Philosophy of the Stoicks Lond. 1598. oct And published Two short Treatises against the orders of the begging Fryers written by Joh. Wicliffe Also as 't is said a book intit Fiscus Papalis Sive Catalogus indulgentiarum reliquiarum septem principalium Ecclesiarum urbis Romae ex vet MS. discriptus Lond. 1617. qu. The Latine out of the MS. is set down in one Colum and the English in another by the publisher This I say is reported to have been published by our author James tho others tell us that it was done by Will. Crashaw of Cambridge Howsoever it is sure we are that it hath supplyed with matter a certain scribler named Henry Care in his Weekly pacquet of advice from Rome when he was deeply engaged by the Fanatical party after the popish Plot broke out in 1678. to write against the Church of England and the members thereof then by him and his party supposed to be deeply enclining towards Popery c. I say by that Hen. Care whose breeding was in the nature of a petty Fogger a little despicable wretch and one that was afterwards much reflected upon in the Observators published by Rog. L'estrange which Care after all his scribbles against the Papists and the men of the Church of England was after K. James 2. came to the Crown drawn over so far by the R. Cath. party for bread and money-sake and nothing else to write on their behalf and to vindicate their proceedings against the men of the Church of England in his Mercuries which weekly came out intit Publick occurrences truly stated The first of which came out 21. Feb. 1687. and were by him continued to the time of his death which hapning 8. Aug. 1688. aged 42. was buried in the yard belonging to to the Black-friers Church in London with this inscription nailed to his Coffin Here lies the ingenious Mr. Henry Care who died c. This person I can compare to none more than to Marchemont Nedham whose parts tho he wanted yet they were Weather-Cocks both alike as I shall tell you more at large when I shall come to that person which will be in the 2d Vol. As for our learned and industrious author Dr. James he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the north Suburb of Oxon in the month of Aug. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged about 58. years and was buried towards the upper end of New college Chappel leaving behind him this character that he was the most industrious and indefatigable writer against the Papists that had been educated in Oxon since the Reformation of Religion Which character being made manifest by his writings it would have been esteemed as generous an act for the Society of that House to have honoured his reliques with a Mon. and Epitaph as they did those of Tho. Lydiat the Mathematitian I shall make mention of another Thomas James in my discourse of Hen. Gellibrand under the year 1637. ROBERT WAKEMAN Son of Tho. Wakeman of Fliford-Flavel in Worcestershire Minister of Gods word was born in that County became a student of Ball. col in the beginning of 1590 aged 14. made Chaplain-Fellow thereof 17. Jul. 1596. being then Bach. of Arts. About that time entring into Orders was a frequent preacher for some years in these parts At length being made Rector of Beer-Ferres and afterwards of Charlton in Devon took the degrees in Divinity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Christian practice at S. Maries in Oxon. on Act. Sunday 8. Jul. 1604. on Acts 2. 46. Lond. 1605. in oct 2 Solomons exaltation before the King on 2 Cor. 2. 8. Ox. 1605. oct 3 The Judges charge on 2 Cor. 19. 6. printed 1610. oct 4 Jonahs Sermon and Ninevehs repentance at Pauls Cross on Jonah 3. ver 4. 5. Ox. 1606. oct 5 The true Professor opposed against the formal Hypocrites of these times on Luke 10. 28. Lond. 1620. oct and others which I have not seen among which is a Serm. on Eccles 11. 1. printed 1607. he gave up the ghost in Septemb. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried on the South side of the Chancel of the Church at Beer-Ferres on the nineteenth day of the same month leaving then behind him several Children who were all in the beginning of the civil war as the Tradition goes there perswaded from their Religion to that of Rome by one Capt. Rich. Read as 't was supposed who quarter'd in the house where they lived and married one of the Doctors Daughters Afterwards they retired into Worcestershire where they or at least their issue now live JOHN SANFORD Son of Rich Sanford of Chard in Somersetshire Gent. descended from those of his name in Devon was born in Somersetshire entred a Commoner of Ball. college about the time of the Act in 1581. where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was then made one of the Chaplains of Magd. coll At length having contracted a friendship with John Digby Commoner of that House did travel with him into France Spain and Italy whereby he did much advantage himself in the modern languages Afterwards he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the said Digby then known by the name of Sir John Digby at which time he as sent into Spain to treat of a marriage between the Infanta Sister of the King of that Realm and Prince Charles of England After his return Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. made him his domestick Chaplain and at length Prebendary of Canterbury and Rector of Ivychurch in Kent He was a person of great learning and experience and a Solid Divine well skill'd in several languages and a tolerable Lat. Poet. His works are Gods arrow of Pestilence serm on Psal. 38. 2. Oxon. 1604. oct Le Guichet Francois Janicula scu introductio ad linguam Gallicam Ox. 1604. qu. A brief extract of the former Lat. Grammar done into English for the easier instruction of the Learner Oxon. 1605. qu. Grammar or introduction to the Ital. tongue Oxon. 1605. qu. An entrance to the Spanish tongue Lond. 1611. and 1633. qu. and other things as 't is probable with I have not yet seen year 1629 He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the 24. Septemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 60. and more and was buried in the middle almost of the north Isle joyning to the nave er body of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury Over his Grave was soon after laid a white free-stone with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 199. b. wherein is mention'd his great charity to Widdows Orphans and the Poor EDWIN SANDYS Second Son of Edwin sometimes Archbishop of York was born in Worcestershire particularly as I suppose within the City of Worcester when his father was Bishop of that Diocess before his translation to York admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Sept. 1577. and
which he had to the faculty of Physick took both the degrees therein as a member of the said hall and about that time retired to the City of York and practised there till about the beginning of the Civil Wars He hath written Spadacrene Anglica or the English Spaw Fountaine being a brief Treatise of the acid or tart Fountain in the Forest of Knaresborough in Yorkshire Lond. 1626. in oct A relation of other medicinal waters in the said Forest Printed with the former book Admiranda chymica in oct tractatulis cum figuris Franc. 1630. 35. qu. Sam. Norton is esteemed half author of this book This eminent Physitian died before the Civil War brake forth but the particular time I know not HUMPHREY LYND a most learned Knight of his time a zealous Puritan and a grand enemy to such who were called Arminians was born in London but descended from those of his name if I mistake not in Dorsetshere educated in Westminster School elected Student of Ch. Church in 1596. aged 17. and four years after took a degree in Arts. About that time he was called away to be heir to a fair estate and being looked upon as a knowing person was made a Justice of the Peace a Knight by the favour of K. Jam. 1. 29. Oct. 1613. and was elected several times a Burgess to serve in Parliaments He was a person of great knowledge and integrity and a severe enemy to the Pontificians as well in his common discourse as in his writings which are Antient characters of the visible Church London 1625. Via tuta The safe way to the true antient and Catholick faith now professed in the Church of England Lond. 1628. oct Answer'd by Rob. Jenison alias Frevil a Jesuit in a book intit A pair of Spectacles for Sir Humph. Lynd c. Roan 1631. in oct Which Jenison was born in the County Pal. of Durham and died in England 10. oct 1656. Via devia The by-way leading the weak in dangerous paths of popish errour Lond. 1630. oct A case for a pair of Spectacles c. Refused to be Licensed by Bishop Lauds Chaplain upon no other pretence as one saith but that Sir Humphrey was a Lay-man but in verity because he the Chaplain was unwilling to have him vindicate himself and the truth against a rayling Jesuit c. However this book was afterwards published by Dr. Dan. Featly with a Supplement thereunto added by the Dr. in defence of Sir Humphrey Lond. 1638. qu. Sir Humphrey also hath written an Account of Bertram the Priest with observations concerning the censures upon his Tract De Corpore Sanguine Christi set by way of preface to it Lond. 1623. oct and by him dedicated to Sir Walt. Pye Knight the Kings Majesties Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Which account with observations as also the dedic Epistle of Sir Humphrey all set before the translation of that book were published again by Mathew Brian LL. D. sometimes a Student in Magd. hall Oxon. Lond. 1686 oct before which is set the picture of Charles the Great King of France and Emperour of Rome See more in Will. Hugh under the year 1549. Farther also our Author Sir Humphrey who was esteemed a deserving defender of the Cause of Religion and to whom in other respects the Church and common cause did owe much did in the year 1623 upon the motion of certain eminent Divines of whom Dr. Featly was one undertake the charge of printing the particular passages of many late writers castrated by the Romish knife The collections were made by Dr. Tho. James and were then in 1623 sent to Dr. Featly and others to prepare them for the Press They began with Pol. Virgil Stella Mariana Ferus c. Sir Hump. Lynd died on the eighth day of June in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 and was buried above the steps in the Chancel of the parish Church of Cobham in Surrey and not in Kent on the fourteenth day of the same month at which time Dr. D. Featly before mentioned preached the funeral Sermon shewing then to the Auditory the great vertues piety and learning that were once in the person that lay dead before them He left behind him three Sons Robert Alex. and Humphrey besides six Daughters THOMAS ALLEN an exact proficient in the Greek and Latine tongues was sent from the Kings School at Worcester to this University in Mich. Term 1589. aged 16 where making great advances in Philosophy was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll in 1593 and by the severe discipline then used he became a most noted Disputant After he had compleated his Regency he entred into the sacred function but instead of frequent preaching he exercised himself much in crabbed and critical learning Whereupon being well esteemed by his Governour Sir Hen. Savile he procured for him a Fellowship of Eaton coll where he found him very serviceable for his designs He hath written Observationes in libellum Chrysostomi in Esaiam Printed in Sir H. Saviles edition of S. Chrysostome in the eighth vol. p. 139 c. He also was one that helped the said Knight in making and framing his Annotations on Chrysostomes Homelies on Matthew and the other Evangelists as he doth acknowledge in his Preface to the said Annotations wherein he stiles this our author Vir doctissimus Graecarum literarum non minus quam Theologiae peritissimus c. He surrendred up his soul to him that gave it year 1636 in sixteen hundred thirty and six and was buried in Eaton coll Chappel near to Windsore Over his grave is a flat stone remaining having this inscription carved on a brass plate fixed thereunto Thomas Allenus Wigorniensis vir pietate insignis Theologus praestantissimus multarum optimarum linguarum variaeque eruditionis callentissimus in collegium hoc in quo diu socius vixit in collegia insuper alia locaque in quibus aliquam vitae suam partem posuit pie munificus hic jacet Obiit die decimo Mensis Octobris an 1636. He gave books to Mert. coll library and some to that of Brasenose in which last he had been a Student before he was elected into Merton Another of both his names but later in time was sometimes Pastor of a Church in Norwich and author of The Glory of Christ set forth in several Sermons from John 3. 34 35 36. c. published after the authors death in 1683. oct JOHN JONES the ornament of the English Benedictines in his time was born in London but descended from a family of his name living at Llan-Vrinach in Brecknockshire elected Scholar of S. Johns coll from Merchant Taylors School in 1591 aged 16 and soon after became Chamberfellow there with Will Land who was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury This person being entred and settled in a Jurists place he applyed himself to the study of the Civil Law and made a considerable progress therein but his mind being much inclined to the Rom. Religion
taken into the Hands of all Catholicks are mostly these Expositio sive lectura accuratiss in questiones dialecticas Divi Johan Scoti in Isagogen Porphyrii Ferrar. 1499. Ven. 1512. c. fol. Commentaria Doctoris Subtilis Johan Scoti in xii lib. Metaphysicae Aristotelis Emendata Quotationibus Concordantiis atque Annotationibus decorata Venet. 1507. fol. These Comments were made to the new Translation of and the many Additions made to the said twelve Books by that most famous Disciple of Duns Scotus named Antonius Andreas a Franciscan of the Province of Aragon Epithomata in insigne formalitatum opus de mente Doctoris Subtilis c. Ven. 1514. fol. Dictionarium Sacrae Scripturae universis conoionatoribus apprimè utile necessarium Venet. 1603. fol. This Dictionary reaches but to the latter end of the Letter E. to the Word Exnitguere Enchiridion fidei Printed in 1509. Epistolae diversae ad Jo. Camersium with several other things besides his postillizing the whole Doctrine of Duns Scotus and his subtile Comments on his Vniversals as Ant. Possevinus in his Apparatus Sacer will farther tell you He gave way to fate at Galloway before he could reach to Tuam as it is already told you to the great reluctancy of all learned Men especially those of his own Country and of Padöua on the eighth of the Cal. of June in Fifteen hundred and thirteen year 1513 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans commonly called the Grey Friers at Galloway In the See of Tuam succeeded one Thomas O-Mullaly commonly called Laly which Sirname occurring often in our Registers and Records there is no doubt but that he had received some knowledge of good Letters among us HENRY BRADSHAW was born in the antient Town of West-Chester commonly called the City of Chester and being much addicted to Religion and Learning when a Youth was received among the Benedictine Monks of S. Werbergs Monastery in the said City Thence at riper years he was sent to Gloucester College in the Suburb of Oxon where after he had passed his course in Theology among the Novices of his Order he returned to his Cell at S. Werberg and in his elder years wrote De antiquitate magnificentia Urbis Cestriae Chronicon c. and translated from Latin into English a Book which he thus entituled The life of the glorious Virgin S. Werberg Also many Miracles that God hath shewed for her Lond. 1521. qu. He died in Fifteen hundred and thirteen 5. Henry 8 and was buried in his Monastery year 1513 leaving then behind him other matters to posterity but the subject of which they Treat I know not JOHN HARLEY of the Order of the Preaching or Dominican commonly called Black Friers did also pass his course in the supream Faculty among those of his Order in the College pertaining to them sometimes situated and being in the South Suburb of Oxon where making great proficiency in his Profession was at length honored with the Degree of Doctor of Divinity being then accounted one of the prime Theologists of his Order not only for Learning but for conspicuous Vertue sanctimony of Life and acuteness in all Subtilities and Scholastical Disputations He hath written according to Anton. Senensis a Brother of the said Order Bina Commentaria super 4. libros Sententiarum Tract de Praedestinatione Dei Quodlibeta varia The time when he left this vain and transitory life my Author Anton. Senen tells me not only that his name sounded high and was in great renown for his erudition and most refined sanctity of life in Fifteen hundred and fifteen which was the seventh year of King Henry 8. of England THOMAS FICH was an Irish Man born and a Student for some time in Oxon as certain imperfect Notes shew but what Degree he took I find not Afterwards upon his return into his Country being then if not some years before a Canon Regular he became Subprior of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Dublin and in his elder years wrote De rebus Ecclesiae Cath. SS Trinit Dublin lib. 1. It is in MS. and was sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware who saith it was usually called The White Book and takes it to be the same with the Obital Book of that Church for in his time it was written as by the Character it appears being at this day reserved as a great rarity in the Library of Trinity College near Dublin This person Tho. Fich who is supposed to have written other things gave way to fare on the sixteenth of the Cal. of Febr. in Fifteen hundred and seventeen year 1517 which was the ninth year of King Henry 8. and was buried in the aforesaid Cathedral Church GEORGE COGLEY another Irish Man but later in time than the former did spend some time in the study of the Civil Law among the Oxonians and after his return to his own Country became a Publick Notary and Registrary to the Bishops Court at Meath where having opportunity time and place to peruse the Registers of that Church wrote and commended to Posterity Catalogus Episcoporum Midensium MS. Sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware Knight This Catalogue commences with Simon Rochfort or de Rupe forti who was the first of English Men that obtained the Bishoprick of Meath in 1194. or thereabouts and reaches down to Hugh Ynge who became Bishop in 1511. A Copy of this Cataloge if not the Original was sometimes in the hands of the famous Dr. Usher Bishop of the said place who communicated it to Sir James Ware when he was composing his two Books De Script Hibern JOHN COLET the eldest Son of Sir Henry Colet sometimes twice Lord Mayor of London by Christiana his Chast and faithful Wife Son of Robert Colet of Wendover in Buckinghamshire was born in London in the Parish of S. Antholin as it seems in the year 1466. was Educated in Grammaticals partly in London or Westminster and being fitted for greater Learning was sent to the Habitation of the Muses the University of Oxon about 1483. at which time one or more of his Sirname were of S. Mary Magdalen College where after he had spent seven years in Logicals and Philosophicals was Licensed to proceed in Arts being about that time so exquisitely Learned that all Tullies Works were as familiar to him as his Epistles He was also no stranger to Plato and Plotinus whom he not only read but conferred and paralleled perusing the one as a Commentary on the other And as for the Mathematicks there was scarce any part thereof wherein he was not seen above his years Having thus obtained a most admirable competency in Learning at home he Travelled into Foreign Countries to improve it by seeing the variety of Learning As first into France where at Paris he advanced himself much in Divinity and in Italy he prosecuted his Studies therein so effectually that there were none of his
then wore was valued at a Thousand pounds besides a Collar of SS about his Neck which weighed Eight hundred pounds in Nobles In the 1. Hen. 8. he was made Lieutenant of the Castle of Guisnes in Picardy and in the 5th of that Kings Reign he was at the Seige of Turwyn In the 10th he was one of the Ambassadors then sent into France for confirming the Articles of Peace between King Hen. 8. and the French and in the 11th was one of the Commissioners appointed to make preparation for that famous interview near Guisnes between King Hen. 8. and the King of France After which he grew into such high esteem at Court that in the 15. Hen. 8. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Name and Title of Nicholas Lord Vaux of Harwedon It is reported by a certain Author that his fancy laid chiefly in the facility of his meeter and the aptness of his descriptions such as he takes upon him to make namely in sundry of his Songs wherein he sheweth the counterfeit action very lively and pleasantly His Book or Books of Poetry I have not yet seen only many of his Copies of Verses in a Book Intit The Paradise of dainty devises c. Printed at Lond. 1578. in qu. Among them I find some which have these Titles set to them 1 A Copy made In his extream sickness which is the eighth Copy in that Book 2 His desire to exchange life numb 17. 3 Of sufferance cometh ease numb 41. 4 No pleasure without some pain fol. 36. b. 5 A lover disdained complaineth fol. 51. a. 6 Of a contented mind 7 Trie before you trust 8 He renounceth all the effects of love 9 Bethinking himself of his end he writeth thus c. There goes a doleful dutty also under his Name beginning thus I loath that I did love c. which was thought by some to be made upon his Death bed At length after this learned and valiant Lord had enjoyed his Honor but a very little time he gave way to fate in May or June in Fiveteen hundred twenty and three year 1523 whereupon his Body was buried as it seems at Harwedon before-mention'd where he founded a Chantry for one Priest to sing Mass for his Soul in the Parish Church there or else in the Church of the Black Friers at London THOMAS LYNACRE born as 't is said at Canterbury but descended from the Lynacre's of Lynacre Hall in the Parish of Chesterfield in Derbyshire which may be the reason why Holinshed and others that follow him say that he was born in the Town of Derby was chosen Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1484 where by his close retirement he improved himself very much in Literature and in few Years after much more by his Travels into Italy where taking I suppose the Degree of Doctor of Physick became intimate with Persons famous for learning there The chief Cities of his residence were at Rome and Florence at the last of which places being countenane'd by Laurence Medices Duke thereof had for his instructors Demetrius and Politian and at Rome he became familiar with the learned Hermolaus Barbarus who directed him very freely in his Studies After his return into his own Country he was incorporated Doctor of Physick in this University read a shagling Lecture in that faculty became Tutor to Prince Arthur and to his Princess Catherine for the Italian Tongue Physician to King Hen. 7. as some say afterwards to King Hen. 8 one of the chief Founders of the Coll. of Physicians in Knightridersstreet in London of which he was the first President and at length in Holy Orders and a Priest In 1519. Apr. 29. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of York in the place of Joh. Perot who died in Febr. going before but Lynacre resigning that place in Nov. following was succeeded therein by Rich. Wyatt D. D. who was admitted thereunto 13. of the same Month. At the same time our Author Lynacre had other Dignities in the Church but at what place I cannot justly say He was great with and highly admired by Sir Tho. More whom formerly he had taught Greek Erasmus Grocyn Latimer Tonstall and who not He was one of the first English Men that brought polite learning into our Nation and it hath been justly question'd by some of the Goliahs of learning whether he was a better Latinist or Grecian or a better Grammarian or Physician Sure it is that he being a general Scholar of his time and esteemed the Honor of the Nation was much reverenc'd by the Oxonians especially upon reading his Medicinal Lectures among them gratus and generally by all Persons of Honor and others for his happy practice among them He hath written The Rudiments of Grammar Lond. in aedib Pynsonianis Turn'd into Latin by George Buchanan a Scot Par. 1533. and 50. in oct Which Book hath ever since been the Cynosura for many of our best Grammarians Compendious Regiment or a Dietarie of health used at Mountpillour Lond. by Rob. Wyer in 8vo De Emendatâ Structurâ Latini sermonis libri sex Several times Printed as at Paris 1532. 43. 50 c. Col. Agrip. 1555 c. all in 8vo recognised and amended by Joachim Camerarius Lips 1591. oct The said 6 Books were originally made for the use of the Lady Mary the Kings Daughter the same I think who was afterwards Queen and are much commended by Jo. Leland He also translated from Greek into Latin several of the works of Claud. Galen among which were those De temperamentis de inaequali temperie lib. 3. Venet. 1498. Which Latin Translation as 't is said speaks better than the Original He also translated into the said Language Procli Diadochi Sphaera Venet. 1500 fol. Dedicated to Prince Arthur by a large Epist or Praef. dat at Lond. 6. cal Sept. with other things which you may see in Baleus and Pitseus This Dr. Lynacre died 20. Octob. year 1524 in Fiveteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the Cathedral of St. Paul within the City of London before the Rood of the North Door between the long Form and the Wall directly against the said Rood Over his Grave was afterwards a comely Monument erected at the charge of that eminent Physcian and Antiquary Dr. John Cay of Cambridge out of the Epitaph of which I am instructed in these matters concerning Lynacre viz. That he was a most skilful Critick in the Greek and Latin and an excellent Physician besides being Physician to King Hen. 8. who in his Generation did many miraculous Cures and restored several to life when help was past and even at the very point of death He translated Galen's works out of Greek into Latin with singular perspicuity and clearness He also compil'd a most excellent piece for the rectifying of the frame and module of the Latin Tongue He gave two Lectures to the University of Oxon and one to Cambridge
