succeed him but before consecration thereunto he died He was in his younger days a noted Poet and Comedian and in his elder an exact Disputant and had an excellent faculty in speaking and preaching He hath transmitted to posterity Querela Oxoniensis Academiae ad Cant abrigiam Lond. 1552. qu. 'T is a Lat. Poem written on the death of Henry and Charles Brandon Sons of Charles Duke of Suffolk who died of the sweating sickness in the Bishop of Lincolns house at Bugden 14. July 1551. Historia de exhumatione Catherinae nuper uxoris Pet. Martyris Printed 1562. in oct Answer to John Martial's treatise of the cross Lond. 1565. qu. Progne a Tragedy Written in Lat. but whether ever printed I know not Poemata varia This ingenious Person died at Bockyng before mention'd having a little before resign'd his Canonship of Ch. Ch. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there year 1570 22. Aug. in Fifteen hundred and seventy saith the register belonging to that Church which I suspect is false because there was a commission issued out from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury at Lond. to Margaret his Widow dated 21. Aug. 1570. to administer the goods debts and chattels of him the said Dr. Jam Calfhill lately Archd. of Essex as there he is stiled deceased So I presume he died about the beginning of that Month. JOHN BOXALL was born at Bramshoot in Hampshire educated in Grammar learning in W. of Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1542 took the Degrees in Arts being then accounted one of the subtilest Disputants in the University Afterwards he entred into holy orders but did not preach in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. When Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was made Archdeacon of Ely in the place as I suppose of Dr. Hen. Cole her Secretary of State Prebendary of Winchester and Warden of Winchester Coll. 1554 in the place of Joh. Whyte made B. of Linc. About that time being appointed one of the prime Preachers of the Nation to hold forth at Pauls Cross to revive the Catholick Religion which had been eclipsed in K. Edwards Reign had while he was preaching as one saith a dagger flung at him but I presume false because the generality of writers say that that act was committed on Gilb. Bourne In July 1557 he was made Dean of Peterborough in the place of Jam. Curthopp deceased and on the 20. Dec. following he was installed Dean of Norwych in the place of Joh. Christopherson made B. of Chichester and about the same time Dean of Windsore in which place being installed he was sworn Scribe or Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter 6. Feb. 1557. and the Year following was actually created D. of Div. and made Prebendary of York and Sarum After Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he was depriv'd of the Deanery of Windsore that of Norwych he gave up before Qu. Maries death and George Carew succeeding him in 1559 he was admitted and sworn thereunto 22 Apr. 1560. About that time he was also deprived of the Deanery of Peterborough whereupon the Queen bestowed it on Will. Latymer D. D. 1560 which together with the Church it self he had likely to have lost upon information given to the Queen that it was ruinous and no prayers said therein but upon better information from Latymer the great Peer that begg'd it withdrew and nothing more was done in the matter As for Boxall he being thus deprived he was committed to free custody in the Archb. house at Lambeth with Thirlby B. of Ely Tonstall B. of Durham and others but soon after being overtaken with a dangerous feaver had liberty to go over the water to London and settling in the house of a near relation recovered and enjoyed himself in great retiredness for some years after He is said by a noted Author to have been a Person of great modesty learning and knowledge and by another greater than he that there was in him tanquà m à natura ingenita modestia comitasque summa qua quoscunque notos ad se diligendum astrinxit One of his perswasion who highly extolleth him for his eloquence and learning saith that he wrot several things but they perishing with the Author never saw light The truth is that in all my searches I could never see any thing under his name but a Latine Sermon which he preached as it seems in London where it was afterwards printed in oct but upon what subject I cannot tell nor any thing else of the Author only that he died in London towards the latter end of the Year Fifteen hundred and seventy year 1570 for on the 28. March 1571. there was a Commission granted from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to Edmund and Rich. Boxall natural and legitimate brothers of him the said Joh. Boxall Clerk lately deceased in the City of London to administer his goods debts Chattels c. HUMPHREY LHUYD or Lhoyd Son and Heir of Rob. Lhoyd alâ—as Rossenhall of the ancient Borough of Denbigh in Denhighshire by Joan his Wife Daughter of Lewis Pigott was born at Denhigh before-mention'd but in what house of learning in Oxon he first of all applied himself to Academical studies I know not Sure it is that after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts which was in 1547 I find him by the name of Humphrey Lhoyd to be a Commoner in Brasnose Coll. and in the Year 1551 to proceed in Arts as a Member of that House at which time as it seems he studied Physick being then ripe in years Afterwards retiring to his own Country lived mostly within the walls of Denbigh Castle practised his faculty and sometimes that of Musick for diversion sake being then esteemed a well bred Gentleman He was a passing right Antiquary and a Person of great skill and knowledge in British affairs The learned Camden stiles him a learned Britaine and for knowledge in Antiquities reputed by our Countrymen to carry after a sort with him all the credit and honour c. He hath written An Almanack and Kalender containing the day hour and minute of the change of the Moon for ever and the sign that she is in for these three years with the natures of the signes and planets with dyvers other thyngs as it doth plainly appeare in the Preface This was the first thing that our Author published as it appears in the said Preface but when or where it was printed the imperfect copy which is in oct from whence I had the title shews not Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum Col. Agrip. 1572. in tw Dedicated to his dear and intimate friend Abr. Ortelius of Antwerp in the Year 1568. Translated into English by Tho. Twyne who entitles it The Breviary of Britaine Lond. 1573. oct De Mona Druidum insula antiquitati suae restituta Written in an Epistle to the said Ortelius dated 5. Apr. 1568. De
from the riding tales of Bartello 'T is among Gascoignes Poems called Weedes And from Greek into English Jocasta a Tragedie written by Euripides This also was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted in Greys Inn 1566. In this translation the said Gascoigne had the assistance of Francis Kynwelmersh before mention'd who translated about half of it The Epilogue was written by an ingenious Gentleman of the said Inn called Christoph Yelverton afterwards an eminent Counsellour a Knight and a Judge who dying at Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire 1607 left behind him several Sons of whom Henry was the eldest afterwards a Knight and a Judge also as I shall tell you elsewhere This Trag is among Gascoignes Poems called Hearbes All which poems and translations being gathered together were printed in an English character in two vol. in qu. One of which was printed at London about 1577 and the other there after the Authors death an 1587 at which time it was usher'd into the world by various copies of verses written by the Poets of that time As for the Author of them he made his last exit or yielded to nature in his middle age at his house in Walthamstow before-mention'd in Octob. or Nov. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 and was buried as I suppose in the Church there I find another George Gascoigne Esq but later in time than the former of whom I know nothing only but that he was of the Middle Temple and that he dyed about 1619. JOHN HARPESFEILD a grand zealot for the Rom. Cath. Religion was born in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen in Old Fishstreet within the City of London educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1534 took the Degrees in Arts holy Orders was made Chaplain to Bonner Bishop of London and left his Fellowship about 1551 being then beneficed in London About 1554 he being then D. of D. he was made by his Patron Archdeacon of that place in the room of Joh. Wymesley of less activity by far than Harpesfeild and it was then temp Mariae Reg. observed that as Dr. Bonner B. of London shew'd himself the most severe of all Bishops against Hereticks as they were then called so our Author Harpesfeild of all Archdeacons which was the reason he fared the worse for it upon the change of Religion In 1558 some months before Qu. Mary died he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Norwych upon the resignation of John Boxall but forced to leave that dignity in the beginning of 1560 to make room for John Salisbury suffragan Bishop of Thetford who had been ejected in the first year of Qu. Mary I find published under this Doctor Harpesfeilds name these things following Concio ad clerum in Ecclesia S. Pauli 16. Oct. 1553 in Act. cap. 20. 28. Lond. 1553. oct Homelies to be read in Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554-55 At the end of Bonners Catechisme Disputations for the degree of Doctor of Divinity 19. Apr. 1554 Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church by Joh. Fox In which disputation Archb. Cranmer bore a part Disputes talkings arguings examinations letters c. Printed also in the said book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet where continuing for an year or more was released upon security given that he should not act speak or write against the doctrine of the Church of England Whereupon retiring to the house of a near relation of his dwelling within the Parish of St. Sepulcher in the Suburb of London spent the remainder of his days in great retiredness and devotion At length paying his last debt to nature in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 was buried as I conceive in the Church of that Parish On the 5. Dec. in the same year one Anne Worsop the nearest of kin to him had a Commission granted to her from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods debts and chattels of Joh. Harpesfeild D. D. of the Parish of St. Sepulcher in Lond. lately deceased so that I presume he died either in Oct. or Nov. going before He had a brother named Nicholas whom I shall remember under the Year 1583. JOHN FOWLER was born in the City of Bristow educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation in 1555 resigned it in 1559 and the year after took the Degree of Master of Arts but did not compleat it by standing in the Comitia About that time leaving England he took upon him the trade of printing partly at Antwerp and partly at Lovaine whereby he did signal service for the R. Catholicks in printing their books for the vindication of their cause against the Protestants in England He was well skill'd in the Greek and Latin tongues a tolerable Poet and Orator and a Theologist not to be contemn'd So learned he was also in Criticismes and other polite learning that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry Stephens Printers He did diligently peruse the Theological sums of St. Thomas of Aquine and with a most excellent method did reduce them into a Compendium To which he gave this title Loca communia Theologica c. lib. 1. He wrot also Additiones in Chronica Genebrandi A Psalter for Catholicks Answered by Tho. Sampson sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. Epigrams and other verses He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Osorius and The oration of Pet. Frarin of Antwerp against the unlawful insurrections of the Protestants under pretence to reform Religion Antw. 1566. oct answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge At length giving way to fate at Newmarck called by some Krainburg in Germany 13. Febr. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight was buried in the Ch. yard of St. John the Evangelist there near to the body of John Harrys sometimes Father to Alice his Wife GEORGE FERRERS seems to have been born at or near to St. Alban in Hertfordshire was educated for a time in Oxon. whence going to Lincolns Inn did after he was Barrester became as eminent for the Law as before he was for his Poetry having been as much celebrated for it by the learned of his time as any This Person tho he hath not writ much as I can yet find yet he is numbred among the the illustrious and learned Men of the Age he lived in by Joh. Leland the Antiquary He hath written Miscellany of Poems And translated from French into Latin The Statutes called Magna Charta The beginning of which is Hic habes candide lector leges c. He ended his days at Flamsted in Hertfordshire in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was as I conceive buried there You may see more of him his character and employments in the Author before quoted In the Year 1542 I find
his Countryman and another by a Scot. Which last stiles our author Carew another Livie another Maro another Papinian and highly extolls him for his great skill in History and knowledge in the Laws Besides the Rich Carew was another but later in time author of Excellent helps by a warming-stone Printed 1652. qu. RICHARD KILBYE was born at Radcliff on the River Wreake in Leicestershire elected Fellow of Lincoln coll 18. Jan. 1577. being then about three years standing in the University Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted Preacher in the University In 1590. he was elected Rector of his College took the degrees in Divinity was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln and at length Hebrew Professor of this University He hath written Commentarii in Librum Exodi Part. 2. MS. in the hands sometimes of Will. Gilbert Fellow of Linc. coll The chief part of which is excerpted from the Monuments of the Rabbins and Hebrew Interpreters He also continued Jo. Mercers notes on Genesis and would have printed them but was denied had a hand also in the translation of the Bible appointed by K. Jam. 1. an 1604. and did other very laudable matters relating to learning Serm. in S. Maries Church Oxon 26. Mar. 1612. at the Funeral of Tho. Holland the King's Professor of Divinity in this Univ. on 1 Cor. 5. 55 56 57. Oxon. 1613. qu. He the said Dr. Kilbye was buried in that Chancel in Allsaints Church in Oxon. which is commonly called The College Chancel because it belongs to Linc. coll on the 17. year 1620 Nov. in sixteen hundred and twenty aged 60. or thereabouts Whereupon Paul Hood Bac. afterwards D. of Divinity succeeded him in his Rectorship and Edward à Meetkerk Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. in his Professorship Besides this Rich. Kilbye was another of both his names and a writer too as I have under the year 1617. told you JOHN CARPENTER received his first breath in the County of Cornwal was entred a Batler in Exeter coll about 1570. where going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy for the space of four years or more with unwearied industry left the University without a degree and at length became Rector of an obscure Town called Northleigh near to Culleton in Devon He hath written and published A sorrowful Song for sinful Souls composed upon the strange and wonderful shaking of the Earth 6. Apr. 1586. Lond. in oct Remember Lots Wise two Sermons on Luke 17. 32. Lond. 1588. oct Preparative for Contentation Lond. 1597. qu. Song of the Beloved concerning his Vineyard or two Sermons on Isay 5. 1. Lond. 1599. oct Christian Contemplations or a Catechism Lond. 1601. oct K. Soloman's Solace Lond. 1606. qu. Plain Man's Spiritual Plough Lond. 1607. qu. He gave up the ghost at Northleigh before-mentioned in the latter end of the year viz. in March in sixteen hundred and twenty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there before the 25. of the said month as it doth partly appear in the Register of that place leaving then behind him a Son named Nathaniel whom I shall mention under the year 1628. I find another Joh. Carpenter who wrote a book of Keeping Merchants Accompts by way of Debtor and Creditor Printed 1632. fol. but him I take not to be an Academian WILLIAM TOOKER second Son of Will. Tooker by Honora Eresey of Cornwall his Wife Son and Heir of Rob. Tooker was born in the City of Exeter educated in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1577. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1583. in which year he shewd himself a ready Disputant before Albertus Alaskie Prince of Sirad at his being entertained by the Oxonian Muses in S. Maries Church In 1585. he left his Fellowship being about that time promoted to the Archdeanconry of Barnstaple in his own Country Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth and Prebendary of Salisbury took the degrees in Divinity 1595. became Canon of Exeter and at length Dean of Lichfield on the death as it seems of Dr. George Boleyne in the latter end of 1602. He was an excellent Grecian and Latinist an able Divine a person of great gravity and piety and well read in curious and critical authors as may partly appear by these books following which he wrote and published Charisma sive donum Sanatiâ—nis seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilium Sanitatum gratiâ c. Lond. 1597. qu. In this book he doth attribute to the Kings and Queens of England a power derived into them by Lawful Succession of healing c. Which book is reflected upon by Mart. Anton. Delrius the Jesuit who thinks it not true that Kings can cure the Evil. With him agrees most Fanaticks Of the Fabrick of the Church and Church mens livings Lond. 1604. oct Singulare certamen cum Martino Becano Jesuitâ futiliter refutante apologiam monitoriam praefationem ad Imperatorem Reges Principes quaedam Orthodoxa dogmata Jacobi Regis Magnae Britaniae Lond. 1611. oct This learned author Dr. Tooker died at Salisbury on the 19. of March or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there 21. of the said month in sixteen hundred and twenty leaving behind him a Son named Robert Tooker of East-Grinsteade in Surrey In June following Dr. Walt. Curle of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanry of Lichfield and him Dr. Augustin Lindsell another Cantabrigian an 1630. HENRY SWINBURNE Son of Thomas Swinburne of the City of York was born there spent some years in the quality of a Commoner in Hart hall whence translating himself to that of Broadgates took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law married Helena Daughter of Barthelm Lant of Oxon and at length retiring to his native place became a Proctor in the Archbishops Court there Commissary of the Exchecquer and Judge of the Prerogative Court at York He hath written Brief Treatise of Testaments and last Wills In 7 parts Lond. 1590. 1611 35. 40. 77. c. qu. Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts c. Lond. 1686. qu. In which two books the author shâ—ws himself an able Civilian and excellently well read in authors of his Faculty He paid his last debt to â—â—â—ure at York and was buried in the North Isle of the Cathedral there Soon after was a comely Monument fastned to the wall near to this grave with his Effigies in a Civilians Gown kneeling before a deske with a book thereon and these verses under Non Viduae caruere viris non Patre Pupillus Dum stetit hic Patriae virque paterque suae Ast quod Swinburnus viduarum scripsit in usum Longius aeterno marmore vivet opus Scribere supremas hinc discat quisque tabellas Et cupiat qui sic vixit ut ille mori There is no day or year on the Monument to shew when this H. Swinburne died
