which dignity he dyed having but an year before his death received the honor of Knighthood from the Queen at the Parliament house Edom. Plowden the famous Lawyer doth give this testimony of him that he was a Judge of a profound genie and great eloquence And all eminent Men of that Age did esteem him as able a Person as any that lived in Qu. Elizabeths time and therefore fit to have obliged posterity by his Pen had not too much modesty laid in the way What he did as to that was concealed and partly published under another name as his Arguments for Marie Queen of Scots her right of Succession to the Crown of England which were published by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse as I shall tell you in Morgan Philipps under the Year 1577. Besides which there is a folio MS. at this day in a private hand entit A discourse upon certain points touching the inheritance of the Crown conceiv'd by Sir Anth. Browne Justice Which Book coming into the hands of Sir Nich. Bacon L. Keeper of England was by him answered and perhaps therein are contained the Arguments before mentioned Our Author Sir Anthony wrot a Book also against Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester as one reports but what the contents of it are he mentions not At length having always lived a R. Catholick he gave way to fate at his house in the Parish of South-weld in Essex on the 6. of May in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven year 1567 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the tenth of June following What Epitaph was put over his Grave I know not Sure it is that these verses were made on him several years after his death which may serve for one Elizabetha nonum regni dum transegit annum Gentis Anglorum regia sceptra tenet Antonium rapiunt Maii mala sydera Brownum Legum qui vivus gloria magna fuit On the 9. Nov. in the same Year in which Sir Anthony died Joan his Widow Daughter of Will. Farington of Farington in Lancashire and formerly the Widow of Charles Bothe Esq died and the 22 of the same Month was buried near to the grave of her second husband Sir Anthony before-mentioned who was Nephew to Sir Humph. Browne of the Middle Temple made Serjeant at Law 23. Hen. 8. one of the Justices of the Kings-bench 34. Hen. 8. and continued in that place till 5 Elizab. at which time he died being about 33 Years after he was made a Serjeant WILLIAM SALESBURY a most exact Critick in British antiquities was born of an ancient and gentile Family in Denbighshire spent several year in
the Allens or Allyns of Staffordshire from whom he is descended are Parted per Chevron Gules and Ermine two Lyons heads erased in the upper part or The next Card. that the English Nation hath been honoured with is Philip Howard third Son of Henry Earl of Arundel and younger Brother to Henry Earl of Norwich and Duke of Norfolk who at this day is living at Rome He was born in Arundel House in the Parish of St. Clement Danes without Temple-Bar near London an 1629. and there educated under several Tutors till he was 14 years of age At length upon the eruption of the Civil War he left the Nation and travelled with his Grandfather Thomas Earl of Arundel into Italy and at 15 years of age became a Dominician or Black-Frier at Cremona After several years spent there he returned into England and upon the Marriage of King Charles 2. with Katherine the Infanta of Portugal he became Lord Almoner to her and continued in her service several years Afterwards upon the People's being exasperated against Popery he quitted that Noble Office and went to Bornheim in Flanders where having a Convent of English Fryers of his Order had not continued there long but at the desire of his sometimes Tutor then Confessor to Pope Clement 10. had a Cardinals Cap sent to him by the said Pope in the month of May 1675. by his Messenger Seignior Con at which time Father Howard was at Antwerp with the Bishop of that place By vertue of which and the instrument with it he was made Cardinal Priest Sub tt Ecclesiae S. Mariae supra Minervam which Church was in most ancient time built upon the ruines of the Temple of Minerva at Rome where the said Card. is now generally stiled The Cardinal of Norfolk and by some The Cardinal of England Afterwards taking his journey towards Rome he was attended by his Uncle William Viscount Stafford beheaded in 1680. upon account of being engaged in the Popish Plot Mr. John Howard Son of the said William Lord Thomas Howard Nephew to the said Cardinal and younger Brother to the present Duke of Norfolk Seignior Con before-mentioned Dr. Joh. Laybourne President of the English or Clergy College at Doway then Secretary or Auditor to the Cardinal and others He took his journey through Flanders to Doway where he was with great solemnity received and lodged in the said Coll. The next day he designing to visit the College of English Benedictines at that place he was received by the whole Convent in their Church in a solemn procession with Copes a Te Deum and other Ceremonies as appointed in the Ritual for such receptions From the Church he was conducted into the Cloyster and entertained with a banquet and a Panigyrick spoken to him by a Student of that college All which was so well performed that Visâ— Staâ—â—ord was pleased to say that it was the only fit reception his Eminence had met with in all his journey Afterwards his Eminence went to Paris where he continued for some time incognito At length with other Nobility and Persons of Quality added to the former company he journeyed to Rome and made his entry for the defraying of which and his journey he had the assistance of the Pope and not of King Charles 2. and Queen Catherine as the common report then went ADAM HYLL a most noted and eloquent Preacher of his time was elected Fellow of Baliol Coll. in 1568. being that Bachelaur of Arts stood in the Act to compleat the degree of Master of that Faculty in 1572. and on the 12. of Jan. following he resigned his Fellowship About that time he being noted for his practical way of Preaching he became Vicar of Westbury in Wilts in which County he was as it is probable born Parson of Goosage in Dorsetshire and at length Prebendary of Gillyngham Minor in and Succentor of the Cath. Church of Salisbury In 1591. he took the degrees in Divinity and had he not been untimely snatched away by Death he would have been advanced to an high degree in the Church He hath written and published Several Sermons Among which are 1 Godly Sermon shewing the Fruits of Peace and War on 2 Cor. 20. 1 Lond. 1588. oct 2 Serm. On Gen. 18. 21 22. Lond. 1593. oct 3 Serm. concerning Christs descent into Hell Preached 28. Feb. 1589. but on what Subject I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it It was answered by Alex. Humo a Scot whereupon our Author Hyll came out with a Book intit A defence of the Article Christ descended into Hell with an Answer to the arguments objected against the truth of the said Doctrine by one Alexand. Hume c. Lond. 1592. qu Afterwards Hume came out with A Rejoinder wherein the answer to Dr. Hylls Sermon is justly defended Printed 1593. qu. But before our author Hyll could come out with another answer he gave way to fate which hapning at Salisbury about the 16. of Febr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Cath. Church there on the nineteenth day of the same Month. Soon after his dignity or dignities in the said Church were bestowed on one Tho. Crump As for the said Alex. Hume he was Master of Arts of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated here as I shall tell you in the Fasti and wrote besides what is before mentioned A Treatise of Conscience c. 2 Treatise of the Felicity of the World to come c. 3 Four discourses of praises unto God c. All which were printed at London in 1594. in oct JOHN THORIE or Thorius Son of John Thorius Doctor of Physick who intitles himself Balliolanus Flandrus was born in London matriculated in this University as a Member of Ch. Ch. 1 Oct. 1586. aged 18. but whether he took a degree it appears not though in one of his Books he writes himself a Graduat of Oxenford He was a Person well skilled in certain Tongues and a noted Poet of his time as several pieces of his then published shew All the things that I have seen of his writing or translating are these A Spanish Dictionary Lond. 1590. qu. Added to his translation into English of a Spanish Grammar written by Auth. de Corro which Dictionary contains the explication of all the Spanish Words cited in the said Grammer and is as a Key to open every thing therein Letters and Sonnets to Gabr. Harvey An. 1593. See at the end of a book entit Pierces Superarogation written by the said Harvey And at the end of another called Have with you to Saffron Walden c. written by Tho. Nash anoted Poet of his time and a Dramatick Writer as his published Comedies shew Our author Thorius also translated from Spanish into English a book entit The Councellour A Treatise of Councils and Councellours of Princes Lond. 1589. qu. written by Barth Philip. L. L. D. and another entit The Serjeant Major or a Dialogue of the
What other things our author Thynne hath written I know not nor any thing else of him year 1611 only that he died in sixteen hundred and eleven But that which I have forgotten to let the Reader know farther of him is that he had several Notes on and corrections of Chaucer's Works lying by him with the helps of which he did intend to put out that author with a comment in our English tongue as the Italians have Peteark and others in their language But he having been taken off from that good work he did assist Tho. Speght of Cambridge with his notes and directions as also with considerable materials for the writing Chaucer's life Whereupon the said Speght published that author again in 1602. having in the former edition 1597. had the notes and corrections of Joh. Stow the Chronologer for his assistance whereby most of Chaucer's old Words were restored and Proverbs and Sentences marked See more in Will. Thynne under the year 1542. from whom if I mistake not this Francis was descended THOMAS HOLLAND was born at Ludlow in Shropshire elected Socius Sacerdotalis commonly called Chaplain Fellow of Balliol coll 13. Jan. 1573. being then Bach. of Arts and a most noted disputant in that house and in 1575. proceeding in that Faculty he became a solid Preacher Afterwards he took the degrees in Divinity left his Fellowship in 1583. succeeded Dr. Humphrey in the Divinity-chair 1589. and Glasier in the Rectory of Exeter coll an 1592. In which house continuing almost 20 years appeared in sight under him at one time these noted Scholars Edw. Chetwind Dan. and Samp. Price Rich. Carpenter Tho. Winniff Joh. Flemmyng Joh. Standard Joh. Whetcombe Joh. Prideaux c. all Doctors of Divinity Sim. Baskervill Rob. Vilvaine c. eminent Physicians with others to the great credit of our common Mother This learned Dr. Holland did not as some only sip of learning or at the best drink thereof but was mersus in Libris so that the Scholar in him drown'd almost all other relations He was esteemed by the precise men of his time and after another Apollos mighty in Scriptures and so familiar with the Fathers as if he himself was a Father and in the Schoolmen as if he had been a Seraphical Doctor He hath published Oratio cum Henricus Episc Sarisburiensis gradum Doctoris susceperet habita Oxon. 1599. qu. Serm. on Matth. 12. 42. Oxon. 1601. qu. He had also a considerable hand in the translation of the Bible appointed by K. Jam. 1. an 1604. and left behind him at his death several things fit for the Press He departed this mortal life on the 17. of March in sixteen hundred and eleven and was on the 26. of the said month an 1612. buried in the Chancel of St. Maries Church in Oxon where being then present all the degrees of the University Dr. Kilbie Rector of Linc. coll laid open to them in a Sermon the great learning and vertues of him the said Dr. Holland JOHN FENNE a noted translator from Lat. and Ital. into English and from English into Latin was born at Mountacute near Wells in Somersetshire educated in the rudiments of Grammer and Musick in the condition of a Choirister within the Precincts of the Cathedral there Afterwards at riper years he was sent by his Relations to Wykehams School near Winchester to the end that he might be fitted for the University Where in a short time making great proficiency he was elected Probationer of New coll in 1550. 4. Ed. 6. and two years after being made perpetual Fellow was then appointed one of those that were to study the Civil Law which the statute of that house stiles Civilistae but whether he took a degree in that Faculty it doth not appear in the University Registers In the Reign of Q. Mary he became Schoolmaster of St. Edmundsbury in Suffolk where by his excellent faculty in teaching the boys were advanced very much in Grammatical learning But upon the alteration of Religion in the beginning of Q. Elizab. he was forced thence by the giddy zeal of two Scots that were then setled in those parts At length he gave a farewell to England went into the Low Countries and afterwards into Italy where spending 4 years in study returned to the Low Countries again where partly at Lovaine at which place he was at length made Confessor to the English Nuns and partly in the Cities adjacent he spent about 50 years as an exil'd person doing extraordinary benefit in the way he professed He hath written Vitae quorundam Martyrum Angliae Which with other matters by him written may be seen a book intit Concertatio Eccles Catholicae in Anglia c. See more in Joh. Bridgewater an 1594. He also translated from English into Latin several of the Books of Cardinal Joh. Fisher as 1 Commentary on the Seven Penitential Psalms Which book Fisher wrote at the desire of Margaret Countess of Richmind Pr. 1509. in qu. 2 Sermon of the Passion of our Saviour 3 Serm. concerning the justice of the Pharisees and Christians c. Also from Lat. into Engl. 1 The Catechism of the Council of Trent 2 A learned and very eloquent treatise written by Hieron Osorius Bishop of Sylva in Portugal wherein he confuteth a certain answer made by Mr. Walt. Haddon against the Epistle of the said Bishop unto the Queens Maj. Lov. 1568. oct in 3 books And lastly from Italian into English 1 The life of the Blessed Virgin S. Catherine of Sienna Print 1609. oct originally written by Dr. Caterinus Senensis 2 Treatise of tribulation Written by Caccia Guerra 3 The 15 Mysteries of the Rosarie Written by Gasp Loart And lastly collected from divers ancient English books Spiritual Treatises for the use of the Nuns of the Order of St. Bridgit and other things which I have not yet seen He ended his days at Lovaine after the year sixteen hundred and eleven and was as I presume buried within the precincts of the Monastery belonging to the English Nuns there He had a younger Brother named Rob. Fenne who was admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1555. but removed thence by the Queen's Commissioners for being a R. Catholick an 1562. having a little before been honoured with the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law Another Brother also he had called James Fenne who was first a Choirister of New coll and afterwards Scholar of that of C. C. an 1554. but put aside from the degree of B. of Arts and from his place in the said coll for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy Afterwards he setled in Glocester hall where he had several Pupils committed to his charge and was had in great respect by the Seniors of that house Thence being forced he retired to his native Country Somersetshire where he taught a private School and soon after married But his Wife dying he went beyond the Seas setled at Rheimes for a time and was made a Priest Afterwards returning
exemplar Complutense cum Latina versione ex Ebraeo cum comment Amstel 1632. qu. Animadversionum libri duo pro emendatione 〈◊〉 Ebr. veterum Interpr in plurimis locis S. Scripturae Amstel 1634. qu. Grammatica linguae sâ—â—ctae Franek 1612. qu. Catechesis religionis christianae Heb. Gr. Lat. pr. 1591. oct Other things as 't is probable he hath published but such I have not yet seen He surrendred up his pious soul to God on this 12. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and fifteen and was buried as I suppose at Franeker after he had lived there a most severe student and in continual labour for the good and benefit of Literature about 31. years He left behind him a Son of both his names bred partly in this University but not to be numbred among most learned men especially such as was his Father as also a Daughter named Agnes the wife of Abel Curiander author of the Latin life of his Father-in-Law Joh. Drusius printed at Franaker 1616. qu. In which the Reader may see more of his life and works than are here set down by me THOMAS ROGERS a most admirable Theologist an excellent Preacher and well deserving every way of the sacred Function was born as I conceive in Cheshire and came full ripe to the University before 1568. About which time being made one the Students of Ch. Ch. took holy Orders very early and afterwards the degree of Master of Arts Scil. an 1576. before which time he was a sedulous and constant Preacher of Gods word What his preferments were successively afterwards I know not only that he was Chaplain to Doctor Bancroft Bishop of London and at length Rector of Horninger near to S. Edmonds Bury in Suffolke where and in the neighbourhood he was always held in great esteem for his learning and holiness of life and conversation His works are these A Philosophical discourse entit The Anatomy of the mind Lond. 1576. oct Before which is a copy of Verses in praise of it written by his Contemporary Will. Camden of Ch. Ch. Of the end of the world and second comming of Christ c. Lond. 1577. qu. The English Creed wherein is contained in tables an exposition on the articles which every man is to subscribe unto Where the articles are expounded by Scripture and the confessions of all the reformed Churches and Heresies are displayed Lond. 1579. and 85. fol. General Session containing an apology of the comfortable doctrine concerning the end of the world and seccond coming of Christ Lond. 1581. qu. The English Creed consisting with the true ancient Catholique and Apostolick Church in all the points and articles of Religion which every christian is to know and believe that would be saved c. In two parts The first printed at London in 1585. the second there 1587. and both in fol. An Exposition on the 39 Articles of the Church of England Lond. 1586. c. qu. Which book at the first appearance met not with that welcom entertainment which seemed due to the authors endeavours For besides the two extreams Papists and Schismaticks who were highly inraged many Protestants of a middle temper were much offended thereat Some conceived it presumption for a private Minister to make himself the mouth of the Church to render her sense in matters of so high-concernment Others were offended that his interpretation confin'd the charitable latitude formerly allowed in those Articles Howsoever it was sure it is the work in some years wrought it self in good esteem as dedicated to and countenanced by Dr. Bancroft before-mentioned A golden Chaine taken out of the rich treasure house of the Psalms of David Lond. 1587. in tw The Peerles of K. Soleman gathered into common places Taken from the Proverbs of the said King printed with the former book Historical dialogue touching Antichrist and Popery drawn and published for the comfort of our Church c. Lond. 1589. oct Serm. on 12. Rom. ver 6. 7. 8. Lond. 1590. qu. Miles Christianus Or a defence of all necessary writings and writers written against an Epistle prefixed to a Catechism made by Miles Moses Lond. 1590. qu. This Miles Moses was Bach. of Div. and published besides the former things The arraignment of Vsury in six Sermons Lond. 1595. qu. Table of the lawful use of an oath and the cursed state of vain Swearers Lond. Two dealogues Lond. 1608. He also translated into English 1 A discourse of the end of the world and second comming of Christ Lond. 1577. 78. oct written by Schelto à Geveren of Emden in Friesland 2 General discourse of the damnable sect of Vsurers c. Lond. 1578. qu. written by Philip Caesar To which is added A treatise of the lawful use of riches written by Nich. Heming 3 The profession of the true Church and Popery compared Lond. 1578. oct 4 Exposition on the 84. Psalm Lond. 1581. oct written by Nic. Heming for the instruction of the ignorant in the grounds of Religion and confutation of the Jewes Turks c. 5 S. Augustins heavenly meditations call'd A private talke with God Lond. 1581. in tw Purified by our Translator T. Rogers and adorned with annotations of Scripture 6 Of the foolishness of men and women in putting off the amendment of their lives from day to day Lond. 1583. and 86. oct written Joh. Rivius 7 Of the imitation of Christ Lond. 1584. 89. in tw written in three books by Tho. de Kempis and for the worthiness thereof oft since translated into sundry Languages Now newly translated by Tho. Rogers corrected and with most ample Texts and Sentences of holy Scripture illustrated 8 A method to Mortification called heretofore The contempt of the World c. Lond. 1586. in tw written by Didac Stella 9 S. Augustins Prayers Lond. 1591. in tw c. Purged by our Translator T. Rogers from divers superstitious points and adorned with manifold places of Scripture 10 A manual containing special and picked meditations and godly prayers Lond. 1591. in tw with corrections by the Translator 11 Enemy of security or a daily exercise of godly meditations Lond. 1580. and 91. in tw written by Joh. Avenar publick Professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Witeberge 12 Enemy to Atheism or christian godly prayers for all degrees Lond. 1591. in tw written in the German Language by Jo. Avenar translated out of Lat. by our author T. Rogers 13 Soliloquium animae The fourth book of the imitation of Christ Lond. 1592. in tw written by Th. de Kempis before mentioned What other thing our author hath written and translated I know not Nor any thing else of him only that he was a zealous opposer of the doctrine of the Sabbath and the first that publickly stood up against Dr. Nich. Bownds opinion of it in his Preface to the Exposition on the 39. Articles c. which made the other party the Puritan angry and so far to be enraged as maliciously to asperse and blemish him
This is the first part The second part containeth the lives and characters of English Writers The third containeth an Appendix of which I shall speak more anon and the fourth fifteen indices which are as 't were the Epitomy of memorable things of the said first tome Concerning which I shall make these observations following 1 That according to the time wherein 't was written things are expressed in eloquent Latine 2 That the most part thereof especially concerning the Writers is taken from Joh. Bale's book De Scriptoribus majoris Britanniae notwithstanding he declares an abhorrence of him and his book 2 That therein he omitts Wycleve and all the Wyclevists Irish and Scotch Writers which Bale for the most part commemorates and in their room he gives us an account of R. Cath. Writers such for the most part that had left their Country upon the reformation of religion made by Q. Elizabeth and after which is the best and most desired part of his book 3 That several Writers in the Appendix are taken from a book entit Ecclogua Oxonio Cantabrigensis written by Tho. James of New coll Of which book also he makes use when he tells you in what Libraries the MSS. of certain authors which he mentions are preserved 4 That tho he pretends to give you an account only of R. Cath. Writers especially about the time that reformations were made or endeavoured to be made yet he sets down for want of full information I presume some that were sincere Protestants or at least more Protestants than Papists as Sir Anth. Cope who died 1551. Joh. Redman who died the same year Tho. Key or Cay Master of Vniv. coll who died 1572. Joh. Leland the Antiquary Rob. Record Mathematician Dr. Alb. Hyll an intimate acquaintance with Jo. Bradford the Martyr Joh. Cay the Antiquary of Cambridge Pet. Morwyn or Morwyng of Magd. coll c. and in the Appendix George Coriat rather a Puritan than a true Son of the Church of England Robert for Roger Taverner whom I have mention'd in Rich. Taverner an 1575. Timothy Bright of Cambridge Doct. of Physick and Rector of Methley in Yorkshire by the death of Otho Hunt in July 1591. Tho. Mouffet a Doctor of Physick contemporary with the former Joh. Huntington a zealous reformer and the beloved Son in Christ of Joh. Bale See among the Writers under the year 1556. c. 5 That whereas he pretends to follow Jo. Leland his Collectanea de Scriptoribus Angliae for very many times he familiarly mentions and quotes them 't is only that he may avoid the naming of Bale for whom all R. Catholicks nay zealous Protestants have little or no kindness at all because his book is stuff'd with revilings and such Language that befits rather a Huckster at Billingsgate than the meanest or worst of Scholars The truth is our author Pits never saw the said Collectanea he being but 20 years of age or little more when he left the Nation neither was it in his power afterwards if he had been in England because they were kept in such private hands that few Protestant Antiquaries and none of those of the Church of Rome could see or peruse them 6 That in the said tome are very many errors misnomers c. and so consequently in Bale whom he follows too many now to reckon and how he and Bale are most egregiously deceiv'd in what they mention of Amphibalus Junior and of Gildas Badonicus you may at large see in the learned Usserius in his book De primordiis Ecclesiarum c. printed in qu. an 1639. p. 539. 533 477. 539 557. and 1144. 7 That whereas Pits pretends to set down in the said book or tome only English Writers he hath mix'd among them some that are out landish among which are these Herbertus Losinga num 182. born as he saith in Suffolke but false for the MS. which I follow in my marginal notes and additions of and to the Bishops of Norwich mentioned by Franc. Bishop of Landaff in his book De Praesulibus Angliae Commentarius saith that he was born in Pago Oxinnensi or Oximensi in Normannia Jo. Erigena nu 133. said by him and many others to be born in the City of S. David in Wales but the generality say in Ireland c. At the end of the book of illustrious Writers our author Pits hath Appendix illustrium scriptorum trecentorum octoginta circiter ordine alphabetico per centurias continens Made up mostly from Bale and partly from Dr. Tho. James his Ecloga before-mentioned But therein are many authors put which are before in the work it self De script illust Angliae as 1 Godfridus Historicus cent 2. num 94. p. 844. is the same with Godfridus Arturius or de Monmouth in the body of the work nu 212. 2 Gualt Cepton cent 2. nu 4. p. 846. the same with Walter Catton in the body nu 550. 3 Guliel Califord cent 2. nu 18. p. 851. is the same with Gul. Cockisford nu 653. 4 Guliel de Dunclmo cent 2. nu 27. is the same with Gul. Shirwood in the body of the work nu 348. 5 Gul. Worcestrius c. 2. nu 53. the same with Gul. Buttonerus in the work it self nu 848. p. 648. 6 Joh. Anglicus cent 2. nu 78. seems to be the same with Joh. Hoveden nu 396. P. 356. 7 Joh. de Alton cent 2. nu 94. seems to be the same with Joh. Acton nu 416. p. 372. 8 Joh. Yorcus cent 3. nu 10. is the same with Joh. Eboracensis in the same Appendix p. 874. nu 1. 9 Joh. Vton cent 3. nu 35. is the same with Joh. Stone in the body of the work nu 862. p. 657. 10 Rich. de Montibus cent 3. nu 80. seems to be the same with Will. de Montibus nu 302. p. 285. 11 Rich. Ruys c. 3. nu 92. the same with Rich. Rufus nu 380. p. 348. 12 Rob. Bridlington c. 3. nu 100. the same with Rob. Scriba nu 244. P. 242. 13 Rob. Cestrensis c. 4. nu 2. the same with Rog. Cestrensis nu 514. p. 438. 14 Miserorum Simplissimus c. 3. nu 52. seems to be the same with Joh. Wethamstede nu 818. P. 630. 15 Rob. Dominicanus c. 4. nu 8. the same with Rob. Holcot nu 333. p. 463. 16 Rob. Herefordiensis c. 4. nu 11. the same with Rob. Foliot B. of Hereford nu 236. p. 236. 17 Robertus Prior c. 4. nu 13. is the same with Rob. Canutus nu 234. p. 234. Which R. Canutus also is supposed to be the same with Rich. Greekladensis p. 397. nu 448. and that Rich. to be the same with Rob. Greekladensis mentioned by Leland in vol. 3. collect p. 36. where 't is said that the said Rob. wrote 40 Homilies and a Tract De connubio Jacob which makes me think that the said Robert Prior may be the same with the said Rob. Greeklade and the same R. Greeklade to be the same with
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
which being very worthy of perusal I refer the Reader for his farther satisfaction In Waterford and Lismore succeeded Dr. Archibald Adair a Seer and him Dr. George Baker who died in Octeb or thereabouts an 1668. JOHN BANCROFT Son of Christ 〈…〉 by Andrey Andrews his Wife eldest Son of 〈…〉 of Farnworth in Lancashire by Mary his Wife daughter of John Curwyn brother to Hugh Curcoyn sometimes Bishop of Oxford was born in little Village called Astell or Eâ—well lying between 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 was admitted a Student of 〈…〉 more took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a Preacher for some years in 〈…〉 being newly admitted to proceed in Divinity was by the endeavours of his Uncle Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. a younger Son of John Bancroft before-mentioned elected Master of Vniversity college where he continued above 20 years In which time he was at great pains and expence to recover and settle the antient Lands belonging to that foundation In 1632. he was upon the translation of Dr. Corbet to Norwych nominated Bishop of Oxford whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter in April the same year had the temporalities of that See given to him on the 6. of June following being about that time consecrated In 1640. when the Long Parliament began and proceeded with great vigour against the Bishops he was possessed so much with fear having always been an Enemy to the Puritan that without little or no sickness he surrendred up his last breath in his lodging at Westminster Afterwards his body was carried to Cudesden in the diocess of Oxon and was buried near to and under the south wall of the Chancel of the Church there on the twelfth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred and forty leaving then behind him the character among the Puritans or Presbyterians then dominant of a corrupt unpreaching Popish Prelate The Reader is now to know that before this Mans time the Bishops of Oxford had no house left belonging to their Episcopal See either in City or Country but dwelt at their Parsonage-houses which they held in Commendam tho Dr. Jo. Bridges who had no Commendam in his diocess lived for the most part in hired houses in the City For as I have before told you in Dr. Rob. Kynge tho at the foundation of the Bishoprick of Oxford in the Abbey of Osney the King appointed Gloucester coll for the Bishops Pallace yet when that foundation was inspected into by K. Edw. 6. and a recital thereupon made of the foundation thereof done by his Father that place was left out of the Charter as being designed then for another use So that from that time till this Man Dr. Bancroft came to be Bishop there being no settled House or Pallace for him or his Successors he did resolve by the perswasions of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. to build one Wherefore in the first place the impropriate Parsonage of Cudesden before-mentioned five miles distant from Oxon which belonged to the Bishop in right of his See he let the lease thereof run out without any more renewing that in the end it might be made an improvement to the slender Bishoprick The Vicaridge also of his own donation falling void in the mean time he procured himself to be legally instituted and inducted thereunto All which being done he thro the power and favour of Dr. Laud before-mentioned obtained an annexation of it to the See Episcopal the design of bringing in the impropriation going forward still and soon after began with the help of a great deal of timber from the Forest of Shotover given to him by his Majesty to build a fair Pallace which with a Chappel in it being compleatly finished an 1635. was then out of curiosity visited by the said Dr. Laud which he remits into his diary thus Sept. 2. an 1635. I was in attendance with the King at Woodstock and went thence to Cudsden to see the house which Dr. Jo. Bancroft then Lord Bishop of Oxford had there built to be a house for the Bishops of that See for ever he having built that house at my perswasion But this house or Pallace which cost three thousand and five hundrend pounds proved almost as short liv'd as the Founder being burn'd down by Col. Will. Legg during the short time that he was Governour of the Garrison of Oxford in the latter end of 1644. for fear it might be made a Garrison by the Parliament Forces tho with as much reason and more piety as one observes he might have garrison'd it for the King and preserved the house Being thus ruined it laid so till Dr. Joh. Fell became Bishop of Oxon and then with monies out of his own purse and the help of timber which one of his Predecessors named Dr. Will. Paul had laid in in his life-time for that purpose did rebuild it upon the old foundation with a Chappel in it as before The outside of which being finished in 1679. the inside followed soon after METROPHANES CRITOPYLUS a Greecian born came into England to be instructed in the doctrine and discipline of the Church and in order thereunto to learn the Latin and the English tongues To these ends he addressed himself to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury who sent him forthwith to Baliol college where he had for his interpreter the noted Grecian Mr. Edw. Sylvester and continued there till the time of his departure from England which was about 1622. at which time he was Chancellour to the Patriarch of Constantinople After his return to his own Country he became Patriarch of Alexandria in the place of Cyrill Lucaris translated to Constantinople and wrote as some suppose The Confession of Faith which went under the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople published in the Greek tongue 1629. Which Confession was with a censure upon it printed at Rome 1632. the title of which rendred into English is this The condemnation of the confession of the Calvinists as it was set forth in the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople With this condemnation and confession is printed an answer to the Anathematisms of Cyrill Patriarch of Alexandria Predecessor to Critopylus wherein the said Anathematisms are acknowledged to be genuine tho they decry the said Confession as spurious This Critopylus was in great renown in his own Country in sixteen hundred and forty but when he died I cannot yet find FASTI OXONIENSES THESE Oxonian Fasti or Academical Annals contain in exact Order Method and Time from the Year of our Lord 1500 to the end of 1640. 1. A Catalogue of the Chancellours Commissaries oâ— Vicechancellours and Proctors of the Univ. of Oxon 2. The Names and Characters of eminent Grammarians Rhetoricians and Musicians who have been admitted to One or two Academical Degree or Degrees with the Titles of such Books if any that they have written The Names of 3. Writers Archbishops and Bishops Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 4.
