time concerning the Voyages and Travels of several persons he compiled a book intit English Voyages Navigations Trafficks and Discoveries Lond. 1598. 99. and 1600. in three vol. in fol. Which work being by him performed with great care and industry cannot but be an honour to the Realm of England because possibly many Ports and Islands in America that are base and barren and only bear a name for the present may prove rich places in future time Notes of certain Commodities in good request in the East Indies the Molucoes and China MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Pub. Lib. at Oxon. He also illustrated by diligent observation of time and with most useful notes Peter Mart. Anglericus his eight Decades De novo orbe Par. 1587. oct and corrected and much amended and translated into English The discoveries of the World from the first original unto the year of our Lord 1555. Lond. 1601. qu. briefly written in the Portugal tongue by Anth. Galvano Governour of Ternate the chief Island of the Molucoes As also from the said Language into our English tongue Virginia richly valued by the description of the main Land of Florida her next Neighbour Lond. 1609. qu. He paid his last debt to nature 23. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 and was buried in the Abbey Church of Westminster dedicated to S. Peter on the 26. of the same month leaving behind him a Son named Edmund begotten on the body of Frances his Wife to whom he left his Mannor of Bridgplace and several tenements in Tuttlestreet within the City of Westminster Oliver Hackluyt Brother to the said Richard was a Student of Ch. Ch. also and being graduated in Physick had an happy hand in the practice of it In R. Hakluyts Prebendship of Westminster succeeded Joh. Holt of Cor. Ch. coll as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SMITH was born in Warwickshire elected Scholar of S. Johns coll into a Coventry place an 1577. aged 14. and at length was made Fellow and highly valued in the University for piety and parts especially by those that excelled in both Soon after he grew to that note that he was chosen being then Bach. of Div. to be Lecturer in S. Pauls Cathedral in London in the place of that great Man Dr. Lauc Andrews which he discharged not only to the satisfaction but applause of most judicious and learned hearers witnessed by their frequency and attention Not long after he was removed to a Pastoral Charge at Clavering in Essex where being fix'd he shined as a Star in its proper sphere and was much reverenced for his Religion learning humility and holiness of Life He was skilful in the original Languages an excellent Text-man well read in writers that were of note in several ages of the Church which may partly appear from these things following that he wrote viz. The Substance and Pith of Prayer or a brief holy and heavenly Exposition on the Lord's Prayer being the Summ and Marrow of divers Sermons c. on Matth. 6. 9. Lond. 1629. qu. The Essex Dove presenting the World with a few of her Olive branches c. delivered in three several Treatises viz. 1. The Grounds of Religion 2. An Expoon the Lord's Prayer 3. A Treatise of Repentance Lond. 1629. qu. The poor Penitent or the Doctrine of Repentance Preached in divers Sermons c. Lond. 1629. qu. in 14 Lectures published by John Hart. Exposition on the Creed Lond. 1632. fol. Explanation of the Articles of our Christian Faith Which two last books were delivered in 73 Sermons He concluded his last day in the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 and was buried in the Church of Clavering before-mentioned leaving then by his Will several books to St. Johns coll Library I have mentioned several John Smiths in this work that were Divines See under the year 1596. and elsewhere THOMAS SPARKE received his first breath in Lincolnshire at South-Somercote as it seems became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll in 1570. in which year he was admitted Bach. of Arts. Soon after by the favour of Arthur Lord Grey he was preferred to the Parsonage of Bletchley in Bucks where he was held in great esteem for his piety In the year 1575. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences without ruling in Arts and about that time was Chaplain to Dr. Cooper Bish of Linc. who that year bestowed the Archdeaconry of Stow on him in the place of Rog. Kelke Bach. of Div. who had succeeded Joh. Harrison in that Dignity 1563. In 1581. he proceeded in Divinity being then in great renown for his learning But his Dignity being remote from his Cure and therefore could not well attend it he gave it up out of Conscience sake in 1582. and contented himself only â—ith Bletchley whereupon Joh. Farmery B. D. succeeded him therein This Dr. Sparke was the person who being noted for a great Nonconformist and a Pillar of Puritanism was by Letters from the King's Council called to the Conference at Hampton-Court an 1603. where appearing in the behalf of the Millinaries as 't is said or rather with Jo. Rainolds as a Proctor for the precise Party not in a Priests Gown or Canonical Coat but such that Turky Merchants wear received then so great satisfaction from his Majesty's most ready and apt Answers to the Doubts and Objections there and then proposed that he tho he spoke not one word did not only for the time following yield himself in his practice to Universal Conformity but privately by word and writing and publickly by his brotherly perswasion He was a learned Man a solid Divine well read in the Fathers and so much esteemed for his profoundness gravity and exemplary life and conversation that the Sages of the University thought it fit after his death to have his picture painted on the wall in the School-gallery among the English Divines of note there viz. between that of Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll whom I have mentioned under the year 1614. and that of Dr. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He hath written A comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience Lond. 1580. oct Brief Catechism with a form of Prayer for Householders Taken as it seems from the Catechism of Vrsinus Sermon Preached at Cheyneys in Bucks at the burial of the E. of Bedford 14. Sept. 1585. on Apoc. 14. 13. Lond. 1585. oct c. Treatise to prove that Ministers publickly and Householders privately are bound to Catechise their Parishioners and Families c. Oxon. 1588. oct Answer to Mr. Joh. de Albines notable discourse against Heresies Oxon. 1591. qu. Serm. at the Funeral of the Lord Grey on Esay 57. 1 2. Ox. 1593. oct The High-way to Heaven by the clear Light of the Gospell c. against Bellarmine and others in a Treatise made upon 37 38 and 39 verses of the 7. of John c. Lond. 1597. oct A brotherly perswasion to Unity and Uniformity in Judgment and
Thursday March 2. S. Ceddes day the Lord Brook shot in the left Eye and killed in the place at Lichfield going to give onset upon the Close of the Church he ever having been fierce against Bishops and Cathedrals His bever up and armed to the knee so that a Musket at that distance could have done him but little harm Thus was his Eye put out who about two years since said he hoped to live to see at S. Pauls not one stone left upon another c. This Lord Brook who did often bragg that he should live to see the millinary fools paradice begin in his life time did give occasion by words that he uttered to certain observing persons to think that his death was near viz. that at his going out of Coventry when he went towards Lichfield he give order to his Chaplain that he should preach upon this Text If I perish I perish being the words of Ester in a different but a far better cause Est 4. 16. Also that in a prayer of above an hour long which he conceived before his setting on the Close he was heard to wish that if the cause he was in were not right and just he might be presently cut off using the like expressions to his Souldiers also JOHN BEAUMONT Son of Francis Beaumont one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth was born of and descended from an ancient and noble family of his name living at Gracedieâ— in Leicestershire became a Gent. Com. with his Brethren Henry and Francis in Broadgates hall in the beginning of Lent-term an 1596. aged 14. Whence after he had spent about three years he retired to one of the Inus of Court and afterwards to his native Country where taking to Wife one of the family of Fortescue was at length in 1626. made a Baronet The former part of his life he successfully employed in Poetry and the latter he as happily bestowed on more serious and beneficial Studies And had not death untimely cut him off in his middle age he might have prov'd a Patriot being accounted at the time of his death a person of great knowledge gravity and worth He hath written Bosworth Field A Poem Lond. 1629. oct A taste of the variety of other Poems Printed with the former Poem He hath also made translations into English from Horace Virgil Lucan Persius Ausâ—nius Claudian c. All which were collected together after the authors death by his Son Sir Joh. Beaumont Bt. and were printed with the former Poems in 1629. being then usherd into the world by the commendation-Poems of Tho. Nevill Tho. Hawkyns Benj. Johnson Mich. Drayton Philip King Son of the B. of London c. This Sir John Beaumont the Poet departed this mortal life in the Winter time year 1628 in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Church at Gracedieu leaving behind him a Son named John beforemention'd who died without issue another called Francis afterwards a Jesuit and a third named Thomas who succeeded his brother in his estate and honour As for Francis Beaumont who with his elder brother Sir John came to Broadgates hall in 1596. as I have before told you he must not be understood to be the same with Francis Beaumont the eminent Poet and Comedian for tho he was of the same family and most of his name studied in Oxon yet he was educated in Cambridge and after he had made himself famous over all England for the 50. Comedies and Tragedies which he with Joh. Fletcher Gent. had composed made his last exit in the beginning of March and was buried on the ninth of the same month in 1615 at the entrance of St. Benedicts Chappel within the Abby Church of St. Peter within the City of Westminster As for John Fletcher Son of Rich Fletcher B. of London he was also a Cambridge man and dying of the Plague was buried in the Church or yard of S. Mary Overey in Southwark 29 Aug. 1625. aged 49. Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet hath in his Choice Poems of several sorts c. Pr. 1658. in oct an Epitaph on Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger who as he saith lye buried both in one grave in St. Mary Overies Church in Southwark yet the register of that Church saith that Massinger was buried in one of the four yards belonging to that Church as I shall tell you when I come to him under the year 1639. Later in time than Sir Jo. Beaumont hath appeared another of both his names who hath written and published Observations upon the Apology of Dr. Hen. More Cambr. 1685. qu. And is at present the Kings prof of Div. there JOHN DENISON who in his time was cried up for an eminent preacher became a Student in Balliol coll at the beginning of the year 1590. and when M. of A. entred into orders preached frequently in these parts was made Chaplain of K. James 1. chief moderator of the Free-School in Reading in Berks and at length Vicar of St. Maries Church there In which last he was succeeded by Tho. Bunbury of Ball. coll but thrust out thence by the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil Wars Denison was a learned man well read in Theological authors and wrote and published these things following Several Sermons as 1 The Christian Petitioner preached on Act Sunday 7 Jul. 1611. on Nehem. 13. 22. Lond. 1611. qu. 2 The sin against the Holy Ghost at Pauls Cross on Heb. 10. 26 27. Ib. 1611. qu. 3 Christians care for the Souls safety on Mark 8. 36. Lond. 1621. oct 4 Heavenly Banquet or the doctrine of the Lords Supper set forth in seven Sermons on 1 Cor. 11. from verse 23. to 29. Lond. 1619. oct 5 Blessedness of Peacemakers two Sermons on Matth. 5. 9. Lond. 1620. oct 6 The Sinners acquittance before the K. at Greenwich on Isa 53. 4. Lond. 1624. oct 7 Check to curiosity and The safest service two Serm. at Whitehall on Joh. 21. ver 22. Lond. 1624. oct 8 Heavens joy for a sinners repentance on Luke 15. 7. Ibid. 1623. oct c. A threesold resolution concerning earths vanity hells horror and heavens felicity Lond. 1616. oct 4th edit Justification of the gesture of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1619 oct On the two Sacraments Baptism and the Lords Supper Lond. 1621. qu. De confessionis auricularis vanitate adversus Card. Bellarmini Sophismata Ox. 1621. qu. De sigilli confessionis impietate contra Scholasticorum Neotericorum quorundam dogmata disputatio Printed with the former He dyed in the latter end of January and was buried on the first of Feb. in the Church of St. Mary at Reading before mentiond in sixteen hundred twenty and eight He had a Brother or near Kinsman called Stephen Denison D. D. and many years Minister of St. Catherine Kree Church in London who hat published several things of Divinity as the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue
several propositions made to the states MS. Particular observations of the military affaires in the Palatinate and the Low Countries an 1621. and 1622. MS. Letters relating to State affairs written to the King and Viscount Rochester from Venice an 1613 MS. He paid his last debt to nature in his house situated within the City of Westminster on the 15 day of Febr. between 10. and 11. of the clock at night in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Chappel of S. Paul on the north side of the Abbey Church dedicated to S. Peter within the said City Over his grave was soon after erected against the east Wall a well composed plain Monument of black and white Marble with a half canopy supported by dorick Pillars with the image of a man in his robes of estate and Viscounts Coronet leaning on a Pedestall all formed of the like black and white marble He left behind him a Nephew of both his names who was admitted Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 1614. and had the degree of Master of Arts of that University confer'd upon him during his absence in the Low Countries being then Secretary to his Uncle while he was Embassador there In 1629. March 1. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at New-Market and in 1637. he was made one of the Clerks of the Councel NICHOLAS VIGNIER received his first being in this World at Bloys in France educated mostly in the University of Saumour retired to Oxon to improve his studies by the hearing and doctrine of Dr. John Prideaux an 1623. was incorporated master of Arts in Octob. the same year as he had stood at Saumour being about that time entred a Sojournour of Exeter coll of which house Prideaux was then Rector and numbred among the Academians Soon after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences as a member of the said college being at that time reputed to be a person of great erudition singular piety and of a most polite ingenie After he had tarried there for some few years he returned to the place of his nativity where he became a zealous Minister of and preacher to the Protestant Church Before he came to Oxon he published Theses Theologicae de satisfactione dei domini nostri Jes Ch. c. Lugd. Bat. 1622. qu. Highly commended by And. Rivet and by him annexed to his own disputations After he had left Oxon. he published several Sermons in the French tongue as 1 L'Art de bien mourir on Luke 2. 25. c. Rochel 1625. oct 2 La mere Ecclesiastique on Gal. 4. 19. 3 De la priere pou les Rois Magistrats on 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. 4 Le Trisagion on Esay 6. 1 2 3. 5 De la chente des Auges c. on the 6. ver of S. Jude 6 Two Sermons at Bloys on Rev. 2. 12. 7 Serm. of the call confirmation and authority of the Ministers of the Gospel on Joh. 20. ver 21. 22. 8 Panegyrique de la paix on Psal. 122. All which were printed at Rochel 1625. in oct 9 Practique de repentance twenty Sermons on Psal. 51. Bloys 1631. oct Besides several others which I have not yet seen This Nich. Vignier who was Minister of the Protestant Church at Bloys before mentioned was Son of Nich. Vignier of Bar on the river Sene a learned Frenchman Physitian and Historiographer to the K. of France while our Qu. Elizab. reigned and after several of whose works are in our publick Library at Oxon. Among which are 1 Theatre de l' Antichrist c. printed 1610. fol. 2 Dissertatio de Venetorum excommunicatione contra Caes Baronium Franc. ad m. 1607. qu. Which two books are said by a certain author but false to have been written by N. Vignier the Son GEORGE CALVERT Son of Leonard Calvert by Alice his Wife Daug. of John Crossland of Crossland was born at Kypling in the Chappelrie of Bolton in Yorks at which place he bestowed much mony in building in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. became a Commoner of Trinity coll in Lent Term 1593 and in the year of his age 15. took one degree in Arts and then leaving the college travelled beyond the Seas for a time At his return he was made Secretary to Sir Rob. Cecill while he was one of the prime Secretaries of State being then esteemed a forward and knowing person in matters relating to the State All which time and after for several years when Sir Robert was advanced to higher offices he retained him and made use of his prudence and faithfulness in many weighty matters In 1605. he was actually created Master of Arts when K. Jam. 1. was entertained by the University Afterwards by the endeavours of the said Sir Robert Cecill he was made one of the Clerks of the Council and in 1617. Sept. 29. he with Cl. Edmonds sometimes of All 's coll Albert Morton whom I shall anon mention both Clerks of the Council also received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Hampton Court On the 15. February 1618. he was made Secretary of State to his Majesty who as before he had used his help in many matters of moment so he did oftner afterwards to his great benefit and advantage At the same time also his Majesty judged it very convenient that he should assist and help Sir Robert Nauton the other Secretary who had not then that faculty of managing and expediting matters of State as Calvert had On the 2 May 1620. the King gave him an yearly pension of a thousand pounds to be received from the Customs and on the 16 Feb. 1624. he being then a Parliamentary Burgess for this University was by the name of Sir George Calvert of Danbywiske in Yorkshire Knight c. created Baron of Baltimore in the County of Longford in Ireland being then a Roman Catholick or at least very much addicted to their Religion As for his adventures into America where he was absolute Lord and Proprietary of Avalon in the New-found-land and of his first venturing and taking possession of a Peninsula lying in the parts of America between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesopeake on the West and divided from the other part thereof by a right line drawn from the Promontory or Cape of Land called Watkyns point situate in the aforesaid Bay near to the River Wighco on the West unto the main Ocean afterwards called and named by him Mary-Land let the Histories and relations of Travellers tell you while I acquaint you of his works which are Carmen funebre in D. Hen. Vntonum ad Gallos bis Legatum ibique nuper fato functum Printed 1596. qu. Parliamentary Speeches Various Letters of State The answer of Tom Tell-Troth The practice of Princes and the Lamentation of the Kirk Lond. 1642. qu. He hath also written something concerning Mary-Land but whether printed I cannot tell He ended his days on
beneficial in his generation July 5. John Nicholaus Vaughan a Cambra-Britaine sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University afterwards Doctor of the Laws of Padua was also then incorporated having spent 10 years in the study of that faculty He was the Son of Joh. Nich. Vaughan Esq 10. John Brownlowe sometimes of Brasnose Coll. afterwards of St. Maries Hall and at length in 1631 Doctor of Physick of Leyden was then taken into the bosome of this University Oct. 12. Daniel Brevint of the Isle of Jersey Master of Arts of the Univ. of Saumare in France 16. Antonius Aubertus Master of Arts of the University or Academy of Deinse Deia Augusta Vocuntiorum The said Degree was conferr'd upon him there on the Ides of Septemb. 1619. Nov. 7. George Ent Doctor of Physick of Padua This learned Person who was the Son of Josias Ent was born at Sandwich in Kent 6. Nov. 1604 educated in Sydney Coll. in Cambridge was after he had been doctorated Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London eminent for his practice during the times of Usurpation afterwards President of the said College and at length had the Degree of Knighthood conferr'd upon him by King Charles 2. He hath written 1 Apologia pro circulatione sanguinis contra Aemilium Parisanum Lond. 1641. oct Wherein he hath learnedly defended Dr. William Harvey against the said Parisanus and rendred a very rational account concerning the operation of purging Medicines c. 2 Animadversiones in Malachiae Thrustoni M. D. diatribam de respirationis usu primario Lond. 1679. oct before which is his picture in a long periwig What other things he hath published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him at present only that he dying 13. October 1689 was buried in a Vault under part of the Church of St. Laurence in the Jewry within the City of London Dec. 6. Charles Vane Mast of Arts of Saumaure He was a Cadet of the knightly Family of the Vanes of Fairelane in Kent and being nearly related to Sir Hen. Vane closed with the Faction and in 1650 was sent Agent into Portugal by the Parliament of England Jan. 19. Thom. Temple Bach. of Div. of Linc. Coll. sometimes M. of A. and Fellow of Trin. Coll. near to Dublin was then incorporated Bach. of Div. The said degree he took there 18. June 1630 and in the beginning of March following he was licensed to proceed in this University as 't is before told you This person who was Brother to Sir Joh. Temple Knight Master of the Rolls and one of his Majesties Privy Council in Ireland continued not long in Linc. Coll. for upon the turn of the times in 1641 I find him in London to be a forward Preacher and about that time Minister of Battersea in Surrey afterwards a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament and one of the Assembly of Divines which is all I know of him only he hath certain Sermons in print which he preached before the said Members one of which is entit Christs government in and over his people before the H. of Com. at their Fast 26 Oct. 1642 on Psal 2. 6. Lond. 1642. qu. Creations Apr. 11. John Juxon an Officer belonging to the Lord Treasurer qui ad cubitum summi totius Angliae Thesaurarii à computis est as the Register hath it was declared Bach. of the Civil Law by a Diploma then read and sealed He was nearly related to Dr. Juxon Bishop of London and Lord Treasurer of England Philip Warwick Secretary to the Lord Treasurer qui ad cubitum c. ab epistolis est as in the said Reg. was also diplomated Bach. of the Civ Law the same day This noted person who was Son of Thom. Warwick Organist of the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster and he the Son of Thom. Warwick of Hereford descended from the Warwicks or Warthwykes of Warwick in Cumberland was born in the said City of Westminster educated in Eaton Coll. School near Windsore and was for a time Chorister at Westminster Afterwards he travelled into France and was much at Geneva under the instruction and good counsel of Deodatus the famous Divine Thence returning into his native Country with many accomplishments became Secretary to the Lord Treasurer before mention'd one of the Clerks of the Signet and in 1640 was elected a Burgess for the Town of Radnor in Wales to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. the same year But perceiving soon after what desperate courses the Members thereof took he retired to his Majesty was with him at Oxon and sate in the Parliament there an 1643 at which time and after he had his Lodging in Vniversity Coll. and his Counsel much relyed upon by his Majesty Afterwards he was one of the Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon an 1646 and in 1648 he did attend his Majesty in his disconsolate condition in the Isle of Wight In the times of Usurpation he was involved in the same troubles as all Loyalists were but after his Majesties Restauration being then fix'd in the Clerkship of the Signet he became Secretary to Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer of England in which place he acted so much and so dexterously that he being then a Knight was usually called Sir Philip the Treasurer This person tho he hath published nothing yet he hath left behind him several things fit for the Press among which are 1 Memoirs or reflections upon the Reign of K. Ch. 1. in fol. 2 Of Government as examined by Scripture Reason and the Law of the Land or true weights and measures between Sovereignty and Liberty fol. c. He was esteemed by those that knew him to be a person of a publick spirit above the riches and preferments of the World and to be just in all his Actions and needed not therefore that Character which a certain nameless Author gives of him thus that he never lies more than when he professes to speak the sincerity of his heart He died on the 17 of the Cal. of Feb. 1682 aged 74 years and was buried in the Church at Chiselherst in Kent where he had an Estate I have seen an Epitaph made on him by Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of Salisbury the first part of which runs thus Cavesis tibi viator ne legens lugeas nam cujus fidem veriverbio Carolus primus celebravit Carolusque secundus expertus est Nec majora quidem nec plura de se dici voluit Vir coelo natus bonorum in terris desiderium optimus veri aestimator aequi bâ—nique tenacissimus Philippus Warwick c. His â—on and Heir was Philip Warwick Esquire sometimes Envoy extraordinary from his Majesty to the King of Sweeden who returning post thence to the Court at Newmarket in order partly to take the last breath of his Father died suddenly of an Apoplexy there in his bed on Monday the 12
