in Arts in Jan. 1532 but whether it was granted or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time After he had left the University being then accounted a noted Poet of that time he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister and a Writer of divers Books the titles of which follow Of moral Philosophy or the lives and sayings of Philosophers Emperours Kings c. Several times printed at London in qu. Precepts and Councells of the Philosophers Phraiselike declaration in English meeter on the Canticles or Ballads of Salomon Lond. 1549. qu. The use of Adagies Similies and Proverbs Comedies When printed or where I cannot find A myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with how grevious plagues vices are punished c. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity In the Epistle to the Reader subscribed by the Author Baldwyn he tell us he had a second part to print reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Maries time but whether it was printed I know not for I have not yet seen it This Book or another bearing the same title written by John Higens is commended by several Authors particularly by him that wrot Hypercritica for a good piece of poety As for Baldewyn he lived as 't is said some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown but when he died it appears not WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer by Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight sometimes Lord Chancellour of England was born in the City of London and educated in Grammar learning there In 1525 or thereabouts being then in the year of his age 17 he was sent to the Univers of Oxon where laying a considerable foundation in Logick and Philosophy left it without a Degree went to Lincolns Inn and there by the help of his Academical education he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House But Religion being then about to be alter'd he with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement of whom I shall speak in 1572. left the Nation and went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where continuing all the time of that Kings Reign returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown was made Serjeant at Law in 1554 and a little before the said Queens death one of the Justices of the Common-pleas At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England he returned to Lovaine before mention'd where he continued till the time of his death He hath written The Chartuary Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord God and of the years of the Kings of England from the first of Will the Conquerour shewing how the years of our Lord God and the years of the Kings of England concurr and agree together by which table it may quickly be accompted how many years months and days be past since the making of any evidences Lond. 1563. oct Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct corrected and continued by the famous Almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clark under an Alderman of London who after he had published several matters of his Profession of which The bloody Irish Almanack was one printed at London 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu. gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place Lond. Whereupon a Marble-stone was soon after laid over-his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq The said Table of years is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entituled Chronica juridicalia or a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God and those of several Kings of England c. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellours and Lord Keepers Justices of the Kings-bench Common pleas Barons of the Exehecquer c. Lond. 1685. oct By whom this Book was transcrib'd I know not yet evident it is that it consists only of Rastalls Tables and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series c. at the end of his Origines juridiciales c. and published by some down-right plagiary purposely to get a little money Our Author Rastall hath also written and published Termes of the English Law Or les termes de la ley several times printed A collection in English of the statutes now in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta made 9. Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. c. fol. A collection of entries of declarations barres replications rejoynders issues verdicts c. Lond. 1566. 96. c. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit La Novel natura brevium Monsier Anton. Fitzherbert c. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment c. To which he also added a table This Book was printed several times one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct He also composed two tables one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgment of the Law Life of Sir Thom. More Knight Whether printed I cannot tell Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrot in English Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewell which go under the name of Rastall are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall as a certain Author would have it but by John Rastal a Theologist as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholick Religion died at Lovaine before-mention'd 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary near to the body of Wenefred his Wife who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace Father to Elizabeth Rastall the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN
PULLAYNE a Yorkshire Man born was educated in New Coll. of which he was either Clerk or Chaplain or both successively and in the Year 1547. being then 3 years standing Master of Arts and thirty years of Age was admitted one of the Senior Students of Ch. Ch. and much in esteem for his Lat. and English Poetry About that time he became a frequent Preacher and a zealous Reformer but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he absconded and preached privately to the brethren in the Parish of St. Michael on Cornhill in London where I find him in 1556. Afterwards he was forced beyond the Seas to Geneva but returned when Qu. Elizab. was in the regal Throne and had the Archdeaconry of Colchester bestowed on him lately enjoyed by Dr. Hugh Weston besides other spiritualities He hath written Tract against the Arrians And translated into English verse 1 The Ecclesiastes of Salomon 2 Hist of Susanna 3 Hist of Judith 4 Hist of Hester 5 Testament of the 12. Patriarchs He went the way of all flesh year 1565 in Fifteen hundred sixty and five which is all I know of him only that after his death fell out a controversie among his Relations for his estate under pretence that his Children were illegitimate because he had taken to him a Wife in K. Edwards Reign The Reader is to understand that there was one John Pollayne an Oxfordshire Man born elected and admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1507. but what he hath written I know not he being altogether different from the former notwithstanding Baleus is pleased to tell us that the said former Pullayne the Writer was of Merton Coll. which is false THOMAS CHALONER Son of Reg. Chaloner by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Rich. Middleton Son of Tho. Chaloner second Son of Rice Chaloner of Denbigh in Wales was born in London educated in both the Universities especially in that of Cambridge where for a time he devoted himself to the Muses as he did afterwards to Mars After he had left the University he travell'd beyond the Seas in the company of Sir Hen. Knevet Embassador from K. Hen. 8. to the Emperor Charles 5. Which Emperor T. Chaloner did afterwards serve in the expedition of Algier where being Shipwrack'd did after he had sworn till his strength and his armes failed him catch hold of a Cable with his teeth and so escaped but not without the loss of some of them In the beginning of K. Ed. 6. he received the honor of Knighthood in the camp besides Rokesborough immediatly after the battel of Musselborough wherein he had shewed great valour from Edward Duke of Somerset Lord Protector of England 27. Sept. 1547. and soon after was by him made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council In the time of Qu. Mary he mostly lived in a retir'd and studious condition but in the very beginning of Qu. Elizabeth an 1558. he went on an honorable Embassie to the Emperour Ferdinand such esteem then had the Queen for his port carriage and admirable parts and about an year after was sent ordinary Embassador to Philip K. of Spayne where he continued 4 years in which time at leisure hours he wrot his Book of a Commonwealth which I shall anon mention in elegant and learned verse whilst as he saith in his Preface to it be lived in Winter in a stove and in Summer in a barne Soon after his return from Spayne he ended his days as I shall tell you by and by having before written several things as A little Dictionary for Children De Rep. Anglorum instauranda lib. 10. Lond. 1579. qu. Which Book was by him began 25. Dec. 1562. and ended 21. Jul. 1564. De illustrium quorundam encorniis cum epigram epitaphiis nonnullis Printed with De Rep. Angl. Voyage to Algier with the Emperour an 1541. See in the first vol. of R. Hakluyts voyages He also translated from Lat. into English 1 The office of Servants Lond. 1543. oct written by Gilb. Cognatus which translation is dedicated to Sir H. Knevet before-mention'd 2 The praise of folly Lond. 1549. qu. written by Erasmus What other things he hath written and translated I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in his house in St. Johns near London on the nones of Octob. year 1565 in Fifteen hundred sixty and Five and was buried with a sumptuous Funeral according to his worth in the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul within the said City of London His Son Thomas I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1615. and his Grandson Edward under 1625. JOHN HEYWOOD or Heewood a most noted Poet and jester of his time was born in the City of London and notwithstanding he is said to be Civis Londinensis yet he laid a foundation of learning in this University particularly as it seems in that ancient Hostle called Broadgates in St. Aldates Parish But the crabbedness of Logick not suiting with his airie genie he retired to his native place and became noted to all witty Men especially to Sir Tho. More with whom he was very familiar wrot several matters of Poetry and was the first as some say but I think false that wrot English plays taking opportunity thence to make notable work with the Clergy He had admirable skill also in instrumental and vocal Musick but whether he made any compositions in either I find not He was in much esteem with K. H. 8. for the mirth and quickness of his conceits and tho he had little learning in him yet he was by that King well rewarded After Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was much valued by her often had the honor to wait on and exercise his fancy before her which he did even to the time that she lay langushing on her death-bed After her decease he left the Nation for Religion sake and setled at Mechlin in Brabant which is a wonder to some who will allow no Religion in Poets that this Person should above all of his Profession be a voluntary exile for it He hath written The Play called the four PP being a new and merry enterlude of a Palmer Pardoner Poticary and Pedler Printed at London in an old Engl. character in qu. and hath in the title page the pictures of three Men there should be 4 in old fashioned habits wrought off from a wooden cut Interludes printed at London The Play Of love The Play Of weather The Play Between John the Husband and Tib the Wife Interludes Printed at Lond. Play between the Pardoner and the Fryer the Curat and neighbor Pratt Play of gentleness and nobility in two parts The Pinner of Wakefeld a Comedie Philotas Scotch a Com. I have seen also an interlude of youth Printed at Lond. in an old English Char. temp Hen. 8. but whether Jo. Heywood was the Author of it I know not He also wrot A Dialogue containing the number in effect of all the proverbs in the English tongue compact
was afterwards Curate of Honey-lane in London and being much addicted to the Opinions of Martin Luther went to Oxon in 1526 and dispersed divers prohibited Books among his Acquaintance and Contemporaries as Anth. Delaber of S. Albans Hall afterwards a Civilian of Gloc. College Nich. Vdall and John Diot both of C C C. John Clerke Hen. Summer Will. Betts John Taverner a Musitian of Card. Coll. c. All which being Lutherans or Hereticks as they were then called suffer'd much At length Thomas Garret after several Flights from place to place Sculkings and Imprisonments was burnt in Smithfield near London with Dr. Robert Barnes and William Hierome an 1541 as John Fox in his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church will at large tell you Between the ending of one Register and the beginning of another are the Acts of the Congregation of this year wanting many of which were torn out from the former Mast of Arts. Their Admissions being all wanting in the public Register I therefore recurred to my MS. Book of Inceptions and there found that 30 Masters stood in the public Act or Comitia but none can I yet find who were afterwards Bishops Writers or Men of note Doct. of Civ Law … Will. Pigman was then admitted Doctor of the Civil and Canon Law Who were Candidates for either the Register which is imperfect this year as I have before told you shews not Doct. of Div. Apr… Richard Doke or Duck of Exeter Coll. He was about this time Canon of Exeter Cathedral and afterwards became Archdeacon of Wilts and of Salisbury in which last Dignity I find him to occurr 1536. After he was admitted Doctor he was made Commissary of the University as I have before told you May… Frat. John de Coloribus a Dominican See among the Writers under the year 1525. Feb… Ralph Barnack of New Coll. A Supplication was this year made for one Will. Woddysbury a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict but whether for the degree of Bach. or Doct. of Divinity it appears not because the Register of this year as I have told you is imperfect He was elected Lord Prior of Worcester in 1515 in the place of Thom. de Mildenham deceased and dying in 1518 he was succeeded by one William More who resigning upon a foresight of Ruin Hen. Holbeach alias Randes was elected Prior 13 March 1535 and afterwards became the first Dean of Worcester An. Dom. 1518. An. 10 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Rich. Duck D. of D. before mention'd Proct. John Stevyns of Oriel Roger Dyngley of Allsoules Coll. Bach. of Arts. Jul… Paul Bush He was afterwards the first B. of Bristol Thomas Elyot of S. Maries Hall Thomas Runcorne See among the M. of A. 1521. John Shene See among the M. of A. 1523. Jan… John Hoper or Hooper He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester and Worcester Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. c. Besides these were about 44 admitted and many that supplicated the ven Congregation for Admission Bach. of Can. Law Jul… John Gryffyth or Gruffyth He was afterwards Treasurer of Landaff Dean of S. Asaph and a Dignitary in the Church of Salisbury He concluded his last day in 1559. John Stanley was admitted in the same month About which time studied in this University Thomas Stanley who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Besides these were about six admitted and six or more that supplicated Bach. of Can. Law Jul… Frat. John Gregory a Brother of the Holy Trinity for or of the Redemption of Captives He was afterwards the last Minister or Perfect of the House or College of the Brethren of the Holy Trinity situated without the East Gate of the City of Oxford on the South side Jul… John Skelton See among the Writers under the year 1529. Thomas Parker See in these Fasti 1525. Feb. ult Fath. John Burton Prior of S. Frideswydes Monastery now Christ Church in Oxon. Richard Gwent of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Archdeacon of London and Dean of the Arches See in the year 1524. Besides these were about 16 admitted and 6 or thereabout that supplicated Mast of Art Jul… John Holyman of New Coll. In the year 1514 he took the degree of Bach. of the Can. Law and was long after this time made Bishop of Bristol Tho. Stanbridge of Magd. College an eminent Grammarian He was Brother or nearly related to John Stanbridge the most noted Grammarian of his time was Master of a School at Banbury much frequented for his sake and died in 1522. Besides these two were about 30 more admitted and some few that supplicated and about 40 that stood in two Acts celebrated this year Bach. of Div. Not one admitted and but about ten supplicated for that degree among whom were 1 Richard Yaxley a Benedictin Monk 2 Edward More of New Coll. who was admitted the eighth Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester 29 Oct. 1526 and dying 1541 was buried in the Choir of the Chappel there 3 Arnold Guy alias Buckfast a Cistercian Monk of S. Bernards Coll. in Oxon. He was afterwards Provisor or Prefect of that Coll. and an Abbat perhaps of Buckfast in Devonshire as may seem by his Arms or Rebus of his Name now or lately in one of the middle Chamber Windows of S. Bernards now called S. John Bapt. Coll. wherein is a Crosier thrust thro a Bucks face palewaies One William Arnold was the last Abbat of Merevale in Warwickshire of the Cistercian Order but what Relation he had to Arnold Guy I cannot tell Doct. of Civ Law Feb… John London of New Coll. He was about this time Canon of York and Lincoln afterwards Warden of New Coll. Canon of Windsore Prebendary of Shipton in the Church of Salisbury Dean of the Cath. Church of Osney near Oxon and of the collegiat Chappel of Walingford in Berks. He died in the Fleet Prison at London having been committed to that place for Perjury an 1543 and was succeeded in his Canonry of Windsore by Fr. Mallet D. D. and the Kings Chaplain afterwards Confessor to Qu. Mary and Dean of Lincoln Of this Dr. London you may read much in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. penned by John Fox who loads his Memory with a great deal of ill Language Doct. of Can. Law Febr… Richard Banger or Benger of New Coll. who had been a Candidate for that degree in 1512 was then admitted He was afterwards Commissary of the University Three there were this year that supplicated to be Doctors of the Can. Law viz. 1 Robert Bysse Doct. of the Civ Law mention'd among the Incorporations an 1513. 2 Will. Cleyton Bach. of the Canon and 3 Lendricus Predi Bach. of the Civil Law Doct. of Phys June… Edward Fynch Thomas Bentley of New Coll. I have made mention of Edward Fynch different I suppose from this Physitian among the Masters of Arts an 1504. Doct. of Div. Tho. Knolles of Magd. Coll. a
Heton D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. July 10. Proct. Tho. Ravis of Ch. Ch. Mathew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Musick July 8. Thomas Morley one of the Gentlemen of her Majesties Royal Chappel This person tho he had not so excellent a hand on the Organ as Bull had yet his Compositions were admirable in their time as 1 Consonets or little short songs to three Voices Lond. 1593. qu. 2 The first book of Madrigalls to four Voices Lond. 1594 qu. 3 The first book of Ballets to five Voices Lond. 1595. in a large qu. 4 Madrigalls to five Voices Lond. 1595 in a large qu. 5 Introduction to musick Lond. 1597 c. in a thin fol. This last Book which shews the Authour to have been admirably well skill'd in the theoretick part of Musick hath afforded some matter to Christop Simpson when he composed his Compendium of Musick but more to the Author of An introduction to musick Lond. 1655 c. oct published by John Playford a Seller of musical Books and Paper near the Inner Temple Gate Lond. and a practitioner in Musick who as I have been informed had the assistance of Charles Pidgeon of Greys Inn in the drawing it up The said Morley also hath composed Divine Services and Anthems the words of some of which are published and also collected and published Madrigalls the triumphs of Oriana to five and six Voices composed by divers Authors Lond. 1601 qu. Among which Authors Tho. Morley is one Michael Est Joh. mundy Joh Hilton Rich. Carlton Tho. Hunt Edw. Johnson George Marson c. all Bachelaurs of Musick were others which last was nearly related to Simon Marson a Servant to Sir Thom. Mounson in the time of K. Jam. 1. and a good Musitian as you may see elsewhere The said Thomas Morley had been bred up under the most famous Musitian Mr. Will. Byrde one of the Organists belonging to Queen Elizab. I mean the same Byrde who was Author and Composer of Graduallia seu cantionum sacrarum quarum aliae ad quatuor aliae vero ad quinque sex voces editae sunt Lond. 1610. qu. in 6 Vol. Also of several Divine Services and Anthems in English the words of which are extant and of a most admired Composition of forty parts but this last is not yet extant I say by this Byrde's endeavours the said Morley became not only excellent in Munck as well in the theoretical as practical part but also well seen in the Mathematicks in which Byrde was excellent July 3. John Dowland one of the Gent. of her Majesties Royal Chappel was then also with Tho. Morley adm Bach. of Musick He enjoyed the same place also when King James 1. came to the Crown being then esteemed a most admirable Lutinist about which time an Anagram was made on his name Johannes Doulandus running thus annos ludendi hausi He was the rarest Musitian that his Age did behold and therefore admired by foreign Princes among whom the King of Denmark was one who being infinitely taken with his playing when he was in England to visit his Sister the Queen an 1606 took him with him at his return to Denmark where as 't is supposed he died He hath among other things written Necessary observations belonging to Lute-playing Lond. 1610 in a thin fol. printed with Variety of Lute lessons published by his Son Rob. Douland a most excellent Lutinist also who before while his Father was absent had been trained up to the Lute by excellent Masters at the care and charge of Sir Tho. Mounson before-mention'd The said Rob. Douland published also of his own composition A musical banquet Lond. 1610. in a thin fol. and The pilgrims solace for three and four parts c. which was composed by him as it seems and not by his Father Bach. of Arts. May 6. John Hoskyns senior of New Coll. June 12. Sam. Burton of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1591. Jan. 13. Mathew Slade of S. Albans Hall Henry Wotton of Queens Coll. supplicated in June for the degree of Bach. of Arts but I cannot find him admitted or his name among the Determiners in the Lent following Adm. 114. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Feb… Henry Cromwell Fellow of S. Johns Coll. This person who was third Son of Sir Henry Cromwell of Hinchinbrook in Huntingdonshire Knight I put not down here as a Writer or learned man but only that he was a noted Gent. of his Country had a fair Estate at Vpwood there was a Justice of Peace and Uncle to Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England See among the Bach. of Law an 1599. Adm. 14. Mast of Art Dec. 23. Rich. Latewar of S. Joh. Jul. 2. Alexand. Cook of Vnivers Feb. 20. Henr. Cuffe of Mert. Coll. In the month of June Will. Camden Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. supplicated by his Dean or Censor that whereas it was 16 years since he took the degree of Bach. of Arts three solemn Lectures pro forma performed by him might be sufficient for the taking the degree of Mast of Arts which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should stand in the Act following but his Admission and Inception occurs not Here you see is mention made that he was Bach. of Arts which if true for no such matter occurs in the Register of that time then must that Will. Camden mention'd under the year 1573 be the same person who was afterwards known by the Title of Clarentius and sirnamed The learned See more among the Creations an 1612. Admit 64. Bach. of Div. July 4. Robert Temple M. A. of Magd. Coll. He hath published A Sermon concerning the abuses of the Church preached at Pauls Cross on 1 Cor. 14. 1. Lond. 1592 he being then Chaplain to John Bishop of London What else he hath written or published I know not nor any thing besides only he was an Oxfordshire man born Adm. 4 Doct. of Law Jul. 9. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. He was the only person admitted Doctor of his Faculty this year ☞ Not one Doct. of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 4. Thom. Mountfort a Compounder This worthy Doctor who was Son of John Mountfort of the City of Norwych was now or about this time Prebendary of Harleston and Residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul as also Prebendary of Westminster in which last Dignity he succeeded one Thomas whom some call John Browne an 1584. He died in London 27 Feb. 1632 and was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Tewing in Hertfordshire whereupon one Gabr. More sometimes Chaplain in the House of George Villiers the first Duke of Buckingham of his name succeeded him in Westm but who in the Residentiaryship in S. Pauls I cannot yet tell He left behind him a Son named John Mountfort D. of D. and Rector of Austie in Hertfordshire who being a most zealous man for the Church of England suffer'd much in the time of the Rebellion
of Mrs. Mary Swaine the Wife of Mr. Will. Swaine at St. Botolphs without Aldersgate on Luke 10. 42. Lond. 1611. oct and perhaps other things He died about the beginning of November this year 1614 and was buried I presume in his Church of St. Martin beforementioned Mar. 23. Philip King M. A. of the same University Another of both his names was of this University as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1618. and 1645. This year Charles de Beauvais of the Isle of Guernsey a young Man most conversant in the study of learned arts was entred a Student in Bodies Library but whether he was matriculated as a member of any Coll. or Hall it appears not He is the same Ch. de Beauvais without doubt who was afterwards Author of 1 Dedisciplinis scientiis in genere de recto ordine quo sunt in Scholis Academiis docendae c. 2 Recta delineatio disciplinae Vniversalis seu primae Philosophiae itemque Logicae Which two were printed at Lond. 1648. in oct 3 Exercitations concerning the pure and true and the impure and false religion Lond. 1665. oct at which time the Author was Rector of Witheham in Sussex An. Dom. 1615. An. 13. Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Lord Egerton Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again July 17. Proct. Hugh Dicus of Brasn Coll. Richard Baylie of St. John Coll. Apr. 19. Bach. of Arts. May 4. John Bayly of Exet. Coll. 5. Steph. Geree of Magd. Hall July 5. Cornelius Burges of Wadh. 7. Charles Herle of Exeter Nov. 9. Francis Gough of New Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Dec. 13. James Lamb of Brasn College afterwards of St. Maries Hall Feb. 5. Thom. Twittie of Oriel 6. Thom. Paybody of Merton Coll. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1633 and of the other among the Masters of Arts an 1624. 7. John Brian of Queen Coll. I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same John Brian who published a funeral Sermon called The vertuous Daughter on Prov. 31. ver 29. Lond. 1636. qu. c. and perhaps other things Quaere 26. Alexander Gill Son of Alexander lately of Trin. Coll. now of Wadham and afterwards of Trinity again Five of these Bachelaurs namely Geree Burges Herle Lamb and Gill will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 203. Bach. of Law June Tho Merriot John South John Crook of New Coll. The first who will be mention'd in the next volume was a good Latinist and Orator The second was afterwards the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue and at length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Hyde Chauntor of Salisbury 24. Sept. 1666. He died at Writtle in Essex of which place he was Vicar in August 1672 and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Chauntorship was confer'd on Dr. Dan. Whitbye of Trin. Coll. As for the last John Crook he was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. 〈◊〉 Winchester Prebendary of the Cathedral there and Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magd. near to that City Admitted 9. Mast of Arts. May 3. Jerem. Stephens of Brasn 20. Will. Nicholson of Magd. Coll. Jun. 15. Rob. Weldon Barten Holyday of Ch. Ch. 17. Will. Thomas of Brasn Tho. Vicaâ— of Qu. 27. Griff. Higgs of Mert. Coll. Admitted 106. Bach. of Div. July 13. Sampson Price of Exeter Coll. Nov. 23. Edm. Gunter Samuel Fell Hen. Whistler of Trin. of Ch. Ch. Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. March 4. Fredericus Dorvilius of Exeter Coll. He writes himself Aquisgranensis natione Palatinus educatione being at this time a Sojournour in the said Coll. for the sake of Dr. Prideaux the Rector whom he much admired Adm. 15. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick July 3. Clement Westcombe of New Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in Physick He was about this time held in great value for the happy success in the practice of his faculty in and near the City of Exeter where he died in 1652 or thereabouts Doct. of Div. Mar. 27. Sam. Radcliff Principal June 17. John Barnston of Brasn Coll. The last of which who was now Chaplain to Egerton Lord Chancellour of England was about this time Canon Residentiary of Salisbury and afterwards a Benefactor to learning as I have told you elsewhere He lived to see himself outed of his spiritualities and dying 30. May 1645 was buried as it seems at Everton in Wilts Jun. 27. â—arnab Potter of Queens July 6. John King of Merton Coll. The last of these two was installed Canon or Preb. of the twelfth and last stall in the Collegiat Church at Westminster on the death of Dr. Will. Barlow Bish of Linc. an 1613 and this year 1615 Nov. 23 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Mardoche Aldem deceased He died 7. Aug. 1638 and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. See more among the Creations in the year following Feb. 27. Jasper Swyft of Ch. Ch. March 14. John Barcham of C. C. 21. John Davies of Lincoln Coll. Incorporations July 11. Will. Spicer Bach. of Law of Cambridge See among the Incorporations 1618. Abraham Gibson M. A. of the said University was incorporated the same day and again on the 15. July 1617. This Person who was afterwards Preacher to the Temples in London hath published 1 The Lands mourning for vain swearing Sermon on Jerem. 23. 10. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Christianae-polemica or a narrative to War Serm. at Wool-church in London before the Captains and Gentlemen of exercise in the Attillery-garden on Judg. 7. 18. Lond. 1619. oct and not unlikely other things He was afterwards D. of D. and dying in or near one of the Temples was buried near to the Communion Table in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Temples 5. Januar. 1629. July 11. Godfrey Goodman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge See more of him among the Bishops in Miles Smith an 1624. Samuel Purchas Bach. of Div. of the said University was incorporated the same day This worthy Divine who is by some stiled our English Ptolemy was born in the County of Essex either at Dunmow or Thacksted but in what Coll. or Hall in Cambridge educated I cannot yet tell After he had left the University he became Minister of Eastwood in Rochford hundred in his own Country but being desirous to forward and prosecute his natural Genie he had to the collecting and writing of voyages travels and pilgrimages left his cure to his Brother and by the favour of the Bishop of London got to be Parson of St. Martins Church within Ludgate He hath written and published 1 Pilgrimage or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered from the Creation to this present c. in 4 parts Lond. 1614. fol. second edit and there again 1626. fol. 2 Purchas his Pâ—â—grims
to Oxon again and was readmitted to his Fellowship of Vniv. Coll. by the Master and Fellows thereof an 1644 submitted to the Parliamentarian Visitors an 1648 and was the only Man of the old stock that was then left therein Afterwards going to London for a time died in Fetter alias Feuter lane near to Fleetstreet an 1651. in the Summer time whereupon his body was buried in St. Dunstans Church in the West Apr. 13. James Smith of Line June 17. Nath. Holmes of Exet. Coll. July 3. Tho. Twittie of Oriel Coll. This Person who was a Ministers Son of Worcestersh became a Student of the said Coll. of Or. an 1611. aged 17 years and after he had taken the Degrees in Arts became successively Schoolmaster of Evesham in his own Country Minister of St. Laurence Church there Vicar of North Leigh in Oxfordshire beneficed afterwards again in his own Country and at length became Minister of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey He hath published 1 Ad clerum pro forma concio habita in templo B. Mariae Oxon 13. Mar. 1634 in 1. Pet. 3. 8. Ox. 1640. qu. 2 The Art of Salvation Sermon at St. Maries in Oxon on Acts 6. 30. 31. Printed 1643. qu. He died at Kingston beforemention'd in the latter end of the year 1667 and was there buried July 10. George Hughes of Pembr Nov. 7. Rich. Toogood of Oriel Coll. 9. Joh. Sedgwick of Magd. Hall Jan. 28. Hen. Hammond of Magd. Coll. Admitted 24. Doct. of Law Jun. 3. Will. Nevill of Mâ—rt Coll. Tho. Temple of St. Edm. Hall The first of these two was Chancellour of Chichester and both the Sons of Knights 27. Joseph Martin of Wadham Coll. Doct. of Physick Jun. 21. Edw. Dawson of Line Anton. Saltâ—r of Exet. Coll. Both which were eminent Physicians of their time and age Doct. of Div. Apr. 3. Hen. Glemham of Trin. 13. Peter Heylyn of Magd. June…Rich Downe of Ex. Coll. July 16. Rich. Baylie President of St. Johns Coll. On the 7. of Feb. 1627. this Dr. Baylie who was then Bach. of Div. and one of the Kings Chaplains as also a Dignitary in the Church of St. David was collated to the Archdeaconry of Nottingham upon the promotion of Dr. Jos Hall to the See of Exeter Which Dignity he resigning was succeeded by Dr. Will. Robinson Brother by the Mothers side to Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Cant. who was installed therein 25. of May 1635 At which time Dr. Baylie was Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Edm. Mason whom I shall anon mention in the Incorporation He died in a good old age at Salisbury after he had suffer'd much for his loyalty to K. Ch. 1. on the 27. of July 1667 and was buried at the upper end of St. Johns Coll. Chap. on the right side of the grave of Dr. Will. Juxon somtimes Archb. of Cant. In the year 1662 he built a little Chappel at his own charge and not at that of St. Joh. Coll. as by a mistake is elsewhere told you situat and being on the North side of the said Chappel of St. Johns with a vault underneath In which Chappel was soon after his death a stately Monument erected with the Effigies of him the said Dr. Baylie lying thereon curiously engraven in alabaster from head to foot and much resembling him in his last days One Richard Baylie sometimes Minister of Crawley in Sussex wrot The Shepheards star or Ministers guide Conc. ad Cler. in Apoc. 1. 16. Lond. 1640. qu. At which time the Author as it seems was dead But where he was educated being quite different from the former I know not July 16. Thomas Lawrence of All 's Pet. Wentworth of Ball. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Master of Balliol College and Margaret Professor of this University The other who was an Esquires Son of Northamptonshire and Fellow of the said College of Balliol was afterwards made Dean of Armagh by Tho. Earl of Strafford Lord Deputy of Ireland But when the rebellion broke out in that Kingdom he lost all and fled into England where living obscurely till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. refused to return to his Deanery or be made a Bishop there and accepted only of the rectory of Haseley in Oxfordshire He died in the City of Bathe 22. July 1661. aged 60 years and was buried in the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the north side of the stately tomb of Dr. James Mountague sometimes Bishop of the said City In his Epitaph engraven on a brass plate fastned to a plain white stone laying over his grave he is thus charactarized Patriciorum proles doctrinae maritus Summus Hyberniae Decanus Angliae Praeconum Primas c. One Peter Wentworth who was Rector of Much Bromley in Essex and Chaplain to Thomas Lord Darcie hath published A Sermon on Psal 2. 10. 11. Lond. 1587. in oct and is the same if I mistake not who wrot An exhortation to Qu. Elizabeth and discourse of the true and lawful successor printed in 1598. oct But whether he was of this University I cannot yet find or whether he took any Degree or was incorporated July 19. John Elly of Merton Coll. who accumulated In 1623. he was made Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thomas Oates deceased 20. Thom. Walker Master of Vniv. Coll. and Preâ— of Litton in the Church of Wells Oct. 7. Arth. Wingham of St. Joh. Feb. 27. Hugh Williams of Jes Coll. This Dr. Williams who was Father to Sir Will. Williams of Greys Inn Baronet and several times Speaker of the House of Commons was now or afterwards beneficed at Kantrisant in the Country of Anglesie where he died in 1670. Incorporations May 9. Jam. Howson M. of A. of Cambridge Oct. 24 Will. Hatton Doctor of Physick of the University of Padua Sam. Bispham a Lancashire Man born and Doct. of Phys of the University of Leyden in Holland was incorporated about the same time Afterwards he practised his faculty in London where he died in 1664. Feb. 6. David Cunningham M. of A. of the Univ. of Glascow in Scotland He had lately received holy orders from James Spotswood Bishop of Clogher in the Church of Clogher in Ireland This year was a supplicate made for one Edmund Mason D. of D. to be incorporated but whether he was really so it appears not All that I can say of him is that he was Tutor to Prince Charles that he became Dean of Salisbury 20. March 1629 on the promotion of Dr. John Bowle or Bowles to the See of Rochester and dying in his house in Petty-France in the City of Westminster on the 24. of March 1634 was buried in the North cross part of the Abbey Church of St. Peter near to the Convocation House Creations Apr. 1. Thomas Turner Bachelaur of Divinity lately Fellow of St. Johns Coll. and now one of his Majesties Chaplains was actually created Doct. of Divinity being by his Majesties command to go with him in