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
of the like opinion were many of his time yet the generality said that his witty discourses were biting his laughter opprobrious and scornful and his jokes commonly sharp and reflecting He hath written besides translations 50 several things upon various Subjects as well in Prose as Verse among which are these A Comedy of Virtue A Comedy of good Order Meditation on St. Anne On the Virgin of Kent Sonners on Dame Anne Elynor Rummin or Elynour of Rummyng the famous Ale-Wife of England This was several times Printed and one Impression which was the last I think was made at London 1624. in 2 Sheets and an half in 4to In the Title Page is the Picture of an old ill-favour'd Woman holding in her hand a black Pot of Ale and underneath her these Verses are written When Skelton wore the Lawrel Crown My Ale put all the Ale-Wives down This Book is the same I conceive which some Authors call The tunning of Elynor Rumpkin He hath also written The Peregrination of humane Life Solitary Sonnets The art of Dying well The art of Speaking eloquently Manners and fashions of the Court. Reasons why he goeth not to the Court. Invective against Will Lilye the Grammarian This being written in Verse and very carping was returned in its kind by the Grammarian Epitaphs on several Kings Princes and Nobles Two or more of which you may see in a Book intit Reges Reginae Nobiles alii in Eccl. collegiata B. Petri Westmonast sepulti usque ad an 1600. published by Will. Camden Lond. 1600. qu. See more in Will. Baldewyn among these Writers under the Year 1564. I have seen another Book of Skelton bearing this title Here after followeth a little Boke called Colyn-Clout compiled by Master Skelton Poet Laureate Printed in an old Engl. Char. at London in 8vo without date by Abraham Veale much about the time as I conceive of the Authors death The beginning of it is What can it avayle To drive forth a snayle Or to make a Sayle c. Poetical Fancies and Satyrs Lond. 1512. oct Verses on the creation of Arthur Pr. of Wales and other things which are slightly and unsatisfactorily set down by Baleus and his follower Pitseus At length our Poet dying in his Sanctuary was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Margaret within the City of Westminster in Fifteen hundred twenty and nine year 1529 21. Hen. 8. Over his Grave was this Inscription soon after put Johannes Skeltonus Vates pierius hic situs est Animam egit ejicit XXI Junii an Dom. MDXXIX Near to his Body was afterwards buried an old Court-Poet called Tho. Churchyard and not in the Church Porch as certain old Rhimes tell you beginning thus Come Alecto and lend me thy torch To find a Church-yard in a Church-porch I find another Joh. Skelton who lived in the time of King Hen. 4 but he was a D. of D. and a Dominican as I have elsewhere told you and therefore I conceive it the reason why Baleus stileth this Poet Dr. of Divinity which no other Author beside himself doth Another Job Skelton I find who was confirmed Abbat of Whitby in Yorkshire upon the Death of Tho. Bolton by the Archb. of York 6. Nov. 1413. THOMAS SPENSER Son of Leonard Spenser of the City of Norwich having from his Youth been much addicted to learning and piety especially the last became afterwards a Carthusian in the Monastery of that Order at Henton in Somersetshire whence for a time he receeded to Oxon as several of his Order did to improve himself or to pass a course in Theology After his return he obtained so much leisure from his divine exercise as to write several matters relating to his faculty among which were Comment in Epist D. Pauli ad Galatas Trialogue between Tho. Bilney Hugh Latimer and W. Repps Which Book was written partly to shew the great complaints of Bilney and Latimer two Protestants had against the said Repps a Roman Catholick the same Person I presume who became Bishop of Norwich in 1536. As for our Author Spenser he gave up the ghost after he had spent most of his time in the severities belonging to his Order year 1529 in Fifteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried in his Monastery of Henton before-mention'd leaving behind him a most rare example of Piety ROBERT WHITYNTON or Whittington was born in the City of Lichfield educated partly in Grammaticals under John Stanbridge in the School joining to the common gate of Magd. Coll. and afterwards made a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals but in what Coll. or Hall it appears not However his delight being much in the teaching of Youth he became so excellent in that way that it was thought especially by those that favour'd him that he surpassed W. Lilye In the beginning of the Year 1513. 5. Hen. 8. he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents under the name and title of Rob. Whytingdon a secular Chaplain and a Scholar of the Art of Rhetorick that whereas he had spent 14 Years in the study of the said Art and 12 Years in the informing of Boys it might be sufficient for him that he might be laureated This supplicat being granted he was after he had composed 100 Verses which were stuck up in publick places especially on the door or doors of St. Maries Church very solemnly crowned or his temples adornd with a wreath of Lawrel that is doctorated in the Arts of Grammar and Rhetorick 4 July the same Year At the same time also he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle that is to the degree of Bach. of Arts which was then esteemed equal with the degree of Doctor of Grammar or Rhetorick From that time he always wrot himself in several of his works Protovates Angliae which was much stomach'd by Will. Horman and W. Lilye and scorn'd by others of his profession who knew him to be conceited and to set an high value upon himself more than he should have done He was then notwithstanding esteemed by many for his great skill he had in the Greek and Latin tongues for his lepid and jocular discourse also but much blamed by Scholars for the biting and sharp reflections used in it and in his Books against several noted Persons of his Age. His writings were many of which some were against W. Lilye Rob. Aldridge and Will. Horman who esteemed him a Man of great vanities a Catalogue of some of which follow De difficultate justitiae servandae in reipublicae administratione MS. in 4to written in verse to and in praise of Cardinal Tho. Wolsey The beginning of which is Quae res in terris c. Before it is an Epigram and an Epistle in Prose written on and to the said Cardinal by our Author Whitynton De quatuor virtutibus Cardineis MS. written to the said Cardinal in prose The beginning is Cum tuas multifarias virtutes
before and so continued to his dying day tho now and then which was rarely he would discourse very rationally Some time before his Death he resign'd up his Deaneries viz. that of St. Paul and that of Exeter in the first of which succeeded if I am not mistaken Dr. Rich. Sampson who was afterwards B. of Lichfield and Coventry and in the other Reginald Pole The Books which this our eminent Author hath written and translated are many some of which not all follow De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur liber Basil 1517. qu. dedicated to Dr. Jo. Colet Dean of Pauls It was written by the Author at Constance while he remained Ambassador in Helvetia But therein inveighing much as 't is observed by some against drunkenness as a great obstacle to the obtaining of knowledge the Drunkards of Constance were so sensible of it that they made a sharp answer to his Book apologizing for themselves and their customs in drinking Oratio de pace nuperrime composita faedore percusso inter Henricum Angliae regem Francorum reg Christianiss in aede Pauli Lond. habita Lond. 1518. qu. Epistolae ad Edw. Leeum Ep. ad Erasmum Rot. Lond. 1520. qu. These Epistles are in a Book entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum c. mentioned in Edw. Lee under the Year 1544. Praefatio in Ecclesiasticen recognitum ad Hebraicam veritatem collatum cum translatione lxx Interpretum manifesta explicatione causarum erroris ubicunque incidit where printed or when 't is not expressed In the writing of this piece which is printed in quarto he was assisted by Rob. Wakfeld Exemplum literarum ad Regem Hen. 8. an 1526. See in the said Wakfelds Book entit Syntagma de Hebraeorum codicum incorruptione He also wrot a Book against the unlawfulness of the Kings Marriage with Catherine the Wife of his Brother Prince Arthur in 1527. in which Book he was also assisted by Wakfeld Other things are mention'd by Baleus and Pitseus very tritely and with little satisfaction to the Reader as they do all or most of the titles of Books belonging to the Writers that they set down in their respective works but such I have not yet seen He hath also made several translations among which is that from English into Latin of the Sermon of John Fisher B. of Rochester which he Preached at London on that day when the Writings of Martin Luther were publickly burnt on Joh. 15. 26. Printed at Cambr. in Feb. 1521. qu. Before which is a large Epistle to the Reader written by one Nich. Wilson of the University of Cambridge He also made a translation from Greek into Latin of Plutarch's work De commodo ex inimicis capiendo dedicated to Card. Bainbridge At length this most excellent Person who was admirably well vers'd in the Greek and Hebrew Tongues in all kind of polite literature and in civil Affairs retiring to Stepney near London for healths sake concluded his last day there to the great reluctancy of all learned Men year 1532 in Fifteen hundred thirty and two being then scarce 50 Years of Age Whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there near to the great Altar and had soon after an Epitaph put over his Grave consisting of 12 Verses which for brevity sake I shall now pass by as also that admirable and just encomium which Jo. Leland his Friend made on his return from Venice I find one John Pace who from Eaton School was elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1539. or thereabouts went away Fellow became Jester to K. Hen. 8. for a time and afterwards to the Duke of Norfolk but what relation he had to Rich. Paice our learned Author who if I mistake not was born at or near Winchester I know not THOMAS LUPSET Son of Will. Lupset Citizen and Goldsmith of London by Alice his Wife was born in London particularly in the Parish of St. Mildrid in Breadstreet where the Father lived when Thomas was born but lived in his last days and died in 1522 in the Parish of St. Vedastus in Cheep taken into the care and protection of Dr. Joh. Colet and educated in Grammar learning under Will. Lilye which is the reason why the said Doctor calls him in his last Will his Scholar But whether from W. Lilyes School he went to this University or to that of Cambridge is doubtful Dr. Jo. Cay the Antiquary doth tell you that he was educated in Pembroke Hall there tho Bale and Pits are silent in it but what his Authority is for that report he tells us not Howsoever it is sure I am and shall be till I am convinc'd to the contrary that he took the Degree of Bac. of Arts at Paris and soon after coming into England he fixed in the University of Oxon particularly in Corp. Chr. Coll. about the Year 1519 and soon after he succeeded Jo. Clement in the Rhetorick Lecture of Card. Wolsey To which Cardinal the University having had occasion to write make this mention of our Author Lupset in an Epistle dated 7. Id. May 1521 Nam immortalis beneficii loco accepimus quod benignissima tua beneficentia in communem rei literariae usum dignata sit Lupsetum ad nos remittere quem etsi semper habuimus charissimum nunc tamen quia à tuâ majestate tam amanter commendatum multò arctiùs amplectimur Illud autem supra quam credi potest nos omnes exhileraverit quòd prudentissima tua authoritas ex omnium animis abstulerit scrupulos quibus anxiè alligabimur ordinariis lectionibus quas jam prorsus extraordinarias utinam tua prudentia vel penitus ab omni ordine abigeret vel in meliorem redigeret c. Sir Tho. More also in an Epist to Erasmus doth make honourable mention of him and his reading in both the Tongues at Oxon. But Lupset's desire being bent to proceed in Arts he supplicated the venerable Regents met in Congregation 2. June 1521. that whereas he had spent four Years in Study at Paris and in Oxon it might be sufficient for him that he might be admitted to proceed in the faculty of Arts. Which supplication of his being granted he was licensed to proceed on the 19. of the same Month and on the 9. July following he did really stand in the Act then celebrated Afterwards he became famous in this University and other places of Literature especially after he had performed the Office of Secretary to Rich. Paice when he was Ambassador to the Venetian and by his conversation with eminent Men did make great progress in Sciences He hath written A Treatise of charity An exhortation to young Men persuading them to walk honestly A Treatise teaching how to dye well These three little Books were printed at London 1546. and 1560. in 8vo He hath also translated into English 1 St. Chrysostomes Sermon or Homely teaching that no Man is hurt but by himself
continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon or whether he took a Degree it appears not neither can we find means to resolve us because the University Registers of that Age are deficient However this is certain that at what time our Author studied in this University Grocynus read publickly the Greek Tongue there whom he constantly hearing became a great proficient in that Language and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor then if I mistake not Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws translated himself to Lincolns Inn where easily conquering those Studies was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning Wisdom Experience and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with conferr'd these honors and employments successively upon him viz. the Mastership of the Request the intrusting him in several Embrassies the honor of Knighthood the Treasureship of the Exchecquer Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster the Embassage to the Emperor and French King and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly or with greater liking to the generality of People than he On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Mannour House called York-place near Westminster in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King in his Mannour of Pleasaunce otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight After this Sir Thomas retired to his House at Chelsey near London where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse not without severe devotion was at length for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining several Months very close to the endangering of his health his Daughter Margaret Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent wrot a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State the contents of which I have seen intreating him to be good to her Father in Prison kept so close that his health is utterly decayed Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband whose close keeping destroys his body Also the be good to her and hers considering their necessity For my good Master saith she as I would be saved before our Lord I am driven to that point that I am fain to make sale of certain imployments and old stuff to find Mr. More and me and my poor houshold with c. with other like matters written by that whining Woman which I shall now for brevity omit and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient pious and severe in the course of his life than he He was also very meek humble charitable and a despiser of the things of this World and nothing was wanting in him to make a compleat Christian His parts were great and profound his skill in Divinity municipal Laws the Latin and Greek Languages in Poesie Mathematicks and what not was excellent and without compare All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles but of the lights of Learning of his time as Erasmus Colet Tonstal B. of Durham Fisher B. of Rochester Grocyn Lynacre Liyle Paice Elyot Lupset Leland c. most of which especially Foreign Writers have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations He hath written in English A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Fryer Written in Verse Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Fathers House Containing 9 Pagiants and Verses in each Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503. Verses on the Book of Fortune These four beforegoing being written in his Youth are not numbred among his Works History of K. Rich. 3. This which was never quite finished is the same I presume that is intituled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More 's Name at London 1651. in 8vo His Great Grandson saith that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated but in Latin also not yet printed Memorare novissima Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion Supplication of Souls made against the supplication of Beggars This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory written against that of Beggars made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn Gent. The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More 's Dialogues The second part of the confutation Written 1533. Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament Written the same Year An Apology This was written against a Book intit A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality Against which Apology was published a Book called Salem Bizance written Dialogue-wise Lond. 1533. oct The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance Lond. 1533. oct Answer to the first part of the poysoned Book which a nameless Heretick hath named The Supper of our Lord. Treatise upon the passion of Christ A Godly instruction Godly meditation Devout Prayer Letter to his Lady his Wife Certain Letters written by him after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London an 1557. fol. Among them are A godly instruction written in Lat. His Epitaph In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book intituled Ancient funeral Monuments p. 522 523 and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English 1 The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula 2 An exposition of a part of the possion of Christ His Latin Works besides those two little things before-mentioned are these De optimo repub statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus aureus c. Basil 1518. there again 1563 both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct Translated into English with notes added to it in the Margin by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. Lond. 1557. oct Published also at the same place 1639. in oct by one Bernard Alsop who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq one
was to be divorced from the said King this our Author Forest shew'd himself a zealous Enemy against it and in few Years after when the King was intent to eject the Pope and his power from England he out of a passionate zeal which he had for the Catholick Religion did in secret confession declare to many of the King's Subjects that the King was not Supreme Head of the Church whereas before he had been sworn to the said Supremacy These matters coming to the knowledg of the King's Council he was examined by certain Persons appointed by them to whom he made answer that he took the Oath with his outward man but his inward man never consented thereunto Afterwards being further accused of divers heretical Opinions as they were then called he submitted himself to the punishment of the Church So that his abjuration being sent to him to be read he utterly refused it Whereupon his confinement in the Prison called Newgate being made more close these Verses were wrot on him by a Protestant Forest the Fryer that obstinate Lyer That willfully will be dead Incontinently the Gospel doth denye The King to be Supreme Heade About the same time he took a great deal of pains in writing a Book whether in English or Latin I know not entit by Latin Writers De autoritate Ecclesiae Pontificis Maximi The beginning of which is this Nemo sibi sumat honorem nisi fuerit vocatus à Deo tanquam Aaron c. In which Book he inveighed much against the pride and impiety of the King because that without any call he did not scruple to intitle himself The Head of the Church of England and to take upon him that which he was not capable of whereas if he had thought himself a true Member of the Cath. Church he should have given God thanks that he was so and to have rested therein without endeavouring to tear it to pieces c. The contents of this Book which was ready for the Press but whether ever printed in England I cannot tell coming to the knowledge of certain inquisitors and at length to the Kings ear he was forthwith condemned to dye and having some days allowed him to make his peace with God and all Men he wrot Several Letters Some of which I have seen printed in Latin as first His Answer to the Letter which Qu. Catherine sent to him 2 An answer to the Letter written to him by Elizab. Hammon Maid of honour to the said Queen 3 Answer to the Letter of Tho. Abell who was executed two Years after for denying the King's Supremacy with several others which he wrot to comfort the afflicted Catholicks At length being drawn upon a Sledge from his Prison to Smithfield where a pair of Gallows was set up to receive him he was hanged thereon by the middle and arm-pits quick and under the Gallows a Fire being made he was burnt and utterly consum'd to ashes year 1538 May in Fifteen hundred thirty and eight aged 60 and in the 43 Year of his professed and religious estate At the time he was to suffer and before he went up the Ladder Hugh Latymer B. of Worcester did from a Pulpit set up there near to the Gallows Preach a Sermon purposely to move him to repentance but all availed nothing He had then several discourses with that Bishop which were verbatim taken by some of the Brethren of his order In conclusion Latymer asked him what state he would die in Whereupon Forest with a loud voice answered if an Angel should come down from heaven to teach him any other Doctrine than he had received and believed from his Youth be would not now believe him and that if his body should be cut joint after joint or member after member burnt hanged or what pain soever might be done to his body he would never turn from his old profession c. and added that seven years past he Latymer durst not have made such a Sermon for his life This being said he was conducted from the place where he stood which was erected above the People to the Gallows and there suffered ANTHONY FITZHERBERT whose great Learning in the Wisdom of the Law both the judicial Court of Pleas wherein he sate Justice a long time and also those exact Books of our Common Law by him exquisitely penn'd and publish'd do sufficiently Witness was born of being the Son of Ralph Fitzherbert Esq and descended from a right Ancient Family living at Norbury in Derbyshire laid a Foundation of Learning in this University on which he built a firm structure in after times but in what House here or in what Inn of Court afterwards it appears not Sure it is that having made a most fruitful progress in his Studies he was constituted Serjeant at Law 18. Nov. 2. Hen. 8. Dom. 1510 one of the Kings Serjeants six Years after being about that time made a Knight and in 1522. one of the Justices of the Common-pleas and not of the Kings-bench as one doth falsely report In which place carrying himself with great prudence justice and knowledge became at length the Oracle of the Law and was admired by all for his profundity in it His works are Grand abridgment of the common Law contained in the Year Books and other Books of Law Readings and Records Lond. 1516. 1565. fol. afterwards in qu. divided into several parts or vol. From which abridgment and others Rich Bellew of Lincolns Inn did collect cases adjudged in the time of K. Rich. 2. A Calender or Index See in Will. Rast all Magna charta cum diversis aliis statut is Lond. 1519. in 12. Office and authority of Justices of Peace Lond. 1547. and 63. qu. enlarged by Rich. Crompton Esq Lond. 1583. qu. c. Office of Sheriffs Bayliffs Escheators Constables Coroners c. Printed several times with the former Of the diversity of courts Compiled 21. H. 8. So Sir Edw. Coke in his Reports Vol. 10. in the Proem Natura Brevium Novel Printed at Lond. 26. Hen. 8. and afterwards several times in oct and qu. corrected and revised with a Table added by Will. Rastall Printed also several times in French in oct c. The same is also translated into English and hath added thereunto the authorities in Law and some other Cases and Notes c. See more in Will. Rastall under the Year 1565. This Natura Brevium is esteemed an exact work excellently well penn'd and hath been much admired by the noted Men in the common Law Of the surveving of Lands Lond. 1567. The Book of Husbandry very profitable and necessary for all Persons Printed in the Reign of Queen Mary and in the beginning of Queen Eliz. This Book I have seen more than once under Anth. Fitzherberts name yet there are not wanting some who say 't was penn'd by his Brother Job Fitzherbert This famous Lawyer Ant. Fitzherbert who had been an enemy to Card. Wolsey paid his last debt to nature in
