near the Church and consecrated it to Minerva Eloquence was chiefly adorned and the youth was much exercised in learning it Palleat ut nudis pressit qui calcibus anguem Aut Lugdunensem rhetor dicturus ad aram Juv. Sat. Angiers It is the Metropolis of the Dukedom of Aniou A publick University was in this City erected by Lewis the second about that time that Rupertus Phaltsgrave of Rheine founded Heidelberg in Germany which was about the year 1346. Others will have it to be founded in the year 1362. at which time Casimire erected Cracon in Polonia It flourisheth in the study of the Latine especially Henry Valoise Duke of Aniou brother to King Charles the ninth not long since with much industrious care laboured to augment and restore the same the which good work that he might the better perform he with great munificence invited thither sundry excellently learned Scholars amongst the which was Francis Baldwin who therein to his everlasting memory did establish the profession of the Civil-Law Bodine came out of this University Avignion I is an ancient City of Prouuence situated on the bank of Rhodanus wherein is an University of long continuance Pope Iohn the 22. transferred the Apostolick seat from Rome unto this City after whom it remained there 74 years or thereabout The City and Church of Avignion are at this day immediately subjected to the Popes of Rome who first became Lords thereof by means of a certain Neapolitane Queen who being indebted to the Church of Rome resigned this City to the Bishops thereof and his Successours for ever Paulus Castrensis a Lawyer by sundry learned works he wrote much enobled this University Andreas Alciatus coming into France was hired as himself in an Oration he made to the Scholars of Tycinum confesseth for six hundred Crowns to be a publick Reader in this University He taught the Law here Orleance It is a rich and plentifull City placed on the bank of the River Loire Some ancient Historiographers write that the foundation of this City was laid by Aurelian the Emperour in the year 276. and from him was called Aurelia which name unto this day it retaineth Others say it was onely enlarged by him In this City was erected an University by Philip le Beau King of France in the year from our Saviours Nativity 1312. wherein the Civil-Law is with such learning and admiration professed that this Academy hath been often of grave and learned Writers entituled the nurse or mother thereof It enjoyeth the same priviledge with Tholouse The Maidens here especially labour to adorn the French Tongue and they strive so to excell in it with an emulation that they boast that they imitate Pindar Bourges It is a City in France of great fame rich spacious and much frequented Some say it was called Byturus quasi Bituris from two ancient Towers which they affirm to have been in this City erected by two brethren which there together raigned Turribus à binis inde vocor Bituris In this City is a most glorious University and so much admired of all learned Authors that whensoever they have occasion to write thereof they call it The ornament of Letters and habitation of the Muses It was many years since founded by a certain Duke of Burges but after in continuance of time falling to decay and being almost utterly extinct it was again restored by sundry Kings of France It was authorized and endued with many great priviledges and high prerogatives by Pope Paulus the 2 d of that name Here Alciate Rebuffus Duarenus Hotoman Bonellus and Cuiacius famous Lawyers lived and taught with great applause Cane An University was erected at Cane in Normandy upon this occasion Henry the 5 th King of England who subdued the Kingdom of France and left the title to his posterity after many great and glorious Conquests atchieved against the French King he at last bereaved him of Normandy in the year 1418. In token and memory of which victory as an eternal Trophy and Monument of his glory he caused to be laid in Cane the foundation of this University The Archbishop of Dublin was the first Reader of Divinity there Here now lives Bochart the learned French Divine Rhemes It is a goodly City and the Metropolis of Champaigne wherein not long since was erected an University by the Prince Charles Guise Cardinal of Lorain Archbishop and Duke of Rhemes whose glory and renown daily more and more encreaseth by reason of the Arts so learnedly there professed S. Remigius was Bishop of this City a man of holy conversation and excellently learned as it evidently appeareth by the Commentaries which he wrote upon the Old and New Testament He baptized Clodovaeus a mighty and puissant King of France together with Choâ—isdis his wife daughter to the King of Burgundy he died in the year 498. The French Kings are anointed at Rhemes with the oyl wherewith S t Remigius had anointed Clodoveus the first Christian King of France Burdeaux It is the head City of Aquitane In this City hath long flourished a most renowned University commonly called the School of Aquitaine where the Arts are publikely taught and professed Here Ausonius that famous Poet was born and educated Tholouse Pope Iohn the 22 was the first Institutor of the University therein which as it was erected not long after Paris so doth it enjoy the same priviledges that heretofore have been granted to Paris There was said in times past to have been in this City a Temple wherein were commonly reserved in secret vaults and dungeons under ground as Possidonius saith 15000 talents of gold which if any man had taken he shortly after came to some unfortunate end From whence proceedeth the Proverb applied commonly to those whose attempts are ever unfortunate and without success Aurum habet Tolosanum Nismes It is called by Ptolomy Pomponias Mela Strabo and others Nemaâ—sus it is an ancient City in Dolphine wherein was lately erected an University Mompelliers A City in Dâ—lphiny not far distant from the Mediteranian sea An University was therein erected as some Writers affirm in the year of our Lord 1196. which afterward was endued with many priviledges by Pope Urban the fifth who layed the foundation of a goodly house called Popes Colledge There have famous Physitians proceeded out of Paris and this University Bisanson It is the Metropolis of Burgandy In the year of salvation 1540. by the authority of Pope Iulius the 3 d and the Emperour Charles the 5 th a new University was therein erected which hath exceedingly since flourished Dole This is also a City in Burgundy very strong and opulent An University is therein of great continuance wherein among many other sciences the Civil Law is most Learnedly read and professed Carolus Molinaeus here publickly taught the Law Geneva It is a famous Town in Savoy of yery great Antiquity The situation of it is pleasant and the Country fertile
knowledge of the Tongues and Divinity by the Jesuites This City hath deserved no small praise and commendation of all Christendom for that ingenious and most necessary Art of Printing there first invented and put in practise by the famous and worthy Gentleman Iohn Gutenberg in the year 1459. Imprimit ille die quantum vix scribitur anno O Germania muneris repertrix Quo nihil utilius dedit vetustas Libros scribere quae doces premendo Wirtsburg In the year of Salvation 1403. Iohn the 2 d of that name and 55 th Bishop of Wirtsburg instituted therein an University priviledged and authorized by Pope Boniface the 9 th and called thither out of the most renowned Schools of Christendom divers Learned Professors of Philosophy Divinity and other inferiour Studies Trier The University here is thought to be one of the oldest Academies in Europe the Citizens thereof have no Record when it was first erected by reason of the manifold and often changes it hath endured It appeareth manifestly by an Epistle of Gratian the Emperour to Antonius Regent of Gaule that all Studies universally flourished in this City Heidelberge It is the Metropolis of the Palatinacy of Rheine wherein the Palsgraves or Countes Palatines continually hold their Courts and residence Rupertus the 10 th Palatine of Rheine erected in this City an University Anno Dom. 3346. which in succession of time grew to be reckoned among the most worthy and famous Nurseries of the Arts Pope Urban the 6 th confirmed the same with the Priviledges and Prerogatives of Paris This Academy hath fostered many Learned men as Rudolphus Agricola William Xilander Thomas Erastus Zachary Ursin Conradus Pellicanus Munsters Master Pareus Also in this University did that industrious excellently learned Scholar Sebastian Munster publickly profess the Hebrew Tongue Tubing The University was erected there in the year 1477. Many Learned Scholars have issued from it Iohn Reuclin Gabriel Biel and Iohn Nauclerus taught here Iohn Stofler a most Learned Astronomer Martin Crusius was a most famous Professor of Eloquence Arts and Languages in this University Ingolestat This University was Instituted in the year of Salvation 1459. The Jesuites Govern here Eccius and Staphylus lived here Erford An University was therein instituted by Dagâ—bert the French King in the year 1391. which with many Priviledges was confirmed and authorized by Pope Boniface the 9 th and Pius the 2 d. Leiptzige A University was here erected about the year 1408. and the year following confirmed by Pope Pius the 2 d and Alexander the 5 th and repaired by George Duke of Saxony in the year 1554. They are much given to drunkenness here Aeneas Sylvius in the first book of Panormitane de gestis Alphonsi regis writeth that when one Leonardus a Noble Gentleman came to visit a certain kinsman of his that was then Student in Leiptzige enquiring among Students how he did and how he had profited in Learning he was answered by one of the young mans companions that he carried himself very well quia inter mille quingentos hic unus bibendi palmam obtinet among fifteen hundred he hath the name of the best drinker Wittenberge Duke Frederick the son of Ernestus Elector erected in this City an University about the year 1502. which since in this later age is grown famous by reason of the Controversies and Disputations of Religion there handled by Martin Luther and his adherents Many worthy Writers received their education here as Wesenbechius Henningus and Oldendorpius two Lawyers famous for their Works through all Germany and in our later age Martin Luther and Philip Melancthon there have flourished Frankford upon Oder There are in Germany two Frankfords both Cities of great fame and worth the one lieth in Franconia upon the River Meine well known to all Merchants and travellers by reason of two rich and famous Marts or Fairs held therein every year viz. at mid-lent before Easter and in the middle of September The other is situated near to the Oder a goodly River passing through the Dominion of the Marquess of Brandeburge one of the seven Electors Ioachim Marquess of Branderburg first founded in this later Frankford an University in the year of Grace 1506. and bountifully provided