Vigiliis Paschatis Printed with the former book Apologia contra calumniatores suos Lond. 1619. qu. Emblemata varia dedicata Regibus Principibus Magnatibus Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae Poemata varia Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614. Which four last things were printed with his Apologia c. 1619. what other books he hath published I cannot justly tell However from those before mention'd it appears that the author was a phantastical and unsetled man and delighted as it seems in rambling CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire was born in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote An Apology for women or the womans defence Lond. 1620. oct Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks Afterwards he retired into the Country studied Divinity had a benefice conferr'd upon and tho he never took any degree in Arts in this University yet he took that of Bach. of Div. 1631 which is all I know of him JOHN KING Son of Philip King of Wormenhale commonly called Wornal near to Brill in Bucks by Elizazabeth his wife Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire Son of Thom. King brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon was born at Wornal before mention'd educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth successor to Will. Day 1565. at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferr'd upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University In 1611. he had the Bishoprick of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year had restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See made to him 18 of the same month at which time he was had in great reverence by all people He was a solid and profound Divine of great gravity and piety and had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often 〈◊〉 of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time When he was advanced to the See of London he endeavoured to let the world know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit shewing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too In which office he was so frequent that unless hindred by want of health he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London Deus bone quam canora Vox saith one vultus compositus verba selecta grandes sententiae Allicimur omnes lepore verborum suspendimur gravitate sententiarum orationis impetu viribus flâ—ctimur c. He hath written Lectures upon Jonâ—s delivered at York Lond. 1594. Ox. 99. c. qu. Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon at Hampton-Court on Cantic 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. 2 At Ox. 5. Nov. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. 3 At Whitehall 5. Nov. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2 3 4. Ox. 1608. qu. 4 At S. Maries in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration on 1 Chron. ult 26. 27 28. Ox. 1608. qu. 5 Vitis palatina Serm. appointed to be preached at White-hall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614. qu. 6 Serm. at Pauls cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. 7 At Pauls cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal 123. 3. and a third on Psal 146. 3. 4. c. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature 30. March in sixteen hundred twenty and one year 1621 aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight Soon after Bishop Kings death the Rom. Catholicks endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit The Bishop of London his Legacy Or certain motives of Dr. King late B. of London for his change of religion and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England Printed by permission of the superiours 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter his son Hen. King not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Pauls cross soon after but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former who published a Sermon entit Abels offering c. on Gen. 4. ver 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh and whether he was of this Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN GUILLIM or Agilliams son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain I find one of both his names who was a student in Brasnose coll in the year 1581. aged 16 and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were according to the Matricula born in Herefordshire in which County the author of The worthies of England places Jo. Guillim the Herald of whom we now speak who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire was soon after called thence and made one of the Society of the coll of Arms. commonly called the Heralds Office in London by the name of Portsmouth and on the 26 Feb. 1617. Rouge Croix Pursevant of Arms in Ordinary He published The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. Written mostly especially the scholastical part by John Barcham of C. C. coll in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant superfluous and needless additions to it purposely to gain money from those
Watkin and Jeffry published in octavo perhaps written also by a canting and severe Lutheran who writes himself N. O. But so it was that he the said T. Wolsey being very apt to learn when he was a Child his Parents and other good Friends made shift to maintain him in Oxon particularly in Magd. coll where making a most wonderful progress in Logick and Philosophy be became Bach. of Arts at 15. years of age an 1485. Soon after he was elected fellow and when he had taken the degree of M. of A. was made Master of the Grammar School joining to the said College In the 14. Hen. 7. Dom. 1498. he was Bursar of that House in which year the stately Tower was finisht In the beginning of Oct. 1500. he became Rector of Lymyngton in Somersetshire on the death of Joh. Borde by the presentation thereunto of Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset which Rectory he conferr'd upon him for the great care he had of his Sons under his Tuition in the Grammar School before-mention'd But that great man dying in Sept. 1501. and his hopes of being introduced into the court frustrated he struck into acquaintance with one Sir Joh. Naphant Treasurer of Calais a Gent. of the said county who forthwith made him his chaplain And finding him to be a man of parts committed his employment to him he himself being grown old and consequently unfit for business At length he being mindful of his chaplains good service he never left him until he had found means to make him the Kings chaplain Which matter being according to his mind effected he became known to one of the Kings grave Counsellors and Favourites named Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester who finding VVolsey to be not only an active but a witty man did with one Sir Tho. Lovel another grave Counsellor commend him to the service of the King who also upon discourse with him finding him to be a man of Eloquence and to understand State affairs sent him in the quality of an Embassador to Maximilian the Emperour then abiding in Flanders not far from Calais Which Embassage he performed with so great dexterity and quickness that the K. taking especial notice of it did soon after confer upon him the Deanery of Lincoln void by the death of Jeffrey Simeon sometimes Fellow of New college Proctor of this University of Oxon and Dean of the chappel Royal to K. Hen. 7. which Jeffrey died 20. Aug. 1508. Of which Church I say being made Dean 2. Feb. 1508. was installed by proxy 25. March 1509. and in person 21. of Aug. 1511. After the death of K. Hen. 7. he quickly got into the favour so much of his successor Hen. 8. that he was by him presented to the Rectory of Turrington in the dioc of Exeter 28. Nov. 1510. being then Bach. of Div. and on the 17. Feb. following was made Canon of the collegiate church of VVindsore and about that time Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter In 1512. Jan. 31. he by the name of the Kings Almoner was made Prebendary of Bagthorp in the church of York by the favour of Cardinal Bainbridge Archb. thereof in the place of James Harryngton Dean of that church who died in Dec. 1512. and on the 21. Febr. following he was admitted Dean in the said Harryngtons place who had been installed in that dignity in the room of the said Bainbridge 31. Januar. 1507. In 1513. he being then with the King at the taking of Tournay in France his Majesty not only gave him the revenues of the Bishoprick of that City but also made him actual Bishop thereof as some are pleased to say In 1514. March 26. he was consecrated B. of Linc. in the place of Will. Smyth deceased and in Nov. the same year he was made Archb. of York In 1515. Sept. 7. he was created cardinal of S. Cecilia and in the year following Dec. 7. he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and about the same time Legate a latere for the Kingdom of England In 1518. Aug. 28. he had the temporalities of the See of Bathe and VVells conferr'd upon him with liberty of holding the same See being perpetual Commendatarie thereof with the Abbatship of S. Albans and other Ecclesiastical Livings in commendum with York About the same time he laid in by his Factors at Rome for the Papacy especially upon the death of Leo 10. and Adrian 6. but the reasons why he was not elected were 1 That he would never to go to Rome in Person 2 That he was nimis potens 3 That he was not old enough as by the Letters of Dr. Tho. Hannyball and Jo. Clerk the Kings Orators and the Card. Agents at Rome appears In 1523. he had the Bishoprick of Durham given to him and thereupon resign'd B. and Wells and soon after began the Foundations of his two most noble and splendid colleges at Oxon and Ipswych as I have largely elsewhere told you In 1529. he had the See of Winchester conferr'd upon him whereupon renouncing Durham the profits and revenues of the said See were given to the Lady Anna Boleyne for the space of one year But before he was quite warm in Winchester he fell into the Kings displeasure and thereupon being soon after commanded to live in his dioc of York about the beginning of 1530. retired to the Archbishops Palace at Cawood where spending the Summer following in great Hospitality was about the latter end of Octob. ensuing arrested for High Treason Whereupon being to be conveyed to London to answer for it he died at Leycester in the way thither year 1530 on the 29. Nov. following and was buried in S. Maries Chappel within the precincts of the Abbey-church there Of all the Clergy-men of his time and before and after him Wolsey was indisputably the greatest He managed a most inflexible King with so great dexterity that of one who always threw his Riders none held the reins either so long or so succesfully He had a vast mind and a great sense of regulation and glory which by some is construed Pride He lived always with great splendour and yet left the most lasting and most noble monuments of his bounty No Prelate indeed especially in this Nation had ever so many and large but withal none ever imployed them more generously so that his vast revenues were hardly proportionable to his great and extraordinary designs His parts were prodigious and it must be owned that he wanted not a sense of his own sufficiency and therefore his demeanor and management of himself was such as was more fitted with the greatness of his mind and his fortune than to the meanness of his birth Many Historians of that time whether out of envy of his order or contempt of his birth or hatred of his Religion have not been very favourable to his fame and the traditionary reporters since who have pretended to an exact account of his actions have upon too slight enquiries and
with too great confidence transcribed the former narratives So that we yet want an exact and faithful History of the greatest most noble and most disinteress'd Clergy-man of that age His publick imployments gave him little leisure for the publication of any works of learning and if any were published they are dead with him excep perhaps those which I have seen which are the Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes in Ipswich School set before the Grammar of W. Lilye and printed in 1528. THOMAS DILLON was born in the County of Meath in Ireland studied here in Oxon several years but whether he took a degree it appears not At length retiring to his own Country became thro several preferments Bishop of Kildare where sitting about eight years year 1531 gave way to fate in fifteen hundred thirty and one In the said See succeeded one Walter Wellesley as I shall anon tell you WILLIAM WARHAM Son of Rob. Warham was born of a gentile Family at Okely in Hampshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1475. took the degrees in the Laws left the coll 1488. and about that time became an Advocate in the Court of Arches and soon after Principal or chief Moderator of Civil Law School then situated in S. Edwards Parish in Oxon. On the 2. Nov. 1493. he was collated to the Chantorship of Wells upon the death of Tho. Overey sometimes Fellow of All 's coll and on the 13. of Feb. following he was constituted Master of the Rolls Afterwards being elected to the See of London he had the Great Seal of England delivered unto him on the 11. of Aug. 1502 So that in few days after being consecrated Bishop of that See had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the first of Octob. following In the beginning of January in the same year he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and in Nov. as one saith in 1504. he was translated to the See of Canterbury whose inthronization there appointed to be on the 9. March following was performed then with great and wonderful solemnity and magnificence as it may be partly elsewhere seen In 1506. May 28. he was unanimously elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon being then and ever after an especial friend to it and its members as may be discerned in several Epistles that passed between them In some the said members stile him Sanctissimus in Christo Paeter and in others they proclaim in an high manner his prudence profound understanding c. All which I presume was done because he had been a benefactor to the finishing of S. Maries Church and the Divinity School It must be now known that there was a young Knight called William Warham Godson and Nephew to the Archbishop as being Son to his Brother Hugh Warham that waited upon him in his chamber With him the Archb. being always ready to discourse did more than once seriously tell him that if ever after his death any should succeed him in the See of Canterbury called Thomas he should in no wise serve him or seek his favour and acquaintance for there shall said he one of that name shortly enjoy this See that shall as much by his vicious living and wicked heresies dishonour wast and destroy the same and the whole Church of England as ever the blessed Bishop and Martyr St. Thomas did before benefit bless adorn and honour the same c. This is reported by Nich. Harpessfield from the mouth of the said Sir Will. Warham being prophetically spoken by the said Archb. concerning the Thomas that succeeded him meaning Thom. Cranmer After Dr. Warham had sate in Canterbury in great prosperity about 28 years he concluded this life at S. Stephens near to the said City on the 22. of Aug. between the hours of 3 and 4 in the morning year 1532 in fifteen hundred thirty and two Whereupon his body was laid in a little Chappel built by himself for the place of his burial on the north side of the Martyrdom of S. Thomas of Canterbury and had there a reasonable fair Tomb erected over his body but defaced in the beginning of the grand Rebellion began and carried on by the Presbyterians Erasmus of Rotterdam having been a great acquaintance of the said Archbishop had the honour to have his picture sent to him by the owner Which being with great devotion received Erasmus sent him his and between them passed several Epistles In one of which or else in another place Erasmus who had the Parsonage of Aldington in Kent bestowed on him so commends him for humanity learning integrity and piety that in the conclusion he saith nullan absoluti Praesulis dotem in eo desideres The said Archb. left all his Theological books to All 's coll Library his Civil and Can. Law books with the prick-song books belonging to his Chappel to New coll and his Ledgers Grayles and Antiphonals to Wykehams coll near to Winchester See more of him in a book intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae c. Lond. 1572-3 p. 348. 349. c. THOMAS SKEVYNGTON was descended from a right ancient Family of his name living in Leicestershire but whether born in that County I cannot justly tell became when young professed in the Monastery of Cistercians at Merevale or Myrdvale in Warwickshire instructed in Theological and other learning in S. Bernards coll originally built for Cistercians in the north Suburb of Oxon being now S. Johns coll to which place he bequeathed on his death-bed twenty pounds towards its reparation Afterwards he was made Abbat of Waverley a house of the said Order in Surrey and on the 17. of June 1509. was consecrated Bishop of Bangor Where after he had sate several years much commended for the austere course of his life and great charity he submitted to the stroke of death in the month of June or thereabouts in fifteen hundred thirty and there year 1533 Whereupon his heart was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Bangor before the picture of S. Daniel whereon a stone was soon after laid with an inscription thereon shewing that it was the heart of Thomas late Bishop of Bangor and his body in the Choire of Monastery of Beaulieu under a Tomb which he had erected nigh unto the place where the Gospel used to be read In the See of Bangor succeeded John Salcot alias Capon Doct. of divinity of Cambridge translated thence to Salisbury in 1529 where dying in the summer time in August as it seems an 1557. was buried in the Cath. Church there under a Tomb which he in his life-time had provided and erected on the south side of the Choire JOHN ALLEN Doctor of the Laws of this University was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin in the place of Dr. Hugh Inge deceased in the year of our Lord 1528. and died on the 25. of July saith one and another the 28.