c. These two bound together are in Bodlies Library Vulgaria de institutione Grammaticulorum opusculum libello suo de concinnitate Grammatices accommodatum in quatuor partes digestum Printed at Lond. by Wynand de Worde 1524 in Lat. and Engl. having been printed several times before 'T is the same if I mistake not with his Grammar printed at Lond. 1500. qu. Secunda pars Grammatices de syllaba ejus quantitate Lond. 1516 qu. With which is bound up this following Whittintoni editio cum interpretamento Francisci Nigri Diomedes de accentu in pedestri oratione potius quam soluta observando Printed there the same Year De nominum appellativorum Deorum Dearum Heroum Heroinarum locorumque synonimis Lond. 1514 qu. De Epithetis Deorum Dearum Heroum Heroin clar virorum Animalium De variandi formulis tam pedestri quam soluto sermone Experientiae de virtutis immortalitate De veterum Romanorum Magistratibus These four last were printed with his De nominum appellativorum c. De octo partibus orationis Lond. 1513. 23. c. qu. De nominum generibus Lond. 1521. 24 c. qu. De preteritis supinis Lond. 1524. qu. De nominum declinatione Lond. 1522. qu. De Heteroclitis Lond. 1524. qu. Syntaxis Lond. 1524. qu. Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum Lond. 1521. qu. Responsiva contra Gul. Hormanni invectivas literas Lond. 1521. qu. in long and short verses with other things which may be seen in Baleus who tells us that he was in great renown for his learning in Fifteen hundred and thirty 22. Hen. 8. but when he died or where he was buried I cannot yet find See more of him in W. Lilye and Will. Horman ROBERT SHIRWODE received his first breath in the City of Coventry whence being translated to the University of Oxon made a considerable progress in Logicals but more by far in the Hebrew and Greek Languages Thence in his mature Years he went to Lovaine in Brabant where about the Year 1519. he succeeded Rob. Wakfeld an English Man in the reading the Hebrew Lecture to the Academians of that place But he reading there only for a Month went to other Universities and had a Book of his composition published bearing this title Liber Hebraeorum Concionatoris seu Ecclesiasticen nuper ad veritatem Hebraicam recognitus cum nonnullis annotationibus Chaldaicis quorundam Rabbinorum sententiis textus obscuros aliquos litteraliter explanantibus Antw. 1523. qu. Dedicated to one Joh. Webe whom he calls Monachorum decus Prior of the Monastery of the Benedictins at Coventry In the title of which Booke he is not stiled Doctor and therefore I presume he had that degree conferr'd on him after that time but in what University I cannot yet tell Job Baleus and his follower Pitseus do stile him Doctor Oxoniensis but the truth is in all my researches I cannot find that he took that degree there unless under another name He the said Dr. Shirewood hath also various Sermons extant as those Authors report who also tell us that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and thirty but when he died or where he was buried I am altogether as yet ignorant JOHN SKUISH a Cornish Man born was conversant for a time among the Oxonian Muses either in Exeter Coll. or in Hart Hall but whether he took a degree it appears not However by the help of an happy Genie accompanied with industry prudence and dexterity he obtained a Name among Men and was held in great esteem by several of the Nobility for his proficiency in various sorts of Learning At length being received into the Family of the great Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was by him entrusted with many matters of consequence All which he performing with singular fidelity was made one of his Cabinet Council and by him promoted to places of trust At leisure times he improved his natural Genie by the reading of Histories as well Ancient as Modern which at length being made easie to him by the help of a good memory composed several little Books as Chronicorum Epitome in one Book De bello Trojano lib. 1. and as 't is probable other things in the time of Hen. 8 and before and after the said Cardinal's fall The time when he surrendred up his last breath is yet unknown as also the place of his Sepulâ—ure SIMON FISH a zealous Man for the Reformation of abuses in the Church was born in Kent and after he had been instructed in Academical Learning he retired to Greys Inn in Holbourn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law About which time one Mr. Roo or Roe having composed a Play wherein one part deeply reflected on Cardinal Wolsey he undertook when divers refused to act it For which being soon after forced to leave the Nation he found out Will. Tyndale in Germany with whom for a time he sorted himself In 1527 or thereabouts he made a little Book entit The supplication of Beggars The beginning of which is Most lamentably complaineth their woful misery c. It containeth a great deal of bitter stuff against Bishops Abbats Priors Monks Fryers c. and indeed against the generality of the Clergy In 1528 a Copy of it was sent to the Lady Anne Bulleyne which after perusal she gave it to the King who did not dislike it and soon after were divers Copies scattered in London streets which was complained of by the Cardinal to the said King Afterwards the Cardinal being out of favor the Author Fish was sent for home and graciously countenanced by the King for what he had done About which time he translated from Dutch into English The summ of the Scriptures which was also published and well approved At length being overtaken by the Pest year 1531 died of it in Fifteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Church of St. Dunstan in the West Afterwards James Baynham Son of Sir Alex. Baynham of Glocestershire Knight Married his Widow which James being a zealous Protestant suffer'd death soon after in the Flames as you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Church written by Jo. Fox JOHN BATMANSON a Person most noted while living for his great Piety and Learning did after he had been instructed in Sophistry enter into the most holy Order of the Carthusians abiding in the House commonly called the Charter-house near to London In his elder Years he became the Head or Prior of that House and about that time or rather before was conversant in the Theological faculty with us but whether he took a degree therein tho supplicate he did to oppose in Divinity it appears not This Person being intimate with Dr. Edw. Lee afterwards Archbish of York did at his intreaty write Animadversiones in annotat Erasmi in Nov. Testam Which animadversions he retracted in another piece Tract contra a Doctrinam M. Lutheri This also he retracted in
year 1533 July in Fifteen hundred thirty and three where he suffer'd Death by burning See more of him in Jo. Fox his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the Year 1533 and in Rob. Persons his animadversions on Fox's words concerning Fryth in The third part of a treatise entit Of three conversions of England Chapt. 11. p. 45. 46 c. as also in Joh. Gwynneth among these Writers under the Year 1557. JOHN ROPER born in Berks. in the Dioc. of Sarum was first a Semicommoner or Demy of Magd. Coll. and afterwards being M. of A. was admitted perpetual Fellow of that House in 1483. When he was some Years standing in that degree he was made Reader of Philosophy and when Bach. of Divinity Reader of the Sentences or Divinity in the said College In 1502 he was confirmed Margaret Professor by the Foundâ—ess of that Lecture was afterwards Vicar of St. Maries Church in Oxon Principal of Salesurry and George Hall in that Parish Doctor of Divinity Canon of the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. now Ch. Ch. in Oxon to which he was admitted 1532 and Rector of Witney Church in Oxfordshire This Person who was esteemed one of the eminent Theologists of this University was appointed by the King in 1521. to write Tract contra Doctrinam Mart. Lutheri Which whether ever printed I know not He was a zealous Enemy against the Kings divorce from Queen Catherine in the Year 1530 but did not dare to write openly or publish any thing against it tho Preach he did This learned Person died in the Month of May year 1534 in Fifteen hundred thirty and four and was as I conceive buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel JOHN ALLEN had his first Academical Education in this University whence going to Cambridge was there made M. of Arts as 't is said tho I rather think Bach. of the Laws Afterwards he was sent to the Pope at Rome by Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury about certain matters relating to the Church where remaining about 9 Years was in that time created Doctor of the Laws either there or in an University in Italy After his return he became Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey who knew him as I conceive while he was in Oxon was Judge of his Court as he was Legat à latere but in that Office he was thought to be a perjur'd and wicked Person and assisted him in visiting first and afterwards in that great matter of dissolving 40 little Monasteries at least for the erection of his Coll at Oxon and that at Ipswych In the latter end of the Year 1525 he was incorporated LL. Dr. of this University on the 13. March 1528. he was consecrated Archb. of Dublin and about that time was made Chancellor of Ireland He hath Written Epistola de Pallii significatione activa passiva Penn'd by him when he received the Pall to be Archbishop De consuetudinibus ac statutis in tuitoriis causis observandis Besides other things concerning the Church At length being taken in a time of rebellion by Tho. Fitz-Gerard or Gerald eldest Son to the Earl of Kildare was by his command most cruelly murder'd by being brain'd like an Ox at Tartaine in Ireland 28. Jul. in Fifteen hundred thirty and four year 1534 aged 58. The whole story of which several of the Irish Chronicles will tell you See more among the Bishops under the Year 1534. WILLIAM HORMAN was born within the City of Salisbury educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester made true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1477. which place he resigning in 1485 being then M. of A. he became Schoolmaster and Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsor and at length Vice provost of the same College In which place spending many Years in pleasant retirement became one of the most general Scholars of his time as may appear by the diffusiveness of his Learning and Books written in all faculties All the Academical Education that he received was in the University of Oxon where he also took the Degrees in Divinity So that whereas Joh. Baleus and Jo. Pitseus say that he was of Kings Coll. in Cambridge is false being led I presume into that error from one Godfrey Harman a Cantabrigian who from being a Junior Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon was made Fellow of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd where he died and was buried in 1533. As for our Author Will. Horman he hath written many things of which I can only give you an account of some as they follow Antibossicon ad Gul. Lilium Lond. 1521. qu. Apologeticon contra Rob. Whittintoni Protovatis Angliae incivilem indoctanque criminationem Lond. 1521. qu. part 2. Before the said Books is printed from a Wooden Cut the Picture of a Bear baited by six Dogs and at the end is some of Whittington's poety taken in pieces by Horman and by him severely answer'd Vulgaria puerorum c. They are elegant sentences written in English and Latin and dedicated to Will Atwater Bishop of Lincolne Compendium Hist Gul. Malmsburiensis Epitome Historiae Joh. Pici com Mirandulae Elegiae in mort Gul. Lilii Anatomia membrorum hominis In one Book Anatomia corporis humani In two Books The titles of the rest you may see in Jo. Baleus and therefore I can say no more of our Author Horman than this that he paid his last debt to nature on the 12. year 1535 Apr. in Fifteen hundred thirty and five and was buried in the Chappel of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd Over his Grave are certain Verses engraven on a brass plate the two first of which run thus Hâc Hormannus humo requiescit amice viator Pene annos numerant lustra vicena suos The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 135. THOMAS MORE one of the greatest prodigies of Wit and Learning that this Nation ever before his time produced Son of Sir Joh. More Knight one of the Justices of the Kings Bench was born in Milk-street within the City of London an 1480. trained up in Grammar learning in St. Anthonies School there and afterwards received into the Family of Card. Joh. Moreton Archb. of Canterbury merely for the towardliness of his Person and the great hopes that the pregnancy of his parts then promised About the Year 1497. 't is said by some late Authors that that worthy Cardinal did send him to Canterbury College in Oxon to obtain Academical Learning but upon what grounds they report so it appears not Miles Windsore whom I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1624. who came to the University of Oxon in the time of Queen Mary doth tell us more than once that he had his Chamber and studied in the Hall of St. Mary the Virgin and constant tradition doth say the like and 't was never reported to the contrary before those two Authors here cited Tho. More and J. H. published their respective Books What
Articles according to the order of the Creed of the Apostles Lond. 1581. oct 1584. qu. Annexed to John Baker's Lectures on the Creed These 100 Articles were before Printed viz. an 1550. in oct Declaration of the 10 holy Commandments of Almighty God Lond. 1550. and 88. oct With other things which I have not yet seen the trite or slender titles of which you may see in Baleus He also translated from Lat. into English Turtullians second Book to his Wife concerning the choice of a Husband or Wife Lond. 1550. oct and perhaps other things At length he suffered death in the flames near to the College of Priests in the City of Glocester on Saturday the ninth of Febr. in Fifteen hundred fifty and four 1. and 2. of Philip and Mary being then near sixty Years of Age and much lamented by those that pretended to Reformation EDWARD WOTTON Son of Rich. Wotton superior Beadle of Divinity of this University of Oxon by Margaret his Wife was born within the City of Oxon. particularly as I conceive in the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin wherein his Father lived and had Houses in Cat-street After he had been educated in the Grammar School joining to Magd. Coll. he was first made Semicommoner or Demie of that House and after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts which was 1513. he was as I conceive made Fellow At length upon the desire of John Claymond and Rob. Morwent who knew the singular virtues and learning of the Person he left that Coll. and by the favour of that most worthy Person Bishop Fox Founder of that of Corp. Christi was made socius compar thereof with leave to travel into Italy for three Years an 1520. So that after he had read the Greek Lecture there for some time he journied into Italy studied Physick and took the Degree of Doctor in that faculty at Padöua After his return he was settled Greek Reader of his Coll. was incorporated in the same Degree in the latter end of 1525 was made Physician to K. Hen. 8. and not only became famous for his happy practice in that faculty in these parts and afterwards in London for he was one of the College of Physicians there but also for his great knowledge in Philosophy and things natural He hath transmitted to posterity De differentiis Animalium lib. 10. Par. 1552. fol. By the publishing of which he obtained a famous name among learned Men especially with Mich. Neander who saith that no Author hath written of Animals more learned and elegant than Wottonus See more in Thom Mouffet under the Year 1590. What other things the said Wotton hath published I know not nor anything else of him or his only 1 That he dying 5. Octob. year 1555 in Fifteen hundred fifty and five in the climacterical Year of his Age 63 was buried in St. Albans Church in Woodstreet in the City of London 2 That Catherine his Widow dying 4 Dec. 1558. was buried by him and both had a stone with an inscription thereon laid over their Graves But that part of it which remained an 100 Years after was totally consumed in the grand conflagration of London an 1666. 3 That he is much celebrated by the Antiquarian Poet John Leland under the name of Eadverdus Ododunus 4 That among the Children he left behind him for he had a numerous issue Brian Wotton LL. Bach. and Fellow of New Coll. was one who bequeathed his Body to be buried in the yard belonging to St. Albans Church before-mention'd Another was called Hen. Wotton first a Student of Ch. Ch. and afterwards Proctor of the University Greek Reader and Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. who proceeding in the faculty of Physick an 1567. became afterwards famous for the practice thereof NICHOLAS RYDLEY was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Willymondswyke in Northumberland educated in Grammatical Learning at Newcastle upon Tyne in Academical at Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon he was elected into one of Walt. Skyrlaw's Fellowship of University Coll. 13. Apr. 1521. Which place he keeping but a little while and therefore the Members of that House can hardly lay claim to him he returned to Cambridge where he became D. of D. and Master of Pembroke Hall Afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Ed. 6. and at length through Rochester the temporalities of which See were restored to him 27. Sept. 1547. became Bishop of London 1549. He was a Person small in stature but great in learning and profoundly read in Divinity quo viro as one who knew him saith nihil integrius omnibus egregiis dotibus ornatius Anglia nostra multis hisce retro saeculis habuit c. Among several things that he wrot were these Treatise concerning images not to be set up nor worshipped in Churches Written in the time of K. Ed. 6. Brief declaration of the Lords Supper Printed 1555. and 1586. oct Written by him while he was a Prisoner in Oxon. It was translated into Lat. by Will. Whittyngham bearing this title Assertio de coena Dominica Genev. 1556. Answered by another Book entit Confutatio Catholica Nich. Rydley de Eucharistia Par. 1556. qu. Written by Alban Langdale D. D. of St. John's College in Cambridge Certain godly and comfortable conferences between him and Mr. Hugh Latymer during the time of their imprisonment Lond. 1555. 56. and 74 in oct A friendly farewell written during his imprisonment at Oxford unto all his true Lovers a little before his death Lond. 1559. oct A piteous lamentation of the miserable state of the Church of England in the time of the late revolt from the Gospel Lond. in oct A comparison between the comfortable Doctrine of the Gospel and the traditions of Popish Religion Print with the former An account of a disputation at Oxford an 1554 Oxon. 1688. qu. Written in Latin and published from the Original MS by Gilb. Ironside D. D. Warden of Wadham Col. and then Vicehanc of the Univ. of Oxon. Treatise of the blessed Sacrament The beginning of which is Many things confound the real memory c. published with the former by the aforesaid Person from an original MS. to which he added A Letter written by Mr. Jo. Bradford the Martyr never before Printed Letter of reconciliation written to Bishop Hooper Lond. 1689. qu. published by Sam. Johnson Author of the Short account of the life of Julian the Apostate Lond. 1682. oct He the said Dr. Rydley had a hand also in the compiling of the Common Prayer-Book now in use among us has also disputations arguings communications and conferences about matters of Religion in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church written by John Fox In which Book under the Years 1554. and 55. you may see a full account of his sufferings and afterwards of his burning near to Balliol College in Oxon. year 1555 on the 16. of Oct in Fifteen hundred fifty and
Bekinsau did dedicate it to K. Hen. 8. with whom as also with K. Ed. 6. he was in some value but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown and endeavoured to alter all what her Father and Brother had done as to the reformation of the Church then did he wheel about change his mind and became a zealous Person for the Church of Rome and a hater of Protestants After Queen Elizabeth was fetled in the Throne he retired to an obscure Town called Sherbourne in Hampshire where giving way to fate in great discontent was buried in the Church of that place 20. year 1559 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine aged about 63 years leaving then behind him this character among the R. Catholicks that As he was a learned Man so might he have been promoted according to his deserts had his principles been constant ALBAYN HYLL was a Britaine born as one that knew him tellus partly educated in this and partly in another University beyond the Sea as it seems where applying his studies to the faculty of Physick he proceeded Doctor and became famous for it at London not only for the Theoretic but practick part and much beloved and admired by all learned Men especially by Dr. John Cay and Dr. Joh. Fryer two eminent Physicians of Cambridge One that lived in his time stiles him Medicus nobilissimus atque optimus in omni literarum genere maxime versatus and tells us that he wrot several things on Galen which are printed and by others cited This is all that I know of this learned Person only that he died 26 Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 and that he was buried not far from the grave of his friend and contemporary Dr. Edw. Wotton in the Church of St. Alban situated in Woodstreet in London in which Parish he had lived many years in great respect and was esteemed one of the chief Parishioners Alice his Widow who died on the last day of May 1580. was buried by him and both had a substantial Grave-stone with an inscription on it laid over them but that of it which was left part in 1666. was utterly consumed in the grand conflagration of London NICHOLAS BRIGHAM Esquire was born if I mistake not at or near to Caversham in Oxfordshire where his elder Brother Thom. Brigham had lands of inheritance and died there 6. Ed. 6. but descended from those of Brigham in Yorks received his Academical education in this University particularly as I conceive in Hart Hall wherein I find several of his Sirname without Christian names before them to have studied in the time of Hen. 8. but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear in our registers that are somewhat imperfect in the latter end of that King's Reign When he continued in the University and afterwards in one of the Inns of Court he exercised his muse much in Poetry and took great delight in the works of Jeffry Chaucer For whose memory he had so great a respect that he removed his bones into the South cross Isle or trancept of St. Peters Church in Westminster in the Year 1556. Which being so done he erected a comely Monument over them with Chaucers Effigies and an Epitaph in Prose and Verse which to this day remains against the East Wall of the said Isle At riper years our Author Brigham addicted himself much to the study of the municipal Law became noted for it and without doubt had not death snatched him untimely away he would have communicated some Specimen of that faculty to the World His genie also was much inclin'd to English History in which faculty he published a Book which some entitle De venationibus rerum memorabilum It contains the discovery or finding out of several memories of eminent Men of and things done in England Which being perused by John Bale he hath cull'd out many things thence for his purpose and quotes it when he hath occasion to mention several eminent Writers See in his Book De Scriptorib Maj. Britan. cent 10. nu 72. cent 11. num 6. 42. 52. 95. c. and in cent 12. nu 24. 79. 82. 95. c. Memoires by way of Diaâ—e in 12 Books And wrot also his youth Miscellaneous Poems with other things which I have not seen being as I suppose irrecoverable and quite lost This ingenious and curious Person who was admirably well vers'd in Histories and Antiquities yeilded up his last breath to the great regret of all those that knew his worth within the City of Westminster in the month of Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 which was the second year of Queen Elizabeth but where buried unless near to the bones of Chaucer I cannot tell JOHN WHYTE Brother to Sir Joh. Whyte L. Mayor of London an 1563. Son of Rob. Whyte of Farnham in Surrey Son of Joh. Whyte of the same place Son of Thom. Whyte of Purvyle in Hampshire was born at Farnham before mentioned educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1527 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated 23 March 1533-4 left his Fellowship in 1534. being about that time Master of the said School in the place of Rich. Tuchiner Afterwards he was made Warden of the College near to Winchester was elected Bishop of Lincolne upon the deprivation of Dr. Joh. Tayler the Temporalities of which were restored to him 2. May 1554 he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of Octob. 1555. he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty and soon after upon the death of Dr. St. Gardiner he was translated to Winchester the Temporalities of which were also restored to him 30. May 1557. Of some of which gradual rises Dr. Christoph Johnson one of his successors in the Mastership of Winchester School made this distick Me puero custos Ludi paulo ante Magister Vitus hâc demum praesul in urbe fuit He was a Man of an austere life and much more mortified to the World than Step. Gardiner his Predecessor He was eminent also for piety and learning was an eloquent Orator a solid Divine a nervous Preacher poetica facultate ut tempora ferebant tolerabilis as Camden tells us His fame and actions did well answer his name and so did all Men say how contrary soever to him in Religion only for one black Sermon that he made he gave offence yet for the colour it may be said he kept decorum because it was a funeral Sermon of a great Queen by birth and marriage I mean Qu. Mary The offence taken against him was this His Text was out of Eccles 4. 2. Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes feliciorem utroque judicave qui nec dum damnatus est And speaking of Qu. Mary her high parentage her bountiful disposition her great gravity her rare devotion praying so much as he