for the maintenance thereof indowing the same with large Revenews and rich Possessions as it was afterward authorized by Pope Alexander the 6 th and by Pope Iulius the 2 d and Maximilian the first of that name Emperour enfranchised with many priviledges In this City the three Tongues are with great and profound Learning professed also the Civil Law Physick and the Mathematiques are there publikely taught Reinerus Reineccius the great Historian lived here Iacobus Ebertus who was Professor of Ethicks here was a great Linguist Rostoche In the year of Christs Nativity 1415. the Princes of Mekleburge and the Citizens of Rostoche obtained licence to erect in this City an University wherein the Arts in generall have ever since been Learnedly professed Gripswalde About the year of our Lord 1456. lived herein a certain Learned Doctor of the Laws which being Proconsul or Burgomaster of the Town obtained for the same many goodly Priviledges and licence to erect an University which being by him only begun was perfected and enlarged by the great care and diligence of Philip Duke of Pomerland in the year 1547. Friburge In the year of our Saviour 1460. or as some say 1450. Albert Duke of Austria founded in this City an Academy and liberally endued the same with large revenews and possessions In the year 1467. this University received many Statutes and Ordinances from Vienna in Austria from whence also came many great and Learned Clerks here publikely to profess Theology the Laws Civil Canon and the other Arts. And at length the Emperour Fredericke in the year 1472. much augmented and increased the same the chiefest Colledge herein is that which is called Domus Sapientiae Udalricus Zasius a Lawyer taught here many years with great praise and left divers Commentaries upon the Civil Law Martpurge An University was instituted in this City about the year 1526. which was afterward repaired and reinstituted by Philip the Landgrave of Hesse in the year 1536. It was authorized by Charles the 5 th at Regeusburge who endued it with priviledges of Vienna Iohn Oldendorp the most famous Lawyer of Germany also Iohanno Draco and Andrew Hyperius most famous Divines lived here Diling In the year 1564. Otto Truchses Cardinall of the Roman Church Bishop of Ausburge and Protector of Germany for the great and singular love wherewith he alwaies embraced Learning brought the Jesuites into this City and erected therein an University of his own charge and expence wherein the Arts have ever since been with great diligence and Learning professed Vienna It is the most renowned Metropolis and residence of the Archdukes of Austria a City for wealth most opulent and for strength most invincible the only
of Sussex Aunt to the renowned Sir Philip Sidney widow of Thomas Ratcliffe Earl of Sussex founded this Colledge by the name of the Colledge of the L. Frances Sidney Sussex It is much inlarged since by divers Benefactors Doctor Ward was Master there and M. Gataker Fellow CHAP. XIV Of the Universities of Scotland and Ireland THe learned men of Scotland have been these 1. Marianus sirnamed Scotus 2. Hector Boetius both Historians 3. Iohn Major a well known Schoolman Since the Reformation George Buchanan an excellent Poet. King Iames his Scholar and a good Poet also Napier the Laird of Marchiston Barclay the Father and the Sonne Iohn Skeine the Antiquary of this Nation Doctor Iohn Maxwell the learned Bishop of Rosse Rolloc Baronius Cameron Melvin The Universities I. Aberdein King Alexander with his Sister Isabella adorned this with many priviledges about the year 1240. Doctor Iohn Forbes was Professor of Divinity here Glasco It is honoured with an Archbishops See and an University founded here by Archbishop Turbal An. 1454. S t Andrews It is the chief Town of Fife an Archiepiscopal See and an University erected in the year after our Saviours Incarnation 1411. The University of Ireland THe Christian Faith was first preached among the Irish by S t Patrick The Irish Scholars of Patrick profited so notably in Christianity that in the Age next following Ireland was termed Sanctorum Patria that is the native Countrey of Saints and the Scottish Monks in Ireland and Britain highly excelled for their holinesse and learning Out of Ireland came Caelius Sedulius a Priest Richard Fitz-Ralf commonly called Armachanus is of famous memory who turned the edge of his style about the year 1355. against the mendicant Friers as detesting in Christians such voluntary begging Dublin or Divelin There is a beautifull Colledge consecrated unto the name of the holy and indivisible Trinity which for the exercising and polishing of wits with good Literature Queen Elizabeth endowed with the Priviledges of an University and it is furnished with a good Library Bishop Usher was born there and was the first Scholar of that Colledge Thus much of Dublin saith Camden in his Britaine for the most part of which I acknowledge my self beholden unto the diligence and learning of Iames Usher Chancellor of S t Patricks Church whose variety of knowledge and judgement are far above his years The End of the second Book THE THIRD BOOK Of such as were Famous for ZEAL IN THE True RELIGION or any Kinde of Learning CHAP. I. A ISaac Abarbinel a Jew of great note both amongst the Jews and Christians He is the best Expofitor of the Jews upon the Text. His Hebrew Comment upon the Pentateuch and Prophets are much esteemed by those who are so well skilled in the Hebrew that they are able to make use of them He hath Commented say some upon all the Scripture Some Jews of malice study to pervert all Christian Doctrine as this man Abrabbanâ—â—l or Barbanel a Rabbin of great pains and wit but not of grace and only to be followed when he clearly is on our side H. Broughtons Observat. upon the first ten Fathers Robert Abbot a pious and Learned Bishop His excellent Writings are much esteemed Some much commend his Book de Antichristo others his Answer to Bishop others his Treatise de gratia perseverantia Sanctorum He wrote a most accurate Commentary in Latine upon the Epistle to the Romanes with large Sermons upon every verse in which he handled as his Text gave him occasion all the controverted points of Religion at this day They who withhold this work from the publick view as they wrong the Church in generall so in speciall the City and Cathedrall Church of Worcester to which he bequeathed it as a kinde of legacy as the Authours own words in his Dedicatory Epistle to B. Babington printed with his Sermons upon the 110 Psalm import Petrus Abelardus vel ABAELARDUS a person of great note in his time contemporary with Bernard See Pasquiers Recherch de la France l. 6. c. 17. Two of the verses of his Epitaph are these Ille sciens quicquid fuit ulliscibile vicit Artifices artes absque docente docens Scripsit opera quam plurima in unum volumen edita opera Studio Francisci Amboesi equitis Abelfoedus a great Cosmographer Alpbonsus Tostatus Abulensis Episc. 1430. Had he lived in any other age save his own we should not have needed now to envy either Hippo for Augustine or Strido for Ierom nor any other of those ancient noble Worthies of the Church Possevine in his Apparatus saith that at the age of 22 years he attained the knowledge of almost all Arts and Sciences For besides Philosophy and Divinity the Canon and Civill Laws History and the Mathematicks he was well skilled in Greek and Hebrew Hic stupor est mundi qui scibile discutit omne He wrote so many Books and they not ill ones that the world computed a sheet for every day of his life Some conceive they meant after he came to the use of reason and the state of a man others say he wrote more sheets of paper then he lived daies It is related by a very credible Author Fr. Ximenes Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of all Spain that reckoning the daies that he lived from his first infancy untill his dying day you shall finde three sheets of paper that he wrote for every day He is styled Voluminous Abulensis or the Voluminous Writer Accursius He flourished in the year 1223 or as some say 1230. He was the first that wrote a Gloss upon all the Civil Law and as yet the last saith Genebrard in his Chronology Iacobus Acontius He hath written a book called Stratagemata Satanae See D r Cheinels Triunity Adrian the Emperour was a very Learned Prince and Facetious a great Grecian he was called by many Graeculus Pope Adrian the fourth an Englishman he was bred and born at S t Albons Oft times in familiar talk with Iohn of Salisbury his Countryman he used these sentences To take the Papacy saith he is to succeed Romulus in murder and not Peter in sheep-feeding None is more wretched then the Romish Bishop neither is any mans condition more miserable then his Iohan. Salisb. de nugis aulicorum l. 8. His breath was stopt with a fly which entred into his throat Pope Adrian the sixth a poor mans sonne of Utrecht He was a Learned man and Schoolmaster to Charles the 5 th who sent him to Rome to negotiate for him for the Popedom thinking thereby to sway much if he could get both the Swords but they chose Adrian who would not change his name as the custom is when he was made Pope Marcellus Cervinus being elected Pope also retained his name shewing that his dignity had not changed him See the Hist. of the Counell of Trent l. 5. p. 389 390. He
Authours and c. 7. what Authours are most to be read and also some Elogies of the Latine Tongue by divers Learned men Pasquier Recherches de la France l. 9. c. 29. reckons up the Authours which excelled in the Latine Tongue The Latine Tongue grew to perfection by certain degrees and in Caesar and Cicero's times whereof the one for purity the other for copiousness were the best that ever writ it came to the highest flourish together with the Empire Among the Poets Plautus Naevius Accius Pacuvius Ennius and Virgill most refined it among the Orators and Historians M. Cato Sisenna Caesar and Cicero The Spanish Writer of the Book which is called the Triall of Wits ch 4. collects thence that there is a speciall agreement of the Latine Tongue with the reasonable soul because mad men which never learned Latine nevertheless sometime speak it of their own accord The Latine Tongue is usefull for all Arts and Nations Iulius Scaliger and Ioseph his sonne hold that the Originals of the Latine speech are many of them drawn from the Greek Crinesius de Confusione Linguarum cap. 10. proves by many instances that the Latine Tongue proceeded from the Hebrew It is very commendable to speak good Latine freely and to write in a pure and elegant style That is much which Fanchimus Fortius Ringelbergius in his truly golden Book De Ratione Studii reports of himself Of the Italian French and Spanish Languages One Bense hath written a Book entitled Analogo-Diaphora seu Concordia Discrepans Discrepantia Concordans trium Linguarum Gallicae Italicae Hispanicae The disagreeing concord and the agreeing discord of those three Languages French Italian and Spanish The Language of the Spaniards is said to be