extracta necnon Medicorum Ethnicorum dictis authoritate comprobata Hoc est portionis tertiae pars tertia de pulsuum scientia Printed with the Catholicon Medicorum c. before-mentioned Philosophia Moysaica In qua sapientia scientia Creatoris Creaturarum sacra verèque christiana utpote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille lapis angularis Jesus Christus ad amussim enucleatè explicatur Goudae 1638. fol. Printed in English at Lond. 1659. fol. Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-spongum Mri-Fosteri Presbyteri ab ipso ad unguenti Armarii validit atem delendam ordinatum Hoc est spongiae M. Fosteri Presbyteri expressio elisio c. Goud 1638. fol. This book was printed at London in qu. in 1631. with this title The squeezing of Parson Foster's sponge ordained by him for the wiping away of the Weapen-salve See more in Will. Foster an 1633. Our author R. Fludd departed this mortal life in his house situate and being in the Parish of S. Katherine in Colman-street within the City of London on the eighth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred thirty and seven year 1637 whereupon his body being afterwards attended by an Officer or Herald of Arms to Bearsted before-mentioned was buried in the Chancel of the Church there under a stone which he before had laid for himself On which or else on a monument which he designed by his last Will to be made after the fashion of that of William Camden in the Abby Church of S. Peter at Westminster and to be set in the wall near to his grave was an Epitaph put a copy of which being printed elsewhere shall now for brevity sake be omitted HENRY GELLIBRAND received his first breath in the Parish of S. Botolph near to Aldersgate in London 17. Nov. 1597. became a Commoner of Trin. coll in 1615. took one degree in Arts about four years after being then esteemed to have no great matter in him At length upon the hearing of one of Sir Hen. Savile's Mathematick Lectures by accident or rather to save the sconce of a Groat if he had been absent he was so extreamly taken with it that he immediately fell to the study of that noble Science and conquered it before the time he proceeded in Arts. Soon after his name being up for his wonderful sufficiencies in Geometry and Astronomy he was elected Astronomy-Professor of Gresham coll in the place of Gunter deceased where tho he wrote and published many useful things yet he suffer'd Conventicles being himself a Puritan to be kept in his lodgings His works are Trigonometria Britannica Goudae 1633. fol. Appendix concerning longitude Lond. 1633. qu. Which is at the end of Capt. Tho. James his Strange and dangerous Voyage in his intended discovery of his northern-east passage into the South Sea A discourse Mathematical of the variation of the Magnetical Needle Together with its admirable diminution lately discovered Lond. 1635. qu. The institution Trigonometrical explaining the doctrine of dimension of plain and spherical Triangles c in oct Epitome of Navigation c. Lond. 1674. c. oct Several necessary Tables pertaining to Navigation A triangular Canon Logorithmical or a table of artificial Sines and Tangents c. Two Chiliads or the Logorithms of absolute numbers from an unite to 2000. Append containing the use of the Forestaff Quadrant and Nocturnal in Navigation These last 4 Treatises are printed with the Epitome of Navigation Treatise of building of Ships MS. Which after its authors death came into the hands of Edward Lord Conway Almanack for the year 1631. This was published under the name of his Servant Will. Beale But the author thrusting into it the Martyrs mentioned by John Fox and omitting divers Saints allowed by the Church of England as the Epiphany Annunciation of our Lady c. he and his man were called into question for it in the High Commission Court and brought into trouble The particulars of which you may see in a book intit Canterbury's Doom But the author of that book Will. Prynne endeavouring all the ways imaginable to bring envy on Dr. Laud then B. of London who did discountenance that Almanack very much the Reader therefore is not to believe every matter which that implacable person doth there set down Our author Gellibrand also wrote a Preface to and published Sciographia or the Art of Shadows c. Lond. 1635. in a large thick oct written by John Wells of Hampshire Esq a Rom. Catholick He also intended other matters but was untimely snatch'd away to the great loss of the Mathematical Faculty in the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and seven His body was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Broad-street within the City of London at which time Dr. Hannibal Potter his sometimes Tutor in Trinity college preached his Funeral Sermon shewing therein to the auditory the piety and worth that was sometimes in the body that lay dead before them His memory is preserved in the said coll by a Dial set up by him when he was there a Student on the east side of that Quadrangle which is now called the Old Quadrangle HENRY RAMSDEN a Yorkshire man born was admitted a Commoner of Magd. hall in 1610. took the degrees in Arts was elected Fellow of Linc. coll in 1621. and five years after leaving that place wherein he had advanced himself much in the Theological Faculty he became a Preacher in London was much resorted to for his edifying and puritanical Sermons and at length upon the death of Mr. Hugh Ramsden his Brother he was made Vicar of Halifax in his own Country After his death were published under his name Several Sermons as 1 The gate to happiness on Rom. 6. 8. 2 The wounded Saviour on Esay 53. 5. 3 Epicures caution on Luke 21. 34. 4 Generation of Seckers on Col. 3. 1. which four Sermons are intit A Gleaning of God's Harvest Lond. 1639. qu. Published by Joh Goodwin with his Epist before them He ended his days on the seventh of the Cal. of March in sixteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Halifax Over his grave is an inscription to his memory which being large I shall for brevity sake pass by In his Vicarage of Halifax succeeded Rich. Marsh D. D. afterwards Archdeacon and Dean of York JOHN HOSKYNS Senior elder Brother to Joh. Hoskyns whom I have mentioned under the year 1631. both the Sons of Joh. Hoskyns by Margery his Wife Daughter of Tho. Jones of Lanwarne was born at Mownton in the Parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire formerly belonging to the Priory of Lantony near Gloucester to the Prior of which place his Ancestor bore the office of Pocillator While this Jo. Hoskyns was a Child and intended by his Father for a Trade he was very importunate with him to make him a Scholar wherefore at 10 years of age he began his A B C and in
treatise very exquisitely penn'd as one saith entituled Answers to certaine questions propounded by the Citizens of Waterford Also Divers Sermons Soon after he left his Country for the sake of Religion went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where he was promoted to the Degree of Doctor of Divinity 23. June 1576 and afterwards as 't is said wrot and published divers other things See more in Peter White under the Year 1599. To him I now add his great friend and countryman Rob. Garvey of the Diocess of Kilkenny who was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. 1563 proceeded Master of Arts three years after and became noted for his skill in both the Laws and for a volubility in the English and latin tongues as my Author an Irish Man tells me but whether he published any thing I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in Ireland about 1579. MAWRICE CHAWNEY Chamney Chancy or Channy so many ways I find him written was from his juvenile years a Carthustan Monk in the house of that order near London now called by some the Charter-house and by others Suttons Hospital the Brethren of which place as of others in England did commonly study in an antient place of Literature near to London Coll. alias Burnells Inn within this University and no doubt there is but that this M. Chawney did receive instruction in Theological matters therein or at least in some other house of learning in Oxon. But so it was that at the dissolution of religious houses by K. Hen. 8. he with his brethren 18 in number being committed to custody for denying the Kings Supremacy over the Ch. of England did at length with much difficulty escape out of prison and so consequently death which all the rest suffered at several times before the Year 1539. At length settling himself at Bruges in Flanders became Prior of some of his English Brethren of the same order there And from him do our English Carthusians beyond the Sea at Neoport in Flanders derive their succession in the said house near London to this day having always been by them esteemed a most devout and pious Person He hath written a book entit Historia aliquot nostri saeculi Martyrum cum pia tum lectu jucunda nunquam antehaec typis excusa Printed at Mentz in Bavaria as it seems an 1550 in qu. and dedicated by Vitus à Dulken Prior of the Carthusians of St. Michael near to Mentz and William à Sittatis Procurator of the said house to Theodore Loher à Stratis Prior of the Carthusians house of St. Marie the Virgin in Buxia near to Memmingen in Schawben a Province of Germany This book contains 1 The Epitaph of Sir Tho. More written by himself in Latin fixed over his grave in Chelsey Church near to London 2 The captivity and martyrdom of John Fisher B. of Rochester 3 The capt and mart of the said Sir Th. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England 4 The martyrdome of Reynold Brigitt a pious Divine and of other 5 The passion of 18 Carthusians of London beginning with the life and passion of John Houghton the Prior of them all contained in 14 Chapters c. This passion and martyrdom of the said Carthusians was by the care of our Author represented in figures and being afterwards engraven on copper were printed at Colon. Ub. about 1608. He also reviewed corrected and put some additions to a book entit Vita Carthusiana written by Peter Sutor Prior of the Carthusians at Paris an 1522. Which being so done he wrot the Epistle dedicatory before it all printed together at Lovaine 1572. in oct Our Author Chancaeus as he writes himself in that book was then living in his Cell at Bruges before-mention'd with several English Carthusians under his government I have seen a MS. written by our Author Chancaeus bearing this title The divine clowde of unknowing The beginning of which is Goostly frende in God I pray the and besece the that thou wilt have a besy beholding to the course and manntr of thy calling c. It containeth 75 Chapters and with i is bound his Epistle of private counsel the beginning of which is Goostly frende in God as touching thy inward occupation c. And at the end of the book is this written Liber domus Salvatoris beatissimae virginis Mariae juxta London Ordinis Carthusiani per M. Chawncy quem exaravit secundum Willmum Exmâ—use The said Exmeuse or ex Mewe who had been bred in Christs Coll. in Cambridge did enter himself a Carthusian of the said house near London in the 28 year of his age being then sufficiently versed in the Gr. and Lat. tongues Afterwards he was made Vicar and thence removed to be Procurator thereof And being one of the number that denied the Kings Supremacy suffered death by hanging drawing and quartering 19. June 1535. As for our Author Chancy he submitted to fate on the 12. July in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 according to the accompt followed in Flanders Whereupon his body was buried as I suppose in the Chappel belonging to the Carthusians at Bruges before-mention'd He hath left behind him a most celebrated name for his rare piety which is preserved among those of his profession at Bruges Neôport in Flanders and at other places Neither is it denyed by any knowing and moderate Protestants but that his name is worthy to be kept in everlasting remembrance RICHARD DAVYES a Welsh Man born was educated as it seems in New Inn but what Degrees he took in Arts it appears not In Qu. Maries Reign he retired beyond the Seas upon account of Religion whence returning in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth was elected Bishop of St. Asaph on the deprivation of Tho. Goldwell the temporalities of which See he receiving 29. March 1560 was the year following translated to the See of St. David and in 1566 was actually created Doctor of Divinity He hath published several things among which are Epistle to all the Welsh especially within his Diocess wishing a renewing of the antient Cath. faith by the light of the Gospel of Christ Printed and bound with the New Test in Welsh an 1567. It was printed also among other things and published by Charles Edwards a Welsh Man Ox. 1671. in oct Funeral Sermon preached 26. Nov. 1576. in the Parish Church of Caermerthen at the burial of Walt. Earl of Essex on Rev. 14. 13. Lond. 1577. qu. Whereunto is added a genealogical Epitaph with memorials on the said Count but these were made by other Men. This Bishop paid his last debt to nature about the month of Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 aged about 80 years and was buried in the Parish Church of Abergwilly in Caermerthenshire leaving then behind him a Widow called Dorothie and several Children JOHN TWYNE Son of William Son of John Son of Nicholas Son of Sir Brian Twyne of Long Parish in Hampshire Knight was
none of Christ or a discourse of the propagation of the Gospel of Christ Jesus Lond. 1652. qu. c. But of what University the said Williams was if of any I know not or whether a real Phanatick or Jesuit HENRY UNTON was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Wadley near Faringdon in Berkshire educated in Oriel coll under Mr. Rich. Pygot one of that Society left it without a degree and travelled After his return being esteemed a Person well qualified had some Employment under Sir Christopher Hatton L. Chancelour who quickly finding him to be a man of business and experience commended him to the Queen who in 1586. not only conferred on him the Honour of Knighthood but sent him afterwards twice in the quality of an Embassador to the King of France where he behaved himself right stoutly in behalf of his Mistress particularly for some injury done to her by the Duke of Guise an 1592. This person who was actually created M. of A. of this University before he went into France hath written An account of his Embassy or a Diary containing his Commission Instructions Expences and Transactions as also Letters from or to him from July 13. an 1591. to June 12. an 1592. MS. in bib Bod. He also made a Diary for his last Embassy which continued to the time of his Death but that I have not yet seen He gave way to Fate in the King of France's Camp lying before Lafere on the 23. March in fifteen hundred ninety and five whereupon his Body being conveyed into England was buried on the 8. July following in a Chappel joyning to the North side of the Church of Faringdon before-mentioned Soon after was a noble Monument set over his grave with this inscription containing certain matters relating to him which I have not yet mentioned Virtuti honori Sacrum Henrico Vntono Eq. Aurate Edovardi Vntoni Eq. Aur. filio ex Annâ Comitissâ Warwici filiâ Edovardi de Sancto Mauro Ducis Sommersetti Angliae Protectoris qui optimarum artium studiis a primâ aetate in Academiâ Oxon institutus magnam orbis Christiani partem perlustravit ob virtutem bellicam in Zutphaniae obsidione dignitate equestri donatus propter singularem prudentiam spectatum sidem multiplicem rerum usum iterum Legatus à Sereniss Angliae Reginâ ad Christianiss Regem missus in Galliam è quâ ad celestem patriam migravit 23. Mart. an 1596. c. The Muses of Oxon had so great a respect for the memory of this most worthy Person that a book of Verses on his death came out soon after under their name intit Funebria nobiliss ac praestomtiss Eq. D. Henrici Vntoni ad Gallos bis legati regii c. à Musis Oxon apparata WILLIAM MIDDLETON the third Son of Rich. Middleton of Denbigh by Jane his Wife Daughter of Hugh Dryhurst of the same place fourth Son of Foulk Middleton of Denbigh before-mentioned the third Son of Dav. Middleton of Gwenock Recordator of North-Wales was born in Denbighshire and educated for a time among the Oxonians but whether in Jesus coll at its first foundation as probably it might be so or whether he took more than one degree I know not Afterwards he travelled into various parts of the World exercised himself in fears of Arms became the most noted Bard of his Country and tho a Souldier and a Captain by profession having had the command of a Ship for several years yet all the time he got was bestowed in exercising his Poetical fancy The Works of him that I have seen are these Bardoniaeth or the Art of Welsh poetry Lond. 1593. qu. in 3 sh and half This book which is written in Welsh he stiles the first book or part as if there was a second to be published He also translated into the Welsh tongue the Psalms of David running in excellent Meter Which noble work he performed apud seâ—tum insulam occidentalium Indorum and finished it there 24. Jan. in fifteen hundred ninety and five This translation coming into the hands of his Country-man Tho. Salisbury was with the help of his Friend Tho. Middleton Citizen of London and kinsman to the author published at Lond. 1603. qu. Before which time the author as it seems was dead In my searches I find another Will. Middleton Bach. of Divinity and Minister of Hardwick in Cambridgshire author of Papisto mastix or the Protestants Religion defended c. Lond. 1606. qu. and of other things but what relation there was between the former and this who seems to have been educated in Cambridge I know not JOHN SMYTHE or Smith Son of Sir Clem. Smythe of Little Badew in Essex by Dorothy his Wife Sister to Edw. Seymour Duke of Somerset whose Sister Jane Seymour was the third Wife of K. Hen. 8. was born as it seems in Essex and laid the foundation of Literature in Oxon but in what house 't is difficult to find because both his Names are very common Afterwards being martially inclined he travelled into various countries exercised himself in feats of arms and became as well a compleat Souldier as Gentleman At length he was made a Knight by Qu. Elizabeth and by her sent Embassador into Spain in 1576 as being a person of a Spanish port and demeanour and well known to the Spaniard who held him as their King did in high value and especially for this reason that he was first cousin to K. Ed. 6. His works are Discourse concerning the forms and effect of divers Weapons and other very important Matters Military greatly mistaken by divers of our men of War in their days and chiefly of the Musquet Calyver and Long-bow c. Lond. 1589. and 1590. qu. Certaine Instructions Observations and Orders Military requisite for all Chieftains Captains higher and lower Officers Composed 1591. Lond. 1594. 95. qu. Instructions for Enrolling and Mustering Printed with Certain Instructions c. What other books of his are published I cannot yet find nor exactly when he died only that he was living and in great esteem among Souldiers and learned men in fifteen hundred ninety and five Besides this was another Sir Joh. Smyth equal in time with him eldest Son of Tho. Smyth of Ostinhanger in Kent Esq and brother to Sir Thomas of Bidborough in the same County whom I shall mention elsewhere Which Sir John dying in the beginning of 1609. was buried in Ashford Church in the said County leaving Issue as it seems Tho. Smyth of Ostenhanger afterwards Knight of the Bath and Viscount Stranford in Ireland who dying 30. June 1635. was buried in his Chappel joyning to the said Church of Ashford But this Sir John was no writer nor of the same Family because he was descended from the Smyths of Corshan in Wiltshire whereas Sir John who was the Writer and Souldier was Grandson to Tho. Smyth of Ravinhall in Essex and he a Discendant from John Carrington who fled for a time from
made Archdeacon of Winchester His Works are Carmina in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandon c. Lond. 1552. qu. De Pii V. Gregorii XIII furoribus contra Elizabetham Reginam Angliae Lond. 1582. oct An Exhortation to true Love Loyalty and Fidelity to her Majesty Lond. 1587. oct Treatise against Treasons Rebellions and such Disloyalties Printed with the Exhortation to c. Syntagma hortationum ad Jacobum Regem Angliae Lond. 1604. oct and translated from English into Latin An apology or defence of Priests Marriages written by Joh. Poynet or Ponet B. of Winchester The other Works done by him may be seen in a certain author who knew Rhenniger well which made him therefore say of him In omni bonarum literarum ac linguarum genere it a se exercuit ut famam non vulgarem inde meruit He died on the 26. of Aug. year 1609 in sixteen hundred and nine aged 89 years and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Crawley before-mentioned under the Communion Table Over his Grave was soon after a Marble Stone laid with an inscription thereon in prose and verse a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. b. This Dr. Rhenniger died rich left a fair Estate some of which laid in Lincolnshire and a Son named Samuel to injoy it In his Archdeaconry of Winchester succeeded Dr. Ranulph Barlow of Cambridge THOMAS SMITH was born of sufficient Parents in a Town called Abendon in Bâ—rkshire educated in Grammar learning there in the Free School founded by Joh. Royse Citizen and Mercer of London an 1563. became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 78. and six years after was elected one of the Proctors of the University About that time he being esteemed a religious and a discreet Gentleman was made Secretary to that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex who had an especial respect for him So that being thereupon introduced into the Court raised himself meerly by his own merits to considerable eminency as first to be Clerk to the High Court of Parliament afterwards to be one of the Clerks of the Council a Knight in 1603. Secretary of the Latin Tongue and one of the Masters of the Requests 'T is supposed by some and confidently reported by others that are learned that tho he lived not to publish any thing yet several matters he left behind him fit for the Press but of what Subject or Faculty they treat I could never learn He deceased in the prime of his years whereby a stop was given to his father promotion at his house called Parsons Green near to London 28. Nov. in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Fulham in Middlesex on the 7. of Dec. following Over his grave was soon after erected a comely monument by his disconsolate Widdow Frances the Daughter of William Lord Chandois afterwards the Wife of Thom. Earl of Exeter by whom he had a Son named Robert who was entred a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term an 1620. aged 15. and became an Inheritor for a time several Lands which his Father left to him particularly the Mannor of Barwick upon Tease in Yorks The said Sir Thomas bequeathed a considerable sum of Money to this University to buy books for the new or East part of the Publick Library as also a Mathematical instrument gilt besides 100 l. to the poor of Abenaon for their relief All which was accordingly done and setled by his younger Brother Rich. Smith sometimes a Member of Ch. Ch. also who had been prime Mourner at his Brothers Funeral I find another Sir Tho. Smyth to have been of Bidborough in Kent second Son of Tho. Smith of Ostenhanger in the same County Esq who dying 7. June 1591. was buried in the Church of Ashsord adjoyning Son of John Smith of Corsham in Wilts Gent. Which Sir Thomas who had sarmed the Customs in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth and therefore by some called Customer Smith was so much in favour with K. James that he sent him Embassador to the Emperour of Russia 19. Mar. 1604. From whence returning he was made Governour of the Society of Merchants trading to the East-Indies Musâ—â—ie the French and Summer Islands and Treasurer for the Colonies and Companies of Virginia There goes under this Man's name a book intit Sir Thomas Smith's voyage and entertainment in Russia with the tragical ends of two Emperours and one Empress within one Month during his being there c. Lond. 1605. qu. But him I take not to be the author because it was published unknown to him and without his consent What else I find of him is that his fair and magnificent house at Deptford near to London was burnt on 30. Jan. 1618. and that upon several complaints against him for certain frauds used by him in withdrawing sums of Money in his Rectorship and place of Treasurer before mentioned he was removed from those imployments in Apr. 1619. His eldest Son Sir Joh. Smith married Isabel Daughter of Rob. Earl of Warwick and another the Natural Daughter of Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy without the consent of his Father in Nov. 1618. but in the middle of July following he upon some discontent left England without taking leave of his Father or Wife Besides these two I find another famous Sir Tho. Smith who went before them not only in time but eminence His native place was Saffron-Walden in Essex his Parents John Smith of the same place and Agnes the Daughter and Heir of one Charnock Gent. and the place of Academical education Queens coll in Cambridge where at riper years he was made choice of such was his proficiency in learning to be sent into Italy at the King's charges and there to be educated in certain kinds of learning which our Universities at home could not then yield or rather for the compleat polishing of his parts and studies After his return he became so eminent for his acquired learning that he was not only made the publick Orator of Cambridge but also the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue and at length the King's Professor of the Civil Law in which Faculty he was incorporated Doctor at Cambridge in 1542. and afterwards at Oxon but the particular time when it appears not through the imperfectness of the Registers of that time In the Reign of Ed. 6. he found so much favour with the Duke of Somerset that he was made one of the Secretaries Sir Will. Cecill being the other to that King a Knight Steward of the Stanneries and Dean of Carlile in the place of one Lancelot Salkeld then ejected About the same time also he became Provost of Eaton coll whereof he had very well merited but when Q. Mary came to the Crown she deprived him of those dignities assigning
righteousness of Christ Treatise of the providence of God The book of Ecclesiastes briefly explained Printed 1628. qu. The period of the Persian Monarchy wherein sundry places of Ezra Nehemiah and Daniel are cleared Lond. 1631. qu. Exposition on the first nine chapters of Zacharie Lond. 1629. qu. Five godly and profitable Sermons Lond. 1628. 29. qu. Fruitful Sermons upon the 1 Cor. 15. 18 19. Lond. 1629. qu. Introduction to the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1628. 29. Lond. 1639. oct De formarum origine Ibid. 1629. in tw dedic to Dr. Accepted Frewen Printed also at Camb. in tw De sensibus internis Lond. 1629. Ox. 1647. in tw Enchiridion oratorium Ox. 1633. qu. c. A summ of moral Philosophy Oxon. 1630. qu. All which books or Treatises those only that were written in English were remitted into one volume and printed several times The third impression was at Lond. 1635. and the fourth impression at Ox. 1659. both in fol. Introduction to Geography Ox. 1685. qu. At length our author a zealous Calvinist retiring to the house of the before-mention'd Rich. Capell minister of Eastington alias Easton near to the City of Gloucester to make some continuance there for the sake of study and health died of a burning Feaver in sixteen hundred twenty and three and was buried in the yard under the great Yew-Tree year 1623 on the north side of Eastington Church Over his Grave was a stone soon after laid with these words engrav'd thereon Here lyeth the body of William Pemble master of Arts and preacher who died 14 Apr. an 1623. JOHN SPRINT Son of Dr. Joh. Sprint descended from those of his name living in the City of Bristow was born as I conceive there or in Glocestershire near to it elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592. took the degrees in Arts and some time after became Vicar of Thornbury in the said county Thence he removed to London was cried up by the Citizens for a godly and frequent preacher and by them much followed but was cut off in the prime of his years when great matters were expected from him He was a grave and pious Divine yet for the most part disaffected to the ceremonies of the Church of England while he continued at Thornbury At length upon the gentle perswasions of Mr. Sam. Burton Archdeacon of Glouc. he did not only conform but was a great instrument in perswading others to do the like by a book that he wrote and published call'd Cassander Anglicus which I shall anon mention His works are these Propositions tending to prove the necessary use of the Christian Sabbath or Lords day c. Lond. 1607. qu. and in 1635. in tw or oct The practice of that sacred day framed after the rules of Gods word printed with the former The summ of Christian religion by way of question and answer Lond. 1613. oct Cassander Anglicus shewing the necessity of conforming to the prescribed ceremonies of our Church in case of deprivation Lond. 1618. qu. dedic to Sam. Burton Archd. of Glouc. Whereupon came out a brief and plain answer to the first reason of it which was replied upon by Sprint but I have not yet seen it The Christians sword and buckler or a letter sent to a man seven years greviously afflicted in conscience and fearfully troubled in mind c. Lond. 1638. oct These are all the pieces I think that he hath written which are published and therefore I shall only let the reader know that he was buried within the precincts of the Church of S. Anne situated in the place called the Blackfriers in London of which he seems to have been Minister or Lecturer on the seventh of May in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 See more of him in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 309. b. His Father Dr. Sprint who was Dean of Bristow and a frequent preacher but a Calvinist I shall mention more at large in the Fasti under the year 1574. not as a Writer but as a D. of D. and rich Dignitary PHILIP CLUVER Cluverius the Son of a maker or coyner of money was born at Dantzick the chief town of the province of Prussia in Poland but descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living in the Dutchie of Bremen in Lower Saxony instructed in his puerile years at home in his youthful in the royal Court of Poland where he learned among the Courtiers the exact speaking of the Polish tongue and their manners Thence his Father sent him into Germany where he received a command from him to apply his mind solely to the study of the Civil Law Whereupon he journeyed to Leyden in Holland and did endeavour to follow it but his Genie being naturally enclined to Geography he followed for altogether that study especially upon the perswasions of Joseph Scaliger who had perused his Table of Italy which he had composed while he was a youth in Poland Thence partly to see the world but more for the conversation of Just Lipsius he took a journey into Brabant but missing him was dispoiled by thieves who left him in a manner naked Thence he returned to Leyden and afterwards went into Bohemia and Hungarie where coming to the knowledge of one Popel a Baron who had been closely confined by the Emperor for some misdemeanours did translate his Apologie written in his own defence into the Latine tongue Which coming to the ear of the Emperour Cluver was thereupon imprisoned Afterwards being set at liberty he travelled into Scotland England France Germany and Italy In England his chief place of residence was in this University particularly in Exter coll of which he became a sojournour for the sake of Holland and Prideaux in 1609. age 29 where being setled he wrote his book De tribus Rheni alveis as I shall tell you anon In Italy he became acquainted with some of the Cardinals who held him in great esteem for his curious and exact knowledge in Geography the Greek and Latine tongues and for his marvellous knowledge in the Dutch German French Italian Bohemian Hungarian Polonian and British Language Afterwards he returned to Oxon again being then highly valued by Mr. Prideaux for one or more of his things then published and had offers of promotion tender'd unto him But Leyden being the place of his delight he retired thither and tho he could get no place of benefit there yet the curators of that University gave him an yearly stipend for the encouragement of his studies as being a person repleated with all humane literature antient Histories and Geography He is stiled by a certain author vir stupendae lectionis curae and by another princeps aetatis nostrae Geographus and magnum Germaniae ornamentum His works are De tribus Rheni alveis ostiis item de quinque populis quondam accolis c. Lugd. Bat. 1611. qu. This book was written in Oxon with the helps of the
after he supplyed the place of Secretary to Christop Lord Hatton L. Chanc. of England and after his decease performed the like Office to his two Successors by special recommendation from her Majesty who also gave him a Prothonotaryship in the Chancery and in 1597. being then a Knight and one of the Masters of the Chancery was by the said Queen sent into Prussia to inform the K. and State of Poland and the prutenic Cities those things which she answered to Dzialine the last Embassador in England c. In which County and in other Nothern parts he underwent through unexpected accidents extraordinary perils but being freed from them by Gods great Providence he performed his duty in acceptable manner In January 1605. he was sent ordinary Embassador into France where he behaved himself to the credit of the English Nation and after his return the Commonwealth used his service in the places of trust which he then injoyed Whether he was the same Sir George Carew who was created Master of Arts with other persons of quality at Cambridge 30. Aug. 1571. I know not Qu. EDWARD HUTCHINS a Denâ—igâ—â—hire man born was admitted perpetual Fellow of Brâ—â—â—â— coll in 1581. being that year Master of Arts. Afterwards entring into the Sacred Function was in short time after numbred among the eniment Preachers of the University His works are Sermons as 1 Serm. against Recusants on Cantic 2. 15. Oxon. 1586. oct 2 Serm. concerning the true comfort of Gods Church truly Militant c. on the Song of Salomon ch 4. V. 7. Oxon. 1589. oct c. with which last is printed An Apology for the Church truly Militant He hath also published Jaw-bone against the spiritual Philistine Printed 1601. in tw and other things which I have not seen He afterwards being married became Prebendary of Chute and Cheesenbury in the Church of Salisbury and beneficed near to that City year 1629 He died in the beginning of sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was succeeded in his Prebendship by one Joh. Thorpe WILLIAM GIFFORD Son of John Gifford Esque by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Sir Geo. Throcmorton of Coughton in Warwickshire Knight was born in Hampshire in 1554. being the second year of Qu. Mary and in 1569. was by his Mother then the Wife of one Will. Hodgckin sent to Linc. coll at which time it was governed by John Bridgwater who in his heart was a R. Catholick and had under his government many of that profession After he had continued in the University mostly in the said coll and partly in the house of Geo. Etheridge a Physitian for the space of four years exercising himself in Grammar Musick Logick and Philosophy he was sent with his Tutor to Lovaine where soon after he took the degree of M. of A. Afterwards spending four years in Theological studies under Father Bellarmine he took the degree of Bach in that faculty But leaving the said University because of the Civil Wars in that Country he retired to Paris where continuing for some time in the study of Theology among the Sorbonists he was by Dr. Will. Alan sent for to Rheimes where continuing in the Eng. coll governed by the said Alan for some time was by him sent to the Eng. coll at Rome where consummating his divine studies was recalled by the said Alan and made publick Professor of Theology at Rheimes About which time being created Doctor of that faculty with great solemnity in the University of Pont-a Mousson in Loraine in Nov. 1584. managed with great credit his publick Professorship for about eleven years But Civil Wars breaking out in France he journyed to Rome and became Chaplain to Card. Alan as he was afterwards for a time to Card. Charles Borromeus at Millane at whose request to P. Clem. 8. he was made Dean of the Church of S. Peter at Ressell commonly called L'isle in Flanders which preferment he keeping for ten years was at length forced to leave it by the violence of the Jesuits because he took part with the Benedictine Monks when they prevailed so far with the Abbot of Arraâ— a good man to build a Cloister for them at Doway which was much opposed by the said Jesuits Afterwards Dr. Gifford return'd to Rheimes again and was made Rector of the Academy there which he governed with great praise and honour At length being above 50. years of age he gave a farewell to the World and its vanities entred himself into the Order of St. Benedict in June 1608. and became professed on the 14. Dec. in the year following in the coll of the English Benedictines at Diculward in Loraine Whereupon according to the manner he changed his name to Gabriel de S. Maria which he kept to his dying day became famous for his admirable Sermons preached there in Flanders Poiteu at Rheimes and in Britaine to which place as 't is said he was sent a Delegate by P. Clem. 8. to K. Jam. 1. concerning matters of Religion Afterwards being noted for his great piety and learning he was made Prior of the Benedictines at S. Maloes in France and President of the Congregation of that Order At length his great worth suffering him not to live in a Cell he was by Ludovic de Loraine commonly called Cardinal Guise Archbishop of Rheimes made his Suffragan in that See under the title of Episcopus Arâ—â—id â—liae in Greece Which place he enjoying till that Cardinals death the Duke of Guise thereupon because his second Son was but a Child and therefore not capable of the Archbishoprick of Rheimes fearing lest any other Nâ—bleman in France should beg it for any of their Sons did presently before the death of his Brother the Cardinal was known go to the French K. and beg'd the same for Dr. Gifford and procured the Pope to confirm the Kings grant Whereupon Gifford receiving Consecration in 1622. enjoy'd it about 7 years not without paying a considerable yearly pension from it as 't was thought to the then Duke of Guise By vertue of the said Archbishoprick he became a Duke and the first Peer of France And having a great yearly value coming in became hospitable liberal to all English Exiles and Travellers and a Founder of two Houses in France for the reception of the English Monks of the Order of S. Benedict namely one at Paris and another at S. Maloe He hath written and published Orationum lib. 1. Spoken mostly at the inauguration of Albert and Isabell in their inauguration at L'isle Also before Card. Burbon Vandome Guise c. at Rheimes and the Duke of Guise d'Aumale and others Printed at Doway Sermones Adventuales He also took a great deal of pains in perfecting and finishing a book intit Calvino-Turcismus c. written by Will. Rainolds and printed at Antwerp 1597. Answered by one who writes himself T. M. S. in a book intit De Turco-papismo c. Lond. 1598. 99. qu. In the Preface to which he falls foul on
the 35. year of her age was buried by her husband in Feb. 1646. Soon after was composed a book by one John Duncon a sequestred Divine intit The returns of spiritual comfort and grief in a devout soul Represented by entercourse of Letters to the right honourable the Lady Letice Vi-countess Falkland in her life time And exemplified in the holy life and death of the said honourable Lady c. Lond. 1648. c. oct To the said book if it may be had I refer the Reader wherein he may soon perceive the unspeakable piety of the woman and the great command of her Pen. By her husband Lucius L. Falkland she had several children of which the eldest named Lucius became a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of the year in Lent time 1646. being then a young man of great hopes but died soon after at Paris as I have heard The next was Henry not educated in Academical learning but so exceeding wild and extravagant that he sold his Fathers incomparable Library for a Horse and a Mare as I have been informed by Sir J. H. who married his Widdow Afterwards he took up and prov'd a man of parts which might have been much advantaged if he had submitted himself to education was elected one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament that began at Westminster 27 Jan. 1658. Burgess for the City of Oxon for that called the Healing Parliament which began 25 Apr. 1660. and a Knight again for the said County to serve in the Parliament that began in May in the year following and at length by his Majesties favour he was made about that time Lord Leiutenant of Oxfordshire He died 2 Apr. 1663. aged 29. or thereabouts and was buried by the graves of his Father and Mother leaving then behind him issue by Rachel his Wife Dau. of Sir Anth. Hungerford of Blackbourton in Oxfordshire Kt. a Son named Anthony now L. Falkland Treasurer Paymaster to the Navy during the raign of K. Jam. 2. a person of great parts and worth HENRY FERRERS Son and heir of Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley-Clynton in Warwickshire Esq was born in that County became a Student in this University in Hart hall as it seems in the beginning of the raign of Qu. Elizabeth but whether he took a degree it doth not appear Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony which was considerable and prosecuting his natural Genie to the study of Heraldry Genealogies and Antiquities became highly valued for his eminent knowledge in them whereby he did not only give a fair lustre to his ancient and noble family whereof he was no small ornament but also to the County of his nativity He was well known to and respected by the Learned Camden who in his Discourse of the antiquity of the City of Coventry in Warwickshire doth make this honorable mention of him Thus much of Coventry yet have you not all this of me but willingly to acknowledge by whom I have profited of Henry Ferrers of Baldesley a man both for parentage and for knowledge of antiquity very commendable and my special friend who both in this place and also elsewhere hath at all times curteously shewed me the right way when I was out and from his Candle as it were hath lightened mine What this Mr. Ferrers hath published I know not sure I am that he made several volums of choice collections one of which in fol. containing Pedegrees I have seen in the Sheldonian Library now in that of the college of Arms from which but chiefly from those of Sir Sim. Archer of Vmberslade in the parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire a person naturally qualified with a great affection to Antiquities Will. Dugdale Gent. afterwards a Knight laid a large foundation of that elaborate work which is his Master-piece intit The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated c. Lond. 1656. fol. After Sir Will. Dugdales death several of Mr. Ferrers collections that had come into his hands were reposited in the Ashmolean Musaeum see the book marked with Z. He had also in his younger days a good faculty in Poetry some of which I have seen scattered in divers books printed in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth At length dying on the tenth day of Oct. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 aged 84. was buried in the middle of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Baldesley-Clynton before mentioned leaving behind him the character of a well bred Gent a good neighbour and an honest man WILLIAM FOSTER a Londoner born became a Student in S. Johns coll in Mich. Term 1609. aged 18. afterwards M. of A. Chaplain to Rob. L. Dormer E. of Carnarvan and Parson of a little Town called Hedgley near to Beconsfield in Bucks He hath published Sermon on Rom. 6. 12. printed 1629. qu. Hoplocrisma-Spongus Or a Sponge to wipe away the weapon salve Wherein is proved that the cure taken up among us by applying the Salve to the weapon is magicall and unlawful Lond. 1631. qu. In the composure of which book he had some light from Johannes Roberti a Jesuit and D. of D. who because some Protestants practice this and characterical cures which notwithstanding are more frequent among Roman Catholicks he therefore calls them Magi-Calvinists Characterists c. He makes that generally in them all doctrinal which is but in some few personally practiced But our author Foster tho he hath written rationally and in his book hath shew'd great reading yet he hath been answered not without some scorn by Rob. Fludd Doctor of Physick as I shall tell you elsewhere This Will. Foster lived some years after the publication of his Sponge but when he died or what other things he hath extant I cannot yet tell EDWARD WESTON Son of Will. Weston sometimes of Linc. coll afterwards one of the Society of Lincolns Inn by his Wife Daughter of John Story LL. D. of whom I have made mention under the year 1571. was born in London and at about 12 or 13 years of age an 1578. was sent to the said coll of Lincoln where he had a Tutor that taught him Grammar and Logick for a time Afterwards being taken thence by his Parents he was put under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Case who with licence from the University read to Scholars Logick and Philosophy in his house in S. Mar. Magdalens parish Under him he profited in several sorts of learning to a miracle became a good Disputant and very well read in Philosocal authors But his Parents who were R. Catholicks taking him away from his conversation with the Muses after he had spent at least 5 years in Oxon. without the taking any degrees was sent into France where for a short time he setled in the English coll at Rheimes Thence he went to the English coll at Rome where partly in Philosophy and partly in Divinity he spent six years and at length took the degree of Doctor of Div. in the
They were before published and had then 1638. a new title put to them One Rob. Gomersall who seems to be a Devonian born died 1646. leaving then by his Will 1000 l. to his Son Robert which Son perhaps may be the writer before mentioned THOMAS INGMETHORP a Worcestershire man born was matriculated as a member of Brasnose coll in the latter end of May 1581. aged 19. went away without any Degree confer'd upon him and was afterwards made Rector of Great Stainton or Stainton in that Street in the Bishoprick of Durham being then accounted eminent for the Hebrew tongue and for his admirable methods in Pedagogy which employment he practised not only before he came to Stainton but also afterwards in his private house there among 12 or 14. boys till almost to the time of his death He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on 1 Joh. chap. 2. ver 3 4 5 6. Oxon. 1598. oct 2 Sermon upon the words of Saint Paul Let every soul be subject to the higher powers Rom. 13. 1. wherein the Popes Soveraignty over Princes is briefly but sufficiently refuted c. London 1619. quarto and others which I have not yet seen A short Catechism for young children to learn by Law authorized c. Lond. 1633. oct Catechism in English and Hebrew printed in octavo This I have not seen nor any thing else besides what is before set down He died and was buried at Stainton before mention'd but when I know not MILES SANDYS a Knights Son was born in Worcestershire became a Gent. Com. of Haâ—t hall in the beginning of the year 1615. aged 15 but put under the tuition of Dr. Rich. Astley Fellow afterwards Warden of Allsouls college by whose endeavours this our author became afterwards a compleat Gentleman He departed without a degree tho much deserving of one and afterwards had the degree of Knighthood confer'd upon him by his Majesty some years after He hath written Prudence the first of the four Cardinal vertues Lond. 1634. in tw 'T is the first part of a small work written by him chiefly concerning the Four Cardinal vertues especially Prudence wherein is much reading shew'd What other parts followed I know not nor any thing else of the author One Sir Miles Sandys of Wilberton in Cambridgeshire Knight and Baronet third Son of Edwyn Archbishop of York died in the latter end of 1644 leaving then behind him a Son called Sir Miles Sandys Knight and Baronet Whether this last be the same with the writer before mention'd I know not LEONARD DIGGES Son of Tho. Digges mentioned under the year 1574. by Anne his Wife Daughter of Sir Warham St. Leodgar Knight was born in London became a Commoner of Vniv. coll in the beginning of the year 1603. aged 15. took the degree of Bac. of Arts retired to the great City for the present afterwards travelled into several Countries and became an accomplish'd person Some years after his return he retired to his coll again and upon his supplication made to the venerable Convocation he was in consideration that he had spent many years in good letters in transmarine Universities actually created M. of A. in 1626. He was esteemed by those that knew him in Vniv. coll a great Master of the English language a perfect understander of the French and Spanish a good Poet and no mean Orator He hath translated out of Spanish into English a Romance called Gerardo the unfortunate Spaniard in two parts Lond. 1622. qu. written by Don Goncalo de Cespedes And from Lat. into English verse The rape of Proserpine in 3 books Lond. 1617. and 28. qu. written by Claudian besides other things which I have not yet seen He died on the 7. Apr. in sixteen hundred thirty and five and was buried in that little old Chappel of Vniv. coll sometimes standing about the middle of the present Quadrangle which was pulled down in 1668. Several verses of his composition I have seen printed in the beginning of various authors particularly those before Shakespeares works which shew him to have been an eminent Poet of his time THOMAS BROAD or Brodaeus as he writes himself Son of Will. Broad of Rendcombe in Gloucestershire Clerk made his first entry into S. Maries hall in Mich. Term 1594. aged 17. and soon after translating himself to that of S. Alban took the degrees in Arts as a Member thereof In 1611. in which year his Father died he became Rector of Rendcomb the place of his nativity where as before in Oxon he was held in great esteem for his learning and Religion He hath written Touch-stone for a Christian wherein is shewed how a man may know whether he be the Temple of the Holy Ghost c. Lond. 1613. c. in tw The Christians Warfare c. Serm. on Jam. 4. 7. Lond. 1613. in tw Three questions answer'd The first question What should our meaning be when after the reading of the fourth Commandment we pray Lord incline our hearts to keep this Law The second question How the fourth Commandment being delivered in such form of words bind us to sanctifie any day but only the seventh c. And the third question How shall it appear to be the Law of Nature to sanctifie one day every week Oxon. 1621. qu. Tractatus de Sabbato in quo doctrina Ecclesiae primitivae dèclaratur ac defenditur Printed 1627. qu. Two Treatises one concerning the Sabbath or Seventh day The other concerning the Lords day or first of the week These two that were written in English and not printed came in MS. into the hands of one George Abbot not he that was Archbishop of Canterbury but another who making an answer to them published it under the title of Vindiciae Sabbathi or an answer to two treatises of Mr. Broad c. Lond. 1641. qu. He the said Tho. Broad departed this mortal life about the middle or latter end of June year 1635 in sixteen hundred thirty and five and was buried by the bodies of his Father and of his Brother Samuel in the Chancel of the Church at Rendcombe before-mentioned leaving then behind him four Sons besides Daughters which he had by Margaret his Wife viz. William Thomas Sam. and John Thomas succeeded him if I mistake not in the Rectory of Rendcombe and afterwards became Rector of Risington Magna in Glucestershire where he died in the beginning of 1679. RICHARD CORBET was born of a gentile Family at Ewel in Surrey Son of Vincent Corbet farther known By Poynters name than by his own And after he had spent some years in Westminster School was sent to Broadgates hall in Lent-Term 1â—97-98 aged 15. and in the year after was made Student of Ch. Ch. In 1605. he proceeded M. of A. being then esteemed one of the most celebrated Wits in the University as his Poems Jests Romantick fancies and exploits which he made and perform'd extempore shew'd Afterwards entring into holy Orders he became a most quaint