annotations thereon by Joh. Bale who hath added thereunto of his own A register of the names of English Writers whom the second part of his work De Scriptorib Britanniae shall comprehend Principum ac illustrium aliquot eruditorum in Angliâ virorum Encomia Trophaea Genethliaca Epithalamia c. Lond. 1589. qu. Published by Tho. Newton of Cheshire These are all the Books composed by him that are published Those that he left behind him in MS. are these following Collectaneorum volumen primum Collections from various Authors viz. from Chronologies ancient Charters Leiger-Books Histories Annals publick and private Writings c. Written with Lelands own hand mostly in Latin in folio containing 913 pages and all collected from MSS. and nothing from Authors that were then Printed There are in this Book many needless additions and illustrations put in by Will. Burton of Lindley whom I shall anon mention who hath written some part of the life of Leland before and has made a useful index to it Collect. vol. 2. Collections from various Authors in MS. viz. Chronologies Annals c. in fol. containing 382. pages Collect. vol. 3. Containing the Catalogues of MSS. in the Libraries of several religious Houses Cathedrals Colleges c. Collections also from Monkish Authors concerning the foundations restaurations c. of religious places and other matters of considerable moment In p. 117 is part of an Itinerary through Devonshire and p. 127 c. is something of Kent In p. 149 c. is something of Herefordshire and p. 204 of Lincolnshire Afterwards follow the meaning and original of words from several old Dictionaries This vol. contains in writing under Lelands hand 287 pages in fol. and hath at the end his New-years-gift to K. Hen. 8. Collect. vol. 4. Containing the lives and characters of most of the eminent Writers of England written in Latin with Leland's own hand an 1546. and containeth 354 pages in fol. One or more Copies of this Book are in private hands An Itinerary throughout most parts of England In five volumes in qu. This Iter was began about 38. H. 8. Dom. 1538 and the volumes were written with his own hand but by the negligence of those who have had the custody of them after the Authors death most of them have taken wet and are not legible About the Year 1631. Will. Burton before-mentioned caused all the said five volumes to be transcribed into one folio which with the originals were by him soon after given to the publick Library of Oxon. Collections concerning English Families and their originals of relations of matters of antiquity from divers Persons of Towns and religious Houses which he accidentally found in record or by tradition of Rivers in several Counties and also collections from various MSS. c. All which are contained in two quartoes under Leland's hand writing and go under the names of the sixth and seventh volumes of his Itineraries and stand and are mix'd with the other five in the Archives of the publick Library Collectiones ex antiquissimis authoribus desumptae quae ad Britanniam spectant MS. in Cotton ' s Library under Julius C. 6. Codrus sive liber contra Polydorum Virgilium de erroribus in scriptis suis MS. An exemplar of which I have seen Naenia in mort Hen. Duddelegi Dudley Equitis MS. in qu. Bononia Gallo-Mastix in laudem victoris feliciss Hen. 8. Anglici Francici Scottici c. MS. in qu. With other things which you may see in Balcus and Pitseus All which MSS. and collections with many other matters of moment were after Leland's death taken by command from Ed. 6 into the custody of Sir John Cheek Tutor to the said King who not long after gave the four tomes or vol. of his collections before-mention'd to Humph. Purefoy Esq afterwards of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth in the North parts of England whose Son Tho. Purefoy of Barwell in Leicestershire giving them to Will. Burtâ—n of Lyndley in the same County in the Year 1612 came many Years after by his gift when he had made use of them in compiling his Description of Leicestershire to the Bodlcian or pub Library at Oxon together with the Itinerary in five with the other two quartoes where they yet in the Archives of that Library remain As for some other of his Collections they came after the death of Sir John Cheek into the hands of Will Lord Pagit and Sir Will. Cecyll but to whom from them I find not Perhaps among the said Collect. were those that came afterwards into Sir Rob. Cotton's hands and the Itinerary into those of Will. Burton before-mention'd Howsoever it is sure I am that several eminent Antiquaries have made use of them especially Joh. Bale in his second edition of British Writer but not in the same words that Leland wrot For as he delivered things impartially and in smooth language so Bale quite contrary and full of scurrilities Camden also though now and then he doth mention his Author Leland yet he made considerable use of his Collections in the composing of his Britannia Sir Will. Dugdale hath perused them several times and made great use of them in his Antiquities of Warwickshire and in his volumes called The Baronage of England but withal quotes him honestly for every thing that he hath taken from them To conclude this great Antiquary J. Leland dying on the 18 day of April in Fifteen hundred fifty and two year 1552 was buried in the Church of St. Michaels in le Querne in London Which Church having been situated near to the old cross in West-cheap and not far from the East part of St. Paul's Cathedral was totally burnt down in the grand conflagration an 1666. So that soon after its Parish being united to another the foundation of the said Church was level'd and pitched with Stones as the rest of the street adjoining was and at the East-end where stood the Altar or thereabouts was erected a Conduit of stone to serve the inhabitants of the neighbourhood with water JOHN CLERKE who is reported by a learned Author to be descended from famous and noble lineage was educated in Grammaticals Logicals and Philosophicals among the Oxonians for a time but in what House I cannot as yet tell Afterwards he travell'd into several Countries fell into the company and acquaintance of Rich. Paice mention'd under the Year 1532. studied together in Italy and contracted between them such a faithful and constant friendship that the like could not be read in any Author All things were in a manner common between them and what was by either read or observed was forthwith communicated to each others great advantage After his return to his native Country he was highly esteemed for his accomplishments especially for his exact knowledge in the Latin French and Italian Tongues Whereupon being taken into the service of Thomas the great and mighty Duke of Norfolk was by him made his Secretary a
set before the History of Cambria which was translated into English by the said Lloyd and augmented corrected and published by Dav. Powell an 1584. The said Description of Cambria was Printed again at Oxon. 1663. in two sheets and an half in qu. under the title of A description of Wales but it doth so much differ in words from the former that many Readers are apt to take it for another thing Tractatus de Eucharistia This I have not yet seen only a bare mention of it by Baleus Nor do I know any thing else of the Author only that he died in Qu. Maries days But where or the particular Day Month or Year when I know not WILLIAM THOMAS a Welsh Man born or at least of Welsh extract was educated in all kind of learning fit for a Gentleman but what Degree he took I know not One of both his names was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law in the beginning of Dec. 1529. but whether the same I dare not yet affirm In 1544 he was constrained by some misfortune to abandon the place of his nativity and in Feb. 1546. when the news of the death of King Hen. 8. came into Italy he was at Bologna la Grassa where being in the company of several Gentlemen he entred into discourse in defence of the said King whose honor there had been wrongfully touched Which discourse he afterwards drew up by way of Dialogue directing it to Pietro Aretino the well known Thuscan Poet as famous for his Satyrical wit as infamous for his life and death Afterwards if not before he lived at Padöua where he gathered many materials for his Italian Dictionary and Grammar and in 1549 I meet with him returned to London where he wrot his short but methodical History of Italy About that time his name being highly fam'd for his travels through France and Italy his knowledge in several of the modern tongues and in other sorts of learning he was made Clerk of the Council to K. Ed. 6. but upon his death falling into the displeasure of Qu. Mary and so consequently depriv'd of his place and all hopes of other employment in the Court he thereupon designed her murther one saith that the design was against Steph. Gardiner Bishop of Winchester for which he was sent Prisoner to the Tower of London on the 20. Feb. 1553. in the company of Will. Winter and Sir Nich. Throckmorton committed to that place also On the 26. of the same Month being much conscious to himself that he should suffer a shameful death he endeavour'd to make away with himself by thrusting a knife into his body under his paps but the wound did not prove mortal On the 9. of May 1554. he was arraigned and condemned at the Guild hall in Lond. and on the 18. of the same Month he was drawn from the Tower to Tyburn where after he had made a Speech in defence of himself he told the company that he died for his Country He was a Man of a hot fiery spirit had suck'd in damnable principles by his frequent conversation with Christoph Goodman that violent enemy to the rule of Women and one of more misguided zeal than true Religion and Wisdom This Will. Thomas hath written The History of Italy a Book exceeding profitable to be read because it intreateth of the estate of many and divers Common-wealths how they have been and now be governed Lond. 1561. qu. Dedic to John Earl of Warwick by an Epistle dated 20. Sept. 1549. Principle rules of the Italian Grammar with a Dictionary for the better understanding of Boccace Petrarcha and Dante Lond. 1550. 1567. qu. Le peregrynne written at Bologn la Grassa 'T is a MS. in Bod. Lib. qu. D. 23. Th. fol. 71. The beginning of it is Constrained by misfortune to habandon the place of my nativity c. In the title page are these Verses He that dyeth with honor lyveth for ever And the defamed dead recovereth never This Book called Le perigrynne is about to be translated into Lat. with a design to be remitted in the third Tome of Fasciculus collected by Edw. Brown of Christ's College in Cambridge Common place of state Written for the use of King Ed. 6. wherein 't is discoursed whether it be expedient to vary with the time with some others writings which I once saw in the Cottonian Library under Vespasians head D. 18 The title of this Book with other matters relating to Will. Thomas I did formerly communicate to H. Foulis when he was gathering materials for an History of the Romish treasons not dreaming then that I should afterwards make use of them as I have done now I am verily perswaded that there are in being other Books of this W. Thomas either publick or in MS. in private hands which time may hereafter produce So that now I shall only say that he suffer'd death at Tybourne before-mentioned by hanging drawing and quartering 18. May in Fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 leaving then behind him the character by some of a Person of good parts What became of his quarters I know not THOMAS SWINERTON was descended from an ancient Family of his name living in Staffordshire but whether born in that County I cannot tell and educated partly in Cambridge but mostly in Oxon in all good arts and in the tongues Afterwards taking holy Orders he began to see the light of the Gospel while Sir Tho. More was Lord Chancellour of England in whose time many Hereticks as they were then called were imprison'd and brought into trouble Whereupon being resolved to gain what Proselytes he could to his Religion he changed his name to Joh. Roberts and under that name he not only taught God's word in several places chiefly at Ipswych in Suffolk and Sandwych in Kent but also published and translated several things as A muster of Schismatick Bishops otherwise naming themselves Popes Printed in oct The Plots of Papists entituled by a certain Author De Papiculorum susurris And translated into English The History of the life of Hildebrand called Gregory the 7. written in Latin by Beno a Cardinal and also The life of Hen 4. Emperour of Rome and Almaine Which Henry was imprison'd and deposed by the said Pope Both these translations were Printed in oct and much valued in the time when they were made extant When Qu. Mary came to the Crown and Religion thereupon altered our Author Thom. Swinerton fled beyond the Seas but being overtaken with a certain distemper at Emden in East Frisland in Fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 died and was there buried the same Year to the great reluctancy of all those exiles that were there and in those parts JOHN HOPER or Hooper noted to posterity for his manful and painful suffering of death for the Protestant Cause received his first breath in Somersetshire and his Academical Education in Oxon but in what House there unless in that of Merton I cannot yet tell He
Articles according to the order of the Creed of the Apostles Lond. 1581. oct 1584. qu. Annexed to John Baker's Lectures on the Creed These 100 Articles were before Printed viz. an 1550. in oct Declaration of the 10 holy Commandments of Almighty God Lond. 1550. and 88. oct With other things which I have not yet seen the trite or slender titles of which you may see in Baleus He also translated from Lat. into English Turtullians second Book to his Wife concerning the choice of a Husband or Wife Lond. 1550. oct and perhaps other things At length he suffered death in the flames near to the College of Priests in the City of Glocester on Saturday the ninth of Febr. in Fifteen hundred fifty and four 1. and 2. of Philip and Mary being then near sixty Years of Age and much lamented by those that pretended to Reformation EDWARD WOTTON Son of Rich. Wotton superior Beadle of Divinity of this University of Oxon by Margaret his Wife was born within the City of Oxon. particularly as I conceive in the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin wherein his Father lived and had Houses in Cat-street After he had been educated in the Grammar School joining to Magd. Coll. he was first made Semicommoner or Demie of that House and after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts which was 1513. he was as I conceive made Fellow At length upon the desire of John Claymond and Rob. Morwent who knew the singular virtues and learning of the Person he left that Coll. and by the favour of that most worthy Person Bishop Fox Founder of that of Corp. Christi was made socius compar thereof with leave to travel into Italy for three Years an 1520. So that after he had read the Greek Lecture there for some time he journied into Italy studied Physick and took the Degree of Doctor in that faculty at Padöua After his return he was settled Greek Reader of his Coll. was incorporated in the same Degree in the latter end of 1525 was made Physician to K. Hen. 8. and not only became famous for his happy practice in that faculty in these parts and afterwards in London for he was one of the College of Physicians there but also for his great knowledge in Philosophy and things natural He hath transmitted to posterity De differentiis Animalium lib. 10. Par. 1552. fol. By the publishing of which he obtained a famous name among learned Men especially with Mich. Neander who saith that no Author hath written of Animals more learned and elegant than Wottonus See more in Thom Mouffet under the Year 1590. What other things the said Wotton hath published I know not nor anything else of him or his only 1 That he dying 5. Octob. year 1555 in Fifteen hundred fifty and five in the climacterical Year of his Age 63 was buried in St. Albans Church in Woodstreet in the City of London 2 That Catherine his Widow dying 4 Dec. 1558. was buried by him and both had a stone with an inscription thereon laid over their Graves But that part of it which remained an 100 Years after was totally consumed in the grand conflagration of London an 1666. 3 That he is much celebrated by the Antiquarian Poet John Leland under the name of Eadverdus Ododunus 4 That among the Children he left behind him for he had a numerous issue Brian Wotton LL. Bach. and Fellow of New Coll. was one who bequeathed his Body to be buried in the yard belonging to St. Albans Church before-mention'd Another was called Hen. Wotton first a Student of Ch. Ch. and afterwards Proctor of the University Greek Reader and Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. who proceeding in the faculty of Physick an 1567. became afterwards famous for the practice thereof NICHOLAS RYDLEY was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Willymondswyke in Northumberland educated in Grammatical Learning at Newcastle upon Tyne in Academical at Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon he was elected into one of Walt. Skyrlaw's Fellowship of University Coll. 13. Apr. 1521. Which place he keeping but a little while and therefore the Members of that House can hardly lay claim to him he returned to Cambridge where he became D. of D. and Master of Pembroke Hall Afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Ed. 6. and at length through Rochester the temporalities of which See were restored to him 27. Sept. 1547. became Bishop of London 1549. He was a Person small in stature but great in learning and profoundly read in Divinity quo viro as one who knew him saith nihil integrius omnibus egregiis dotibus ornatius Anglia nostra multis hisce retro saeculis habuit c. Among several things that he wrot were these Treatise concerning images not to be set up nor worshipped in Churches Written in the time of K. Ed. 6. Brief declaration of the Lords Supper Printed 1555. and 1586. oct Written by him while he was a Prisoner in Oxon. It was translated into Lat. by Will. Whittyngham bearing this title Assertio de coena Dominica Genev. 1556. Answered by another Book entit Confutatio Catholica Nich. Rydley de Eucharistia Par. 1556. qu. Written by Alban Langdale D. D. of St. John's College in Cambridge Certain godly and comfortable conferences between him and Mr. Hugh Latymer during the time of their imprisonment Lond. 1555. 56. and 74 in oct A friendly farewell written during his imprisonment at Oxford unto all his true Lovers a little before his death Lond. 1559. oct A piteous lamentation of the miserable state of the Church of England in the time of the late revolt from the Gospel Lond. in oct A comparison between the comfortable Doctrine of the Gospel and the traditions of Popish Religion Print with the former An account of a disputation at Oxford an 1554 Oxon. 1688. qu. Written in Latin and published from the Original MS by Gilb. Ironside D. D. Warden of Wadham Col. and then Vicehanc of the Univ. of Oxon. Treatise of the blessed Sacrament The beginning of which is Many things confound the real memory c. published with the former by the aforesaid Person from an original MS. to which he added A Letter written by Mr. Jo. Bradford the Martyr never before Printed Letter of reconciliation written to Bishop Hooper Lond. 1689. qu. published by Sam. Johnson Author of the Short account of the life of Julian the Apostate Lond. 1682. oct He the said Dr. Rydley had a hand also in the compiling of the Common Prayer-Book now in use among us has also disputations arguings communications and conferences about matters of Religion in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church written by John Fox In which Book under the Years 1554. and 55. you may see a full account of his sufferings and afterwards of his burning near to Balliol College in Oxon. year 1555 on the 16. of Oct in Fifteen hundred fifty and
five which was the second and third Years of K. Philip and Qu. Mary JOHN PHILPOT Son of Sir Pet. Philpot Knight of the Bath and twice Sheriff of Hampshire was born at Compton in that County educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in the Year 1534 had a Civilians place there and took as 't is said the Degree of Bach. of the Lawes but whether in this University it appears not in the registers thereof However he was then esteemed a good Civilian and admirably well skill'd in the Greek and Hebrew tongues In 1541 his Fellowship became void because of absence being then I presume in his travels in Italy After his return retiring to Winchester he read Lectures in the Cathedral there on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans Which tho they were done gratis were not acceptable to the Catholick Clergy or Citizens of that place In the time of Edw. 6. he became Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of one Will. Bolen who succeeded Rich. Pates upon his resignation an 1529. In 1553 he let drop certain passages in a convocation of the Clergy savouring of Heresie as 't was then temp Mariae accounted Whereupon being imprison'd he was after an Year and a half confinement examined in points of faith by the Bishop of London and his assistants who finding him obstinate in his opinions and past all recantation was by them condemned to be burn'd He hath written Epistolae Hebraicae lib. 1. De proprietate Linguarum lib. 1. An apology for spitting upon an Arrian with an invective against the Arrians and an admonition to all that be faithful in Christ to beware of them and of other late sprung Heresies Printed at London in 3 Sheets in oct at the end of The examinations of John Philpot c. which examinations were afterwards remitted by John Fox into the Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. but not the Apology Supplication to K. Philip and Qu. Mary Letters to the Lady Vane Letters to the Christian congregation Exhortation to his Sister See the said Book of John Fox under the Year 1555. Oration The beginning of which is 'T is a lamentable thing to behold at this present in England the faithless departing c. This is in MS. in Bodly's Library qu. D. 23. Th. bound with John Bradford's the Martyr Treatise of predestination with an answer to certain enormities calumniously gathered of one to slander Gods truth MS. The said Joh. Philpot hath also translated into English 1 Calvinus Homelies 2 Chrysostome against Heresies with other things which I have not yet seen He suffered death in Smithfield by burning year 1555 on the 18. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred fifty and five See his story in Joh. Fox before mentioned under the Year 1555. and Rob. Parsons his answer to it in The third part of a treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604. chap. 16. p. 286. 287 c. and elsewhere In the Archdeaconry of Winchester succeeded Mr. Philpot one Steph. Cheston LL. Bach. Prebendary of the same place who dying 1571. Dr. Joh. Ebden Preb. of the said Church of Winton also succeeded ROBERT ALDRICH or Aldrisius as some call him was born at Burnham in Bucks educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in the Year 1507 where he took the Degrees in Arts and about that time was stiled by Erasmus in a certain Epistle blandae eloquentiae juvenis Afterwards he became Proctor of the said University Schoolmaster of Eaton Fellow of the College there and at length Provost In 1529 he retired to Oxon where he was incorporated Bach. of Div. as he had stood at Cambridge and soon after performing his exercise for the Degree of Doctor in that faculty he was licensed to proceed in April 1530. Which Degree being compleated by standing in the Act which was shortly after celebrated is the reason why I put him in these Athenae Oxon. About the same time he was made Archdeacon of Colchester and in 1534. May 7. he was installed Canon of Windsore and in the same Year constituted Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter In 1537 Jul. 18. he was consecrated Bishop of Carlile in the place of Joh. Kyte deceased from which time to that of his death though there were many changes in the Church and State yet he ran through all and so consequently complied with them His works are many but all that I have seen are only these Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum The beginning of which is Suscipies Hormanne tue c. 'T is written in Lat. Verse and is remitted into the Book called Antibossicon mention'd in Will Horman among these Writers under the Year 1535. Epigrammata varia And certain matters against Rob. Whittington He gave way to fate at Horncastle in Lincolnshire where was then an house belonging to the Bishop of Carlile on the fifth day of March in Fifteen hundred fifty and five and was as I suppose buried there John Leland the Antiquarian Poet was his familiar acquaintance and therefore having had experience of his most admirable parts and learning did not without just desert commend them to posterity in his Encomia * Trophaea c. illustrium aliquot eruditorum in Anglia virorum c. to which I refer the Reader JOHN PROCTOR a Somersetshire Man born was elected Scholar of Corpus Christi Coll. in Jan. 1536 and when Bach. of Arts Fellow of Allsouls with Joh. Watson was was afterwards Bishop of VVinchester This Person who was Master of Arts in 1544 I take to be the same John Proctor that was soon after School Master of Tunbridge in Kent who wrote and published The Fall of the late Arrian Lond. 1549. oct History of Wyats Rebellion and Conference with the degenerate and seditious for the search and cause of their great disorder Lond. 1554. 55. tw In the beginning of the first Vol. of Rap. Holinsheds Chronicle are the names of such Authors from whence he chiefly compiled that Chron. and among them is William Proctor's Book called the History of Wyat's Rebellion Which should have been Joh. Proctor JOHN STANDISH was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile family of his name living in Lancashire and at about 17 Years of Age in 1524 he was by the care of his Unkle Dr. Henry Standish Bishop of St. Asaph sent to Brasenose College where making great proficiency in Logick was elected Scholar of that of Corp. Chr. in Januar. 1528. partly by the endeavours made in his behalf of one Mr. Edw. Standish Fellow of Brasenose who was either his Brother or Unkle and partly by the said Doctor After he was settled in that Coll. he went through the usual classes of Logick and Philosophy with unwearied industry became a most noted Disputant took the Degrees in Arts holy Orders and drudging much in the faculty of