Frampton in Lincolnshire in which Town this our Author Joh. Claymond received his first breath From thence when he was a Boy he was sent to Oxon where after he had compleated his Grammar learning in the School near to Magd. Coll. great Gate being then within and not without the said Gate he was made Demie first and in 1488 perpetual Fellow of that College About that time entring into holy Orders and becoming famous for his great learning piety and gravity was constituted President of the said College about 1504 took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity three Years after and within three more after that time supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be licensed to proceed in that faculty but whether he was admitted it appears not About that time several Dignities and Ecclesiastical Benefices were bestowed on him among which were the Rectory of West-mongton in Somersetshire which he obtained by the resignation of the Honourable Rich. Grey from Richard the Abbat and the Convent of Glastenbury in the Month of July 1506. the Prebendship of Whitchurch in the Cathedral Church of Wells to which belongs the Church of Beningar in Somersetshire and the vicaridge of the Collegiate Church of Norton in the Dioc. of Durham which he resign'd in 1518 reserving to himself any yearly pension from it of 20 Marks to be paid by the Abbat and Convent of Selby of the Order of St. Bennet in Yorkshire At length upon the desire of Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester he left his Presidentship of Magd. Coll. and was by him made President of that of C. C. when founded by him an 1516. Which place being of less value than the former the said Bishop did in recompence give him the rich Rectory of Clyve called by some Bishops Clyve in Glocestershire which he kept to his dying day He was a Person of great gravity of most exact example in his life and conversation very charitable and devout and had nothing wanting in him to compleat a Theologist And as he was esteemed a learned Divine by some so a better Philosopher by others as it appears by his Book intit Notae observationes in Plinii naturalem historiam In 4. Volumes in MS. in C. C. Coll. Library Of which Book and its Author hear what Mich. Neander saith de quo nobis retulit aliquando Operinus noster quòd in totum Plinii opus eruditos commentarios scripserit ad se excudendos jam pridem miserit cur autem non fuerint excusi ab Operino puto sumptus ad tantum optis imprimendum defuisse c. Dr. Jo. Cay the Antiquary of Cambridge doth speak something to the same purpose who stiles them Scholia eruditiss viri Johan Claymondi in omnes Caii Plinii Naturalis Historiae libros c. but adds that the Scholia on the two first Books were lost after his death He Claymond also wrot In MS. and not as I conceive printed Comment in Aulii Gellii Noctes Atticas Com. in Plautum Epistolae ad Simon Grinaeum A Treatise of repentance This is in MS. written with his own hand in 4 sheets in fol. which I have in my Library of MSS. The beginning of it is It is the property and condition of every wise Man c. At length arriving to a good old Age paid his last debt to nature 19. Nov. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried in the choire of C. C. Coll. under that very place where the Rectors of the choire sing the Psalm intit Venite exultemus Over his Grave was soon after a Marble stone laid with an Inscription thereon provided and made by himself with void spaces left for the day and year when he died to be filled up by his Executor or Overseer of his Will but were never performed The Copy of the Inscription you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. his Character and Encomium in Jo. Leland and his benefactions to Magdalen Corp. Christi and Brasenose Colleges in the aforesaid Hist Antiq. JOHN HELYAR a Hampshire Man born was admitted Probationer Fellow of Corpus Ch. Coll. 1. June 1522. and Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1524. But instead of having that degree compleated by Determination in the Lent following in the publick Schools he had the Degree of M. of A. conferr'd upon him being then taken into the patronage of the magnificent and generous Cardinal Tho. Wolsey who held him in high value for his extraordinary sufficiencies in the Lat. Greek and Hebrew Tongues In all which especially in Poetry and Humanity he was so well vers'd that he exceeded most if not all Persons of his time Whether the said Cardinal did afterwards promote him to a Canonry or Readers place in his new Coll. at Oxon I know not Sure I am that after his fall our Author supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences and about the same time wrot Comment in Ciceronem pro M. Marcello Scholia in Sophoclem Com. in Epistolas Ovidii Epitaphium D. Erasmi Roterodami Written in Gr. and Lat. with other things besides his translation from Greek into Lat. St. Chrysostom's Tract De providentia fato c. This our Author Helyar who had acquaintance with the said Erasmus was held in admiration by all the Vertuosi in the 29. Hen. 8. JOHN FOREST or Forest whose sirname had several Years before he was born lived within the City of Oxon but whether of his Family I cannot yet tell was from his Childhood educated in Piety and Learning Afterwards when he attained to the 17th Year of his Age he took upon him the habit of St. Francis at Greenwich in Kent as it seems and at about 26 Years of Age was instructed in Theological Studies for a time among the Brethren of that Order living without Watergate in the South Suburb of Oxon. What Degrees he took here it appears not yet sure I am that in order for the taking of the Degree of Bach. Div. he supplicated the Ven. Regents that he might be admitted to oppose in that faculty but whether he was admitted it appears not and so consequently that he was not Bachelaur much less Doctor as some report unless in another University beyond the Seas for at Cambridge he had not that Degree conferr'd upon him if the Tables at the end of Antiquitates Britannicae are right Afterwards he was taken into the Service of Queen Catherine the Consort of King Hen. 8. whose love being great towards virtue and learning she made him her Confessor About that time he was constituted the one and fortieth Provincial Minister of his Order as an eminent Brother thereof doth really suppose from certain Writings relating to the quarrels between the Order and Card. Wolsey Which Provincialship had before been enjoyed by Steph. Baron Confessor to K. Hen. 8. and sometimes a frequent Preacher in the University of Cambridge Soon after when that good Queen
made him to be much esteem'd by learned Men in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. JOHN GRIFFIN or Griffith a Welsh Man born and a Monk of the Order of Cistercians in the Monastery of Hales Owen in Worcestershire was educated among those of his Order in the College of St. Bernard in the North Suburb of Oxon but what degree he took I cannot yet find Several of both his names and of his time have taken Degrees in the Canon Law and Divinity but which of them is this that I am now upon I cannot say He is reported to have been a pious and learned Man but being unacquainted with the dealings of the World had like to have been drawn over to the Reformed Religion but was in due time fastned in his faith again to the great joy of the Rom. Catholicks who held him to be a most excellent Preacher whether in the Lat. or English tongue He hath published Conciones aestuales Conciones hyemales With other things which I have not yet seen As for the time of his death and place of burial I cannot yet find he having been several Years thrust out of his Monastery at the dissolution of Religious Houses He was living in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. and perhaps in that of Qu. Mary NICHOLAS KRACH or Karche or Chracher Kratcher or Kratzer so many ways I find him written was born at Munchen in Bavaria and educated in the Universities of Colen and Wyttenberg till he was Bach. of Arts Afterwards coming into England and at length to the knowledge of Fox Bishop of Winchester was made by him Fellow of his College called Corpus Christi and admitted thereunto on the fourth of July 1517. About that time he reading Astronomy in the University by the command of K. Hen. 8. was soon after made by Cardinal Wolsey his Mathematick Reader when he first settled his Lectures there In Feb. 1522. he was incorporated Bach. of Arts as he had stood at Colen and Wyttenberg and in the same Month was licensed to proceed in Arts which Degree he compleated in an Act celebrated 23. March following being then esteemed ita bonus probus ut majore quam Mathematicorum fortuna sit dignus ita suae Artis peritus ut solus isthic artifex habere debeat He wrot at the desire of Will. Tyler one of the Grooms of K. Hen. 8. his Belchamber Canones Horopti MS. This Book which is dedicated to K. Hen. 8. in Corp. Chr. Coll. Library and no doubt there is but that other Copies of it are in other places De Compositione Horologeorum MS. in the said Library This is generally said to be his as the Annotation at the end may in part prove it He made the old Dial which is at this day in C. C. C. Garden and that standing on a Pillar in St. Maries South Church-yard in the High Streat of the City of Oxon. On which soon after was hung up the Universities condemnation of the Doctrin of Luther This famous Mathematician of his time was living in the Year 1550. 4 Ed. 6. and after his death which I think soon followed many of his Books came into the hands of that eminent Mathematician Dr. John Dee and some into those of Dr. Rich. Forster a noted Physician and Mathematician also See more of this Nich. Kratzer in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 247. b. lib. 2. p. 35. b. DAVID CLAPHAM the eldest Son and Heir of Job Claph and he the fourth Son of Tho. Claph of Beamesley in Yorkshire Esq was born as I conceive in that County and after he had spent some time in Trivials did solely addict his mind to the study of the Civil Law but whether he took a Degree in that faculty in doth not appear Afterwards he retired to Doctors Commons became a noted Proctor in the Arches and for his ingenuity and good natural parts was beloved of Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State to K. Ed. 6. and other noted Men of that time praeter Legis peritiam in qua plurimum excellebat as one who knew him well tell us in diversis scientiis eruditus fuit He hath translated from Latin into English 1 A Treatise of Nobility 2 The excellency of Womenâ—kind Both Printed at Lond. 1542. in oct and written originally by Corn. Agrippa 3 The praise of Matrimony Lond. in oct written by the said Agrippa and Erasmus What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him only that after by his endeavors he had obtained a considerable Estate he concluded his last day in his House near to Doct. Com. year 1551 on the 14 of July in Fifteen hundred fifty and one Whereupon his body was buried in the then now Church of St. Faith under part of the Cath. Church of St. Paul within the City of London leaving behind him several Children which he had by Joan his Wife the eldest of which was Thomas whose posterity did lately remain at Helpeston in Northamptonshire ANTHONY COPE Son of Will. Cope or Coope of Banbury in Oxfordshire Esq sometimes Cofferer to K. Hen. 7. by Joan his second Wife Daughter and Heir of John Spencer of Hodnell in Warwickshire was educated in this University but in what Coll. unless in Oriel wherein studied several of his Sirname in the time of K. Hen. 8. and K. Ed. 6. I know not Afterwards he went into France Germany Italy and elsewhere in which places visiting the Universities and joyning his company to the most learned Men of them became an accomplished Gentleman wrot several things beyond the Seas as well as at home as it appears from certain Authors and from an Epigram made in his praise by Joh. Bapt. Mantuan Among them is only this known to Authors Godly meditations on 20 select Psalms necessary for them that desire to have the dark words of the Prophet declared Also for those that delight in the contemplation of the spiritual meaning of them Lond. 1547. qu. The twenty Psalms that the meditations are on are the 1. 6. 12. 13. 23. 32. 49. 51. 73. 84. 90. 102. 103. 104. 116. 121. 130. 138. 139. 146. Afterwards he received the honor of Knighthood and dying in Summer time in Fifteen hundred fifty and one year 1551 was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Hanwell near to Banbury in Oxfordshire leaving then behind him a Son named Edward As for Will. Cope or Coope Cofferer to K. Hen. 7. before-mentioned he purchased an Estate in and near to Banbury and dying 7. Apr. 1513. was buried in the Church at Banbury I find one Michael Cope to have been a zealous Calvinist at Geneva and other places a frequent Preacher in the French Tongue and Author in the French Language of 1 A faithful and familiar exposition on Ecclesiastes an 1557. Which edition being amended and corrected was published again at Geneva 1563. in qu. 2 A godly and
Divinity proceeded Doctor therein an 1542. at which time he was one of the Fellows of Whyttingdon Coll. in London and having a Chamber in Brasenose took Commons there when he receeded to the University for conversation sake with Men and Books In the time of K. Edw. 6. he seemed to be a zealous Reformer was then if not before made Rector of Wygan in his own Country and took to him a Wife who lived not long with him for when Qu. Mary came to the Crown they were separated In 1550. Aug. 2. he was installed the second Canon of the eighth Canonry of the Church of Worcester in the place of Rog. Stanford deceased When Qu. Mary ruled the Scepter he wheeled about and seeing what great mischief was like to follow upon the translation of the Bible into the English tongue in the time of K. Ed. 6. and before bestirred himself so much about it that he found means to have the matter proposed in Parliament in the beginning of Queen Mary that all such Bibles that were in the English tongue should be prohibited and burn'd This being very displeasing to many he was hated of them and therefore one after his usual manner calls him Morio and Scurra and another as foul'mouth'd as he Dr. Inkpot and a blenking Coxcomb who married against his conscience as he saith more fit to make a riding fool than Chaplain for a King This being the language of two zealous reformers incited one of another opinion who was after them in time to characterize our Author Standish to be Vir doctrina pietate fide divinae gloriae zelo conspicuâ—s His works are A little treatise against the protestation of Rob. Barnes at the time of his death Lond. 1540. oct Which R. Barnes was burn'd in Smithfield 3. Jul. 32. Hen. 8. Dom. 1540. Soon after came out a confutation of the said little treatise in oct Treatise of the Union of the Church Lond. 1556. Written to Card. Pole Treatise against the translation of the Bible in the vulgar Language with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature about the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 but whether buried at Worcester or Wygan I know not In his Canonry succeeded one Leonard Pollard Bach. of Div. and Chaplain to Dr. Pates Bishop of Worcester who having written Five Sermons were after they had been revised by Dr. Bonner B. of Lond. printed there 1556 in qu. This Pollard who was not of the University of Oxon that I can find died about the beginning of March the same Year 1556 having enjoyed his Canonry but few Months Of the same Family of Standish I find another very active Person of his time named Rich. Standish LL. D. and Parson of Standish in Lancashire but his education had been in Cambridge who dying at London in his Lodging in or near to Pater-noster-row in the Winter time 1552 was as 't is probable buried in the Church of St. Faith under the Cathedral of St. Paul JOHN BYRDE received his first breath within the City of Coventrie descended if I mistake not from the ancient Family of his name in Cheshire educated in Theologicals in the House or Coll. of the Carmes he being one of that order in the University of Oxon. where making considerable proficiency in his studies was admitted to oppose in Divinity in the publick School of that faculty in the beginning of May 1510 and in June following was admitted to the reading of the Sentences In 1513 he proceeded in the said faculty and three Years after was made Provincial of his Order throughout England But he enjoying that office only three Years was succeeded therein by one Rob. Lesbury who keeping it till 1522 Byrde came in again and continued Provincial till the dissolution of Monasteries When the Pope was like to lose his Power in England be became a zealous Preacher for the King's Supremacy for which being rewarded with a Bishoprick in Ireland as Baleus saith who calls it Episcopatus Penricensis tho Waraeus remembers no such place was translated thence to Bangor an 1539 The temporalities of which See he received by the title of the King's Chaplain only without that of Episc Penricensis on the 9. Sept. the same Year In 1541 he was translated to Chester made the first Bishop thereof and paid his obedience to the Archb. of York 13. Apr. 1542 where he continued till the Reign of Qu. Mary He wrot and published Lectures on St. Paul De fide justificante lib. 1. Learned homelies With an Epicede on one Edmund in Prose At length when Queen Mary came to the Crown he was notwithstanding he complyed with that time deprived of his Bishoprick for being married and living at Chester with his Wife year 1556 till Fifteen hundred fifty and six then died but in an obscure condition Whereupon his Body was buried in the Cathedral Church there In the said See succeeded Dr. George Cootes as I shall tell you when I come to speak of the Bishops under the Year 1555. RICHARD MORYSINE or Morison was born in Oxfordshire as 't is reported spent several Years in this University in Logicals and Philosophicals took a Degree in Arts afterwards travelled and making great improvement in the Latin and Greek tongues became an accomplish'd Gentleman and well known among the great Men of his time In 1537 Jul. 17. he being newly return'd from Padöua was made Prebendary of Yatminster secunda in the Church of Salisbury on the promotion of Reginald Pole Which Dignity he keeping till 1539. Hen. Cole of New Coll. succeeded At length being commended for a Person of worth and parts to K. Hen 8. was by him sent Ambassador to the Emperor Charles the 5. as he was afterwards by K. Ed. 6. In whose Reign being a Person zealous for reformation was by him appointed one of the number of such that were to reform this University of Oxon an 1549. At which time he shew'd himself a great friend to and a Protector of Pet. Martyr when he encountred the Trimviri in a solemn disputation in the Divinity School Afterwards having the honor of Knighthood conferr'd upon him being then esteemed a great learned Man he went into Italy and in his return died in Germany as I shall anon tell you His works are partly these Apomaxis calumniarum convitiorumque quibus Johan Coclaeus homo Theologus exiguus artium professor c. Henrici 8. nomen obscurare rerum gestarum gloriam faedare nuper edita non tam ad regem quam in regis invidiam epistola studuit Lond. 1537. qu. Dedicated to Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State An exhortation to stir all English Men to the defence of their Country Lond. 1539. oct Invective against the great and detestable vice treason c. Lond. 1539. oct Comfortable consolation for the birth of Prince Edward rather than sorrow for the death of Qu. Jane
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
much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing which he exercised as well in the publick Schools as at home Soon after he was licensed by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law but took no Degree therein in this University And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560 he went thereupon into Ireland where if I mistake not he was born and prosecuting his studies there as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues expert in the Mathematicks a proper Antiquary and an exact Divine His pen was not lazie as one saith but dayly breeding of learned books He wrot Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta And an oration also entit De Ligno Faeno Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College which was no other than a Christmas Lord or a Lord or King of misrule He hath written many other things which being done and printed beyond the Seas we see them but seldom or never in these parts JAMES WALSH an Irish Man born was educated in this University but what Degrees he took there I find not In the Year 1572 and belike before he had a Chamber and took his commons in Hart hall being then a Student in Divinity with Mr. Leonard Fitz-Simons his Countryman Both whom are entituled Magistri that year in the Matricula of the University under Aula cervina The said Jam. Walsh hath written Epigrammata diversa With other things of the like nature and translated into English The Topography of Ireland written in Lat. by Silv. Giraldus Which translation with Scholia's was made also much about the same time by Joâ— Hooker alias Vowell of the City of Exeter as you may see elsewhere In the time of this Jam. Walsh studied in Hart hall also divers of his Country men of Ireland some of whom having been afterwards Men of note or else writers you shall have their names as they follow 1 David Clere Bach. of Arts 1565. 2 Nich. Clere of the County of Kilkenny matriculated 1567. aged 19 3 David Sutton a Gentlemans Son of Kildare 1571 aged 16. 4 Pet. Nangle a Gent. Son of Dublin 1571. aged 15 5 Rich. Walsh a Merchants Son of Waterford aged 15. an 1572. 6 Rob. Boteler a Merch. Son of the said City aged 23. an 1572. 7 George Sherlock the Son of a Merchant also of the same City at 17. an 1572. 8 Rich. Masterson a Gent. Son of Wexford aet 15. an 1573. 9 Nich. Gaydon an Esq Son of Dublin aet 19. an 1574. 10 Tho. Finglas a Gent. Son of Finglas near to Dublin aet 18. an 1571. 11 Will. Nugent a Gent Son of Meath or of the County of Meath aet 21. an 1571. With several others of a later date as Alex. Barrington a Gentlemans Son of Ireland aet 18. an 1583. c. LEONARD FITZSIMONS was born in the Diocess and County of Dublin in Ireland admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll. from that of Corp. Ch. of which he was Clerk 17 June 1558 aged 17 and the next year was made Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1563 he proceeded in that faculty but being a R. Cath. in his heart and therefore unwilling to take holy Orders according to the Church of England left his Fellowship and retired to Hart hall about 1571. At length going into his own Country had some employment confer'd upon him and was in his latter years as I conceive a Rom. Priest He is charactarized by one who knew him to be profundus clericus qui utrasque linguas Theologiam Mathematicam admodum caluit coluit And there is no doubt but that he hath written and published several Books which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom see them in these parts He was famous and noted for his learning in Ireland in Fifteen hundred and eighty but when he died or where his relicks were lodg'd I cannot tell One Hen. Fitzsimons a famous Jesuit was also educated in Hart hall as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SECURIS a Wiltshire Man born and a most noted Person for his admirable parts while he studied in New Coll. in the time of Ed. 6 but not in the condition of a Fellow did retire to Paris for the improvement of his studies where applying his muse to the faculties of Physick and Astronomy became a diligent hearer of the Lectures of Dr. Jacobus Silvius of high learning and famous memory the reader of the Physick lecture in that University who usually had a thousand auditors every time he read After he had compleated his studies there he returned into England and settled within the City of Salisbury where he was much frequented for his great knowledge in Medicine and wrot Several Prognosticons One of which for the Year 1580 I have seen and to it is joyned A compendium or brief instruction how to keep a moderate diet In the title of the said Prognosticon he writes himself Master of Arts and Physick but whether he took those Degrees in Oxon. I cannot tell because the register containing the acts of Congregation and Convocation is almost totally neglected during the Reign of Ed. 6. In the Preface to the said Compendium he tells us that in his time fell near to Salisbury hailstones as big as a childs fist of 3 or four years old Our Author Securis hath also written A detection and querimonie of the daylie enormities and abuses committed in Physick concerning the three parts thereof that is of the Physicians part the part of Surgeons and the part of Poticaries Lond. 1566. in oct Dedicated in a Lat. Epist to both the Universities Oxford of which he saith he was an Alumnus and Cambridge After which follows a Preface to the reader in old English verse and at the end of the book is a peroration to both the Universities Contemporary with this noted Author Securis was another Astrologer called Evans Lloyd a Welsh Man educated in Logicals and Philosophicals in Oriel Coll. but took no Degree here Afterwards retiring to the great City wrot several Ephemerides which were much valued in their time one of them written for the Year 1582. I have seen supputated especially for the elevation and meridian of London but may generally serve for all England It was printed there the same year and approved by Dr. John Dee with whom as also with Securis he had acquaintance NICHOLAS QUEMERFORD was born in the City of Waterford in Ireland took a Degree in Arts 1562 after he had spent at least 4 years in this University in pecking and hewing at Logick and Philosophy Which Degree being compleated by Determination he went into his own Country entred into the sacred function and had preferment there but turned out from it because of his Religion He wrot in English a pithie and learned
many pretty stories in comely colours and most delightful discourses Printed at Lond. twice at least in an English character one of which editions bears date 1608. in qu. written in imitation of a book intit The pallace of pleasure beautified adorned and well furnished with pleasant histories and excellent Novells c. Lond. 1569. qu. written by Will. Painter Clerk of the ordinance and armory within the Tower of London The aforesaid Petite pallace c. I have in my study and for the respect I bear to the name of the Author he having been uncle to my Mother Maria la Petite I will keep it but 't is so far now from being excellent or fine that it is more fit to be read by a School-boy or rustical amoratto than by a Gent. of mode or language The said George Pettie translated from French into English with a preface of his own put to it The civile conversation of M. Stephen Guazzo in 4. books Lond. 1586. qu. written originally in the Italian tongue which I have also Three of the said books were translated by the said Pettie the fourth was begun by him but finished by Barthelm Young of the Middle Temple Gentleman being the same Barthelmew as I think who lived afterwards at Ashurst in Kent and died therein 1621. What other matters G. Pettie hath written or translated I cannot tell nor do I know any thing material of him besides only that he died in the prime of his years at Plymouth in Devonshire being then a Captain and a Man of note about the latter end of July in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 and was buried as I have been told in the great Church there The Lands which he had by his Fathers gift in Aston-Rowant in Kingston in the Parish thereof and at Tetsworth in Oxfordshire he gave to his Brother Christopher Pettie JOHN GARBRAND alias Herks Son of Garbrand Herks a Dutch Man and Bookseller living sometimes in St. Maries Parish in Oxon was born within the City of Oxon educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1562 being esteemed then a good Poet. Afterwards he by the favour of Bishop Jewell who had been well acquainted with his Father while he lived in the University became Prebendary of Yatesbury in the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of Tho. Whyte LL. D. in Nov. 1565 being then only Bach. of Arts and Prebendary of Minor pars Altaris in the said Church In 1567 he left his Coll. and on the 18. of March 1568 he was made Preb. of Chute and Cheesenbury in the said Church of Sarum on the deprivation of Joh. Fuller Garbrand being then Rector of North-Crowley in Bucks In 1582 he took the Degrees in Divinity was then accounted an eminent Theologist and a noted Preacher but withal a severe Puritan He hath gathered together corrected and compleated several things of the said B. Jewell whome he in a marvellous manner had admired as i A view of a seditious bull sent into England from Pius 5. Pope of Rome an 1569. 2 A short treatise of the Holy Scriptures Lond 1582. oct Both which Jewell delivered in divers Sermons in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury an 1570. 3 An exposition on the two Epistles to the Thessalonians Lond. in oct 4 Certain Sermons preached at Pauls Cross Lond. 1583. oct They are in number six 5 Treatise of the Sacraments gathered out of certain Sermons preached at Salisbury Lond. 1583. oct This Dr. Garbrand died in the Winter time about Christmas in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 and was buried in the Church of North-Crowley before-mention'd He gave by his will several books to New Coll. Library And all such books and papers that were given to him by B. Jewell as also all such loose sheets which he the said Garbrand had drawn for common places gathered out of that Bishops books he gave to Rob. Chaloner and John Rainolds Doctors of Divinity LAURENCE HUMPHREY or Humfredus as he sometimes writes himself was born at a mercate Town called Newport Paynell in Bucks educated in Latine and Greek learning at Cambridge made Demie of Magd. Coll. in Oxon 1547 perpetual Fellow two years after being then Bach. of Arts and Master of the said faculty in 1552. About that time he was made Greek reader of his Coll. took holy orders and became a zealous and forward student in the Theological faculty In June 1555 2. and 3. of Phil. and Mary the President Vicepresident Deans c. of that Coll. gave leave to the said Humphrey who in the opinion of all was much commended for his life and conversation as also for the excellency of his learning and wit that he might freely for the cause of study travel into trasmarine parts for one year conditionally that he contain himself from those places that are suspected to be heretical or favourers of heresie and that also he refrain from the company who are or were authors of heresie or heretical opinions c. Which leave being procured he went forthwith to Zurich and associated himself with the English exiles there that had fled from the Nation for Religion sake After the death of Qu. Mary he returned to his Coll. and was restored to his Fellowship having been expelled thence because he did not return thereunto after his time of leave was expired In the Year 1560 he was constituted the Queens Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxon being then about 34 years of age at which time was a very great scarcity of Theologists throughout the body of Students and in the year following he was elected President of his Coll. In 1562 he took the Degrees in Divinity and in 1570 he was made Dean of Glocester upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Cooper to the See of Lincoln In 1580 he was constituted Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Watson promoted to the See of Winchester which was the highest preferment he had among the Clergy and the reason for it as 't was guested was because that in matter of ceremony or indifferency he altogether consented not to the Church of England For the truth is that from the City of Zurich remarkable for the Preachings and death of Zwinglius and the correspondence that he had at Geneva he brought back with him at his return into England so much of the Calvinian both in doctrine and discipline that the best that could be said of him was that he was a moderate and consciencious Nonconformist Whence 't was that by his being many years President of Magd. College publick Professor of Div. in the University and several times Vice-chancellour he did not only upon advantage issuing from those place stock his Coll. with a generation of Nonconformists which could not be rooted out in many years after his decease but sowed also in the Divinity School such seeds of Calvinisme and labored to create in the younger sort such a
in the society of Jesus about 25 years to their great renown and honour The next Person in order to be mention'd is one as famous in his way as the former but of the reformed Religion THOMAS MOUFET or Muffet was born in London in or near St. Leonards Shoreditch as I conceive because his name and relations lived in that Parish and one John Muffet died there in 1596. After he had been educated in Grammar learning in that City he spent some time in this University afterwards travelled into divers Countries in Europe where he became known to the most eminent Men especially Physicians and Chymists of that time and was doctorated in Physick in some noted University in his travels After his return he fell into very great practice within the City of his nativity became much honoured and beloved by Peregrine Bertie Lord Willoughby of Eresbie and esteemed the famous ornament of the body of Physicians and the true pattern of all polite and solid Literature He hath written De jure praestantia Chemicorum Medicamentorum dialogus Apologeticus Francof 1584. Ursell 1602. oct and in the first volume of Theatrum Chemicum Argent 1623. oct pag. 70. Epistolae quinque Medicinales Most of which werâ— written to one whom the Author calls Philalethes a German Chymist They were printed with the former book in that impression of 1602 and I think elsewhere Nosomantica Hippocratea sive Hippocratis prognostica cuncta ex omnibus ipsius scriptis methodicè digesta c. Franc. 1588. oct in 9 books He also by his great labour and charge did enlarge and finish Insectorum sive minimorum Animalum Theatrum olim ab Edw. Wottono Conrado Gesnaro Thomaque Pennio inchoatum Which Book the Author leaving behind him in MS. at his Death it came some years after into the hands of Sir Theod. de Mayern Knight who published it in Fol. at Lond 1634. with an Epistle Dedicatory before and Preface to it But before that time some imperfect Copies of it were published by Laur Scholzius an 1598 c. This Book was published in the English Tongue at Lond. 1658. Fol. by J. R. M. D. Dr. Moufet hath written also Healths improvement or Rules comprising and discovering the nature method and manner of preparing all sorts of Food used in this Nation This was corrected and enlarged by Christoph Bennet Lond. 1655. 4to Whatelse our Author Moufet hath written I know not nor any thing more of him only that in his latter days he lived much at Bulbridge near Wilton in Wilts as a retainer to the Pombrochian Family from which he had an yearly Pension allowed to him to his last day mostly by the favour of that incomparable Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke He concluded his last day towards the latter end of Q. Elizabeth and was as I have been credibly informed by one or more ancient Men that belonged to the said Family buried at Wilton Contemporary with him was Joh. Securis an eminent Physician of Sarum whom I have mentioned before PETER WHITE noted for his excellency in Humane Learning while he continued in the University was born in the Diocess of Waterford in Ireland elected Fellow of Oriel Col. An. 1551. and in the year 1555. was admitted Master of Arts. About the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign he returned to his Native Country and became the Happy Schoolmaster of Mâ—ster and Dean of Waterford for a time From which last place being ejected for his Religion about 1565. he continued notwithstanding in his beloved Faculty of Pedagogy which was then accounted a most excellent Employment in Ireland by the Catholicks especially for this Reason that the Sons of Noblemen and Gentlemen might be trained up in their Religion and so consequently keep out Protestancy His School was during his time in a flourishing condition and by his care and industry many learned Persons issued thence Among such not that I shall mention Rich. Stanyhurst of whom I shall speak hereafter was one Peter Lombard born in Waterford who afterwards studied at Lovaine in Brabant where after he had spent two years and an half in Philosophy he was chosen when he proceeded Master of Arts Primus Vniversitatis by the uniform consent of the Four Principals which preferment did not happen in such sort for many years before About that time the said Lombard wrote Carmen heroicum in Doctoratum Nicholai Quemerfordi with other things afterwards which were much valued at Lovaine but such I have not yet seen See another Pet. Lombard in my discourse of Will. Camden As for P. White he hath written Epitome copiae Erasmi lib. 1. Epit. figurarum Rhetoricarum lib. 1. Annotationes in Orat. pro Archiâ poetâ Annot. in Orat. pro T. A. Milone Epigrammata diversa lib. 1. He lived as I guess to the latter end of Q. Elizabeth but the particular time when he died I find not Equal in time with the said Pet. White was another of both his Names an English-Man born and a severe Calvinist who among several things that he hath written published a Book intitled An Answer to certain crabbed Questions pretending a Real Presence in the Sacrament together with a discovery of the Jesuitical Opinion of Justification guilfully uttered by Sherwin at the time of his Execution Lond. 1582. oct Also A Sermon against Idolatry on Apoc. 1. 12 13. Lond. 1581. oct c. Whether he was an Oxford Man I cannot yet find THOMAS NEALE was born at Yeate in Glocestershire sped a Child into the College near Winchester by the endeavours of his Mother's Brother Alex. Belsire Fellow of New College where profiting exceedingly in Grammer Learning in the School there was chosen Probationer of New College in 1538. and two years after was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of the said House Afterwards prosecuting his Studies with great industry took the degree of Master of Arts in 1546 Holy Orders and soon after became an able Theologist and admirably well skill'd in the Greek and Hebrew Languages the last of which he read to several young Scholars in the University particularly to Bern. Gilpin of Queen's College About that time Sir Tho. Whyte who was afterwards Founder of S. John's College having had notice of his pregnant Parts and Vertues did for an encouragement allow unto him an yearly Pension of 10. l. In the beginning of Q. Mary he became Chaplain to Dr. Bonner Bishop of London and in 1556. being newly returned from Paris and other places in France he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then Rector of Thenforth in Northamptonshire But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and he thereupon bereft of his Lord and Patron Bonner he betook himself to Oxon and in 1559. he was made the Queen's Professor of the Hebrew Lecture entred himself a Commoner of Hart Hall and built little Lodgings opposite thereunto joyning to the West end of New Col. Cloister wherein he lived several years but his Religion
Book was written after Mart. Marprelate had writ his Libel which some playing with Martin at his won weapon answered pleasantly both in Rhime and Prose But this our Author the Bishop with Authority and Gravity confuted him soundly in this Book whereupon Martin replyed in a Book enit Ha'y any Work for a Cooper c. At length this reverend and holy Bishop paying his last Debt to Nature at Winchester year 1594 29. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried on the South side of the Choire a little above the Bishop's Seat belonging to the Cathedral there Over his Grave was soon after laid a flat Marble with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse a Copy of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. a. He left behind him a Widow named Amey and two Daughters one of which named Elizabeth was the Wife of Dâ—â— Joh. Belly sometimes Provost of Oriel Col. afterward Chanclour of the Dicocess of Lincoln the other was Mary the Wife of John Gouldwell Gent. WILLIAM RAINOLDS second Son of Rich. Râ—â—â—â—ids a sufficient Farmer third Son of Rich. Rainolds was born at Pynhoc alias Pynhawes the Seat of his Ancestors near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire educated in School learning in Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester elected Probationer of New Coll. in 1560. and two years after was admitted perpetual Fellow In that House where then was a severe Discipline kept up he became a most noted Philosopher a quick Disputant and one much noted for his sincere love to the Protestant Cause In 1566. he proceeded Master of Arts and about that time he took Holy Orders In 1572. he left his Fellowship and retiring to Hart Hall lived there in the quality of a Câ—â—moner All which time he was earnest for Reformation while John his Brother of C. C. Coll. stood affected to the Roman Catholick Religion as it is said This difference in judgment proved a firebal of Câ—ntention between and engaged them in a strong Duel and set Disputes whereupon both being strengthned by each 〈◊〉 Arguments our Author Willaim turned a zealous Catholick and John a strong Puritan Whereupon Dr. Will. Alabaster a learned Divine and an excellent Poet made an Epigram on them a copy of which you may see elsewhere This is the reason commonly received among Protestants for each others conversion but false for the dispute was if you will believe one that then lived between John and Edmund Rainolds of C. C. Câ—ll as I have told you elsewhere So that now there being no pretence left for William's conversion by disputing with his Brother John you may take this reason following different from the other if your charity will permit you to believe a R. Catholick Author as he had received it from the mouth or Pen of Will. Rainolds which is this Mr. William Rainolds being first an earnest Professor and Preacher of the Protestant Religion in England and much engaged among the Puritans in Northamptonshire as he was wont to tell he fell in the end to read over Mr. Jewel ' s Book and did translate some part thereof into Latin but before he had passed half over he found such stuff as made him greatly mistake of the whole Religion and so he leaving his hopes and commodities in England went over the Sea and the last year of Jubilee to wit 1575. he came to Rome and brought that Book with him and presented both himself and it to the Tribunal of the Inquitsition of his own free motion and accord where I guess the Book remaineth still if it be not burned and himself after absolution received for his former Errors which he with great humility and zeal required and my self also at that time spake with him in that place he returned into France and Flanders and there lived many years with singular edification for his rare Vertue and Learning c. Thus a zealous Romanist whom I have here quoted in the Margin Afterwards our Author Will. Rainolds went to Rheimes in France where being kindly received by Dr. Will. Allen President of the English College there was shortly after made Professor or Reader of Divinity and of the Hebrew Tongue Afterwards he went to Antwerp where he wrote mostly under the Name of Will. Rosseus these things following Resutation of Mr. W. Whittaker's Civils against the Annotations of the New Testament Par. 1583. oct De justa republicae Christiane in reges impios haereticos Authoritate Antw. 1592. oct c. Catholick Faith concerning Christ's last Supper against Berengarius and Bruce Antw. 1593. oct This Bruce was the same as it seems with Rob. Bruce a Scotch Minister Paraphrase on the New Testament MS. in the English coll of Benedictines at Deiulward in Loraine Calvino-Turcismus i. e. Calvinisticae perfidiae cum Mahumetanâ collatio dilucida utriusque sectae confutatio Antw. 1597. Col. Agr. 1603. oct in four Books Which Books being left imperfect were corrected finished and published out of his Notes by his dear Friend Will. Gifford Dean of St. Peter's Church at L'isle This Book endeavours to prove that Calvin's Religion is worse in condition and less probable in reason than that of the Turks and hath less ground and substance therein than the other The copies of which stealing over the Sea into England were answered by one who writes himself T. M. S. in a Book bearing this Title De Turco-Papismo Hoc est de Turcorum Papistarum adversus Christi Ecclesiam fidem conjuratione eorumque in Religione moribus concensione similitudine Lond. 1598 99. qu. ibid. 1604 in oct To which Book are added 4 more against the said Calvino-Turcismus In the Preface to the first that came forth the Author saith that Will. Rainolds his going over to the Church of Rome was because he was not compos mentis as being somewhat distracted for the love of the Wife of one M. a famous Women of Oxon c. The said Rainolds also translated from English into Latin all the Works of Tho. Harding with a large Preface to them as I have elsewhere told you but for want of Money they could not be Printed Also Dr. Will. Allen's Book entit A true sincere and modest defence of English Catholicks c. which Book W. Rainolds did also much increase And what else he hath written Pitscus will tell you who adds that he deceasing at Antwerp in Flanders year 1594 in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Chancel of the Church of the Bigwins there on the South side of the Altar Soon after was a stone laid over his Grave with this inscription thereon Honorabili Domino D. Gulielmo Reginaldo alias Ressaeo pio exuli Auglo viro doctissimo hujus Ecclesiae Ministro Obiit 24. Aug. 1594 c. Tâ—â—w Rainolds had five Brothers the eldest of which was named Hierom Fellow of C. C. College and Master of Arts in 1557. who continuing in