1566. 80. Translated into Engl. by Charles Glemham Gent. De votis monasticis coeleb Socerdotum Defensio sui contra R. Smithaei duos libellos de coelibatu sacerdotum vot monast Bas. 1559. oct Aristotelis Ethicae cum illis in Sacra Scriptura collatae c. Comm. in Lament Jer. Prophet Tig. 1629. qu. corrected and published by Joh. Rodolph Stuckius of Zurich somtimes a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. He the said P. Martir also wrote an Epist to Edward L. Protector of England translated into Engl. by Tho. Norton Lond. 1550. oct Also of The use and abuse of Dancing translated into Engl. by J. R. printed at Lond. in oct and lastly An Exposition on the Creed translated by T. E printed at Lond. in qu. At length after many Rambles and changes of Places he having been as it evidently appears a person of an unsetled Brain resigned up his last breath at Zurich on the 12th day of Nov. in fifteen hundred sixty and two year 1562 and was buried there with all the Solemnity fitting for so learned and great a Clerk as he was THOMAS GIBSON a noted Physitian of the Age he lived in was born at Morpeth in Northumberland and for a year or years was as I conceive educated here because that several of both his Names and Time were conversant with the Muses in this University but whether he took a degree or was licensed to practice Physick it appears not Afterwards he being noted for his extraordinary success in curing Diseases was very much resorted to by great as well as ordinary People especially by those of the reform'd Party he being one himself and a great Enemy to the R. Cath. Bishops in spite and envy to whom he wrot A History of the Treasons of the Bishops from the Norman Conquest to his time Whether this was printed I know not because had it been so there 's no doubt but inveterate Prynn would have found it to gain matter thence when he compos'd his Book of the same Subject He also wrot An Herball Treatise against unskilful Alchymists Treat of curing common Diseases Of the Ceremonies used by Popes besides other things and had laid the Foundation of a little Book to shew the Various States that Britanie hath been in which he divided into five Parts but whether he compleated it is uncertain He lived after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown being then in his middle Age but when he died it appears not 'T is said that because divers Persons had medled with the applying of dark Prophecies purposely to advance the Fame and Glory of Charles then Emperour so one Tho. Gibson did endeavour to do the like to promote the Glory of Hen. 8. of England which Th. Gibson we are to understand to be the same with Th. Gibson before mention'd PETER de SOTHO or Soto was born in a certain City in Spaine called Cordova became when young a Dominican in the House or Coll. of that Order dedicated to St. Stephen within the famous University of Salamanca where prosecuting his natural Genie with unwearied industry in the Faculty of Divinity became a Doctor thereof and a most eminent ornament to his Order Afterwards his fame being spread in the Royal Court he became Confessor to the King of Spaine and at length to Charles the Emperour of the Romans with whom going into Germany he shew'd himself in many respects very serviceable against such that were call'd Hereticks there At length Philip K. of Spaine marrying with Mary Qu. of England he was one of those noted Divines that came with him having then obtained Eminency among the Learned for his Books written against John Brentius accounted among the R. Catholicks a Person very well vers'd in matters of controversie Afterwards he with Joh. de Villa Garcia and one or more being sent to the University of Oxon by publick authority to read preach and teach there to the end that they might undo and invalidate all what Pet. Martyr and others had done in the Reign of King Ed. 6. he accordingly went preached often read Lectures on St. Thomas whose works had been with scorn cast out from all or most Libraries in this University in the time of Ed. 6. and was ready upon all turns and occasions to instruct and resolve doubts nay and for some time did read the publick Hebrew Lecture to the Academians while Mr. Bruerne the Reg. Professor was absent In a word there was nothing wanting on his part and tho he had no Canonry of Ch. Ch. or Headship bestowed on him yet he had a considerable revenue allow'd him out of the Kings Exchecquer His works are Institutiones Christianae Aug. 1548. Antw. 1557. in 16 o divided into 3 Books Adversus Job Brentium Antw. 1552. in 16o. Defensio Catholicae confessiouis Scholoiorum circa confessionem illustriss Ducis Wirtembergensis nomine editam adversus prolegomena Brentit Antw. 1557. Doctrinae Catholicae compendium in usum plebis Christianae recte instituend Diling 1560. in tw De sacerdotum institutione libri 3. With other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen After the death of Qu. Mary he return'd with K. Philip into Spain and thence went according to command to the great Council or Synod held in the City of Trent called commonly among Forreigners Trento sometimes a part of Italy but since of Germany where by too much agitation and concernment he contracted a disease which brought him to his grave in that City in the Month of Apr. in Fifteen hundred sixty and three About three days before his death year 1563 and some time before the Synod began to be troubled among themselves for a small cause and did give much matter of discourse Which coming to the knowledge of Sotho he thereupon did dictate and subscribe a Letter to be sent to the Pope in which by way of confession he declared his opinion concerning the points controverted in Council and did particularly exhort his Holiness to consent that residence and the institution of Bishops might be declared to be de jure divino The Letter was sent to the Pope and Frier Ludov. Soto his companion kept a Copy of it who thinking to honor the memory of his Friend began to spread it which caused offence in some and curiosity in others to get a Copy of it when called in I find one Frater Petrus a Soto Major who wrot a Book entit Prima secundae Divi Thomae quam quarto nonas Junii interpretandum suscepit an 1563. The beginning of which is Quastio prima quae est de ultimo fine hujus vitae in communi c. But this Peter who was Author of the said Book which is in MS. in Bodley's Library must not be taken to be the same with the former Peter whom I have at large mention'd because as 't is before told you in the title the said Peter began to write the said Book on the fourth of the nones of June 1563
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
was trained up became a zealous Protestant but he lived and died before the time of the former Jo. Nicolls See more in Jo. Bale cent 9. nu 26. THOMAS HETH or Heath well known to and respected by Dr. Job d ee and Mr. Tho. Allen was born in the City of London admitted Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1567 proceeded in Arts 1579 being then in great repute for his admirable skill in Astronomical and Physical affairs The products of which are A manifest and apparent confutation of an Astrological discourse lately published to the discomfort without cause of the weak and simple sort Brief Prognostication or Astronomical prediction of the conjunction of the two superiour Planets Saturne and Jupiter which shall be in 1583. Apr. 29. c. Printed with the former book Both these were written 25 March the same year to Sir George Carey Knight Knight-Marshal of her Majesties most honorable houshold who was a cherisher of the muse of our Author and printed at Lond. 1583. oct The said Astrological discourse which our Author answer'd was written in the beginning of January an 1582. upon the great and notable conjunction of the two superior Planets Saturne and Jupiter which was to happen 28 Apr. Heth saith 29. 1583 by Rich. Harvey a native of Saffron-Walden in Essex Brother to Dr. Gabr Harvey and a Student in Cambridge particularly as I conceive in Trinity hall afterwards a professed Divine and a Man of note Upon the coming out of the said Astrological discourse the common sort of People were driven out of their wits and knew not what to do But when nothing hapned which was therein predicted they fell to their former security and condemned the discoverer of extreme madness and folly Whereupon Tom Nash did register down the infinite scorn that the whole realm entertained it with the adages also that ran upon it with Tarltons and Eldertons nigrum theta set to it What became of our Author Tho. Heath I know not nor of another Tho. Heath Bach. of Arts of Magd. hall an 1570 whom my friend takes to be the Astronomer and not him of All 's Coll. but mistaken as I conceive for certain reasons not necessary to be now set down Heath the Astronomer was in great renown among those of his profession in Fifteen hundred eighty and three but when he died or where he was buried I cannot justly say As for Rich. Harvey before-mention'd it was the very self-same Person who read the Philosophy Lecture at Cambridge and the same whom the whole University histat if you 'll believe that noted Buffoon Tho. Nash his contemporary there who farther adds that Tarlton at the theater made jests of him and W. Elderton consum'd his ale-cramn'd-nose to nothing in bear-baiting him with whole bundels of ballads 'T was the same Ric. Harvey also that set Aristotle with his heels upward on the School-gates at Cambridge and asses ears on his head a thing that the said Tom did in perpetuam rei memoriam record And the same Person who coming to take one Smiths a young Bachelaur of Trinity Coll. questions cried out when he durst not venture on them Aquila non capit muscas and so gave them to him again Whereunto the other being a lustly big-bon'd fellow and a Goliah or Behemoth in comparison of him strait retorted nec eliphas mures and thereupon parted The same Dick Harvey also of whom Christoph Marlo was wont to say that he was an asse and good for nothing but to preach of the iron age But to let pass other matters which these vain Men report of Rich. Harvey it is fit that the reader should know some of the other works that he hath done which shew him quite another Person that what they make him to be as 1 A discourse of the ecclipse of the Sun which hapned in 1582 as also A compendious table of phlebotomie Both printed at the end of the Astrological discourse Lond. 1583. oct 2 Ephemeron sive Paean in gratiam propurgatae reformataeque Dialecticae Lond. 1582. oct 3 Theological discourse of the Lamb of God and his enemies Containing a brief commentary of Christian faith together with a detection of old and new barbarisme Lond. 1590. qu. and fourthly was as I conceive the Author of another book entit Philadelphus or a defence of Brutes and the Brutans history Lond. 1593. qu. This Rich. Harvey had a Brother named John Harvey a Cambridge Man also who wrot An addition to the late discourse upon the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Lond. 1583. oct which discourse as I have told you before was written by his Brother Richard and thereunto was adjoyn'd by John his translation of Hermes Tresmagistus his Jatromathematica and was afterwards Author of A discoursive problem concerning prophecies how far they are to be credited according to the surest rules of Div. Phil. Astrol and other learning c. Lond. 1588. qu. THOMAS MARTYN a younger Son of Tho. Martyn Gent. was born at Cerneley commonly called Cearne in Dorsetshire educated in Wykebams School near to Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation an 1539 where applying his genius to the faculty of the Civ Law made great proficiency therein At length obtaining leave to travel went as a Tutor to certain young Gentlemen into France where making his chief residence in the University of Bourges took the Degree of Doctor in the same faculty there Of whose behaviour and manner of life while he continued there is a testimony extant written by Francis Bâ—ldwin of Arras Doctor of the Civ Law and publick Reader at Bourges But forasmuch as the said Baldwin was an ill natur'd turbulent and quarrelfom Man as I understand from other places and Jo. Bale the publisher of the said testimony full of ill language as bad almost as he and one that speaks well of no R. Catholick not so much as of Sir Tho. More Cuthb Tonstal Cardinal Job Fisher c. especially of those that wrot against Priests marriages as our Author Thom Martyn did they therefore I presume are not to be believed tho there is no doubt but that Martyn had his faults as well as they Besides what is in that testimony Bale calls him a known pedant or paederastes the subtile summener of Berkshire and the clark protector of the Popes Sodomites under Winchester a polytick Gentleman that runs with all winds the great Hercules and mighty defender of stinking buggeries c. besides other ill language elsewhere But if you 'll consult Pitseus you 'll find him quite another Man as others also of his perswasion make him which I shall now omit In 1553 he resigned his Fellowship being then in good practice in the Court of Arches and an officer in the Archdeacons Court of Berks. In the Year 1555 he was incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law in this University about which time being in
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
Q. Mary being then about 13 years of age he went with his Father as it seems beyond the Seas for Religion sake where setling at Francfort obtained great knowledge in humane learning especially in the Greek tongue After his return in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth he was sent to Oxon but to what particular Hall or Coll. therein I know not In July 1561 he was admitted Bach. of Arts and in the beginning of Aug. following was licensed to proceed in the same faculty the first of which Degrees he compleated not by Determination nor the other by standing in the Comitia Afterwards taking to Wife Susan Dau. of Nicasius Yetswiert secretary of the French tongue to Q. Eliz. and one of the Clerks of the signet was introduced into the Court where his most admirable parts being quickly discerned he became one of the Clerks of the Council to that Queen and often employed by her in Embassies as into the Netherlands an 1575 to Don Joh. of Austria 1577 and to the K. of Denmark in 1588. He was a very good Man excellently well learned a good Lat. Poet and one that was especially beloved by the famous Antiquary and Historian W. Camden for whose sake he had laid the foundation of A discouse concerning the Acts of the Britains the form of their Common-wealth and the order and laws by which they lived Which discourse he intended to communicate to the said Camden to have it inserted in his Britannia but he died before 't was finish'd He wrot also Odae Epigrammata Epitaphia c. in laudem mortem Johannis Juelli Episc Sarisbur See at the end of the said Jewells life written by L. Humphrey He hath also published certain Latin Poems which are quoted by the said Camden in his discourse of the City of Salisbury and Poems in English mentioned by other Persons with great commendation but these I have not yet seen He hath also Lat. verses occasionally printed in other Authors as before Ortelius his Theatrum orbis terrarum and an Epigram to the University of Oxon in Ralph Agas his Accurate description or Type of the said University an 1578. He yielded up his last breath to him that gave it on the 11th of Febr. in Fifteen hundred and ninety whereupon his body accompanied by an Herald or two was buried on Shrovetuesday the 16 of the same month near to that of Nicas Yetswiert before-mention'd in the Church of Sunbury near to Hampton-court in Middlesex I find another Dan. Rogers later in time than the former who among several things that he hath published are 1 Davids cost wherein every one who is desirous to serve God aright may see what it must cost him Lond. 1619. oct being the effect of certain Sermons 2 A practical Catechisme Lond. 1633. 3 Lectures upon the History of Naaman the Syrian his disease and cure Lond. 1642 50. fol. 4 Matrimonial honour or the crown and comfort of marriage c. Lond 1642. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen But this D. Rogers who was a Man of most rare parts was educated in Christs Coll. in Cambridge afterwards a Minister and Bach. of Div. and I think the same who was Parson of Haversham in Bucks qu. ARTHUR FAUNT a most noted Jesuit of his time Son of Will. Faunt of Foston in Leicestershire Esq was born of an antient and gentile Family living at that place an 1554 and being very studious and delighted in Letters while he was a Child became fit for Academical studies at 14 years of age Whereupon being sent to Merton Coll. in 1568 he was committed to the tuition of the most noted Philosopher of that house named Joh. Potts who tho he had been before ejected by Mr. Jo. Man the Warden yet was he permitted to attend his Pupil whom he before had instructed in Grammar in the Country But the said Potts being a R. Cath. or else an hearty well-wisher to the Popish Religion he took away his Pupil from the said Coll. with the advice of his relations who were Catholicks also and in the beginning of 1570 conducted him to Lovaine in Brabant where entring him into the Coll. of the Jesuits the same year left him and went into Ireland In the said Coll. he continued till he was Bach. of Arts at which time having a desire to travel he went to Paris where he remained for a time Thence he went to Mynchen or Munchen a City and University in Bavaria where William Duke of that Province did for the towardliness that he saw in him choose him for his Scholar and maintained him in the said University While he continued there he took the Degree of Master of Arts and then having an ardent desire to study Divinity he departed thence in the Year 1575 went to the English Coll. of Jesuits at Rome made a very forward progress in that faculty and changed his name to Laurence Arthur Faunt Not long after he was constituted Divinity reader in the said Coll. and was in very great favour with P. Greg. 13. who had he lived a little longer would as 't was then supposed have honoured our profound Author Faunt with a Cardinals cap. However in token of his love he gave him on his humble desire license to make a seal that by virtue of it which should be set to a writing to be drawn up by him any of his Countrymen whose welfare he ever tendred might with safety pass through any Country without peril of the Spanish inquisition or any danger else whatsoever In the mean time the K. of Poland having setled a Coll. for Jesuits at Posna a City in his Dominions our Author was sent by the said Pope to be Governour thereof So that leaving Rome in order for that employment 10. June 1581 he was not long after received there with ceremony Where for his great learning gravity wisdom and his religious life and conversation he was held in great esteem by the spiritual and temporal estates of that Nation While he remained there he wrot several books among which these following are some Doctrina Catholica de Sanctorum invocatione veneratione c. Posnan 1584. oct Coenae Lutheranorum Calvinianorum oppugnatio part 2. Posnan 15986. qu. Catholicae Eucharistiae defensio Printed with Caena c. Apologia Libri sui de invoc venerat Sanctorum contra falsas Danielis Tossani criminationes c. Col. Agrip. 1589. in oct He also wrot without his name set to it Tractatus de controversiis in ordinem ecclesiasticum secularem in Polonia Print an 1592. in qu. With other things which the Bib. script of his society will tell you This worthy Person who was much celebrated in his time gave way to fate at Vilna the chief City of the Province of Lithuania in Poland on the 28. Febr. according to the accompt there followed in Fifteen hundred ninety and one which is ninety with us after he had religiously served
his younger years even from his Cradle in the Liberal Sciences especially in searching the most difficult and curious demonstrations Mathematical by the assistance of the practices observations monuments and conferences of his Father He was a Person of great Piety well skilled in matters relating to Soldiers and War having been Muster-master General of all Q. Elizabeth's Forces in the Low Countries and learned to a miracle in Mathematical Sciences which made him much esteemed by Joh. Dee Tho. Allen and others He hath transmitted to Posterity Alae sive scalae Mathamaticae Lond. 1573. qu. Of which Work Tycho Brahe giveth a favourable and ingenious censure An Arithmetical Military Treatise containing so much of Arithmetick as is necessary towards Military Discipline Lond. 1579. qu. Geometrical Treatise named Stratiaticos requisite for the perfection of Soldiers Lond. 1579. qu. This was first of all attempted by his Father but finished by this our author Thomas his Son afterwards corrected and amended and sundry additions put to it Lond. 1590. qu. Perfect description of Celestial Orbs according to the most ancient Doctrine of the Pythagoreans c. Lond. 1592. qu. set at the end of his Fathers Prognostication Humble motives for association to maintain Religion established Printed 1601. in oct To which is added his Letter to the same purpose to the Archbishops and Bishops of England England's Defence a Treatise concerning Invasion or a brief discourse of what orders were best for the repulsing of Foreign Enemies if any time they should invade us by Sea in Kent or elsewhere Written 1599. but not printed till 1686. which was at Lond. in 5 sheets in fol. Besides these and his Nova corpora c. he had several Mathematical Treatises lying by him which were fit for the Press and by him intended for publick view but being diverted by Law-sutes his intentions were not only stopped but the happy Society of the Mathematical Muses were discontinued He concluded his last day on the 24. year 1595 of Aug. in fifteen hundred ninety and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Aldermanbury in the City of London On the North wall of the said Chancel was soon after set up a fair monument to his memory which continuing till 1666. was in the beginning of Sept. in that year consumed with the Church it self in the dismal conflagration that then hapned in London You may see more of this Tho. Digges in my discourse of his Father Len. Digges under the year 1574. EDWARD KELLEY otherwise Talbot was born in the City of Worcester at about 4 of the clock in the afternoon on the first day of Aug. in 1555. 3 of Q Mary whose Nativity being afterwards calculated it did appear that he was born to be a man of clear understanding quick apprehension of an excellent wit and of great propensity to Philosophical studies and the mysteries of Nature This Person being about 17 years of age at which time he had attained to a competency of Grammar Learning at Worcester and elsewhere he was sent to Oxon but to what House I cannot tell However I have been informed by an ancient Bach. of Divinity who in his younger years had been an â—manuensis to Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloucester Hall that he Kelley had spent some time in that House Whereupon I recurring to the Matricula could not find the name of Kelley only Talbot of Ireland three of which Name were Students there in 1573 74 c. about which time Mr. afterwards Sir John Davies was instructed in the Mathematicks by the said Allen. But this relation having been somewhat dubiously delivered to me I must tell you that Kelley having an unsettled mind left Oxon abruptly without being entred into the Matricula and in his rambles in Lancashire committing certain soul matters lost both his Ears at Lancaster and about that time caused by his incantations a poor Man that had been buried in the yard belonging to Law-church near to Walton in the dale to be taken out of his grave and to answer to such questions that he then proposed to him The story of which being to me incredible I shall refer you to the Writer of it who is too credulous in many matters About that time our author Kelley became intimate with Dr. John Dee the famous Mathematician with whom continuing several years in Philosophical Studies and Chymical Experiments they both became very famous among Scholars and therefore noted by Persons of high and noble extraction one for the Mathematicks and the other for Chymistry for though Dee was the most eminent man in his time for the first yet Kelly went far beyond him in the latter as by the sequel it will appear 'T is reported by a certain Rosacrucian that they were so strangely fortunate as to find a very large quantity of the Elixir in some part of the ruines of Glastenbury Abbey which was so incredibly rich in virtue that they lost much in making projection by way of tryal before they found out the heighth of that medicine In the beginning of 1583. Dr. J. Dee having contracted with certain Spirits to act and converse with them he appointed his Friend Kelley to be his Seer or Skryer or Speculator that is to take notice what the Spirits said and to tell it to d ee while he wrote down in a Book what was dictated to him Soon after Dee and Kelley being made known to and acquainted with the learned and most noble Polonian named Albert Alaskie Prince of Sirad who was come into England to see the fashions of the Court and to admire the Wisdom of the Queen he thereupon had so great respect for them himself being a Mathematician that in Sept. following when he left England he took them and their Wives with him in the same Ship and travelling with him afterwards by Land he saw them safely conveyed to Cracaw in Poland Where continuing for some time they removed to Prague and at length in Sept. 1586. to Trebona in Bohemia at all which places tho Kelley was several times troublesome inconstant and false to d ee yet he mostly performed the office of Skryer And further that notwithstanding Dee took the said Spirits to be Angelical yet Kelley not but rather meer delusions of the Devil which hath been since confirmed by Dr. Meric Casaubon who published the Relation of Dr. Dee's conversing with Spirits At Trebona Kelley made projection 9. Dec. 1586. with one small grain of the Elixir in proportion no bigger than the least grain of sand upon one ounce and a quarter of common Mercury and it produced almost an ounce of most pure Gold At another time he made projection upon a piece of mettal cut out of a Warming-pan and without his touching or handling it or melting the metal only warming it in the fire the Elixir being put thereon it was transmuted into pure Silver The said Warming-pan and piece were sent to Q.
