his said Widow Dorothy whose Daughter Mary hath Verses before in commendation of them This Dr. Peter Lilye gave way to fate in the latter end of 1614 12. Jac. 1. and was buried in the Church belonging to the Savoy beforementioned Will. Lilye the Grammarian had a Daughter named Dionysia who was married to his Usher John Ritwise or Rightwyse afterwards Master of St. Paul's School on the Death of his Father-in Law and a most eminent Grammarian in his Generation This Person by the way I must tell you was born at Sawl in Norfolk educated in Eaton School near Windsor elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1507. made the Tragedy of Dido out of Virgil and acted the same with the Scholars of his School before Cardinal Wolsey with great applause One Rich. Jones Succeeded him in the Government of St. Paul's School 1532. 24. Hen. 8. in which Year Ritwise perhaps died Afterwards his Widow Dionysia took to her second Husband James Jacob who was one of the Masters of the said School by whom he had a Son called Polydore Jacob. In the next Centery after the Death of our Famous Will. Lilye appeared as a Comet to the Vulgar from Leicestershire one of both his Names a great pretender to Astrology and Physick and in âuch considering his Education which was without the help of an Academy he was eminent He began to write much about the time when the grand Rebellion commenc'd wrot in favour of the Long Parliament and their proceedings and many notorious matters against the Royal Family which being highly resented by the generous Loyalist he was aimed at upon His Majesties Restauration in 1660. to be brought to condign punishment But upon the Intercession of George Wharton to whom Lilye had been civil in the times of Usurpation and others he escaped and continued in writing his Ephemerides to the time of his Death This Person who pretended much to Prophecy of which he hath published several Pamphlets especially in his said Ephemerides and had exercised the trade of Conjuration among ignorant People died at Walton upon Thames in Surrey where he had purchased a fair Estate with the Moneys he had got by imposing on the Vulgar with his Juggles on the 9th day of June an 1681. Aged near 80 Years and was buried in the middle of the Church there towards the North Wall Soon after was a black Marble Stone with an Inscription thereon laid over his Grave by his Friend Elias Ashmole Esq A little before his Death he did adopt for his Son by the Name of Merlin Junior one Will. Coley a Taylor by Trade and a Native of Magd. Parish in the North Suburb of Oxon and at the same time gave him the Impression of his Ephemeris after it had been Printed for 36 Years which Coley continues to this day The Writings of this Lilly being too many to be here inserted I shall only give you the canting and amusing Titles of some as 1 Englands Prophetical Merlin 2 English Merlin revived c. 3 Storry Messenger or an interpretation of the strange Apparition of three Suns 4 A Collection of Ancient and Modern Prophecies c. 5 Astrological Prediction of the occurrences in England 6 The Worlds Catastrophy 7 Monarchy and no Monarchy c. 8 Annus tenebrosus or the dark Year c. 9 Christian Astrology c. JOHN STANBRIDGE another noted Grammarian of his time was born at Heyford in Northamptonshire educated in Trivials in Whykehams School near Winchester admitted after two Years of probation true and perpetual Fellow of New College in the Year 1481 left it Five Years after and being naturally delighted in the faculty of Grammar tho then Bac. of Arts he was made first Usher of the Free-School joyning to Magd. Coll. for so he occurs in the Year 1488. and after the Death of Job Anwykyll chief Master thereof in which employment he continued if I mistake not to the time of his Death and became so happy in the practice of his profession that many Persons who proved afterwards eminent acknowledged to have received instruction from him Among such Rob. Whittington was one by whose endeavours as also those of Stanbridge Will. Horman and Will. Lilye all Oxford Students the Latin tongue was much refin'd and amended This Jo. Stanbridge was a right worthy Lover of his faculty and an indefatigable Man in teaching and writing as it may appear by those things that he hath published very grateful to the Muses and publick concerns The last of which he consulted more than his own private interest and when in his old Age he should have withdrawn himself from his profession which is esteem'd by the generality a drudgery and have lived upon what he had gotten in his younger Years he refused it lived poor and bare to his last yet with a juvenile and cheerful Spirit He hath written Embryon relimatum sive Vocabularium Metricum This I have seen Printed in an old English Character about 1522. in qu. In the title of which is the Authors Picture Printed from a Wooden Cut sitting in a Chair with his Gown on and a Hood on his Shoulders but no Cap on his Head only a close one like to a Curlot This Book was view'd and corrected in Qu. Elizabeth's time by Thomas Newton of Cheshire who hath an Encomium upon it Afterwards enlarged and made to run in compleat Verse by that noted Grammarian John Brinsley sometimes a Schoolmaster and Minister in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk an 1636. I mean the same Brinsley who married the Sister of Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Norwich and wrot and published several Books of Divinity and Grammar besides translations Stanbridge also wrot Parvulorum Institutiones De ordine constructionum Vulgaria With other things which I have not yet seen He lived beyond the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and two but when he died or where he was buried unless in Magd. Coll. Chap. or Yard belonging thereunto I know not One Thomas Stanbridge his Kinsman I think took the Degree of Master of Arts in this University an 1518. being then a noted Schoolmaster of Benbury in Oxfordshire who dying 1522 left several Books to the Coll. of which he had been Fellow which if I mistake not was Magd. College NICHOLAS VAUX Son of Sir Will. Vaux of Harwedon in Northamptonshire by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Gregory Penystone of Curtesels in Piemont a Province of Italy was born in that County Northamptonshire and in his juvenile Years was sent to Oxon where by reading Humane and Romantick rather than Philosophical Authors advanced his Genie very much in Poetry and History In his riper Years he followed the Camp did King Hen. 7. noted service in the Battel of Stoke near Newark in the second Year of his Reign and thereupon he received the Honor of Knighthood In the 17th Year of that Kings Reign he appeared like a Star at the Marriage of Prince Arthur for the Gown of Purple Velvet which he
Ch. Ch. by the players in their gowns for they were all Scholars that acted among whom were Miles Windsore and Thom. Twyne of C. C. C. before the Queen came to Oxon was by them so well liked that they said it far surpassed Damân and Pythias than which they thought nothing could be better Likewise some said that if the Author did proceed to make more plays before his death he would run mad But this it seems was the last for he lived not to finish others that he had laying by him He also wrot Several Poems in Engl. and Latine Those that speak English are for the most part extant in a Book intit The paradise of dainty devises Lond. 1578. qu. Which Book being mostly written by him was published by Hen. D'isle a Printer with other Mens Poems mix'd among them Among which are those of Edward Vere Earl of Oxford the best for Comedy in his time who died an aged Man 24 June 1604. Will. Hunnys a crony of Tho. Newton the Lat Poet who hath about nine Copies in the said collection Jasp Heywood Nich. Lord Vaux Franc. Kynwelmersh who hath about 8 Copies therein R. Hall R. Hill T. Marshall Tho Churchyard a Salopian Lodowyke Lloyd one Yâoop and several others At length this noted Poet and Comedian R. Edwards made his last Exit before he arrived to his middle age year 1566 in Fifteen hundred sixty and six or thereabouts When he was in the extremity of his sickness he composed a noted Poem called Edwards Soulknil or the Soules knell which was commended for a good piece One George Turbervile in his Book of Epitaphs Epigrams Songs Sonnets c. which I shall hereafter mention printed at Lond. the second time 1570 hath an Epitaph on his death made by Tho. Twyne of C. C. Coll. and another by himself ROBERT POINTZ to whom Alderliâ in Glocestershire where his Family was gentile gave breath and Wykehams School near to Winehester education was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1554 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being confer'd upon him in 1560 but went away before he compleated it by standing in the Comitia Afterwards leaving his Relations Country and all future expectation for Religion sake settled at Lovaine in Brabant as it seems became a Student in Divinity and published Testimonies for the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar set forth at large and faithfully translated out of six ancient Fathers which lived far within six hundred years Lov. 1566. oct Certain notes declaring the force of those testimonies and detecting sometimes the Sacramentaries false dealing Printed with the former book Miracles performed by the Eucharist This last with other things that he hath written as 't is said I have not yet seen An 100 years after this R. Pointz lived another of both his names and of the same Family a writer also and a Knight of the Bath whom I shall remember hereafter ANTHONY BROWNE Son of Sir Weston Browne of Abbesroding and of Langenhoo in Essex Knight by Eliz. his Wife one of the Daughters of Will. Mordant of Turwey in Bedfordsh Esq Son of Rob. Browne by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Charlton Son of Rob. Browne of Wakefield in Yorkshire by Joane Kirkham his second Wife Son of another Rob. Browne of the West Country was born in Essex and being made soon ripe for the University was sent thereunto but before he had taken a Degree he was transplanted to the Middle Temple of which after he had been some years an Inner Barrester he was elected summer-Reader 1 o Mariae but did not read till the Lent following In the 2 Year of the said Queens Reign he with several others were by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law and was the antientest of the call and soon after was made Serjeant to the King and Queen In oct 1558. 5. and 6. of Ph. and Mar. he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-pleas but the said Qu. Mary dying soon after and Elizabeth succeeding she remov'd him thence and placed in his room Sir James Dyer Whereupon A. Browne was made for a time as it seems a Justice of the Common-pleas and soon after one of the Justices of the Common-bench in which dignity he dyed having but an year before his death received the honor of Knighthood from the Queen at the Parliament house Edom. Plowden the famous Lawyer doth give this testimony of him that he was a Judge of a profound genie and great eloquence And all eminent Men of that Age did esteem him as able a Person as any that lived in Qu. Elizabeths time and therefore fit to have obliged posterity by his Pen had not too much modesty laid in the way What he did as to that was concealed and partly published under another name as his Arguments for Marie Queen of Scots her right of Succession to the Crown of England which were published by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse as I shall tell you in Morgan Philipps under the Year 1577. Besides which there is a folio MS. at this day in a private hand entit A discourse upon certain points touching the inheritance of the Crown conceiv'd by Sir Anth. Browne Justice Which Book coming into the hands of Sir Nich. Bacon L. Keeper of England was by him answered and perhaps therein are contained the Arguments before mentioned Our Author Sir Anthony wrot a Book also against Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester as one reports but what the contents of it are he mentions not At length having always lived a R. Catholick he gave way to fate at his house in the Parish of South-weld in Essex on the 6. of May in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven year 1567 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the tenth of June following What Epitaph was put over his Grave I know not Sure it is that these verses were made on him several years after his death which may serve for one Elizabetha nonum regni dum transegit annum Gentis Anglorum regia sceptra tenet Antonium rapiunt Maii mala sydera Brownum Legum qui vivus gloria magna fuit On the 9. Nov. in the same Year in which Sir Anthony died Joan his Widow Daughter of Will. Farington of Farington in Lancashire and formerly the Widow of Charles Bothe Esq died and the 22 of the same Month was buried near to the grave of her second husband Sir Anthony before-mentioned who was Nephew to Sir Humph. Browne of the Middle Temple made Serjeant at Law 23. Hen. 8. one of the Justices of the Kings-bench 34. Hen. 8. and continued in that place till 5 Elizab. at which time he died being about 33 Years after he was made a Serjeant WILLIAM SALESBURY a most exact Critick in British antiquities was born of an ancient and gentile Family in Denbighshire spent several year in
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
trial of a Christian's sincere love to Christ in four Sermons ca 1 Cor. 16. 22. on Ephes 6. ver ult c. Oxon. 1630. c. in tw He died much lamented in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 30. year 1629 or thereabouts and was buried in Magd. coll leaving then beââââ him other things fit to be printed as I have been informed by those that were well acquainted with the man HENRY YELVERTON Son âf Sir Christop ãâã of Eston-Manâuit in Northamptonshire one of the Justices of the Kings ãâã and a descendant from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living sometimes at ãâã in Norfolk was born on S. Peters day in 1566. educated for a time ãâã the Oxonians and afterwards among the Students ãâã ãâã Inn near London where after some time of continuance in the degree of Inner Barrâster he was elected Lent-Reader in 1606. being then accounted a religiâus Gentleman and a person well read in the Municipal ãâã In 1613. he was made Solicitor ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã the endeavours of Carr Earl of ãâã March 1616. he was constituted Attorney ãâã that time committed Prisoner to the Tower for denying to appear and plead publickly against his Patron Carr in the matter of Sir Thomas Overbury's death In 1621. May 5. he was discharged of his office of Attorney fined and committed Prisoner to the Tower again upon a late sentence in the Star-Chamber for passing some clauses in the City-Charter of London when he was Attorney Gen. not agreeable to his Majesty's Warrant These things being mostly done by the power and aggravation of the D. of Bucks who hated him because he had been a friend to Somerset Yelverton continued where he was without any hopes of release or future advance At length upon some things utter'd in Buckingham's care when he came incognito to speak with and examine him concerning certain matters in the Tower he was afterwards released taken into favour and in 1625. was made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and afterwards of the Common Pleas which last he enjoyed to the time of his death and had not the Duke been untimely cut off he would in all probability been made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Under his name goes Several Speeches spoken in Parliament One of which was in answer to matters charged against him by the Commons before the H. of Lords in 1621. Soon after the Lords declared that for sundry things uttered in the said Speech which touched the Kings honour he should be fined to the K. ten thousand marks be imprisoned during the Kings pleasure and make a submission to his Majesty And for the scandal committed in some words against Buckingham he should pay him five thousand marks and make his submission to him Several years after his death was published under his name this book following Reports of divers special cases in the Court of Kings Bench as well in the latter part of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth as in the first ten years of K. James Lond. 1661. and 74. fol. It was printed by the original in French written with the authors own hand remaining with Sir Tho. Twisden Knight one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench and published by Sir Will. Wild Knight and Baronet then 1661. Serjeant at Law the Kings Serjeant and Recorder of the City of London and since one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench He died near Westminster 23. Nov. or thereabouts 1679. Rights of the People of England concerning impositions Lond. 1679. oct He also gathered and published 32 Sermons of Edw. Philips a zealous and Puritannical Preacher as I have told you under the year 1603. and other things as 't is probable of the like nature but such I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 in winter time before February and was buried I suppose where his chief Seat was viz. at Eston-Manduit or Maudet in Northamptonshire leaving then behind him a Son named Robert and a Brother called Sir Christopher who was about that time one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. From this Sir Hen. Yolverton was descended Charles Yelverton who was called up to the House of Lords by the name of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen as being the Son and Heir of Sir Hen. Yelverton Baronet by Susan his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen JOHN ELYOTT or Elliot â Cornish man born and an Esquires Son became a Gent. Com. of Exeter Coll. in Mich. Term an 1607. aged 15 years left the University without a degree after he had continued there about 3 years went to one of the Inns of Court as it seems and was made a Barrester In 1618. May 10. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj at Whitehall and ever after to the time of his death was either elected a Knight of his County or a Burgess for some Borough therein to serve in all Parliaments But so it was that he shewing himself in them an active man for the publick a generous assertor as he pretended of the ancient liberty of the Subject and an enemy to the incroachments made by rising Favourites was several times committed to custody He hath going under his name Several Speeches spoken in Parliament as 1 Speech against George Duke of ãâã and ãâã grievances 2 Sp. by way of Epilogue concerning the Duke of Bucks impeachment These two were spoken in 1626. and soon after he with Sir Dud. Digges who spoke the Prologue to the said impeachment were committed both prisoners to the Tower but soon after were released whereupon Elyott spoke 3 A Sp. to clear himself as to the particulars charged against him In the same year he was imprison'd in the Gatehouse at Westm for refusing to part with money on the Loan and thereupon in a Petition to the King he set forth the illegality of the said Loan or of any Tax without a Parliament Which way he took when his Council would not assist him otherwise alledging farther that his conscience could not submit to it and prayed for his liberty but could not obtain it 4 Speech upon the Kings giving notice to both Houses that he did intend shortly to end the Session of Parliament an 1628. 5 Sp. against the D. of Bucks interrupted in it by the Speaker 6 Sp. concerning Religion an 1628. This was printed in 1641. in one sh in qu. 7 Sp. against particular persons spoken in 1628. and therefore a little before the dissolution of the Parl. he with other Members were committed to the Tower All which Speeches with Certaine Debates of the said Sir Joh. Elyott you may see in the first vol. of Historical Collections made by John Rushworth What more to be added is that about the same time 1628. was an information exhibited against Sir John in the Court of the Kings Bench for a sower of discord for his murmurings seditions c. against the King Nobles Prelates
Athenae Oxonienses An Exact HISTORY OF ALL THE Writers and Bishops Who have had their EDUCATION in The most ancient and famous University OF OXFORD FROM The Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh Dom. 1500 to the End of the Year 1690. REPRESENTING The Birth Fortune Preferment and Death of all those AUTHORS and PRELATES the great Accidents of their LIVES and the Fate and Character of their WRITINGS To which are added The FASTI or Annals of the said University For the same time The First VOLUME Extending to the 16 th Year of King Charles I. Dom. 1640. Antiquam exquirite Matrem Virgil. LONDON Printed for THO. BENNET at the Half-Moon in S. Pauls Churchyard MDCXCI TO THE Most High Mighty and Illustrious PRINCE JAMES Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormonde Earl of Brecknock and Ossory c. Gentleman of the Bedchamber to His Majesty Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and Chancellour of the Famous University of OXFORD TO THE Right Worshipful JONATHAN EDWARDS Doctor of Divinity and Principal of Jesus College his Worthy Vice-chancellour AND To the Worshipful The Doctors the Proctors and Masters Members of the venerable Convocation of the said University The Author doth humbly dedicate these his ATHENAE and FASTI OXONIENSES The PREFACE IT is well known that the Author of this Work hath through the whole course of his life declin'd the pursuit of any private interest or advantage and hath only according to his abilities endeavour'd to promote the honour and glory of that Nation where he had been born and more especially of that Vniversity wherein he was educated His early application or as some call it his natural propensity to Histories and Antiquities made him more fit to serve his Country in that than in any other Stâây and that part of Antiquity which was most useful in its self and which yet lay most neglected became the immediate object of his care as that which not only deserv'd but requir'd and wanted the greatest industry The Vniversity of Oxford had now flourish'd for many Centuries its Members had been great and famous their works wanted neither value nor number and therefore nothing seem'd more necessary for the increase of its glory and for the true knowledge of its strength than a Register of its Heroes and an exact survey of its powers It was requisite then not only that the Writers of this Vniversity and the Characters of their works shou'd be perpetuated to posterity but that a History of all Cardinals Archbishops and Bishops as well in this Nation as beyond the Seas all of them formerly Members of this Vniversity should at the same time and by the same hand be attempted and carried on and that lastly the account of any remarkable Persons that would not fall under those heads might be reserv'd to and digested under the Fasti or Annals of the Vniversity So that upon the whole not only the lives of the Authors and the fate of their Writings but the succession of all eminent Men in Oxford the decay and growth the rise and progress of learning might at one view in due order of time distinctly appear It is a wonder indeed that among all the members of that Body who have signaliz'd their learning and industry in all professions and almost upon all subjects the intire glory of this Work should be left to this Author and that no part of literature should be left wholly uncultivated in that famous Society but the Memoires of the Vniversity it self and the History of Learning therein Somewhat indeed in defence of the antiquity of the place had before by Mr. Twyne and others been successfully undertaken and performed but it was a far more easie and less useful enquiry to look into the Original of this Society than to record the Acts of its Members to discover the head of this Fountain than to trace all its Channels Since therefore this Work seem'd for the most part new and as yet untouch'd it was once the Authors design to Commence with the time of K. Alfred and from thence to have brought down the concurrent History of the Vniversity and Learning together But afterwards when he had consider'd not only that the famous Antiquary Jo. Leland and his followers Bale Pits and Dr. Fran. Godwin had in a great measure anticipated the former part of his design but that the Records and Registers themselves upon which his Relations are chiefly founded were in those times either wholly lost or at least dark and imperfect He thought fit to begin with the 15th Century and to ascend no higher than his Records would lead him However since a great and noble part of the History of Learning would upon so late a date of this Work be wholly omitted it was esteemed requisite that a short and full relation of all Authors and Works which before that time had been publish'd in this Island should supply that loss and render the work it self more perfect and entire This Introduction the Reader may expect before the 2d Vol. At present nothing more remains for the subject of this Preface than to give a short account of the design of this work of the management and language of it and to add somewhat concerning the Author As to the design it must be own'd that since an intire Collection of all passages relating to eminent Authors was intended some circumstances have a place here which at first view may seem trivial and immaterial It ought therefore to be consider'd that those little accidents however mean in themselves yet in respect of the Persons and of the works which they attend oftentimes become considerable In a common repertâry any redundance or superfluity of matter however too severely blamâd by nice palats is such a fault as is not far remov'd from an excellence The work is fitted for all Men in all faculties and therefore those of one profession should not be displeased if somewhat be inserted which however useless to them may be chosen and admir'd by others In all Commentaries and Journals which afford Materials for History there ought not only to be somewhat rude and naked which may afterwards be polish'd somewhat rough and plain that may be beautify'd and improv'd but somewhat at least little and seemingly immaterial than may upon occasion judiciously be chosen or sometimes perhaps with no less prudence rejected Such general collections are read by most Men with different designs and therefore however easie it may be for any Man to discover an omission it is very hard for any one Reader to pronounce one single passage in them wholly superfluous 'T is true indeed that Men who after a great search and enquiry into Records have found but somewhat that might as well have been spared naturally choose rather to trespass on the Reader than to pass sentence on their own discâveries and this if any blemish is so common to this Author with all other famous Antiquaries from Plutarch and Athenaeus