written other things as I have heard Mr. Walton say but are kept private to the great prejudice of the publick He was slain in a Battle near Carlingford in Ireland between the English and the Rebels there on the 13. of Nov. in sixteen hundred year 1600 as it is attested by Camden speaking of the said Battle thus Cecidit tamen ex Anglis praeter alios Cranmerus Prorege ab Epistolis vir eruditissimus ipsi eo nomine longè charissimus I find another George Cranmer who was born at Wingham in Kent admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1559. and died in 1563. but he hath written nothing JOHN RASTELL a most noted Enemy in his writings to B. John Jewell was born within the City of Gloucester trained up in Wykeham's School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1549. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1555. and about that time Sacred Orders In 1560. he left his coll wherein he had always been accounted an excellent Disputant his Friends and native Country and went to Lovaine where and at Antwerp he published certain books against B. Jewell being then a candidate of the Fac. of Theology Afterwards he went to Rome and in 1568. he was with his Brother or near Kinsman admitted into the Society of Jesus Whereupon because a way had not then been opened for the Jesuits into England he went into Germany to perform offices pertaining to his Order But being initiated in the Priesthood before his ingress into the Society and having performed the office of Confessor in the place of one Hall was sent to Auspurge and at length became Rector of the coll of Jesuits at Ingolstadt He hath written Confutation of a Sermon pronounced by Mr. Jewell at Paul's Cross Antw. 1564. Copy of a challenge taken out of the confutation of Mr. Jewells Sermon Antw. 1565. oct Reply against an answer falsly intit A defence of the Truth Antw. 1565. oct Brief view of the false wares packed up in the nameless Apoloâ—y of the Church of England Lov. 1567. oct Treatise entit Beware of Mr. Jewell Antw. 1566. oct This Jo. Rastell who parhaps hath written other things died in a good old age at Ingolstadt about the year sixteen hundred year 1600 and was buried in the coll of the Jesuits there Several of these books before-mentioned are attributed by a certain author to Will. Rastell a Judge but false See more under the year 1565. where you will justly find what belongs to him HENRY PRICE was born in London became Scholar of St. John's coll in 1584. aged 18. afterwards Fellow M. of A. and Chaplain to Sir Hen. Lea of Oxfordshire At length taking the degree of Bac. of Div. became Rector of Fleetmarston in Bucks a noted Preacher and an elegant Lat. Poet. His Works are Epicedium in obitum Henrici Comitis Derbeiensis Oxon. 1593. qu. The Eagles flight Serm. at Pauls Cross on Luke 17. 37. Lond. 1599. oct He died at Woodstock in Oxfordshire 2. Feb. in sixteen hundred aged 34. or thereabouts and was buried in St. John's coll Chappel Over his Grave was a Mon. soon after erected at the charge of the President and Society who were his Heirs a copy of the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Vnivers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 312. He left behind him several Sermons which were esteemed by some worthy of the Press one of which I have seen written on Rom. 7. 24. Preached an 1594. THOMAS WILLIAMS a Welsh-man born did spend several years among the Oxonians but whether in Brasenose coll where one of both his Names took the degree of Master of Arts in 1573. I cannot tell Afterwards he entred on the Physick line but took no degree in that Faculty retired into his Country and practiced there This person who was also a curious Critick in his mother-tongue wrote Dictionarium Latino-Britannicum A work of many years labour which being left imperfect in some places was reviewed and corrected by Dr. Jo. Davies and by him published in 1632. who tells us that he said Williams was much encouraged in his studies by the Father of Sir RichWynne Knight and Baronet to whom he did intend to dedicate had he lived to have finished it He tells us also that the said Th. Williams was living and in great renown in his own Country in sixteen hundred but when he died he adds not I find another Tho. Williams who was elected Probat Fellow of Merton coll in 1562. studied Physick several years took the degree of Bach. of that Faculty in 1575. and died in his coll 1579. being then accounted a learned Physician But this person was no author and whether a Welsh-man I cannot yet find A third Tho. Williams was of Broadgates hall and as the eldest Son of an Esq took the degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of July in 1592. besides several others of a later date and another before who wrote Rules of the Italian Grammar Lond. 1567. c. HENRY CUFF a most excellent Grecian is said by an Historian of no great note to be base by Birth meaning I presume that his birth was mean If so then let it be known from the Records in the Coll. of Arms that his birth was gentile in Sommersetshire that his Predecessors for 4 Generations before him lived at Creech near to Taunton in the said County in good esteem and that his Ancestor Joh. Cuff who lived sometimes at Ilchester and sometimes at Creech where he had good inheritances had a Coat of Arms granted to him and his posterity by Christop Barker Garter King of Arms 36. Hen. 8. and so consequently was made a Gentleman At 26 years of age in 1586. he the said Hen. Cuff was chosen Prob. Fellow of Merton coll having a little before been forced to resign his Fellowship of Trin. coll for speaking certain matters tho true that redounded to the great discredit of the Founder Sir Tho. Pope and two years after was not only made Master-Fellow but also M. of A. In which time he occasionally shewed himself a rare Grecian Philosopher and Disputant Afterwards he was Greek Professor and Proctor of the University and at length Secretary to that unfortunate Count Robert Earl of Essex As he was a person of good parts so was he ambitious withal and pretended to be well seen in the rules of Policy believed by many that he was so because smothered under the habit of a Scholar especially by his great Patron which brought him the sooner to the block He wrote in the year 1600 The differences of the ages of man's life Lond. 1607. and 1633. in oct The original causes progress and end of Man's life Printed with the former book and other things which he left fit for the Press but never published Afterwards he being found guilty of Treason for conspiring with the said Rob. E. of Essex to seize on the Queen and change the
the English side saith he there were slain Latewar D. of Div. and Chaplain to the Deputy and Cranmer his Secretary both most learned men and for that much beloved of him besides some others also c. But the time that he appoints for his death is false for whereas he saith it was in 1600. it was not till the year following being then buried in the Church at Armagh year 1601 Soon after was erected an honorary Monument for him in St. Johns coll Chappel with a handsome inscription thereon a copy of which you may see elsewhere But whereas it is said that he died on the 27. July 1601. aged 41. is false as it seems for one that was upon the place when he received his deaths wound tells us that he was shot at Benburb July 16. and died the day following an 1601. See more in the Affaniae of a celebrated Lat. Poet of his time named Fitz-Geffry wherein among the Cenotaphs at the end you will find one upon this Latewar which without flattery was justly written HUGH LLOYD a most admired Grammarian of the age he lived in was born at Llynn in Caernarvonshire educated in Wykeham's School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1564. promoted to the Chancellourship of Rochester in 1578. being then Bach. of the Civil Law Afterwards he was made chief Master of Wykeham's School near Winchester before-mentioned was admitted Doctor of his Faculty in 1588. being then noted to be not only eminent in Divinity and the Civil Law but also for his admirable sufficiencies in the Greek and Lat. tongues He hath written several books but all that I have seen are only these following viz. Phrases Elegantiores ex Caesaris Commentariis Cicerone aliisque in usum Scholae Winton Oxon. 1654. in a large oct Dictata Printed with the former Both which were published by John Lamphire M. of A. sometimes Fellow of New coll afterwards Dr. of Physick History Professor and Principal of Hart hall The said Dr. Lloyd departed this mortal life year 1601 on the 17. Octob. in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in New coll outer Chappel See his Epitaph in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 153. He had a Brother named Joh. Lloyd who was Fellow of All 's coll Doctor of the Civil Law and Judge of the Admiralty but whether he was of any kin to Hugh Lloyd D. D. of Barton-Segrave in Northamptonshire who succeeded Dr. Will. Swaddon in the Archdeaconry of Worcester 18. Aug. 1623. and died in July 1629. I know not EDWARD GRANT or Graunt the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his time was educated in Grammar learning in the coll School at Westminster spent several years in the study of Logick and Philosophy either in Ch. Ch. or Broadgates hall took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1572. and about that time became the learned Master of the said School whence by his sedulous endeavours many persons went away well grounded in learning who were afterwards eminent in Church and State In 1577. he was made Canon or Prebendary of the twelfth and last Stall in the collegiate Ch. at Westminster in the place of Tho. Wats D. D. who had succeeded in that Stall Gabr. Goodman 1561. in which year the said Goodman was made Dean and about that time being admitted Bach. of Div. of Cambridge was incorporated in that degree with us in the year 1579. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty but not of this University was esteemed a most noted Latin Poet as several of his copies of verses printed in various books shew and was well skill'd in all kind of humane literature He hath written Grecae linguae specilegium c. Lond. 1575. qu. Contracted by his learned Usher Will. Camden He also collected viewed and received and corrected all Rog. Aschams Epistles and Poetry and at the end added of his Graunts composition Oratio de vita obitu Rogeri Aschami ac dictionis Elegantio cum adhortatione ad Adolescentulos Lond. 1577. oct What else he hath published I know not nor any thing material of him besides only 1 That he resigning his Mastership of Westm School about the Month of Feb. 1592. was succeeded therein by Will. Camden 2 That dying in Sept. year 1601 or Octob. in sixteen hundred and one was buried in St. Peters Church at Westminster whereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Will. Barlow D. D. Now I am got into the Name of Graunt I cannot without the guilt of concealment but to let you know some things of the most ingenious person considering his education and employment that his time hath produced His name is Joh. Graunt born at the sign of the Seven Stars in Birchin-lane within the Parish of St. Michael-Cornhil in London between 7 and 8 of the clock in the morn of the 24. of Apr. 1620. Son of Hen. Graunt a Hampshire man educated while a boy in English learning bound an Apprentice to a Haberdasher of small wares which Trade he mostly followed tho free of the Drapers company Afterwards he went through all the Offices of the City as far as a Common-Council-man bearing that Office two years He was also Captain of the Trained-band several years and Major of it two or three and then laid down his Trade and all publick Employments upon account of Religion For tho he was Puritannically bred and had several years taken Sermon notes by his most dextrous and incomparable faculty in short-writing and afterwards did profess himself for some time a Socinian yet in his latter days he turned Rom. Catholick in which Persuasion he zealously lived for some time and died He hath written 1 Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality c. Lond. 1661. and 62. in qu. afterwards in oct with several additions done upon certain hints and advice of Sir Will. Petty 2 Observations on the advance of Excise And 3 something about Religion but these two are not yet printed He died on the 18. of April being Easter-Even 1674. and was buried four days after in St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet in the body thereof under the Pews towards the Gallery on the North side London At which time his body was attended with a great number of ingenious persons and among others with tears was that great Vertuoso Sir Will. Pettie before-mentioned The said Joh. Graunt was an ingenious and studious Person generally beloved was a faithful Friend a great Peace-maker and one that had often been chosen for his prudence and justness an Arbitrator But above all his excellent working head was much commended and the rather for this reason that it was for the publick good of learning which is very rare in a Trader or Mechanick JOHN HOOKER alias Vowell sometimes written Vowell alias Hooker was born within the City of Exeter educated in Grammar and Logick for a time in this University either in Exeter or C. C. coll but whether he took a degree our
John Studley of Trin. coll in Cambridge a noted Poet in Qu. Elizabeth's time The fifth called Oedipus was translated by Alex. Nevill of Cambridge the same person I mean who was author of Kettus sive de furoribus Norfolciensium c. lib. 1. an 1582. The 9th Trag. was translated by Tho. Nuce contemporary with Studley and Nevill and three more by Jasp Heywood as I have told you elsewhere 5 Of christian friendship c. with an invective against Dice-play and other prophane games Lond. 1586. oct written by Lamb. Danaeus 6 Tryal and examination of a mans own self c. Lond. 1587. tw by Andr. Hiperius 7 Herbal of the Bible containing a plain and familiar exposition of such similitudes parables c. that are borrowed and taken from Herbs Plants c. Lond. 1587. oct by Levinus Lemnius These are all the translations as I conceive that Tho. Newton hath made At length having otten a considerable estate by his endeavours concluded his last day at Little Ilford in Essex in the month of May in sixteen hundred and seven and was buried in the Church belonging to that Village year 1607 leaving behind him a Son named Abell and a Legacy to the parishioners of the said place to buy ornaments for their Church JOHN RAINOLDS called by Latine writers Reginaldus the fifth Son of Rich. Rainolds and he who was younger Brother to Thom. Rainolds D. D. and Warden of Merton coll the third Son of another Richard was born at Pinhoe alias Pinhawes near to the City of Excester in Devonshire became a Student in Merton coll 1562. aged 13. or thereabouts admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 29. Apr. 63. Prob. Fellow 11. Oct. 66. and six years after proceeded in Acts being then Senior of the Act and about that time Greek reader in his college In 1579. he was admitted to the reading of the sentence and six years after proceeded in Divinity being then in great esteem for his profound learning In 1598. he was made Dean of Lincola in the place of one Ralph Griffyn about which time he lodged and studied in Queens coll But being unwilling to part with an Academical Life he changed that Deanery in the year following with Will. Cole for the Presidentship of C. C. coll where being setled he had more leisure to follow his studies and have the communication of learned men than at Lincoln So temperate then were his affections notwithstanding of very severe conversation that he made choice rather to be Head of that House than to be made a Bishop which Quene Elizabeth offered to him He was a person of prodigious reading and doctrine and the very treasury of erudition and what Tully spoke of Pompey's noble exploits in War that they could not be matched by the valiant acts of all the Roman Commanders in one year nor in all years by the prowess of one Commander so it might be truly said of Jewell Hooker and this our author Rainolds that they could not be parallel'd by the Students of all countries brought up in one college nor the Students in all Colleges born in one County The two former mainly opposed the enemies of the doctrine the third of the discipline of the Church of England with like happy success and they were all three in several kinds very eminent if not equal As Jewel's same grew from the Rhetorick Lecture which he read with singular applause and Hooker's from the Logic so Rainolds from the Greek in C. C. coll The Author that he read was Aristotle whose three incomparable books of Rhetorick he illustrated with so excellent a Commentary so richly fraught with all polite literature that as well in the Commentary as in the Text a man may find a golden river of things and words which the Prince of Orators tells us of As for his memory also it is most certain that he excelled to the astonishment of all that were inwardly acquainted with him not only for S. Augustins Works but all classick Authors So that in this respect it may be truly said of him which hath been applyed to some others that he was a living Library and a third Vniversity I have heard it very credibly reported that upon occasion of some Writings which passed to and fro between him and Dr. Gentilis then Professor of the civil Law in the University of Oxon that he publikly avow'd that he thought Dr. Rainolds had read and did remember more of the civil and canon Law than himself tho' they were his profession Dr. Hall also Bishop of Norwich reports that he alone was a well furnish'd Library full of all faculties of all studies of all learning the memory and reading of that man were near to a Miracle c. The truth is he was most prodigiously seen in all kind of Learning and had turn'd over all Writers Profane Ecclesiastical and Divine all the Councels Fathers and Histories of the Church He was also most excellent in all Tongues of a sharp and nimble wit of mature judgment indefatigable industry exceeding therein Origen sirnamed Adamantius and so well seen in all Arts and Sciences as if he had spent his whole time in each of them The learned Cracanthorp tell us also that for vertue probity integrity and which is above all piety and sanctiy of life he was so eminent and conspicuous that as Nazianzen speaketh of Athanasius it might be said of him to name Rainolds is to commend virtue it self In a word nothing can be spoken against him only that he with Tho. Sparke were the pillars of Puritanisme and grand favourers of Nonconformity as the general part of writers say yet one of late date reports that Rainolds professed hâ—mself a Conformist and died so His works are Sermon of the destruction of the Idumaeans on Obad ver 5 6. Lond. 1584. oct Sex Theses de S. Scripturâ Ecclesiâ Rupellae 1586. Lond. 1602. oct printed in English at London 1598. qu. with a defence of such things as Tho. Stapleton and Greg. Marâ—â— have carped at therein Sermon preached to the publick assembly of Scholars in the University of Oxon. ult Aug. 1586. upon occasion of their meeting to give thanks for the late detection and apprehension of Traytors who wickedly conspired against the Queens Majesty c. on Psal 18. 48 49 50 51. Oxon 1586. oct Orationes duae in coll Corp. Ch. Ox. 1587. oct Summ of a conference between Joh. Rainolds and Joh. Hart touching the Head and the Faith of the Church c. Lond. 1588. 98. and 1609. qu. approved as 't is said by Joh. Hart to be a true conference and translated into Latin by Hen. Parry of C. C. C. De Romanae Ecclesiae idolatriâ in cultu Sanctorum Reliquiarum Imaginum c. lib. 2. Oxon. 1596. qu. The overthrow of Stage-Plays by way of controversie betwixt Dr. Gager and Dr. Rainolds wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted c. Finished 1593.
was married to John Marston of the City of Coventry Gentleman Which John dying 25 June 1634. was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples in London near to the body of John Marston his Father sometimes a Councellour of the Middle Temple JEREMY CORDEROY a Gentlemans son of Wiltshire of the same family with those of Chute in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans-hall in 1577. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts studied Divinity many years and being a frequent preacher in Oxon was made one of the Chaplains of Merton coll in 1590 at which time and during his stay in Oxon which was at least 13 years after his life and conversation was without exception He hath written A short dialogue wherein is proved that no man can be saved without good works Oxon. 1604. in tw sec edit The dialogue is between a Gallant and a Scholar He wrote another book also intit A warning for worldlings or a comfort to the godly and a terror to the wicked in a dialogue between a Scholar and Traveller Lond. 1608. in tw At which time tho the author was a deserving person yet he was not preferr'd to a living and whether he was afterwards he being scrupulous of taking one I know not nor of any other books that he hath published BARNABE BARNES a younger son of Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham was a Yorkshire-man born and at about 17. years of age 1586. became a student in Brasn coll but left the University without a degree and what became of him afterwards I know not His works are these A divine Century of spiritual Sonnets Lond. 1595. dedicated to Tob. Matthews B. of Durham Four books of Offices enabling private persons for the special service of all good Princes and policies Lond. 1606. Fol. The Devils charter a Trag. containing the life and death of P. Alex. 6. Lond. 1607. oct One Barnabe Barnes of the City of Coventry died in the time of the civil War about 1644. leaving behind him a widdow named Margery but what relation there was between this and the former Barnabe or whether the same I cannot tell WILLIAM OVERTON one of the prime preachers in the reign of Q. Elizabeth was born in London became Demy or Semicommoner of Magd. coll 25. Jul. 1539. aged 15 Perpetual-fellow in 1551. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy orders left the coll and absented himself during the reign of Qu. Mary In 1565 he took the degrees in Divinity being then well beneficed and dignifi'd and in 1579. was made Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry where he was much commended for his hospitality to the poor and the good reparation he kept of his house which a married Bishop as he was seldom did or doth He hath published Sermon against discord on Rom. 16. vers 17. Lond. in oct Oratio doctiss graviss habita in domo capitulari Lichfield ad Praebendarios reliquum clerum in visitatione Ecclesiae suae cathedralis congregatum an 1600. Lond. 1600. He died in a good old age in the beginning of April in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 and was buried in the Church of Eccleshall in Staffordshire near to the bodies of his two Wives In the See of Lichfield succeeded Dr. Rob. Abbot as I shall tell you elsewhere EDWARD STRADLING son of Sir Tho. Stradling Knight by Cath. his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho Gamage of Coyty Knight was born of and lineally descended from an antient and Knightly family of his name living at S. Donates castle in Glamorganshire educated in several sorts of learning in this University but before he took a degree he left it travelled into various Countries spent some time at Rome returned an accomplished Gentleman and retiring to his Patrimony which was large did build a firm structure upon that foundation of literature that he had laid here and elsewhere In 1575. or the year after he received the Honour of Knighthood was made a Justice of Peace became a very useful Man in his Country and was at the charge of such Herculean works for the publick good that no Man in his time went beyond him But above all he is to be remembred for his singular knowledge in the British Language and Antiquities for his eminent encouragement of learning and learned Men and for his great expence and indefatigable industry in collecting together several Monuments and ancient Manuscripts of Learning and Antiquity All which with other books were reduced into a well ordered Library at St. Donates to the great credit and renown of that place and his Family He hath written A Welsh Grammar When or where printed I know not Of which book written mostly in Latin one of his Country-men gives this character Hae institutiones Grammaticae adeò concinnè sunt compositae omnibus suis numeris absolutae ut nec eis addi quicquam nec ab eis demi meo judicio quicquam poterit nisi secundam hujus operis author in posterume editionem maturet He hath also written The winning of the Lordship of Glamorgan or Morgannwe out of the Welsh-mens hands c. Of which book you may see more in The History of Cambria now called Wales c. Printed 1584. p. 122. and 141. This learned and worthy person hath written other things but such I have not yet seen nor can I say more him only that he paid his last debt to nature in the Summer time in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 aged 80. or more and was buried in a Chappel built by his Father dedicated to the Virgin Mary joyning to the Parish Church of St. Donate between the bodies of his Great-Grandfather and Grandmother on the North side and the body of his Father on the South side He died without Male Issue whereupon the Estate went to his next Kinsman Sir John Stradling Knight who was soon after made a Baronet From whom was descended Sir Edw. Stradling Baronet a Colonel in the Army of K. Ch. 1. buried in Jesus coll Chappel 21. June 1644. MICHAEL RENNIGER commonly called Rhanger received his first being in this World in Hampshire became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll in 1547. afterwards Master of Arts and a Preacher in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. being then esteemed by those that knew him a person truly pious and of singular erudition But when Q. Mary came to the Crown he with others of the said coll voluntarily left the Land for Religion sake and lived mostly at Strasburg in Germany After her death he returned was made one of the Chaplains to Q. Elizabeth became a zealous assertor of the Protestant Religion but refusing considerable preferments that were then offered to him he accepted only of a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester for the present as also the Rectory of Crawley near to the said City In the year 1573. he took the degrees in Divinity and in 75. was upon the resignation of Dr. Joh. Ebden
into England he setled in his native Country but being soon after apprehended was conveyed to London and there kept in prison several weeks At length being condemned to die according to the Statute against Seminaries was executed at Tybourne with George Haddock Tho. Emerferd and Joh. Nutter 12. Febr. 1582 3. All which are inrolled among the R. C. Martyrs that suffered during the Reign of Q. Elizabeth JOHN CARTWRIGHT who seems to have been descended from the Cartwrights of Washbourne in Glocestershire received his Academical education in Magd. coll but whether he took a degree in this University it appears not Afterwards he travelled was as it seems in holy Orders and after his return published these books following The Preachers travels Wherein is set down a true Journal to the confines of the E. Indies through the great Countries of Syria Mesopotamia Armenia Media Hircania and Parthia c. A relation of Sir Anth. Sherley's entertainment in the Court of the K. of Persia Description of the Port in the Persian Gulf commodious for the East-India Merchants of England Rehearsal of some gross absurdities in the Turkish Alcoran Which four Treatises were printed in one vol. at London 1611. in qu. At which time the author of them was living in Southwark near London Afterwards the said treatises being contracted were remitted into Sam. Purchaâ—s second part of Pilgrims lib. 9. p. 1422. Lond. 1625. fol. JOHN BOND Bondius a most noted critick in Greek and Latin learning of his time was born in Somersetshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winton became a Student in this University about the nineteenth year of his age an 1569. took a degree in Arts 4 years after being either one of the Clerks or Chaplains of New coll and much noted for his proficiency in Academical learning In 1579. he proceeded in Arts and had soon after the Mastership of the Free-School of Taunton St. Maryâ— Madg. in his own Country conferred on him by the Warden and Society of New coll At which place continuing many years he did exercise such an admirable way of teaching that many departed thence so excellently well grounded in humane learning that they proved afterwards eminent either in Church or State At length being in a manner worn out with the drudgery of a School he did for diversion I cannot say profit practice Physick tho he had taken no degree in that Faculty in this University and became at length Chief Secretary to the Lord Chancellour of England Egerton if one of his admirers may be credited As for his writings which are used by the Juniors of our Universities and in many Free-Schools and more admired and printed beyond the Seas than in England they are these Commentarii in Poemata Q. Horatii Flacci Printed 1606. oct and several times after beyond the Sea and at London Comment in sex Satyras A. Persii Lond. 1614. oct published after the author's death by Rog. Prows who married his Daughter Elizabeth He hath at least written if not published other things but such I have not yet seen He yielded up his last breath on the third of Aug. in sixteen hundred and twelve year 1612 being then possessed of several lands and tenements in Taunton Wilton near Taunton and in Newenton and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Taunton before-mentioned Over his grave was this Epitaph soon after put Qui Medicus doctus prudentis nomine clarus Eloquii splendor Pieridumque decus Virtutis cultor pietatis vixit amicus Hoc jacet in tumulo spiritus alta tenet The Reader is now to know that there was another John Bond but after the time of the former Son of Dennis Bond of Dorchester in Dorsetshire who having been educated in his youthful years under John White commonly called The Patriarch of Dorchester and from him sucked in most dangerous principles was sent to Cambridge and placed I think in S. Johns coll where he took the degree of Bach. of Civ Law Afterwards he was made a Lecturer in the City of Exeter and carried himself conformable for a season But when the times turned in 1641. and he saw that the Puritan began to be uppermost then did he Preach very seditiously and published what he had said under this title A door of Hope Also holy and loyal activity Two Treatises delivered in several Sermons in Exeter The first on Psal. 126. 1 2. and the other on Exod. 17. 11. Lond. 1641. qu. Both which do contain most scandalous and rebellious stuff besides what he preached in a Serm. in the said City before the Deputy-Lievtenants Lond. 1643. qu. So that having thus began his pranks and shewed himself a zealous Brother for the Cause and a rank Covenanteer he was made Preacher or Minister of the Savoy in the Strand near London in the place of Joh. White before-mentioned when he passed over the water to Lambeth to take possession of the Rectory there belonging to Dr. Dan. Featly one of the Assembly of Divines and about that time Doctor of the Laws This J. Bond by the way you must know being scarce warm in the Pulpit but he began to threaten Heaven with some of his Divinity by telling the auditory with great zeal that they ought to contribute and pray and do all they were able to bring in their Brethren of Scotland for the setling of Gods Cause I say this is Gods Cause and if ever God had any Cause this is it and if this be not Gods Cause then God is no God for me but the Devil is got up into Heaven c. About the same time he became a frequent Preacher before the Long-Parliament and hath 3 or more Sermons preached before the Members thereof published as 1 Salvation in a mystery c. on Jer. 45. 25. Lond. 1644. qu. It was a Fast Serm. pr. before the H. of Commons 27. Mar. 1644. 2 Ortus occidentalis or a dawning in the West c. on Isa. 25. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. 'T was a Thanksgiving Serm. for the Parliament Forces their gaining of Bathe Bridgwater Sherbourne Castle c. preached before the H. of Commons 22. Aug. 1645. and on the eleventh of Dec. following the said Jo. Bond was made Master of the Hospital called the Savoy under the great Seal 3 A Thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of Com. on Psal. 50. 23. Lond. 1648. qu. preached on the 19. Jul. 1648. In which year he had a Serm. published intit Grapes among Thornes preached before the H. of Commons In all which Sermons as in others which he delivered in London and Westminster are contained many strange positions rebellious doctrines religious cantings and I know not what About that time he was made Master of Trinity hall in Cambridge which Mr. Jo. Selden refused and in 1654. he was made an assistant to the Commissioners of Middlesex and Westminster for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters These things I thought
book written by the hand of Blackwell and subscribed by him as fit for the Press So that no other name being put to it hath caused our Librarians to insert him in the Catalogue of MSS. as the author of it whereas he was not but rather Franc. Tresham as I have told you elsewhere He the said Blackwell died suddenly having been much troubled with swooning fits on the 12. of Januar. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried as I conceive in some Church in London This next person according to time and order that must crave place is one who tho no writer worth the remembrance yet hath he been the greatest promoter of learning that hath yet appeared in our Nation THOMAS BODLEY another Ptolomey eldest Son of John Bodley of the City of Exeter by Joan his Wife Daughter and Heir of Rob. Hone of Otterie S. Mary in Devon Esq Son of Joh. Bodley of Tiverton second Son of John Bodley of Dunscumbe near Crediton in Devon Gent. was born in the said City of Exeter 2 Mar. 1544. partly educated in Grammar learning in the said City but mostly in Geneva while his Father lived there as a voluntary Exile in the time of Q. Mary where tho he was then very young yet he was an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew of Berealdus in Greek of Calvin and Beza in Divinity and of some other professors in the University there then newly erected besides his domestical teachers in the house of Philebertus Saracenus a famous Physician in that City with whom he was boarded where Rob. Constantinus that made the Greek Lexicon read Homer to him After the death of Q. Mary he returned into England with his Father and was sent to Magd. coll in 1559. where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy under Mr. Laur. Humphrey was admitted Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1563. and soon after being elected Probationer of Merton coll determined in the Lent following In 1565. he by the perswasion of some of the Fellows of that house and for his private exercise did read publickly for some years a Greek Lecture in the hall of that coll without expectation of any reward or stipend for his labour Nevertheless it pleased the Society to allow him soon after of their own accord four Marks by the year In 1566. he was admitted Master of Arts which degree being compleated he read Nat. Philosophy for an year in the Pub. Schools then situated on the East side of Schoolstreet In 1569. he was elected Junior Proctor of the University which office he performing with great commendations bestowed some time in the study of sundry Faculties without any inclination to profess any one above the rest At length being desirous to travel beyond the Seas for the obtaining of knowledge of some special modern tongues and for the increase of his experience in the managing of affairs to no other end but to imploy himself and all his cares in the publick Service of the State did with leave from the Warden and Society of his coll depart England with the allowance belonging to a traveller an 1576. and continued near 4 years in Italy France and Germany Afterwards returning to his coll he remained there for some time in studying politicks and historical affairs and in 1583. he was made Esquire of the Body to Q. Elizabeth At length in 1585. having about that time married Anne the Daughter of… Carew of the City of Bristow the rich Widdow as I have heard of one Ball was imployed by the Queen to Frederick K. of Denmark Julius Duke of Brunswyke William Lantgrave of Hesse and other German Princes Which imploymnet being faithfully performed he was sent to K. Hen. 3. of France at what time he was forced by the Duke of Guise to leave Paris In 1588. he was sent to the Hague for the better conduct of the Queen's affairs in the Vnited Provinces where making his residence for some years was admitted one of their Council of State took place in their Assemblies next to Count Maurice and gave a suffrage in all that was proposed In 1593. he returned into England for a time to look after his private Estate but was soon after remanded to the Hague again by the Q. where continuing near one year returned again to deliver some secret overtures to her and to perform thereupon an extraordinary service Soon after the applauding the fruit of his discoveries he was presently commanded to return to the States with charge to pursue those affairs to performance which he had secretly proposed At length all things being concluded and brought to the desired issue he procured his last revocation in 1597. At his return as before in his absence Burleigh the Lord Treasurer did several times tell the Queen that there was not any Man in England so meet as Bodley to undergo the office of Secretary by reason of his well-tryed Wisdom in the Low-Country affairs intending that he should be Colleague with his Son Rob. Cecill But the Earl of Essex commending him also to the Queen in a higher manner not without biting calumniations of Cecill Burleigh found means to divert the Queens mind from him supposing that Essex endeavoured to gain him to his party against Burleigh and Cecill So that Mr. Bodley being eased of ever expecting that troublesome office he retired from the Court and wholly commended himself to the care and provision for learning worthy indeed the care of the greatest King For about that time setting up his staff at the Library door in Oxford did restore or rather new found it the particulars of which I have elsewhere told you After K. Jam. came to the Crown he received the Honour of Knight from him and a few years before his death wrote His Life an 1609. Which being kept as a choice rarity in the archives of his Library was published at Oxon. 1647. qu. But this little thing is not the reason that I put him among the Oxford Writers but because by his noble and generous endeavours he hath been the occasion of making hundreds of publick Writers and of advancing in an high degree the Commonwealth of learning in which respect he should have craved the first place but I have put him here according to the time of his death which is the method I observe Letters of State Some of which I have seen published not in one vol. but scatteredly Letters relating to Books and Learning Written to Mr. Tho. James MS. in his Lib. He paid his last debt to nature 28. Jan. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried with very great solemnity at the upper end of Merton coll Choire The manner of which you may see at large in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 320. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that Dr. Joh. Morris Canon of Ch. Ch. did bequeath to the University of Oxon. a Rent-charge of 5 l. per an to be given to a Master of Arts that should make