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
at the same time Legat a Latere in England and soon after Bishop of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Salcot alias Capon on purpose to thwart Cardinal Pole whom that Pope took to be his Enemy or rather out of stomach to work that Cardinals displeasure whom he before had recalled to Rome to be accused and charged as suspected corrupt in Religion But Q. Mary albeit she was most affectionately devoted to the Ch. of Rome interposed or rather opposed her self so that Peto was forbidden to enter into England and the power Legantine left entire and whole to her Cousin Pole Whereupon Peto continued in France where he died in Apr. year 1558 in fifteen hundred fifty and eight leaving then behind him the character of a very godly and devout person yet simple and unknowing of matters of State or of the world which ought in some measure to accompany a person of his high degree See more of him in Historia minor provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum in the first tome of the Scholastical and Historical works of Franc. Ã Sancta Clara sect 25. p. 53. PAUL BUsh was made the first Bishop of Bristow in 1542 was deprived of it for being married in the beginning of the Reign of Q Mary and died in Octob. year 1558 in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers JOHN HOLYMAN sometimes Fellow of New college was made Bishop of Bristow in the place of Bush before-mentioned year 1558 an 1554. and died in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Bristow succeeded Rich. Cheyney which he held in Commendam with Gloucester as I shall tell you anon in Jam. Brokes under the year 1559. REYNOLD POLE sometimes a Student in S. Mary Magd. coll afterwards a Cardinal and elected twice to the Papacy was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in the latter end of 1555. year 1558 and died in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers After him succeeded in the said Archiepiscopal See Matthew Parker who was born in the City of Norwych 6. of Aug. 1504. Son of Will. Parker who died 16. of Jan. 1516. by Alice Monings his Wife who died 20. of Sept. 1553. Which Will. Parker who was an honest poor Man as a Schismatical writer tells you and a scowrer or calender of worsteds in Norwych was the Son of John Parker and he the Son and Heir of Nich. Parker a Notary Publick of the dioc of Norwych principal Registrary belonging to the Archb. of Canterbury and keeper of the Registers belonging to the Court thereof As for Matthew Parker after he had been trained up in Grammar learning at home he was sent to the University of Cambridge at about 17 years of age and being placed in Corp. Ch. coll became soon after one of the Bible-Clerks in the said house Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts was made Fellow thereof took holy Orders and became a noted Preacher not only in the University but also in other publick places in the Kingdom Whereupon his fame being spred abroad he was sent for to the Court and made chaplain to Q. Anne about 1534. by whose favour and endeavours he was soon after made Dean of Stoke near to Clare in Suffolk and some time after Prebendary of Ely In 1538. he was made Doct. of div about which time by letters of commendation from the King to whom he was chaplain he was elected Master of C. C. coll before-mentioned now known by the name of Bennet college the Fellows of which soon after presented him to the Rectory of Landbeach near to Cambridge In 1545. he was Vicechanc. of the said Univ. and in 1549. he took to Wife Margaret the daughter of Rob. Harleston of Norfolk born 23. Jun. 1519. by whom he had Issue 1 Joh. Parker born 5. May 1548. who married Joan daughter of Dr. Rich. Coxe B. of Ely 2 Matthew who died young and thirdly another Matthew who married Frances dau of W. Barlow Bishop of B. and Wells and afterwards of Chichester but this Matthew dying 28. Jan. 1574. she was afterwards married to Dr. Tob. Matthews Dean of Durham the same who was afterwards Archb. of York In 1548. the said Dr. M. Parker was again elected Vicechanc. of Cambridge and in 1552. he was made by K. Edw. 6. to whom he was chaplain Dean of Lincoln in the place of Dr. Joh. Tayler promoted to the See of Lincoln But soon after when Q. Mary came to the Crown losing all his spiritualities because he was married he retired in private and spent all her Reign within the house of one of his Friends His headship of C. C. coll was thereupon bestowed on Dr. Laur. Mapted and his Deanery on Dr. Franc. Mallet an 1554. he being then Canon of Windsore Confessor to Q. Mary and Master of Michael-house in Cambridge of which University he had before been at least twice Vicechancellour This Mallet by the way it must be known was the same person who translated into English Erasmus's Paraphrase on John who dying in the latter end of Decemb. 1570. had for his Successor in that Deanery Dr. Joh. Whitgift afterwards Archb. of Canterbury When Q. Elizab. came to the Crown Dr. Parker tho a married man for his Wife died not till 17. of August 1570. was nominated to the See of Canterbury after several persons had refused it whereupon being consecrated thereunto in the Archb. chappel at Lambeth 17. of Dec. 1559. after a Sermon invocation of the Holy Ghost and celebration of the Eucharist had been performed by the laying on of the hands of three Bishops viz. Will. Barlow B. of B. and Wells Joh. Scorey of Chichester and Miles Coverdale of Exeter assisted also by Joh. Hodgeskyn Suffragan Bishop of Bedford sate there with great honour to the time of his death He was a religious and a learned man and of modest manners and behaviour He was well read in English history and a diligent and curious collector of antient Mss. that had been scatter'd at the dissolution of Monasteries which he gave to the coll wherein he had been educated He is also reported to have been a person of great charity a noted benefactor to the publick and an eminent ornament to the places which gave him birth and education The chief book which he wrote and published assisted therein as 't is said by his servant or chaplain Joh. Jostine was that intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae privilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis cum Archiepiscopis ejusdem 70. Lond. 1572-3 fol. Most of the copies of this impression that were commonly fold conclude with the life of Reynold Pole Archb. of Canterbury who died 1558. The other copies which remained and were to be bestowed on publick Libraries or else to be given to special Friends had in the year 1574 added to them 1
May 1621. leaving behind him a Son named Rutland Snoden of Horncastle in Lincolnshire who was afterwards a Justice of the Peace begotten on the body of his Wife Abigal daugh of Rob. Orme of Elston in Nottinghamshire After him followed in the said See of Carlile Ric. Milbourne B. of S. David descended from those of his name in Pembrokeshire but born in London his mother being occasionally there at the delivery of him educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester and from thence was sent to Qu. coll in Camb. where he continued several years Afterwards he became Minister of Sevenoke in Kent Chapl. to P. Hen. Chantor of S. Davids cath ch and Dean of Rochester as I shall elsewhere tell you At length he being made B. of S. David was after he had sate there about 6. years translated to Carlile where he continued till 1624. In which year dying he left monies as 't is said for the endowing of a School and monies for the building of an Hospital He hath a Serm. in print concerning the imposition of hands preached while he was Minister of Sevenoke at the Archb. Metropolical Visitation 7. Sept. 1607. on 1 Tim. 5. 22. printed in oct To him succeeded in the said See of Carlile Rich. Senhouse Dean of Glocester who was first admitted a Student in Trin. coll in Camb. and afterwards was removed to that of S. Johns of which he was made Fellow and continuing there many years took the degree of D. of div as a Member thereof about 1622. He was first chaplain as 't is said in the Earl of Bedfords family afterwards chaplain to Pr. Charles and at length to K. Jam. 1. who advanced him to a Deanery and afterwards to the said See of Carlile for his transcendent parts and admirable gifts in Preaching He hath extant Four Sermons preached at Court and left behind him at his death Lectures on the first and second Psalms which are not as I conceive made yet publick HENRY PARRY or ap Harry sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll was consecrated B. of Gloucester 12. Jul. 1607. translated thence to Worcester in the latter end of Sept. 1610. the temporalities of which See were restored to him 23. Oct. the same year He yielded to nature in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 under which year you may see more of him among the writers He was succeeded in Gloucester by Dr. Giles Tomson and in Worcester by Dr. Joh. Thornborough Of the first I have made mention already among the Bishops and of the other I shall speak in the second volume of this work under the year 1641. WILLIAM JAMES sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. became Bishop of Durham in 1606. and died in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 under which year you may see more of him among the writers After his death Rich. Neile Bishop of Lincoln was translated to Durham and thence to Winchester as I shall elsewhere tell you WILLIAM LYON a Cheshire man born was partly educated in this University but whether in Oriel or S. Johns coll where several of his sirname and time have studied I cannot tell Afterwards he went into Ireland became Vicar of Naas and Chaplain to Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton L. Lievtenant of that Country who promoting him to the Episcopal See of Ross was consecrated thereunto in the year 1582. and the year following was constituted commendatory of Cork and Cloyne by the favour of Qu. Eliz. He bestowed a thousand pound in building the Bishops house at Cork and other monies in repairing the Bishops house at Ross which three years after was burnt by the Rebel O-Donow This W. Lyon died in a good old age on the 4. Oct. year 1617 in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Cork leaving then behind him a Son of both his names who in the 17 year of his age 1610. became a Com. or else Gent. Com. of S. Johns coll in this Univ. In the said Sees of Ross Cork and Cloyne succeeded Dr. Joh. Boyle whom I shall anon mention ROBERT ABBOT Master of Balliol college was consecrated B. of Salisbury on the third of Decemb. 1615. to the great joy of all Scholars especially such who knew the learning and piety of the man He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred and seventeen under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Martin Fotherby Son of Maurice Fotherby of the ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Grimsby in Lincolnshire which Martin having been bred Fellow of Trin. coll in Cambridge was after he had been Prebendary of Canterbury 22 years consecrated at Lambeth on the 18. Apr. 1618. He surrendred up his last breath on the eleventh day of March an 1619. and was buried in Allsaints Church in Lombardstreet within the City of London Soon after was a very fair monument erected over his grave with a large inscription thereon but destroyed by the great Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. He hath extant at least 4 Sermons besides his Atheomastix which being put into the press before his death was not published till 1622. fol. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Robert Tounson or Tonson Dean of Westminster sometimes Fellow of Queens coll in Cambridge who was consecrated thereunto on the 9. July 1620. See more in the Fasti among the incorporations under the year 1599. JOHN BOYLE a Kentish man born and brother to Rich. Boyle the first Earl of Cork in Ireland received some education with us but whether D. of div of this Univ. as one reports it appears not in the publick Registers He was consecrated B. of Cork before-mentioned in 1618. at which time liberty was allowed him to keep the See of Ross in Commendam He died in sixteen hundred and twenty year 1620 and was buried at Youghall of which place his brother before-mentioned was Baron In the said See of Cork and Ross succeeded Rich. Boyle Dean of Waterford and Archd. of Limerick brother to Michael Boyle B. of Waterford and Lismore which Richard kept the See also of Cloyne in Commendam with the two former JOHN KING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Dean of that house was consecrated Bishop of London in 1611. and died in sixteen hundred twenty and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers To him succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne Bishop Almoner sometimes Dean of Westminster who was translated from Loncoln to London 20. July 1621. ROWLAND SEARCHFIELD a Londoner born was educated in Grammar learning in Merchant-Taylors School admitted Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1582. aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Fellow of that house Proctor of the University Doct. of div and successively Vicar of Emley in Northamptonshire Rector of Bowthorp in Gloucestershire Vicar of Cherlbury in and Justice of