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 Sepulâure 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
went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
tuas Novit eloquii Phaenix utriusque Melancthon Quam te Phaebus amet pieriusque chorus Parga tuas cecinit cecinitque Lutetia Laudes Urbs ergo doctos officiosa viros Talia cum constent c. In the Year 1540. 32. Hen. 8. I find that he was living at Carleon in his native Country where I think he taught School and the same Year to publish Commentaries on Will Lily's construction of the eight parts of Speech Besides which he had before in the said Year translated from Greek into Latin Marcus Eremita de Lege Spiritu and from Lat. into English The paraphrase of St. Paul's Epistle to Titus written by Erasmus Roterod. with whom he was well acquainted Baleus tells us that the said Cox was from his Youth instructed in all liberal arts that he was a Grammarian Rhetorician Poet Divine and a Preacher of God's word Also that he had written against those who in his time wrot of Justification by works and that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and forty All which works besides Verses of divers kinds and Epistles were by him written before the end of that Year as also Latin Verses occasionally set before Books that were published particularly before John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement an 1530. He was living in the Reign of Ed. 6. but when or where he died I cannot yet tell He left behind him a Son named Francis Cox who proceeded D. of D. as a Member of New Coll. in the Year 1594 and he a Son named William who was a Divine of Chichester in Sussex THOMAS WYATT the delight of the Muses and of Mankind Son of Henr. Wyatt of Allington Castle in Kent Knight and Banneret by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Skinner of Surrey was born of an ancient and gentile Family in the said County of Kent sent to Cambridge to be initiated in Academical Learning transplanted thence to Oxon purposely to advance himselfe in knowledge by the hearing of the Cardinals Lectures then lately settled there but whether he took a Degree with us or at Cambridge I find not as yet Afterwards he being sent to travel he return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman and was esteemed by all those that knew him to be a Person adorn'd with the endowments as well of body and mind as of fortune By the dayly and unwearied practice of the two former while he was in his travels and after his return he became not only well skill'd in military matters but also in several Arts and Tongues And as esteemed strong and valiant in body so powerful in mind and counsel At length he with Hen. Haward or Howard Earl of Surrey who also had travel'd into Italy and there tasted the sweet and stately measures and style of the Italian Poesie being esteemed to be the first refiners of the English Tongue Wyatt was introduced into the Court was beloved of K. Hen. 8. who honored him with the Degree of Knighthood and sent him in several Embassies beyond the Seas which he very prudently performed with great trust to the honor of his Master But that which is here to be in a special manner marked was his admirable skill in Poetry which in his first Years of reason he expressed in several amorous Songs and Poems With which as also his witty jests the King himself being in an high manner delighted they were so much admired by the Men of that and the next Age tho I persume they are now lost that some have not stuck to report that as Mecaenas Ovid Tibullus c. have been among the Latins most famous for Elegie So Sir Tho. Wyatt the elder Henry Haward Earl of Surrey Sir Franc. Brian of the Privy Chamber to K. Hen. 8. and a Traveller in 1528 Sir Phil. Sydney George Gascoigne Esq c. have among the English been most passionate to bemoan the perplexities of Love For his translation also of David's Psalms into English meeter and other of his Poetry Leland the Antiquarian Poet forbears not to compare him to Dant and Petrarch thus Bellum suo merrito c. translated by another hand as followeth Let Florence fair her Dante 's justly boast And royal Rome her Petrarchs numbred feet In English Wyatt both of them doth coast In whom all grateful eloquence doth meet In his younger Years as I have told youbefore he composed Several Songs and Poems Many of which are in the Songs and Sonnets of Hen. Haward Earl of Surrey Son of that victorious Prince the Duke of Norfolk and Father of that learned Howard sometimes his most lively Image Henry Earl of Northampton Which incomparable Earl of Surrey who entirely loved our Author Sir Tho. Wyatt hath among other things translated Virgils Aeneids the first and second Book whereof he hath admirably rendred almost line for line Sir Th. Wyatt also in his elder Years translated into English meeter 1 The penitential Psalms in one Book 2 The whole Psaltery of David in praise of which last is an Encomium in the Songs and Sonnets of the Earl of Surrey before-mention'd At length our Author Wyatt being sent by the King towards Falmouth in Cornwall to conduct Montmorantius sirnamed à Courriers thence to London for he came from Spain in an Embassie did by endeavouring and labouring to please the King rather than to consult his own health make more hast than good speed For by too much riding which was not necessarily requir'd in a very hot season he fell into a violent Feaver Whereupon putting in at a Mercate Town call'd Shirebourn in Dorsetshire was within few days after cut off from among the living in the 38 Year of his Age to the great reluctancy of the King Kingdome his Friends and all that knew the great worth and virtues of the Person He was buried in the great Church there year 1541 in Summer time in Fifteen hundred forty and one and the next Year was a little Book of Verses published on his death by his great admirer John Leland entit Naenia Before the first page of which is Sir Thomas's face with a long curl'd beard like to a Man of 80 Years of Age printed from a wooden cut engrav'd from his face which was painted by a Dutchman commonly call'd Hans Holbin At the same time was an Epitaph made on him by the Earl of Surrey as it seems another also by Sir Tho. Chaloner in long and short Verses and a third which was a large one in Prose by his entire Friend Sir Joh. Mason Chancellor of this University 1553. a Copy of which I have seen and in some things do follow it in my aforesaid discourse This Sir Tho. Wyatt left behind him a Son of both his names begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Thom. Brook Lord Cobham who being a Commotioner in the Reign of Qu. Mary lost his Head and left issue by Jane his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Will. Hawte of Bourn Kt.
had an Unkle or near Kinsman of both his names who was born in the Dioc. of Wells made Master-Fellow of that House in the Year 1513 and this Joh. Hoper whom we are further to mention being sent to the University the Year following might probably be put under his tuition in the said Coll. or at least in St. Albans Hall of which he was then notwithstanding Fellow of Mertân Coll. Principal But these matters remaining yet uncertain I shall proceed to what is extant on record In the latter end therefore of 1518. he was admitted Bach. of Arts which was the highest Degree he took in this University and about the same time compleated it by Determination What became of him afterwards I cannot justly say Howbeit there is not wanting an Author who reports that he was of the number of Cistercians commonly called White Monks and had so continued for some Years Which report I presume is true because in all my searches I cannot find him a Curat Vicar or Parson But so it was that he being weary of that Order he left it and repairing to Oxon was as the R. Catholicks say infected with Lutherisme by Books brought from Germany and in short time became a thorow-pac'd Protestant if not worse as they further add In the Year 1539 or thereabouts at which time the Statute of six articles came forth he left what he had and got himself into the service of Sir John Arundel a very Catholick Knight afterwards put to death with the Protector by the Duke of Northumberland in K. Edwards days and was his Chaplain and Steward of his House But being discovered by him to be a Protestant he was forced to leave that harbour and to go into France where staying for some time in dislike of many matters there he returned into England and lived with a Gentleman called Seintlow But at length his living with him being known he was sought after to be apprehended Whereupon he put on a Mariners habit made himself Master of a Boat and went into Ireland and from thence took a larger journey into Zuitzerland where he became acquainted with Bullinger Scholar and Successor of Zuinglius's Chair first at Basill and afterward at Zurich where also by his Council and Doctrine be married a Wife which was a Burgundian and applyed very studiously the Hebrew tongue When K. Ed. 6. came to the Crown he returned soon after into England and settling for a time in London Preached to the People there very frequently and sometimes against pluralities In 1549. he became an accuser of Bishop Bonner when he was to be deprived of his Bishoprick which made him fare the worse when Qu. Mary came to the Crown In 1550. he by the help of his former Master Sir Joh. Arundel who could do all at that time with the Earl of Warwick afterwards Duke of Northumberland was nominated and elected Bishop of Glocester but when he should come to be consecrated or invested by Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury and Rydley B. of London who maligned him for his worse than Calvinistical Principles they would not do it except he would conform himself in all points to them both in apparel and opinions but he obstinately refusing a Rochet was thereupon confin'd to custody At length by the Earl of Warwick's intercession to Cranmer and the King's Letters to dispense with those matters and ceremonies which J. Fox usually calls trifles and superstitions he was consecrated Bishop of the said See 8. March 1550. At which time as 't is said Hoper after much hanging off did take the Oath of Supremacy and afterwards when he Preacher at Court he did once for formality sake appear in a Shymar with a white linnen rochet under it but much ashamed at the strangeness thereof as Fox saith Being settled in the See of Glocester which was looked upon as a poor pittance for so great a Clerk who had suffered so much for the Cause the Earl of Warwick got for him another Bishoprick much better than the former called Worcester of which place being declared Bishop 20. May 6. Ed. 6. Dom. 1552. the Bishop thereof N. Heath being then a Prisoner in the Fleet had liberty then given to him to keep it in Commendam with Glocester While he was Bishop he Preached often visited his Diocesses kept good hospitality for the poorer sort of People and was beloved by many But when Qu. Mary began to Reign which was in July 1553 he was pursevanted up to London in the latter end of August and on the first of Sept. following was committed Prisoner to the Fleet where remaining some Months was at length examined several times and required to recant his opinions But standing constant and resolute to them was condemned first to be burnt in Januar. 1554 and then in Feb following was degraded The next day he was conducted towards Glocester where being arrived he suffered death soon after with great courage He was a Person of good parts well vers'd in the Greek and Hebrew tongues a tolerable Philosopher but a better Theologist had not his Principles been too rigid and dissenting from the English Church as appointed by King Edw. 6. His Writings are mostly these Answer to the Lord Winchester's Book entit A detection of the Devils Sophestry wherewith he robbeth the unlearned of the true belief in the Sacrament of the aultar Zurich 1547. qu. A declaration of Christ and his office Zur 1547. oct Dedicated to Edw. Duke of Somerset 8. Dec. 1547. Afterwards corrected by Christoph Rosdell and reprinted in twelves Lesson of the Incarnation of Christ Lond. 1549. oct Sermons on Jonas Lond. 1550. oct A godly confession and protestation of the Christian Faith wherein is declared what a Christian Man is bound to believe of God his King his Neighbour and himself Lond. 1550. oct Homelie to be read in the time of the pestilence and a most present remedy for the same Print 1553. qu. Various Letters written in Prison See in Joh. Fox's Book of The Acts and Monuments of the Church under the Year 1555. Epistola ad Episcopos Decanos Archidiaconos caet Cleri ordines in Synodo Londinensi congregatos an 1554. The beginning is Non vos latet c. Printed by Ja. Fox at the end of the Book of Acts and Mon. Exhortation to patience sent to his Wife Anne See there in Fox under the Year 1555. Certain sentences written in Prison Lond. 1559. oct Speech at his death An apologie against the untrue and slanderous report made of him that he should be a maintainer and encourager of such that cursed the Queens Highness that then was Queen Mary c. Lond. 1562. oct To which are added two or three of his Letters written in Prison Comfortable expositions on the 23 62 73 and 77 Psalmes Lond. 1580. qu. Annotations on the 13 Ch. to the Romans Lond. 1583. Twelve Lectures upon the Creed Lond. 1581. oct Confession of the Christian Faith containing 100
with other things which Baleus mentions He also wrot several Verses which were sent by him to the Oxonians Of which and his published Books much esteemed by K. Hen. 8 John Leland hath exercis'd his Muse in his Encomia The said Sir Rich. Morysine hath also translated into English 1 The Epist of Joh. Sturmius to the Cardinals and Bishops that were chosen by the Bishop of Rome to search out the abuses of the Church Lond. 1538. oct 2 The Symboles of Lud. Vives much about the same time with other matters which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate at Strasburgh being then there in voluntary exile for the Protestant Religion which he professed on the 17. March in Fifteen hundred fifty and six but whether buried there I know not He left behind him a Son named Charles begotten on the body of his Wife Dame Bridget and a natural Son named Marcellus Morysine besides two Daughters begotten on the body of one or more Concubines Joh. Hales a noted Scholar of that time to whom he gave his Books was one of his Executors as having always been an entire friend to him Bernardine Ochine also with his Wife and Children did tast sufficiently of his liberality The same Bernard I mean who was Author of the Dialogue of the unjust usurped primacy of the Bishop of Rome translated from Latin by John Ponet afterwards B. of Winchester Lond. 1549. qu. The said Sir R. Morysine had a fair estate most of which was obtained by his own endeavours as the Mannour of Whitesbury or Whichbury with all its appurtenances in Wilts and Hampshire the Mannour of East-Chinnock in Somersetshire the Mannour of Cashiobury in Hertfordshire where he had began to build a stately House c. All which descended to his Posterity JOHN HUNTINGTON was educated for sometime in good arts but whether he took a Degree here it appears not only that while he continued in this University he was noted among his contemporaries for a tolerable Poet. His works are Epitaphium Ricardi Pacaei car 1. The beginning of which is Noscitur omnis homo c. Humanae vitae deploratio car 1. The beginning is Nunc ubi magnanimi c. The Genealogie of Heresies De lapsu philosophiae besides several Sermons In 1553. Decemb. 3. he was brought before her Majesties Council for composing a rhime against Dr. Stokes and the Sacrament but making a recantation and an humble submission for what he had done with a promise to amend as well in Doctrin for he was a godly Preacher as in way of living was suffer'd to depart Afterwards he left the Nation and lived mostly in Germany with Joh. Bale who calls him his beloved Son in Christ RICHARD TRACY Son of Will Son of Hen. Tracy was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family living at Todyngton in Glocestershire the body of which William was taken out of the grave and burn'd in the time of Hen. 8. for a Will that he made then savouring of Heresie was conversant among the Muses for a time took a Degree in Arts and became noted for his pregnant parts Afterwards his learning being much improved in his elder years by reading and experience he became noted for it an enemy to the Roman Church and a zealous Reformer as it may partly appear by his Writings the titles of which follow Of the preparation to the cross and to death and of the comfort under the cross and death in two Books Lond. 1540. in oct Dedic to Thom. Lord Cromwell Which Book wrap'd up in canvase being found in the belly of a Cod when brought from Lin-Regis in Norfolk to Cambridge Mercat to be sold on Midsummer Eve 1626 it was reprinted soon after as 't is said under the name of Joh. Frythe The profe and declaration of this proposition Faith only justifyeth Not said when or where Printed 'T is in oct and ded to K. Hen. 8. Treatise of the errours and blindness of the Popish Clergy Declaration of the Sacrament Lond. 1548 oct Confutation of the articles of Papisme With other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen only know that some of them were prohibited to be read by the Proclamation of K. Hen. 8. The Author was living in an absconded condition in Fifteen hundred fifty and six which was the 3. and 4. of Philip and Marie and perhaps was in being several years after JOHN GWYNNETH was a Welsh Man born and tho of very poor parentage yet of most excellent natural parts and exceeding apt to embrace any kind of juvenile learning But so it was that he having little or nothing to maintain him in his studies at Oxon he was exhibited to by an Ecclesiastical Mecaenas who well knew that his abilities were such that in future time he might be an Ornament to the Cath. Church by writing against the Hereticks as they were then called The younger years of this Gwynneth were adorned with all kind of polite literature and his elder with the reading of the Scriptures and conversation with Books written by and against the Lutherans and Zwinglians At length perceiving full well what ground their Doctrine had gotten he wrot Declaration of the state wherein Hereticks do lead their lives Lond. in qu. Detection of that part of Fryths Book which he termeth His foundation Lond. 1554. oct Printed also if I mistake not before that time Against Joh. Fryth on the Sacrament of the Altar Lond. 1557. qu. Printed also I think before that time Declaration of the notable victory given of God to Qu. Mary shewed in the Church of Luton 22. July in the first Year of her Reign Lond. 1554 oct with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen This Joh. Gwynneth I take to be the same with Jo. Gwynneth a Secular Priest who for his great proficiency and works performed in the faculty of Musick had the Degree of Doctor of the said faculty conferr'd upon him by the Members of this University an 1531. See more in the Fasti under that Year WILLIAM PYE a Suffolk Man born was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. in 1529 and after he had continued in the Degree of Master some years he studied Physick became thrice Proctor of the University and as it seems D. of D. On the 7. of Oct. 1545. he became Archdeacon of Berkshire upon the resignation of Dr. Jo. Crayford and in the Reign of Ed. 6. a pretender to reformation but when Qu. Mary succeeded he changed his mind was in the beginning of her Reign not only made Dean of Chichester in the place if I mistake not of Barthelm Traheron but also Prebendary of Lytton in the Church of Wells upon the deprivation of Will. Wrythiosley and Rector of Chedsey in Somersetshire on the deprivation also of Mr. Nich. Mason All that I have seen of his labours are only these following Oratio coram patribus clero habita
his diligent teaching and instructing the knowledge of the Greek tongue or the true and genuine Greek was there with much ado planted In 1524 he commenced D. of D. at Cambridge being then or about that time Tutor to the Duke of Richmond and beneficed if not dignified in the Church Afterwards he was employed by the King to go to several places in Italy especially to the University of Padôua to agitate about the matter of the unlawfulness of the Kings Marriage with his Brothers Widow After his return the University of Oxford as a certain Writer tells you by great means and favourable friends and fair promises of large allowance invited him thither to be their Reader The time when he came to Oxon was in the beginning of 1532 in which Year K. Hen. 8. by his Charter dated 18. Jul. did convert Cardinal Wolsey's College into that of King's Coll. or that founded by King Hen. 8. In which Year he was not only incorporated D. of D. as he had stood at Cambridge but was made the third Canon of the twelve of the said foundation but whether he was a Reader I cannot in all my searches find In the latter end of the same Year the new Dean Dr. Jo. Hygden died and thereupon the Canons wrot to Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State that he would interceed with the King that Dr. Croke might succeed him but for what reason it was that he was put aside I cannot justly say Sure I am that Dr. Croke continued Canon of the said College till it was about to be converted into a Cathedral an 1545 and then having an yearly pension of six and twenty pounds thirteen shillings and four pence allowed to him in recompence of his Canonry he retired to Exeter Coll. where he lived in the condition of a Sojournour many years and was not at all made a Canon of the Cathedral founded by K. H. 8. He hath written Oratio de Graecarum disciplinarum laudibus Dedicated to Nicholas Bishop of Ely by an Epist before it dated cal Jul. 1519. 'T is Printed in qu. but where or when I cannot tell Oratio qua Cantabrigienses est hortatus ne Graecarum literarum desertores essent Printed with the former oration Before and at the end of the said two Orations Gilb. Ducher hath an Epistle in praise of Croke and his learning Introductiones ad linguam Graecam Elementa Gram. Graecae De verborum cââstructione besides translations made from Greek into Latin from Theod. Gaza and Elysius Calentinus As for those things he wrot against Leland while he continued in Oxon as a certain Author tells us are no more as I suppose than scoffs in Verse or repartees made on him for changing his Religion and thereupon dyed distracted whereas Dr. Croke made no change as 't is said but dyed in that Faith which he in the beginning had received year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight A Copy of his last Will and Testament which I have seen dated 21 Aug. and proved 29. of the same Month an 1558. I find that he was Parson of Long Buckby in Northamptonshire but cannot find the Church or Yard wherein he would have his body to be buried only that he died in London leaving behind him a Brother named Rob. Croke of Water-Horton in Warwickshire JOHN ROBYNS a Staffordshire Man born became a Student in this University an 1516 or thereabouts was elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. 1520. and afterwards took the Degrees in Arts and holy Orders But such was his vigorous genie that by the force thereof being conducted to the pleasant studies of Mathematicks and Astrology he made so great a progress in them that he became the ablest Person in his time for those studies not excepted his friend Record whose learning was more general At length taking the Degree of Bach. of Divinity in 1531 he was the Year following made by K. Hen. 8. to whom he was Chaplain one of the Canons of his College in Oxon and in Decemb. 1543 Canon of Windsore upon the death of Dr. Rich. Rawson who was also Archdeacon of Essex and in fine Chaplain to Qu. Mary who had him in great veneration for his learning Among several things that he hath written relating to Astrology I find these following De culminatione fixarum stellarum c. De ortu occasu stellarum fixarum c. Annotationes Astrologicae c. lib. 3. Annotationes de Edwardo VI. Tractatus de prognosticatione per Ecclipsin All which Books that are in MS. were sometimes in the choice Library of Mr. Tho. Allen of Glocester Hall After his death they coming into the hands of Sir Ken. Digby were by him given to the Bodleian Library where they yet remain 'T is said also that he the said Robyns hath written a Book intit De portentosis cometis but such a thing I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing else of the Author only that paying his last debt to nature 25. Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Over his Grave was soon after a Marble-stone laid with a large inscription thereon part of which you may read in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 178. b. WILLIAM STAUNFORD Son of Will. Staunford of London Mercer by Margaret his Wife Daugh. and Heir of Gedney of London Son of Rob. Staunford of Rowley in Staffordshire was born in the County of Middlesex 22. Aug. 1509. 1. Hen. 8. received so much literature among the Oxonians that enabled him sooner than another Person to conquer the rudiments of the municipal Law in Greys-Inn near London In the 36. of Hen. 8. he was elected Autumn Reader of that House but did not read because of the pestilence then in those parts yet in the Lent following he did perform that office with great credit and honor In the 5. Ed. 6. he was Double-Reader of that Inn in the time of Lent and the next Year was called by writ to be Serjeant at Law In 1553 1 o Mariae he was made the Queens Serjeant and the next Year was not only constituted one of the Justices of the Common-pleas some say of the Common-bench but also dubb'd a Knight being then in high esteem for his great abilities in his profession especially for the Books that he about that time composed taken then especially in after Ages into the hands of the most learned in the Law which have ever since made him famous among them and others The titles are Pleas of the Crown divided into several titles and common places Lond. 1557. qu. c. In some impressions they are divided into two Volumes Exposition of the King's Prerogative collected out of the abridgment of Anth. Fitzherbert and other old Writers of the Laws of England Lond. 1567. 68. c. qu. Besides other Books which have not been yet Printed This noted Lawyer who was a zealous R. Cath. departed this mortal