Manly the Italian Courtly and the French Amorous Brerewood conceives these tongues are more ancient and that they have not sprung from the corruption of the Latine Tongue by the inundation and mixture of barbarous people in these provinces but from the first unperfect impression and receiving of it in those forraign Countries One of the Councels cals the French Tongue Linguam Romanam rusticam whence Romances because they were written in that Tongue The genuine pronunciation and reading is the most difficult in the French Tongue for many letters which are written are not pronounced or otherwise pronounced Crinesius in his Discourse of the Confusion of Languages c. 10. gives seven generall rules of the French pronunciation and many speciall ones There are many severall Dialects of the French Tongue Nam in Gallia certè nostra tot ferè linguae sunt aut certè tot ejusdem linguae dialecti ac diversi pronuntiandi modi quot sunt Galliae non dicam provinciae sed urbes Casaub. Comment in l. 4. Strabonis The Spanish Tongue is near to the Italian and seems to come nearer to the Latine Tongue then the French but not so near as the Italian Brerewood in his 6 th Chapter of Enquiries touching the diversity of Languages saith he hath seen an Epistle written by a Spaniard whereof every word was both good Latine and good Spanish and an example of the like is to be seen in Merula Cosmog part 2. l. 2 ch 8. Scaliger Epist. Casaub. saith Quartapars Hispanicae linguae merè Arabica Scaliger commends the French for a most elegant and sweet Language and prefers it before the Spanish and Italian The people leave out many of their consonants in their pronunciation which makes it the sweeter In aulis omnium propemodum principum maximè occidentalium viget illa lingua floret Petrus Bense in Epistola Dedicatoria The people speak the best French in Blois or Orleance and the best Italian in Hetruria and the best Spanish in Castile Antoine Du Verdier in his excellent Preface to his Bibliotheque highly commends the French Language Quant à la phrase elegante maniere de parler pour exprimer belles conceptions ie ne sai si les Grecs mesmes se peuvent vanter d'estre pareils à nous De ma part ie croy que nostre langue ait estè composee de toutes les fleurs d'eslite qui sont esparses par la Grecque la Latine l' Italienne autres celebres renommees tant antiques que modernes CHAP. VII Of Universities and publick Schools ACademies which at this day are called Universities were in times past called Synagogues as the Synagogue of Hierusalem Antioch Ephesus and Alexandria and Studia They alwaies built their Academies in some famous City as at Ierusalem Athens Rome Constantinople The use of Academies is very necessary many waies therefore those Common-wealths most flourished which did most esteem them Nothing is more Princely then to defend and provide for Schools and Universities Ne quid detrimenti capiat literaria Respublica Nothing more conducible to the profit of Scholars then to indow Colledges with great Immunities and Priviledges So in times past did many Learned Heroes cherish Learning and favour Learned men in Greece Alexander in Asia Mithridates in Egypt Ptolomy in Spain Alphonsus in Germany Charles the Great and the 4 th in Bohâ—mia the Founder of the University of Prague in Prusia Albertus the Elder in Italy Iulius Augustus Maecenas in France Francis the first in England Edward the 3 d Henry the 7 th and Elizabeth his wife Henry the 8 th Edward the 6 th Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth King Iames. Zanchius reckons up four most weighty causes of publick Divinity Schools 1. That the Propheticall and Apostolicall Writings might be preserved in them from corruption or destruction which is the cause why Libraries were alwaies wont to be added to these Schools in which other Books being written out faithfully in Hebrew Greek and Latine were kept 2. That there might be perpetuall witnesses in Schools which might testifie by a continuall succession what Books were truly Canonicall and what Apocryphall 3. That these Schools might also testifie what was the native and genuine sense of such Writings and what doctrine was truly Apostolicall The last cause was That from those Colleges those might be drawn out which were indeed fit to teach others and to govern Churches The whole Kingdom of Israel was filled with Theologicall Schools according to the commandement of God Samuel was the first builder of Colledges that we reade of he called his Colledge Najoh that is even beauty it self In Ramah the Prophets dwelt with the Students which were called Sonnes of the Prophets Amos saith I am not a Prophet nor the sonne of a Prophet that is I was never taught in the Schools of the Prophets and the Learned They had Schools amongst the people till the destruction of Ierusalem The Jews being dispersed among other Nations alwaies endeavoured to keep their Schools which they called Synagogues which were Colledges as it were in which the Law of God was interpreted among the more Learned and wherein they conferred and disputed
Bullwark of the Christians against their perpetuall and barbarous enemy the Turk This City is famous for the Citizens valiant holding out against the Turks siege in the year 1529. in which 8000 Turks were slain See M r Foxes Acts and Monum Vol. 1. p 978. In this City is a publick and famous University of great name first founded and instituted after the rules of Rome and Paris in the year 1239. by the Emperour Frederick the 2 d to the end he might leave unto his sonne Conradus an Empire strongly guarded and defended with men Learned and skilfull in the Liberall Sciences which afterward Rudolphus the 4 th Albertus the 3 d and Leopoldus the 2 d three brothers Archdukes of Austria with sundry priviledges Entranchised and removed the same from the place wherein it first was instituted near to the Palace of the Archdukes These were famous men in Vienna viz. Wolfgangus Lazius Medicus an Historian to the Emperour Ferdinand also Iulius Alexandrinus Mathias Farinator also Iohn Haselbach was Professor of Divinity in this University Anno Christi 1402. who was so large in the explication of that which he propounded to his audience that he preached twenty years out of the Prophet Isaiah and yet he was not come to the end of the first Chapter Peurbachius and Regiomontanus those two famous Astronomers were Professors also of the Mathematicks here In the year 1562. at the cost of Ferdinand Emperour but by the study and unwearied labour of Iohn Albertus Widmanstade Chancellour of Orientall Austria a Lawyer and excelling in the knowledge of divers learned Languages the New Testament was printed at Vienna in the Syriack Tongue which Manuscript in that Language Moses Meredinerus a Priest brought out of Mesopotamia of greater Asia into Europe sent for this purpose into those parts by Ignatius Patriarch of Antioch that he finding a Patron who would undergo the charge that written Copy might by Printing be dimulged among the Christians living in Syria and under the Empire of the Turk Persian and Tartarian which are the three most potent Empires of Asia II. The Universities of Low Germany or the Low Countries Belgium or Germania inferior in English the Low Countries and the Netherlands from their low situation and their conformity with the other Germans in Laws Language Customs and Manners It hath bred and countenanced many Scholars of note 1. Erasmus the great Restorer of Learning 2. Iustus Lipsius as eminent a Reviver of the Latine elegancies 3. Ioseph Scaliger the sonne of Iulius 4. Rodolphus Agricola 5. Levinus Lemnius 6. Ianus Douza the Father and the sonne 7. Abraham Ortelius and Gerard Mercator the Geographers 8. George Cassander 9. Gerard Vossius a great Scholar and very industrious 10. Hugo Grotius a Learned Lawyer 11. Of the Popish party Iansenius and Pamelius Lovaine This is a pleasant City Iohn Duke of Brabant obtained of Pope Martin the 5 th the approbation of an University in this City Letters and good Discipline began there publickly to be taught about the year 1426. Afterwards Pope Eugenius the 6 th licensed therein the profession of Theology No University of Italy France or Germany may with this be compared for pleasant ayr and delectable walks In it are for the use of the Students twenty Colledges the principall whereof are five Lilium Castrum Porcus Falco Collegium Trilingue Cornelius Gemma professed Physick here Bessarian the Cardinall being the Popes Legat into the Low Countries in the year 1513. was entertained here in the Colledge of Divines he left there a memory of himself Biblia manuscripta Lipsi Lovan Douay In this City not long since was erected a famous University by Philip late King of Spain and authorized with the priviledges of Lovaine where Theology Philosophy and the inferiour Arts are Learnedly professed Liege In this City flourished in times past a most famous and renowned Academy wherein were Students at one time the children of nine Kings twenty four Dukes twenty nine Earls besides the sonnes of many Barons and Gentlemen It is at this day decaied and almost utterly extinguished only some triviall Schools for the institution of youth in the inferiour Studies are there remaining Leiden There is scarce a Country in the world which in so little a space hath so many neat Towns as Holland Leiden is one of the six capitall Towns of Holland and is beautified with many pleasant Medows Gardens Arbors and Wals round about it Here was born Iohn Bucold alias Iohn of Leyden a Taylor who played Rex in Munster In this City was erected an University in the year 1575. by William Prince of Orange They being there miraculously delivered from the Spaniards great Army to shew their thankfulness erected this University and indowed it with goodly priviledges whereto were called from divers parts Professors in all faculties allowing them good stipends Vide Boxhorn Epist. Dedicat. ad Theat Holland It doth flourish now and sundry Professors of the liberall Sciences are there maintained with liberall stipends The first Professour there was Polyander Iustus Lipsius Bonaventure Valcane Francis Iunius Ioseph Scaliger Clusius Heinsius Salmasins and divers others taught here These things are considerable in the University 1. The Physick-Garden Is longe amaenissimus est arboribus stirpibus rarissimis è longinquis regionibus huc advectis refertissimus 2. The Anatomy-Theatre where there is Mummie of Egypt the Idols of the Heathens Birds which came from China and other far Countreys 3. The Library well stored with Books of Divinity Law Physick Philology Philosophy and Mathematicks both printed and Manuscripts There are divers choice Manuscripts of several Languages given by Ioseph Scaliger and Bonaventure Vulcane and divers Arabick and Samaritane and other Books which Iacobus Golius brought in great number from the East Bredah It is the Prince of Orenge his Patrimony The Prince of Orenge was the Founder of that University There is a Book printed wherein are the several speeches made by the Professors in the day of their Inauguration Utrect The learned Voetius is Professour here Anna Maria Schurman that mirrour of women lived there also Daventer Daventer is illustris Schola or Gymnasium but not an University Franekere Here Drusius Maâ—covius Doctor Ames and Cocceius of late were Professors D. Ames speaks of its first foundation Harderwick Harderwick is an University of late standing Groning This City was the Countrey of that learned man Rodolphus Agricola here Ubbâ— Emmius Frisiae suae decus was Professour of History and the Greek Here was also Franciscus Gomarus Henry Alting Doctor and Professour of Divinity Maresius the learned Frenchman is Professour now there There are two Universities in Denmark I. Copenhagen In this City was erected an University by Christian Earl of Oldenburge in the year of Salvation 1478. after he had gained the Regal Diadem For the which he obtained at the hands of Pope Sixtus the 4 th the priviledges of Bononia