find another Tho. Talbot to have been born in the said County of Lancaster and entred into the Society of Jesus an 1598. aged 26. who after he had wrot several Books died in 1652 but this Person was not as I can yet learn originally bred among us HENRY Lord STAFFORD the only Son of Edward Duke of Bucks attained and executed for treason in 1521. was one of the most accomplished Persons of his time and tho not the inheritor of his Fathers honours yet he was a Man of great virtue learning and piety In his younger years he received his education in both the Universities especially in that of Cambridge to which his Father had been a benefactor where by the care of good Tutors he attained to a considerable knowledge in the Latin tongue and in that language he wrot several things as 't is said as well in verse as prose but such I have not yet seen He translated into English a Book intit De vera differentia regiae potestatis ecclesiasticae quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque c. Written by Edward Fox Bishop of Hereford This translation was printed in oct but when it appears not in the Book He also translated Erasmus his Two Epistles wherein is declared the brainsick headiness of the Lutherans c. Lond. 1553. oct and other things which I have not yet seen This noble Lord gave way to fate in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell nor in what County born unless in Staffordshire wherein he was possessor of many Lands ROBERT BROKE or Brook Son of Thom. Broke of Claverley in Shropshire year 5121 by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Hugh Grosvenor of Farmot in the said County was born as I conceive at Claverley laid a foundation of Literature at Oxon which was a great advantage to him when he studied the municipal Laws in the Middle Temple where he became the compleatest Lawyer of his time In 1542 he was elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that House and in the latter end of the Year in Lent 1550 he was elected Double-Reader In 1552 he was by writ called to be Serjeant at Law and in 1553 being the first Year of Qu. Mary he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas and not of the Common-bench as some say and about that time received the honor of Knighthood from that Queen In whose Reign and after he was held in high value for his profound knowledge in the Law and for his just and upright dealing in all matters relating to the profession thereof He hath written An abridgment containing an abstract of the Year Bookes till the time of Qu. Marie Lond. 1573. fol. 76 86 c. qu. Certain cases adjudged in the time of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Marie from 6. Hen. 8. to the 4. of Qu. Marie Lond. 1578. 1604. 25. c. in oct The original title of this Book is in French Ascuns novel cases c. Reading on the Statute of limitations 32. H. 8. c. 2. Lond. 1647. oct Printed I think before that time This Sir Rob. Broke who was a zealous Cathol died as it seems in Aug. or Sept. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight but where buried I cannot yet tell In his Will proved 12. Oct. the same Year he several times remembers the Church and Poor of Putney near London I find another of both his names who is written Esquire Serjeant at Law and Recorder of London under whose name was published Reading upon the statute of Magna Charta chap. 16. Lond. 1641. qu. before which time the Author was dead Whether the same with Rob. Brook of Brasenose who was admitted Master of Arts 1584. I think not As for Sir Rob. Broke the Judge he obtained a fair estate by his endeavours which he left to his posterity remaining at Madeley in Shropshire and at one or two places in Suffolk PAUL BUSH was born of honest and sufficient Parents became a Student in this University about the Year 1513 and five years after took the Degree of Bach. of Arts being then numbred among the celebrated Poets of the University Afterwards he applied his mind to the supreme faculty entred into the Order of the Bonhom's studied among the Fryers of the Order of St. Austin now Wadham Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and at length became Provincial of his Order that is of Bonhoms This Person being noted in his time for his great learning in Divinity and Physicks was by K. Hen. 8. made the first Bishop of Bristow after he had placed an Episcopal See there an 1542 and by the name and title of Paulus Bush capellanâ—s Regis S. Theologiae Bacalaureus had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging to that See 16. June in the same Year But he taking to him a Wife whom one calls a Concubine in the days of K. Ed. 6. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary an 1553 whereupon he spent the remaining part of his days at Bristow He hath written several things in Divinity and Medicine as well in verse as prose of which number these are some An exhortation to Margaret Burges Wife to Jo. Burges Clothier of Kingswood in the County of Wilts Lond. temp Ed. 6. in oct Notes on the Psalm beginning with Miserere mei Deus c. Treatise in praise of the Cross Dialogues between Christ and the Virgin Mary Treatise of salves and curing remedies besides Poems of divers kinds which I have not yet seen At length taking his last farewell of this World on the eleventh of Octob. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 68 years was buried on the North side of the choire near to the entrance leading into the North Isle of the Cath. Church at Bristow Over his grave was soon after erected a low altar tomb and on it was fastned his statue in his Episcopal Robes lying on his back On the 4 corners of the Tomb were erected four small Pillars bearing a Canopy about which is this written Hic jacet D. Paulus Bush primus hujus Ecclesiae Episcopus qui obut undec die Octob. an Dom. 1558. aetatisque suae 68 cujus animae propitietur Christus About the tomb beneath the statue are certain verses engraven on three sides thereof the fourth joyning to the Wall some of which follow Agnus qui primam nostrum sua tempora miram Indueret jacet hic Bristoliense decus A patre Bush dictus Paulum baptisma vocavit Virtus implevit nomen uterque Pari. Paulus c. Ille animos verbis impensos pavit egenos Hinc fructum arbusto portulit ille suo Ut madidos arbusta tegunt sic foedere rupto Inter discordes pacificator erat This Monument was erected near to the stone under which his sometimes Wife called Edyth Ashley was buried who died 8. Oct. 1553. ROBERT WARDE a native of the Dioc. of Durham was elected
of the convocation of the whole Clergy of the Diocess of Canterbury where in speaking and acting he behaved himself with great commendation The same year being forced to leave the said Deanery to make room for Dr. Joh. Fekenham the former Abbat of Westminster and the Monks had that of Windâ—ore bestowed upon him an 1556. But being taken in adultery as some say was deprived of the said Deanery by Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury in 1557. Whereupon looking on himself as much abused did appeal to an higher Power So that being about to take a journey to Rome to complain to his holiness was seized and clapt up Prisoner within the Tower of London where as I conceive he died Jo. Leland gives him the character of a noted Preacher and Orator of his time and seems to intimate that he had written several Books Jo. Bale who speaks well of few Men saith that he had been sore bytten with a Winchester gose and was not as yet 1554 healed thereof And tells us of his old familiar Mary Huckvale of Oxford and of his provider Goodwife Person and Chrystian Thompson the Widow and I know not what Another equal with Bale in scurrilities saith that Hugh Weston is a drunken burnt tail man a baudy beast a leacherous locust a companion with curtezans of Coleman hedge more meet to be coupled with his old play-fellow and pack-borse Goodwife Hugfaile at Oxon at the tayle of a Cart than to be reverenced and reputed a Mayden Preist in good Queen Maries Court But to let pass this brutish language more fit to be spoken at Billingsgate than by a Person that made Divinity his delight I must tell you that there goes under this Dr. Weston's name Oratio coram patribus clero habita 16. Oct. 1553. The beginning of which is Cum Demosthenes totius Graeciae lumen c. Lond. 1553. oct Disputations with Cranmer Ridley and Latimer in the Divnity School at Oxon. an 1554. At which time he was Moderator in the disputations of several Doctors had with them as you may see at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. wherein are also several conferences and discourses of the said H. Weston had with other Persons At length he giving way to fate within the Tower of London as it seems in the Month of Decemb. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight was buried before the image of the Crucifix in the middle of the Church belonging to the Hospital of the Savoy situated in the Strand near to London In his will dat 26. Nov. 1558 made within the Tower of London he bestowed most of his wealth on pious and publick uses took a great deal of care about the ceremoney to be performed at his burial and for the praying for his Soul by several Persons in several places as moneys for a Dirige and Mass to be performed 1 By the Master and Fellows of Balliol Coll. 2 By the Rector and Fellows of Lincoln Coll. 3 By the Chapl. or Priest of the University of Oxon. 4 By the Priest at Islip near Oxon. of which perhaps he had been Rector 5 By the Priest of Burton Novery in Leycestershire at which place if I mistake not he had received his first breath because his Brethren lived there c. with many other things therein which not only shew'd him to be a zealous Catholick but also a Person of a publick spirit WILLIAM FORREST was related to John Forrest before-mentioned but where born I cannot justly say spent several years in study among the Oxonians and was there a Student when the question was discussed among the Doctors and Masters concerning the divorce of King Hen. 8. from his Royal Consort Qu. Catherine in 1530 as in the life of the said Queen which I shall anon mention appeareth He was a Priest and had preferment in the Church was well skill'd in Musick and Poetry had a collection of the choicest compositions in Musick that were then in use Which coming after his death into the hands of Dr. Heather founder of the Musical Praxis in this University he gave them to the publick School thereof where they yet continue and are kept only as matters of antiquity Among them are the compositions of Joh. Taverner of Boston sometimes Organist of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon of Joh. Merbeck Org. of Windsore Rob. Fairfax a Doctor of Musick of Cambridge Dr. Christ Tye Joh. Sheppard John Norman c. All the Books that our Author Forrest hath composed which have as yet come to my view were written in English Poetry such as was commonly used in the Reigns of Hen. 8. and Ed. 6. The titles of which follow A true and most notable History of a right noble and famous Lady produced in Spayne entituled the second Gresield practised not long out of this tyme in much part tragedous as delectable both to hearers and readers This is a MS. containing the life of Queen Catherine the first Wife of K. Hen. 8. and is by the Author dedicated to Qu. Mary he being then Chaplain to her T is a broad thin Folio written very fairly on Vellam and seems to be the very same it being now my proper Book that the Author presented to the said Queen There be many things in it that are very zealously written against the Hereticks of those times as he calls them which plainly shews him to be entirely devoted to the Church of Rome And tho there be no great streins in it yet the historical part of it is good if not too much partiality therein and I have discovered from the said Book many things relating to the Affairs of Oxon acted during the time of the said divorce which I could never see elsewhere The beginning of the prologue to Qu. Mary is this As nature hath no inclination c. and of the work it self Wryters have many endeavoured their pains c. Throughout the whole History the Author makes use of the name of Grysild the second for Qu. Catherine and the name of Walter for K. Hen. 8. At the end of it contained in 20 Chapters is this written Here endethe the Historye of Grysilde the seconde dulie meanyng Qu. Catharine Mother to our most dread Soveraigne Lady Qu. Mary fynysched the 25. day of June the Yeare of owre Lorde 1558. by the symple and unlearned Syr Wyllyam Forrest Preeiste propria manus At the end of the said Historie is written in verse also An Oration consolatory to Queen Mary 'T is contained in six leaves and hath this beginning Among much inward profound perpending c. This Book richly bound in laced Sattin hath on every brass boss at each corner this sentence embossed in an English Character Ave Maria Gratia plena Our Author Forrest hath also written in old English verse The tragedious Troubles of the most chast and innocent Joseph Son to the holy Patriarch Jacob MS. in two vol. in fol. dedicated to Thom.
qu. Which being the first book of that nature that was ever printed in the English tongue was a pattern or platform to those that came after viz. to Will. Wyrley in his True use of Armory Printed 1592. qu. to Joh. Boswell when he wrot his Works of Armory in 3 books Lond. 1597. qu. and to others In the beginning of Apr. 1577. there was some dispute made among the relations of the said Ger. Legh who should administer his goods debts chattels c. So that I presume he died in Fifteen hundred seventy and six year 1576 18. Elizab. which is all that I yet know of him or his works WILLIAM BLANDIE was born at Newbury in Berkshire educated in Wykâ—hams School near to Winchester elected Probatione-Fellow of New Coll. in 1563 took one Degree in Arts three years after and the same year was removed thence by the Bishop of Winton in his visitation of that Coll. but for what reason unless for Popery I cannot tell About the same time he went to London became Fellow of the Middle Temple and afterwards translated from Lat. into English The five Books of Hicronimus Osâ—rius containing a discourse of Civil and Christian Nobility Lond. 1576. qu. What other things he hath translated or whether he hath written of any Subject I cannot tell ANTHONY RUSSHE a florid and frequent Preacher of his time was born in the Diocess of Norwych admitted Probationer-Fellow of Magd. Coll. in July 1554 did compleat the Degree of Master of Arts 1558 and soon after quitting his Fellowship became Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth Dean of Chichester in the place perhaps of Barth Traheron Doctor of Divinity and in the Year 1567 Canon of Windsore He hath written A President for a Prince wherein is to be seen by the testimonie of antient writers the duty of Kings Princes and Governours Lond. 1566. in qu. and other things as I conceive but such I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature on the first day of April year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven aged 40 or more and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Over his grave is an Epitaph containing a great Elogie of him which for brevity sake I shall now omit and in the mean time proceed to the next writer in order to be mentioned RALPH GUALTER Son of the famous Ralph Gualter was born at Zurich in Helvetia spent several years in this University mostly in Merton Coll. took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1573 and then returning to Zurich became Minister of St. Peters Church there where he was held in great admiration for his quick and forward parts He hath written Elegia de militia Christianorum in his terris adversus satanem carnem mundum militantium Epitaphium in Hen. Bullengeri obitum written in Greek Epicedium in obitum Joh. Parkhursti Episcopi Nordovicensis Tigur 1576. qu. Argos Helvetia Sive carmen de Tigurinorum navigatione Tiguro Argentoratum usque uno die confecta Carmina in imagines Doctorum nostri seculi virorum Varia Epigrammata Epitaphia At length having spent his short life in learning and virtuous industry surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven aged 25 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried as 't is said in St. Peters Church before-mention'd at which time the chief Scholars there did much bewail his loss by their Poetry A certain Author tells us that this Ralph Gualter the Son hath written Homilies on the lesser Prophets but such I have not yet seen The Father hath and therefore I suppose there is a mistake in the matter MORGAN PHILIPPS or Philip Morgan a Monmouthshire Man born in the Dioc. of Landaff became a student in the University in 1533 or thereabouts made so great a progress in Logick and Philosophy and became so quick and undermining a Disputant that when he was Bach. of Arts he was commonly called Morgan the Sophister In the Year 1538 he was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. being then an year standing in the Degree of Bachelaur and taking that of Master of Arts he entred into the sacred function In 1546 he was made Principal of St. Maries Hall and three years after was one of the Triumviri that undertook a publick disputation in the Divinity School with Pet. Martyr In 1550 he resign'd his Principality being then Bach. of Div. and in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign he became Chauntor of St. Davids Cathedral Whereupon and because of his absence from Oriel Coll. for more time than was allowed he was denounced non socitis in 1554. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he left his preferment friends and country for Religion sake spent most of his time at Lovaine and Doway and wrot several books as 't is said but I have seen only these following which go under his name viz. Defence of the honour of Mary Queen of Scotland with a declaration of her right title and interest to the Crowne of England Leig 1571. in 2 books in oct A treatise shewing that the regiment of Women is conformable to the Law of God and nature in one book Ib. 1571. oct These two treatises containing three books were published under his name but written as a noted Author tells us by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse in Scotland upon occasion of sundry Pamphlets that came out against the marriage of Mary Qu. of Scots to be had with the Duke of Norfolk and the right by which she claimed to become heir unto England Which Bishop as 't is farther added did afterwards ingeniously acknowledge in his Commentaries that he had his arguments for her right of succession secretly from Sir Anth. Browne Chief Justice of the Common-pleas and from Serjeant Joh. Carryll an excellent common Lawyer of the Inner Temple So that if Morg. Philipps was not the Author of the said treatises I cannot justly say that he wrot any thing else only his Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento in Univ. Oxon habita contra D. Pet. Martyrem 31. Maii an 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. c. See more in Pet. Martyr an 1562. and in Will. Tresham 1569 c. But let our Author Camden and his follower here quoted say what of Leslie's being the Author of those books and other judge of the matter as he and they please while I tell you that a writer before Camden in time and equal with him in learning as to the studies he professed reports that the said Morgan Philipps a Man of good account for learning among those that knew him was thought to have written the said treatises divided into three books by the advice and assistance of Sir Anth. Browne which thing is made the more credible by the many authorities of our common Law which there are alledged The first book doth endeavour to clear Mary Q. of Scots for the murther of the Lord Darley her Husband which by many was laid
Pauls cross on the second Sunday before Esther in the year 1560 which are also printed Disputation with Archb. Cranmer and Bish Rydley in the Div. School at Oxon an 1554 Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church Funeral Sermon at the burning of Dr. Tho. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury He hath also other things extant which I have not yet seen After Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he with Jo. Whyte B. of Winchester and five more most zealous Cath. Divines did dispute with as many Protestant Divines concerning matters of Religion when Qu. Elizab. was about to make a reformation in the Church of England But that disputation coming to nothing he was depriv'd of his Deanery to make room for Dr. Will May Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge who dying about the beginning of 1561. Alex. Nowell succeeded him About that time Dr. Cole was imprison'd but where I cannot tell Sure I am that he died in or near to the Compter in Woodstreet within the City of London in the month of Decemb. year 1579 in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine but where buried by his Executor Humph. Moseley Secondary of the said Compter I know not Joh. Leland the Antiquary was Dr. Cole's acquaintance and having had experience of his learning hath eterniz'd his memory among other learned Men of our Nation and of his time in his book of Encomia's to which the curious reader may recur if he please wherein he 'll find a just character of this our Author Dr. Cole and his learning PETER MORWYN or Morwyng a zealous reformer of his time was born in Lincolnshire made perpetual Fellow of Magd. Coll. in 1552 being then Bach of Arts and in the year after supplicating some few days before K. Edwards death that he might proceed in that faculty did obtain his desire But that King then dying and Morwyn foreseeing that Religion would alter he was not presented to that Degree Soon after he and others of his society consulting how to withdraw themselves in private obtained leave to be absent for a time but to what place Morwyn went beyond the Seas for he was a voluntary exile in Germany I find not Sure it is that after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he retired to his Coll. and in 1559 was presented to the Degree of Master and became renowned among the Academians for his great knowledge in the Lat. and Greek tongues and poetry When Dr. Bentham was promoted to the See of Lichfield he made him his Chaplain and upon the next vacancy Prebendary and Canon of the said Church and well beneficed near to that place He hath translated into English 1 A compendious and most marvellous history of the latter times of the Jews commune weale beginning where the Bible and Scriptures leave and continuing to the utter subversion and last destruction of that Country and People Lond. 1558-61 and 1593 in oct Written in Hebrew by Joseph Ben. Gorion 2 The treasure of Enonimus containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature touching the most apt times to prepare and distill Medicines Lond. 1565. qu. besides other books which I have not yet seen He was living at or near to Lichfield in the month of May in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine in which year he was appointed one of the administrators of the goods chattels c. of the said Bish Bentham but how long he lived after that year I cannot tell nor where his reliques were lodg'd JOHN LISTER was descended from those of his name in Yorkshire spent some years among the Oxonians and wrot A rule to bring up children wherein is declared how the Father opposeth the Son in the Holy Scripture whereby all Parents may be taught how to bring up their Children Printed at Lond. in oct about 1580. What other things he hath written and published I cannot yet JOHN ROGERS called by some Joh. Rogers the second because one of both his names of Pembr Hall in Cambr. was a writer in the Reign of Ed. 6. and a Martyr for the Protestant cause in the time of Qu. Mary was educated for some years in this University but whether in Qu. Coll. where one of both his names was Fellow and proceeded Master of Arts in 1556 or another Joh. Rogers of Mert. Coll. I think who was admitted Master in 1576 I cannot justly say Sure I am that Joh. Rogers of Oxon. wrot and published these treatises following The displaying of an horrible sect of gross and wicked hereticks naming themselves the Family of Love c. Lond. 1579. oct The lives of the Authors of the Family of Love Printed with the former Answer to certaine Letters maintaining the opinions of those of the Family of Love Printed also with the former and in the same year What else this Author hath published I cannot yet find nor when or where he died I find one John Rogers to be a Senior Student of St. Albans hall 1569 which perhaps may be the same with him of Mert. Coll. because that when any Postmaster or Student there taketh the Degree of Bach. of Arts they commonly receede to the said Hall which joyns to the Coll. of Merton ALAN COPE to whom the City of London gave his first breath was made perpetual Fellow of Magd. Coll. in 1549 and Master of Arts in 52 being that year Senior of the Act celebrated 18. July In 1558 he was unanimously chosen Senior Proctor of the University and in less than two years after when he saw that the R. Cath. Religion would be silenced in England he obtained leave to absent himself for a time from the said College Whereupon waiting for a prosperous gale ship'd himself beyond the Seas and at length went to Rome where tho he before had for the space of 5 years studied the Civil Law in this University he was actually created as 't is said Doctor or Bach. of Div. and became one of the Canons of St. Peters Church there Vir fuit eximii ingenii as one saith qui post magnos in Ecclesiâ dei per side Catholicâ tuendâ susceptos labores scripsit opus quoddam insigne intitulat Historiae Evangelicae veritas Seu singularia vitae Domini Jesu Christi eo ordine quo gesta fuerunt recensita ipsis quatuor Evangelistarum verbis contexta c. Lov. 1572 and at Doway 1603. qu. He also published under his name Sex Dialogi c. Antw. 1566. But those Dialogues were written by Nich. Harpesfeild as I shall tell you in my discourse of him As for A. Cope he surrendred up his last breath at Rome about Fifteen hundred and eighty year 1580 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the English Hospital or Coll. there leaving behind him a most admirable exemplar of vertue which many did endeavor to follow but could not accomplish their desires DAVID de la HYDE was admitted Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. 1549 proceeded Master of Arts four years after being then admired and
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
Elizabeth by her Embassador then residing at Prague that by fitting the piece with the place whence it was cut out it might exactly appear to be a part of the said Warming-pan At another time Kelley who was openly profuse beyond the modest limits of a sober Philosopher did give away in Gold-wyer-rings or rings twisted with three Gold-wyers at the Marriage of one of his Maid Servants to the value of 4000 l. but this I think was acted after Dee had left him at Trebona which was in May 1589. otherwise it had not been done and so consequently Rodolph 2. Emperor of Germany who had a great respect for him and Dee would not for his Prodigality or open management of the secret or rather as some say for a chymical cheat put upon him have committed him to close custody The Writings of Kelley that are made publick are these Poem of Chymistry Pr. in Theat Chemic Britannicum an 1652. Poem of the Philosophers-Stone Written to his Friend G. S. Gent. Printed there also De lapide Philosophorum Hamb 1676. in oct Qu. Whether this be not falsly fathered on him He hath also several Lat. and Engl. discourses in a Book intit A true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between Dr. Joh. d ee and some Spirits c. Lond. 1659. fol. Published by Dr. Meric Casaubon before-mentioned At length our author Kelley who had been Knighted by the Emperor as it seems being imprisoned the second time at Prague by the aforesaid Emperor after he had been at Liberty for some Months and in a manner had crept into his favour attempted an escape out of an high Window by tying his sheets together after he had divided each into two parts at least but he being too weighty for them he fell to the ground before he was half way down so that bruising his Body and breaking his Legs he dyed soon after in Octob. as it seem in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 for on the 25. Nov. following the news of his death came to Dr. d ee then in England which he inserted in his Diary thus Nov. 25. an 1595. news that Sir F. K. was slain Jo. Weever before quoted tells us otherwise viz. That Q. Elizabeth sent very secretly Capt. Peter Gwinne with some others to perswade Kelly to return back to his Native Country which he was willing to do and thinking to escape away in the night by stealth as he was clambering over a wall in his own House in Prague which bears his name to this day and which sometimes was an old Sanctuary he fell down from the battlements broke his Legs and bruised his Body of which hurts within a while after he dyed c. Thus Weever before-mentioned a Lancashire man born educated in Queens coll in Cambrige under the tuition of Dr. Rob. Pearson Archdeacon of Suffolk afterwards a great traveller beyond the Seas and collector of several Epitaphs of English-men that he met with in his rambles Soon after his return he travelled though most parts of England for the obtaining of English Antiquities and through some of Scotland being encouraged thereunto by those excellent Antiquaries Sir Rob. Cotton and Joh. Selden At length after he had arrived to the 56 years of his age his little body being then in a manner worn out with continual motion he yielded to nature in his house in Clerkenwelclose near to London an 1632. Whereupon his body was buried towards the west end of the Church of St. James in Clerkenwel As for Edw. Kelley before-mention'd you may see more of him before in Franc. Puccius and afterwards under the year 1651. in Arth. Dee ROGER WILLIAMS Son of Tho. Williams of Penrose in Monmouthshire by Elianour his Wife daughter of Sir Will. Vaughan Knight was born in that County of a Family rather ancient than wealthy and being from his childhood more given to Military than Scholastical matters yet for form sake he was sent to the University but to what house therein unless to Brasenose whereof one of both his Names and a Welsh-man was a Student in 1554. 2. of Q. Mary I know not Soon after he left Oxon became a Souldier of Fortune under the Duke of Alva ran through all the degrees of Military Offices was a Colonel in the French and Belgick Wars and might have been sided with the best of those times if his discretion could have but well tempered his hot furious valour which was the reason that Q. Elizabeth would not commit any place or Employment of great trust to his care In 1586. he had the Honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him was then beloved of all Souldiers and so much noted for his martial prowess that he went beyond the commendation of Panegyrick which was specified in the said year when at midnight he assaulted the Camp of the Prince of Parma near Venlow slew some of the Enemies and pierced the Tent of the General as a noted author tells us He hath written The Actions of the Low Countries Printed at Lond. in time of Q. Eliz. as it seems and 1618. qu. The author being unlearned and only tutored by experience hath penn'd the said History with very exquisite judgment he being an actor in the said Actions or Wars A brief discourse of War with his opinion concerning some part of martial discipline Lond. 1590. qu. In this excellent book the author defends the military art of his against that of former days but to the great envy then and discontent of some old-beaten Souldiers and the Lovers of Archery He paid his last debt to Nature in his House in the Parish of St. Benedict near to Pauls Wharf in London in the month of Decemb. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 and was buried on the 23. of the same month by the care of Tho. Powell of Vsk in Monmouthshire and Gellie Merick of the Parish of St. Clements without Temple-Bar Gent. his Kinsmen within the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul at whose Funeral Rob. Earl of Essex and all the warlike men of the City of London mourned Whether any Epitaph was ever set over his grave I know not Sure it is that one who knew him hath commended to Posterity a learned Epigram on him the beginning of which is Quid tumulum lachrymis violas murmure vexas Fortissimi manes Ducis c. You may be pleased to satisfie your self concerning this valiant Colonel in a Book intit A true discourse historical of the succeeding Governors of the Netherlands and the Civil Ware there began in the year 1565. c. Translated and collected by Tho. Churchyard Esq and Rich. Ro. out of the reverend E. M. of Antwerp his 15 books of his Historia Belgica c. Lond. 1602. I find another Rog. Williams later in time than the former an inhabitant of Providence in New England and author of 1 A Key to the Language of New England Lond. 1643. oct 2 The hireling Ministry