The birth of this most noble Person was as a learned Author reports at Stoverton Castle in Staffordshire or as another who was a Forreigner tells us but false as I presume at London in the Month of March 1500. His education in Grammatical learning was partly in the Carmes House commonly called White Friers in the North suburb of Oxon and his Academical in the Coll. of St. Mary Magdalen where continuing for some time he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle that is to the Degree of Bach. of Arts an 1515. In which year he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might wear panni pretiosi and pellurae pretiosae and be admitted to enter into the Library How long he tarried in that Coll. after he had taken his Degree or whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts or a Degree in any other faculty it appears not in our Registers In the Year 1517. March 19. he was made Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury in 1519. Apr. 10. Preb. of Yatminster secunda in the said Church and on the 14 of Feb. 1523 he was admitted Fellow of Corp. Chr. College by command from the founder Which place I presume he never enjoyed being then absent if not happily Dean of Winbourne Minster in Dorsetshire from whence he was promoted to be Dean of Exeter Afterwards his life being chiefly spent in Italy he became by the favour of the Pope Cardinal of St. Nereus and Achilleus afterwards of St. Mary in Cosmedin and at length of St. Prisca was employed also by him in several Embassies to the French King and to the Emperor and lastly after the said Popes death Paul 3. he was in the Conclave of Cardinals chose twice by them to succeed him an 1549. But he upon some account refusing both the elections craved license to depart unto a certain Monastery in the Territory of Verona there to spend the remainder of his days To which place afterwards retiring he exercis'd himself for some years in great devotion and retiredness At length the news of K. Edw. death being brought of him and that Qu. Mary had obtained the Crown he procured of P. Julius 3. license to be sent his Legat into England to reconcile that Nation to the Romish See and the rather for this cause that being not in holy orders tho a Cardinal he might be in a capacity being one of the three that were named to marry the Queen Soon after coming into England the Queen being then married he was elected Chancellour of this University and was made Archb. of Canterbury in the place of Cranmer to which he was consecrated 22. March 1555. being about that time invested with the Temporalities of that See and kept it to his dying day He was a Person of great learning eloquence and judgment of singular piety charity and exemplary life as several Writers tell us who add also that he was an excellent Canonist and well read in the Laws of ecclesiastical polity as may partly be seen in the Books written by him which are these Pro unitate ecclesiastica ad Hen. 8. Rom. in fol. Oratio ad Imperatorem contra Evangelicos cum Scholiis Athanasii Print 1554. in qu. Oration of Speech in the Parliament House 27. Nov. 1554. The contents of which you may see in John Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under that year Letter to P. Julius 3. touching the restoring of the Realm of England dated on the last of Nov. 1554. See there again under the same year Unitatis Ecclesiasticae defensio c. lib. 4. Argent 1555. fol. Ingolst 1587. oct Oratio in materia de pace Ven. 1558. qu. Reformatio Angliae ex decretis Reg. poli an 1556. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1569. oct De concilio lib. 1. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1567. fol. 69. oct c. This is printed in Canones Decreta concilii Tridentini published by Philip Labbe Par. 1667. fol. De Baptismo Constantini Imperatoris Printed with the former Book De summi pontificis officio potestate Lov. 1569. oct A Treatise of Justification Lov. 1569. qu. in two Books This was found among the Writings of Card. Pole remaining in the custody of Mr. Hen. Pyning Chamberlain and receiver general to the said Cardinal then lately deceased at Lovaine With it were Printed and bound certain translations touching the said matter of justification viz. 1 The sixth Session of the generall Councel of Trent which is of justification with the Canons of the same Session 2 A Treatise of St. Augustin that famous Doctor by him intit Of faith and works c. Which translations were made by the Cardinal who sate several times in the said Council 3 A Sermon of St. Chrysostome of praying unto God 4 A Serm. of St. Basil of Fasting 5 Certain Sermons of St. Leo the great of the same argument 6 A notable Sermon of St. Cyprian of Almesdeeds He also Card. Pole had been several years gathering and obtaining from divers learned Persons the various readings emendations castigations c. of Cicero's works with intentions to have published a compleat Copy of them but death seizing on him unexpectedly that good work was stopp'd and what are become of the papers of corrections I know not This great Person who was in an high manner venerated by all Men tho extremely hated by K. Hen. 8. yielded to nature 18. Nov. early in the morning being the very next day that Qu. Mary died in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 58. years Whereupon his body being carried to Canterbury in the latter end of Decemb. year 1558 following was buried with solemnity in the Cathedral there within the Chappel of St. Thomas the Martyr being as yet 1689. the last Archb. of that See that hath been there buried See more of him in his life written in the Italian tongue by Ludov. Bacatellus sometimes Domestick to this great Cardinal and afterwards advanced to the Archbishoprick of Rhaguse for his rare piety and learning translated into Latin by Andr. Duditius Sâordellatus Episc Tininiensis Ven. 1563. qu. Who afterwards left his Religion and became a Protestant and Socinian HUGH WESTON was a Leycestershire Man born entred a Student in Balliol Coll. about 1526 took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1530 about which time being chose Fellow of Lincoln Coll. I mean into one of those Fellowships founded by Edw. Darby he proceeded in his Faculty studied Physick and was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University In 1538 he was elected Rector of the said College was admitted the year after to the reading of the sentences and in 1540. he proceeded in Divinity About which time he was made Margaret Professor Archdeacon of Colchester and Rector of Cliff in Kent In the first of Qu. Mary he had the Deanery of Westminster bestowed on him in the place of Dr. Ric. Coxe was made prolecutor
of the convocation of the whole Clergy of the Diocess of Canterbury where in speaking and acting he behaved himself with great commendation The same year being forced to leave the said Deanery to make room for Dr. Joh. Fekenham the former Abbat of Westminster and the Monks had that of Windâore bestowed upon him an 1556. But being taken in adultery as some say was deprived of the said Deanery by Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury in 1557. Whereupon looking on himself as much abused did appeal to an higher Power So that being about to take a journey to Rome to complain to his holiness was seized and clapt up Prisoner within the Tower of London where as I conceive he died Jo. Leland gives him the character of a noted Preacher and Orator of his time and seems to intimate that he had written several Books Jo. Bale who speaks well of few Men saith that he had been sore bytten with a Winchester gose and was not as yet 1554 healed thereof And tells us of his old familiar Mary Huckvale of Oxford and of his provider Goodwife Person and Chrystian Thompson the Widow and I know not what Another equal with Bale in scurrilities saith that Hugh Weston is a drunken burnt tail man a baudy beast a leacherous locust a companion with curtezans of Coleman hedge more meet to be coupled with his old play-fellow and pack-borse Goodwife Hugfaile at Oxon at the tayle of a Cart than to be reverenced and reputed a Mayden Preist in good Queen Maries Court But to let pass this brutish language more fit to be spoken at Billingsgate than by a Person that made Divinity his delight I must tell you that there goes under this Dr. Weston's name Oratio coram patribus clero habita 16. Oct. 1553. The beginning of which is Cum Demosthenes totius Graeciae lumen c. Lond. 1553. oct Disputations with Cranmer Ridley and Latimer in the Divnity School at Oxon. an 1554. At which time he was Moderator in the disputations of several Doctors had with them as you may see at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. wherein are also several conferences and discourses of the said H. Weston had with other Persons At length he giving way to fate within the Tower of London as it seems in the Month of Decemb. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight was buried before the image of the Crucifix in the middle of the Church belonging to the Hospital of the Savoy situated in the Strand near to London In his will dat 26. Nov. 1558 made within the Tower of London he bestowed most of his wealth on pious and publick uses took a great deal of care about the ceremoney to be performed at his burial and for the praying for his Soul by several Persons in several places as moneys for a Dirige and Mass to be performed 1 By the Master and Fellows of Balliol Coll. 2 By the Rector and Fellows of Lincoln Coll. 3 By the Chapl. or Priest of the University of Oxon. 4 By the Priest at Islip near Oxon. of which perhaps he had been Rector 5 By the Priest of Burton Novery in Leycestershire at which place if I mistake not he had received his first breath because his Brethren lived there c. with many other things therein which not only shew'd him to be a zealous Catholick but also a Person of a publick spirit WILLIAM FORREST was related to John Forrest before-mentioned but where born I cannot justly say spent several years in study among the Oxonians and was there a Student when the question was discussed among the Doctors and Masters concerning the divorce of King Hen. 8. from his Royal Consort Qu. Catherine in 1530 as in the life of the said Queen which I shall anon mention appeareth He was a Priest and had preferment in the Church was well skill'd in Musick and Poetry had a collection of the choicest compositions in Musick that were then in use Which coming after his death into the hands of Dr. Heather founder of the Musical Praxis in this University he gave them to the publick School thereof where they yet continue and are kept only as matters of antiquity Among them are the compositions of Joh. Taverner of Boston sometimes Organist of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon of Joh. Merbeck Org. of Windsore Rob. Fairfax a Doctor of Musick of Cambridge Dr. Christ Tye Joh. Sheppard John Norman c. All the Books that our Author Forrest hath composed which have as yet come to my view were written in English Poetry such as was commonly used in the Reigns of Hen. 8. and Ed. 6. The titles of which follow A true and most notable History of a right noble and famous Lady produced in Spayne entituled the second Gresield practised not long out of this tyme in much part tragedous as delectable both to hearers and readers This is a MS. containing the life of Queen Catherine the first Wife of K. Hen. 8. and is by the Author dedicated to Qu. Mary he being then Chaplain to her T is a broad thin Folio written very fairly on Vellam and seems to be the very same it being now my proper Book that the Author presented to the said Queen There be many things in it that are very zealously written against the Hereticks of those times as he calls them which plainly shews him to be entirely devoted to the Church of Rome And tho there be no great streins in it yet the historical part of it is good if not too much partiality therein and I have discovered from the said Book many things relating to the Affairs of Oxon acted during the time of the said divorce which I could never see elsewhere The beginning of the prologue to Qu. Mary is this As nature hath no inclination c. and of the work it self Wryters have many endeavoured their pains c. Throughout the whole History the Author makes use of the name of Grysild the second for Qu. Catherine and the name of Walter for K. Hen. 8. At the end of it contained in 20 Chapters is this written Here endethe the Historye of Grysilde the seconde dulie meanyng Qu. Catharine Mother to our most dread Soveraigne Lady Qu. Mary fynysched the 25. day of June the Yeare of owre Lorde 1558. by the symple and unlearned Syr Wyllyam Forrest Preeiste propria manus At the end of the said Historie is written in verse also An Oration consolatory to Queen Mary 'T is contained in six leaves and hath this beginning Among much inward profound perpending c. This Book richly bound in laced Sattin hath on every brass boss at each corner this sentence embossed in an English Character Ave Maria Gratia plena Our Author Forrest hath also written in old English verse The tragedious Troubles of the most chast and innocent Joseph Son to the holy Patriarch Jacob MS. in two vol. in fol. dedicated to Thom.
affirmed that her knees were hard with kneeling her justice and clemency in restoring noble houses to her own private loss and hindrance and lastly her grevious and patient death he fell into such an unfeigned weeping that for a long space he could not speak Then recovering himself he said she had left a Sister to succeed her a Lady of great worth also whom they were now bound to obey for saith he melior est canis vivus leone mortuo and I hope so shall Reign well and prosperously over us but I must say still with my Text Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes for certain it is Maria optimam partem elegit Afterwards Qu Elizabeth taking just indignation ãâã partly for his Sermon and partly for that he was a zealous Man for the R. Catholick cause and an enemy to the reformers of Religion commit him to custody and for threatning as 't is said to excommunicate her as Watson Bishop of Lincoln did was deprived of his Bishoprick for which he paid yearly 1000 l. to Cardinal Pole to keep up his state and dignity His works are Diacosio Martyrion i. e. ducentorum virorum testimonia de veritate corporis sanguinis Christi in Eucharistiâ ante triennium adversus Petr. Martyrem ex professo conscriptum sed nunc primum in lucem editum Lond. 1553. qu. in Lat. verse Epistola Petro Martyri This is printed with the former Book and treateth mostly of Martyrs disputation at Oxon. in K. Edwards days and is in vindication of Dr. Rich. Smith who disputed with and baffled him Epigrammatum lib. 1. Carmina in Matrimon Philippi Regis cum Maria Regina Angliae Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Qu. Mary 13. Dec. 1558. on Eccles 4. 2. MS. in the Libr. sometimes of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultrey-Compter You 'll find also several of his discourses in the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. published by Joh. Fox and also his discourse with Bishop Rydley at Oxon 30. Sept. 1555 when he was about to be burnt exhorting him to return from his Heresie as he then term'd it See also in Rob. Persons his animadversions on that discourse in The third part of a treatise intit Of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604. Chap. 14. p. 209. At length our Author Jo. Whyte being deprived of his Bishoprick in June 1559. he retired to his Sisters house at Southwarnborow in Hampshire where spending the little remainder of his days in great sanctity and recluseness gave way to fate on the eleventh day of January following Whereupon his body was soon after carried to Winchester and buried in the Cathedral there according to his will which partly runs thus My desire is to be buried in that my Cathedral of Winchester ut in novissima die resurgam cum patribus filiis quorum fidem teneo c. While he was Warden of the Coll. near Winchester and dream'd not in the least to be removed thence to a Bishoprick he provided a Tomb stone for himself to be laid on the ground in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. with intentions to be buried under it by the care of his Heir and Executor whensoever it should please God to call him out of this transitory life and caused to be engraven twenty long and short verses of his own composition under his picture engraven on a brass plate and fastned to the said stone The two first are these Hic tegor hic post fata Whitus propono jacere Scriptor Johannis carminis ipse mei But being afterwards contrary to all expectation promoted successively to two Bishopricks by Qu. Mary his mind was altered as I have before told you He gave to Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester his Miter and Crosier staff a silver tankard guilt a bason and eure of silver a Turkey-carpet and other choice goods and some years before his death he was a Benefactor to New Coll. as you may see in Hist Antiq. Univers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. b. JAMES BROKES another most zealous Bishop for the Rom. Catholick cause was born in Hampshire in the Month of May 1512 admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 1528 and Fellow in Jan. 1531 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he applyed his studies to Divinity took the degrees in that faculty that of Doctor being compleated 1546. The next Year he was made Master of Balliol Coll. and at length by Qu. Mary Bishop of Glocester to which See being elected after the deprivation of Joh. Hoper had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 8. May 1554 and in the Year following he was delegated by the Pope for the examining and trying of Cranmer Rydley and Latimer when they stood up for and were ready to dye in defence of the Protestant Religion He was a Person very learned in the time he lived an eloquent Preacher and a zealous maintainer of the R. C. Religion as well in his Sermons as Writings Some of which are published as Sermon at Pauls Cross in the first Year of Qu. Mary on Matth. 9. 18. Lond. 1553. 54 oct Oration in S. Maries Church in Oxon 12. March 1555 to Thom. Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury The beginning is My Lord at this present we are come to you as commissioners c. Oration in closing up the examination of Th. Cranmer Archbishop of Cant. The beg is Mr. Cranmer I cannot otherwise considering your obstinacy I am right sorry c. These two Orations are printed by John Fox in his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. wherein you 'll find some of his discourses with Rydley after they had been published by themselves What else is extant under his name I know not nor anything of him besides only that he dying in the beginning of Feb. about Candlemass in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine which was the second year of Qu. Elizabeth was buried in a stone Coffin in his Cathedral Church at Glocester but hath no memory over his Grave ROGER EDGEWORTH another zealot and a frequent Preacher against Protestants called in his time Hereticks was born at Holt castle within the Marches of Wales became a student in Oxon about 1503 took a degree in Arts in 1507 and the Year after was elected Fellow of Orâel College to which place he was a benefactor at the time of his death Afterwards proceeding in the said faculty he took holy orders and became a noted Preacher in the University and elsewhere In 1519 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and afterwards became very well dignified as Canon of Salisbury Well and Bristow being then D. of D Residentiary of the Cathedral of Wells and Chancellour of the same Church The last of which dignities was conferr'd on him 30. Apr. 1554 upon the deprivation of Joh. Tayler alias Cardmaker Besides all these he was Vicar also of St. Cuthberts Church in Wells to which he was admitted