effected Lond. 1584. qu. and other matters pertaining to Virtuosity and something as it seems to Pastoral but whether extant I cannot tell He died about the 17. Nov. in sixteen hundred and fifteen year 1615 and was buried in the Parish Church of Cheswich in Middlesex near to the body of Elizabeth his first Wife Daughter of Will. Fleetwood sometimes Recorder of London by whom he had Issue Will. Chaloner of Gisburgh in Yorkshire soon after his Fathers death made a Baronet Thomas James c. which two last were of the number of Judges that sate in Judgment on King Charles 1. of Blessed Memory as I shall tell you at large He had also several Children by his second Wife Judith Daughter of Will. Blount of London some of whose Posterity as I think liveth at or near Steeple-Claydon in Bucks where Sir Thomas had a fair Estate JOHN DRUSIUS or Driesschus commonly called Vander Driesche the most noted Critick Linguist and Theologist of his time was born at Oudenard a City of Flanders situated between Gaunt and Tourney 28. June 1550. educated in Grammar learning in Gaunt in Academical in the University of Lovaine where he took the degree of Bâ—ch of Arts. About which time his Father Clement Driesche being proscribed for Religion and deprived of his Estate fled into England and took this his Son with him When he came to London he met with Anth. Cevallerius a Professor at Caen in Normandy exceeding skilful in the Hebrew Tongue who reading there to several Scholars and Laicks our author attended him went also with him to Cambridge where he read the said Language and afterwards for a time into France and by his diligence became an exact proficient in the Hebrew as well as in the Greek Language Soon after he returned to London and when he purposed to go back into France he heard of the Massacre at Paris which made him alter his mind So that turning his course to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1572. he was entertained by the Society of Morton coll admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of that house in July the same year and in the beginning of Aug. following had a Chamber set apart for him by the Society who then also decreed that he should have forty shillings yearly allowed to him so long as he read a Hebrew Lecture in their common Refectory For 4 years at least he lived in the said house and constantly read as he did sometimes to the Scholars of Magd. coll upon the desire of Dr. Laur. Humphrey President thereof either Hebrew Chalde or Syriack Lectures In 1573. he was as a Member of the said house of Merton licensed to proceed in Arts and in the year following was recommended by the Chancellour of the University to the Members of Convocation that he might publickly read the Syriack Language in one of the publick Schools and that for his pains he receive a competent stipend Soon after upon consideration of the matter they allowed him twenty marks to be equally gathered from among them and ordered that the same respect be given to him as to any of the Lecturers In 1576. he left Oxon and in the year following the States of Holland chose him to be the Professor in Hebrew Chalde and Syriack in the University of Leydon Soon after being Married the States of Frisland who had erected an University at Franeker invited him thither to be a Professor where continuing many years was held in high esteem of all Scholars and Foreigners that repaired thither He was an excellent Hebrician and well versed in the Rabbines and hath given great light to a large part of the Scriptures as these books following shews most of which are remitted into the several Tomes of the Criticks Comm. ad Voces Hebraicas Novi Testum viz. pars prior Com. ad Voc. Hebr. N. Test viz. pars posterior Antw. 1582. qu. Both printed together at Franek 1616. fol. Quaestionum Hebraicarum libri 3. In quibus varia S. Scripturae explicantur Lugd. 1583. oct Animadversionum lib. 2. Lugd. 1585. oct Com. in librum Esther Lugd. Bat. 1586. oct Additiones Apocryphae latinè versae cum Scholiis Miscellanea locutionum Sacrarum Franek 1586. oct Versio Com. in lib. Ruth ejusque translatio Graeca cum notis ad candem Franek 1586. oct c. Alphabetum Hebraicum vetus veterum Gnomae Heb. Lat. Franek 1587. Parallela seu locorum vet Testamenti quae Novo citantur conjuncta commemoratio Franek 1588. qu. Proverbiorum sacrorum classes 2. seu explicatio Proverb Salomonis Franek 1590. qu. Lectiones in Amos Nahum Habuc Sophoniam Joel Jonam Abdiam Lugd. Bat. 1591. oct c. Liber Tobias Graecè cum castigationibus Franek 1591. qu. Lectiones in Jonam Lugd. Bat. 1591. oct Observationum Sacrarum lib. 16. Franek 1594. oct Carmina Hebraica in obitum Jos Scaligeri Franek 1591. qu. De quaesitis per Epistolam Printed 1595. oct Ecclesiastices Graecè cum versione notis Franek 1596. qu. Versio Scholia ad Proverbia Ben-Syrae Franek 1597. qu. Adagiorum Hebraicorum Decuriae aliquot cum Scholiis Quaest Hebr. lib. 3. Franek 1599. oct Lectiones in Hoseam Lugd. Bat. 1599. oct Versio notae ad librum Hasmonaeorum seu priorem Machabaeorum Franek 1600. qu. Grammatica Chaldaica ex tabb. Merceri descripta Franek 1602. oct De Hasidaeis Franek 1603. oct De nomine Elohim Franek 1604. oct De nomine Tetragrammato cum Scholiis in Pauli Burgensis 12. questiones de eodem subjecto Franek 1604. oct Amst 1634. qu. Comm. de 3 sectis Judaeorum contra Serarium Franek 1605. Comm. de sectis Judaicis viz. de Hasidaeis de 3. sectis Judaeorum spicilegium Tribaeresii Nic. Serarii Franek 1603. and 1605. oct Arnh. 1619. qu. Respons ad Nic. Seraerii Minerval Franek 1606. oct Notae ad Sulpitii severi historiam sacram Franek 1607. oct Opuscula Grammaticalia Franek 1609. qu. Annot. in Nov. Test sive praeteritorum libri 10. Franek 1612. qu. c. Annot. pars altera Franek 1616. qu. Apothegmata Hebraeorum ac Arabum ex variis authoribus collecta Lat. Franek 1612. qu. c. De Patriarchâ Henoch ejus libro ubi etiam de libris in S. Scriptura memoratis qui nunc interciderunt Franek 1615. qu. Comm. in difficiliora loca Pentateuchi Franek 1617. qu. Comm. in difficiliora loca Josuae Judicum Samuchs Franek 1618. Vet. Gr. Interp. fragm in vetus Test cum notis Arnh. 1622. qu. Com. seu Lectiones in 12 Prophetas Minores Amstel 1627. Published with additions and amended by Sixt. Amama Annot. in librum Kohèleth seu Ecclesiasten Amstel 1635. Versio Scholia in lib. Job Amstel 1636. Veterum Interpretum Graecorum fragmenta in Pentateuchum cum notis Conjectanea in Graecam editionem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lxx Tetragrammaticon sive de nomine dei proprio c. Amstel 1634. qu. Historia Ruth Graece ad
c. Andrew Henley son of the aforesaid Henley was his Executor who had his library remaining at â—ramsell wherein mostly in the books he found as I have been credibly informed about a thousand pound in gold I shall now proceed to give you a farther account of Sir W. Raleigh's works The Prerogative of Parliaments in England proved in a dialogue between a Counsellour of State and a Justice of Peace Middleburg some copies have it Hamburge 1621. Lond. 1640. qu. Instructions to his son and posterity Lond. 1632. 36. 1651. oct 56. in tw The life and death of Mahomet the conquest of Spaine together with the rising and ruin of the Sarazen Empire Lond. 1637. in tw In another title printed the year following 't is called The History of Mahomet The Prince or Maxims of State Lond. 1642. in 7 sh in qu. there again in 51. and 56. in tw 'T is the same with his Aphorisms of State Lond. 1661. oct published by John Milton Lond. 1651. and 56 in tw The Sceptick or Speculations Observations of the magnificency and opulency of Cities State of Government Letters to the King and others of quality Demeanour before his Execution His Pilgrimage in verse Certain verses Observations on the first invention of shipping or invasive War the Navy-Royal and Sea-service Lond. 1650. 1667. oct Apology for his Voyage to Guiana Printed with the Observations c. 'T was by him penned at Salisbury in July 1617. I have a copy of it in MS. bound with his Confession which is in MS. also and begins thus I thank God of his infinite Goodness that he hath sent me to die in the light and not in the darkness c. Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollanders and other Nations as it was presented to King James Lond. 1653. 56 in tw The Cabinet-Council containing the chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State Lond. 1658. oct This book was published by John Milton before-mentioned of whom you may see more in the Fasti an 1635. Historical and Geographical description of the great Country and River of the Amazons in America c. Lond. 1661. published by W. H. Wars with Foreign Princes dangerous to our Common-wealth Or Reasons for Foreign Wars answered When printed I know not Various Letters See in the Cabala or Screnia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Divers Speeches and Arguments in several Parliaments towards the latter end of Q. Elizab. See in H. Townsend's Historical Collections Lond. 1680. fol. The Sons advice to his Father The great Cordial Upon which N. le Febure hath written an English discourse Lond. 1664. oct I have seen a book in MS. containing Sir Walt. Raleigh's Speech at the time of his death and His Ghost or a conference between Sur Gundamoure his Maj. Embassadour of Spain the Fryer Confessor and Father Baldwyn the Jesuit at Ely House in Holbourne in 1622. but whether ever printed I know not However the Reader is to understand that Sir Walter 's Ghost before-mentioned is not the same with his Ghost or Apparition to his intimate Friend willing him to translate into English the learned book of Leonard Lessius intit De providentia numinis animi immortalitate Lond. 1651. in tw translated in compliance with Sir Walter 's late request because he had been often soully aspersed for an Atheist There is also a MS. going about from hand to hand said to have been written by our author Sir Walter which is concerning The present state of Spain with a most accurate account of his Cath. Majesty's power and riches c. Whether this or his Discourse touching a consultation about Peace with Spain MS. sometimes in the Libr. of Arthur Earl of Anglesey were ever printed I know not He hath also written The life and death of Will the Conquerour MS. sometimes in the Library of Sir Ken. Digby afterwards in that of George Earl of Bristow Of Mines and trials of Minerals MS. c. with other things which I have not yet seen But I say it again that I verily think that several of those things before-mentioned which go under his name were never written by him At length he was beheaded in the old Pallace-yard in Westminster year 1618 on 29. 〈◊〉 in sixteen hundred and eighteen aged 66. Whereupon his body which he sometimes designed to be buried in the Cath. Church at Exeter was conveyed to St. Margarets Church in the said City of Westminster and buried in the Chancel there at the upper end almost near to the Altar Over whose grave tho there was never any Epitaph put yet this following among others was made for him Here lieth hidden in this pit The wonder of the World for wit It to small purpose did him serve His wit could not his life preserve He living was belov'd of none Yet at his death all did him moan Heaven hath his Soul the World his fame The Grave his Corps Steukley his shame Some writers in the long Rebellion under K. Ch. 1. especially such who were not well-wishers to Monarchy have reported that his death was no less than a downright Murder having had his blood spilt upon a Scaffold meerly to satisfie some unworthy ends and the revenge of the Spaniard Nay and farther they have not stuck to say that the Conspiracy of Gowry seemed rather a Conspiracy of the K. of Scots against Gowry as many of that Nation have declared The said Sir Walt Raleigh left behind him a Son named Carew Raleigh born in Middlesex in the Tower of London as it seems while his Father was Prisoner there became a Gent. Com. of Wadham coll in 1620. aged 16. but proved quite different in Spirit from his Father Afterwards he was Gent. of the Privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. who honoured him with a kind token at his leaving Hampton Court when he was jugled into the Isle of Wight cringed afterwards to the Men in Power was made Governour of Jersey by the favour of General George Monk in the latter end of January 1659. and wrote a book as 't was generally reported intit Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately made publick intit A compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Q. of Scotland and of James K. of England written by Will. Sanderson Esq Lond. 1656. in 3 sh in qu. I have seen also some Sonnets of his composition and certain ingenious discourses but whether ever printed I know not I have seen also a Poem of his which had a Musical composition of two parts set to it by the incomparable Hen. Lawes Servant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private Musick Sir Hen. Wotton gives him the Character of a Gentleman of dextrous abilities as it appeared in the management of a publick concern in Sir Henries time and so by others he is with honour mentioned but far god wot was he from his Fathers parts either as to the Sword or Pen. He was buried in his Fathers grave in the
Apostoli lib. 2. Antw. 1587. Hebdomada Mariana ex Orthodoxis Catholicae Rom Ecclesiae Patribus collecta in memoriam 7. festorum Beatiss Virginis Mariae c. Antw. 1609. oct In the front of which book our author writes himself Serenissimorum Principum Sacellanus meaning Duke Albert and Isabell his Princess Hebdomada Eucharistica Duac 1614. oct Brevis praemunitio pro futura concertatione cum Jacobo Vsserio Hiberno Dubliensi Duac 1615. in about 3 sheets in oct You must note that Dr. James Vsher's Mother Margaret Stanyhurst was Sister to our author Ric. Stanyhurst who being a zealous Romanist and Vsher afterwards Primate of Ireland a zealous Protestant passed several learned Letters between them concerning Religion Stanyhurst endeavouring to his utmost to gain him to his Opinion but 't is thought and verily believed by some that Vsher was too hard for his Uncle in controversial points relating to Divinity The Principles of Cath. Religion This I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you when or where it was printed He also translated into English heroical verse The first four books of Virgils Aeneis Lond. 1583. oct Dedicated to Plunket before-mentioned the learned Baron of Dunsany at which time the translator was then living at Leyden in Holland This translation being accounted well performed for that age yet because the verses do not rhime doth cause a noted writer and a professed Buffoon of his time to say that Mr. Stanyhurst tho otherwise learned trod a foul lumbring boistercus wallowing measures in his translation of Virgil. He had never been praised by Gabriel Harvey for his labour if therein he had not been so famously absurd Our author Stanyhurst also translated into English Certain Psalms of David the four first according to the observation of the Latin verses that is without rhime printed at the end of the translation of Virgils Aeneis before-mentioned And at the end of the aforesaid Psalms are of his composition Poetical Conceits Lond. 1583. in Latin and English as also Certain Epitaphs framed as well in Lat. as English The first of which in Latin is on James Earl of Ormond and Ossory who did at Ely house in Holbourn 18. Oct. about 1546. and was buried in the Church of St. Thomas Acres Another on the authors Father James Stanyhurst Esq who died at Dublin 27. Dec. 1573. aged 51. c. But as for the Epitaph of our author which he should have made while living none doth appear there neither at Bruxells as I can yet learn year 1618 where he died in sixteen hundred and eighteen I find one Will. Stanyhurst who was born in the said City of Bruxells an 1601. and entred into the Society of Jesus in 1617. whom I suppose to be Son to our author R. Stanyhurst He was a comely person endowed with rare parts and a writer and publisher of several things as Nat. Southwell tells you in his supplement to Bib. Soc. Jesu who adds that the said Stanyhurst died in January 1665. EDWARD GEE was a Lancashire man born entred a Servitor of Metron coll in Lent-Term 1582. aged 17 elected fellow of Brasnose coll when he was about two years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts and after some standing in that of Master was unanimously elected Proctor of the University 1598. Two years after he was admitted Bach. of Divinity and in 1603. he resigned his fellowship being about that time Rector of Tedbourne S. Mariae in Devonshire In 1616. he proceeded in Divinity having been before that time made one of the Society of Chelsey coll founded by Dr. Matth. Sutcliffe and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty He was a person well known for his sincerity in conversation generality of learning gravity of judgment and soundness of doctrine He hath written Steps of ascension to God Or a ladder to heaven containing prayers and meditations for every day in the week and for all other times and occasions Printed at least 27 times mostly in a manual or in a vol. called Twenty fours The 27th edit came out in 1677. The curse and crime of Meroz Serm. at an Assise holden in Exeter on Judg. 5. 23. Lond. 1620. qu. Sermon of patience preached at S. Maries in Oxon. on James 5. 7. Lond. 1620. qu. Both which Sermons were published by his brethren John and George Gee Ministers who had his notes after his death which hapning in winter time year 1618 in sixteen hundred and eighteen was buried as I conceive in his Church at Tedbourne before mention'd He left behind him a widdow named Marie and a son I think of both his names See more in Joh. Gee under the year 1625. JOHN DAVIES who writes himself of Hereford because he was born in that City was from the Grammar School there sent to this University but to what house of learning therein I know not After he had remained with us for some years without the taking of a degree he retired for a time to his native Country having then among Scholars the character of a good Poet as by those Pâ—ems which he then made and were shortly after published was manifested Sir Joh. Davies whom I shall mention under the year 1626. was more a Scholar than a Lawyer but this Joh. Davies was more a Poet than a Scholar and somewhat enclined towards the Law which hath made some unwary readers take the writings of one for the other But our author finding not a subsistance by Poetry he set up for a writing-master first in his own Country and afterwards in London where at length he was esteemed the greatest Master of his Pen that England in his age beheld first for fast-writing 2 fair writing which looked as if it had been printed 3 close writing 4 various writing as Secretary Roman Court and Text hand In all which he was exceeded after his death by one Gething his Countryman and Scholar Sometimes he made pretty excursions into Poety and could flourish matter with his fancy as well as letters with his pen the titles of which do follow Mirum in modum A glimpse of God's glory and the Soules shape Loâ—i 16â—2 and 1616. oct a Poem Microcosmus The discovery of the little world with tâ—e government thereof Oxon 1603. qu. a Poem Ushered into the world by the verses of Jo. Sanford of Madg. coll 〈◊〉 Fitz-Gâ—ffry of Broadgates and Rob. Burhill of C. C. câ—ll Which last wonders why Davies our author who was laâ—eâ—y as he saith Oxoniae vates should write himself of Hereford as if Oxon was a disgrace to him The holy roode of Christs Cross containing Christ crucified described in speaking picture Lond. 1609. qu. Sonnets printed with the former Poem and both contained in 10 sheets S. Peters complaint newly augmented with other Poems Lond. in qu. But when printed it appears not With this is commonly bound up S. Mary Madg. Blush and therefore I supâ—ose 't was written by the same hand Humours heaven on earth with
the civil Wars of death and fortune c. London 1609. A Poem in oct The triumph of death or the picture of the plague according to the life as it was in an 1603. Printed with Humours heaven and earth c. Wits pilgrimage by poetical essayes through a world of amorous Sonnets soul-passions and other passages divine philosophical and poetical Lond. in a pretty thick qu. but not expressed when printed 'T is dedicated to Philp Earl of Mountgomery Muses sacrifice or divine meditations Lond. 1612. in tw The muses tears for the loss of their hope heroick and never too much praised Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. Times sobs for his Pr. Hen. untimely loss with Epitaphs Printed with The Muses tears Consolatory strains to wrest nature from her vent in immoderate weeping Printed with that also Ecclogues Lond. 1614. oct They are at the end of The Sheapards Pipe written by Will. Brown of the Inner Temple A select second husband for Sir Tho. Overburies wise now a matchless widdow Lond. 1616. oct Dedic to Will E. of Pembroke Elegies on the death of Sir Tho. Overbury Speculum Proditori Printed with the former book 1616. oct Several copies of verses of his are also published in other books as a large copy before Ph. Hollands translation of Camdens Britannia another in the Odcombian banquet c. He dyed about the year sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried year 1618 as one tells us within the precincts of S. Giles ch in the Feilds near Lond. I find one Joh. Davies Gent. to have lived in the parish of S. Martin in the Feilds who dying in the beginning of July or thereabouts in 1618. was buried near to the body of Mary his sometimes wife in the church of St. Dunstan in the West Whether the same with the Poet I cannot justly tell because may author here quoted Tho. Fuller saith but upon what authority I know not that he was buried at S. Giles in the Feilds One John Dunbar a Latine Poet of Scotland hath an Epigram on J. Davies the Poet which may serve for an Epitaph wherein he tells us that he was another Martiall and that he out-stript in Poetry Sam. Daniel Josh Silvester the Merchant adventurer c. THOMAS THOMPSON a very noted preacher in the time he lived was born in the County of Cumberland wedded to the Muses in Queens coll in Mich. Term 1589. aged 15 made a poor serving child of that house in the year following afterwards Tabarder and in 99. Fellow being then Master of Arts. About that time addicting his mind severely to the studies of the superiour faculty became a noted Disputant Schoolman and very familiar with the Fathers At length leaving the coll about the time he was adwitted Bach. of Div. which was 1609. he became one of the publick preachers in the City of Bristow and Minister of S. Thomas Church there where he was much followed and admired for his edifying and orthodox doctrine Afterwards leaving that City in 1612. upon what account I know not he became Minister in the town and liberties of Montgomery in Wales where if I mistake not he continued till the time of his death He hath written and published Concio ad clerum de clavibus regni coelorum habita pro forma Oxon. intemplo B. Mariae 16. Feb. an 1609. in Matth. 16. ver 19. Lond. 1612. oct De votis monasticis Theses disputatae sub prâ—sidio Tho. Holland Reg. prof Printed with the former 〈◊〉 Serm. Besides these two things he hath Several Sermons in English as 1 A diet for a Drunkard in two Sermons in the Church of S. Nich. in Bristow on Ester 1. 8. Lond. 1612. qu. 2 Friendly farewell to a faithful â—lock taken in a Sermon preached in S. Thomas Church in Bristow on Easter Tuseday 6. Apr. 1612. on 2 Cor. 13. ver 14. Lond. 1616. qu. 3 Antichrist arraigned Sermon at Pauls Cross on 1 Joh. 2. 18 19 20. Lond. 1618. qu. 4 The trial of Guides by the touchstone of Teachers c. Serm. on Luke 6. 39 40. Lond. 1618. qu. dedicated to Richard Bishop of St. Asaph his Patron These are all that I have seen going under his name and all that I yet know of the author SAMUEL DANIEL the most noted Poet and Historian of his time was born of a wealthy Family in Somersetshire and at 17 years of age in 1579. became a Commoner of Magd. hall where he continued about three years and improved himself much in Academical learning by the benefit of an excellent Tutor But his Genie being more prone to easier and smoother studies than in pecking and hewing at Logick he left the University without the honour of a degree and exercised it much in English History and Poetry of which he then gave several ingenious Specimens After his departure I find nothing memorable of him for several years only that at about 23 years of age he translated into English the worthy tract of Paulus Jovius containing a Discourse of rare inventions both military and amorous called Imprese Lond. 1585. oct To which he hath put an ingenious Preface of his own writing He was afterwards for his merits made Gentleman Extraordinary and afterwards one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber to Anne the Queen Consort of King James 1. who being for the most part a favourer and encourager of his Muse as she was of Jo. Florio who married Sam. Daniel's Sister and many times delighted with his conversation not only in private but in publick was partly for those reasons held in esteem by the men of that age for his excellencies in Poetry and History and partly in this respect that in writing the History of English affairs whether in Prose or Poetry he had the happiness to reconcile brevity with clearness qualities of great distance in other authors This is the opinion of a late author but one who lived in Samuel Daniel's time tells us that his works contain somewhat a flat but yet withal a very pure and copious English and words as warrantable as any mans and fitter perhaps for Prose than Measure Our author Daniel had also a good faculty in setting out a Mask or a Play and was wanting in nothing that might render him acceptable to the great and ingenious men of his time as to Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet Camden the learned Sir Rob. Cotton Sir H. Spelman Edm. Spencer Ben. Johnson John Stradling little Owen the Epigrammatist c. He hath written The complaint of Rosamond Lond. 1594. 98. 1611. and 23. qu. Various Sonnets to Delia. Wherein as Parthenius Nicaeus did excellently sing the praises of Arete so our author in this piece hath divinely sonneted the matchless beauty of his Delia. Tragedy of Cleopatra Lond. 1594. 98. qu. Of the Civil Wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York Lond. 1604. 09. oct and 1623. qu. Written in eight books in verse with his picture before them The
he married was a Parliament man in the latter end of Qu. Eliz. and in 1603. received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds being then a person of repute in his own country At length being full weary of the vanities and fooleries of this world did retire to Doway in Flanders and there was by letters of confraternity dated in the beginning of Feb. 1617 received among the Brethren in the coll of English Benedictines who appointing him a little cell within the ambits of their house spent the remainder of his days therein in strict devotion and religious exercise After his settlement there he wrote Letters perswasive to his wife and children in England to take upon them the catholick religion Arguments to shew that the Rom. Church is a true Church written against Dr. R. Field his Four books of the Church Reply to the answer of his Daughter M. C. Mary Croft which she made to a Paper of his sent to her concerning the Rom. Church At the end of it is a little thing entit The four ministers of Charinton gag'd by four propositions made to the Lord Baron of Espicelliere of the religion prtended And presented on S. Martins day to du Moulin in his house and since to Durand and Mestrezat All these were published by Sir Herb. Croft at Doway about 1619. in tw containing 255. pages There were but eight copies printed viz. one for himself now in the libr. of the English Benedictines at that place formerly sent to me by a Brother of that order purposely to be perused for a time and then to be returned who for religion sake and in contempt of the world hath denied the inheritance of an Estate of at least three thousand pounds per. an Another copy was printed for Sir Herberts wife and the rest for his children but all without a title only dedicated to his wife and children with a short Epistle before them beginning thus I would have you know that although this ensuing discourse cometh to you in print c. The beginning of the book it self is this When it had pleased almighty God in his great mercy even after above 53. years of my mispent life c. At length after he had macerated his body with fasting hardship and devotion surrendred up his pious Soul to the Almighty on the 10 Apr. according to the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the said English Benedictines at Doway Soon after was a monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon a copy of it you may elsewhere see in which he is stiled vir prudens fortis nobilis patriae libertatis amantissimus c. He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a R. Catholick but afterwards a zealous Protestant and a Bishop of whom I shall hereafter make mention in his due place JOHN RANDALL sometimes a frequent and painful preacher in the City of London was born at Missenden in Bucks sent by his relations to S. Maries hall in 1581. being then very young where spending some time in Trivial learning was afterwards translated to Trinity coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts which he compleated by determination In 1587. July 6. he was elected Fellow of Lincoln coll and two years after proceeded in his faculty About that time entring into the sacred function he became one of the most noted preachers in the University In 1598 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity and the year after resigning his fellowship was made about that time Rector of the Church of S. Andrews Hubart in Little Eastcheap in London where after some time he became so great a labourer in Gods vineyard by his frequent and constant work in the ministry as well in resolving of doubts and cases of conscience as in preaching and lecturing that he went beyond his brethren in that City to the wonder of all But greater was the wonder especially to those of his parish and neighbourhood that this poor man who was for the most part strangely afflicted with sickness should undergo his duty so strictly and preach so many Sermons as he did for comfort and support in troubles This indeed did sound highly to his merit and plainly shewed that his great learning and parts could not be subdued with the pitiful afflictions here below He was accounted a judicious orthodox and holy man and by some a zealous and innocent puritan of a harmless life and conversation and one that was solely fram'd to do good acts His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The necessity of righteousness on Mat. 5. 20. Lond. 1622. and 1640. qu. 2 Description of fleshly lusts on 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. Lond. 1622. and 40. qu. 3 S. Pauls triumph c. eleven Sermons on Rom. 8. 38. 39. Lond. 1633. c. qu. published by Will. Holbrook preacher The great mystery of godliness or a treatise opening unto us what God is and Christ is Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1640. third edit Treatise concerning the Sacraments Lond. 1630. qu. c. Catechistical Lectures in number 23. upon the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1630. qu. c. Nine and twenty lectures of the Church for support of the same in these times c. Ibid. 1631. c. qu. besides other things fit for the press as one shewing what a true visible Church is and another what Predestination is He concluded his last day in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred twenty and two being then about 54. years of age year 1612 and was buried in the Church of S. Andrew before mentioned By his last will and testament he bequeathed a tenement to Linc. coll called Ship hall situated on the west side of that Street antiently called Schediardstreet now commonly called S. Mary hall lane in Oxon. The picture of this Mr. Randall drawn to the life when he was fellow of Linc. coll is or at least was lately hanging in the Common room of that house JOHN OWEN or Audoenus as some call him the most noted Epigrammatist in the age he lived was born at Armon in Caernarvonshire educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation there in 1584. took the degree of Bach. of Civil Law in 1590. and leaving his fellowship the year after taught School as some of his antient country men that remember him have told me at Trylegh near to Monmouth and at Warwick as the tradition goes there among the Schoolmasters in the School founded by K. Hen. 8. in the place of one Tho. Hall about the year 1594. He was a person endowed with several gifts especially with with the faculty of Poetry which hath made him famous for those books of Epigrams that he hath published wherein an ingenious liberty of joking being by him used was and is now with some especially forreigners
righteousness of Christ Treatise of the providence of God The book of Ecclesiastes briefly explained Printed 1628. qu. The period of the Persian Monarchy wherein sundry places of Ezra Nehemiah and Daniel are cleared Lond. 1631. qu. Exposition on the first nine chapters of Zacharie Lond. 1629. qu. Five godly and profitable Sermons Lond. 1628. 29. qu. Fruitful Sermons upon the 1 Cor. 15. 18 19. Lond. 1629. qu. Introduction to the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1628. 29. Lond. 1639. oct De formarum origine Ibid. 1629. in tw dedic to Dr. Accepted Frewen Printed also at Camb. in tw De sensibus internis Lond. 1629. Ox. 1647. in tw Enchiridion oratorium Ox. 1633. qu. c. A summ of moral Philosophy Oxon. 1630. qu. All which books or Treatises those only that were written in English were remitted into one volume and printed several times The third impression was at Lond. 1635. and the fourth impression at Ox. 1659. both in fol. Introduction to Geography Ox. 1685. qu. At length our author a zealous Calvinist retiring to the house of the before-mention'd Rich. Capell minister of Eastington alias Easton near to the City of Gloucester to make some continuance there for the sake of study and health died of a burning Feaver in sixteen hundred twenty and three and was buried in the yard under the great Yew-Tree year 1623 on the north side of Eastington Church Over his Grave was a stone soon after laid with these words engrav'd thereon Here lyeth the body of William Pemble master of Arts and preacher who died 14 Apr. an 1623. JOHN SPRINT Son of Dr. Joh. Sprint descended from those of his name living in the City of Bristow was born as I conceive there or in Glocestershire near to it elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592. took the degrees in Arts and some time after became Vicar of Thornbury in the said county Thence he removed to London was cried up by the Citizens for a godly and frequent preacher and by them much followed but was cut off in the prime of his years when great matters were expected from him He was a grave and pious Divine yet for the most part disaffected to the ceremonies of the Church of England while he continued at Thornbury At length upon the gentle perswasions of Mr. Sam. Burton Archdeacon of Glouc. he did not only conform but was a great instrument in perswading others to do the like by a book that he wrote and published call'd Cassander Anglicus which I shall anon mention His works are these Propositions tending to prove the necessary use of the Christian Sabbath or Lords day c. Lond. 1607. qu. and in 1635. in tw or oct The practice of that sacred day framed after the rules of Gods word printed with the former The summ of Christian religion by way of question and answer Lond. 1613. oct Cassander Anglicus shewing the necessity of conforming to the prescribed ceremonies of our Church in case of deprivation Lond. 1618. qu. dedic to Sam. Burton Archd. of Glouc. Whereupon came out a brief and plain answer to the first reason of it which was replied upon by Sprint but I have not yet seen it The Christians sword and buckler or a letter sent to a man seven years greviously afflicted in conscience and fearfully troubled in mind c. Lond. 1638. oct These are all the pieces I think that he hath written which are published and therefore I shall only let the reader know that he was buried within the precincts of the Church of S. Anne situated in the place called the Blackfriers in London of which he seems to have been Minister or Lecturer on the seventh of May in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 See more of him in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 309. b. His Father Dr. Sprint who was Dean of Bristow and a frequent preacher but a Calvinist I shall mention more at large in the Fasti under the year 1574. not as a Writer but as a D. of D. and rich Dignitary PHILIP CLUVER Cluverius the Son of a maker or coyner of money was born at Dantzick the chief town of the province of Prussia in Poland but descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living in the Dutchie of Bremen in Lower Saxony instructed in his puerile years at home in his youthful in the royal Court of Poland where he learned among the Courtiers the exact speaking of the Polish tongue and their manners Thence his Father sent him into Germany where he received a command from him to apply his mind solely to the study of the Civil Law Whereupon he journeyed to Leyden in Holland and did endeavour to follow it but his Genie being naturally enclined to Geography he followed for altogether that study especially upon the perswasions of Joseph Scaliger who had perused his Table of Italy which he had composed while he was a youth in Poland Thence partly to see the world but more for the conversation of Just Lipsius he took a journey into Brabant but missing him was dispoiled by thieves who left him in a manner naked Thence he returned to Leyden and afterwards went into Bohemia and Hungarie where coming to the knowledge of one Popel a Baron who had been closely confined by the Emperor for some misdemeanours did translate his Apologie written in his own defence into the Latine tongue Which coming to the ear of the Emperour Cluver was thereupon imprisoned Afterwards being set at liberty he travelled into Scotland England France Germany and Italy In England his chief place of residence was in this University particularly in Exter coll of which he became a sojournour for the sake of Holland and Prideaux in 1609. age 29 where being setled he wrote his book De tribus Rheni alveis as I shall tell you anon In Italy he became acquainted with some of the Cardinals who held him in great esteem for his curious and exact knowledge in Geography the Greek and Latine tongues and for his marvellous knowledge in the Dutch German French Italian Bohemian Hungarian Polonian and British Language Afterwards he returned to Oxon again being then highly valued by Mr. Prideaux for one or more of his things then published and had offers of promotion tender'd unto him But Leyden being the place of his delight he retired thither and tho he could get no place of benefit there yet the curators of that University gave him an yearly stipend for the encouragement of his studies as being a person repleated with all humane literature antient Histories and Geography He is stiled by a certain author vir stupendae lectionis curae and by another princeps aetatis nostrae Geographus and magnum Germaniae ornamentum His works are De tribus Rheni alveis ostiis item de quinque populis quondam accolis c. Lugd. Bat. 1611. qu. This book was written in Oxon with the helps of the