England and changed his Name to Smyth for adhering to the deposed King Rich. 2. Further also I find another John Smyth commonly called Captain Smyth who wrote 1. A Map of Virginia with a Description of the Country the Commodities People Government and Religion Oxon. 1612. qu. 2. New Englands Trials c. Lond. 1620. qu. 3. General History of Virginia c. Lond. 1624. qu. 4. Travels in Europe c. Lond. 1630. with other things but this Captain Smyth was a Cheshire man and whether he had received any Education in this University of Oxon I cannot say to the contrary JOHN PRIME Son of Rob. Prime a Fletcher was born in the Parish of Halywell in the North Suburb of Oxford received his Grammatical Literature in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Col. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted puritanical Preacher in the City of his Nativity and much favoured by Dr. Cooper Bishop of Winchester In 1589. he proceeded in Divinity being at that time Vicar of Adderbury alias Eabburbury in Oxfordshire where he became much followed for his edifying way of preaching He hath written A short treatise of Sacraments generally and in special of Baptism and of the Supper Lond. 1582. oct Treatise of nature and grace Lond. 1583 oct Sermon briefly comparing the State of King Solomon and his Subjects together with the condition of Queen Elizabeth and her People preached at S. Maries in Oxon. 17. Nov. 1585. on 1 Kings 10. 9. Oxon. 1585. oct Exposition on the Galathians Ox. 1587. oct The consolations of David applied to Queen Elizabeth in a Sermon at S. Maries in Oxon. 17. Nov. 1588. on Psal 23. 4. Oxon. 1588. oct These as I think were all the books and Sermons that he hath published tho he intended more had he not been cut off in his middle Age. At length after he had been Vicar of Adderbury about 7 years he concluded his last day there about the 12 of April in fifteen hundred ninety and six year 1596 and was buried in the Church of that place but hath neither Epitaph or Inscription over his Grave FRANCIS KNOLLIS Son of Robert Knollis of Rotherfield-Gray commonly called Grays near to Henley in Oxfordshire did receive for a time his Grammatical and Dialectical Education in this University particularly as it seems in Magd. coll Afterwards he retired to his patrimony and at length to the court and became one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to K. Hen. 8. in the latter end of his reign When a reformation was set on foot by King Ed. 6. he was so zealous for the religion then professed as that when Qu. Mary began to reign and grow severe towards the Reformed party he fled into Germany where he sorted himself for a time among several of the English Divines that went away about the same time for conscience sake After the death of that Queen he returned and became so much in esteem by Q. Elizabeth who stood totally affected to the reformation as that in the first year of her reign he was made choice of for one of her privy Council and shortly after that she made him Vice-chamberlain of her houshold and employed him in matters of concern beyond the Seas In 1566. he was actually created Master of Arts being then chief Steward of the City of Oxon Captain of the Halbertiers and about that time Treasurer of the Queens Chamber in the place of Sir John Mason deceased Afterwards he was trusted with the custody of Mary Qu. of Scots while she was a prisoner in Bolton-castle in Yorkshire and in the 29. Elizab. being then a Knight he was one of those who by commission sate in judgment upon the said Queen at Foderingey At length he was made Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter being always by many accounted a faithful subject an honest and learned man and a person of great prudence and wisdom and by others so a great a friend to Calvin in his heart whose principles he embraced while he lived at Geneva that he was never a cordial friend to Episcopacy but rather a patron of the Non-conformists which appeared by several of his actions while he was a privy Counsellour His writings are these Treatise against the usurpation of Papal Bishops Printed 1608. in oct some attribute it to Jo. Rainolds the famous Divine A General Survey of the Isle of Wight with all the Castles and Fortresses near adjoining This is a MS. in fol. and was sometimes in the Lib. of Arthur E. of Anglesey From whence we may suppose that the author had some office in or relating to the said Isle but what in truth I cannot tell I have seen also several of his speeches spoken in Parliaments letters of state and letters written by him to the said Jo. Rainolds between whom there was great amity and intercourse but few or none of those letters or speeches I think are printed At length paying his last debt to nature in the Summer time before Septemb. year 1595 in fifteen hundred ninety and six was as I presume buried at Grays before mentioned By his Wife Catherine daughter of Will. Cary Esque by Mary his Wife daughter of Thom. Bolein Earl of Wiltshire as also Sister to the Lady Anne Bolein second Wife to K. Hen. 8. he had issue Henry his Eldest Son bred in the Free-School joyning to Maga College under the care as it seems of Tho. Robertson Afterwards he went with his Father and others into Germany and at his return if not happily before became a Commoner of the said College where he obtained so much literature as afterwards to gain the character by a learned Author of homo virtute animi dotibus non infimus and of homo religionis studiosissimus liberalissima literatura egregic ditatus c. But he dying without issue the estate went to the next Son called William afterwards Earl of Baâ—bury He had another Son named Francis 2 Knight whom I shall mention elsewhere as also a fourth who was a member of the said College and all four admired by some and envied by others for their great vertue and towardliness JOHN SMITH was a Berkshire man born as it seems became Fellow of St. Johns coll in the Founders time Master of Arts in in 1560. and afterwards Schoolmaster at and Vicar of the Church of St. Laurence in Reading in the aforesaid County He hath written The Doctrine of Prayer in general for all men that is universally for all Mankind c. Lond. 1595. qu. What else he hath published I know not being a difficult matter to distinguish his Works from others of both his names and time And whether he was author of The use of the Gospel printed 1580. in qu. which is said to be written by Jo. Smith I cannot tell The said Joh. Smith of Reading did give way to Fate there and was buried
they are descended from the said Family of the Savelli I cannot in the least conjecture being the name of a Town nor can I believe it no more than that the Corbets of Shropsphire are descended from the Corvini another ancient Family in Italy GEORGE CORYAT received his first being in this World in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City Salisbury educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1562. took the degrees in Arts and in June 1570. became Rector of Odcombe in Sommersetshire on the death of Tho. Reade and at length Bach. of Divinity In 1594 he was made Prebendary of Warthill in the Church of York and had some other Dignity but what I cannot tell He was a person much commended in his time for his fine fancy in Latin Poetry and for certain matters which he had written quoted by John Case the Philosopher Jam. Middendorp Joh. Cay and others All that I have seen of his composition are only these things following Poemata varia Latina Lond. 1611. qu. Published by his Son Thomas after his death and by him intit Posthuma fragmenta Poematum Descriptio Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae Written in Lat. verse as it seems and dedicated to Q. Elizabeth He died in the Parsonage house at Odcombe on the fourth of March in sixteen hundred and six whereupon his Son Tom upon some design preserving his body from stench above ground till the 14 of Apr. following was then buried in the Chancel of the Church at Odcombe at which time one Gibbs Gollop M. A. who was admitted to that Rectory 23. Mar. 1606 did officiate Gertrude Widdow of the said G. Coryate lived many years after at Odcombe and near to it where dying was buried near to the Reliques of her Husband on the 3. Apr. 1645. 21. Car. 1. as I have been informed by the searches by Mr. Humph. Hody M. A. of Wadham coll a Native of Odcombe At the same time that George Coryat was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll was elected also one John Mundyn born at Maperton in Dorsetshire who being a Civilian and not conforming himself to the Protestant Religion was ejected thence by the B. of Winchester in his Visitation of that coll 1566. Afterwards he went beyond the Seas was made a Seminary Priest and sent into the Mission of England But being taken on Hounslow-heath in his journey from Winchester to London was by Sir Fr. Walsingham Secretary of State committed to Prison Afterwards being convicted according to the Law against Seminaries was with 4 other Priests executed at Tybourne 12 Feb. 1583. See more in a book intit Concertatio Eccles Catholicae in Anglia Printed at Trier 1594. fol. 140 141. WILLIAM BURTON a Native of the City of Winchester was educated in Wykchams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1563. and left that house after he had taken one degree in Arts. This person I take to be the same Will. Burton who was a Minister in Bristow and afterwards at Reading in Berks. And author of these things following Several Sermons as 1 Sermon Preached at Norwith 21. of Dec. 1589. on Jer. 3. 14. Lond. in oct 2 Davids Evidence or the assurance of Gods love in 7 Sermons on Psal 41. 11 12 13. Lond. 1592. oct 1602. qu. 3 A Caveat for Sureties two Serm. at Bristow on Prov. 6. from 1. to the 5. verse Lond. 1593. oct 1602. qu. 4 The rousing of the Sluggard in 7 Sermons on Prov. 6. from 6. to the 11. verse Lond. 1595. oct 5 Sermons on the Churches Love to Christ her Husband on Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. These Sermons are intit Gods Wooing his Church 6 Davids Thanksgiving for the arraignment of the Man of Earth two Sermons on Psal 10. 17 18. Lond. 1598. oct dedicated to Sir Will. Periam Knight Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer a favourer of the authors Muse 7 Ten Sermons on Matthew 5. 3 4. Lond. 1602. qu. 8 The Anatomy of Beliel in 10 Sermons on Prov. 6. 12 13 14 15. Lond. 1602. qu. dedic to Ralph Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esque a great favourer of the author Catechism containing certain Questions and Answers concerning the knowledge of God and the right use of the Law Lond. 1591. oct Conclusions of Peace between God and Man containing comfortable meditations for the Children of God on Prov. 7. 1 2. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. Exposition of the Lords Prayer drawn into Questions and Answers Lond. 1594. oct 1602. qu. Certain Questions and Answers concerning the attributes of God Lond. 1602. qu. second edit Questions and Answers concerning the right use of the Law of God Lond. 1602. qu. An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbath briefly yet fully and plainly set forth Lond. 1606. oct These are all and enough which I have seen published by Will. Burton a Minister in Bristow and afterwards in Reading Whether he be the same Will. Burton of the Parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate in Lond. Clerk who died in that Parish in Oct. or Nov. in 1612. 16. Jac. 1. and left behind a Widdow called Dorothy I know not WILLIAM MONSON a Lincolnshire Man born a Knight's Son and of the same Family with those of South Carleton in that County was a Gent. Com. or at least a Commoner of Balliol coll where he continued for at least two years But his mind being more Martial than Mercurial he applied himself to Sea-service wherein he attained to great perfection was a Captain in several Expeditions against the Spaniard Vice-Admiral and Admiral In 1594. he was actually created Master of Arts and in 1596. he received the Honour of Knighthood from Robert Earl of Essex at the Sacking of Cadiz In 1602. when Ireland was cleared of the Spanish Forces he was appointed Vice-Admiral under Sir Rich. Levison Admiral to carry on the War by Sea against the Spaniard lest they should invade England wherein he performed most admirable Service especially in the taking of a great Carack of 1600 Tun from them at Cezimbria against Barbarum the Promontory of Portugal This heroical person left behind him at his death written with his own hand A true and exact account of the Wars with Spain in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth being the particulars of what hapned between the English and Spanish Fleets from the year 1585. to 1602. shewing the expeditions attempts c. Lond. 1682. fol. dedicated to his Son John Monson In some copies of this book the Title runs thus A particular and exact account of the last xvii years of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign both Military and Civil Lond. 1682. fol. The first written by Sir Will. Monson the other by Heywood Townshend This worthy Knight was in great renown in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. and the last time I find him mentioned in his Sea-service is in 1605. in which year he conveyed over Sea
elected a Student of Ch. Church from Westminster School in 1574. took the degrees in Arts and afterwards entring on the Law line took the degrees in that Faculty also in 1589. About which time being famed for his excellencies therein became Chancellour of the Diocess of Ely and much respected by the Bishop thereof Dr. Martin Heton He was an excellent Poet especially in the Lat. tongue as several copies of verses printed occasionally in various books shew and reputed the best Comedian of his time whether it was Edward Earl of Oxford Will. Rowley the once ornament for wit and ingenuity of Pembroke hall in Cambridge Rich. Edwards Joh. Lylie Tho. Lodge Geor. Gascoigne Will. Shakspeare Tho. Nash or Joh. Heywood He was also a man of great gifts a good Scholar and an honest person and as it should seem by Dr. Joh. Rainolds's several answers and replies to what this Doctor hath written hath said more for the defence of Plays than can be well said again by any Man that should succeed or come after him The cause for the defence of Plays was very wittily and Scholarlike maintained between the said two Doctors for some time but upon the rejoynder of Rainolds Gager did let go his hold and in a Christian modesty and humility yielded to the truth and quite altered his judgment He hath written several Plays among which are Ulysses redux Rivales Both which were several times acted in the large Refectory of Ch. Ch. but whether ever printed I cannot yet tell The last was acted before Albert Alaskie Prince of Sirad a most learned Polonian in June 1583. in which year he purposely came into England to do his devotions to and admire the wisdom of Queen Elizabeth After he had beheld and heard the Play with great delight in the said Refectory he gave many thanks in his own person to the author Meleager Trag. Written also in Latin as the two former were and acted publickly in Ch. Ch. hall an 1581. or thereabouts before the Earl of Pembroke Rob. Earl of Leicester Chanc. of the Univ. of Ox. Sir Ph. Sidney and many other considerable persons This Tragedy giving great delight was shortly after acted there again and at length in 1592. 't was printed at Oxon in oct to the great content of Scholars A copy of the said Tragedy with two letters being sent by the author to Dr. Jo. Rainolds in which letters as I conceive were many things said in defence of Theatre sights Stage-plays c. the said Doctor drew up an answer dated at Queens coll 10. Jul. 1592. Whereupon our author Gager making a reply with a desire to Rainolds to forbear any farther writing against him yet Rainolds came out with a rejoynder in July 1593. As for Gagers letters and reply I think they were not printed for among my searches I could never see a copy of them The answer of Rainolds with his rejoynder I am sure were printed under the title of The overthrow of Stage-plays c. This is all that I know of our author Gager only that he was living in or near to the City of Ely in sixteen hundred and ten and that he wrote the Latine Epistle before the book of verses made by the University of Oxon. intit Exequiae D. Philippi Sidnaei Oxon. 1587. qu. In which book also he hath copies of verses on the death of that famous Knight who while he was in being had a very great respect for the learning and virtues of Gager of whom you may see more in Joh. Rainolds under the year 1607. and in Will. Heale who next follows In 1615. was published a book at London in qu. intit A refutation of the Apology for Actors but by whom written I know not for only the two letters J. G. are set to it WILLIAM HEALE a zealous maintainer of the honour of the Female Sex was a Devonian born being originally descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at South-Heale in the same County became a Sojourner of Exeter coll in 1599. aged 18. took the degrees in Arts and became Chaplain-Fellow of that house wherein he wrote and compiled An apology for Woman Or an opposition to Mr. Doctor G. Gager his assertion who held in the Act at Oxon. an 1608. That it was lawful for Husbands to beat their Wives Oxon. 1609. qu. What preferment he afterwards had in the Church or whether he wrote any thing else I find not He was always esteemed an ingenious Man but weak as being too much devoted to the fem Sex ALBERICUS GENTILIS the most noted and famous Civilian and the grand ornament of the University in his time Brother to the eminent writer Scipio Gentilis and both the Sons of Matthew Gentilis Doctor of Physick by Lucretia his Wife was born at La Chastell St. Genes in a Province of Italy called La Marca d' Ancona educated mostly in the University of Perugia where being made Doctor of the Civil Law in 1572. aged 21. soon after left his Country for Religion sake with his Father and younger Brother Scipio before-mentioned The Father and Scipio setled in Germany but Albericus going into England found relief from several persons in London and by recommendations obtained the patronage of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester Chancellour of the University of Oxon. But our learned author being desirous to lead an Academical life he procured the Chancellours letters for that purpose dated 24. Nov. 1580. wherein it appears that he left his Country for Religion sake and that his desire was to bestow some time in reading and other exercises of his profession in the Vniversity c. Soon after the date of the said letters he journeyed to Oxon and by the favour of Dr. Dan. Donne Principal of New Inn and his successor Mr. Price he had a convenient Chamber allowed to him in the said Inn and not only Monies given towards his maintenance by several Societies but soon after 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per an from the common Chest of the University In the latter end of 1580 he was incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law of this University as he had stood before in that of Perugia and after he had continued some years in the said Inn where he wrote certain books and laid the foundation of others of which the Students thereof have gloried in my hearing he receeded either to C. C. coll or to Ch. Ch. and became the flower of the University for his profession In 1587. the Queen gave him the Lecture of the Civil Law for his farther incouragement which he executed for about 24 years with great applause As for the books by him published which speak him most learned beyond the Seas were all written in the University of Oxon the titles of which are these De juris interpretibus dialogi sex Lond. 1582. qu. Dedicated to Rob. E. of Leicester being the authors first fruits of his lucubrations Lectionum Epistolarum quae ad
a great influence upon the doctrine of Obedience Qu. Elizabeth therefore conceiving it convenient for her worldly designs to take on her the protection of the Low-Countries against the King of Spain did employ our author Bilson to write the said book of Christian subjection c. In which to justifie the revolt of Holland he gave strange liberty in many cases especially concerning religion for Subjects to cast off their obedience But this book which served her designs for the present did contribute much to the ruine of her Successor K. Ch. 1. which one calls a just judgment of God For there is not any book that the Presbyterians have made more dangerous use of against their Prince Ch. 1. than that which his predecessor commanded to be written to justifie her against the King of Spain However our authors Bilson Successor in Winchester I mean Dr. Morley saith that tho Bishop Bilson was in an errour yet he was not so much for the resisting of Kings as Mr. Rich. Baxter is Of the perpetual government of Christ his Church wherein are handled the fatherly superiority which God first established in the Patriarks and after continued in the tribe of Levi c. Also the points in question at this day touching the Jewish Synedrion c. Lond. 1593. qu. c. Printed in Lat. at Lond. 1610. The effect of certain Sermons touching the full redempton of mankind by the death and blood of Ch. Jesus wherein besides the merit of Christs sufferings the manner of his offering the power of his death the comfort of his Cross the glory of his Resurrection are handled c. Lond. 1599. qu. The clearing of certain objections made against the aforesaid doctrine The said Sermons being preached at Pauls Cross made great alarums among the puritanical brethren Whereupon they mustering their forces and comparing their notes sent them to Hen. Jacob an old Dessenter to have them published with his collections under his own name But the matter of the controversie coming to the Queens knowledge she being at Farnham castle belonging to the B. of Winchester she signified her pleasure to Bilson that he should neither desert the doctrine nor suffer the Function which he had exercised in the Church of England to be trodden and trampled under foot by unquiet men who both abhorred the truth and dispised authority Upon which command the Bishop did set himself upon the writing of that learned Treatise chiefly also delivered by him in Sermons entituled A survey of Christs sufferings and descent into Hell Lond. 1604. fol. See more in Hen. Jacob. He also published Sermon at Westm before K. and Qu. at their Coronation S. James day 28. Jul. 1603. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1603 oct and wrote MS. in my Libr. Orationes Carmina varia Vulgaria c. He also with Dr. Miles Smith added the last hand in the translation of the Bible commanded by K. James 1. At length after he had gone through many employments and had lived in continual drudgery as 't were for the publick good surrendred up his pious soul to God on the 18. year 1616 of June in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried saith one on the south side of Westminster Abbey Church near to the Monument of K. Rich. 2. or as the Register hath it near to the entrance into S. Edmunds Chappel One John Dunbar a Scot who writes himself Megalo-Britannus hath a learned Epigram on him which may serve for his Epitaph JOHN PITS or Pitsous as he writes himself a grand zealot for the Ro. Cath. cause Son of Hen. Pits by Elizabeth his Wife sister to Dr. Nich. Saunders was bron at a market Town called Aulton in Hampshire educated in juvenile learning in Wykeham's School near to Winton admitted Probationer-fellow of New coll in 1578. being then about 18. years of age but leaving that house before he was admitted perpetual Fellow which was to be in 1580. he went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile and going to Doway was kindly received there by the learned Tho. Stapleton who then gave him advice what course to take relating to his studies Thence he went to Rheimes and after one year spent in the English college he was sent to Rome and continued in the English coll there also in the zealous prosecution of the studies of Philosopy and Divinity for seven years and was made a Priest Thence he returned to Rheimes where he taught Rhetorick and Greek for two years But troubles arising in France he withdrew himself into Loraine and took the degree of Master of Arts which before he had neglected at Pont-a-musson and was soon after made Bach. of Divinity Thence taking a journy into High Germany he continued at Trier an year and an half where after he had performed certain exercise he was made a Licentiat of Divinity Thence after he had seen several of the best Cities in Germany he removed to Ingolstadt in Bavaria where remaining 3 years did in that time after he had performed solemn disputations take the degree of Doctor of his faculty So that by that time having viewed several parts of Italy and Germany and had learned their Languages he returned to Loraine where by Charles Cardinal of Loraine he was made Canon of Verdun After two years spent there he was called thence by the illustrious Princess Antonia Daughter to the Duke of Loraine and Wife to the D. of Cleve and was by her made her Confessor And that he might be the better serviceable to her he learned the French Tongue most accurately so that it was usual with him afterwards to preach in that Language In her service continuing about 12 years he had leisure to turn over the Histories of England whether Ecclesiastick or Republick Whence making several collections and observations he wrote and digested four great Volumes One was of the Kings another of the Bishops a third of Apostolical and a fourth of illustrious and learned men of this Nation At 12 years end the said Dutchess dying he went a third time into Loraine where by the favour of John Bishop of Toul sometimes his Scholar he was promoted to the Deanery of Liverdune of considerable value which with a Canonry and an Officialship of the said Church he kept to his dying day He hath written De legibus Tract Thâ—ologicus Trev. 1592. De beatitudine Tr. Th. Ingols 1595. De Peregrinatiene lib. 7. Dusseld 1604. in tw dedicated to Antonia Dutchess of Cleve Relationem Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis tom 1. quatuor partes complectens c. Par. 1619. in a thick qu. published by Dr. Will. Bishop of whom I shall speak elsewhere This book is the same with that De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus commonly called Pitseus de Scriptoribus And hath in the beginning of it certain prolegomina containing 1 De laudibus Historiae 2 De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britanniae 3 De Academiis tam antiquis Britonam quam recentioribus Anglorum
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