into holy Orders and was made Library keeper to K. Ed. 6. who finding him to be a Person of Merit conferr'd the Deanery of Chichester on him about 1551. But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he left his preferments and as a voluntary exile went into Germany where accompanying other English Exiles that had fled thence for Religion sake continued there till the death of Qu. Mary and then returning was restored to what he had lost and without doubt was rewarded with more While he was beyond the Sea he exercised himself much in writing matters in verse and prose in both which he wrot several things with great happiness especially those to his Brother Thomas to embrace the true Doctrine of Jesus Christ that is to leave the R. Catholick Church turn Protestant and come over to him Among many things that he wrot were Paraenesis lib. 1. Written to his Brother Thomas Carmina in mortem Henrici Dudlaei Analysis Scoparum Johannis Cochlei Exposition of a part of S. John's Gospel made in sundry Readings in the English Congregation against the Arrians Printed the second time in an 1558. oct The Readings were ten and they were performed in the English Congregation beyond the Sea Exposition on the fourth Chapter of S. John's Revelations which treateth of the providence of God made before his Countrymen in Germany Printed 1557. in oct Lond. 1577. and 83. in oct Treatise of Repentance besides other things which are mention'd by Jo. Bate He also translated into English The Chirurgerie of Joh. de Vigo Lond. 1580. qu. 2 Edit and the said Vigo's Little Practice Lond. 1562. in octavo In which year which was part of the third and fourth of Qu. Elizabeth Barth Traberon was if I mistake not living HENRY PENDLETON a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Lancashire became a Student in Brasnose Coll. about the year 1538 took the Degrees in Arts and afterwards those in Divinity in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he being then beneficed and dignified in the Church In the Reign of Qu. Marie he shew'd himself so grand a Zealot for the Cause then professed in several Sermons by him preached that when in one by him delivered at Pauls Cross which was very sharp against the Hereticks as they were then called a Gun was discharged at but miss'd him Under his Name were these things following printed Homilies to be read in the Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554. 55. qu. Communication between him and Mr. Lour Sanders Disputation between him and Mr. Joh. Bradford Protestants an 1555. The Contents or part of which Communic and Disput you may see in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. and also Pendleton's Arguings with Bartlet Green and certain Protestant Martyrs Other things he hath written which I have not yet seen and was always accounted a learned Doctor of his time and so endear'd to the Cath. Religion that he made a solemn Protestation in Qu. Maries Reign that he would see the nntermost drop of his Grease molten away and the last gobbet of his Flesh consumed to Ashes before he would forsake God and his truth He lived after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and was imprison'd for a time but when or where he died I know not PETER MARTYR who is to have a place in these Athenae was born in the great and rich City of Florence in Italy in Sept. on the Nativity of the Virgin Marie an 1500 educated in several sorts of Learning in that City by the great care of his Father Steph. Vermilius became a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin at 16 years of age in the Coll. at Fiesoli more than a mile distant from Florence After he had spent three years there he was sent to Padua to enlarge his Learning that University then being in a flourishing Condition and setling in the Monastery of St. John de Verdera of the same Order of S. Austin spent almost 8 years in philosophical Studies and all other Arts especially in the Greek Tongue and Poets which at length he conquered At 26 years of age he began to preach and the first time he performed that Office was in the Church of St. Afra in Brescia and afterwards frequently in the most famous Cities of Italy However all the time that he could obtain from his Function was spent in sacred Learning Philosophy and in obtaining the Hebrew Tongue At length being cried up for a celebrated Scholar he was made Abbat of Spoleto in the Duchy of L'Ombria in Italy where he continued three years Thence he was translated to Naples and there became Abbat of the Monastery of his Order called St. Peter ad aram being of greater profit and a far more pleasant place than Spoleto After he had been setled there for some time he began to see the verity of the Gospel especially after he had read some of the Works of Bucer and Zwinglius Three years being spent there also he fell into a dangerous Sickness but the strength of Nature overcoming it he was advised by his Physitians to take better Air than what Naples afforded To that end therefore that he might with convenience be absent from his Cure the Fathers chose him General Visitor of their Order that is of the Order of S. Austin and soon after was elected Prior of S. Fridian within the City of Luca which is a place of great dignity having Episcopal Jurisdiction in the middle part of the said City Being setled at that place he instituted a most admirable way of Studies for the younger sort at Luca but at length his Opinions as to Heresie then so called being discovered snares were laid for him so that being not in a capacity to speak his mind he by the advice of certain Friends committed the best part of his Library to the Custody of one of them gave another part to the Coll. and forthwith left Luca and went to Pisa whence he wrote Letters to Card. Pole shewing the Reasons of his Departure Afterwards he went into Schwitzerlands and fixed for some time at Zurich Thence to Strasburgh where for about five years he read and taught sacred Letters in which time he took to Wife he being near 50 years of Age one Cath. Dampmartin causing thereupon his Enemies to say that he left his Order and Monastic Vows purposely for the sake of a Woman Which Wife after she had lived with him about 8 years died at Oxon as I shall anon tell you In 1547 he was invited into England by Edward Lord Protector and Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury to the end that his Assistance might be used to carry on a Reformation in the Church In the Month of Dec. the same year he with Bemnardine Ochine another Italian arrived in England and retiring to Lambeth were kindly received by Archb. Cranmer and entertained there for some time About the latter end of the same year in Feb. or
beginning of March Martyr went to Oxon was incorporated Doctor of Div. as he had stood at Padua and tho addicted more to the Zwinglian than to the Lutheran Doctrines in point of the Sacrament was in the beginning of the year following appointed by the King to read a public Lecture to the Academians in the Divinity School and for his reward to have an Annuity of 40 Marks What followed and how he and his Adversaries behav'd themselves thereupon I have largely told you elsewhere In the same year 1548 upon the receeding from the University of Dr. Rich. Smyth the Kings Professor of Divinity that Lecture with the profits belonging thereunto was confer'd by the King on Martyr and in the year following being much troubled with the R. Catholicks as in all the year before he disputed publickly with three of the most eminent of them as I have also told you in the same place In the year 1550 he had a Canonrie of Ch. Ch. bestowed upon him by the King on the death of Mr. Will. Haynes whereupon being installed 20 January the same year entred into his Lodgings belonging to him then joyning on the North side to Ch. Ch. great Gate leading into Fishstreet With him also setled his beloved Wife Catherine as the Wife of Dr. Rich. Cox did about the same time with him in the Deans Lodgings being the first Women as 't was observ'd that resided in any Coll. or Hall in Oxon. By whose Example it was not only permitted that any Canon beside might marry if he please but also a Head of a Coll. or Hall whereby other Women or idle Huswives were tolerated if the said Head allowed it to serve in them Which act beside their permitting of bawling Children to come among them was looked upon as such a damnable matter by the R. Catholicks and others too that they usually stiled them Concubines and the Lodgings that entertained them and their Children Stews and Cony-buries While Martyr continued in the said Lodgings whose Windows were next to Fishstreet he continually especially in the night time received very opprobrious Language from the R. Catholicks as well Scholars as Laicks and often had his Windows broken So that his Studies and Sleep being often disturb'd he changed his Lodgings which were those belonging to the Canons of the first Canonry for those in the Cloyster which belonged to those of the second being formerly the very same which belonged to the Prior of S. Frideswide in which being setled he spent the remaining part of his Abode in Oxon in Peace However for the severer enjoyment of his Thoughts and Studies he erected a Fabrick of Stone in his Garden situated on the East side of his Lodgings wherein he partly composed his Commentary on the first Ep. to the Corinthians and certain Epistles to learned men which were afterwards printed This Fabrick which contained two Stories stood till the latter end of March 1684 at which time they were plucked down by that Canon that was Owner of the Lodgings to which the Garden and Fabrick appertained About that time Martyr's Wife dying she was buried in the Cathral Church near to the place where S. Frideswydes Reliques had been reposed but four years after or thereabouts her body was taken up thrown out of the Church with scorn and buried in a Dunghil but when Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown the body was taken up again and reburied as I have elsewhere at large told you After the death of K. Edward 6. and Religion alter'd when his Sister Mary was setled in the Throne Pet. Martyr left Oxon went to London and so to Lambeth and obtaining his safe Conduct from the Qu. he left England and went to Strasburgh from whence he came where he taught Philosophy and Divinity for some time Thence he travell'd to Zurich an 1556. where he met with Joh. Juell and several exil'd Divines of England and took to his second Wife one Catherina Merenda While he continued there Maximilian Celsus an exil'd Count and the chief Minister of the Italian Church at Geneva died whereupon being invited to take his place upon him refused it for several Reasons When Qu. Mary died Queen Elizabeth invited him to return into England and there to accept of what Preferment he pleas'd but he fearing another mutation he modestly refused it To pass by several other matters not now fit to be related I shall give you the Titles of some of his Works as they follow Comment in Epist S. Paulis ad Romanos Bas 1558. fol. translated into Engl. by H. B. Lond. 1568 fol. Com. in priorem ad Corinth Epistolam Written at Oxon. and ded to K. Ed. 6. Printed several times at Zurich in fol. Defensio doctrinae veteris Apostolicae de Sacramento Eucharisticae adversus Step. Gardineri librum sub nomine M. Antonii Constantii editum c. Printed in fol. 1502 in four parts Tractatio de Sacramento Eucharistiae habita Oxonii cùm jam absolvisset interpretationem xi Capitis prioris Epistolae ad Corinthios Printed 1562. fol. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in qu. Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. Printed 1562 and translated into English Com. in Genesin Tig. 1579. fol. Com. in lib. Judicum Tig. 1582. fol. which is the second or third Impression Translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. 1564. Com. in lib. duos posteriores Regum Heid 1599. fol. Com. in Samuelis Prophetae libros duos Tig. 1595. fol. Loci communes sacrarum literarum Tig. 1587. fol. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. De lib. arbitio De providentia praedestinat Tig. 1587. fol. An Deus sit causa author peccati An missa sit sacrificium Ib. eod an fol. Theses propofitae ad disputandum publicè in Schola Argentinensi an 1543. Ib. eod an fol. Ib. eod an fol. Oratio de Utilitate dignitate sacri Ministerii Oratio de Morte Christi Oratio de Resurrectione Christi These three last are also translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. 1583. Sermo in xx cap. Johan Christus die unto Sabbat c. 'T is translated into English and printed 1583. Exhortatio ad sacrarum literarum studium Translated also into English Oratio quam Tiguri primam habuit cum in locum D. Conradi Pellicani successiscet Translated also into English Adhortatio ad coenam Domini Mysticam Translated also Epistolae Theologicae Some of which were written at Oxon. and also translated into English and published Note that P. Martyr's Common places and all those things that follow which I have said were translated were put into the English Tongue by Anth. Marten Gentleman Sewer to her Majestie Lond. 1583. fol. One Anth. Marten of London was Father to Sir Hen. Marten as I shall tell you among these Writers ann 1641. Whether the same with the Translator I cannot yet tell Praeces ex Psalmis Davidis desumptae Tig.
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
which was some Weeks after the death of Pet. de Soto RICHARD SMYTH the greatest pillar for the Roman man Catholick cause in his time was born in Worcestershire admitted Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the Year 1527 Master of Arts 1530 and the Year after was on the resignation of Rob. Taylor Fellow of the said Coll unanimously chosen the publick Scribe or Registrary of the University Afterwards he became Rector of Cuxham in Oxfordshire for a time Principal of St. Albans hall Divinity Reader of Magd. College the Kings Professor of Divinity in the said University and Doctor of that faculty But being forced to leave his Professorship in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. to make room for P. Martyr he went to Lovaine in Brabant where being received with solemnity became publick Professor of Divinity there for a time and read openly on the Apocalips of St. John When Qu. Mary was advanced to the Crown he was not only restored to his Professorship in the University of Oxon but also was made one of the Chaplains to that Queen and Canon of Christ Church In 1559 Qu. Elizabeth being then in the Throne he lost those with other preferments of which the Rectory or Headship of Whittingdon Coll. in Lond. was one and was committed to custody with Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury by whose perswasions he recanted what he had written in defence of the celebacy of Priests See more of this matter in a Book intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae c. in Mathaeo Printed about 1572-3 being the first impression of that Book Afterwards our Author R. Smyth giving Matthew the slip he went to Doway in Flanders and was constituted Dean of S. Peters Church at that place by Philip K. of Spain who erecting an Academy there about that time made him the first Kings Professor thereof He was by those of his perswation accounted the best Schoolman of his time a subtile disputant and admirably well read in the Fathers and Councils which did evidently appear in his disputations in the Divinity School with Pet. Martyr whom as the R. Cath. Writers of his time say he did in a most egregious manner baffle several times The wholy story of it you may see elsewhere and therefore I shall not make a recital of it now only say that the Protestant Writers report that he was more a Sophister than Divine that he was non-plus'd several times by Martyr and that he was a goggle-ey'd fellow and very inconstant in his Opinion As for his Writings they are these Assertion and defence of the Sacrament of the Altar Lond. 1546. oct Defence of the sacrifice of the Mass Lond. 1546. oct An answer to all Martyn Luthers and his Scholar's reasons made against the sacrifice of the Masse c. Printed with the Defence before-mention'd Brief treatise setting forth divers truths necessary both to be believed of all Chrysten People and kept also which ãâã are not expressed in the Scripture but left to the Church by the Apostles tradition Lond. 1547. oct Declaration upon his retractation made at Pauls cross 15. May 1547. Lond. 1547. oct This retraction was for certain articles contained in two Books of his making viz. one in Defence of the sacrifice of the Masse and that called as it seems A brief treatise c. wherein he endeavoured to prove that unwritten verities ought to be believed under paine of damnation Diatriba de hominis justificatione contra Pet. Martyrem Lovain 1550. oct Defensio caelibatûs sacerdotum contra P. Mart. Lov. 1550. oct Printed also as it seems at Paris the same year Confutatio quorundam articularum de votis monasticis Pet. Martyris Itali These two last being printed at Lovaine in one Vol. are very full of faults by the negligence of the Printer and absence of the Author who pretended they were printed against his Will and wished afterwards that he had never made them because he was then perswaded with himself that the Priests of England made a vow a religious vow when they were made Priests which he perceived afterwards was not true This he told Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury in a certain letter when he heard that he the said Cranmer had made a Collection of or answer to the aforesaid Books De caelibatu votis monasticis Disputation with Bish Rydley in the Div. School at Oxon his Sermon at his and Latimers burning with Speeches Orations c. See in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church A bucklar of Cath. Faith of Christ's Church containing divers matters now of late called into controversie by the new Gospellers Lond. 1555. in two books or parts The things controverted were 1 Whether a man may keep Gods commandements 2 Concerning works of superarrogation 3 Concerning purgatory 4 The signe of the cross and crucifex c. Refutatio luculenta crassae exitiosae haeresis Johannis Calvini Christop Carlili Angli qua astruunt Christum non discendisse ad inferos alios quam ad infernum infimum Printed 1562. The said tenet that Christ descended into hell was maintained in a Commencement held at Cambridge in 1552. by the said Carlile and opposed then in disputations by Sir Joh. Cheek Whereupon Smyth wrot the Refutation before-mention'd Afterwards Christoph Carlile came out with a book entit Concerning the immediat going to Heaven of the souls of the faithful Fathers before Christ and concerning his descent into hell c. Lond. 1582. oct sec edit I find one Christopher Carlile to have lived for some time at Barham in Kent whence removing to the Parish of St. Botolph near Billingsgate in London died there in the beginning of the Year 1596 leaving then behind him a Relict called Marie Whether this Chr. Carlile be the same with the former I cannot tell Another also of both his names lived in his time whose warlike skill was sufficiently tried in the Low Countries France and Ireland and in America at Carthage and Santo Dominico an 1585 Which worthy Soldier died about the Year 1593. R. Smyth hath also written De missae sacrificio contra Melanctonum Calvinum alios Lov. 1562. oct De Infantium baptismo contra Calvinum Printed there the same Year Defensio externi visibilis sacerdotii propugnatio altarium cum confutatione communionis Calvinianae Ibid. Confutatio earum quae Philip. Melancthon objecit contra propitiatorium missae sacrificium Ibid. De libero hominis arbitrio contra Calvinum Lov. 1563. oct and other things which you may see in Pitseus This learned Doctor gave way to fate on the seventh of the ides of July according to the accompt followed at Doway in Fifteen hundred sixty and three year 1563 aged 63. Whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady joyning to the Church of St. Peter at Doway before-mentioned Several of both his names have been Writers but they being after him in time I shall
in a matter concerning two manner of marriages corrected and somewhat augmented by the Author Lond. 1547. and 1598. in two parts in qu. All written in old English verse and printed in an English Character Three hundred Epigrams upon 300 Proverbs Lond. without date and there again 1598. qu. All in old English character The fourth hundred of Epigrams Lond. without date and there again 1598. qu. The Fifth Sixth hundred of Epigr. LOnd 1598. qu. The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie. Lond. 1556. in a pretty thick qu. and all in old English verse Before the title is the picture of Jo. Heywood from head to foot printed from a wooden Cut with a fur-gown on representing the fashion of that almost belonging to a Master of Arts but the bottom of the sleeves reach no lower than his knees On his head is a round cap his chin and lips are close shav'd and hath a dagger hanging at his girdle After the Preface which is in verse follows a table of all the Chapters in the Book then follows his picture again as is before described In the beginning of every chapter in number 77. is the Authors picture either standing or sitting before a table with a Book on it and the representation of a window near it with cobwebs flies and spiders in it 'T is one of the first printed Books in the English tongue that hath many Cuts and no doubt there is but that it was in high value in Qu. Maries Reign as the Author of it was who ending his days at Mechlin year 1565 about Fifteen hundred sixty and five was buried there leaving behind him several Children to whom he had given liberal education among which were Ellis and Jaspar Heywood the former Bach. of the Civil Law the other M. of Arts of this University and both afterwards noted Jesuits THOMAS HOBY of Bysham near to Maydenhead in Berks. Son of Will. Hoby of Leonminster commonly called Lemster in Herefordishire was born as I conceive in Herefordshire and after he had spent some time among the Oxonian Muses he went beyond the Seas lived in France Italy and other Countries several years became a perfect Master of the Languages there spoken and at length returned a compleat Gentleman well fuânâshed with learning and for a time settled at Bysham Afterwards being introduced into the Court he became so much esteemed by Qu. Elizabeth that she not only conferr'd the honor of Knighthood upon but sent him Embasslador to the French King an 1565 or thereabouts where acting too zealous for his Mistress he was cut off in the prime of his years What he hath written I know not Sure I am that he hath translated from Italian into English Il cortagiano seu de Aulico written by ãâã Castiglione and from Lat. into English 1 ãâã to the Church of England for the restitution of Christian Religion Lond. in oct without date written in Lat. by Martin Bucer 2 Answer unto the two railing Epistles of Steph. Gardiner B. of Winchester concerning the married state of Priests and Cloysterers Lond. in oct without date written also in Lat. by the said Bucer They were both printed in an English character after the Authors death as it seems which happing at Paris on Saturday 13. July between five and six in the morning to the great reluctancy of all good Men nay to the Queen her self in Fifteen hundred sixty and six year 1566 aged 36 years his body thereupon was conveyed into England and at length to Bysham where resting till his Widow Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Anth. Coke of Geddy-hall in Essex Knight had built a Chappel on the South side of the Chancel there was put into a Vault underneath it Which being so done the said Widow caused the body of his elder Brother Sir Philip Hoby a zealous Protestant in Qu. Maries Reign who dying issuless 31 May 1558. aged 53. made his Brother Sir Tho. before-mentioned his Heir to be removed from under the Chancel and to be laid by it in the said Vault That also being done she at her own charges caused a fair Table Monument breast-high to be erected over them with their statâa's from head to foot laying thereon and a large inscription in English prose and verse to be engraven which for brevity sake I shall now pass by This Sir Tho. Hoby left behind him several Children of whom the eldest was Edward as I shall tell you more hereafter in the latter end of the Year 1616. RICHARD EDWARDS a Somersetshire Man born was admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. under the tuition of George Etheridge on the eleventh of May 1540 Student of the upper table of Christ Church at its foundation by K. Hen. 8. in the beginning of the Year 1547. aged 24 and the same Year took the Degree of M. of Arts. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he was made one of the Gentlemen of her Chappel and Master of the Children there being then esteemed not only an excellent Musician but an exact Poet as many of his compositions in Musick for he was not only skill'd in the practical but theoretical part and Poetry do shew for which he was highly valued by those that knew him especially his associats in Lincolns Inn of which he was a member and in some respects an Ornament and much lamented by them and all ingenious Men of his time when he died He hath written Damon and Pythias a Com. Acted at Court and in the University Palaemon and Arcyte a Com. in two parts Acted before Qu. Elizab. in Ch. Ch. hall 1566. which gave her so much content that sending for the Author thereof she was pleased to give him many thanks with promise of reward for his pains And then making a pause said to him and her retinue standing about her these matters relating to the said Play which had entertain'd her with great delight for two nights in the said hall By Palaemon I warrant he dellieth not in love when he was in love indeed By Arcyte he was a right martial Knight having a swaât countenance and a manly Face By Trecatio Gods pitty what a knave it is By Peritbous his throwing St. Edwards rich cloak into the funeral fire which a stander by would have staâd by the arm with an oath go fool he knoweth his part I 'll warrant you c. In the said play was acted a cry of hounds in the quadrant upon the train of a fox in the hunting of Theseus with which the young Scholars who stood in the remoter parts of the stage and in the windows were so much taken and surpriz'd supposing it had been real that they cried out there there he 's caught he 's caught All which the Queen merrily beholding said O excellent those boys in very troth are ready to leap out of the windows to follow the hounds This part being repeated before certain Courtiers in the lodgings of Mr. Rog. Marbeck one of the Canons of