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
to and hated him Card. Allen and Sir Fr. Inglefield as bitter Enemies Of this Nic. Dolman who was a grave Priest and of a mild disposition you may read in a book intit A relation of a Faction began at Wisbich 1595 c. p. 12 13 14 c. 32. 47 c. A copy of a Letter written by a Master of Arts of Cambridge to his Friend in London concerning some talk passed of late between two worshipful and grave men about the present state and some proceedings of the Earl of Leicester and his Friends in England c. Written in 1584. but the certain year when prinâ—ed unless in 1600. I cannot tell It was also printed in oct as the other was in 1631. and hath this running title on the top of every leaf of the book A Letter of State of a Scholar of Cambridge The first edit and perhaps the second was printed beyond the Seas and most of the copies being sent into England bound with the outside of the leaves coloured with green the book was commonly called Father Persons Green-coat 'T is the same book with that intit Leicesters Common-wealth being a dialogue between a Scholar a Gent. and a Lawyer Lond. 1641. qu. This book tho' commonly reported to be Persons and that he had most of his materials for the composition thereof from Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh which I presume did arise from Dr. Tho. James his affirmation that he was the author of it yet Persons himself saith in his Preface to the Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword that he did not write Leicesters Commonwealth And certainly if he had been the author it Pitseus and Ribadeneira with his Continuators would have mentioned it in their respective Catalogues of our author's works whereas they are altogether silent in that matter Liecesters Commonwealth Lond. 1641. oct written in verse This is a small thing and containeth not the same sense with the former Leicesters Ghost in verse also To both which tho the name of Rob. Persons Jesuit is set in the title yet I cannot any where find that he was the author Apologetical Epistle to the Lords of her Maj. Council in defence of his Resolution in Religion Printed 1601. oct Brief apology or defence of the Catholick Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and Subordination in England erected these later years by P. Clem. 8. and impugned by certain Libels printed and published of late c. S. Omer 1601. in oct Soon after were certain notes wrote on this by Humph. Ely Manifestation of the folly and bad spirit of certain in England calling them Secular Priests Printed 1602. qu. This is called a Libel in a Reply made to it by W. C. printed 1603. qu. And it was animadverted upon by A. C. in his Second Letter to his dis-jesuited Kinsman concerning the appeal state Jesuits c. Printed 1602. qu. A Decachordon of 10 Quodlibetical Questions about the contentions between the Seminary Priests and the Jesuits Printed 1602. qu. De perigrinatione lib. 1. Printed in tw This I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether it be in Lat. or Engl. The Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword Pr. 1602. in oct Answer to O. E. whether Papists ' or Protestants be true Catholicks Pr. 1603. in ect Treatise of the three conversions from Paganism to Christian Religion Published under the name of N. D. that is Nic. Doleman in three Volumes in oct The first Vol. which containeth two parts of the said treatise was printed at S. Omers an 1603. The second Vol. which containeth the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the Kalender or Catalogue of Protestant Saints Martyrs and Confessors devised by Joh. Fox c. for the first six months was printed at the said place in 1604. And the third Vol. which containeth also the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the said Kalender of John Fox for the last six months was printed at the same place in the same year under the initial Letters of N. D. When the said three Volumes were first published they were sold in Oxon for 20 shillings but some years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. I bought them for 3 sh The same year 1604 came out Around answer to Parsons alias Doleman the Noddy in qu. but whither to any of the former treatises I know not A relation of a trial made before the K. of France upon the year 1600. between the Bishop of Eureux and the Lord Pleffis Mornay about certain points of corrupting and falsifying authors whereof the said Plessis was openly convicted S. Omers 1604 in oct Published under the initial Letters of N. D. A defence of the precedent relation of a conference about Religion Printed with the Relation of a Trial c. Review of ten publick disputations or conferences held within the compass of four years under K. Ed. and Q. Mary concerning some principal points in Religion especially of the Sacrament and Sacrifice of the Altar S. Omer 1604. in oct under the name of N. D. Fore-runner of Bells downfal or an answer to Tho. Bells downfal of Popery Pr. 1605. in oct An answer to the fifth part of Reports lately set forth by Sir Edw. Coke Knight the Kings Attorney Gen. c. S. Omer 1606. in qu. Published under the name of a Cath. Divine De Sacris alienis non adeundis quaestiones duae Ad usum praximque Angliae breviter explicatae Audomar 1607. in oct Treatise tending to mitigation towards Cath. Subjects in England against Tho. Morton Pr. 1607. qu. The said Morton was afterwards Bishop of Durham The judgment of a Catholick Gent. concerning K. James his Apology for the oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1608. in qu. Answered by Will. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln Sober reckoning with Mr. Tho. Morton Pr. 1609. qu. Discussion of Mr. Barlowes answer to The judgment of a Catholick Englishman concerning the Oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1612. This book being almost finished before Persons's death was afterwards compleated and published by Tho. Fitzherbert See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. The Liturgy of the Mass of the Sacrament of the Mass Pr. 1620. in qu. A memorial for reformation or a remembrance for them that shall live when Catholick Religion shall be restored in England in 3 parts 'T is the same I suppose that is called The high Court or Council of Reformation for England The author of it tho twenty years as 't is said in compiling it all which time and after it was secretly kept yet it was never printed in his time 'T was finished by him 1596. and as I have been informed 't was published some years after his death At length a copy of it coming into his hands of Edw. Gee Rector of S. Benedict near Paul's Wharf in Lond. and Chaplain in Ord. to K. Will. and Qu. Mary he published it under this title A Memorial of the Reformation of England containing certain notes and advertisements which seem
Rob. Canutus 18 Rog. Junius c. 4. nu 23. seems to be the same with Rog. Herefordiensis nu 238. p. 237. See more fully in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 53. 19 Roger Varro c. 4. nu 27. seems to be the same with Gul. de Waria nu 384. p. 349. 20 Simon Dominicanus c. 4. nu 35. is the same with Sim. Henton nu 591. p. 486. 21 Steph. Anglicus cent 4. nu 38. seems to be the same with Steph. Langton nu 326. p. 302. 22 Tho. Wicket c. 4. nu 68. the same with Tho. Wiccius nu 425. p. 379 23 Anonymus alter c. 1. nu 20. the same with Rich. Canonicus nu 283. p. 267. c. And as our author Pits hath repeated many writers in the said Appendix which were before in the work it self so hath he mixed a great many outlandish writers among them supposing them to be English among whom are 1 Alacenus cent 1. nu 8. who was an Arabian as from his works may be gathered 2 Anonymus Sacerdos c. 1. nu 26. who hath written In Apocalypsim S. Johannis lib. 8. Which book divers writers do attribute to Peter Scaliger Bishop of Verona 3 Joh. de Muriis c. 2. nu 97. Who was a French man of Paris 4 Joh. Major c. 3. nu 15. he was a Scot born 5 Joh. Mearus c. 3. nu 18. whom I take to be Joh. de Meara an Irish man 6 Guido Folla Episc Eliensis c. 2. nu 13. He is the same with Guido Elnensis in Majorica who sometimes writes himself Guido Perpinian Elnensis No Guido Folla was ever Bish of Ely 7 Gilla Lincolniensis c. 2. nu 93. He was an Irish Man was Bishop of Limerick and died about 1139. 8 Anton Pacinus c. 1. nu 28. he was an Italian c. At length after our author Jo. Pits had spent most of his time in rambling and but little at Liverdune he gave way to fate there on the 17. Octob. according to the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 whereupon his body was buried in the collegiate Ch. at that place and had soon after this inscription put over his grave Hic jacet D. Pittz quondam Decanus Officialis Canonicus hujus Ecclesiae Doctor SS Theologiae qui decessit ex hâc vita 17. Oct. an 1616. As for the other volumes which our author saith he hath written viz. a vol. of the Kings another of the Bishops and a third of Apostolical men of England they were not buried with him as he desired in case he should not live to finish them but were saved and are to this day preserved as rarities in the Archives of the Coll. or Church at Liverdune One of the said volumes if not more were used and quoted by Edward Maihew a Benedictine Monk sometimes Scholar to our author Pitscus in a book which he published at Rheimes an 1619. intit Congregationis Anglicanae Ordinis S. Benedicti Trophaea Which Maihew was a Salisbury Man born and a professed Monk of the Congregation at Cassino called by the French Mount-Cassin about 48 miles distant from Naples The other book of Bishops which our author wrote and often refers to in his book De scriptoribus is chiefly a collection taken from the Catalogue of the Bishops of England published by Francis Godwin Sub-Dean of Exeter an 1601. as I have been informed by one that hath seen and perused the book HENRY AIRAY was born in Westmorland educated in Grammatical learning by the care of Bernard Gilpin the northern Apostle and by him sent to S. Edmunds hall an 1579. aged 19. or thereabouts of whose benefaction he did not only then participate but also of his Legacies in his last Will dated 27. Oct. 1582. Soon after our author Airay was translated to Queens coll where he became Pauper Puer Serviens that is a poor serving Child that waits on the Fellows in the Common hall at Meals and in their Chambers and do other servile work about the College After he was Bachelaurs standing in 1583. he was made Pauper Puer or Tabardus or Tabardarius that is a Tabarder or Tabitter so called because anciently they wore Coats or upper Gowns much according to the fashion of those belonging to Heralds and in the year 1586 Master of Arts and Fellow Which servile work belonging to Pauper Puer Serviens when Under-graduats all are to undergo before they can be Fellows About the time he was Master he entred into Holy Orders and became a frequent and zealous Preacher in the University particularly in the Church of S. Peter in the East joyning to Qu. coll and taking the degree of B. of Div. in 1594. was four years after chose Provost of his College In 1600. he proceeded in Divinity and six years after did undergo the office of Vicechancellour wherein as always before he shewed himself a zealous Calvinist and a great maintainer of such that were of his mind which then went beyond the number of those that were true English Ch. men He is reported by those of his party especially such that had an admiration for him that he condemned himself to obscurity and affected a retired and a private life but being generally noted and esteemed for his holiness integrity learning gravity and indefatigable pains in the discharge of his Ministerial Function c. he could not hide himself from the eyes of the World Also that by his singular wisdom and dexterity in the Government of his College many learned Ministers were sent thence into the Church and many worthy Gentlemen into the Commonwealth c. To pass by other commendations which are needless now to repeat I shall only tell you of his writings which were published after his death viz. Lectures upon the whole Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians Lond. 1618. qu. Which Lectures having been Preached in the Church of St. Peter in the East in Oxon were published after his death by Christop Potter Fellow of Queens coll with an Epistle before them of his composition The just and necessary Apology touching his suit in Law for the Rectory of Charlton on Otmore on Oxfordshire Lond. 1621. oct Published also by the said Potter a great admirer of this author and his doctrine Treatise against bowing at the Name of Jesus When printed I know not for I have not yet seen it Tho. Beacon an old Calvinist had long before written on that subject and about Airay's time Dr. W. Whittaker and Andr. Wille◠did the like As for our author he died in Queens coll on the sixth of the Ides of Octob. year 1616 in sixteen hundred and sixteen aged 57. and was buried in the inner Chappel of the said coll Over his grave was soon after put two Monuments one on the ground and another in the South wall with inscriptions on both of them the copies of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vnivers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. FRANCIS TATE Son of Barthelm Tate of
England where he preached the word of God very constant as his brother Edmund did was inducted into a Prebendship of Durham 9. May 1572. made Archdeacon of Northumberland on the resignation of Ralph Lever 20. Oct. 1573. and on the eleventh of Sept. 1578. he was made Rector of Ryton within the Bishoprick of Durham This person was very zealous in the way he professed was a great admirer of Jo. Calvin a constant preacher charitable and a stiff enemy to Popery He hath written and published Survey and tryal of the Popes Supremacy Lond. 1590. qu. Written against Card. Bellarmine Comparison between the antient faith of the Romans and the new Romish Religion Lond. 1595. qu. This is commonly called Truth and Falshood Answer to a popish Libel called A petition to the Bishops preachers and Gospellers Oxon. 1607. oct Exposition on the 28. verse of the third Chapt. of the Epistle to the Romans wherein is manifestly proved the doctrine of justification by faith c. Lond. 1616. qu. Plain and familiar Exposition of the ten Commandements by questions and answers Lond. 1617. oct In Joelis prophetiam enarratio Written by the author an 1595. and by his Epistle dedicated it to Tobie Bishop of Durham in which he saith he hath preached Sermons at Berwick about 20. years before that time upon Joel of which this book is the summ And if printed for 't is in MS. would contain about 3 quire of Paper He departed this mortal life at Ryton before mention'd 16. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there year 1617 near to the Graves of 4 of his Sons which he had by Jane his Wife Daughter of Henr. Priestly Over his Grave was soon after set up in the Wall adjoyning a table or plate of Brass whereon are engraven certain trite Verses The first Stanza runs thus My bark now having won the haven I fear no stormy Seas God is my hope my home is heaven My life is happy ease c. By his will he bequeathed to the University of Oxon. 100 l. towards their building of the New Schools and 33 l. to Madg. college HENRY SAVILE Sometimes of Shawhill in Yorkshire commonly called Long Harry Savile was born of an antient family of his name living at Banke near Halyfax in that County entred a Student in Merton coll of which his kinsman Mr. Hen. Savile was Warden in 1587. and was soon after made one of the Portionists commonly called Postmasters After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he left it and retired to S. Albans hall and as a member thereof he took the degree of M. of Arts in 1595. All which time being under the inspection of his kinsman he became an eminent Scholar especially in the Mathematicks Physick in which faculty he was admitted to practice by the University Chemistry Painting Heraldry and Antiquities Afterwards for the compleating and advance of his knowledge he travelled into Italy France and Germany where spending his time very profitable returned the most accomplished person of his time and therefore his company was desired and sought after by all learned and vertuous Men. He had written several things fit for the Press but whether ever published I find not as yet It must be now known that this Henr. Savile being an intimate friend with the learned Camden he communicated to him the antient exemplar of Asser Menevensis which contains the story of the discord between the new Scholars that Grimbald brought with him to Oxon at the restauration of the University by K. Alfred with the old Clerks that the said Grimbald found when he came to that place Which exemplar being discovered to be genuine by the said Camden who afterwards stil'd it Optimum exemplar Asserii he did therefore make it publick an 1602. But so it was that as soon as it peep'd forth certain envious Cantabrigians did not stick to report that the said story concerning the dissention between the old and new Scholars was foisted into Asser by the said Long Harry Savile and which is more that passage also was put by him into the printed History of Ingulphus which maketh much for the Antiquity of the University of Oxon. Ego Ingulphus c. pro literis addiscendis in teneriore aetate constitutus primum Westmonasterio postremo Oxoniensi studio traditus sum c. But for the clearing of the said vain reports much hath been said already and therefore I shall trouble the reader no more but only tell him that after the said Long Harry had lived for some years after his return from forreign Countries within the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields near London died there to be the great reluctancy of all learned men on 29. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 aged 49. Whereupon his body being buried in the Chancel of the Church of that Parish had soon after a Monument set over his Grave on the north Wall with his bust to the middle carved out from stone and painted The reader is now to know that there was one Hen. Savile Esq who was employed as a Captain in one of her Majesties Ships called the Adventure under the conduct of Sir Franc. Drake and Sir John Hawkyns against the Spaniard in the West Indies Which Henry wrote a book intit A Libel of Spanish lyes found at the Sack of Cales discoursing the fight in the West Indies between the English and the Spaniard and of the death of Sir Franc. Drake with an answer confuting the said Spanish lies c. Lond. 1596. qu. But this Capt. Henry Savile must not be understood to be the same with Long Harry or with Sir Hen. Savile Warden of Merton college but another of the same House as I conceive for three Hen. Saviles of Yorkshire were atriculated as members of that coll in the time of Qu. Elizabeath viz. one who is written the Son of a Plebeian 1588. a second the Son of an Esq in 1593. and a third an Esq Son also in 1595. The said Capt. Savile or else Long Harry was engaged in the Earl of Essex his treasons for which he was forced to abscond and withdrew for a time WILLIAM JAMES Son of Joh. James of Little On in Staffordshire by Ellen his Wife Daughter of Will. Bolt of Sanabach in Cheshire was born at Sandbach admitted Student of Ch. Ch. in 1559. or thereabouts and took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences 1571 being then Divinity Reader of Magd. coll The next year he was elected Master of Vniv. coll and in 1577. Aug. 27. he became Archdeacon of Coventry on the death of Thom. Lewes In 1584. he was made Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and in 96. June 5. he was installed Dean of Durham after that place had laid void for some time upon the promotion of Tob. Mathew to the See of Durham In 1606. he succeded the
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
Apostoli lib. 2. Antw. 1587. Hebdomada Mariana ex Orthodoxis Catholicae Rom Ecclesiae Patribus collecta in memoriam 7. festorum Beatiss Virginis Mariae c. Antw. 1609. oct In the front of which book our author writes himself Serenissimorum Principum Sacellanus meaning Duke Albert and Isabell his Princess Hebdomada Eucharistica Duac 1614. oct Brevis praemunitio pro futura concertatione cum Jacobo Vsserio Hiberno Dubliensi Duac 1615. in about 3 sheets in oct You must note that Dr. James Vsher's Mother Margaret Stanyhurst was Sister to our author Ric. Stanyhurst who being a zealous Romanist and Vsher afterwards Primate of Ireland a zealous Protestant passed several learned Letters between them concerning Religion Stanyhurst endeavouring to his utmost to gain him to his Opinion but 't is thought and verily believed by some that Vsher was too hard for his Uncle in controversial points relating to Divinity The Principles of Cath. Religion This I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you when or where it was printed He also translated into English heroical verse The first four books of Virgils Aeneis Lond. 1583. oct Dedicated to Plunket before-mentioned the learned Baron of Dunsany at which time the translator was then living at Leyden in Holland This translation being accounted well performed for that age yet because the verses do not rhime doth cause a noted writer and a professed Buffoon of his time to say that Mr. Stanyhurst tho otherwise learned trod a foul lumbring boistercus wallowing measures in his translation of Virgil. He had never been praised by Gabriel Harvey for his labour if therein he had not been so famously absurd Our author Stanyhurst also translated into English Certain Psalms of David the four first according to the observation of the Latin verses that is without rhime printed at the end of the translation of Virgils Aeneis before-mentioned And at the end of the aforesaid Psalms are of his composition Poetical Conceits Lond. 1583. in Latin and English as also Certain Epitaphs framed as well in Lat. as English The first of which in Latin is on James Earl of Ormond and Ossory who did at Ely house in Holbourn 18. Oct. about 1546. and was buried in the Church of St. Thomas Acres Another on the authors Father James Stanyhurst Esq who died at Dublin 27. Dec. 1573. aged 51. c. But as for the Epitaph of our author which he should have made while living none doth appear there neither at Bruxells as I can yet learn year 1618 where he died in sixteen hundred and eighteen I find one Will. Stanyhurst who was born in the said City of Bruxells an 1601. and entred into the Society of Jesus in 1617. whom I suppose to be Son to our author R. Stanyhurst He was a comely person endowed with rare parts and a writer and publisher of several things as Nat. Southwell tells you in his supplement to Bib. Soc. Jesu who adds that the said Stanyhurst died in January 1665. EDWARD GEE was a Lancashire man born entred a Servitor of Metron coll in Lent-Term 1582. aged 17 elected fellow of Brasnose coll when he was about two years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts and after some standing in that of Master was unanimously elected Proctor of the University 1598. Two years after he was admitted Bach. of Divinity and in 1603. he resigned his fellowship being about that time Rector of Tedbourne S. Mariae in Devonshire In 1616. he proceeded in Divinity having been before that time made one of the Society of Chelsey coll founded by Dr. Matth. Sutcliffe and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty He was a person well known for his sincerity in conversation generality of learning gravity of judgment and soundness of doctrine He hath written Steps of ascension to God Or a ladder to heaven containing prayers and meditations for every day in the week and for all other times and occasions Printed at least 27 times mostly in a manual or in a vol. called Twenty fours The 27th edit came out in 1677. The curse and crime of Meroz Serm. at an Assise holden in Exeter on Judg. 5. 23. Lond. 1620. qu. Sermon of patience preached at S. Maries in Oxon. on James 5. 7. Lond. 1620. qu. Both which Sermons were published by his brethren John and George Gee Ministers who had his notes after his death which hapning in winter time year 1618 in sixteen hundred and eighteen was buried as I conceive in his Church at Tedbourne before mention'd He left behind him a widdow named Marie and a son I think of both his names See more in Joh. Gee under the year 1625. JOHN DAVIES who writes himself of Hereford because he was born in that City was from the Grammar School there sent to this University but to what house of learning therein I know not After he had remained with us for some years without the taking of a degree he retired for a time to his native Country having then among Scholars the character of a good Poet as by those Pâ—ems which he then made and were shortly after published was manifested Sir Joh. Davies whom I shall mention under the year 1626. was more a Scholar than a Lawyer but this Joh. Davies was more a Poet than a Scholar and somewhat enclined towards the Law which hath made some unwary readers take the writings of one for the other But our author finding not a subsistance by Poetry he set up for a writing-master first in his own Country and afterwards in London where at length he was esteemed the greatest Master of his Pen that England in his age beheld first for fast-writing 2 fair writing which looked as if it had been printed 3 close writing 4 various writing as Secretary Roman Court and Text hand In all which he was exceeded after his death by one Gething his Countryman and Scholar Sometimes he made pretty excursions into Poety and could flourish matter with his fancy as well as letters with his pen the titles of which do follow Mirum in modum A glimpse of God's glory and the Soules shape Loâ—i 16â—2 and 1616. oct a Poem Microcosmus The discovery of the little world with tâ—e government thereof Oxon 1603. qu. a Poem Ushered into the world by the verses of Jo. Sanford of Madg. coll 〈◊〉 Fitz-Gâ—ffry of Broadgates and Rob. Burhill of C. C. câ—ll Which last wonders why Davies our author who was laâ—eâ—y as he saith Oxoniae vates should write himself of Hereford as if Oxon was a disgrace to him The holy roode of Christs Cross containing Christ crucified described in speaking picture Lond. 1609. qu. Sonnets printed with the former Poem and both contained in 10 sheets S. Peters complaint newly augmented with other Poems Lond. in qu. But when printed it appears not With this is commonly bound up S. Mary Madg. Blush and therefore I supâ—ose 't was written by the same hand Humours heaven on earth with