Vision of the twelve Goddesses presented in a Mask c. Lond. 1604. oct and 1623. qu. Some copies have it The wisdom of the 12 Goddesses in a Mask at Hampton-Court 8. Jan. Panegyrick congratulatory delivered to K. James at Burleigh-Harrington in Rutlandshire Lond. 1604. and 23. qu. Epistles to various great Personages in verse Lond. 1601. and 23. qu. Musophilus containing a general defence of learning Printed with the former Tragedy of Philotas Lond. 1611. c. oct Hymens Triumph A pastoral Trag. Com. presented at the Queens Court in the Strand at her Maj. magnificent entertainment of the Kings Maj. being at the Nuptials of the Lord Roxborough Lond. 1623. qu. second edit Muso or a defence of Ryme Lond. 1611. oct The Epistle of Octavia to M. Antonius Lond. 1611. oct The first part of the History of England in 3 books Lond. 1613. qu. reaching to the end of King Stephen in Prose To which afterwards he added a second part reaching to the end of K. Ed. 3. Lond. 1618. 21. 23. and 1634. fol. continued to the end of K. Rich. 3. by Joh. Trussel sometimes a Winchester Scholar afterwards a Trader and Alderman of that City Lond. 1638. fol. c. Which Trussel did continue in writing a certain old MS. belonging to the Bishops of Winton containing as it were an History of the Bishops and Bishoprick which continuation was made by him to Bishop Curles time He also wrote A description of the City of Winchester with an historical relation of divers memorable occurrences touching the same fol. Also a Preamble to the same Of the Origen of Cities in general MS. Sam. Daniel also wrote The Queens Arcadia A pastoral Trag-Com presented to her Majesty and her Ladies by the University of Oxon in Christ Church in Aug. an 1605. Lond. 1623. qu. Funeral Poem on the death of the Earl of Devon Lond. 1623. qu. Towards the end of our authors life he retired to a Country-Farm which he had at Beckington near to Philips-Norton in Sommersetshire at or near to which place he was born where after he had injoyed the Muses and religious Contemplation for some time with very great delight year 1619 surrendred up his Soul to him that gave it in sixteen hundred and nineteen and was buried in the Church of Beckington before-mentioned On the wall over his grave was this inscription afterwards put Here lies expecting the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the dead body of Samuel Daniel Esq that excellent Poet and Historian who was Tutor to the Lady Anne Clifford in her youth she that was Daughter and Heir to George Clifford Earl of Cumberland who in gratitude to him erected this monument in his memory a long time after when she was Countess Dowager of Pembroke Dorset and Montgomery He died in Octob. an 1619. By the way it must be noted that this Anne Countess of Pembroke was the same person who lived like a Princess for many years after in Westmorland was a great lover and encourager of learning and learned men hospitable charitable to the poor and of a most generous and publick temper She died 22. Mar. 1675. aged 86. or thereabouts and was buried under a splendid monument which she in her life-time had erected in the Church of Appleby in Westmorland It must be also farther noted that there was one Sam. Daniel Master of Arts who published a book intit Archiepiscopal Priority instituted by Christ Printed an 1642. and another if I am not mistaken called The Birth Life and Death of the Jewish Vnction But whether he was of the University of Oxon I cannot yet find JOHN PANKE was a very frequent and noted Preacher of his time and well read in Theological authors but withal a very zealous Enemy in his Writings and Preachments against the Papists but in what College or Hall educated I cannot as yet find After he had left the University he became Minister of Broadhinton afterwards of Tidworth in Wilts and at length had some Cure in the Church of Salisbury His works are Short Admonition by way of Dialogue to all those who hitherto upon pretence of their unworthiness have dangerously in respect of their Salvation withdrawn themselves from coming to the Lords Table c. Oxon. 1604. oct The fall of Babell by the confusion of tongues directly proving against the Papists of this and former ages that a view of their writings and books being taken it cannot be discerned by any Man living what they would say or how be understood in the question of the Sacrifice of the Mâ—ss the Real Pressence or Trâ—â—substantiation c. Oxon. 16â—8 qu. Dedicated to the Heads of Colleges and Scholars of the University of Oxou. Collectancae out of S. Gregory the Great and S. Bernard the Devout against the Papists 〈…〉 the Doctrine of the present 〈…〉 most fundamental points between them and us Oxon. 1618. oct With other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen not do I know any thing else of the author DERMITIUS MEARA or de Meara who was born at Ormond in Ireland whence being sent to this University continued there in Philosophical studies several years but whether in Vniv. coll Glouc. or Hart. hall â—eceptacles for Irish-men in his time I know not For tho he writes himself in the first of his books which I shall anon mention lately a Student in the Vniversity of Oxon. yet in all my searches I cannot find him matriculated or that he took a degree Some years after his retirement to his native Country he wrote in Latin verse having been esteemed a good Poet during his conversation among the Oxonians these things following Ormonius sive illustriss herois ac domini D. Thomae Butler Ormoniae Osoriae Comitis Vicecom de Thurles Baronis de Arcklo c. Prosapia laborumque praecipuorum ab eodem pro Patria Principe susceptorum commemoratio heroico carmine conscripta Lond. 1615. oct Epicedion in obitum Tho. Butler Ormoniae Osoriae Comitis c. Anagramaticon Acrosticon Chronologica in eundem Tho. Butler These two last were printed with Ormonius and are dedicated to Walt. Butler Earl of Ormond and Ossâ—â—y Much about the time when these Poetical things were printed the author practiced Physick in his own Country and gained great repute for his happy success therein In that faculty he wrote several books but all that I have seen is only this De morbis haereditariis tractatus Spagyrico-dogmaticus Dubl 1619. oct He was Father to Edm. de Meara an Ormonian born sometimes a Practitioner in Physick in the City of Bristow being the same person who answered Dr. Tho. Willis's book intit Diatribae duae Medico-Philosophicae c. SABIN CHAMBERS a Leicestershire Man born took the degrees in Arts as a Member of Broadgates hall that of Master being compleated 1583. at which time he had the vogue of a good disputant But soon after being dissatisfied in many points
cuts engraven from the representations drawn with great curiosity by him which hath advantaged the sale of it much And I am verily perswaded had the said book been published two years before I mean before the first edition of Camdens Remaines which first saw light in 1604. it would have been more cried up and consequently would have sold more But however so it is that the book hath been so much valued by learned and curious men in times following that a second impression of it was made at Lond. 1653. in large oct and another in 1674. oct He hath also written The sundry successive regal governments of the Realm of England Antw. 1620. printed in one long sheet wherein are the pictures of a Britain Roman Saxon Dane and Norman wrought off from a Copper plate And was the same person without doubt with him who writes himself R. V. author of Odes in imitation of the seven penitential Psalms with sundery other Poems and Ditties bending to devotion and piety Printed beyond the Sea in 1601. with the Jesuits mark in the title for as I have been informed Verstegan had some skill in Poetry as well as in Painting In the said Poems he toucheth on many matters of antiquity and antient Saints of England The same R. V. also hath translated into English A dialogue of dying well Antw. 1603. oct written in Ital. by Don Peeter of Luca a Can. regular and D. of D. and by the translator dedicated to the Lady Joan Berkley Abbess of the English Nuns of S. Benedict in Bruxells The said Verstegan hath written and translated other things but few of them coming into England we seldom or never see them He was living in good condition among the English at Antwerp who had fled for the sake of Religion under the notion of a Spanish stipendary having several years before been married to so thirâ—ty and prudent a woman that she kept up his credit in the latter end of K. James and beginning of K. Ch. 1. as one or more Letters written by him to the great Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton which I have seen in his Library shew And thus much of Rich. Verstegan alias Rowland of whom Will. Watson Priest will give you a sharp character and another stuff enough beyond the rules of charity to run down a Dog JOHN STRADLING Son of Franc. Stradling by Elizabeth his Wife was born near to Bristow in Somersetshire but descended from an antient and Knightly family of his name living at S. Donats in Glamorganshire was educated in puerile learning under a learned and pious man named Edw. Green Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Bristow became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1579. aged 16. years or thereabouts and in 1583. he took a degree in arts as a member of Magd. hall being then accounted a miracle for his forwardness in learning and pregnancy of parts Soon after his great worth being discovered in the Metropolis while he continued in one of the Inns of Court but especially after he had return'd from his travels beyond the Seas was courted and admired by the Learned Camden Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet Tho. Leyson mention'd before under the year 1607. and above all by that most noted Critick and Physitian Dr. Jo. Dav. Rhese He hath written and published De vita morte contemnenda lib. 3. Francof 1597. in oct written to his Uncle Sir Edw. Stradling of S. Donats whom I have mention'd under the year 1609. Epigrammatum libri quatuor Lond. 1607. in oct Two years after he became heir to his Uncle before mention'd setled at S. Donats Castle and was made a Baronet in 1611. at which time he was esteemed a wise and most learned Gentleman Afterwards being involved in secular affairs and the services of his Country was taken off from writing till the latter end of the raign of K. Jam. 1. at which time he published a book intit Beati pacifici Printed 1623. but whether in prose or verse I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it Afterwards he published Divine Poems in seven several Classes written to K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1625. qu. At the end of which is an Epitaph made by him on K. Jam. 1. I have sent several times to several persons in Wales to have some account of this person his last end and his Epitaph but no returns are yet made ARTHUR LAKE brother to Sir Tho. Lake Knight principal Secretary of State to K. Jam. 1. Son of Almeric Lake or du Lake of the antient borough of Southampton was born in S. Michaels parish and educated for a time in the Free-School there Afterwards being transplanted to Wykehams School to perâ—ect his Grammar learning was thence elected probationer Fellow of New coll and after two years of Probation he was made perpetual Fellow thereof an 1589. Five years after that he proceeded in Arts entred into the sacred function was made Fellow of Wykehams coll near to Winton about 1600. and three years after Master of the hospital of S. Cross in the place of Dr. Rob. Bennet promoted to the See of Hereford In 1605. he took the degrees in Divinity and the same year he was installed Archdeacon of Surrey Afterwards he was made Dean of Worcester in Apr. 1608. in the room of Dr. Jam. Monutague promoted to the See of Bath and Wells and at length Bishop of those Cities to which he was consecrated at Lambeth 8. Dec. 1616. In all these places of honour and employment he carried himself the same in mind and person shewing by his constancy that his virtues were virtues indeed in all kind of which whether natural moral Theological personal or pastoral he was eminent and indeed one of the examples of his time He always lived a single man exemplary in his life and conversation and very hospitable He was also well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and had such a command of the Scripture which made him one of the best preachers that few went beyond him in his time The things that he hath written were not by him published but by his Friends after his death the titles of which follow Exposition of the first Psalm Exposition of the 51. Psalm Nine Sermons on Matth. 22. verse 34 35 36 37 38 39 40. Ten Serm. on Exod. 19. Five Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon. on Luke 3. ver 7 8 9. Eight Serm. on Isa 9. Six Serm. on Haggai 2. Sundry Sermons de tempore preached at Court Meditations All which being collected into a large volume were printed under this general title Sermons with religious and divine meditations Lond. 1629. fol. Ten Sermons upon several occasions preached at S. Paul's Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1641. qu. The first is on Psal 160. 29 30. the second on Jude 5. c. He dyed in sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried in an Isle on the north side of the Choire of Wells Cathedral Over his grave was soon after laid a plain
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
the Doctors of Physick resident in Oxon. This Dr. Anthony died in S. Barthelmews Close where he had lived many years on 26. May 1623. and was buried in the Isle joyning to the north side of the Chancel of St. Barthelmew the Great in London leaving then behind him two Sons by Elizabeth his second Wise viz. John Anthony M. D. who succeeded his Father in his practice in London and Charles a Physitian of Bedford living there 1634. and after I find another Francis Antony to have been a writer of the same time with our author Dr. Anthony but he was by birth a Portugues and by profession a Jesuit and therefore the books of his composition must not be attributed to the other Our author Dr. Gwinne hath also written a book of Travels various Letters concerning Chymical and Magical secrets and also divers copies of Verses in English Italian and French occasionally set by way of commendation before the books published by his friends and acquaintance but none of these have I yet seen only some of the said verses He deceased in the month of Octob. or in the beginning of Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and seven in his house situate and being in S. year 1627 Mary Magdalens parish in Old Fishstreet within the City of London and was as I suppose buried in the Church there He had a Son named John Gwinne and lest behind him a Widdow called Susanna who had a Commission from the Prerogative Court dated 12. Nov. 1627. to administer the goods debts chattels c. of her Husband Dr. Gwinne then lately deceased RICHARD CARPENTER a Cornubian born became a Batler of Exeter coll in the beginning of of 1592. and four years after Fellow being then B. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he solely dedicated his studies to Theology by the advice and directions of Holland the Rector of his college and proved in few years after learned and profound in that faculty and an excellent preacher In 1611. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time was made Rector of Sherwill and of Loxhore adjoyning near to Barnestaple in Devonshire both which he kept without any other preferment except the Benefice of Ham near unto Sherwill which he enjoyed for some years to the time of his death Afterwards he proceeded in Divinity and became much esteemed for his learning by Scholars and by others for those things that he published which are Various Sermons as 1 The Souls Sentinel c. at the funeral solemnities of Sir Arthur Acland Kt. 9. Jan. 1611. on Job 14. verse 14. Lond. 1612. oct 2. A Pastoral charge faithfully given and discharged at the Triennial visitation of William B. of Exon. at Barnstaple 7. Sept. 1616. on Acts. 20. 28. Lond. 1616. oct 3 Christs Larambell of love resounded c. on Joh. 15. 12. Lond. 1616. oct 4. The conscionable christian c. Three Assize Sermons at Taunton and Chard in Somersetshire 1620. on Acts 24. 16. Lond. 1623. qu. Which three Sermons are mostly concerning the keeping of a good conscience He paid his last debt to nature on the 18. year 1627 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and seven aged 52. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Loxhore before mentioned Over his grave is a large Epitaph in Prose and Verse some of which runneth thus Richardus Carpenter S. Theol. D. ab eruditione multiplici venerandus pietate vitae integritate morumque comitate valde clarus Hujus Ecclesiae Sherwillensis pastor fidus c. The reader is now to know that there was another Rich. Carpenter a Divine both after the former in time and much inferior as to learning He was educated in the School at Eaton coll near Windsore and thence was elected Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 1622. where continuing about two or three years left it his friends and Country went beyond the Seas and studied in Flanders Artois France Spain Italy and at length received holy Orders at Rome from the hands of the Popes substitute Soon after he was sent into England to gain Proselites being then as I have been told a Benedictine Monk In which employment continuing an year and upward return'd to the Protestant Religion and had by the Archbishop of Canterburies endeavours the Vicaridge of an obscure and small Village called Poling by the Sea side near Arundel Castle in Sussex bestowed on him But before he was warm in that Seat he received many abuses and affronts from certain Rom. Priests and Lay-men of their profession living in those parts particularly by Franc. a S. Clara who being sometimes in the neighbourhood by the name of Hunt would be very free with and expose him to scorn before his parishioners In the year 1642. and that of his age 33. or rather more he published a treatise intit Experience History and Divinity in five books Printed at Lond. in a thick oct and by the said author dedicated to the Parliament then sitting In which Treatise p. 32. 37. c. are many things spoken of himself This book came out again or rather had a new title to it of The Downfal of Antichrist c. an 1648. What preferment he had afterwards I cannot tell yet sure I am that in the time of the Civil War he left the Nation and retired to Paris where he became a railer against the Protestants Afterwards he return'd to his old trade of Independancy in England and about that time published The perfect Law of God being a Sermon and no Sermon preached and yet not preached Printed 1652. in oct He lived then and after at Aylesbury in Bucks where he had kindred living and would preach there very fantastically to the great mirth of some of his Auditors After his Maj. Restauration he published a Comedy intit The Pragmatical Jesuit with his picture before it represented in very gentile Lay-habit whereas his picture before his Experience History and Divinity represents him to be a formal Clergy man with a mortified countenance He was living at Aylesbury before mention'd in 1670. But before his death which was elsewhere he was as some of his acquaintance hath told me returned to Popery and caused his pretended Wife to be of his perswasion in which Faith he died Those that knew him have often told me that he was an impudent fantastical man that changed his mind with his cloaths and that for his juggles and tricks in matters of Religion he was esteemed a Theological Mountebank I find one or more of both his names that have been writers which I shall now pass by and one Rich. Carpenter who had a publick dispute with one Gibs concerning Infant Baptism in the times of Usurpation which probably may be the same with him before mentioned ADAM REUTER who intitles himself in some of his books Cotbusius L. Silesius did for his improvement in all kind of Literature retire to the University of Oxon in the beginning of 1608. being then
after he supplyed the place of Secretary to Christop Lord Hatton L. Chanc. of England and after his decease performed the like Office to his two Successors by special recommendation from her Majesty who also gave him a Prothonotaryship in the Chancery and in 1597. being then a Knight and one of the Masters of the Chancery was by the said Queen sent into Prussia to inform the K. and State of Poland and the prutenic Cities those things which she answered to Dzialine the last Embassador in England c. In which County and in other Nothern parts he underwent through unexpected accidents extraordinary perils but being freed from them by Gods great Providence he performed his duty in acceptable manner In January 1605. he was sent ordinary Embassador into France where he behaved himself to the credit of the English Nation and after his return the Commonwealth used his service in the places of trust which he then injoyed Whether he was the same Sir George Carew who was created Master of Arts with other persons of quality at Cambridge 30. Aug. 1571. I know not Qu. EDWARD HUTCHINS a Denâ—igâ—â—hire man born was admitted perpetual Fellow of Brâ—â—â—â— coll in 1581. being that year Master of Arts. Afterwards entring into the Sacred Function was in short time after numbred among the eniment Preachers of the University His works are Sermons as 1 Serm. against Recusants on Cantic 2. 15. Oxon. 1586. oct 2 Serm. concerning the true comfort of Gods Church truly Militant c. on the Song of Salomon ch 4. V. 7. Oxon. 1589. oct c. with which last is printed An Apology for the Church truly Militant He hath also published Jaw-bone against the spiritual Philistine Printed 1601. in tw and other things which I have not seen He afterwards being married became Prebendary of Chute and Cheesenbury in the Church of Salisbury and beneficed near to that City year 1629 He died in the beginning of sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was succeeded in his Prebendship by one Joh. Thorpe WILLIAM GIFFORD Son of John Gifford Esque by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Sir Geo. Throcmorton of Coughton in Warwickshire Knight was born in Hampshire in 1554. being the second year of Qu. Mary and in 1569. was by his Mother then the Wife of one Will. Hodgckin sent to Linc. coll at which time it was governed by John Bridgwater who in his heart was a R. Catholick and had under his government many of that profession After he had continued in the University mostly in the said coll and partly in the house of Geo. Etheridge a Physitian for the space of four years exercising himself in Grammar Musick Logick and Philosophy he was sent with his Tutor to Lovaine where soon after he took the degree of M. of A. Afterwards spending four years in Theological studies under Father Bellarmine he took the degree of Bach in that faculty But leaving the said University because of the Civil Wars in that Country he retired to Paris where continuing for some time in the study of Theology among the Sorbonists he was by Dr. Will. Alan sent for to Rheimes where continuing in the Eng. coll governed by the said Alan for some time was by him sent to the Eng. coll at Rome where consummating his divine studies was recalled by the said Alan and made publick Professor of Theology at Rheimes About which time being created Doctor of that faculty with great solemnity in the University of Pont-a Mousson in Loraine in Nov. 1584. managed with great credit his publick Professorship for about eleven years But Civil Wars breaking out in France he journyed to Rome and became Chaplain to Card. Alan as he was afterwards for a time to Card. Charles Borromeus at Millane at whose request to P. Clem. 8. he was made Dean of the Church of S. Peter at Ressell commonly called L'isle in Flanders which preferment he keeping for ten years was at length forced to leave it by the violence of the Jesuits because he took part with the Benedictine Monks when they prevailed so far with the Abbot of Arraâ— a good man to build a Cloister for them at Doway which was much opposed by the said Jesuits Afterwards Dr. Gifford return'd to Rheimes again and was made Rector of the Academy there which he governed with great praise and honour At length being above 50. years of age he gave a farewell to the World and its vanities entred himself into the Order of St. Benedict in June 1608. and became professed on the 14. Dec. in the year following in the coll of the English Benedictines at Diculward in Loraine Whereupon according to the manner he changed his name to Gabriel de S. Maria which he kept to his dying day became famous for his admirable Sermons preached there in Flanders Poiteu at Rheimes and in Britaine to which place as 't is said he was sent a Delegate by P. Clem. 8. to K. Jam. 1. concerning matters of Religion Afterwards being noted for his great piety and learning he was made Prior of the Benedictines at S. Maloes in France and President of the Congregation of that Order At length his great worth suffering him not to live in a Cell he was by Ludovic de Loraine commonly called Cardinal Guise Archbishop of Rheimes made his Suffragan in that See under the title of Episcopus Arâ—â—id â—liae in Greece Which place he enjoying till that Cardinals death the Duke of Guise thereupon because his second Son was but a Child and therefore not capable of the Archbishoprick of Rheimes fearing lest any other Nâ—bleman in France should beg it for any of their Sons did presently before the death of his Brother the Cardinal was known go to the French K. and beg'd the same for Dr. Gifford and procured the Pope to confirm the Kings grant Whereupon Gifford receiving Consecration in 1622. enjoy'd it about 7 years not without paying a considerable yearly pension from it as 't was thought to the then Duke of Guise By vertue of the said Archbishoprick he became a Duke and the first Peer of France And having a great yearly value coming in became hospitable liberal to all English Exiles and Travellers and a Founder of two Houses in France for the reception of the English Monks of the Order of S. Benedict namely one at Paris and another at S. Maloe He hath written and published Orationum lib. 1. Spoken mostly at the inauguration of Albert and Isabell in their inauguration at L'isle Also before Card. Burbon Vandome Guise c. at Rheimes and the Duke of Guise d'Aumale and others Printed at Doway Sermones Adventuales He also took a great deal of pains in perfecting and finishing a book intit Calvino-Turcismus c. written by Will. Rainolds and printed at Antwerp 1597. Answered by one who writes himself T. M. S. in a book intit De Turco-papismo c. Lond. 1598. 99. qu. In the Preface to which he falls foul on