Anth. Watson in the Deanery of Bristow and dying in May or June 1617 was buried in St. Augustines Church there whereupon Dr. Edw. Chetwind was elected Dean in his place 16. of June the same year Thom. Atkinson Bach. of Div. of Cambr. was incorporated also the same day He was afterwards D. of D. Subdean of St. Pauls Cathedral and died in Apr. 1616. Besides him were 13 Bachelaurs of Div. of Cambr. incorporated of whom I know nothing as yet There was also a supplicate made in the house of Congregation that Thom. Legg Doctor of the Civ Law of Cambr. might be incorporated but whether he was really so I find not He was a Norwich Man born was first of Trinity and afterwards of Jesus College in Cambridge in both which houses he had the name and repute of one of the best in England for composing Tragedies witness his Destruction of Jerusalem and Life of King Rich. 3. which last was acted with great applause in that University He was afterwards made the second Master of Gonvill and Caius Coll. was a Doctor in the Court of Arches one of the Masters of the Chancery the Kings Law Professor and twice Vicechanc. of Cambridge He died in July 1607. aged 72 and was buried as I conceive in the Chap. belonging to the said Coll. to which he was a benefactor An. Dom. 1587. An. 29 Elizab. An. 30 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Francis Willys D. D. constituted by the Chancellour now in England July 17. on which day he was admitted D. of D. Proct. George Dale of Oriel Coll. John Harmar of New Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Musick Oct. 20. Rob. Stevenson who had studied the faculty of Musick 33 years was then admitted Bach. of Musick On the same day he was admitted Bach. of Arts but did not compleat that Degree by Determination in the Lent following which is all I know of him Bach. of Arts. May 31. Will. Westerman of Gloc. hall Jun. 27. Rich. Jefferay of Magd. Coll. See among the Masters 1590. 28. John Aglionby Rich. Crackanthorpe of Qu. Coll. Nov. 7. John Vicars of Magd. Coll. Quaere One of both his names of Broadgates hall was admitted M. of A. Jul. 1. this year Nov. 29. Tho. Hutton Hen. Price of St. Jo. Coll. On the eleventh of March Clement Edmonds of All 's Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree but was not admitted this year Admitted 117. Bach. of Law Jun. 15. Henry Marten of New Coll. He is to be mention'd at large among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work Two more were admitted to and three that supplicated for the said Degree Mast of Arts. June 22. Sam. Fox of Magd. Coll. See at the end of John Fox among the Writers under the year 1587. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day This memorable person who was the Son of Richard Son of Lewis Winwood sometimes Secretary to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk was born at Ainhoe in Northamptonshire elected probationer Fellow of Magd. Coll. an 1582 and in 1590 took the degree of Bach. of Civ Law See more in that year Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day June 28. Charles Butler of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards publickly known by a book of Rhetorick that he published and other things Adm. 69. Bach. of Div. July 6. Rich. Potter of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Prebendary of Worcester and Father of an ingenious Son named Francis Author of the Interpretation of 666 c. whom I shall remember among the Writers under the year 1678. Will. Watkinson of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day 17. Francis Willys of S. Johns Coll. See among the Doct. of Div. this year Adm. 7. Doct. of Law June 17. Will. Wood of All 's Coll. This eminent Civilian died in the beginning of the year 1605 and was buried in the Chappel of Tallin in the Isle of Anglesey in which Isle he was born leaving Issue behind him William and Owen Wood. c. Feb. 13. Francis James of All 's Coll. He was yonger Brother to Dr. Will. James Bishop of Durham was Chancellour of the Diocess of Wells and Bristol and afterwards of London one of the Masters of the Chancery and Judge of the Court of Audience of Canterbury He died in the beginning of 1616 and was buried I presume according to his Will in the Parish Church of Barrow in Somersetshire in the upper end of that Isle which was formerly the Church or Oratory for the Nunns sometimes living at that place and is now belonging and appertaining to the Lord of the Mannour of Minchin-Barrow Will. Bird of All 's Coll. was admitted or licensed the same day This person who was Son of Will. Bird of Walden in Essex was afterwards principal Official and Dean of the Arches a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in the place as I conceive of Sir John Bennet Knight He died without issue and was buried in Ch. Ch. within Newgate in London 5 Sept. 1624 leaving behind him a Nephew of both his names whom I shall mention in 1622. ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. July 17. Francis Willys Canon of Bristow of which City he was a Native and President of S. Johns Coll. On the eleventh of June this year he was installed Dean of Worcester having that Dignity confer'd upon him in the year before on the death of Dr. Tho. Wilson and dying 29 Oct. 1596 was buried in a little Isle joyning to the south side of the Choire of the Cath. Church at Worcester near to the grave and monument of Dr. Wilson before-mentioned In his Presidentship which he resign'd in 1590 succeeded Ralph Huchenson and in his Deanery Dr. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. as I have elsewhere told you An. Dom. 1588. An. 30 Eliz. An. 31 Eliz. Chanc. Robert Earl of Leycester who dying 4 Sept. Sir Christop Hatton Knight of the Garter and Lord Chancellour of England was by the major part of the Academians elected into his place on the twentieth day of the same month In the vacancy between Death and Election there was no Cancellarius natus as formerly only the Vicechanc. this year mention'd who before had been nominated by the Earl of Leycester It is to be noted that at the Election of Hatton Robert Earl of Essex a popular and ambitious person was his Competitor having been incorporated M. of A. in April going before as I shall anon tell you thinking that if he might have obtained the said place of Chancellour he might be as powerful among the Gown-men as among the Gentlemen of the Sword But he being generally looked upon as a great Patron of the puritannical Party and consequently if he had obtained it he might do as much mischief in his Office as the Earl of Leycester had done before he was therefore especially upon the commendations to the University of Hatton by Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury laid aside Vicechanc. Martin
painfully in the labours of the Camp following the wars in Hungary in France Ireland and the Low Countries where he left many notable proofs of his valour and wisdom being strenuus miles and prudens imperator In Aug. this year he was made L. Deputy of Ireland which place he executed with great valour and wisdom for 3 years Afterwards he was made Lord Russel of Thornhaw in Bucks and dying in Sept. was buried 16. of the same month at Thornhaw an 1613. An. Dom. 1595. An. 37 Elizab. An. 38 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Thom. Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. Dr. Liâ—ye again by virtue of the Chancellors former letters Proct. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. Will. Pritchard of Ch. Ch. Apr. ult Bach. of Mus Jul. 11. Franc. Pilkington of Linc. Coll. Some of his compositions I have seen and I think some are extant He was Father or at least near of kin to Tho. Pilkington one of the Musicians belonging sometimes to Qu. Henrietta Maria who being a most excellent Artist his memory was celebrated by many Persons particularly by Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet who hath written his funeral Elegy and his Epitaph The said Tho. Pilkington died at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire aged 35 and was buried there in the times of rebellion or usurpation Feb… Richard Nicholson Organist of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards the first publick professor of the Musical Praxis in this University and was Author of several Madrigales one or more of which you may see in The Triumphs of Oriana mention'd before in Thom. Morley and died in 1639. Bach. of Arts. May 3. Tho. James Tho. Lydyat of New Coll. Jul. 2. Dudley Carleton of Ch. Ch. 5. Joh. Rawlinson of St. Johns Dec. 16. Rich. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 22. Hen. Mason of Brasn Coll. afterwards of C. C. Feb. 3. Rob. Fludd or de Fluctibus of St. Johns Coll. Afterwards an eminent Rosacrusian 13. Gabriel Powell of Jesus Coll. 14. Will. Cheek of Magd. hall 16. Joh. Eaton of Trin. Rich. Moket of Brasnose afterwards of Allsouls Will. Chibald or Chiball of Magd. Coll. 19 Edw. Chetwind Rich. Carpenter of Ex. Coll. Mar. 6. Joh. Sprint of Ch. Ch. Theodore Goulson was admitted this year but neglected to be registred As for Lydyat Lloyd Mason and Eaton there will be mention made of them in the 2. vol. Adm. 128. Mast of Arts. May 3. Arthur Lake of New 27. Joh. Sanford of Magd. Coll. Jun. 30. Hen. Savile Rich. Deane of St. Alb. hall Jul. 7. Joh. Ravens of Qu. Coll. In 1607 he became Subdean of Wells and Prebendary of Bishops Compton in that Church 9. Pet. Smart of Ch. Ch. George Ferebe of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Minister of Bishops Cannings in Wilts one of the Chaplains to K. Jam. 1. and Author of Lifes farewell Sermon at St. Johns in the Devises in Wilts 30. Aug. 1614 at the funeral of John Drew Gent. on 2. Sam. ch 14. ver 14. Lond. 1615. qu. This Person who was a Glocestershire Man born and well skill'd in Musick did instruct divers young Men of his Parish in that faculty till they could either play or sing their parts In the year 1613 Qu. Anne the royal Consort of K. Jam. 1. made her abode for some weeks within the City of Bathe purposely for the use of the waters there In which time he composed a song of four parts and instructed his Scholars to sing it very perfectly as also to play a lesson or two which he had composed on their wind-instruments On the eleventh of June the same year the Queen in her return from Bathe did intend to pass over the Downes at Wensdyke within the Parish of Bishops-Cannings Of which Ferebe having timely notice he dressed himself in the habit of an old Bard and caused his Scholars whom he had instructed to be cloathed in Shepherds weeds The Queen having received notice of these People she with her retinue made a stand at Wensdyke whereupon these Musicians drawing up to her played a most admirable lesson on their wind-instruments Which being done they sang their lesson of four parts with double voices the beginning of which was this Shine O thou sacred Shepherds Star On silly Shepherd swaynes c. Which being well performed also the Bard concluded with an Epilogue to the great liking and content of the Queen and her company Afterwards he was sworn Chaplain to his Majesty and was ever after much valued for his ingenuity Oct. 31. Rich. Haydock of New Feb. 5. Thom. Floyd of Jesus Coll. Adm. 51. Bach. of Div. Jan. 20. James Bisse of Magd. Coll. Besides him were only four more admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop c. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Oct. 10. Thom. Ravis of Ch. Ch. Nov. 6. Hen. Caesar alias Athelmare or Adelmare lately of Ball. Coll. where to this day are certain Lodgings called from him Caesars Lodgings now of St. Edm. hall was then admitted or licensed to proceed This worthy Doctor who was the third Son Sir Julius Caesar being the first and Sir Thomas one of the Barons of the Exchecquer the second of Caesar Dalmarius a Doctor of Physick became Preb. of Westminster in the stall of Dr. Rich. Wood in the month of Sept. 1609 and Dean of Ely in the place of Humphrey Tindall deceased an 1614. where dying 27. June 1636. aged 72 was buried on the North side of the Presbytery of the Cath. Church there He gave to Jesus Coll. in Cambridge two Fellowship of 12 l. per an apiece and five Scholarships of 5 l. per. an conditionally that the Fellows and Scholars be elected from the Kings Free-school at Ely c. Nov. 10. Rog. Hacket Joh. Lloyd of New Coll. Jan. 20. James Bisse of Magd. Ralph Ravens of St. Johns Coll. The first of these two accumulated 30. Francis Godwin of Ch. Ch. Joh. Baber of Linc. Feb. 14. Henry Parry of C. C. Coll. Incorporations Jul. 15. Rich. Stock M. A. of Cambr. He was born in the City of York educated in St. Johns Coll. in Cambr. was afterwards Minister of Alhallows in Breadstreet in London for the space of about 32 years a constant judicious and religious Preacher a zealous Puritan and a reformer of profanations on the Lords day He hath written and published several things among which are 1 Doctrin and use of repentance to be practised by all Lond. 1610. oct 2 Sermon at the funeral of John Lord Harrington Baron of Exton c. at Exton in Rutlandsh on the last of March 1614. on Micah 2. ver 1. 2. Lond. 1614. oct 3 Commentary on the Prophesie of Malachy Lond. 1641. fol. Sam. Torshell is esteem'd the half Authour of it 4 Stock of divine knowledge c. Lond. 1641. qu. 5 Truths Champion c. He gave way to fate 20. Apr. 1626 and was buried in the Church of Allhallows before mention'd Hen. Withers D. of D. of Cambr.