the Civil Law in an ancient hostle for Civilians called Henxey hall in St. Aldates Parish in Oxon where making great proficiency he was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1531. In 1535 when K. Hen. 8. first founded certain Lectures in the University he appointed Job Storie to read that of the Civil Law and in 1537 he became Principal of Broadgates hall being also about that time Moderator of one of the Civil Law Schools In 1538 he proceeded in his faculty and afterwards performing excellent service at the Siege of Bologne in Picardie in the administration of the Civil Law under the Lord Marshall there the King in consideration thereof did renew his former grant of the said Lecture in form of Letters Pat. for the term of life of the said John in the Year 1546 or thereabouts joyning with him for his ease Mr. Rob. Weston Fellow of All 's College When Qu. Marie came to the Crown she renewed his patent again but soon after resigning his professorship because he had got greater preferment at London and the Chancellourship of the Dioc. of Oxon. if I mistake not became a zealous Man in the Religion then professed and an eager enemy against the poor Protestants as the Histories of those times will tell you I find published under his name these things following Oration against Th. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury in 1556. Discourse with Joh. Philpot the Martyr about matters of Religion and with others Answer to Examinations during his imprisonment in the tower of London in 1570. Speech at his execution at Tybourne 1 o June 1571. with other things of which some relate to his profession that I have not yet seen When Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he was imprisoned but soon after broke out and going beyond the Sea continued an enemy to the Protestants there became a sworn servant to the Duke of Alva at Antwerp and from him received a special commission to search the Ships for goods forfeited and and for English Books in which service he did very great harm to the English Protestants At length being invited under hand to search the Ship of one Parker an English Man went unwarily therein Whereupon Parker causing the hatches to be shut when Storie was searching under deck he hoised sail and brought him Prisoner into England about the beginning of Decemb. 1570. So that being clap'd up close Prisoner within the Tower of London did undergo there several examinations At length being brought to a trial and stedfastly denying to take the Oath of Supremacy as he had done several times before within the Tower he was drawn thence on a hurdle to Tybourne on the first day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and one year 1571 having been prayed for and animated in his faith by Joh. Feckenham Prisoner in the said Tower where after he had spoken a large speech which was unexspected and therefore not interrupted he was for a little time hanged but before he was half dead he was cut down and when the Executioner cut off his privy members he rose up with alacrity and gave him a blow on the ear But his bowels being soon after draw'd out of his belly and his body quarter'd his head was set upon London bridge and his quarters were hanged on 4 gates of the City Several of his treasons and conspiracies against the English Nation you may see in a pamphlet printed in oct an 1571 bearing this title A copie of a letter sent by a Gentleman student in the lawes of the realm to a friend of his concerning Dr. Storie And what relates to him as praise worthy you may see in Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglica taken from Nichol. Sanders his seventh Book De visibili Monarchia His Martyrdom is imprinted or represented in the English Coll. at Rome and he is called with the two Notons Joh. Felton and others Saints The Franciscans have a great respect for his memory also because he had been a lay-brother of that Order and had done several signal services for them JOHN JEWELL one of the greatest lights that the reformed Church of England hath produced was born at Buden in the Parish of Berinerber in Devon 24. May 1522. His Father was Joh ' Jewell and his Mother of the Family of the Bellamies who sparing neither labour or charge for his education was at length by the care of Joh. Bellamie his uncle educated in Grammar learning first at Branton then at Southmoulton and at length at Barnstaple in his own Country under one Walt. Bowen In which last School being made ripe for the University he was sent to Oxon. in July 1535 and being entred into Merton Coll. under the tuition of John Parkhurst afterwards B. of Norwych was by him made his Portionist now called Postmaster and by his care and severe tuition laid the foundation for greater learning that followed In the Year 1539. after he upon examination had shew'd himself a youth of great hopes he was admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 19. Aug. and the Year after was made Bach. of Arts. So that being put into a capacity by that Degree of taking Pupills many resorted to him whom he mostly instructed in private in Protestant principles and in publick in Humanity he being about that time Rhetorick reader in his Coll. In 1544 he was licensed to proceed in Arts which he compleated in an Act celebrated 9. Feb. the same year When K. Hen. 8. was dead he shew'd himself more openly to be a Protestant and upon P. Martyr's arrival at Oxon to be an admirer and hearer of him whose Notary he was when he disputed with Tresham Cheadsey and Morgan In 1550 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and during the Reign of K. Ed. 6. became a zealous promoter of reformation and a Preacher and Catechiser at Sunningwel near Abendon in Berks. Soon after Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was forced to leave the Nation and retire first to Frankfort with Henry the eldest Son of Sir Franc. Knollys Rob. Horne and Edwyn Sandys and afterwards to Strasburgh with Joh. Poynet Edmund Grindal Joh. Cheek c. After Qu. Maries death he returned in 1558 and in the Year following he was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Salisbury for his great learning and sufferings being about that time appointed one of the Protestant Divines to encounter those of the Romish perswasion when Qu. Elizab. was about to settle a reformation in the Church of England In 1560 he preached at Pauls cross on the second Sunday before Easter on 1. Cor. 11. 23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I have delivered unto you c. In which Sermon he shew'd himself the first who made a publick challenge to all the Rom. Catholicks in the world to produce but one clear and evident testimony out of any Father or famous writer who flourished within 500 years after Christ for any one of the many articles which the Romanists
Will Bishop of Rurimund in Gelderland wherein is detected and made manifest the doting dangerous doctrine and haynous heresies of the rash rablement of the hereticks This book was by Lew. Evans entit The betraying of the beastl iness of the Hereticks c. Antw. 1565 in tw Afterwards the said Evans being reconcil'd to the Ch. of England by some of his friends did to shew his zeal for the love he had to it write and publish a book as full of ill language against the Roman Catholicks as the other was as full of good for them entituled The Castle of Christianity detecting the long erring estate as well of the Rom. Church as of the Bishop of Rome Lond. 1568. oct Which being dedicated to Queen Elizab. he saith in his Epistle to her that he himself had once drank of the puddle of ignorance of the mud of idolatry of the pond of superstition c. whereupon great distast being taken by the R. Catholicks the common report flew abroad by their endeavours that he was gone over again to the Church of Rome in which being settled he died in great ease and content These reports being often told to Evans while he was in Oxon by the learnedest there he soon after published a book entit The hateful hypocrisie and rebellion of Romish Prelates Lond. 1570 in tw to which he added these two treatises following A view of certaine rebellions and their ends Four paradoxes First a Bishop and a Minister is all one 2 A Bishop c. Afterwards if I mistake not our Author Evans was a Schoolmaster and was the same Person I think that revised and increased with phrases and necessary additions A short dictionary for young beginners compiled at first by John Withals and by him published at Lond. 1566. in qu. but when the additions of Evans came out I find not Afterwards the said Dictionary was augmented with more than 600 rythmical verses whereof many are proverbial by Abr. Flemmyng a native of London printed at Lond. 1594 qu. In my travels and searches I find one Lew. Evans a Flintshire Man to be a Student of Ch. Ch. in the time of Ed. 6. and to have taken the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1557 but this Person I presume is not the Author because the Author doth not stile himself in his Books Bach. or Master of Arts. Another Lew. Evans a Brecknockshire Man became Fellow of Oriel C. an 1566 Mast of Arts 1570 and resign'd his Fellowship 1577. A third who was a Monmouehshire Man was matriculated as a Member of Gloc. hall 1574 aged 28. And a fourth also I find to be a Minister of God's word who in the 31 year of his age or more was matric as a member of the same Hall and as a Native of Monmouthshire an 1581. and in 1585 took the Deg. of M. of A. Whether either of these was the Author before-mention'd is to me as yet doubtful or whether the same with Lew. Evans who by the favour of Dr. Piers B. of Sarum became Prebend of Warmister in that Church an 1583 which he resigned in May 1598 I cannot tell or whether the same with Lew. Evans Clerk Parson of Westmeane in Hampshire who died there about the beginning of 1601 leaving then behind him a Wife and Children and houses in Winchester JOHN PARKHURST Son of George Parkhurst was born at Guildford in Surrey sent when very young to Oxon where he was educated in Grammar learning in the School joyning to Magd. Coll. common gate under the famous Mr. Thom. Robertson was elected Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1529 and three years after proceeding in Arts entred into holy orders tho better then for poetry and oratory than Divinity At length he became Rector of the rich Church of Cleve called by some Bishops Cleve in Glocestershire where he did a great deal of good by his hospitality and charity After the death of K. Ed. 6. he left all for Religion sake and went into voluntary exile to Zurich where remaining till the death of Qu. Mary not without great dangers and afflictions returned when Qu. Eliz. succeeded and was by her made Bishop of Norwych To which See being elected 13. Apr. was consecrated on the first of Sept. and installed by John Salisbury Dean of that Church 27 of the same month an 1560 and about six years after was made D. of D. He hath written and published Epigrammata in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Caroli Henrici Brandon Lond. 1552. qu. They were the Sons of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke and died of the sweating sickness Some of which Epigrams were afterwards published in his Ludicra which I am now to mention Ludicra sive Epigrammata juvenilia Lond. 1573. qu. Which book tho written in his younger days and contains therein more obscurity than the Epigrams of Martial as some say tho I my self cannot perceive it yet while he was Bishop he must needs have it printed alledging that he would not be like Heliodorus to lose his Bishoprick for it He also view'd took pains about and published John Shepreve his Dislicks on the New Test and added thereunto of his own Epigrammata Seria Lond. 1560. oct Most of which seem to be taken from his former book while it remained in MS. See more in Job Shepreve under the Year 1542. At length this Bishop yielded up his last breath in Fifteen hundred seaventy and four and was buried in the body or middle Isle of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych Over his grave was soon after a fair monument of marble raised between two pillars on the S. side of the said middle Isle on which Mon. was his proportion engraven on brass with a gown and square cap on holding his hands together in a praying posture with this inscription engraven on brass also but taken away in the civil war Johannes Parkhurstus Theologiae professor Gylfordiae natus Oxoniae educatus temporibus Mariae Reginae pro nitida conscientia Tigurinae vixit exul voluntarius Postea praesul factus sanctissime hanc rexit ecclesiam 16 annis mortuus est secundo die Februarii an 1574. aetatis suae 63. Another inscription which is on one of the said pillars runs thus Viro bono docto ac pio Johanni Parkhursto Episcopo vigilantissimo Georgius Gardiner posuit hoc Which George Gardiner who was D. of D. was installed Dean of Norwych 24. Dec. 1573 in the place of John Salisbury deceased Ralf Gualter Father and Son both of Zurich and entirely beloved of this our Author Parkhurst have written Epiceds on his death which if they could be procured being very scarce might satisfie a curious reader concerning some actions of him the said Parkhurst LEONARD DIGGES second Son of James Digges of Digges Court in the Parish of Berham in Kent by Philippa his second Wife Daughter of John Engham of Chart in the said County was born in the Province of Kent particularly
about him the charms of a plausible behaviour of a fluent tongue and good parts and another who was his most beloved friend saith that he was upright in conscience deep in judgment and ripe in Eloquence As for the works by him written and published under his name they are these Nectar Ambrosia Trag. Much praised by Greg. Martin Rationes decem oblati certaminis in causa fidei redditae Academicis Angliae Printed first of all privately in the house of one Stonor a Cath. Gent. living near to Henly in Oxfordshire an 1581 afterwards at least five times publickly beyond the Seas of which once was at Aug. Trev. 1583 in Concertat Eccles Cath. and at length were translated into English Lond. 1687. qu. These reasons were very learnedly answered by Will. Whittaker of Cambridge and replyed upon by John Durey a Scot which Durey was answered by Dr. Laur. Humphrey Nine articles directed to the Lords of the Privy Council an 1581 See more in Mer. Hanmer under the Year 1604 and in Rob. Persons an 1610. Various conferences concerning Religion had with Protestant Divines in the Tower of London on the last of Aug. and on the 18 23 and 27. of Septemb. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. Among those Divines that he disputed with were Alex. Nowell Dean of St. Pauls Cath. and Will. Day Dean of Windsore The History of Ireland in two books Written 1570. The MS. or original of which being in the Cottonian Library was afterwards published by Sir James Ware of Dublin Knight Dubl 1633. fol. Chronologia Universalis Much commended by Greg. Martin before-mention'd Narratio de divortio Hen. 8. Regis ab uxore Catherina Printed at the end of Nic. Harpesfeild's Ch. History at Doway by the care of Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit who also added thereunto a Lat. translation of John Speeds Catalogue of religious Houses Colleges and Hospitals in England and Wales Ingolst 1602. oct Orationes Epistolae Tractatus de imitatione Rhetoricâ Among which orations are those as I suppose which he made at the funeral of Sir Tho. Whyte and of the Lady Amey Robsert the first Wife of Robert Earl of Leycester whose body having been at first buried in Comnore Church near Abendon for there she died or rather was murdered in the mannor house there belonging to Anth. Forster Gent. 8. Sept. 1560 was taken up and reburied in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Literae ad Rich. Chenaeum Episc Glocestr The beginning of which is Non me nunc alium c. Letters to Everard Mercurian General of the Society of Jesus giving an account of his proceedings in England an 1580. Printed in Lat. in Concertatio Eccles Cath. in Anglia part 1. p. 3. and elsewhere Besides all these are other things of our Author Compian which I have not yet seen that were collected and published among some of his works by Silvester à Petra Sancta a Jesuit of Italy printed at Antw. 1631. in tw but those things being scarce and rare to be had I can make no farther report of them nor their Author only that he with other Rom. Priests having been found guilty of treason according to the Act of 25. Ed. 3. and of adhering to the Bishop of Rome the Queens Enemy and of coming into England to disturb the peace and quiet of the Realm c. were executed at Tybourne near London on the first of Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 but what afterwards became of Campians carcass I know not Paul Bombin a Jesuit hath written his Life and Martyrdom published at Antw. 1618. in 12o. and afterwards at Mantua an 1620. in oct But that Pamphlet which I have several years look'd after but in vain is the Report of the death and martyrdom of E. Campian R. Sherwyn and A. Briant printed in English in oct soon after their death The two last of which I am now about to mention RALPH SHERWYN where born unless in the Western parts of England I know not was made Fellow of Exeter Coll. by Sir Will. Petre a principal benefactor thereunto in July 1568 went through with great industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy and in 1574 proceeding in Arts was made Senior of the Act celebrated 26 July the same year being then accounted an acute Philosopher and an excellent Grecian and Hebritian Afterwards he with Joh. Currey M. of A. and Fellow of the said Coll. obtaining leave to travel beyond the Seas in July 1575 left the University utterly renounced the Religion in which he had been mostly educated went to Doway spent some time in the study of Divinity in the English Coll. there and was made Priest with Laur. Johnson who afterwards was hanged by the name of Richardson 23. March 1576 7. In that place and for a time in the English Coll. at Rome he continued in making progress in divine studies till about the beginning of 1580 and then instead of going into England with certain Persons of his society into the Mission he went to Rheimes upon publick concerns to be had with Thom. Goldwell Bishop of St. Asaph then there who being at that time in a sickly condition and therefore not able to serve Sherwin and his Brethren as to Episcopal confirmation and other matters relating to the mission he waited upon the said Bishop in the quality of a Chaplain during his sickness Afterwards being well and sent for to Rome Sherwin went into England and before he was quite settled in London he was taken in the house of one Roscarriot or Roscarrock committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea and had fetters fastned to his legs While he continued there he had notice once or twice that he should prepare himself to dispute with certain Protestant Divines whereupon shewing himself very ready to encounter them he was translated to the Tower of London where after he had many questions proposed to him concerning Campian Persons and other Priests he shew'd himself afterwards to be a Man of parts and one that needed not to be asham'd of his education in Exeter College At length after he had continued there more than an year in great misery was at length tried for his life and refusing several times the Oath of Supremacy and going to hear service in the Protestant Churches was condemned to die His writings are Discourse in the tower of London with Edm. Campian the Jesuit â account of the disputations in Wisbich Castle between Will Fulk of Cambridge and certain R. Priests who were Prisoners there These two are not printed but kept in MS. as choice reliques among R. Cath. beyond the Sea Where or else in the Tower Rich. Stanyhurst saw them Epistles and Letters to divers Persons Two of which are in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae Aug. Trev. 1594. fol. 71. 72. c. See more of him in the latter end of Pet. White under the Year 1590. At length being found guilty of high treason was hang'd drawn
Sir Will. Cecill in Canon rew and the third in that of Sir John Cheeke at the Carmes or White fryers lately dissolv'd These three disputations which were well carried on with great vigour and dexterity especially by Feckenham were prorogu'd to other places as first to Pershore in Worcestershire in which town was then lately a famous Monastery of the Benedictines standing and in the said County was Feckenham then beneficed At which place I say Hooper Bishop of Glocester and Worcester did dispute with him he being then in visiting his Diocess and received satisfaction from what he then said The next was in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester where Jo. Jewell did as 't is reported but I think false oppose him When these things were done he was remanded to his Prison in the Tower where continuing till the first year of Q. Mary was then released and not only made Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral but soon after in Nov. 1556 Abbat of Westminster and Chaplain to that Queen In 1554 he was in Oxon and openly disputed with Cranmer Ridley and Latymer about matters of Religion before they were to sacrifice their lives in the fire and in the beginning of 1556 he was actually created Doctor of Divinity being then in wonderful esteem for his learning piety charity humility and other virtues All the time of Qu. Maries Reign he employed himself in doing good offices for the afflicted Protestants from the highest to the lowest and did interceed with the Queen for the Lady Elizabeth for which he gained her displeasure for a time After the said Lady Elizab. came to the Crown and Religion about to be altered he denied the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England in 1559. About that time he planted the elmes which do yet or did lately grow in the garden belonging to the Coll. of Westminster But the Queen having a very great respect for his learning and virtuous life as also for his former tenderness of her sent for and had private discourse with him but what it was none yet do positively know tho there be not wanting some that say that she offer'd to him the Archbishoprick of Canterbury if he would take the oath and conform to the Church of England which he refused The year after he was committed Prisoner again to the Tower and about that time did undergo several disputes with Protestant Divines about Religion but was not suffered to be one of those that were publickly to dispute with the said Divines when the Queen was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England In the winter time 1563 he was committed to free custody with Dr. Horne B. of Winchester who as the R. Catholicks say did deal uncivilly and falsly with him But tarrying with that Bishop only one Winter he was sent to the Tower again thence after some time to the Marshalsea then to a private house in Holbourn and in 1580 to Wisbich castle in Cambridgshire where he remained to the time of his death in great devotion and sanctity of life Under his name do go these things following A conference dialoguewise held between the Lady Jane Dudley and Mr. Jo. Feckenham four days before her death touching her faith and belief of the Sacrament and her Religion Lond. 1554. oct There again 1625. qu. Jo. Fox entitles this little book A communication between Mr. Feckenham and the Lady Jane Grey before she was to be beheaded 12. Feb. 1553. Speech in the House of Lords an 1553. Two Homelies on the first second and third article of the Creed Lond. in qu. Oratio funebris in exequiis Ducissae Parmae Caroli quinti filiae Belgii Gubernatricis Sermon at the Exequy of Joan Queen of Spayne c. on Deut. 32. 28. 29. Lond. 1555. oct The declaration of such scruples and staies of conscience touching the Oath of Supremacy delivered by writing to Dr. Horne of Winchester Lond. in qu. Answered by the said Horne an 1566. qu. refuted by Tho. Stapleton the year after Objections or Assertions made against Mr. Joh. Goughe's Sermon preached in the Tower of London 15. Jan. 1570. Soon after was published by the said Gough An answer to certain assertions of Mr. Fecknam which of late be made against a godly Sermon c. Lond. 1570. oct Caveat Emptor This I have not yet seen Commentarii in psalmos Davidis This was seen in MS. in the hands of the Author while he was a Prisoner at London by Rich. Stanyhurst but lost with other things as 't is conceived among which was his Treatise of the Eucharist written against Joh. Hooper At length after our Author had seen many changes in Religion and had continued stedfast in that wherein he was educated surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it within the precincts of Wisbich castle before-mention'd year 1585 in Fifteen hundred eighty and five and soon after was buried but where unless in the Parish Church there I cannot tell leaving then behind him this character that he was a Person full of offices of piety and humility and was always ready tho of a contrary opinion to do good to the Protestant party especially in the Reign of Q. Mary when they suffered Our celebrated Antiquary W. Camden tells us that he was a learned and good Man lived a long while did a great deal of good to the poor and always sollicited the minds of his adversaries to good will RICHARD CALDWALL or Chaldwell a Staffordsh Man born was educated in Brasenose College of which he was afterwards Fellow took the Degree of M. of Arts entred upon the Physick line and in the 32 year of his age became one of the Senior Students of Ch. Ch. a little after its last foundation by K. Hen. 8. an 1547. Afterwards he took the Degrees in the said faculty and became so highly valued for his learning and happy practice therein that he was examined approved and admitted into the Physicians Coll. at London and made censor of it in one and the same day Six weeks after he was chosen one of the Elects of the said Coll. and in 1570 President thereof He hath written several matters relating to his profession but whether extant I cannot tell All that I have seen of his labours is his translation into English of The tables of surgery briefly comprehending the whole art and practice thereof c. Lond. 1585. fol. Written originally by Horatio More a Florentine Physician As for his death which hapned in Fifteen hundred eighty and five year 1585 and other of his works let the learned Camden tell you in these words Nee inter hos licet minoris notae silendus hoc etiam anno fato fanctus Richardis Chaldwellus è Coll. Aenei Nasi Oxoniae Med. Doctor qui ut de reipub bene mereretur adscito in partem honoris Barone Lumleio lectionem Chriurgicam honesto salario in Medicorum collegio Londini à Thoma Linacro fundato instituit Juxtaque ad Sancti