the late Soveraign K. James Lond. 1625. a Poem and other things which I have not yet seen but he was not the author of the Appendix to the Commentary of Engl. Bishops as one or more think He died within the City of Westminster having always been in animo Catholicus in sixteen hundred thirty and three whereupon his body was buried in the Abby Church of S. Peter there near to the door entring into the Monuments or the door thro which people enter to see the Monuments on the three and twentieth day of July in the same year I have seen a copy of his Epitaph made by himself wherein he is stiled miserimus peccator musarum amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus c. and another made by a second person which for brevity sake I now pass by In my searches I find one Hugh Holland to have been admitted Bac. of Arts with Tho. Worthington afterwards a Jesuit in Mich. Term an 1570. and another Hugh Holland an Esquires Son of Denbighshire to be matriculated as a member of Ball. coll an 1582. aged 24. with others of that Sirname of the same house but whether any of them were authors I cannot yet tell or whether the last was the same with the Poet. Qu. GEORGE ABBOT younger brother to Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd under the year 1617. was born in the same Town and house where Robert was bred also in the same School under Mr. Franc. Taylor entred a student in Ball. coll 1578. aged 16. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow thereof 29. Nov. 1583. being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into holy Orders and became a celebrated preacher in the University In 1597. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in the same year being elected Master of Vniversity coll gave up all right that he had to his Fellowship In the latter end of 1599. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Martin Heton promoted to the See of Ely Which Dignity he keeping till 1609. succeeded then Dr. Thom. Morton Dean of Glocester On the third of Dec. 1609. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 29. of the same month In Febr. following he was translated to London and being elected soon after to the See of Canterbury had the Kings consent to it 29. March 1610. On the 9. of Apr. 1611. he was translated to the said See of Canterbury and on the 4. of May following had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto On the 23. of June ensuing he was sworn a member of his Majesties Privy Council and accordingly took his place So that he having never been Rector or Vicar of a parish and so consequently was in a manner ignorant of the trouble that attended the ministers of Gods word was the cause as some think why he was harsh to them and why he shew'd more respect to a Cloak than a Cassock He was a person pious and grave and exemplary in his life and conversation He was also a learned man and had his erudition all of the old stamp He was stiffly principled in the doctrine of S. Augustine which they who understand it not call Calvinism and therefore disrelish'd by them who incline to the Massilian and Arminian Tenets Those that well remember him have said that tho he was a plausible preacher yet his brother Robert was a greater Scholar and tho an able Statesman yet Robert was a deeper Divine The things that he hath written are these which shew him to be a man of parts learning vigilancy and unwearied study tho overwhelm'd with business Questiones sex totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theologicâ Oxomiae pro formâ habitis discussae disceptatae an 1597 in quibus è sacra scriptura Patribus quid statuendum sit definitur Oxon 1598. qu. Francof 1616. qu. which last edition was published by Abrah Scultetus Exposition on the Prophet Jonah contained in certain Sermons preached in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Lond. 1600. and 1613. The reasons which Dr. Hill hath brought for the upholding of Papistry unmasked and shewed to be very weak c. Oxon. 1604. qu. Which book was in answer to one intit A quartron of reasons of Cath. Religion with as many brief answers of refusal Antw. 1600. qu. written by Tho. Hill D. D. then living at Phalempyne beyond the Sea who a little before had left the Church of England to embrace the Doctrine of that of Rome He was also answer'd by Franc. Dillingham Bac. of Div. of Cambridge in a book intit A quartron of reasons composed by Dr. Hill unquartered and proved a quartron of follies Cambridge 1603. qu. Preface to the examination of George Sprot London 1608. qu. Sermon at Westminster 26 May 1608. at the funeral solemnities of Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord High Treasurer of England on Isaiah 40. 6. London 1608. qu. Brief description of the whole world Lond. 1617. qu the 9th edition Other editions in oct followed and the book is commonly called Abbots Geography Treatise of perpetual visibility and succession of the true Church in all ages Lond. 1624. qu. His name is not set to this book only his Arms empaled by those belonging to the See of Canterbury are put before it and 't is generally reputed to be his and none but his History of the Massacre in the Valtoline At the end of the third vol. of Joh. Fox hs book of Acts and Mon. of the Church Lond. 1631. 41. c. His Judgment of bowing at the name of Jesus Ham. 1632. oct Several Speeches and Discourses in Parliament and elsewhere At length he being found guilty of casual homicide the particulars of which are mention'd by Historians he retired for a time to Guildford in Surrey the place of his nativity where he had erected an Hospital for men and women Afterwards removing to Croyden he gave way to fate in his Pallace there on the fourth day of August year 1633 in sixteen hundred thirty and three aged 71. Whereupon according to his desire his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady within Trinity Church in Guildford Over his grave was soon after built a sumptuous Altar or Table-monument with his proportion in his Pontificalia lying thereon supported by six pillars of the Dorick order of black Marble standing on six pedestals of piled books with a large inscription thereon beginning thus Sacrum memoriae honoratiss Archipraesulis c. At the east end of the said Mon. is another large inscript which begins also thus Aeternae memoriae Sacrum Magni hic Hospes Hospitis monumenta vides c. Besides this Dr. George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury I find another of both his names to have been a writer also but later in time and author of The whole book of Job Paraphrased c. London 1640. qu. Dedicated to
extracta necnon Medicorum Ethnicorum dictis authoritate comprobata Hoc est portionis tertiae pars tertia de pulsuum scientia Printed with the Catholicon Medicorum c. before-mentioned Philosophia Moysaica In qua sapientia scientia Creatoris Creaturarum sacra verèque christiana utpote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille lapis angularis Jesus Christus ad amussim enucleatè explicatur Goudae 1638. fol. Printed in English at Lond. 1659. fol. Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-spongum Mri-Fosteri Presbyteri ab ipso ad unguenti Armarii validit atem delendam ordinatum Hoc est spongiae M. Fosteri Presbyteri expressio elisio c. Goud 1638. fol. This book was printed at London in qu. in 1631. with this title The squeezing of Parson Foster's sponge ordained by him for the wiping away of the Weapen-salve See more in Will. Foster an 1633. Our author R. Fludd departed this mortal life in his house situate and being in the Parish of S. Katherine in Colman-street within the City of London on the eighth day of Sept. in sixteen hundred thirty and seven year 1637 whereupon his body being afterwards attended by an Officer or Herald of Arms to Bearsted before-mentioned was buried in the Chancel of the Church there under a stone which he before had laid for himself On which or else on a monument which he designed by his last Will to be made after the fashion of that of William Camden in the Abby Church of S. Peter at Westminster and to be set in the wall near to his grave was an Epitaph put a copy of which being printed elsewhere shall now for brevity sake be omitted HENRY GELLIBRAND received his first breath in the Parish of S. Botolph near to Aldersgate in London 17. Nov. 1597. became a Commoner of Trin. coll in 1615. took one degree in Arts about four years after being then esteemed to have no great matter in him At length upon the hearing of one of Sir Hen. Savile's Mathematick Lectures by accident or rather to save the sconce of a Groat if he had been absent he was so extreamly taken with it that he immediately fell to the study of that noble Science and conquered it before the time he proceeded in Arts. Soon after his name being up for his wonderful sufficiencies in Geometry and Astronomy he was elected Astronomy-Professor of Gresham coll in the place of Gunter deceased where tho he wrote and published many useful things yet he suffer'd Conventicles being himself a Puritan to be kept in his lodgings His works are Trigonometria Britannica Goudae 1633. fol. Appendix concerning longitude Lond. 1633. qu. Which is at the end of Capt. Tho. James his Strange and dangerous Voyage in his intended discovery of his northern-east passage into the South Sea A discourse Mathematical of the variation of the Magnetical Needle Together with its admirable diminution lately discovered Lond. 1635. qu. The institution Trigonometrical explaining the doctrine of dimension of plain and spherical Triangles c in oct Epitome of Navigation c. Lond. 1674. c. oct Several necessary Tables pertaining to Navigation A triangular Canon Logorithmical or a table of artificial Sines and Tangents c. Two Chiliads or the Logorithms of absolute numbers from an unite to 2000. Append containing the use of the Forestaff Quadrant and Nocturnal in Navigation These last 4 Treatises are printed with the Epitome of Navigation Treatise of building of Ships MS. Which after its authors death came into the hands of Edward Lord Conway Almanack for the year 1631. This was published under the name of his Servant Will. Beale But the author thrusting into it the Martyrs mentioned by John Fox and omitting divers Saints allowed by the Church of England as the Epiphany Annunciation of our Lady c. he and his man were called into question for it in the High Commission Court and brought into trouble The particulars of which you may see in a book intit Canterbury's Doom But the author of that book Will. Prynne endeavouring all the ways imaginable to bring envy on Dr. Laud then B. of London who did discountenance that Almanack very much the Reader therefore is not to believe every matter which that implacable person doth there set down Our author Gellibrand also wrote a Preface to and published Sciographia or the Art of Shadows c. Lond. 1635. in a large thick oct written by John Wells of Hampshire Esq a Rom. Catholick He also intended other matters but was untimely snatch'd away to the great loss of the Mathematical Faculty in the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and seven His body was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Broad-street within the City of London at which time Dr. Hannibal Potter his sometimes Tutor in Trinity college preached his Funeral Sermon shewing therein to the auditory the piety and worth that was sometimes in the body that lay dead before them His memory is preserved in the said coll by a Dial set up by him when he was there a Student on the east side of that Quadrangle which is now called the Old Quadrangle HENRY RAMSDEN a Yorkshire man born was admitted a Commoner of Magd. hall in 1610. took the degrees in Arts was elected Fellow of Linc. coll in 1621. and five years after leaving that place wherein he had advanced himself much in the Theological Faculty he became a Preacher in London was much resorted to for his edifying and puritanical Sermons and at length upon the death of Mr. Hugh Ramsden his Brother he was made Vicar of Halifax in his own Country After his death were published under his name Several Sermons as 1 The gate to happiness on Rom. 6. 8. 2 The wounded Saviour on Esay 53. 5. 3 Epicures caution on Luke 21. 34. 4 Generation of Seckers on Col. 3. 1. which four Sermons are intit A Gleaning of God's Harvest Lond. 1639. qu. Published by Joh Goodwin with his Epist before them He ended his days on the seventh of the Cal. of March in sixteen hundred thirty and seven and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Halifax Over his grave is an inscription to his memory which being large I shall for brevity sake pass by In his Vicarage of Halifax succeeded Rich. Marsh D. D. afterwards Archdeacon and Dean of York JOHN HOSKYNS Senior elder Brother to Joh. Hoskyns whom I have mentioned under the year 1631. both the Sons of Joh. Hoskyns by Margery his Wife Daughter of Tho. Jones of Lanwarne was born at Mownton in the Parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire formerly belonging to the Priory of Lantony near Gloucester to the Prior of which place his Ancestor bore the office of Pocillator While this Jo. Hoskyns was a Child and intended by his Father for a Trade he was very importunate with him to make him a Scholar wherefore at 10 years of age he began his A B C and in
have seen he gave to the priests of Clare hall in Cambridge considerable summs of money and forty pounds to the chest of that house To every fellow of Qu. coll in Oxon six shillings and eight pence and forty marks to the elemosinary chest thereof besides a sute of vestments for a Priest Deacon and Subdeacon and four copes He gave maintenance also to a Chaplain that should celebrate service for him his Parents and all faithful deceased for the space of an hundred years in the Church of Applebie before-mentioned Which Chaplain was to receive for his labour eight marks yearly To the Friers the Carmes in Applebie 20 marks to pray for him besides several sums to the Friers of Oxon and Cambridge and to Rowland Machel and Elizabeth his wife sister to the said Bishop he gave several lands in Westmorland besides 200 marks He built also the little room which is now a large Bay-window to the Provosts dining-room in Qu. coll with curious vaulting under it Which vault is now no other than a portico to the coll chappel Over the said Bay-window is carv'd in stone a musical note called a Long on a Tun which is the rebus for his firname and out of the Bung-hole of the Tun springs a Vine tree which without doubt was put for Vinton or Vinchestre he being then Bishop of that place He left behind him a Nephew named Rob. Langton born also in Applebie and educated in Queens coll of which he was LL. D. He died at London in the month of June 1524. and was buried before the image of S. Michael in the body of the Church belonging to the Charter-house now Suttons hospital near London By his last Will and Test he bequeathed to Qu. coll before mention'd two hundred pounds to purchase Lands and make a School-house in Appleby and what his benefaction was besides as also of that of Bishop Langton you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 123. 124 125. WILLIAM SHJOY commonly called Joy partly educated here but more in the Univ. of Paris was by provision from the Pope made Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland 16. Cal. of June 1485 where sitting about 16 years gave way at length to fate 28. Dec. in fifteen hundred and one and was as I suppose buried in his Cathedral Church In his Archbishoprick succeeded Philip Pinson a Minerite as I shall anon tell you RICHARD who writes himself Episcopus Oleven being Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester as it seems was a Dominican or Black Frier in Warwick to whose fraternity there he gave 6l at the time of his death and educated among the Black Friers in Oxon to whom also he gave 6l to pray for him He yielded up his last breath in Sept. in fifteen hundred and two year 1502 and was I suppose according to his last Will which I have seen buried in the choire of the Church belonging to the Black Friers in the City of Worcester on the south side of the Tomb of John Lichfield and opposite to that of Rich. Wolsey who as he saith in the said Will was nuper Conoren Duneren Episcopus HENRY DEANE was educated in this University where he took the degrees in Arts and Divinity but in what coll or Hall it appears not However some are pleased to say that he was educated in New coll yet whether he was perpetual Fellow thereof the registers of that house tells us not After he had left the University he was made Prior of Lanthony near to Gloucester in the neighbourhood of which place I presume he was born and on the 13 of Sept. or 20. Nov. 11. Hen. 7. he was by Letters Pat. constituted Chancellour of Ireland to execute that office by himself or a Deputy On the first of Janu. following he was constituted Deputy and Justice of the said Realm where being setled he performed good service against that grand impostor Perkin Warbeck and being elected Bishop of Bangor after the death of Richard lately Bishop of that place had restitution of the temporalities belonging thereunto made by the King 6. Octob. 12. Hen. 7. Dom. 1496. In 1500. he was translated to Salisbury on the death of John Blyth lately Bishop thereof Son of Will. Blyth of Norton in Yorkshire Son of another William of Leedes in the said County and had restitution of the temporalities thereof made to him as the manner is on the 12. March the same year About which time he was made Chanc. of the Order of the Garter In 1501. he was elected Archb. of Canterbury upon the death of Cardinal Moreton whereupon being translated thither had restitution made of his temporalities on the second of Aug. the same year About that time the members of the University of Oxon received an Epistle of favour from him wherein among other things he stiles the said University his benignissima mater He died at Lambeth on the 15. of Febr. saith a certain author tho a register of that time tells us 't was on the 16. of that month in fifteen hundred and two Whereupon his body was carried to Canterbury and buried in the middle of the Martyrdom within the precincts of the Cathedral there leaving then behind him the character of a person altogether fit for those places that he successively enjoyed DAVID CREAGH was born in the County of Limerick in Ireland studied several years among his Country men the Civil and Canon Law of which faculâ—ies he became at length Bachelaur Afterwards retiring to his native Country became thro several preferments Archb. of Cashills an 1483 where sitting about 20. years died 5. Sept. in fifteen hundred and three Of the great injuries done to him by Gerald Fits Gerald Earl of Kildare L. Deputy of Ireland of which Creagh complained to K. Hen. 7. by the advice of Sir Jam. de Ormond Knight the Histories of that Country will tell you PHILIP PINSON an English man studied among the Minorites or Grey Friers for a time in their house in Oxon. of which order he was a learned brother but whether he took the Degree of D. D. in this University we have no register that shews it Afterwards he became Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Hereford and afterwards of B. and Wells by whose endeavours but chiefly of those of K. Hen. 7. he was advanced at Rome to the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland on the 2. of Decemb. in fifteen hundred and three year 1503 and three days after died of the Plague Afterwards that See laid void two years and then 't was confer'd on Maurice O Fihely whom I have before among the writers mentioned JOHN ARUNDELL Son of Rainford or Rainford Arundell Knight by Jane his Wife Sister and heir of Joh. Coleshull third Son of Sir John Arundell of Talvern in Cornwall who died 13. Hen. 6. was born in that County received his Academical education in Exeter college became
coll to which he was partly in his life time but more at his death a special benefactor Afterwards he became Chancellor of the diocess of Worcester in the place of Dr. Thomâ— Hanybal an 1518. and about that time Archdeacon of Glocester and Warden of the collegiate Church of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire At length his abilities being made known to K. Hen. 8. he was by him employed beyond the Seas concerning state affairs was made Doctor of the Laws there one of the Kings Counsellors at his return a chief agitator for the King in defence of his divorce from his first Wife Qu. Catherine especially in the University of Oxon by endeavouring to gain the opinion of the members thereof concerning that matter as I have told you elsewhere and in 1531. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty as he had stood beyond the Seas In 1539. he was elected Bishop of Worcester the temporalities of which being restored to him on the fourth of Aug. the same year he was soon after consecrated In 1543. he abdicated or rather resigned his See but for what cause is yet uncertain Whereupon retiring to Clerkenwell near London lived there for some years year 1556 and dying on the eleventh day of August in fifteen hundred fifty and six was buried on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Islyngton near London By his last will k and test dated 10. of Aug. 1556. he bequeathed very liberally to the poor people of Stratford upon Avon before-mention'd to the poor of Bromesgrave in Worcestershire Tadcaster Wymbersley c. at which places 't is probable he had been beneficed He also gave 100 marks to certain poor Scholars of Oxon and Cambridge in which last University he seems to have received a part of his education One Joh. Bell D. D. was Dean of Ely and dying 31. of Octob. 1591. was buried in the Cath. Ch. there but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I cannot tell HENRY MAN was bred a Carthusian Monk and of the Carthusians at Shene in Surrey became Prior which Monastery he with his brethren surrendring into the Kings hands at the dissolution of Religious houses had a Pension allowed to him for some years In 1539. he took the degrees in Divinity in this University of Oxon and in the latter end of Hen. 8. was made the second Dean of Chester in the place of one Tho. Clerk and about that time tho the year when appear not was promoted to the Episcopal See of the Isle of Man He departed this mortal life at London on the 19. of Oct. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 and was buried in the chancel of the Church of S. Andrew Vndershaft within that City In his Deanery succeeded VVill. Clyve or Clyffe LL. D. who had been Chantor and afterwards Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at York but the year when I cannot justly say or whether the said Dr. Man kept the said Deanery in commendam with his Bishoprick and in the See of Man succeeded Thom. Stanley as I shall hereafter tell you JOHN BYRDE was made Bishop of Bangor in 1539. and translated thence to Chester in 1541. but deprived of that See by Qu. Mary for being married in the year 1553. He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded George Cootes of whom I have made mention before but died about an year before Byrde JOHN CHAMBERS a Benedictine Monk was partly educated in Oxon but more in Cambridge in which University he was as it seems admitted to the reading of the sentences In 1528. he was made Abbat of Peterborough in which Town he was born upon the decease of one Rob. Kirton and living to see his Monastery dissolved was by the favour of K. Hen. 8. nominated the first Bishop of that place when the said King by his charter dated 4. Sept. 1541 erected an Episcopal See there On the said day the temporalities of it were delivered to him and on the 23. of Oct. following was consecrated thereunto which is all I know of him only that he was a worldly man and that dying in the winter time before the month of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Peterborough The reader is now to know that Dr. Fr. Godwin doth in his Commentary of English Bishops tells us that the said Joh. Chambers was Doctor of Physick bred up in Merton college and afterwards Dean of S. Stephens cell in Westminster but very much mistaken for that John Chambers Bach. of Div. and Bishop died in 1556. as 't is before told you and the other who was Dr. of Physick and Dean died 1549. Pray be pleased to see more in the Fasti under the year 1531. among the incorporations ROBERT KYNGE was descended from the ancient Kings of Devonshire as the posterity of his brother Thomas say but where he was born unless in Oxfordshire I cannot justly tell While he was young being much addicted to religion and learning was made a Cistercian Monk and among those of that order did he for some years live in Rewley Abby in the West suburb of Oxon and partly as I conceive for the sake of learning among the Bernardins in their coll in the North suburb of the said City In 1506. he as a Cistercian Monk was admitted to the reading of the sentences and in 1510. 13. and 15. he supplicated to be licensed to proceed in Divinity by the title of a Monk of the order of S. Benedict in the last of which years he occurs Abbat of Bruerne near to Burford in Oxfordshire anciently founded for Monks of Cisteaux which is a branch of the Benedictine order as the Bernardins are In 1518. he proceeded in Divinity in an Act celebrated on the last of Febr. and afterwards was made Abbat of Thame in Oxfordshire the Monks of which were also Cistercians About the time that the Abbey of Osney near Oxon was to be dissolved he was made Abbat commendatary thereof being then a Suffragan or titular Bishop under the title of Roven Rovenesis in the province of Athens by which name or title I find him to occur in 1539. In 1542. when Oxford was made an Episcopal See by K. Hen. 8. and the Abbey of Osney appointed to be the place of habitation of the Dean and Canons of the Cathedral to be there he the said Rob. Kynge was made and constituted the first Bishop in the beginning of Sept. the same year at which time Glocester coll was appointed his Palace or place of residence the Abbats lodgings at Osney for the Dean and the other lodgings in that Abbey for the Canons and Officers belonging to the Cathedral In 1546. when the said Cath. Ch. at Osney was translated to Cardinal coll alias Kings coll or the coll of K. Hen. 8. in
Oxon which was formerly the Priory of S. Frideswyde but then called Christ-church he the said Kynge notwithstanding continued in his office of Bishop and his chair was thence translated also but not his Palace Yet when K. Ed. 6. came soon after to the Crown and made a recital of his fathers erection of the aforesaid Episcopal See he left out Gloc. coll with intentions that it should remain with the Crown for another use in future time So that what house or lodgings the said Bishop Kynge had for his use during the remaining part of his life in truth I cannot tell All that I know more of him is that he being an aged man in Qu. Maries reign being then by Joh. Fox called the Bishop of Thame he did not care to have any thing to do with such that were then called Herâ—icks and therefore he is commended by Posterity for his mildness Also that he paying his last debt to nature on the fourth day of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and seven was buried on the North side of the East end of the Choire of Ch. Church year 1557 Over his grave was a Tomb of course Marble almost breast-high erected with a Canopy over it supported by Pillars of the same but no Arms put on it as never having any or any at least that he knew of But the said Tomb being afterwards looked upon as cumbersome to the place when the Choire was to be new wainscoted and paved with black and white marble Dr. Duppa being then Dean of Ch. Church it was taken away by Henry and John King Canons of the said Church Sons of Dr. Joh. King sometimes Bishop of London great Nephew to Dr. Rob. Kynge before-mentioned and by them it was placed under the lower South Window of the Isle joyning on the South side of the said Choire In which Window they caused to be painted soon after the Picture of the said Rob. Kynge in his Episcopal Robes with his Miter on his head and Crosier in his hand and the ruins of Osney Abbey behind him as also the Arms which the said Hen and John then pretended to The said window was pulled down when the Presbyterians and Independents governed an 1651. by one of the Family of the Kings then living who preserving it safe till the Restauration an 1660. was soon after set up again where it yet continues A certain author named VVill. Harrison tells us that in the time of Q. Mary who died 1558. one Goldwell was Bishop of Oxford who was a Jesuit dwelling in Rome and more conversant as the constant fame went in the Black Art than skilful in the Scriptures and yet he was of great countenance among the Roman Monarchs It is said also that observing the Canons of his Order he regarded not the temporality of that See But it seems since that he wist well enough what became of those commodities for by one mean or another he found the sweetness of 354. l. 16s 06d yearly growing to him c. Thus the said author Harrison By which Goldwell he means I suppose Thow Goldwell Bishop of S. Asaph as if he had been translated thence to Oxon on the death of Rob. Kynge before-mentioned for what Goldwell it should be else unless another Thomas whom I shall mention in the Fasti I know not forasmuch as the generality of authors say that the said Tho. Goldwell left the Bishoprick of S. Asaph when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and that thereupon he went to Rome where he lived in great repute for many years See more among these Bishops under the year 1580. RICHARD THORNDEN sometimes written Thornton a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict of Ch. Church in Canterbury received his Academical education in Canterbury coll in this University of which he became Warden or Guardian about 1528. Afterwards he proceeded in divinity run with the unsatiable humour of K. Hen. 8. and in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. was a great Gospeller and seemed to all to be an hearty Protestant But when Q. Mary came to the Crown he wheeled about was made Suffragan Bishop of Dover under Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury for the County of Kent where he shew'd himself an eager disputant against the poor Protestants as you may see by his arguings and reasonings with several of them about matters of religion in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church written by John Fox who adds of him farther that for his persecuting of Gods Saints he was suddenly taken with a Palsey on a Sunday at Bourn Bishops Bourn in Kent having the day before return'd from the Chapter house at Canterbury Whereupon being conducted to his bed he died soon after viz. in fifteen hundred fifty and seven year 1557 After him succeeded another Bishop of Dover appointed by Card. Pole who shewing himself also vexatious to the Protestants broke his neck suddenly as the said author reports In the year 1569. one Rich. Rogers bach afterwards Doctor of Divinity was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Dover by Matthew Archb. of Canterbury and in 1584. he became Dean of Canterb. upon the promotion of Dr. Th. Godwin to the See of B. and Wells He was Father to Franc. Rogers D. D. and Justice of the Peace in Kent who dying 23. of Jul. 1638. was buried in the Church of S. Margaret in the City of Canterbury After Bishop Rogers decease succeeded in the Deanery of Canterbury one Tho. Nevill D. D. who dying in the beginning of the year 1615. was buried within that Chappel joyning to the body of the Cathedral Ch. at Canterbury which was before repaired by him and wherein he had erected a monument for himself and his brother Alexander Nevill some years before that deceased WILLIAM FINCHE occurs Suffragan Bishop of Taunton under the Bishop of B. and Wells from the year 1539. to 1557. in which last year he was admitted Prebendary of Whitlakynton in the Church of Wells but whether he took a degree in this University tho study he did for a time it appears not In his time lived in the diocess of Exeter one William who writes himself Episcopus Hipponensis having been Suffragan to the Bishop of Exeter which is all I know of him only that he died in 1559. PETER PETO whom some call Will. Peto was born of and descended from the antient Family of the Peto's living at Chesterton in Warwickshire educated for a time for the sake of learning among the Grey Friers of Oxon of which Order he was a zealous brother but whether he took a degree among us it doth not appear unless he did it under another name as some have done Afterwards he became Chaplain if I mistake not to Q. Katherine in whose defence he shewed himself a stout Champion when K. Hen. 8. was about to divorce her as also against the Kings marriage with Anna Bulleyne In 1557. Jun. 13. he was made tho known to be unfit a Cardinal by P. Paul 3. and