Halyfax in his own Country In 1507. he was by the favour of P. Jul. 2. made Bishop of Meath in Ireland and the same year one of the Kings Privy Council there In the latter end of 1511. he was translated by the authority of the same Pope to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin and in 1515. was made Chancellour of Ireland by K. Hen. 8. in which great office as 't is supposed he continued to the time of his death He yielded to the stroke of death 29. Nov. in fifteen hundred twenty and one year 1521 and was buried as a certain author saith in the Church of S. Patrick near Dublin In his Will dated 22. Nov. and proved 4. February an 1521. wherein he stiles himself Archb. of Dublin and perpetual Vicar of Halifax I find these things following Item I will that after my death my body be embowelled and my bowels and heart to be buried in the Church of Halifax within the Quire and my body to be buried in the new Chappel at Sandall and thereon a Tomb of stone to be made and about the same to be written Ego Willielmus Dublin Archiepiscopus quondam Rector istius Ecclsie credo quod redemptor meus vivit qui obiit cujus anime proptietur deus amen Item I will that a Chappel be made in all convenient haste at Halifax on the south side of the Church after the direction of mine Executors and Church-Masters and there a Tomb to be made with my Image and thereupon written Hic jacet-Willlelmi Rokeby nuper Dublin Archiepiscopi Vicarii perpetui â—stius Ecclesie qui credo c. Item where I did obtain a Pardon for the Parish of Halifax and the Parishings thereunto adjoyning pro lacticiniis in quadragessima edendis I will that mine Executors at their discretion obtain sub plumbo the said license to be renewed and the profit thereof to be imployed for a Priest to sing at Halifax in my said new Chappel as long as may be by the advice and discretion of my Executors and the Church-Wardens Item I will that a Doctor of Div. have 10 l. to be occupied in Preaching c. Thus far part of his Will according to the tenour of which his heart was buried in the Chancel of the Ch. at Halifax and thereon was laid a stone with the figure only of an heart engraven thereon On the north side of the said Church was also founded a Chappel wherein was a monument built for him with an inscription put thereon Which being since partly defaced you shall have that part which lately remained thereon Orate pro anima Willielmi Rokeby jur Can. profess ac etiam Episcopi Medensis denide Archiepisc Dublin capelle fundatoris istius Qui obiit… Novembris an Dom. mcccccxxi What was performed at Sandall for the accomplishment of the other part of his Will I know not One Will. Rokeby LL. Bac. who was well beneficed in Yorkshire succeeded Joh. Dakyn LL. D. in the Archdeaconry of the East-riding of the said County in Dec. 1558. who dying in 1568. Martin Parkinson B. D. had that Dignity confer'd upon him in Dec. the same year but before he had kept it an year he gave way to fate Whereupon the said Dignity was confer'd on John Mey D. D. who was setled therein in the beginning of Aug. 1569. and soon after became Bishop of Carlile I find also one John Rokeby LL. D. to be Chanter Canon resid and Preb. of Duffeild of and in the Church of York who died in the latter end of 1574. Which John with William before-mentioned were of the same Family with Will Archb. of Dublin RICHARD FITZ-JAMES son of John Fitzjames by Alice his Wife daugh of Joh. Newbourgh son of James Fitz-james by Eleanor his Wife daugh and heir of Sim. Draycot was born in Somersetshire became a Student in the University of Oxon about 1459. elected probatoner-Fellow of Merton coll in 1465. took holy orders when he was Master and in 1473 was elected one of the Proctors of the University In the beginning of March 1474 he became Preb. of Taunton in the church of Wells upon the resignation of John Wansford and afterwards being constituted chaplain to K. Edw. 4. he proceeded in Divinity On the 12 of March 1482 he was elected Warden of Merton coll upon the resignation of John Gygur being then and after esteemed a frequent Preacher Which place he keeping about 25 years he shewed himself most worthy of it by his admirable way of government which he exercised by his continual benefaction thereunto and by his endeavours when in power to promote his Fellows In March 1484-85 he was made Vicar of Mynhead and about that time Rector of Aller in Somersetshire in which last he was succeeded by Mr. Christopher Baynbrigg in the latter end of May 1497. On the 2. of June 1495. he was admitted Almoner to K. Hen. 7. and on the 2. of January 1496. being then elected by the Monks of Rochester to be Bishop of that See was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 21. May following by Cardinal Moreton Archb. of Canterbury and his Assistants Landâ—ff and Bangor In January 1503. he was translated to the See of Chichester in the place of Dr. Edw. Story a Cantabrigian who dying in the latter end of the year 1502. was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester under a fair Tomb which he a little before had built for himself and on the 14. March 1505. he was nominated by the King to succeed Dr. Barons in the See of London On the 1. Aug. 1506. the temporalities of that See were restored to him So that soon after being setled there he resigned his Wardenship of Merton coll which he had kept in Commendam with Rochester and Chichester and all that time had administred the Government thereof with great commendation But this the Reader is to note that tho he was a Bishop several years while Warden yet did he according to statute and custom submit himself yearly in the month of January to the scrutiny of the Fellows of the said coll in the Chappel of S. Cross of Halywell near to Oxon de mora muribus Custodis Which statute continuing in use till the time of Hen. 8. was then disused by Dr. Joh. Chamber Warden thereof under pretence of absence in serving his Majesty as Physician He the said Dr. 〈…〉 bestowed much money in adorning the Cathedral of S. Paul as he had done before the collegiate Parish Church belonging to Merton coll in which house he built I cannot say all at his own charge the hall with a fair dining-room over it and a lodging room with a large vault under it both joyning on the west side to the said hall and dining-room for the use of him while Warden and his Successor in that office for ever Which hall dining-room and lodging Chamber were made as additions to the old lodgings belonging to the Wardens of the
Capellanus in 1541. Afterwards he was beneficed and dignified in his own Country and in the Reign of Q. Mary an 1556. became Vicar of Banwell in the dioc of Wells In the year 1566. he was consecrated at Lambeth to the much impoverished See of Landaff and on the sixth day of May the same year the temporalities of that See were restored to him He was buried in the Church of Mathern in Monmouthshire 15. of Nov. in fifteen year 1574 hundred seventy and four aged 66 years leaving then behind him a Wife named Anne Jones alias Henson and several daughters In Landaff succeeded William Blethin another Welsh man of whom I shall make large mention hereafter JOHN PARKHURST sometimes Fellow of Merton college became Bishop of Norwych in 1560. and died towards the latter end of fifteen hundred seventy and four year 1574 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded Dr. Edm. Freke elected by the Dean and Chapter of Norwych 13. of Jul. 1575. who being translated to Worcester Edm. Scambler D. D. and B. of Peterborough was elected thereunto 15. of Dec. 1584. and was translated in the latter end of that month He died 7. May 1594. aged 85 years and was buried on the 3. of June following in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych between the two Pillars next above the Tomb of Bishop Parkhurst Soon after was a monument of a yard and an half high with his Effigies in Alabaster laying thereon erected over his grave and all inclosed with an high iron grate In the time of that Rebellion which was began by the Presbyterians the grate was taken away the Effigies or Statua broken and the monument of free-stone on which it laid was pulled down as far as the brick-work which being unsightly was afterwards taken away and the space between the pillars left void as it now remains There was an inscription and four verses on it the first of which did run thus Vivo tibi moriorque tibi tibi Christe resurgam After his death Will. Redman Archdeacon of Canterb. and Rector of Bishops-Bourn in Kent Son of Joh. Redman of Shelford in Cambridgshire was promoted to the said See whereupon being elected thereunto 17. Dec. was consecrated 12. of Jan. and installed 24. Feb. 1594. He gave way to fate 25. Sept. 1602. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych leaving behind him a Relict named Isabell and several sons and daughters as also monies for a publick work to be done in Trin. coll in Cambridge of which he was sometimes Fellow To carry on the succession a little farther tho out of my road I desire the Reader to know that after Redmans death succeeded Dr. Joh. Jegon in the said See of Norwych born at Coggeshall in Essex 10. Dec. 1550. being Son of Rob. Jegon by Joan his Wife daughter of one… White of the same County educated in Grammar learning there and elsewhere became after some years spent in Logick and Philosophy in Cambridge Fellow of S. Johns coll in that University afterwards Master of C. C. commonly called Bennet coll which office he held 12 years four times Vicechancellour of that University installed Dean of Norwych in the place of Dr. Tho. Dove made Bishop of Peterborough 22. June 1601. and at length being elected Bishop of Norwych 18. Jan. was consecrated thereunto with Dr. Rob. Bennet to Hereford on the 20. Feb. 1602. In the year 1617. March 13. he died and was soon after buried in the Church at Aylesham in Norfolk and in 1619. his Widdow named Lilia was married to Sir Charles Cornwallis After him succeeded in Norwych Joh Overhall Bishop of Lichf and Coventry who being elected by the Dean and Chapter 21. May 1618. was confirmed 30. Sept. following He died 12. May 1619. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych About the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Dr. Cofin Bishop of Durham did in honour to his memory as having been one of the profoundest School divines of our Nation erect a monument on the next pillar to his grave After him followed Dr. Sam. Harsnet educated also in Cambridge who was translated thereunto from Chichester 28. Aug. 1619. and him Dr. Franc. White B. of Carlile and the Kings Almoner who being elected by the D. and Chapt. of Norwych upon the translation of Harsnet to York after D. G. Mountaigns death on the 22. Januar 1628. was soon after translated thereunto To him succeeded Dr. Rich. Corbet whom I have among the Writers mentioned NICOLAS BULLYNGHAM was born in the City of Worcester elected Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1536. took one degree in the Laws and some years after viz. in 1549. 3. Edw. 6. Sept. 2. was installed Archdeacon of Lincoln on the death of George Heneage being about that time Vicar-general to the Bishop of that place After Q. Mary came to the Crown he absconded and studied the Theological faculty wherein he obtained a considerable knowledge but when Q. Elizab. succeeded he was made Doctor of his Faculty at Cambridge was a Judge of Ecclesiastical matters in the Archb. Court of Canterbury and at length was promoted to the Episcopal See of Lincoln To which being elected after the deprivation of Dr. Tho. Watson was consecrated thereunto 21. of Jan. 1559. and on the 18. of Apr. following the temporalities thereof were restored to him In 1566. he was incorporated Doctor as he had stood at Cambridge and in Jan. 1570. he was translated to Worcester on the death of Jam. Calfhill who was nominated by the Queen to succeed Edwin Sandys in the said See but died before consecration where he continued much beloved to the time of his death He departed this mortal life on the 18. of Apr. year 1576 in fifteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in a Chappel on the north side of the Choire belonging to the Cath. Ch. of Worcester Over his grave was fastned a white marble table to the wall with these rude and barbarous verses engraven thereon Nicolaus Episcopus Wigorn. Here born here Bishop buried here A Bullyngham by name and stock A Man twice married in Gods fear Chief Pastor late of Lyncolne flock Whome Oxford trained up in youth Whome Cambridge Doctor did create A painful Preacher of the truth Who changed this life for happy fate 18. Apr. 1576. WILLIAM WALSH an eminent Theologist of his time was born in or near to Waterford in Ireland bred a Cistercian Monk and for some time lived among those of that Order in Oxon purposely for the improving himself in the supreme Faculty of which he was afterwards Doctor but whether of this University it appears not In Nov. 1554. he succeeded Edw. Staple in the Episcopal See of Meath in Ireland whence being ejected in the beginning of the Reign of Q. Elizab. for denying her Supremacy was cast into prison for a time Afterwards getting loose he went into Spain settled at Complutum spent most of his time in Religion
great portion that he had conveyed half the Bishoprick to her that because he had the Gout he could not stand to his marriage with such and the like scoffs to make him ridiculous to the vulgar and odious to the Queen The Earl of Bedford hapning to be present when these tales were told and knowing the Londoners Widdow the Bishop had married said merrily to the Queen after this manner Madam I know not how much the Widdow is above 20. but I know a Son of hers is but a little under forty c. The conclusion of the premises was this that to pacifie his persecutors and to save Banwell he was fain to part with Wyvelscomb commonly called Wilscomb for 99 years and so purchased his peace To conclude his reading had been much his judgment and doctrine sound his government mild and not violent his mind charitable and therefore not to be doubted but when he lost this life he won Heaven In his last days being taken with an quartan Ague he did by advice of his Physicians remove to the place of his Nativity Okingham before-mentioned with hopes of recovery but nothing availing he gave way to fate 19. of Novemb. in fifteen hundred and ninety aged 73 years year 1590 Whereupon being buried on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Parish Church there had a monument soon after set up in the wall over his grave by his Son Franc. Godwin then Subdean of Exeter In the See of Bathe and Wells succeeded John Still D. D. Master of Trin. coll in Cambridge Son of William Still of Grantham in Lincolnshire who had been installed Canon of the seventh stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of Thom. Aldridge deprived for Nonconformity an 1573. and Archdeacon of Sudbury 28. of March 1576. He died 26. of Feb. 1607. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Wells leaving then behind him several Children which he had by his two Wives especially the first MARMADUKE MIDDLETON Son of Tho. Middleton of Cardiganshire descended from the Middletons of Middleton in Westmorland by Lucia his Wife daughter of Rob. Nevill had part of his education here but took not as I can yet find a degree Afterwards he went into Ireland where he became Rector of Killare in the diocess of Meath and on the death of Patr. Walsh B. of Waterford and Lisemore in 1579. In 1581. he was translated to S. Davids and about two years after he was actually created Doct. of div of this University He was afterwards not only deprived of his Bishoprick but degraded from all holy Orders for many notable misdemeanours And the sentence for it was accordingly executed by and before the High Commissioners at Lambeth house not only by reading of it in Scriptis but by a formal degrading him of his Episcopal robes and Priestly vestments He departed this mortal life on the 30. of Nov. in fifteen hundred ninety and two leaving then a Son behind him year 1592 named Richard who was Archdeacon of Cardigan In the See of S. Davids succeeded Anthony Rudd D. of div of Cambridge and a Yorkshire man born whom I shall mention in the Fasti under the year 1577. JOHN UNDERHILL is according to time to follow Tho. Godwin but before I enter upon him I must let the reader know that after the death of Dr. Hugh Curwyn Bishop of Oxon that See continued void about 21. years At the term of which a great person Sir Fr. Walsingham out of pure devotion to the leases that would yield good fines recommended the said Vnderhill to it perswading him to take it as in a way to a better but as it should seem it was out of his way very much for e're the first fruits were paid he died in much discontent and poverty Yet his preferrer to seem to do some favour to the University for recompence of the spoil done to the Bishoprick of Oxon erected a new lecture at his own charge which Dr. Rainolds of C. C. coll did for some time read as I have told you elsewhere This John Vnderhill was born in an ancient tenement or receptacle for guests called the Cross Inn in St. Martins Parish within the City of Oxon where his name lived two or three generations if not more and continued there till the daughter and heir of Vnderhill was married to one Breys or Brice After he had been trained up in Grammar learning in Winchester school he was sent to New coll of which he became true and perpetual fellow in 1563. After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts it hapned that Doctor Horne Bishop of Winchester visited the said coll but Vnderhill making opposition by questioning the Bishops right for what he did or should do as to visitation he was removed from his fellowship in 1576. Whereupon making his complaint to Robert Earl of Leycester chancellour of the University of Oxon he hearkned to and encouraging him to go to law with the Bishop for what he had done the Bishop forthwith let the cause fall to the ground knowing very well that he should be a loser by carrying on the cause if that great Count should stand by Vnderhill In 1577. he was elected Rector of Lincoln coll and proceeded in Divinity in 1581. About which time he was made Chaplain to the Queen one of the Vicars of Bampton and Rector of Witney in Oxfordshire In 1589. he was nominated Bishop of Oxon upon Walsinghams motion as I have before told you whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. C. on the 8. day of Decemb. was consecrated thereunto about the latter end of the same month in the said year He paid his last debt to nature at London on the 12. of May in fifteen hundred ninety and two and soon after his body being conveyed to Oxon year 1592 was buried in the Cath. Ch. towards the upper end of the choire just before the Bishops chair leaving then this character of him that he was Vir clarus eloquio acutus ingenio From the time of his death to the consecration of Dr. Jo. Bridges his successor an 1603. the patrimony of the Bishoprick of Oxon was much dilapidated and made a prey for the most part to Robert Earl of Essex to whom it proved as miserably fatal as the gold of Tholouse did of old to the soldiers of Caepio The said Joh. Bridges had been sometimes fellow of Pembr hall in Cambridge was D. of D. and made Dean of Salisbury in the beginning of Januar. 1577. upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Piers to the Episcopal See there He was a learned man in the time he lived and wrot several books as the Bodleian or Oxford catalogue will tell you See more of him in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 291. b. JOHN WOOLTON sometimes of Brasnose coll was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in Aug. 1574. died in the latter end of fifteen hundred ninety and three year 1593 and was buried
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
Vicar General to Gilbert Bishop of that place and at length Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Sarum He died about the month of Feb. in 1575 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Wells Oct. 18. John Croke of New Coll. He was now an eminent Advocate in the Court of Arches and about this time dignified in the Church Doct. of Div. July 6. John Ramridge of Mert. Coll. He was made Dean of Lichfield in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign in the place of one Rich. Willyams deprived for having married a Widow in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. But the said Ramridge leaving England without any compulsion in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth being much troubled in mind upon a foresight of the alteration of Religion he went into Flanders where in wandring to and fro in great discontent he met with Thieves who first rob'd and afterwards murder'd him Only two supplicated for the said Degree this year viz. Will. Wetherton M. A. and Bach. of Div. and Edw. Sepham M. A. and Student in that Faculty but were not now or after admitted Incorporations Apr…Nich Grimoald Jul. 19. Laur. Nowell B. of A. of Cambr. Nov. 8. George Dogeson or Dogâ—on Chantor of Wells and M. A. of the University of Paris was then incorp M. of A. Which being done he was incorporated Bach. of Div. as he had stood in the said University of Paris An. Dom. 1543. An. 35 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. John Estwyke Will. Pye again Elected the first day of Easter Term. Bach. of Arts. Jul. 12. Tho. Godwyn of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bathe and Wells Dec. 14. Will. Johnson of All 's Coll. The Cat. of Fellows of that House saith that he was afterwards Dean of Dublin and Bishop of Meath in Ireland whereupon recurring to the Commentary of Irish Bishops written by Sir James Ware I could find no such Person nor Dr. Johnson of Christs Coll. in Cambridge who is reported by Th. Fuller the Historian to be Archb. of Dublin Feb. 20. Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Lichfield and Coventry In all about 35 besides about 7 who were Supplicators or Candictates for the said degree of Bac. of Arts. Bach. of Civ Law Jan. 4. Nich. Harpesfield of New Coll. Mar… John Plough The former was afterwards a zealous Writers for the Rom. Catholic the other for the Protestant Cause Besides these two were about twelve more admitted Mast of Arts. Jun. 6. Joh. Fox Hen. Bull Tho. Cooper Will. Dounham of Magd. Coll. The two last of which were afterwards Bishops At the same time was one John Redman or Redmayne of Magd. Coll. admitted But whether this be the same John Redman who was afterwards Archdeacon of Taunton or another mentioned under the year 1508 and 1524 or a third mention'd among the Writers an 1551 I cannot justly say June 6. Will. Hugh 20. George Ethoridge John Morwen of C. C. Coll. Feb. 21. Joh. Pullayne Mar. 18. Laur. Nowell 24. Nich. Grimoald In all thirty nine of New Brasn Mert. Coll. Bach. of Div. June 30. Gilb. Bourne of All 's Coll. Nov. 21. John Somer He was Can. of Winds in the time of Qu. Mary where he died 1573. Tho. Slythurst was admitted the same day He was made Canon of Winds and the first President of Trin. College in the time of Qu. Mary of which being deprived in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he died about 1560. Feb. 8. Will. Pye of Oriel College now one of the Proctors of the University In 1534 he seems to have been admitted Bach. of Physick Besides these were ten more admitted and five that supplicated among whom was William Peryn one lately a Dominican or Black Fryer who was I suppose admitted because in a Book or Books which he soon after published he writes himself Bach. of Div. Doct. of the LL. Jul. 2. John ap Harry or Parry He was soon after Principal of Broadgates Hall and seems to be the same John ap Harry who was Successor to Gilb. Smith in the Archdeaconry of Northampton This Dr. Parry died in the beginning of 1549 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Castor in Northamptonshire John Williams lately Principal of Broadgates Hall was admitted the same day Doct. of Div. June 1. Philip Brode about this time a shagling Lecturer of Divinity in this University He was afterwards a Prebendary of the Church of York beneficed in the Diocess thereof and died in 1551. or thereabouts John Robyns the Astrologer and Mathematician sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. and now Canon of Windsore did supplicate that he might be admitted to proceed in Divinity but whether he was admitted it appears not Rich. Cox also a D. of D. of Cambridge did supplicate that he might sit and take a place among the Doctors of Divinity tho it was unusual and out of order as being not incorporated See in the year 1545. Incorporations This year or thereabouts John Cheek of Cambridge was incorporated but in what degree unless in that of Master of Arts I cannot justly tell because of the imperfectness of the Registers He had studied before for some time in this University and was now one of the Canons of Kings Coll. in Oxon. I mean of that College founded by K. Hen. 8. on that of Card. Wolsey which continued from the year 1532 to 1545 at which time he was about to translate the See of Oxon from Osney to his said Coll. intended then by him to have it known by the name of Christ Church which was effected accordingly in the year following When the said Kings Coll. was dissolved by Hen. 8. in the beginning of the year 1545 he allowed most of the then Canons yearly Pensions in lieu of their Canonries and to Jo. Cheek who was then Tutor to his Son Prince Edward he allowed six and twenty pounds thirteen shillings and four pence He was afterwards a Knight and most famous for his Learning exprest in his Introductio Grammatices his Book De ludimagistrorton officio in another De pronunciatione Linguae Graeâ—â—c and in many more besides Translations the Catalogue of which mostly taken from Baleus you may see at the end of Sir John Cheeks Life written by Ger. Langbaine put by him before a Book written by the said Cheek entit The true Subject to the Rebel or the heart of Sedition c. Oxon. 1641. qu. This Sir John Cheek died at Lond. in the house of Pet. Osbourne Esq a great Comforter of afflicted Protestants in the month of Sept. 1557 and was buried in the Church of S. Alban in Woodstreet within the said City An. Don. 1544. An. 36 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. Nich. Alambrygg of All 's Coll. Will. Smyth of Brasn Coll. again Elected about the Ides of May. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. In an Act then celebrated Will. Fitzjames Dean of We'ls was
following 12. Rich. Creke of Magd. Coll. Jan. 19. John Barefoot of C. C. Coll. Chaplain to Ambrose Earl of Warwick In 1581 he became Archdeacon of Lincoln in the place of Dr. John Robinson mention'd among the Incorporations an 1566 and dying in 1595 was succeeded in that Dignity by Rich. Cleyton D. D. collated thereunto 29 August the same year After Cleyton followed John Hills D. D. Master of S. Catherins Coll. or Hall in Cambridge who was collated to it 21 Sept. 1612. He died in 1626 about the month of Sept. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Horsheath in Cambridgeshire where there was if not still a Monument in the Wall over his grave Jan. 19. Barthelmew Chamberlayne of Trin. Coll. Edmund Bunney of Mert. Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree in February but was not admitted Incorporations July 7. Edward Chapman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He was soon after admitted Doctor as I have before told you 14. William Whitaker or Whittaker Bach. of Divinity of the said University This famous Divine for Learning and Life was born at Holme in the Parish of Burndâ—ey in Lancashire initiated there in Grammar learning taken thence by his Uncle Alexander Nowell Dean of Pauls and by him maintained in his house and put to the Free School there At eighteen years of age he was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge took the Degrees in Arts and the first thing that made him known for his excellency in the Gr. Tongue was the turning his Uncles Catechism into that Language Afterwards being famous for Theology he was made the Kings Professor in that Faculty and stood up in defence of the Protestant Religion and Church of England against Edmund Campian Nicholas Saunders William Rainolds Robert Bellarmine Thomas Stapleton c. At length having much impoverished his weak Body by continual study even at that time when the Question was so rise among the Divines Whether a true and justifying faith may be lost he was freed from this Body of flesh and lost his life having left behind him the desire and love of the present times and the envy of Posterity that cannot bring forth his parallel He gave way to Fate 4 December an 1595 aged 47 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge of which Coll. he had several years before been Master His Works are printed in Latin in two folio's at Genev. 1610. July 15. Gâ—vase Babington M. of A. of the same University of Cambridge He was a Nottinghamshire man born was Fellow of Trinity Coll afterwards Chaplain to Henry Earl of Pembroke Treasurer of Landaff and successively Bishop of Landaff Exeter and Worcester He published several Books of Div. which were all printed in one Volume in fol Lond. 1615 and go under the name of his Works He died in the year 1610 at which time he enriched the Library belonging to the Church at Worcester with many choice Books Brute Babington B. of A. of this University was incorporated the same day so also was William Cotton M. A. This person who was Son of John Cotton Citizen of Londâ—n third Son of Richard eight Son of John Cotton or Coton of Humpstable Ridware in Staffordshire was partly educated in Guildford School in Surrey afterwards in Queens Coll. in Cambridge and took the usual Degrees Some years after he became Archdeacon of Lewis Canon residentiary of S. Pauls Cath. Church and at length Bishop of Exeter He died at Silverton in Devon 26 August 1621 and was buried on the south side of the Choire or Presbytery of the Cath. Church at Exeter One William Cotton Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Oxon was admitted M. of A. in June 1577 but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I cannot tell This year also Sept. 1. Edward Stanhope Doct. of the Civ Law of Trinity Coll. in the said University did supplicate in a Convention called simile primum that he might be incorporated in the said Degree which tho granted simpliciter yet it appears not that he was incorporated He was afterwards a Knight Chancellour to the Bishop of London and Vicar General to the Archb. of Canterbury He paid his last debt to Nature on the sixteenth day of March an 1608 and was buried near to the great north door within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul in London He was Brother to John Lord Stanhope of Harrington An. Dom. 1579. An. 22 Elizab. An. 22 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Robert Earl of Leicester Vicechanc. Tobie Mathew D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. July 14. Proct. Will. Zouch of Ch. Ch. Isaac Vpton of Magd. Coll. Elected in Congregation 29 April Bach. of Arts. May 16. Robert Abbot of Ball. Coll. Afterwards a deep Divine and Bishop of Salisbury 19. John Philipps The same I think who was afterwards B. of the Isle of Man June 3. Robert Sackvile of Hart Hall See among the Masters following Oct. 16. Edwyn Sandys of C. C. William Tooker Roger Hacket of New Coll. 22. Edward Philipps of Broadgates Jan. 14. Henry Perry of Glocester Hall 26. John King of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of London Feb. 12. Thomas Hariot of S. Maries George Carleton of S. Edm. Hall The first of which two was afterwards an eminent Mathematician and the other a Divine and B. of Chichester 17. Isaac Colfe of Broadgates Hall March 9. Lawr. Hyde of Magd. Hall He was afterwards a Knight and Attorney to Queen Anno the Consort of King Jam. 1. Thomas Savile was admitted the same day See among the Masters an 1584. Admitted 128 or thereabouts Bach. of Law Eight were admitted of whom Gervase Carrington was one who in 1576 had been installed Prebendary of Worcester on the resignation of Arth. Dudley M. of A. Mast of Arts. June 3. Robert Sackvile of Hart. Hall He was now three years standing in the University and was in honour to his noble Race admitted Bach. and Master of Arts in one and the same Congregation On the 13 of July following he was Senior of the Act then celebrated and in 1608 succeeded his Father in the Earldom of Dorset July 6. George Peele of Ch. Ch. 9. Hen. Smith of Hart Hall See among the Masters in 1583. 10. John Bond of New Coll. Thomas Hethe or Heath of All 's Coll. was adm the same day Adm. 75. Bach. of Div. May 4. Hieronim Schlick Count of Passan or Passaun Lord in Weiskirden and Slackenward who had studied two years in the University of Prague and five in Lips where he professed Divinity and twice in one year elected Rector of the Univ. of Marpurg was then admitted to the reading of the Sentences or as 't was now call'd to the reading of any book of S. Pauls Epistles that is to the degree of Bach. of Divinity This the Members of the University did readily grant not only because he was an honorable person but also for that his Parents and Relations had suffered much in the Smalcaldic War for
He was a perfect hater of all indirect or fraudulent dealings being sincerely faithful to his Friends and well belov'd of all ranks and degrees of Men c. As for the two Physick Lectures which he gave to the University of Oxon I have largely mentioned elsewhere and upon what account they came to be settled in Merton Coll. and how the Readers whether Superior or Inferior are to read in the common Hall there to any of the University that will bestow the pains to be Auditors Those that have read the Superior Lecture who are called the Superior Readers and have received 12 l. per an for their pains have been these 1 Rob. Barons or Barnes Fellow of Mert. Coll. and a Learned Physician who was appointed after several others had read it by the nomination of the Feoffees of Tho. Lynacre by the Society of Merton Coll. with the consent of Cuhbert Tonstall the last surviving Feoffee an 1558. He the said Dr. Barnes died the 26. Oct. 1604. 2 Tho. Dotchen Med. D. of Magd. Coll. was elected by the Warden and Society of that of Merton Coll. 4. Nov. 1604. He died 29. Jan. following 3 Henry Bust M. D. of Magd. Coll. Elected 15. Feb. 1604. 4 Bartholomew Warner M. D. of St. Johns Coll. 12. Apr. 1617. Buried in Magd. Parish Church in the North Suburb of Oxon. 26. Jan. 1618. by the Body of Anne Dobson his sometimes Wife 5 Edw. Lapworth M. D. of Magd. Coll. originally of St. Albans Hall 9. Aug. 1619. He died at Bathe about the 23. May 1636. and was buried in the Church of St. Peter and Paul there having before resign'd this Lecture 6 John Bainbridge M. D. 25. May 1635. 7 Edw. Greaves M. D. of Allsouls Coll. 14. Nov. 1643. 8 Dan. Whistler M. D. of Merton Coll. 1. Aug. 1650. 9 Rich. Lydall M. A. of Mert. Coll. and Student in Phys 1. Aug. 1653. 10 Edm. Dickinson Med. D. of Mert. Coll. succeeded Dr. Lydall and after him hath been two or three or more THOMAS NIGHTINGALE who writes himself Philomelus was born in London and educated if I mistake not under Will. Lilye before he taught in Pauls School by whose endeavors he became excellent for the Latin Tongue and Poetry Afterwards being sent to this University he made proficiency in Logicals Philosophicals and the Civil Law Which last being the faculty he was noted for was admitted Bachelaur thereof in January 1515. Hence he retired to his Native place where for his wit and innocent mirth he was held in admiration by his contemporaries especially for the things he published as De obitu Johannis Colet Carmen In mortem Gulielmi Lilii Elegiae With other matters of the like nature which I have not yet seen He was in great esteem among Men in the sixteenth Year of King Hen. 8. but when he died I know not JOHAN de COLORIBUS by Birth an Outlander by Profession a Black Frier was a Reader of Divinity in this University several Years in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. and proceeded in Divinity 1517. Afterwards he became a favourite of Cardinal Wolsey by whose power he was appointed one of the learned Doctors of the University to write against Luther and in 1525. he was by him promoted to be a Member of his new erected Coll. at Oxon but in what capacity I know not He hath written Tract contra doctrinam M. Lutheri an 1521 with other things which I have not yet seen written when he was in great esteem among the Oxonians in Fifteen hundred twenty and five 17. of Hen. 8. and after WILLIAM de MELTON was a Yorkshire Man born as it seems had part of his Education among the Oxonians and at length being fam'd for his great knowledge in Philosophy Divinity and for his admirable way of Preaching became Chancellor of the Cathedral Church at York on the resignation of William Langton D. D. in the Month of January 1495 to which Office the Prebendary of Laghton in the said Church being annex'd he was admitted thereunto by the Name of Will. Multon 15. Jul. 1498. This Person whom some call Gul. Melitona report withal that he was Chancellor of Paris and by Order a Dominican but how true it is seeing that Baleus mentions no such thing I cannot yet discern His writings are Postilla in XII Prophetas MS. in the Library of the Dominicans at Bononia in Italy Comment in Epist ad Hebraeos MS. in the said Library the beginning of which is Narrabo nomen tuum c. Sermons in Evangelia Com. in Pentateuchum with other things mentioned by Baleus He concluded his last day in the latter end of the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and eight year 1528 and was buried either in the Cathedral Church at York or in the Church of Acklam in which Town he made his Will 20. Aug. 1528. whereupon his Chancellorship was bestowed on Hen. Trafford a Licentiat in Divinity in Feb. the same Year JOHN SKELTON the eminent Poet of his time was originally if not nearly descended from the Skeltons of Cumberland and having been educated in this University as Job Baleus attests who stiles him Oxonii Poeta laureatus became highly renowned among Men for his Poetry and Philology Afterwards taking holy Orders he was made Rector of Dysse in Norfolk where and in the Diocess he was esteemed more fit for the Stage than the Pew or Pulpit The Reader is now to know that one John Skelton was made Vicar of Dultyng in the Diocess of Bath and Wells an 1512 upon the promotion of Hugh Ynge to the See of Meath in Ireland where having continued some Years without a degree as some Chancellors Archdeacons nay Priors Abbats and Deans have so done in their respective times and places did retire to Oxon study there with leave from his Diocesan and in July 1518. 10. Hen. 8. was admitted to the extraordinary reading of any Book of the Decretals that is to the degree of Bach. of Decrees which some call the Canon Law The next Year I find him to be made Rector of Westquamtoked in the said Diocess by the Name and Title of John Skelton Bach. of Decrees and in 1525. Rector of Clotwortley there But this Joh. Skelton I cannot take to be the same with him that was the Poet and Rector of Dysse who having been guilty of certain crimes as most Poets are at least not agreeable to his coat fell under the heavy censure of Rich. Nykke Bishop of Norwich his Diocesan especially for his scoffs and ill language against the Monks and Dominicans in his Writings In which also reflecting on the actions of Cardinal Wolsey he was so closely pursued by his Officers that he was forced to take Sanctuary at Westminster where he was kindly entertained by John Islipp the Abbat and continued there to the time of his Death Erasmus in an Epistle to King Hen. 8. doth stile this Poet Britannicarum Literarum lumen decus and
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
acknowledgement of his Supremacy in this Realm would be in danger and in the 25. of the said King was judgment given on his behalf for taking place before the Lord Dcres of Gilsland His younger Years were adorned with all kind of superficial Learning especially with Drammatick Poetry and his elder with that which was divine and therefore worthily characterized to be vir liter is clarus ac genere nobilitate conspicus His writings have been Several Comedies and Tragedies Declaration of the Psalm 94. Deus ultionum Dominus Lond. 1539. oct Lives of Sectaries With other things which I have not yet seen He was living an Ancient Man and in esteem among the Nobility in the latter end of Henry 8. The Reader is now to know that there was another Hen. Parker who wrot a Book intit Dives pauper A compendious treatise an exposition upon the ten Commandments Lond. 1496. fol. There again in 1538 and 1586. oct Which Henry being a Carme of Doncaster in Yorkshire and D. of D. of Cambridge in the time of Ed. 4. must not be taken to be the same with the former EDWARD POWELL was born of British blood within the Principality of Wales educated in Grammaticals Logicals and Philosophicals in Oxon and was afterwards if I mistake not Fellow of Oriel Coll. for one of both his names occurs Fellow of that House in 1495. After he had taken the Degrees in Arts he gave himselfe solely up to Divinity and in that faculty he became a noted Disputant On the 2. of Nov. 1501. he was admitted to the rectory of Bledon in the of Wells on the death of Mr. Micb. Clyffe and afterwards took the Degrees in Divinity In 1508. he by the favour of Edm. Audley B. of Sarum was collated to the Prebendship of Bedmyster and Redclyve having a little before been admitted Preb. of Lyme and Halstock in the said Church This E. Powell was the Person who for his great learning and undaunted courage was entertained as an Advocate by Qu. Catherine when K. Hen. 8. sought cause for a divorce from her and the same who before had shewed himself very zealous in disputing and writing against M. Luther his Disciples and Doctrine for which the University of Oxon did not only congratulate him for his pains but also in an Epistle to the said Bishop Audley they thus honorably speak of him res ea Oxoniensium quorundam ingeniis discutienda permittitur inter quos eximius ille Edoardus Powell Theologiae condidatus tuae Sarisburiensis Ecclesiae ut vocant Canonicus connumeratus est Is enim ex quo res primum in Literarium certamen venit tam assiduus semper fuit tantum operae ac diligentiae impendit tam denique eruditè adversus eas hereses invectus est ut ex suis immensis laboribus vigilantissimisque studiis nostrae Academiae nonnihil attribui laudis facile auguramur c. Farther also when the University wrot to K. Hen. 8. to certifie him of certain Doctors of Divinity of their own Body that had lately written each of them a Book against M. Luther they make this especial mention of our Author Powell and his Book Editionem tamen Doctoris Poveli tanquam praecipuam lucidam quendam gemmam visum est nobis seligere is siquidem ut est vir summâ gravitate eruditione praeter immensos labores frequentiaque ejus itinera tantam in hâc re exhibuit vigilantiam ut nisi eum eximiâ efferemus laude videamur plane injurii aut potius inbumani Hanc suam editionem in duos potissimum digessit libellos quorum prior de summo extat pontifice Eucharistiaeque Sacramento Posterior de reliquis sex Sacramentis Hunc tuae celsitudini sic commendamus virum ut quamvis eum habeas perquam gratum habeas quaesumus nostrâ tamen commendatione gratiorem c. As for the title of the said Book it runs thus Propugnaculum summi sacerdotii Evangelici ac septenariâ— sacramentorum adversus Mart. Lutherum fratrem fumosum Wiclefistum insignem lib. 3. Lond. 1523. qu. Another Book of his making is intit Tract de non dissolvendo Henrici Regis cum Catherinâ matrimonio lib. 1. and other matters as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen At length for his denial of the King's Supremacy over the Church of England whereby he despleased him far more than before he pleas'd him by writing against Luther he was committed to Prison and having received sentence to dye was on the 30. July in Fifteen hundred and forty hang'd year 1542 drawn and quarter'd in Smithfield near London with Tho. Abel whom I am about to name and Rich. Fetherston guilty of the same crime This Dr. Edw. Powell bestowed at least 30 l. about the time when he was licensed to proceed for the making of a double roof with painting gilded knots and lead for the Congregation house house which is now the upper room in St. Maries Church-yard joining on the North side to the Chancel of St. Mariâ—â— Church 22. Hen. 7. Dom. 15 6 7. THOMAS ABEL or Able took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1516 but what Degrees in Divinity I cannot find He was afterwards a Servant to Qu. Catherine the Consort of K. Hen. 8. and is said by a certain Author to be vir longe doctissimus qui Reginae aliquando in Musicorum tacta inguis operam suam navaret In 1529. and 30 he shewed himself a zealous Advocate against the divorce of the said Queen and a passionate enemy against the unlawful doings of the King At which time he wrot Tract de non dissolvendo Henrici Catherinae matrimonio In 1534 he by the name of Tho. Able Priest was attainted of Misprision for taking part with and being active in the matter of Elizabeth Barton the holy Maid of Kent Afterwards denying the King's Supremacy over the Church was hang'd drawn and quarter'd in Smithfield year 1540 30. Jul. in Fifteen hundred and and forty having before as 't is thought written other things but lost I find another Tho. Able who hath written against the Gangraena of Tho. Edwards but he being a hundred Years later than the former for he lived in 1646. he must not be taken to be the same Person CHRISTOPHER SEINTGERMAN called by some Senyarmayn or Seyngerman Son of Sir Hen. Seintgerman Knight by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. Tindale Esq was born as I conceive in Warwickshire particularly at Shilton near to the City of Coventry in the Chappel or Church of which place his Father and Mother received Sepulture In his juvenile Years he was educated in Grammatical and Philosophical Learning among the Oxonians from whom by the advice of his Parents he was taken away and sent to the Inner Temple where by the benefit of his Academical Learning certain instructors in the municipal Laws and by his forward Genie and industry he became a
Guade a pious Priest and Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. This Preface with the Book it self all in the like Verse was published at Oxon. about 1584. in oct by George Etheridge a Physician sometimes Pupil to the said Joh. Shepery Vita Epicedion Johannis Claymondi Praesidis Coll. Corp. Chr. MS. in C. C. C. Library The beginning of which is Tristia quisquis ades c. written in long and short Verses He also translated from Greek into Latin several Books as Euripides his Hecuba and Seneca's Hercules furens something of Basil c. besides compositions in Poetry and Prose which after the Author's death came into the hands of George Etheridge before-mention'd who promised in the Year 1584. to make them publick but what hindred him unless death I know not As for our Author Sheperey he gave way to fate at Agmundesham commonly called Amersham in Bucks in the Month of July in fifteen hundred forty and two year 1542 and was buried I persume in the Church there Soon after his death being known in Oxon divers ingenious and learned Men made Verses to his memory in Greek and Latin and caused them to be stuck up on St. Mary's Church doors to be read by the Academians as they passed by Some Persons whether for the sake of his memory or for Poetry I know not got copies of them very greedily and gathered all they could get to the end that with the help of Etheridge they might be published At length being put into the hands of Herman Evans a Stationer for that purpose he kept them till he could get more to be added to them but what hindered their birth I know not WILLIAM THYNNE otherwise Botevill was as it seems a Solopian born and educated among the Oxonians for a time Afterwards retiring to the Court became through several petite employments chief Clerk of the Kitchin to K. Hen. 8. and is stiled by Erasmus Thynnus Aulicus This Person who was poetically given from his Youth did make a search after all the works of Jeffery Chaucer the Prince of our English Poets many of which were then in MS. At length having collected all the ancient Copies of that Author he took great pains to correct and amend them Which being so done he put notes and explanations on and printed them altogether in one Volume in Folio not in double columns as they have been since and dedicated them to K. Hen. 8. an 1542 having been partly and imperfectly done several Years before by Will. Caxton Afterwards Joh. Stow the Chronologer did correct increase and publish them with divers ample notes collected out of several records and monuments All which he delivering to his Friend Tho. Speght a Cantabrigian he drew them into good form and method mixed them with his own and published them 1597. See more in Franc. Thynne under the Year 1611 who was as it seems descended from him Whether this Will. Thynne whom I have mentioned before be the same with Will. Thynne Esq one of the Clerks of the Green-Cloth and master of the Houshold of K. Hen. 8. the same Will. Thynne I mean who died 10. Aug. 1546. and was buried in the Church of Allhallowes Barkin in London I am yet to learn I find another Will. Thynne Esq Brother to Sir John Thynne Knight who after he had travell'd through most parts of Europe return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman and in the 1. Edw. 6. Dom. 1547. went into Scotland under the command of Edward Duke of Somerset to which Duke his Brother Sir John was Secretary where as an Eques catafractus that is a Chevalier arm'd cap a pee he performed excellent service in the Battel at Muscelborough against the Scots This Person I take to be the same to whom K. Hen. 8. by his Letters Pat. dat 8. May 38. of his Reign Dom. 1546. gave the office of general Receiver of two Counties in the Marches of Wales commonly call'd The Earl of Marches Lands At length when the infirmities of Age came upon him he gave himself solely up to devotion and was a daily Auditor of divine service in the Abbey Church at Westminster He surrendred up his Soul to him that gave it 14. March 1584 and was buried in the said Church opposite to the door leading into the Cloister Over his Grave was soon after erected a Monument of Alabaster and 100 Years after was another stately Monument erected near to it Westward for one descended from Sir Joh. Thynne beformention'd namely for Tho. Thynne of Langleat in Wilts Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. who was barbarously murder'd in the Pall-mall by a German Sweed and Pole on Sunday in the Evening 12. Feb. 1681. For whom was a large inscription made to be engraved on the said Monument but for certain passages therein reflecting on Justice and I know not what was not suffer'd to be put thereon JOHN HOKER was first Demie or Semicommoner afterwards Fellow of St. Mary Magd. College and in 1535. Master of Arts being then accounted excellently well read in Greek and Latin Authors a good Rhetorician and Poet and much commended for his facete fancy Leland is pleased to mention him in one of his works and to stile him not without desert Nitor artium bonarum He hath written Piscator or the Fisher caught a Comedy An Introduction to Rhetorick Poema de vero crucifixo Epigrammata varia and other things which I have not yet seen He was living in Magd. Coll. in Fifteen hundred forty and three being then Bach. of Divinity of three Years standing as it appears in the Bursars accompts of that House I presume he died shortly after and not in 1541 as Bale and Pits do tell you EDWARD LEE Son of Rich. Lee of Lee-magna in Kent Esq Son of Sir Rich. Lee Knight sometimes twice Lord Mayor of the City of London was born in Kent particularly as I suppose at Lee before-mentioned sent to St. Mary Magd. Coll. about 1499 and took as 't is said one Degree in Arts but whether true I cannot justly affirm because the Register of that time and other writings are imperfect In the Year 1523 one Ed. Lee was admitted Bachelaur of Arts but him I take to be too late for this Edw. Lee whom we are further to mention Afterwards he went to Cambridge as one reports being probably driven hence by Pests that frequently then hap'ned in Oxon. Yet the Reader is to know that he is not reckoned among the Archbishops and Bishops which have been educated in that University by Dr. Matthew Parker in his Catalogue of them at the end of his Cat. of Chancellors Proctors c. thereof in his Edition of Antiquitates Britannicae c. Printed an 157 2-3 Howsoever it is I shall not dispute it only say that afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and his Almoner being then a violent Antagonist of Erasmus but whether greater in Learning than he or his equal was then