This Academy was afterward augmented and enlarged by King Christian the 3 d in the year 1498. and after him by Frederick the 2 d in the year 1549. When Tycho Brahe was past twelve years old his Uncle sent him to Hafnia the Metropolis of the Kingdom of Denmark that he might study Philosophy and Rhetorick in that famous University II. Sore or Soroe Upsal It is the only University in Sweden CHAP. IX Of the Universities of Italy ITaly is the most noble Region of Europe and is commonly called its beautifull Garden The Italians do maintain cherish and honour Scholars and are good Maecenasses to them Hence there are so many Universities in Italy as Rome Venice Padua Bononia Ferrara Millan Pavia Turim Florence Pisa Sienna Medena Naples Salern Here flourished the famous Oratours Cicero Hortensius and Antonius the renowned Historians Livie Tacitus and Salust the memorable Poets Virgil Ovid Catullus Tibullus and Propertius Plautus and Terence the Comedians the Satyrists Horâ—ce Iuvenal and Persius Aeneas Silvius afterwards Pope Pius the 2 d Marsilius Patavinus Petrarch Angelus Politianus Rodolphus Volaterranus Picus Mirandula Guido Bonatus Ariosto and Tasso Sixtus Senensis Bellarmine Baronius were Italians Rome It was so named from Romulus who layed thereof the first foundation Nauclerus writeth that Urbane the 4 th of that name being Pope was much grieved to see the course of Studies in the Roman Academy intermitted and all good discipline neglected wherefore immediately he caused to be sent for that famous and most learned Clerk Thomas of Aquine to direct and govern it who setting aside all care and respect of worldly promotion applied his minde wholly to reform restore and adorn the same during which time at the Popes intreaty he did write many excellent Commentaries upon divine and humane Philosophy Pope Innocent the 4 th ratified this University Pope Clement the 5 th in a Councel held at Vienna ordained That at Rome or wheresoever the Pope in person should be resident the Hebrew Chaldee and Arabick tongues should publickly be taught Pope Eugenius the 4 th much adorned this Academy Pope Nicholas the 5 th being himself a learned Prelate highly favouring all learned men did more labour in repairing and beautifying this glorious Academy then any of his Predecessours Pope Leo the 10 th exhibited liberal pensions to several learned men which by their pains and industry upheld the glory of this renowned Academy He sent into Turky for Iohn Lascaris who robbing all the Heathen Universities of their best and worthiest Authors did therewith plentifully furnish and adorn the Roman Libraries Sixtus the 4 th builded in the Vaticane that famous and renowned Library called Palatina Venice Italy is the face of Europe Venice the eye of Italy Georgius Fabricius in itinere suo Romano hath these verses of it Urbs Venetum foecunda viris vener anda Senatâ— Pro portis illi est Nereus pro moenibus aequor Unum collectum mundum miramur in urbem Quicquid habet tellus aequora quicquid habent Many men excellently learned in Rhetorick Philosophy and Theology have there flourished and professed Iohannes Rovennas taught in Venice from whom issued many excellent wits which restored Schools and Discipline After the Latine Tongue was again restored Emanuel Chrysoloras began to teach the Greek Many other singular Scholars have taught and lived in this City as Hermolaus Barbarus Guarinus Varonensis Leonardus Iustinianus Anthonius Mancinellus Iohn Baptista Egnatius Caelius Secundus Curiâ— Peter Bembus Gaspar Contarenus Aldus Manutius and Paulus his son Bessarion Cardinal of Rome and Patriark of Constantinople bestowed 30000 Crowns on a Library which he caused to be erected in Venice which afterward the Dukes thereof exceedingly augmented and adorned Petrus de Assasio Master Bartholus the famous Civil Lawyer builded in this Academy Collegium pietatis for the education of poor mens children and such Orphanes as should happen in the street at any time to be taken up Padua This City is famous for Livie a most eloquent and wise writer who hath written the History of the people of Rome in fourteen Decads The City it self Doctiloquis sedes aptissima Musis Magna loco spaciosa foro placidissima coeli Temperie muróque triplex latissima fossis Et magnis celebrata viris The University was established anno 1220. It is famous for Physicians who have here a Garden of Simples Leander writeth that in Padua is a free and publick Academy wherein all Studies and Sciences universally are professed erected by Frederick the 2 d in contempt of the Bononian Students There is no City in Italy which for beauty and statelinesse of Edifices may with this place worthily be paragomed Patavinus a minorite Frier who wrote so learnedly in behalf of the Emperour against the Pope and Francis Zaborella the Civilian Maginus the Geographer and divers others lived here Bononia It is the chief University of Italy and the retiring place of the Popes This University was first founded say some when Theodosius swayed the Scepter of the Roman Empire though others doubt of it Pope Gregory the 9 th Pope Boniface the 8 th and Pope Iohn the 23. writing sundry learned Treatises did dedicate them all to this University Pope Clement the 5 th in a Councel held at Vienna decreed That besides the study of all the liberal Arts the Hebrew Arabick and Chaldean Languages should be there publickly taught The Civil Law is much studied here insomuch that from hence proceeded the famous Civilians Iohannes Andreas professed in this Academy the Law with great fame and estimation Azo that bright shining lamp of Learning was here also a publique Professour of the Civil Law Io. Antonius Maginus was publick Professour of the Mathematicks Here also taught Bartholus and Accursius Of the learned Divines Philosophers Lawyers both of the Civil and Canon-Law Orators and Poets the learned Physicians Historians Musicians Arithmeticians of Bononia See Leand. Albert. Descript. Ital. in Roma pag. 514 515 516. Ferrara Volateranus writeth that Salicet was in the year of Christs Nativity 1316. sent for by Albertus Duke of Ferrara to institute a common School in this City which was afterward confirmed and priviledged by Pope Boniface the eighth and exceedingly augmented by the bounty and liberality of the succeeding Princes of Este. Sundry learned Writers have proceeded from this Academy as Felinus Sammaeus the Interpreter of the Canon-Law Andraeas Alciatus Theodorus Gaza Alexander Guarinus Caelus Calcanimus to whom Rhodiginus dedicated his book of four and twenty ancient readings Baptista Gnavinus and Nocholaus Leonicenus Peter Bembus his master Iohannes Manardus Lilius Gyraldus Alexander Sardus Angelus Aretinus the famous Lawyer Millan This City is one of the greatest of Europe it is seven miles in circuit It hath by long and ancient custom enjoyed a free and publick University It was very famous in Virgils time who studied there as some write
Danaeus Peter du Moulin Fr. Iunius Chamier Philip de Mornay Lord of Phessis Daillè Some reckon up sixteen Universities in France some more Paris Poictiers Lions Angiers Avignion Orleance Bourges Cane Rhemes Burdeaux Tholouse Nismes Mompellier Bisanson Dole Nantes Grenoble Valens Avenion and Massils which is the ancientest of them all and founded by the Grecians In the Province of the Gauls there was a particular Countrey called Parisium in which Iulius Caesar in his Commentaries of the warres made with the Gauls speaking of it cals it Lutetiam Parisiorum meaning that this Town was set on Parisium Pasquier Recherch de la France l. 9. c. 2. Paris Paris the Metropolis is the first and most ancient University of France L'Academie de Paris estant tant pour son antiquitè pour le nombre d'escholiers que pour l'opinion de doctrine la premiere de toutes les universitez qui estoyent au monde Preface D' Antoine Du Verdier Sur Sa Bibliotheque It was called Lutetia from lutum which signifies dirt because it abounded with dirt and mire and the French have a Proverb That a thing stains like the dirt of Paris Il gaste comme la fange de Paris The Emperour Charles the Great did institute this famous University at the earnest suite and instigation of Alcuinus whose Scholar he had been in the year of Salvation almost 791. so Ramus and Middendorpe Parisiensis Patavina Ticinensis Academiae Carolum magnum parentem suum appellant Papyr Masson Annal l. 2. Utcunque se res habeat satis constat Anglos primos Lutetiae bonas artes docuisse Polyd. Verg. Hist. Anglic. l. 5. Pasquier de Recherches de la France lib. 9. cap. 4. seems to deny that Charles the Great was the founder of this University and in the 5 th and 6 th Chapters of that Book he shews his own opinion about it He saith there lib. 3. cap. 29. that Peter Lombard laid the first stone of the University of Paris The Kings of France have beautified it from time to time with many sumptuous edifices adorned it with many high and noble priviledges and endued it with many rich and princely revenues Some speak of a hundred Colledges there built all of costly marble-stone for the use of Students Others mention but fifty four or fifty two Colledges whereof fourty are of little use and in the rest the Students live at their own charges there being no indowment laid unto any of them except those two the Sorbonne and the Colledge of Navarre 1. That of the Sorbonists The King S t Lewis by the counsel of Robert of Sorbonne which took his sirname as they say from the place of his Nativity his Almoner and Confessour resolved to erect a Colledge of Divines which retains the name of Sorbonne The most famous Doctors in Divinity have studied in this Colledge The Pope Clement the 4 th confirmed the foundation of this Colledge He that answers there continueth from morning to night II. The Colledge of Navarre was founded by Ioan Queen of France and Navar in the year of Grace 1304. She inriched likewise this Colledge with an excellent Library The greatest part of the young Princes Lords and Gentlemen in France are customarily nourished and