at the same time Legat a Latere in England and soon after Bishop of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Salcot alias Capon on purpose to thwart Cardinal Pole whom that Pope took to be his Enemy or rather out of stomach to work that Cardinals displeasure whom he before had recalled to Rome to be accused and charged as suspected corrupt in Religion But Q. Mary albeit she was most affectionately devoted to the Ch. of Rome interposed or rather opposed her self so that Peto was forbidden to enter into England and the power Legantine left entire and whole to her Cousin Pole Whereupon Peto continued in France where he died in Apr. year 1558 in fifteen hundred fifty and eight leaving then behind him the character of a very godly and devout person yet simple and unknowing of matters of State or of the world which ought in some measure to accompany a person of his high degree See more of him in Historia minor provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum in the first tome of the Scholastical and Historical works of Franc. Ã Sancta Clara sect 25. p. 53. PAUL BUsh was made the first Bishop of Bristow in 1542 was deprived of it for being married in the beginning of the Reign of Q Mary and died in Octob. year 1558 in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers JOHN HOLYMAN sometimes Fellow of New college was made Bishop of Bristow in the place of Bush before-mentioned year 1558 an 1554. and died in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Bristow succeeded Rich. Cheyney which he held in Commendam with Gloucester as I shall tell you anon in Jam. Brokes under the year 1559. REYNOLD POLE sometimes a Student in S. Mary Magd. coll afterwards a Cardinal and elected twice to the Papacy was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in the latter end of 1555. year 1558 and died in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers After him succeeded in the said Archiepiscopal See Matthew Parker who was born in the City of Norwych 6. of Aug. 1504. Son of Will. Parker who died 16. of Jan. 1516. by Alice Monings his Wife who died 20. of Sept. 1553. Which Will. Parker who was an honest poor Man as a Schismatical writer tells you and a scowrer or calender of worsteds in Norwych was the Son of John Parker and he the Son and Heir of Nich. Parker a Notary Publick of the dioc of Norwych principal Registrary belonging to the Archb. of Canterbury and keeper of the Registers belonging to the Court thereof As for Matthew Parker after he had been trained up in Grammar learning at home he was sent to the University of Cambridge at about 17 years of age and being placed in Corp. Ch. coll became soon after one of the Bible-Clerks in the said house Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts was made Fellow thereof took holy Orders and became a noted Preacher not only in the University but also in other publick places in the Kingdom Whereupon his fame being spred abroad he was sent for to the Court and made chaplain to Q. Anne about 1534. by whose favour and endeavours he was soon after made Dean of Stoke near to Clare in Suffolk and some time after Prebendary of Ely In 1538. he was made Doct. of div about which time by letters of commendation from the King to whom he was chaplain he was elected Master of C. C. coll before-mentioned now known by the name of Bennet college the Fellows of which soon after presented him to the Rectory of Landbeach near to Cambridge In 1545. he was Vicechanc. of the said Univ. and in 1549. he took to Wife Margaret the daughter of Rob. Harleston of Norfolk born 23. Jun. 1519. by whom he had Issue 1 Joh. Parker born 5. May 1548. who married Joan daughter of Dr. Rich. Coxe B. of Ely 2 Matthew who died young and thirdly another Matthew who married Frances dau of W. Barlow Bishop of B. and Wells and afterwards of Chichester but this Matthew dying 28. Jan. 1574. she was afterwards married to Dr. Tob. Matthews Dean of Durham the same who was afterwards Archb. of York In 1548. the said Dr. M. Parker was again elected Vicechanc. of Cambridge and in 1552. he was made by K. Edw. 6. to whom he was chaplain Dean of Lincoln in the place of Dr. Joh. Tayler promoted to the See of Lincoln But soon after when Q. Mary came to the Crown losing all his spiritualities because he was married he retired in private and spent all her Reign within the house of one of his Friends His headship of C. C. coll was thereupon bestowed on Dr. Laur. Mapted and his Deanery on Dr. Franc. Mallet an 1554. he being then Canon of Windsore Confessor to Q. Mary and Master of Michael-house in Cambridge of which University he had before been at least twice Vicechancellour This Mallet by the way it must be known was the same person who translated into English Erasmus's Paraphrase on John who dying in the latter end of Decemb. 1570. had for his Successor in that Deanery Dr. Joh. Whitgift afterwards Archb. of Canterbury When Q. Elizab. came to the Crown Dr. Parker tho a married man for his Wife died not till 17. of August 1570. was nominated to the See of Canterbury after several persons had refused it whereupon being consecrated thereunto in the Archb. chappel at Lambeth 17. of Dec. 1559. after a Sermon invocation of the Holy Ghost and celebration of the Eucharist had been performed by the laying on of the hands of three Bishops viz. Will. Barlow B. of B. and Wells Joh. Scorey of Chichester and Miles Coverdale of Exeter assisted also by Joh. Hodgeskyn Suffragan Bishop of Bedford sate there with great honour to the time of his death He was a religious and a learned man and of modest manners and behaviour He was well read in English history and a diligent and curious collector of antient Mss. that had been scatter'd at the dissolution of Monasteries which he gave to the coll wherein he had been educated He is also reported to have been a person of great charity a noted benefactor to the publick and an eminent ornament to the places which gave him birth and education The chief book which he wrote and published assisted therein as 't is said by his servant or chaplain Joh. Jostine was that intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae privilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis cum Archiepiscopis ejusdem 70. Lond. 1572-3 fol. Most of the copies of this impression that were commonly fold conclude with the life of Reynold Pole Archb. of Canterbury who died 1558. The other copies which remained and were to be bestowed on publick Libraries or else to be given to special Friends had in the year 1574 added to them 1
and dying on the day before the nones of January in fifteen hundred seventy and six was buried in the Church there belonging to the Cistercians In Meath succeeded one Hugh Brady to which being consecrated in 1563. sate there 20 years WILLIAM DOWNHAM received his first breath in the County of Norfolk was elected Probationer of Magdalen coll in July 1543. and in the year following he was made true and perpetual Fellow of the said house being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth who when Queen did not only make him the first Canon of the tenth stall in the collegiate Ch. of S. Peter in the City of Westminster an 1560. but in the year after Bishop of Chester to which See being consecrated on the 4. of May 1561. had the temporalities thereof given to him on the 9. of the same month In 1566. he was actually created Doct. of div and dying in Nov. in fifteen hundred seventy and seven was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Chester leaving then behind him two Sons viz. George Downham afterwards Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland and John Downham Bach. of div both learned and painful writers In the See of Chester succeeded Will. Chaderton D. D. Master of Queens coll in Cambridge sometimes Margaret afterwards the Kings Professor of div in that University and Prebendary or Canon of the fourth stall in the collegiate Church of S. Peter in the City of Westminster This learned Doctor was born at Nuthurst near Manchester in Lancashire being the Son of Edm. Chaderton by Margery his Wife dauof one Cliffe of Cheshire and he the Son of Jeffr. Chaderton both of Nuthurst He died Bishop of Lincoln leaving behind him one only daughter named Joane begotten on the body of his Wife named Katharine dau of Joh. Revell of London PATRICK WALSH was born as it seems in or near Waterford in Ireland and after he had been partly educated in Grammaticals in that country was sent to Oxon but to what coll or hall therein unless to that of Brasnose I know not In the latter end of the year 1534. he proceeded Master of Arts and about that time applying his mind to the Theological faculty supplicated at length the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences in 1545. but whether he was admitted it appears not in the publick Register which was much neglected by the then Scribe About that time he was Dean of Waterford and in so great repute for his learning and religion that he was made Bishop of that place and of Lismore To which being consecrated in August 1551. had liberty then allowed him to keep his Deanery in Commendam for a time He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred seventy and eight and was year 1578 as I suppose buried in his Church at Waterford He had a Son named Nich. Walsh who was then Bishop of Ossory and about that time had a hand in translating the New Testament into the Irish tongue This Nich. Walsh seems to have been educated in the University of Cambridge WILLIAM BRADBRIDGE or Brodebridge was a Londoner born but descended from those of his name in Somersetshire was admitted Fellow of Magdalen coll in 1529. and afterwards proceeding in Arts was at length admitted to the reading of the Sentences an 1539. being then arrived to some eminence in the Theological Faculty About the middle of March 1 and 2 of Phil. and Mary dom 1554. he was made Prebendary of Lime and Halstock in the Church of Saliâ—bury vacant by the death of one Rob. Bone and in the beginning of Q. Elizab. shewing himself conformable to the discipline then established was made Dean of the said Church in June 1563. void by the death of Pet. Vannes an Italian In 1565. he supplicated the ven Congreg of Regents that he might be admitted Doctor of divinity but whether he was really so or diplomated it appears not in the pubick Register and on the 18. of March 1570. he was consecrated at Lambeth Bishop of Exeter which See he laudably governed for about 8 years He ended his days suddenly at Newton-Ferrers in Devonshire on the 27. June saith one and another the 29. July in fifteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the north side of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter To him succeeded in the said See Joh. Woolton whom I have mentioned among the writers under the year 1593. and him Gervase Babington D. D. descended from the antient Family of the Babingtons in Nottinghamsh who while he was Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke assisted his Noble Countess Mary Sidney in her translation of the Psalms For it was more than a Womans skill to express the sense so right as she hath done in her verse and more than the English or Latin translation could give her THOMAS BENTHAM a learned and pious man of his time was born at Shirebourne a Market Town I think in Yorkshire admitted perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll 16. Nov. 1546. proceeded in Arts the year after and about that time did solely addict his mind to the study of Theology and to the learning of the Hebrew tongue in which last he was most excellent as in those of Greek and Latin which he had obtained before he was M. of A. After Q. Mary came to the Crown he was turn'd out of his Fellowship for his forward and malepert zeal against the Cath. Religion in the time of Edw. 6. by the Visitors appointed by her to regulate the University Whereupon retiring first to Zurich and afterwards to Basil in Germany became Preacher to the English Exiles there and expounded to them the intire book of the Acts of the Apostles Afterwards being recalled by some of the Brethren was made Superintendent of them at London and continued among them in a timorous condition for some time At length when Q. Elizab. succeeded he was nominated Bishop of Lichf and Coventry upon the deprivation of Dr. Ralph Bayne To which See being elected had the temporalities thereof restored to him 20 Feb. 1559. being then about 46 years of age On the 24. of March following he was consecrated and about six years following he was actually created Doct. of divinity being then in great repute for his learning He died on the 21. of Feb. in fifteen hundred seventy and eight leaving then behind him a Widdow named Matilda He was succeeded in Lichf and Cov. by Dr. Will. Overton of whom I have made mention among the writers under the year 1609. NICHOLAS HEATH or Heth a most wise and learned man of great policy and of as great integrity was descended from the Heaths of Aspley in the Parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire but whether born there where his brother had certain lands I cannot tell was educated for a time in C. C. coll in this University but before he took a degree there
of Magd. coll in 1566. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1571 holy Orders and about that time a Wife by whom afterwards he had nineteen children In 1586. he being then Prebendary of Winchester and well beneficed supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences but whether he was really admitted it appears not On the 12. of Nov. 1598. he was consecrated B. of Salisbury and in the year following was actually created Doct. of div by certain Doctors deputed for that purpose who went to him then I think at Salisbury He was Godson to Q. Eliz. while she was Lady Eliz. who as 't is reported usually said that she had blest many of her Godsons but now this Godson should bless her He gave way to fate on the seventh day of May in sixteen hundred and fifteen year 1625 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Salisbury near to the body of his sometimes Wife In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd before among the writers under the year 1617. THOMAS BILSON sometimes fellow of New coll was consecrated B. of Worcester in 1596. translated thence to Winchester in the year following and concluded his last day in sixteen hundred and sixteen under which year you may see more of him among the writers In Worcester succeeded Gervase Babington of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in Will. Bradbridge among these Bishops an 1578. and in Winchester succeeded Dr. James Mountague sixth Son of Sir Edw. Mountague of Boughton in Northamptonshire Kt. who was translated thereunto from Bathe and Wells 4. Octob. 1616. This worthy person died on the twentieth day of July 1618. aged 50. and was buried 20. Aug. following on the north side of the body of the Church dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul within the City of Bathe Over his grave was soon after a high Altar-monument erected between two Pillars of the said Church with the proportion of the defunct painted to the life lying thereon by his brethren Sir Edw. Mountague of Boughton Sir Hen. Mountague Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sir Charles Mountague his Executor and Sir Sidney Mountague Master of the Requests Kts. All which were lineally descended from the Earls of Salisbury The said Dr. Jam. Mountague was educated in the University of Cambridge was Master of Sydney coll and there noted for his piety vertue and learning Afterwards he was made Dean of the Royal Chappel then B. of Rathe afterwards of Winchester as t is before told you and for his faithfulness dexterity and prudence in weighty affairs the King chose him to be one of his Privy Council By his last Will and Testament he made choice of the said antient Church for the place of his Sepulture which among many other monuments of piety he repaired to his great charge When K. James came first to the Crown he was made Dean of his Chappel as before 't is told you which place he held not only when he was B. of Bathe and Wells but of Winchester also And being a great stickler in the quarrels at Cambridge and a great Master in the Art of insinuation had cunningly as one observes fashioned K. James unto certain Calvinian opinions to which the Kings education in the Kirk of Scotland had before inclined him So that it was no very hard matter for him having an Archb. also of his own perswasion to make use of the Kings authority for recommending the nine Articles to the Church of Ireland which he found would not be admitted in the Church of England HENRY ROWLANDS was born in the Parish of Mellteyrn in LLyn in Caernarvanshire educated in the School at Penllech was admitted a Student in the University about 1569. took the degrees in Arts as a member of New coll that of Master being compleated in 1577. and soon after became Rector of Laâ—â—ton near Bister alias Burchester in Oxfordshire In 1598. Nov. 12. he was consecrated B. of Bangor being then Bach. of div and in 1605. he was actually created Doct. of that faculty He bestowed on his Cath. Ch. four bells instead of those that were fold away by Arthur Bulkley his predecessor and in 1609. he gave lands to Jesus coll for the maintenance of two scholars or fellows there At length after he had bestowed much money on pious uses had spent all his time in celebacy and had govern'd his church and diocess with great commendations year 1616 surrendred up his pious soul to God 30. June in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Bangor among the sepulchres of the Bishops By his last Will and Test he bequeathed moneys for the erection of a School at Mellteyrn or Bottunog where he was born and christned In the See of Bangor succeeded Lewes Bayly whom I have mention'd at large among the writers under the year 1632. HENRY ROBINSON was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland became a poor serving child of Queens coll about the year 1568. afterwards Tabarder and at length Fellow being then esteemed an excellent Disputant and Preacher In 1581. he was unanimously elected Provost of his college which office he enjoying about 18. years restored it in that time and made it flourish after it had continued many years but in a mean condition occasion'd by the negligence of former Governours In 1590. he proceeded in div and in 98. being nominated and elected to the See of Carlile was consecrated thereunto by John B. of Lond. Joh. B. of Roch. and Anthony B. of Chich. on the 23. of July in the same year He was a person of great gravity and temperance and very mild in his speech yet as one observeth not of so strong a constitution of body as his countenance did promise He paid his last debt to nature on the 13. of the Cal. of July in sixteen hundred year 1616 and sixteen aged 63. years or more and was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. of Carlile Soon after was a brassplate set up on the wall over his grave by the care and charge of Bernard Robinson his brother and heir with an inscription and verses thereon running almost word for word or at least in sense with that inscription on a brass plate also fastned to the south wall near to the Altar in Qu. coll chappel in Oxon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 124. a. b. In which book p. 116. b. you may also see something of his benefaction to the said coll In the See of Carlile succeeded one Dr. Rob. Snoden or Snowden of Cambridge Prebendary of Southwell third Son of Ralph Snoden of Mansfeild Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire the temporalities of which See were given to him 20. Dec. 1616. He died at London while the Parliament was sitting in the latter end of
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
Perne in the book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under the year 1557. written by John Fax wherein you 'll find him a zealous Man for the Cath. cause in the Reign of Qu. Mary One of both his names who was M. of A. and sometimes Fellow of Katherine hall in Cambridge afterwards Minister of Wilby in Northamptonshire was a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament that began at Westminster an 1640 ran with those times and published several Sermons I find another And. Perne LL. D. sometimes an Inhabitant of Westwratting in Cambridgshire who died in 1680. An. Dom. 1554. An. 1 2 Mariae Chanc. the same Vicechanc. John Warner Doct. of Phys and Warden of All 's Coll. was designed by letters from the Chancellour Proct. Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll. Christop Hargrave of Linc. Coll. Which Proctors taking their places on the nones of April Maur. Bullock and Gilb. Mounson of Ch. Ch substitute to Mr. Spencer receeded Bach. of Arts. Jul. 4. Will. Barker of Magd. Coll. One of both his names translated into English An exhortation to his kinsman to the study of the Scriptures Lond. 1557. oct written by St. Basil the Great Whether he be the same with the Bach. of Arts Quaee Anth. Russh of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Jul. 11. John Bodye One of both his names supplicated to be admitted Bach. of the Civil Law an 1552 which I take to be the same with this who was Bach. of Arts but not the same who was executed at Andâ—ver in Hampshire an 1583 for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England See more in these Fasti among the Masters of Arts an 1575. Jul. 16. Tho. Atkyns He was elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Mert. Coll. this year in whose Cat. or Alb. of Fellows this addition is put to his name Fuit procurator generalis regius apud Wallos Reginae Elizabethae à consiliis ibidem ad audiendum determinandum malefacta cujuscunque generis justitiarius c. He was born in the Dioc. of Worcester but took no higher Degree in this University Mar. 13. John Bridgwater Aquepâ—ntanus either now of Brasnose Coll. or of Hart hall He was afterwards a learned Jesuit Admitted 48. Doct. of Musick Apr. 21. John Shepheard who had been a Studenâ— in Musick for the space of 20 years did then by his Dean supplicate the ven congregation that he might be licensed to proceed in that faculty that is to be admitted Doctor of Musick but whether he was admitted or stood in any Act following it appears not in our registers The words of some of his Church services are made publick in The Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in Cathedrals c. Lond. 1663. oct collected and published by James Clifford as I have told you under the year 1548. I have seen some of his compositions of six parts in six MS. Books remaining at this day in the Archives of our publ Musick School containing Church Musick or Anthems and certain Songs Mast of Arts. But 13 were admitted this year among whom Will. Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll. was one afterwards a Cardinal and Archb. as I have before told you and Sextus Quaterman of New Coll. another In an Act celebrated 16. July were 19 that stood of whom the said Allyn was junior whom we usually call Junior of the Act who with the Senior perform exercise in the name of the rest of the Masters Bach. of Div. Jun. 7. Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. sometimes Cross-bearer to Cardinal Wolsey now Fellow of Eaton Coll. and Canon of Windsore was adm to the reading of the Sentences by Dr. O. Oglethorp Dean of Winds in a certain Chamber belonging to his Lodgings there by power and authority given to him for that purpose by Dr. Rich. Smyth Provicechancellour of the University This Mr. Cole had his grace granted in order to the taking of that Degree in 1545 and in 1555 he succeeded the said Dr. Oglethorp in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. Jul. 5. John Boxall of New Coll. He was now Archdeacon of Ely and Warden of the Coll. near Winchester c. Besides these two were but 3 more admitted this year Doct. of Civil Law Jul. 13. Tho. Huyck of Mert. Coll. He died at London 1575 having a little before been made the first and original Fellow of Jesus Coll. to which he was a Benefactor Rob. Raynold of New Coll. was licensed to proceed the same day He was now Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near to Winchester Prebendary of Linc. and Chichester and about 1557 Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near to Winton Will. Awbrey of All 's Coll. was admitted also on the same day See before under the year 1549. A Person he was of exquisite learning and singular prudence and therefore mention'd with honour by Thuanus and others He was born in Bricknockshire particularly as I conceive at Cantre wrot divers things but not printed among which are several letters to his Cousin Dr. John Dee concerning the Sovereignty of the Seas some of which I have seen and dying 23. Jul. 1595 was buried within the Cath. Church of St. Paul in London Afterwards there was a Mon. with his bust set over his grave which with the Cathedral it self was consumed in that dismal conflagration which hapned in that great City in the beginning of Sept. 1666. Doct. of Physick May 9. Rich. Master of All 's Coll. On the 14. of March 1562 he was installed Prebendary of Fridaythorpe in the Church of York being about that time Physician of the Chamber to Qu. Elizabeth His eldest Son George Master setled in the Abbey at Cirencester in Glocestershire where his posterity yet remaineth Another Son named Robert was Doctor of the Civ Law in 1594 as I shall tell you when I come to that year Rich. Caldwell or Chaldwall lately of Ch. Ch. but originally of Brasnose Coll. was admitted the same day Thom. Francis of Ch. Ch. was also admitted the same day After this Person had taken the Degree of M. of A. he applyed his studies to the Theological faculty but the encouragement thereof being in these days but little he transfer'd himself to the School of Physicians and with the consent and approbation of Dr. Wryght the Vicechancellour was entred on the Physick line 4. Aug. 1550. In the year after I find him supplying the place and office of the Kings Professor of Physick being I presume only Deputy for Dr. John Warner and on the 9. Mar. 1553 he was admitted Bach. of Phys In 1561 he succeeded Hugh Hodgson in the Provostship of Qu. Coll. and was afterwards Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much respected by her Jul. 14. John Symings or Symmings In what Coll. or Hall educated I know not Sure I am that he was one of the Coll. of Physicians in London where he was in great practice and dying in his house in Little St. Barthelmew in Smithfield 7. July 1588 was buried in the Church