relating to the Protestant Religion he entred into the Society of Jesus at Paris an 1588. aged about 30. Afterwards he taught Divinity in the University of Doll in Burgundy and at length was sent into the Mission of England to labour in the Harvest there He hath written The Garden of the Virgin Mary St. Om. 1619. oct Which contains certain Prayers and Meditations Other matters as 't is said he hath written but being printed beyond Sea we have few copies of them come into these parts LEWIS THOMAS a frequent Preacher in his time became a poor Scholar or Exhibitiner of Brasnose coll in 1582. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy Orders soon after and at length was beneficed in his native County of Glamorgan and elsewhere His works are Certain Lectures upon sundry portions of Scripture c. Lond. 1600. oct Dedic to Sir Tho. Egerton Lord Keeper of the great Seal who was one of his first promoters in the Church Seaven Sermons or the exercises of Seaven Sabbaths The first intit The Prophet David's Arithmetick is on Psal. 90. 12. The second called Peter's Repentance is on Matth. 26. 75. c. Which Seaven Sermons were printed at London several times in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth once in the Reign of K. James 1619. and once in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. 1630. A short treatise upon the Commandments on Rev. 22. 14. Lond. 1600. c. oct This is sometimes called A Comment on the Decalogue I find another Lewis Thomas of Jesus college who took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of that house 1597. and that of Master as a Member of St. Edm. hall 1601. But what relation he had to the former or whether he hath published any thing I know not JOHN NORDEN was born of a gentile Family but in what County unless in Wilts I cannot tell became a Commoner of Hart hall in 1564. and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1573. This person I take to be the same John Norden who was author of these books following some of which I have perused but therein I cannot find that he entitles himself a Minister of Gods word or Master of Arts. Sinful Mans Solace most sweet and comfortable for the sick and sorrowful Soul c. Lond. 1585. in oct Mirrour for the Multitude or a Glass wherein may be seen the violence the errour the weakness and rash consent of the multitude c. Lond. 1586. in oct Antithesis or contrariety between the Wicked and Godly set forth in form of a pair of Gloves fit for every man to wear c. Lond. 1587. Pensive Mans Practice wherein are contained very devout and necessary Prayers for sundry godly purposes c. Lond. 1591. in tw Printed there again 1629. in tw which was the fortieth impression Poor Mans rest founded upon motives meditations and prayers c. Printed several times in oct and tw The eighth edit was printed at Lond. 1620. in tw Progress of Piety whose Jesses lead into the Harborough of heavenly Harts-ease to recreate the afflicted Souls of all such as c. Lond. in tw Christian comfort and encouragement unto all English Subjects not to dismay at the Spanish threats Lond. 1596. Mirrour of Honour wherein every Professor of Arms from the General to the inferiour Souldier may see the necessity of the fear and service of God Lond. 1597. qu. Interchangeable variety of things Lond. 1600. qu. The Surveyors Dialogue very profitable for all men to peruse but especially for Gentlemen Farmers and Husbandmen c. in 6 books Lond. 1607. 10. and 18. in qu. Labyrinth of Mans life Or Vertues delight and Envies happiness Lond. 1614. qu. 'T is a Poem dedic to Rob. Carr Earl of Somerset Loadstone to a Spiritual life Lond. 1614. in sixt Pensive Souls delight Or a devout Mans help consisting of motives meditations and prayers c. Lond. 1615. in tw An Eye to Heaven in Earth A necessary Watch for the time of death consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose With the Husband's Christian Counsel to his Wife and Children left poor after his death Lond. 1619. in tw c. Help to true blessedness Pathway to patience in all manner of afflictions c. Lond. 1626. oct This John Norden lived at Hendon near to Acton in Middlesex in most of the Reign of King James 1. being patronized in his studies by or as some say was Servant to Will Cecil Lord Burliegh and Rob. Earl of Salisbury his Son I take him to be the same John Norden Gent. who hath written Speculum Britanniae or an Historical and Chorographical description of Middlesex Lond. 1593. in about 7 sh in qu. And of A Chorographical description of Hertfordshire Printed much about the same time in 4 sh in qu. JOHN BUDDEN Son of Joh. Budden of Canford in Dorsetshire was born in that County entred into Merton coll in Mich. Term. 1582. aged 16. admitted Scholar of Trinity coll 30. of May following took the degree of Bach. of Arts and soon after was translated to Glouc. hall for the sake and at the request of Mr. Tho. Allen where being mostly taken up with the study of the Civil Law yet he took the degree of M. of Arts as a Member thereof At length he was made Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll proceeded in the Civil Law 1602. made Principal of New Inn 1609. the Kings Professor of the Civil Law soon after and Principal of Broadgates hall He was a person of great Eloquence an excellent Rhetorician Philosopher and a most noted Civilian He hath written and published Gulielmi Patteni cui Waynfleti agnomen fuit Wintoniensis Ecclesiae Praesulis coll B. Mariae Magd. apud Oxon fundatoris vita obitusque Oxon. 1602. qu. Reprinted in a Book intit Vitae selectorum aliquot virorum c. Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Published by Dr. Will Bates a Cambridge Man a learned and moderate Nonconformist living then at Hackney near London an eminent writer and worthy of much praise Reverendiss Patris ac Domini Johannis Mortoni Cantuariensis olim Archiep. Magni Angliae Cancellarii trium Regum Consiliarii vita obitusque Lond. 1607. in 3 sh in oct He also translated from English into Latin 1 Sir Tho. Bodley's Statutes of the Publick Library which is remitted into the body of the Statutes of the University 2 Sir Tho. Smith's book intit The Commonwealth of England and the manner and Government thereof in 3 books Printed at Lond. in oct and beyond Sea in tw Also from French into English A discourse for Parents Honour and Authority over their Children Lond. 1614. oct written by Pet. Frodiuâ— a renowned French Civilian year 1620 This Dr. Budden died in Broadgates hall on the eleventh of June in sixteen hundred and twenty From which place his body being carried to the Divinity School Rich. Gardiner of Ch. Ch. the Deputy-Orator delivered an eloquent Speech in praise of him
readings in an Inn of Chancery called New Inn in Lond. 1602. and 1603. History of the ancient and modern Estate of the Principality of Wales Dutchy of Cornwal and Earldom of Chester c. Lond. 1630. qu. The English Lawyer Being a treatise describing a method for the managing of the Laws of this Land and expressing the best qualities requisite in the Student Practicer Judges c. Lond. 1631. qu. Opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England Lond. 1658. oct Published by John Doddridge Esq a Counsellour of the Middle Temple and Recorder of Barnstaple descended from or at least near of kin to our author Sir Joh. Doderidge With the aforesaid Opinion are published also the opinions of Arth. Agard Joseph Holland Francis Tate and Will. Camden all eminent Antiquaries and Historians the two last of which I have before mentioned and the two first I shall speake of anon Treatise of particular Estates Lond. 1677. in twelv printed at the end of the fourth edition of Will Noy's book called Grounds and Maxims of the Laws of this Nation A true presentation of fore-past Parliaments to the view of the present times and posterity This I saw in MS. in a thin fol. in the Library of Dr. Tho. Barlow now B. of Lincoln but whether it was ever printed I know not Our author Doderidge also did peruse and enlarge a book intit The Magazine of Honour or a treatise of the several degrees of the Nobility of this Kingdom with their rights and privileges Also of Knights Esquires c. Lond. 1642. oct The MS. of which I saw also in the said Library fairly transcribed and dedicated by T. S. of Wycombe to John Lord Lovelace an 1637. This book which is the collection of Will Bird I take to be the same which was afterwards published with a title something different from the former under our author Doderidge's name running thus The Law of Nobility and Peerage wherein the antiquities titles degrees and distinctions concerning the Peers and Nobility of this Nation are excellently set forth with the Knights Esquires Gent. c. Lond. 1657. 58. oct What else he hath written besides certain Speeches which are extant in books put out by others I know not and therefore I shall only say of him that he surrendred up his last breath at Forsters near to Egham in Surrey 13. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and that his body was carried to the City of Exeter year 1628 where 't was reposed with great solemnity in our Ladies Chappel joyning to the Cath. Ch. there 14. Oct. following where at this time is visible a very fair monument over his grave and that of his Wise Now as for Arthur Agard whom I have before mentioned I desire the Reader to know of him these things that he was the Son of Clem. Agard of Foston in Derbyshire by his Wife Elianor Daughter of Tho. Middlemore of Edgbaston in Warwickshire that he was bred up to the Law got to be a Clerk in the Exchequer and at length to be Deputy-chamberlian thereof which office he held 45 years while these persons following were successively Chamberlains a place formerly of great honour and worth viz. Sir Nich. Throckmorton Sir Tho. Randolphe Postmaster Sir Tho. West after Lord La Warr Mr. George Young a Scot Sir Will Killigrew Knight Sir Walt. Cope Knight and in his last days in 1615. to Sir Joh. Poyntz Knight While he held that place he learned and received all his knowledge and learning in Antiquities from his faithful and dear friend Sir Rob. Cotton a singular lover of and admirably well read in English Antiquities to whom when Agard died he gave all his Leiger books and MSS. at least 20 in number to be reposed as choice things in his Library among which was Agard's book of his own writing intit Tractatus de usu verbis obscurioribus libri de Domesday which was afterwards put under the Effigies of Vitellius nu 9. The learned Camden stiles him Antiquarius insignis as having been well acquainted with him and his prodigious works collected with his own hand out of his Maj. Records in the Abbey of Westminster where the Exchequer-Office was and elsewhere He died 22. Aug. 1615. and was buried in the Cloyster of St. Peters Church in Westminster near to the Chapter-house door where he had set up a monument in his life-time for himself and his Wife At the time of his death his will and desire was that eleven Manuscripts of his writing and collection should for a small reward given to his Executor be reposed in the Exchequer because they were necessary both for the Kings service and readiness for the subject Also a book of his collection in the Treasury wherein is first contained what records are in the Kings Maj. four Treasuries and how the same are placed and especially how to be preserved And after is contained A collection of all leagues and treaties of Peace entercourses and marriages with Foreign Nations Which book was three years labour and was I think still very carefully preserved for the Kings service The writer and collector thereof took order that it should be preserved in his Maj. Court of Receipt under the charge and custody of the Officers there and to be delivered to them by Inventory because it is very necessary for the Kings use good of the Subject and readiness and light to the Officers As for the other person Joseph Holland whose Opinion concerning the antiquity power c. of Parliament before-mentioned which was also published I can say only this of him that he was a Devonian born an excellent Herald Genealogist and Antiquary as several things of his writing now in being in the Coll. of Arms commonly called the Heralds Office shew Among which is a very long roll of Parchment containing the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Devon before and to his time made in 1585. There also goes from hand to hand a folio MS. of his collection not only containing the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Devonshire but also of Somersetshire and Cornwall FULKE GREVIL descended from an ancient and knightly fam of his name living at Milcot in Warwickshire was born in that County an 1554 being the same year wherein Sir Philip Sidney received his first breath did spend some time in the condition of a Gent. Commoner in this University either before he went to Trin. coll in Cambridge or at his return thence but in what house unless in Ch. Ch. or Broadgates I cannot well tell nor doth it matter much seeing that he was more properly a Cambridge man to which University he was a Benefactor than an Oxonian After he had left the University he travelled and at his return being well accomplished was introduced into the Court by his Uncle Rob. Grevil a Servant to Q. Elizabeth where he was esteemed a most ingenious person and
the 15. Ap. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet near London As for Albert Morton before mention'd who was Nephew to Sir Henry Wotton was elected Scholar of Kings coll 1602. went with his Uncle in the quality of Secretary when he went on his Embassie to the States of Venice Afterwards he was thrice Agent in Savoy Secretary to the Lady Elizabeth in Heidleburg and there imployed as Agent for the King with the Princes of the Union Afterwards he became one the Clerks of the Council and a Knight as I have before told you and at length one of the Secretaries of State He ended his days in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster in the winter time in Nov. as it seems an 1625. having a little before been elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the Univ. of Cambridge He then left behind him a Widdow named Elizabeth by whom he had if I mistake not a Son of both his names who was elected Scholar of Kings coll in the said University 1638. but left that house soon after and became a Leiuetenant Colonel in the Wars in Ireland NATHANIEL TORPORLEY a Shropshire man born applied his Muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church an 1579. aged 16. about which time he became one of the Students of that house Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University and whether he then travelled beyond the Sea I cannot tell For that he was in France for two or more years and was Amanuensis to the celebrated Mathematician Fran. Vieta of Fontenay in the Province of Poictau is notoriously known but the time when whether before or after he was M. of A. we cannot tell Sure it is that his Genie being mostly enclined to the Mathematicks and Astronomy in which faculties he had obtained in his absence a sufficicient knowledge he returned to the University and entring himself into Brasnose coll did as a member thereof take the degree of Master of Arts an 1591 being then eight years standing in that of Bachelaur Afterwards he retired to the great City and became so famous for his singular knowledge that being made known to the great Earl of Northumberland named Henry Piercy the generous favourer of all good learning was received into his Patronage and had a pension paid yearly unto him for several years from his Purse About the same time he was made Rector of Salwarp in his native Country in the place of Tho. Forest deceased 1608. where residing sometimes but mostly in Sion coll in London of which he was a Student and a most eminent member continued in the last till the time of his death He hath transmitted to posterity Diclides Caelometricae seu Valvae Astronomicae universales omnia artis totius munera Psephophoretica in sat modicis finibus duarum tabularum methodo nova generali facilimâ continentes Lib. 2. Lond. 1602. qu. Tabula praemissâ—is ad declinationes caeli mediationes Printed with the former book in five parts Directionis accuratae consummata doctrina Astrologis hac tenus plurimum desiderata Written by way of Preface to the two former books He hath also printed something against Fr. Vieta under the name of Poulterey which is Torpurley's name transpos'd but that book I have not yet seen and hath also written MSS. in Bib. coll Sion Congestor Opus Mathematicum Imperfect Pholosophia Atomorum atopia demonstrata Imperfect Corrector Analyticus artis posthumae Imperfect He took his last farewel of this world in Sion coll before mention'd and was buried in the Church of St. Alphage near to that college on the seventeenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 By his nuncupatory Will which he spake on the 14. day of the same month he gave to the use of those that study in the Library of the said coll all his mathematical books and others all his Astronomical instruments notes mapps and his brass clock Among the said books were some few MSS. of which one contained Certain definitions of the Planisphere made by Walter Warner a most noted Mathematician of his time LEWES BAYLY was born in the antient Borough of Caermerthen in Wales but in what house educated unless in Exeter coll or what degrees he took in Arts I find not only that as a member of the said coll he was admitted to the reading of sentences an 1611. being about that time Minister of Evesham in Worcestershire Chaplain to Prince Henry and Minister of St. Matthews Church in Friday-street in London and that he proceeded in Divinity two years after Much about the same time he being fam'd for his eminence in preaching was made one of the Chaplains to King James 1. who nominating him Bishop of Bangor in the place of Dr. H. Rowlands was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth with Dr. Lake to the See of B. and Wells on the 8. of Dec. an 1616. On the 15. July 1621. I find this passage of him Episcopus Bangoriensis examinatur in Le Fleet datur sed paulo post liberatur What his crime was my author tells me not nor do I lift further to inquire unless it concern'd the Princes match with the Infarta of Spain He hath published The practice of Piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God Printed about 40 times in oct and tw the eleventh edition of which was printed at Lond. 1619. It was also printed once or more in the Welsh tongue and once or more in the French an 1633. c. And in France having been much cried up did therefore cause John Despagne a French writer and a Preacher in Somerset-house Chappel an 1656. to make some complaint of not for any ill thing in it because the generality of the Plebeians do look upon the authority of it equal with that of the Scripture It is said by an author who takes all advantages to speak against the Bishops and Church of England that this book called The practice of Piety was written by a Puritan Minister and that a Bishop not altogether of a Chast life did after the Authors death bargain with his Widdow for the Copy which he received but never paid her the money Afterwards he interlopating it in some places did publish it as his own c. But let this report which hath been common with some as also that which saith it was written by one Price Archdeacon of Bangor remain with their authors while I tell you that Dr. Bayly dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two was buried in his Church of Bangor year 1632 He left behind him four Sons Nicholas John Theodore and Thomas John was Fellow of Exeter coll and a publisher of certain Sermons as I have already told you Thomas Bayly the youngest Son was not educated in
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
the deprivation of Dr. Alb. Langdale of Cambridge Pursglove being thus deprived he retired to the place of his nativity and with the wealth that he had heaped from the Church founded a Grammar School there and an Hospital for 12 poor and impotent people as also a Grammar School at Gisbourne before-mentioned the donation or patronage of which he gave to the Archbishop of York and his Successors for ever an 1575. This Clerk of great renown as he is to this day stiled by the Men of Tideswall year 1579 gave way to fate on the second day of May in fifteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried in the Church at Tideswall Over his grave was a large monument erected with twenty rude and barbarous verses in English engraven thereon which being too many to set down in this place I shall for brevity sake pass them by THOMAS GOLDWELL was in all probability descended from a family of his name living long before his time at Goldwell in Kent but whether born in that County I cannot tell About the year 1520. he became a Student in this University particularly as it seems in Allsouls college where one or more of his name and kindred had studied before his time In 1531. he proceeded in Arts and two years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then known to be more eminent in Astronomy and Mathematicks than in Divinity What were his preferments and imployments 20 years after I know not Sure I am that he being a most zealous person for the R. Catholick Religion he was by Q. Mary promoted to the Bishoprick of S. Asaph to which See being elected he had restitution made of the temporalities belonging thereunto 22. January 1555. Soon after he procured the Pope to renew the indulgences granted to such that went in Pilgrimage to S. Winefrids well commonly called Halywell in Flintshire The original of which place with an account of many miracles performed there is largely set down by Robert a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict afterwards Prior of the Congregation of Cluniaks at Shrewsbury in a book intitled Vita mirabilis S. Winefridae Virginis Martyris Abbatissae lib. 2. written by him about the year 1140. 5. Reg. Steph. and dedicated to Guarinus Prior of Worcester the author being then Prior of Shrewsbury before-mentioned So that how it comes to pass that Silv Giraldus who lived afterwards in K. Johns time did not make any mention of the said Well in his Itinerarium Cambriae which Camden doth take notice of I know not After Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown Bishop Goldwell conveyed himself away beyond the Seas was present at the Council of Trent under P. Pius 4. an 1562. and afterwards going to Rome lived very pontificially among the Theatines was appointed by the Pope to baptize Jews there and to confer orders on all such English men that fled their Country for Religion's sake which he did there and in several places elsewhere in other Countries to the time of his death He was esteemed among them a most useful person was had in great veneration for his learning having as I have been informed wrote one or more books and was living at Rheymes in fifteen hundred and eighty year 1580 being then about 80 years of age Afterwards going to Rome died there soon after and was either buried among the Theatines or else in the chappel belonging to the English college there See more of him in Rob. Kynge among these Bishops under the year 1557. as also in a book intit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia c. among the matters relating to the martyrdom of Ralph Sherwin Joh. Fox in his book of Acts and Monuments c. doth tell us of one Thom. Goldwell a Priest living at Brussells mentioned in a letter written to Bishop Rich. Thornden in June 1554. but whether he be the same with Tho. Goldwell before-mentioned I cannot tell RICHARD DAVYES sometimes a Student as it seems of New Inn. was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph in the place of Goldwell before-mentioned 21. Jan. 1559. aged 50 years was translated thence to S. Davids in which See he was confirm'd 21. May 1561. and died in fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of St. Asaph succeeded Thomas Davyes a Doctor of divinity of Cambridge who being rich left much money for pious uses and setled a Scholarship in Queens coll in the said University He gave way to fate about the Feast of S. Michael 1573. and was buried either in the Church at Abergwilly or in the Church of Llanpedery Kenuen In the See of St. Davids succeeded the said Rich. Davyes Dr. Marmaduke Middleton as I shall tell you under the year 1592. RICHARD COXE sometimes of Kings coll in Cambridge afterwards Canon of Card. Wolseys coll in Oxon was consecrated Bishop of Ely 1559. and died in fifteen hundred eighty and one under which year you year 1581 may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded Martin Heton of Oxon whom I shall mention among these Bishops under the year 1609. MATHEW SHEYNE an Irish man born laid a foundation of literature here in Oxon which afterwards he well improved At length returning to his Country was thro several preferments made Bishop of Cork and Cloyne to which being consecrated in 1572. sate thereto the time of his death which hapned according to some on the thirteenth day of June in fifteen hundred eighty year 1582 and two Whether this M. Sheyne or John Sheyne was the author of the book De reipublica I cannot yet tell See in Rich. Shagens among the writers under the year 1570. and in the Fasti 1523. JOHN WATSON was born at a Market Town in Worcestershire called Evesham admitted Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1540. took the degree of Master of Arts two years after and about that time applied his mind to the study of Medicine in which afterwards he had considerable practice At length about the time that Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown if not happily before he entred into holy Orders was made Prebendary of Winchester Archdeacon of Surrey and Chancellour of S. Pauls In the 15. year of Q. Elizab. Dom. 1572. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Franc. Newton deceased and in 1575. he was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Physick About which time he being in great favour at Court he was made Bishop of Winchester tho somewhat against his will in the year 1580. to which being consecrated on the 18. of Sept. in the same year sate there to the time of his death He died on the 23. of January in fifteen hundred eighty and three aged 63 years and on the 17. of Feb. his Funeral was solemnized in the Cath. Ch. of Winchester at which time his corps was buried in the body thereof By his last Will