instructed in this Colledge rather then another as well for its pleasant situation and neatnesse as because of its royal foundation Petrus de Aliaco Chancellour of Paris hath bestowed so much on this Colledge that he is esteemed as a second Founder Francis of Valois King of France anno Dom. 1530. did send for sundry learned Professours of the Greek and Hebrew Tongues unto whom he allowed liberall exhibitions unto which he added afterward being moved thereunto by the counsell and perswasions of William Budie and Iohn Bellay two singularly learned men the profession of Physick Philosophy and the Mathematicks See Pasquiers Recherches de la France l. 9. c. 2. Dionysius Areopagita first taught in this City the principles of Religion Clodoveus primus religionem Christianam in Franco Gallorum principatu fundavit Thuanus Hist. Tom. 3. l. 73. The Kings Readers and Professours in the Greek Tongue in the University of Paris from the year 1529. Petrus Danesius Iohannes Auratus Iacobus Tusanus Petrus Gallandius Adrianus Turnebus Dionysius Lambinus Ludovicus Regis Georgius Critonus Scotus Natione Nicolaus Borbonius and others The Kings Readers and Professours in the Hebrew Tongue in Paris from the year 1529. Franciscus Vatablus Iohannes Mercerus Gilberius Genebrardus Agathius Guidacorius Rodolphus Baynus Anglus Iohannes Quinquarboreus Franciscus Iordanus Petrus Victor Palma Cajetanus and others The Kings Readers and Professours in the Mathematicks in Paeris from the year 1533. Orontius Fineus Iohannes Merlierus Gulielmus Postellus Ioannes Pena Ramus his Scholar Petrus Forcadellus Iohannes Bullingerus The Kings Readers and Professours in the Latine Tongue or Eloquence in Paris from the year 1534. Bartholomaeus Latomus Leodegarius de Quercu Frederieus Morellus Ioannes Passeratius Theodorus Marcilius The Kings Readers and Professours in Philosophy in Paris from the year 1562. Franciscus Vicomeratus an Italian and a great Philosopher Petrus Ramus Iacobus Marius and others The Kings Readers and Professours in Physick in Paris from the year 1543. Vidus Vidius Iacobus Silvius Iacobus Goupylus Ludovicus Duretus Ioannes Duretus Ioannes Faber Ioannes Riolanus Master to Sir Theodore Miram Claudius Carolus Poictiers Pictavia Poictiers is the Metropolis of the Earldom of Poictou for Antiquity not inferiour to any Town of France second to Paris onely in greatnesse power and majesty In this City hath long flourished a most learned University for the Civil-Law chiefly of great fame and authority in degree and preheminence next to Paris Scaliger in his Cities thus speaks of it Si studium est animae veniunt à corpore vires Galliaque à meritis poscit utrumque sibi Hac studiis aliae belli exercentur amore Pictavium est animus caetera corpus erunt It was erected under Charles the 7 th King of France and confirmed by Pope Eugenius the 4 th We read in the Ecclesiastical Histories that S t Hilary called the Apostle of Aquitaine first revealed unto this people the light of the Gospel and became the first Bishop of Poictiers his excellent writings sufficiently testifie his singular wisdom and learning Ioannes Eâ—pnion and Christophorus Longolius were Professors here Lions The Arms of the City are a Lion whence the name of the City in French Lyon In this City flourished an Academy of great fame and celebrity which hath sent forth into the world many excellent men renowned for their great learning and holinesse of life as Irenaeus and Euâ—herius both Archbishops of Lions This City is famous for Iohn Waldus learned in the Scriptures who opposed the Pope and his Doctrine whence the Waldenses called by some Pauperes De Lugduno the poor men of Lions It was a Colony of the Romans They erected a University here
There is a Library of ancient and rare Books the French Bible translated 300 years since The inhabitants generally are addicted to the more pure and Reformed Religion thence it is the refuge and asylum of the afflicted exiles of Christ. For the Politick Government this Common-wealth is free from all Dominion and it obtained this liberty from Charles the 4 th Emperour There have been many Learned men here Peter Viret William Farell Iohn Calvin Antony Sadeel Petrus Cevallerias Cornelius Bertram Bucane Theodore Beza Simon Goulartiâ—s Antonias Faius Iohn Deodeâ—â— Professor of Divinity and the Hebrew Tongue Isaac Casaubone the Kings Professor for the Greek CHAP. XI Of the Universities of Polonia Prussia and Lituania Bohemia and Moravia Craconia IT is the Metropolis of Polonia An Academy was instituted in this City by Casemire the second in the year of salvation 1361. which afterward viz. in the year 1400. was by Uladislaus at the instant intercession of Hedvigis his Queen ratified and confirmed with the Popes authority The University is not in the principall City but in that part which lieth on the other side of the river and is named from the first Founder thereof Cazimira Therein are two goodly Colledges in the one is professed Philosophy and Divinity in the other Physick and the Civil Law the other inferiour studies are there also learnedly taught with great diligence of the Readers Posnania An University was erected in Posne of late years by Sigismond the King of that Nation and confirmed by Pope Clement the eight The Jesuites enjoy therein a goodly Colledge wherein they profess Theology Philosophy and the other inferiour studies Koningsperge Mons Regius commonly called Koningsperge is the Metropolis of the great Dukedome of Prussia Albertus Marquess of Brandeburg first erected in Konningsperge the University which hath ever since even untill this present time continually flourished Vilna Commonly called the Wilde is a large and apulent City in the great Dukedom of Lithuania whereof it is the Metropolis Near unto the Church of S t Iohn the Baptist was lately erected a goodly and spacious Colledge possessed by the Jesuites The Universities of Bohemia and Moravia Prage It is a renowned City lying in the center of Bohemia This School by reason of the access of Germanes thither grew to be exceedingly frequented and so flourished untill the springing up of Wieliffe Not long after him arose amongst them Hierom of Prage and Iohn Hus so named from a little Village wherein he was born called Hiss which in the Bohemian Language signifieth a Goose. Olmuts It is a fair and ample City in Moravia now annexed to the Crown of Bohemia The University there seems to have been erected lately since the coming thither of the Jesuites for whom there was built a magnificent and sumptuous Colledge at the Popes charges CHAP. XII Of the Universities of Spain MUnster reckons up these as the principall Learned men in Spain which are well known and famous elsewhere Fulgentius Isidore Archbishop of Sivill Paulus Orosius Paulus Burgensis King Alphonsus Columella Higinius Sedulius the Poet Ludovicus Vives the Orator Quintilian the Rhetorician Seneca the Orator Pomponius Mela Raymundus Lullus Iustin the Historiographer and among the Jews and Saracens Aben Esra David and Moses Kimchi Avicenna Averroes Rasis Mesalac Albumazar and many others Mercator in his Atlas saith the Academies or Universities in Spain are about twenty two Munster saith there are seven famous Universities in Spain viz. Salamanca Complute Colimbria Pinciaria Toledo Sanguntum Osten and Ilerden Toledo In this City was the University first erected by a certain Bishop of the same Sea and was afterward confirmed by the priviledges of many Popes and Kings of Spain The chief sciences therein professed are the Canon and Civil Law The Archbishop of this City is Chancellor of Castile Metropolitan and chief of all the Ecclesiasticall persons in Spain the revenews of this Church amounteth to the summe of 200000 Duckats whereof the Archbishop receiveth 80000. Siville It excelleth all other Cities of Spain in fertility of the soyl which bringeth forth all kindes of Grain and Olives in great abundance and is environed with green and fruitfull trees The Archbishop of Sivill is in degree next unto him of Toledo he receiveth yearly out of the Church revenews 24000. Duckats The University herein is of great antiquity and hath sent forth into the world many Learned and excellent men as Pope Sylvester the 2 d Avicen a profound Philosopher and most excellently Learned Physitian and Leander who by their industry and wisdom reclaimed Hermigild and Richard Kings of the Gothes from Arianism to the Catholike faith herein also flourished Isidorus a man much renowned for sincerity and profoundness in Learning In this University is a rich and most renowned Library near to the Friars Predicants Valentia In this City is an University which in the year of grace 1470. did wonderfully flourish Herein Dominicke the first Founder of the Friers Predicants did absolve the courses of Philosophy and Theology In this Country are made those Porceline dishes which for pure temper of the mettall and exquisite workmanship are so much desired in forraign Nations Granada By the great bounty and liberality of the King of Spain in this City was Founded and erected a most sumptuous and magnificent Colledge to the use of the Jesuites who are authorized therein to profess Philosophy Divinity and other inferiour studies In this place had that mirrour of Christendom Lewes of Granada his birth and education Compostella An University and Archbishops See vulgarly called S t Iago in honour of S t Iames whom they pretend to be buried here and of whom there is an Order of Knights The Emperour Charles the great Founded herein a goodly Colledge now Governed after the rule of Isidore Valladolit It was wont to be numbred among the seven most ancient Universities of Spain King Philip late deceased because he was born there did restore unto it the ancient Priviledges thereto belonging and did his uttermost endeavours to raise it to his former dignity He hath lately erected a Colledge there for the Institution of young English Gentlemen which have abandoned their Country Complute Among many great and goodly Cities in Spain Complute which of the Spaniard is commonly called Alcala de Henores is not the meanest An University was herein erected by an Archbishop of Toledo named Franciscus Ximenes who was by profession a Franciscan Frier in the year 1317. There is Collegium Complutense Philosophicum disputations upon Aristotles Logick and naturall Philosophy Salamanca Some say this University was first founded in the year of Christs incarnation 1404. many Kings and Popes have granted divers priviledges to it Pope Clement the 5 th in a Councell held at Vienna made a Decree that the Hebrew Arabick and Chaldee tongues should in this Academy be continually taught Ignatius Loyola first Founder of the society of the Jesuites was