Academical learning either in St. Albans or Broadgates hall or both Thence he went to an Inn of Chancery in Holbourne near London called Thavies Inn where he studied and made sufficient progress in the common Law and thence as 't is probable to Lincolns Inn. Afterwards he applied his muse to the searching of Histories especially those belonging to his own Country wherein he became so curious and critical that he wrot and published A Dictionary in English and Welsh much necessary to all such Welshmen as will speedily learn the English tongue thought by the Kings Majesty very meet to be set forth to the use of his gracious Subjects in Wales Lond. 1547. qu. whereunto is prefixed A little treatise of the English pronunciation of the Letters From the said Dictionary and treatise Dr. Joh. Davies obtained many materials when he was making his Dictionarium Britannico-latinum A playne and familiar introduction teaching how to pronounce the Letters in the Brytish tongue now commonly called Welsh whereby an English Man shall not only with ease read the said tongue rightly but c. Lond. 1550. qu. Afterwards perused and augmented by the Author Lond. 1567. in 7. sh in qu. Battery of the Popes bottereulx commonly called the High Aultar Lond. 1550. in oct He also published The Laws of Howell Da and other things relating to his own Country which I have not yet seen He was living in the house of Humph. Toy a Bookseller in St. Pauls Ch. yard in London in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven which was part of the ninth and tenth years of Qu. Elizabeth being then esteemed a Person to be much meriting of the Church and British tongue but when he died I find not ARMIGELL WADE or Waad a Yorkshire Man born spent some years in Logick and Philosophie in St. Mary Magd. Coll. as it seems took a Degree in Arts 1531 went afterwards to one of the Inns of Court travelled into various Countries and after his return became Clerk of the counsel to K. Hen. 8. and afterwards to K. Ed. 6. He is charactariz'd thus Qui in maximarum artium disciplinis prudentiaque civili instructissimus plurimarum linguarum callentissimus legationibus honoratissimis perfunctus inter Britunnos Indiarum Americâ—rum explorator primus He made many observations in his travels especially in America being the first English Man that discovered it which are remitted into the Volums of voyages collected and published by another hand This Person who was a Justice of Peace for the County of Middlesex died at Belsie or Belsise in the Parish of Hampsted in the said County 20. June in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1568 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Hampsted Soon after was a fair Monument of Alabaster erected over his grave by Sir Will. Waad his eldest Son Clerk of the Counsel to Qu. Elizabeth WILLIAM TURNER a noted and forward Theologist and Physician of his time was born at Morpeth in Northumberland educated in Cambridge in Trivials and afterwards for a time in the study of Medicine This Person who was very conceited of his own worth hot headed a busie body and much addicted to the opinions of Luther would needs in the height of his study of Physick turn Theologist but always refused the usual ceremonies to be observed in order to his being made Priest And whether he had orders confer'd upon him according to the R. Cath. manner appears not Sure it is that while he was a young Man he went unsent for through many parts of the Nation and Preached the Word of God not only in Towns and Villages but also in Cities In his rambles he settled for a time in Oxon among several of his Countrymen that he found there purposely for the conversation of Men and Books which is one reason I put him here the other I shall tell you anon But whether he took a Degree in Arts or Medicine I cannot yet find At the same time and after following his old trade of preaching without a call he was imprison'd and kept in close durance for a considerable time At length being let loose and banished he travelled into Italy and at Ferrara he was made a Doctor of Physick and as much there in esteem for his faculty as after his return into England he was among the reformed party In the latter end of K. Hen. 8. he lived at Colen and other places in Germany where he published one or more Books and returning to his native Country when K. Ed. 6. reigned had not only the Prebendship of Botevant in the Church of York bestowed on him by the Archb. of that place but a Canonry of Windsore and the Deanery of Wells by the King About which time tho the day or month or scarce the Year appears he was incorporated Doctor of Physick with us which is another reason I put him here for if I could have found the certain time which appears not because the Register of that Kings Reign is imperfect I would have remitted him into the Fasti About that time he procured a licence to read and to preach as many Lay-men did that were Scholars practised his faculty among the Nobility and Gentry and became Physician to Edward Duke of Somerset L Protector of England After Q. Mary came to the Crown he left the Nation once more went into Germany with several English Theologists thence to Rome and afterwards for a time settled in Basil But when Qu. Eliz. succeeded he return'd and was restored to his Deanery and had other spiritualities I presume confer'd upon him being then a Person had in much esteem for his two faculties and for the great benefit he did by them especially in his writings to the Church and common-wealth The titles of those Books published under his name are these The hunting of the Romish Fox which more than 7 years hath been hid among the Bishops of England after that the Kings highness had commanded him Turner to be driven out of his Realm Basil 1543. oct Published under the name of Will Wraughton Avium praecipuarum quarum apud Plinium Aristotelem mentio est brevis succincta historia Colon. 1544. in tw Rescuing of the Romish Fox otherwise called the Examination of the hunter devised by Steph. Gardiner Doctor and defender of the Popes Canon Law and his ungodly Ceremonies Printed 1545. in oct published also under the name of W. Wraughton The hunting of the Romish Wolfe Printed beyond the Sea in oct Dialogue wherein is contained the examination of the Masse and of that kind of Priesthood which is ordained to say Mass and to offer up for the remission of sinne the body and blood of Christ againe Lond. in oct New Herball wherein are contained the names of herbs in Greek Lat. Engl. Dutch French and in the Apothecaries and Herbaries with the properties degrees and natural places of the same Lond. 1551. and 68. fol. It must be now noted that after this
violent and busie Person had got a license to read and preach it hapened that in a Lecture of his delivered at Thistleworth near to London he did therein inveigh much against the Poyson of Pelagius which had then infected the People very much in all parts of the Nation This Lecture of his being answered in print by one who was his auditor he staightway come out with a reply entit A Preservative or Triacle against the poyson of Pelagius lately renewed and stirred up again by the furious sect of the Anabaptists Lond. 1551. in tw which Book being dedicated to Hugh Latimer was usher'd into the world by several copies of Lat. and Eng. verses set before and at the end of it made by Nich. Grimoald of Merton Coll Tho. Norton of Sharpenhoe Randol Hurleston or Huddleston and Tho. Soame a Preacher Afterwards our Author Turner published A new Book of spiritual Physick for divers diseases of the Nobilitie and Gentlemen of England Said to be printed at Rome but false an 1555. oct by Marcus Antonius Constantius otherwise called Thraso miles gloriosus 'T is printed in an English Character and in the title are 4 Lat. verses directed by Turner ad nobilem Britannum The hunting of the Fox and the Wolfe because they did make havock of the Sheep of Jesus Christ printed in oct A Book of the natures and properties as well of the Bathes of England as of other Bathes in Germany and Italy Collen 1562. in a thin fol. and in an Eng. Char. Treatise of the Bath at Baeth in England Printed with the former Book Of the nature of all waters Printed with the former also The nature of wines commonly used here in England with a confutation of them that hold that Renish and other small Wines ought not to be drunken either of them that have the stone the rume or other diseases Lond. 1568. oct Of the nature and vertue of Triacle Printed with the next Book going before The rare treasure of English Bathes Lond. 1587. qu. Several things in this Book were published from his former Books of Bathes He also translated into English 1 A comparison between the old learning and the new Printed in Southwarke an 1538. originally written by Urb. Regius 2 The Palsgraves catechismi Lond. 1572. oct What else he hath written and translated you may see in Joh. Bale cent 8. nu 95. At length after all the rambles and troubles that our Author Turner had made and did endure he did quietly lay down his head and departed this life 7. year 1568 July in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight Whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Olaves in Hertstreet in London leaving then behind him several Children of whom Peter a Doctor of Physick was one Father to Samuel and Peter as I shall tell you elsewhere WILLIAM BARLOWE was bred a Canon Regular of the order of St. Austin in the Monastery of St. Osith in Essex and partly among those of his order in Oxon where besides a nursery for was an Abbey and Priory of that order and there obtained a competency in Theology of which faculty as 't is said he was a Doctor Afterwards he was made Prior of the Canons of his Order living at Bysham near Maydenhead in Berkshire and by that name and title he was sent in an Embassie to Scotland as I shall tell you elsewhere About the time of the dissolution of his Priory he was elected to the Episcopal See of St. Asaph the temporalities of which being delivered to him on the second day of Febr. 27. Hen. 8. Dom. 1535. he was consecrated to the said See 22. of the same Month. Thence he was translated to St. Davids in the Month of Apr. 1536. and thence to Bathe and Wells in 1547 being then a zealous Professor and Preacher of the reformed Religion In 1553 upon Qu. Maries coming to the Crown he was deprived of his Bishoprick for being married whereupon retiring with many others into Germany under pretence of Religion lived there in a poor and exile condition At length when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he was made Bishop of Chichester in Decemb. 1559 where he sate to the time of his death and in 1560 he was made the first Canon or Prebendary of the first stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster then founded by Qu. Elizabeth which Dignity he held with his Bishoprick five years His works are these A Dialogue describing the original ground of these Lutheran factions and many of their abuses Lond. 1553. in oct Printed in an English Char. Christian Homelies Cosmography which two last I have not yet seen He departed this mortal life in the Month of Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1568 and was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester After this William Barlowe had been a Prior and a Bishop he took to Wife one Agatha Wellesbourne by whom he had issue five Daughters that were all married to Bishops viz. 1 Anne who after she had buried her first Husband named Austin Bradbridge bridge of Chichester sometimes Fellow of New College married Harbert Westphaling Bishop of Hereford 2 Elizabeth Wife of Will. Day Dean of Windsore afterwards Bishop of Winchester 3 Margaret Wife of Will. Overton B. of Lichf and Cov. 4 Frances who after she had buried her first Husband named Matthew Parker a younger Son of Dr. Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury was married to Tobie Mathew who died Archb. of York 5 Antonia the Wife of Will. Wykeham Bishop of Winchester The said Will. Barlowe had also a Son of both his names whom I shall mention in his proper place JOHN MAN being the next according to time to be mentioned I must tell you that he was born in the Parish of Lacocke in Wiltshire elected from Winchester School Probationer of New Coll. in 1529. and was made perpetual Fellow two Years after In 1537 he proceeded in Arts was the Southern Proctor of the University three years after and in 1547 he was made Principal of Whitehall since involved into Jesus Coll. After Qu. Elizabeth was settled in the Throne he became Chaplain to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury who having a respect for did put him in Warden of Merton Coll. 1562. upon a dissent among the Fellows in an Election of one for that office as I have told you at large elsewhere In 1565 he was made Dean of Glocester in the place of Will. Jennings deceased who from being a Monk of that place was made the first Dean 1541. and in 1567. in the Month of Aug. he was sent by the Queen her Ambassador to the K. of Spain who the Year before had sent to our Queen his Ambassador called Goseman or Gooseman de Sylva Dean as 't was said of Toledo Of which Ambassadors Qu. Eliz. used merrily to say that as her Brother the K. of Spain had sent to her a Goos-man so she had sent to him a Man goose
favour with Dr. Bonner Bishop of London and with Gardiner B. of Winton became Chancellour to the last and of noted repute during the Reign of Qu. Mary who had so great a respect for him and his abilities that she commissionated him with Dr. Storie to go to Oxon to trie and examine Archb. Cranmer He published A treatise proving that the marriage of Priests and professed Persons is no marriage but altogether unlawful Lond. 1554. qu. Whereupon Joh. Ponet or Poynet Bishop of Winton came out with an answer thus entit An apology fully answering by Scriptures and antient Doctors a blasphemous book gathered by Dr. Steph. Gardiner Dr. Rich. Smyth Albertus Pighius and other Papists as by their books appears and of late set forth under the name of Tho. Martyn Doct. of the Civ Law c. Printed beyond the Sea an 1555-56 in oct In which book fol. 9. Ponet saith thus Thy book hath betrayed thee Martyn for thy fondness was not known before it came abroad but assoon as that shewed it self in Mens hands they might easily perceive that in playing the Christmas Lords minion in New Coll. in Oxon in thy fools coat thou didst learn thy boldness and began to put off all shame and to put on all impudence By the aforesaid title we are given to understand as if B. Gardiner Dr. Smyth c. were Authors of or at least had considerable hands in it with whom agrees Baleus before-mention'd who stiles Martyn Winchesters voice but whether true I cannot say it The book hath been commended by many learned Persons and no doubt but he had helps in it but whether by any of the former is doubtful About the same time came out another answer entit A defence of Priests marriages establyshed by the imperial laws of the Realm of England c. printed in qu. To which tho no name is set to it yet it is said to be written by Dr. Mathew Parker who was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury The same year Tho. Martyn put out A confutation of Dr. Joh. Poyners book entit A defence for the marriage of Priests c. Lond. 1555 qu He hath also extant Oration to Dr. Cranmer Archbishop 12 March 1555. The beginning of which is Albeit there are two governments c. Discourse between him and Archbishop Cranmer concerning conscience and matters of Religion The beginning is Mr. Cranmer you have told here a long glorious tale c. Which oration and discourse you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Ch. by Jo. Fox under the Year 1555 besides Examinations and Conferences under the Year 1556. Vita Gul. Wicami Wintoniensis Episc Lond. 1597 Ox 1690 in a large qu. Printed after the death of the Author who took much of his matter from the life of the said Bishop written by Tho. Chaundler sometimes Warden of New Coll. There is a copy of this book in the Library of the said Coll. and in a leaf before the title are curiously delineated with a Pen the effigies of the said W. Wykeham setting in a chaire On the right hand is Chichley founder of All 's and on the left Waynfleet of Magdalen College both holding the pictures of their respective Colleges in their hands and presenting them as 't were to the founder of New Coll. they having had their education therein As for our Author Th. Martyn he concluded his last day in Fifteen hundred eighty and four year 1584 for in that year several books of his gift or bequest were sent to New Coll. Library to be there reposed for the use of the Fellows thereof In my former searches among records I found one Joan the relict of Tho. Martin lately of Isfield in Sussex to have received a commission from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury dated 26. June 1584 to administer the goods debts chattels c. of the said Th. Martin lately deceased but without the addition of Doctor of Civil Law or of that of Gent. or Esq However he may be the same with the Doctor because as I have observed many whose names have been odious among some or have retired in private because of their Religion their names in wills or administration are barely written without addition of a title or town sometimes only in general of the County EDMUND PLOWDEN Son of Humph. Plowden by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Joh. Sturey of Rosshall in Shropshire was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Plowden in the said County spent 3 years in the study of Arts Philosophy and Medicine at Cambridge and afterwards as I conceive was entred into the Inns of Court Soon after coming to Oxon he spent 4 years more in the same studies there and in Nov. an 1552 he was admitted to practice Chirurgery and Physick by the Ven. Convoc of the said University But as about that time Dr. Tho. Phaer did change his studies from common Law to Physick so did our Author Plowden from Physick to the common Law being then about 35 years of age In 1557 he became Autumn or Summer reader of the Middle Temple and three years after Lent reader being then a Serjeant at and accounted the Oracle of the Law He hath written in old French The Commentaries or Reports of divers cases being matters in Law and of arguments thereupon in the times of the Reigns of K. Ed. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth In two parts Lond. 1571. 78. 99. c. fol. To which was a table made by Will. Fleetwood Recorder of Lond. They are esteemed exquisite and elaborate commentaries and are of high account with all professours of the Law Afterwards they were abridged in the French tongue Lond. 1659. oct and several times before translated by Fabian Hicks Esq and printed also in oct There goes also under our Author Plowdens name Plowdens Queries or a moot-book of choice cases useful for the young Students of the common Law This was several times printed and afterwards translated from French into English methodised and enlarged by H. B. of Lincolns Inn Esq Lond. 1662. oct At length as this famous Lawyer Plowden mostly lived a R. Cath. in his heart so he dyed in that faith on the sixth day of Feb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and four and was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples between the body of Catherine his Wife Dau. of Will. Sheldon of Beoly in Worcestershire Esque and the North wall near the East end of the choire leaving then this character behind him which shall serve instead of his Epitaph notwithstanding there is one already over his grave that ut in juris Anglicani scientia de qua scriptis bene meruit facile princeps ita vitae integritate inter homines suae professionis nulli secundus He left behind him a fair estate in lands lying at Plowden before-mention'd at Shiplake in Oxfordshire and at Burfield in Berks as also a Son of both his names to enjoy it who dying in less than
treatise of predestination Lond. 1581. oct De Christo gratis justificante contra Jesuitus Lond. 1583. oct Disputatio contra Jesuitas eorum argumenta quibus inhaerenâ—â—n justitiam ex Aristotile confirmant Rupell 1585. oct Eicasmi seu meditationâ—s in Apocal. S. Johannis Apostoli Evangelistae Lond. 1587. fol. Genev. 1596. oct Papa consutatus vel sacra Apostolica Ecclesia papam confutans Translated into English by James Bell a great admirer of Joh. Fox pr. at Lond. in qu. Brief exhortation fruitful and meet to be read in the time of Gods visitation where Ministers do lack or otherwise cannot be present to comfort them Lond. in oct He translated also from English into Latin Concio funebris in obitum Augustae memoriae Ferdinandi Caesaris recens defuncti in Eccles Cath. S. Pauli habitae 3. Oct. 1564. Also from Latin into English 1 A Sermon of Joh. Oecolampadius to young Men and Maidens Lond. in tw 2 An instruction of Christian Faith how to lay hold upon the promise of God and not to doubt of our salvation Or otherwise thus Necessary instructions of faith and hope for Christians to hold fast and not to doubt c. Lond. 1579. sec edit in oct Written by Urbanus Regius He finished also and compleated An answer Apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective Lond. 1577 and 1581. qu. began in Latin by Walt. Haddon LL D. and published The four Evangelists in the old Saxon tongue with the English thereunto adjoyned Lond. 1571. qu. What else he wrot and translated you may see in Baleus but the reader is to understand that several of those books that he mentions were never printed At length after our Author had spent 70 years or more in this vain and transitory world he yielded to nature on the 18. Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate before-mention'd year 1587 Over his grave is set up an inscription to his memory on the South wall a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq Univ. Oxon. lib. 2 p. 195. but not one word of him which is a wonder to me is mention'd in the Annalls of Q. Elizab. written by Will. Camden or by any Epigrammatist of his time only Joh. Parkhurst who was his acquaintance in this University He left behind him a Son named Samuel born in the City of Norwych made Demie of Magd. Coll. 1576. aged 15 afterwards Fellow of that House and Master of Arts who about 1610 wrot The life of his Father Joh. Fox which is set in Latin and English before the second Volume of Acts and Monuments printed at Lond. 1641. I find one Joh. Fox to be Author of Time and the end of time in 2 discourses printed at Lond. in 12 o but that Joh. Fox was later in time than the former While Joh. Fox the Martyriologist was Prebendary of Sarum he settled the Corps belonging thereunto which is the impropriation of Shipton Underwood near Burford in Oxfordshire on his Son whose Grand-daughter named Anne Heir to her Father Tho. Fox was married to Sir Ric. Willis of Ditton in Essex Knight and Baronet sometimes Colonel-general of the Counties of Linc. Nott. and Rutland and Governour of the Town and Castle of Newark who or at least his Son Tho. Fox Willis enjoyeth it to this day an 1690. JOHN FIELD was a noted Scholar of his time in this University but in what house he studied I cannot yet tell One of both his names was admitted Fellow of Lincoln Coll. in the Year 1555 but took no Degree if the register saith right Another took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1564 and that of Master three years after And a third Jo. Field took the Degree of Bach. of Arts only in 1570. Which of these three was afterwards John Field the famous Preacher and Minister of St. Giles Cripplegate in London who saith in one of his books which I shall anon mention that he was educated in Oxon I cannot justly say unless it be he that was Mast of Arts. The works of that Joh. Field who saith that he was of the Univ. of Oxon are these Prayers and meditations for the use of private families and sundry other Persons according to their divers states and occasions Lond. 1581. 85. 1601. c. in tw Caveat for Persons Howlet and the rest of the dark brood Lond. 1581. oct Exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles Lond. 1581. oct Godly Exhortation by occasion of a late judgment of God shewed at Paris garden 13. Januar. 1583. upon divers Persons whereof some were killed and many hurt at a Beare-baiting c. Lond. 1583. oct Printed there again 1588 with this title A declaration of the Judgment of God shewed at Paris garden c. The said Jo. Field also hath translated into English 1 A treatise of Christian righteousness Lond. 1577. oct Written in French by Mr. J. de L'espine 2 Notable treatise of the Church in which are handled all the principal questions that have been moved in our time concerning that matter Lond. 1579. oct Written in French by Phil. de Mornay 3 Sermons on Jacob and Esau on Gen. 25. ver 12. to the 38. verse of 27. of Gen. Lond. 1579. qu. Written by Joh. Calvin 4 Four Sermons entreating of matters very profitable for our time the first of which is on Psal 16. 3. With a brief exposition of the 87 Psalm Lond. 1579. qu. Written in French by John Calvin 5 Second part of questions which is concerning the Sacraments Lond. 1580. Written by Theod. Beza 6 Com. on the Creed Lond. 1582. oct Written by Gasp Olevian 7 Prayers used at the end of the readings upon the Prophet Hosea Lond 1583. in 16. Which prayers were made and written by J. Calvin 8 Christian Meditations on the 6. 25 and 32 Psalmes Lond. in 16o. written by P. Pilesson c. besides other things which I have not yet seen At length our Author Field dying about his middle age in the latter end of the year after the 16. year 1586 Febr. Fifteen hundred eighty and seven was buried in the Church of St. Giles before mention'd leaving behind him several Children of which the eldest was named Theophilus Field educated in Cambridge afterwards Chaplain to King James the first Bishop of Landaff and at length of Hereford as I shall more at large tell you elsewhere WILLIAM HARRISON was a Londoner born educated in Grammar learning at Westminster under Mr. Alex. Nowell in the latter end of King Hen. 8. or beginning of King Edw. 6. sent to Oxon to obtain Academical learning but to what house therein unless Ch. Ch. I cannot justly tell From Oxon he went to Cambridge and making some stay there became at length domestick Chaplain to Sir Will. Brook Knight Lord Warden of the Cinque ports and Baron of Cobham in Kent who if I mistake not preferr'd him to a benefice He hath written
Scotland thrice to John Basilides Emperor of Russia once to Charles the 9. of France and again to Hen. 3. The Queen of England who knighted him rewarded these his services with the Chamberlaines office in the Exchecquer heretofore a place of great honour and worth the Mastership or office of Comptroller general of the Post horses and with some small Land He hath written An account of his Embassage to the Emperor of Russia an 1568. Remitted into the first vol. of Rich. Hakeluyts voyages Lond. 1598. He then in 1568 procured privileges from the Emperor of Russia for the English Merchants trafficking there Instructions given to and notes to be observed by James Bassendine Jam. Woodcock and Rich. Browne for the searching of the Sea and border of the coast from the river Pechora to the Eastwards an 1588. There was then a commission granted to Sir Thom. Randolphe for the searching of those parts but he entrusted the matter with the 3 Persons before-mention'd See more in the said vol. of voyages by R. Hakeluyt At length after Sir Thomas had painfully spent his time in sundry and frequent Embassies and in continual services of his Prince and Country at home and abroad he quietly surrendred up his last breath in his house at St. Peters hill near to Pauls Wharf in London year 1590 on the 8. of June in Fifteen hundred and ninety aged 67 leaving then behind him several Children that he had by two Wives whereupon his body accompanied by one or two Heralds of armes was buried 6. July following in the Church of St. Peter near to the said Wharf Besides this Tho. Randolphe a Statesman hath been another of both his names of a later date and a most celebrated Poet of his time of whom by the way I desire the reader to know these matters following viz. that he was born at Newnham near to Daintry in Northamptonshire 15 June 1605 Son of Will. Rondolphe of Hams near to Lewis in Sussex Steward to Edw. Lord Zouch by Elizabeth his Wife Dau. of Tho. Smith of Newnham before mentioned educated in Westminster School and went thence being one of the Kings Scholars to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge 1623. of which he became Fellow Afterwards he commenced Master of Arts in which Degree he was incorporated at Oxon became famous for his ingenuity an adopted Son of Benj. Johnson and accounted one of the most pregnant wits of his age the quickness of which was first discovered when he was about 9 or 10 years old when then he wrot the History of the incarnation of our Saviour in verse which is at this day preserved in MS. under his own hand writing When he arrived to Mans Estate and perhaps before he wrot 1 Poems 2 The Muses Looking-glass a Comedy 3 Amyntas or the impossible dowry a Pastoral 4 Aristippus or the jovial Philosopher c. Trag. presented in a private shew 5 The conceited Pedler presented in a strange shew Lond. 1630. qu. 6 Jealous Lovers Tr. Com. 7 Hey for honesty down with knavery Com. Translated out of Aristophanes his Plutus Augmented and published by F. J. Lond. 1651. qu. All which except the last were gathered together and printed in one vol. by the care of his Brother Rob. Randolphe Student of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. being then commended to the world by divers Poets of the said University Several other things of the like nature were expected from the said young Poet Th. Randolphe but by indulging himself too much with the liberal conversation of his admirers a thing incident to Poets brought him untimely to his end in the House of Will. Stafford of Blatherwyke in Northamptonshire Esq having spent some time in that of his Father at Little Houghton in the said County in his delightful studies Whereupon his body being buried in an Isle joyning to the Church at that place among those of the Staffords on the 17 day of March an 1634 had soon after a Monument of white Marble wreathed about with laurel erected over his grave at the charge of Sir Christopher afterwards Lord Hatton of Kirby The inscription on which in Lat. and Engl. ver was made by the Poets Friend Pet. Hausted of Cambridge DAVID POWELL a learned searcher into the bowels of venerable antiquity and the most skilful Person in British histories that his time produced was born in Denbighshire entred a Member of this University in 1566 or thereabouts but in what Coll. or Hall resident I know not Sure 't is that as soon as Jesus Coll. was founded 1571 he translated himself thereunto took the Degrees in Arts as a Member thereof holy Orders and at length was made Vicar of Ruabon in his own Country About that time he had confer'd on him a Dignity in one of the Cathed in Wales St. Asaph I think grew famous for his learning and soon after took the Degrees in Divinity His works are Annotationes in itinerarium Cambriae scriptum per Silv. Giraldum Cambrensem Lond. 1585. oct Franc. 1603. Annot. in Cambr. descriptionem script per Silv. Giraldum De Britannica historia rectè intelligenda Epistola ad Gul Fleetwoodum civit Lond. Recordatorem Which two last books are printed with his Annotationes in Itin. Cambr. He also took a great deal of pains in making a Welsh Dictionary but died before he could perfect it corrected also and published Historia Britannica written by Ponticus Virunnius in 6 books Lond. 1585. oct And amended and augmented The History of Combria now called Wales which was translated into English by Humph. Lhoyd Gent. Lond. 1584. qu. This History of Cambria was originally written in Latin by Caradoc a Monk of Lancarvan and by him continued till the Year 1156. Afterwards being yearly augmented by several hands was as I have told you translated into English by H. Lhoyd as you may see under the Year 1570 but he dying before he could come near to the end of it 't was finished by our Author D. Powell and by him published What else he hath transmitted to posterity I find not nor any thing more of him only that he was buried in his Church of Ruabon as the Antients there say tho the register not because 't is imperfect about Fifteen hundred and ninety year 1590 and that his Son Sam. Powell succeeded him in the Vicaridge of that Village They add also that he had left behind him several things sit to be printed but what became of them after his death they could not tell The next that 〈…〉 is one who was accounted an eminent Scholar of his time as by the generality of writers is confess'd DANIEL ROGERS a most accomplished Gent. of his time who puts in some of his writings the addition of Albimontanus to his name was the Son of John Rogers by his Wife Adriana Pratt alias de Weyden Son of Joh. Rogers of Derytend in the Parish of Aston in Warwickshire was by his Fathers care strictly educated in juvenile learning but at the coming to the Crown of
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
other things A little before that time an University being erected at Doway he hastned thither at the desire of Dr. Will. Allen and for a time performed the Office of Catechist Reader at Anchine near to that place Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity as Bachelaur Licentiat and Doctor under Matthew Gallen Provost of the Church of St. Amoure and Chancellor of the University at Doway had a Canonry bestowed on him in the said Church by Gallen and was made the King's Professor of Divinity of the said University Afterwards being minded to put himself into a Religious Order he renounced his Canonry and Professorship and entred into the Society of Jesus at Doway But after a long and diligent probation finding that Order not to agree with his genie and course of Life he left it and returned to his former way of teaching to the great joy of many and became a Canon once more of the said Church of St. Amoure At length being called to Lovain he was made the King's Professor of Divinity and wrote there several matters against Dr. W. Whittaker of Cambridge so that his Fame in short time being over all those parts and he in great esteem with the King of Spain had the Deanry of the Church of Hilverbeck in Kampenland in Brabant bestowed on him little enough God wot for such a rare and most learned Clerk as he was In all kind of literature he obtained such perfection that he was numbred among the most learned men of that age And it was generally thought that he deserved a Cardinals cap before Allen but so it was that his ability being ecclipsed by the activity of the other he did not rise higher than a Dean Pope Clement 8. was so much delighted with his learned Works that he commanded them to be read dayly at times of his refection and invited him to Rome with a design to conser on him the place of Apostolical Protonotary and as some say to make him a Cardinal Cardinal Perron also who was very knowing in the controversies of his time was wont to postpone all Writers of controversies in comparison of those of Stapleton which he took to be the best of his time and before To pass by all commendations given of him by men of his persuasion I shall conclude with those of his Antagonist Whittaker who saith Stapletonus hanc cansum de traditionibus omnium acutissimè ac accuratissimè tractavit c. And elsewhere speaking of the opinion as well of Papists as Protestants in divers matters saith modestly that he Whittaker differed as much from Stapleton in many things as to knowledge as Troilus from Achilles He hath written and translated many things most of which were printed in four large volumes in fol. at Paris 1620. The Titles of them are these De principiis fidei doctrinalibus lib. 12. Par. 1579. and 82. c. Defensio successionis Ecclesiasticae lib. 1. Relectio principiorum fidei doctrinalium Antw. 1592. Defensio anthoritatis Ecclesiasticae contra Gul. Whittakerum Anglo-Calvinistam Triplicatio pro Ecclesiae authotitate adversus eundem Whittakerum These five Treatises before-mentioned are printed in the first vol. of his Works De universae justificationis doctrinà hodie controvers lib. 12. Speculum pravitatis haeriticae per orationes quasi ad oculus demonstratae Duac 1580. Orationes funebres Antw. 1577. Orationes Academicae Miscellaneae Some of which were published 1602. Orationes Catecheticae sive manuale peccatorum de septem peccatis capitalibus Antw. 1598. De magnitudine Romanae Ecclesiae lib. 2. Antw. 1599. qu. Fortress of Faith first planted amongst us Englishmen c. Antw. 1565. qu. Which learned Treatise the author wrote upon occasion of his translating of Bede's Ch. History into English wherein he endeavours to shew that the same Faith was professed in the primitive times as in his When the learned Vsher of Ireland was Bach. of Arts he read over this book several times and mistrusting the quotations of ancient authors therein did put him upon reading the Fathers The horn-blast or a reply to the answer of Rob. Horne the false B. of Winchester In 4 Books Lov. 1567. Discourse of Protestancy and the first authors of it These 9 Treatises immediately going before are in the second vol. of his Works Antw. 1595. Antidota Evangelica in Mathaeum In Marcum In Lucam In Johan Antidota Apostolica in Act. Apost Tom. 1. Antw. 1595. In Epist Pauli ad Romanos Tom. 2. Ibid. 1595. In duas Epistolas ad Corinthios Tom. 3. Ib. 1598. 1600. These before-going are in the third vol. of his Works Antw. 1521. Venet. 1594. Promptuarium in Evangelia Dominicalia pars Hymalis Promptuarium in Evangelia Dominicalia pars Aestualis Prompt Catholicum in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni Col. 1592. c. 1602. pars Hymalis Prompt Catholicum in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni Col. 1592. c. 1602. pars Aestualis Prompt Cath. super Evang. ferialia totius Quadrages Prompt Cath. sup Evang in festis SS totius anni Tres Thomae seu res gestae S. Thomae Apost S. Tho. Archiep. Cant. Tho. Mori Angliae Cancellarii Duac 1588. c. These five last are in the fourth vol. of his Works De justificatione Par. 1582. Return of untruths against Mr. Jewel Antw. 1566. He also translated from Lat. into English The History of the Church of England Antw. 1565. qu. written by Ven. Bede Which translation with some notes added in the margin by Stapleton is censured by the learned Selden as not altogether true He translated also Fred. Staphyles large vol. De desidiis Haereticorum Antw. 1565. but this I have not yet seen At length after our author Stapleton had arrived to the sixty third year of his age did end his days at Lovain to the great grief of all learned Catholicks on the 12. Oct. according to the accompt there followed in fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 and was buried in the Church of St. Peter there Soon after was put over his grave a monument with a large inscription thereon containing in brief the succession of his Employments in the Universities and Church here and beyond the Seas a copy of which you may see elsewhere The next according to time that is to crave a place among these Writers was a learned Sage of the Law THOMAS OWEN Son of Rich. Owen Gent. by Mary his Wife one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Tho. Oteley of Shropshire Esq was born at or near to Condover in that county and for some time was conversant among the Muses either in Broadgates hall or in Ch. Church From thence having first taken a degree in Arts as it seems he retired to Lincoln's Inn where by his unwearied industry advanced by a good natural genie and judgment he became a noted Councellour and much resorted to for his advice In 25. Elizab. dom 1583. he was elected Lent-Reader of that house in 1590. he was by
Government he was hang'd at Tyburn near London 30. March in sixteen hundred and one year 1601 So that his body being afterwards buried obscurely without a Memorial or Epitaph be pleased to take this for him made by one that knew him well Doctus eras Graecè felixque tibi fuit Alpha At fuit infelix Omega Cuffe tuum The execution of which person and his unhappy end is brought in by a certain author as a very proper and sutable instance to verifie the great reasonableness of one of his advices to his Son thus Mingle not your interest with a great Man's made desperate by debt or Court-injuries whose breaking out prove fatal to their wisest followers and friends averred in the last Earl of Essex but one where Merick his Steward and Cuff his Secretary tho of excellent parts were both hanged For such unconcocted Rebellions turn seldom to the hurt of any but the parties that promote them being commonly guided by the directions of their Enemies as this was by Cecil whose creatures persuaded Essex to this inconsiderate attempt c. that is to seize the Queen and change the Government Thus far Francis Osborn here quoted of whom and his Works the Reader may please by the way if not too tedious to know these things That he was younger Brother to Sir Pet. Osborn and both the Sons of Sir John Osborn of Chicksand near Shefford in Bedfordshire which Sir John and his Father did both enjoy a quiet happy and plentiful Fortune under Q. Elizabeth That he was bred mostly at home not so much as in a Free School or University being altogether void of such kind of Faculties that Universities afford At ripe years he frequented the Court became a Servant in the Pembrochian Family and at length Master of the Horse to that most Noble Count William Earl of Pembroke In 1641. he ran with the times having been Puritannically educated had publick employments then and under Oliver conferr'd upon him and in his last days lived in Oxon purposely to Print certain books of his compostion that then laid by him and to have an eye on his Son John whom he got by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors to be Fellow of Allsouls coll 1648. Those things of his which I have seen extant are these 1 A seasonable expostulation with the Netherlands declaring their ingratitude to and the necessity with their agreement with the Commonwealth of England Ox. 1652. qu. in two sh and half 2 Perswasive to mutual compliance under the present Government Ox. 1652. qu. in two sh 3 Plea for a Free State compared with Monarchy Printed with the former in 4 sh qu. 4 The private Christians non ultra or a plea for the Lay-man's interpreting the Scriptures Ox. 1656. in 3 sh and half in qu. There is no name to it only strongly reported to be Fr. Osborn's 5 Advice to a Son in two parts The first was printed at Ox. in oct an 1656. and within 2 years after were five more impressions of it The second part was printed at Ox. 1658. oct but being not so well liked as the first I cannot justly say whether it had a second impression Both especially the first being greedily bought up and admired in Oxon especially by young Scholars it was then noted among the Godly Ministers that they did instill principles of Atheism into them Whereupon a publick complaint being put up against the said books to the then Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. Conant there was a proposal made to have them publickly burnt But it taking no effect it was ordered 27. July 1658. that no booksellers or any other persons should sell the books which afterwards made them sell the better 6 Political reflections upon the Government of the Turks to which are added in the same book or vol. A discourse upon Nich. Machiavell Observations upon the K. of Sweden's descent into Germany Discourse upon Piso and Vindex who both conspired the death of Nero. The greatness and corruption of the Court of Rome Discourse upon the election of P. Leo XI Political occasions of the defection from the Church of Rome Discourse in vindication of Mart. Luther All these were printed at Ox. in oct at least 3 times 7 Traditional Memoires on the Reign of Q. Eliz. Lond. 1658. oct 8 Trad. Mem. on the Reign of K. James Lond. 1658. oct 9 Miscellany of sundry Essays Paradoxes and Problematical Discourses Letters and Characters Lond. 1659. oct 10 Deductions from the History of the Earl of Essex who was executed for Treason under the Reign of Q. Eliz. Lond. 1659. oct These are all that I have seen and whether he hath any others published I cannot say After his death appeared in publick a book intit A modest plea for an equal Commonwealth against Monarchy c. with other things added to it as An Apology for younger Brothers and A lift at Tythes All printed twice in 1659. in qu. and oct These three Treatises tho they were published by another person as his yet some Scholars more envious than prudent did not stick to say that the publisher found them among the papers of Fr. Osborn with whom he had intimate acquaintance after his death and disguising the Language or making some alterations in published them as his own However all that knew him well and were intimate with him as the writer of these matters was knew him able to write such a book as that was As for Fr. Osborn he died at Nether-worton near to Dedington in Oxfordshire in the house of Will. Draper Esq an Oliverian Colonel whose Sister he had married on the eleventh of Feb. 1658-9 aged 70. or thereabouts and was buried in the Church there Over his Grave is a Monument with an inscription but the contents I know not yet RICHARD LATEWAR a Londoner born educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of St. Johns coll 1580. and eight years after M. of Arts and a noted Preacher In 1593. he was elected one of the Proctors of the University being about that time Rector of Hopton in Suffolk Afterwards he became Rector of Finchley in Middlesex D. of D. and at length Chaplain to the illustrious Heroe Charles Lord Mountjoy Lieutenant of Ireland He was a most ingenious Latin Poet as his Epigrams and copies of Verses occasionally printed in books published in his life-time do shew He composed Carmen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coll. S. John Bapt. Which was restored and augmented by Rich. Andrews M. D. and Fellow of the said coll Conc. Lat. ad Academicos Oxon. 1594. It was Preached when he was admitted Bac. of Div. but upon what subject or when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it What other things of his are published I cannot find neither is there any need to be said more of him than what the learned Camden hath delivered of the overthrow of the Rebels in Ireland near to Carlingford given by the L. Mountjoy before-mentioned thus On
the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law conferr'd on him elsewhere but at what place or by whom I cannot yet find He hath written Christian Ethicks or Moral Philosophy containing the difference or opposition of vertue and voluptuousness Lond. 1587. oct An historical collection of the continued Factions Tumults and Massacres of the Romanes and Italians during the space of 120 years before the peaceable Empire of Augustus Caesar c. Lond. 1600. oct and 1601. in qu. A parallel or conference of the Civil Law the Canon Law and the Common Law of this Realm wherein the agreement and disagreement of these three Laws and the causes and reasons of the said agreement are opened and discussed in sundry Dialogues Lond. 1602. qu. in 2 parts But this book lying dead on the Booksellers hands he put a new Title to the first part as if the whole had been reprinted at London 1618. but to the second not leaving the old Title bearing date 1602. The Pandects of the Laws of Nations or the discourses of the Matters in Law wherein the Nations of the World do agree Lond. 1602. qu. What else he hath written I know not nor when or where he died One Henry Fulbeck related to the said William hath published A direction or preparation to the study of the Civil Law wherein is shewed what things ought to be observed and what ought to be eschewed and avoided Printed at Lond. in oct much about the time that the former was SAMPSON ERDESWICKE Son of Hugh Erdeswicke Esq was born at Sandon in Staffordshire studied in the condition of a Gent. Com. in Brasnose coll in 1553 and 54. 1. and 2. of Q. Mary where he laid the foundation of some learning that advanced him to greater in future times Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony at Sandon where applying his Muse to that kind of learning which his genie led him to became at length a Gentleman well accomplished with many vertuous qualities He was very well vers'd in Histories but more in Antiquities especially in those of his own County and therefore stiled by the learned Camden A very great Lover and diligent Searcher of venerable Antiquity adding that in this regard he is no less worthy of remembrance than for that he is directly in the Male-line descended from Sir Hugh Vernon Baron of Shipbrook the name being changed by the use of that age according to sundry habitations first into Holgrave and afterwards into Erdeswicke At length for the tender respect he had to his Native Country and desiring much the honour of it wrote A short view of Staffordshire containing the Antiquities of the same County MS. The beginning of which is Sir having disposed with my self to take a farther view of the Shires of Staffordshire and Chester c. It was began about the year 1593. and continued by him to his death from ancient Evidences and Records with brevity clearness and truth The original of this or at least a copy is in the hands of Walt. Chetwind of Ingestre in Staffordshire Esq who is and hath been several years in the collecting of the Antiquities of that County Collections of Genealogies Monuments Arms c. MSS. Some of which are in the hands of the said W. Chetwind and elsewhere and have been used by divers Antiquaries It is said also that 'our author Erdeswicke wrote a book intit The true use of Armory published under the name of Will. Wyrley an 1592. as I shall more at large tell you hereafter but let that report remain with its author while I tell you that Erdeswicke submitted to the stroke of death on the eleventh of Apr. year 1603 in sixteen hundred and three and was buried under a goodly Monument of Free-stone with his proportion thereon erected by himself in his life-time in the Church of Sandon before-mentioned Which Church was a little before new glazed and repaired by him See more of him in William Wyrley among these Writers under the year 1617. THOMAS D'OYLIE descended from a right ancient Family of his name living or Oxfordshire was born in that County elected Probationer-Fellow of Magd coll an 1563. and after he had taken the Magisterial degree entred on the Physick line travelled and became Doctor of his Faculty in the University of Basil Afterwards setling in London he became one of the College of Physicians and much frequented for his successful Practice in his Faculty He had a chief hand in a book intit Bibliotheca Hispanica containing a Grammer with a Dictionary in Spanish English and Latin Lond. 1591. qu. in two parts This book was published by one Rich. Percyvall Gent. who had another hand in it yet with the advice and conference of Dr. D'oylie who dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred and three year 1603 was buried in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew in London leaving then behind him a Son named Francis born 8. Feb. 1597. and a daughter married to Hugh Cressy a Counsellour Father to Hugh Cressy a Benedictine Monk WILLIAM GILBERT Son of Hierom Gilbert of Colchester in Essex was born there and educated in both the Universities but whether in Oxon first or in Cambridge I cannot justly tell Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas where I presume he had the degree of Doctor of Physick conferred upon him and at his return being famed for his learning depth in Philosophy and admirable skill in Chymistry became one of the Coll. of Physicians in Lond. and Physician in Ord. to Q. Elizabeth who had so high a value for him that she allowed him an annual Pension to encourage his studies He hath written De magnete magneticisque corporibus de magno magnete tellure Physiologia nova Lond. 1600. fol. To which book the author added an Appendix of 6 or 8 sheets but whether printed I cannot tell De mundo nostro sublunari Philosophia nova Amstel 1651. qu. Published from a MS. in the Library of the Famous Sir Will. Boswell Knight He also was the first that invented the making description and use of the two most ingenious and necessary instruments for Sea-men to find out thereby the Latitude of any place upon the help of the Sun Moon and Stars Which invention was published by one Tho. Blondeville Lond. 1602. qu. This Dr. Gilbert gave way to fate in the Summer time in sixteen hundred and three year 1603 having always lived a single life Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity in Colchester in which Parish he was born and accounted the chief person thereof By his last Will and Test he gave all his books in his Library his Globes Instruments and Cabinet of Minerals to the Coll. of Physicians which part of his Will was exactly performed by his Brethren viz. William so he is written in his Will a Proctor in the Arches Hierom Ambrose and George who participated of his Estate The picture of this famous Doctor drawn to the life
printed in H. Townshends Collections Remonstrance to his Majesty and Privy Council on the behalf of persecuted Protestants setting forth his Maj. interest laying safely in protecting them and incouraging the preaching of the Gospel and in being more watchful against the Papists MS. in qu. Discourse of Predestination MS. in the hands of the present Earl of Huntingdon with other things All or most of which books were written at North-Cadbury in Somersetshire where he mostly lived after he was married being also a Justice of Peace for that County He died in the month of Sept. in sixteen hundred and ten year 1610 and was buried on the 22. of the said month in the Chancel of N. Cadbury Church near to the body of his Lady who died 14. June 1596. To the memory of whom Sir Francis put up a Monument in the wall over her grave with an inscription thereon engraven on a Brass plate leaving then a blank for his own Name to be put after his death but was never performed NATHANIEL POWNOLL a Kentish Man born in or near Canterbury was entred a Batler of Broadgates hall in Michaelmas-Term an 1599. aged 15. and two years after was made a Student of Ch. Ch. where being an indefatigable plodder at his book and running through with wonderful diligence all the forms of Philosophy took the degree of M. of Arts an 1607. His life as it deserved well of all so it was covetous of no Man's commendation himself being as far from pride as his desert was near it He lived constantly in the University 10 years in which time he learned eight Languages watched often daily exercised always studied insomuch that he made an end of himself in an over fervent desire to benefit others And tho he had out of himself sweat all his Oyl for his Lamp and had laid the Sun a-bed by his labours yet he never durst adventure to do that after all these studies done and ended which our young Novices doing nothing count nothing to do but still thought himself as unfit as he knew all men were unworthy of so high an Honour as to be the Angels of God And since in him so great examples of piety knowledge industry and unaffected modesty have been long since fallen asleep there is no other way left but to commend the titles of his Monuments to posterity which are these The young Divines Apology for his continuance in the University Meditations on the Sacred Calling of the Ministry Comment or Meditation on the first seven Penitential Psalms of David His daily Sacrifice All which were printed at Cambridge an 1612. and the two first at Oxon. 1658. oct He died in the prime of his years to the great grief of those who well knew his piety and admirable parts about the year sixteen hundred and ten year 1610 but where buried unless in the Cath. of Ch. Ch. I know not One Nathaniel Pownoll of the City of Bristow Gent. Registrarie of the Diocess of Bristow died 28. March 1611. and was buried in the Chancel of Little S. Austins Church there but of what kin he was to the former I know not NICHOLAS HILL a native of the City of London was educated in Grammaticals in Merchant-Taylors School in Academicals in St. Johns coll of which he became Scholar in 1587. and in that of his age 17. In 1592. he took a degree in Arts being then Fellow of that house left it before he proceeded in that Faculty and applying himself to the study of the Lullian doctrine became most eminent in it About that time he was a great favourite of Edward the poetical 〈…〉 of Oxford spent some time with him while 〈◊〉 coâ—â—umed his Estate beyond the Sea and at home After that count's death or rather before he was taken into the reâ—â—â—ue of that most noble and generous person Henry 〈◊〉 of Northumberland with whom he contiâ—ued for some time in great esteem At length being suspected to comply with certain Traytors against K. James fled beyond the Seas and there died He hath written a book intit Philosophia Epicurca Democritana T 〈…〉 a simpliciter non e 〈…〉 a Par. 1601. 〈…〉 Dedicated to his little Son Laurence Hill 〈…〉 edit and perhaps with others is printed 〈…〉 prae 〈…〉 io cui 〈…〉 hands of his Widdow various matters under his own hand-writing but nothing that I can learn fit for the Press Among them are imperfect papers concerning the Eternity infinity c. of the World and others of the Essence of God c. Some of which coming into the hands of William Backhouse of Swallowfield in Berks. Esq from the Widdow of the said Nich. Hill living behind Bow Church in London about 1636. various copies were taken of them and Edm. Earl of Mulgrave about that time having a copy another was taken thence by one Dr. Joh. Everard part of which I have seen under another hand This is all of truth that I know of Nich. Hill only that his name is mentioned by Ben. Johnson thus Those Atomi ridiculous Whereof old Democrite and Hill Nicholis One said the other swore the World consists There are several traditions going from Man to Man concerning this Nich. Hill one of which is this that while he was Secretary to the Earl of Oxford before-mentioned he among other accompts brought in this to him Item for making a man 10l 0 0. Which he being required to explain by the Count he said he had meerly out of charity given that summ to a poor man who had several times told him that ten pounds would make him a man Another is this which I had from Dr. Joseph Maynard sometimes Rector of Exeter coll younger Brother to Sir Joh. Maynard Serjeant at Law who had it from Mr. Rob. Hues author of the book De Globis an intimate acquaintance of Hill while he continued in Oxon in his last days that is to say That he was one of those learned men who lived with the Earl of Northumberland that he fell into a Conspiracy with one Basset who pretended some right to the Crown Vpon which he was forced to fly into Holland where he setled at Roterdam with his Son Laurence and practiced Physick At length his said Son dying there of the Plague did so much afflict him that he went into an Apothecaries shop swallowed poyson and died in the place c. which by several is supposed to be about sixteen hundred and ten year 1610 But leaving these reports to such that delight in them and are apt to snap at any thing to please themselves I shall only say that our author Hill was a person of good parts but humorous that he had a peculiar and affected way different from others in his writings that he entertained fantastical notions in Philosophy and that as he had lived most of his time in the Romish Perswasion so he died but cannot be convinced that he should die the death of a Fool or a Madman WILLIAM GAGER was