were admitted among whom Laurence Twyne of All 's Coll. was one an ingenious Poet of his time Mast of Arts. Apr. 14. Arthur Atey of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Orator of the University Principal of St. Albans hall Secretary to that great and popular Count Robert Earl of Leicester and after his death became a favourite to another popular Person called Robert Earl of Essex in whose treasons being engaged in 1600 was forced to abscond and withdraw himself for a time In the beginning of K. James 1. he had the honour of Knighthood conferr'd upon him and dying in 1604 was buried in the Church of Harrow on the hill in Middlesex Jul. 3. Edm. Campian Greg. Martin of St. John Coll. Oct. 20. Tho. Brasbridge Lawr. Tomson Thom. Kingsmill of Magd Coll. Nov. 20. Edm. Raynolds of C. C. Coll. This Person who was a moderate Romanist gained to himself a great name by a publick disputation had with his younger Brother John held before Robert E. of Leycester an 1584. See Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 300. 301. He died 21 Nov. 1630. aged 92 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Wolvercote near Oxon. where he had an estate which he left to his Sisters Son named Matthew Cheriton Esq Feb. 3. Christoph Wharton of Trin. Coll. This Person who was a Yorkshire Man born did soon after leave his Fellowship of that house his Country and Friends and went to Douay where he was made a R. Cath. Priest Afterwards he returned and officiated as a Seminary being esteemed among those of his party a very godly Man At length being taken and imprison'd was for being a R. Cath. Priest and denying the Queens Supremacy executed at York 28. March 1600. 14. Edm. Bunney of Magd. soon after of Mert. Coll. Admitted 39. ☞ Not one Bach. of Div. was adm this year Doct. of Civ Law Feb. 14. John Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Judge of the Admiralty Rob. Lougher commonly called Loffer of All 's Coll. was admitted on the same day He was now Principal of New Inn was soon after the Queens Professor of the Civil Law and Chancellour of Exeter In May 1577 he was constituted Official of the Consistory of Edwin Archb. of York and his Vicar General in spirituals being then a Civilian belonging to the Arches He died in the beginning of June 1583 leaving behind him a Son named John ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys or Div. was admitted this year Incorporations Feb. 20. Rob. Johnson M. A. of Cambridge was then incorporated being the very next day after the Act had been celebrated This Rob. Johnson who was Son of Maurice Johnson Alderman of Stanford in Lincolnshire was afterwards Bach. of Div. and twice made Prebendary of Rochester which he twice resign'd In 1570 he was installed Prebendary of Norwych which Dignity he resigning Griffith Toy M. A. of Jes Coll. in Oxon succeeded an 1575. In 1572 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Joh. Browne Bac. of Div. and in 1591 he was made Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Hugh Blythe Can. of Windsore resigning being about that time honorary Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. He founded two Grammar Schools in Rutlandshire one at Vphingham and another at Okeham two Hospitals also in the same County which he endowed four exhibitioners in Sydney Coll. in Cambridge to come from the said Free-schools and was a benefactor to the weekly Preachers at St. Pauls Cross in London He died on the first of Aug. 1625 being then or lately Rector of N. Luffenham in Rutlandshire In 1560 one Edm. Johnson Schoolmaster of St. Anthonies in London became Canon of Windsore and then by little and little as one observes followed the spoil of St. Authonies Hospital He first dissolved the choire conveyed away the plate and ornaments then the bells and lastly put out the Almes-men from their houses allowing them portions of 12 d. per week which also in short time vanished away This I thought good to let the reader know because the Author here quoted having reported these matters to be done by one Johnson have caused some to think them done by Reb. Johnson beforemention'd Creations Feb… Thom. Yong Archbishop of York who was admitted Bachelaur of the Civil Law an 1537 being then of Broadgates hall was by power granted by the ven Congregation of Regents 13. Feb. this year actually created soon after at London as it seems Doctor of his faculty by Dr. Dav. Lewes and Doctor Tho Huyck An. Dom. 1565. An. 7 8 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester c. Commiss Dr. Kernnall elected by scrutiny in a Convocation on the 25. Feb. Proct. Thom. Garbrand alias Herks of Magd. Coll. John Merick of New Coll. elect 2. Mar. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. Christoph Perkins In what Coll. or Hall this Person was educated I know not Sure I am that he leaving the University abruptly without compleating his Degree by Determination went beyond the Seas and having spent some time in one of the new erected Seminaries entred into the society of Jesus and lived among them in good repute for his learning At length upon the coming to Rome under the name of a Traveller of Mr. William Cecill afterwards Earl of Exeter Grandson to Will Lord Burleigh there were whisperings in the English Coll. of doing him some mischief in revenge for what his Grandfather had done in apprehending several Priests and putting them to death yet they came to nothing Whereupon Perkins possessed him with fears and took upon him to direct him what to do and how tobehave himself And when Mr. Cecill had seen Rome and the Monuments thereof Perkins did conduct him out of the City and being a Man of a very great understanding and Mr. Cecill therefore delighting much in his company he perswaded him to accompany him to England Afterwards they came together and Mr. Cecill recommending him to his Grandfather for a wise understanding Man and one that had taken much care of him at his being in Rome and withal having been a Jesuit he was now reconciled to the Church of England the Lord Burleigh did thereupon precure for him the Deanery of Carlile which had been before possess'd by Sir John Wolley and about the same time procured of the Queen that he should be employed into Germany to make answer in the Queens name to the complaints of the Hanse-towns about their customes to the Emperour an 1595. After his return tho it was the desire of the said Lord Burleigh that he should live at Carlile and follow the Ministry and nothing else yet he lived in London and being brought into the acquaintance of Dr. Bancroft Bishop of that place that Doctor did make use of him both for his discovery beyond the Seas and likewise upon other occasions In 1600 he with the said Doctor and Joh. Swale were as Delegates or Embassadors sent by the Queen to Embden to parley
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
Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated the degrees in Divinity … Rich. Lloyd of Linc. Coll. He was about this time dignified in Wales and dying at Ruabon in Denbighshire of which place I think he was Minister about 1642 was buried there Jun. ult Samps Price of Exet. July 7. Rich Tillesley of S. Joh. Joh. Tapsell of Mert. Coll. This Joh. Tapsell who was the Son of Rob. Tapsell was born at Garsingdon near to and in the County of Oxon about the begining of Febr. 1571 admitted prob Fellow of the said house of Merton an 1593 took the degrees in Arts being then accounted a most excellent Disputant and Orator and a person of prodigious memory In 1599 Jul. 9 he according to the Statute of his Coll. did publickly dispute and speak speeches against the opinion of Aristotle which the said Satute stiles varying in the common Refectory of that house on these three Thâ—ses 1 Juvenis est idoneus auditor moralis philosophiae 2 Probanda est in sene verecumdia 3 Bonus à malo per dimidiam vitae partem differt Which Speeches being esteemed most admirable in their kind and of a Ciceronian stile were upon the desire of many of the Auditors printed in an octavo vol. but in what year I know not for few Copies being printed I could never see one He was afterwards a Lecturer in the City of York and at length in London where he died about 1630. July 9. John Holt 12. Dan. Featley of C. C. Coll. The first of these last two was Prebendary of Westminster and afterwards President of the said Coll. of C. C. He died 10 Jan. 1630 and was buried in the Church of S. Peter at Westminster whereupon Dr. Lodowick Weems or Wemmys succeeded him in his Prebendship As for the other Dr. Featly alias Fairclough will be large mention made of him in the second vol. Dec. 16. Francis Gibbons of Ch. Ch. He died in the Parish of S. Cross of which he was Parson near to Shrewsbury in 1639 or thereabouts Incorporations July 14. Arthur Lake M. A. of Cambridge He was Son if I mistake not to Sir Tho. Lake one of the Secretaries of State These following Masters of Cambr. were incorporated on the 15 July being the next day after the Act had been concluded Thomas Goad Mast of Arts of Kings Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Archb. Abbot Rector of Hadley in Suffolk Doct. of Div. Prebendary of Canterbury c. a great and general Scholar exact Critick and Historian a Poet Schoolman and Divine This pâ—rson who was Son of Dr. Roger Goad Provost of Kings Coll. before mention'd died in the year 1636 or thereabouts Another Tho. Goad was Doctor of the Laws and the Kings Professor of that Faculty in Cambridge who died about the beginning of 1666. Of one Tho. Goade see in the Pamphlet entit A Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 27. Benj. Laney M. of Arts. He was the fourth Son of a wealthy Merchant of Ipsuâ—ych named Joh. Laney Esq who sparing nothing that might advance his education took him from School and caused him to be admitted a Student in Christs Coll. in Cambr. Where making great proficiency in his studies was removed to Pembroke Hall of which he became Fellow and contemporary there with Ralph Brownrig Afterwards he was made Master of that house Doct. of Div. Vicechancellour of the University Chaplain in ordinary to K. Ch. 1 Prebendary of Winchester and about the same time of Westminster in the place of Lambert Osbaldeston deprived an 1638 and afterwards upon the restauration of Osbaldeston by the Long Parliament in the place of Griffith Williams an 1641. Soon after he was outed of his Mastership of Pembroke Hall for his Loyalty and about that time did attend in his Majesties Service in the Treaty at Vxbridge being then esteemed a learned Divine Afterwards when his Majesty Ch. 2. was in exile he did in a most dutiful manner attend him and for several years after suffer'd great calamity as innumerable Royalists did Upon his Majesty's return to his Kingdoms he was restored to his Headship and in recompence of his sufferings he was first made Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Turner in which Dignity he was installed 24 of July 1660 and soon after had the Bishoprick of Peterborough confer'd upon him with liberty to keep his Mastership in commendam to which he received Consecration in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster on Sunday Decemb. 2. an 1660. Afterwards upon the death of Dr. Rob. Sanderson he was translated to Lincoln and on the death of Dr. M. Wrenn to Ely where he sate to the time of his death in the latter end of 1674. Five of his Sermons preached before the King were printed in 1668 9. And after his death were published his Observations on a letter about liberty and necessity c. Lond. 1676 in tw which Letter was written to the Duke of Newcastle by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury Rich. Holdsworth M. A. of S. Johns Coll. This most eminent and loyal person was a Native of Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland where for some time he was educated in Gramaticals afterwards being sent to the said Coll. he made wonderful proficiency in Arts and Theology became successively Divinity Professor of Gresham Coll. being about that time D. of D. Master of Emanuel Coll. several times Vicechancellour of Cambridge Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Dr. Owen Gwynn Master of S. John's Coll. before mention'd deceased an 1633 which Dignity Gwynn had confer'd upon him in 1622 upon the resignation of Dr. Laud and at length upon the grant of the Deanery of Durham to Dr. Christopher Potter in the latter end of 1645 had the grant of the Deanery of Worcester made unto him having in the beginning of the grand Rebellion refused the Bishoprick of Bristow But the principles of this reverend Doctor being wholly orthodox he suffered therefore very much during the miserable condition which the Members of the Long Parliament had brought this Kingdom to lost most if not all his Spiritualities was several times imprison'd yet afterwards being at liberty he attended his Majesty in his disconsolate and afflicted condition at Hampton Court and in the Isle of Wight At length after he had seen him crown'd with Martyrdom he surrendered up his pious soul to him that gave it on the 22 Aug. 1649. Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Peter le poore in London of which Church he had been Minister till the violence of the Presbyterians forced him thence an 1642. After his death were published some of his Works viz. 1 Valley of vision in 21 Sermons printed 1651. qu. 2 Praelectiones Theologicae habitae in Collegio Greshamensi apud Londinenses Lond. 1661. fol. which last book was published by Dr. Pearson his Nephew who hath set an account of his life before that book Henry Burton Abraham Gibson Of these two who were
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
in Oxon. before the two Houses of Parliament on 1. Sam. 15. 23. Oxon. 1644. qu. Whether these two are the same or whether he that was the Author of the Looking-glass for rebellion was Author of the Mystery of the incarnation being a Serm. on John 1. ver 14. printed 1648. in qu. I know not or whether the same who was incorporated M. of A. beforemention'd I find one Dr. Nathaniel Bernard to have died beyond the Seas in 1656 whom I take to be the same with him who was Author of the Looking-glass c. Richard Culmer M. of A. This busie Man I find was born in the Isle of Thanet in Kent educated in Grammar learning in the City of Canterbury and in Academical in Magd. Coll. in Cambridge Afterwards he became Minister of Goodneston in his own Country was suspended ab officio beneficio for refusing to read the book of sports on the Lords day For which usuage being much provoked he became a bitter enemy to Archbishop Laud to the Cathedral at Canterbury and to all the prelatical Party in the beginning of the rebellion raised and carried on by the disaffected Party About that time he became Minister of Harbledowne in Kent and if I mistake not Vicar of St. Stephens near to Canterbury in the place of Mr. John Gouge ejected thence for refusing the Covenant And least he should not be esteemed as zealous a Brother for the cause as any then in being he published a most vile Pamphlet intit Cathedral news or Dean and Chapter news from Canterbury Lond. 1644. qu. In which heaping up all that he could rake together against the Cathedral of Canterbury Archbishop Dean Canons and other Officers belonging thereunto had immediatly two answers from Oxon. one in a Pamphlet intit The razing of the record c. Oxon. 1644. in two sh and half in qu. and in another called Antidotum Culmerianum or animadversions upon a late Pamphlet entit Cathedral news from Canterbury c. Oxon. 1644. qu. in 5 sheets In which last is set down many actions of Culmers life his demeanour while he was in the University of Cambridge and in the Country his refractoriness impudence covetousness unnaturalness c. and what not that the Author thereof who was a most generous Loyalist and who knew him could put together to display him to the World There also goes under the said R. Culmers name The Ministers hue and cry or a true discovery of the insufferable injuries robberies c. acted against Ministers c. Lond. 1651. qu. in 3. sh as also Lawless tythe robbers discovered who make tytherevenew a Mock-maintenance c. Lond. 1655 besides other things which I have not yet seen After the Kings restauration he continued so zealous in his opinion as to engage for so it was notoriously suspected in that hellish plot for which Thomas Venner Rog. Hodgkin c. Anabaptists and Fiftmonarchy-men suffered in Coleman-street in London 9. Jan. 1660. But the spirit of the Man being as well known as his face he was taken posting up from Canterbury to London riding upon Chattam hill Whereupon being committed for a time he among several examinations was asked why he brake down those famous Windows of Christ Church in Canterbury to which he answer'd he did it by order of Parliament and being asked why in one window which represented the Devil tempting our Saviour he brake down Christ and left the Devil standing he answer'd he had an order to take down Christ but had no order to take down the Devil Whereby was understood that those plotting brethren did mean when they intended to set up King Jesus to pull down Christ This Richard Culmer who was commonly called in Kent Blew Dick of Thanet because he wore blew in opposition to black which he hated lived several years after and dying but when I know not was buried in the Parish Church of Monkton in the said Isle of Thanet Ralph Brownring Doct. of Div. This learned and most religious Person was born at Ipswich in Suffolke was bred Scholar and Fellow of Pembroke hall in Cambridge became afterwards Prebendary of Eâ—y Master of Catherine hall in the said University and Archdeacon of Coventry in the room of Dr. Sam. Brook In 1641 he was made Bishop of Exeter to the liking of all good Men upon the translation of Dr. Joseph Hall to Norwych but the Episcopal function being soon after silenced he became after some years spent in the family of Tho. Rich. Esq afterwards a Baronet Preacher to the Temples in London where being settled according to his desire with all conveniences surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it 7. Dec. 1659. Whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to the said Temples on the 17. day of the same month at the charge of the Templers who also put a very fair monument over his grave Dr. John Gauden preached then his funeral Sermon and at the end of it printed a short account of his life which is mostly remitted without acknowledgment into a book intit Memoires of the lives c. published by Dav. Lloyd This Dr. Brownrig hath two volumes of Sermons extant whereof the second contains 25 and both 65 Sermons All which Cambridge Men viz. Spurstow Rainbow Ball Creyghton Sheringham Nic. and Nath. Bernard Culmer and Dr. Brownrig were among many others of the University of Cambridge incorporated on the said 15. of July Afterwards these following were incorporated this year Oct. 27. Maurice Williams Doct. of Phys of Padua in Italy He was the Son of Lewis Williams of the Diocess of London was educated in Oriel Coll. of which he became Fellow in 1620. Afterwards resigning it in 1631. settled in London was Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians a Knight and eminent for his practice in that faculty He died in his house within the Parish of St. Anne Black-friers in London in the beginning of the year 1658 and was there I suppose buried Nov. 6. Rob. Hall Bach. of Arts of Cambridge now of Exeter Coll. He was Son of Dr. Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter and was admitted M. of A. of this University in Feb. following See among the created Doctors of Div. an 1643. Mar… James Primerose M. of A. of the University of Bourdeaux and Doct. of Phys of Mountpelier was incorporated Doctor of Physick This learned Doctor who was Son of Dr. Gilb. Primerose mention'd before under the year 1624. was born in the City of St. Jeand ' Angely in the Province of Xantoigne in France and afterwards lived and practised his faculty at Hull in Yorkshire where and in most parts of that Country he was esteemed an eminent Physician He hath written and published several books the titles of some of which follow 1 Exercitationes animadversiones in Librum Gulielmi Harvaei de motu cordis circulatione sanguinis Lond. 1630. Lugd. Bat. 1639. qu. Answered by one Roger Drake Doct. of Phys of Cambr. Son of Rog. Drake
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
Sackvile being afterwards a noted Man in the Eye of Q. Elizabeth to whom he was an Allie and in the State the composition of the whole was attributed to him and the ingenious men of that age did esteem the said Tragedy to be the best of its time even in Sir Philip Sidney's judgment who tells us that it is full of stately Speeches and well sounding Phrases climyng to the heighth of Seneca's stile and as full of notable morality which it doth most delightfully teach and so obtain the very and of Poâ—sie yet in truth it is very desectious in the circumstances c. Our author Sackvile also wrote Induction to the Mirrour of Magistrates Not to that Mirrour published by Will. Baldwyn but to that I suppose which was published by Joh. Higens an eminent Poet of his time whom I shall farther mention in Rich. Nicolls an 1615. Which Induction with the Mirrour it self were highly valued by Scholars in the time of Q. Elizabeth What else this Noble Person hath made publick I know not nor any thing besides material of him only that dying suddenly at the Council board being one of the Privy Council to K. James on the 19. year 1608 of Apr. in sixteen hundred and eight was buried in the Church of Withyam before-mentioned From him is lineally descended Charles Sackvile now Earl of Dorset and Middlesex a person that hath been highly esteemed for his admirable vein in Poetry and other polite learning as several things of his composition while Lord Buckhurst shew LAURENCE TOMSON was born in Northamptonshire elected Demy of Magd. coll 1556. aged 17. and soon after being a great proficient in Logick and Philosopy was admitted Probationer 11. Sept. 1559. and the year after perpetual fellow of the said coll In 1564. he proceeded in Arts was with Sir Tho. Hoby in his Embassie to France and in 1568. he resigned his fellowship What became of him afterward let his Epitaph following speak while I tell you that he translated from Lat. into English 1 Sermons on the Epistles to Timothy and Titus Lond. 1579. qu. written by John Calvin 2 Version and annotations on the New Test Lond. 1589. in oct Which version and annot were made in lat by Theod. Beza He also translated from French into English 1 A Treatise of the excellency of a Christian man Lond. 1576. and 85. in oct written by Monsieur Peter de la Place one of the Kings Councel and chief President of the Court of Aides in Paris 2 The life and death of Pet. de la Place c. Lond. 1576. and 85. in oct What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I cannot tell year 1608 He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Chertsey in Surrey Over his grave was this Epitaph soon after fastned on the east wall of the said chancel Laurentio Tomsono honesta Tomsoniorum familia in agro Northamptoniensi oriundo in collegio Magdal Oxon. educato perigrinatione Sueviae Russiae Daeniae Germaniae Italiae Galliae nobilitato duodecem linguarum cognitione instructo Theologiae Juris civilis municipalis nostri totiusque literaturae politioris scientiae claro ingenii acumine disputandi subtilitate cloquenai suavitate lepore virtute omni pietateque insigni linguae Hebraicae publica Genevae professione celebri accurata Novi Testamenti translatione notabili In politicis apud Walsinghamam Elizabethae Reginae Scribam pracipuum diu multumque exercitato post cujus mortem vitae privatae umbratilisque jucunditate annos XX. continuos Lalamiae Middlisexiae persuncto septuagenario placidissime religiosissmoque desuncto quarto calendas Aprilis an 1608. Vxor Jana Jana filia ex quinque una superstes filiabus amoris ergo posuerunt pietatis The report at Chersey is that he built the House which now stands on the top of S. Anns-hill in Chertsey parish out of the ruins of S. Anns-chappel and on the very place where that chappel stood having a prospect into several Counties In which House the Inhabitants of the neighbourhood will tell you that this learned author died WILLIAM WARFORD received his first breath in that part of Bristow which is in Sommersetshire was admitted a Scholar of Trinity coll 13. June 1576. probationer two years after being then Bach. of Arts Fellow 1579. and Master of Arts in 82. But having more a mind to the Ro. Cath. religion in which he was partly educated than to Protestancy he left the college his friends and the nation went to Rome and obtaining entrance into the English coll there profited very much in Divinity At length being ordained Priest he was sent into the mission of England where making but little stay he returned to Rome and in the year 1594. he was entred into the society of Jesus Afterwards being sent by his Superiors into Spain he spent the remainder of his time in the English Seminaries there He hath written A short institution containing the chief mysteries of Christian religion collected from the holy Scriptures and Fathers Sevil 1600. and at S. Omers in 1616. Translated into Latine by Tho. More a Jesuit descended from the famous Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chancellor of England Printed at S. Omers in 1617. The said Warford also translated into English several of the Histories of Saints written by Pet. Ribadeneira but died before he could finish them at Valladolid in Spain on the 3. Nov. according the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred and eight and was buried in the college of the Jesuits there year 1608 leaving behind him other matters which were in a manner fit for the Press and the character among those of his profession of a godly and learned man WILLIAM WILKES a most excellent preacher in the Court of K. James 1. was born within the diocess of Lichfeild and Coventry elected Probationer-fellow of Merton coll in 1572. entred into the sacred function when Master of Arts and in 1580. became Vicar of the Church of S. Peter in the East within the City of Oxon by the presentation thereunto of the Warden and Society of the said coll where for his excellent Sermons he was much frequented by Scholars and Citizens Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity he resigned the said Church being well beneficed in Wiltshire and dignified After K. James came to the English Crown he was made one of his Chaplains in ordinary preached often before him to his great content and wrote Of obedience or Ecclesiastical union Lond. 1605. oct A second memento for Magistrates directing how to reduce all offenders and being reduced how to preserve them in the Unity and Love both in Church and Commonwealth Lond. 1608. oct As for the first memento I have not yet seen unless it be meant of the book Of Obedience c. He died at Barford S. Martins in Wiltshire of which he was Rector leaving behind him one only daughter named Mary who
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