Musick easily his Genie therefore was born to greater Studies In short time after he sent him to Padöua in Italy which was then most flourishing in literature to obtain or rather advance himself in good letters and allowed him an yearly Pension to defray his Charges While he was conversant with the Muses there he was much instructed in his Studies by Cuthb Tonstall and Will. Latymer whom he calls his Praeceptores and whether he took a Degree there I find not After his return into England he retired to Oxon where as I conceive he had studied for some time before he travelled and settled for a time as 't is supposed in Queens Coll. of which his Patron T. Langton had been Provost and soon after was received into the service of Dr. afterward Cardinal Christopher Bambridge who succeeded his said Patron in that Provostship as I have elsewhere told you From the service of the said Cardinal he was received into the Royal Court where his parts being soon discovered and his accomplishments made known to the King was by him made Secretary of State and employed in matters of high concern In the beginning of 1514 he was admitted Prebendary of Bugthorpe in the Church of York in the place of Thom. Wolsey consecrated Bishop of Linc. and on the 20. of May the same Year he was made Archdeacon of Dorset upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll. in this University Afterwards he was sent in one or more Embassies by the King which he performed with very great honor to himself and the English Nation In 1519 he became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London on the Death of Dr. Joh. Colet and about that time Dean of Exeter but whether he was ever Dean of Salisbury it appeareth not 'T is true that Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury doth say in the Life and Reign of King Hen. 8. under the Year 1536. that Pet. Vannes then Archdeacon of Worcester was not long before that time made co-adjutor to Rich. Pace Dean of Salisbury being then thought commonly distracted and out of his Wits But how that can be I cannot find for 1 it doth evidently appear from the Registers of that Church that one Raymund Pade had that Deanery conferr'd upon him 19. Jan. 1522. 2 That in the said Registers no mention at all is made of R. Pace as Dean and thirdly that Pet. Vannes beforementioned became Dean of the said Church by virtue of the King's Letters on 3. Feb. 1539. in the place as 't is supposed of the said Pade at which time R. Pace had been dead 7 Years In 1521 he being made Prebendary of Combe and Harnham in the said Church of Sarum he shewed himself serviceable to the University of Oxon the Members of which would then have had him to adorn their Lycaeum with a degree if certain customs belonging thereunto did not hinder him Afterwards our Author Paice who was then esteemed by all ripe in wit learning and eloquence and very expert in Foreign Languages was sent in the Kings Affairs Ambassador to Venice which function there he so discharged that it is hard to say whether he procured more commendation or admiration among the Venetians both for dexterity of his wit and especially for the singular promptness in the Italian tongue wherein he seemed nothing inferior neither to Pet. Vannes here in England the Kings Secretary for the Italian tongue nor yet to any other which were the best for that tongue in all Venice For opinion and fame of learning he was so generally accepted not only here in England with Lynacre Grocin Sir Tho. More and others but also known and reported abroad in such manner that in the great Volume of Erasmus his Epistles he wrot almost to none so many as he wrot to this our Author Paice It must be now noted that while he continued at Venice he grew much out of favour with Cardinal Wolsey first for shewing his readiness to assist Charles Duke of Burbon with Money while the said Cardinal who had little or no affection for that Duke did under hand keep back a vast summ of Money which K. Hen. 8. had sent to the said Duke to carry on his War near Pavia against Francis 1. K. of France and secondly for his negligence in advancing the said Cardinals designs to succeed in the Papacy P. Adrian the 6. who died 1523. I say for these two reasons especially he was so much inflamed against Paice that he forthwith took such causes that for the space almost of two Years he had neither writing from the King or Council how he should proceed in his Affairs at Venice nor any allowance for his diet notwithstanding he had sent Letters for the same to England very often Upon this and especially upon some private intimation from his Friends at home he took such an inward thought and conceit that his wits began to fail him It is reported that the Venetian Ambassador residing in London repaired to the Cardinal and desired to know of him whether he would command any thing to the English Ambassador at Venice Whereupon he made answer Paceus decepit Regem Which words coming to Paice's knowledge so deeply pierc'd his stomach that he in a manner fell quite besides himself Soon after his frensie and the reason thereof being made known to the King he was forthwith sent for home and by the Kings command he was so carefully attended by his Physicians that in short time he came to his wits again and began to study the Hebrew Language with Rob. Wakfeld About that time the Cardinal being absent Paice's Friends found such means that he was brought to the King then residing at Richmond where they had private discourse for two hours or more not without great rejoycing to His Majesty to see him so well amended in his senses Afterwards the Cardinal hearing what had passed and suspecting that he had disclosed somewhat to the King which he would not have known as also doubting the King would take Paice into favour again began in short time after to quarrel and to pick up matters to lay to Paice's charge whereas he should have rather cleared himself of those things which Paice laid unto him before the King and then to have proceeded accordingly But so it was that when the King had willed the Cardinal to purge himself of those things which Paice had rightly charged him withal he sitting in judgment with the Duke of Norfolk and other States of the Realm not as a Defendant but as a Judge in his own cause did so bear out himself and weighed down Paice that he was forthwith commanded to the Tower of London as Prisoner where he continuing for the space of two Years or thereabouts was at length by the Kings command discharged While he was in his disconsolate condition he was so deeply sensible of his case that he was more distracted in his wits than
year 1533 July in Fifteen hundred thirty and three where he suffer'd Death by burning See more of him in Jo. Fox his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the Year 1533 and in Rob. Persons his animadversions on Fox's words concerning Fryth in The third part of a treatise entit Of three conversions of England Chapt. 11. p. 45. 46 c. as also in Joh. Gwynneth among these Writers under the Year 1557. JOHN ROPER born in Berks. in the Dioc. of Sarum was first a Semicommoner or Demy of Magd. Coll. and afterwards being M. of A. was admitted perpetual Fellow of that House in 1483. When he was some Years standing in that degree he was made Reader of Philosophy and when Bach. of Divinity Reader of the Sentences or Divinity in the said College In 1502 he was confirmed Margaret Professor by the Foundâ—ess of that Lecture was afterwards Vicar of St. Maries Church in Oxon Principal of Salesurry and George Hall in that Parish Doctor of Divinity Canon of the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. now Ch. Ch. in Oxon to which he was admitted 1532 and Rector of Witney Church in Oxfordshire This Person who was esteemed one of the eminent Theologists of this University was appointed by the King in 1521. to write Tract contra Doctrinam Mart. Lutheri Which whether ever printed I know not He was a zealous Enemy against the Kings divorce from Queen Catherine in the Year 1530 but did not dare to write openly or publish any thing against it tho Preach he did This learned Person died in the Month of May year 1534 in Fifteen hundred thirty and four and was as I conceive buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel JOHN ALLEN had his first Academical Education in this University whence going to Cambridge was there made M. of Arts as 't is said tho I rather think Bach. of the Laws Afterwards he was sent to the Pope at Rome by Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury about certain matters relating to the Church where remaining about 9 Years was in that time created Doctor of the Laws either there or in an University in Italy After his return he became Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey who knew him as I conceive while he was in Oxon was Judge of his Court as he was Legat à latere but in that Office he was thought to be a perjur'd and wicked Person and assisted him in visiting first and afterwards in that great matter of dissolving 40 little Monasteries at least for the erection of his Coll at Oxon and that at Ipswych In the latter end of the Year 1525 he was incorporated LL. Dr. of this University on the 13. March 1528. he was consecrated Archb. of Dublin and about that time was made Chancellor of Ireland He hath Written Epistola de Pallii significatione activa passiva Penn'd by him when he received the Pall to be Archbishop De consuetudinibus ac statutis in tuitoriis causis observandis Besides other things concerning the Church At length being taken in a time of rebellion by Tho. Fitz-Gerard or Gerald eldest Son to the Earl of Kildare was by his command most cruelly murder'd by being brain'd like an Ox at Tartaine in Ireland 28. Jul. in Fifteen hundred thirty and four year 1534 aged 58. The whole story of which several of the Irish Chronicles will tell you See more among the Bishops under the Year 1534. WILLIAM HORMAN was born within the City of Salisbury educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester made true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1477. which place he resigning in 1485 being then M. of A. he became Schoolmaster and Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsor and at length Vice provost of the same College In which place spending many Years in pleasant retirement became one of the most general Scholars of his time as may appear by the diffusiveness of his Learning and Books written in all faculties All the Academical Education that he received was in the University of Oxon where he also took the Degrees in Divinity So that whereas Joh. Baleus and Jo. Pitseus say that he was of Kings Coll. in Cambridge is false being led I presume into that error from one Godfrey Harman a Cantabrigian who from being a Junior Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon was made Fellow of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd where he died and was buried in 1533. As for our Author Will. Horman he hath written many things of which I can only give you an account of some as they follow Antibossicon ad Gul. Lilium Lond. 1521. qu. Apologeticon contra Rob. Whittintoni Protovatis Angliae incivilem indoctanque criminationem Lond. 1521. qu. part 2. Before the said Books is printed from a Wooden Cut the Picture of a Bear baited by six Dogs and at the end is some of Whittington's poety taken in pieces by Horman and by him severely answer'd Vulgaria puerorum c. They are elegant sentences written in English and Latin and dedicated to Will Atwater Bishop of Lincolne Compendium Hist Gul. Malmsburiensis Epitome Historiae Joh. Pici com Mirandulae Elegiae in mort Gul. Lilii Anatomia membrorum hominis In one Book Anatomia corporis humani In two Books The titles of the rest you may see in Jo. Baleus and therefore I can say no more of our Author Horman than this that he paid his last debt to nature on the 12. year 1535 Apr. in Fifteen hundred thirty and five and was buried in the Chappel of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd Over his Grave are certain Verses engraven on a brass plate the two first of which run thus Hâc Hormannus humo requiescit amice viator Pene annos numerant lustra vicena suos The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 135. THOMAS MORE one of the greatest prodigies of Wit and Learning that this Nation ever before his time produced Son of Sir Joh. More Knight one of the Justices of the Kings Bench was born in Milk-street within the City of London an 1480. trained up in Grammar learning in St. Anthonies School there and afterwards received into the Family of Card. Joh. Moreton Archb. of Canterbury merely for the towardliness of his Person and the great hopes that the pregnancy of his parts then promised About the Year 1497. 't is said by some late Authors that that worthy Cardinal did send him to Canterbury College in Oxon to obtain Academical Learning but upon what grounds they report so it appears not Miles Windsore whom I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1624. who came to the University of Oxon in the time of Queen Mary doth tell us more than once that he had his Chamber and studied in the Hall of St. Mary the Virgin and constant tradition doth say the like and 't was never reported to the contrary before those two Authors here cited Tho. More and J. H. published their respective Books What