concerned in the matter Some time after Carre then Earl of Sommerset and his Lady Frances before-mentioned were brought to their trials for contriving his death and hiting others to make him away who being both found guilty had the sentence of death passed on them but through the clemency of the King being spared they were only banished the Court. As for our author Overbury who in learning and judgment excelled any of his years which as 't was generally thought made him while living in the Court to be proud to overvalue himself undervalue others and affected as 't were with a kind of insolence hath written A Wife Being a most exquisite and singular Poem of the choice of a Wife c. Printed several times at Lond. while the author lived In 1614 it was printed there again in qu. being the fourth or fifth impression bearing this title A Wife now the Widdow of Sir Tho. Overbury being c. Characters Or witty descriptions of the properties of sundry persons Which Characters as 't is observed were the first that were written and published in England To them are added 1 Certain Edicts from a Parliament in Eutopia written by the Lady Southwell 2 Newes from any whence or old truth under a supposal of novelty occasioned by divers Essays and private passages of Wit between sundry Gentlemen upon that subject 3 Paradoxes as they were spoken in a Mask before his Majesty at Whitehall 4 The Mountebanks Receipts 5 Songs Of the remedy of Love In two parts A Poem Lond. 1620. in about 2 sh in oct Observations in his travells upon the state of the 17. Provinces as they stood an 1609. Printed 1627. qu. This goes under his name but doubted by some whether he wrote it Observations upon the Provinces united And on the state of France Lond. 1651. oct with his picture before it an aetat 32. This also is doubted whether ever he wrote it The arraignment and conviction of Sir Walt. Ralegh at the King's Bench Bar at Winchester 17. Nov. 1603. c. Lond. 1648. in 5 sh in qu. Said to be copied by Sir Tho. Overbury but doubtful He yielded up his last breath occasioned by poyson as I have before told you on the 15. Sept. in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 and was buried as some authors say presently and very unreverently in a pit digged in an obscure and mean place But the Register of the Tower -Chappel dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula saith he was buried in the said Chappel 15. Sept. being the day of his death an 1613. as I have been informed by the Letters of that learned Gent. Sir Edw. Sherburne Knight late Clerk of his Maj. Ordinance and Armories within the Kingdom of England Over his Grave tho no memory by writing was ever put yet Ben. Johnson's Epigram written to him will eternize it and other verses by the Wits of his time set before his Poem called A Wife and in particular that Epigram written by Owen the Welsh Bard running thus Vxorem angelico describis carmine talem Qualem oratorem Tullius ore potens Qualem describis quamvis tibi nuberet Vxor Aequalis tale non foret illa viro Our author Sir Tho. Overbury had a Nephew of both his names a Knight and Justice of the Peace for the County of Gloucester who lived and injoyed the inheritance of the Overburies at Boorton on the hill before-mentioned He wrote 1 A true and perfect account of the examination trial condemnation and execution of Joan Perry and her two Sons John and Rich. Perry for the supposed Murder of Will Harrison Gent c. Lond. 1676. in 4 sh and half in qu. Written by way of Letter to Thom. Shirley Doctor of Physick in London 2 Queries proposed to the serious consideration of those who impose upon others in things of divine and supernatural revelation and prosecute any upon the aecount of Religion with a desire of their candid and christian resolution thereof Printed 1677. Answered by George Vernon Rect. of Boorton on the water the same year in his Ataxiae obstaculum Whereupon Sir Tho. came out with a reply intit Ratiocinium vernaculum or a Reply to Ataxiae obstaculum Being a pretended answer to certain Queries dispersed in some parts in Gloucestershire Lond. 1678. oct This Sir Tho. Overbury was not educated in any University only was a great Traveller in parts beyond the Seas and afterwards a favourer of Protestant Dissenters which is all I know of him only-that he sold his Inheritance at Boorton on the hill to Alex. Popham Esq about 1680. and afterwards retiring to an Estate that he had at Adminton in Queinton Parish in Gloucestershire died there 28. Feb. 1680. and was buried in Queinton Church JOHN HARMAR a most noted Latinist Grecian and Divine was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1574. took the degrees in Arts was made the Kings Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University 1585. being then in holy Orders one of the Proctors thereof two years after chief Master of Winchester School for nine years Warden of the coll there 17 years and at length Doctor of Divinity being always accounted a most solid Theologist admirably well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and in his younger years a subtile Aristotelian The chief actions of his Life an account of his travels of his disputing at Paris with the great Doctors of the Rom. Party and also of the things that he had written and published his Nephew John Harmar whom I shall mention under the year 1670. promised to give unto me a full narration in writing but sickness and death soon after following prevented him He hath published 1 Chrysostomi Archiep. Constant Homeliae sex ex MSS. cod in bib coll Novi Oxon. 1586. 2 Chrysostomi Homeliae ad populum Antiochenum omnes exceptâ primâ cum Latinâ versione Homeliae decimae nonae quae in latinis etiam exemplaribus hactenus desiderata est Lond. 1590. He also translated from French into English Sermons on the three first Chapters of the Canticles Ox. 1587 qu. Written by Theod. Beza And from Lat. into English Sermons on the 10. Commandments Lord. 1581. qu. written by Joh. Calvin and had a prime hand in the translation of the New Testament into English at the command of K. Jam. 1. an 1604. At length paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh of Oct. in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 was buried at the upper end of New coll Choire His Epitaph you may read in a book intit Historia Antiquit Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. a. He was a considerable Benefactor to the Libraries of both Wykehams colleges EDWARD BREREWOOD Son of Rob. Br. Wet-Glover thrice Mayor of the City of Chester was born and educated in Grammar learning there applyed his Muse to Academical studies in Brasenose coll in the latter end of 1581. aged
16. or thereabouts where continuing an indefatigable Student several years took the degrees in Arts and then as 't is said translated himself to St. Maries hall In 1596. he became the first Astronomy Professor in Gresham coll in London wherein as in Oxon he always led a retired and private course of Life delighting with profound speculations and the diligent searching out of hidden verities It was also observed that tho he never published any thing while he injoyed this earthly Tabernacle yet to avoid the fruitless curiosity of that which some take upon them to know only that they may know he was ever most ready in private either by conference or writing to instruct others repairing unto them if they were desirous of his resolution in any doubtful points of learning within the ample circuit of his deep apprehension The things that he wrote were many the first of which that was published was as I conceive this De ponderibus pretiis veterum nummorum eorumque cum recentioribus collatione lib. 1. Lond. 1614. qu. Published by his Nephew Rob. Brerewood of Chester who was Commoner of Bras coll 1605. aged 17. Remitted into the eighth vol. of the Criticks and in the Apparatus before the first vol. of the Polyglot Bible He also wrote Enquiries touching the diversity of Languages and Religion through the chief parts of the World Lond. 1614. 23. 35. c. qu. and in 1647. c. in oct published by the said Rob. Brerewood who if I mistake not hath written a large and learned Preface to it Elementa Legicae in gratiam studiosae juventutis in Acad. Oxon. Lond. 1614. and 15. c. in oct Tractatus quidem Logici de Praedicabilibus Praedicamentis Oxon. 1628. 37. c. oct Treatise of the Sabbath Oxon. 1630. qu. Which coming in MS. into the hands of Nich. Byfield a Minister in Chester and by him answered was replied upon by our author in A second Treatise of the Sabbath Ox. 1632. qu. The Puritans it seems then before our authors death 1613. did verily think there was a Plot against the power of godliness but could never be pulled down whilst the Sabbath stood upright and therefore the Patrons of impiety as they said did rightly project to take that out of the way which stood so much in theirs Rich. Byfield did vindicate his Brother against Brerewood and Joh. Ley wrote partly against him in his Sunday a Sabbath An old and zealous Puritan named Theophilus Brabourne an obscure Schoolmaster or as some say a Minister of Suffolk was very stiff for a Sabbath in his books published 1628. and 31. and endeavoured to take off all objections that might be said against one yet by maintaining the indispensable morality of the fourth Commandment and consequently the necessary observation of the Jewish Sabbath did incline several of his Readers to Judaism Tho. Broad who was esteemed an Anti-Sabbatarian did write almost to the same effect that Brerewood did tho Brerewood's first book did dissent from his opinions in those points opposed by George Abbot in his Vindiciae Sabbathi wherein are also surveyed all the rest that then had lately written on that subject concerning the Sabbath viz. Francis White B. of Ely Pet. Heylyn D. D. and Christop Dowe whose several treatises on the said subject he calls Anti-Sabbatarian Tractatus duo quorum primus est de meteoris secundus de oculo Oxon. 1631. Published by Tho. Sixesmith M. A. and Fellow of Bras coll Commentarii in Ethica Aristotelis Ox. 1640. qu. Published by the said Sixesmith and 't is called by some Brerewood de moribus The original MS. of which written with his own hand in the smallest and neatest character that mine eyes ever yet beheld was by him finished 27. Oct. 1586. The Patriarchal Government of the ancient Church declared by way of answer unto four questions c. Ox. 1641. qu. He ended his days in Gresham coll of a Feaver to the great reluctancy of all good men that knew the learning and the excellencies of the person year 1613 on the fourth of Nov. in sixteen hundred and thirteen and was buried the eighth day of the same month near to the Readers Pew in the Chancel of the Church of Great S. Helen within the City of London In his Lectureship of Astronomy in the said coll succeeded Edm. Gunter as I shall tell you elsewhere WILLIAM WESTERMAN was entred a Commoner of Gloucester hall in the latter end of 1583. took one degree in Arts translated himself to Oriel coll proceeded in that Faculty and by continual study and unwearied industry he became a proficient in Divinity and Minister of Sanbridge in Hertfordshire Afterwards his merits introducing him to the knowledge of Dr. Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury was by him made his Chaplain so that taking the degree of Doctor of Div. was also by him prefer'd to a Dignity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 A prohibition of revenge on Rev. 12. 19. Lond. 1600. oct 2 Sword of maintenance on Amos 5. 15. Lond. 1600. oct 3 Faithful Subject or Mephibosheth on 2 Sam. 19. 29 30. Lond. 1608. oct 4 Salomons Porch or a Caveat c. on Eccles. 4. 17. Lond. 1608. oct 5 Jacobs Well on Joh. 4. 6. Lond. 1613. oct c. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of the author JOHN DUNSTER born of a Family of his name living at Doneat near to Ilminster in Somersetshire was made Demy of Magd. coll in 1598. aged 16. perpetual Fellow 1602. afterwards Master of Arts Proctor of the University 1611. and at length Chaplain to Archb. Abbot who bestowed on him a Benefice or Dignity about 1613. in which year Dunster resigned his Fellowship He hath published Caesar's Penny Serm. on 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. Oxon. 1610. oct Prodromus Or a literal exposition of the 79 Psalm concerning the destruction of Jerusalem Lond. 1613. oct In his younger days being esteemed a noted Poet by his Contemporaries had several copies of verses printed in various books especially in that made by the Society of Magd. coll on the death of a noble young Man of that house named Will. Grey Son of Arth. Grey Baron of Wilton who died 18. Feb. 1605. WILLIAM SYMONDS an Oxfordshire Man born was elected Demy of Magd. coll in 1573. and perpetual Fellow six years after but whether he was M. of A. it appears not About the time that he was made Fellow he entred into holy Orders and had a Spiritual Cure bestowed on him at Halton Holgate in Lincolnshire by Sir Rob. Bertie Lord Willoughby where continuing several years was called thence and became at length Preacher at S. Saviours Church in Southwarke and D. and D. 1613. He was a person of an holy life grave and moderate in his carriage painful in the Ministry well learned and of rare understanding in Prophetical Scriptures He hath written Pisgah Evangelica according to the method of the Revelation presenting the
citari solent Lond. 1614. and 23. qu. Which is all I think he hath published He gave way to fate at Leedes before-mentioned on the first of Jan. in sixteen hundred and fourteen and was buried the day following in the Church there Alex. Cooke his Brother whom I shall mention under the year 1632. succeeded him in the Vicaridge of Leedes and there died MATHEW SLADE second Son of Joh. Slade of the West Country Son of Joh. Slade of Roughley in Staffordshire the second Son of Joh. Slade of the ancient and gentile Family of the Slades of Norton-Slade in Lancashire was born in Devonshire became a Batler of St. Albans hall in 1584. and in that of his age 17. took a degree in Arts four years after and about that time was a candidate for a Fellowship of Morton coll but what put him by unless the want of Friends for Philosophy he had sufficient I know not Afterwards he retired to his native Country taught School for a time and Married as I shall anon tell you At length upon an invitation he went to Amsterdam in Holland where by the High and Mighty States he became Rector of the learned Academy or Gymnasium situated and being in the old part of that famous City where he was esteemed by all that knew him an excellent Lâ—tinist a good Grecian one well read in profound authors a stiff Enemy to the Socinians and a walking Library His works are these Cum Conrado Vorstio S. T. D. de blasphemiis haeresibus atheismis à Jacobo Rege Angliae 1. in ejusd Vorstii de dei tractatu c. Scholasticae disputationis pars prima In qua fides Orthodoxa de vera immensitate infinitate triunius dei opponitur c. Amstel 1612. qu. Appendix prioris disceptationis Amstel 1614. qu. Which is set before this book following Disceptationis cum Conrado Vorstio S. T. D. pars altera de immutabilitate simplicitate dei Qua docetur R. Jac. 1. juste merito notasse blasphemum Vorsti dogma Deum esse mutabilem accedentibus subjectum adserentis Amstel 1614. qu. C. Vorstii F. Socini concentus sive Bicinii exemplum cum rerum verborum atque testium Syllabo Printed with the former viz. Disceptationis altera pars These things were replied upon by Vorstius in 1615. but whether our author Slade put out a rejoynder I know not as yet or any thing else that he hath published He took to Wife Alethea Daughter of Rich. Kirford of or near to Honiton in Devon on the 20. of Sept. 1593. by whom he had Issue Cornelius Slade born in Amsterdam 14. of Oct. 1599. and made Rector of the Gymnasium there perhaps on the death of his Father on the 9. of May 1628. who taking to Wife Gertrude the Daughter of Luke Ambrose a Preacher of Amsterdam begot on her among other Children Mathew Slade born 9. of June 1628. and being strictly educated in learning became a Doctor of Physick and a learned Man and thereupon often mentioned with honour by Swammerdam as also by Scrader who dedicates a book to him This Matthew Slade did publish under the borrowed name of Theodorus Aldes Slade Anglus a book intit Dissertatio Epistolica de Generatione Animalium contra Harveium Amstel 1666. in tw Reprinted with other Anatomical Works at Francfort twice in the year 1668. in qu. and is extant in the Bibliotheca Anatomica The Collectors of which have unveiled him and put him down under his true name Mattheus Sladus Amstelodamensis M. D. He hath also written Observationes in Ovem Amstel 1673. in tw which is also in the said Bibliotheque and Sciagraphia nutritionis Foetus in utero de ejus urinâ Ibid. At length coming into England in Sept. or Oct. 1689. retired to Oxon in Dec. following to see it the Colleges Libraries and learned Men there And after he had tarried at that place about a fortnight went in the Stage-coach towards London but being taken suddenly with an Apoplectical fit on Shotover hill two miles distant from Oxon died thereof before he came to Wheatley on Friday the twentieth day of the same month being the Eve of St. Thomas the Apostle Whereupon his body being lodged in a common Inn there was by the care of James Tyrrell Esq and Dr. Edw. Bernard one of the Savilian Professors conveyed thence the next day to the Angel Inn in Oxon where lying till the day following was buried in the yard near to and behind the West door leading therein belonging to the Church of St. Peter in the East at which time were present certain Doctors of and Graduats in Physick and Masters of Arts. THOMAS FREEMAN a Gloucestershire Man born of the same Family with those of Batsford and Todenham near to Morton in Marsh became a Student in Magd. coll an 1607. aged 16 years or thereabouts and Bach. of Arts four years after At length retiring to the great City and setting up for a Poet was shortly after held in esteem by Sam. Daniel Owen the Epigrammatist Dr. Joh. Donn Shakspeare George Chapman Tho. Heywood the Play-maker and others To some of whole judgments he submitted these his two books of Epigrams following Rubbe and a great Cast In 100 Epigrames Lond. 1614. qu. Runne and a great Cast The second bowle in an 100 Epigrams Printed with the former Epigrams and both dedicated to Thomas Lord Windsore who seemed to patronize his studies The reason for Rubbe and Runne he gives in these four verses Sphaera mihi calamus mundi sunt crimina nodi Ipse sed est mundus Sphaeromachia mihi Sive manere Jubes Lector seu currere spaeram Lusori pariter curre mane que placent THOMAS CHALONER Son of Sir Thom. Chaloner Knight by Ethelreda his Wife Daughter of Edward Frodsham of Elton in Cheshire was educated in Magd. coll where he was held in esteem for his Poetry but taking no degree travelled beyond the Seas and at his return became a compleat Gentleman In 1591. he received the honour of Knighthood and being esteemed a learned prudent and sober person when K. James the first came to the English Crown he therefore by him was appointed Tator and afterwards Chamberlain to his Son Prince Henry the lively joy and delight of Britain and about that time was actually created Master of Arts as in the Fasti under the year 1605. I shall tell you This person who was a learned searcher into Natures Works did first discover an Allum-mine near to Gisburgh in Yorkshire being possessed of Land there about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but being adjudged to be a Mine-Royal was rented by several and little benefit came to Sir Thomas At length the Long Parliament which began in 1640. voted it a Monopoly and restored the benefit thereof to the former Proprietaries He hath written several things but all that I have seen is only The Virtue of Nitre wherein is declared the sundry cures by the same
Delapre in Northamptonshire Esq was born there or at least in that County became a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. aged 17. where laying a foundation of leâ—rning for a greater structure to be erected thereon departed without a degree to the Middle Temple 〈…〉 became a noted Counsellour a person of great 〈…〉 in the Law and eminent for his knowledge in 〈◊〉 and in the Saxon Language In the latter â—nd of Q Elizabeth he was a Parliament Man and in the 5. Jac. 1. he was Lent-Reader of the Middle Temple and about that time one of the Justices Itinerant for S. Wales He hath written several matters relating to Antiquity which being crept into private hands the publick is thereby rob'd of the benefit of them However some of them I have seen which bear these titles Nomina Hydarum in com Northampton MS. much used by Augustine Vincent Son of Will. Vincent of Wellingborough and Thingdon in Northamptonshire in his intended Survey or Antiquities of Northamptonshire I have a copy of this lying by me Explanation of the abbreviated words in Domsday book Used also the by said Vincent who after he had been Rouge Croix and Windsore Herald as also had published A discovery of Errors in two Editions of the Catalogue of Nobility written by Raphe Brook did yield to nature on the 11. Jan. in 1625. and was buried in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls Wharf in London The said two MSS. of Franc. Tate were reserved as rarities in the Library of Christop Lord Hatton of Kirkly in Northamptonshire but where they are now I know not His opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England See more in Joh. Doderidge under the year 1628. Learned Speeches in Parliaments held in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen He lived a single Man and dying so on the 16. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 was buried I suppose in the Church belonging to the Temples He had a Nephew Son of his elder Brother Sir William Tate of Delapre called Zouch Tate who became a Gentleman Com. of Trinity coll in 1621. aged 15. but took no degree In 1640. he was chosen a Burgess for Northampton to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year where siding with the Factious Crew took the Covenant and became a zealous Enemy to the King and his Cause Two or more Speeches of his are printed one of which was spoken in a Common Hall at London 3. Jul. 1645. containing Observations on the King and Queens Cabinet of Letters Lond. 1645. qu. Which Speech with that of John L'isle and Rich. Browne were animadverted upon by Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. as hereafter it shall be told you There were also Annotations printed at the end of the said Cabinet of Letters taken at Naseby Battle where the King was worsted Printed at Lond. 1645. qu. but who the author of them was I cannot tell RICHARD FIELD received his first being in this World in the County of Hertford was entred a Student in Magd. coll in 1577. where continuing in drudging at his book till he was about Bachelaurs standing retired to Magd. hall took the degrees in Arts and afterwards for about 7 years was not only a daily Reader of Logick and Philosophy but also a Moderator and every Sunday a discusser of controversies against Bellarmine and other Pontificians before his Fellow-Aularians and many others Afterwards being Bach. of Divinity he became first a Reader thereof in the Cath. Church of Winchester and afterwards in Lincolns Inn and when Doctor Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Elizab. and after her death to K. James the last of whom not only gave him a Prebendship of Windsore on the death of Jo. Chamber an 1604. but also the Deanry of Gloucester in 1609. in the place of Dr. Tho. Morton promoted to the Deanry of Winchester Both which he kept with the Rectory of Burcleere or Burrowcleere in Hampshire and all little enough for the encouragement of so right learned a Man as this our author Dr. Field was who in his time was esteemed a principal mountainer of Protestancy a powerful Preacher a profound Schoolman exact Disputant and so admirable well knowing in the Controversies between the Protestants and the Papists that few or none went beyond him in his time as it doth plainly appear in these his labours Of the Church four books Lond. 1606. fol. To which he added a fifth book Lond. 1610. fol. with an Appendix containing A defence of such passages of the former books that have been excepted against or wrested to the maintenance of the Romish Errours All which were reprinted at Oxon 1628. fol. He also published A Sermon Preached before the King at Whitehall on Jude ver 3. Lond. 1604. qu. He surrendred up his pious Soul to the great God that first gave it on the 21. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 being then reviewing the said books and about to give answer to such that had oppugned them and was buried in the outer Chappel of St. George at Windsore a little below the Choire Over his grave was soon after laid a plank of black Marble and thereon this inscription engraven on a Copper plate fastned thereunto Richardus Field hujus olim coll canonicus Ecclesiae Glocestrensis Decanus verè Doctor Theologiae author librorum quinque de Ecclesia Vna cum Elizabetha Harrisia Sanctissima Charissima conjuge ex qua sex reliquit filios filiam unicam Hic sub communi marmore expectant Christi reditum qui faelicitatem quam ingressi sunt adventu suo perficeat ac consummet Obierunt in Domino ille an sal 1616. aetatis suae 55. Haec an sal 1614. aetatis suae 41. In Dr. Field's Deanry of Gloucester succeeded Dr. William Land and in his Canonry of Windsore Edm. Wilson Doctor of Physick and Fellow of Kings coll in Cambridge RICHARD HAKLUYT was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Yetton in Herefordshire elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School in 1570. took the degrees in Arts lived for some time in the Middle Temple where I presume he studied the Municipal Law Afterwards he entred into holy Orders and at length became Prebendary of the fourth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of one Dr. Rich. Webster an 1605. and Rector of Wetheringset in Suffolk But that which is chiefly to be noted of him is this that his Genie urging him to the study of History especially to the Marine part thereof which was encouraged and furthered by Sir Francis Walsingham made him keep constant intelligence with the most noted Seamen at Wapping near London From whom and many small Pamphlets and Letters that were published and went from hand to hand in his
expulsion wherein he disclaimeth the aforesaid Libel beginning thus Jenkin why Man Why Jenkin fie for shame c. But the Reader must know that none of these were printed JOHN DOVE a Surrey Man born of Plebeian Parents was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1580. aged 18. and after he had taken the degrees in Arts became a Preacher of note in the University In 1596. he proceeded in Divinity being at that time well beneficed if not dignified but where I cannot yet tell His works are A perswasion to the English Recusants to reconcile themselves to the Church of Rome Lond. 1603. qu. Confutation of Atheism Lond. 1605. and 1640. oct Defence of Church-Government wherein the Church Government in England is directly consonant to the Word of God c. Lond. 1607. qu. Defence of the Cross in Baptism as 't is used in the Church of England Printed with the Defence Advertisement to the English Seminaries and Jesuits shewing their loose kind of writings and negligent handling the cause of Religion c. Lond. 1610. qu. The conversion of Salomon A direction to holiness of life handled by way of Commentary upon the whole book of Canticles c. Lond. 1613. qu. Sermons on Ezek. 33. 11. and S. Matth. 19. 9. Lond. 1597. 1601. oct c. See more in Alb. Gentilis an 1611. where you will find him author of another book but whether printed I know not He concluded his last day in Apr. about the 19. day in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 but where buried I know not as yet I find one John Dove to be author of Polydorian or a miscellany of Moral Philosophical and Theological Sentences Printed 1631. oct But whether he was the same with the Doctor or another I cannot tell unless I see the book it self which I have not yet done RICHARD MOKET was born in Dorsetshire in the Dioc. of Salisbury elected from Brasnose to be Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1599. being then near four years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts. Afterwards he proceeding in that Faculty took on him the Sacred Function became Domestick Chaplain to George Archb. of Canterbury Warden of Allsouls Rector of Monks-Risborow in Bucks and of Newington near Dorchester in Oxfordshire D. of D. and one of the Kings Commissioners concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs He published in the Latin tongue Lond. 1616. fol. The Liturgy of the Church of England Greater and Lesser Catechisms Thirty nine Articles Book of ordination of Bishops Priests and Deacons Doctrinal points extracted out of the Book of Homilies To which he added his own book written in Latin intituled De politiâ Ecclesiae Anglicanae Reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct Which collection he published in a pious zeal for gaining honour to the Church of England amongst Foreign Nations But this his zeal was so little accompanied in the Constitutions of the said Church or so much byassed towards those of Calvins Platform that it was thought fit not only to call it in but to expiate the errours of it in a publick flame And the true cause which was conceived why the book was burn'd was that in publishing the twentieth Article concerning the authority of the Church he totally left out the first clause of it viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus caeremonias statuendi jus in controversiis fidei authoritatem By means whereof the Article was apparently falsified the Churches authority disowned and consequently a wide gap opened to dispute her power in all her Canons and Determinations of what sort soever He yielded up his last breath with grief as 't is thought for what had been done to his book on the day before the nones of July year 1618 in sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried at the upper end of Allsouls coll chappel just below the steps leading to the high Altar In his Wardenship succeeded Richard Astley D. of D. who dying in Febr. 1635. was succeeded by Gilb. Sheldon who was afterwards Bishop of London and at length Archbishop of Canterbury JOHN GOLDESBURG descended originally from those of his name living at Goldesburg in Yorkshire was born 18. oct 1568. spent some time among the Oxonians for form-sake about 1584. went thence to the Middle Temple were after he had continued in the degree of Barrester and for some years been resorted to in matters relating to his profession was made one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas. He wrote and left behind him fit for the Press Reports or collection of cases and matters agitated in all the Courts in Westminster in the latter years of the reign of Qu. Elizabeth with learned arguments at the Barr and on the bench Lond. 1635. c. qu. Published by Will. Shepphard Esq Upon which cases and matters Sir Edm. Anderson and Sir Jo. Popham Judges wrote Resolutions and Judgments year 1618 Our author Goldesburg concluded his last day on the 9. oct in sixteen hundred and eighteen Whereupon his body was buried near to the high Altar of the Church belonging to the Temples He left behind him other things as 't is said fit for the Press but in whose hands they are I could never learn WALTER RALEIGH a person in his time of a good natural wit better judgment and of a plausible tongue Son of Walt. Raleigh Esq by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Philip Champernoon Kt. was born at a place called Hayes in Parish of East-Budeleigh in Devonshire an 1552. Which Hayes is a farm and his Father having had a remnant of a Lease of 80 years in it came after the expiration thereof to one Duke unto whom afterwards our author W. Raleigh having a desire to purchase it wrote a Letter dated from the Court 26. July 1584. wherein he says that for the natural disposition he has to that place being born in that house he had rather seat himself there than any where else c. His Father was the first of his name that lived there but his ancestors had possessed Furdell in the same County for several Generations before where they lived in gentile estate and were esteemed antient Gentlemen In 1568 or thereabouts he became a Commoner of Oriel coll at what time C. Champernoon his kinsman studied there where his natural parts being strangely advanced by Academical learning under the care of an excellent Tutor became the ornament of the Juniours and was worthily esteemed a proficient in Oratory and Philosophy After he had spent about 3. years in that house where he had laid a good ground and sure foundation to build thereon he left the University without a degree and went to the Middle-Temple to improve himself in the intricate knowledge of the municipal Laws How long he tarried there 't is uncertain yet sure I am from a Epistle or copy of Verses of his composition which I have seen that he was abiding in the said Temple in Apr. 1576. at which time his vein for ditty and amorous Ode was esteemed
an 1584. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining some months was at length released set on Shipboard with Dr. Jasp Heywood Edw. Rishton Joh. Colleton and others and waâ—ted over the Seas to the coast of Normandy where they were left to shift for themselves In 1587. he being about to return into England he was sent by Cardinal Alan to Sir will Stanley a Colonel to whose Regiment in the Low Countries he was by him made Chaplain In 1588. he was promoted to the degree of D. of D. in the University of Trier in Germany and in 89. he was sent for to Doway by the Jesuits whom he was always affraid to offend to assist Dr. Rich. Barret President of the English college in the Government of that place In 91. he was sent to Bruxells and remitted to the Camp to exercise the office of Chaplain again where with other Exiles they acted many things which tended much to the destruction of the Q. of England and not long after returned to Doway again and by the command of Cardinal Cajetan Protector of the English Nation he was made President of the English coll there ann 1599. At length being grown old and unfit to govern returned into England lived sometimes in London and sometimes in Staffordshire But that which is to be farther noted of him is that having for the most part of his life lived in the habit of a Secular Priest did about six months before his death take upon him the order and habit belonging to the Society of Jesus His works are Annotations on the Old Testament Duac 1609. in two Tomes in qu. Catalogus Martyrum pro Religione Catholicâ in Angliâ â—â—â—isorum ab an 1570. ad an 1612. Printed 1612. and 14. in oct Before which book is Narratio de origine Seminariorum de Missione Sacerdoâ—um in Anglia This Catalogue and Narration taken mostly from a collection intit Concertatio Eccl. Catholicae in Anglia c. could not be sold more than for six pence when it was published for it contains but 4 sheets in oct yet in 1682. when the choice Library of Mr. Rich. Smith mentioned before in Sir Joh. Davies was sold by way of Auction Dr. Tho. Marshall Dean of Gloucester and Rector of Linc. coll gave eleven shillings and six pence being then great bidding for before he could get it The Anchor of Christian Doctrine wherein the most principal points of Christian Religion are proved by the only written word of God c. Doway 1622. in two thick quarto's containing four parts viz. the first vol. one the other three These two quarto's were as one saith printed at London and sold by the author in his lodgings in Turnbull-street for 14 shillings which might have been afforded for five The Mysteries of the Rosary This I have not yet seen He also corrected and translated the Doway Bibles and translated into Lat. and published Anti-Haeretica motiva c. written by Rich. Bristow Attrebat 1608. in two Tomes in qu. before which he hath put a lame account of the author This person Tho. Worthington who was esteemed very learned among those of his perswasion and had hazarded his life and done great service for the Cause did quietly lay down his head and submit himself to the stroke of death in the house of one Bidulph Esq of Bidulph commonly called Biddles in Staffordshire near to Congleton in Cheshire year 1626 about sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried in the Parochial Church there as I have been informed by one of his Society who was well acquainted with him having some years before his death been made titular Archdeacon of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire ALEXANDER SPICER a Minister's Son and a Somersetshire man born became a Batler of Exeter coll in 1590. aged about 15. took one degree in Arts was made Fellow of that house and proceeded in his Faculty At length entring into the Sacred Function was a Preacher for some years in these parts Afterwards upon an invitation he went into Ireland where by the savour of Sir Arthur Chichester Baron of Belfast and L. Dep. of that Country he became well beneficed and dignified and in great estimation for his learning He hath published Davids Petition on Psal 19. 13. Lond. 1616. oct The Pope at Babylon Serm. on the 5. of Nov. at Colerain in the North of Ireland on Dan. 3. 6. Lond. 1617. Elegies on the death of Arthur Lord Chichester c. Printed 1625. which Lord dying much about the time that K. Jam. 1. of England died was buried at 〈◊〉 in Ireland to the great grief of his Country because it was in such a time that it most required his assistance courage and wisdom which are often at odds and seldom meet yet in him shook hands as friends and challenged an equal share in his perfections Other things were written and published by the said A. Spicer as some of the 〈◊〉 of his coll have informed me but such I have not yet sâ—en nor do I know any thing besides of the 〈…〉 he left behind him the 〈…〉 lid Divine WILLIAM PELHAM the eldest Son of Sir Will. Pelham of Brocklesby in Lincolnshire Master of the Ordnance by Elianor his Wife Daughter of 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 was born in London near or 〈…〉 became Fellow-Commoner of New coll in the beginning of 1582. aged 14. continued a sedulous Student there for at least two years in a Chamber within one of the turrets of the College wall that encompasses the Garden Afterwards he travelled and improved his learning in the Universities of Strasburg Heidelburg Wittenburg and Lipswick in Germany as also in Paris and Geneva and returning to his native Country setled again for a time in this University till Mars distracted him from the studies of Minerva as he himself used to say But when that Planet was set he retired to a Country lise at Brocklesby where after he had received satiety of all worldly blessings did in his old age incline his heart to more supernatural contemplations Which being by him committed to writing for the benefit of his Children of which he had plenty were published under this title Meditations upon the Gospel of S. John Lond. 1625. in tw and other things as his Son Dr. Herbert Pelham sometimes Fellow of Magd. coll hath told me but whether printed I know not This Sir Will. Pelham who was Knighted by K. Jam. 1. at Newmarket 20. Nov. 1616. lived after the publication of that book two three or more years but when he died I cannot yet find Among the Sons that he left behind him was Hen. Pelham one sometimes a Student in this University afterwards in one of the Inns of Court and a Barrester At length being chosen a Burgess for Grantham in Lincolnshire to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. sided with the Presbyterians and was by that party elected Speaker of the House of Commons when the
thereabouts took one degree in Arts but whether he was Fellow of that house or Master of that faculty it appears not In his Juvenile years he was accounted one of the chiefest among our English Poets to bewail and bemoan the perplexities of Love in his Poetical and Romantick writings but when he became Elder he applyed his Muse to the study of the sacred writ in which faculty he was admitted Bachelor in 1603. being then or about that time Vicar of Deptford alias West Greenwich in Kent and in 1611 he proceeded in his faculty being then much in esteem by the Clergy of the neighbourhood where he lived and reverenc'd by the Laity for his orthodox principles and continual and unwearied labours in his function His works are these God be thanked Serm. of Thanksgiving for the happy success of the English Fleets set forth by the company of Adventurers to the E. Indies on Psal. 126. 2. Lond. 1616. qu. Divine Sea service containing sundry and useful forms of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the help of such as travel by Sea fitted to their several necessities Printed with the former 1616. qu. Other Sermons as 1 Allegiance to the Clergy on Rom. 13. 2. Lond. 1616. qu. 2 The Supper of the Lord on Prov. 9. 5. Lond. 1616. qu. Preached at Hampton-court 3 Cape of good hope or Zebuluns blessing five Sermons for the use of the Merchant and Mariner on Deut. 33. 18 19. on Psal. 95. 5. c. Lond. 1616. qu. c. 4 Remedy of Drought two Serm. on 1 Kings 8. 35. and Psal. 68. 7. Lond. 1616. qu. A Manual of private devotions Published by Nath. Snape of Greys Inn Esq Godly and learned Exposition together with apt and profitable notes on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1631. qu. Publ. by the said Snape The broken heart Or Davids pennance fully exprest in holy meditations on 51 Psal. Lond. 1637. 39. and 1646. qu. He ended his days at Deptford before mention'd and was buried in the Church there on the eighth day of August year 1630 in sixteen hundred and thirty One Dr. Page published a book intit Jus fratrum or the Law of Brethren Printed in oct 1658. but whether it was written by Dr. Samuel or Dr. William Page or by another I cannot know unless I could see the book SEBASTIAN BENEFEILD was born at Prestbury in Glocestershire admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 30. Aug. 1586. aged 17. or thereabouts and Probationer 16. Apr. 1590. Afterwards taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into sacred Orders and became a frequent Preacher in these parts In 1599. he was constituted Rhetorick Reader in his coll and the year after was admitted to the reading of the sentences In 1608. he proceeded in Divinity and five years after was elected Margaret professor of the University Which office he executing with commendation for about 14 years resign'd it and receeded to the Rectory of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire which he had long before obtained by his predecessors guilt of Simony where he spent the remaining part of his days about 4 years in great retiredness and devotion He was a person for piety strictness of life and sincere conversation incomparable He was also so noted an Humanitian Disputant and Theologist and so well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen that he had scarce his equal in the University Some have blasted him I know not upon what account for a Schismatick yet Dr. Ravis sometimes B. of London and of honourable memory approved him to be free from Schism and much abounding in Science The truth is he was a Sedentary man and of great industry and so consequently as 't is observed by some morose and of no good nature Also that he was accounted no mean Lover of the opinions of John Calvin especially as to the points of predestination which is the cause why one calls him a downright and doctrinal Calvinist His works are these Doctrinae Christianae Sex capita totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theol. Oxon pro forma habitis discussa disceptata Oxon 1610. qu. Appendix ad caput secundum de conciliis evangelicis c. adversus Humphredum Leech Pr. with the former book Eight Sermons publickly preached in the University of Oxford the second at S. Peters in the East the rest at S. Maries Church Began 1595. Dec. 14. Oxon. 1614. qu. The sin against the Holy Ghost discovered and other Christian Doctrines delivered in 12 Sermons upon part of the 10 Chapt. of the Epist to the Hebrews Oxon. 1615. qu. Commentary or Exposition upon the first chapter of Amos delivered in 21 Sermons in the Par. Church of Meysey-Hampton in the Dioc. of Gloc. Oxon. 1613. qu. Translated into Lat. by Hen. Jackson of C. C. coll Openheim 1615. oct Other Sermons as 1. The Christian Liberty c. on 1 Cor. 9. 19. Ox. 1613. oct Printed with the Commentary in English beforementioned It was preached at Wotton Vnderedge before the Clergy at an Episcopal Visitation 2 Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon 24 Mar. 1610. being K. James his Inauguration day on Psal. 21. 6. Ox. 1611. qu. 3 The Haven of the afflicted in the Cath. Ch. of Gloc. 10. Aug. 1613. on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1620. qu. Commentary or Exposition upon the 2 chap. of Amos delivered in 21 Sermons in the par ch of Meysey-Hampton c. Lond. 1620. qu. Praelectiones de perseverentiâ Sanctorum Francof 1618. oct Com. or Exposition on the third chap. of Amos. c. Printed 1629. qu. He hath also a Latin Sermon extant on Rev. 5. 10. Printed in 1616. qu. which I have not yet seen He took his last farewel of this World in the Parsonage house at Meysey-Hampton before mention'd about 24. Aug. in sixteen hundred and thirty year 1630 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the 29 of the same month In the said Rectory succeeded his great admirer Hen. Jackson Bach. of Div. of C. C. coll before mentioned who being a writer also must crave a place in the next volume SAMPSON PRICE Son of Thom. Price sometimes Vicar of S. Chads Church in Shrewsbury was born there became a Batler of Exeter coll in 1601. aged 16 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts as a Member of Hart hall entred into the sacred function as a Member of that coll became a smart Preacher in the University and near it especially against the Papists made one of the Lecturers of S. Martins church in Oxon afterwards of S. Olaves in London and took the degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated in 1617 About which time he was Chaplain in Ord. to K. Jam. 1. as he was afterwards to K. Ch. 1. and a most ready and frequent Preacher in the Court. At length he was made Vicar of Christ Church in London where being much resorted to and admired was usually stiled The Mawle of Hereticks meaning Papists he being a most bitter Enemy as his brother Daniel was in his preachings
had the applause of the learned respect from the rich prayers from the poor and the love of all He hath written A brief discourse of a disease called the suffocation of the mother c. Lond. 1603. qu. Discourse of natural Bathes and mineral Waters Twice printed Which being revised and corrected by Thomas Guidott Bach. of Phys. of Wadh. coll and a Practicioner in the City of Bathe he published it a third time at Lond. 1669. in oct To which he added an Appendix containing A treatise concerning the Bathe wherein the antiquity both of the Bathes and the City is discoursed c. Dr. Jorden died about the seventh day of January in sixteen hundred thirty and two aged 63. and was buried in the south Isle joyning to the great Church within the City of Bathe dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul He had a natural inclination to Mineral works and was at great charges about the ordering of Allum which succeeding not according to expectation he was thereby much prejudiced in his Estate as it appears in the 7. chap. of Nat. Bathes Mineral Waters wherein 't is said that Allum was the greatest Debtor he had and he the greatest Benefactor to it as he could make it appear when he thought fit to publish the artifice thereof JOHN BARLOW a Cheshire man born became a Student of Hart hall in the year 1600. aged 19. or more took one degree in Arts 8 years after being then in Orders and a Curate Afterwards upon an invitation he was made Minister of Plymouth in Devonshire where continuing to the great liking of the inhabitants yet notwithstanding he left them and went to Halifax in Yorkshire where as it seems he was a Curate or Lecturer He hath published Various Sermons as 1 The Christian's last day is the best day on 1 Thes 4. 18. Lond. 1618. qu. 2 Hieron's last farewel preached at Modbury in Devonsh at the Funeral of Sam. Hieron on 2 Tim. 4. 7. Lond. 1618. qu. 3 The good Man's refuge in affliction on Psal. 40. 18. Lond. 1618. qu. 4 The true guide to glory preached at Plymton-Mary in Devonsh at the Funeral of the Lady Strode of Newingham Widdow of Sir Will. Strode on Psal 73. 24. Lond. 1619. qu. 5 The good Mans privilege on Rom. 8. 28. Lond. 1618. qu. 6 Joy of the upright Man on Psal 97. 11. lb. 1619. qu. An Exposition on the second Epistle of S. Paul to Timothy the first chapter c. Lond. 1625. qu. To which was the Exposition of the second and of other parts of Scripture added Lond. 1632. fol. Among several Records in the Prerogative-office I once saw the last Will and Test of one John Barlow Clerk of Chiddingfield in Surrey which was proved 26. May 1641. the Testator having some weeks before been dead but whether this John Barlow be the same with the former Joh. Barlow who was the writer I cannot justly say nor whether he be the same with Joh. Barlow M. of Arts who in Sept. 1620. became Prebendary of Wivelscomb in the Church of Wells on the resignation of Will. Barlow The said Joh. Barlow of Chiddingfield doth mention his Brethren Edward Raphe Laurence William and Rob. Barlow FRANCIS GODWIN a passing great lover of venerable antiquity and of all good literature Son of Thom. Godwin D. D. sometimes Bishop of B. and Wells was born at Hannington in Northamptonshire 4. of Q. Elizabeth elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1578. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became Rector of Samford-Orcais in Somersetshire Prebendary of S. Decuman in the Church of Wells Residentiary there and Vicar of Weston in Zoyland in the same County which last he resigning became Vicar of Bishops Lidiard in 1595. being then Sub-dean of Exeter and about that time Doctor of Divinity In the year 1601. he was nominated to the See of Landaff by Q. Elizabeth to which being consecrated 22. Nov. the same year sate there about 16 years being a Bishoprick rather proportionated to his modesty than merits because much impaired by one of his Predecessors named Anth. Kitchin alias Dunstan whom I shall elsewhere mention and therefore had liberty allowed to him to keep one of his Dignities in Commendam with it and to take upon him the Rectory of Kingston-Scymour in the Dioc. of Wells Afterwards for the respect that K. James had for him and his learning he gave him the Bishoprick of Hereford to which he was translated the tenth and confirmed the 28. of Nov. an 1617. and kept it to his dying day He was a good Man a grave Divine skilful Mathematician excellent Philosopher pure Latinist and incomparable Historian being no less critical in Histories than the learned Selden A person also he was so celebrated by many in his time whether at home or beyond the Seas that his memory cannot otherwise but be precious in succeeding ages for his indefatigable pains and travel in collecting the succession of all the Bishops of England and Wales since the first planting of the Gospel among the Christians nor pretermitting such of the British Church or any that have been remembred by the care and diligence of preceeding writers or had been kept in memory in any old monument or record But as he hath in those his infinite labours endeavoured out of a Puritanical peak to bring a scandal on the ancient Cath. Bishops and to advance the credit of those that were married since the Reformation he being one of that number for the credit of the Protest cause so comes one afterwards by name W. Prynne the most inveterate Enemy to the Bishops that ever appeared in our Horizon who thence from his labours takes all advantages whether truth or not truth to raise arguments against or bring a scandal upon the prelatical function Take heed therefore of being partial lest others light Candles from your Torch and thereby in the end you lend a helping hand for the cutting your own Throat But to return to give therefore our author Godwin a farther character as I have received it from his Son he was esteemed a good preacher and a strict liver but so much employed in his studies and matters of Religion that he was as 't were a stranger to the world and the things thereof His works are these Concio Lat. in Luc. 5. 3. Printed 1601. qu. A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of Christian Religion in this Island together with a brief History of their Lives and memorable actions so near as can be gathered out of antiquity Lond. 1601. qu. in an English character For the writing of which Q. Elizabeth immediately preferr'd him to the Bishoprick of Landaff But this book being imperfect for therein are omitted the Bishops of Bangor S. Asaph c. the Author came out with another Edition with many additions an 1615. qu. and thereunto joyned A Discourse concerning the first conversion of this Island of Britaine unto the Christian