Inn Ben. Johnson Thom. Wenman of the Inner Temple c. which last I take to be the same that had been Fellow of Ball. coll and Publick Orator of this University These two books or parts in fol. were also printed in two vol. in oct 1625. which I have not yet seen Our author Browne hath also written a Poem intit The Shepard's Pipe in 7 Eglogues Lond. 1614. oct The fourth Eglogue is dedicated to Mr. Tho. Manwood who died about that time Son of Sir Pet. Manwood and the fifth to his ingenious Friend Mr. Christop Brook mentioned elsewhere in this work Elegy on the never enough bewailed c. Prince Henry Lond. 1613. qu. and other Poems as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen However the Reader is to know that as he had honoured his Country with his elegant and sweet Pastorals so was he expected and also intreated a little farther to grace it by drawing out the line of his Poetick Ancestors beginning in Josephus Iscanius and ending in himself but whether ever published having been all or mostly written as 't was said I know not In the beginning of the year 1624. he retired to Exeter coll again being then about 34 years of age and was Tutor or Gov. to Rob. Dâ—rmer of that house the same who was afterwards Earl of Caernarvon and killed in Newbury fight 20. Sept. 1643. In the same year he was actually created Master of Arts as I shall tell you elsewhere in the Fasti and after he had left the Coll. with his Pupil he became a retainer to the Pembrochian Family was beloved by that generous Count William E. of Pembroke and got wealth and purchased an estate which is all I know of him hitherto only that as he had a little body so a great mind In my searches I find that one Will. Browne of Otterie S. Mary in Devon died in the Winter time 1645. whether the same with the Poet I am hitherto ignorant After the time of the said Poet appeared another person of both his names author of two Common Law-books written in English intit Formulae bene placitandi and of Modus intraadi placita generalia and of other things pertaining to that Faculty JOHN DAVIES an excellent Mathematician as the learned Camden stiles him was the Son of John Davies of London in which City he was born at about six of the clock in the evening of the eighth of Feb. in 1559-60 and educated in Gramaticals there In 1574. he made his first entry into this University and setling in Gloucester hall under the tuition of one that was much enclined to the Rom. Perswasion made great proficiency in his studies and Mr. Tho. Allen of that house finding that his Genie was much addicted to the Mathematicks instructed him therein and gave him all the incouragement imaginable to proceed in that noble Science In 1581. he proceeded M. of A. as a Member of Glouc. hall continued there for some time after and then retiring to the great City was instructed in Astrological matters by one Dr. Sim. Forman a very able Astrologer and Physician as it appears by the MS. books he left behind him when he died tho a certain author tells us he was a very silly fellow In Feb. 1587. he was first of all introduced into the Royal Court where he was made known to and received with great courtsie by that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex In 1589. he travelled into France and made a voyage into Portugal whereby he advanced his knowledge as to men and the Languages of those Countries very much In 1596. after he had been married 3 years he went under the conduct of the said Count towards Spain where doing most admirable service at the taking and sacking of Cadiz he received the honour of Knighthood and of Baneret In 1597. he travelled to the Islands of Terceres where he performed that employment he went about to the great honour of himself and in 1598. Jan. 31. he was made Surveyor of the Ordnance by the endeavours of his singular good Lord the E. of Essex under whom in the year following he went as a prime Officer into Ireland where his service was much remarkable against the Rebels In 1600. he was deeply ingaged in that Earls Teasons for which he was taken and committed to custody on the 8. Feb. the same year About the eleventh of the same month the Archbishop of Canterbury issued out a Direction for the Ministers and Preachers in his Province to the end that they give the People a right understanding what the Earl of Essex intended by his treasonable conspiracy in which Direction I find these matters of Sir Joh. Davies viz. that he was brought up in Oxford and was by profession a seller of figures and on whom that hateful Earl hoth to God and man did repose great affiance insomuch that he made him chief Officer about the Ordnance in the Tower and thought him one of the faithfull'st Servants he had to make his Keeper c. This Davies was one that favoured nothing less than the Gospel for being in hold the chiefest motion that he made to the Gentleman that had the custody of him for that time was that if it were possible he might have a Priest to confess him c. In March following he was tried among other Conspirators for his life and being in a manner convicted by his own Conscience and confession held his peace and then being taunted by the way that he was a Papist he denied not but that in Oxon he was instructed in the Romish Religion by his Tutor and confirmed in the same by Sir Christop Blount one of the Conspirators while he was in the Irish Wars At which words when he perceived Blount was moved he straight appeased him affirming that he was confirmed in that Religion not by Blounts perswasion but by the example of his Christian and Religious life Afterwards being condemned to be hang'd drawn and quartered he requested that altho he was no Nobleman yet he might suffer as they did that is by beheading if not not to be quarter'd in pieces but to be buried Christianly After sentence he was remanded to his prison but by the intercession of Friends the Queen signed his Pardon 5. Feb. 1601. which was allowed by the Judges in Westminster hall on the 12. of the same month So that being free he purchased an Estate in the Parish of Pangborne in Berks where he spent the remainder of his days in a retired and studious condition This person who is stiled in literis Mathematicis apprime eruditus hath written many things of Mathematicks and Astrology but hath nothing as I can yet find that is extant There went from hand to hand a volume of Letters which were written by this Sir Joh. Davies Dr. Joh. d ee and Dr. Mat. Gwinne concerning Chimical and Magical secrets which as some say tho I cannot yet be satisfied in it
of Commons in Ireland before Arthur L. Chichester Visc Belfast L. Lievtenant of Ireland 21. May 1613. These two last were in the Library of Sir Jam. Ware of Ireland and are now if I mistake not in that of the Earl of Clarendon 4 An argument upon the question of impositions digested and divided in sundry chapters This was in the Library once of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultry-Compter and with it was bound up an Answer thereunto Fol. But the question is whether this argument be not part of or involved in Sir John's Jus imponendi vectigalia before-mentioned At length he died suddenly in his house in the Strand near to London in the 57 year of his age for being well at night when he went to rest he was on Thursday morning year 1626 the seventh of December in sixteen hundred twenty and six found dead in his bed by an Apoplexy as 't was said It was then commonly rumour'd that his Prophetical Lady had foretold his death in some manner on the Sunday going before For while she sate at Dinner by him she suddenly burst out with tears Whereupon he asking her what the matter was she answered Husband these are your Funeral tears to which he made reply Pray therefore spare your tears now and I will be content that you shall laugh when I am dead Her name was Elianor Touchet youngest Daughter to George Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven and what she usually predicted she folded up for the most part in dark expressions received from a voice which she frequently heard as she used to tell her Daughter Lucy and she others By this Elianor Sir Joh. Davies had Issue a Son who was a natural Idiot and dying young the Father made an Epitaph of 4 verses on him beginning Hic in visceribus terrae c. So that the said Lucy being sole Heiress to her Father Ferdinando Lord Hastings afterwards Earl of Huntingdon became a Suitor to her for Marriage whereupon the Father made this Epigram Lucida vis oculos teneri perstrinxit amantis Nec tamen erravit nam via dulcis erat After the body of Sir John had laid in state for some time it was conveyed to the Church of St. Martin in the Fields near to Whitehall where it was solemnly inter'd in the South Isle Soon after was a monument fastned to the Pillar near his grave with a large inscription on it part of which runs thus Vir ingenio compto rarâ facundiâ oratione cum solutâ tum numeris astrictâ faelicissimus juridicam severitatem morum elegantiâ amaeniore eruditione mitigavit Patronus fidus judex incorruptus ingenuae pietatis amore anxiae superstitionis contemptu juxta insignis c. Obiit 8. Id. Dec. 1626. His Widdow afterwards lived mostly at Parton in Hertfordshire had her Strange and wonderful Prophesies Printed in qu. an 1649. and dying in St. Brides Parish in London 5. Jul. 1652. was buried near to the relicks of her Husband and soon after had a large Epitaph of commendations put over her grave You may see more of her and her Prophecies in the History of the life and death of Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Cant. Part. 2. lib. 4. an 1634. See also in the Diary or Breviat of the life of the said Archb. Printed 1644. p. 18. One Joh. Davies a Bencher of the Inner Temple was buried against the Communion Table in the Temple Church 20. Aug. 1631. What relation he had to the former or whether he collected or published Reports I know not EDMUND GUNTER was a Hertfordshire man born but descended originally from those of his name living at Gunterstown in Brecknockshire elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Church 1599. aged 18. where going through with great industry the several Classes of Logick and Philosophy took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he entred into the Theological Faculty became a Minister of Gods word and in 1615. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences But his excellencies being above all in the Mathematick Arts he was made Astronomy Professor of Gresham coll before he was Bach. of Div. in the place of Edw. Breerewood deceased Where being settled he acted much for the publick by his profession as well by writing as teaching His works are Of the Sector Cross Staff and other Instruments Lond. 1624. 36. qu. Canon Triangulorum five tabulae sinuum artificialium ad radium 10000,0000 ad scrupula prima quadrantis Lond. 1620. oct This being Englished was with the former book published by Sam. Foster Astronomy Professor of Gresham coll sometimes a Member of that of Emanuel in Cambr. with a tract of his own called The use of the Quadrant Lond. 1624. 53. qu. The fifth edition of these works of Gunter was diligently corrected and had divers necessary things and matters pertinent thereunto added throughout the whole work not before printed by Will. Leybourne sometimes a Printer and afterwards an eminent Mathematician Lond. 1673. qu. What these additions are the said Leybourne acquaints us in his Epistle before the said works Wherein he takes notice of some Plagiaries who had then lately thrown into the World several tractates extracted or rather transcribed from Mr. Gunter without the least mention of their true author Some questions in Navigation are added to these works by Hen. Bond teacher of the Mathematicks at Ratcliff near London and to that was then 1673. added The description and use of another Sector and Quadrant both of them invented by Sam. Foster before-mentioned What other things our author Gunter hath written I know not unless one two or more parts of Dialling which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in Gresham coll year 1626 in sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried on the eleventh of December in the same year in the Parish of St. Peter le Poore within the City of London See more of him in Edm. Wingate whom I shall hereafter mention under the year 1656. THOMAS WORTHINGTON Son of Rich. Worthington by Dorothy his Wife Dau. of Tho. Charnock of Charnock in Lanc. was born at Blainscough near to Wygan in that County and being fitted for the Univ. in those parts he was sent to Ox. about 1566. but to what house of learning unless to Brasnose coll I cannot tell After he had been drudging in the studies of Logick and Philosophy for about 4 years he took a degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University his Country and Friends and crossed the Seas to Doway where he was received with great humanity into the English college in Feb. 1572-73 Soon after he took upon him the Priesthood and in 1577. he was promoted to the degree of Bach. of Divinity and the year after being translated to the English college at Rheimes was thence sent into England to gain Proselites but being taken at Islington near to London in the house of my Progenitor Rich. à Wood his Friend and Countryman
will tell you He dyed in that parish in 1649. as I think but was not of the University of Oxon. PETER ALLIBOND an ingenious man in the opinion of all that knew him was born at Wardenton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire where his name and family had for some generations lived became a Student of Magd. hall in the beginning of 1578. aged 18. years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts travelled for some time beyond the Seas and at his return became Rector of Cheyneys in Bucks Where continuing many years did much improve the ignorant with his found doctrine What he hath written I know not nor translations which he hath made only these two from French into English viz. 1 Comfort for an afflicted conscience wherein is contained both consolation and instruction for the sick c. Lond. 1591. oct written by John de L'espine 2 Confutation of the popish transubstantiation together with a narration how that the Mass was at sundry times patched and pieced by sundry Popes c. Lond. 1592. oct And a translation from Lat. into English entit The golden chain of Salvation Lond. 1604. qu. written by Harman Renecher This Pet. Allibond died on the sixth day of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Cheyneys before mention'd leaving then behind him three Sons one of which was called John a witty man of Magd. coll whom I shall mention elsewhere another named Peter of Linc. coll Proctor of this University in 1640. and a third Job who changing his Religion to which he had been carefully brought up for that of Rome which was the reason I presume why his name was omitted in his Fathers Will did at length get a place in the Post Office which kept him and his in a comfortable condition This Job was Father of Rich. Allibond a Barrester of Grays Inn who being also a Roman Catholick was not only Knighted by K. James 2. but also made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench to which Office he was sworn by the name of Rich. Allebone 28. Apr 1687. He dyed at his house near to the back part of Grays Inn 22. of Aug. 1688. aged 47 years of thereabouts and was buried on the fourth of Sept. following at Dagenham in Essex near to the grave of his Mother JAMES LEY a younger Son of Henry Ley of Teffont-Evias in Wilts Son of Henry Ley of Ley in the parish of Bere-Ferres in Devonsh Esq was born at Teffonts-Evias became a Commoner of Brasenose coll in the beginning of 1569. aged 17. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and on the first of May 1577. he was admitted a Student of Lincolns Inn where making great proficiency in the Municipal Law which was much advanced by his Academical learning he became a Councellour of great repute was call'd to the Bench. 22. Eliz. and in the 44. of that Qu. was Lent reader of that Inn. After which his profound learning and other great abilities deservedly rais'd him to sundry degrees of honour and eminent employment For in the 1. of Jac. 1. he was called to the state and degree of Serjeant at Law and in the year following he was constituted Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in Ireland in which place he continued till Mich. term 6. Jac. 1. and then being a Knight he was made Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries in England Shortly after he obtained a Privy Seal from the Kings Maj. dat 15. May 7. Jac. 1. to take place in the said Court of the Kings Attorney General which till then was never used but since hath constantly been observed By virtue of that Seal and by appointment of Rob. Earl of Salisbury then Master of the said Court he took the place the same day of Sir Hen. Hobart Knight then Attorney General to his Majesty During his continuance in that place he was made a Baronet and in the 18. Jac. he was removed from that Court having been Attorney 12 years and upwards and was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in England In 22. Jac. he was made Lord High Treasurer of Engl. and a Counsellour of State and on the last day of the same month he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron by the title of Lord Ley of Ley before mentioned In the 1. of Car. 1. he was created Earl of Marlborough in wilts and in the fourth of that King he resign'd his place of Treasurer and was made Lord President of the Council He was a person of great gravity ability and integrity and of the same mind in all conditions He hath written Treatise concerning Wards and Liveries Lond. 1642. oct composed by the author while he was Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Reports of divers resolutions in Law arising upon cases in the Court of Wards and other Courts at Westminster in the Reigns of King James and King Charles Lond. 1659. fol. He also collected with intentions to publish some of the historical writers of Ireland for which end he caused to be transcribed and made fit for the Press the Annals of John Clynne a Friâ—r Minor of Kilkenny who lived in the time of K. Ed. 3. the Annals of the Priory of St. John the Evangelist of Kilkenny and the Annals of Multifernan Resse and Clonmell c. But his weighty occasions did afterwards divert his purpose After his death the copies came into the hands of Henry Earl of Bathe who also did intend to make them publick but what diverted him I cannot tell Our author Sir Jam. Ley E. of Marlborough ended his days in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 14. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in an Isle joyning to the Church of Westbury in Wilts in which Parish he had purchased an Estate Over his grave was soon after a stately monument erected by Hen. Ley his Son who succeeded him in his honour begotten on the body of his Father's first Wife named Mary Daughter of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach and Tetsworth in Com. Oxon Esq THOMAS VICARS who writes himself Vicarsus and de Vicariis was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland made his first entry into Queens coll in the beginning of 1607. aged 16. where after he had been a poor serving Child Tabarder and Chaplain he was elected Fellow 1616. being then M. of A. Six years after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he being esteemed an able Theologist Preacher and well qualified with other learning was taken into the Family of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester and by him preferr'd after he had married his Daughter Anne to the Vicarage of Cockfield near Horsham in Sussex and as it seems to a Dignity in the Church of Chichester His works are Manuductio ad artem Rhetoricam ante paucos annos iâ— privatum quorundum Scholarium usum concinnata c. Lond. 1621. oct there again 1628.
our author Gifford whom he stiles Scriptor mendicissimus ut omnibus constat iracundus Ex Anglis ad Hispanos transfuga hostium mancipium hostis patriae turpissimum popularium suorum propudium comptus calmistratus apud mulieres Belgicas gratiosus c. He also wrote a book at the instance of the D. of Guise which I have not yet seen and translated from French in Engl. The Inventory of erroùrs contradictions and false citations of Philip Morney Lord of Plessis written by Fronto Ducens a Jesuit Besides which he hath written and translated other matters but they having been printed beyond the Seas we seldom or never see them here and so consequently I cannot give you a Cat. of them in this place This great Archb. and Duke Dr. Gifford gave way to fate on the eleventh of April in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 according to the accompt follow'd in France and was buried with great solemnity in the Church of the Blessed Virgin at Rheimes behind the great Altar near to the grave of Lewis Card. Guise In his Archbishoprick succeeded Hen. de Loraine Son of Charles Duke of Guise born at Paris 4. Apr. 1614. so that he was but 15 years of age when he was made Archbishop which was per accessum but being not consecrated he renounc'd it in 1641. about which time he succeeded his Father in the Dukedom of Guise and took to him a Wise CHRISTOPHER SUTTON a Hampshire man born was entred a Batler or Commoner of Hart hall in 1582. aged 17. translated soon after to Linc. coll and as a Memb. thereof took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entring into Orders he became successively Vicar of Roneham in Essex Parson of Caston in his own Country Parson of Woodrising in Norfolk Parson of Murley-Bromley in Essex and at length of Cranworth in Norfolk Which two last he kept to his dying day with his Prebendship of Westminster that had been bestowed on him by K. Jam. 1. for his excellent and florid preaching His works are Disce vivere Learn to live Lond. 1608. in tw and several times after Disce Mori Learn to die Lond. 1609. in tw and several times after In both which is shewed in what manner every well disposed Christian may learn first how to live the life of the righteous and how to die the death of the righteous Godly meditations upon the most holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1622. c. in tw the thirteenth edition of which came out in 1677. Append. touching the controversie about the holy Eucharist Printed with the Godly meditationâ— c. Godly meditations concerning the divine presence Printed also with the former Meditat. He â—eparted this mortal life in May or June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 and was buried as I have been informed in the Abby Church of S. Peter at Westminster before the Vestry dore where the choir-men keep their Supplices to whom he gave five pounds In his Prebendship given to him much about the time of the death of Dr. Joh. Yong B. of Rochester who kept that Prebendship in Commendam with his See succeeded Lambert Osbaldeston M. A. as I shall else where tell you ROBERT HEGGE a prodigy of his time for forward and good natural parts was born within the City of Durham an 1599. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 7. Nov. 1614. Prob. Fellow thereof 27. Dec. 1624. being then M. of A. and accounted considering his age the best in the University for the Mathematical faculty History and Antiquities and therefore much beloved by Tho. Allen of Gloucester hall as afterward he was for his excellent knowledge in the Sacred Scripture as may be seen in certain books he wrote the titles of which follow Teatise of Dials and dialling MS. in C. C. coll Library In which book is the picture of the Dial in the said college Garden made by Nich. Kratzer whom I have mention'd under the year 1550. with a short discourse upon it In like manner there is the picture of that fair Cylinder standing on a Pedestal in the middle of the said coll quadrangle made by Charles Turnball 1605. with a short discourse on it which he intitles Horologium Sciotericum in gratiam speciosissimi Horoscopii in area quadrata C. C. C. c. The Legend of S. Cuthbert with the antiquities of the Church of Durham written 1626. and left in MS. behind him at his death so exactly and neatly written that many have taken it to be printed Afterwards a Copy of it under the authors hand coming into the possession of Thomas Lord Fairfax was by him reposed as a precious Monument in his Library of MSS. At length one who writes himself R. B. Esq sometimes of the retinue of the said Lord as I have been informed published it at Lond. 1663. in oct in a very bad letter and worse Paper not without some derogation to the memory of the author by concealing his name and putting the two first letters of his own with the writing a Prologue to it The truest Copy under the authors hand is now in the possession of Dr. Edw. Pocock Can. of Ch. Ch. and the Kings Hebr. Professor of this University having an Epistle to the Reader before it under the authors own hand dated 1. Jul. 1626. which the printed hath not Betwixt this MS. and the printed Copy I find much difference there being in the latter many omissions some additions besides literal mistakes especially in names of men and places and several passages transpos'd In aliquot Sacrae paginae loca lectiones Lond. 1647. in 4. sh or more in qu. published by John Hall of Greys Inn whom I shall anon mention who in his Preface to the said Lections tells us that if they took and were approv'd by Scholars he had more laying by him to publish but whether he did so or not I cannot tell Our author Hegge also left behind him 4. or 5. Sermons fit for the Press learned suppositions in C. C. C. Chappel verses Cat. of Schol. and Fell. of C. C. coll c. All which or at least some of them are at this day in the Libr. of the said college He died suddenly of an apoplexy to the great reluctancy of those who were acquainted with his admirable parts year 1629 on the eleventh of June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine having scarce attained to the thirtieth year of his age and was buried in the Chappel of the said coll As for John Hall before mentioned who had a great respect for his memory and his works and was well acquainted with if not allied to his relations was born also in the said City of Durham of gentile Parents in Aug. 1627. and being fitted for the University was hindred from going to it by the eruption of the Civil War Whereupon giving himself solely up to studies at home especially in the Library at Durham improved himself to a miracle After Oxon was reduced by
Religion which is set before it and Discourse concerning such Englishmen as have either been or in our histories reputed Cardinals of the Church of Rome which is put at the end of it But this Edition of 1615. with the said two additional discourses being very full of faults and not to be endured by any ordinary Reader he put them forthwith into Latine entitling them De Praesulibus Angliae commentarius c. Lond. 1616. qu. The Reader is now to understand that after the first Edition of the said Catalogue of Bishops came out in 1601. Sir John Harrington of Kelston near the City of Bathe Son of John Harrington of the said place Esquire who dying near to the Bishops Pallace of and in London 1. Jul. 1582. was buried in the Church of S. Gregory near to Pauls Cathedral and he the Son of Alex. Harrington descended from a younger brother of the Harringtons of Brierley in Yorkshire I say that the said Sir John Harrington sometimes an Eaton Scholar and afterwards M. of Arts of Camb. being minded to obtain the favour of Prince Henry wrote a discourse for his private use intit A brief view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Qu. Elizabeths and King James's raign to the year 1608. c. This book is no more than a character and History of the Bishops of those times and was written to the said Prince Henry as an additional supply to the before mention'd Catalogue of Bishops of Dr. Fr. Godwin upon occasion of that Proverb Henry the eighth pulled down Monks and their Cells Henry the ninth shall pull down Bishops and their Bells In the said book the author Harrington doth by imitating his Godmother Qu. Elizabeth shew himself a great enemy to married Bishops especially to such that had been married twice and many things therein are said of them that were by no means fit to be published being as I have told you before written only for private use But so it was that the book coming into the hands of one John Chetwind Grandson by a Daughter to the author a person deeply principled in presbyterian tenents did when the Press was open print it at London 1653. in oct And no sooner it was published and came into the hands of many but 't was exceedingly clamour'd at by the Loyal and orthodox Clergy condemning him much that published it The truth is that tho it did not give offence so much as Sir Anthony Weldons book intit The Court and character of K. James which was publish'd three years before yet it was exceedingly pleasing to the Presbyterians and other Diffenters And there is no doubt but that if it had come into the hands of Prynne before mentioned he would have raked out many things thence and aggravated them to the highest to furnish his Common Place book when he was about to publish The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. Our author Godwin wrote also Appendix adcommentarium de Praesulibus Angliae Lond. 1621. 22. in two sh in qu. Râ—rum Anglicaerum Henrico VIII Edwardo VI. Maria regnantibus Annales Lond. 1616. 28. 30. in qu. and fol. Translated into English by his Son Morgan Godwin Bac. of Arts of Ch. Ch. afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law of Pembr coll Master of the Free-School at Newland in Glocestershire Canon of Hereford and Doctor of his Faculty Which English translation hath been several times printed The man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage thither Lond. 1638. and 57. oct written while he was a Student of Ch. Ch. under the seigned name of Domingo Gozales and published some years after the authors death by E. M. of Ch. Ch. This book which hath before the title of it the picture of a man taken up from the top of a Mountain by an Engine drawn up to the Moon by certain flying Birds was censured to be as vain as the opinion of Copernicus or the strange discourses of the Antipodes when first heard of Yet since by a more inquisitive search in unravelling those intricacies men of solid judgments have since found out a way to pick up that which may add a very considerable knowledge and advantage to posterity Among which Dr. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester composed by hints thence given as 't is thought a learned piece called A discovery of a new World in the Moon Nuncius inanimatus Utopiae 1629. Lond. 1657. oct Translated into English by Anon. who intitles it The mysterious Messenger unlocking the secrets of mens hearts Printed with The man in the Moon Lond. 1657. oct in two sheets only At length after our authors many labours wherein he aimed mostly at the publick he was taken with a long lingring disease which bringing him to his desired haven year 1633 in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems sixteen hundred thirty and three was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Whitborne which with the mannour thereof belongs to the Bishops of Hereford situate and being about 14. miles distant from the said City To the said See after his death was elected Dr. William Juxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London as I shall tell you elsewhere That which I have forgot to let the Reader know is that whereas there goes under the name of the Bishop of Landaff A treatise on the blessed Sacrament printed in oct and one or more Sermons on the sixth Psalm they are not be attributed to Dr. Godwin but to his predecessor as I suppose in Landaff called Gerv. Babington Sed de hoc quaere HUGH HOLLAND Son of Rob. Holland by his Wife the Daughter of one Pain of Denbigh Son of Lewys Holland Son of Llewellin Son of Griffith Holland of Vaerdre by Gwervilla his Wife Daughter of Howell ap Madock ap Jem ap Einion was born at Denbigh bred in Westminster School while Camden taught there elected into Trinity coll in Cambridge an 1589. of which he was afterwards Fellow Thence he went to travel into Italy and was at Rome where his over free discourse betrayed his prudence Thence he went to Jerusalem to do his devotions to the holy Sepulcher and in his return touch'd at Constantinople where he received a reprimand from the English Embassador for the former freedom of his tongue At his return into England he retired to Oxon spent some years there as a Sojournour for the sake of the publick Library and as I have been informed had his Lodging in Ball. coll which is partly the reason why I insert him here He is observed by a Cambridge man to have been no bad English but an excellent Latine Poet and by some thought worthy to be mention'd by Spencer Sidney and others the chiefest of our English Poets His works are these MSS. Verses in description of the chief Cities of Europe Chronicle of Qu. Elizab. raign Life of Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Armes A Cypress Garland for the sacred forehead of
book though publickly complained of was never called in by the Bishop Laud but the second part thereof was printed with License an 1629. and the author of it advanced to the Presidentship of C. C. coll in Oxon by this Bishop yea by him designed to be Doctor of the Chaire though he missed that preferment to poyson the University of Oxford with his Arminian druggs The knowledge of Jesus Christ Or the seventh book of the Commentary of the Apostles Creed A larger title of this runs thus Christ exercising his everlasting Priesthood c. Or a Treatise of the knowledge of Christ which consists in the true estimate or experimental valuation of his death resurrection and exercise of his everlasting sacerdotal Function c. Lond. 1624. qu. Humiliation of the Son of God by his becoming the Son of Man c. Lond. 1626. and 36. qu. This is the eighth book of his Com. on the Creed Treatise of the consecration of the Son of God to the everlasting Priesthood c. Lond. 1628. and 33. Oxon. 1638. qu. This is the ninth book of Com. on the Creed The second part of the knowledge of Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1654. fol. The tenth book of Com. on the Creed Dominus veniet Of Christs Session at the right hand of God and Exaltation thereby c. Lond. 1657. fol. The eleventh book of Com. on the Creed Which with the tenth and a Preface concerning them and their author were published by his great admirer Barnabas Oley M. A. of Cambridge who had before published the second edit of the three first book Lond. 1653. fol. with a large Preface likewise of his composition but the life which followed was written by Edm. Vaughan as I shall anon tell you This Barnabas Oley was installed Prebendary of Worcester 4. of Septemb. 1660. and was afterwards Bach. of Divinity and Archdeacon of Ely He died 20. Febr. 1685. whereupon Joh. Hough B. D. of Magd. coll in Oxon succeeded him in his Prebendship and Will. Saywell D. D. Master of Jesus coll in Cambridge in his Archdeaconry Several Sermons as 1 Five Sermons befitting these present tones Two of which are on 2 Cor. 6. 39 40. and the other three on Jerem. 26. 19. Oxon. 1637. qu. 2 Treatise concerning the signs of the times or Gods forewarning being the sum of some few Sermons on Luke 13. 5 6 7 8 9. Oxon. 1637. qu. 3 Serm. or Posthill preached on the second Sunday in Advent 1630. on Luke 21. 25. Printed with the aforesaid Treatise concerning the signs c. 4 Nazareth and Bethlem or Israels portion in the Son of Jesse c. two Sermons on Jerem. 31. 21 22. 5 Mankinds comfort from the weaker Sex on Gal. 4. 5 6. 6 Two Sermons one on Matth. 2. ver 1 2. and the other on the 17. and 18. verses of the same chapter 7 Christs answer unto Johns question Or an introduction to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and him Crucisied in certain Sermons at Newcastle upon Tine c. Treatise of the Holy Cath Faith and Church in 3 books Lond. 1627. qu. This is the twelfth book of his Com. on the Creed Treatise of Christian obedience Treatise of the primeval estate of man of the manner how Sin formed entrance into and is propagated in the World c. Lond. 1654. fol. Discourse of the limitation of the two propositions in the thirteenth verse of the eighth chapter to the Romans Vindication or a serious answer to Mr. Hen. Buttons exceptions taken against a passage in his Treatise of his Divine essence and attributes Paragraph on the eleven first chapters of Exodus with useful annotations observations and parallels Salvation only from Gods grace or an Exposition of Rom. 9. 16. Gods just hardning of Pharoah when he had filled up the measure of his iniquity Or an Exposition on Rom. 9. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. Treatise concerning the Acts and Exercises of the Son of God's everlasting Priesthood Which six last Treatises or books were printed with the Treatise of the primeval estate of Man c. 1654. fol. Three errours disparaging Christs Priesthood 1 The novation denying the reception of some sort of Sinners 2 c. Twenty Sermons or thereabouts Most of which Books Sermons and Treatises having been published at several times were collected together with others added to them and printed at Lond. 1672. 73. in three volumes in fol. with the authors life prefixed as it was before the three first books of Comments on the Creed Lond. 1653. fol. written by Edm. Vaughan sometimes Fellow of C. C. coll whom I shall mention elsewhere Our author Dr. Jackson also wrote An historical narration This I have not yet seen nor do I know farther of its title It was licensed by Dr. Edw. Martin Domestick Chaplain to Bishop Laud without his privity for which he turn'd him out of his service as he himself saith and the book called in and suppressed But Prynne an implacable enemy to that Bishop saith that the said Historical narration which was the vilest imposture that ever was thrust upon our Church was licensed by the said Martin with Lauds privity and that the calling of it in was the act of Archb. Abbot upon Prynns complaint and the publick scandal it gave much against Lauds will who ever since connived at the sale of them At length after our author Dr. Th. Jackson had spent 60 years or more in this life mostly in studies and devotion surrendred up his devout Soul to him that gave it on the 21. of Sept. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 and was buried in the Inner Chappel of Corp. Ch. coll but hath no memory at all over his grave In his Presidentship of the said coll succeeded Dr. Rob. Neulin D. D. and in his Deanry of Peterborough succeeded Dr. John Cosin born in the City of Norwich and educated in Cajes coll who was first Prebendary of Darham then Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorâ—â— next Rector of the Church of Branspath in the Bishoprick of Durham afterwards Master of St. Peters coll commonly called Peter-house in Cambridge and Vicechancellour of that University then Dean of Peterborough as is before mentioned Chaplain in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. and 2. and lastly after the sequestration and plunder of all he had and 17 years exile for his Loyalty was consecrated Bishop of Darham 2. 〈◊〉 1660. He died in his lodging in the street called the Palmal in the Suburbs of Westminster after he had bestowed much wealth on pious and publick uses on the fifteenth day of Januar. 1671. aged 77. whereupon his body was conveyed with great solemnity to Bishops Aukland in his Diocess and there buried on the 29. of Apr. 1672. The Reader is now to know that there was another Tho. Jackson who was a writer also born in Lancashire educated as it seems in Cambridge afterwards Minister of Wye in Kent and at length Prebendary of Canterbury and D. of Div. This