much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing which he exercised as well in the publick Schools as at home Soon after he was licensed by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law but took no Degree therein in this University And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560 he went thereupon into Ireland where if I mistake not he was born and prosecuting his studies there as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues expert in the Mathematicks a proper Antiquary and an exact Divine His pen was not lazie as one saith but dayly breeding of learned books He wrot Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta And an oration also entit De Ligno Faeno Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College which was no other than a Christmas Lord or a Lord or King of misrule He hath written many other things which being done and printed beyond the Seas we see them but seldom or never in these parts JAMES WALSH an Irish Man born was educated in this University but what Degrees he took there I find not In the Year 1572 and belike before he had a Chamber and took his commons in Hart hall being then a Student in Divinity with Mr. Leonard Fitz-Simons his Countryman Both whom are entituled Magistri that year in the Matricula of the University under Aula cervina The said Jam. Walsh hath written Epigrammata diversa With other things of the like nature and translated into English The Topography of Ireland written in Lat. by Silv. Giraldus Which translation with Scholia's was made also much about the same time by Joâ— Hooker alias Vowell of the City of Exeter as you may see elsewhere In the time of this Jam. Walsh studied in Hart hall also divers of his Country men of Ireland some of whom having been afterwards Men of note or else writers you shall have their names as they follow 1 David Clere Bach. of Arts 1565. 2 Nich. Clere of the County of Kilkenny matriculated 1567. aged 19 3 David Sutton a Gentlemans Son of Kildare 1571 aged 16. 4 Pet. Nangle a Gent. Son of Dublin 1571. aged 15 5 Rich. Walsh a Merchants Son of Waterford aged 15. an 1572. 6 Rob. Boteler a Merch. Son of the said City aged 23. an 1572. 7 George Sherlock the Son of a Merchant also of the same City at 17. an 1572. 8 Rich. Masterson a Gent. Son of Wexford aet 15. an 1573. 9 Nich. Gaydon an Esq Son of Dublin aet 19. an 1574. 10 Tho. Finglas a Gent. Son of Finglas near to Dublin aet 18. an 1571. 11 Will. Nugent a Gent Son of Meath or of the County of Meath aet 21. an 1571. With several others of a later date as Alex. Barrington a Gentlemans Son of Ireland aet 18. an 1583. c. LEONARD FITZSIMONS was born in the Diocess and County of Dublin in Ireland admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll. from that of Corp. Ch. of which he was Clerk 17 June 1558 aged 17 and the next year was made Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1563 he proceeded in that faculty but being a R. Cath. in his heart and therefore unwilling to take holy Orders according to the Church of England left his Fellowship and retired to Hart hall about 1571. At length going into his own Country had some employment confer'd upon him and was in his latter years as I conceive a Rom. Priest He is charactarized by one who knew him to be profundus clericus qui utrasque linguas Theologiam Mathematicam admodum caluit coluit And there is no doubt but that he hath written and published several Books which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom see them in these parts He was famous and noted for his learning in Ireland in Fifteen hundred and eighty but when he died or where his relicks were lodg'd I cannot tell One Hen. Fitzsimons a famous Jesuit was also educated in Hart hall as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SECURIS a Wiltshire Man born and a most noted Person for his admirable parts while he studied in New Coll. in the time of Ed. 6 but not in the condition of a Fellow did retire to Paris for the improvement of his studies where applying his muse to the faculties of Physick and Astronomy became a diligent hearer of the Lectures of Dr. Jacobus Silvius of high learning and famous memory the reader of the Physick lecture in that University who usually had a thousand auditors every time he read After he had compleated his studies there he returned into England and settled within the City of Salisbury where he was much frequented for his great knowledge in Medicine and wrot Several Prognosticons One of which for the Year 1580 I have seen and to it is joyned A compendium or brief instruction how to keep a moderate diet In the title of the said Prognosticon he writes himself Master of Arts and Physick but whether he took those Degrees in Oxon. I cannot tell because the register containing the acts of Congregation and Convocation is almost totally neglected during the Reign of Ed. 6. In the Preface to the said Compendium he tells us that in his time fell near to Salisbury hailstones as big as a childs fist of 3 or four years old Our Author Securis hath also written A detection and querimonie of the daylie enormities and abuses committed in Physick concerning the three parts thereof that is of the Physicians part the part of Surgeons and the part of Poticaries Lond. 1566. in oct Dedicated in a Lat. Epist to both the Universities Oxford of which he saith he was an Alumnus and Cambridge After which follows a Preface to the reader in old English verse and at the end of the book is a peroration to both the Universities Contemporary with this noted Author Securis was another Astrologer called Evans Lloyd a Welsh Man educated in Logicals and Philosophicals in Oriel Coll. but took no Degree here Afterwards retiring to the great City wrot several Ephemerides which were much valued in their time one of them written for the Year 1582. I have seen supputated especially for the elevation and meridian of London but may generally serve for all England It was printed there the same year and approved by Dr. John Dee with whom as also with Securis he had acquaintance NICHOLAS QUEMERFORD was born in the City of Waterford in Ireland took a Degree in Arts 1562 after he had spent at least 4 years in this University in pecking and hewing at Logick and Philosophy Which Degree being compleated by Determination he went into his own Country entred into the sacred function and had preferment there but turned out from it because of his Religion He wrot in English a pithie and learned
Q. Mary being then about 13 years of age he went with his Father as it seems beyond the Seas for Religion sake where setling at Francfort obtained great knowledge in humane learning especially in the Greek tongue After his return in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth he was sent to Oxon but to what particular Hall or Coll. therein I know not In July 1561 he was admitted Bach. of Arts and in the beginning of Aug. following was licensed to proceed in the same faculty the first of which Degrees he compleated not by Determination nor the other by standing in the Comitia Afterwards taking to Wife Susan Dau. of Nicasius Yetswiert secretary of the French tongue to Q. Eliz. and one of the Clerks of the signet was introduced into the Court where his most admirable parts being quickly discerned he became one of the Clerks of the Council to that Queen and often employed by her in Embassies as into the Netherlands an 1575 to Don Joh. of Austria 1577 and to the K. of Denmark in 1588. He was a very good Man excellently well learned a good Lat. Poet and one that was especially beloved by the famous Antiquary and Historian W. Camden for whose sake he had laid the foundation of A discouse concerning the Acts of the Britains the form of their Common-wealth and the order and laws by which they lived Which discourse he intended to communicate to the said Camden to have it inserted in his Britannia but he died before 't was finish'd He wrot also Odae Epigrammata Epitaphia c. in laudem mortem Johannis Juelli Episc Sarisbur See at the end of the said Jewells life written by L. Humphrey He hath also published certain Latin Poems which are quoted by the said Camden in his discourse of the City of Salisbury and Poems in English mentioned by other Persons with great commendation but these I have not yet seen He hath also Lat. verses occasionally printed in other Authors as before Ortelius his Theatrum orbis terrarum and an Epigram to the University of Oxon in Ralph Agas his Accurate description or Type of the said University an 1578. He yielded up his last breath to him that gave it on the 11th of Febr. in Fifteen hundred and ninety whereupon his body accompanied by an Herald or two was buried on Shrovetuesday the 16 of the same month near to that of Nicas Yetswiert before-mention'd in the Church of Sunbury near to Hampton-court in Middlesex I find another Dan. Rogers later in time than the former who among several things that he hath published are 1 Davids cost wherein every one who is desirous to serve God aright may see what it must cost him Lond. 1619. oct being the effect of certain Sermons 2 A practical Catechisme Lond. 1633. 3 Lectures upon the History of Naaman the Syrian his disease and cure Lond. 1642 50. fol. 4 Matrimonial honour or the crown and comfort of marriage c. Lond 1642. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen But this D. Rogers who was a Man of most rare parts was educated in Christs Coll. in Cambridge afterwards a Minister and Bach. of Div. and I think the same who was Parson of Haversham in Bucks qu. ARTHUR FAUNT a most noted Jesuit of his time Son of Will. Faunt of Foston in Leicestershire Esq was born of an antient and gentile Family living at that place an 1554 and being very studious and delighted in Letters while he was a Child became fit for Academical studies at 14 years of age Whereupon being sent to Merton Coll. in 1568 he was committed to the tuition of the most noted Philosopher of that house named Joh. Potts who tho he had been before ejected by Mr. Jo. Man the Warden yet was he permitted to attend his Pupil whom he before had instructed in Grammar in the Country But the said Potts being a R. Cath. or else an hearty well-wisher to the Popish Religion he took away his Pupil from the said Coll. with the advice of his relations who were Catholicks also and in the beginning of 1570 conducted him to Lovaine in Brabant where entring him into the Coll. of the Jesuits the same year left him and went into Ireland In the said Coll. he continued till he was Bach. of Arts at which time having a desire to travel he went to Paris where he remained for a time Thence he went to Mynchen or Munchen a City and University in Bavaria where William Duke of that Province did for the towardliness that he saw in him choose him for his Scholar and maintained him in the said University While he continued there he took the Degree of Master of Arts and then having an ardent desire to study Divinity he departed thence in the Year 1575 went to the English Coll. of Jesuits at Rome made a very forward progress in that faculty and changed his name to Laurence Arthur Faunt Not long after he was constituted Divinity reader in the said Coll. and was in very great favour with P. Greg. 13. who had he lived a little longer would as 't was then supposed have honoured our profound Author Faunt with a Cardinals cap. However in token of his love he gave him on his humble desire license to make a seal that by virtue of it which should be set to a writing to be drawn up by him any of his Countrymen whose welfare he ever tendred might with safety pass through any Country without peril of the Spanish inquisition or any danger else whatsoever In the mean time the K. of Poland having setled a Coll. for Jesuits at Posna a City in his Dominions our Author was sent by the said Pope to be Governour thereof So that leaving Rome in order for that employment 10. June 1581 he was not long after received there with ceremony Where for his great learning gravity wisdom and his religious life and conversation he was held in great esteem by the spiritual and temporal estates of that Nation While he remained there he wrot several books among which these following are some Doctrina Catholica de Sanctorum invocatione veneratione c. Posnan 1584. oct Coenae Lutheranorum Calvinianorum oppugnatio part 2. Posnan 15986. qu. Catholicae Eucharistiae defensio Printed with Caena c. Apologia Libri sui de invoc venerat Sanctorum contra falsas Danielis Tossani criminationes c. Col. Agrip. 1589. in oct He also wrot without his name set to it Tractatus de controversiis in ordinem ecclesiasticum secularem in Polonia Print an 1592. in qu. With other things which the Bib. script of his society will tell you This worthy Person who was much celebrated in his time gave way to fate at Vilna the chief City of the Province of Lithuania in Poland on the 28. Febr. according to the accompt there followed in Fifteen hundred ninety and one which is ninety with us after he had religiously served
Writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law and about that time made the Queen's Serjeant and at length one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and not of the King's Bench as one falsly tells us which last place he executed for 5 years with great integrity equity and prudence He was a learned man and a great lover of learning and those that professed it but all the Writings which I have seen of his that are extant are only Reports in the Common Pleas wherein are many choice Cases most of them throughly argued by the learned Serjeants and after argued and resolved by the grave Judges of those times with many Cases wherein the differences in the Year-books are reconciled and explained Lond. 1656. fol. What else is published under his Name I know not nor any more of him only that he dying 21. Decemb. in fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 was buried on the S. side of the Choire of St. Peter's Church in Westminster Over his grave was soon after erected a noble monument of Alabaster Marble and divers coloured stones adorned with Arms and gilt with Gold with his Image in scarlet robes lying thereon which remains to this day He left behind him a Son named named Roger who was a Knight and for his manifold learning a right Worthy Son of so Good a Father This Sir Roger who had been a Gent. Com. of Ch. Church and a great Friend to the Clergy by vindicating them when aspersed in open Parliament 11 Jac. 1. dyed in a distracted condition to their great reluctancy 29. May being Holy Thursday in 1617. MICHAEL MASCHIART a most excellent Latin Poet of his time was born in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City of Salisbury educated in Wykeham's School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1562. became Vicar of Writtle in Essex in 1572. being then Bach. of the Civil Law and two years after proceeded Doctor of that Faculty at which time he was not only esteemed an able Civilian but also excellent in all kind of Humane learning He hath written Poemata varia This book I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether that be the true title Nor indeed should I have known that he had written any thing had not the learned Camden told me so in his Britannia wherein are by him inserted several Verses taken from Maschiart to adorn his discourse of Clarindon Park in Wiltshire This learned Doctor dyed at Writtle before-mentioned in the latter end of the year about Christmas of fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 and was buried in the Church there as I have been informed In that Vicarige succeeded a learned Doctor of Divinity named John Lloyd whom and his Works I shall mention among these Writers under the year 1603. STEPHEN GOSSON a Kentish man born was admitted Scholar of C. Ch. coll 4. Apr. 1572. aged 16. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts four years after left the University without compleating that degree by Determination and went to the great City where he was noted for his admirable penning of Pastorals being so excellent therein that he was ranked with Sir Ph. Sidney Tho. Chaloner Edm. Spencer Abrah Fraunce and Rich. Bernfield noted Poets of their time Thence as he saith he went to a worshipful Gentleman in the Country to teach his Sons where he continued till he shewed his great dislike of Plays having his mind then quite alienated from them So that the Gentleman being weary of his company Gosson left him took Orders and at length became Parson of Great Wigborow in Essex He hath written and published The School of abuse containing a pleasant invective against Poets Pipers Players Jesters and such like Caterpillers of the Common-wealth c. Lond. 1579. and 1585. in oct dedicated to Sir Ph. Sidney Plays confuted in five actions proving that they are not to be suffered in a Christian Common-wealth By the way both the cavils of Tho. Lodge and the Play of Plays written in their defence and other objections of Players Friends are truly set down and directly answered Dedicated to Sir Franc. Walsingham but when printed it appears not The Trumpet of War Serm. at Pauls Cross 7. May 1598. on 2 Chron. ch 20. ver 20. Lond. 1598. oct As for the Pastorals Comedies Tragedies or Poetry some of which he hath written I have not yet seen either printed or In Manuscript JOHN LYLIE or Lylly a Kentish man born became a Student in Magd. coll in the beginning of 1569. aged 16. or thereabouts and was afterwards as I conceive either one of the Demies or Clerks of that house but always averse to the crabbed studies of Logic and Philosophy For so it was that his genie being naturally bent to the pleasant paths of Poetry as if Apollo had given to him a wreath of his own Bays without snatching or strugling did in a manner neglect Accademical studies yet not so much but that he took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1575. At which time as he was esteemed in the University a noted Wit so afterwards was he in the Court of Q. Elizabeth where he was also reputed a rare Poet witty comical and facetious His Works are these Gallathea Love's Metamorphosis Midas Endimion or the man in the Moon Mother Bomby Maids Metamorphosis Sapho and Phao. Woman in the Moon Warning for fair Women Alexander and Campaspe All which are Comedies and most of them having been published in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth six were re-printed at London in oct an 1632. by the care of Hen. Blount Esq afterwards a Knight under the title of Court Comedies which before had crowned the author with applause and the Auditors of them with pleasure Euphues and his England containing his voyage and adventures mixed with sundry pretty discourses of honest love the description of the Country the Court and the manner of that Isle c. Lond. 1580. and 82. in two parts in a large oct The first part is dedicated to Edw. Vere E. of Oxon a noted Poet and encourager of learning in his time and the last to the University of Oxon. These two parts were published again with corrections and amendments at Lond. 1606. and 1636. qu. Euphues The Anatomy of Wit or the delights of Wit in Youth c. Lond. 1581. qu. corrected and amended Lond. 1606. 1623. and 30. qu. To these books of Euphues 't is said that our Nation is indebted for a new English in them which the Flower of the Youth thereof learned All the Ladies then were Scholars to them and their author and that Beauty in Court which could not parly Euphuism was as little regarded as those now there that cannot speak French What other Books Comedies or Trag. our author hath written I cannot find nor when he dyed or where buried only that he lived till towards the latter end of Q. Elizabeth if not beyond for he was in being in 1597. when the
Woman in the Moon was published It is said also that he wrote something against Mart. Marprelate in defence of Dr. Cooper Bishop of Winton but what I cannot tell unless it be any of those answers which I have mentioned in John Penry alias M. Marprelate under the year 1593. Quere RICHARD HAYDOCK was born at Grewel in Hampshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1590. took the degrees in Arts and travelled for some time beyond the Seas At his return he studied Physick took one degree in that Faculty and in 1605. left the college and settling in the City of Salisbury practiced Physick there many years He hath translated from Italian into English A Tract containing the Arts of curious Painting Graving and Building Oxon. 1598. fol. Written originally by Joh. Paul Lomatius This translation which hath in the title page the picture of Ric. Haydock is by him dedicated to Tho. Bodley Esq a favourer of his Muse as Dr. Joh. Case and other chief men of the University then in being were not only for his learning but for his great curiosity in painting and engraving for which among many he was esteemed eminent This is that Rich. Haydock whom a certain author reports that he would practice Physick in the day-time and Preach in his sleep in the night about the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. The whole story of which being too large for this place I shall refer the Reader to him who errs in several particulars of it especially in that that when Haydock had ingeniously confessed the cheat to the King who made a discovery of it his Majesty thereupon gave him preferment in the Church He was not in Orders but lived always a Physician of good repute at Salisbury and retiring for a time to London dyed and was buried there a little before the Grand Rebellion broke out as I have been informed by those that knew the Man The Reader is now to note that one Ric. Haydock translated from Italian into English An ample declaration of the Christian Doctrine Doway 1604. intw written by Card. Rob. Bellarmine But this person who was a Doctor of Divinity a Rom. Catholick and had spent most of his time beyond the Seas in the English Seminaries must not be taken to be the same with the former who was a Physician as some have done REYNOLDE SCOT a younger Son of Sir John Scot of Scots-hall near to Smeeth in Kent by his Wife Daughter of Reynolde Pimp of Pimps-court Knight was born in that County and at about 17 years of age was sent to Oxon particularly as it seems to Hart hall where several of his Country-men and name studied in the latter end of K. Hen. 8. and in the Reign of Ed. 6. c. Afterwards he retired to his native Country without the honour of a degree and settled at Smeeth where he found great incouragement in his studies from his kinsman Sir Tho. Scot. About which time taking to him a Wife he gave himself up solely to solid reading to the perusing of obscure authors that had by the generality of Scholars been neglected and at times of leisure to husbandry and gardening as it may partly appear from these books following A perfect platform of a Hop-garden and necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof with notes and rules for reformation of all abuses c. Lond. 1576. qu. the 2. edit as it seems The discovery of Witchcraft wherein the leud dealing of Witches and Witchmongers is notably detected the knavery of Conjurers the impiety of Inchantors the folly of Southsayers c. With many other things are opened which have long been hidden howbeit very necessary to be known Lond. 1584. qu. in 16 books Discourse upon Devils and Spirits In this and the former both printed together it plainly appears that the author was very well versed in many choice books and that his search into them was so profound that nothing slip'd his Pen that might make for his purpose Further also in the said Discovery and Discourse though he holds that Witches are not such that were in his time and before commonly executed for Witches or that Witches were or are not yet they which were written for the instruction of all Judges and Justices of that age being the first of that nature that were published in the Mother tongue did for a time make great impressions in the Magistracy and Clergy tho afterwards condemned by James King of Scots the same who succeeded Qu. Elizabeth in the Monarchy of England in his Preface to Damonology printed under his Name at Edinburgh in 1597. qu. and by several others since among whom was Rich. Bernard of Batcomb in his Epist Ded. before his Guide to Grand Jury-men c. Lond. 1627. in oct What else our author Scot hath written I cannot yet tell nor any thing else of him only but that he dyed in Sept. year 1599 or Oct. in fifteen hundred ninety and nine and was buried among his Ancestors in the Church at Smeeth before-mentioned In the time of the said Reynold Scot and before have been conversant among the Muses in Hart hall the Sackviles of Sussex the Colepepers of Kent and Sussex the Sedlies of Kent and the Scots before-mentioned with others of inferiour note of the said Counties ROBERT TURNER was born at Barnstaple in Devonshire to which place if I mistake not his Father came from St. Andrews in Scotland and educated for a time in Exeter coll But leaving the University without a degree wherein he saith he spent his time in trifles and toys and afterwards his Country and Parents for Religion sake went first into France afterwards into Italy and at length to Rome where he spent some time in the Liberal Arts in the German coll there Afterwards being made Priest he applyed himself more severely to the study of Divinity and in fine was made Doctor of that Faculty This person hath several times confessed that he had been Scholar to Edm. Campian the Jesuit but whether in St. Johns coll or in that of the English at Rome is yet uncertain Sure it is that for the great respect he had to his memory he published not only several of his Works after his death but also his Life At length after many travels and services done for the Cause he was made Professor of Eloquence and Ethicks in and afterwards Rector of the University of Ingolstade in Bavaria and in short time after one of the Privy Council to William Duke of that place but falling into his displeasure he left him and retired for a time to Paris About an year or two after he returned into that Country again was made Canon of Breslaw in Silesia and afterwards Secretary for the Latin Tongue to Ferdinando of Gratz who had an especial esteem for him as all others of his persuasion had His Works are these Ingoldstad 1602. c. oct