Religion which is set before it and Discourse concerning such Englishmen as have either been or in our histories reputed Cardinals of the Church of Rome which is put at the end of it But this Edition of 1615. with the said two additional discourses being very full of faults and not to be endured by any ordinary Reader he put them forthwith into Latine entitling them De Praesulibus Angliae commentarius c. Lond. 1616. qu. The Reader is now to understand that after the first Edition of the said Catalogue of Bishops came out in 1601. Sir John Harrington of Kelston near the City of Bathe Son of John Harrington of the said place Esquire who dying near to the Bishops Pallace of and in London 1. Jul. 1582. was buried in the Church of S. Gregory near to Pauls Cathedral and he the Son of Alex. Harrington descended from a younger brother of the Harringtons of Brierley in Yorkshire I say that the said Sir John Harrington sometimes an Eaton Scholar and afterwards M. of Arts of Camb. being minded to obtain the favour of Prince Henry wrote a discourse for his private use intit A brief view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Qu. Elizabeths and King James's raign to the year 1608. c. This book is no more than a character and History of the Bishops of those times and was written to the said Prince Henry as an additional supply to the before mention'd Catalogue of Bishops of Dr. Fr. Godwin upon occasion of that Proverb Henry the eighth pulled down Monks and their Cells Henry the ninth shall pull down Bishops and their Bells In the said book the author Harrington doth by imitating his Godmother Qu. Elizabeth shew himself a great enemy to married Bishops especially to such that had been married twice and many things therein are said of them that were by no means fit to be published being as I have told you before written only for private use But so it was that the book coming into the hands of one John Chetwind Grandson by a Daughter to the author a person deeply principled in presbyterian tenents did when the Press was open print it at London 1653. in oct And no sooner it was published and came into the hands of many but 't was exceedingly clamour'd at by the Loyal and orthodox Clergy condemning him much that published it The truth is that tho it did not give offence so much as Sir Anthony Weldons book intit The Court and character of K. James which was publish'd three years before yet it was exceedingly pleasing to the Presbyterians and other Diffenters And there is no doubt but that if it had come into the hands of Prynne before mentioned he would have raked out many things thence and aggravated them to the highest to furnish his Common Place book when he was about to publish The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. Our author Godwin wrote also Appendix adcommentarium de Praesulibus Angliae Lond. 1621. 22. in two sh in qu. Râ—rum Anglicaerum Henrico VIII Edwardo VI. Maria regnantibus Annales Lond. 1616. 28. 30. in qu. and fol. Translated into English by his Son Morgan Godwin Bac. of Arts of Ch. Ch. afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law of Pembr coll Master of the Free-School at Newland in Glocestershire Canon of Hereford and Doctor of his Faculty Which English translation hath been several times printed The man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage thither Lond. 1638. and 57. oct written while he was a Student of Ch. Ch. under the seigned name of Domingo Gozales and published some years after the authors death by E. M. of Ch. Ch. This book which hath before the title of it the picture of a man taken up from the top of a Mountain by an Engine drawn up to the Moon by certain flying Birds was censured to be as vain as the opinion of Copernicus or the strange discourses of the Antipodes when first heard of Yet since by a more inquisitive search in unravelling those intricacies men of solid judgments have since found out a way to pick up that which may add a very considerable knowledge and advantage to posterity Among which Dr. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester composed by hints thence given as 't is thought a learned piece called A discovery of a new World in the Moon Nuncius inanimatus Utopiae 1629. Lond. 1657. oct Translated into English by Anon. who intitles it The mysterious Messenger unlocking the secrets of mens hearts Printed with The man in the Moon Lond. 1657. oct in two sheets only At length after our authors many labours wherein he aimed mostly at the publick he was taken with a long lingring disease which bringing him to his desired haven year 1633 in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems sixteen hundred thirty and three was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Whitborne which with the mannour thereof belongs to the Bishops of Hereford situate and being about 14. miles distant from the said City To the said See after his death was elected Dr. William Juxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London as I shall tell you elsewhere That which I have forgot to let the Reader know is that whereas there goes under the name of the Bishop of Landaff A treatise on the blessed Sacrament printed in oct and one or more Sermons on the sixth Psalm they are not be attributed to Dr. Godwin but to his predecessor as I suppose in Landaff called Gerv. Babington Sed de hoc quaere HUGH HOLLAND Son of Rob. Holland by his Wife the Daughter of one Pain of Denbigh Son of Lewys Holland Son of Llewellin Son of Griffith Holland of Vaerdre by Gwervilla his Wife Daughter of Howell ap Madock ap Jem ap Einion was born at Denbigh bred in Westminster School while Camden taught there elected into Trinity coll in Cambridge an 1589. of which he was afterwards Fellow Thence he went to travel into Italy and was at Rome where his over free discourse betrayed his prudence Thence he went to Jerusalem to do his devotions to the holy Sepulcher and in his return touch'd at Constantinople where he received a reprimand from the English Embassador for the former freedom of his tongue At his return into England he retired to Oxon spent some years there as a Sojournour for the sake of the publick Library and as I have been informed had his Lodging in Ball. coll which is partly the reason why I insert him here He is observed by a Cambridge man to have been no bad English but an excellent Latine Poet and by some thought worthy to be mention'd by Spencer Sidney and others the chiefest of our English Poets His works are these MSS. Verses in description of the chief Cities of Europe Chronicle of Qu. Elizab. raign Life of Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Armes A Cypress Garland for the sacred forehead of
Canon of Windsore in 1479. and about that time Rector of Sutton Courtney near Abendon in Berkshire In 1489. he was made Prebendary of Bolun in the Cath. Church of York on the death of Dr. Tho. Chaundler and in the same year in Nov. he was made Preb. of Beamister secunda in the Cath. Church of Sarum upon the promotion of Rich. Hyll to the See of London being then also dignified in the Cath. Ch. at Exeter On the 6. of Nov. 1496. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichf and Coventry and on the 28. of the same month had the temporalities of that See restored to him The author of the Comment of the English Bishops tells that he was translated from that See to Exeter 1501 tho elsewhere I find that the translation was made on the last day saving one of June 1502. and that the temporalities thereof were not given to him till 26. Sept. 19. Hen. 7. Dom. 1503. He surrendred up his last breath in the house belonging to the Bishops of Exeter within the parish of St. Clements Danes without Temple Barr year 1503 near to London 15. March in fifteen hundred and three and was buried on the sourth side of the high altar in the Church of St. Clement before mention'd This Joh. Arundell did upon the desire of the chief members of this University promise to them 20l. towards the finishing of S. Maries Church but he dying before 't was given they recovered that sum of his Executors I find another John Arundell of Exeter coll who was one of the Proctors of the University 1426. afterwards Doctor of Physick Physitian to K. Hen. 6. and Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter I take him to be the same John Arundell M. D. who was collated to the Archdeaconâ—y of Richmond in the latter end of Octob. 1457. in the place of Laur. Bothe promoted to the See of Durham and had for his successor in that Dignity John Bothe collated to it in May 1459 and afterwards became Bishop of Exeter JOHN MORGAN alias Yong a Weâ—â— man and Doctor of the Laws of Oxon. was installed Dean â—â—â—sore in the place of Will. Benley an 1484. 2. 〈…〉 and being elected Bish of S. Davids on the death of 〈…〉 sometimes B. thereof an Oxford Scholar and a â—enefactor to the building of S. Maries Church had restitution made to him of temporalitie belonging to that See 23. Nov. 12. Hen. 7. Dâ—m 1496. He gave way to fate in the latter end of Apr. or beginning of May in fifteen hundred and four whereupon his body was buried between the pillars on the sourth side of the body of the Cath. Church of S. David By his Will which I have seen dated 25. Apr. 15â—4 and proved the 15. of May following it appears that his desire was to have a Chappel made over his grave in the best manner that might be according to the disposition of his Executors but whether ever performed I know not THOMAS PYGOT a Denbighshire man born as it seems was consecrated Bishop of Bangor in the year of our Lord 1500 year 1504 and paying his last debt to nature on the fifteenth day of Aug. in fifteen hundred and four was as I suppose buried in his own Church This Tho. Pygot I take to be the same who supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of this University in order to to the taking of the degree of Bachelaur of the Civil Law an 1458. One of both his names was confirmed Abbat of the Monastery of the Virgin Mary at York on the death of Thom. Stayngreve 24. May 1398. and died in 1405. but what relation the former had to this I cannot tell WILLIAM BARONS Doctor as it seems of the Law Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and afterwards Master of the Rolls in the room of Dr. Will. Warham 1502 and one of the Kings Council was upon the translation of the said Dr. Warham to Canterbury elected to the See of London which being consented to by the King the temporalities thereof were restored to him 13. Nov. 20. Hen. 7. Dom. 1504. He died in Oct. or Nov. in fifteen hundred and five and was buried in his own Church of S. Paul He had studied the Laws in Oxon. and had presided the Chair but in what hall or School it doth not appear In his Bishoprick succeeded Richard Fitz James as I shall hereafter tell you WILLIAM SEVER or Siveyer was born at Shinkley in the County Pal. of Durham educated in this University but whether in Merton coll I am as yet uncertain However as to that which the author of the Commentary of the English Bishops saith that he was Warden of Merton coll and Provost of that of Eaton near Windsore is false for 't was not William but Henry Sever who lived before this mans time that enjoyed those places After Will. Sever had left Oxon wherein I presume he had studied either in Glouc. or Durham college nurseries for those of the Order of St. Benedict he himself being a Benedictine he retired to his Monastery of S. Mary at York succeeded Thom. Bothe in the Abbatship of that place and in 1495. being elected B. of Carlile on the death of Rich. Bell who had been formerly Prior of Durham had the temporalities thereof delivered to him on the eleventh of Decemb. the same year and liberty then given to him to keep his Abbatship in Commendam In 1502. he being elected to the See of Durham had the temporalities thereof surrendred into his hands by the King on the 15. of Octob. the same year where setting but three years payed his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred and five and was buried in the Cath. Church there In his Abbatship succeeded Rob. Wanhop in Dec. 1502. Sever being then Bish of Durham and in his Chaire at Durham Christop Bainbridge whom I shall hereafter mention The book or Hist of the Ch. of Durham calls this Bish Will. Sinewes or Senwse and Leland Senose which book tells us that he was translated from Carlile to Durham by vertue of a Bull sent from the Pope and so by the Breve of K. Hen. 7. dat 15. Oct. in the 18. year of his raign he was consecrated Bishop of Durham 1502. and stood three years c. so that according to time this Sinews must be the same with Sever. THOMAS CLERKE and English man became Archdeacon of the Isle of Man after he had left the University and and at length by provision from the Pope became Bishop of Killala in Ireland 1498. which office he keeping till fifteen hundred and five then resigned it I take this Thomas Clerke to be the same with Thomas written and stiled Thomas Aladensis Episcopus that is Tho. Bish of Killala who by that name and title was admitted Rector of Chedsey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Joh. Fynne 12. Janu. 1505. and dying
But the said promotions being not sufficient to keep up the Port of a Bishop he was made Archdeacon of Nottingham in the place of Tho. Crosley deceased in the beginning of Sept. 1506. He departed this mortal life on the 25. year 1516 Apr. in fifteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the north Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral Church at York In his Archdeaconry succeeded William Fell D. D. and in his Prebendary of Vlleskelf Brian Hygden LL. D. MILES SALLEY or Sawley a Benedictine Monk of Abendon Abbey Almoner thereof and in 1498. Abbat of the Monastery of Einsham near to and in the County of Oxford was promoted to the rich Bishoprick of Landaff in Nov. 1504. and in the year following did bestow considerable exhibitions on certain poor Scholars of Oxford in which University in Gloucester coll I think he had received his Academical education He departed his mortal life in the month of Septemb. in fifteen hundred and sixteen year 1516 at which time he bequeathed many good things to Einsham Abbey whereupon his heart and bowels were buried before the Image of S. Theodorick at the high Altar in the Church of Mathern in Monmouthshire at which place the B. of Landaff hath a Pallace and his body carried to Bristow where it was with great solemnity buried on the north side of our Ladies Chappel before the Image of S. Andrew situate and being within the college of Gaunts which Leland in his Itinerary stiles the Gauntes alias the Bonhomes founded originally by Hen. de Gaunt a Priest After him succeeded in the See of Landaff George Athequa a Black-Frier of Spain who by the name of Georgius de Aitien had the temporalities thereof given to him 23. Apr. 9. Hen. 8. dom 1517. and after him followed a Cambridge Doctor named Rob. Halgate or Holgate of Helmesworth in Yorkshire Master of the Order of Sempryngham and Prior of Watton who after election to that See had the Kings consent 29. March 28. Hen. 8. The next was Anthony Dunstan whom I shall hereafter mention JAMES Mac-MAHON who studied for some time Arts and the Civil Law retired to his native Country of Ireland became thro certain petite preferments Bishop of Derry 1507. and died a little before the nativity of our Saviour in fifteen hundred and seventeen year 1519 He held the Priorship of S. Pet. and S. Paul of Knock in the Province of Louth in Commendam with his Bishoprick THOMAS PURSELL whose place of Nativity is as much unknown to me as the House in Oxon wherein educated became Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland about 1486. and soon after took care that all the ancient charters of Lismore should be transcribed into a Register or Leiger-book which book remaining with his successors till 1617. was by accident then burnt He gave way to fate in fiveteen hundred and seventeen year 1517 but where buried I know not In my searches it appears that one John Bishop of Waterford was Rector of Bawdrob or Baudripp in the Diocess of Bath and Wells in January 1482. 22. Ed. 4. whom I take to be predecessor to Thom. Pursell tho not mention'd by the Author of the Com. of the Irish Bishops EDMUND COURCY was descended from the noble family of the Courcyes of the Province of Mounster in Ireland and when young became a Brother of the Franciscan Order in his own Country Afterwards going into England studied the Theological faculty of which he was in few years after Doctor among those of his Order in Oxon. At length being made Bishop of Clogher in his own Country in 1484. was translated thence to Ross on the sixth of the Cal. of Octob. 1494. He gave way to fate in a good old age in the Monastery of his Order at Temolage in the County of Cork on the 14. of March in fiveteen hundred and eighteen year 1518 and was buried there He is said by a certain Author to be much valued for his Fidelity by K. Hen. 7. and that he was the first of the English Nation that obtained the Episcopal See of Clogher RICHARD WYLSON a Northern man born who after he had spent some time in the Theological faculty among those of his Order in Oxon became Prior of the Manastery of Drax in Yorkshire on the death of one Thomas Hancocke an 1507. and about the year 1515. was made Suffragan Bishop to the Archb. of York under the title of Nigrepont In 1518. he built the Choire belonging to the Church of Bingley in Yorkshire in which Town as 't is probable he was born but when he died it appears not One Rich. Wilson an English man became by provision from the Pope Bishop of Meath in Ireland 1523. and sate there about six years whether the same with the former I cannot tell HUGH OLDHAM or Owldham descended from those of his name living at Oldham in Lancashire was as it seems born at Manchester in that County and being partly fitted for Academical learning was sent to Oxon where continuing for a while went to Cambridge took a degree there and in Sept. 1495. was made Preb. of South Aulton in the Church of Sarum on the death of John Coryndon he the said Oldham being about that time Chaplain to Margaret Countess of Richmond and Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln In 1499. he by the name of Hugh Oldham L. L. Bac. was admitted Preb. of South Cave in the ch of York in the place of Dr. Will. Worsley deceased and on the 12. of Jan. the same year he was installed in his proper person in that dignity In 1504. he being by the endeavours of the said Countess elected Bishop of Exeter by the name of Mr. Hugh Oldham without the addition of Doctor or Bach. was restored to the temporalities of that See 6 Jan. 1504. He sate there several years not without some disturbance from the Abbot of Tavistock occasion'd by a contention between them about the liberties of the Church of Exeter and dying on the 25. of June year 1519 in fiveteen hundred and nineteen was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Peter at Exeter in a Chappel of his own erection hallowed in honour of our Lord God S. Saviour joyning to the South side of the Church a little above the high Altar In which Chappel he appointed some of the Vicars Choral of Exeter to say Mass daily for his Soal He was a benefactor to the said Vicars by giving them the Lands which belonged to the Brethren of the Holy Trinity at Totness in Devonshire whose Cell there had been founded by one De la Bont Lord of Little Totness but suppressed by the said Oldham to the end that they might be reduced together every day at one Table to take Commons He was also an especial Benefactor to C. C. coll in Oxon as you may elsewhere see and at Manchester in Lancashire where his Obit was solemnised several years
with too great confidence transcribed the former narratives So that we yet want an exact and faithful History of the greatest most noble and most disinteress'd Clergy-man of that age His publick imployments gave him little leisure for the publication of any works of learning and if any were published they are dead with him excep perhaps those which I have seen which are the Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes in Ipswich School set before the Grammar of W. Lilye and printed in 1528. THOMAS DILLON was born in the County of Meath in Ireland studied here in Oxon several years but whether he took a degree it appears not At length retiring to his own Country became thro several preferments Bishop of Kildare where sitting about eight years year 1531 gave way to fate in fifteen hundred thirty and one In the said See succeeded one Walter Wellesley as I shall anon tell you WILLIAM WARHAM Son of Rob. Warham was born of a gentile Family at Okely in Hampshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1475. took the degrees in the Laws left the coll 1488. and about that time became an Advocate in the Court of Arches and soon after Principal or chief Moderator of Civil Law School then situated in S. Edwards Parish in Oxon. On the 2. Nov. 1493. he was collated to the Chantorship of Wells upon the death of Tho. Overey sometimes Fellow of All 's coll and on the 13. of Feb. following he was constituted Master of the Rolls Afterwards being elected to the See of London he had the Great Seal of England delivered unto him on the 11. of Aug. 1502 So that in few days after being consecrated Bishop of that See had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the first of Octob. following In the beginning of January in the same year he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and in Nov. as one saith in 1504. he was translated to the See of Canterbury whose inthronization there appointed to be on the 9. March following was performed then with great and wonderful solemnity and magnificence as it may be partly elsewhere seen In 1506. May 28. he was unanimously elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon being then and ever after an especial friend to it and its members as may be discerned in several Epistles that passed between them In some the said members stile him Sanctissimus in Christo Paeter and in others they proclaim in an high manner his prudence profound understanding c. All which I presume was done because he had been a benefactor to the finishing of S. Maries Church and the Divinity School It must be now known that there was a young Knight called William Warham Godson and Nephew to the Archbishop as being Son to his Brother Hugh Warham that waited upon him in his chamber With him the Archb. being always ready to discourse did more than once seriously tell him that if ever after his death any should succeed him in the See of Canterbury called Thomas he should in no wise serve him or seek his favour and acquaintance for there shall said he one of that name shortly enjoy this See that shall as much by his vicious living and wicked heresies dishonour wast and destroy the same and the whole Church of England as ever the blessed Bishop and Martyr St. Thomas did before benefit bless adorn and honour the same c. This is reported by Nich. Harpessfield from the mouth of the said Sir Will. Warham being prophetically spoken by the said Archb. concerning the Thomas that succeeded him meaning Thom. Cranmer After Dr. Warham had sate in Canterbury in great prosperity about 28 years he concluded this life at S. Stephens near to the said City on the 22. of Aug. between the hours of 3 and 4 in the morning year 1532 in fifteen hundred thirty and two Whereupon his body was laid in a little Chappel built by himself for the place of his burial on the north side of the Martyrdom of S. Thomas of Canterbury and had there a reasonable fair Tomb erected over his body but defaced in the beginning of the grand Rebellion began and carried on by the Presbyterians Erasmus of Rotterdam having been a great acquaintance of the said Archbishop had the honour to have his picture sent to him by the owner Which being with great devotion received Erasmus sent him his and between them passed several Epistles In one of which or else in another place Erasmus who had the Parsonage of Aldington in Kent bestowed on him so commends him for humanity learning integrity and piety that in the conclusion he saith nullan absoluti Praesulis dotem in eo desideres The said Archb. left all his Theological books to All 's coll Library his Civil and Can. Law books with the prick-song books belonging to his Chappel to New coll and his Ledgers Grayles and Antiphonals to Wykehams coll near to Winchester See more of him in a book intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae c. Lond. 1572-3 p. 348. 349. c. THOMAS SKEVYNGTON was descended from a right ancient Family of his name living in Leicestershire but whether born in that County I cannot justly tell became when young professed in the Monastery of Cistercians at Merevale or Myrdvale in Warwickshire instructed in Theological and other learning in S. Bernards coll originally built for Cistercians in the north Suburb of Oxon being now S. Johns coll to which place he bequeathed on his death-bed twenty pounds towards its reparation Afterwards he was made Abbat of Waverley a house of the said Order in Surrey and on the 17. of June 1509. was consecrated Bishop of Bangor Where after he had sate several years much commended for the austere course of his life and great charity he submitted to the stroke of death in the month of June or thereabouts in fifteen hundred thirty and there year 1533 Whereupon his heart was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Bangor before the picture of S. Daniel whereon a stone was soon after laid with an inscription thereon shewing that it was the heart of Thomas late Bishop of Bangor and his body in the Choire of Monastery of Beaulieu under a Tomb which he had erected nigh unto the place where the Gospel used to be read In the See of Bangor succeeded John Salcot alias Capon Doct. of divinity of Cambridge translated thence to Salisbury in 1529 where dying in the summer time in August as it seems an 1557. was buried in the Cath. Church there under a Tomb which he in his life-time had provided and erected on the south side of the Choire JOHN ALLEN Doctor of the Laws of this University was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin in the place of Dr. Hugh Inge deceased in the year of our Lord 1528. and died on the 25. of July saith one and another the 28.
the citation of Katherine the Q. Dowager to appear at Dunstable six miles distant from Ampthill when she was divorced and the marriage declared to be void and of no effect He also burnt W. Tyndales translation of the Bible was a disputer with Joh. Lambert alias Nicholls and boasted as R. Holinshed tells us that he had burned fifty Hereticks meaning Protestants and as Dr. Humphrey saith that he had sacrificed to the god of hell above three hundred WALTER WELLESLEY commonly called Wesley was bred up a Canon Regular of the Order of S. Austin and among them in Oxon was he educated for a time Afterwards he became Prior of those Canons of his Order living at Conal in the County of Kildare in Ireland and Master of the Rolls in that Kingdom At length upon the desire of K. Hen. 8. made to P. Clem. 7. he became Bishop of Kildare in 1531. and dying in fifteen hundred thirty and nine was buried in the said Monastery of Conal the Priorship of which he kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick WILLIAM MORE had part of his education among the Oxonians but more in another University was afterwards Vicar of Walden in Essex and Suffragan Bishop of Colchester In 1537. he was made Prebendary of Gevendale in the Church of York but resigned it the year after and on 14. Sept. 1539. he was installed Archdeacon of Leycester in the room of Edm. Bonner promoted to the See of Hereford He died in the Summer-time in fifteen hundred and forty year 1540 and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry in the beginning of March following by Tho. Robertson One Will. More was Lord Prior of Worcester which honourable place he resigned in 1535. but was not the same with him who was Bishop THOMAS SPARKE a Benedictine Monk of Durham spent some time in study in Durham coll in this University took the degree of Bac. of Div. in 1528. being about that time Prior of a certain Cell In 1536. he was nominated and made Suffragan to the Bishop of Durham under the title of the Suffragan Seat of Barwick which is the utmost Town in England towards Scotland See more of him in the Fasti an 1528. THOMAS CHARD or Cherd a Devonian born as it seems was bred a Benedictine Monk and among those was he educated for a time in Oxon but what degrees he took it appears not Afterwards retiring into his own Country he was made Suffragan to Oldham Bishop of Exeter under the title of Bishop of Salubric and by that title do I find him collated to the Vicaridge of Wellyngton in Somersetshire on the resignation of Rich. Gilbert Doct. of Decrees in the month of June 1512. Three years after or thereabouts he had the Priorship of Mountacute of the Benedictine alias Cluniack Order in the said County confer'd upon him on the death as it seems of Joh. Water and in Aug. 1521. he was admitted to the Church of Tyntenhull in the Dioc. of Wells all little enough god-wot to support his honourable dignity By his last Will and Test made 1. Oct. 1541. and proved 4. Nov. 1544. he became a benefactor to the Church of S. Mary Otery in Devon to the Churches of S. Mary Magd. in Taunton at Wellyngton Holberton c. in Somersetshire See another Thom. Chard in the Fasti under the year 1507. EDWARD LEE sometimes of S. Mary Magd. coll was installed Arch. of York on the eleventh of Dec. 1531. year 1544 and died in fifteen hundred forty and four under which year you may see more of him among the Writers In the said See of York succeeded a very worldly person named Rob. Halgate or Holgate D. D. ejected thence when Q. Mary came to the Crown for being as 't is said a married man By his last Will and Test dated 27. Apr. 1555. and proved 4. Dec. 1556. he bequeathed his body to be buried in that Parish wherein he should happen to die but what Parish that is I cannot yet tell ANDREW WHITMAYE a Glocestershire man born as it seems but whether he was of any Order appears not was made Bishop of Crysopolitan and Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester in the time of K. Hen. 8. but the particular year I cannot yet find He gave way to fate in the Dioc. year 1547 of Gloucester in fifteen hundred forty and six or thereabouts leaving then behind him a brother named John Whitmaye Vicar of Minsterworth in Gloucestershire JOHN LONGLAND sometimes Fellow of Magdalen college afterwards Principal of the hall joyning thereunto was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in May 1521. and died in May in fifteen hundred forty and seven year 1547 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Linc. succeeded one Dr. Hen. Holbech alias Rands written sometimes Hen. Randes of Holbech in Lancolnshire educated in Cambridge made the last Lord Prior of Worcester on the resignation of Will. More an 1535. consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Bristow for Latymer B. of Worcester 24. March 1537. constituted the first Dean of Worcester 33. Hen. 8. Dom. 1541. translated from Bristow to Rochester in June 1544. and thence to Lincoln before-mentioned in 1547. He concluded his last day after the 2. Aug. in 1551. and was buried as I suppose in his own Church at Linc. leaving then behind him a Son named Thomas WILLIAM KNIGHT was a Londoner born educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation in 1493. but leaving that place two years after he went to the Royal Court where his parts and industry being soon known was made Secretary to King Hen. 7. and 8. The last of which sending him on an Embassie to Maximilian the Emperour found so much favour from him that besides the great gifts received from his Treasury he had by Letters Pat. dated 14. Jul. 1514. a Coat of Arms granted to him as a farther token of reward for his many services done for the English King in exposing his life to danger wearing it out in continual labours for him and ready for the future to do the like if occasion should require c. The Arms granted to him by the name and title of Will. Knyght Prothonatary of the Apostolical Seat and Embassador from K. Hen. 8. to Maximilian the Emp. are these Parted per fess or and gules an Eagle with two heads displayed sable having on its breast a demi-rose and a demi-sun conjoyned into one counterchanged of the Feild Which Arms are at this day remaining in one of the south windows of the common Refectory of New coll In the beginning of the year 1523. he became Archdeacon of Huntingdon on the resignation of Rich Rawlins promoted to the See of S. David and in the beginning of Dec. 1529. he being then or about that time Prebendary of the fifth Prebendship of the Kings Chappel of S. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster and newly returned
Oxon which was formerly the Priory of S. Frideswyde but then called Christ-church he the said Kynge notwithstanding continued in his office of Bishop and his chair was thence translated also but not his Palace Yet when K. Ed. 6. came soon after to the Crown and made a recital of his fathers erection of the aforesaid Episcopal See he left out Gloc. coll with intentions that it should remain with the Crown for another use in future time So that what house or lodgings the said Bishop Kynge had for his use during the remaining part of his life in truth I cannot tell All that I know more of him is that he being an aged man in Qu. Maries reign being then by Joh. Fox called the Bishop of Thame he did not care to have any thing to do with such that were then called Herâ—icks and therefore he is commended by Posterity for his mildness Also that he paying his last debt to nature on the fourth day of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and seven was buried on the North side of the East end of the Choire of Ch. Church year 1557 Over his grave was a Tomb of course Marble almost breast-high erected with a Canopy over it supported by Pillars of the same but no Arms put on it as never having any or any at least that he knew of But the said Tomb being afterwards looked upon as cumbersome to the place when the Choire was to be new wainscoted and paved with black and white marble Dr. Duppa being then Dean of Ch. Church it was taken away by Henry and John King Canons of the said Church Sons of Dr. Joh. King sometimes Bishop of London great Nephew to Dr. Rob. Kynge before-mentioned and by them it was placed under the lower South Window of the Isle joyning on the South side of the said Choire In which Window they caused to be painted soon after the Picture of the said Rob. Kynge in his Episcopal Robes with his Miter on his head and Crosier in his hand and the ruins of Osney Abbey behind him as also the Arms which the said Hen and John then pretended to The said window was pulled down when the Presbyterians and Independents governed an 1651. by one of the Family of the Kings then living who preserving it safe till the Restauration an 1660. was soon after set up again where it yet continues A certain author named VVill. Harrison tells us that in the time of Q. Mary who died 1558. one Goldwell was Bishop of Oxford who was a Jesuit dwelling in Rome and more conversant as the constant fame went in the Black Art than skilful in the Scriptures and yet he was of great countenance among the Roman Monarchs It is said also that observing the Canons of his Order he regarded not the temporality of that See But it seems since that he wist well enough what became of those commodities for by one mean or another he found the sweetness of 354. l. 16s 06d yearly growing to him c. Thus the said author Harrison By which Goldwell he means I suppose Thow Goldwell Bishop of S. Asaph as if he had been translated thence to Oxon on the death of Rob. Kynge before-mentioned for what Goldwell it should be else unless another Thomas whom I shall mention in the Fasti I know not forasmuch as the generality of authors say that the said Tho. Goldwell left the Bishoprick of S. Asaph when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and that thereupon he went to Rome where he lived in great repute for many years See more among these Bishops under the year 1580. RICHARD THORNDEN sometimes written Thornton a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict of Ch. Church in Canterbury received his Academical education in Canterbury coll in this University of which he became Warden or Guardian about 1528. Afterwards he proceeded in divinity run with the unsatiable humour of K. Hen. 8. and in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. was a great Gospeller and seemed to all to be an hearty Protestant But when Q. Mary came to the Crown he wheeled about was made Suffragan Bishop of Dover under Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury for the County of Kent where he shew'd himself an eager disputant against the poor Protestants as you may see by his arguings and reasonings with several of them about matters of religion in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church written by John Fox who adds of him farther that for his persecuting of Gods Saints he was suddenly taken with a Palsey on a Sunday at Bourn Bishops Bourn in Kent having the day before return'd from the Chapter house at Canterbury Whereupon being conducted to his bed he died soon after viz. in fifteen hundred fifty and seven year 1557 After him succeeded another Bishop of Dover appointed by Card. Pole who shewing himself also vexatious to the Protestants broke his neck suddenly as the said author reports In the year 1569. one Rich. Rogers bach afterwards Doctor of Divinity was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Dover by Matthew Archb. of Canterbury and in 1584. he became Dean of Canterb. upon the promotion of Dr. Th. Godwin to the See of B. and Wells He was Father to Franc. Rogers D. D. and Justice of the Peace in Kent who dying 23. of Jul. 1638. was buried in the Church of S. Margaret in the City of Canterbury After Bishop Rogers decease succeeded in the Deanery of Canterbury one Tho. Nevill D. D. who dying in the beginning of the year 1615. was buried within that Chappel joyning to the body of the Cathedral Ch. at Canterbury which was before repaired by him and wherein he had erected a monument for himself and his brother Alexander Nevill some years before that deceased WILLIAM FINCHE occurs Suffragan Bishop of Taunton under the Bishop of B. and Wells from the year 1539. to 1557. in which last year he was admitted Prebendary of Whitlakynton in the Church of Wells but whether he took a degree in this University tho study he did for a time it appears not In his time lived in the diocess of Exeter one William who writes himself Episcopus Hipponensis having been Suffragan to the Bishop of Exeter which is all I know of him only that he died in 1559. PETER PETO whom some call Will. Peto was born of and descended from the antient Family of the Peto's living at Chesterton in Warwickshire educated for a time for the sake of learning among the Grey Friers of Oxon of which Order he was a zealous brother but whether he took a degree among us it doth not appear unless he did it under another name as some have done Afterwards he became Chaplain if I mistake not to Q. Katherine in whose defence he shewed himself a stout Champion when K. Hen. 8. was about to divorce her as also against the Kings marriage with Anna Bulleyne In 1557. Jun. 13. he was made tho known to be unfit a Cardinal by P. Paul 3. and
and dying on the day before the nones of January in fifteen hundred seventy and six was buried in the Church there belonging to the Cistercians In Meath succeeded one Hugh Brady to which being consecrated in 1563. sate there 20 years WILLIAM DOWNHAM received his first breath in the County of Norfolk was elected Probationer of Magdalen coll in July 1543. and in the year following he was made true and perpetual Fellow of the said house being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth who when Queen did not only make him the first Canon of the tenth stall in the collegiate Ch. of S. Peter in the City of Westminster an 1560. but in the year after Bishop of Chester to which See being consecrated on the 4. of May 1561. had the temporalities thereof given to him on the 9. of the same month In 1566. he was actually created Doct. of div and dying in Nov. in fifteen hundred seventy and seven was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Chester leaving then behind him two Sons viz. George Downham afterwards Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland and John Downham Bach. of div both learned and painful writers In the See of Chester succeeded Will. Chaderton D. D. Master of Queens coll in Cambridge sometimes Margaret afterwards the Kings Professor of div in that University and Prebendary or Canon of the fourth stall in the collegiate Church of S. Peter in the City of Westminster This learned Doctor was born at Nuthurst near Manchester in Lancashire being the Son of Edm. Chaderton by Margery his Wife dauof one Cliffe of Cheshire and he the Son of Jeffr. Chaderton both of Nuthurst He died Bishop of Lincoln leaving behind him one only daughter named Joane begotten on the body of his Wife named Katharine dau of Joh. Revell of London PATRICK WALSH was born as it seems in or near Waterford in Ireland and after he had been partly educated in Grammaticals in that country was sent to Oxon but to what coll or hall therein unless to that of Brasnose I know not In the latter end of the year 1534. he proceeded Master of Arts and about that time applying his mind to the Theological faculty supplicated at length the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences in 1545. but whether he was admitted it appears not in the publick Register which was much neglected by the then Scribe About that time he was Dean of Waterford and in so great repute for his learning and religion that he was made Bishop of that place and of Lismore To which being consecrated in August 1551. had liberty then allowed him to keep his Deanery in Commendam for a time He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred seventy and eight and was year 1578 as I suppose buried in his Church at Waterford He had a Son named Nich. Walsh who was then Bishop of Ossory and about that time had a hand in translating the New Testament into the Irish tongue This Nich. Walsh seems to have been educated in the University of Cambridge WILLIAM BRADBRIDGE or Brodebridge was a Londoner born but descended from those of his name in Somersetshire was admitted Fellow of Magdalen coll in 1529. and afterwards proceeding in Arts was at length admitted to the reading of the Sentences an 1539. being then arrived to some eminence in the Theological Faculty About the middle of March 1 and 2 of Phil. and Mary dom 1554. he was made Prebendary of Lime and Halstock in the Church of Saliâ—bury vacant by the death of one Rob. Bone and in the beginning of Q. Elizab. shewing himself conformable to the discipline then established was made Dean of the said Church in June 1563. void by the death of Pet. Vannes an Italian In 1565. he supplicated the ven Congreg of Regents that he might be admitted Doctor of divinity but whether he was really so or diplomated it appears not in the pubick Register and on the 18. of March 1570. he was consecrated at Lambeth Bishop of Exeter which See he laudably governed for about 8 years He ended his days suddenly at Newton-Ferrers in Devonshire on the 27. June saith one and another the 29. July in fifteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the north side of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter To him succeeded in the said See Joh. Woolton whom I have mentioned among the writers under the year 1593. and him Gervase Babington D. D. descended from the antient Family of the Babingtons in Nottinghamsh who while he was Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke assisted his Noble Countess Mary Sidney in her translation of the Psalms For it was more than a Womans skill to express the sense so right as she hath done in her verse and more than the English or Latin translation could give her THOMAS BENTHAM a learned and pious man of his time was born at Shirebourne a Market Town I think in Yorkshire admitted perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll 16. Nov. 1546. proceeded in Arts the year after and about that time did solely addict his mind to the study of Theology and to the learning of the Hebrew tongue in which last he was most excellent as in those of Greek and Latin which he had obtained before he was M. of A. After Q. Mary came to the Crown he was turn'd out of his Fellowship for his forward and malepert zeal against the Cath. Religion in the time of Edw. 6. by the Visitors appointed by her to regulate the University Whereupon retiring first to Zurich and afterwards to Basil in Germany became Preacher to the English Exiles there and expounded to them the intire book of the Acts of the Apostles Afterwards being recalled by some of the Brethren was made Superintendent of them at London and continued among them in a timorous condition for some time At length when Q. Elizab. succeeded he was nominated Bishop of Lichf and Coventry upon the deprivation of Dr. Ralph Bayne To which See being elected had the temporalities thereof restored to him 20 Feb. 1559. being then about 46 years of age On the 24. of March following he was consecrated and about six years following he was actually created Doct. of divinity being then in great repute for his learning He died on the 21. of Feb. in fifteen hundred seventy and eight leaving then behind him a Widdow named Matilda He was succeeded in Lichf and Cov. by Dr. Will. Overton of whom I have made mention among the writers under the year 1609. NICHOLAS HEATH or Heth a most wise and learned man of great policy and of as great integrity was descended from the Heaths of Aspley in the Parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire but whether born there where his brother had certain lands I cannot tell was educated for a time in C. C. coll in this University but before he took a degree there
Dignitaries I cannot yet find The said Philip Dense who was a learned man as certain Writings which he left behind him shew'd died of a pestilent Disease 4 Sept. 1507 and was buried in the choire belonging to the Church of the said Coll. Doct. of Div. John Colet the most learned and religious Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral in London I have largely mention'd him before John Adams of Merton Coll. He was afterwards a Dignitary in the Church This year was a Supplicat made in the ven Congregation of Regents in behalf of Father William Byrd a Benedictine Monk to be admitted Bach. of Div. or licensed to proceed in that Faculty but whether either was granted I cannot tell I take this Father to be the same William Byrd who was elected Prior of the Monastery of Benedictines at Bathe in Aug. 1499 after the death of John Cantloâ— the preceeding Prior. For what Benedictine of both those Names it should be but he I cannot tell It is reported by one who pretended to know him well that this Will. Byrd was given much to Chemistry and chemical Operations that he found out the Stone or discovered the Elixir and at the Suppression of Abbeys he hid it in a Wall And ten days after he went to fetch it out And there he found the stople of a Clout This put the Father into so great an Agony that he became almost frantick as the same Author tells us who adds that he ever after wandred about had no setled place that he became blind had a Boy to lead him about lost his Ecclesiastical Preferments and died poor with other the like fabulous Tales which are commented upon forsooth by a certain Rosacrucian as if they were as true as Gospel I find this Person Will. Byrd to have expended much money in finishing his Church at Bathe which is now the great Church there dedicated to S Peter and S. Paul but before he could finish it he gave way to Fate which hapning on the 22. of May 1525. John Holway of the same Order was elected Prior on the first of July the same year and was Prior thereof at the dissolution or suppression of Abbeys and not W. Byrd as several Authors report Towards the upper end of the Choir of the said Church dedicated to S. Peter and Paul was by the Appointment of this Person erected between two of the South Pillars a neat tabernacular Edifice which I presume he intended to be the Seat of the Prior at Divine Service His Arms on the Roof of it are curiously carved out in Stone which are a Chevron between three Spread Eagles on a chief a Rose between two Lâ—zenges and on the outside of the said Seat is a Memorial of his name viz. a W and a Bird carved in Stone in which Seat or else near to it he was as I conceive buried As for John Cantlow beforementioned who was his Predecessor and graduated in this University he built in a certain Village near Bathe called Holloway in the Parish of Widcomb a pretty little Chappel dedicated to S Mary Magd. as also as 't is said there the little Hospital adjoyning for Lunaticks An. Dom. 1505. An. 20 21 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. Mayhew again Commiss Sim. Greene again Jo. Roper D. D. who proceeded in Div. this year John Adams D. D. of Mert. Coll. Proct. Will. Patenson or Batenson of Queens Coll. Bor. John Goolde of Magd. Coll. Aust The Junior was afterwards Principal of Bâ—ham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. Bach. of Musick Or such who were admitted to the reading of any of the Musical Books of Boetius June vlt. Dominus John Goodman now noted for his Compoâ—â—â—â—s in that Faculty which are I presume somewhere still in being Bach. of Arts Of above 27 who were admitted this year none of any note do yet appear or are worthy to be remembred only Mathew Smyth of Oriel Coll. who was afterwards the first Principal of Brasnose Coll. and a Benefactor to Learning and another named John Cottisford of Linc. Coll. afterwards Rector of that House and a Dignitary Both whom were admitted the last of June Bach. of the Civil Law Or such who were admitted to the reading of any book of the Institutions About 10 were admitâ—ed this year among whom Dionis Calakan an Irish Man was one June ult Twenty or more also supplicated for the said Degree who were not admitted this year among whom Tho. Bennet was one but whether the same Tho. Bennet who became Chauntor of the Cath. Church of Salisbury in Jan. 1541 I dare not affirm it Bach. of the Canon Law Or such who were admitted to the reading extraordinary of any Book of the Decretals or Volumes About 17 were admitted this year of whom Rich. Wykeham and John Colchester Benedictine Monks were of the number ult June and Nelanus Neal a Carme or White Fryer another Twelve also at least supplicated for the same Degree but were not admitted among whom Thom. Cbeltenham a Benedictine was one Mar. 16. Mast of Arts Jan. 25. Thom. Southerne He was afterwards Proct. of the University Treasurer of the Cath. Church at Exeter and Fellow of Eaton Coll. near to Windsor He died in 1557. Besides him were about 20 more admitted Masters of Arts but none of any note that I can yet find among them Bach. of Physick Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorismes of Hippocrates John Parkhouse of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Principal of Hart Hall and taking holy Orders became Canon of Exeter Cath. and a Dignitary elsewhere which is all I yet know of him Bach. of Div. June 20. William Godmersham a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict He was about this time either a Prior or an Abbot Jan. 18. The venerable Father Thom. Charde a Monk of the Cistercian Order and Abbat of the Monastery of Foord in Devonshire was then admitted See more under the year 1507. Doct. of the Civil Law None were admitted this year only several supplicated in order to be admitted among whom were John Wardroper Bach. of both the Laws Feb. 6. Doct. of Div. Apr……John Rooper or Roper of Magd. College who after he had proceeded became Commissary this year Jan… Rog. Vanghan or Vachan a Black Fryer or Dominican Prior of the Coll. of Black Fryers in the South Suburb of Oxon. Feb. 3. John Aslaby was then admitted which Degree he compleated in an Act celebrated on the 15. of the same Month at which time ten Masters of Arts proceeded Incorporations Or such who have taken a Degree in another University and have been embodied or taken into the bosom of this of Oxon and have enjoyed the same Liberties and Privileges as if they had taken their Degree here Jul. 2. Walt. Peers Doct. of the Civ Law of Bononia in Italy where he was held in great Admiration for that Faculty was then solemnly incorporated into the same Degree in the House of Congregation Jan. 24. Rich.