in this University a Student The famous Didacus Covarruvias professed the Canon Law here Franciscus à Victoria was Professour of Divinity here Dominicus à Soâ—o l. 1. de Iustitia jure cals it his University Saragossa In this ancient City the Kings of Arragon are usually accustomed to be Crowned By Pope Iohn the 22 d the priviledges of this University were restored and ratified Signenca Little is said in Authors concerning the Foundation of this University or donation of priviledges thereto Lerida In this City flourisheth an Academy of great Antiquity wherein Pope Calixtus the 3 d before he obtained the Papacy proceeded Doctor of either Law who afterward became a publick Professor of the Civil Law in the same place Also Vincent a Dominican Frier was there made Doctor of Divinity Huesca Osca or Isca It is a goodly City of Arragon containing an University of great Antiquity which is said to have been erected before the coming of Christ as a Nursery for the Institution of Noble mens children Lisbone It is the Metropolis of Portugall A most renowned University was by the bounty of their Kings erected in this City where even untill this day the liberall Sciences are prosessed with great profoundness to the incredible benefit of Christendom Conimbra It is a most pleasant and goodly City in Portugall An University was therein Founded in these later daies by Iohn the 2 d King of Portugall Iacobus Payva Andradius studied in this University There is Collegium Conimbricense upon a good part of Aristotle his Logick and Physicks Evora It is another famous City of Portugall An University was herein lately erected by Henry Cardinall of Portugall who was Bishop of that place He was a man endued with abundant wealth and exceedingly affected to the Muses Majorica In this City is an ancient priviledged and authorized University where the Arts generally are publikely with great Learning professed Among the Students of this Academy the memory of Raymundus Lullius is with great admiration retained because he received therein his birth and education in so much that even untill this present time a Learned man is there with liberall exhibition entertained to maintain and teach the doctrine professed by Lullius in times past CHAP. XIII Of the Universities of England BRittain which comprehends England and Scotland is the greatest Isleland of Europe it was in times past called Albion say some ab albis montibus primùm ad eam navigantibus apparentibus See Bish. Usher De Britan. Eccles. primord Some of the chief things for which England is famous are comprehended in this verse Mons Fons Pons Ecclesia Famina Lana England is termed by some the Paradise of women the Purgatory of servants the Hell of horses England hath been famous for Learned men and for her Seminaries of Learning as well as other things Renowned Scholars amongst us Alcuinus one of the Founders of the University of Paris Beda styled Venerabilis Anselm and Bradwardine Archbishops of Canterbury Alexander of Hales Tutor to Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure Iohn Wiclef Since the times of the Reformation Iohn Iewell Bishop of Salisbury D r Iohn Reynolds and M r Richard Hooker D r Whitaker Bishop Bilson and Andrews both Bishops of Winchester Bishop Mountague of Norwich D r Iohn Whitgift Papists D r Harding Nicholas Sanders and D r Thomas Stapleton Campian and Parsons and William Rainolds For other studies Lindwood the Canonist Cosins and Cowell eminent in the study of the Civil Laws Bracton and Briton of old times Dier and Cooke of late daies expert in the Laws of England Iohannes de Sacro Bosco the Author of the book of the Sphere Roger Bacon a famous Mathematician Sir Francis Bacon an excellent Philosopher Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor a witty and Learned man Sir Henry Savill a great Grecian Sir Henry Spelman a Learned Antiquary Camden the Pausanias of the British Islands Sir Thomas Bodlie Sir Isaac Wake M r Selden Matthew Paris Matthew of Westminster Roger Hoveden Henry of Huntingdon William of Malmesbury and Thomas of Walsingham all known Historians For Poetry Gower Chaucer Spencer Sir Philip Sidnie Daniel and Draiton Beaumont and Fletcher Ben Iohnson As the messenger of Pyrrhus long since called Italy a Conntry of Kings and Egypt was wont to be called the Country of Physitians so may this blessed Island of ours justly merit the title of The Region of Divines D r Hals Preface to the married Clergy Stupor mundi Clerus Britannieus whence many outlandish men have learned English that they might reade those Books of our Divines which were printed in our Language Ioseph Scaliger findes fault with our English men for speaking Latine Some think they pronounce the a too little and the i too big and broad Caius in his Book De pronuntiatione Graecae Latinae linguae saith that he learned by experience that variety of pronuncing did hinder mutuall commerce mens society and understanding of things He saith that a Greek Patriarck being at London in the Reign of Edward the 6 th did not understand Sir Thomas Cheeke nor Sir Thomas him the Knight using the new kinde of pronouncing the other the old he addes pleading for the old and barbarous pronunciation Quo omnes Graeci ad huc utebantur cum ego essem Venetiis tum è Cathedra Graecas literas profitendo tum in templis sacra celebrando Audiebam enim data opera saepius At si ego tacerem norit Oxoniensis schola quemadmodum ipsa Graecia pronunciarit ex Matthaeo Calphurnio Graeco quem ex Graecia Oxonium Graecarum literarum gratia produxerat Thomas Wolsaeus de bonis literis optimè meritus Cardinalis cum non alia ratione pronunciarit ille quà m qua nos jam profitemur Id si ita sit nos Britanni docebimus ipsos Graecos in ipsa Graecia oriundos sua verba sonare suas voces atquè literas pronuâ—tiare plus in aliena lingua sapiens quà m ipsa gens atquè natio cui lingua Graeca familiaris atque etiam vulgaris est successione temporum continuata tanquam per manus esse tradita Nam privata haec pronunciatio paucorum hominum in Britania est eorum juvenum alibi minimè recepta gentium There are in England many triviall Schooles in Towns and Cities Amongst which the most famous are That of Eaton and Westminster founded by Henry the 6 th Edward the 4 th and Q. Elizabeth and of Winchester Schola certè Augusta ante 200 ampliùs annos erecta ut adolescentes suavioribus disciplinis imbuti ad artes Academicâ—s meliori genio animum intendant Europaei orbis Academiae There are also in London that of Pauls and Merchant Taylors The two Universities of England may equall many beyond Sea Ubi tot Academiae quot Collegia Scultetus de curriculo vitae Magnae in Collegiis Angliae opes vectigalia verbo vobis dicam unum Oxoniense
had Dedicated unto him De varietate Rerum did contain Cardan made answer and the King wittily replied severall times as M r Fox in his 2 d Book of Acts and Monum p. 65. relates He restored holy Scriptures to the mother Tongue he abolished Masses such as were in banishment for the danger of the truth were again received to their Country During the time of the six years of this King there was much tranquility to the whole Church of England Egesippus a Writer of the Ecclesiasticall History from Christs Passion to his time as witnesseth Hierom and Eusebius l. 4. c. 8. 22. He lived in the time next after the Apostles and is the ancientest Writer of Ecclesiasticall History next to Luke Eginhardus Anno Dom. 80. Elias Levita a most Learned Grammarian of the Jews He or his son as some say gave his name to Christ before his death bringing with him thirty other Jews to be baptized He excelled all the Rabbins in the explication and curious handling of all the Masoreth in his Book entitled Masoreth hammasoreth from which book Buxtorf received much light in his Tiberias sive Commentarius Masorethicus Doctissimus Iudaeus Elias Levita Germanus cui gratiam non mediocrem debent Christiani propter sincerum in linguae Sanctae cognitione ipsos adjuvandi studium in Lexico suâ— Rabbinico quod Thisbitem inscripsit Ful. Miscel. l. 2. c. 3. Sir Thomas Elyot He hath written a book called The Governour his Castle of health For his Learning in all kinde of knowledge he brought much honour to all the nobility of England He told me he had a work in hand which he nameth De rebus memorabilibus Angliae which I trust we shall see in Print shortly and for the accomplishment of that Book he had read and perused over many old Monuments of England Aschams Toxophilus p. 28. Queen Elizabeth a Learned Queen and our English Deborah She Translated out of Greek into Latine Isocrates his Oration to Nicocles his first Book de regno his second Oration in one Book She translated also the Meditations of the Queen of Navarr out of French into English Baleus Fuit ingenio dâ—cili scientiarum Cupido Latine sciebat commode loquebatur Germanice quod vernacula lingua ab illa derivaretur bene Gallice saepius sed absona voce Italice per eleganter Musica poetica summopere delectabatur Thuan. Hist. tom 5. part 2. l. 129. p. 1051 1052 1053. Vide plura ibid. Ubbo Emmius a very Learned man Professor of History and Greek at Groning Suffridus Petri vir benè doctus sed qui in Frisiae rebus atque omni literaturae laude longè cedat Emmio Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 2. c. 40. Vide vit Profess Groningae He is much commended by Ianus Dousa Hollandiae Annal. in two Books for a most faithfull Historian Constant. l' Empereur the famous Professor of Hebrew at Leyden in Holland Vir de literis Hebraeis praeclarè merons Vossius de Philol. cap. 11. Vide Voss. in Maimon de Idol c. 6. His Works Talmudis Babylonici Codex Middoth Notae in Benjaminem De legibus Ebraeorum forensibus and Clavis Talmudica shew his great Abilities Quintus Ennius He made these verses Nemo me lacrymis decoret nec funera fletu Faxit cur vâ—lito vivus per ora virum Virgill is reported to have said when he read Ennius Se aurum in sterquilinio colligere that he gathered gold in a dunghill Habent Enniani versus aliquid quod prodesse delectare possit orationem etiam quod minimè quis existimaret ex colere Turneb Advers l. 27. c. 11. Ephraem or Ephraim Syrus a Father that lived in S t Basils time Anno Aerae Christi 378. Calvis Chron. 