they are descended from the said Family of the Savelli I cannot in the least conjecture being the name of a Town nor can I believe it no more than that the Corbets of Shropsphire are descended from the Corvini another ancient Family in Italy GEORGE CORYAT received his first being in this World in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City Salisbury educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1562. took the degrees in Arts and in June 1570. became Rector of Odcombe in Sommersetshire on the death of Tho. Reade and at length Bach. of Divinity In 1594 he was made Prebendary of Warthill in the Church of York and had some other Dignity but what I cannot tell He was a person much commended in his time for his fine fancy in Latin Poetry and for certain matters which he had written quoted by John Case the Philosopher Jam. Middendorp Joh. Cay and others All that I have seen of his composition are only these things following Poemata varia Latina Lond. 1611. qu. Published by his Son Thomas after his death and by him intit Posthuma fragmenta Poematum Descriptio Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae Written in Lat. verse as it seems and dedicated to Q. Elizabeth He died in the Parsonage house at Odcombe on the fourth of March in sixteen hundred and six whereupon his Son Tom upon some design preserving his body from stench above ground till the 14 of Apr. following was then buried in the Chancel of the Church at Odcombe at which time one Gibbs Gollop M. A. who was admitted to that Rectory 23. Mar. 1606 did officiate Gertrude Widdow of the said G. Coryate lived many years after at Odcombe and near to it where dying was buried near to the Reliques of her Husband on the 3. Apr. 1645. 21. Car. 1. as I have been informed by the searches by Mr. Humph. Hody M. A. of Wadham coll a Native of Odcombe At the same time that George Coryat was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll was elected also one John Mundyn born at Maperton in Dorsetshire who being a Civilian and not conforming himself to the Protestant Religion was ejected thence by the B. of Winchester in his Visitation of that coll 1566. Afterwards he went beyond the Seas was made a Seminary Priest and sent into the Mission of England But being taken on Hounslow-heath in his journey from Winchester to London was by Sir Fr. Walsingham Secretary of State committed to Prison Afterwards being convicted according to the Law against Seminaries was with 4 other Priests executed at Tybourne 12 Feb. 1583. See more in a book intit Concertatio Eccles Catholicae in Anglia Printed at Trier 1594. fol. 140 141. WILLIAM BURTON a Native of the City of Winchester was educated in Wykchams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1563. and left that house after he had taken one degree in Arts. This person I take to be the same Will. Burton who was a Minister in Bristow and afterwards at Reading in Berks. And author of these things following Several Sermons as 1 Sermon Preached at Norwith 21. of Dec. 1589. on Jer. 3. 14. Lond. in oct 2 Davids Evidence or the assurance of Gods love in 7 Sermons on Psal 41. 11 12 13. Lond. 1592. oct 1602. qu. 3 A Caveat for Sureties two Serm. at Bristow on Prov. 6. from 1. to the 5. verse Lond. 1593. oct 1602. qu. 4 The rousing of the Sluggard in 7 Sermons on Prov. 6. from 6. to the 11. verse Lond. 1595. oct 5 Sermons on the Churches Love to Christ her Husband on Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. These Sermons are intit Gods Wooing his Church 6 Davids Thanksgiving for the arraignment of the Man of Earth two Sermons on Psal 10. 17 18. Lond. 1598. oct dedicated to Sir Will. Periam Knight Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer a favourer of the authors Muse 7 Ten Sermons on Matthew 5. 3 4. Lond. 1602. qu. 8 The Anatomy of Beliel in 10 Sermons on Prov. 6. 12 13 14 15. Lond. 1602. qu. dedic to Ralph Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esque a great favourer of the author Catechism containing certain Questions and Answers concerning the knowledge of God and the right use of the Law Lond. 1591. oct Conclusions of Peace between God and Man containing comfortable meditations for the Children of God on Prov. 7. 1 2. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. Exposition of the Lords Prayer drawn into Questions and Answers Lond. 1594. oct 1602. qu. Certain Questions and Answers concerning the attributes of God Lond. 1602. qu. second edit Questions and Answers concerning the right use of the Law of God Lond. 1602. qu. An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbath briefly yet fully and plainly set forth Lond. 1606. oct These are all and enough which I have seen published by Will. Burton a Minister in Bristow and afterwards in Reading Whether he be the same Will. Burton of the Parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate in Lond. Clerk who died in that Parish in Oct. or Nov. in 1612. 16. Jac. 1. and left behind a Widdow called Dorothy I know not WILLIAM MONSON a Lincolnshire Man born a Knight's Son and of the same Family with those of South Carleton in that County was a Gent. Com. or at least a Commoner of Balliol coll where he continued for at least two years But his mind being more Martial than Mercurial he applied himself to Sea-service wherein he attained to great perfection was a Captain in several Expeditions against the Spaniard Vice-Admiral and Admiral In 1594. he was actually created Master of Arts and in 1596. he received the Honour of Knighthood from Robert Earl of Essex at the Sacking of Cadiz In 1602. when Ireland was cleared of the Spanish Forces he was appointed Vice-Admiral under Sir Rich. Levison Admiral to carry on the War by Sea against the Spaniard lest they should invade England wherein he performed most admirable Service especially in the taking of a great Carack of 1600 Tun from them at Cezimbria against Barbarum the Promontory of Portugal This heroical person left behind him at his death written with his own hand A true and exact account of the Wars with Spain in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth being the particulars of what hapned between the English and Spanish Fleets from the year 1585. to 1602. shewing the expeditions attempts c. Lond. 1682. fol. dedicated to his Son John Monson In some copies of this book the Title runs thus A particular and exact account of the last xvii years of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign both Military and Civil Lond. 1682. fol. The first written by Sir Will. Monson the other by Heywood Townshend This worthy Knight was in great renown in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. and the last time I find him mentioned in his Sea-service is in 1605. in which year he conveyed over Sea
was given by Dr. T. B. to Cosmo Prince of Tuscany when he was received and entertained by the Univ. of Oxon 1669. But let this report remain with the author while I tell you that this Sir John Davies giving way to fate in his House called Berecourt in the parish of Pangbourne in Berks 14. May in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 was buried in the North side of the Chancel of the Church at Pangbourne Over his Grave was a very sair Mon. erected whereon his Statue in Armour lies between the Statues of his two Wives He left behind him a Son of both his Names who was a Gent. Com. of Glouc. hall 1626. and afterwards a Knight but neither he nor his Father was author of the History of the Caribby Islands printed 1666. fol. but another Joh. Davies WILLIAM BARLOWE Son of Will. Barlowe sometimes B. of Chichester mentioned among these writers under the year 1568 was born as it seems in Pembrokâ—shire while his Father was Bishop of S. David became a Com. of Ball. coll about 1560 and four years after took a degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University before he proceeded in that faculty and afterwards travelling became very well skill'd in the Art of Navigation About the year 1573. he entred into the Sacred Function was afterwards Prebendary of Winchester Rector of Easton near to that City Chaplain to Prince Henry and at length Archdeacon of Salisbury To which last he was collated on the death of Dr. Ralph Pickover on the 12. of March 1614. This was the person who had knowledge in the Magnet 20 years before Dr. Will. Gilbert published his book of that subject and therefore by those that knew him he was accounted superiour or at least equal to that Doctor for an industrious and happy searcher and finder out of many rare and magnetical secrets He was the first that made the inclinatory instrument transparent and to be used pendant with a glass on both sides and a ring on the top whereas Dr. Gilberts hath but of one side and to be set on a foot And moreover he hang'd him in a Compass-box where with two ounces weight it was made fit for use at Sea Secondly he was the first that found out and shewed the difference between Iron and Steel and their tempers for Magnetical uses which hath given life and quickning universally to all Magnetical Instruments whatsoever Thirdly he was the first that shewed the right way of touching Magnetical Needles Fourthly he was the first that found out and shewed the piecing and cementing of Loadstones And lastly the first that shewed the reasons why a Loadstone being double capped must take up so great weight The books which he hath published for use are these The Navigators supply containing many things of principal importance belonging to Navigation with the description and use of divers instruments framed chiefly for that purpose c. Lond. 1597. qu. Dedic to Rob. Earl of Essex Magnetical advertisements or divers pertinent observations and approved experiments concerning the nature and properties of the Loadstone c. Lond. 1616. qu. Ded. to Sir Dudley Digges Knight because of his rare learning joyned with piety and accompanied with a pleasing carriage towards every man which were the chief reasons that caused all good men to love him Upon the publication of this book a certain Cantabrigian named Mark Ridley Doctor of Physick and Philosophy sometimes Physician to the English Marchants trading in Russia afterwards chief Physician to the Emperour of that Country as he entitles himself and at length one of the eight Principals or Elects of the coll of Physicians at London made Animadversions upon it whereupon our author came out in vindication of himself with this book A brief discovery of the idle animadversions of Mark Ridley Doct. in Physick upon a treatise entit Magnetical Advertisements Lond. 1618. qu. What other things he hath written I know not as yet nor any thing else of the said books only that seven years before the Magnetical Advertisementt were published he sent a copy of them in MS. to the learned Sir Tho. Chaloner which he mislaying or embesling he sent him upon his desire another copy and that being imparted to others the author afterwards before its publication met with many portraitures of his Magnetical implements and divers of his propositions published in print in another mans name and yet some of them not rightly understood by the party usurping them He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Easton before mentioned To his Archdeaconry of Salisbury was collated Tho. Marler on the 27. of June the same year but who to his Prebendship of Winchester I know not as yet Soon after was an Epitaph put over Mr. Barlows Grave running thus Depositum Gulielmi Barlowe Archideaconi Sarisburiensis Prebendarii Ecclesiae Cath. Winton Rectoris Ecclesiae de Easton qui cum sedulam per annos 52. aedificationi corporis christi navasset Operam ad meliorem Vitam migravit Maii 25. An. Dom. 1625. EDWARD CHALONER second Son of Sir Tho. Chaloner of Steeple Claydon in Bucks Knight whom I have before mentioned was born in the County of Middlesex particularly as it seems at Cheswick where his Father and Mother lived and both were buried applyed his muse to Academical studies in the condition of a Commoner in the coll of S. Mary Madg. 1604. aged 14. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1610. and the next year was chosen Fellow of Allsouls coll Afterwards entring into the sacred function he became Chaplain in Ordinary to K. James Doctor of Div. Principal of St. Albans hall and Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. He was reputed considering his age a very learned man able for the Pulpit and well read in polemical Divinity as some of his lucubrations shew There was nothing of his composition so mean which the greatest person did not value and those Sermons of his making which were published after his death were looked upon as several choice pieces or at least such as would prove serviceable to the Church and Common-wealth His works are Six Sermons as 1 Babel or the confusion of Languages on Gen. 11. 7. 2 Naioth or the Vniversity Charter on Am. 4. 14. 3 Ephesus Common-Pleas 4 Judah's prerogative 5 The Gentiles creed 6 Paul's peregrination or the travellers guide c. Lond. 1623. oct Vnde Zizania The orig and progress of Heresie Serm. before K. Jam. at Theobalds on Mat. 13. 27. Lond. 1624. qu. â—b 1638. in tw Credo Ecclesiam S. Catholicam I believe the holy Cath. Church the authority universality and visibility of the Ch. handled and discussed Lond. 1625. quarto and 38. in tw Six Sermons as 1 The Creâ—ians conviction and reformaon on Tit. 1. 13. 2 The ministers charge and mission on Mat. 20. 6. 3 Gods bounty and Gentiles
admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1589 took the degrees in Arts and at length was numbred among the best of Preachers in that house In 1597 he left the coll being then beneficed at Westmean in his own Country was afterwards made Prebendary of Winchester and in the year 1614. took the degrees in Divinity His younger years were adorned with variety of learning and his elder with solid and substantial Divinity which last made him as much respected in his native country towards his latter end as he was before in the University for this book following of his writing and publication when he was a young man Diarium Historico-poeticum In quo praeter constellationum utriusque Hemisphaerii Zodaici ortus occasus numerum Stellarum causarumque ad Poesin Spectantium varietatem declaratur cujusque mensis dies fere singuli Regum Imperatorum Principum Pontificum virorumque doctorum natalibus nuptiis inaugurationibus morte denique aut ralia quacunque insigniores celebriores sic ut nihil c. Lib. 12. Oxon. 1595. qu. What other things he hath published I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he died on the 20. of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and nine having had for some years before divers contests with Neile his Diocesan for his introducing certain ceremonies into the Cath. at Winchester and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Westmean before mention'd Over his grave was soon after a Monument put with six verses thereon the two first of which run thus Ortus stirpe bonâ titulo Doctoris adauctus Oxonii conjux bis deciesque pater PHILIPP MASSINGER Son of Phil. Massinger a servant belonging to the Pembrochian family made his first entry on the stage of this vain world within the City of Salisbury was entred a Commoner in St. Albans hall in the seventeenth year of his age 1601. where tho incouraged in his studies by the Earl of Pembroke yet he applied his mind more to Poetry and Romances for about four years or more than to Logick and Philosophy which he ought to have done and for that end was patronized Afterwards leaving the University without the honour of a degree he retired to the great City to improve his fancy and studies by conversation At length being sufficiently fam'd for several specimens of wit wrote divers Comedies and Tragedies for the English Stage besides other things much applauded and cryed up in their time when acted and published Their names are these The Duke of Millaine a Tragedy Lond. 1623. qu. Powerfull Favourite or the life of Sejanus a Hist Printed 1628. qu. Roman Actor Tr. Lond. 1629. qu. Renegado Picture Tr. co Lond. 1630. qu. Virgin Martyr Tr. Lond. 1631. 1661. qu. In this Trag. he was assisted by Tho. Dekker a high flier of wit even against Ben Johnson himself in his Com. called The untrussing of The humerous Poet. Emperour of the East Maid of Honour Tr. co Lond. 1632. qu. Fatal Dowry Tr. Lond. 1632. qu. assisted therein by Nathan Field New way to pay old debts Co. Lond. 1633. qu. Great Duke of Florence A comical Hist London 1636. qu. The Bond-man An antient story Lond. 1638. qu. Tr. Lond. 1639. qu. Unnatural Brother Unnatural Combate Lond. 1655. oct with the authors picture before them Bashful Lover Tr. Co. The Guardian Co. Hist Very Woman or the Prince of Tarent Tr. Co. City Madam Com. Lond. 1659. qu. published by one who calls himself Andr. Penniewicke He was also one of the three Thom. Middleton and Will. Rowley being the other two who had a hand in The old Law Com. Lond. 1656. qu. and was sole author if a cat of Plays at the end of The old Law may be believed of Virtuous Octavia Trag. and of Rom Alley Com. As to this last there is without doubt a mistake for all readers of Plays cannot but know that Ram Alley or merry Tricks was pen'd by the Lord Barry an Irish man and that it was acted by the Children of the Kings revels before 1611. As for our author Ph. Massenger he made his last exit very suddenly in his house on the Bank-side in Southwerk near to then Play-house for he went to bed well and was dead before morning Whereupon his body being accompanied by Comedians was buried about the middle of that Ch. yard belonging to S. Saviours Church there commonly called the Bull-head Church yard that is in that which joyns to the Bull-head Tavern for there are in all four yards belonging to that Church on the 18. day of March in sixteen hundred thirty and nine Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet in his Choice Poems of several sorts c. Lond. 1658. oct hath in pag. 186. an Epitaph on Mr. Joh. Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger who as he saith lye buried both in one grave in St. Mary Overies Church alias S. Saviours in Southwerk See more in Sir John Beaumont under the year 1628. where you 'll find more of those two persons One Walt. Messenger or Massenger was a student in S. Alb. hall in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths raign whom I take to be either Father or Uncle to Philip the Poet. JOHN VICCARS was originally of the University of Cambridge where taking one degree in Arts retired to Oxon setled in Lincolne coll in the condition of a Commoner an 1624 and the next year proceeded in Arts as a member of that house Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas visited divers Academies and Recesses of learning and gained from them and their respective Libraries great experience and knowledge He hath written Decapla in psalmos Sive commentarius ex decem Linguis antiquis paetribus Rab. Historicis Poetis c. Lond. 1639. fol. which book doth plainly demonstrate that he was a most admirable Linguist and the best for the Oriental tongues in his time I shall make large mention of John Vicars the Poet among the writers under the year 1652. JOHN SPEED Son of Jo. Sp. the Chronologer was born in London elected Scholar of S. John's coll from Merchant Taylors School in 1612. aged 17. Afterwards he was made Fellow thereof M. of A. Bach. and Doctor of Physick of this Univ. In which last faculty he became eminent especially for the practick part among the Academians and had if death had not snatched him too soon away published several matter of it He hath written 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 utriusque sexus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 MS. written in Latine dedicated to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cantab. and reserved in S. John's coll Library as a rarity The said MS. points at and hath relation to the two Skeletons one of a man another of a woman standing at the north end of the Mathematick Library of the said college which Skeletons were made and given to the said Library by our author Dr. Speed who hath also written Stonehenge a pastoral Acted before Dr. Rich. Baylie the President and Fellows of the said coll in their common
coll to which he was partly in his life time but more at his death a special benefactor Afterwards he became Chancellor of the diocess of Worcester in the place of Dr. Thomâ— Hanybal an 1518. and about that time Archdeacon of Glocester and Warden of the collegiate Church of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire At length his abilities being made known to K. Hen. 8. he was by him employed beyond the Seas concerning state affairs was made Doctor of the Laws there one of the Kings Counsellors at his return a chief agitator for the King in defence of his divorce from his first Wife Qu. Catherine especially in the University of Oxon by endeavouring to gain the opinion of the members thereof concerning that matter as I have told you elsewhere and in 1531. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty as he had stood beyond the Seas In 1539. he was elected Bishop of Worcester the temporalities of which being restored to him on the fourth of Aug. the same year he was soon after consecrated In 1543. he abdicated or rather resigned his See but for what cause is yet uncertain Whereupon retiring to Clerkenwell near London lived there for some years year 1556 and dying on the eleventh day of August in fifteen hundred fifty and six was buried on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Islyngton near London By his last will k and test dated 10. of Aug. 1556. he bequeathed very liberally to the poor people of Stratford upon Avon before-mention'd to the poor of Bromesgrave in Worcestershire Tadcaster Wymbersley c. at which places 't is probable he had been beneficed He also gave 100 marks to certain poor Scholars of Oxon and Cambridge in which last University he seems to have received a part of his education One Joh. Bell D. D. was Dean of Ely and dying 31. of Octob. 1591. was buried in the Cath. Ch. there but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I cannot tell HENRY MAN was bred a Carthusian Monk and of the Carthusians at Shene in Surrey became Prior which Monastery he with his brethren surrendring into the Kings hands at the dissolution of Religious houses had a Pension allowed to him for some years In 1539. he took the degrees in Divinity in this University of Oxon and in the latter end of Hen. 8. was made the second Dean of Chester in the place of one Tho. Clerk and about that time tho the year when appear not was promoted to the Episcopal See of the Isle of Man He departed this mortal life at London on the 19. of Oct. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 and was buried in the chancel of the Church of S. Andrew Vndershaft within that City In his Deanery succeeded VVill. Clyve or Clyffe LL. D. who had been Chantor and afterwards Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at York but the year when I cannot justly say or whether the said Dr. Man kept the said Deanery in commendam with his Bishoprick and in the See of Man succeeded Thom. Stanley as I shall hereafter tell you JOHN BYRDE was made Bishop of Bangor in 1539. and translated thence to Chester in 1541. but deprived of that See by Qu. Mary for being married in the year 1553. He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded George Cootes of whom I have made mention before but died about an year before Byrde JOHN CHAMBERS a Benedictine Monk was partly educated in Oxon but more in Cambridge in which University he was as it seems admitted to the reading of the sentences In 1528. he was made Abbat of Peterborough in which Town he was born upon the decease of one Rob. Kirton and living to see his Monastery dissolved was by the favour of K. Hen. 8. nominated the first Bishop of that place when the said King by his charter dated 4. Sept. 1541 erected an Episcopal See there On the said day the temporalities of it were delivered to him and on the 23. of Oct. following was consecrated thereunto which is all I know of him only that he was a worldly man and that dying in the winter time before the month of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Peterborough The reader is now to know that Dr. Fr. Godwin doth in his Commentary of English Bishops tells us that the said Joh. Chambers was Doctor of Physick bred up in Merton college and afterwards Dean of S. Stephens cell in Westminster but very much mistaken for that John Chambers Bach. of Div. and Bishop died in 1556. as 't is before told you and the other who was Dr. of Physick and Dean died 1549. Pray be pleased to see more in the Fasti under the year 1531. among the incorporations ROBERT KYNGE was descended from the ancient Kings of Devonshire as the posterity of his brother Thomas say but where he was born unless in Oxfordshire I cannot justly tell While he was young being much addicted to religion and learning was made a Cistercian Monk and among those of that order did he for some years live in Rewley Abby in the West suburb of Oxon and partly as I conceive for the sake of learning among the Bernardins in their coll in the North suburb of the said City In 1506. he as a Cistercian Monk was admitted to the reading of the sentences and in 1510. 13. and 15. he supplicated to be licensed to proceed in Divinity by the title of a Monk of the order of S. Benedict in the last of which years he occurs Abbat of Bruerne near to Burford in Oxfordshire anciently founded for Monks of Cisteaux which is a branch of the Benedictine order as the Bernardins are In 1518. he proceeded in Divinity in an Act celebrated on the last of Febr. and afterwards was made Abbat of Thame in Oxfordshire the Monks of which were also Cistercians About the time that the Abbey of Osney near Oxon was to be dissolved he was made Abbat commendatary thereof being then a Suffragan or titular Bishop under the title of Roven Rovenesis in the province of Athens by which name or title I find him to occur in 1539. In 1542. when Oxford was made an Episcopal See by K. Hen. 8. and the Abbey of Osney appointed to be the place of habitation of the Dean and Canons of the Cathedral to be there he the said Rob. Kynge was made and constituted the first Bishop in the beginning of Sept. the same year at which time Glocester coll was appointed his Palace or place of residence the Abbats lodgings at Osney for the Dean and the other lodgings in that Abbey for the Canons and Officers belonging to the Cathedral In 1546. when the said Cath. Ch. at Osney was translated to Cardinal coll alias Kings coll or the coll of K. Hen. 8. in