Warham Archb. of Canterbury and a Dignitary Nov. 29. John Sixtinus LL. D. of the Univ. of Senes in Tuscany was then incorporated having been more than an year in this University He was afterwards dignified in the Church of England and was reckoned one of the Foreigners who were excused from paying a subsidie to the King an 1513. Petr. Carmelian Polyd. Virgil Erasm Roterodamus Andr. Ammonius c. who were beneficed and dignified in the Church were excused also Jan. … Rich. Talot or Tollet Bach. of the Civil Law of this Univ. and Doct. of the same fac at Cambridge Feb. 3. Brian Roos Doctor of Decrees of the Univ. of Valence He died 1529 and was buried in the Church of Chelray in… One Will. Petoe M. A. of Cambridge was also incorp on the 14. June One Peter whom some call William Petoe was a Cardinal See among the Bishops under the year 1558. An. Dom. 1511. An. 3. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Will. Fauntleroy again Tho. Drax D. D. of Lync Coll. John Roper Princ. of George hall John Cockys LL. D. Edm. Wylsford D. D. Provost of Oriâ—l Coll. Proct. Will. Brooke of Oriel Coll. Austr elected on the last day of Apr. Tho. Southerne Bor. elected 2. May. Grammarians Dec. 11. Maurice Byrchensaw a Scholar of the fac of Rhetorick was then admitted to inform in Grammar He taught in the School joyning to Magd. Coll. great gate and was afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law Mar. 18. Edw. Watson a Scholar of the fac of Gram. This Person had afterwards his grace granted to him for the Degree of Bacâ— of Grammar conditionally that he compose an hundred verses in praise of the University and also make a Comedy within one year after he had taken that Degree but whether he was admitted or did take it it appears not Bachel of Grammar Apr. 8. John Burgeys a secular Chaplain was admitted to the reading of any book of the fac of Grammar Bach. of Rhetorick Jun. 3. John Bulman a Scholar of the Art of Rhetorick was admitted to the reading of any book of the said faculty viz. the first book of Tullies Offices and the first book of his Epistles Bach. of Arts. Nov. 10. John Constable a famous Latin Poet of his time Feb. 3. John Dovell In one of his supplicates for that Degree he is written Will. Devell yet I cannot take him to be the same with Will. Dovell a Bernardine or white Monk who studied sometimes in St. Bernards Coll. and who succeeded one Rich. Paynter of that Order in the Abbatship of Clyve in Somersetshire Besides these two were 38. or more admitted Bach. of Arts and 8. at least that supplicated who were not adm this year Bach. of Civ Law Jul. … George Grey Son of the Marquess of Dorset Feb. 9. Thom. Colfox of All 's Coll. In the Catalogue of Fellows of that House he is stiled Decanus Salopiae Besides these were adm 4 more and 9 there were that supplicated for that Degree who were not adm this year I find also 5. who were adm Bach. of the Can. Law and six who supplicated most of whom were secular Chaplains Mast of Arts. Jun. 5. James Fitzjames of St. Albans hall lately of Mert. Coll. See more in the year 1516. June 21. John Quarre of Merton Coll. He is the same John Quarre as I suppose who occurs Archdeacon of Landaff 1541. Feb. 6. Rog. Edgworth of Oriel Coll. Feb. 12. John Blyss mention'd under the year 1507. Besides these were about 33 admitted and eleven or thereabouts that supplicated that were not adm this year Opponents in Div. May 31. John Bosforus a Cistercian Monk of St. Bernards Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and Abbat of Tiltey in Essex About the same time he supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Div. which I presume was granted tho not set down in the register He is sometimes written Joh. Browne alias Brome Nov. 19. Frat. Rob. Low or Law a Carme Whether he was adm Bach. of Div. according to the custom of those that oppose in that fac it doth not appear in the publick register See more of him among the Doct. of Div. in 1520. Besides these were eleven more that opposed most of whom were afterwards adm Bac. of Div. Bach. of Div. Jul. 1. William Malverne alias Parker a Benedictine Monk On the 4. of May 1514 he was elected Abbat of St. Peters Church in Glocester on the death of one John Newton D. D. and continued Abbat till the dissolution of his Church See more among the Doctors of Div. 1515. Dec. 12. Joh. de Coloribus a Dominican Mar. 14. Hugh Whitehead of Durham now Trinity Coll. See among the Doctors of Div. under the year 1513. Mar. 22. Fr. Rich. Mallet a Fryer of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit who had studied 12. years here and at Cambridge … Rob. Schouldham a Benedictine Monk He was now or soon after an Abbat See in the year 1515. Six more were admitted and 7 supplicated that were not adm this year of whom Rog. Necham a Benedictine was one Doct. of Civ Law Not one admitted only John Jane LL. Bac. of New Coll. supplicated for the said Degree March 25. Doct. of Can. Law Not one admitted only Thom. Byrd supplicated for that Degree Whether he be the same Tho. Byrd who from being a Canon of the Order of St. Austin in the Priory of Taunton was elected Prior of Barlich of the same Order in Somersetsh 3. Sept. 1492 upon the deprivation of Rob. Wynde I know not He resign'd his Priorship on the first of Decemb. 1524 and the very next day one John Norman was elected into that place Doct. of Div. Dec. 15. John Longland of Magd. Coll. Afterwards Bishop of Lincolne Those that supplicated for the Degree of D. of D. this year were 1 Laur Stubbes afterwards President of Magd. Coll. 2 Tho. Castell a Benedictine Monk and Warden or Gardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon. I find one Tho. Castell a Doctor of Oxon to have succeeded in the Priorship of Durham John Aukland D. D. an 1494 but what relation there was between them unless this last was Uncle to the former I know not See more in the year 1513. 3 Will. Porter Bach. of Div. Warden of New Coll. and Chaunter of Hereford 4 John Esterfeild c. Incorporations Apr. 3. Hugh Inge or Yuge sometimes of New Coll. Master of Arts of this Univ. and D. of D. beyond the Seas was incorp D. of D. He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin Rob. Spence LL. D. beyond the Seas was incorporated the same day May … Rich. Smyth M. A. of this Univ. and Doctor of the Civ Law beyond the Seas June 26. Rob. Fairfax Doctor of Musick of Cambridge This Person did afterwards live in Hertfordshire and was buried in the Church at St. Albans near or under the seat where the Mayor of that place usually sits I have seen some of his Musical compositions of three or more parts which
July and November yet not set down as admitted In a certain writing dated this year he is written thus John Incent LL. Bac. Episcopi Winton commissarius ejusdem consistorii Episcopalis Praesidens He became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in 1537 in the place of Richard Sampson promoted to the See of Lichfield and about the same time was made Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near Winchester He founded a Free-school at Berchamsted the place of his nativity in Hertfordshire for 120 Scholars to be taught therein allowing to the Master Ushers and School it self a very ample salary 33. Hen. 8. The visitor of which is the Warden of All 's College and several of its Masters have been of that society In the old hall belonging to Doctors Commons near St. Pauls Cathedral were in one of the Windows his Arms viz. Argent on a bend gules a fair and innocent Virgin stark naked with her hair loose about her shoulders or her right hand is extended above her head holding a Chaplet of roses therein and her other hand covers her privities The other four who supplicated were 1 Matthew Knightley 2 Richard Browne 3 William Marbull 4 Peter Ligham all Bachelers of the Civil Law Doct. of Can. Law May 25. Edmund Horde sometimes by a mistake written Forde of Allsouls College This Person whom I have mention'd among the Civilians in 1510 was about this time a noted Advocate in the Court of Arches and Procurator of the Charter house near London William Fleshmonger of New Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Chichester in the place of John Young Bishop of Callipolis who died 1526 and a Benefactor to New College See Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. a. There also supplicated for this Degree 1 Ailnoth Arscot sometimes Principal of Perkwaters Inn now involv'd within the limits of Christ Church 2 Michael Wogan or Ogan Both which were Bachelers of the Canon Law Doct. of Div. Apr. ult William Goderyche May 4. Fr. Henry Osbourne a Dominican 13. The ven Father Hugh Whitehead a Benedictine Monk In 1512 he succeeded Thomas Castell in the Wardenship or Gardianship of Durham College in Oxon and in 1524. he succeeded another Thomas Castell in the Priorship of the Church of Durham See more in the year 1511 among the Doctor of Div. This Hugh Whitehead living to see his Priory dissolved he was soon after made the first Dean of Durham by the foundation Charter of King Hen. 8. dat 12. May an reg 33. Dom. 1541. In which Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Horne of Cambridge by the donation of King Ed. 6. dat 20. Nov. an reg 5. Dom. 1551. The said Whitehead dying at London was buried in the Church of the holy Trinity called the Minories but when I cannot yet tell May 15. Kobert Hyll of Merton Coll. June 27. Fr. Thomas Anyday Robert Saunderson Gilbert Saunders John Smythe John Browne Minorites or Grey-fryers Nov. 19. Nov. 25. Richard Ferys the Provincial of the Carmes or White fryers He was now or lately Prior of the Coll. of Carmes in the North suburb of Oxon. January 22. John Baker 23. Edm. Forest Prior of Langthony See among the Bach. of Divinity 1509. 25. Laurence Stubbes of Magdalen Coll. Afterwards President of that house in the room of Dr. John Hygden 29. John Hygden of Magdalen Coll. In 1516 he became President of that College in 1524 Dec. 2. he was admitted Prebendary of Wighton in the Church of York and the year following Dean of Cardinal College in Oxon. In 1529 he was made Prebendary of Wetwang in the said Church of York and in 1532 Dean of the Coll. in Oxon. founded by King Henry 8. on the site of that of Cardinal in which year dying he was succeeded by Dr. John Oliver in the said Deanery Feb… John Byrde a Carme In the year 1516 he succeeded the aforesaid Richard Ferys in the Provincialship of the Carmes and was at length Bishop of Chester as I have told you in 1510. Four also supplicated this year to be admitted Doctors of Div. of whom Robert Cheltenham a Benedictine was one and Simon Mollonde Bach. of Div. of Mert. College another but were not admitted The other two were afterwards admitted as I shall tell you when I come to them Incorporations Jul… John Wythers of Magd. Coll. M. of A. and sometimes Proctor of the University afterwards made Doctor of the Canon Law by the Popes Bull was then incorp Dr. of the Canon Law Oct… Thomas Hanyball or Hannyball Doctor of the Civil Law of Cambridge In the year 1504 May 14. he was installed Prebendary of Gevendall in the Church of York upon the resignation of John Hatton Bishop of Nigrepont and in the year 1514 he became Chancellour of the Diocels of Worcester in the place of one Rob. Hallesworth Doctor of Decrees who succeeded Tho. Alcock LL. D. in that office 1508 and Alcock Tho. Wodyngton Dr. of Dec. 1503. In 1522. 14 Hen. 8. I find the said Tho. Hanyball to be living in Rome in the quality of the King of Englands Orator and in that of Agent or Factor for Cardinal Wolsey to the last of which he ever and anon gave an account by Letters of the Affairs of Rome In one dated 13 Dec. 1522 he told the Cardinal that his Holiness hath sent for Erasmus Rot. under a fair colour by his brief and if he come not I think saith he the Pope will not be content c. In 1524 the said Dr. Hanyball was made Master of the Rolls in the place of Dr. John Clerke which honorable Office he keeping till 1528 was succeeded therein by Dr. John Taylor of whom I shall speak at large in 1522. Nov. … Robert Byse or Bysse Dr. of the Civil Law in the Court of Rome In the year following 1514 he occurs by the Name of Rob. Besse LL. D. Principal of Henxsey Hall and in 1524 he became Vicar General to the Bishop of B. and Wells by the death of Roger Church Dec. Doctor and Canon of Wells as also a great Pluralist in the Dioc. of Wells and elsewhere He died in the month of Dec. or thereabouts 1546. Nov. 18. William Latymer Bach. of Art of this University and Mast of Arts beyond the Seas was then incorporated M. of A. Perhaps this William Latymer may be the same whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1545 where you 'll find another Will. Latymer who was Dean of Peterborough This year also supplicated to be concorporated 1 John Buke D. D. beyond the Seas 2 John Dolman Dr. of Civ Law of Cambridge 3 Charles Lucy Bach. of Phys of Cambridge but whether any of them were accordingly incorporated I cannot yet find I think Dolman was because his Supp was granted simpliciter There was also a Supplication made that Richard Mayster M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge might be incorporated but whether granted I know not I take this Rich. Mayster to be the
Grammarian He was afterwards Prebendary of Wells Jan. 28. Thomas Nightinghall Vir lepidus poeta as Baleus saith See among the Writers under the year 1524. Besides these two five were admitted and about 16 that supplicated who were not this year admitted Bach. of Can. Law Thirteen were admitted and eleven there were that supplicated who were not admitted this year Many of which were without doubt afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Mast of Arts. June…John Constable of Byham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. See among the Writers an 1520. March 5. John Clark of Magd. Coll. Quaere Besides these two were about 25 admitted and eleven or more that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. April 29. Thomas Knolles of Magd. Coll. In the year 1507 he became Subdean of York upon the promotion of Dr. James Harrington to the Deanery of that Church and resigning in 1529 being then Prebendary of Aplethorpe in the said Church Will. Clifton LL. D. succeeded See more among the D. of D. an 1518. May 9. John Essex a Benedictin He was afterwards Lord Abbat of S. Austins at Canterbury Nine besides were admitted among whom was Roger Stanford a Benedictin Monk of Worcester afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there and about eighteen that supplicated Doct. of Law Not one admitted either in the Canon or Civil Law and but three that supplicated viz. William Barow John Blount and William Middleton Doct. of Physick Not one admitted only Malachias Arthur sometimes a Graduat of Oxon. and afterwards Doctor of Physick of Bononia supplicated to be admitted to practise in the said Faculty Oct. 23. which was accordingly granted Doct. of Div. June 10. Nich. Myles or Mylys of Queens Coll. He was a Benefactor to Learning See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 115. b. Dec. 13. Fr. Will. Wetherall Prior of the College of the Fryers of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit in Oxon. In the year 1531 I find that he was Provincial of the Austin Fryers of England and whether he was the last that bore that Office I know not He is sometimes written but falsely Wodiall See among the Incorporations this year Jan… Edmund Smythesby a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin In another place in the Register he is said among the Bach. of Div. to be a Fryer of the Order of S. Austin Besides these who were admitted Doctors of Divinity supplicated for the said dagree about 20 among whom were 1 Will. Malvern Lord Abbat of S. Peters in Glocester as the publick Register stiles him whom I take to be the same that Jo. Leland calls Malvern alias Parker late Abbat of Glocester who made a Chappel joyning to the Church of Glocester to be buried in 2 Rob. Showldham or Shuldeâ—m mentioned under the year 1511. He was a Benedictin or Black Monk and now or soon after Lord Abbat of S. Saviour or S. Mary Overie in Southwark Also Tho. Marshall a Benedictin Will. Hoddeson a Dominican John a Pantry Bac. Div. and Provost of Queens Coll. John Holder and John Hoper Masters of Arts of Mert. Coll. Tho. Barton and Tho. Sellyng Bachelaurs of Div. and Benedictines c. did supplicate Incorporations Apr… Tho. Martyr M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge Oct. 26. Fr. Will. Wetheral Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He soon after was admitted Doctor of that Faculty in this University as 't is before told you Mar… Will. Clerke M. A. of Cambridge c. An. Dom. 1516. An. 8 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Cant. Commiss Laurence Stubbes D. D. and others Proct. Richard Walker of Merton Coll. Edmund Grey of New Coll. April 2. Bach. of Musick Not one appears admitted by the negligence of the Scribe On the 13 of Apr. Hen. Peter or Petre a secular Chaplain who had spent 30 years in Practical and Theoretical Musick supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Musick which being granted he was without doubt admitted One John Draper also a Student in the said Faculty supplicated also which was granted with one or more conditions Bach. of Arts. June 17. James Timbervyle of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter December 16. Thomas Wylson See in 1546 and 53. Besides these were about 38 admitted and about 21 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Law Six in the Canon and nine in the Civil Law were admitted Thirteen in the Canon Law supplicated who were mostly secular Chaplains among whom was Richard Newman a Canon regular of the Order of Premonstratenses as the public Regist saith and about twelve in the Civil Mast of Arts. June 27. Thomas Abell or Able See among the Writers an 1540. John Clerk of Magd. Coll. Besides these were about 34 admitted and about 9 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. May 5. James Fitzjames of S. Albans Hall This person who was Son of John Fitzjames Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England was now Chancellor of the Church of Wells and had several Benefices in that Diocess whereof the Rectorship of the Collegiate Church of North-Cadbury was one In 1534 he was made Prebendary of Warmystre in the Church of Wells and in the same year by the death of Thomas Lovell Decr. Dr. he was made Subdean of Wells and Vicar General to the Bishop thereof He had other Preferments in the Cath. Church of S. Paul in London given to him by his Uncle Dr. Richard Fitzjames Bishop thereof was soon after a Doct. of Div. but whether of this University it appears not and died in the beginning of the year 1541. Besides him were about four admitted and about fifteen that supplicated who were not admitted among whom William York a Canon and Bac. of Arts was one Doct. of Can. Law June 21. William Burghyll a secular Chaplain John Morrice or Morres Peter Lygham or Lyngham February 7. William Clyfton In 1522 he became Succentor of the Church of York on the death of William Cooke and in May 1529 he was made Subdean of the said Church on the Resignation of Dr. Thomas Knolles In the former Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Nooke 1529 in which year Clyfton resigned and in the other by Rob. Babthorp D. D. in September 1548 in which year Clifton died Bapthorp dying in 1570 Edmund Buney succeeded him whom I have elsewhere mention'd Doct. of Div. Not one admitted only three or more supplicated viz. William Wall and William Germyn Minorites and Richard Doke all Bach. of Divinity whom I shall anon mention An. Dom. 1517. An. 9 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Mr. Rich. Doke or Duck of Exeter College now Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey Proct. Thomas Irish of Exon Thomas Musgrave of Mert. Coll. Bach. of Arts. Thomas Garret was this year admitted but the Month or Day when appears not because the Register is imperfect however in the year following he occurs by the Title of Bach. of Arts. He
of Arts to be the same with him who became perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1513 and was afterwards an eminent Schoolmaster Jul. 11. Will. Tresham of Merton Coll. March 15. John Rogers Quaere Bach. of Div. Six admitted of whom Richard Glocester and John Newbolt Benedictines were two and about 23 supplicated who were not admitted this year among whom were John Perrot a Minorite Thomas Hill B. of A. and a Bonhome c. Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 6. John Leffe of New Coll. He was afterwards Warden of the College at Maidstone in Kent Vicar General and Keeper of the Spirituality to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near to Winchester He died 19 Aug. 1557 aged 66 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to Wykeham's Coll. near to the said City of which Coll. he was Fellow For the said Degree supplicated Edward Orenge LL. B. and for the Degree of D. of Canon Law supplicated two who were afterwards admitted Doct. of Div. Jan… Leonard Huchenson Master of Vnivers Coll. Jan. ult Robert Law or Low a Carme now Prior of the College of Carmes in the North Suburb of Oxon. In 1505 he was made Provincial of the Carmes in the place of John Vynde or Wynde which honorable Office he keeping about 17 years was succeeded in it by Rich. Ferys Feb. 11. Thomas Mole or Molle a Carme 25. Thomas Francis a Minorite or Franciscan There also supplicated for the said Degree John Burgeis Bach. of Divinity of Magdalen College who was elected President of that House upon Dr. Laurence Stubbes his resignation an 1527 and by the name of President he doth occur in a Deed or Writing dated 10 Jul. the same year but soon after being removed Dr. Richard Knolles was elected Others there were that supplicated who were afterwards admitted except one Mabot Bac. of Div. Incorporations May… Father Robert Myles a Dominican Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge Oct… Fernandus or Ferdinandus de Victoria Doctor of Physick beyond the Seas now Physitian to King Hen. 8. and the Queen Consort He Dr. Thomas Lynacre and Dr. John Chambre were the first Founders of the College of Physitians at London Oct… William Arden a Dominican or Black Fryer Prior elect of the College or Convent of the Black Fryers in the South Suburb of Oxon and D. of D. in the Court of Rome Feb… Thomas Wellys or Wells Master of Arts of this University and Doctor of Divinity elsewhere Whether he be the same with Thomas Wellys mention'd in the Incorporations under the year 1510 I know not This year the month I cannot tell I find that there was a kind of a Supplicate made for one Magnus a Doctor beyond the Sea to be incorporated here but in what Faculty I cannot yet discover This Person was the same with Thomas Magnus who was a Foundling at Newark upon Trent in Nottinghamshire and had the Sirname of Among us given to him as being maintained among certain People there or as some say by certain Yorkshire Clothiers who occasionally travelled that way early in the Morning and first found him At length being brought up in Literature in one of the Universities in England became so much noted to King Henry 8. that he was by him not only promoted to several Dignities but sent Embassador into various Countries whereupon he was by the generality of People called Dr. Magnus and by some Magnus Doctor Among several Embassies that he was employed in was that into Scotland an 1524 where he was employed as the Kings Agent to procure his business and to encline the young Kings eat towards him as also to give intelligence c. Among the Dignities he enjoyed were 1 The Archdeaconry of the East-Riding of Yorkshire to which he was collated in June 1504 upon the promotion of Dr. Richard Mayhew to the See of Hereford 2 The Sacristship of the Chappel of our Lady and the holy Angels at York to which he was collated in Dec. the same year 3 A Canonry in the Church of Windsore an 1520 which he resigning in the latter end of 1547 was succeeded by Dr. Richard Cox 4 The Mastership of the hospital of St. Leonard at York c. And among the benefices he had was the rectory of Bedall in Yorkshire one Towards his latter end he founded a Free-school in the place of his nativity which he well endowed and paying his last debt to nature at Sesay or Sessay in Yorkshire 27. Aug. or thereabouts in 1550 was buried in the Church there Whereupon John Dakyn LL. D. was installed in his Archdeaconry of the East-riding 13. April 1551. I have seen a copy of his last Will and Test dated 8. March 1549. and proved 30. Apr. 1551 wherein he desires that if he dye at his house at Sybthorp or nigh those parts to be buried in the Trinity Isle of the Church of Newark upon Trent afore the midst of the altar there for there he was baptized c. He makes mention therein of his singular good Lord and Master Savage sometimes Archbishop of York and his singular good Lord the Earl of Wilts and Lord Treasurer of England An. Dom. 1521. An. 13. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury Commiss Richard Benger D. of Dec. Proct. Henry Tyndall of Merton College Bor. John Wilde Austr April 17. Grammar May 12. John Kendall 13. Richard Guissoll Jul. 8. Henry Golde Sec. Chaplain One George Marshall did also supplicate but was not admitted Qu. Bach. Musick Feb… John Sylvester did supplicate and was as it seems admitted in that month being at the same time accounted very eminent in his profession Bach. of Arts. About 60 were admitted and about 29. supplicated who were not admitted this year Jul. 8. John Mason about this time Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. was then admitted He was born at a mercate town called Abendon in Berks the son of a Cowherd by his Wife the Sister of a Monk at that place Which last Person finding him very apt to learn he caused him to be trained up in Grammaticals and Academicals in this University where he obtained for him a Fellowship in the said Coll. of All 's Soon after his pregnant and acute parts being taken notice of by great Persons he was upon the motion of Sir Thomas More sent by the King to the University of Paris to be accomplished with other parts of learning After his return thence he became a favourite to K. Hen. 8. who employed him in several Embassies and made him one of his Privy Council After that Kings death he was made a Privy-counsellour to K. Ed. 6. and tho he was a Knight and a perfect Lay-man yet he enjoyed several Church Dignities or as one saith he was a great intruder into Ecclesiastical Livings Among which the Deanery of Winchester Cathedral was one installed therein in the place of William Kingesmyll the last Prior of St. Swithins Monastery there and the first
Lichfield in 1543 and published several books which shew him to have been a learned Man the titles of which you may see in the Oxford Catalogue He did at Eccleshall in Staffordshire the seat belonging to the B. of Lichfield on the 25. Sept. 1554. In like manner was such another supplicate made for Gamaliel Clifton Doctor of Decrees Canon of Windsore and the Kings Chaplain but no appearance there is that he was really incorporated He was afterwards Dean of Hereford and dying in 1541 had for his successor in that Deanery if I mistake not Dr. Hugh Curwyn who before had Preached zealously for the Kings divorce from Queen Catherine An. Dom. 1522. An. 14. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Dr. Benger Proct. Thomas Canner of Magd. Richard Crispyne of Or. Coll. Which Proctors tho elected about Michaelmas yet they took not their places till 27. Oct. following occasion'd by a controversie that hapned in the election of them See Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 248. Bach. of Arts. Mar. 31. John Beconsau of New Coll. the famed Grecian of his time May 27. George Cotes of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards B. of Chester Jul. 21. David Talley or Tolley the noted Grammarian of St. Maries hall Seventy in all or more were admitted and about 22 supplicated for the said Degree who were not admitted This year was a supplicate made for George Carew of Broadgates hall as it seems to have the Degree of Bach. of Arts conferr'd on him but whether he was really admitted having spent about 4 years in the University it appears not This Person being the younger Son of a Baron descended from the Carews of Pembrokshire retired afterwards to the royal Court and married but soon after burying his Wife to his great grief travelled beyond the Seas and improved his knowledge as to Men and Manners very much After his return he took holy Orders was made Archdeacon of Totness and if I mistake not either Prebend or Canon of Exeter In 1552 he was constituted Dean of Bristow in the place of one John Whiteheare who in the year before had succeeded William Snow the first Dean and in the beginning of July 1555 was made Preb. of Ilfarcomb in the Church of Salisbury In the beginning of Aug. 1556 he was made Preb. of Netherbury in Ecclesia in the same Church and in the same year notwithstanding he had been deprived of the Prebendship of Barton in the Ch. of Wells an 1554 1. and 2. of Ph. and Mar. yet he was made Preb. of Dultingcote in the same Church on the resignation of William Thynne and double beneficed in the Dioc. of Wells during the Reign of Queen Mary On the 27. of Oct. 1558 he became Chaunter of the Church of Salisbury and in 1559 Qu. Elizabeth being then in the Throne he was made Dean of the Queens Chappel Dean of Windsore Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and about that time Master of the Savoy Hospital In 1560 he became Dean of Bristow again upon the going away of Hen. Jolliff who had enjoyed it most of Qu. Maries Reign and about the same time was made Dean of Exeter and Rector of Silverton in Devon In 1561 he gave up his Deanery of Ch. Ch. and was succeeded therein by Thomas Sampson a Nonconformist In 1572 he resigned the Deanery of Windsore with a Canonry in that Church being then succeeded in the former by Will. Day Bach. of Div. and in 1580 he resign'd the Deanery of Bristow wherein he was succeeded by John Sprint but when he resign'd that of Exeter I cannot tell He finished this mortal life in 1585 aged 85 and was buried in the Church of St. Giles in the fields near London leaving then behind him a Son named George afterwards Earl of Totness and another named Peter a Knight Bach. of Civ Law Jul. 21. Richard Parker a compounder or one that payed double or treble fees for his Degree as having a temporal estate or a rich Dignity or Dignities Feb. 4. John Foxe Archdeacon of Winchester On the same day he was also admitted Bach. of the Can. Law See more among those following Besides these two were about 22 admitted among whom was Thomas Day of All 's Coll. who was afterwards constituted the second Canon of Osney when first founded by K. Hen. 8. and in few years following was by him made the first Canon of the third Prebendship of Ch. Church at what time Osney was translated thereunto He died in Feb. 1567 and was buried on the 22. of the same month in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. Six also or thereabouts supplicated for the said Degree that were not admitted this year Bach. of Can. Law Jul. 10. Henry Morgan He was afterwards Bishop of St. Davids Feb. 4. John Foxe Archdeacon of the Dioc. of Winchester and Preb. of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury I take him to be the same John Foxe who was afterwards made Fellow of C. C. Coll. by the Founder thereof For in the Catalogue of Scholars and Fellows of that house made by Rob. Hegge whom I have mention'd among the writers under the year 1629. I find one John Foxe a Londoner born to be put in Fellow there 1523 being then or about that time Archdeacon of Surrey as the said Catalogue tells us As for Foxe beforemention'd who was Bach. of Can. Law being nearly related to Foxe Bishop of Winchester became Archdeacon of that place in 1519 upon the resignation of one Hugh Ashton and he upon the resignation of John Frost 1511 and he upon the resignation of Rob. Frost 1502 who succeeded Dr. John Morton that was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury Besides these two were about 18 admitted among whom was Antho. Draycot besides six or more that supplicated Mast of Arts. Mar. 28. Nich. Goldwell Quaere Feb. 10. Rich. Corren or Curwyn See among the D. D. 1531. 20. Nich. Cracher or Kratzer a Bavarian See among the Incorporations following Besides which were 25 more admitted and about 4 that supplicated Within the compass of this year were three Acts celebrated in St. Maries Church viz. the first on the last of March wherein stood nineteen the second on the 21. July wherein stood nine and the third on 23. March wherein stood twelve Masters of Arts. Bach. of Div. Jun. 4. Fa. Richard Saleherst Dionys Dalyance Robert Glastenbury Benedictines 21. Rich. Thornden a Benedictine Monk He was afterwards Suffragan Bishop of Dover 26. John Ramsey a Canon regular This Person who is some years beforemention'd among the Bach. of Arts was afterwards Prior of the Coll. of Canon regulars in Oxon commonly called St. Maries Coll. Jul. 17. Rich. Mawdley or Mawdleu Archdeacon of Leycester See among the D. of D. 1529. Six or more were besides them admitted and 12 that supplicated Doct. of Civ Law June 23. John Olyver In Feb. 1532 he succeeded Dr. John Hygden in the Deanery of the Coll. founded at Oxon. by K. Hen. 8. and dying in Doctors Commons at London in
writers under the year 1537. Feb. 21. John Robyns John Mason of All 's Coll. Only twelve more were admitted and about four supplicated Bach. of Div. Four only were admitted to and eleven or more supplicated for that Degree whom I cannot find admitted this or some years after Among them were 1 William Sandwych a Benedictine Monk afterwards Warden of Canterbury College in Oxon. 2 Robert Carter of Magdalen College about this time Steward of the Houshold of Cardinal Wolsey and afterwards Canon of the College of King Hen. 8. in Oxon. 3 Oswald Benson Minister of the House of St. Robert near to Knaresborough of the Order of the Holy Trinity Doct. of Civ Law June ult Edwarde Carne or Kerne now or lately Principal of Greek hall in St. Edwards Parish He was the Son of Howell Carne of Cowbridge in Glamorganshire by his Wife Cicely Daugh. of William Kemys of Newport and lineally descended from Thomas Le Câ—rne second Son of Ithyn King of Gwent He was a wise Man learned in the Civil Law and afterwards Knighted by the Emperour Charles 5. In 1530 I find him the Kings Orator at Rome to remonstrate to his holiness that the King was not bound by the Law to make his appearance either by Person or by proxy in the Court of Rome according to a citation which was coming to him for his appearance in the matter of his divorce from Queen Catherine In the Reign of Queen Mary who valued him he was Ambassador there for her as also for Queen Elizabeth but when the Pope was stirred with anger upon the resolution of the last to expel his power from England he commanded Sir Edward Carne to lay down his Office of Ambassador and to take upon him the Government of the English Hospital at Rome Yet as 't is thought by some this crafty old Knight did voluntary chuse his banishment out of a burning zeal to the Roman Catholick Religion and eagerly desired to continue there though sent for to come home by the Queen rather than return to his Country which was then ready to be overspread with Heresie as he call'd it He died at Rome on the 14 of the Cal. of Febr. according to the accompt there followed in 1561 about which time the Abbat of Martinego the Popes Nuncio was denied entrance into England and was buried there in the Church belonging to the Monastery of St. Gregory in Coelo He was always accounted the last Ambassadour of the Kings of England to the Pope till Roger Earl of Castlemain was sent thither by King James 2. an 1687. Jim ult Richard Gwent of Allsouls College Principal or Chief Moderator of Canon Law School situated near St. Edwards Church He was about this time Archdeacon of Brecknock afterwards of London in the place as it seems of one William Clyffe Dean of the Arches and at length in 1542 Archdeacon of Huntingdon upon the promotion of William Knyght to the See of Bath and Wells He gave way to sate in 1543 being then Archdeacon of two places at least London and Huntingdon and was buried in the middle of St. Pauls Cathedral in London This Person who was a Welsh Man born was well known to John Leland the Antiquary who in his Encomia illustrium eruditorum virorum in Anglia doth highly celebrate him by the name of Richard Ventanus Juridicus for his virtues and learning Feb. 13. Henry Morgan about this time Principal of St. Edwards hall situated in the Church-yard of St. Edward and near to Canon Law School He was afterwards Bishop of St. David Doct. of Can. Law Mar. 10. Richard Muge or Mugg of Allsouls College He was now beneficed and dignified in the Church and was accounted by all that knew him a learned Canonist Doct. of Div. Not one was admitted this year nor one supplicated for the said Degree only Richard Stubbs or Stubbys Master of Arts Bachelaur of Divinity and Master of Balliol College Incorporations May… William Middleton Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Lovaine June…Richard Brynckley a Minorite or Franciscan Fryer Dr. of Divinity of Cambridge and as our publick register saith General Minister of the Minorites throughout England His supplication which was granted simpliciter and his incorporation are set down in the said register under this year 1524 yet perusing Cambridge tables containing the names of such who were admitted Doctors of that University he is put down there under the year 1527 as being then admitted D. of D. In the said Generalship or Provincialship he succeeded Dr. Henry Standish whom I have mention'd among the Writers and was succeeded by Steph. Baron a Cambridge Man Confessor to K. Hen. 8. and an eminent Preacher of his time This year but the day or month appears not was a Supplicate made for one Rowland Lee Doctor of the Canon Law of Cambridge to be incorporated into that degree but whether he really was so I cannot justly tell his Incorporation having perhaps been neglected to be registred This Rowl Lee was the Son of Will. Lee of Morpeth in Northumberland Treasurer of Barwick by Isabel his Wife Daughter and Heir of Andr. Trollop Kt. who after he had been educated in Academical Learning in S. Nicholas Hostle in Cambridge became first Chancellour to Dr. Jeffr. Blythe Bishop of Lichfield and afterwards Prebendary of Corburgh in that Church At length for the several Services which he had done to please the unsatiable desire of K. Hen. 8. one of which was the marrying him to the Lady Anna Bulleyne was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Lichfield to which being elected by the Name and Title of Rowl Lee Decretorum Doctor Canonicus Prebendarius Eccles Cath. Lichf was consecrated thereunto 19 Apr. 1534 and on the 8 of May following received the Temporalities belonging thereunto In the year following he was made President of the Marches of Wales and dying at Shrewsbury 24 Jan. 1543 was buried there He had a Brother named George Dean of S. Chadds in Shrewsbury who dying without issue as his Brother the Bishop did the Sister of them named Isabel Wife of Rog. Fowler of Staffordshire became Heir to them both An. Dom. 1525. An. 17 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Musgrave Proct. Anthony Sutton of Magd. Coll. John Tooker lately of Exeter now of Cardinal Coll. Bach. of Arts. July 17. Robert Talbot of New Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Antiquary Besides him were about 68 that were admitted and about 10 that supplicated several of whom were afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Bach. of Civ Law Octob. ult Robert Dobell See more among the Bachelaurs of Can Law following Bach. of Can. Law July 11. Arth. Bokeley or Bulkley of New Inn as it seems He was admitted Doctor the next day as I shall anon tell you and was afterwards Bishops of Bangor Oct. ult Robert Dobell He is sometimes written Dovell and Davel and therefore I take him to be the same with Robert Dovell or Davell who
London where dying in the Winter time an 1563 was buried in the Church there He with Hen. Sumner and Richard Coxe had been bred in Kings Coll. in Cambridge and were esteemed excellent Scholars but as for Florentius a Dominican John Akers and Mich. Drumm who came with them I know nothing only the two last took the degrees in Arts here and Drumm one in Divinity Dec. 7. Hen. Sumner Rich. Coxe Will. Betts Joh. Fryth Winmer Allen B. of A. of Cambr. These also came to Oxon to be prefer'd in Card. Wolsey's Coll. March 9. Edw. Staple M. A. of Cambr. now of Card. Coll. Mar. 3. Edw. Wotton M. A. of this University and Doct. of Phys of an University beyond the Seas was then incorporated Doct. of Phys Mar… John Allen LL. D. beyond the Seas He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin An. Dom. 1526. An. 18 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Musgrave again to whom Dr. Roper was substitute Proct. Simon Ball of Mert. Coll. Austr Thomas Byrton lately of Magdalen now of Cardinal Coll. Bor. April 11. Grammarians Dec. 8. George Astley Whether he was admitted to inform only or Bach. of Gram. it appears not Not one beside him was admitted either Bach. or to inform nor one in Musick Bach. of Arts. June 26. Edm. Wolfe one of the jun. Canons of Card. Coll. He had before spent two years in Study in the Univ. of Cambr. Jul. 2. Tho. Key or Kay about this time of All 's Coll. He is mention'd among the Writers under the year 1572. Besides these two were about 37 admitted This year but the month or day I know not was a Supplicat made in behalf of one Tho. Winter to be Bach. of Arts but whether he was admitted I cannot in all my searches find This Tho. Winter who was Nephew or rather nat Son to Cardinal Tho. Wolsey had several Dignities confer'd upon him before he was of Age by the means of the said Cardinal among which was the Archdeaconry of York or of the West Riding of Yorkshire on the death of Hugh Ashton in which he was installed 31 August 1523 being about that time Chancellour of the Church of Sarum in the place of one William Wilton also the Deanery of Wells in the place of Dr. William Cosin sometimes Fellow of Kings College an 1525 and upon the death of Thomas Dalby which was in January the same year he had not only the Provostship of Beverley confer'd upon him but also the Archdeaconry of Richmond in which last he was installed 24 of Mar. the same year c. This Tho. Winter with several others after they had been maintained in the Schools at Oxon by the Cardinal were also by him maintained in the University of Paris to obtain if possible proficiency in such Arts and Sciences which our Universities in England could not yield The Governor or Tutor to Tho. Winter was Tho. Lupset of Corp. Ch. Coll in this University to whom as also to Winter the Cardinal would write that the said Winter should study the Dunces Logick Questions meaning I suppose the Logick Questions of John Dunse In the Schools at Paris I find him conversant in 1528 and what degree or degrees he took there I cannot tell Sure I am that about the time of the Cardinals fall he gave up all or most of his Dignities for about 1530 Dr. Richard Wolman succeeded him in the Deanery of Wells and in Decemb. 1529 Will. Knyght LL. D. succeeded in the Archdeaconry of Richmond and Edw. Lee in the Chancellourship of Sarum in Feb. following As for the Archdeaconry of York he keeping it till 1540 then resigned it whereupon Tho. Westby Bac. of Div. was installed therein 26 June the same year and whether he continued to be the last Provest of Beverley I cannot in truth tell The Arms with which he sealed did very much resemble those of Cardinal Wolsey as it appears in the Office of Arms. Bach. of Civ Law July 2. William Petre of All 's Coll. Feb… Rob. Geffry In 1531 he entred himself into the Soc. of the Brethren of the Order of S. Austin the Hermite Bach. of Can. Law July 2. David Pole or Poole of All 's Coll. He was afterward Bishop of Peterborough Will. Petre before mention'd was admitted Bach. of the Canon just after he had been admitted Bach. of the Civil Law See more under the Doctors of the Civil Law an 1532. Mast of Arts. June 27. John Pollard This person who was afterwards at least twice Proctor of the University became Archdeacon of Wiltshire on the death of Edw. Finch 15 Jan. 1538 and Prebendary of Husborne and Burbach in the Church of Salisbury on the death of Hen. Iden 25 Sept. 1556 c. Nov. 9. John Pekyns of Exeter Coll. The Records of that House saith that he was Proctor of the University Canon of Westminister Bach. of Div. and a Dignitary c. Feb. 25. Alexand. Belsire of New Coll. He was afterwards the first Canon of Osney the first Canon of the fourth Prebendship of Ch. Ch. and the first President of S. John's Coll. but whether Bach. of Div. it appears not in our Registers that are in the latter end of K. Hen. 8. and all the time of K. Ed. 6. very imperfect Besides these three were about 23 admitted and about 5 that supplicated among whom Nich. Vdall of C. C. Coll. was one Bach. of Div. June 10. Fath. Will. Basyng a Benedictine 26. John Holyman of New Coll. Fath. Rich. Talley a Cistercian was admitted the same day One David Talley I have mention'd under the year 1508. 28. Frat. Edm. Bricot a Minorite Jul. 3. Fath. Job Lawerne or Lorne a Ben. Monk of Worcester afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there He died 1551. Besides the said John Lawerne I find another of both his names who was a Benedictin also a Monk of Worcester educated in Philosophicals and Theologicals in Glocester Coll. within this University and at length was Doctor of Divinity He hath written 1 Actus contra quatuor peccata 2 Benedictiones laudationes in vesperiis Oxon 3 Variarum rerum Epistolae and 4 Quaedam chromice All which I have seen bound together in one Vol. with this note following at the end Expliciunt lectiones ordinariae Mri. Joh. Lawerne S. pag. Professoris editae publicè lectae in Scholis Theologiae Oxon. an dom 1448 49. Feb. 18. Fr. Edw. Baskervyle a Minorite He was afterwards Gardian of the Coll. of Minorites or Franciscans in the South Suburb of Oxon. Besides these were about 8 admitted and 10 at least that supplicated On the 12 of June this year Will. Knyght M. A. supplicated the ven Congregation to be admitted Bach. of Div. and the next month supplicated to proceed in the same Faculty but whether either of them were granted it appears not This Will. Knyght I take to be the same with him who was elected probat Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1503 and not Will. Knyght who was a
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
Alex. Nâ—well Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in his Canonry Feb. 13. John Man of New Coll. was then admitted Master being the same whom I have mention'd under the year 1533. In all 39 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. Dec. 3. Fath. Feb. 8. Fa. John Warham Rob. Nettleham Will. Lyncolne Benedictines 15. Will. Haynes of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards Provost of that College Fellow of Eaton the third Canon of Osney and the first of the first Canonry or Prebendship of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Some report that he was also Dean of Exeter but false for 't was Simon Heynes that enjoyed that Dignity Four more were admitted and about 7 there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom John Crayford a Minoritâ— was one who had spent several years in study both here and at Cambridge Rob. Wellys M. A. and Fellow of Eaton Coll. another and Thom. Massie a Canon regular a third which last was Prior of St. Maries Coll. in Oxon and was about this time adm Bach. of Divinity but neglected to be registred by the publick scribe Doct. of Civ Law Jan. 18. Richard Lyell of All 's Coll. Rowl Merick about this time of New Inn was adm the same day He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor For the same Degree supplicated one Rich. Arche LL. B. but was not admitted In 1526 I find him to be Principal of Broadgates hall by the name of Rich. Archer and now 1538 to be the Kings Chaplain and Canon of Windsore On the 28. Dec. 1551. he was made Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Matthew Wotton who had succeeded in that Dignity one Tho. Stevens Doct. of Div. Apr. 13. Father William Todde a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict of Durham Coll. as it seems and a Monk of Durham was then adm Doct. of Div. Not one besides was admitted nor one supplicated for that deg Incorporations May… Christop Massyngberd LL. Bach. of Cambridge and Chanc. of the Church of Linc. Afterwards he supplicated to the licensed to proceed in the Laws but whether he was so it appears not In 1543 he succeeded Dr. Anth. Draycot in the Archdeaconry of Stow and dying 8. March 1553 was buried in the middle of the Isle on the South side of the Choire belonging to the Church of Lincolne Whereupon John Aylmer or Elmer succeeded in that Dignity but before he had enjoyed it an year was deprived of it being then the first year of Qu. Mary and one John Harrison was put into his place 1554. This year on the 19. July the rev Father Anthony Brocke or Brockbey sometimes written Brorbe a Franciscan or Grey Fryer well read in Divinity and learned in the Greek and Heb. tongues sometimes a Student in St. Mar. Magd. Coll. Oxon suffer'd death by hanging for speaking against the Kings proceedings in extirpating the Popes power and demolishing of religious houses I put this observation under the year of his death because that he being reported by one to be a Licentiat in Divinity and by another a Professor of Divinity of this University I cannot find any such thing in our publick registers which are imperfect in several years before this time especially in the year 1517. An. Dom. 1538. An. 30. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss the same Proct. Rich. Arderne of Magd. Coll. Thomas Roberts of Oriel Coll. May 8 Which Proctors were elected then as 't is said by the publick Suffrages of those whom it concerned to give as if an equal power of suffraging in such elections did not now pertain to all Masters Bach. of Arts. May 17. John Fox of Brasenose Coll. He was afterwards of that of St. Mary Magdalen and the noted Martyriologist Feb. 15. George Etheridge John Morwen of C. C. C. In all about 41 besides 14 or thereabouts that were candidates for the said Degree but not admitted this year ☞ Only two this year were admitted Bach. of the Civ Law and but 4 in the next Mast of Arts. Mar. 12. Rich. Caldwell of Brasenose Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician 20 Seth Holland of All 's Coll. In 1555 or thereabouts he became the third Prebendary of the second stall in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester in the place of John Compton alias Teale Bach. of Div. and sometimes Chaplain to K. H. 8. and in the same year he was elected Warden of All 's Coll. In 1557 about Michaelmas he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Philip Haford or Hawford alias Ballard who had been the last Abbat of Evesham in Worcestershire and about the same time became Rector of Bishops Cleeve in Glocestershire upon his resignation of the Rectory of Fladbury In Oct. or Nov. 1559 he was deprived of his Deanery whereupon John Pedder Bach. of Div. one of the Frankfort exiles in the time of Qu. Mary was installed in his place 27. Dec. the same year Holland was afterwards committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where he died in the second year of Qu. Elizab. Mar. 18. James Curthopp of C. C. Coll. In 1546 he became the first Canon of the sixth stall in Ch. Ch. Cathedral Oxon and about the beginning of Qu. Mary he succeeded Gerard Carleton D. D. in the Deanery of Peterborough who in 1543 had succeeded in that Dignity Franc. Abre B. D. the same Abre I mean who from being the last Prior of Northampton was made the first Dean of Peterborough an 1541. James Curthopp died 19. July 1557 and was buried in the Isle next adjoyning on the North side to the choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. He was one of the examiners of John Philpot the Martyr in certain matters of Religion before the time of his suffering Besides these three were but eight Masters admitted if the register saith right and in but one Act celebrated this year on 29. July were only four Doctors of Divinity and one in the Laws that proceeded the Masters being reserved till the Act following which was on the last of March 1539. Bach. of Div. Apr. 8. Frat. John Byllynge a Minorite May 9. Fath. Rob. Dalton John Tewtie Nich. Marley Benedictines May 31. Fat Philip Action Rog. Whalley Rich. Hayles Cistercians alias Bernardines The first of which last three was about this time Provisor of St. Bernards Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon. Jul. 13. John Donne of C. C. C. I have made some mention of him under the year 1528. 14. Fa. Hugh Glasier a Minorite Jul. 23. Fath. Tho. Bede Will. Ambrose Benedictines Two more were also admitted and but two there were that supplicated for that Degree among whom Hen. Stretsham a Minorite who had spent several years here and at Cambridge in Logicals Philosophicals and Theologicals was one After the Abbeys were dissolved in 1535. 36. c. I find very many Monks and other religious Persons who had pensions allowed them out of the Exchecquer to retire to the University and to such places therein that were nurseries for them as Canterbury Coll.