was afterwards Curate of Honey-lane in London and being much addicted to the Opinions of Martin Luther went to Oxon in 1526 and dispersed divers prohibited Books among his Acquaintance and Contemporaries as Anth. Delaber of S. Albans Hall afterwards a Civilian of Gloc. College Nich. Vdall and John Diot both of C C C. John Clerke Hen. Summer Will. Betts John Taverner a Musitian of Card. Coll. c. All which being Lutherans or Hereticks as they were then called suffer'd much At length Thomas Garret after several Flights from place to place Sculkings and Imprisonments was burnt in Smithfield near London with Dr. Robert Barnes and William Hierome an 1541 as John Fox in his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church will at large tell you Between the ending of one Register and the beginning of another are the Acts of the Congregation of this year wanting many of which were torn out from the former Mast of Arts. Their Admissions being all wanting in the public Register I therefore recurred to my MS. Book of Inceptions and there found that 30 Masters stood in the public Act or Comitia but none can I yet find who were afterwards Bishops Writers or Men of note Doct. of Civ Law … Will. Pigman was then admitted Doctor of the Civil and Canon Law Who were Candidates for either the Register which is imperfect this year as I have before told you shews not Doct. of Div. Apr… Richard Doke or Duck of Exeter Coll. He was about this time Canon of Exeter Cathedral and afterwards became Archdeacon of Wilts and of Salisbury in which last Dignity I find him to occurr 1536. After he was admitted Doctor he was made Commissary of the University as I have before told you May… Frat. John de Coloribus a Dominican See among the Writers under the year 1525. Feb… Ralph Barnack of New Coll. A Supplication was this year made for one Will. Woddysbury a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict but whether for the degree of Bach. or Doct. of Divinity it appears not because the Register of this year as I have told you is imperfect He was elected Lord Prior of Worcester in 1515 in the place of Thom. de Mildenham deceased and dying in 1518 he was succeeded by one William More who resigning upon a foresight of Ruin Hen. Holbeach alias Randes was elected Prior 13 March 1535 and afterwards became the first Dean of Worcester An. Dom. 1518. An. 10 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Rich. Duck D. of D. before mention'd Proct. John Stevyns of Oriel Roger Dyngley of Allsoules Coll. Bach. of Arts. Jul… Paul Bush He was afterwards the first B. of Bristol Thomas Elyot of S. Maries Hall Thomas Runcorne See among the M. of A. 1521. John Shene See among the M. of A. 1523. Jan… John Hoper or Hooper He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester and Worcester Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. c. Besides these were about 44 admitted and many that supplicated the ven Congregation for Admission Bach. of Can. Law Jul… John Gryffyth or Gruffyth He was afterwards Treasurer of Landaff Dean of S. Asaph and a Dignitary in the Church of Salisbury He concluded his last day in 1559. John Stanley was admitted in the same month About which time studied in this University Thomas Stanley who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Besides these were about six admitted and six or more that supplicated Bach. of Can. Law Jul… Frat. John Gregory a Brother of the Holy Trinity for or of the Redemption of Captives He was afterwards the last Minister or Perfect of the House or College of the Brethren of the Holy Trinity situated without the East Gate of the City of Oxford on the South side Jul… John Skelton See among the Writers under the year 1529. Thomas Parker See in these Fasti 1525. Feb. ult Fath. John Burton Prior of S. Frideswydes Monastery now Christ Church in Oxon. Richard Gwent of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Archdeacon of London and Dean of the Arches See in the year 1524. Besides these were about 16 admitted and 6 or thereabout that supplicated Mast of Art Jul… John Holyman of New Coll. In the year 1514 he took the degree of Bach. of the Can. Law and was long after this time made Bishop of Bristol Tho. Stanbridge of Magd. College an eminent Grammarian He was Brother or nearly related to John Stanbridge the most noted Grammarian of his time was Master of a School at Banbury much frequented for his sake and died in 1522. Besides these two were about 30 more admitted and some few that supplicated and about 40 that stood in two Acts celebrated this year Bach. of Div. Not one admitted and but about ten supplicated for that degree among whom were 1 Richard Yaxley a Benedictin Monk 2 Edward More of New Coll. who was admitted the eighth Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester 29 Oct. 1526 and dying 1541 was buried in the Choir of the Chappel there 3 Arnold Guy alias Buckfast a Cistercian Monk of S. Bernards Coll. in Oxon. He was afterwards Provisor or Prefect of that Coll. and an Abbat perhaps of Buckfast in Devonshire as may seem by his Arms or Rebus of his Name now or lately in one of the middle Chamber Windows of S. Bernards now called S. John Bapt. Coll. wherein is a Crosier thrust thro a Bucks face palewaies One William Arnold was the last Abbat of Merevale in Warwickshire of the Cistercian Order but what Relation he had to Arnold Guy I cannot tell Doct. of Civ Law Feb… John London of New Coll. He was about this time Canon of York and Lincoln afterwards Warden of New Coll. Canon of Windsore Prebendary of Shipton in the Church of Salisbury Dean of the Cath. Church of Osney near Oxon and of the collegiat Chappel of Walingford in Berks. He died in the Fleet Prison at London having been committed to that place for Perjury an 1543 and was succeeded in his Canonry of Windsore by Fr. Mallet D. D. and the Kings Chaplain afterwards Confessor to Qu. Mary and Dean of Lincoln Of this Dr. London you may read much in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. penned by John Fox who loads his Memory with a great deal of ill Language Doct. of Can. Law Febr… Richard Banger or Benger of New Coll. who had been a Candidate for that degree in 1512 was then admitted He was afterwards Commissary of the University Three there were this year that supplicated to be Doctors of the Can. Law viz. 1 Robert Bysse Doct. of the Civ Law mention'd among the Incorporations an 1513. 2 Will. Cleyton Bach. of the Canon and 3 Lendricus Predi Bach. of the Civil Law Doct. of Phys June… Edward Fynch Thomas Bentley of New Coll. I have made mention of Edward Fynch different I suppose from this Physitian among the Masters of Arts an 1504. Doct. of Div. Tho. Knolles of Magd. Coll. a
him were about 52 admitted many of which were afterwards Prebendaries and Canons and but four who supplicated Bach. of Civ Law Oct. 27. Petrus Garsias de Laâ— M. of A. of the University of Parmuse and about this time a Lecturer or Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon. was then admitted Bach. of the Civil Law Feb. 8. John Lawrence of All 's Coll. He was afterwards made Archdeacon of Wiltshire upon the deprivation of John Pollard 10. Aug. 1554. being the second year of Qu. Mary He died in 1568 having before been deprived of his Archdeaconry See in an 1578. among the Doctors of Law Feb. ult Tho. Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Chauntor of St. David John Price of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day See in 1532. Besides these were 4 admitted in the Civil and about as many in the Canon Law Four also supplicated for the former and as many for the other Mast of Arts. March 9. John Sheyne Perhaps the same Sheyne an Irish Man who wrot a book De republica See among the Writers in Rich. Shaghens an 1570. Besides him were 24 admitted among whom John Tooker Rich. Champion and John Pierson Canons of Cardinal Coll. were of the number and about 3 that supplicated Bach. of Physick Jul. 21. Will. Freeman M. of A. The same day he was admitted to practice See under the year 1526. Bach. of Div. Ten at least were admitted among whom were Robert Wratton Richard Mychell Robert Norbury c. Benedictine Monks Thomas Krikham a Minorite Nicholas Cartwright Anthony Moâ—â—neaux c. Among these must not be forgotten William Hyberden of Exeter Coll. as it seems who was admitted 23. Nov. having been before as 't is said in the publick register Bach. of the Canon Law He was in these times and especially after a most eminent Preacher a Person of great devotion and of devout fasting and being a most zealous Bigot for the Church of Rome did while he was beneficed in or near Bristow make it his sole employment to preach against the hereticks as they were in his time so called viz. Luther Melancthon Zwinglius John Fryth William Tindall Hugh Latimer c. When King Ed. 6. reigned he withdrew and continued silent as much as he durst but when Queen Mary came to the Crown he made it his sole employment to ride about the Country and Preach in every Church that he approached against them See more of him in John Fox his book of Acts and Monuments of the Church under the year 1555 where you will find him called by him by the name of Hubberdin an old Divine of Oxford Seven also there were that supplicated for the said Degree of Bach. of Div. among whom were William Basyng a Benedictine Father Philip Davyes a Dominican William Swadell of the same Order c. Doct. of Can. Law Jan. 29. William Cuffold of New Coll. a learned Canonist Not one besides was admitted nor one that supplicated Doct. of Div. Apr. 24. Fr. John Mawdley or Maudlyn a Dominican or Preaching Fryer June 17. Fr. Richard Cromer an Austin Fryer He is stiled in his admission Compositor that is a Compounder because he paid double or treble fees for his Degree being then as it should seem a rich Dignitary Feb. 7. Nich. de Burgo a Minorite He is mention'd in the Incorporations in the beforegoing year Incorporations Oct. 26. Johan Ludâ—vicus Vives LL. D. beyond the Seas was then incorporated being this year a Lecturer in Oxon. as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1544. In the same month of Oct. Richard Wolman Doctor of Decrees of Cambridge and an Archdeacon supplicated to be incorporated but whether his supplication was granted it appears not See more in the Incorporations 1531. In the beginning of March one William Throckmorton LL. D. beyond the Seas supplicated also to be incorporated which was granted simpliciter In the Chancel of the Church at Shottsbrook in Berks. is an Epitaph for the said Throckmorton wherein he is stiled Gardianus istius Ecclesiae Which Church was a Collegiat Church and valued at the suppression of religious places in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. to be worth 33. l. 18 s. 8 d. per an He died 12. Jan. 1535 and was there buried About this time studied in Oxon Simon Grynaeus being then 30 years of age at least At which time but especially afterwards he was well skill'd in the Latin and Greek tongues in Philosophy and the Mathematick disciplines and therefore beloved of Erasmus who honourably mentions him in his Epistles Theod. Bibliander tells us that he really thinks that in him Christian piety all virtues and the muses had taken up their habitation He hath written several books the titles of most of which you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue and died in the prime of his years 1541. An. Dom. 1524. An. 16. Hen. 8. Chancellor the same Commiss Tho. Musgrave M. D. Proctor Edw. Leighton of Cardinal Coll. Philip Dale of Exet. Coll. Apt. 6. The Senior of which Proctors was made the ninth Canon of the College at Oxon founded by K. Hen. 8. an 1532. Grammarians Aug. 1. Tho. Lyonhyll Feb. 15. John Moreton Will. Gower Sec. Chapl. The said three Persons were admitted to inform in the faculty of Grammar Bach. of Musick Apr. 3. Will. Chell a Secular Chaplain Henry Young a Student in Musick supplicated for that Degree 25. of Feb. but was not as I can yet find admitted Bach. of Arts. May 30. Nich. Vdall of C. C. C. See among the writers under the year 1552. Jun. 20. John Fitzjames of Mert. Coll. afterwards of St. Albans hall He was of the same Family of which Jam. Fitzjames mention'd under the year 1516 was and by the name and title of John Fitzjames M. of A. was admitted Archdeacon of Taunton and Prebendary of Milverton in the Church of Wells on the death of John Redmayne 22. May 1554. Jul. 19. Richard Turner Whether the same who was of Magdalen College I know not This Richard Turner took not the Degree of Master if the publick register saith right See among the writers under the year 1558. Jul. 27. John Helyar of C. C. College a good Grecian and Hebritian Feb. 6. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Carlile c. About 50 were admitted and about 15 supplicated that were not admitted Bach. of Civ Law Aug. 1. Thom. Elyot of St. Maries hall Jan. ult John Twyne Who on the same day was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law Five were admitted in the Canon and 15 besides Elyot and Twyne in the Civil Law and five in each supplicated who were not admitted this year Mast of Arts. Jul. 27. Tho. Wode Whether he be the same Thomas Wood whom John Fox reports to have been elected Bishop of a certain See in England a little before Qu. Mary dyed an 1558. I know not Feb. 12. John Helyar of C. C. C. beforemention'd See among the
learned Gentleman a man of excellent wit and fluent eloquence It is observed that tho he was not respected by Qu. Elizabeth yet he wrot a learned Book entit An apology for the government of Women which is in MS in Bodley's Library given thereunto by Ralph Radcliff Town Clerk of Oxon 1621. He was afterwards for his great Learning and Prudence so much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. that he was by him advanced to great places and honours among which was the Earldom of Northampton and dying 15 June 1614 was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to Dover Castle he having been Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports In his life time he published a Book entit A defensative against the poison of supposed Prophecies Lond. 1583 afterwards revised and published in 1620. fol. In 1609 he succeeded John Lord Lumley in the High Stewardship of this University May…Elize Bomlie Doct. of Phys of Cambridge Jul. 13. Will. Livyng Bach. of Div. of the same University Leonard Cassembrotus or Cassenbrotius LL. D. of Orleans was incorporated the same day He was descended from Leon. Cassenbrotius a learned man of Bruges who lived in the time of Erasmus Roterd. Creations Apr. 19. Thom. Haward or Howard Duke of Norfolk Knight of the Order of the Garter and Earl Marshal of England was actually created Master of Arts in a certain Chamber where he lodged in the house of Thom. Furse commonly called the Beare Inn in Allsaints Parish He was beheaded on Tower hill 2 June 15 Eliz. for endeavouring to marry Mary Qu. of Scots without leave or license from Qu. Eliz. Aug. 2. Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter and Lord Deputy of Ireland was created Master of Arts in the place where he lodged in Ch. Ch. I think in the Deans Lodgings at which time he solemnly promised to observe the Privileges and Liberties of the University I have made large mention of him among the Writers p. 180. nu 232. An. Dom. 1569. An. 11 Elizab. An. 12 Elizab. Chanc. the same Commiss the same viz. Dr. Thom. Cooper now Dean of Glocester but upon what account whether by a new Election made by the Masters his Office was prorogued it appears not At this time the Chancellour took upon him to nominate the Commissary which now began to be called Vicechancellour meerly by the great power he took upon himself Proct. Thom. Bereblock of Ex. Coll. Thom. Bodley of Mert. Coll. Apr. 20. Bach. of Arts. Dec. 1. Henry Holland of S. John 's Coll. Jonas Meredith of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day He was a Bristow man born was afterwards a R. Cath. Priest and a Prisoner in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire for stifly defending the Jurisdiction of the Pope He was expelled S. John's Coll super statutum quod tueretur Reum so are the words in the Register belonging to that house and as 't is supposed did afterwards publish certain matters in defence of his Religion Jan… Hen. Cotton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Exeter Mar. 11. Joh. Rogers of Mert. Coll. Admit 92. Mast of Arts. Jul. 11. George Coryat of New 8. John Smith of S. Joh. Oct. 21. Tho. Doylie of Magd. Coll. Nov. 21. John Howlet of Exet. Coll. He left his Fellowship of the said house before he stood in the Act to compleat his Degree went beyond the Seas was made a Jesuit and had one or more Books put out under his name See among the Writers in Rob. Person under the year 1610. p. 306. Adm. 36. Bach. of Div. But two admitted Philip Biss being one whom I shall mention in 1580 and two that supplicated of whom Joh. Watkyns of All 's Coll. Son of Watkin Howell was one He was afterwards Dean of Hereford in the place as it seems of Joh. Ellis and died in the month of May 1594. Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 6. Arthur Bedell of Christ Church He was a very learned Civilian of his time Doct. of Physick Nov. 21. Thomas Jesopp of Mert. Coll. He died at Gillyngham in Dorsetshire about the beginning of 1616 having been before a Benefactor to his College Doct. of Div. Jul. 14. Will. Hughes mention'd in the Incorporations an 1568. was admitted or licensed to proceed in Divinity Jan. 16. Thom. Bickley Warden of Merton Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chichester An. Dom. 1570. An. 12 Elizab. An. 13 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Robert Earl of Leicester Commiss Dr. Cooper designed to that Office as the rest of his Successours were by Letters from the Chancellour dated May 5. He became Bish of Lincoln about the latter end of this year Proct. Arth. Atie of Mert. Coll. Tho. Glasier of Ch. Ch. Apr. 5. Bach. of Arts. May 30. Rob. Temple See among the Bach. of Div. under the year 1588. June 25. Thom. White of Magd. Hall Oct. 17. Thom. Worthington of Brasn 23. Tho. Sparke of Magd. Nov. 15. Rich. Turnbull of C. C. Dec. 9. Thom. Holland of Ball. Coll. 13. Simon Wisdome of Gloc. Hall Jan. 29. Job Field In the month of June Will. Camden supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Arts having spent four years in the University in Logicals but was not admitted See in the years 1573 and 1588. Adm. 119. Bach. of Civ Law Apr. 26. Will. Say of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of Winchester Nov. 24. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. Dec. 5. Randal Catherall After he had left the University he setled in an obscure Village called Oddington alias Addington near to Bister in Oxfordshire where by a natural Genie advanced with great Industry he became an eminent and expert Antiquary His voluminous Collections from divers Leiger books concerning Monasteries especially in these parts and of Genealogies and Heraldry were much used by Dr. Robert Sanderson afterwards Bish of Lincoln who did transcribe many things from them for his use which I have seen But where those Collections are now I cannot yet learn This Mr. Catherall who was descended from those of his name living at Horton in Cheshire was buried in a little Vault under the Chancel of the Parish Church of Oddington before mention'd 9 June 1625. Admitted 9. Mast of Arts. Apr. 8. Cuthbert Mayne of S. John's Coll. Soon after he left the Nation went to Doway in 1572 and was promoted there to the degree of Bach. of Divinity Afterwards he was sent into the mission of England and setled for a time in his native Country of Devonshire In 1577 he was taken and on the 29 of Nov. the same year he was hang'd drawn and quarter'd at Lanceston in Cornwal being then accounted by those of his Profession the first Martyr of the Seminaries You may read more of him in Cardinal Alans book called A sincere and modest defence c. or An answer to a libel of English justice c. p. 2. also in Camdens Annals of Qu. Eliz. under the year 1571. Henr. Shaw of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day He afterwards went beyond
and Widow of this Dr. Peter Turner I know not Oct. 30. Rich. Pilkington M. of A. of Cambridge Creations June…Hen Cotton Bishop of Salisbury sometimes Master of Arts of Magd. Coll. was actually created Doctor of Divinity at Salisbury by Dr. Edm. Lillye Vicechancellour Dr. Tho. Holland the Kings Professor of Divinity and both the Proctors with the Superior Beadle of Divinity attending them by virtue of a Commission from the Vicechancellour dated 2 of June 1599. An. Dom. 1600. An. 42 Elizab. An. 43 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Tho. Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. George Abbot D. D. Master of Vniv. Coll. Jul. 15. Proct. Nich. Langford of Ch. Ch. Laur. Humphrey Son of Laur. of Magd. Coll. Apr. 2. Bach. of Musick Jul… Henry Porter of Ch. Ch. Some of his compositions I have seen but none of them I think are extant He was Father to Walt. Porter sometimes Gentleman of the royal Chappel of King Ch. 1. and Master of the Choristers at Westminster author of Mottets of two voyces for Treble or Tenor and Bass c. to be performed to an Organ Harpsycon Lute or Bass-viol Lond. 1657. fol. The words of some of the Mottets are taken out of the learned Poet George Sandys his Paraphrase on the Psalmes of David This Person who had been patroniz'd in his endeavours by Sir Edw. Spencer was after his ejectment from his office in the beginning of the grand rebellion exhibited to in his old age by Edw. Laurence Esq Bach. of Arts. Jun. 5. Rob. Harris of Magd. hall 17. Rob. Mandevill of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. David Jenkins of St. Edm. hall Afterwards the famous Welsh Judge 7 Humph. Lynd Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bish of B. and Wells 10. Joh. Dunster of Magd. Oct. 14. Will. Twysse of New Dec. 4. Isaac Singleton of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Masters an 1604. Dec. 11. George Browne of St. Joh. Coll. He soon after changed his Religion went beyond the Seas and I think was made a R. Cath. Priest Feb. 8. Dabridgcourt Belchier of Ch. Ch. This Person who was the eldest Son of Will. Belcher of Gillesborough in Northamptonshire Esque translated into English Hans Beer-pot his visible Comedy of see me and see me not Acted in the Low-countries by an honest company of Health-drinkers Lond. 1618. qu. Which translation was made at Vtrecht in 1617 about which time he wrot several Poems and made other translations but whether publish'd I cannot tell He died in the Low-countries in 1621. As for Rob. Harris D. Jenkins Will. Piers and Will. Twysse will be large mention made in the second vol. of Writers and Bishops Adm. 115. Mast of Arts. Apr. 5. Joh. Hanmer Rich. Moket of All 's Coll. Jun. 4. Theoph. Higgons of Ch. Ch. 14. Will. Loe of St. Alb. 10. Degorie Wheare of Broadg. hall 17. Aegeon Askew Rog. Mathew of Qu. Coll. The last of which who was a Warwickshire Man born hath published The flight of time on Job 9. 25. printed 1634. qu. and perhaps other things July 4. Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll. Charles Fitz-Geffry of Broadgates hall 8. Theodore Goulson of Mert. 11. Rob. Vilvaine of Exet. Coll. 12. Dudley Carleton of Ch. Ch. Jan. 16. Joh. White of New Coll. Adm. 89. Bach. of Div. Apr. 14. Edw. Gee of Brasn Coll. Thom. Cooper of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He was a Londoner born became Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm School an 1586 was about this time beneficed at or near Oundle in Northamptonshire and was Author of The Worldlings adventure c. in two Sermons at the visitation of the Free Grammar School at Oundle in Northamptonshire on Matth. 16. 26. Lond. 1619. qu. One of both his names and an Oxford Man was Author of Nonae Novembris aeternitati consecratae c. Oxon 1607. qu. written in verse and prose but whether by the former Tho. Cooper I cannot justly say because he doth not write himself in the title Bach. of Div. as in the former book Besides these two Tho. Coopers were two more of the same time also and Writers besides Tho. Cooper B. of Winchester but whether both of them were of Oxon I cannot tell June 27. Rich. Pilkington of Qu. Jul. 16. Will. Thorne of New Dec. 14. Sebastian Benefield of C. C. Coll. Admitted 44. Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Jam. Hussee of New Coll. He was afterwards Principal of Magd. hall Chancellour to the B. of Salisbury a Knight by the favour of K. Jam. 1. and dying at Oxford of the plague on the eleventh of July 1625 was buried late at night without any solemnity or company only by two that carried his Corps in the Chancel of St. Maries Church in Oxon. ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 14. Leonard Hutten of Ch. Ch. Jun. 17. Hen. Airay John Aglionby of Qu. Coll. Jul. 7. Rich. Brooke Nathan Dod compounders of Ch. Ch. 10. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. Incorporations Jul. 4. John Bridgman M. of A. of Cambridge He was afterwards D. of D. Master of Magd. Coll. in that University Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. by whose favour he became Rector of the rich Church of Wigan in Lancashire in January 1615 Bishop of Chester in 1618. and in June 1621 Rector of Bangor which he held in Commend with his Bishoprick He was Father to Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Bt. sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and a sufferer in some measure for the cause of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. He died in Teddington or Tuddington in Middlesex in in Summer time 1674. 9. Gedeon da Man or Montmartin Son of a Noble Man and Master of Arts of Cambridge Wolfgangus Mayer M. A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day He was Grandson by the Mothers side to Martin Bucer 10. Jerem. Ratcliffe D. D. of Cambridge John Downe Bach. of Div. of the said University was incorporated the same day He was educated in Emanuel College the members of which presented him to the Vicaridge of Winsford in Somersetshire where he continued for a while Afterwards he became Rector of Instow in Devonshire where he died and was buried about 1631. Ten of his Treatises the first of which is A Treatise concerning the force and efficacy of reading were published after his death by Dr. George Hakewill his neighbour Oxon. 1633. qu. with a funeral Sermon before them preached by the said Doctor containing many things in behalf of the Author and the said Treatises as also an Epiâ—â—le by Dr. Hall Bishop of Exon wherein are several Encomiums of the Author 11. Will. Paddie Doct. of Phys of Leyden He stands in the publick register as twice incorporated see in the year 1591. He was esteem'd one of the prime Physicians of his time and was highly valued by the chief Men of his faculty especially by Sir Theodore de Mayerne He gave way to fate in Decemb. 1634. and was buried in St. Johns Coll.