361. Helv. Chron. Ephraem Antiochenus 527. Epictetus the Philosopher He entitled his Book Euchiridion because ad manum semper habere oportet Sermo in eo omnino efficax est atque energiae plenus in quo mira sit ad permovendum vis Stylus autem qualem res postularet concisus est dilucidus quique omnem respuat ornatum Polit. In Epict. Enchirid. Epiphanius 390. Bishop of Salamina in Cyprus who was famous all over the world in the doctrine of the Catholick faith saith Austen He was famous for Learning and for his skill in five Tongues called by Ierom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 famous for his holiness and miracles a most sharp enemy to Heretiques against whom also he published a famous Work Sixt. Senens Biblioth Sanct. l. 4. Vide Augustini praefat ad lib. de Hares Apud Graecos inter magnos habitus à multis in Catholicae fidei sanitate laudatus Aug. de Haeres p. 230. Epiphaenius the Deacon 787. Epistles They are Amicorum Collequia absentium saith Tully 2. Phil. The reading of Epistles as also of Lives is both pleasant and profitable No other kinde of conveyance is better for knowledge or love Baronius in his Annals commends Historiam Epistolarem Ierom is most eloquent in his Epistles especially in that to Heliodorus Isidore Pelusiota hath excellently handled the greatest part of the mysteries of our Faith and the controversies agitated both against the Jews and Hereticks and yet he entitleth his Book Epistles Saint Basil the Great Gregory Nazianzene Synesius Bishop of a City in Cyrene Cyril of Alexandria S t Cyprian S t Austin Gregory the Pope S t Bernard and other Fathers of the Eastern and Western Churches do not speak more powerfully any where then in their Epistles What treasure of moral knowledge are in Seneca's Letters to only one Lucilius How much of the Story of the time is in Cicero's Letters especially those ad Atticum Ciceronis Epistolis ad Latinae Orationis elegantiam informamur ex his primus eloquentiae quasi succus qui qualis initio fuerit per magni interest bibitur Manut. Praefat. in Epist. Cicer. Fam. Politian was a most polite Authour See the first Epistle of his first Book of Epist. Manutius his Epistles Wowerus and Coelius Secundus Curios are good Erasmus and Lipsius his Epistles are elegant and usefull Bembus and Sadoletus pure Latinists Longolius is termed by Ludovicus Vives Homo Ciceronianissimus there is elegant Latine though little matter in Baudius his Epistles Scaliger saith of him Solus Baudius Latinè loquitur For the Fathers Ieroms excell for Latine Austens for variety of Learning Cyprians for the state of those times in the first three hundred years For modern Writers those of Calvin Beza Luther Melancthon Oecolampadius Peter Martyr and Zanchius are very profitable also Casaubones and Scaligers For English our Hall is styled by some the English Seneca and M r Bain is excellent for pious admonitions and instructions There are Epistolae clarorum virorum Epistolae obscurâ—rum virorum a facetious Book thought to â—e done by Erasmus Hebrew Epistles by Buxtorf and Greek by Budaeus Epistolae Laconicae Epistolae
morte Joh. Buxtorfii Georgius Trapezuntius He was born in Crete but took his name from Trapezunte a City in Cappadocia because his Fathers stock came from thence a most learned Interpreter of the Greek and Latine Tongue He died very old at Rome Et literarum penitus oblitus His Works are mentioned by Boissard Walter Travers a learned and pious Divine There are his Vindiciae Anglicanae Ecclesiae or A Justification of the Religion now professed in England His Answer to a supplicatory Epistle of G. T. for the pretended Catholicks written to the Right Honourable Lords of her Majesties Privy-Councel Lucas Trelcatius He was Francis Iunius his Colleague and had one sonne of his own name He was wont to call Iohn Mercer and Peter Ramus honoris causa his masters He was in England a long time and taught School There is his Locorum Communium Sacr. Theol. Institut Immanuell Tremellius He hath put forth a Commentary on Hosea A Chaldee and Syriack Grammer He professed Hebrew at Heidelberge where he turned the Syriack Interpretation of the New Testament into Latine and afterward with the help of Iunius he translated all the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Latine and illustrated it with most learned Notes Iac. Triglandius There are his Dissertatio de civili Ecclesiastica potestate Meditationes in opiniones variorum de voluntate Dei gratia universali de scientia media Io. Trithemius Anno Dom. 1462. Calv. Chron. He was a subtil Philosopher an ingenious Mathematician a famous Poet a compleat Historian a very eloquent Oratour He was very skilfull in Magick Michael Rothardus in his Crâ—x Saulitica p. 70. tels a notable Story of him Vide Naudaeum de Studio militari l. 1. p. 425 426. He hath written De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis De viris illustribus ordinis S. Benedicti Epistolae familiares Opusc. quaedam Theologica And many other Works Mart. Trostius He hath put out Novum Testamentum Syria Latinum Lexicon-Syriacum Adrianus Turnebus the King of France his Professour of Philosophy and Greek in Paris Grande nostri seculi ornamentum Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 35. He was admirable both in the Greek and Latine Languages and in knowledge of all Antiquity as his Books entitled Adversaria do evidently testifie Illa aeternitate digna Adversaria Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 36. Utinam non tanta brevitate in suis Adversariorum libris esset usus Paulo enim luculentior plenior quorundam locorum explanatio majorem illi eperi gratiam laudâ—mque conciliasset lectori multo magis satisfecisset Henr. Stephani Pseudo Cicero Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones saith thus of him Quicquid in arcano condebat avara vetustas Turnebus tacitis eruit è latebris He hath mended Plinies Preface to his Natural History by ancient Copies and added Annotations upon it He hath commented also upon Horaces first Book of Verses and upon his obscurer places Benedict Turretine a learned Frenchman These Books of his are published in the French Defense de la fidelité des traductions de la S. Bible faictes à Geneve Recheute du Iesuite Plagiaire Profit des Chastiments Franciscus Turrianus Famous in Theological Antiquities and for his skill in the Greek and Hebrew Languages Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue and Appendix Iacobus Tusanus a singular Grecian D r William Twisse a learned Divine of our own famous beyond Sea for his excellent writings against the Arminians Vindiciae Gratiae Potestatis ac Providentiae Dei Dissertatio de Scientia media contra Penottum Suarez c. Animadversiones ad Arminii Collationem cum Junio ad Corvini defens sententiae Arminianae contra Tilenum And many English Tracts that way also Pontus Tyardaeus Bissianus Episcopus Many of his Works are mentioned by Ludovicus Iacobus De Claris Scriptoribus Cabiolâ—nensibus and his French Works by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque I finde in Oxford Catalogue Tyard Discours 1587. Philosophiquez William Tyndall an exile for his Religion and a Martyr under Charles the fifth He was brought up from a childe in the University of Oxford where he by long continuance grew up and increased as well in the knowledge of Tongues and other liberal Arts as specially in the knowledge of the Scriptures whereunto his minde was singularly addicted Insomuch that he lying then in Magdalen-Hall read privily to certain Students and Fellows of Magdalen-Colledge some parcell of Divinity instructing them in the knowledge and truth of the Scriptures Whose manners also and conversation being correspondent to the same were such that all they that knew him reputed and esteemed him to be a man of most virtuous disposition and of life unspotted Fox Act. and Monum vol. 2. p. 361 c. He translated the New Testament into English and five Books of Moses He wrote also divers other Books which are all published in one general Volume as also the Works of Iohn Frith and Barns He was put to death in Flanders at Filford Anno Dom. 1536. crying thus at the Stake with a fervent zeal and a loud voice Lord open the King of Englands eyes He is drawn with a Bible in his hand and this Distick Hac ut luce tuas dispergam Roma tenebras Sponte extorris ero sponte Sacrificium CHAP. IV. V JOach Vadianus the chiefest Cosmographer of his time Qui tam foelix est in describendis regionibus ut non scribere sed pingere videatur His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones and many of them in Oxford Catalogue Matthaeus Vayerius a learned and eloquent Frenchman but a patron of Pelagianism He hath put out a French Book De virtute Ethnicorum Petrus Valadanus P. de la Vallada a learned French Minister He hath put out Apologie pour l' Epistre de messieurs les Ministres du S. Evangile de l' Eglise de Paris Greg. de Valentia a very learned Jesuite He hath written A Commentary in summam Aquin. Tom. 4. De rebus fidei controversis Apol. de Sacrificio A Bookseller seeing him passe by one day said Hic est ille qâ—i suis libris saepius impressis bibliopolas plures magnas ad divitias opesque perduxit Jani Nicii Erythraei Pinacotheca secunda Vide plura ibid. Valerius Maximus His History is a good Book for Themes Stephanus Paschasius in his Icones hath these Verses of him Et brevitas me variè commeâ—dat acumen Haec Emblemata tu vermiculata pâ—â—â—â—s Laurentius Vâ—lla Proprietatis Latini sermonis 〈◊〉 Scriv. in Mart. He was a Senator of Rome The Prince of Grammarians in his Age. Trithemius cals him Theologâ—â—â— praestantissimum a most excellent Divine He preferring Latine eloquence before the Greek hath composed many things for its ornament though he was most skilfull both in the Greek and Latine Languages Carpis majores te quoque Valla minores
Carperis carpis sic tuâ— fata ferunt Voss. De Construct cap. 16. De Latini sermonis elegantia scripsit elegantissime Erasmus De Ratione Studii Quintiliani in primis admirator simul imitator maledecus alioquin in omnes One made this Distick of him being dead Ohe ut Valla silet solitus qui parcere nulli est Si quaeris quid agat nunc quoque mordet humum Volat. Comment Urban lib. 21. There are two witty Epigrams made of him the one by way of censure viz. this Nunc postquam manes defunctus Valla petivit Non aendâ—t Pluto verba Latina loqni Jupiter hunc Coeli dignatus honore fuisset Censorem lingua sed timet esse suae The other by way of Commendation thus Fatales post quam soluit Laurentius annos Extimuit tantum Rhetora Pluto nâ—oens Jupiter hunc sacro non dedignatus Olympo Facâ—ndo Maiae praeposuit genito There is this Elogy also of him Laâ—reus Valla jacet Romanae gloria linguae Primus enim docuit qua decet arte loqui His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones Cypriar de Valera a Spaniard who was B. Welch of Irelands Tutor turned Protestant and was here in England and carried over into Spain the Bible translated into Spanish and also Calvins Institutions and went and dispersed them there He is called in Oxford Catalogue Cypriane â—â— Valeriola There is a Book of his there mentioned De la Missa and others in Spanish Lucas Valerius For his admirable skill in the Mathematicks he deserved to be called the Archimedes of his age He put out a â—â—â—â— De centro gravitatis solidorum He taughâ— the Mathematicks long in Rome especially Geometry Henrâ— Valesius He hath put out Notes on Ammianus Marcellinus and on Excerpta de Pâ—lybio Franciscus Vallesius a most learned Spanish Philosopher He was Professor of Physick in Academia Complutensi He wrote his ten Books in which he explains the more difficult controversies of Physick and Philosophy Opus eruditi judicii quamvis id Iuvenis admodum scripsit ut testatur lib. 5. c. 6. nec animo vnlgandi Castellanus De vitis medicorum He wrote Commentaries upon Hippocrates his Book De morbis popularibus Upon his Aphorisms and his Book De ratione victus inacutis Marcus Varro He was so esteemed for his excellent Learning as Tully himself had a reverence to his judgement in all doubts of learning If his Books had remained to posterity as by Gods providence most part of Tullies did the Latine Tongue might have made good comparison with the Greek Asch. Schoolmaster part 2. His Life was spared in civil dissentions for his incomparable Learning Vivat Varro doctissimus Romanorum He is often styled Doctissimus Togatorum and Romanorum doctissimus by Seneâ—a Consolat ad Helv. and Quintilian l. 10. c. 1. His Etymologies are somewhat forced Sed Varro more suo anxiè Etymologias Comminiscitur Jos. Scaliger Conjectan in Varr. De Lingua Latina Nam Varro in Etymologiis Varro non videtur itaque à Quintiliano merito ridetur Manut. Epist. l. 3. Epist. 