Act celebrated in Sept. comes to 23. Bach. of Physick James Neyland of All 's Coll. Others were admitted but are not inserted in the register Bach. of Div. Jul… Bernard Gilpyn of Queens Coll. This Person who was born of an antient and gentile Family at Kentmeire in Westmorland became a poor serving child of the said Coll. in 1533. aged 17 or thereabouts and about the time that he proceeded M. of A. he was made Fellow thereof being then esteemed a good Disputant in Logick and Philosophy and well read in the Greek and Hebrew in which tongues he was instructed by his contemporary Thomas Neale of New Coll. who was afterwards Heb. Prof. of this University About that time his eminence in learning was such that he was made choice of to be one of the first Masters to supply Ch. Ch. when first founded for a Dean Canons and Students by K. Hen. 8. But continuing there not long was at length taken thence and by the care and charge of his Mothers Uncle Dr. Cuthb Tonstall Bishop of Durham he was sent to travel and while he continued in the University of Paris he did him some service in correcting and printing one of his books as I have elsewhere told you After his return he confer'd on him the rectory of Esington with the Archdeaconry of Durham annex'd about 1556 but in whose room or place I cannot tell unless in that of one Will. Franklin Bach. of Decrees and Chancellour of Durham who occurs Archdeacon of Durham 1531. After he was setled at Esington he preached much against the vices errors and corruptions of the times to the great displeasure of some of the neighbouring Ministers who were then R. Catholicks But his desire being to part with those troublesome places as too much for one Man to keep as he pretended he was presented to the rich rectory of Houghton in the Spring in the county pal of Durham where being setled his Preachings were so frequent and in other places as well remote as near thereunto that he was commonly called The Northern Apostle His almes were also so large frequent and constant that he was usually called The common father of the poor In his Archdeacony of Durham succeeded John Ebden Bach. of Div. sometimes Proctor of the University of Cambridge who had it given to him by Qu. Elizabeth while the See of Durham was void 22. May 1560 a little before which time Gilpyn had a congedeslier sent to him to be elected Bishop of Carlile on the death of Owen Oglethorp but refused it Soon after he erected a Grammar School at Houghton and bestowed 460 l. to buy Lands to endow it for a Master and Usher Which with other Moneys and Lands given for that purpose by Joh. Heath of Kepier Esq the School was setled in 1572 or thereabouts To conclude this worthy Person having his life written and published by one of his Scholars I shall now say no more of him only that he died on the 4. March 1583 aged 66 and was buried in the Church at Houghton and that by his will dated 17. Oct. 1582 he left half of his goods to the poor of that place and the other half in exhibitions upon Scholars and Students in Oxon viz. Mr. Rich. Wharton Mr. Steph. Copperthwaite George Carleton afterwards B. of Chich. Ralph Ironside born in Houghton before-mention'd Father to Gilbert Bishop of Bristow an 1660 Evan Airay Hen. Airay afterwards Provost of Qu. Coll. Will. Cayrus Franc. Risley Tho. Collinson c. He hath written several things but hath nothing extant only A Sermon before the King and Court at Greenwich on the first Sunday after Epiph. an 1552 on Luke 2. from verse 41. to 48. Lond. 1581. oct there again 1630. qu. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Phys or Divinity can I find to have been admitted this year for the reason before specified An. Dom. 1550. An. 4 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicech Dr. Walt. Wryght but he giving up his office according to the Edwardin statutes in the beginning of Michaelmas term Dr. Will. Tresham of Ch. Ch. who before had often been Commissary was elected according to a certain form into his place Proct. Rog. Elyott of All 's Tho. Frynde of New Coll. Bach. of Musick Tho the publick register of this time is very imperfect as having been neglected by one who was afterwards deservedly turn'd out of his place yet it appears therein tho very obscurely that one Joh. Merbeck or Marbeck Organist of St. Georges chap. at Windsore did supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Musick but whether he was admitted it appears not because the admissions in all faculties are for several years omitted All therefore that I can say of him is that he was an eminent Musician of his time as well for the Theory as practical part of Musick as may be seen in a book of his composition intit The book of Common-prayer noted Lond. 1550. qu. besides divers compositions that are not extant As for other books that he wrot and published relate to Divinity and matters against the Pope among which are 1 A concordance of the Bible c. Lond. 1550. fol. c. 2 The lives of holy Saints Prophets Patriarchs c. Lond in 4o. 3 The ripping up of the Popes fardel Ibid. 1581. oct 4 Book of notes and common places with their exposition c. Ibid. 1581. qu. 5 Examples drawn out of Holy Scripture with their application Also a brief conference between the Pope and his Secretary wherein is opened his great blasphemous pride Ib. 1582. oct 6 Dialogue between youth and old age wherein is declared the Persecution of Christs Religion since the fall of Adam hitherto Lond. 1584. oct John Fox in his book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. doth speak largely of this John Merbeck if not too much in the first edition thereof wherein he made him a Martyr while he was living which hath administred a great deal of sport among the R. Cath. writers as Alan Cope Rob. Persons c. Bach. of Arts. William Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards a Cardinal and an Archbishop Will. Overton John Bullyngham of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Bishops in England Pet. Whyte of Oriel Pet. Morwyng of Magd. Coll. c. The admissions of Bachelaurs ad Lecturam and of those ad Determinandum being omitted by the publick Scribe this year the just number therefore is unknown Mast of Arts. The number of Masters that were admitted I cannot tell because record is defective However the number of those that stood in the Comitia held 8. Sept. is fifteen among whom are James Dugdale afterwards Master of Vniv. Coll. and Will. Norfolk of Oriel afterwards Princ. of St. Maries hall and one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester Bach. of Div. John Jewell of C. C. John Harley of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Bishops and the first a very learned Man Paul French of All 's Coll. In 1560 he became Canon
and in his Chauntorship by Rich. Boughton Besides these were four that supplicated for the said degree among whom were Thomas Summaster of All 's Coll. and John Chandler Incorporations July 11. Lancolot Andrewes M. A. of Cambridge He was of Pembr Hall in that University and lately one of the honorary or tituler Scholars of Jesus Coll. in this University Afterwards he became Master of the said Hall Doct of Div. and Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Richard Bancroft promoted to the See of London an 1597 Dean of the said Church of Westminster in the room of Gabriel Goodman deceased 1601. Soon after he was made Bishop of Chichester then of Ely and at length on the 22 Feb. 1618 was translated to Winchester He died in Winchester House in Southwark 26 Sept. 1626 and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Saviour there Several Authors having made mention of this worthy person I shall forbear to speak any farther of him only say this that he was the most eminent Divine of our Nation in his time William Pembertom M. A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day This person who was second Son of Hen. Pemberton of Moreton in Châ—shire Gent. was afterwards Parson of High Ongar in Essex Doctor of Div. and a Publisher of several Sermons among which are 1 The godly Merchant preached at Pauls Cross on 1 Tim. 6. 6. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Sermon on Deut. 1. 16. 17. Lond. 1619. oct He died 10 March 1622 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at High Ongar In the same month of July was a Supplicate made for one Will. Temple M. of A. of Cambridge to be incorporated but whether he was so it appears not He was the same person who was Fell. of Kings Coll. in that University afterwards Master of the Free School in the City of Lincoln Secretary to Sir Philip Sidney when he received his Deaths Wound at Zutphâ—n and after his death to Will. Davison one of the Secretaries of State and at length to Rob. â— of Essex Earl Marshal of England whom if I mistake not he served while he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In 1609 he upon the importunate Solicitations of Dr. James Vsher accepted of the Provostship of Trinity Coll. near to Dublin after which he was knighted and made one of the Masters of the Chancery in Ireland He hath written 1 Pro Maldupetti de unica methodo defensione contra Diplodophilum commentatio Lond. 1581 oct 2 Nonnullarum â— Physicis Ethicis quaestionum explicatio pro Petro Ramo contra a Lieblerum 3. Epistola de Rami dialectica ad Johannem Piscatorem Argentinensem 4. Analysis Anglica triginta psalmorum à primo scilicet ad tricesimum primum Lond. 1611. oct He gave way to fate an 1626 or thereabouts aged 72 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of the Holy Trinity leaving then behind him the Character of à person of great piety and learning An. Dom. 1582. An. 24 Elizab. An. 25 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Rob. Hoveden D. D. Warden of All 's Coll. July 12. Proct. Robert Cook of Brasn Coll. John Browne of Ch. Ch. The day when they were elected appears not because of the imperfectness of the Registers Bach. of Arts. March 28. Simon Presse of Broadgates Hall He was afterwards Minister of Egginton in Derbyshire and published A Sermon concerning the right use of things indifferent on 1 Cor. 8. ver 10 11 12 13. Oxon 1597 oct What other things he hath published I know not April 31. Geo. Abbot of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury July 4. John Buckridge of S. Johns Coll. He was made Bishop of Ely in 1627. 10. Tim. Willys of S Johns Coll. He was afterwards ejected from his place in that House for certain Misdemeanours but getting soon after into the favour of Qu. Elizabeth he was by her diploma made a Doctor Bullatus of the Laws I suppose and by her sent Embassador into Muscovy Nov. 15. Ralph Winwood lately of S. Johns now of Magd. Coll. See more among the Masters an 1587. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day March 18. Philip Jones One of both his names was Author of Three Sermons on Jam. 1. 9 10. Lond. 1588 oct Whether written by him or by Philip Jones who was admitted Bach. of the Civ Law an 1562 or by a third Phil. Jones who as a Bristol man born and a Member of Ch. Ch. was matriculated in 1581 aged 18 I know not Adm. 152. Mast of Arts. Mar. 30. Will. Warford of Thin May 4. Mathew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll. June 18. John Harmar John Terry of New Coll. July 2. Rich. Kilbye of Linc. Coll. 4 Isaac Colfe of Broadgates Hall Oct. 12. Will. Wâ—gge of New Coll. One Will. Wygge sometimes called Way was executed for being a Seminary and denying the Oath of Supremacy at Kingston in Surrey on the first day of Octob. 1588. Whether the same with him who was M. of A. I know not I have mention'd another Will Wygge or Wygges under the year 1566. Feb. 6. Edw Philipps of Broadgates Hall 7. Rob. Abbot of Baâ—l Coll. 15. John King of Ch. Ch. Mar. 23. Hen. Perry of Gloc. Hall Adm. 60. Bach. of Div. July 5. John Garbrand of New 10. Hen Robinson of Queens 13. Thomas Holland of Balliol Coll. Feb. 19. Dav. Powell of Jesus Coll. Joh. Argall of Ch. Ch. Adm. 10. Doct. of Law July 5. Will. Merick of New Coll. Chancellour of Bangor c. Clement Colmer of Brasn Coll. Chancellour of the Diocess of Durham was admitted the same day Miles Lee and Rich. Bellyngham both Bachelaurs of the Civ Law did supplicate for the said degree but were not admitted Doct. of Phys July 5. Anthony Aylworth of New Coll. the Kings Professor of Physick and Physitian to Queen Eliz. He died 18 Apr. 1619 and was buried in New Coll. Chappel 21. Will. Donne of Exeter Coll. Doct. of Div. July 5. William Souch or Zouch of Ch. Ch. On the 14 of Feb. 1583 he became Chauntor of Salisbury on the resignation of Tobie Mathews D. D. John Garbrand of New Coll. was admitted the same day He accumulated the degrees in Divinity Meredith Hanmer of C. C. Coll. was also admitted the same day On the 2 Apr. Tho. Blague a Student in Divinity and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to the Queen supplicated for the said degree of Doct. of Div. but whether admitted it appears not In 1591 Feb. 1. he being then D. of D. and about that time Master of Clare Hall in Cambridge was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of John Coldwell M. D. promoted to the See of Salisbury and in 1604 or thereabouts he became Rector of Bangor upon the Translation of Dr. Rich. Vaughan from Chester to London He died in Octob. 1611 and was succeeded in his Deanery by Rich. Miâ—bourne D. D. who was installed in that Dignity on the 11
said Degree He was born of and descended from the antient and gentile family of the Barlows of Barlâ—w in Lancashire was about this time Fellow of Trinity hall in the said University became Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Edw. Grant deceased Dean of Chester in 1603 upon the death of Joh. Nuttall and in 1605 Bishop of Rochester from whence being translated to Lincolne sate there to the time of his death and kept his Prebendship in Commendam with it He hath written and published several things the Catalogue of all or most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue By his will which I have seen proved 13. Oct. 1613 for in that year he died he desires to be buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincolne if he dye near it or in the collegiat Church at Westminster if he dye there and to have such a tomb over his grave that may resemble that which Dr. Good Goodman Dean thereof set up for himself in the Church of Westminster He was a considerable benefactor to St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge as it there appears being Founder of the London Fellows and Scholars of that house I have made mention of another Will. Barlow and his works among the Writers an 1568. and of a third an 1625. Casparus Thomannus one of the Pastors or Teachers of the School at Zurich of which City his Grandfather by the male line had born the office of Pretor having been recommended by the Professors Teachers and Ministers of the Church and School there to live among and receive an exhibition from the Oxonians an 1599 did spend several years there and occurrs one of the first Persons that was entred a Student in the publick Library when first opened for use He was a learned Man and read a Lecture in the University but his education having been mostly at Geneva did with other strangers of the like breeding so corrupt the Students with their calvinistical Doctrine that it was many years before it could be rooted out An. Dom. 1602. An. 44 Elizab. An. 45 Elizab. Chanc. Thomas Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. John Howson D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. Jul. 15. Proct. Daniel Pury of Magd. Coll. Walt. Bennet of New Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Musick Jul. 13. William Weelks of New Coll. was then admitted Bach. of Musick What he hath composed or published I know not sure it is that Thom. Weelks who was at this time Organist of Wâ—kehams Coll. near to Winchester did publish 1 Madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voyces Lond. 1597. in a large qu. Which being the first fruits of his labours he dedicated them to his singular Patron George Philpot Esq 2 Ballatts and Madrigals to five voyces with one to 6. voyces Lond. 1598. qu. 3 Madrigals of six parts apt for the viols and voyces Lond. 1600. qu. besides compositions in The triumphs of Oriana printed 1601 Hymns and Anthems to be sung in Cathedrals and Collegiat Churches the words of which may be elsewhere seen and other compositions which are remitted among the books reposited in our pub Musick School at Oxon. Quaere whether the Scribe or Registrary of the University hath not set down William for Tho. Weelks Bach. of Arts. May 7. Tho. Anyan lately of Linc. Coll. â—ow of that of Corp. Christi See among the Doctors of Div. 1614. Jun. 8. Benjam Culme of St. Alb. hall See among the Masters an 1605. Jun. 25. Franc. James of Ch. Ch. See among the Bach. of Div. 1612. 26. Rice or Rees Prichard of Jes Coll. 30. Jam. Rowlandson Lancelot Dawes of Qu. Coll. Jâ—n 30. Tho. Aylesbury Rich. Corbet Rob. Burton alias Democritus junior Hen. Byam of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these last four you may see more among the Masters an 1605. Dec. 13. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards B. of Rochester Prichard Dawes Byham and Warner are to be mention'd in the other vol. of Writers and Bishops Admitted 156. Bach. of Law Jul. 8. Joh. Budden of Magd. Coll. Besides him were only 3 admitted and one incorporated named Joh. Crook Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. George Hakewill of Exeter Coll. May 18. Arth. Duck of Hart hall Jun. 6. Norwich Spackman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Proctor of the University Chaplain to James Bishop of Bath and Wells and the publisher of A Sermon before the King at Whitehall on Matth. 9. 13. Lond. 1614. qu. and perhaps of other things which is all I know of him only that he was a Worcestershire Man born 30. Barnab Potter of Queens Jul… Rob. Bolton of Brasn 7. Tho. Broad of St. Alb. hall Coll. Feb. 22. Isaac Wake George Gerard of Mert. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Master of Suttons Hospital called commonly the Charter-house Admitted 71. Bach. of Phys June 14. Rich. Haydock of New Coll. Besides him was only one more admitted viz. Joh. Cheynell of C. C. Coll. and six admitted to practice Bach. of Div. Jun. 8. Will. Goodwin of Ch. Ch. See among the Doctors of Divinity following Jul. 8. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. Adm. 14. Doct. of Law July 8. Joh. Budden of Magd. Coll. He accumulated Oliver Lloyd of Allsouls Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Chancellour of Hereford and in 1615 became Canon of Windsore Which last dignity he changed for the Deanery of Hereford with Dr. Rich. Mountagâ—e of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1617. This Dr. Lloyd died in the City of Hereford in 1625. whereupon Dr. Dan. Price succeeded him in the said Deanery ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 20. Joh. Spenser of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards President of that house June 8. Will. Goodwin of Ch. Ch. who accumulated In 1590 I find this Person to be Subalmoner to Qu. Elizabeth well beneficed in Yorkshire and Prebendary of York Also in 1605. Oct. 25. I find him collated to the Chancellourship of the Church of York on the death of Mr. Will. Palmer as also to another Prebendship in that Church and a Rectory in the said Diocess In 1611 he became Dean of Christ Church and afterwards Archdeacon of Middlesex and dying on the eleventh of June 1620. aged 65 was buried in one of the North isles joyning to Ch. Ch. choire He hath published A Sermon before the King at Woodstock 28. Aug. 1614 on Jer. 1. 10. Oxon. 1614. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Roger Bradshaw of Jesus Coll. the Kings Chaplain was admitted the same day 14. Will. Swaddon of New Coll. On the 10. of Nov. 1610. he was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester on the resignation of John Johnson D. D. and dying 2. Aug. 1623 was buried as I suppose in that North isle of the Cathedral Church of Worcester which adjoyns to the Parlor of the Senior Prebend In his Archdeaconry succeeded Hugh Lloyd D. D. who was admitted thereunto 18. Aug. the same year and dying in 1629 Edward Thornborough M. A. second Son by the first
very uncouth Language to a Princes ears the particulars of which you may see elsewhere For the Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 he was elected again for the same place but being soon after fully satisfied what desperate courses the Members thereof took he left them and retiring to his Majesty at Oxon sate in the Parliament there 1643 and so consequently was a shater of Sufferings then incident to Royalists I have seen divers of his Speeches in MS. but whether made publick I cannot tell He died in 1647 or thereabouts leaving then behind a natural Son of both his names and the character of a man of very loose principles Adm. 65. Bach. of Div. Jul. 6. Will. Laud of S. Johns Coll. Jan. 18. John Burbadge of Linc. Coll. a rich Dignitary in the Church He was nearly related to Rich. Burbadge of the Parish of S. Leonard in Shoreditch near London which Richard who is stiled by the learned Camden to have been alter Roscius died 9 March 1618. Feb. 22. Robert Wakeman of Balliol Coll. On the second day of March this year Gabriel Powell Bach. of Arts of S. Maries Hall who had studied Divinity nine years supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Div. but whether his desire was granted it appears not I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1607. Adm. 12. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law Phys or Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations July 10. Rob. Hill Bach. of Div. of Christs Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time Parson of S. Barthelmew near to the Exchange in London was afterwards D. of D. and always esteemed a learned man and a good and painful Preacher He hath written 1 Life everlasting or the true knowledge of one Jehovah Cambr. 1601. oct 2 The path way to prayer and piety c. Lond. 1613. oct 3 A Communicant instructed c. printed 1617. oct with an Exposition on the Lords Prayer and other things which I have not yet seen See more among the Incorporations an 1598. This Dr. Hill died in 1623 and was buried near to the Body of his Wife in the Chancel of the Church of S. Barthelmew before mention'd One Rob. Hill was Parson of Tredington in the Dioc. of Worcester an 1604 but him I take to be different from the former I find only five Masters of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated this year and two Bach. of Div. of whom Rob. Hill the Writer before mention'd was one Daniel Plancius a Belgian born was this year a Sojourner in the Univ. for the sake of the publ Library and did soon after publish several Books which shew'd him a learned man one of which was answer'd and animadverted upon by Heribert Ross-weidus and Rob. Swertius Joh. Drusius also was a Sojourner not in a private House but in Gloc. Hall who being admirably well skill'd in the Hebrew Chalday and Syriack Tongue was recommended to the chief Heads of the University to read those Tongues either privately or publickly He soon after removed to Ch. Ch. and as a Member thereof took a degree in Arts as I shall tell you in the year following An. Dom. 1605. An. 3 Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again July 16. Proct. Rich. Fitzherbert of New Coll. Joh. Hanmer of All 's Coll. April 11. Bach. of Arts. June 11. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. Many year after his death were published by Dr. Sim. Patrick Dean of Peterborough his Works entit Reliquiae Raleighanae 20. Hen. Jackâ—on of C. C. Coll. 27. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. Pet. Turner Oct. 21. Hen. Rogers of Jes Coll. 23. Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch. Dec. 17. Joh. Andrews of Trin. Coll. Feb. 26. Franc. Stewart of Ch. Ch. Son of the Earl of Murray and of kin to his Maj. James 1. See more in the year 1616 among the Creations Joh. Drusius of Ch. Ch. Son of the learned Critick Joh. Drusius was admitted the same day 28. Sampson Price of Hart Hall lately of Exet. Coll. Of Raleigh Jackson Fell Turner Rogers and Ley will be large mention made in the second Vol. Adm. 190. Mast of Arts. Apr. 17. Daniel Fairclough commonly called Featley of C. C. Coll. 24. Benj. Culme of Linc. Coll. lately of S. Albans Hall He was the Son of Hugh Culme of Molland in Devonshire and going afterwards into Ireland became at length D. of D. and Dean of S. Patricks Church near Dublin where he was accounted a learned man and an excellent Preacher and Theologist But he being forced thence by the Rebellion that broke out in 1641 went into England lived several years in a retired condition at Mudghill near to Lidiard St. Johns in Wiltshire where dying in October an 1657 aged 76 was buried in the Church-yard of Lidiard before mention'd Over his Grave was soon after an Altar-tomb erected with a large Inscription thereon wherein 't is said he died 21 Octob. May 16. Joh. Bery or Bury of Balliol lately of Corp. Christ Coll. Jun. 16. James Rowlandson Lancelot Dawes of Qu. Coll. 9. Thom. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. This Gentleman who was a Londoner born was second Son of Will. Aylesbury by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Poole Esquire and from Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. 1598. After he had left the University he became Secretary to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and to George Duke of Bucks his Successor in that great Office By the endeavours of which last he was made one of the Masters of the Requests and Master of the Mint being about that time a Baronet which places he keeping till the grand Rebellion broke out in 1642 he adher'd to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and in 1649 when all things were in a Confusion as to the Royal Party he retired with his Family to Antwerp in Brabant where continuing till 1652 he removed to Breda and dying in 1657 aged 81 was buried in the great Chnrch there leaving behind him a Son named William of whom I shall speak elsewhere and a Daughter named Frances the Wife of Edw. Hyde of Pirtâ—n in Wilts since made Earl of Clarendon These things I mention because the said Sir Tho. Aylesbury was a learned man and as great a Lover and Encourager of Learning and learned men especially of Mathematicians he being one himself as any man in his time June 9. Rich. Corbet Rob. Burton Hen. Byam of Ch. Ch. 12. Joh. Warner of Magd. 23. George Webb of C. C. Jul. 3. Sam. Browne of All 's Coll. Dec. 16. Edw. Abbot of Vniversity Coll. In the year 1616 Jan. 13. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of Wells in the place of Rich. Boughton sometimes of Magd. Coll. in this University and dying in 1634 Sebastian Smith M. A. of Ch. Ch. was admitted to that dignity on the 9 of March the same year Will. Boswell of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was afterwards Chaplain to John
two more admitted viz. Edward Lapworth of Magd. Coll. and Tho. Cloyton of Ball. C. Bach. of Div. May 6. John Prideaux Dan. Price of Ex. Coll. 28. Barthelm Parsons of Or. June 10. John Lee of All 's Coll. The last of which two became Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Tho. White deceased 29. Apr. 1624 and dying there in 1634 was succeeded in that Dignity by Edward Davenant 19. Nov. the same year Jun. 25. Rich. Carpenter Lewes Bayly of Ex. C. 27. John Day of Oriel Nov. 14. John Gianvill of Ball. Coll. This last Person hath written Articuli Christiane fidei quam ecclesia profitetur Anglicana versu quoad ejus fieri potuit expressi facillimo Oxon. 1613. qu. in 6 Sh. What he hath written besides or whether he took any Degree in Arts in this University I know not He was living in 1614 in which year he gave several books to the Bodleian Library Admitted 24. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Phys Jun â—0 Edw. Lapworth of Magd. Sim. Baskervile of Exet. Tho. Clayton of Balliol Rob Vilvaine of Exet. Coll. All which did accumulate the Degrees in Physick As for Lapworth he was afterwards the first Reader of the Lecture of Nat. Philosophy founded by Sir Will. Sedley and dying in the City of Bathe where he usually practised in the Summer time 23. May 1636 as I have somewhere before told you was buried in the great Church there dedicated to St. Pet. and St. Paul The second Sim. Baskervile was now in great esteem for his admirable knowledge in Medicine as before he had been for his humanity and philosophy was afterwards knighted by K. Ch. 1. and dying 5. July 1641 aged 68 years was buried in the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul in the City of London The third T. Clayton was soon after the Kings Professor of Phys in this University and at length the last Principal of Broadgates hall and the first Master of Pembroke Coll. The last R. Vilvaine being afterwards a Writer I shall mention him at large in the 2. vol. Doct. of Div. Apr. 10. Tho. Ireland of Linc. Coll. This Person who was afterwards Prebendary of York and Southwell hath published one or more Sermons as 1 Serm. on Ecclesiastes 8. 2. Pr. 1610. qu. c. Another of both his names and time was a common Lawyer of Greys Inn and a Knight and the abridger in English of Sir Jam. Dyer's Reports pr. 1651. and of the Eleven books of Reports of Sir Edward Coke pr. 1656. But whether this last Tho. Ireland was originally of Oxon I cannot yet tell June 6. Samuel Page of C. C. 20. John Denison Rich. Kinge of Ball. Coll. July 2. Christoph Hooke of Magd. Mich. Boyle of St. Johns Geor. Hakewill of Ex. Coll. Incorporations July 5. Thom. Spackman Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He hath written and published A declaration of such grievous accidents that commonly follow the biting of mad dogs together with the cure thereof Lond. 1613. qu and perhaps other things Quâ—re 9. John â—â—wers M. of A. of Cambr. He was a Norfolk Man born was bred Fellow of Queens Coll. in the said University was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to William Earl of Northampton who confer'd upon him the benefice of Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Will. Piers promoted to the Episcopal See thereof an 1630 and on the 8. of Mar 1638 was installed Bishop of that place After the Long Parliament began he was one of the twelve Bishops who drew up a protestation against all such Laws Orders Votes Resolutions and Determinations which should be done in their absence from the 27. Dec. 1641 to be null and of no effect c. Whereupon he with the said Bishops were committed Prisoners to the Tower where they continued above four Months Afterwards being released Towers retired to the King at Oxon and continued there till the surrender of that garrison for the use of the Parliament and then most of the Royal Party being put to their shifts he went to Peterborough where dying in an obscure condition 10. Januar. 1648 was buried the day following in the Cath. Church of Peterborough In the year 1660 were four of his Sermons published in octavo one of which was preached at the baptism of James Earl of Northampton and another at the funeral of William Earl of that place July 9. Anth. Sleepe Master of Arts of the same University This Person who was a member of Trinity Coll. was so excellent an Orator that he gave K. Jam… occasion several times to say that Is Wake Orator of the Vnive sity of Oxon had a good Ciceronian stile but his utterance and matter was so grave 〈◊〉 when he spake before him he was apt to sleep but Sleep the Depâ—ty Orator of Cambr. was quite contraâ—y for he never spake but kept him awake and made him apt to laugh Isaac Bargrave M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day This learned Gentleman was the Son of Robert Bargrave of Bridge in Kent was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to Prince Charles Pastor of St. Margarets Church in Westminster afterwards Chaplain to that Prince when he became King and about 1625 was made Dean of Canteâ—bury in the place of Dr. Joh. Boys He hath published several Sermons the titles of three of which are in the Oxford Catalogue and dying in 1642 was succeeded by Dr. Geor. Eglionby July 9. Thom. Westfield Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was a Native of the Parish of St. Mary in the City of Ely was educated in Grammaticals there in Academicals in Jesus Coll. in the said University of which he was made successively Scholar and Fellow Afterwards he became Curat or Assistant to Dr. Nich. Felton while he was Minister of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside Rector of Hornsey near and of Great St. Bartholmew in London Archdeacon of St. Albans and at length in 1641 advanced to the See of Bristow where dying 25. June 1644. was buried in the Cathedral at the upper end of the isle joyning to the Choire on the North side After his death were published of his composition 1 Englands face in Israels glass eight Sermons on Psal 106. 19. 20. c. printed 1646. qu. They were published again afterwards with others added to them 2 White robe or surplice vindicated in several Sermons pr. 1660. 63. in oct c. John Pocklington Bach. of Div. of Pemb. hall in Cambr. was incorporated in that Degree the same day See more among the Incorporations an 1603. Thom. Bonham Doctor of Phys of the same University was incorporated the same day July 9. There is a book going under his name which is thus intituled The Chirurgeons Closet or an Antidotary Chirurgical fornished with variety and choice of Apophlegms balmes bathes c. Lond. 1630. qu. The greatest part whereof was scatter'dly set down in sundry books and papers of the said Dr.