Countess of Pembroke At length Sir Philip being wounded in the battle at Zutphen while he was getting up the third horse having had two slain under him before on the 22 Septemb. year 1586 in Fifteen hundred eighty and six he was carried to Arnheim where languishing under his wound 25 days or thereabouts he died on the sixteenth of October following This was that Sidney whom as Gods will was he should be therefore born into the world even to shew unto our age a sample of ancient virtues so his good pleasure was before any looked for it to call for him again and take him out of the world as being more worthy of Heaven than Earth Soon after his death his body was brought to Flushing and being embarqued with great solemnity on the first of November landed at Tower Wharf on the sixth day of the said month Thence 't was conveyed to the Minories without Aldgate where it lay in state for some time till his magnificent funeral in St. Pauls Cathedral 16. of Feb. following which as many Princes have not exceeded in the solemnity so few have equalled in the sorrow for his loss He was buried near to that place which his Father-in-law Sir Francis Walsingham had designed as I have heard to be entombed in without any monument or inscription save only a copy of English verses written on a wooden table that were divers years after his death put over his grave When his said Father-in-law was buried in that place afterwards there was a fair tomb designed for them both and epitaphs composed by Dr. Jo. Rainolds a copy of which for Sidney you may see elsewhere James King of Scots afterwards of England honored him with an Epitaph of his composition The muses of Oxon also lamenting much for his loss composed verses to his memory printed at Ox. 1587. qu. among which I find Cardinal Wolsey's Daughter lamenting the loss of her Alumnus Those of New Coll. in their Peplus Sidnaei dedicated to Henry Earl of Pembroke who married Sir Philips Sister as having been formerly of that house did bewail his death The most ingenious of Cambridge University did also exercise their fancies made publick by Alex. Nevill a member thereof Lond. 1587. qu. besides several private Persons among which was L. B. who wrot a pastoral Elegie and Eglogue on his death entit Astrophel printed at the end of Edm. Spencers Poetry called Colin clouts c. Lond. 1595. qu. The said Sir Philip left behind him a Daughter named Elizabeth who being born in 1585 Scipio Gentilis an eminent Civilian wrot a Lat. Poem on her nativity entit Nereus sive de natali Elizabethae illustriss Philippi Sydnaei filiae Lond. 1586. in one sh in qu. She was afterwards married to Rog. Mannours Earl of Rutland but died without issue by him THOMAS BOURCHIER was descended from those of his name who were Earls of Bathe but in what County born I cannot yet tell received some parts of literature in this University particularly as I conceive in Magd. Coll. yet took no Degree there unless in the Reign of Edw. 6. when the common register of the University was in a manner totally neglected Afterwards upon pretence of being weary of the heresie as he call'd it that in his time was practised in England he went beyond the Seas settled in Paris took upon him then if not before the habit of St. Francis and lived as a Brother in the house of that order there where also others of his Country lived and at length became Doctor of Divinity of the Sorbon at which time he was held in great esteem for his Religion and learning Afterwards going to Rome he lived among those of his order in the Monastery called by Latin Authors Ara coeli and at length became Penitentiary to the Church of St. John Lateran there He hath written Historia Ecclesiastica de Martyrio fratrum ordinis Minorum Divi Francisci de observantia qui partim in Anglia sub Henrico 8 Rege partim in Belgio sub Principe Auriaco partim in Hybernia tempore Elizabethae regnantis Reginae passi sunt ab an 1536. ad an 1582. Par. 1582. and 1586. in oct Ingolst 1583. in tw The names of those English Men that suffered Martyrdome in England were Father Anton. Brorbe or as some call him Brockby Tho. Cortt Thom. Belchiam and Father John Forest All which were executed in 1537. and 38. What other things our Author Bourchier hath written I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only year 1586 that he departed this mortal life about Fifteen hundred eighty and fix and was buried either in the Church of St. John Lateran or in that belonging to the Monastery called Ara coeli before-mention'd THOMAS BRASBRIDGE a Northamptonshire Man born was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. by the endeavours of Peter Morwyng an 1553 aged 16 where after he had continued a sedulous Student for some years was elected Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls College in 1558. Thence also he returned to Magd. Coll. of which he became Fellow in 1562 and soon after proceeding in Arts applied his mind partly to Divinity and partly to Physick In 1574 he supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the Sentences but whether he was really admitted it appears not The next year he resign'd his Fellowship having a spiritual cure or School or both conferr'd on him at or near to Banbury in Oxfordshire where as it seems he practised Physick His works are The poor Mans Jewell viz. a Treatise of the pestilence To which is annexed a Declaration of the virtues of the hearbes Carduus benedictus and Angelica c. Lond. 1578. and 91. in oct Questiones in Officia M. T. Ciceronis c. c. Oxon. 1615. oct Dedicated to Dr. Laur. Hamphrey President of Magd. Coll. an 1586. What other things he published I cannot yet tell nor any thing of his latter end JOHN FOX the noted Martyriologist was born at St. Botolphs town commonly called Boston in Lincolnshire an 1517 became a Student of Brasenose Coll. at about 16 years of age under the inspection and patronage of Mr. Joh. Hawarden Fellow thereof Afterwards he was elected Fellow of Magd. Coll. and proceeded Master of Arts in 1543 which was the highest Degree he attained to in this University being then esteemed eminent for his learning and knowledge in the three tongues About that time King Hen. 8. setting up a mongrel Religion in the Land which our Author did not like by shewing his opinion in several respects especially by absenting himself from the Chappel did with others of the same mind resign his Fellowship about St. Mary Magd. day in 1545 meerly as 't was thought to prevent expulsion Afterwards he was entertain'd for a time in the house of Sir Thom. Lucy in Warwickshire where as 't is said he took to him a Wife and then went to Riegate in Surrey to be tutor and teacher to the children of the Duke of
Clemency could not be drawn into a Persuasion that in case of Religion Men should be burnt hang'd or quartered And therefore it was that one reporteth that he always was in animo Catholicus and another that he was of such credit and favour in Rome as if he was the greatest Papist in England He wrote as it is said several things pertaining to the Law but none of them are extant only this if I may say it is his and not his Name set to it for sale sake A Treatise concerning Statutes or Acts of Parliament and the Exposition thereof Lond. 1677. oct Whether ever before printed I know not Speeches spoken during the time of his Chancelorship MS. This great and worthy Person dyed on the 20th of November in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 aged 51. and was buried in the upper part of St. Paul's Cathedral in London on the 16th of December following Soon after came out a little Book of Verses made on his Death by several Hands intit Musarum plangores Christopher Lord Hatton Son of John Hatton the nearest Knsman of the Male Line to the aforesaid Sir Christopher was not of St. Mary's Hall but of Jesus College in Cambridge and afterwards a Doctor of the Civil Law of Oxon as I shall elsewhere tell you He published the Psalms of David with Titles and Collects according to the matter of each Psalm Printed at Oxon 1644. in oct and afterwards enlarged and published several times These Collects or Prayers at the end of every Psalm were compiled by Dr. Jeremiah Taylor and so were the Devotions for the help and assistance of all Christian People which are at the end of every impression of the aforesaid Book yet notwithstanding they go all under the Name of the aforesaid Christop L. Hatton having his Arms in the Title of them who dying 4 July 1670. being then or lately a Member of the Privy Council to his Majesty was buried in a private Chappel of the Collegiate Church at Westminster dedicated to St. Peter opposite to the Capella Regum on the North side See more in Jer. Taylor under the year 1667. BARTHELMEW CHAMBERLAINE was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family in Oxfordshire admitted Scholar of Trinity Col. 7. June 1563. aged 17 years Probationer in 67 and Fellow the year after About that time entring into Holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts took both the Degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated 579. before which time he was beneficed and dignified in the Church but where I cannot justly say He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The Passion of Christ and benefits thereby on Heb. 9. 28. Lond. 1581. and 1613. oct 2 Concio ad Academicos Oxomienses in Comitiis An. 1576. Lond. 1584. qu. 3 Sermon at Pauls on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1589. oct 4 Sermon at Farington in Berks on Lond. 1571. oct with others which I have not yet seen Between the time of the first coming of the said Barth Chamberlain to Trinity College to the year 1578. I find seven of his Sirname to be Students in the said College and some after but cannot in all my searches find out George Chamberlaine who was afterwards Bishop of Ypre and whether he ever abode in this University in the condition of a Student I cannot justly say it The said George Chamberlaine was the eldest Son of George Chamberlaine Esque by his Wife the Daughter of Moses Pring of Gaunt in Flanders and he the second Son of Sir Leonard Chamberlaine of Oxfordshire Knight Governor of the Isle of Guernsey who dyed there 2. Eliz. From which Sir Leonard are the Chamberlains of Sherburn in the said County desended the Heiress general of which Family named Elizabeth was married to John Nevile Baron of Abergavenny The said George Chamberlatine who was Bishop of Ypre was born at Gaunt before-mentioned An. 1576. and being bred up ro Learning and Religion became successively Canon Archdeacon and Dean of St. Bavon in Gaunt and at length in 1626. was made Bishop of Ypre within the Province of Machlin in Brabant on the Death of Antonius de Hennin where being settled he became much admired as he was partly before for his great Piety for his voluble Preaching in five Languages at least and beloved of Kings and Princes c. Had I time and room allowed I would give you a Copy of an Epitaph made on by one that knew and much admired him wherein no doubt but that high character of his Piety Learning and Worth is justly said but I must hasten and tell you that he dying to the reluctancy of all that knew him on the 19. Dec. according to the account followed at Ypre in 1634. aged 58 years one month and 19 days was buried in his own Cathedral Some years before his Death he came into England purposely to resign up his Heirship of his Estate at Sherburn before-mentioned and elsewhere which belonged to the noble Family of the Chamberlains sometimes Barons of Tanquervil in Normandy he being the first and true Heir And this he did for Religion sake and purposely to avoid the incumbrances of earthly things See more of him in Athenae Belgicae c. written by Franc. Sweertius printed at Antwerp 1628. where you will find several things that he had written and published ROBERT GWINN a Welsh Man born took one degree in Arts 1568. and in 1571. leaving the University went with Thom. Crowther another Batchelaur to Doway where being admitted into the English College made very great progress in Divinity Afterwards Gwinn returning into England and settling in Wales in the condition of a Secular Priest did write several Pious Works in the Welsh Tongue as Anton. Possivinus tells us but the Titles of them he omits and also translated from the English into the Welsh Language A Christian Directory or Exercise guiding Men to Eternal Salvation commonly called the Resolution Written by Rob. Persons the Jesuit which Translation was much used and valued and so consequently did a great deal of good among the Welsh People See more in Jo. Davies under the year 1634. WALTER BALEY or Bailey Son of Henry Baley of Warnwell in Dorsetshire was born at Portsham in that County educated in Wykchams School ãâã Win chester admitted perpetual fellow of New Colledge after he had served two years of probation an 1550 tok the degrees in Arts entred upon the Physick line was admitied to practice that faculty while he was Proctor of the University in the year 1558 and about that time was made Prebendary of Dultingcote alias Dulcot c. in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in 1579. In 1561 he was made the Queens Professor of Physick in this University proceeded in that faculty two years after and at length became Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much resorted to for his practice He hath written A discourse of three kinds of Pepper in
one County three such Divines as Jewel Hooker and Rainolds of the second of which hear I pray what the learned Camden saith In this year meaning 1599. which is false dyed too many in that one Rich. Hooker born in Devonshire and bred in C. C. coll in Oxford a Divine very moderate temperate and meek and vertuous even to the best imitation and besides very famous for his learned works as his Books of Ecclesiastical Policy set forth in the English but worthy to speak Latin do testifie of him c. At Boscomb he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy which were entred into the Register in Stationers hall 9. March 1592. and afterwards came out with this Title The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in four books Lond. 1594. fol. To which he added a fifth book which is larger than the first four printed by its self at Lond. 1597. fol. Part of the first four being read by Dr. Tho. Stapleton in Latin to P. Clement 8. who before had heard much in their commendation he the said Pope in conclusion said thus There is no learning that this Man hath not searched into nothing too hard ãâã his Vnderstanding This man indeed deserves the Name of an Author His books will get reverence by age for there are in them such seeds of Eternity that if the rest bâ like this they shall last till the last Fire shall consume all learning c. At the same time K. James of Scotland afterwards of England did put an high esteem upon the said books and usually said They were the pictures of a Divine Soul in every page of Truth and Reason King Ch. 1. had read them over several times was well vers'd in and commended them to be read by the Prince afterwards K. Ch. 2. and his other Children next to the Bible The learned Vsher Primate of Ireland Morton B. of Durham Hales of Eaton c. had the same high opinion of the author and his Works and Gauden Bishop of Worcester said he had been highly esteemed of all prudent peaceable and impartial Readers But before the fifth book had been extant two years was published a Pamphlet intit A Christian Letter of certain English Protestants unfeigned Lovers of the present state of Religion authorized and professed in England unto that reverend and learned man Mr. Hooker requiring resolution in certain matters of Doctrine expresly contained in his five books of Ecclesiastical Polity Printed 1599. in qu. which matters of Doctrine as they say seem to overthrow the foundation of Christian Religion and of the Church among us But therein it doth appear that their ignorant malice hath done him great honour who in an argument so distasted by them and coming with a proud confidence to reprehend have only carped sillily at some things neither of moment or importance whereof humility and charity would have craved no answer But these being willing and desirous to find something to oppose have only discovered Mr Hookers great mature and grave judgment and their own small undigested and shallow learning Soon after came out an answer to the said letter entit A just and temperate defence of the 5 books of Ecclesiastical polity c. against an uncharitable letter of certain English protestants c. Lond. 1603. qu. written and published by Will. Covel D. D. born in Lancashiâe near the place where Dr. Chaderton B. of Lincoln received his first breath bred in Christs and Queens coll in Cambridge and a writer of other books that came out soon after As for the other three books of Ecclesiastical Policy which our author Hooker compleated before his death they with the consent of his unlucky Widdow were seized on in his study soon after his decease by Will. Charke a noted Puritan and another Minister that lived near to Canterbury who making the silly Woman believe that they were writings not fit to be seen did either burn them in the place or convey them away secretly So that the foul copy being only remaining with many interlinings Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll in Oxon. his ancient and entire Friend got it into his hands who using the assistance of Hen. Jackson of the said coll as an Amanâensis and otherwise did compleat it as much as could be and kept it by him till his latter end with an intent that it should be published but upon what account he was hindred I cannot tell Sure it is that when he lay on his death-bed he bequeathed the said copy containing the three last books fairly transcribed by the hand of the said H. Jackson to Dr. Jo. King B. of London After his death the copy rested in the hands of his Son Henry who became B. of Chichester 1641. till Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury commanded them out of his custody authorizing Dr. Joh. Barcham to require and bring them to him to Lambeth which accordingly was done The said Archbishop esteeming them as rarities did put them into the Library there where remaining till the decollation of Archb. Laud were then by the Brethren of the Predominant Faction given with the Library to that most notorious Villain Hugh Peters as a reward for his remarkable service in those sad times of the Churches confusion And though they could hardly fall into a fouler hand yet there wanted not other endeavours to corrupt and make them speak that Language for which the Faction then fought which was to subject the Soveraign Power to the People From the said copy several transcripts were taken not only I presume while it remained in the said Library but while it continued in the hands of Peters differing much in words There was a copy of the sixth and eighth books published at London in 1648. in qu. and said by the Editor of them to be collected and compared with five copies viz. with that in Bodley's Library that at Lambeth that in Bish Andrew's that in Archb. Vsher's Library and in that of the Lord Edw. Conway at Ragley but whether the publisher may be believed I know not Sure I am that the said three last books which are said to be true and genuine but from whence obtained I cannot tell were published by Dr. Joh. Gauden under this title The Works of Mr. Rich. Hooker that learned godly judicious and eloquent Divine vindicating the Church of England as truly Christian and duly reformed in eight books of Ecclesiastical Polity now compleated as with the sixth and eighth so with the seventh c. out of his own MSS. never before published with an account of his holy Life and happy Death Lond. 1662. fol. But whether the said MSS. were of his own hand-writing we have good reason to question as also the greater part of his Life which he the said Gauden hath falsly written who with great confidence hath used divers arguments to satisfie the World that the before-mentioned three books were pen'd by Mr. Hooker
is hanging in the School-Gallery at Oxon which shews him to have been of statute tall and of a cheerful complexion JOHN LLOYD or Lhuyd nearly related to Humph. Lhuyd mentioned under the year 1570. was born in the ancient Borough of Denbigh in Denbighshire in Wales educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1579. took the degrees in Arts was Junior of the Act in 1585. and soon after became in eminent Preacher In 1595. he proceeded in Divinity became Vicar of Writtle in Essex on the death of Dr. Maschiart 1598. and was in high esteem there in the Neighbourhood and the University for his rare Learning and excellent way of Preaching He hath published Interpretatio Latina cum Scholiis in Flav. Josaphum de Macabaeis seu de rationis imperio c. Oxon. 1590. oct Done by the help of an excellent Exemplar more corrected and compleat than ever before He also was the first that published Barlaamus de Papae Principatu Gracè Latinè Oxon 1592. What other things he hath written and published I now not not any thing else material of him only this that he paid his last debt to Nature at Writtle before-mentioned in sixteen hundred and three year 1603 and was buried in the Church there He was succeeded in that Vicaridg by Matthew Davies Doct. of Div. by the gift of the Warden and the Society of New college of which he was Fellow and continued there to the time of his death an 1624. Soon after succeeded Dr. Joh. South the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University EDWARD PHILIPS was entred a Student into Broadgates hall now Pembroâe coll in 1574. took the degrees in Arts and became a Preacher at St. Saviours in Southwark near to London where he was by those of his large Auditory mostly zealous Puritans esteemed A person zealous of the truth of God powerful in his calling faithful in his message powerful in his Speech careful of his flock peaceable and blameless in his life and comfortable and constant in his death While he lived it doth not appear that he published anything but after his death a certain Gentleman of Greys-Inn named Hen. Yelverton afterwards a Judge Son of Judge Christopher Yelverton published Two and thirty godly and learned Sermons Lond. 1605. qu. The first of which is on Matth. 1. ver 1. 2. On Matth. 1. 18 19 20 21 c. All which Sermons were taken from the authors mouth by the pen of the said Yelverton This Edw. Philips who was a zealous Calvinist as Yelverton then was and both bitter enemies to popery died year 1603 as I guess in sixteen hundred and three or thereabouts and received sepulture in the Church before mention'd Whether any thing else besides the said Sermons were published after Phillps his death that were of his speaking or writing I cannot tell HUMPHREY ELY brother to Will. Ely sometimes president of S. Johns coll was born in Herefordshire and from being a Student in Brasnose was chose Scholar of S. Johns coll before mention'd in 1566. But before he took a degree or as I think was made Fellow he left that place and giving a farewel to his friends country and religion he crossed the Seas settled at Doway studied the Civil Law and became Licentiat therein Afterwards he went to Rome with his great friend Dr. Will. Allen where being made Doctor of his faculty he returned into France and settling at Rheimes was wholly taken up for a time in the correcting and printing the said Allens books At length upon the breaking out of the civil dissentions in that country he was called into Loraine in 1588. About which time he was made the publick and the Dukes professor of the Civil Law in the University of Pont à Mousson where he continued till the day of his death He was by those of his religion esteemed a wise and learned Priest of sincere honesty void of dissimulation full of zeal to the truth and equity c. But that which is mostly to be noted of him is that upon a controversie that arose among the English popish Clergy concerning the receiving of an Archpriest into England and the power that was to be allotted to him he wrote with a long preface to it Certain brief notes upon a brief apology set out under the name of the priests united to the Archpriest Paris about 1602 3. in tw and oct which book written against Fa. Persons I once saw among many other rarities of the like nature in Balliol coll Library given thereunto by that curious collector of choice books Sir Tho. Wendy of Haselingfield in Cambridgeshire Knight of the Bath sometimes Gentleman commoner of the said House Our author Ely hath written other books as 't is said but such I have not yet seen nor can I say any more of him at this time only that he dying at Pont à Mousson on the Ides of of March in sixteen hundred and three was buried there in the church of the Nuns called Clarissae that is of the order of S. Clare Over his grave was soon after a monument put with a large inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now omit THOMAS FLOYD a Welsh-man became a Batler or Commoner of New Inn in the beginning of 1589. took one degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he translated himself to Jesus coll and as a member and fellow of that house took the degree of Master and afterwards wrote The picture of a perfect Commonwealth describing as well the offices of Princes and inferiour Magistrates over their Subjects as also the duties of Subjects towards their Governours c. Lond. 1600. in tw He hath written as 't is probable other things but what I cannot tell only certain Latine Poety scattered in several books particularly in that intit Academia Oxoniensis pietas erga Jacobum Regem an 1603. I find three or more of both his names his contemporaries and Welsh-men also of Jesus college but whether either of them hath any thing extant I cannot tell JOHN CHAMBER a person for his life and learning worthily honoured by all that knew him was born in Yorkshire and in the year 1569. was tho Merton coll had then no Lands in that county chosen purely for his merits by the consent of all the Society Probationer-Fellow of the said house In which place as also in that of Bach. fellow he went beyond all of the same election for subtile disputations and knowledge in the Greek tongue After he had taken the degree of Master in 1573. he applied his Muse to the study of Medicine and Astronomy about which time he read publickly on the Almagest of Ptolomy In the year 1582. he became fellow of Eaton coll near to Windsore being then in holy orders and two years after supplicated the congregation of Ven. Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of Hypocrates But whether he