a Northamptonshire Man born I here set down least some unwary reader hereafter might take him to be the same Barthelem Clerke who became Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1554 afterwards Proctor of that University Dean of the Arches and a wise and eloquent Man He hath written De Curialâ— sive Aulico printed at Lond. about 1571. in oct being about that time favoured by Thom. Sackvill Lord Buckhurst and another book intit Fidelis servi subdito infideli responsio una cum errorum calumniarum quarundam examine quae continentur in septimo libro de visibili Ecclesiae Monarchia à Nicholao Sandero conscripta Lond. 1573. qu. He was living in 1593. Admitted 112. Mast of Arts. May 18. Joh. Philippus de alto saxo Franc. Puccius Florentinus June…Tho Spark of Magd. Coll. Jul. 2. Ralph Sherwyn of Exeter Coll. 24. Tho. Banks He is the same I suppose who published A Sermon against bad Spirits of malignity malice and unmercifulness on Luke 6. 37. 38. Lond. 1586. oct I find another Tho. Banks who writes himself metaphorically Piscator sed vere Theologus mere Praeco Evangelicus who published Concio ad clerum jamdudum Cantabrigiae habita in Luc. cap. 5. ver 10. Lond. 1611. qu. Admitted 49. Bach. of Phys Mar. 31. Thom. Cogan of Oriel Coll. He was the only Bach. who was admitted besides whom only one occurs that supplicated namely Thom. Twyne of C. C. Coll. Bach. of Div. May 27. Lewis Sweit of All 's Coll. He was about this time Archdeacon of Totness in the place as I conceive of Oliver Whiddon Two more besides him were admitted and nine there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom some were not at all admitted in this University as John Wâ—olton a Student in Divinity afterwards Bishop of Exeter Tho. Cole and Tho. Brasbridge of Magd. Coll. and Nich. Marston of Ch. Ch. now Residentiary of Exeter Brother to Will. Marston of the same house LL. D. and Chantor of the said Church of Exeter who died in Nov. 1599. Doct. of Civ Law Jun. 28. Will. Jones Vicar General to the Bishop of Bathe and Wellâ— and double or treble beneficed in the Diocess thereof Felix Lewys sometimes of Hart Hall afterwards made Bach. of the LL. at Doway now Principal of New Inn was admitted the same day He afterwards lived in the City of Bristow and died beyond the Seas in 1591. ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 22. Will. James Master of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop May 27. Tob. Mathew President of St. Johns Coll. Afterwards an Archbishop Geffry or Griffith Lewys now Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Tho. Wilson promoted to the Deanery of that Church was admitted the same day In 1577 he was installed Canon of the sixth stall in the Collegiat Ch. of St. Peter in Westminster in the place of one Walt. Jones M. A. who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Matthew Hutton after he was made Dean of York an 1568. In 1594 he became Dean of Glocester in the place of Anth. Rudd promoted to the See of St. David and dying in 1607 Tho. Morton succeeded him in that dignity being the same most worthy Person who was afterwards Bishop of Durham I have seen a Copy of the will of this Dr. Lewys made 5. Feb. 1606 and proved 16. July 1607 wherein he desires that his body might be buried either in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester Worcester Hereford or in Westminster in all which Churches he had Dignities July 23. John Sprint of Ch. Ch. originally of C. C. Coll. was then admitted He was now Prebendary of Winchester Residentiary of Salisbury and a Person famed for an excellent Preacher In Feb. 1577 he succeeded Giles Lawrence in the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire who I suppose resign'd in 1580 he succeeded George Carew in the Deanery of Bristow in which City or near it he was born being the Son of John Sprint an Apothecary of the said place and in the beginning of Feb. 1583 he was made Treasures of Salisbury He died in the latter end in Feb. of 1589 and was succeeded in the said Deanery by Dr. Anth. Watson the same who was afterwards Bishop of Chichester Incorporations May 17. Griffith Toy Bac. of Arts of Cambridge He was now a Member of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. and soon after made M. of Arts of this University and Prebendary of Norwych Jun… Hector Viellius Bach. of Arts of the Univ. of Caen in Normandy Feb. 6. George Savage Bach. of the Civ Law of the University of Lovaine in Brabant He was originally a member of Ch. Church and was now Archdeacon of Glocester in the place of Guy Eaton but was not I presume the same G. Savage who was half Brother to Dr. Bonner B. of London and Chancellour of Chester Thom. Willoughby Bach. of Div. of Cambridge was incorporated but the day or month when I cannot yet find This year June 23 he was installed the third Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Edm. Freke and was succeeded in that dignity by John Coldwell M. D. of St. John Coll. in Cambridge installed therein 7. Januar. 1585. He was afterwards the first married Bishop that sate in the Cath. Chair of Salisbury In Apr. this year one Rich. Wills a Mast of A. of Mentz in Bavaria supplicated for incorporation but was not admitted See among the writers under the year 1574. An. Dom. 1575. An. 17 Elizab. An. 18 Elizab. Chancellour the same Vicechanc. the same without any nomination or election Proct. John Vnderhill of New Coll. Hen. Savile of Mert. Coll. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. May 17. Julius Caesar of Magd. Hall He was Son of Caesar Dalmarius of the City of Trevignie in Italy Doctor of Physick and Physician to Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth Son of Pet. Maria Dalmarius of the said City Doctor of Laws but descended from those of his name living at Frejus or Cividad del Friuli in the confines of Italy See more in 1583. Jul. 5. Giles Tomson of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards of All 's Coll. and Bishop of Glocester Jan. 27. Rich. Lewes See among the Bach. of Div. in 1584. Feb. 19. Edw. Hobie of Trin. Coll. 29. Edw. Transham or Stransham of St. Johns Coll. This Person who was born in Magd. Parish in the Suburbs of Oxon left all he had and went to Doway in 1577. Where after he had spent some time in the study of Philosophy and Divinity in the English Coll. he was made a Priest Afterwards he went into the mission of England and for a time continued in Oxfordshire At length being taken imprison'd and condemned suffered death at London with one Nich. Woodfen another Priest 21. Januar. 1585 aged 30 or thereabouts Admitted 109. Bach. of Civ Law Jun. 30. Thom. Emerford or Hemerford He afterwards left the Church of England and went to the English Coll. at Rome where being made a Priest returned into his own Country but being
Or. 31. Joh. Prideaux of Exeter Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Worcester Feb. 2. Joh. Meredyth of St. Maries hall lately of Oriel Coll. He was the eldest Son of an Esquire of Sussex but whether the same with Joh. Meredyth who was afterwards Doct. of Phys of another University and at length Subdean of Chichester an 1622. which he resigned 10. Oct. 1627 and retired to his cure of Bedhampton in Hampshire where heart-broken and purse-broken he soon after died I know not Sure it is that John Meredyth who was Subdean of Chichester wrot and published 1 The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost on Heb. 10. 16. Lond. 1622. qu. 2 The judge of heresies one God one Faith one Church out of which there is no salvation Lond. 1624. qu. As for Potter Duck Hakewill Twyne Parsons and Prideaux their lives and characters are to come into the second vol. of this work Admitted 111. Bach. of Law Jul. 2. George Russell of St. Johns Coll. This Person who was a Londoner born was afterwards Bursar of the said house but retaining in his hands the College money which he received as Bursar without paying it to the Persons who supplied it with necessaries slip'd away incognito went beyond the Seas changed his Religion and became Pensioner to the Archduke of Austria and a Man of note in his Dominions Philipp Cromwell of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day He was the fifth Son of Sir Hen Cromwell of Hâ—nchingbroâ—k in Huntingdonshire Uncle to Oliver Cromwell sometimes Lord Protector of England This Philip Cromwell who was a Knight was Father by Mary his Wife Dau. of Sir Hen. Townsend Knight to Thomas Cromwell a Major of a Regiment of Horse under K. Ch. 1. in the time of the grand rebellion and to Oliver Cromwell a Colonel under his Kinsman Oliver Cromwell beforemention'd when he went as General into Ireland to quell the Royal Party an 1649 in which year he died and to Philip Cromwell a Commander in the Parliament Army slain at Bristow Adm. 7. Mast of Arts. May 21. Joh. Bancroft Joh. Sprint of Ch. Ch. Joh. Rawlinson of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day Jul. 5. George Andrew of Magd. hall He was afterwards a Bishop in Ireland as I have before told you Jan. 17. Josias White of New Coll. Adm. 73. Bach. of Div. June 14. Edm. Griffith of Brasn Coll. Jul. 5. Rich. Eaton of Linc. Coll. He was about this time Pastor of Great Budworth in Cheshire in which County he was born and hath published A Sermon at the funeral of Tho. Dutton of Dutton Esque who yeilded to nature 28. Dec. 1615 on Psal 90. ver 12. Lond. 1616. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Adm. 5. Doct. of Law Jun. 23. Barthelm Jesop of Magd. Coll. This Person who was fourth Son of Walt. Jesop of Chilcombe in Dorsetsh Gent. was a learned Civilian and about this time Chancellour to the Bishop of Sarum He lived and died a single Man 21. July 1620 and was buried in Christ Church near Newgate in London 27. Zachar. Babington of Mert. Coll. who accumulated He was about this time Chancellour to the Bishop of Lich. and Coventry and died 1614 or thereabouts Jul. 6. Edmund Pope of Alâ—souls Coll. He was about this time Chancellour to the Bishop of Rochester and afterwards Surrogate to the Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury He died in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate London an 1630. James Baylic of All 's Coll. also admitted the same day being about this time Chancellour to the Bish of Hereford ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. George Ryves of New Coll. Prebendary of Winchester In Dec. following he was elected Warden of the said Coll. and dying on the last of May 1613 was buried as I conceive in the Chappel belonging thereunto 6. Giles Robinson of Queens Coll. Incorporations July 5. â—eonard Maw M. A. of Cambridge He was Fellow of Peter house and afterwards Master thereof Master of Trin. College Prebendary of Wells Doct. of Div. Chaplain to Pr. Charles on whom he waited when he was in Spain to Court the Infanta and at length Bish of B. and Wells upon the translation of Dr. Laud to London but enjoying that office for a little while died at Chiswick in Middlesex 2. Sept. 1629 whereupon his body was buried there on the 16 day of the same month He was the Son of Sim. Maw of Wrendlesham in Suffolk Gent. by Margery his Wife Dau. and Coheir of Thom. Wyld of Yorkshire and Alice his Wife Dau. and Heir of Joh. Jaye of Suffolk Robert Tounson M. of A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day He was about this time Fellow of Queens Coll. there was afterwards Doctor of Divinity Dean of Westminster in the place of Dr. George Mountaigne promoted to the See of Lincolne an 1617 and at length Bishop of Salisbury to which See he was consecrated at Lambeth by the Archbishop and his Assistants Lincolne Rochester and Chester on the 9 of July 1620. He died in a mean condition on the 15 of May 1621 and was buried on the South side of the long isle over against St. Edmunds Chappel in St. Peters Church within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a Widow named Margaret and fifteen Children After him succeeded in the See of Salisbury Dr. John Davenant the Head or Master of Queens Coll. in and Margaret Professor of the University of Cambridge who was consecrated on the 18. of Nov. 1621 having received a command from the King that he should not take to him a Wife He departed this mortal life on the 20 of Apr. 1641 and was buried in the South isle joyning to the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury Hen. Butts M. of A. and Fellow of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Cambridge was incorporated also on the same day Jul. 5. and afterwards succeeded Dr. Sam. Walsall in the Headship of that House He hath written Diets dry dinner consisting of eight several courses 1 Fruits c. Lond. 1599. oct See more of this Hen. Butts in Dan. Price among the Writers an 1631. Jul. 10. Peter Turner Doct. of Phys of Heidleberg 28 years before this time afterwards incorporated at Cambridge where he had his first education was incorporated in this University as he had stood at Heidleberg and Cambridge He was the Son of Dr. Will. Turner sometimes Dean of Wells whom I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1568 and dying on the 27 of May 1614 aged 72 years was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Olaves in Hartstreet London leaving then behind him several Sons of whom Samuel was one and Peter another as I shall tell you elsewhere One Mistress Anne Turner the Widow of a Doctor of Physick had an especial hand in the poysoning of Sir Tho. Overbury for which she was executed at Tybourne an 1615. whether she was the second Wife