a plain honest Man and therefore beloved by that King who often intrusted him as a Messenger to carry letters from him to Qu. Elizabeth At length being made Master of the Great Wardrobe to K. Jam. 1. while King of England departed this mortal life 23. May 1612. and was buried 28. of the said month in the Church at Cranford in Middlesex Sir Patrick Murray a Scot The same I think who was of Elibanke in Scotland and afterwards Knight and Baronet of that Kingdom Sir Thomas Mounson Knight and Baronet He was of the antient Family of those of his name in Lincolnshire had been Commoner of Magd. Coll. and was about this time Master of the Armory and Master Faulconer to His Majesty and in truth such an one as no Prince in Christendom had the like Afterwards he was twice brought to his trial upon deep suspicion of having an hand in the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury but at length with much ado came off clear He was a Person of excellent breeding was a great lover of ingenuity especially of Musick having himself good skill in it and a Patron to the Professors thereof Thom. Cornwallis Franc. Castilion Gilb. Kniveton Rolls Kniveton George Chaworth Edw. Grevill Davi'd Foulis Knights The last of which who was a Scot was afterwards made a Baronet and is ancestor to those of his name living at Inglebie in Yorkshire Will. Fleetwood Will. Bowyer Hen. Capell Geor. More Knights The first of these last four was knighted in 1603 and therefore not to be taken for Will. Fleetwood Recorder of London who had been dead some years before The last George More I have already mentioned at large among the Writers John Digby Esq sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. afterwards Earl of Bristow I shall mention him at large among the Writers in the second vol. of this work Levine Monke Gabr. Dowse Will. Lilsley Edm. Dowse Anth. Abington Will. More Geor. Calvert Esquires While the said Nobles Knights and Esquires were created Roger Earl of Rutland Edward Earl of Somerset and Henry Howard E. of Northampton who had formerly been created and incorporated Masters of Arts did sit among the venerable Masters in Convocation and gave their suffrages This year in the month of Aug. Henry Prince of Wales the Peoples darling and the delight of mankind eldest Son of K. James 1. was matriculated a member of this University as a member of Magd. Coll. at which time John Wilkinson Bach. of Div. and Fellow of the said Coll. had the honour to be nominated his Tutor I mean that Wilkinson who most ungratefully sided with the Rebels that took up arms against the younger Brother of the said Prince K. Charles 1. of ever blessed memory An. Dom. 1606. An. 4. Jac. 1. Chanc. the same viz. Thomas Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Henry Airay D. D. Provost of Queens Coll. Jul. 17. Proct. Simon Baskervyle of Exet. Coll. James Mabbe of Magd. Coll. Apr. ult Bach. of Arts. May 20. Thom. Sutton of Queens Coll. Rich. Nicholls of Magd. Hall Jun. 3. Thom. Willis of St. Johns Coll. 30. Mich. Wigmore of Magd. hall afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. Oct. 31. Leonard Digges of Vniv. Coll. Nov. 24. Will. Dickinson of Mert. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. in 1619. Jan. 24. Will. Sparke Tho. Godwin of Magd. Coll. Feb. 10. Charles Somerset of Magd. Coll. was then admitted Bac. of Arts in Convocation He was Son to Edward Earl of Worcester and was afterwards made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Henry Prince of Wales 13. Will. Jewell of Exeter Coll. See among the Masters an 1609. Tho. Willis and Tho. Godwin are to be mention'd in the second vol. Adm. 188. Bach. of Law June 27. John Hoskins junior of New Coll. He was afterwards a Divine and an eminent Preacher Besides him were but four more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 10. Thom. Bastard of New Coll. Jul. 2. Edm. Gunter of Ch. Ch. 3. Will. Heale of Exet. Coll. 5. Joh. Ferebe or Ferriby of Magd. hall One of both his names who was Minister of Thoydon-Gernon in Essex wrot and published a book intit A discourse shewing that they only ought to preach who are ordained Ministers c. Lond. 1652. qu. But Ferriby of Magd. hall who was a Glocestershire Man born I take not to be the same with the Writer as being much before him in time but rather to be the same John Ferriby who was beneficed in Glocestershire and at Poole in North Wiltshire where dying 2. May 1662 was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over whose grave was soon after a stone laid with an inscription thereon wherein he is stiled Theologus tam studio quam exercitio insignis March 13. Edw. Evans of Ch. Ch. Adm. 102. Bach. of Div. Nov. 19. Rich. Meredith of New Coll. This Person who was born in the City of Bathe was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 15â—8 left it about six years after and through certain preferments succeeded at length Dr. Benj. Heydon in the Deanery of Wells an 1607. He hath published a Sermon on Micah 6. 4 5 6. printed 1606. qu. and perhaps other things which I have not yet seen He died 15. Aug. 1621 and was buried on the 17 of the same month on the South side of the choire of the Cath. Ch. at Wells He was succeeded in that Deanery by Dr. Ralph Barlow as I shall elsewhere tell you Dec. 15. Edw. Chetwynd of Exeter Coll. Adm. 10. ☜ Not one Doctor of Law or Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 17. Rich. Crakanthorpe of Queens Oct. 30. Will. Fisher of Oriel Coll. March 16. Gerrard Williamson of Ch. Ch. Incorporations Apr. 8. Theodore de Mayerne or Mayernius Turquettus or Theodore Turquettus de Mayerne born of Protestant Parents at Geneva who hardly escaped the Parisian Massacre Doctor of Physick of the University of Mâ—ntpellier lately of the Council to the K. of France as to matters of Physick now Physician to the Queen of England was incorporated with more than ordinary solemnity Doctor of the said faculty He was Baron of Aubon or Aâ—bon in France being Son of Lewis de Mayerne a French Writer was afterwards chief Physician to K. Jam. 1. by whom he was sent in the beginning of the Year 1618 into France about matters of concern but being suspected to come there purposely to disturb affairs was commanded by the Councillours belonging to the King of that Country to depart the Kingdom forthwith In 1624 Jul. 14. he received the honor of knighthood at Theobalds and was afterwards Physician to K. Ch. 1. and his royal Consort Henrietta Maria. He hath written in French 1 Medicinal counsels and advices 2 A Treatise of the Gout Both put into Latine and published by Theoph. Bonet Doct. of Physick See more in Dr. Thom. Shâ—rley in my discourse of Anth. Sherley among the Writers under the year 1630. and in Dr. Tho. Moufet an 1590. 3 Excellent and well approved
became a Presbyterian Divine and Minister of St. Peters Church in Nottingham where continuing till his Majesties restauration was then suspended for refusing to read the Common-prayer and his living sequestred Afterwards being a Nonconformist he kept Conventicles in those parts and lived to 1682 and after He hath written several things as 1 The Christian temper c. 2 Treatise of the two Covenants c. 3 Fifty Queries seriously propounded to these that question infants right to baptisme 4 Few notes upon T. G's Thom. Granthams Antiqueries c. as also several things against Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet Apr. 15. Will. Davis of Ball. Coll. Another of both his names of Gloc. hall was admitted M. of A. on the 3. Jun. following but which of then became Archdeacon of Bath in Dec. 1643 for one Will. Davis M. A. and Vicar of Chard was then admitted to that Dignity I know not June 8. Joh. Aris of Magd. hall He was afterwards Rector of Middle Cleyden in Bucks and published The Reconciler Sermon preached before the Communion on Matth. 5. 23. 24. Lond. 1651. qu. which is all I know of him only that he was a Glocestershire Man born 10. Rob. Maton of Wadh. 22. Rich. Owen of Oriel 30. Hen Edmondsâ—n of Qu. July 9. Sam. Austin of Ex. Coll. Nov. 19. Sam. Fisher of New Inn. Adm. 160. or thereabouts Bach. of Phys Only five were admitted this year and one to practice that faculty but none of them were afterwards writers Bach. of Div. May 12. Thâ—m Atkinsâ—n Will. Haywood of St. Joh. Coll. The first of these two who was a Londoner born was afterwards Rector of South-warnborough in Hampshire which he exchanged with Dr. Pet. Heylyh for the rectory of Islip near Oxon an 1638. I have seen of his composition 1 Andrei Melvini Anti-Tami-cunicategoria written in Saphicks and Melvinus delirans in Iambicks But whether either of them are printed I cannot tell He was buried in St. Johns Coll. Chappel 6. Feb. 1638. after he had enjoyed Isâ—ip but few months June 15. Sam. Hoard of St. Maries Hall 22. Rich. Gardiner of Ch. Ch. July 8. Tho. Howell of Jesus Dec. 7. Joh. Bayly of Exet. Feb. 22. Humph. Chambers of Vniv. Coll. Admitted 29. Doct. of Law Jun. 30. Will. Boswell of Wadh. Will. Dillon of New Jonath Browne of Gloc. Hall Coll. The first of these three who was a learned Civilian was afterwards High Sheriff of Oxfordshire about 1652 and dying unmarried 5. Apr. 1678 aged 79 years was buried in Allsaints Church in the City of Oxon near to the grave of his Father Will Boswell sometimes Alderman of the said City The last was afterwards Dean of Hereford in the place of Dr. Dan Price deceased Preb. of Westminster in the room of Dr. Rog. Bates in the latter end of 1633 Minister of St. Faiths in London from which he was sequestred by the Presbyterians in the time of the rebellion and rector of Hertingfordbury in the Dioc. of London He was an excellent Preacher and a Person much reverenced by all even his enemies for his ecclesiastical aspect He died in the latter end of 1644 or thereabouts whereupon Dr. Herb. Croft who had married his Daughter Anne succeeded him in the Deanery of Hereford ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jun. 22. Hannibal Potter of Trin. John English of Balliol Coll. Rich. Gardiner Joh. Stubbins Jam. Marsh of Merton Coll. of Ch. Ch. The last was afterwards Archdeacon of Chichester and Rector of St. Dunstans in the West London where he died in 1643. In which year his Archdeaconry was confer'd upon Dr. H. Hammond July 5. Henry Locket of Linc. Tho. Howell of Jesus Dec. 7. Joh. Bayly of Ex. Coll. The two last accumulated Jan. 21. Rob. Bedingfield of Ch. Ch. He had before published A Serm. preached at Pauls cross 24. Oct. 1624. on Rom. 6. 23. Oxon. 1625. qu. and as 't is probable others which is all I know of him only that was a Suffolk Man born elected from Westm School a Student of Ch. Ch. 1614 and that he died at Newton in Cambridgeshire of which I think he was Rector in the year 1651. Incorporations July 8 Job Paterson M. of A. of the University of St. Andreâ—â— in Scotland as the pub Reg. saith He was now a Student in this University and was afterwards Bishop of Gaâ—loway in his own Country July…Hugh Symmes Doctor of Physick of Leyden in Holland Oct…John Hurne M. of A. Edenburgh in Scotland Whether he be the same Joh. Hurne who wrot and published The history of the Jews deliverance out of Babylon c. in ten Sermons upon Psal 126. Lond. 1622. qu. I know not This year was incorporated for at least was a supplicate made for that purpose one Thomas Taylor Doct. of Div. of Christs Coll. in Cambridge who was at first if I mistake not a Preacher at Watford in Hertfordshire afterwards at Reading in Berks and now this year Pastor of Aldermanbury in London where as-also by most of the Ministers in that City he was esteemed an illuminated Doctor excellent in following and opening an Allegory The first thing that made him known to the World was his Commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul written to Titus Cambr. 1612. qu. c. From which time to 1635 were several Sermons expositions c. published under his name the titles of most of which you may see in the Oxford Catalogue He was also Author of The use of the Law which some call The rule of the Law answered by one Rob. Towne an Antinomian in his book entit The assertion of Grace He died about the beginning of the year 1632 and was buried in the Church of St. Mary Aldermanbury See more in Will. Jemmat among the writers in the other Vol. Ephraim Vdall was entred a Student in the publick Library in the beginning of July this year but how long he continued there or whether he was originally of this University I cannot yet tell This Person who was gathering materials towards the publishing of a book or books I take to be the same Ephraim Vdall who was now or at least shortly after Parson of St Austins in the Old Exchange near St. Austins Gate in London a Man of eminent piety exemplary conversation profound learning and indefatigable industry by preaching a Lecture at his own Parish every Tuesday in the afternoon and if I am not mistaken every Sunday before the first Sunday in the month a preparatory Sermon to the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper Besides all this he was esteemed a Man of an affable courteous and peaceable conversation among his neighbours In a word he was a Man of their own vote viz. of the Puritans or Presbyterians and was without profanation be it spoken a shining and burning light But when he found himself mistaken in the ends and intentions of the Heads of the rebellion that broke out in 1641. and 42 when he saw that the zeal of some did
Chanc. Dr. Lengland Bishop of Lincoln with whom it was dispensed by the Regents that he might if he please remain in his Office for term of life Commiss Dr. Tresham stiled sometimes Vicechancellor Proct. Dunstan Lacy of Linc. Coll. John Howell or ap Howell of All 's Coll. Which Proctors were elected on the first day of Easter Term but Lacy dying in the month of Sept John Poller or Paulet I know not whether he be the same with John Pollaâ—d who was Proctor in 1531 succeeded by the Kings Authority and served out the remaining part of the year Bach. of Arts. Dec. 19. Seth Holland See more under the year 1538. Jan… Tho. Chester He was afterwards Bishop of Elphine in Ireland Forty two more were admitted and about nine that supplicated Bach. of Civ Law Jul. 3. John Price of Broadgates Hall Perhaps he may be the same with John Price who is mention'd among the Writers under the year 1554. Fourteen in all were admitted and but three that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Can. Law May 17. Rob. Evans He was about this time Dean of Bangor but when he was admitted thereunto I find not One Rowland Thomas LL. D. was Dean of that Church in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign and died in January 1586 but whether he was immediate Successor to R. Evans I know not Nine in all were admitted and about twelve that supplicated for the said degree among whom were William Ayllesbury a Can. regular of the Monastery of Arrouvise in the Diocess of Arrâ—â— in France Mast of Art June 19. Nich. Vdall 28. Will. Chedsey Mar. 17. Patrick Walsh of C. C. Coll. The two former were Writers the other was afterwards a Bish in Ireland The number that were admitted this year were in all 25 at least besides about six that supplicated who were not admitted Bach. of Phys Three this year supplicated for the said degree of which two as it seems were admitted viz. Will. Pye of Oriel Coll. who was afterwards a learned Divine and a Dean and Job Dâ—tyn of Exet. Coll. which last tho he hath written nothing yet he was a learned man and a Benefactor to Learning by giving a House and Land to his Coll. situate and being in the Parish of Bampton in Oxfordshire of which place he was one of the Vicars and many choice Books to their Library as I have told you elsewhere He was beneficed in Cornwal Devonshire Somersetshire and Oxfordshire and was also Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter Bach. of Div. Mar. 27. George Cotes or Cootes of Magd. Coll. June 25. Walt. Buckler originally Fellow of Merton afterwards Canon of Cardinal College was then admitted Bach. of Divinity tho not in priestly Orders The Person who was second Son of John Buckler of Cawsay in Dorsetshire and had been lately a Student in the University of Paris was afterwards promoted by the King to be a Canon of his Coll. in Oxon founded on that of the Cardinal and about the same time was by him sent about State Affairs to Paris which he performed with good liking to the said King In the first of Ed. 6. he received the honor of Knighthood and when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was made one of her Privy Council He died at Fairford in Glocestershire having married the Widow of Sir Edward Tame Knight Lord of that Mannor and was buried in the Church there Over whose Grave tho there be no Inscription notwithstanding as I remember there is a Monument for him yet his contemporary in Mert. Coll. named Jo. Parkhurst hath perpetuated his Memory by certain Epigrams Jan. 16. Fr. Will. Browne a Minorite One Will. Browne become Prior of Monk-Bretton in the Dioc. of York about 1523 but I take him not to be the same with the Minorite 29. Guy Etton Eton or Eaton a Minorite or Franciscan or Gray Fryer In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he was Archdeacon of Glocester but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he left that Dignity and certain Spiritualities and went with his Companion and Friend John Jewell into Germany and lived as an Exile at Strasburgh from whence returning in the beginning of Qu. Elz. he was restored to his Archdeaconry and kept it to 1571 and after He is stiled by a learned Author Vir pius cruditus Feb. 26. Fa. Tho. Wellys a Benedictine He seems to be the same with Tho. Wellys a Ben. who supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Div. in 1514. This Tho. Wellys was afterwards Prior of Gloc. Coll. Besides these were about seven more admitted among whom Rich. Ewer was one afterwards one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester Rich. London a Benedictine another and Tho. Thomson a Franciscan a third There were also about eight that supplicated among whom was Tho. Clerke a Monk of the Cistercian Order but whether he was admitted I cannot find Perhaps he may be the same Tho. Clerke who from being the last Abbat of S. Werburgh in Chester of the Benedictine Order from which the Cistercians have their rise was made the first Dean of the Cath. Ch. of Chester Doct. of Civ Law Jun. 30. John Vacham formerly as I conceive of All 's College which is all I yet know of him Doct. of Div. Jul. 9. Rich. Lorgan sometimes Fellow of Oriel Coll. afterwards Principal of S. Maries Hall now Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll. was then admitted D. of D. but did not proceed till 1535. John Hurleston or Huddleston a Carme did supplicate for the deg of Doct. but I cannot find him admitted See among the Incorp in 1533. Incorporations Jul. 20. George Browne a Fryer of the Order of S. Austin and Doct. of Div. of another University was then incorporated He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin About this time the famous Ralph Gualter of Zurich studied in Oxon for the sake of Libraries and scholastical Company Afterwards he became an eminent Theologist of the reformed Perswasion and Author of many Books An. Dom. 1535. An. 27 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. Edm. Shethor of All 's C. John Pollet again elect 1st day of East Term. Which Proctors especially the senior having received divers Affronts from the Townsmen were with their Retinew forced to walk in the streets day and night armed And when the said Shethor was going out of his Office it was decreed by the Members of the Univ. that in case he should be any ways vexed or molested by the Oppidans he might defend himself at the Univ. charge Grammar Sept. 21. Ralph Smalepage Feb. 26. Ralph Smyth a Sec. Chapl. Both which were admitted to inform in Grammar Bach. of Musick Jul. 12. Thom. Mendus a Secular Chaplain was then admitted to the reading of any of Musical books of Boetius One Tho. Bryghtwyn a Secul Chapl. did supplicate for the said Degree but whether he was admitted it appears not Bach. of Arts. Jul. 5. Edw. Quemmerford an Irish Man He is reported
by a Writer of his Country to be a learned Man as indeed he was considering the time he lived in as other Authors also till us One Nich. Quemmerford I have mention'd among the Writers but what this Edward hath written I cannot yet find About 41 were admitted this year and about 10 that supplicated who were not admitted Bach. of Civ Law Jul. 12. Henry Siddall He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. and in the Reign of Edw. 6. a great admirer and follower of Pet. Martyr a turner about in Qu. Maries Reign and a returner in that of Qu. Elizabeth such was the mutability and poor spirit of the Man See more among the Doctors of Div. in 1552. and 1558. Besides him were seven admitted of whom Richard Plunket a Secular Chapl. was one and nine that supplicated for the said Degree but were not admitted Bach. of Can. Law Apr. 24. John Man a Sec. Chapl. and Fellow of New College Not the same with him who was admitted Bath of Arts 1533. but another Jul. 12. Henry Siddall beforemention'd Besides these two were seven also admitted and but two that supplicated Mast of Arts. Jun. 10. John Hoker of Magd. Coll. Jul. 1. Jam. Brokes of C. C. C. Afterwards B. of Gloc. Besides these two were about 27 admitted among whom August Cross of Exet. Coll. was one afterwards Fellow of Eaton Coll. and a rich Dignitary Bach. of Div. Apr. 23. Fath. Rob. Joseph a Benedictine Monk In the year 1537 I find him to be Prior of Glocester Coll. in Oxon. and in 1538 it appears that Thom. Wellys succeeded being the last of the Priors of that Coll. Jul. 1. Fath. Humph. Cherytey Nov. 3. Fath. Nich. Andrews John sometimes written Thom. Adelston John Neott Benedictines Feb. 12. Owen Oglethorp President of Magd. Coll. Besides these 8 more were admitted and about 13 that supplicated who were not this year admitted among whom were Fath. Will. Pond an Austen Fryer Fa. Hugh Glasyer a Minorite ☞ Not one Doctor of the Can. or Civ Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick Jul. 5. John Warner of All 's Coll. In the year following he was made Warden of the said Coll being about that time the publick Professor of Physick in the University and in 1541. or thereabouts he became one of the first Prebendaries of Winchester In 1547 in July he was made Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Dr. Rich. Langrigg or Langrish deceased and afterwards became Archdeacon of Ely in the room of Dr. John Boxall but the year when I cannot tell In 1559 1. Eliz. he being then Preb. of Vlfcomb in the Church of Sarum was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Edm. Steward and dying in his house in Warwick-lane in London 21. March 1564 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Great Stanemere in Middlesex In his Wardenship of All 's Coll. Rich. Barber LL. D. succeeded in his Archdeaconry of Clievland which he resign'd about an year before his death one Christoph Malton M. A. was installed in Apr. 1564. in his Archd. of Ely which also he had resigned one Rob. Wisdome of Cambridge a good Lat. and English Poet of his time and one that had been an Exile in Qu. Maries Reign succeeded but the year when I cannot justly say and in his Deanery of Winchester followed Franc. Newton D. D. an 1565. As for Rob. Wisdome before-mention'd who was also Rector of Settrington in Yorkshire died in 1568. Jul. 5. John Gaynes sometimes written Jaynys M. A. and Bac. of Phys was then adm being the same day on which Dr. Warner was admitted One Will. Coole M. A. and B. of Phys supplicated to be adm Doctor of that fac but was not Doct. of Div. May 8. James Blythe the Kings Chaplain See among the Incorporations an 1527. Jul. 5. Fa. Edward Hynmersh or Inmarsh a Benedictine He was lately Warden or Gardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon and now Chancellour to Cuthb Tonstall B. of Durham Jul. 5. Fa. Will. Bennet Roger Bell Benedictines Feb. 17. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. was then adm D. of D. having but 5 days before been admitted B. D. John Hastyngs of the Kings Coll. and Anth. Sutton both Masters of Arts and Bach. of Div. supplicated to be admitted Doctors of the said fac but were not this year An. Dom. 1536. An. 28. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same as in the year 1534. Proct. Will. Wetherton of Magd. Coll. Will. Pye of Oriel Coll. May 5. Bach. of Arts. May 29. Alexand. Nowell of Brasenose Coll. Jul. 5. John Harley of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards B. of Hereford 12. Ralph Skynner of New Coll. Whether he took the Degree of M. of A. or of any other faculty in this University I cannot in all my searches find Yet when he was elected Warden of New Coll. in the beginning of May 1551 he is said to be M. A. In 1560 March 5. he was installed Dean of Durham in the place of Rob. Horne promoted to the See of Winchester and dying in 1563 was succeeded by Will. Whittingham to whom the Queen gave it notwithstanding she had promised it to Dr. Tho. Wilson on the 19 Jul. the same year Feb. 27. John Harpesfeild of New Coll. He was afterward a grand zealot in the times of reformation for the R. C. cause Besides these four were about 30 more that were admitted besides about 7 that supplicated Bach. of Law Jun… Will. Binsley of New Coll. was then admitted Bach. of both the Laws After he had resign'd the Vicaridge of Adderbury in Oxfordshire 1554 he became about that time Chancellour to D. Pole Bishop of Peterborough and Archdeacon of Northampton in which last Dignity he was succeeded by one Nich. Sheppard Master of St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge about 1571. This Binsley is reported to have been a persecutor of Protestants in Queen Maries Reign while he was a Chancellour And that after Qu. Elizah came to the Crown he was notwithstanding that made Archdeacon of Peterborough c. Mar. 22. Rich. Read of New Coll. See among the Doctors in 1540. Besides these two were but two more that were admitted and but three that supplicated that were not admitted among whom Donatus Tayge an Irish Man was one Not one was admitted in the Canon Law nor one that supplicated For Religious houses being about this time dissolved there occurs not the third or fourth part of Bachelaurs of the Can. or Civ Law especially the former as before Mast of Arts. For the same reason but eleven Masters were admitted this year five of whom were of Merton Coll. and but two that supplicated who were not admitted Bach. of Div. May 13. Rich. Smyth of Merton Coll. now the Kings Professor of Divinity Jun. 28. Tho Raynolds of the same Coll. See afterwards among the Doctors this year Mar. 9. Father James Procter a Monk of that Order of St. Bernard alias Cisteaux and Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of Edw. Fox who