say so I cannot tell unless the plague came upon him as a judgment for the sacrilege he committed while he was Vicar of S. Leonards Church before mentioned Qu. RICHARD EDES whose name and brothers posterity did lately if not still live at Sewell in Bedfordshire was born perhaps in that county and being made full ripe for the University in Westminster School was elected Student of Ch. Church in 1571. where going thro the usual Classes of Logick and Philosophy proceeded in Arts in 1578. being then Junior in comitiis or of the Act that year About the same time taking the sacred function on him he became a most noted and celebrated preacher was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1584. being that year installed Preb. of Yatminster prima in the Church of Sarum made chaplain to Q. Elizabeth Canon of Ch. Ch. in the lâtter end of 1586. and in 89. Doct. of Divinity In the latter end of 1596. he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Franc. Willys deceased being then and ever after to his death for he âas also chapl to K. James 1. held in great admiration at Court not only for his preaching but most excellent and polite discourse His younger years he spent in poetical fancies and composing of plays mostly Tragedies but at riper he became a pious and grave Divine an ornament to his profession and a grace to the pulpit No two men were ever more intimate than he and Tob. Mathews Dean of Ch. Ch. for they intirely loved each other for vertue and ingenuity sake and when Mathews was to remove to the Deanery of Durham in 1584. our author Eedes intended to have him on his way thither for ones days journey but so betrayed were they by the sweetness of each others company and their own friendship that he not only brought him to Durham but for a pleasant pennace wrote their whole journey in latin verse intit Iter boreale several copies of which did afterwards fly abroad Then also and before in their youthful acquaintance passed so many pretty apothegms between that if a collection had been made of them they would have fill'd a manual His works are Iter boreale MS. The beginning of which is Quid mihi cum Musis quid cum borealibus oris A copy of this written by an unknown hand I have in my little Library Various Poems MS. in Lat. and Engl. Six learned and godly Sermons preached some of them before K. James and some before Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1604. oct The two first are called The duty of a King on Micah 6. 8. 3 A fruitful Meditation upon the sickness on Micah 6. 13. 4 The principal care of Princes to be nurses of the Church on Isay 49. 23. 5 Of the difference of good and evil on Isay 5. 20. 6 Of heavenly conversations on Phil. 3. 20 21. Three Sermons Lond. 1627. qu. One of which is on Ephes 2. ver 19. to 33. Another on Eph. 5. 15 c. This learned Doctor dyed at Worcester on the nineteenth of Nov. year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four and was buried in the chappel at the east end of the choir leaving behind him a Widdow named Margaret daughter of Dr. Harb Westphaling Bishop of Hereford who soon after was at the charge of putting a monument over his Grave with an inscription thereon containing a dialogue in verse between the Passenger and the Monument a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 266. b. In this Deanery of Worcester succeeded James Mountague D. D. of Cambridge who being made Bishop of B. and Wells was succeeded in the said Deanery by Arth. Lake D. D. 23. Apr. 1608. who succeeded him also in B. and W. as I shall tell you elsewhere THOMAS STORER Son of John Storer a Londoner was elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1587. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1594. at which time he was had in great renown for his most excellent vein in poesie not only expressed in verses printed in several books made occasionally by the members of the University but for that writ in English verse intit The life and death of Tho. Wolsey Cardinal Divided into 3 parts his aspiring triumph and death Lond. 1599. in ten sheets in qu. Which book being perused by the learned Dr. Alberic Gentilis he doth occasionally make this mention of Wolsey and our author Atque o utinem c. quod Wolsaeo aedificatori magnificentissimi collegii Christi praestitum ab ingenioso poeta est c. The truth is Storer obtained from the then Academians great credit for that work particularly from his friend Ch. Fitzgeoffry the poet of Broadgates hall but more among others for his Pastoral Aires and Madrigalls which were afterwards remitted into a book called Englands Holâcon What other things this ingenious person hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in the parish of St. Michael Basinghaugh within the City of London in November year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four and was as I conceive buried in the Church there Divers copies of verses were made on his death by his acquaintance in this University and elsewhere but are not as I conceive printed RICHARD TURNBULL was born in Lincolnshire admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 9. Nov. 1566. aged 16. or thereabouts and was afterwards made Fellow M. of Arts and a Priest At length being beneficed in London where he was much followed for his edifying way of preaching wrote and published An exposition on the canonical Epistle of St. James Lond. 1591. oct in 28 Sermons Exposition on the Canon Epist of St. Jude In 10 Sermons Printed there the same year in oct Four Sermons on Psal 15. Which Sermons with the former Expositions were printed in quarto at Lond. 1606. the author being then dead I find that one Will. Turnfull L. L. Bac. was installed Preb. of Worcester 1557. which he resigned in 1558. being then Parson of Fladbury in Worcestershire and that he died in Jul. or Aug. 1573. Whether this William was a writer or had any relation to Richard before-mentioned it doth not yet appear to me WILLIAM HUBBOCKE was born in the County Palatine of Durham elected from Magd. hall to be Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll in the Month of Octob. 1581. aged 21 years took the degrees in Arts and was afterwards beneficed and in great repute for his learning He hath written and published An Oration gratulatory to K. James 12. of Febr. when his Majesty entred the Tower of London in order to his Coronation c. Oxon. 1604. qu. The Title is in English but the Oration is in good Latin Several Sermons One of which is on 1 Pet. 3. 21 22. What other things he hath published I know not nor the time or place when and where he died EDMOND ANDERSON a Cadet of a gentile Family living in the Parish
Edward the old Earl of Hertford when he was sent Embassador to the Archduke for the confirming of a Peace In which Voyage it is observed by a certain person that the Royal Ships of England did then being the first time as he saith suffer an indignity and affront from a Dutch Man of War as he passed by them without vailing Of the same Family was Will. Monson a Knight or Esq Father to Will. Monson Visc Castlemaine who died in the Parish of St. Martins in the Fields near London in January or thereabouts 1642. EDWARD FORSET a Gentlemans Son of Lincolnshire and of the same Family with the Forsets of Billesby in that County became a Commoner of Linc. coll in 1590. or thereabouts aged 18. but leaving that house without the honour of a degree retired at length to his Patrimony and wrote A comparative discourse of the bodies natural and politick Wherein out of the principles of nature is set forth the true form of a Common-weal with the duty of the Subjects and the right of the Sovereign c. Lond. 1606. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen The next person that must begin the year of 1607. was in his time esteemed a most excellent Latinist and Poet as was by all acknowledged THOMAS NEWTON the eldest Son of Edw. Netwon of Butley in the Parish of Presbury in Cheshire descended originally from the Newtons of Newtons by Alice his Wife was born in that County educated in Grammaticals under John Brownswerd whom I have mentioned under the year 1589. sent while very young to Oxon but making little stay there he went to Cambridge where he setled in Queens coll and became so much renowned for his Latine Poetry that he was numbred by Scholars of his time among the most noted Poets in that Language Afterwards taking Oxon in his way where he continued for some time he retired to his own Country taught School at Macclesfield or near it with good success practiced Physick and was encouraged in his undertakings by Robert Earl of Essex At length being benificed at Ilford in Essex taught School there also as it seems and continued at that place to the time of his death This person hath written several things and translated more the titles of which such that have come to my hands you shall have tho' he is rather to be numbred among the writers of Cambridge than of Oxon. A notable History of the Saracens c. drawn out of August Curio in 3 books Lond. 1575. qu. A summary or brief Chronicle of the Saracens and Turks continued from the birth of Mahomet to an 1575. Printed with the former book Approved Medicines and cordial Precepts with the Nature and Symptoms c. Lond. 1580. oct Illustrium aliquot Anglorum Encomia Lond. 1589. qu. At the end of Jo. Letands Encomia Trophaea c. Atropoion Delion Or the death of Delia with the tears of her Funeral A poetical excusive discourse of our late Elizabeth Lond. 1603. qu. A pleasant new History Or a fragrant Posie made of three flowers Rosa Rosalynd and Rosemary Lond. 1604. He also viewed and corrected Embryon relimatum written by Joh. Stanbridge and was author as a certain writer saith of two Tragedies viz. of the first and second parts of Tamerline the great Scythian Emperor but false For in Tho. Newtons time the said two parts were performed by Christop Marlo sometimes a Student in Cambridge afterwards first an actor on the stage then as Shakespeare whose contemporary he was a maker of Plays tho' inferior both in fancy and merit This Marlo by the way it must be known was author besides the said two Tragedies of 1 The rich Jew of Malta Trag. published at Lond. by Tho. Heywood 2 The tragical History of the life and death of Dr. Jo. Faustus several times printed 3 Lusts dominion c. Trag. Lond. 1661. oct then published by Franc. Kirkman Junior a Bookseller and a great Trader in Plays From which Tragedy was another stolen or at least the better part intit Abdelazer or the Mores revenge Lond. 1677. published under the name of Mistriss Aphora Behn 4 Trag. of K. Ed. 2. 5 Trag. of Dido Qu. of Carthage In the composure of which Tom Nash joyned with him But in the end so it was that this Marlo giving too large a swing to his own wit and suffering his lust to have the full reins fell to that outrage and extremity as Jodelle a French tragical Poet did being an Epicure and an Atheist that he denied God and his Son Christ and not only in word blasphemed the Trinity but also as 't was credibly reported wrote divers discourses against it affirming Our Saviour to be a deceiver and Moses to be conjurer The holy Bible also to contain only vain and idle stories and all religion but a device of policy But see the end of this person which was noted by all especially the Precisian For so it fell out that he being deeply in love with a certain Woman had for his Rival a bawdy serving man one rather fit to be a Pimp than an ingenious Amoretto as Marlo conceived himself to be Whereupon Marlo taking it to be an high affront rush'd in upon to stab him with his dagger But the serving man being very quick so avoided the stroke that with all catching hold of Marlo's wrist he stab'd his own dagger into his own head in such sort that notwithstanding all the means of surgery that could be wrought he shortly after died of his wound before the year 1593. Some time before his death he had began and made a considerable progess in the Poem called Hero and Leander which was afterwards finished by George Chapman who fell short as 't is said of the spirit and invention of Marlo in the performance thereof It was printed at Lond. 1606. in qu. and whether before that time I know not But all this I speak by the by Our author Tho. Newton whom and his works I am further to mention hath also translated from Latine into English 1 A direction for the health of magistrates and students namely such as be in the consistent age or near thereunto Lond. 1574. in tw written by Gul. Gratarolus 2 Commentary or exposition upon the two Epistles general of S. Peter and that of S. Jude gathered out of the lectures and preachings of Dr. Martin Luther by Anonymus Lond. 1581. qu. 3 Touchstone of Complexions containing most easie rules and ready tokens whereby every man may know as well the exact state habit disposition and constitution of his body outwardly as also the inclinations c. of the mind inwardly Lond. 1581. oct written by Levinus Lemnius 4 Third Tragedy of L. Ann. Seneca ent it Thebais Lond. 1581. qu. in old verse and printed in an English character Note that the fourth seventh eight and tenth Tragedys of the said author were in the like manner translated by
printed in H. Townshends Collections Remonstrance to his Majesty and Privy Council on the behalf of persecuted Protestants setting forth his Maj. interest laying safely in protecting them and incouraging the preaching of the Gospel and in being more watchful against the Papists MS. in qu. Discourse of Predestination MS. in the hands of the present Earl of Huntingdon with other things All or most of which books were written at North-Cadbury in Somersetshire where he mostly lived after he was married being also a Justice of Peace for that County He died in the month of Sept. in sixteen hundred and ten year 1610 and was buried on the 22. of the said month in the Chancel of N. Cadbury Church near to the body of his Lady who died 14. June 1596. To the memory of whom Sir Francis put up a Monument in the wall over her grave with an inscription thereon engraven on a Brass plate leaving then a blank for his own Name to be put after his death but was never performed NATHANIEL POWNOLL a Kentish Man born in or near Canterbury was entred a Batler of Broadgates hall in Michaelmas-Term an 1599. aged 15. and two years after was made a Student of Ch. Ch. where being an indefatigable plodder at his book and running through with wonderful diligence all the forms of Philosophy took the degree of M. of Arts an 1607. His life as it deserved well of all so it was covetous of no Man's commendation himself being as far from pride as his desert was near it He lived constantly in the University 10 years in which time he learned eight Languages watched often daily exercised always studied insomuch that he made an end of himself in an over fervent desire to benefit others And tho he had out of himself sweat all his Oyl for his Lamp and had laid the Sun a-bed by his labours yet he never durst adventure to do that after all these studies done and ended which our young Novices doing nothing count nothing to do but still thought himself as unfit as he knew all men were unworthy of so high an Honour as to be the Angels of God And since in him so great examples of piety knowledge industry and unaffected modesty have been long since fallen asleep there is no other way left but to commend the titles of his Monuments to posterity which are these The young Divines Apology for his continuance in the University Meditations on the Sacred Calling of the Ministry Comment or Meditation on the first seven Penitential Psalms of David His daily Sacrifice All which were printed at Cambridge an 1612. and the two first at Oxon. 1658. oct He died in the prime of his years to the great grief of those who well knew his piety and admirable parts about the year sixteen hundred and ten year 1610 but where buried unless in the Cath. of Ch. Ch. I know not One Nathaniel Pownoll of the City of Bristow Gent. Registrarie of the Diocess of Bristow died 28. March 1611. and was buried in the Chancel of Little S. Austins Church there but of what kin he was to the former I know not NICHOLAS HILL a native of the City of London was educated in Grammaticals in Merchant-Taylors School in Academicals in St. Johns coll of which he became Scholar in 1587. and in that of his age 17. In 1592. he took a degree in Arts being then Fellow of that house left it before he proceeded in that Faculty and applying himself to the study of the Lullian doctrine became most eminent in it About that time he was a great favourite of Edward the poetical ãâ¦ã of Oxford spent some time with him while ãâã coââumed his Estate beyond the Sea and at home After that count's death or rather before he was taken into the reâââue of that most noble and generous person Henry ãâã of Northumberland with whom he contiâued for some time in great esteem At length being suspected to comply with certain Traytors against K. James fled beyond the Seas and there died He hath written a book intit Philosophia Epicurca Democritana T ãâ¦ã a simpliciter non e ãâ¦ã a Par. 1601. ãâ¦ã Dedicated to his little Son Laurence Hill ãâ¦ã edit and perhaps with others is printed ãâ¦ã prae ãâ¦ã io cui ãâ¦ã hands of his Widdow various matters under his own hand-writing but nothing that I can learn fit for the Press Among them are imperfect papers concerning the Eternity infinity c. of the World and others of the Essence of God c. Some of which coming into the hands of William Backhouse of Swallowfield in Berks. Esq from the Widdow of the said Nich. Hill living behind Bow Church in London about 1636. various copies were taken of them and Edm. Earl of Mulgrave about that time having a copy another was taken thence by one Dr. Joh. Everard part of which I have seen under another hand This is all of truth that I know of Nich. Hill only that his name is mentioned by Ben. Johnson thus Those Atomi ridiculous Whereof old Democrite and Hill Nicholis One said the other swore the World consists There are several traditions going from Man to Man concerning this Nich. Hill one of which is this that while he was Secretary to the Earl of Oxford before-mentioned he among other accompts brought in this to him Item for making a man 10l 0 0. Which he being required to explain by the Count he said he had meerly out of charity given that summ to a poor man who had several times told him that ten pounds would make him a man Another is this which I had from Dr. Joseph Maynard sometimes Rector of Exeter coll younger Brother to Sir Joh. Maynard Serjeant at Law who had it from Mr. Rob. Hues author of the book De Globis an intimate acquaintance of Hill while he continued in Oxon in his last days that is to say That he was one of those learned men who lived with the Earl of Northumberland that he fell into a Conspiracy with one Basset who pretended some right to the Crown Vpon which he was forced to fly into Holland where he setled at Roterdam with his Son Laurence and practiced Physick At length his said Son dying there of the Plague did so much afflict him that he went into an Apothecaries shop swallowed poyson and died in the place c. which by several is supposed to be about sixteen hundred and ten year 1610 But leaving these reports to such that delight in them and are apt to snap at any thing to please themselves I shall only say that our author Hill was a person of good parts but humorous that he had a peculiar and affected way different from others in his writings that he entertained fantastical notions in Philosophy and that as he had lived most of his time in the Romish Perswasion so he died but cannot be convinced that he should die the death of a Fool or a Madman WILLIAM GAGER was