in the year 1508. Rob. Fisher was admitted to the said rectory on the 18. Dec. the same year JOHN PAYNE a Dominican or Black Frier spent several years in the study of Divinity of which he was afterwards Doctor in the coll of Dominicans in the south suburb of Oxon. Afterwards retiring to Ireland was thro several preferments made Bishop of Meath by the Popes provision and installed in the Choire there on the feast of St. Dominick Aug. 4. in 1483. In the year 1493. he was made Master of the Rolls in Ireland being then much celebrated for his great charity and hospitality and dying on the sixth day of March in fifteen hundred and six year 1506 21. Hen. 7. was buried in the Monastery of his Order at Dublin or rather as the Historian of Ireland tells us in the Church of S. Patrick there where his monument near the west door of that Church was remaining in his time with an inscription thereon MATTHEW MACRAIH an Irish Man and a Civilian as it seems from some of our Records wherein I find his sirname sometimes to occur became Bishop of Clonfort in his own Country in 1482. and dying in fifteen hundred and seven year 1507 was buried at Kicomaing leaving behind him the character of a person celebrated for the many vertues of his mind THOMAS O-CONGALAU another Irish man and contemporary with the former who succeeded in the See of Ardagh one Will. O-Ferall year 1508 and dying in fifteen hundred and eight left the character behind him him of a person of great prudence and liberality towards the poor WALTER BLAKE was born in the County of Galloway in Ireland and for some time educated in this University Afterwards he retired to his native Country became Canon of Enagdune alias Enaghcoin and at length by the favour of P. Innocent 8. Bishop of Clocmacnois or Clonmacnois in the beginning of 1487. where sitting about 21 years submitted to fate in the month of May in fifteen hundred and eight year 1508 One Thomas succeeded him in that See but his sirname is yet unknown EDMUND COMERFORD was also educated for a time in this University and afterwards being made Dean of Kilkenny was consecrated there Bishop of Fernes in 1505. In which See sitting but four years died in fifteen hundred and nine year 1509 and was succeeded by one Nicholas Comyn THOMAS VIVIAN a Cornish man born or at least descended from those of his name living in Cornwall and Devon was from his youth bred a Black Cannon or Cannon Regular and among those in Oxon did he spend some time Afterwards retiring into his own Country he became Prior of the Black Cannons at Bodmin in Cornwal and at length Suffragan Bishop to the Bishop of Exeter under the title of Episc Majorensis or Megarensis that is as I suppose Megara Joh. Leland tells us that the Priory at Bodmin stood at the east south-east part of the Parish Ch. yard there There lay buried before the high Altar in an high Tomb of very darkish gray marble one Thom. Vivian Prior of Bodmin and Suffragan Magarensis Episcopatus He died not long since c. One Tho. Vivian of Exeter coll proceeded Master of A. in an Act celebrated 10 March 7. Hen. 8. Dom. 1515. and was afterwards Rector of the said coll for a time but him I take not to be the same with the Bishop yet Quaere CHRISIOPHER FISHER an Oxford man by Academical education was afterwards Bishop of Elphine in Ireland and Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York which Dignity he obtained after he was made Bishop In fifteen hundred and eleven or thereabouts he departed this mortal life and that year one Thom. Waâ—lashe succeeded him in the said Prebendship but who in the See of Elphine except one John who became Prebendary of Amplesord in the Ch. of York 3. Nov. 1530. and died on the Feast of the Assump of the B. Virgin 1536. being then Prior of Welbeck in Nottinghamshire I know not NICHOLAS MAGWIRE an Irish man was promoted to the See of Laighlin in Ireland in 1490. and died in fifteen hundred and twelve year 1512 under which year you may see more of him among the writers DAVID ap OWEN a Welsh man sometimes a Student in the Civ and Can. Law in Oxon afterwards Abbat of Stratmarkell and of Conway in his own Country was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the year 1503. and dying on the 11. or 12. of Febr. in fifteen hundred and twelve year 1512 was buried in the Cathedral Ch. of S. Asaph near the high Altar on the south side There is a monument of a Bishop near to the Throne in the said Chancel which as the tradition goes there was put for the said Dav. ap Owen MAURIT de PORTU or O-Fihely an Irish man became by provision from P. Jul. 2. Archbishop of Tuam in his own Country year 1513 26. June 1506. and died in fifteen hundred and thirteen See more of him among the writers under that year THOMAS CORNISH a Somersetshire man born as it seems was educated in Oriel coll of which he was afterwards Fellow and being Master of Arts was made Vicar of Banwell in the Diocess of Wells In Aug. 1483. he became Master of St. Johns house or hospital in the City of Wells and soon after Chanter and Residentiary in the Cath. Ch. there In 1491-2 he was made Suffragan Bishop to Rich. Fox B. of Bath and Wells under the title of Episcopus Tynensis by which I suppose is meant Tyne the last Island belonging to the Republick of Venice in the Archipelago In 1493. he by the name of Tho. Cornish Bishop of Tyne was made Provost of Oriel coll and in 1497. Jul. 29. he was collated to the Vicaridge of S. Cuthberts Ch. in Wells In Oct. 1505. he became Vicar of Chew in Somersetshire on the death of Rob. Wydow in which County he had other Churches successively confer'd upon him to keep up the state of a Bishop and in 1507. resigning his Provostship of Oriel coll retired to Wells being then also Suffragan to Hugh Oldham Bishop of Exeter year 1513 and dying on the third day of July in fifteen hundred and thirteen was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Wells in the north Isle near to the door that leads up to the Chapter-house Over his grave was a fair monument erected which continues to this day with so much of the inscription thereon left that shews the day and year of his death One Thom. Woulf or Wulff titular Bishop of Lacedemon had a Commission granted to him 30. Sept. 1513. to be Suffragan Bishop in the place of the said Cornish but whether he was ever of Oxon I have not yet seen any record to prove it WILLIAM SMYTH Son of Rob. Smyth was born at Farnworth in the Parish of Prescote in Lancashire educated partly in Grammar learning in his own Country partly in Academical in this University
decease of the said W. Worslley who had held with it other dignities among which was the Archdeaconry of Nottingham in which he was succeeded by Thom. Crosley in Aug. 1499. In 1505. he the said Rob. Sherebourne being elected Bishop of S. Davids under the title of Consiliarius regius had restitution of the temporalities of that See made to him on the 12. of Apr. the same year done in requiral of the many services and embassies which he had performed for his Master K. Hen. 7. In 1508. he was translated to the See of Chichester and had the temporalities belonging thereunto delivered to him on the 13. Dec. that year He was a person much given to hospitality was very charitable to the poor munificent to the coll that had given him Acad. education as may elsewhere be seen and bestowed much mony in beautifying and adorning his Cath. Ch. at Chichester At length after he had resigned his Bishoprick he gave way to fate on the 21. Aug. in fifteen hundred thirty and six aged 86 years or thereabouts and was buried in the said Cath. Ch. in a poor remembrance that he had made there on the south side of the same Church A certain note which Sir Will. Dugdale Garter K. of Arms collected by himself and afterwards communicated to me informs that the said R. Sherebourne founded a Free School in the time of Hen. 8. at Rowlston in Staffordshire at which place he was born of mean parentage But this note which he could not then tell whence he had I reject because the register of New coll tells us that he was born in Hampshire where is a Town called Sherbourne in which he or at least his Father or Grandfather was as 't is probable born After he had resigned his Bishoprick Mr. Rich. Sampson Dean of the Kings Chappel being elected thereunto had the temporalities thereof given to him 4. July 28. Hen. 8. Dom. 1536. JOHN KYTE was born as 't is said within the City of London and for a time educated in this University but in what house or what degrees he took it appears not Afterwards he had several dignities confer'd upon him was made Subdean of the King's Chappel and by K. Hen. 7. was sent Embassador into Spain In the latter end of 1513. he was made Archb. of Armagh by provision from P. Leo 10. the temporalities of which were given to him on the 20. May in the year following But he resigning the said Archbishoprick on the third of Aug. 1521. being newly made Bishop of Carlile in England on the death of Joh. Penny was made Archbishop of Thebes in Greece All these things were done by the endeavours made to the Pope by Card. Wolsey whose creature Kyte was And because the Bulls of translation and of Carlile with the retention of his other benefices should be expedited and done to the desire of Wolsey and Kyte the fees came to 1790. duckets but whether all was paid I think not because it partly appears by the letters of Joh. Clerk the Kings Orator at Rome afterwards B. of B. of Wells that for the sake of the said Card. 275 duckets were released to Kyte tho the World was then very hard at Rome He the said Kyte took his last farewell of this World after he had bestowed much money on Rose-castle the Seat of the Bishop of Carlile on the nineteenth day of June in fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 and was buried as 't is said in the middle almost of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Stepney near London Over his grave is a marble-stone yet remaining with an English Epitaph thereon contained in barbarous verses shewing that he was a person of great hospitality The five first run thus Under this ston closyde and marmorate Lyeth John Kitte Londoner natyff Encreasyng in vertues rose to high estate In the fourth Edwards chappel by his yong lyffe Sith whych the sevinth Henryes servyce primatyff Proceeding still c. How it came to pass that he was buried at Stepney I cannot tell Sure I am that by his Will and Test made the 18. June 29. Hen. 8 dom 1537. and proved 21. of the same month wherein he writes himself John Kyte Archb. of Thebes and Commendatory perpetual of Carlile he bequeaths his body to be buried by the body of his Father in St. Margarets Church in Westminster JOHN HILSEY a Dominican or Black Frier was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in 1535. and died in sixteen hundred thirty and eight year 1538 Under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Rochester succeeded Nich Heath whom I shall mention at large in his proper place JOHN STOKESLIE was educated in S. Mary Magd. coll of which he was Fellow and much noted for his excellent faculty in disputing whether in Philosophy or Divinity In 1502. he being then M. of A. of some years standing was admitted Principal of S. Mary Magd. hall and in the year following was elected the northern Procter of the University because he had been born in the north parts of England Afterwards he became Vicar of Willoughby in Warwickshire for a time and Rector of Slimbridge in Gloucestershire both by the gift of the said college Prebendary of the Kings Chappel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and S. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of Rich. Paice Doct. of Divinity and Chaplain to Rich. Fox B. of Winchester who gave him as I think the Archdeaconry of Surrey At length upon the translation of Tonstall to Durham he was made Bishop of London in 1530. In which See being installed 19. Jul. in the same year and about that time made the Kings Almoner fate there to the time of his death which hapning on the eighth of Sept. year 1539 in fifteen hundred thirty and nine was buried on the 14. of the said month in the Chappel of S. George within the Precinct of S. Pauls Cathedral Soon after was a memorial put over his grave running thus Hujus in obscuri tumuli c. Which in English is this as P. F. tells me Th'obscure recesses of this key-cold Tomb Do Stokeslies ashes and remains inhume Whose general name good life dexterity Of Pen Tongue Brain were known both far and nigh Who studied still to serve God and the King And benefit the publick in each thing What good he did in Forreign parts retrieve He brought it home like honey to his hive He knew the intreagues of Italy and Spain And of the Grecian Wyles did make much gain To many Kingdoms of the World being known And honour'd more returning to his own Who on our Blessed Ladies day being born Did on the self same day to dust return In 1529. he was sent to the Emperiour and Pope and to several Universities concerning the marriage of King Hen. 8. with his brother's Wife c. and was with Tho. Cranmer at
great portion that he had conveyed half the Bishoprick to her that because he had the Gout he could not stand to his marriage with such and the like scoffs to make him ridiculous to the vulgar and odious to the Queen The Earl of Bedford hapning to be present when these tales were told and knowing the Londoners Widdow the Bishop had married said merrily to the Queen after this manner Madam I know not how much the Widdow is above 20. but I know a Son of hers is but a little under forty c. The conclusion of the premises was this that to pacifie his persecutors and to save Banwell he was fain to part with Wyvelscomb commonly called Wilscomb for 99 years and so purchased his peace To conclude his reading had been much his judgment and doctrine sound his government mild and not violent his mind charitable and therefore not to be doubted but when he lost this life he won Heaven In his last days being taken with an quartan Ague he did by advice of his Physicians remove to the place of his Nativity Okingham before-mentioned with hopes of recovery but nothing availing he gave way to fate 19. of Novemb. in fifteen hundred and ninety aged 73 years year 1590 Whereupon being buried on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Parish Church there had a monument soon after set up in the wall over his grave by his Son Franc. Godwin then Subdean of Exeter In the See of Bathe and Wells succeeded John Still D. D. Master of Trin. coll in Cambridge Son of William Still of Grantham in Lincolnshire who had been installed Canon of the seventh stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of Thom. Aldridge deprived for Nonconformity an 1573. and Archdeacon of Sudbury 28. of March 1576. He died 26. of Feb. 1607. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Wells leaving then behind him several Children which he had by his two Wives especially the first MARMADUKE MIDDLETON Son of Tho. Middleton of Cardiganshire descended from the Middletons of Middleton in Westmorland by Lucia his Wife daughter of Rob. Nevill had part of his education here but took not as I can yet find a degree Afterwards he went into Ireland where he became Rector of Killare in the diocess of Meath and on the death of Patr. Walsh B. of Waterford and Lisemore in 1579. In 1581. he was translated to S. Davids and about two years after he was actually created Doct. of div of this University He was afterwards not only deprived of his Bishoprick but degraded from all holy Orders for many notable misdemeanours And the sentence for it was accordingly executed by and before the High Commissioners at Lambeth house not only by reading of it in Scriptis but by a formal degrading him of his Episcopal robes and Priestly vestments He departed this mortal life on the 30. of Nov. in fifteen hundred ninety and two leaving then a Son behind him year 1592 named Richard who was Archdeacon of Cardigan In the See of S. Davids succeeded Anthony Rudd D. of div of Cambridge and a Yorkshire man born whom I shall mention in the Fasti under the year 1577. JOHN UNDERHILL is according to time to follow Tho. Godwin but before I enter upon him I must let the reader know that after the death of Dr. Hugh Curwyn Bishop of Oxon that See continued void about 21. years At the term of which a great person Sir Fr. Walsingham out of pure devotion to the leases that would yield good fines recommended the said Vnderhill to it perswading him to take it as in a way to a better but as it should seem it was out of his way very much for e're the first fruits were paid he died in much discontent and poverty Yet his preferrer to seem to do some favour to the University for recompence of the spoil done to the Bishoprick of Oxon erected a new lecture at his own charge which Dr. Rainolds of C. C. coll did for some time read as I have told you elsewhere This John Vnderhill was born in an ancient tenement or receptacle for guests called the Cross Inn in St. Martins Parish within the City of Oxon where his name lived two or three generations if not more and continued there till the daughter and heir of Vnderhill was married to one Breys or Brice After he had been trained up in Grammar learning in Winchester school he was sent to New coll of which he became true and perpetual fellow in 1563. After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts it hapned that Doctor Horne Bishop of Winchester visited the said coll but Vnderhill making opposition by questioning the Bishops right for what he did or should do as to visitation he was removed from his fellowship in 1576. Whereupon making his complaint to Robert Earl of Leycester chancellour of the University of Oxon he hearkned to and encouraging him to go to law with the Bishop for what he had done the Bishop forthwith let the cause fall to the ground knowing very well that he should be a loser by carrying on the cause if that great Count should stand by Vnderhill In 1577. he was elected Rector of Lincoln coll and proceeded in Divinity in 1581. About which time he was made Chaplain to the Queen one of the Vicars of Bampton and Rector of Witney in Oxfordshire In 1589. he was nominated Bishop of Oxon upon Walsinghams motion as I have before told you whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. C. on the 8. day of Decemb. was consecrated thereunto about the latter end of the same month in the said year He paid his last debt to nature at London on the 12. of May in fifteen hundred ninety and two and soon after his body being conveyed to Oxon year 1592 was buried in the Cath. Ch. towards the upper end of the choire just before the Bishops chair leaving then this character of him that he was Vir clarus eloquio acutus ingenio From the time of his death to the consecration of Dr. Jo. Bridges his successor an 1603. the patrimony of the Bishoprick of Oxon was much dilapidated and made a prey for the most part to Robert Earl of Essex to whom it proved as miserably fatal as the gold of Tholouse did of old to the soldiers of Caepio The said Joh. Bridges had been sometimes fellow of Pembr hall in Cambridge was D. of D. and made Dean of Salisbury in the beginning of Januar. 1577. upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Piers to the Episcopal See there He was a learned man in the time he lived and wrot several books as the Bodleian or Oxford catalogue will tell you See more of him in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 291. b. JOHN WOOLTON sometimes of Brasnose coll was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in Aug. 1574. died in the latter end of fifteen hundred ninety and three year 1593 and was buried
Lieutenant he was consecrated Bishop of Limerick in Apr. 1604. In the year 1606. he by a dispensation kept the See of Kilfenore with it to the year 1617. at which time he voluntarily resign'd it He bestowed much money in repairing the Church of Limerick and in the adorning it with Organs and several Ornaments as also in repairing the house belonging to his See besides other moneys for pious use He died on the 22. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and five and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Limerick where was a monument soon after erected to his memory In the said See succeeded Francis Gough commonly called Goffe whom I shall anon at large mention ARTHUR LAKE sometimes Fellow of New coll was consecrated B. of Bathe and Wells in the month of Dec. 1616. and concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and six year 1626 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded Dr. Will Laud of whom I shall make mention at large among the writers in the second volume of this work TOBIE MATHEW Son of John Mathew a native of Roos in Herefordshire by his Wife Elianor Croston of Ludlow was born in the city of Bristow in that part of it which is in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning in the City of Wells became a Student in this University in the beginning of the year 1559. aged 13. years but in what house unless in Vniv. coll the antient members of which have claim'd him as theirs I know not Sure it is that being a Student of Ch. Ch. soon after his first coming he did as a member of that house take the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1563. and three years after that of master and holy orders at which time he was much respected for his great learning eloquence sweet conversation friendly disposition and for the sharpness of his wit In 1569. he was unanimously elected the publick Orator of the University which office he executed with great applause and with no little honour to the University In 1570. he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and on the 28. Nov. the same year he was admitted Archdeacon of Bathe In 1572. May 15. he became Prebendary of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the Church of Salisbury and in July the same year he was elected President of S. Johns coll At which time being much famed for his admirable way of Preaching he was made one of the Queens chaplains in Ordinary and soon after proceeding in Divinity was made Dean of Ch. Ch. 1576. So that then his name sounding high among scholars he deservedly obtain'd the name of Theologus praestantissimus for so he is stiled by the learned Camden who adds that in him doctrina cum pietate ars cum natura certant Eam Campian the Jesuit in his book of Ten Reasons which the R. Catholicks count an Epitomy of all their doctrine labouring to prove that the Fathers were all Papists and to give the uttermost he could to his assertion saith that Thoby Mathew confest to him so much 〈◊〉 saith he c. We did once in a familiar sort sound Th. Mathews opinion he that now domineers in your Pulpits whom for his good learning and seeds oâ— vertue we esteemed c. Which character coming from a Jesuits pen makes it the truer because he was in some manner his Adversary In 1579. he did undergo the office of Vicechancellour of this University and in 1583. he was not only made Chantor of the Church of 〈◊〉 on the resignation of George Carew in the month of June but also Dean of Durham void by the decease of Dr. 〈…〉 In which dignity being installed 31. Aug. he gâ—ve up his Chantorship in Febr. following wherein he was succeeded by Dr. Will. Zouch and in the beginning of the year following his Deanery of Ch. Ch. In 1595. he was to the great joy of many especially those of the Clergy made Bishop of Durham upon the translation of Dr. Math. Hutton to York which was made 24. of March 1594. to which See being consecrated soon after sate there till August an 1606. and then being translated on the 18. of the said month and installed on the 11. of Sept. following in the person of his Proctor sate there in great honour and repute till the time of his death He gave way to sate in a good old age on the 29. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight year 1628 and was buried in a chappel behind or beyond the east end of the choire of the Cath. Ch. of York Soon after was a noble monument of black and white marble set up under the great east window of that chappel with his Effigies in his Archiepiscopal robes and an inscription thereon A copy of which containing his just character you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 255. b. 256. a. He hath extant a latin Serm. intit Concio Apologetica contra Edm. Campianum in Deut 32. 7. Oxon. 1638. oct As also a letter to K. Jam 1. which is printed in the Cabala I have been informed that he had several things lying by him worthy of the Press but what became of them after his death I know not nor any thing to the contrary but that they came into the hands of his Son Sir Tobie In the said See of York succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne of Queens coll in Cambridge sometimes a Lecturer in Gresham coll afterwards Master of the Savoy Dean of Westminster in the place of Dr. Neile promoted to the See of Lichf and Cov. in which dignity he was install'd in Dec. 1610. Bishop of Lincolne to which he was consecrated 14. Dec. 1617. and then of London being translated to that place 20. July 1621. In the latter end of 1627. he was translated to Durham whence after he had sate three months he was translated to York in the place of Mathew as I have before told you to which See being elected 16. June was inthronized therein 24. Oct. 1628. But he expiring soon after in the year of his age 59. six months and two days was buried in the chancel belonging to the Church of Cawood in Yorksh in which parish he was born and had soon after a comely monument set up to his memory at the charge of Isaac his brother Curator of his last Will and Test in the north wall of the said chancel containing his bust in his lawn sleeves with a large inscription under it All which especially the verses were made by Hugh Holland the Poet. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Sam. Harsnet Bishop of Norwych sometimes Master of Pembr hall in Cambridge who being elected thereunto on the 26. of Novemb. 1628 was inthronized 23. April following He died on the 12. of March 1630. being then Privy Counsellour to his Majesty at Moreton in Marsh in Glocestershire in his return from Bathe to his Mannour of Southwell in Nottinghamshire Whereupon
oftentimes being sent in Embassage to foreign Princes as for that being bred and brought up in good Learning he well 〈◊〉 of Learning in the Vniversity of Oxford and was both pitiful and bountèous to his poor Neighbours about him and of Ingerston where he lies buried Jan. 24. Griffyn Leyson Principal of S. Edwunds Hall near S. Edw. Church He with John Oliver Dr. of the Civ Law were employed in the matter of depriving Steph. Gardiner of his Bishoprick of Winchester and in the time of Qu. Mary wheeling about he became a Justice of Peace and High Sheriff of Caermerthenshire when Rob. â—errar Bishop of S. Davids was burnt an 1555 at which time suffering not the said Bishop to speak his mind when he was at the Stake as John Fox tells us died about half an year after when he would have spoke himself but could not One George Throgmorton LL. B. did supplicate to be admitted to the said degree but was not Doct. of Div. Jul. 5. Rich. Langrigg or Langrish He was originally of Mert. Coll. and from being Fellow ehere he became one of the Canons of Cardinal Coll. Chaplain to Wolsey Archb. of York and afterwards to Dr. Lee his Successor in that See In 1534 he became Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Dr. Will. Clyffe promoted to the Chantorship of York and dying in 1547 he was succeeded in the said Archdeaconry by Dr. Jo. Warner Joh. Hopton a Dominican was admitted the same day This person tho incorporated D. of D. in 1529 yet he was now licensed to proceed and accordingly stood in the Act celebrated three dayes after his Admission See more among the Bishops under the year 1558. July 28. Will. Tresham lately of Merton now Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon. John Travyshe M. of A. and B. D. was adm Doct. the same day This year also Fa. Rich. Hylsey a Dominican and Simon Atkyns M. A. and B. of D. supplicated to be Doctors of the said Faculty The former was afterwards admitted but neglected to be put in the Register the other was not Incorporations June 1. Jam. Turbervyle of New Coll. D. of D. of another University He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter June 19. Joh. Palsgrave Feb… Will. Leighton M. A. of Cambr. July…Rob Wakefeld B. of D. of Cambridge now Canon of the Kings Coll. at Oxon. Nov… Fa. John Hurleston or Huddleston a Carme Bach of Div. of the University of Colen In the month of June this year supplicated Rich. Croke D. of D. of Cambridge and about this time Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon to be incorporated in that degree which Supplication tho not at that time granted yet afterwards he was incorporated An. Dom. 1533. An. 25 Hen. 8. Chanc. John Longland D. D. and Bishop of Lincoln sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll. Commiss in chief was Will. Treshan D. D. Proct. John Pekyns of Exeter Coll. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. Apr. 3. Grammarians June…Gilb Saywell Jan… Jehn Best Schol. of Gram. These two were admitted to inform in Grammar Qu. Whether Jo. Best was not the same person who in 1560 was made Bish of Carlile for in these days and after several of the Bishops were originally Pedagogues Bach. of Arts. July 20. John Man of New Coll. He was afterwards Warden of Mert. Coll. and Dean of Glocester as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1568. July 20. Thomas Talbot Rich. Caldwell or Chaldwall of Brasnose Coll. Feb. 15. John Clerke Quaere Sixty two in all were admitted this year and but six that suppl Bach. of Civ Law July 13. Joh. Wymesley or Wymsley of Broadgates Hall He was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Dr. Bonner Bishop of that City in the place of Dr. Rich. Gwent deceased an 1543 and was present in the Convocation of the Clergy 1 Mari. c Dom. 1553 in which Convocation he did speak an Oration that was soon after made publick About nine besides him were admitted and but three there were that supplicated for the said degree Bach. of Can. Law Nov. 27. Donatus Riane a public Reader of the Canon Law in New Inn. A learned Irish Author in his enumcration or Writers and learned men of Ireland tells us there were two Brethren of Oxford whose Sirnames were Riane and that one of them was a good Civilian and the other a Mathematician but mentions nothing of their Writings This Donatus therefore I take to be the Civilian and Daniel mention'd under the year 1556 to be the Mathematician See in the year 1514. Besides him were six admitted and eight at least that supplicated for the said degree Mast of Arts. Mar… John Shepreve or Shepery of C. C. Coll. Apr… Will. Pye of Oriel He was afterwards Dean of Chichester Jan. 30. Joh. Whyte of New Coll. He was afterwards B. of Wint. Mar. 19. Thomas Young Perhaps the same who took a degree in the Civ Law 1537 as I shall tell you in that year Besides these were but fourteen admitted and about eight that supplicated for the said degree that were not this year admitted Opponents in Divinity Mar. 31. Fath. Rob. Kynner alias Bate a Monk of the Order of S. Bernard now of S. Bernards Coll. He was the last Abbat of Smite in Warwickshire of the Cistercian Order In the year before he supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Div. tho he had not opposed and whether he was admitted this or in any other year following it appears not in the Reg. Mar. 31. Fath. May. 29. Fath. Tho. Kyngeswood Rich. Greene Ralph Wobourne of S. Bernards Coll. These three Fathers who were Monks of the Order of S. Bern. were not adm Bach. of Div. which is the reason I put them here Nov. 29. Fr. John Wyllyams a Minorite Bach. of Div. May 29. Fa. Rob. Combe a Bernardine or Cistercian Monk now Provisor of S. Bernards Coll. in Oxon. Oct. 14. Rob. Ferrar a Can. reg of S. Maries Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of S. David Mar. 7. Fa. Tho. sometimes written Will. Todde a Bened. Monk 11. Fa. Andr. Alton of the same Order and about this time Prior of the Monks living in Glocester Coll. in the Suburb of Oxon. 20. Thomas Goldwell M. A. He was afterwards B. of S. Asaph Besides these were six more admitted and about 16 that supplicated among whom were Fr. John Arthure and Fr. Edw Reyley Minorites Fath. Tho. Wethamsted and Fa. John Langport Benedictines Fr. Joh. Joseph and Fr. Joh. Bacheler Minorites the last of which was Subgardian of the Franciscan Coll. in Oxon. ☞ Not one Doct. of Can. or Civ Law nor one Doct. of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Neither in Divinity only John Bellytory M. A. of Mert. Coll. and John Wylson Bach. of Div. supplicated for that degree One Rich Borde also M. of A. of this University and Doct. of Div. of Paris did supplicate to be absent from Exequies Masses Processions c. An. Dom. 1534. An. 26 Hen. 8.
Vicar General to Gilbert Bishop of that place and at length Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Sarum He died about the month of Feb. in 1575 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Wells Oct. 18. John Croke of New Coll. He was now an eminent Advocate in the Court of Arches and about this time dignified in the Church Doct. of Div. July 6. John Ramridge of Mert. Coll. He was made Dean of Lichfield in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign in the place of one Rich. Willyams deprived for having married a Widow in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. But the said Ramridge leaving England without any compulsion in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth being much troubled in mind upon a foresight of the alteration of Religion he went into Flanders where in wandring to and fro in great discontent he met with Thieves who first rob'd and afterwards murder'd him Only two supplicated for the said Degree this year viz. Will. Wetherton M. A. and Bach. of Div. and Edw. Sepham M. A. and Student in that Faculty but were not now or after admitted Incorporations Apr…Nich Grimoald Jul. 19. Laur. Nowell B. of A. of Cambr. Nov. 8. George Dogeson or Dogâ—on Chantor of Wells and M. A. of the University of Paris was then incorp M. of A. Which being done he was incorporated Bach. of Div. as he had stood in the said University of Paris An. Dom. 1543. An. 35 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. John Estwyke Will. Pye again Elected the first day of Easter Term. Bach. of Arts. Jul. 12. Tho. Godwyn of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bathe and Wells Dec. 14. Will. Johnson of All 's Coll. The Cat. of Fellows of that House saith that he was afterwards Dean of Dublin and Bishop of Meath in Ireland whereupon recurring to the Commentary of Irish Bishops written by Sir James Ware I could find no such Person nor Dr. Johnson of Christs Coll. in Cambridge who is reported by Th. Fuller the Historian to be Archb. of Dublin Feb. 20. Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Lichfield and Coventry In all about 35 besides about 7 who were Supplicators or Candictates for the said degree of Bac. of Arts. Bach. of Civ Law Jan. 4. Nich. Harpesfield of New Coll. Mar… John Plough The former was afterwards a zealous Writers for the Rom. Catholic the other for the Protestant Cause Besides these two were about twelve more admitted Mast of Arts. Jun. 6. Joh. Fox Hen. Bull Tho. Cooper Will. Dounham of Magd. Coll. The two last of which were afterwards Bishops At the same time was one John Redman or Redmayne of Magd. Coll. admitted But whether this be the same John Redman who was afterwards Archdeacon of Taunton or another mentioned under the year 1508 and 1524 or a third mention'd among the Writers an 1551 I cannot justly say June 6. Will. Hugh 20. George Ethoridge John Morwen of C. C. Coll. Feb. 21. Joh. Pullayne Mar. 18. Laur. Nowell 24. Nich. Grimoald In all thirty nine of New Brasn Mert. Coll. Bach. of Div. June 30. Gilb. Bourne of All 's Coll. Nov. 21. John Somer He was Can. of Winds in the time of Qu. Mary where he died 1573. Tho. Slythurst was admitted the same day He was made Canon of Winds and the first President of Trin. College in the time of Qu. Mary of which being deprived in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he died about 1560. Feb. 8. Will. Pye of Oriel College now one of the Proctors of the University In 1534 he seems to have been admitted Bach. of Physick Besides these were ten more admitted and five that supplicated among whom was William Peryn one lately a Dominican or Black Fryer who was I suppose admitted because in a Book or Books which he soon after published he writes himself Bach. of Div. Doct. of the LL. Jul. 2. John ap Harry or Parry He was soon after Principal of Broadgates Hall and seems to be the same John ap Harry who was Successor to Gilb. Smith in the Archdeaconry of Northampton This Dr. Parry died in the beginning of 1549 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Castor in Northamptonshire John Williams lately Principal of Broadgates Hall was admitted the same day Doct. of Div. June 1. Philip Brode about this time a shagling Lecturer of Divinity in this University He was afterwards a Prebendary of the Church of York beneficed in the Diocess thereof and died in 1551. or thereabouts John Robyns the Astrologer and Mathematician sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. and now Canon of Windsore did supplicate that he might be admitted to proceed in Divinity but whether he was admitted it appears not Rich. Cox also a D. of D. of Cambridge did supplicate that he might sit and take a place among the Doctors of Divinity tho it was unusual and out of order as being not incorporated See in the year 1545. Incorporations This year or thereabouts John Cheek of Cambridge was incorporated but in what degree unless in that of Master of Arts I cannot justly tell because of the imperfectness of the Registers He had studied before for some time in this University and was now one of the Canons of Kings Coll. in Oxon. I mean of that College founded by K. Hen. 8. on that of Card. Wolsey which continued from the year 1532 to 1545 at which time he was about to translate the See of Oxon from Osney to his said Coll. intended then by him to have it known by the name of Christ Church which was effected accordingly in the year following When the said Kings Coll. was dissolved by Hen. 8. in the beginning of the year 1545 he allowed most of the then Canons yearly Pensions in lieu of their Canonries and to Jo. Cheek who was then Tutor to his Son Prince Edward he allowed six and twenty pounds thirteen shillings and four pence He was afterwards a Knight and most famous for his Learning exprest in his Introductio Grammatices his Book De ludimagistrorton officio in another De pronunciatione Linguae Graeâ—â—c and in many more besides Translations the Catalogue of which mostly taken from Baleus you may see at the end of Sir John Cheeks Life written by Ger. Langbaine put by him before a Book written by the said Cheek entit The true Subject to the Rebel or the heart of Sedition c. Oxon. 1641. qu. This Sir John Cheek died at Lond. in the house of Pet. Osbourne Esq a great Comforter of afflicted Protestants in the month of Sept. 1557 and was buried in the Church of S. Alban in Woodstreet within the said City An. Don. 1544. An. 36 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. Nich. Alambrygg of All 's Coll. Will. Smyth of Brasn Coll. again Elected about the Ides of May. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. In an Act then celebrated Will. Fitzjames Dean of We'ls was
with the Delegates of Denmark concerning matters of traffick c. and Perkins performed his part well as to that matter Soon after by the said Bishops endeavours he became substitute to Sir Dan. Donne Master of the Requests who by reason of his age could not well attend that place and when he died he became Master in his own right and a Knight About that time George Duke of Buckingham who was in great favour with K. Jam. 1. Sir Christopher thought that his only way to rise higher was to be married to one of his Relations Whereupon tho he had vowed Virginity he took to Wife his Mothers Sister yet with this condition that she should not expect that he should pay old debts to which she made answer that she would expect none Afterwards Buckingham hearing of the said vow detested him and made a resolution that he should rise no higher Afterwards out of a revenge Sir Christopher made his estate over to a Servant of his that was childless and in a deep consumption and he dying within a few months after Sir Christopher who departed this mortal life in the month of Aug. 1622. the said Servant left most of the estate to the Lady I have been credibly informed by a good Author that the said Sir Christopher had a hand in contriving and drawing up the Oath of Allegiance while he was intimate with Dr. Bancroft In the Deanery of Carlile succeeded the said Sir Christopher Dr. Franc. White afterwards Bishop of that place Apr. 14. Will. Burton of New Coll. June 2. Tho. Coventry Fellow of Ball. Coll. The last of the said two was afterwards Fellow of the Inner Temple Serjeant at Law a Knight and one of the Justices of the Court of Common-pleas and a Judge in the time of Jam. 1. He was Father to Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Jan. 14. Henr. Savile of Mert. Coll. 23. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. Admitted 45. Bach. of Law Five were admitted and four supplicated but not one of them appears yet to me to have been either a Bishop or Writer Mast of Arts. Feb. 13. John Argall Will. James of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Durham John Bereblock of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Fellow of Exeter Coll. and most admirably well skill'd in the art of Delineation and drawing the description of places some of which are extant particularly that of the City of Rochester at which place or near it he was born Admitted 14. Bach. of Div. Oct. 29. Edw. Cradock of Ch. Ch. now Margaret Professor A certain Author tells us that he was a learned Man and a Writer yet in all my searches I could never see any of his books Dec. 17. Thom. Godwyn Dean of Ch. Ch. lately of Magd. Coll. Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards of Broadgates hall the seventh Vicar of Mayhenet in Cornwall and Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter 16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop Adrian Hawthorne of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day being then Principal of Magd. hall On 25. Nov. 1568 he was admitted to the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells having about that time one or more benefices in that Diocess and dying in the latter end of 1576 in Feb. as it seems Rog. Goad D. D. and Provost of Kings Coll. in Cambridge was admitted into his place of Chancellour on the 7. March in the same year Edw. Andleser was adm this year but of him I know nothing ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. Tho Godwyn Dean James Calfill Harb Westphalyng Canons of Ch. Ch. Edward Cradock mention'd before among the Bachelaurs of Divinity was admitted the same day Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne beforemention'd who accumulated John Piers of Magd. Coll. Dean of Chester Arthur Yeldard President of Trin. Coll. 16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry On the 26. Mar. Will. Bradbridge Dean of Salisbury supplicated for the said Degree but was not admitted He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter Also John Molens Archdeacon of London Jan. 23 but him neither can I find admitted Incorporations May… Rich. Cheyney Bach. of Div. of Pembr Hall in Cambridge and Bishop of Gloucester See more among the Creations Feb. 21. Gregory Garth Bac. of Div. of Cambridge George Wyther M. of A. of 4 years standing in the said University was incorporated on the same day In 1570 he became Archdeacon of Colchester on the death of James Calfill had other spiritualities and wrot and published 1 Laymans Letters delivering unto them such Letters as the Holy Ghost teacheth them in the word by things sensible Lond. 1585. 2 View of the marginal notes of the Popish Testament translated into English by the English Fugities Papists resiant at Rheimes in France Lond. 1588. qu. with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen Another of both his names lived an 100 years after and was a Poet whom I shall hereafter in his proper place remember Will. Fulke M. A. of three years standing in the said Univ. of Cambridge was also then Feb. 21. incorporated This learned Man who was born in the City of London bred Fellow of St. Johns Coll. and at length became Master of Pemb. Hall in the said University was when young a good Philosopher and when elder in years a pious and solid Divine as his works shew the titles of all or most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue He died Margaret Professor of Cambridge 28. Aug. 1589. Cyprean de Valera M. of A. of three years standing in the said University was also then incorporated He was a Spaniard born left his Country for Religion sake spent all or most of his time in England and wrot in Spanish 1 Institution of Christian Religion or the interpretation of Calvins institutions 2 The reformed Catholick 3 Of the lives of the Popes and their doctrine 4 Of the Mass 5 A swarm of false miracles wherewith Mary de la Visitation Prioress of the Annuntiada of Lisbon deceived very many c. The three last were written in Spanish about 1588. and the second edition of them came out with amendments and additions by the Author an 1599. oct Translated into English by John Golburne a Prisoner in the Fleet Lond. 1600. qu. He also published the Bible in Spanish printed the second time at Amsterdam 1602. fol. Owen Owen M. A. of two years standing in the said University was then also Feb. 21. incorporated All these except the first were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act had been concluded Creations Mar. 26. It was granted by the venerable Congregation that John Jewell Bishop of Salisbury should tho absent be actually created Doct. of Div. by a certain Graduate to be assign'd by the Commissary This was accordingly done at