born at Bolingdon in the same County educated as it seems in New Inn where applying his studies to the Civil Law was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Institutions an 1524. at which time the said Inn was replenished and did excellently flourish with Civilians After he had left the University he became supreme Moderator of the Free-school within the cemitery gate at Canterbury and in 1553 Mayor of that City At length growing rich for his School was very much frequented by the youth of the neighbourhood many of which went afterwards to the Universities he purchased Lands at Preston and Hardacre in Kent which he left to his posterity He was a Person well read in Greek and Lat. Authors in the histories and antiquities of our Nation and much valued for his abilities in other matters by the learned Men of his age particularly by his acquaintance Joh. Leland who numbers him among the illustrious worthies of his time He hath written De rebus Albionicis Britannicis atque Anglicis commentariorum libri duo Lond. 1590. in oct written to his Son Thomas who afterwards with an Epistle made it publick Our Author John Twyne hath also written and collected divers things of antiquities which are dispersed in several hands and some of them descending to his Grandson Brian Twyne he gave them at his death to the Library of C. C. Coll. At length our Author arriving to a good old age year 1581 gave way to fate 24. Novemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one and received sepulture in the Chancel of the Church of St. Paul withing the City of Canterbury Over his grave is an inscription wherein he is stiled Armiger and said to have been Mayor of Canterbury in the time of Wyatts rebellion in the beginning of Qu. Mary This Epitaph being written in verse I shall now omit and commend you to that just Encomium of him given by Leland before mentioned By Alice his Wife who died 20. Oct. 1567. aged 60 and in the 43 year of her Wedlock Daughter of Will. Piper of Canterbury he had issue divers Sons The first was Laurence Twyne who was Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and Bach. of the Civil Law an ingenious Poet of his time as several copies of verses set before books written in commendation of their respective Anthors do sufficiently attest He was a married Man lived at Hardacre in Kent and left issue behind him at his death several Children The second was Tho. Twyne before-mention'd whom I shall mention under the Year 1613. The third was John Twyne whose ingenuity also is scatter'd in several copies of verses before books in the time of Qu. Elizabeth and the fourth was Nicholas of whom I know nothing RICHARD COXE was born as 't is said at Whaddon in Bucks elected from Eaton School Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in 1519 where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts went to Oxon for preferment was made one of the junior Canons of the Cardinal Coll. and in Decemb. 1525 was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same Degree About that time he supplicated that he might answer at the Austin Fryery now called Disputations in Austins and answer the Masters in formal disputations which was granted conditionally that he also oppose at the said Fryery This exercise being by him performed in order to the taking of his Masters Degree he was licensed to proceed in Arts 8. Feb. following and accordingly did proceed in an Act celebrated 2. July 1526. Soon after being notoriously known to be a follower and abettor of the opinions of Luther he was forced to leave Oxon and some years after became Master of Eaton School near to Windsore where by his diligent instruction the boys profited much About the Year 1537 he proceeded D. of D. at Cambridge became Archdeacon of Ely in the room as it seems of Tho. Thirlby promoted to the See of Westminster and afterwards was incorporated at Oxon in the Degree of Doctor In 1543. Jan. 8. he was made Dean of the new erected Cathedral of Osney near Oxon and in 1546 when that See was translated to Ch. Ch. he was also made Dean there In 1547 he was chosen Chancellour of the University of Oxford being in great favour with the then K. Ed. 6. By which election it fell out that as the Oxonians enjoyed one that had been partly educated in Cambridge so it was with the Cantabrigians in former time by their election of John Bromyerd an Oxonian and an eminent writer in the Reign of Rich. 2. and since by their election of Dr. Thomas Ruthal in the Reign of Hen. 7. But what mad work this Dr. Coxe did in Oxon while he sate Chancellour by being the chief Man that worked a reformation I have elsewhere told you In 1548. July 16. he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thomas Magnus who resigned that dignity in 1547 and about that time was made one of the Privy Council Almoner to the King and Dean of Westminster But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he among others fled to Frankfort in Germany where he shewed himself among the English Exiles a zealous Man for the Common Prayer as used in the days of K. Ed. 6. against Joh. Knox a Scot and a violent Calvinist When Qu. Elizabeth succeeded in the Empire he was appointed the chief of the Protestant Divines to encounter those of the Rom. perswasion in a disputation when that Queen was about to settle a reformation in the Church of England But that disputation coming to nothing he was made Bishop of Ely to which See he was consecrated 21. Dec. 1559 yet whether it was for his retiredness or small hospitality or the spoil he was said to make of his woods and parks feeding his Family with powdered venison he was but in little favour with the said Queen At Cambridge he was esteemed a good Scholar and a better Poet than Dr. Wal. Haddon who call'd him Master as having been either his Scholar or Servant There goes under this Dr. Coxe's names Oration at the beginning of the disputation of Dr. Tresham and others with Pet. Martyr Oration at the conclusion of the disputation These two orations which are in latine were printed 1549. in qu. and afterwards among Pet. Martyrs works Dr. Coxe also had a considerable hand in framing the first Liturgy of the Church of England and a hand in the third an 1559 and also turned into metre the Lords Prayer at the end of the Psalmes of David besides other works not yet remembred by publick Authors He yielded up his last breath 22. Jul. year 1581 in Fifteen hundred eighty and one and was buried in the Cath. Church of Ely near to the monument of Bishop Goodrich I find another Rich. Coxe who was living and a writer in the tâ—me of the former but that Rich. Coxe which Joh. Leland the Antiquary and Poet doth so much celebrate for his faith and integrity in
Onuphrius in Rome I have more than twice sent to that place for the day and year of his death with a copy of his Epitaph but as yet I have received no answer Therefore take this Epitâ—â— made for him which I have met with elsewhere Inveni portum spes fortuna valete Nil mihi vobiscum ludite nunc alios HENRY SALESBURY born of and descended from a right ancient family of his name living in Denbigbshire became a commoner of S. Albans hall in 1581 aged 20 years took one degree in Arts and no more in this University entred on the Physick line practiced afterwards in his own country and was esteemed by the learned not only an eminent Physician but a curious Critick especially as to matters relating to the Antiquities and Language of his country He lâ—th written Dictionarium Britannicum Which being left 〈◊〉 in MS came into the hands of Job Davies who made great use of it when he was 〈◊〉 his Dictionary in British and Lat. and in Lat. and British What our author Salesbury hath written besides or when he died I find not nor any thing else of him only that he was of the same family with and very nearly related to Will. Salesbury whom I have mentioned under the year 1567 from whose endeavours this H. Salesbury found divers materials when he was composing his Dictionary before-mentioned and perhaps had received instruction from his own Person in matters relating to British affairs ISAAC COLFE fourth Son of Amandus Colfe alias Coult of Callis in France and of the City of Canterbury in England was born in Kent particulary as I suppose in the said City become a Commoner of Broadgates Hall in the beginning of the year 1576. took the Degrees in Arts Holy Orders and was afterwards beneficed if not dignified in his own Country His Works are Sermon 17. Nov. 1587. on Psal 118. 22. to the end of 26. Lond. in oct A Comfortable Treatise of the Temptation of Christ Lond. 1592. in oct with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen His eldest Brother Rich. Colfe was born at Callis educated in Ch. Ch. in this University and was afterwards Doctor of Divinity as I shall elsewhere tell you He left behind him several Sons among whom were Isaac of Ch. Ch. and Jacob of All Souls Col. JOHN PENRY or ap Henry that is the Son of Henry better known by the Name of Martin Marprelate or Marpriest as having been a Plague to the Bishops and Ministers of his time than by his own was born and bred as he used to say in the Mountains of Wales particularly as others say in the County of Brecknock became a Sub-sizer of Peter House in Cambridge about 1578. At which time as one a saith he was as arrant a Papist as ever came out of Wales and that he would have run a false Gallop over his Beads with any Man in England and help the Priest for a shift to say Mass at midnight c. In 1583. or thereabouts he took a Degree in Arts in that University and afterwards did perform some or most of the Exercise requisite for Master but leaving the said University abruptly for what cause I know not he retired to Oxon and getting himself to be entred a Commoner of St. Alban's Hall notwithstanding the vigour of Puritanism did then Reign among the Heads of the University which makes me to think that Penry was not then inclined to Popery he continued there for some time finished the remaining part of his Exercise and in the beginning of July 1586. he was licensed to proceed in Arts as a Member of the said Hall and on the eleventh of the said Month compleated that Degree in an Act celebrated in the Church of St. Mary About that time he took Holy Orders did Preach in Oxon and afterwards in Cambridge and was esteemed by many a tolerable Scholar an edifying Preacher and a good Man but being a Person full of Welsh Blood of a hot and restless Head did upon some discontent change the course of his Life and became a most notorious Anabaptist of which Party he was in his time the Corâ—pâ—â—â—us and in some sort a Brownist and the most bitter Enemy to the Church of England as any that appeared in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth He hath written A view of some part of such Publick Wants and Disorders as are in the Service of God within her Majesty's Country of Wales with an Humble Petition to the High Court of Parliament for their speedy redress Printed 1588. in oct Therein is shewed not only the necessity of Reforming the State of Religion among that People but also the only way in regard of substance to bring that Reformation to pass A defence of that which hath been written in the questions of the ignorant Ministry and the communicating with them Printed 1588. in oct written against Rob. Some D. D. of Cambridge who published the same year A Treatise deciding several questions concerning the Ministry Sacrament and Church Lond. in qu. As also A confutation of some of Mr. Penry's Errours About that time J. G. of Oxon published a Book entit Mr. Some laid open in his Colours wherein the indifferent Reader may easily see how wretchedly and loosly he hath handled the Cause against Mr. Penry Printed in oct Penry hath also written Exhortation unto the Governours and People of her Majesty's Country of Wales to labour earnestly to have the Preaching of the Gospel planted among them Printed 1588. in oct Theses Martinianae i. e. certain demonstrative conclusions set down and collected by Martin Marprelate the Great serving as a manifest and sufficient confutation of all that ever the College of Catercaps with their whole Band of Clergy-Priests have or can bring for the defence of their ambitious and Antichristian relacy Published by Martin Junior 1589. in oct and dedicated to John Kankerbury that is John Archbishop of Canterbury At the end of which Book Martin Junior hath an Epilogue The just censure and reproof of Mart. Marprelate to Martin Junior Printed with the former Protestation of Mart Marprelate Wherein notwithstanding the surprising of the Printer he maketh it known unto the World that he feareth neither proud Priest Antichristian Pope Tyrannous Prelate nor godless Catercap c. Printed 1589. in 120. by stealth and very full of faults Dialogue wherein is plainly laid open the tyrannical dealings of the Lords Bishops against God's Children Printed 1589. in qu. Therein are several reflecting stories on Dr. Martin Culpeper Warden of New College and on Dr. Nich. Bond of Magd. College and on his excellent dancing This scandalous Dialogue which was reprinted when the Long-Parliament began An. 1640. purposely to spite Archbishop Laud and the Bishops was with other like stuff of the said Mart. Marprelate answered by T. C. that is Thom. Cooper in his Admonition to the People of England c. See more in Tho. Cooper under