of Magd. Hall 16. Tho. James of New Coll. Rob. Burton of Ch. Ch. June 8. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Coll. July 5. Rob. Moor of New Coll. a Compounder Adm. 19. Doct. of Law Oct. 13. John Hawley Principal of Glocester Hall formerly Fellow of S. Johns Coll. Mar. 23. Nich. Darrel of New Coll. He was about this time Prebendary of Winchester where dying in Oct. 1629 was buried in the Cath. Ch. there near to the body of his Wife Jane Doct. of Phys Jul. 12. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. He accumulated the Degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. May. 16. Edward James of Ch. Ch. Thom. James of New Coll. Brethren The last of which accumulated And to both I have seen several learned Epistles written by their Nephew Rich. James of C. C. C. who hath also written the Epitaph of the first who died some years before Thomas 30. John Simpson of C. C. C. He was about this time Prebendary of Canterbury See among the Doctors of Div. 1608. June 8. Will. Westerman of Oriel Adam Wilson of Qu. Coll. The last of which two died at Nutfield in Surrey of which place I think he was Rector in the beginning of 1634. 27. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. July 5. Nich. Love of New Coll. He was at this time Chaplain to his Majesty Warden of Wykehams Coll. near to and Prebendary of Winchester where dying about 1630 was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. Rob. Moor of New Coll. who accumulated was admitted the same day John Charlet of Oriel Coll. was also admitted the same day He was now Prebendary of Worcester and dying in 1640 Herb. Croft D. D. succeeded him in that Dignity Theodore Price was admitted as a member of New Coll. on the same day also He was originally Chorister of All 's Coll. afterwards Fellow of Jesus now Principal of Hart hall and about this time Subdean of Westminster Prebendary of Winchester and afterwards as 't is said by some Master of the Hospital of St. Cross He gave way to fate 15. Dec. 1631 and was buried at Westminster whereupon Dr. John Williams Dean of that place called together the Prebendaries of the Church and took great pains to make the World suspect that he died a Rom. Catholick only to raise a scandal on his enemy Bishop Laud who had commended him to the King for a Bishoprick in Wales A rigid and inveterate Presbyterian tells us that the said Dr. Land did endeavour to promote him to a Welsh Bishoprick but was opposed by Philip Earl of Pembroke so Dr. Morg. Owen was preferred in his stead This Price lived a professed unpreaching Epicure and Arminian and died a reconciled Papist to the Church of Rome having received extreme unction from a popish Priest c. Thus Prynne yet the Church Historian tells us that Dr. Williams beforemention'd did much endeavour to make him Archb. of Armagh but denied by the Duke of Bucks without any mention made of Dr. Laud his endeavours But so it was that Dr. Williams being a great favourer of the Puritan or Presbyterian Prynne therefore made no mention of him but laid all upon the score of Laud July 5. Robert Say Will. Twysse of New Thom. Wyatt of Oriel Coll. 6. Thom. Anyan President of C. C. Coll. who accumulated This Doctor who was born at Sandwych in Kent and had lately been Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper published 1 A Sermon preached at St. Maries Church in Oxon. 12. Jul. 1612 being the Act Sunday on Psal 1. 3. Lond. 1612. qu. 2 Sermon preached at St. Mary Spittle 10. Apr. 1615. on Acts 10. 34. 35. Oxon. 1615. qu. In the year 1619 he being then one of his Majesties Chaplains he was made Prebendary of Glocester and afterwards being found unfit to govern a College because he was a fosterer of faction he resign'd his Presidentship and was made Prebendary of Canterbury where dying 1632 was buried in the Cath. Ch. there Francis James of Ch. Ch. stood in the Act this year to compleat his Doctorship in Divinity but when he was admitted it appears not in the publick register He was now in great esteem for several Specimens of Latin Poetry which he before had made especially for his Poem published in 1612 entit Threnodia Henricianarum Exequiarum Sive Panolethria Anglicana c. He was near of kin to Dr. Tho. James mention'd before and among the Writers under the year 1629 was about this time Preacher or Read at the Savoy in the Strand near London and as it seems a Preacher at St. Matthews in Friday Street At length departing this mortal life in 1621 was buried I think at Ewbuâ—st in Surrey Incorporations July 7. Franc. Barrough lately of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge now of St. Johns in Oxon was incorporated either Bach. or Master of Acts. 9. Augustin Lindsell M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge He was born at Bumsted in Essex was bred Scholar and Fellow in the said Hall where he became well studied in Greek Hebrew and all antiquity Afterwards he succeeded Dr. Walt. Curle in the Deanery of Lichfield 1628 Dr. Will. Piers in the Episcopal See of Peterborough to which he was elected 22. Dec. 1632 and being translated thence to Hereford in December 1633 upon the translation of Dr. Juxon to London died at his Palace in Hereford 6. Nov. 1634. whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church there He was a Man of very great learning of which he gave sufficient evidence to the Church by setting forth that excellent edition of Theophylact upon St. Pauls Epistles Thomas Goodwin M. A. of the said University was also then July 9. incorporated as it is said in the publick register but if he be the same Person whom I shall mention among the creations an 1653. I should rather think that he was incorporated Bach. of Arts. Sam. Buggs was incorporated M. of A. the same day See more of him among the Writers in John King an 1638. July 12. Edmund Wilson Doctor of Phys of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians in London On the 18. Dec. 1616. he was installed Canon of Windsore on the death of Dr. Rich Field but because he was not ordained Priest within a year following he was deprived of his Canonry and Dr. Godfrey Goodman succeeded being installed 20. Dec. 1617. This Dr. Wâ—â—son who was Son of Will. Wilson mention'd among the Doctors of Divinity under the year 1607 and had practised his faculty several years in Windsore died in the Parish of St. Mary le Bow in London about the beginning of Oct. 1633 at which time or before he gave many books to Lincoln Coll Library in Oxon. Thomas Horsmanden D. D. of the said University of Cambridge was incorporated the same day July 14. Lancelot Langhorne Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He was now Parson of St. Martins Church within Ludgate London and had published Mary sitting at Christs feet Serm at the funeral
municipal Laws Feb… James Baylie a Scot now of Exeter Coll. who 14 years before this time was made M. of A. of the University of Glascow and 8 years since Bachelaur of the Laws of the University of Anjou in France where he performed not only his exercise for that degree but also for the degree of Doctor of that Faculty was actually created Doctor of the Laws of this University Dr. Zouch the Kings Professor of that Faculty then executing his office in the solemnity He was now Tutor to James Earl of Arran a Noble man of Exet. Coll. afterwards Duke of Hamilton I find one James Bailâ—ie M. of A. and a Scot born to have published Spiritual Marriage or the Vnion between Christ and his Church Serm. at Westminster on Hosea 2. 19. Lond. 1627. qu. But his name being written different from the former I cannot say he had any relation to him Baldwinus Hamaeus a learned German was admitted a Student into the publick Library See among the Incorporations an 1629. So also was Tho. Gardiner of the Inner Temple Esq afterwards Recorder of London a Knight his Majesties Sollicitor General and eminent for his knowledge in the Municipal Law He died in Octob. 1652 and was buried as I conceive in the Church at Cudesdâ—n near Oxford in which Town he had an Estate Qu. An. Dom. 1622. An. 20 Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Piers again Jul. 17. Proct. Griffin Higgs of Mert. Coll. Rich. Steuart of All 's Coll. May 2. Bach. of Musick May 17. Will. Heather or Heyther At the same time Orlando Gibbons did supplicate for the same degree but occurs not admitted See more of him and of Heather among the Doctors of Musick following Bach. of Arts. June 27. Will. Morice of Exet. Hen. Hibbert of Brasn Oct. 22. Nich. Darton of Ex. Nov. 28. Edw. Pocock of C. C. Coll. Dec. 4. Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll. See among the created Doctors of Div. 1648. 6. John Sedgwick of Magd. Hall lately of Qu. Coll. 9. Joh. Strickland of Qu. 11. Hen. Hammond of Magd. Feb. 17. Joh. Marshan of S. Jo. 18. Rob. Codrington of Magd. 19. George Hughes of Corp. Chr. Coll. Charles Gibbs was admitted the same day All these will be largely mention'd elsewhere Adm. 257 or thereabouts Doct. of Musick May 17. Will. Heather or Heyther who accumulated the degrees in Musick This person who was born at Harmsworth in Middlesex near Colebrook in Bucks was now one of the Gentlemen belonging to his Majesties Chappel and so great an encourager of his Faculty that soon after he founded the Musick Lectures Theory and practick in this University as I have elsewhere told you He died in the latter end of July 1627 and was buried on the first of Aug. in the broad or south Isle joyning to the Choir of S. Peter's Church in Westminster See more of him in Nath. Giles following Jul. 5. Nathaniel Giles Bach. of Musick was then licensed to proceed in that Faculty In 1607 he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents to be admitted Doctor which desire of his was granted conditionally that he compose a choral Hymn of 8 parts to be publickly sung in the Act wherein he should proceed but for what reason he did not perform that obligation I cannot justly say Sure I am that in the Act this year wherein he proceeded were certain Questions appointed to be discussed between him and Dr. Heather before mention'd which being pro forma only and not customarily to be done were omitted The Questions were 1 Whether discords may be allowed in musick Affirm 2 Whether any artificial Instrument can so fully and truly express musick as the natural Voice Negat 3 Whether the practick be the more useful part of musick or the theory Affirm This Dr. Giles who was noted as well for his religious life and conversation a rarity in Musitians as for the excellency of his Faculty was born in or near to the City of Worcester was one of the Organists of S. George's Chap. at Windsore and Master of the Boys there afterwards one of the Organists of the Chappel Royal to K. Ch. 1. and Master of the Boys thereof was famous for his compositions of Divine Hymns and Anthems the words of some of which are remitted into a Book entit Divine Services and Anthems sung in the Cathedrals and collegiate Choires in the Church of England published by Jam. Clifford an 1663 oct He the said Dr. Giles died about the year 1635 and was buried in one of the Isles joyning to S. George's Chap. before mention'd On the 17 of May Orlando Gibbons one of the Organists of his Majesties Chappel did supplicate â—â—e venerable Congregation that he might accumulate the degrees in Musick but whether he was admitted to the one or licensed to proceed in the other it appears not However the Song of 6 parts or more which was performed in the Act for Will. Heather was composed by him as one or more eminent Musitians then living have several times told me This Orlando who was accounted one of the rarest Musitians and Organists of his time hath extant A set of Madrigals of five parts for voices and viols had also a hand in Parthenia mention'd before under the year 1592 and composed Several divine Services and Anthems the words of which are in Jam. Clifford's Book before mention'd besides admirable Compositions that are printed in several Books of Musick At length being commanded to Canterbury to attend the solemnity of the Nuptials between K. Ch. 1. and Henrietta Maria a Daughter of the King of France in order to which he had made vocal and instrumental Compositions died there of the Small-pox to the great reluctancy of the Court on the day of Pentecost an 1625. Afterwards was a monument erected over his grave in the body of the Cathedral there with an Inscription thereon beginning thus Orlando Gibbonio Cantabrigiae inter musas musicae nato sacrae R. Capellae Organistae sphaerarumque harmoniae digitorum pulsu aemulo cantionum complurium quaeque dum non canunt minus quam canuntur câ—nditori c. From which monument set up at the charge of Elizabeth his Widow who gave instructions what to be inscrib'd thereon but not the time of his age we are given to understand that the said Orlando Gibbons was born at Cambridge yet the Reader is to know that one Orlando Gibbons was baptized in S. Martins Parish in the City of Oxford 25 Decemb. 1583 which some have been pleased to take to be the same that was afterwards the famous Organist who as those that knew him have told me was not quite 45 years of age when he died But to let these scruples pass as also another Orlando Gibbons M. A. of Cambridge who was incorporated at Oxon an 1607 I shall go forward Mast of Arts. May 9. Philip Nye Will. Pinke of Magd. Hall The last was afterwards of Magd. Coll. Jun. 26. Joh. Maynard of Magd. Hall a
tw published by S. Hartlib 9 Supplement to the reform School Lond. 1651. in tw published by the said Hartlib 10 The reform Library keeper Lond. 1650. in tw To which is added Bibliotheca Augusta sereniss Princ. D. Augusti Ducis Brunovicensis Luneb quae est Wolferbyti 11. Earnest plea for Gospel-Communion Lond. 1654. qu. 12 Summary platform of Divinity pr. 1654. c. An. Dom. 1625. An. 1 Car. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Prideaux again Jul. 19. Proct. Nich. Brookes of Oriel Coll. Sam. Marsh of Trin. Coll. Apr. 27. Bach. of Arts. May 5. Gervase Warmstrey Jun. 22. Hen. Elsynge Will. Hemmings of Ch. Ch. Jul. 6. Gasper Hicks of Trin. Rob. Cross of Linc. Nov. 22. Thom. Masters of New 24. Henry Savage of Ball. Dec. 16. Christopher Airay of Qu. Coll. Feb. 6. Nich. Gibbon 9. Hen. Parker of S. Edm. Hall Rich. Jones of Jesus 13. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. Coll. 14. Nath. Stephens Edw. Hyde John Lisle of Madg. Hall 15. Mich. Hudson Guy Carlton of Qu. Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Chichester All which will be mention'd at large elsewhere Adm. 256. Bach. of Law Only six this year were admitted the senior of whom was Rich. Basset of Lincoln Coll. a Compounder Mast of Arts. March 28. Joh. Viccars of Linc. Coll. Apr. 29. Joh. Ellis of Hart Hall May 21. Will. Claybroke of Ball. Coll. This person who was the second Son of an Esq left Oxon soon after changed his Religion went beyond the Seas and became Canon of some of the hither parts of France of Flanders as I have been informed June 23. George Hughes of Pembr lately of C. C. 25. Joh. Strickland of Qu. 30. Henry Hammond of Magd. July 5. John Marsham of St. Joh. Coll. July 2. Joh. Lee of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards one of the first Scholars of Pembroke Coll. at its first foundation where as at Balliol he was an indefatigable Student and of proficiency answerable He wrote an enterlude but never acted or published and hath a Lat. Speech in print which is all I know of him only that he was Son of Joh. Lee of Abendon in Berks. and educated in the Free-school there July 7. Joh. Sedgwick Joh. Angell of Magd. Hall James Eglesfield of Qu. Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterward Vicar of Chewton in his native Country of Somersetshire and Author of A heavenly hymne to the King of Heaven Sermon on Mark 7. 37. Lond. 1640. oct the Author being then dead What else was published under his name I know not nor any thing else him only that he was a Ministers Son and a learned Man Admitted 156. Bach. of Div. Apr. 1. Griffin Higgs of Mert. Elizeus Burges of St. Joh. Coll. The last was now Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of Rich. Tillesley deceased May 19. Hen. King Joh. King of Ch. Ch. June 28. John Davenport of Magd. hall July 1. Brian Duppa 2. Rog. Manwaring of All 's 8. Francis Potter of Trinity Coll. Admitted 19. Doct. of Law Mar. 31. William Skinner of All 's Coll. Chancellour of the Dioc. of Hereford ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 19. Hen. King Joh. King Canons of Ch. Ch. Both the Sons of Dr. King sometimes B. of London and Accumulators and Compounders 26. Edw. à Meetkirke of Ch. Ch. Hebrew Professor of the University and about this time Prebendary of Winchester June 20. Charles Croke of the same house an Accumulator and Compounder He was at this time Rector of Amersham alias Agmundesham in Bucks and Fellow of Eaton Coll. and afterwards the writer and publisher of A sad memorial of Hen. Curwen Esq only Child of Sir Patr. Curwen of Warkington in Cumberland Baronet who died 21. Aug. 1638. aged 14 and was buried in the Church of Amersham in Bucks Serm. on Job 14. 2. Oxon. 1638. qu. at which time the Author was Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. What other writings he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was born in Oxfordshire and that he was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Croke of Chilton in Bucks one of the Justices of the Kings-bench July 1. Brian Duppa 2. Roger Manwaring of All 's Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in Divinity 8. Thomas Horne of Mert. Nath. Giles of Magd. Coll. Compounders The first became Canon of Windsore in Oct. 1616. in the place of Dr. Edm. Nuttal sometimes Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge deceased and dying on the seventh of the Ides of Nov. 1636. aged 60 was buried in St. Georges Chap. at Windsore The other Dr. Giles became also Canon of the said Chappel in the latter end of 1623 and in the latter end of 1626 Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Hen. Bright deceased He died in the time of the grand rebellion Incorporations The plague raging this year in London and therefore the Act put off few incorporations occur However those that are take as they follow July…Tho Browne Bach. of the Laws of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Quaere 6. Edm. Prideaux M. A. of the same University This Person if I am not mistaken was the same who in the times of Usurpation was Commissioner of the great Seal and by ordinance did practice within the Bar as one of the Kings Council and after that was made Attorney General and Post-master for all the Inland-letters From which employments gaining a vast estate left at the time of his death 19. Aug. 1659 an incredible mass of gold as the credible report then went besides Lands of very great demesness July 12. Lodovic Rouseus Doctor of Phys of the University of Leyden in Holland Dec. 13. John Verneuil M. of A. of the Univ. of Mountalbon in France now or lately of Magd. Coll. Feb. 11. Thom. Levet of York Diocess a Licentiat of the Civil Law in the Univers of Orleance was incorporated Bach. of the same fac March 24. Edward Hayward M. of A. of Cambridge Quaere Creations Jan. 26. John Hassall or Halsall a Student in Divinity sometimes Bach. of Law and Fellow of New Coll. had then leave given to him by the venerable Convocation that he might be actually created Doctor of the said faculty when he pleased to accept of that Degree but the day when he was created appears not In the letters commendatory of the Chancellour of this Univ. Will. Earl of Pembroke written to the members thereof are these matters mention'd of the said Hassall He hath been a diligent and faithful preacher of the word of God in the Low-countries and hath gotten a singular good reputation with the English in those parts having been particularly favoured and cherished by the Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth his most Royal spouse He was when my self was a Student in the University a hopeful Scholar and of special note in the same house with me c. The Letters also of Sir Horatio Vere written in his behalf
Bach. of Div. June 2. Alex. Huish of Wadh. 16. Cornel. Burges of Linc. 21. Hugh Robinson of New 27. Alexand. Gill of Trin. Coll. July 5. Will. Hayes of Magd. hall He was the same Person who had published The Lawyers Looking glass Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon at the Assizes 7. Jul. 1624 on Either 1. 15. Oxon 1624. qu. Whether he wrot or published any thing else I know not not do I know any thing of him besides only that he was a Hampshire Man born and that he was afterwards Rector of Skilgate and at length in 1635 Rect. of Orchard both in Somersetshire July 6. Thom. Lashington of Pemb. Coll. Adm. 27. Doct. of Law June ult Matthew Nicholas of New Coll. This Person who was afterwards Can. resident of Salisbury became Dean of Bristow on the death of Dr. Edw. Chetwynd an 1639. and in 1642 was made Canon of the fifth stall in the Collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster on the death of Dr. William Robinson Brother by the Mothers side to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Of which Dignities being deprived in the time of the rebellion became after his Majesties restauration Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in London In Bristow succeeded Dr. Hen. Glemham of Oxon an 1660 and in St. Pauls Dr. Joh. Barwick of Cambridge elected thereunto 15. Oct. 1661. To this Dr. Nicholas his piety and moderation the Church was as much beholding as the State was to his elder Brother Sir Edw. Nicholas The former died 15. Aug. 1661 the other on the first of Sept. 1669. aged 77 and was buried in Horsley Church in Surrey where there is a fair monument with a large inscription thereon over his grave By the way I desire the reader to know that the said Sir Edward was born at Winterbourne-Earles in Wiltshire where his name is or at least hath been antient and gentile that he had his education in this University and afterwards in the Royal Court where he became at length Secretary of State to K. Ch. 1. and afterwards a sufferer for his cause and an Exile with his Son Ch. 2. After the restauration of the last he continued in the office of Secretary but then growing antient he resigned it in Oct. 1662. At which time his Majesty in consideration of his fidelity constancy and affection to his and his Fathers service did freely offer to make him a Baron but Sir Edward according to his wonted candor and modesty after he had most humbly return'd his thanks besought his Majesty therein to spare him A Gentleman of both his names wrot An apologie for the honorable nation of the Jews and all the Sons of Israel Lond. 1648. in qu. What relation he had to the said Sir Edward I know not Jun. ult Will. Merick Will. Griffith of New Coll. The former was afterwards Judg of the Prerogative Court for the Province of Canterbury eminent for his great learning and abilities as also for his loyalty and affection to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. and to his glorious Father both at home and beyond the Seas Upon which account he was sent for to the Court 8. Nov. 1661. and had the honor of Knighthood confer'd upon him in his Majesties Bedchamber He died in the Winter time an 1668. and was succeeded in his Judgship by Dr. Leolin Jeâ—kins The other Will. Griffith was Chancellour of the Diocesses of St. Asaph and Bangor July 21. Charles Tooker of Oriel Jan. 14. Gilb. Jones of Allsouls Coll. The first of these two last died at Abendon in Berks an 1660 the other was about this time Chancellour of the Dioc. of Bristow ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. June 16. Cornelius Burges of Linc. 21. Hugh Robinson of New 25. Vincent Peirse of Pemb. Coll. Which three Doctors did accumulate the Degrees in Divinity 27. George Byrom of Brasn July 4. Rich Puliston of Wad Feb. 21. Ant. Saunders of Vniv. Coll. The first of these last three was now beneficed in Cheshire and had for several years served K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. both as Commissioner of the Peace and a Commissioner of the High Commission for causes Ecclesiastical Incorporations On the 10. of July being the next day after the conclusion of the Act were 59 Cantabrigians incorporated in several faculties the names of some of which follow Rich Sterne Bach. of Div. of C. Christi Coll. This most worthy and loyal Person who was Son of Sim Sterne of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire descended from those of his name in Suffolk was afterwards D. of D. Master of Jesus Coll. and Chaplaine to Archb. Laud with whom he was present on the Scaffold when he was to be beheaded purposely to administer comfort to him But before that time he had been imprison'd by the endeavours of Oliver Cromwell a Burgess for the Town of Cambridge in the Long Parliament for being very instrumental in conveying the plate belonging to several Colleges and Halls in Cambridge to his Majesty then at York and thereabouts I say being hurried up to London with other Doctors was imprison'd in the Tower of London where by permission he attended the said Archbishop About that time he was ejected his Mastership of Jesus Coll. lost all he had suffer'd in an high manner for his loyalty and lived obscurely during the interval At length upon his Majesties restauration he was nominated by him Bishop of Carlile whereupon being consecrated thereunto in the Abby Church of St. Peter at Westminster on the second day of Decemb. an 1660. sate there till the death of Dr. Frewen Archb. of York and then being elected to succeed him in that See 28. Apr. 1664 was enthronized on the 10. of June following in the Person of Dr. Edmund Diggle a Dignitary of that Church This Dr. Sterne hath written 1 Sermons or a Comment on 103 Psalme Printed 1649. oct 3 Summa Logicae partim ex optimis quibusque autoribus tum antiquis tum recentioribus collecta maximè autem ex usu ad usum comparata exemplis omnium genorum abunde illustrata Lond. 1686. oct and as 't is probable other things This worthy Archb. died about 23. June 1683 and was buried in the Cath. Church of York Afterwards succeeded Dr. Joh. Doâ—ben as I shall tell you elsewhere Joh. Burges Doct. of Phys and Parson of Sutton Colfield in Warwickshire was also then incorporated At which time liberty was allowed to him by the ven congregation that he might study in the publick library being then a conformist to the Ch of England He paid his last debt to nature on the last day of Aug. 1635 aged 72. or thereabouts and was buried in the Chancel of Sutton Colfield in the same vault where the body of his then late Wife Dorothy was buried He hath written An apology to the Bishop of Lincoln c. answer'd by Dr. Will. Covell an 1606. Also The Popes deadly wound resolving the controversies between us and them pr. in qu. and
in Oxon. before the two Houses of Parliament on 1. Sam. 15. 23. Oxon. 1644. qu. Whether these two are the same or whether he that was the Author of the Looking-glass for rebellion was Author of the Mystery of the incarnation being a Serm. on John 1. ver 14. printed 1648. in qu. I know not or whether the same who was incorporated M. of A. beforemention'd I find one Dr. Nathaniel Bernard to have died beyond the Seas in 1656 whom I take to be the same with him who was Author of the Looking-glass c. Richard Culmer M. of A. This busie Man I find was born in the Isle of Thanet in Kent educated in Grammar learning in the City of Canterbury and in Academical in Magd. Coll. in Cambridge Afterwards he became Minister of Goodneston in his own Country was suspended ab officio beneficio for refusing to read the book of sports on the Lords day For which usuage being much provoked he became a bitter enemy to Archbishop Laud to the Cathedral at Canterbury and to all the prelatical Party in the beginning of the rebellion raised and carried on by the disaffected Party About that time he became Minister of Harbledowne in Kent and if I mistake not Vicar of St. Stephens near to Canterbury in the place of Mr. John Gouge ejected thence for refusing the Covenant And least he should not be esteemed as zealous a Brother for the cause as any then in being he published a most vile Pamphlet intit Cathedral news or Dean and Chapter news from Canterbury Lond. 1644. qu. In which heaping up all that he could rake together against the Cathedral of Canterbury Archbishop Dean Canons and other Officers belonging thereunto had immediatly two answers from Oxon. one in a Pamphlet intit The razing of the record c. Oxon. 1644. in two sh and half in qu. and in another called Antidotum Culmerianum or animadversions upon a late Pamphlet entit Cathedral news from Canterbury c. Oxon. 1644. qu. in 5 sheets In which last is set down many actions of Culmers life his demeanour while he was in the University of Cambridge and in the Country his refractoriness impudence covetousness unnaturalness c. and what not that the Author thereof who was a most generous Loyalist and who knew him could put together to display him to the World There also goes under the said R. Culmers name The Ministers hue and cry or a true discovery of the insufferable injuries robberies c. acted against Ministers c. Lond. 1651. qu. in 3. sh as also Lawless tythe robbers discovered who make tytherevenew a Mock-maintenance c. Lond. 1655 besides other things which I have not yet seen After the Kings restauration he continued so zealous in his opinion as to engage for so it was notoriously suspected in that hellish plot for which Thomas Venner Rog. Hodgkin c. Anabaptists and Fiftmonarchy-men suffered in Coleman-street in London 9. Jan. 1660. But the spirit of the Man being as well known as his face he was taken posting up from Canterbury to London riding upon Chattam hill Whereupon being committed for a time he among several examinations was asked why he brake down those famous Windows of Christ Church in Canterbury to which he answer'd he did it by order of Parliament and being asked why in one window which represented the Devil tempting our Saviour he brake down Christ and left the Devil standing he answer'd he had an order to take down Christ but had no order to take down the Devil Whereby was understood that those plotting brethren did mean when they intended to set up King Jesus to pull down Christ This Richard Culmer who was commonly called in Kent Blew Dick of Thanet because he wore blew in opposition to black which he hated lived several years after and dying but when I know not was buried in the Parish Church of Monkton in the said Isle of Thanet Ralph Brownring Doct. of Div. This learned and most religious Person was born at Ipswich in Suffolke was bred Scholar and Fellow of Pembroke hall in Cambridge became afterwards Prebendary of Eâ—y Master of Catherine hall in the said University and Archdeacon of Coventry in the room of Dr. Sam. Brook In 1641 he was made Bishop of Exeter to the liking of all good Men upon the translation of Dr. Joseph Hall to Norwych but the Episcopal function being soon after silenced he became after some years spent in the family of Tho. Rich. Esq afterwards a Baronet Preacher to the Temples in London where being settled according to his desire with all conveniences surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it 7. Dec. 1659. Whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to the said Temples on the 17. day of the same month at the charge of the Templers who also put a very fair monument over his grave Dr. John Gauden preached then his funeral Sermon and at the end of it printed a short account of his life which is mostly remitted without acknowledgment into a book intit Memoires of the lives c. published by Dav. Lloyd This Dr. Brownrig hath two volumes of Sermons extant whereof the second contains 25 and both 65 Sermons All which Cambridge Men viz. Spurstow Rainbow Ball Creyghton Sheringham Nic. and Nath. Bernard Culmer and Dr. Brownrig were among many others of the University of Cambridge incorporated on the said 15. of July Afterwards these following were incorporated this year Oct. 27. Maurice Williams Doct. of Phys of Padua in Italy He was the Son of Lewis Williams of the Diocess of London was educated in Oriel Coll. of which he became Fellow in 1620. Afterwards resigning it in 1631. settled in London was Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians a Knight and eminent for his practice in that faculty He died in his house within the Parish of St. Anne Black-friers in London in the beginning of the year 1658 and was there I suppose buried Nov. 6. Rob. Hall Bach. of Arts of Cambridge now of Exeter Coll. He was Son of Dr. Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter and was admitted M. of A. of this University in Feb. following See among the created Doctors of Div. an 1643. Mar… James Primerose M. of A. of the University of Bourdeaux and Doct. of Phys of Mountpelier was incorporated Doctor of Physick This learned Doctor who was Son of Dr. Gilb. Primerose mention'd before under the year 1624. was born in the City of St. Jeand ' Angely in the Province of Xantoigne in France and afterwards lived and practised his faculty at Hull in Yorkshire where and in most parts of that Country he was esteemed an eminent Physician He hath written and published several books the titles of some of which follow 1 Exercitationes animadversiones in Librum Gulielmi Harvaei de motu cordis circulatione sanguinis Lond. 1630. Lugd. Bat. 1639. qu. Answered by one Roger Drake Doct. of Phys of Cambr. Son of Rog. Drake
a Cloathworker of Breadstreet in Lond. 2 Academiae Monspeliensis descripta ejusdem laurus Monspeliaca Ad Thomam Claytonum apud Oxomienses Regium professorem Oxon. 1631. qu. 3 De vulgi in medicina erroribus lib. 4. Lond. 1638. in tw c. Translated into English by Rob. Wittie Doct. of Phys of Hull Lond. 1651. oct Before which translation are several copies of verses in praise of it made by certain Poets of Hull and in the neighbourhood among whom Andrew Marvell is one 4 Aphorismi necessarii nec non quaestiones quaedam ad doctrinam medicinae acquirendam perutiles c. Theses receptissimae c. Lugd. Bat. 1647. qu. Dedicated to Dr. Tho. Clayton 5 Ars pharmaceuticae de eligendis componendis medicinae c. Amstel 1651. in tw 6 Enchiridion medicum practicum de morbis communibus part 2. Amstel 1654. in tw printed before in oct in 1650. 7 De mulierum morbis symtomatis lib. 5. Roterd. 1655. qu. 8 Destructio fundamentorum Vop Fortunat. Plempii Roterd. 1657. qu. 9 De febribus lib. 4. Rot. 1658. qu. and hath also written Animadversions on Joh. Walaeus which I have not yet seen Creations Jan. 20. Henry Jacob educated in the Low Countries under Tho. Erpenius the famous Critick was actually created Bachelaur of Arts by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University written in his behalf He was soon after elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton College and is hereafter most deservedly to be inserted among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work An. Dom. 1629. An. 5. Car. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Accepted Frewen again July 17. It must be now observed that whereas the elections of Proctors had hitherto been made by publick canvassing it pleased the Kings Majesty to make them private and domestick And that he said office might be equally distributed through every Coll. according to an Arithmetical proportion a cycle of 23 years was by command of the King made Which while it revolves sheweth how each Coll. from whence the Proctors are yearly to be taken is to joyn till the year 1720 and after and how many courses each College hath therein Which cycle being remitted into the statutes by the Kings authority and afterwards published in a sheet of Paper together with such Statutes that belong thereunto the factious elections by canvassing or publick sollicitations for suffrages which oftentimes proved pernicious to the University were now not too late expired The first Proctors of the said cycle called by some the Caroline Cycle were these Proct. Thom. Atkinson of St. Joh. Coll. Will. Strode of Ch. Ch. Presented to their Offices in Convocation 15. Ap. Bach. of Musick July 18. Matthew White of Ch. Ch. And the same year took the Degree of Doctors as I shall anon tell you Bach. of Arts. Apr. 16. Will. Burt of New 30. Edm. Gayton of St. Joh. Coll. Of the first of these two I shall speak at large among the Creations in an 1658. May 12. Allan Blane Rich. Stannix of Qu. Coll. June 10 Henry Ireton of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Son in Law to Oliver Cromwell and Commissary-general in the Army of Thomas Lord Fairfax He will be at large mention'd elsewhere Oct. 27. Clement Barksdale of Merton Nov. 4. Thomas Powell of Jesus Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards of Glouc. hall and a frequent Writer 20. Rob. Price of Ch. Church He was afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland Jan. 23. Humphrey Lloyd of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor 28. John Wells of Gloc. hall Quaere All the said Bachelaurs except the last will be mention'd at large elsewhere Adm. 240. or thereabouts Doct. of Mus July 18. Matthew White of Ch. Ch. who accumulated the Degrees in Musick He hath composed certain Anthems to be sung in Cathedrals the words of one or more of which are published by Jam. Clifford in his collection beforemention'd Mast of Arts. May 9. Nich. Gibbon of St. Edm. hall Jun. 11. Tho. Masters of New Coll. Joh. Prichett of St. Edm. Hall Tho. Browne of Pemb. Coll. Hen. Wilkinson Giles Workman of Magd. Hall July 9. Rob. White of Vniv. Coll. One of both his names occurs Archdeacon of Merionith an 1640. whether the same I know not Jul. 10. Hugh Cressy Will. Berkley Joh. Reynolds of Mert. Coll. The last of these three who was Chaplain of the said Coll. was installed Archdeacon of Norwich in the place of Will. Gery Mast of Arts 25. May 1668. Which Dignity was confer'd upon him by his Brother Dr. Edw. Reynolds Bishop of that City The said Gery was M. of A. of Cambridge and I think the same who was Author of Spiritual Gleanings c. and of other things Nov. 24. Hen. Savage of Ball. … Philip Hunton of Wadh. Coll. Adm. 150. or thereabouts Bach. of Physick Mar. 1. George Bate of St. Edm. Hall Besides him was admitted only one more named Henry Herne of Pemb. Coll. Bach. of Div. June 13. Pet. Heylyn of Magd. Coll. July 10. Charles Robson of Qu. Coll. He was lately Preacher to the Company of English Merchants at Aseppo and wrot and published News from Aleppo written to T. V. Tho. Vicars Bach. of Div. and Vicar of Cokfield in Sussex Lond. 1628. in 3. sh in qu. and perhaps other things On the 4. May 1632 he was presented by the University of Oxon to the Vicaridge of Holme Cultram in his native Country of Cumberland and if I mistake not was the same Charles Robson who was made Preb. of Stratford in the Church of Sarum 28. May 1633 which he kept till 1639. July 30. William Sparke of Magd. Dec. 17. Anth. Faringdon of Trin. Coll. Jan. 16. Obadiah Sedgwick of Magd. Hall Admitted 22. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. July 9. Edward Burton of Magd. Coll. one of his Majesties Chaplains who accumulated the Degrees in Divinity Incorporations ☞ This year John French M. A. and Fellow of Merton College was elected publick Scribe or Registrary of the University who being a careless Man tho a good Scholar and more fit for another than that employment hath omitted throughout all his time the Incorporations of the Cantabrigians at the conclusion of the Act having had sometimes 40 at other times 50 and more incorporated at that time in several degrees and faculties Those therefore that I find you shall have as they follow May 21. Joh. Faber Bach. of Arts of Cambr. He proceeded Master of that faculty as a member of Exeter Coll. soon after July 4. James Fryer M. of A. of the University of Basil in Germany Oct. 10. Joh. Stanley Bach. of Arts of Cambr. In the next month he took the Degree of M. of A. as a member of St. Albans Hall which is all I know of him Nov. 14. Gilford Slingsbie M. A. of St. Andrews Rob. Jackson B. A. of Edenburgh in Scotland Feb. 4. Baldwin Hamey Hamaeus Doct. of
and afterwards to K. Ch. 1. was installed Dean of Glocester after Dr. Tho. Winniff's removal to the Deanery of St. Pauls on the eleventh of June 1631 and on the 25. of Aug. or thereabouts following became Dean of Wells on the death of Ralph Barlow He hath published King Melchizedek Serm. at Court at East-hamstead 2. Sept. 1623. Lond. 1623. qu. and whether any thing else I cannot yet tell In 1640 he went to London to attend the Convocation of the Clergy that began with the Long Parliament and dying in Drury-lane in the month of Dec. or thereabouts an 1641 was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Walt. Rawleigh James Hena or Hannay a Scot. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. He was admitted to the Deanery of Wells 13. January 1641. Edw. Burby of Linc. Coll. He was now Prebendary and Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was before enjoyed by Ranulph Barlow D. D. of Cambridge George Gillingham of Pemb. Coll. He was at this time one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 2. Nov. 1639 was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Joh. Elly deceased He had other preferments and died 16. Dec. 1668 being then Rector of Chalton in Hampshire Daniel Escott Warden of Wadham Coll. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Morgan Owen of Jes Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lincolne and the last Bishop of Landaff Samuel Marsh of Trin. Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University and at this time Preb. of Roscombe in the Church of Sarum Steph. Goffe or Gough of St. Albans Hall lately of Mert. Coll. This Person who was Son of Steph. Goffe the puritanical Minister of Stanmer in Sussex travelled into the Low-countries after he had taken his Masters Degree and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Col. H. Vere whereby he gained good acquaintance and experience which wound him at his return so much into the favour of Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of St. Alban that he was made one of the Kings Chaplains by which title he was created Doctor of Divinity and afterwards employed in the quality of a minor Agent and Envoy into France then into Flanders Holland and other Countries c. In the time of the rebellion he also acted much for his Master in several Countries beyond the Seas and did him great Service but when he saw the English Church ruin'd and Monarchy declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and was thereupon taken into the society of the Oratorians at Paris an order very famous there tho but little known among us The brethren whereof having liberty to improve their particular estates for things are not common among them as with other orders he grew rich upon the stock which he had formerly gathered together by his endeavours whereby he was in capacity sometimes to do courtesies for his exil'd Countrymen Abrah Cowley the Prince of Poets was while at Paris preferr'd and plac'd by him tho the story is perverted in the Family of the said noble Henry then Lord Jermyn Through whose heroical bounty he was afterwards design'd to the Mastership of the Savoy but by certain enemies to the Muses was depriv'd of it Afterwards Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother to whom Goffe was Chaplain committed to the said Goffs care the tuition of the natural Son of K. Ch. 2. known then by the name of James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth with whom continuing till he was about nine years of age was taken from him and committed to the care of a Gentleman called Rose or Rosse who after his Majesties restauration went Secretary to Henry Coventry Esq in his Embassy into Sweeden This Doctor Goffe who was esteemed by some a learned Man and well read in the Fathers and therefore respected by Gerard Jo. Vossius and others died in the house of the Fathers or Brethren of the Oratory situated in the street called St. Howrè at Paris on Christmas day according to our account an 1681. aged 76 or thereabouts and was buried in the Chappel belonging to that house What writings of his are published besides Nine Latin Epistles to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius and his Negotiations taken by the Rebels at the battel at Sherburne in Yorkshire which with George Lord Digby's Cabinet and other things were published at Lond. in qu. 1646. I know not He had a younger Brother named John Goffe who was a true Son of the Church of England as I shall tell you among the Writers under the year 1661. and another called William originally a Salter or a Hatter as some day in London who closing with the Presbyterians in the time of the Rebellion became a Colonel great with Oliv. Cromwell one of the Judges of King Char. 1. and a member of the other house that is one of Olivers Lords See more in the Fasti an 1649. among the Creations Rich. Marsh of the University of Cambridge lately Chaplain to Archb. Laud afterwards to his Maj. Ch. 1. He was now Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York and soon after Vicar of Halyfax in the room of Hen. Ramsden deceased In Nov. 1644. he had the Deanery of York conferr'd upon him on the death of Dr. Job Scot who died in the Kings bench Prison in Southwark At which time his Majesty being at Oxon Dr. Pet. Heylyn endeavoured by his friends to obtain that Dignity but was put aside After his Majesties restauration he was elected 17. of Aug. and installed 20. of the same month an 1660. and dying 13. Oct. 1663. aged 78 was buried near to the grave of Matthew Hutton sometimes Archbishop of York in the South Isle joyning to the Cath. Church there In his Deanery succeeded Will. Sandcroft D. D. of Cambridge installed therein 26. Feb. 1663 who being removed to the Deanery of St. Pauls Cathedral in London Dr. Rob. Hitch of the same University succeeded in Dec. 1664. Dr. Marsh hath one or more Sermons extant Edw. Morton lately M. of A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge now Rector of Sefton in Lancashire Chaplain to the Lord Keeper and Prebendary of Chester He was born of an antient Family at Morton in Cheshire and was Father to Dr. Will. Moreton Bishop of Kildare in Ireland Samps Johnson of Magd. Coll. Thomas Whittington Thomas Manwaring of Brasn Coll. Meric Casaubon Edw. Thornborough of Ch. Ch. The last of these two was Son of Dr. Jo. Thornborough Bishop of Worcester was now Archdeacon of Worcester who dying in 1645 Will. Hodges Bach. of Div. of Oxon was admitted in his place 30. of May the same year Mich. Reade of Linc. Will. Haywood of St. Jo. Coll. Laur. Pay of Ch. Ch. These were all the Doctors of Divinity that were then created Afterwards these noble Persons were created in Oct. following Oct. 14. The most illustrious and high born Prince Christianus Landtgrave of Hassia Count in Catzenellebogen Dieza Ziegenhain and Nidda was diplomated Master of Arts. The most illustrious and high born Prince
person who mostly seemed to be a true Son of the Church of England a hater of Papists Arminians and Sectaries published 1 Seven Sermons on the 23. Psal of David Lond. 1603. oct 2 The Converts happiness Sermon on Rev. 3. 20. Lond. 1609. qu. 3 The raging tempest still'd The history of Christ's passage with his Disciples over the Sea of Galilee c. Lond. 1623. qu. 4 Help to the best bargain c. Serm. in the Cath. of Canterb. 26. Oct. 1623. Lond. 1624. in oct and other things which I have not yet seen He was living in Septemb. 1644. being then the Senior Prebendary of Christ-Church in Canterbury and died shortly after having before cast a stone against Archbishop Laud when he was to be tried for his life JOHN BALL Son of Will. Ball and Agnes Mabet his Wife was born of a plebeian family at Cassington alias Chersington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire in the beginning of Octob. 1585. and baptized the 14. of the same month educated in Grammar learning in a private School taught by the Vicar of Yarnton a mile distant from Cassington admitted a Student of Brasnose coll in 1602 where continuing under a severe discipline and Tutor about five years in the condition as it seems of a Servitour removed to S. Maries hall and as a Member thereof took the degree of Bac. of Arts in 1608. Soon after he was invited into Cheshire to teach the Children of the Lady Cholmondeley where continuing for some time fell into the acquaintance of several severe Puritans who working on his affections they brought him over to them About that time having gained a sum of money he went to London with some of them and made shift to be ordained a Minister there without subscription by an Irish Bishop Soon after he removed into Staffordshire and became Curate of Whitmore a Chappel of â—ase to Stoke where he lived and died a Nonconformist in a poor house a poor habit with poor maintenance of about 20 l. per an and in an obscure Village teaching School also all the week for a farther supply deserving as high esteem and honour as a noted Presbyterian observes as the best Bishop in England yet looking after no â—igher things but living comfortably and prosperously with these c. The Brethren report him to have been a excellent Schoolmaster and Schoolman qualities seldom meeting in the same person a painful Preacher and a profitable Writer And tho somewhat disaffected to Ceremonies and Church discipline yet he confuted such as conceived the corruption therein ground enough for a Separation He hath written A short treatise containing all the principal grounds of Christian Religion c. Fourteen times printed before the year 1632. and translated into the Turkish Language by Will. Seaman an English Traveller Treatise of Faith in two parts The first shewing the nature the second the life of Faith c. Lond. 1631. qu. 1637. qu. the third edition It hath a Preface to it in commendation of the work written by Rich. Sibbes Friendly trial of the grounds tending to Separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the unlawfulness of stinted Liturgy and set form of Common Prayer Communion in mixed Assemblies and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys c. Cambr. 1640. qu. The rude and imperfect draught of this book was first made for satisfaction of Mr. Rich. Knightley which by importunity of Ministers and others was afterwards enlarged into this treatise The answer returned to the first conceptions thereof is briefly examined in some marginal notes annexed p. 13. 15. 24. 33. An answer to two Treatises of Mr. Joh. Can the Leader of the English Brownists in Amsterdam The former is called A necessity of separation from the Church of England proved by the Nonconformists principles And the other A stay against straying Wherein in opposition to Mr. John Robinson he undertakes to prove the unlawfulness of hearing the Ministers of the Church of England Lond. 1642. qu. Published by Simeon Ash The Epistle to the Reader is subscribed by Tho. Langley Will. Rathband Simeon Ash Franc. Woodcock and Geo. Croft Presbyterians After our author Ball had finished this last book he undertook a large treatise of the Church wherein he intended to discover the nature of Schism and to deal in the main controversies touching the essence and Government of the Visible Church of which also 50 sheets of paper he left finished Notwithstanding all this yet by what our author hath written in his answer to Jo. Can and in his Friendly trial c. some dividing Spirits of his own party censured him as in some degree declining from his former profest inconformity in deserting the Nonconformists cause and grounds being too much inclined especially in the last of these two to favour the times in Ceremonies and the Service-book Yet if you 'll give credit to what these men deliver they 'll tell you that he lived and died a strict forbearer and constant opposer of all those pretended corruptions which the Nonconformists had commonly in their publick writings disallowed in the Church of England So that they of his own perswasion would willingly have it believed that altho he was in these his pieces against aggravating and multiplying conceived corruptions and that these were not of so great weight as to inforce the unlawfulness of our set forms or warrant a separation from our Churches and publick worship in regard thereof yet he acknowledged some things blame-worthy in the English Liturgy which he designed to have evidenced as these men tell us in some publick treatise had he lived but a little longer For all this he died abundantly satisfied in the justness of that cause which he so well defended against separation Trial of the new Church-way in New-England and Old c. Lond. 1644. qu. Treatise of the Covenant of Grace Lond. 1645. c. qu. Published by his great admirer Simeon Ash Of the power of godliness both doctrinally and practically handled c. To which are annexed several Treatises as 1 Of the affections 2 Of the spiritual combatâ— 3 Of the government of the tongue 4 Of prayer with an exposition on the Lords Prayer c. Lond. 1657. fol. Published by the aforesaid Simeon Ash sometimes of the University of Cambridge Chaplain to the Lord Brook afterwards to the Earl of Manchester an 1644. Minister of St. Michael Bashishaw and at length of St. Austins in London who dying 20. of Aug. 1662. being a little before the fatal day of St. Barthelmew was buried 23. of the same month in the Church of St. Austin before-mentioned Treatise of divine meditation Lond. 1660. in twelv published also by the said Ash These I think are all that have been written by our author Ball who dying 20. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 aged fifty and five or thereabouts was buried in the Chappel or Church of Whitmore aforesaid leaving then behind the character
of a learned and pious man and of one who by his daily labours had done eminent service to the private and publick WILLIAM JONES the eldest Son and Heir of Will. Jones Esq was born at Castellmarch in Carnarvonshire the ancient Seat of his Family educated in the Free-School at Beaumaris in Anglesey whence at 14 years of age he was transplanted to S. Edmunds hall an 1570. and continued there 5 years But taking no degree he went to Lincolns Inn and was there admitted a Student yet before he resided in that Society he spent two years in Furnivals Inn according to the course of those times After he had been a Counsellor of repute for some years he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn 13. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law the year following and a Knight in order to the chief Justiceship in Ireland in which place he continued three years and then left it upon his own request In 19. Jac. 1. he was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Augustin Nicolls and in the 22 year he was removed to the Kings-Bench He hath written and collected Reports of divers special cases as well in the Court of Kings Bench as of the Common Pleas in England as well in the latter time of the Reign of K. James as in the years of K. Ch. 1. c. Lond. 1675. fol. They contain the cases of greatest remark which hapned either in the Common Pleas or Kings Bench during the time our author was Judge in the said Courts which was from the 18. Jac. 1. to 16. Car. 1. In the said book also is reported three Iters together with the great case in Parliament between the Earl of Oxford and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby This book also coming into the hands after the authors death of Sir Jo. Glynn Serjeant at Law he made very good notes on it as it appears in the original copy sometimes in the hands of Dorothy Faulconberg and Lucy Jones Daughters and Executors of Sir Will. Jones Several Speeches in Parliament He concluded his last day in his house in Holbourne near London on the ninth of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 and was buried under the Chappel standing on pillars of Lincolns-Inn on the fourteenth day of the same month Over whose grave tho no writing or Epitaph appears yet his eminence in the knowledge of the Municipal Laws will make his name live to posterity more especially in these parts where he had his education and when Justice did constantly keep Oxford circuit WILLIAM CHIBALD or Chiball a Surrey man born was entred a Student into Magd. coll 1589. aged 14. but whether in the condition of a Servitour or Clerk I know not Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function became a Preacher in London and at length Rector of St. Nicholas cold Abbey in Old Fishstreet there where continuing many years was much frequented and admired for his edifying way of Preaching He hath written and published A cordial of comfort to preserve the Heart from fainting with grief or fear for our friends or own visitation by the Plague Lond. 1625. oct An humble thanksgiving to Almighty God for his staying of the Plague in the City of London and Suburbs thereof Printed with the former Sum of all namely Gods Service and Mans Salvation and Mans duty to God concerning both by way of dialogue Lond. 1630. oct Several Sermons as 1 The trial of Faith by the touchstone of the Gospel on 2 Cor. 13. 5. Lond. 1622. oct with others which I have not yet seen Apology for the trial of Faith Lond. in oct when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it He deceased in Febr. about the 25. day in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in his Church of St. Nicholas before-mentioned leaving then behind him a Son named James who became a Student in Magd. coll 1623. afterwards a Minister in London and if I mistake not a sufferer there for the Royal Cause when the Grand Rebellion broke out in 1642. by the sedulous industry of such who were then called Presbyterians MARTIN WESTCOMBE sometimes a Monk at Toulouse in France and Bac. of Arts there left the Rom. Cath. Church and returned to his native Country of England At length being reconciled to the Reformed Church there was sent to Exeter coll among his Countrymen of Devonshire was incorporated Bach. of Arts in January 1637. and by the favour of the Chancellour of the University proceeded in Arts the next year as a Member of the said college He hath written Fabulae pontificiae Evangelicae veritatis radiis dissipatae Ox. 1639. oct Soon after the author of it went beyond the Seas returned to his former Religion as some of the Ancients of Ex. coll have told me and wrote certain matters there in vindication of himself but what they could not tell me ROBERT CHAMBERLAINE Son of Rich. Chamb. of Standish in Larcash Gent was born there or at least in that County and from being Clerk to Pet. Ball Esq Solicitor General to the Queen had his Poetical Genie so far incouraged by that generous person that he sent him to Exeter coll to compleat it with Academical learning in the beginning of the year 1637. aged 30 years What stay he made there or whether he was honoured with a degree it appears not Sure it is that he having about that time composed several poetical and other things had them viewed by the ingenious men of that house and published under these titles Nocturnal Lucubrations or meditations divine and moral Lond. 1638. in tw To which are added Epigrams and Epitaphs The former he dedicated to his honoured Master Peter Ball before-mentioned and the other to Will. Ball his Son and Heir He hath also written The swaggering Damsel a Comedy Lond. 1640. qu. Sicelides a Pastoral When printed I cannot tell for I do not remember I ever saw it In 1631. was published in qu. a book intit Sicelides a piscatory several times acted in Kings coll in Cambr. and therefore I presume 't was made by one of that house This Rob. Chamberlaine lived many years after but when he died I cannot justly tell One Rob. Chamberlaine proceeded Master of Arts as a Member of Pemb. coll but he being the Son of Dr. Pet. Chamberlaine a Physician must not be taken as some of this University have done to be the same with the Poet before-mentioned Will. Chamberlaine of Shaftsbury in Dorsetshire hath written Love's Victory Trag. Com. Lond. 1658. qu. and Pharonida an heroick Poem Lond. 1659. oct but whether he was ever an Oxford Student I am hitherto ignorant ATHENAE OXONIENSES The History of the Archbishops and Bishops of the University of Oxford from the year of our Lord 1500. to the end of the year 1640. â—_THOMAS JANE or Janne was born in a Market Town in Dorsetsh called Middleton educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School