23. Gabriel Vasquez the Papists most expert Schoolman Franciscus Vatablus Regius Professor of the Hebrew Tongue in Paris His Notes if they be his upon the Bible are well liked Iohn Udall a learned and pious Divine He hath put out a Translation of Martinius Hebrew Grammer with a short Dictionary and a praxis upon certain Psalms and a Commentary on the Lamentations Divers Sermons of his are mentioned by Maunsell in his Catalogue of English Books Nic. Vedelius a learned Writer as his Works shew Rationale Theologicum De Deo Synagogae De prudentia veteris Ecclesiae De Arcanis Arminianismi Panacea Apostasiae bono constantium lapsorum praescripta Andr. Vega one of the learnedst at the Councel of Trent He hath put forth a Defence of the Councel of Trent concerning Justification Flavius Vegetius He hath written De re militari Scriverius and Godeschalcus Steuuechius have put forth Animadversions on him Marcus Velserus Illud Margaritum Germaniae suae Pignor. Symb. Epistol Epist. 13. He going into Italy published Antiquitates Augustana Foelix famae surgentis auspicium pium Exinde aliis atque aliis ad unguem factis monumentis obligavit sibi rem literariam Melch. Ad. in ejus vita He mentions there his several Works Marce Velsere Te fortem pium beatum Coelo receptum si lugeamus nefas At publica damnâ— publicam jacturam nisi lugeamus quantum nefas Tibi religio cui tu patronus pietas cui tu vindex studium boni aequi cui tu assertor nuper fueras certatim funus ducunt Dicunt tuas laudes uno ore modestia candor ingennitas Te Germania sidus suum sibi extinctum Te Italia alumnum suum sibi ereptum justissimiâ— fletibus conqueruntur Subeunt feretrum tuum Fama per te constantior Honos per te illustrior virtus per te nobilior Gloria per te solidior Fuisti enim tecum una fuerunt deliciae lepores veneres sobriae castae eruditionis vis doctrinae pondus sapientiae quae tu alio migrans tecum extulisti omnia Laur. Pign Miscella Elog. Adelamat c. Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus Italus Anno Dom. 580. One cals him Scholasticissimum He hath written Upon the Lords Prayer and Apostles Creed Divers Poems Claud. Verderius the great Censurer The Title of his Book is In Auctores penè omnes censiones correctiones CHAP. V. PAulus Vergerius an eloquent Lawyer and Phlosopher The Bishops of Rome Clement and Paul used his service in Germany He was in high favour with King Ferdinando so much that when his daughter Katharine was born Vergerius and George Marquesse of Branderburg and Iohn Archbishop of Lunden were her Godfathers at the Font. But after he revolted from the Bishop of Rome by a wonderfull occasion when he was sent for to Rome from the Conference of Wormes which was in the beginning of the year 1541. The Pope going about to make new Cardinals appointed him also among others But there were some which privily whispered in his ear that he was now through much familiarity with the Germans become a Lutherane After that Vergerius had heard this by Cardinal Ginueius unto whom the Pope had told it he was marvellously astonished And to the intent he might purge himself he goeth home into his Countrey and beginneth a book which he entitled against the Apostates of Germany And whilst to confute their Arguments he turneth over diligently the books of his Adversaries and pondering deeply their reasons He feeleth himself taken and vanquished Then casting away all hope of his Cardinalship he goeth to his brother Iohn Baptist Bishop of the City of Pole and reciting the whole matter asketh his counsel His brother being afraid at the beginning lamenteth his case much But after he was perswaded by him to apply
R. attenta in Sueciam cum clade urbâ—s Hulmiae Bernard Zigler Zoilus Iohannes Zonar as a Greek Monk he flourished Anno Dom. 1120. He wrote three Books of Annals in which he comprehended Universal History from the beginning of the world even to the death of Alexius Comenus Emperour of the Grecians who died Anno 1118. His History in Greek and Latine is in three Tomes Zosimus There is his History in Greek and Latine in six Books D r Richard Zouch a learned Civilian of Oxford There are his Elementa Iuris prudentiae Descriptio Iuris Iudicii feudalis c. The Dove of Cosmography Vigilius Zuichemus He had all those accomplishments which are required in a compleat Professour of the Law being very much versed in the Theory and practice of the Law He had an exact knowledge of the Circle of the Arts and of History he had skill in the Greek Latine the Germane French and Italian Tongues Theodorus Zuingerus His great Work entitled Vita humanae theatrum got him a great name Basilius Amberbachius hearing of his death broke out with sighs into these words Piget me vivere post tantum virum cujus magnafuit doctrina sâ—d exigna si cum pietate conferatur It irks me to live after so great a man whose Learning was great but small if it be compared with his piety Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue Iacobus Zuingerus The Son of the afore-named Zuingerus His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam There is his Principiorum Chymicorum examen Huldricus Zuuinglius Anno 1487. As Germany admired her Luther so Helvetia her Zuinglius He was skilfull in the Greek and Hebrew Tongues though hard to be goâ— at that time using the best Professours he had a great memory being able to repeat Valerius Maximus and S t Paul by heart whose Epistles he had copied out He frequently disputed with both Papists and Catabaptists whereof Franciscus Lambertus then a minorite Fryer being one was as he thankfully acknowledged hereby reclaimed and became afterwards a great Light in the Church Stando confecit omnia sua studia certas eis vendicanâ— horas quas etiam non emisit nisi seriis coactus A summo mane ad horam decimam lectioni interpretationi doctrinae scriptioni dabat operam prout temporis rerum postulabat ratio Post prandium audiebat vel narrantes vel consilia rogitantes aut confabulabatur aut deam bulabat cum amicis usque ad horam secundam hinc etiam reditus ad labores Post Coenam ubi paulisper deambulasset fere literis scribendis vocabat interdum ad mediam usque noctem nihil agens aliud The Tigurins being compelled to warre against their enemies Zuinglius was slain in the battel It is the manner of Zurick that when they go forth in warfare the chief Minister of their Church goeth with them Zuinglius also of himself being a man of a stout and bold courage considering that if he should tarry at home and they should go by the worse what displeasure he should sustain as one that in his Sermons would encourage and himself faint when any danger was would needs take such part as others Sir Thomas More in his Preface to the Confutation of Tyndals Answer hath this bitter passage Zuinglius that first brought into Switzerland that abominable Heresie against the blessed Sacrament of the Altar was by the hand of God this year slain in plain battel against the Catholiques with many a thousand of his wretched Sect being in number to the Catholiques three against one and as proudly and with his malicious purpose invading them as ever did the Egyptians pursue the children of Israel His Works are published in four Tomes mentioned by Boissard After his body was cut first in four peeces and then consumed with fire three dayes after his death his friends came to see whether any part of him was remaining where they found his heart in the ashes whole and unburned FINIS AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE A ABarbinel p. 105 His name is written several wayes The best Jewish Expositor and the time when he flourished ibid. Abbot Bishop of Salisbury 106 Which of his Works are best liked ib. Abelardus 106 Of great note in his time ibid. Abraham taught the Mathematicks first among the Chaldeans 40 Academies 65 How called now and heretofore ibid. Were alwayes built in some famous City ibid. Four weighty causes of them 65 66 Set up in many places 66 Acontius 107 Accursius 106 107 When he flourished 106 The first that wrote a Glosse upon all the Civil Law 107 Adrian the Emperour a learned Prince and great Grecian 107 Pope Adrian the fourth an Englishman born at S t Albans 107 Kill'd with a Fly ibid. Pope Adrian the sixth a poor mans son of Utrecht 107 A learned man ibid. Would not change his name when made Pope ibid. Thought to be poysoned ibid. Adversaria what 344. m. Aegidius Romanus when he lived 108 Aelian when he lived 108 His Books liked ibid. Paulus Aemylius of Verona an eloquent Writer 108 Spent thirty years about his History ib. Aeneas Sylvius after Pope Pius the second when he lived 108 Very learned ibid. Preferred a General Councel before the Pope till he was made Pope ibid. Ioannes Aepinus 108 Aeschines the Orator ibid. His contest with Demosthenes ibid. Aeschylus the Tragedian 109 He first published Tragedies and was slain by the shell of a Tortoise on his head ibid. Agapetus Diaconus a learned and holy man ibid. Agobardus when he lived 109 Rodolphus Agricola a great Scholler ibid. Verses made on him by Hermolaus Barbarus ibid. Georgius Agricola a learned man also ibid. Henricus Cornelius Agrippa a great Scholler but too much given to Magick ibid. Ainsworth a learned Expositor 110 D. Alabaster an excellent Poet ibid. Albategnius a famous Mathematician ibid. Albertus Magnus a great Scholler ibid. Leander Albertus a learned man ibid. Leo Bapt. Albertus a learned man of the same Family 110 Gabriel Albaspinaeus a great Antiquary ibid. His Epitaph ibid. Edmund Albertine a learned Protestant Divine ibid. Albon-Hall in Oxford 99 Alchimy what 52 53 Alchimists why obscure 206 Alcoran the word of God with the Turks 8 It is written in Arabick verse and stuft with fopperies ibid. Andrew Alciate the first that wrote learned Notes on the Civil Law 111 A very learned man ibid. Verses of him by Arias Montanus and Stephanus Paschasius ibid. Flaccus Albinius or Alcuinus a learned Englishman Schoolmaster of Charles the Great and one of the Founders of the University of Paris ibid. Was not Bedes Scholler ibid. Ulysses Aldrovandus hath written learnedly of all living Creatures 112 Hieronymus Aleander a very learned Cardinal ibid. Had a great memory ibid. Alexander the Great a great Scholler and Souldier both ibid. Aristotles Scholler ibid. He laid Homers Iliads still under his pillow when he slept 225 There were two learned Alexanders ibid.