Philosophy of the Stoicks Lond. 1598. oct And published Two short Treatises against the orders of the begging Fryers written by Joh. Wicliffe Also as 't is said a book intit Fiscus Papalis Sive Catalogus indulgentiarum reliquiarum septem principalium Ecclesiarum urbis Romae ex vet MS. discriptus Lond. 1617. qu. The Latine out of the MS. is set down in one Colum and the English in another by the publisher This I say is reported to have been published by our author James tho others tell us that it was done by Will. Crashaw of Cambridge Howsoever it is sure we are that it hath supplyed with matter a certain scribler named Henry Care in his Weekly pacquet of advice from Rome when he was deeply engaged by the Fanatical party after the popish Plot broke out in 1678. to write against the Church of England and the members thereof then by him and his party supposed to be deeply enclining towards Popery c. I say by that Hen. Care whose breeding was in the nature of a petty Fogger a little despicable wretch and one that was afterwards much reflected upon in the Observators published by Rog. L'estrange which Care after all his scribbles against the Papists and the men of the Church of England was after K. James 2. came to the Crown drawn over so far by the R. Cath. party for bread and money-sake and nothing else to write on their behalf and to vindicate their proceedings against the men of the Church of England in his Mercuries which weekly came out intit Publick occurrences truly stated The first of which came out 21. Feb. 1687. and were by him continued to the time of his death which hapning 8. Aug. 1688. aged 42. was buried in the yard belonging to to the Black-friers Church in London with this inscription nailed to his Coffin Here lies the ingenious Mr. Henry Care who died c. This person I can compare to none more than to Marchemont Nedham whose parts tho he wanted yet they were Weather-Cocks both alike as I shall tell you more at large when I shall come to that person which will be in the 2d Vol. As for our learned and industrious author Dr. James he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the north Suburb of Oxon in the month of Aug. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged about 58. years and was buried towards the upper end of New college Chappel leaving behind him this character that he was the most industrious and indefatigable writer against the Papists that had been educated in Oxon since the Reformation of Religion Which character being made manifest by his writings it would have been esteemed as generous an act for the Society of that House to have honoured his reliques with a Mon. and Epitaph as they did those of Tho. Lydiat the Mathematitian I shall make mention of another Thomas James in my discourse of Hen. Gellibrand under the year 1637. ROBERT WAKEMAN Son of Tho. Wakeman of Fliford-Flavel in Worcestershire Minister of Gods word was born in that County became a student of Ball. col in the beginning of 1590 aged 14. made Chaplain-Fellow thereof 17. Jul. 1596. being then Bach. of Arts. About that time entring into Orders was a frequent preacher for some years in these parts At length being made Rector of Beer-Ferres and afterwards of Charlton in Devon took the degrees in Divinity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Christian practice at S. Maries in Oxon. on Act. Sunday 8. Jul. 1604. on Acts 2. 46. Lond. 1605. in oct 2 Solomons exaltation before the King on 2 Cor. 2. 8. Ox. 1605. oct 3 The Judges charge on 2 Cor. 19. 6. printed 1610. oct 4 Jonahs Sermon and Ninevehs repentance at Pauls Cross on Jonah 3. ver 4. 5. Ox. 1606. oct 5 The true Professor opposed against the formal Hypocrites of these times on Luke 10. 28. Lond. 1620. oct and others which I have not seen among which is a Serm. on Eccles 11. 1. printed 1607. he gave up the ghost in Septemb. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried on the South side of the Chancel of the Church at Beer-Ferres on the nineteenth day of the same month leaving then behind him several Children who were all in the beginning of the civil war as the Tradition goes there perswaded from their Religion to that of Rome by one Capt. Rich. Read as 't was supposed who quarter'd in the house where they lived and married one of the Doctors Daughters Afterwards they retired into Worcestershire where they or at least their issue now live JOHN SANFORD Son of Rich Sanford of Chard in Somersetshire Gent. descended from those of his name in Devon was born in Somersetshire entred a Commoner of Ball. college about the time of the Act in 1581. where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was then made one of the Chaplains of Magd. coll At length having contracted a friendship with John Digby Commoner of that House did travel with him into France Spain and Italy whereby he did much advantage himself in the modern languages Afterwards he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the said Digby then known by the name of Sir John Digby at which time he as sent into Spain to treat of a marriage between the Infanta Sister of the King of that Realm and Prince Charles of England After his return Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. made him his domestick Chaplain and at length Prebendary of Canterbury and Rector of Ivychurch in Kent He was a person of great learning and experience and a Solid Divine well skill'd in several languages and a tolerable Lat. Poet. His works are Gods arrow of Pestilence serm on Psal. 38. 2. Oxon. 1604. oct Le Guichet Francois Janicula scu introductio ad linguam Gallicam Ox. 1604. qu. A brief extract of the former Lat. Grammar done into English for the easier instruction of the Learner Oxon. 1605. qu. Grammar or introduction to the Ital. tongue Oxon. 1605. qu. An entrance to the Spanish tongue Lond. 1611. and 1633. qu. and other things as 't is probable with I have not yet seen year 1629 He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the 24. Septemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 60. and more and was buried in the middle almost of the north Isle joyning to the nave er body of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury Over his Grave was soon after laid a white free-stone with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 199. b. wherein is mention'd his great charity to Widdows Orphans and the Poor EDWIN SANDYS Second Son of Edwin sometimes Archbishop of York was born in Worcestershire particularly as I suppose within the City of Worcester when his father was Bishop of that Diocess before his translation to York admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Sept. 1577. and
which he had to the faculty of Physick took both the degrees therein as a member of the said hall and about that time retired to the City of York and practised there till about the beginning of the Civil Wars He hath written Spadacrene Anglica or the English Spaw Fountaine being a brief Treatise of the acid or tart Fountain in the Forest of Knaresborough in Yorkshire Lond. 1626. in oct A relation of other medicinal waters in the said Forest Printed with the former book Admiranda chymica in oct tractatulis cum figuris Franc. 1630. 35. qu. Sam. Norton is esteemed half author of this book This eminent Physitian died before the Civil War brake forth but the particular time I know not HUMPHREY LYND a most learned Knight of his time a zealous Puritan and a grand enemy to such who were called Arminians was born in London but descended from those of his name if I mistake not in Dorsetshere educated in Westminster School elected Student of Ch. Church in 1596. aged 17. and four years after took a degree in Arts. About that time he was called away to be heir to a fair estate and being looked upon as a knowing person was made a Justice of the Peace a Knight by the favour of K. Jam. 1. 29. Oct. 1613. and was elected several times a Burgess to serve in Parliaments He was a person of great knowledge and integrity and a severe enemy to the Pontificians as well in his common discourse as in his writings which are Antient characters of the visible Church London 1625. Via tuta The safe way to the true antient and Catholick faith now professed in the Church of England Lond. 1628. oct Answer'd by Rob. Jenison alias Frevil a Jesuit in a book intit A pair of Spectacles for Sir Humph. Lynd c. Roan 1631. in oct Which Jenison was born in the County Pal. of Durham and died in England 10. oct 1656. Via devia The by-way leading the weak in dangerous paths of popish errour Lond. 1630. oct A case for a pair of Spectacles c. Refused to be Licensed by Bishop Lauds Chaplain upon no other pretence as one saith but that Sir Humphrey was a Lay-man but in verity because he the Chaplain was unwilling to have him vindicate himself and the truth against a rayling Jesuit c. However this book was afterwards published by Dr. Dan. Featly with a Supplement thereunto added by the Dr. in defence of Sir Humphrey Lond. 1638. qu. Sir Humphrey also hath written an Account of Bertram the Priest with observations concerning the censures upon his Tract De Corpore Sanguine Christi set by way of preface to it Lond. 1623. oct and by him dedicated to Sir Walt. Pye Knight the Kings Majesties Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Which account with observations as also the dedic Epistle of Sir Humphrey all set before the translation of that book were published again by Mathew Brian LL. D. sometimes a Student in Magd. hall Oxon. Lond. 1686 oct before which is set the picture of Charles the Great King of France and Emperour of Rome See more in Will. Hugh under the year 1549. Farther also our Author Sir Humphrey who was esteemed a deserving defender of the Cause of Religion and to whom in other respects the Church and common cause did owe much did in the year 1623 upon the motion of certain eminent Divines of whom Dr. Featly was one undertake the charge of printing the particular passages of many late writers castrated by the Romish knife The collections were made by Dr. Tho. James and were then in 1623 sent to Dr. Featly and others to prepare them for the Press They began with Pol. Virgil Stella Mariana Ferus c. Sir Hump. Lynd died on the eighth day of June in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 and was buried above the steps in the Chancel of the parish Church of Cobham in Surrey and not in Kent on the fourteenth day of the same month at which time Dr. D. Featly before mentioned preached the funeral Sermon shewing then to the Auditory the great vertues piety and learning that were once in the person that lay dead before them He left behind him three Sons Robert Alex. and Humphrey besides six Daughters THOMAS ALLEN an exact proficient in the Greek and Latine tongues was sent from the Kings School at Worcester to this University in Mich. Term 1589. aged 16 where making great advances in Philosophy was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll in 1593 and by the severe discipline then used he became a most noted Disputant After he had compleated his Regency he entred into the sacred function but instead of frequent preaching he exercised himself much in crabbed and critical learning Whereupon being well esteemed by his Governour Sir Hen. Savile he procured for him a Fellowship of Eaton coll where he found him very serviceable for his designs He hath written Observationes in libellum Chrysostomi in Esaiam Printed in Sir H. Saviles edition of S. Chrysostome in the eighth vol. p. 139 c. He also was one that helped the said Knight in making and framing his Annotations on Chrysostomes Homelies on Matthew and the other Evangelists as he doth acknowledge in his Preface to the said Annotations wherein he stiles this our author Vir doctissimus Graecarum literarum non minus quam Theologiae peritissimus c. He surrendred up his soul to him that gave it year 1636 in sixteen hundred thirty and six and was buried in Eaton coll Chappel near to Windsore Over his grave is a flat stone remaining having this inscription carved on a brass plate fixed thereunto Thomas Allenus Wigorniensis vir pietate insignis Theologus praestantissimus multarum optimarum linguarum variaeque eruditionis callentissimus in collegium hoc in quo diu socius vixit in collegia insuper alia locaque in quibus aliquam vitae suam partem posuit pie munificus hic jacet Obiit die decimo Mensis Octobris an 1636. He gave books to Mert. coll library and some to that of Brasenose in which last he had been a Student before he was elected into Merton Another of both his names but later in time was sometimes Pastor of a Church in Norwich and author of The Glory of Christ set forth in several Sermons from John 3. 34 35 36. c. published after the authors death in 1683. oct JOHN JONES the ornament of the English Benedictines in his time was born in London but descended from a family of his name living at Llan-Vrinach in Brecknockshire elected Scholar of S. Johns coll from Merchant Taylors School in 1591 aged 16 and soon after became Chamberfellow there with Will Land who was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury This person being entred and settled in a Jurists place he applyed himself to the study of the Civil Law and made a considerable progress therein but his mind being much inclined to the Rom. Religion
of Arts to be the same with him who became perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1513 and was afterwards an eminent Schoolmaster Jul. 11. Will. Tresham of Merton Coll. March 15. John Rogers Quaere Bach. of Div. Six admitted of whom Richard Glocester and John Newbolt Benedictines were two and about 23 supplicated who were not admitted this year among whom were John Perrot a Minorite Thomas Hill B. of A. and a Bonhome c. Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 6. John Leffe of New Coll. He was afterwards Warden of the College at Maidstone in Kent Vicar General and Keeper of the Spirituality to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near to Winchester He died 19 Aug. 1557 aged 66 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to Wykeham's Coll. near to the said City of which Coll. he was Fellow For the said Degree supplicated Edward Orenge LL. B. and for the Degree of D. of Canon Law supplicated two who were afterwards admitted Doct. of Div. Jan… Leonard Huchenson Master of Vnivers Coll. Jan. ult Robert Law or Low a Carme now Prior of the College of Carmes in the North Suburb of Oxon. In 1505 he was made Provincial of the Carmes in the place of John Vynde or Wynde which honorable Office he keeping about 17 years was succeeded in it by Rich. Ferys Feb. 11. Thomas Mole or Molle a Carme 25. Thomas Francis a Minorite or Franciscan There also supplicated for the said Degree John Burgeis Bach. of Divinity of Magdalen College who was elected President of that House upon Dr. Laurence Stubbes his resignation an 1527 and by the name of President he doth occur in a Deed or Writing dated 10 Jul. the same year but soon after being removed Dr. Richard Knolles was elected Others there were that supplicated who were afterwards admitted except one Mabot Bac. of Div. Incorporations May… Father Robert Myles a Dominican Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge Oct… Fernandus or Ferdinandus de Victoria Doctor of Physick beyond the Seas now Physitian to King Hen. 8. and the Queen Consort He Dr. Thomas Lynacre and Dr. John Chambre were the first Founders of the College of Physitians at London Oct… William Arden a Dominican or Black Fryer Prior elect of the College or Convent of the Black Fryers in the South Suburb of Oxon and D. of D. in the Court of Rome Feb… Thomas Wellys or Wells Master of Arts of this University and Doctor of Divinity elsewhere Whether he be the same with Thomas Wellys mention'd in the Incorporations under the year 1510 I know not This year the month I cannot tell I find that there was a kind of a Supplicate made for one Magnus a Doctor beyond the Sea to be incorporated here but in what Faculty I cannot yet discover This Person was the same with Thomas Magnus who was a Foundling at Newark upon Trent in Nottinghamshire and had the Sirname of Among us given to him as being maintained among certain People there or as some say by certain Yorkshire Clothiers who occasionally travelled that way early in the Morning and first found him At length being brought up in Literature in one of the Universities in England became so much noted to King Henry 8. that he was by him not only promoted to several Dignities but sent Embassador into various Countries whereupon he was by the generality of People called Dr. Magnus and by some Magnus Doctor Among several Embassies that he was employed in was that into Scotland an 1524 where he was employed as the Kings Agent to procure his business and to encline the young Kings eat towards him as also to give intelligence c. Among the Dignities he enjoyed were 1 The Archdeaconry of the East-Riding of Yorkshire to which he was collated in June 1504 upon the promotion of Dr. Richard Mayhew to the See of Hereford 2 The Sacristship of the Chappel of our Lady and the holy Angels at York to which he was collated in Dec. the same year 3 A Canonry in the Church of Windsore an 1520 which he resigning in the latter end of 1547 was succeeded by Dr. Richard Cox 4 The Mastership of the hospital of St. Leonard at York c. And among the benefices he had was the rectory of Bedall in Yorkshire one Towards his latter end he founded a Free-school in the place of his nativity which he well endowed and paying his last debt to nature at Sesay or Sessay in Yorkshire 27. Aug. or thereabouts in 1550 was buried in the Church there Whereupon John Dakyn LL. D. was installed in his Archdeaconry of the East-riding 13. April 1551. I have seen a copy of his last Will and Test dated 8. March 1549. and proved 30. Apr. 1551 wherein he desires that if he dye at his house at Sybthorp or nigh those parts to be buried in the Trinity Isle of the Church of Newark upon Trent afore the midst of the altar there for there he was baptized c. He makes mention therein of his singular good Lord and Master Savage sometimes Archbishop of York and his singular good Lord the Earl of Wilts and Lord Treasurer of England An. Dom. 1521. An. 13. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury Commiss Richard Benger D. of Dec. Proct. Henry Tyndall of Merton College Bor. John Wilde Austr April 17. Grammar May 12. John Kendall 13. Richard Guissoll Jul. 8. Henry Golde Sec. Chaplain One George Marshall did also supplicate but was not admitted Qu. Bach. Musick Feb… John Sylvester did supplicate and was as it seems admitted in that month being at the same time accounted very eminent in his profession Bach. of Arts. About 60 were admitted and about 29. supplicated who were not admitted this year Jul. 8. John Mason about this time Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. was then admitted He was born at a mercate town called Abendon in Berks the son of a Cowherd by his Wife the Sister of a Monk at that place Which last Person finding him very apt to learn he caused him to be trained up in Grammaticals and Academicals in this University where he obtained for him a Fellowship in the said Coll. of All 's Soon after his pregnant and acute parts being taken notice of by great Persons he was upon the motion of Sir Thomas More sent by the King to the University of Paris to be accomplished with other parts of learning After his return thence he became a favourite to K. Hen. 8. who employed him in several Embassies and made him one of his Privy Council After that Kings death he was made a Privy-counsellour to K. Ed. 6. and tho he was a Knight and a perfect Lay-man yet he enjoyed several Church Dignities or as one saith he was a great intruder into Ecclesiastical Livings Among which the Deanery of Winchester Cathedral was one installed therein in the place of William Kingesmyll the last Prior of St. Swithins Monastery there and the first
Perne in the book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under the year 1557. written by John Fax wherein you 'll find him a zealous Man for the Cath. cause in the Reign of Qu. Mary One of both his names who was M. of A. and sometimes Fellow of Katherine hall in Cambridge afterwards Minister of Wilby in Northamptonshire was a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament that began at Westminster an 1640 ran with those times and published several Sermons I find another And. Perne LL. D. sometimes an Inhabitant of Westwratting in Cambridgshire who died in 1680. An. Dom. 1554. An. 1 2 Mariae Chanc. the same Vicechanc. John Warner Doct. of Phys and Warden of All 's Coll. was designed by letters from the Chancellour Proct. Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll. Christop Hargrave of Linc. Coll. Which Proctors taking their places on the nones of April Maur. Bullock and Gilb. Mounson of Ch. Ch substitute to Mr. Spencer receeded Bach. of Arts. Jul. 4. Will. Barker of Magd. Coll. One of both his names translated into English An exhortation to his kinsman to the study of the Scriptures Lond. 1557. oct written by St. Basil the Great Whether he be the same with the Bach. of Arts Quaee Anth. Russh of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Jul. 11. John Bodye One of both his names supplicated to be admitted Bach. of the Civil Law an 1552 which I take to be the same with this who was Bach. of Arts but not the same who was executed at Andâ—ver in Hampshire an 1583 for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England See more in these Fasti among the Masters of Arts an 1575. Jul. 16. Tho. Atkyns He was elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Mert. Coll. this year in whose Cat. or Alb. of Fellows this addition is put to his name Fuit procurator generalis regius apud Wallos Reginae Elizabethae à consiliis ibidem ad audiendum determinandum malefacta cujuscunque generis justitiarius c. He was born in the Dioc. of Worcester but took no higher Degree in this University Mar. 13. John Bridgwater Aquepâ—ntanus either now of Brasnose Coll. or of Hart hall He was afterwards a learned Jesuit Admitted 48. Doct. of Musick Apr. 21. John Shepheard who had been a Studenâ— in Musick for the space of 20 years did then by his Dean supplicate the ven congregation that he might be licensed to proceed in that faculty that is to be admitted Doctor of Musick but whether he was admitted or stood in any Act following it appears not in our registers The words of some of his Church services are made publick in The Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in Cathedrals c. Lond. 1663. oct collected and published by James Clifford as I have told you under the year 1548. I have seen some of his compositions of six parts in six MS. Books remaining at this day in the Archives of our publ Musick School containing Church Musick or Anthems and certain Songs Mast of Arts. But 13 were admitted this year among whom Will. Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll. was one afterwards a Cardinal and Archb. as I have before told you and Sextus Quaterman of New Coll. another In an Act celebrated 16. July were 19 that stood of whom the said Allyn was junior whom we usually call Junior of the Act who with the Senior perform exercise in the name of the rest of the Masters Bach. of Div. Jun. 7. Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. sometimes Cross-bearer to Cardinal Wolsey now Fellow of Eaton Coll. and Canon of Windsore was adm to the reading of the Sentences by Dr. O. Oglethorp Dean of Winds in a certain Chamber belonging to his Lodgings there by power and authority given to him for that purpose by Dr. Rich. Smyth Provicechancellour of the University This Mr. Cole had his grace granted in order to the taking of that Degree in 1545 and in 1555 he succeeded the said Dr. Oglethorp in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. Jul. 5. John Boxall of New Coll. He was now Archdeacon of Ely and Warden of the Coll. near Winchester c. Besides these two were but 3 more admitted this year Doct. of Civil Law Jul. 13. Tho. Huyck of Mert. Coll. He died at London 1575 having a little before been made the first and original Fellow of Jesus Coll. to which he was a Benefactor Rob. Raynold of New Coll. was licensed to proceed the same day He was now Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near to Winchester Prebendary of Linc. and Chichester and about 1557 Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near to Winton Will. Awbrey of All 's Coll. was admitted also on the same day See before under the year 1549. A Person he was of exquisite learning and singular prudence and therefore mention'd with honour by Thuanus and others He was born in Bricknockshire particularly as I conceive at Cantre wrot divers things but not printed among which are several letters to his Cousin Dr. John Dee concerning the Sovereignty of the Seas some of which I have seen and dying 23. Jul. 1595 was buried within the Cath. Church of St. Paul in London Afterwards there was a Mon. with his bust set over his grave which with the Cathedral it self was consumed in that dismal conflagration which hapned in that great City in the beginning of Sept. 1666. Doct. of Physick May 9. Rich. Master of All 's Coll. On the 14. of March 1562 he was installed Prebendary of Fridaythorpe in the Church of York being about that time Physician of the Chamber to Qu. Elizabeth His eldest Son George Master setled in the Abbey at Cirencester in Glocestershire where his posterity yet remaineth Another Son named Robert was Doctor of the Civ Law in 1594 as I shall tell you when I come to that year Rich. Caldwell or Chaldwall lately of Ch. Ch. but originally of Brasnose Coll. was admitted the same day Thom. Francis of Ch. Ch. was also admitted the same day After this Person had taken the Degree of M. of A. he applyed his studies to the Theological faculty but the encouragement thereof being in these days but little he transfer'd himself to the School of Physicians and with the consent and approbation of Dr. Wryght the Vicechancellour was entred on the Physick line 4. Aug. 1550. In the year after I find him supplying the place and office of the Kings Professor of Physick being I presume only Deputy for Dr. John Warner and on the 9. Mar. 1553 he was admitted Bach. of Phys In 1561 he succeeded Hugh Hodgson in the Provostship of Qu. Coll. and was afterwards Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much respected by her Jul. 14. John Symings or Symmings In what Coll. or Hall educated I know not Sure I am that he was one of the Coll. of Physicians in London where he was in great practice and dying in his house in Little St. Barthelmew in Smithfield 7. July 1588 was buried in the Church
Earl of Bristol with whom he travell'd to Spain I set down here to distinguish him from another Will. Boswell whom I shall mention in these Fasti under the year 1608. Feb. 27. Hannibal Gamon of Broadgates Hall Adm. 98. Bach. of Phys May 16. Robert Fludd or de Fluctibus M. A. of S. Joh. Coll. did accumulate the degrees of Physick as a Member of Ch. Ch. as I shall tell you anon Not one Bach. of Phys besides him was this year adm Bach. of Div. May 16. Joh. Harmar Arth. Lake of New Coll. Rich. Fownes of Ch. Ch. Nov. 12. Tho. Frith of All 's Coll. He was a Kentish man born was afterwards Warden of the Church at Elmeley in his own Country and Canon of Windsore an 1610 in the place of Hugh Blythe sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambr. deceased He hath written in Latin A Catalogue or rather History of the Deans and Canons of S. George's Chappel within the Casile of Windsore It commenceth at the foundation of that Chappel an 1348 and reacheth to the end of 1628 and afterwards continued to these times by George Evans a Canon of the said Chappel and others An Original of this MS. I once saw in the hands of Dr. Tho. Barlâ—w Bishop of Lincoln whence I took a Copy and have made use of it in this present Work as Elias Ashmole Esq had done before me in his Institutions Laws and Ceremonies of the Order of the 〈◊〉 Lond. 1672. fol. and Dr. Pet. Heâ—yn before him in his 〈◊〉 of St. George of Cappadicia Lond. 1631. 33. qu. This Tho. 〈◊〉 who was a most judicious and industrious man and to whom the Coll. at Windsore is much indebted died in the latter end of the year in Feb. 1631 and was buried in the Chappel of S. George before mention'd near to the body of his sometimes Wife named Elizabeth Sister to my Father Thom. a Wood Bach. of Arts and of the Civ Law of this University of Oxon. which Eliz. died more than 4 years before her Husband Joh. Rawlinson of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day Admitted 22. Doct. of Law June 17. Hugh Barker of New Coll. He was about this time Chancellour of the Dioc. of Oxon afterwards Dean of the Arches and President of the Civilians Coll. at London He died in 1632 and was buried at the upper end of New Coll. Chappel See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 151 152. Doct. of Physick May 16. Robers Fludd beforemention'd now in great repute for his admirable knowledge in Chimistry and afterwards for the voluminous writings which he published Doct. of Div. May 16. Joh. Harmar Arth. Lake of New Coll. Rich. Fownes of Ch. Ch. All which accumulated the Degrees in Divinity Rowland Searchfield of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day Jun. 13. Richard Brett of Linc. Coll. July 4. Thom. Sanderson of Ball. Coll. On the 1. of Aug. 1606. he was installed Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of Thomas Staller D. D. and was succeeded in that Dignity by Dr. Richard Tillesley July 4. Benj. Heyden of New Will. Hill of Ball. Coll. The first of these two last became Dean of Wells in the place of one John Herbert an 1602 and dying in 1607 was succeeded by Rich. Meredith Incorporations May 8. Sam. Bird M A. of Cambridge One Sam. Byrd sometimes Fellow of Bennet Coll. in that University afterwards a Minister in Ipswich hath published several books among which are 1 A friendly dialogue between Paul and Demas wherein is disputed how we are to use the pleasures of this life Lond. 1580. in tw 2 Lectures upon the eleventh chapt of the Hebr. and upon the 38. Psalme Lond. 1598. oct 3 Lectures on the eighth chap. of the second epist to the Cor. Lond. 1598. oct c. Whether this Sam. Byrd the Author be the same with Sam. Bird who was incorporated M. of A. and had been entred a Student in the Bodleian Library in Dec. 1604. I must leave it to the reader to Judge May 15. Matthew Lister Doct. of Phys of the University of Basil in Germany He was born at Thornton in Craven in Yorkshire was bred Fellow of Oriel Coll afterwards be became a Retainer to Mary the incomparable Countess of Pembroke whose estate he managed for her best advantage Physician to Qu. Anne the royal Consort of K. Jam. 1. Physician in ordinary to K. Char. 1. from whom he received the honor of Knighthood at Oatlands 11. Oct. 1636 and at length became President of the Coll. of Physicians in London and one of the prime Physicians of the Nation He died at Burwell near Lowth in Lincolnshire about 1657 aged 92 and was there I suppose buried Nearly related to him or at least of the same Family were Edw. Lister Doctor of Phys a Native of Wakefield in Yorkshire who died at London where he had practised many years 27. Mar. 1620 and Jos Lister his Brother Doct. of Physick of the City of York Martin Lister also of the Royal Society who had the Degree of Doct. of Phys conferr'd upon him by the members of this University an 1683 is his great Nephew and when a youth was bred up under him Jul. 6. James Fitch D. D. of Cambridge He was Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. of Christ and the blessed Virgin Mary at Rochester and died in July 1612. 9. John Bowles M. A. of Trin. Coll. in the said University See among the Incorporations 1615. Patrick Young Patricius Junius M. of A. of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated the same day and was afterwards a Sojourner in this University He was a Scotch Man born and the most eminent Grecian of his time Hoâ—o ad literaturae omnis duntaxat Gracae beneficium natus as a most learned Critick saith He was about this time keeper of His Majesties Library at St. James with the help of which he published Versio noâ—â— in Clementis epistolam ad Remanos Oxon. 1633. qu. and Catena Graecorum Patrum in Librum Job Lond. 1637. in Gr. and Lat. written by Nâ—cetas Heracleâ— It must be now known that an Alexandrian Copy of the whole Bible in a Greek MS. was sent by Cyril Patriarch of Constantinople to K. Ch. 1. about 1628 containing the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament and the Greek text of the New together with St. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians joyned at the end Which two were somewhat imperfect as being in shatter'd and torn parchments and the first had been in vain sought after near a thousand years in the West as a late Author saith This Alexandrian Copy of the Bible was wrot about the time of the first Nicene Council saith the said late Author tho another tells you about 1200 years ago in great characters by the hand of Thecla a noble Egyptian Woman who as some say had been a Scholar of the Apostles and afterwards a Martyr Which with the help of other
Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated the degrees in Divinity … Rich. Lloyd of Linc. Coll. He was about this time dignified in Wales and dying at Ruabon in Denbighshire of which place I think he was Minister about 1642 was buried there Jun. ult Samps Price of Exet. July 7. Rich Tillesley of S. Joh. Joh. Tapsell of Mert. Coll. This Joh. Tapsell who was the Son of Rob. Tapsell was born at Garsingdon near to and in the County of Oxon about the begining of Febr. 1571 admitted prob Fellow of the said house of Merton an 1593 took the degrees in Arts being then accounted a most excellent Disputant and Orator and a person of prodigious memory In 1599 Jul. 9 he according to the Statute of his Coll. did publickly dispute and speak speeches against the opinion of Aristotle which the said Satute stiles varying in the common Refectory of that house on these three Thâ—ses 1 Juvenis est idoneus auditor moralis philosophiae 2 Probanda est in sene verecumdia 3 Bonus à malo per dimidiam vitae partem differt Which Speeches being esteemed most admirable in their kind and of a Ciceronian stile were upon the desire of many of the Auditors printed in an octavo vol. but in what year I know not for few Copies being printed I could never see one He was afterwards a Lecturer in the City of York and at length in London where he died about 1630. July 9. John Holt 12. Dan. Featley of C. C. Coll. The first of these last two was Prebendary of Westminster and afterwards President of the said Coll. of C. C. He died 10 Jan. 1630 and was buried in the Church of S. Peter at Westminster whereupon Dr. Lodowick Weems or Wemmys succeeded him in his Prebendship As for the other Dr. Featly alias Fairclough will be large mention made of him in the second vol. Dec. 16. Francis Gibbons of Ch. Ch. He died in the Parish of S. Cross of which he was Parson near to Shrewsbury in 1639 or thereabouts Incorporations July 14. Arthur Lake M. A. of Cambridge He was Son if I mistake not to Sir Tho. Lake one of the Secretaries of State These following Masters of Cambr. were incorporated on the 15 July being the next day after the Act had been concluded Thomas Goad Mast of Arts of Kings Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Archb. Abbot Rector of Hadley in Suffolk Doct. of Div. Prebendary of Canterbury c. a great and general Scholar exact Critick and Historian a Poet Schoolman and Divine This pâ—rson who was Son of Dr. Roger Goad Provost of Kings Coll. before mention'd died in the year 1636 or thereabouts Another Tho. Goad was Doctor of the Laws and the Kings Professor of that Faculty in Cambridge who died about the beginning of 1666. Of one Tho. Goade see in the Pamphlet entit A Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 27. Benj. Laney M. of Arts. He was the fourth Son of a wealthy Merchant of Ipsuâ—ych named Joh. Laney Esq who sparing nothing that might advance his education took him from School and caused him to be admitted a Student in Christs Coll. in Cambr. Where making great proficiency in his studies was removed to Pembroke Hall of which he became Fellow and contemporary there with Ralph Brownrig Afterwards he was made Master of that house Doct. of Div. Vicechancellour of the University Chaplain in ordinary to K. Ch. 1 Prebendary of Winchester and about the same time of Westminster in the place of Lambert Osbaldeston deprived an 1638 and afterwards upon the restauration of Osbaldeston by the Long Parliament in the place of Griffith Williams an 1641. Soon after he was outed of his Mastership of Pembroke Hall for his Loyalty and about that time did attend in his Majesties Service in the Treaty at Vxbridge being then esteemed a learned Divine Afterwards when his Majesty Ch. 2. was in exile he did in a most dutiful manner attend him and for several years after suffer'd great calamity as innumerable Royalists did Upon his Majesty's return to his Kingdoms he was restored to his Headship and in recompence of his sufferings he was first made Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Turner in which Dignity he was installed 24 of July 1660 and soon after had the Bishoprick of Peterborough confer'd upon him with liberty to keep his Mastership in commendam to which he received Consecration in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster on Sunday Decemb. 2. an 1660. Afterwards upon the death of Dr. Rob. Sanderson he was translated to Lincoln and on the death of Dr. M. Wrenn to Ely where he sate to the time of his death in the latter end of 1674. Five of his Sermons preached before the King were printed in 1668 9. And after his death were published his Observations on a letter about liberty and necessity c. Lond. 1676 in tw which Letter was written to the Duke of Newcastle by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury Rich. Holdsworth M. A. of S. Johns Coll. This most eminent and loyal person was a Native of Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland where for some time he was educated in Gramaticals afterwards being sent to the said Coll. he made wonderful proficiency in Arts and Theology became successively Divinity Professor of Gresham Coll. being about that time D. of D. Master of Emanuel Coll. several times Vicechancellour of Cambridge Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Dr. Owen Gwynn Master of S. John's Coll. before mention'd deceased an 1633 which Dignity Gwynn had confer'd upon him in 1622 upon the resignation of Dr. Laud and at length upon the grant of the Deanery of Durham to Dr. Christopher Potter in the latter end of 1645 had the grant of the Deanery of Worcester made unto him having in the beginning of the grand Rebellion refused the Bishoprick of Bristow But the principles of this reverend Doctor being wholly orthodox he suffered therefore very much during the miserable condition which the Members of the Long Parliament had brought this Kingdom to lost most if not all his Spiritualities was several times imprison'd yet afterwards being at liberty he attended his Majesty in his disconsolate and afflicted condition at Hampton Court and in the Isle of Wight At length after he had seen him crown'd with Martyrdom he surrendered up his pious soul to him that gave it on the 22 Aug. 1649. Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Peter le poore in London of which Church he had been Minister till the violence of the Presbyterians forced him thence an 1642. After his death were published some of his Works viz. 1 Valley of vision in 21 Sermons printed 1651. qu. 2 Praelectiones Theologicae habitae in Collegio Greshamensi apud Londinenses Lond. 1661. fol. which last book was published by Dr. Pearson his Nephew who hath set an account of his life before that book Henry Burton Abraham Gibson Of these two who were
in the year of his age 16 or thereabouts being then Pupil to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker who made use of his and the judgment of George Cranmer when he compiled his books of Ecclesiastical Policy In 1579. Jan. 23. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that House being then Bach. of Arts and on the 17. March 1581. he was collated to the Prebendship of Wetwang in the Church of York Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he left his Fellowship travelled into several Countries and at his return grew famous for his learning prudence and vertue In the month of May 1602. he resign'd his Prebendship on the 11. of May 1603. he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by K. Jam. 1. and was afterward by him imployed in several affairs of great trust and moment He was very dexterous in any great employment kept as constant time in all Parliaments as he that held the Chair did and was esteemed an excellent Patriot in all transactions faithful to his Country without any falseness to his Prince But this I must say that being found factious and too daring in the Parliament held 1621. he was with Selden committed to custody to the Sheriff of London 16. June in that year and not delivered thence till the 18. July following Which matter being ill resented by the House of Commons they on the eighth of Nov. following did dispute the matter tumultuously taking it for a great breach of their Privileges that any one of them should be imprison'd At length Secretary G. Calvert protesting before them that neither he or Selden were imprisoned for any Parliamentary matter a stop was thereupon put to the dispute What I find farther of Sir Edwin is that he was Treasurer to the undertakers for the Western Plantations which he effectually advanced that he was a person of great judgment and of a commanding Pen a solid Statesman and as my author saith ingenio gravitate morum insignis Farther also that he was as famous for those matters he published as his Brother George was for his Travels and Poems This worthy Knight Sir Edwin hath written Europae Speculum Or a view or survey of the state of Religion in the Western part of the World Wherein the Roman Religion and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same are notably displayed c. Written by the author at Paris and by him finished 9. Apr. 1599. A copy of which coming into the hands of an unknown person in England an impression of it full of errours stole into the world without the authors name or consent an 1605. besides another the same year or soon after Notwithstanding which the book was esteemed so much by Scholars and thereupon cried up at home for a brave piece of ingenuity that it was forthwith translated into French and printed I think at Paris But as soon as 't was finish'd the printer to his great sorrow received information that it would be called in and suppress'd as it was shortly after whereupon he dispersed most of the copies into remote parts before he did disperse any at home and so was a gainer by his Politicks At length after the author had taken great care that the English impressions should be called in and the Printers punished he caused a true copy thereof to be printed a little before his death anno 1629. From which were printed the impressions of 1632. and 37. at London in quarto and another there in 1673. in oct One copy under the authors hand as 't is said I have seen in Bodlics Library and another in that of Dr. Barlow which I suppose were dispersed to vindicate the author from spurious printed copies that flew abroad I find one Sir Edwin Sandys who paraphrastically turned in English verse Sacred Hymnes consisting of 50 select Psalms of David c. set to be sung in 5 parts by Rob. Taylor Printed at Lond. 1615. in qu. Whether this version was performed by Sir Edwin Sandys before-mentioned or by another of both his names of Latimers in Bucks I know not Our Sir Edwin Sandys author of Europae Speculum died about the beginning of Octob. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine leaving then 1500 l. to the Univ. of Oxon for the endowment of a Metaphysick Lecture and was buried in the Ch. of Nortbourn in Kent where he had a Seat and a fair Estate joyning to it Over his grave is a handsome monument erected but as I have been informed there is no inscription upon it He left behind him at the time of his death at least 5 Sons namely Henry Edwin Richard Robert and Thomas Who all one excepted proved zealous Parliamenteers in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642. The outrages of the Second then called Colonel Edwin Sandys which he made against the Church and the vengeance that followed him for so doing the common prints that in those times fâ—ew abroad do sufficiently testifie He published or rather one for him a Pamphlet intit Col. Sandy's travailes 〈◊〉 Kent which gives an account of the Sacrileges and outtages he had committed for the sake of the Blessed Parliament then sitting and another called His Declaration in vâ—nâ—icatiâ—n of himself from those calumnious aspersions cast upon him by Lucius L. Falâ—land and Secretary Nicholas 11. Oct. 1642. printed at Lond. 17. of the same month Which was followed with another Pamphlet intit A vindication of Câ—l Sandys's Honour and Loyalty from a Declaration pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester 11. Oct. 1642. But whether the said Colonel was educated in Oxon 't is not worth the enquiry nor any thing else of him And therefore I shall only let the Reader know that he died of his wounds which he had received in the Parliaments Cause near to Worcrster from the hands of a French-man called Arnold de L'isle a Captain of a Troop of Horse in Sir Joh. Byron's Regiment for which service he was soon after Knighted whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester in the month of Oct. 1642. I find one Edwyn Sandys an Essex man born and a Knights Son to be entred a Gent. Com. of C. C. coll in 1608. aged 17. But this person must not be taken to be the same with the Colonel who was then but one or two years of age WILLIAM PINKE a Hampshire man born was entred a Commoner in Magd. hall in Mich. Term 1615. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and soon after became Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll Which office he performing with great commendation was elected Fellow of that house in 1628. being then accounted by some a serious person in his studies devout and strict in his conversation and therefore a Puritan by others He had in him a singular dexterity in the Arts a depth of judgment acuteness of wit and great skill in the Hebrew Greek and Arabick languages which made him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reverenced by the Academians He wrote The