the Seas changed his Religion was made a Priest and returning into England was taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle where with several others he endured a tedious Imprisonment and therefore by those of his profession accounted a Confessor Apr. 25. Thom. Bilson of New 28. Rob. Hoveden of Allsoules 30. Hen. Savile of Merton Coll. Jul. 4. Will. Harrys Rich. Knolles of Linc. Coll. Dec. 4. Barthelmew Chamberlayne of Trin. Coll. Adm. 53. Bach. of Physick Dec. 14. Christopher Johnson of New Coll. now the learned Master of Wykehams School near to Winchester Three besides were admitted but not one of them was a Writer Bach. of Div. Jul. 10. Edm. Bunney of Mert. Coll. Besides him were but two more admitted ☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul… John Withyns of Brasnose College Incorporations In the month of Jaly was a Supplicate made in the ven house of Congregation for Edm. Freke Dr. of Div. of Cambridge to be incorporated but whether he was really so I cannot yet find Those things that I am to observe of him are that he was an Essex man born had all his Acad. Education in the said Univ. of Cambr. was made Canon of Westminster in 1564 in the place of Will. Downham and about the same time Archd. of Canterbury In 1565 he was made Canon of Windsore and on the 10 of April 1570 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Walt. Philipps the first Dean deceased In the year following Sept. 18 he was made Dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Will. Bradbridge to the See of Exeter but before he had been setled in the said Deanery he was made Bishop of Rochester being then as one saith Vir pius doctus atque gravis Afterwards he was translated to Worcester where he was a zealous Assertor of the Church Discipline An. Dom. 1571. An. 13 Eliz. An. 14 Eliz. Chanc. the same Commiss Lawrence Humphrey D. D. President of Magd. Coll. and Dean of Glocester Apr. 2. by vertue of Letters from the Chanc. dat 28 March Proct. Anth. Blencow of Or. Coll. Edm. Fleetwood of Mert. Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. Mar. 28. Ezechias Fogge. He translated into English Comfort for the sick in two parts The first for such that are visited with sickness the second to make men willing to dye Lond. 1574. in tw Nov. 22. Ralph Sherwyn of Exet. Coll. Dec. 1. Rich. Madox See among the M. of A. 1575. Jan. 17. Job Lister Feb. 20. George More See among the Masters 1573. 27. Edw. Graunt He was afterwards the learned Schoolmaster of Westminster Mar… Tho. Leyson of New Coll. now esteemed a good Latin Poet. Adm. 84. Mast of Arts. Mar. 24. Hen. Cotton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Salisbury Besides him were but 16 Masters admitted tho 102 Bach. of Arts were admitted three years before Bach. of Phys But one admitted and five supplicated among which last Tho. D'oylie of Magd. Coll. was one whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1603. Bach. of Div. Mar. 10. Will. James of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of Durham Five there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom Tobie Mathew was one but not admitted till 1573. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 23. Christopher Johnson of New Coll. Rob. Bellamie of S. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Master of the Hospital at Shirebourne near to the City of Durham 26. Martin Colepeper of New Coll. He was afterwards Warden of that College Dean of Chichester in the place as it seems of Dr. Anth. Russh deceased an 1577. and Archdeacon of Berks. upon the death of Dr. Tho. Whyte 16 June 1588. ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year nor any there were that supplicated to be admitted only Joh. Angelus Bach. of Arts who had his Grace granted for it six years before Incorporations Feb. 1. Henry Beaumont Bach. of Arts of the University of Cambridge This person who was descended from the noble Family of the Beaumonts in Leicestershire was about the beginning of Nov. going before elected Fellow of All 's Coll as a Founders Kinsman his Mother being of that Family He was afterwards Dean of Peterborough and Windsore as I shall tell you under the year 1616. An. Dom. 1572. An. 14 Elizab. An. 15 Elizab. Chanc. the same Commiss the same May 29. Proct. Anth. Blencow Edm. Fleetwood again Continued in their Offices by a decree in Convocation 17 March 1571. Bach. of Arts. Jul. 11. Rob. Coke or Cook of Brasn Coll. Jul. 12. Hen. Robinson of Qu. Christop Bagshaw of Ball. Coll. The first of which two last was afterwards Bishop of Carlile 15. Joh. Drusius of Mert. Coll. the most noted Critick and Linguist Dec. 2. Will. Wilkes of the same Coll. 9. Joh. Hudson See among the Masters of Arts an 1575. 15. Joh. Prime of New Coll. Jan. 31. Miles Smith of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Glocester Feb. 20. Thom. Wilkes of All 's Coll. This person who was a Sussex man born and Fellow of the said Coll. was two years after Secretary to Dr. Valentine Dale Embassador from Qu. Elizab. to the K. of France While he continued in that Country he shew'd more than ordinary civility to the King of Navarr and the Duke of Alenson afterwards of Anjow when they were committed to custody by the Qu. Mother of France for plotting secretly to remove her from the Government For so it was that he comforted them in the Queen of England's name promising them that she would omit no opportunity to help and relieve them Of this civility the Qu. Mother of France having notice prosecuted Wilkes so much that he was fain to withdraw himself into England where she also followed him with letters of complaint insomuch that he was sent back into France and there humbly craved pardon of the Qu. Mother However the King of Navarr not unmindful of the consolation he gave him did when he came to be King of France honor him with the degree of Knighthood when he saw him in Normandy twenty five years after In 1577 Wilkes was sent Embassador to Spain and upon his return thence was about the beginning of 1578 sent to Don John of Austria In 1593 he was sent into France to know if the then French King was reconciled to the Church of Rome and in 1598 he was sent into France again with Sir Robert Cecil Secretary of State to Qu. Eliz. and John Herbert Master of the Requests but so soon as Wilkes landed he died there March 3. David Powell Afterwards the Welsh Antiquary 4. Rich. Meredyth He was afterwards a Bish in Ireland In Apr. this year supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Arts Edw. Rishton of Brasn Coll. but whether he was admitted it appears not On the 5 Dec. also the Principal and Fellows of Brasn Coll. gave leave to Law
a Northamptonshire Man born I here set down least some unwary reader hereafter might take him to be the same Barthelem Clerke who became Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1554 afterwards Proctor of that University Dean of the Arches and a wise and eloquent Man He hath written De Curialâ— sive Aulico printed at Lond. about 1571. in oct being about that time favoured by Thom. Sackvill Lord Buckhurst and another book intit Fidelis servi subdito infideli responsio una cum errorum calumniarum quarundam examine quae continentur in septimo libro de visibili Ecclesiae Monarchia à Nicholao Sandero conscripta Lond. 1573. qu. He was living in 1593. Admitted 112. Mast of Arts. May 18. Joh. Philippus de alto saxo Franc. Puccius Florentinus June…Tho Spark of Magd. Coll. Jul. 2. Ralph Sherwyn of Exeter Coll. 24. Tho. Banks He is the same I suppose who published A Sermon against bad Spirits of malignity malice and unmercifulness on Luke 6. 37. 38. Lond. 1586. oct I find another Tho. Banks who writes himself metaphorically Piscator sed vere Theologus mere Praeco Evangelicus who published Concio ad clerum jamdudum Cantabrigiae habita in Luc. cap. 5. ver 10. Lond. 1611. qu. Admitted 49. Bach. of Phys Mar. 31. Thom. Cogan of Oriel Coll. He was the only Bach. who was admitted besides whom only one occurs that supplicated namely Thom. Twyne of C. C. Coll. Bach. of Div. May 27. Lewis Sweit of All 's Coll. He was about this time Archdeacon of Totness in the place as I conceive of Oliver Whiddon Two more besides him were admitted and nine there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom some were not at all admitted in this University as John Wâ—olton a Student in Divinity afterwards Bishop of Exeter Tho. Cole and Tho. Brasbridge of Magd. Coll. and Nich. Marston of Ch. Ch. now Residentiary of Exeter Brother to Will. Marston of the same house LL. D. and Chantor of the said Church of Exeter who died in Nov. 1599. Doct. of Civ Law Jun. 28. Will. Jones Vicar General to the Bishop of Bathe and Wellâ— and double or treble beneficed in the Diocess thereof Felix Lewys sometimes of Hart Hall afterwards made Bach. of the LL. at Doway now Principal of New Inn was admitted the same day He afterwards lived in the City of Bristow and died beyond the Seas in 1591. ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 22. Will. James Master of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop May 27. Tob. Mathew President of St. Johns Coll. Afterwards an Archbishop Geffry or Griffith Lewys now Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Tho. Wilson promoted to the Deanery of that Church was admitted the same day In 1577 he was installed Canon of the sixth stall in the Collegiat Ch. of St. Peter in Westminster in the place of one Walt. Jones M. A. who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Matthew Hutton after he was made Dean of York an 1568. In 1594 he became Dean of Glocester in the place of Anth. Rudd promoted to the See of St. David and dying in 1607 Tho. Morton succeeded him in that dignity being the same most worthy Person who was afterwards Bishop of Durham I have seen a Copy of the will of this Dr. Lewys made 5. Feb. 1606 and proved 16. July 1607 wherein he desires that his body might be buried either in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester Worcester Hereford or in Westminster in all which Churches he had Dignities July 23. John Sprint of Ch. Ch. originally of C. C. Coll. was then admitted He was now Prebendary of Winchester Residentiary of Salisbury and a Person famed for an excellent Preacher In Feb. 1577 he succeeded Giles Lawrence in the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire who I suppose resign'd in 1580 he succeeded George Carew in the Deanery of Bristow in which City or near it he was born being the Son of John Sprint an Apothecary of the said place and in the beginning of Feb. 1583 he was made Treasures of Salisbury He died in the latter end in Feb. of 1589 and was succeeded in the said Deanery by Dr. Anth. Watson the same who was afterwards Bishop of Chichester Incorporations May 17. Griffith Toy Bac. of Arts of Cambridge He was now a Member of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. and soon after made M. of Arts of this University and Prebendary of Norwych Jun… Hector Viellius Bach. of Arts of the Univ. of Caen in Normandy Feb. 6. George Savage Bach. of the Civ Law of the University of Lovaine in Brabant He was originally a member of Ch. Church and was now Archdeacon of Glocester in the place of Guy Eaton but was not I presume the same G. Savage who was half Brother to Dr. Bonner B. of London and Chancellour of Chester Thom. Willoughby Bach. of Div. of Cambridge was incorporated but the day or month when I cannot yet find This year June 23 he was installed the third Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Edm. Freke and was succeeded in that dignity by John Coldwell M. D. of St. John Coll. in Cambridge installed therein 7. Januar. 1585. He was afterwards the first married Bishop that sate in the Cath. Chair of Salisbury In Apr. this year one Rich. Wills a Mast of A. of Mentz in Bavaria supplicated for incorporation but was not admitted See among the writers under the year 1574. An. Dom. 1575. An. 17 Elizab. An. 18 Elizab. Chancellour the same Vicechanc. the same without any nomination or election Proct. John Vnderhill of New Coll. Hen. Savile of Mert. Coll. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. May 17. Julius Caesar of Magd. Hall He was Son of Caesar Dalmarius of the City of Trevignie in Italy Doctor of Physick and Physician to Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth Son of Pet. Maria Dalmarius of the said City Doctor of Laws but descended from those of his name living at Frejus or Cividad del Friuli in the confines of Italy See more in 1583. Jul. 5. Giles Tomson of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards of All 's Coll. and Bishop of Glocester Jan. 27. Rich. Lewes See among the Bach. of Div. in 1584. Feb. 19. Edw. Hobie of Trin. Coll. 29. Edw. Transham or Stransham of St. Johns Coll. This Person who was born in Magd. Parish in the Suburbs of Oxon left all he had and went to Doway in 1577. Where after he had spent some time in the study of Philosophy and Divinity in the English Coll. he was made a Priest Afterwards he went into the mission of England and for a time continued in Oxfordshire At length being taken imprison'd and condemned suffered death at London with one Nich. Woodfen another Priest 21. Januar. 1585 aged 30 or thereabouts Admitted 109. Bach. of Civ Law Jun. 30. Thom. Emerford or Hemerford He afterwards left the Church of England and went to the English Coll. at Rome where being made a Priest returned into his own Country but being
raised by the Long Parl. against K. Ch. 1. was cast out of his Benefice of Austie by the Committee of Religion in 1643 as you may see in that diabolical Pamphlet entit The first Century of scandalous and malignant Priests c. pr. 1643. qu. p. 13. and lost other Spiritualities The said Dr. Tho. Mountfort had also another Son named James who succeeded his Father as it seems in the Rectory of Tewing before mention'd who also being a zealous man for the Church of England was thrown out of Tewing by the said Committee as you may see in the said Phmphlet p. 10. Jul. 4. Thom. Pye of Mert. 9. John Prime of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 11. Rob. Devereux Earl of Essex and Master of the Horse to Queen Elizabeth was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge being then accounted one of the best Poets among the Nobility of England and a person adorned with singular gifts of Nature This Incorporation was the better to capacitate him to be Chancellour of this University when that honourable Office should become void as it shortly after did He had received his Academical Education in Trinity Coll. in Cambridge under the tuition of Dr. John Whitgift afterwards Archb. of Canterbury and hath written 1 Advice to Reger Earl of Rutland in his travels MS. the beginning of which is My Lord I hold it a principle in the course c. This MS. which I have in my Library was if I am not mistaken printed in a Book entit Profitable instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all Nations Lond. 1633. oct said in the title to be written by Robert Earl of Essex Sir Philip Sidney c. 2 His apology against those which falsly and malitiously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of his Country written to Sir Anth. Bacon which piece had such esteem among men that they thought that nothing could be more honourably utter'd nor more to the Writers praise so far as belongs to a noble Orator than it 3 Letters to Qu. Elizabeth and Lord Howard c. MS. in bib Bod. 4 His speech and prayer at the time of his Execution printed at the end of Dr. Will. Barlow's Sermon preached at Pauls Cross 1 Mar. 1600. Lond. 1601. oct with other things which I have not yet seen He left behind him when beheaded in 1600 a Son of both his names educated in this University whom I shall mention elsewhere Apr. 11. Abraham Hartwell M. of A. of Cambr. was also then incorporated He was Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University afterwards Amanuensis to John Archb. of Canterbury a Traveller and at length Rector of Tuddyngton in Bedfordshire He hath written 1 Regina literata seu narratio de regina Elizabetha carmine Lond. 1565. oct 2 Report of the Kingdom of Conge a region in Africa printed 1597 qu. and translated from french into English 4 A true discourse upon the matter of Martha Brossier of Romantin pretended to be possessed by a Devil Lond. 1599. qu. See another Translation made by him in Walt. Haddon mention'd in these Fasti an 1552. July… Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge was also then incorporated He was at this time a pastoral Sonnet-maker and Author of several things which were pleasing to Men and Women of his time They made much sport and were valued among Scholars but since they have been mostly sold on Ballad-mongers stalls The Titles of some of them are these 1 Euphues his censure to Philautas Lond. 1587. qu. 2 A quip for an upstart Courtier or a dispute between Velvet breeches and Cloth breeches Lond. 1592. qu. 3 His mourning Garment given him by repentance at the funerals of Love One Edition of this book was printed at Lond. 1616. qu. 4 His groats worth of wit bought with a million of repentance c. Lond. 1617. qu. second Edit The first Edit was printed after his death and hath at the end of it his Epitaph in six Stanzaes 5 Theeâ—â—s falling out true men come by their goods or the Belman Lady Fitzwaters Nightingale Several times printed 7 His nusquam sera est or a treatise deciphering those particular vanities that hinder youthful Gentlemen from attaining to their intended perfections Several times printed 8 The history of Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay 9 Greens Ghost haunting Cunny Catchers One Ed. of which was printed at Lond. 1626. qu. Other trifles he hath extant which he wrot to maintain his Wife and that high and loose course of living which Poets generally follow He assisted also Thom. Ledge in the composure of several Plays as I have told you in my discourse of that person among the Writers under the year 1625. He wrot against or at least reflected upon Gabriel Harvey in several of his Writings whereupon Harvey being not able to bear his Abuses did inhumanely trample upon him when he lied full low in his grave even as Achilles tortured the dead body of Hector This R. Green died about 1592 of a Surfeit taken by eating pickled Herrings and drinking with them Rhenish Wine At which fatal Banquer Tom. Nash his Contemporary in Cambridge was present who in his Apology of Pierce Penniless doth make excellent sport with him and some of his Works I have seen a witty Comedy called Greens Tu quoque or the City Gallant not pen'd by the said Green but by one John Cook Gent. published by Thomas Heyword an 1622. and another entit Planetomachia or The first part of the general opposition of the seven Planets c. Lond. 1585. qu. said in the Title to be written by R. Green but whether the same R. Green the Poet I cannot tell On the eleventh day of the said month of July supplicated to be incorporated one Joh. Osbourne Doct. of Physick of Leyden whose Grace being granted simpliciter I therefore think that he obtained his Option Creations When Robert Earl of Essex was incorporated these persons following who had formerly been partly educated in this University were actually created Masters of Arts Apr. 11. Which Creation was usually called the Essexian Creation because done upon his account Thomas Lord Clinton Son of the Earl of Lincoln Sir John Norris Kt. President of Mounster in Ireland second Son of Henry the first Lord Norris and one now celebrated among the famous Captains of our Nation He died discontented as being not rewarded according to his worth an 1597 or thereabouts Sir Robert Sidney Kt younger Brother to Sir Philip Sidney This Sir R. Sidney was afterwards the first Earl of Leycester of his name who dying at Penshurst in Kent 13 July 1626 was there buried Sir Hen. Norris Kt. younger Brother to Sir John before mention'd who died of a wound about the same time and place that his Brother Sir Thomas did which Sir Tho. was also President of Mounster Sir Philip Boteler Kt. Rob. Carew Fulke Grevil Francis Darcie Esquires Of Fulke Grevil who was afterwards Lord
were Dr. Neile and Dr. Laud his continual attendants About that time he being made Minister of St. Matthews Church in Friday-street in London his Sermons which he preached there some of which he afterwards published savouring of nothing else but of schisme sedition and altogether against His Majesties Declaration he was for so doing and especially for publishing two-virulent Pamphlets not only brought before the Council-board but several times into the High Commission Court for what he had said and done and afterwards imprison'd fin'd degraded deprived of his benefice pillorized with Prynne and Bastwicke lost his ears condemn'd to perpetual imprisonment in Lancaster Goal first and afterwards in the Castle in the Isle of Guernsey From which last place being released by the members of that Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640 was with Prynne and Bastwick brought home in triumph to the great contempt of justice was restored to his benefice and well rewarded for his losses The titles of several of his books you may see in the Oxford Catalogue and some that are not there I shall here set down viz. 1 The Law and the Gospel reconciled against the Antinomians printed 1631. qu. 2 The sounding of the two last Trumpets or Meditations on the ninth tenth and eleventh Chapters of the Revelations Lond. 1641. qu. 3 Relation of Mr. Chillingworth This I have not yet seen 4 A Narration of his life viz. of H. Burton c. Lond. 1643. qu. 5 Parliaments power for Laws in Religion printed 1645. oct 6 Conformities deformity c. pr. 1646. the Author being then 67 years of age Afterwards seeing what strange courses the great Men at Westminster took he grew more moderate notwithstanding he was an Independent and lived as I conceive till they took off his old Masters Head Rich. Franklin M. of A. I take this Person to be the same with R. Franklin who was Bach. of Divinity Minister of Elsworth in Cambridgshire and Author of Tractatus de tonis in Lingua Graecamca c. Lond. 1630. oct Thomas Walkington Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that faculty Minister of Fulham near London and the writer and publisher of Rabboni Mary Magd. tears of sorrow and solace preached at Pauls cross on Joh. 20. 16. Lond. 1620. oct and of another Sermon on Ecclesiastes 12. 10. c. John Gostlyn or Goslyn Doct. of Physick He was born in the City of Norwych educated in Caius Coll. was afterwards Proctor of Cambridge Master of the said Coll. and twice Vicechancellour of that University He had the repute of a general Scholar an eloquent Artist and one that was admirably well skill'd in Physick of which faculty he was the Kings Professor in the said University He died in Oct. or Nov. 1626 and was buried near to the body of his worthy Friend and Patron Dr. Legg in the Chappel of the said Coll. of Caius to which he was a very considerable benefactor One of his Sirname was Author of Aurifodina Linguae Galliae Alexander Bound D. of D. He was sometimes of Kings Coll. was afterwards Vice-provost of Eaton and Rector of the rich Church of Petworth in Sussex where as also in Cambridge he was esteemed a godly learned and religious Man Andrew Bing D. of D. On the 12 May 1606 he was collated to the subdeanery of York upon the resignation of one Hen. Wright who when he was M. of A. succeeded Edmund Bunny in that Dignity an 1575. and on the 13 Apr. 1618 he was installed Archbdeacon of Norwych in the place of Tho. Jegon D. D. who died in the latter end of 1617 being then Master of C. C. Coll. in Cambridge and Patron of the Parsonage of Sibell Henningham in Essex where if I mistake not he the said Jegon was buried Which Cantabrigians I say viz. H. Burton R Franklin T. Walkington J. Gostlym A. Bound and A. Bing were incorporated in their respective degrees on the 14 July before mention'd Will. Conway Doct. of Phys of Caen in Normandy was incorporated the same day Jan. 14. John Balcanquall M. A. of Edinburgh He was a Scotch man born was now Fellow of Exeter Coll. and afterwards Rector of Tatinhills in Staffordshire where he died about the latter end of 1646 which is all I know of him only that he was after this year Bach. of Div. March 18. Philibert Vernatti Doctor of both the Laws of the University of Leyden One of both his names was afterwards a Baronet in Scotland and another who was a Knight hath a Relation of making Ceruss in the Philosophical Transactions numb 137. an 1677. Creations Oct. 30. Francis More Esq sometimes of S. Joh. Coll. in this University now an eminent Professor of the municipal Laws was actually created Mast of Arts in the house of Convocation He is mention'd at large among the Writers an 1621. In the latter end of this year Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhyne Prince Elector of the Empire and afterwards King of Bohemia who had lately married Princess Elizabeth the only Daughter of K. Jam. 1. came to visit the University where being sumptuously entertained was pleased with his own hand writing to matriculate himself a member of the University sub tit Aed Chr. with this Symbole Rege me Domine secundum verbum tuum An. Dom. 1613. An. 11 Jac. 1. Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton Vicechanc. Dr. Singleton again Jul. 24. Proct. Anth. Richardson of Qu. Coll. Vincent Goddard of Magd. Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Musick Jul. 8. Martin Pearson He was afterwards Master of the Choristers of S. Pauls Cathedral while Joh. Tomkins was Organist and a composer of certain Church Services and Anthems He died about the latter end of Dec. 1650 being then an Inhabitant of the Parish of S. Gregory near to the said Cathedral and was buried in S. Faiths Church adjoyning Whereas most Musitians dye obscurely and in a mean condition this died so rich as to leave to the poor of Marsh in the Parish of Dunnington in the Isle of Ely an hundred pounds to be laid out for a purchase for their yearly use May…John Amner Organist of the Cath. Church of Ely and Master of the Choristers there He hath composed and published Sacred Hymns of three four five and six parts for Voices and Viols Lond. 1615. qu. as also certain Anthems the words of one of which are in James Clifford's Collection mention'd before in the year 1548. Bach. of Arts. May 13. Joh. Sâ—ull of Mert. Coll. See among the Masters 1616. Jun. 17. Tho Goffe Benj. Cox Rich. Parre of Brasn Coll. of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Jul. 8. Owen Morgan or Morgan Owen of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Landaff Jul. 8. Will. Foster of S. Johns Franc. Potter of Tâ—in Coll. Oct. 21. George Singe of Ball. Coll. He became Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland 1638. 26. Tho. Randol of Brasn Nov. 15. Tho. Stafford of Exet. Coll. Of the first of these
divers of his kindred relations and servants in mourning together with Oliver's Privy Council the Commissioners of the Admiralty and Navy the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London the Field Officers of the Army and divers other persons of honour and quality in a great number of barges and wherries covered with mourning marshal'd and order'd by the Officers of Arms who directed and attended the solemnity In that order they passed to Westminster bridge and at their landing proceeded in the same manner thro a Guard of several Regiments of foot Soldiers of the Army wherein he had been a Colonel in many eminent Services And so proceeding from the New Palace Yard at Westminster to the Abbey was interr'd in a Vault made on purpose in the Chappel of King Hen. 7. In that place it rested till the 12 Sept. 1661 and then by vertue of his Majesties express Command sent to the Dean of Westminster to take up the bodies of all such persons which had been unwarrantably buried in the Chap. of Hen. 7. and in other Chappels and places within the collegiate Church of S. Peter in Westminster since the year 1641 and to bury them in some place in the Churchyard adjacent His body I say was then Sept. 12. taken up and with others buried in a pit in S. Margarets Church yard adjoyning near to the back-door of one of the Prebendaries of Westminster in which place it now remaineth enjoying no other monument but what is reared by his Valour which time it self can hardly deface At the same time were removed the bodies of 1 Col. Rich Deane sometimes one of the Admirals at Sea for the Republick of England who was killed in a Sea-fight between the English and Dutch which last were worsted that hapned the 2 and 3 of June 1653. 2 Col Humph Mackworth one of Oliver's Council who was interr'd in Hen. 7. Chappel with great solemnity 26 Dec. 1654. 3 Dr. Isaac Dorisâ—aus 4 Sir Wilâ— Constable of Flamburgh in Yorkshire one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. sometimes Covernour of Glocester and Colonel of a Regiment of Foot who dying 15 June was buried in K. Hen. 7. Chap. 21 of the same month an 1655. 5 Col. Joh. Meldroma a Scot who received his deaths wound at Ailresford in Hampshire 6 Col… Buscawen a Cornish man 7 Col. Edw. Popham one of the Admirals of the Fleet belonging to the Parliament who dying of a Fever at Dover 19 Aug. 1651 was buried the 24 of Sept. following in S. Joh. Bapt. Chappel His body after it was taken up was not buried in the said pit but carried elsewhere into the Country I think by some of his Relations yet his monument was permitted to stand by the intercession of some of his Ladies friends with the stone wherein the Epitaph was insculp'd to be turn'd 8 Will. Stroude or Strode a Parliament man and one of the five Members demanded by K. Ch. 1. 9 Thom May the Parliamentarian Historian These with the bodies of Will. Strong and Steph. Marshall sometimes Members of the Assembly of Divines the last of which was buried in the south Isle of the Church 23 Nov. â—655 and of several Women also and others were re-buried in the pit before mentioned on the 12 and 14 of Sept. 1661. But after this long digression let 's return to the remaining part of the Admissions Feb. 13. Rob. Hegge of C. C. Coll. Mar. 22. Jonas Mountague of Mert Coll. This person who was a Berkshire man born became a Student in the said College 1604 aged 18 but before he took a Degree he was call'd away by Sir Hen Savile to drudge for him in his Edition of S. Chrysâ—stom's Works Afterwards Sir Henry procured for him the Usher's place in Eaton School and afterwards the degree of Bach. of Arts. One Rich. Mountague Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge who became Bishop of Norwich in 1638 was employed by the said Sir Henry to correct Chrysostome in Greek before it went to the Press at Eaton about which time Mountague was Fellow of the said Coll. but how nearly related Jonas was to this Richard Mountague who was a Ministers Son I know not As for Harvey Segar Heylyn Tipping and Shelden before mention'd will be large mention made elsewhere Admissions in all come to 225. Bach. of Law Dec. 10. Rich. Steuart Will. Skinner of All 's Coll. The last was afterwards Chancellour of Hereford Besides him and Steuart were only two admitted this year Mast of Arts. Jun. 23. Rich. Thornton of Linc. Coll. This noted Preacher who had newly been elected Fellow of that house in a Lincolnshire place became about the year 1626 Rector of Rowghton in the same County and afterwards published The Aegyptian Courtier two Sermons before the University at S. Maries Church in Oxon on Gen. 40. 23. Lond. 1635. qu. I have made mention of another Rich. Thornton in these Fasti 1608. Jun. 23. John Flavell of Wadham Coll. Tim. Woodroff of S. Alb. Hall lately of Ball. Coll. 25. Joh. Bayly of Exeter 28. Joh. Harmar of Magd. Coll. 30. Benj. Cox of Broadgates Hall Jul. 6. Will. Foster of S. Johns Coll. Oct. 29. Joh. Foxcroft of Magd. Hall He was afterwards Minister of Gotham in Nottinghamshire where he continued a puritanical Preacher several years At length closing with the Presbyterians when they grew dominant in 1641 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines two years after So that residing mostly in London in the War time upon pretence of being molested by the Cavaliers at Gotham became a frequent Preacher there He hath published The Good of a good Government and well grounded peace Fast Sermon before the H. of Commons on Isay 32. 1. 2. Lond. 1646. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Jan. 21. Henry Ramsden of Magd. Hall Feb. 4. Rich. Toogood of Oriel Coll. 13. Joh. Atkins of S. Edm. Hall Whether he took the degree of Bach. of Arts I cannot yet find however it appears that one of both his names entituled Master of Arts was admitted Rector of North Perrot in Somersetshire in the beginning of May 1618 who published The Christians Race c Serm. on Heb. 12. part of the first and second Verse Lond. 1624. qu. and not unlikely other things We have had several of both his names but before him in time yet never took the degree of M. of A. Adm. about 105. Bach. of Div. May 8. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. 19. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. 30. Edw. Chaloner of All 's Coll. Jun. 18. Hen. Jackson Jul. 11. George Webb of C. C. Coll. Adm. 24. Doct. of Law Jul. 11. John Cradock of New Coll. a Compounder and now much in esteem for his great knowledge in the Civil Law Doct. of Phys Jul. 16. Ralph Baylie of New Coll. He was afterwards an eminent practitioner in the City of Bathe where he lived many years in good repute and dying in 1645 was buried at Widcombe near that City Doct. of Div. May 8. Will. Osbaldeston George Hamden
door leading into the tower and the monumental inscription of Pet. Woodgate At which time being present a considerable number of his Philosophical acquaintance for he usually delighted in such tho never so young or mean was an eloquent oration delivered from a Pew set near to his grave by Rob. Mathew LL. B. afterwards Doctor a great admiter of the learning and virtues of him the said Grebby From this digression which many will laugh at let 's proceed to the rest of the admissions June 9. Bruno Ryves of Magd. Coll. 21. Will. Price of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards the first moral Philosophy Reader after the Lecture had been founded by Dr. Tho. White and the writer and publisher of Oratio fanebris habita Oxoniae 22. Apr. 1624. in Laudem Doctoris White lecturae moralis Philosophiae apud Oxonienses fundatoris Oxon. 1624. qu. 'T is at the end of a book of verses intit Schola Moralis Philosophiae Oxon in funere Whiti pullata mostly made by the Students of Magd. hall of which house Dr. White was originally a member Another Will. Price I find who was Bach. of Div. and a publisher of certain Sermons and Divinity tracts in the time of K. Jam. 1. and Char. 1. but whether he was of this University I cannot yet tell Nov. 9. Alex. Gill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 11. Jam. Lamb of St. Mar. hall Adm. 130. Bach. of Div. June 26. Robert Pink of New Jul. 1. Gilbert Ironside of Trin. 8. Gabr. Richardson of Brasn Accept Frewen of Magd. Coll. Nov. 24. Will. Dickenson of Mert. The last of these five who was now Chaplain to Will Earl of Pembroke published The Kings right briefly set down in a Sermon before the Judges of Assize held in Reading for the County of Berks. 28. Jun. 1619 on Psal 75. 7. Lond. 1619. qu. and perhaps other things which is all I know of him only that he was Son of Thom. Dickinson a Servant of Eaton Coll. near Windsore and now Rector of Appleton neat Abendon in Berks. Dec. 8. Rob. Johnson of Magd. Coll. Adm. 33. Doct. of Law Apr. 8. Richard Zouch Richard Clarke of New Coll. Both which especially the first were eminent Civilians One Will. Clerke LL. D. an Advocate in the Court of Arches died about the month of Aug. 1655 but whether he was ever of Oxon I know not as yet ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 12. Rich Parker of S. Maries hall June 15. John Wilson of Ch. Ch. who accumulated This Person who was born in the City of Westminster was about this time Master of the College School there having a faculty more than ordinary in instructing youth In Octob. 1623 he was installed Canon or Preb. of the third stall in the Church of Weston in the place of Dr. John Fox who in the year 1606 had succeeded one Percival Wyburne a Nonconformist after he had enjoyed the said stall 44 years without seldom or never wearing a hood and surplice Afterwards Dr. Wilson became Prebendary of Rippon and Dean thereof in the place of Anth. Higgins Bach. of Divinity Prebendary of Lincoln Vicar of Burston and Rector of Bedall in Yorkshire He died on the 19 Feb. 1634 and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Nottingham One of both his names Job Wilson was a Preacher of the word at Guilford in Surrey and wrot Some helps to faith shewing the necessity c. Lond. 1625. oct and another perhaps the same who published Zaccheus converted Serm. or Expos on 19 Luk. from ver 1. to 10. Lond. 1631. oct besides several other things Whether he was of this University I cannot yet tell June 15. Henry Watkins of Ch. Ch. 16. Henry Hook of Qu. Coll. a Compounder On the 30. June 1617 he was collated to the Archdeaconty of York or the West Riding of York on the death of Rog. Aeroid D. D. which Dignity he resigning Hen. Wickham M. A. was collated thereunto 20. Mar. 1623. On the 19. Mar. 1623 the said Hook was collated to the Chantorship of York on the death of Dr. Jo. Favour in which Dignity he had for his successor Richard Palmer Bach. of Div. admitted thereunto 23. Apr. 1624 and he who dyed on the place George Stanhop D. D. in the beginning of Nov. 1631. June 18. Tho. Clifford of Exet. Coll. 23 Sam. Fell Tho. Iles Joh. Brikenden of Magd. Coll. of Ch. Church Compounders Dec. 25. Rich. Clewet of Or. 26 Rob. Pink of New Will Smith Warden of Wad Coll. The last of which was afterwards Prebendary of Worcester and Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in that County July 5. Thom. Winniff of Ex. Nov. 6. Edw. Chaloner of All 's Coll. Incorporations Many Cambridge Men were incorporated on the 13. of July being the day after the conclusion of the Act of which these following were some Andrew Agar Bach. of Law Theophilus Wodenote M. A. He was born at Lankâ—nhorne about 6 miles distant from Launceston in Cornwall being the Son of Thom. Wâ—denote descended from an antient Family in Cheshire educated in Grammaticals in Eaton School near Windsore in Academicals in Kings Coll. in Cambridge of which he became Scholar 1608. Afterwards he was M. of A. Bach. of Divinity Rector of Lankenhorne beforementioned after the decease of his Father who also had been Fellow of the said Coll. and a writer of several books among which are these 1 Observations upon the history of Nabal and Abigail 1. Sam. 25. printed 1623. Oct. 2 Good thoughts in bad times 'T is a manual and 't was written at Broad Chalke in Wiâ—ts while he absconded in the house of a near relation of his Vicar of that place being then obnoxious to arrests 3 Hermes Theologus or a divine Mercury new descants upon old records Lond. 1649. in tw 4 Eremicus Theologus Or a sequestred Divine his aphocismes or breviats of speculation in two centuries Lond. 1654. oct c. When he died or where he was buried I know not nor any thing to the contrary but that he did live to be restored in 1660 to what he had lost for his loyalty during the time of the grand rebellion Robert Sibthorpe M. A. He was afterwards Bishop of Kilfenore in Ireland and at length of Limerick an 1642. He died in Apr. 1649 and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Werburge in Dublin Granado Chester M. A. He was afterwards D. D. and dignified in the Church Edward Davenant M. A. In Feb. 1623 he was collated to the Prebendship of Iâ—fracomb in the Church of Salisbury and upon the death of Lienel Sharp to the Archdeaconry of Berkshire In 1634 Nov. 19. he was collated to the Treasureship of the Church of Salisbury upon the death of Job Lee which he kept to the time of his death 12. of March 1679. Afterwards succeeded Dr. Tho. James as I shall tell you in the next volume Richard Hâ—nt M. A. One of both his names was installed Dean of
after his Incorporation was buried in the Parish Church of S. Botolph in the tomb of his Mother lately deceased but in which of the Churches of S. Botolph in London 't is not said Creations Apr. 12. Francis Whiddon of Exeter Coll. and a Devonian born was actually created M. of A. He was afterwards Minister of Morton Hampsted in his own Country and published A golden topaze or a heart-jewel namely a conscience purified and pacified by the blood and spirit of Christ on Heb. 13. 18. Oxon. 1656. oct he being then conformable to the men in Authority and Power What other things he published I find not Jul. 1. Joh. Leigh of Brasn Coll. was actually created M. of A. in the house of Congregation 'T was four years since he took the degree of Bach. of Arts in which time he had studied in several transmarine Universities and had obtained such admirable knowledge in all humane learning and especially in Philosophy and other Arts that he was esteemed by the venerable Regents most worthy of the degree of M. of Arts. Sam. Bochartus of Roan in Normandy became a Sojourner this year in the University and was entred a Student in the publick Library in the beginning of Lent Term with the help of which and other Libraries he laid the foundation of most rare Books which he afterwards published His Geographia sacra hath made him famous in the learned World as also his Hierozoicon for both which eminent Authors do in an high manner celebrate his name He was Pastor of the Protestant Church at Caen in Normandy where he died in 1667. being ever esteemed a great lover of the Church of England An. Dom. 1623. An. 21 Jac. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Piers again Jul. 21. Proct. Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. Will. Oldis of New Coll. Apr. 23. Bach. of Musick Jul. 12. Hugh Davys of New Coll. Organist of the Cathedral Church at Hereford He was eminent for the various Compositions of Church Musick that he had made which is all I know of him only that he died about 1644. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 18. Hen. Tozer of Exet. 23. John Price of Jesus Coll. Whether the last was afterwards the learned Critick who studied about this time in Oxon is as yet doubtful Jun. 26. George Griffith George Eglionbie of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph the last Dean of Canterbury as I shall tell you among the Doctors of Div. an 1634. June 29. Hugh Cressy or Hugh Paulin de Cressy Oct. 29. Will. Erbury Feb. 6. Arth. Salway of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Masters an 1626. 7. John Hoffman of Exet. Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Div. 1634. Joh. Bird of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day Whether he be the same with Joh. Bird who was afterwards School-master in the City of Glocester and Author of Grounds of Grammar Oxon. 1639. oct I cannot lay to the contrary He that was Bach. of Arts was an Oxfordshire Man born and had been originally of St. Edm. hall All which Bachelaurs except Eglionbie Salway Hoffman and Bird will be mention'd in the 2. Volume of this work or elsewhere Adm. 233. of thereabouts Bach. of Law Apr. 24. Alexander Hyde of New Oct. 11. Nathan Brent of Mert. Coll. The first was afterwards Bishop of Salisbury the other was now Warden of Merton Coll. Besides these two were only two more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 2. Edmund Staunton of C. C. May 26. Nathan Simpson Hen. Gellibrand of Trin. Coll. Coll. Will. Gilbert of Glouc. hall was admitted the same day He was the younger Son of an Esq in Derbyshire and was now esteemed by his contemporaries a general Scholar and a rare Man One of both his names hath certain Sermons extant one of which is a Funeral Sermon on 1. Thes 4. 18. printed 1649. qu. Jun. 18. Edward Leigh Nath. Holmes Anth. Fawkner of Jes Coll. of Magd. hall Jun. 26. Thom. Case of Ch. Ch. July 10. Will. Crompton of Brasn Oct. 16. Edw. Stanely of New Feb. 6. Hen. Glemham Mar. 16. Will. Chillingworth of Trin. Coll. Admitted 157. Bach. of Div. Jul. 3. Thom. Goffe of Ch. Ch. 10. Gilbert Wats of Linc. Dec. 13. Nich. Vignier of Ex. 17. Will. Sclatyer of Bras Coll. Admitted 11. Doct. of Law Oct. 11. Nath. Brent Warden of Merton Coll. who accumulated the Degree in Law ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 18. Tho. Worrall of Brasn Rob. Barcroft of Co. Chr. Coll. Oct. 14. Paul Hood Rect. of Linc. Joh. Wall of Ch. Church Dec. 17. Josh Aisgill of Co. Chr. Will. Sclatyer of Bras George Webb of Co. Chr. Coll. The last saving one viz. Solatyer accumulated and compounded Incorporations May 7. Samuel Baker M. of A. of Christs Coll. in Cambridge He afterwards became a puritannical Preacher in London and much followed but being taken off from those courses was made houshold Chaplain to Dr. Juxon Bishop of London and a creature of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury About which time being Rector of St. Mary on the hill and of St. Christophers in Lond. where his preaching was much applauded by some become Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral On the 20. of Sept. 1638 he being then D. of D. was install'd Canon of Windsore on the death of Dr. John King sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll. but he being soon after made Prebendary of Canterbury he resigned his Canonry and Tho. Broume Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon was installed therein 28. May 1639. This Dr. Baker who was a great Licencer of Books but publisher I think of none gained a great deal of Envy from the Puritan for his partiality in that office for which and his great respect to the tenets of Arminius he was in the beginnig of the rebellion â—â—sâ—vanted and imprisoned and at length deprived of his Spirituâ—â—â— Thomes Harste M. of A. of the said University was incorporated the same day He was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and Minister of 〈◊〉 in Lincolushire He hath published The descent of 〈◊〉 the Magistrates patent from Heaven Sermon at Lincoln Assizes 13 March 1636. on Gen. 9. 6. Lond. 1637. qu. and other things as I conceive Quere On the 14 of July after the conclussion of the Act these Cambridge Men following were incorporated Joh. Harding M. of A. One of both his names who had been a Dominican or Black fryer did speak A recantation Sermon in the Gatchouse at Westminster 30. July 1620 on Psal 119. 71. Lond. 1620. qu. containing Motives why he left the Church of Rome Whether he be the same with the former who was M. of A. I know not Thomas Scot M. A. One of both his names also who was Bach. of Div. of the said University and a Preacher in the City of Norwych hath several things extant as the Oxford Catalogue tells you but he is not to be taken
two years after the Restauration of K. Charles 2. having for his sake and his Fathers suffered much in the time of Rebellion Jul. 8. Franc. Baber of Trin. Coll. Rich. Hart of S. Albans Hall The said Dr. Baber was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Gloc. for 39 years together who dying 17 of June 1669 aged 69 years was buried in a little Chappel on the south side of the Choâ—â— belonging to the Cath. Ch. at Glocester Doct. of Phys Mar. 26. Will. Taylour of S. Joh. Jun. 20. Joh. Saunders of Oriel Joh. Speed of S. Johns Coll. Which two last accumulated the degrees in Physick Jul. 3. Sam. Bave or Bavo of Ch. Ch. This person who was Son of Franc. Bave of Colen in Germany became eminent for his practice first in the City of Gloucester and afterwards in Bathe where dying in 1666 aged 80 was buried in the great Church there dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul Doct. of Div Jul. 7. Rob. Adams of New 9. Thom. Prichard of Jes Tho. Chafyn of Exet. Joh. Dâ—wle of Jesus Coll. Incorporations Jun. 19. Daniel Gotereus Bach. of Arts of Cambr. In his supplicate for Incorporation he is written Gotzer 20. Philip Parsons Doct. of Phys of Padua in Italy He was now or lately Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon and afterwards Principal of Hart Hall Jul. 10. Edm. Randolphe Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes a Member of Vniversity Coll. 11. George Douglas a Scot M. of A. of Aberdene On the 15 July being the next day after the Act were these Cambridge men incorporated Will. Spurstow Bach. of Arts so he is written in the Register was then incorporated This person who was the Son and Heir of Will. Spurstow Citizen and Mercer of London but originally descended from the Spurstows of Spurstow in Cheshire was afterwards M. of A. grand Presbyterian one of the five Smectymni Steph. Marshal Edm. Calamy Tho. Young and Mathew Newcomen being the other four one of the Ass of Divines Minister of Hackney near London a Preacher before the Long Parliament Master of Catherine Hall in Cambr. wherein he had been educated in the place of Dr. Ralph Brownrig and Doctor of Divinity He hath published 1 Englands pattern and duty in its monthly Fasts Sermon to both Houses of Parliament 21 July 1643. on 1 Sam. 7. 6. Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Englands eminent judgments caused by the abuse of Gods eminent mercies Thansgiving Serm. before the H. of Lords 5 Nov. 1644 on Ezra 9. 13 14. Lond. 1644. qu. 3 Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 24 Jun. 1646. This I have not yet seen nor other Sermons on several occasions as one at the Funeral of Mr. Will. Taylor printed 1661. qu. another on the Lady Viner c. 4 Wells of salvation opened discovering the nature preciousness usefulness of Gospel promises and rules for right application of them Lond. 1655. 59. oct 5 Practical Treatise of the excellency and right use of the Gospel promises Lond. 1658. 6 Spiritual Chymist or six Deeads of divine meditations Lond. 1666. 68. oct c. In the year 1662 he was ejected from his benefice at Hackney for Nonconformity where and in the neighbourhood he lived exercising his parts in private among the brethren till his death which was at Hackney as I conceive in Jan. or Feb. 1665. Edward Rainbow Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards M. of A. Master of that Coll. 1642 Doct. of Div. four years after and in 1650 was ejected from his Mastership Afterwards he enjoyed two livings successively without examination by the Tryers and in 1660 being restored to his Mastership was soon after made Dean of Peterborough upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Cosin to the See of Durham and in Nov. 1662 Vicechancellour of Cambridge In 1664 Jul. 10 he was consecrated Bishop of Carlile in K. Hen. 7. Chap. at Westminster where sitting about twenty years gave way to fate in his Palace called Rose Castle near Carlile 26 March 1684 aged 76 years or thereabouts On the first of April following he was inter'd in the Yard belonging to the parochial Church of Dalston under the Chancel Wall at which time Mr. Thom. Tully one of his Lordships Chaplains and Chancellour of the Diocess of Carlile preached his Funeral sermon This Dr. Rainbow having been originally of C. C. Coll. in this University I shall in my other Vol. of this Work speak more largely of him Thom. Ball M. A. I take this person to be the same Thomas Ball who was born in Shropshire first of Queens under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Preston and afterwards Fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambr. Minister of the Gospel in Northampton and a publisher of several books as 1 The life of Dr. Joh. Preston 2 Pastorum propugnaculam or the pulpits patronage against the force of unordained usurpation and invasion in four parts Lond. 1656. qu. c. He was buried at Nâ—rthampton 21 June 1659 aged 69 years or thereabouts At which time his intimate acquaintance Joh. Howe 's M. of A. sometimes of Eman. Coll. Rector of Abbington near Nâ—rthampton preached his Funeral sermon wherein were several matters delivered in commendation of Mr. Ball. Râ—b Creyghton or Chrichton M. of A. of Trin. Coll. This person who was born in the north parts of Scotland was educated in Westminster School and thence elected into the said College 1613 took the degrees in Arts and became Orator and Greek Professor of Cambridge In 1632 Dec. 17. he was installed Treasurer of the Cathedral Church at Wells having been collated thereunto by Geor. Archb. of Canterbury upon the then vacancy of the See of B. and Wells in which Vacancy Dr. Rob. Wright who kept the said Treasureship in commendam with the See of Bristow was translated to Lichfield and thereupon forced to give up that Dignity In 1637 he became Dean of S. Burians in Cornwal in the place of Rich. Murray a Scot deceased and about that time Doctor of Divinity and beneficed in Somersetshire In the beginning of the Rebellion he suffered then and afterwards very much for the Royal Cause retired to his Majesty at Oxon became one of his Chaplains afterwards an Exile with K. Ch. 2. to whom being Chaplain at the Hague preached very liberally before him against the Presbyterians and the Murderers of K Ch. 1. After his Majesties return he became Dean of Wells the grant of which he had before and being then also Chaplain to the King he would freely preach before him against the Vices of the times which was well taken by some tho sneared at by others In 1670 Jun. 19 he was consecrated B of Bathe and Wells at Lambeth in the place of Dr. Will. Piers deceased at which Ceremony assisted the B. of London in the place of his Grace the Archb. of Canterbury with the Bishops of Winchester and Ely This Dr. Creyghton was a learned man as it appears by his translation from Greek into Latin and illustration
of S. Alb. Hall was one a younger Son of Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter Mast of Arts. Mar. 28. Joh. Goad of S. Joh. Jun. 18. Sam. Fisher of Magd. Coll. Jun… Joh. Bachler or Bachiler of Gloc. Hall He is not to be understood to be the same with Joh. Bachiler Author of Golden sands c. Lond. 1647 The Virgins pattern c. Lond. 1661. oct and of several Sermons because he was bred in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge 31. Tho. Weaver of Ch. Ch. Jul. 9. Joh. French of New Inn. Oct. 20. Dudley Loftus of Vniv. Nov. 3. Will. Dingley of Magd. Coll. Jan. 16. Will. Hughes of New Inn. Mar. 6. Edw. Chamberlayne of S. Edm. 22. John Hinkley of S. Albans Hall Adm. 108. Bach. of Phys July 18. Edw. Greaves of All 's Franc. Goddard of Exet. Coll. Whether the last was afterwards a Writer I cannot tell The first I am sure was Bach. of Div. Jun. 20. Francis Davies of Jesus Coll. Jul. 7. George Bathurst of Trin. COll The last of these two who was Fellow of the said Coll. and a Native of Garsingdon near to Oxon hath extant Oratio funebris in obitum desideratiss viri Thomae Alleni Coll. Trinit olim socii Aulae Glocestrensis 62 annos commensalis Lond. 1632 qu. He was afterwards engaged in his Majesties Service was a Defendant within the Garrison of Farringdon in Berks. where he died of a wound in the thigh about 1644. 9. John Webberley of Linc. Coll. Jan. 30. Tho. Masters of New Coll. The first of these two who was the Son of Thom. Webberley of East-Kirbey in Lincolnshire was now esteem'd by all a high flown Socinian and afterwards a desperate Zealot for the Kings cause in the time of the grand Rebellion He had translated into English several Socinian books some of which he had published without his name set to them and others which were laying by him were taken out of his study by the Parliamentarian Visitors an 1648 in which year he suffer'd much for his Loyalty by Imprisonment first and afterwards by Expulsion See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 405. a. b. c. Adm. 16. Doct. of Law July 2. Rich. Chaworth of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Vicar General to the Archbishop of Canterbury a Knight Chancellour of Chichester and London He died and was buried at Richmond in Surrey in June or July 1673. Rouland Scudamore of Brasn Coll. was admitted the same day Oct. 17. Thom. Hyde of New Coll. He was a younger Son of Sir Laur. Hyde of Salisbury Knight was about this time Chancellour of that place and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty He died in 1661. Doct. of Phys Jun. 9. Charles Bostock of Ch. Ch. Not one besides him was licensed to proceed this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 18. Herbert Croft of Ch. Ch. Jun. 25. Hen. Croke of Brasn Coll. 26. Sebastian Smith of Ch. Ch. He was now or lately Prebendary of Peterborugh and Chauntor of the Church of Wells to which last he was admitted on the death of Edw. Abbot 9 of March 1634 and at length became Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Jul. 2. Will. Evans of Qu. Coll. now Prebendary of Hereford Nov. 28. Rob. Neulin President of C. C. Coll. He was ejected from his Presidentship in 1648 was restored in 1660 and dying 5 March 1687 aged 90 years or more was buried in C. C. Coll. Chappel Incorporations Jul. 14. Thom. Stanley M. of A. of Cambridge This Gentleman who was the only Son of Sir Tho. Stanley Knight was born at Cumberlow in Hertfordshire educated in Grammatical learning in his Fathers House under one Mr. Will. Fairfax in Academical in Pembroke Hall in Cambridge in the quality of a Gentleman Commoner where he became a very early proficient in several sorts of polite learning In the times of Usurpation he lived in the Middle Temple where he advanced his knowledge much by the Communication of his Kinsman Edw. Sherburne Esq then lately returned from his Travels became much deserving of the Commonwealth of Learning in general and particularly honour'd for his smooth air and gentle spirit in Poetry which appears not only in his own genuine Poems but also from those things which he hath translated out of the ancient Greek and modern Italian Spanish and French Poets His writings are 1 The History of Philosophy containing those on whom the Attribute of Wise was conferred Lond. 1655. fol. in three parts with Stanley's Picture before them The second Vol. was printed in 1656. fol. containing five parts making in all eight parts And at the end of the said second Vol. is The doctrine of the Stoicks in two parts The third Vol. of the said Hist of Philosophy was published in 1660. fol. contained also in several parts All which parts illustrated with Cuts were reprinted 1687 fol. 2 History of Chaldaick Philosophy c. Lond. 1662. 3 Poems Lond. 1651. oct dedicated to Love some of which and not others in his Translations had if I am not mistaken musical Compositions set to them by John Gamble in his book entit Ayres and Dialogues to be sung to the Theorbo-Lute or Bass Viol. Lond. 1651. fol. Which J. Gamble by the way I must let the Reader know was bred up in the condition of an Apprentice under a noted Master of Musick called Ambrose Beyland was afterwards a Musitian belonging to a Playhouse one of the Cornets in the Kings Chappel one of the Violins to K. Ch. 2. and a Composer of Lessons for the Kings Playhouse 4 Translation of with Annotations on Europa in the Idyll of Theocritus Cupid crucified Venus Vigils Lond. 1649. oct To the second Edition of which he added the Translation of and Notes on Anacreon Bion Kisses by Secundus printed 1651. oct 5 Version of and Commentary on Aeschyli tragoediae septem cum scoliis Graecis omnibus deperditorum Drammatum fragmentis Lond. 1664. fol. He also translated into English without Annotations 1 Aurora Ismenia and The Prince written by Don Juen Perez de Montalvan Lond. 1650. second Edit 2 Oronta the Cyprian Virgin by Signior Girolamo Preti Lond. 1650. second Edit 3 A Platonick discourse of love written in Ital. by Joh. Picus Mirandula printed 1651. oct 4 Sylvia's Park by Theophile Acanthus complaint by Tristan Oronto by Preti Echo by Marino Loves Embassy by Boscan The Solitude by Gongora All printed 1651. oct c. This learned Gent. Tho. Stanley died in his Lodgings in Suffolk street in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster 12 Apr. 1678 and was buried in the Church there He left behind him a Son of both his names educated in Pembroke Hall in Cambridge who when very young translated into English Claud. Elianus his Various Histories Jul… Thomas Philipot of Cambridge was incorporated after the Act time as a certain private note tells me but in what degree unless in that of Master of Arts I cannot yet find He was the Son of
in Oxon a younger Son of Dr. Tho. Turner sometimes Dean of Canterbury Jan. 14. Joh. Regius King Londino-Anglus Doctor of Phyf of the University of Leyden in Holland was then incorporated Which Degree was conferr'd upon him in the said Univ. 1638. FINIS Books printed for and sold by Tho. Bennet at the Half Moon in St. Pauls Church-yard PAradise Lost in twelve Books by John Milton with Cuts in Folio A Geographical Dictionary representing the present and antient Names of all the Countries Provinces remarkable Cities Universities Ports Towns Mountains Seas Streights Fountains and Rivers of the whole World their Distances Longitudes and Latitudes with a short Historical account of the same and their present state to which is added an Index of the Antient and Latin Names by Edmund Bohun Esq the Second Edition Corrected and Inlarged together with several useful Maps not in the former Edition Dr. Busby's Greek Grammar newly reprinted with amendments History of the Council of Trent in 8 Books by Father Paul in Folio Bishop Sandersons Sermons Folio A Critical History of the Text of the New Testament wherein is firmly established the truth of those Acts on which the Foundation of the Christian Religion is laid by Richard Simon Priest 4to The life of that most Illustrious Prince Charles 5. late Duke of Lorraine and Bar. Generalissimo of the Imperial Armies render'd into English from the Copy lately printed at Vienna written by a Person of Quality and a great Officer in the Imperial Army The Morals of Confucius a Chinese Philosopher who flourished above Five hundred years before the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ being one of the most choicest pieces of learning remaining of that Nation The art of practical measuring easily performed by a two foot Rule which slides to a foot on which is the best measure of round Timber the common way also the true measure of round square or other Timber or Stone Boards Glass paving Painting Wainscot c. Gauging of Casks and Gauging and Inching of Tuns containing brief instructions in Decimal Arithmetick the best way of using the Logarithms according to Mr. Townley the use of a new Diagonal Scale of a 100 parts in a quarter of an Inch applyed to Gunters Chain and lastly some useful directions in Dialling not hitherto published by Henry Coggeshall Gent. An account of the proceedings of the Right Reverend Father in God Jonathan Lord Bishop of Exeter in his late Visitation of Exeter College in Oxford the Second Edition to which is added the censure of the University of Oxford upon the Naked Gospel A defence of the proceedings of the Right Reverend the Visitor and Fellows of Exeter College in Oxford with an answer to 1. the Case of Exeter College related and vindicated 2. The account examined The reason of Mr. Bayes changing his Religion considered in a Dialogue in three parts The second part of Mr. Wallers Poems containing his alteration of the Maids Tragedy and whatever of his is yet unprinted together with some other Poems Speeches c. that were printed severally and never put into the first Collection of his Poems A Vindication of Mr. James Colmer Bachelor of Physick and Fellow of Exeter College in Oxford from the calumnies of three late Pamphlets 1st A Paper published by Dr. Bury 1689. 2. The account examined 3. The Case of Exeter College related and vindicated to which are annex'd the Authentick Copies of the Affidavits relating to that affair A discourse sent to the late King James to perswade him to embrace the Protestant Religion by Dr. Sam. Parker late Lord Bishop of Oxford to which are prefix'd 2 Letters the first from Sir Leolin Jenkins on the same subject the 2. from the said Bishop with the discourse all printed from the original Manuscript Papers TABLE or INDEX TO Athenae and Fasti Oxonienses A. ABbot Edw. pag. 792. 901. George 333. 500. 511.629 Maurice 527. Rob. 365. 366. 415. 499. 621. 800. 801. Abel Tho. 47 Abington or Habington Edw. Tho. 735. 88 Abâ—e Franc. 691 Abulines Jo. 702. 706 Ackworth Geo 726 Aâ—â—osd Rog. 835 Adams Bern. 625 Aglionby or Eglionby Jo. 303. Edw. 726 Airay Hen. 341. 481. See Ayray Akers Jo 678 Alabaster Will. 233. 768 Alan see Allen. Alaskie or Laskie Alb. 244. 313. 492 Alberti Geo. 872 Alcock Tho. 654 Alexander Franc. 809 Aldem Mardoc 734. 821 Alderne Edw. 893 Aldridge or Aldrich Rob. 22. 79. 80. 583. 679. 680. Tho. 725 Algre Gasp 849 Allen Jo. 31 Allen Tho. 86. 397. 514. 413. 420. 420. 459. 466. 492. 493. 572. Will. 169. 234. 235. 236. 237. 616 Alley Will. 127. 598. Rog. 127 Allibond Pet. 448. 900. Rich. 448 Allyn see Allen. Allysbury Will. 685 Alâ—wyck Will. 556 Alsop Bern. 34 Alston Edw. 853 Alâ—on Andr. 685 Alvey Rich. 262. 725 Amama Sext. 449 Ambrose Luke 338 Ammonius Andr. 14. 137. 641. 563 Amner Joh. 815 Anderson Edm. 281. 369 Anderton Laur. 498. 480 Andrews Jo. 470. Lanc. 476. 538. 751. 765. 783. Nich. 853. Rich. 802 Angelus Chr. 526 Anthony Franc. 428. Jo. ib. Char. ib. Antoninus and his Itin. 87 Antonius Nich. 56 Anwykyll Jo. 16 Anyan Th. 810 Apsland Will. 720 Aquepontanus Jo. See Bridgwater Arche Rich. 138. 682. 690 Archer Sim. 504. Rich. 690 Arden Will. 662 Aretius Jac. 817 Argall Jo. 284. Rich. ibid. Aris Jo. 867 Arnold Will. 659 Arthur Malac. 657 Arundell Jo. 75. 76. 552 Ascham Rog. 695 Ash Sim. 543 Ashbrook 729 Ashdowne Jo. 643. 644 Ashley Ant. 769 Ashmole 16. 114 Ashton Hugh 673. 645 Ashworth Hen. 795 Aâ—kew Aeg. 282 Asser Men. 356. 412 Astley Rich. 369 Aston Hug. 645. Rog. 796 Ascough Will. 638 Atey Arth. 721 Athequa Geo. 560 Atherto Jo. 632 Atkyns Th. 709. Jo. 827 Atkinson Rich. 710. Tho. 758. b. alias 760. 867. 868 Atslow Edw. 727 Atwater Will. 58. 562 Aubertus Ant. 894 Audley Edm. 566. Rob. 636. 700 Aukland Jo. 651 Austin Sam. 472 Awbrey Will. 702. 710. 777 Awood or à Wood Rich. 433. Tho. 793 Aylesbury Th. 853 Aylisbury Th. 390. 391. 493. 792 Aylmer or Elmer Jo. 681. 690. 726. 736. 756. b. alias 758. Theoph. 223 Aylworth Ant. 752 Ayray Mart. 267 B. BAber Franc. 860 Babington Brute 745. Franc. 717. 719. Gerv. 498. 745. 602. Zach. 780 Babthorpe Rob. 658 Bachler or Bachiler Joh. 900 Bacon Fr. 452. 534. Nich. 139. 769 Baconthorp Jo. 295 Bailye Rich. 537 Baggard Tho. 677. 705 Bagnall Rob. 767 Bagnold Rob. 767 Bagshaw Edw. 480. 804. Christ 426 Bagwell Hen. 679 Bainbridge Chr. 556. 557. 564. 568 Baker Aug. 515. Geo. 632. Joh. 36. 77. Rich. 531. Sam. 845 Balborow Will. 650 Baldwin Franc. 174. Will. 113 Bale Jo. 60. 61. 67. 68. 70. 94. 99. 125. 174. 493. 345 Bale Rob. 4 Bâ—les Pet. 249 Baley Walt. 224. 225 Balgay Nich. 262. 758. b. alias 760 Ball Hen. 772. Joh. 542. 543. 655. Tho. 861 Ballard Phil. 638. 691 Balsam Scip. 775 Bancroft Rich. 632. 723. 751. 801 Joh. 632. 633 Banger Rich. 660 Banks Jo. 507. Tho. 737. Hen. 814 Banister
While he continued at Madrid in Spain in the quality of an Ambassador he was accused to have spoken somewhat unreverently of the Pope Whereupon he was excluded from the Court and afterwards thrust out of Madrid into a Country Village his Servants compelled to be present at Mass and the exercise of his own Religion forbidden and this whether in more hatred to the Queen of England or to Religion I cannot say whereas she in the mean time had shewed all kindness to Goseman the Spanish Ambassador allowing him his own Religion This Man-goose hath as I have been informed written and translated several things but none have I yet seen only his translation from Latin into English of Common places of Christian Religion gathered by Wolfg. Musculus c. Lond. 1563. fol. and 1573. in a thick qu. He paid his last debt to nature at London 18. March in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight and received sepulture in the Chancel of St. Anns Church near Aldersgate in the same City leaving issue by his Wife Frances Dau. of Edm. Herenden of London Mercer several Children some of whose posterity do now or at least did lately live at Hatfield-Braddock in Essex In his Deanery of Glocester succeeded Dr. Tho. Cooper afterwards B. of Winchester and in the Wardenship of Merton Coll. Dr. Tho. Bickley afterwards B. of Chichester Besides this Jo. Man I find another of both his names of New Coll. born at Writtle in Essex who being LL. B. was presented by the Warden and Fellows of the said Coll. to the rectory of Great-Horwood in Bucks an 1551 where he died 1565. EDMUND BONNER a Person much esteemed by those of his profession for the zeal he bore to the R. Catholick cause was the natural Son of George Savage Priest Parson of Davenham in Cheshire natural Son of Sir Job Savage of Clifton in the said County Knight of the Garter and one of the counsel to K. Hen. 7. Which Geo. Savage Priest had seven natural Children by three sundry Women viz. 1 George Savage Chancellour of Chester 2 Joh. Wymesley Parson of Torperley in Cheshire who was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Ed. Bonner 3 Randal Savage of Lodge in the said County 4 Edm. Bonner of whom we are to make further mention begotten on the body of Elizab. Frodsham who was the Wife after Bonner had been begotten of Edm. Bonner a Sawyer living with a Gentleman called Armingham of Potters Hanley in Worcestershire besides three Daughters named Margaret Ellen and Elizabeth Our Author who was called by his supposed Fathers name Edm. Bonner was born either at Elmeley or at Potters-Hanley in Worcestershire and in 1512 or thereabouts became a Student of Broadgates hall now Pembroke Coll. being then a noted nursery for Civilians and Canonists Soon after having made a sufficient progress in Philosophy and the Laws he was on the 12. June admitted Bach. of the Canon and on the 13. of July following an 1519. Bach. of the Civil Law About that time he entred into Holy Orders and performed many matters relating to his faculty in the Dioc. of Worcester by the appointment of the then Bishop In 1525 he was licensed to proceed in the Civil Law and about that time obtained the rectories of Ripple Bledon Dereham Cheswick and Cherriburton in Yorks Afterwards he was one of the Kings Chaplains a favourer of the Lutherans of the divorce between the K. and Catherine of Spain a favourer of the Kings proceedings in expelling the Popes authority from the Kingdom of England and Master of the Faculties under Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury In 1535 he became Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Edw. Fox promoted to the See of Hereford which Fox had been installed in that Archdeaconry upon the resignation of Steph. Gardener LL. D. 27. Sept. 1531. and by the endeavours of Thom. Cromwell Secretary of State he was employed Ambassador to the Kings of Denmark and France to the Pope and to the Emperour of Germany and made Bishop of Hereford 1538 the temporalities of which See were restored to him by the K. 4. March the same Year But before he was consecrated thereunto he was elected Bishop of London 1. Oct. 1539 being then in an Embassie had restitution made of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 18 Nov. following and was consecrated 3. Apr. 1540. After the death of K. Hen. 8. and Religion being about to be reformed by K. Ed. 6. Bonner seemed at first to be forward for it but recanting what he had done he was enjoyn'd to preach a Sermon at Pauls cross to make farther trial perhaps of his humour wherein leaving out the article of the Kings authority was upon the complaints of Joh. Hooper and Will some call him Hugh Latymer Bach. of Div. and Parson of St. Laurence Pountney who prosecuted him very zealously for it and his slowness in forwarding reformation in his Diocess first committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea 20. Sept. and in the beginning of Oct. following an 1549. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick Soon after which time his Mother Elizab. Frodsham died and was buried at Fulham at whose Funeral Bonner tho a Prisoner gave to several Persons mourning coats In the beginning of Aug. 1553. he was released out of the Marshalsea and restored to his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary in whose Reign he shew'd himself severe being put upon it by publick authority against the Protestants as may be fully seen in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church As for the writings of the said Bonner they are many but all that I have yet seen are only these viz. Preface to the oration of Stephen Bish of Winchester concerning true obedience Printed at London in Lat. 1534. 35 and at Hamburgh 1536. oct Translated and imprinted by a most zealous enemy to the Papists called Mich. Wood who wrot a bitter and libellous Epistle before and a conclusion after it to the Reader Print at Roan 1553. oct I have seen another translation of it perhaps by the same hand without the said lib. Epist printed in oct an 1536. In the said Pref. written by Bonner are several matters against the Popes power in England and in defence of the Kings divorce from Qu. Catherine Several Letters to the Lord Tho. Cromwell an 1538. A declaration to the Lord Th. Crom. describing to him the evil behaviour of Steph Bish of Winchester an 1538 These two last are mention'd in the Acts and Mon. of the Church under that year Responsum exhortatio Lond. 1553. in oct Which answer and exhortation to the Clergy in praise of Priesthood beginning Dum tacitus apud me considero c. were utter'd by our Author after Joh. Harpesfield had finished his Sermon to the Clergy in St. Pauls Cath. in Lond. 16. Oct. 1553 and the orations ended of John Wymesley Archdeacon of London before-mention'd and of Hugh Weston Dean of Westminster All which were printed and bound together in one volume Articles
in number 37. to be enquired of in his general visitation exercised by him in the City and Dioc. of Lond. an 1554 These being very unusual articles I do therefore here set them down especially for this reason that Jo. Bale hath commented on them with a great deal of raillery in a Book entit A Declaration of Edmund Bonners articles Lond. 1561. oct A profitable and necessary doctrine or Catechisme with certaine Homelies adjoyned thereunto for the instruction and information of the People within the Dioc. of Lond. Lond. 1554. 55. qu. Or thus A necessary doctrine containing an exposition on the Creed seaven Sacraments ten commandments the pater noster Ave Maria and the seaven deadly sins Various letters declarations arguings disputes c. As in the said Book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he was for denying the Oath of Supreamacy deprived of his Bishoprick again as he himself hath set it down in a spare leaf before Eusebius his Ch. Hist with Ruffinus his commentary printed at Basil in the Year 1528. Which Book I some years ago bought for the sake of the note which he had written running thus Litera dominicali A. an dom MDLIX die Maii XXX vocatus ad concilium recusavi praestare juramentum omnino deprivatus Afterwards being committed to his former prison the Marshalsea in Southwarke near London continued there in a cheerful and contented condition till the time of his death which therefore made those that did not care for him say that he was like Dionysius the Tyrant of Syracuse who being cruel and peremptory in prosperity was both patient and pleasant in adversity 'T is said that Dr. Bonner being sometimes allowed liberty he would walk as his occasions served in the street and sometimes wearing his tippet one begg'd it of him in scoff to line a coat no saith he but thou shalt have a fools head to line thy cap. To another that bid him Good morrow Bishop quondam he streight replyed Farewel knave semper Which answers are Epigrammatiz'd by an admired Muse of our Nation in his time When another Person shew'd the said Bonner his own picture in the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. commonly call'd the Book of Martyrs on purpose to vex him he merrily laugh'd and said a vengeance on the fool how could he get my picture drawn so right And when one asked him if he were not ashamed to whip a Man with a beard he laugh'd and told him his beard was grown since but said he if thou hadst been in his case thou would'st have thought it a good commutation of pennance to have thy bumm beaten to save thy body from burning c. He gave way to fate in the aforesaid Prison 5. Sept. year 1569 in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine and was at midnight buried near to the bodies of other Prisoners in the Cemitery belonging to St. Georges Church in Southwark in which Parish the Marshalsea is situated He had caused formerly two of his Nephews Sons of one of his Sisters before-mention'd to be educated in Broadgates hall one of which was named Will. Darbyshire who by his Uncles favour became Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral and dying in Broadgates was buried in St. Aldates Church adjoyning 3. July 1552. The other was Tho. Darbyshire who proceeded Doctor of Laws as a Member of Broadgates in 1555 under which year you may see more of him in the Fasti ANDREW KINGSMYLL Son of John Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire was born there or in that County elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. from that of Corp. Chr. in 1558 studied the Civil Law wherein he attained to a considerable knowledge and was admitted to the reading of any Book of the Institutions in that faculty in the beginning of the Year 1563. About that time also he exercised himself much in the Scriptures and having a great memory could readily rehearse memoriter in the Greek tongue St. Pauls Epistles to the Romans and Galatians and St. Johns first Canonical Epistle besides other Chapters of the Old and New Test and several Psalmes He exercised himself also by writing of sundry matters that he might grow in judgment readiness and aptness to teach others if at any time he should be called thereunto whereof a little treatise entit A view of Mans estate c. yieldeth some proof which he wrot at about 22 years of Age. He esteemed not so much the preferment and profit whereunto many ways he might easily have attained by the profession of the Law as the comfortable assurance which he usually urged and blessed hope of life eternal Wherefore to further himself therein he sought not only the exact knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew tongues but also for a time to live in some one of the best reformed Churches where he might both by the doctrine and discipline of the Gospel be dayly confirm'd in the true worship of God and well prepared for the Ministry of the Church For this end he settled in Geneva where he remained the space of three years being well liked by the learned and godly there From thence he removed to Losanne where being too good for this world ended this mortal life leaving behind him a rare example of godliness among the Calvinistical Brethren there He hath written A view of mans estate wherein the great mercy of God in mans free justification is shewed Lond. 1574. 1580 c. oct A godly advice touching marriage Lond. 1580. oct Excellent and comfortable treatise for all such as are any manner of way either troubled in mind or afflicted in body Lond. 1578. oct Godly and learned exhortation to bear patiently all afflictions for the Gospel of Jes Ch. on Gal. 6. 14. Conference between a godly learned Christian and an afflicted conscience concerning a conflict had with Satan All which and I think a Sermon on S. Joh. 3. 16. printed in oct were published after the Authors death by his friend and contemporary Franc. Mylls a Kentish Man M. of A. and Fel. of All 's C. As for the Author he surrendred up his last breath in the prime of his years at Losanne and therefore the more lemented by the brethren in the Month of Sept. in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine year 1569 leaving behind him an excellent pattern of his virtues and piety which all should but few did imitate It must be now known that in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the Univ. of Oxon was so empty after the R. Cath. had left it upon the alteration of Religion that there was very seldom a Sermon preached in the University Church called Sr. Mary and what was done in that kind was sometimes by Laurence Humphrey President of Magd. C. and Thom. Sampson Dean of Ch. Ch. But they being often absent a young Man of Allsouls Coll. would often step up and Preach to the admiration of all his auditors This young Man whom as Sir Hen. Savile Warden