book written by the hand of Blackwell and subscribed by him as fit for the Press So that no other name being put to it hath caused our Librarians to insert him in the Catalogue of MSS. as the author of it whereas he was not but rather Franc. Tresham as I have told you elsewhere He the said Blackwell died suddenly having been much troubled with swooning fits on the 12. of Januar. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried as I conceive in some Church in London This next person according to time and order that must crave place is one who tho no writer worth the remembrance yet hath he been the greatest promoter of learning that hath yet appeared in our Nation THOMAS BODLEY another Ptolomey eldest Son of John Bodley of the City of Exeter by Joan his Wife Daughter and Heir of Rob. Hone of Otterie S. Mary in Devon Esq Son of Joh. Bodley of Tiverton second Son of John Bodley of Dunscumbe near Crediton in Devon Gent. was born in the said City of Exeter 2 Mar. 1544. partly educated in Grammar learning in the said City but mostly in Geneva while his Father lived there as a voluntary Exile in the time of Q. Mary where tho he was then very young yet he was an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew of Berealdus in Greek of Calvin and Beza in Divinity and of some other professors in the University there then newly erected besides his domestical teachers in the house of Philebertus Saracenus a famous Physician in that City with whom he was boarded where Rob. Constantinus that made the Greek Lexicon read Homer to him After the death of Q. Mary he returned into England with his Father and was sent to Magd. coll in 1559. where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy under Mr. Laur. Humphrey was admitted Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1563. and soon after being elected Probationer of Merton coll determined in the Lent following In 1565. he by the perswasion of some of the Fellows of that house and for his private exercise did read publickly for some years a Greek Lecture in the hall of that coll without expectation of any reward or stipend for his labour Nevertheless it pleased the Society to allow him soon after of their own accord four Marks by the year In 1566. he was admitted Master of Arts which degree being compleated he read Nat. Philosophy for an year in the Pub. Schools then situated on the East side of Schoolstreet In 1569. he was elected Junior Proctor of the University which office he performing with great commendations bestowed some time in the study of sundry Faculties without any inclination to profess any one above the rest At length being desirous to travel beyond the Seas for the obtaining of knowledge of some special modern tongues and for the increase of his experience in the managing of affairs to no other end but to imploy himself and all his cares in the publick Service of the State did with leave from the Warden and Society of his coll depart England with the allowance belonging to a traveller an 1576. and continued near 4 years in Italy France and Germany Afterwards returning to his coll he remained there for some time in studying politicks and historical affairs and in 1583. he was made Esquire of the Body to Q. Elizabeth At length in 1585. having about that time married Anne the Daughter of⦠Carew of the City of Bristow the rich Widdow as I have heard of one Ball was imployed by the Queen to Frederick K. of Denmark Julius Duke of Brunswyke William Lantgrave of Hesse and other German Princes Which imploymnet being faithfully performed he was sent to K. Hen. 3. of France at what time he was forced by the Duke of Guise to leave Paris In 1588. he was sent to the Hague for the better conduct of the Queen's affairs in the Vnited Provinces where making his residence for some years was admitted one of their Council of State took place in their Assemblies next to Count Maurice and gave a suffrage in all that was proposed In 1593. he returned into England for a time to look after his private Estate but was soon after remanded to the Hague again by the Q. where continuing near one year returned again to deliver some secret overtures to her and to perform thereupon an extraordinary service Soon after the applauding the fruit of his discoveries he was presently commanded to return to the States with charge to pursue those affairs to performance which he had secretly proposed At length all things being concluded and brought to the desired issue he procured his last revocation in 1597. At his return as before in his absence Burleigh the Lord Treasurer did several times tell the Queen that there was not any Man in England so meet as Bodley to undergo the office of Secretary by reason of his well-tryed Wisdom in the Low-Country affairs intending that he should be Colleague with his Son Rob. Cecill But the Earl of Essex commending him also to the Queen in a higher manner not without biting calumniations of Cecill Burleigh found means to divert the Queens mind from him supposing that Essex endeavoured to gain him to his party against Burleigh and Cecill So that Mr. Bodley being eased of ever expecting that troublesome office he retired from the Court and wholly commended himself to the care and provision for learning worthy indeed the care of the greatest King For about that time setting up his staff at the Library door in Oxford did restore or rather new found it the particulars of which I have elsewhere told you After K. Jam. came to the Crown he received the Honour of Knight from him and a few years before his death wrote His Life an 1609. Which being kept as a choice rarity in the archives of his Library was published at Oxon. 1647. qu. But this little thing is not the reason that I put him among the Oxford Writers but because by his noble and generous endeavours he hath been the occasion of making hundreds of publick Writers and of advancing in an high degree the Commonwealth of learning in which respect he should have craved the first place but I have put him here according to the time of his death which is the method I observe Letters of State Some of which I have seen published not in one vol. but scatteredly Letters relating to Books and Learning Written to Mr. Tho. James MS. in his Lib. He paid his last debt to nature 28. Jan. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried with very great solemnity at the upper end of Merton coll Choire The manner of which you may see at large in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 320. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that Dr. Joh. Morris Canon of Ch. Ch. did bequeath to the University of Oxon. a Rent-charge of 5 l. per an to be given to a Master of Arts that should make
and speak a Speech in praise of Sir Tho. Bodley every year on the 8. of Nov. on which day the Visitation of his Library is commonly made to be nominated by the Dean of Ch. Ch. and confirmed by the Vicechancellour for the time being But the said gift was not to take place till the death of his Widdow At length upon her decease which was at Great Wolford in Warwickshire 11. Nov. 1681. she being then the Wife of Tho. Keyt of that place Gent. the said annuity fell to the University Whereupon the year following Dr. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. nominating one of his own house Tho. Sparke M. A. there was a solemn Speech made by him in the Schola Linguarum on the 8. Nov. 1682. Which Speech is yet continued by Ch. Ch. men without any regard had to those of Allsouls coll wherein Dr. Morris had much of his education and had been Chaplain thereof or to any Master of another coll or hall The said Sir Thom. Bodley had a younger Brother named Josias Bodley who having received part of his education in Merton coll became afterwards a Soldier of note in Ireland a Knight and Overseer of the Trenches when the English laid Siege to Kingsale Baltamore Berehaven and Castlehaven in Ireland holden against them by the Irish assisted by the Spaniard an 1601. at which time Bodley behaved himself bravely both in their Works and Battle He left behind him to posterity 1 Observations concerning the Fortresses of Ireland and the British Colonies of Vlster MS. fol. sometimes in the Library of Sir Jam Ware now perhaps in that of Henry E. of Clarendon 2 A jocular description of a journey by him taken to Lecale in Vlster an 1602. MS. Sometimes in the same Library WILLIAM WARMINGTON a Dorsetshire Man born was as a Member of Hart hall then presided by one who was always in animo Catholicus matriculated 20. Dec. 1577. aged 21. or more having been there a Student for some time before Shortly after he left the Nation and his Religion and spending some yeâs in a Seminary in Philosophical and Theological studies was made a Priest and sent into the Mission of England but being soon after taken he was with others conveyed on Shipboard in the Month of Feb. 1584. and sent beyond the Seas with great menaces of utter ruine if they return again Afterwards being noted in Foreign Countries by those of his own Nation for his learning and piety he was made Chaplain to Cardinal W. Alan with whom continuing till about the time of his death did return again into England being then as he stiles himself An Oblate of the holy Congregation of S. Ambrose and did execute his Function very zealously among the Brethren At length being apprehended by two Pursevants 24. Mar. 1607. and committed Prisoner to the Clinke in Southwark the next day according to the English accompt by the Bishop of Londons order he entred somewhat more deeply into consideration of the controversie about the Oath of Allegiance than he had done before while at liberty So that in the end making sufficient proof of his Loyalty towards his Majesty by accepting of the Oath when it was required of him he did thereupon premeditate and provide reasons for so doing and at length reducing into method for the help of his memory certain notes in scattered papers that he had collected concerning that matter did frame thence a compleat discourse At length after it had laid by him for some time did publish it under this title tho he knew 't would displease his Holiness who in his breves had either admonished or prohibited all Rom. Catholicks to take the Oath of Allegiance or to teach the lawfulness of it A moderate defence of the Oath of Allegiance Wherein the author proveth the said Oath to be most lawful notwithstanding the Pope's Breves c. Printed by permission of the Superiours in 1612. qu. Whereunto is added The Oration of P. Sixtus 5. in the Consistory of Rome upon the Murther of K. Hen. 3. the French King by a Fryer Strange Reports or News from Rome Printed with the former book Upon the publishing of these things the Friends of the author Warmington and his kindred of the Rom. Perswasion became his Enemies and withdrew from him all the benevolence they used to allow him Warmington therefore being put to his shifts for maintenance for this his Loyalty and Obediencce petitioned the King for some allowance His petition thereupon was received and he commended by his Majesty to Dr. Bilson Bishop of Winchester with order to take him to himself to his own house there to provide for him The Bishop obeyed Warmington lived with him wanted nothing had his liberty as he pleased and freedom of his Religion ROBERT WOLCOMBE or Wollocombe born of and descended from the antient and gentile family of the Wollocombes of Wollocombe in Devonshire was educated for a time in Exeter coll left the University without a degree and became beneficed in his own Country where he was much resorted to especially by the precise Party for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching His works are Sinners Salve which applied and practiced as well of impenitent may be moved to conversion as the penitent armed against disputation Lond. 1595. in tw Armour for the Soul against the assaults of Death Printed with Sinners Salve c. A glass for the Godly containing many comfortable Treatises to perswade man from the love of this World to the love of the world to come c. Lond. 1612. oct in two Parts The first dedicated to Sir Edw. Seymour of Bury-pomery in Devon containeth 7 Treatises which are no other than the effect of Sermons The first is entit The seeking of Heaven on Mat. 6. 33. The second part dedicated to Sir Edw. Giles Kt. containeth likewise 7 Treatises the first of which is entit Spiritual balm for the afflicted on Joh. 16. 20. A Letter to a pensive friend Printed and bound with the former parts He also translated from Lat. into English The restitution of a Sinner entit The restoring again of him that was fallen Lond. 1581. oct Written by St. John Chrisostome What other things he hath written and translated I cannot tell nor when he died I find one of both his names a Ministers Son of Devonshire to have been matriculated as a member of Exeter coll an 1584. aged 16. which I take to be Son to the Writer THOMAS TWYNE Son of Joh. Twyne mention'd under the year 1581. was born in the City of Canterbury admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 6. Jul. 1560. and Probationer 9. Nov. 1564. being then Bac. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty he applyed his Muse to the study of Medicine retired to Cambridge where he continued for a time and then setling at Lewes in Sussex where his Patron Tho. Lord Buckhurst lived practiced his faculty and became successful therein In 1593. he was admitted Bach. of Physick
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 Thâologicus 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
Rob. Canutus 18 Rog. Junius c. 4. nu 23. seems to be the same with Rog. Herefordiensis nu 238. p. 237. See more fully in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 53. 19 Roger Varro c. 4. nu 27. seems to be the same with Gul. de Waria nu 384. p. 349. 20 Simon Dominicanus c. 4. nu 35. is the same with Sim. Henton nu 591. p. 486. 21 Steph. Anglicus cent 4. nu 38. seems to be the same with Steph. Langton nu 326. p. 302. 22 Tho. Wicket c. 4. nu 68. the same with Tho. Wiccius nu 425. p. 379 23 Anonymus alter c. 1. nu 20. the same with Rich. Canonicus nu 283. p. 267. c. And as our author Pits hath repeated many writers in the said Appendix which were before in the work it self so hath he mixed a great many outlandish writers among them supposing them to be English among whom are 1 Alacenus cent 1. nu 8. who was an Arabian as from his works may be gathered 2 Anonymus Sacerdos c. 1. nu 26. who hath written In Apocalypsim S. Johannis lib. 8. Which book divers writers do attribute to Peter Scaliger Bishop of Verona 3 Joh. de Muriis c. 2. nu 97. Who was a French man of Paris 4 Joh. Major c. 3. nu 15. he was a Scot born 5 Joh. Mearus c. 3. nu 18. whom I take to be Joh. de Meara an Irish man 6 Guido Folla Episc Eliensis c. 2. nu 13. He is the same with Guido Elnensis in Majorica who sometimes writes himself Guido Perpinian Elnensis No Guido Folla was ever Bish of Ely 7 Gilla Lincolniensis c. 2. nu 93. He was an Irish Man was Bishop of Limerick and died about 1139. 8 Anton Pacinus c. 1. nu 28. he was an Italian c. At length after our author Jo. Pits had spent most of his time in rambling and but little at Liverdune he gave way to fate there on the 17. Octob. according to the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 whereupon his body was buried in the collegiate Ch. at that place and had soon after this inscription put over his grave Hic jacet D. Pittz quondam Decanus Officialis Canonicus hujus Ecclesiae Doctor SS Theologiae qui decessit ex hâc vita 17. Oct. an 1616. As for the other volumes which our author saith he hath written viz. a vol. of the Kings another of the Bishops and a third of Apostolical men of England they were not buried with him as he desired in case he should not live to finish them but were saved and are to this day preserved as rarities in the Archives of the Coll. or Church at Liverdune One of the said volumes if not more were used and quoted by Edward Maihew a Benedictine Monk sometimes Scholar to our author Pitscus in a book which he published at Rheimes an 1619. intit Congregationis Anglicanae Ordinis S. Benedicti Trophaea Which Maihew was a Salisbury Man born and a professed Monk of the Congregation at Cassino called by the French Mount-Cassin about 48 miles distant from Naples The other book of Bishops which our author wrote and often refers to in his book De scriptoribus is chiefly a collection taken from the Catalogue of the Bishops of England published by Francis Godwin Sub-Dean of Exeter an 1601. as I have been informed by one that hath seen and perused the book HENRY AIRAY was born in Westmorland educated in Grammatical learning by the care of Bernard Gilpin the northern Apostle and by him sent to S. Edmunds hall an 1579. aged 19. or thereabouts of whose benefaction he did not only then participate but also of his Legacies in his last Will dated 27. Oct. 1582. Soon after our author Airay was translated to Queens coll where he became Pauper Puer Serviens that is a poor serving Child that waits on the Fellows in the Common hall at Meals and in their Chambers and do other servile work about the College After he was Bachelaurs standing in 1583. he was made Pauper Puer or Tabardus or Tabardarius that is a Tabarder or Tabitter so called because anciently they wore Coats or upper Gowns much according to the fashion of those belonging to Heralds and in the year 1586 Master of Arts and Fellow Which servile work belonging to Pauper Puer Serviens when Under-graduats all are to undergo before they can be Fellows About the time he was Master he entred into Holy Orders and became a frequent and zealous Preacher in the University particularly in the Church of S. Peter in the East joyning to Qu. coll and taking the degree of B. of Div. in 1594. was four years after chose Provost of his College In 1600. he proceeded in Divinity and six years after did undergo the office of Vicechancellour wherein as always before he shewed himself a zealous Calvinist and a great maintainer of such that were of his mind which then went beyond the number of those that were true English Ch. men He is reported by those of his party especially such that had an admiration for him that he condemned himself to obscurity and affected a retired and a private life but being generally noted and esteemed for his holiness integrity learning gravity and indefatigable pains in the discharge of his Ministerial Function c. he could not hide himself from the eyes of the World Also that by his singular wisdom and dexterity in the Government of his College many learned Ministers were sent thence into the Church and many worthy Gentlemen into the Commonwealth c. To pass by other commendations which are needless now to repeat I shall only tell you of his writings which were published after his death viz. Lectures upon the whole Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians Lond. 1618. qu. Which Lectures having been Preached in the Church of St. Peter in the East in Oxon were published after his death by Christop Potter Fellow of Queens coll with an Epistle before them of his composition The just and necessary Apology touching his suit in Law for the Rectory of Charlton on Otmore on Oxfordshire Lond. 1621. oct Published also by the said Potter a great admirer of this author and his doctrine Treatise against bowing at the Name of Jesus When printed I know not for I have not yet seen it Tho. Beacon an old Calvinist had long before written on that subject and about Airay's time Dr. W. Whittaker and Andr. Willeâ did the like As for our author he died in Queens coll on the sixth of the Ides of Octob. year 1616 in sixteen hundred and sixteen aged 57. and was buried in the inner Chappel of the said coll Over his grave was soon after put two Monuments one on the ground and another in the South wall with inscriptions on both of them the copies of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vnivers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. FRANCIS TATE Son of Barthelm Tate of
his Countryman and another by a Scot. Which last stiles our author Carew another Livie another Maro another Papinian and highly extolls him for his great skill in History and knowledge in the Laws Besides the Rich Carew was another but later in time author of Excellent helps by a warming-stone Printed 1652. qu. RICHARD KILBYE was born at Radcliff on the River Wreake in Leicestershire elected Fellow of Lincoln coll 18. Jan. 1577. being then about three years standing in the University Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted Preacher in the University In 1590. he was elected Rector of his College took the degrees in Divinity was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln and at length Hebrew Professor of this University He hath written Commentarii in Librum Exodi Part. 2. MS. in the hands sometimes of Will. Gilbert Fellow of Linc. coll The chief part of which is excerpted from the Monuments of the Rabbins and Hebrew Interpreters He also continued Jo. Mercers notes on Genesis and would have printed them but was denied had a hand also in the translation of the Bible appointed by K. Jam. 1. an 1604. and did other very laudable matters relating to learning Serm. in S. Maries Church Oxon 26. Mar. 1612. at the Funeral of Tho. Holland the King's Professor of Divinity in this Univ. on 1 Cor. 5. 55 56 57. Oxon. 1613. qu. He the said Dr. Kilbye was buried in that Chancel in Allsaints Church in Oxon. which is commonly called The College Chancel because it belongs to Linc. coll on the 17. year 1620 Nov. in sixteen hundred and twenty aged 60. or thereabouts Whereupon Paul Hood Bac. afterwards D. of Divinity succeeded him in his Rectorship and Edward à Meetkerk Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. in his Professorship Besides this Rich. Kilbye was another of both his names and a writer too as I have under the year 1617. told you JOHN CARPENTER received his first breath in the County of Cornwal was entred a Batler in Exeter coll about 1570. where going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy for the space of four years or more with unwearied industry left the University without a degree and at length became Rector of an obscure Town called Northleigh near to Culleton in Devon He hath written and published A sorrowful Song for sinful Souls composed upon the strange and wonderful shaking of the Earth 6. Apr. 1586. Lond. in oct Remember Lots Wise two Sermons on Luke 17. 32. Lond. 1588. oct Preparative for Contentation Lond. 1597. qu. Song of the Beloved concerning his Vineyard or two Sermons on Isay 5. 1. Lond. 1599. oct Christian Contemplations or a Catechism Lond. 1601. oct K. Soloman's Solace Lond. 1606. qu. Plain Man's Spiritual Plough Lond. 1607. qu. He gave up the ghost at Northleigh before-mentioned in the latter end of the year viz. in March in sixteen hundred and twenty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there before the 25. of the said month as it doth partly appear in the Register of that place leaving then behind him a Son named Nathaniel whom I shall mention under the year 1628. I find another Joh. Carpenter who wrote a book of Keeping Merchants Accompts by way of Debtor and Creditor Printed 1632. fol. but him I take not to be an Academian WILLIAM TOOKER second Son of Will. Tooker by Honora Eresey of Cornwall his Wife Son and Heir of Rob. Tooker was born in the City of Exeter educated in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1577. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1583. in which year he shewd himself a ready Disputant before Albertus Alaskie Prince of Sirad at his being entertained by the Oxonian Muses in S. Maries Church In 1585. he left his Fellowship being about that time promoted to the Archdeanconry of Barnstaple in his own Country Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth and Prebendary of Salisbury took the degrees in Divinity 1595. became Canon of Exeter and at length Dean of Lichfield on the death as it seems of Dr. George Boleyne in the latter end of 1602. He was an excellent Grecian and Latinist an able Divine a person of great gravity and piety and well read in curious and critical authors as may partly appear by these books following which he wrote and published Charisma sive donum Sanatiânis seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilium Sanitatum gratiâ c. Lond. 1597. qu. In this book he doth attribute to the Kings and Queens of England a power derived into them by Lawful Succession of healing c. Which book is reflected upon by Mart. Anton. Delrius the Jesuit who thinks it not true that Kings can cure the Evil. With him agrees most Fanaticks Of the Fabrick of the Church and Church mens livings Lond. 1604. oct Singulare certamen cum Martino Becano Jesuitâ futiliter refutante apologiam monitoriam praefationem ad Imperatorem Reges Principes quaedam Orthodoxa dogmata Jacobi Regis Magnae Britaniae Lond. 1611. oct This learned author Dr. Tooker died at Salisbury on the 19. of March or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there 21. of the said month in sixteen hundred and twenty leaving behind him a Son named Robert Tooker of East-Grinsteade in Surrey In June following Dr. Walt. Curle of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanry of Lichfield and him Dr. Augustin Lindsell another Cantabrigian an 1630. HENRY SWINBURNE Son of Thomas Swinburne of the City of York was born there spent some years in the quality of a Commoner in Hart hall whence translating himself to that of Broadgates took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law married Helena Daughter of Barthelm Lant of Oxon and at length retiring to his native place became a Proctor in the Archbishops Court there Commissary of the Exchecquer and Judge of the Prerogative Court at York He hath written Brief Treatise of Testaments and last Wills In 7 parts Lond. 1590. 1611 35. 40. 77. c. qu. Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts c. Lond. 1686. qu. In which two books the author shâws himself an able Civilian and excellently well read in authors of his Faculty He paid his last debt to âââure at York and was buried in the North Isle of the Cathedral there Soon after was a comely Monument fastned to the wall near to this grave with his Effigies in a Civilians Gown kneeling before a deske with a book thereon and these verses under Non Viduae caruere viris non Patre Pupillus Dum stetit hic Patriae virque paterque suae Ast quod Swinburnus viduarum scripsit in usum Longius aeterno marmore vivet opus Scribere supremas hinc discat quisque tabellas Et cupiat qui sic vixit ut ille mori There is no day or year on the Monument to shew when this H. Swinburne died
generali methodo resolvandas tractatus posthumus c. Lond. 1631. in a thin fol. and dedic to Henry E. of Northumberland The sum of this book coming into the hands of Aylesbury before-mention'd Walt. Warner did undertake to perfect and publish it conditionally that Algernon eldest Son of the said Henry E. of Northumb. would after his Fathers death continue his pension to him during his natural life Which being granted at the earnest desires and entreaties of Aylesbury made to that Lord Warner took a great deal of pains in it and at length published it in that sort as we see it now extant By the way it must be known that this Walt. Warner was a Leicestershire man born but whether educated in this University I cannot as yet find that he was esteemed as good a Philosopher as Mathematician that he made and invented a Logarithmical table i. e. whereas Brigg's table fills his Margin with numbers encreasing by unites and over against them sets their Logarithms which because of incommensurability must needs either be abundant or deficient Mr. Warner like a Dictionary of the Latine before the English fill'd the Margin with Logarithms encreasing by Unites and did set to every one of them so many continual meane proportionals between one and 10. and they for the same reason must also have the last figure incompleat These after the death of Warner came through the hands of one Tovey sometimes Fellow of Christs coll in Cambridge afterwards beneficed in Leicestershire and took to Wife the the Neece of Warner into those of Herbert Thorndyke Prebend of Westminster sometimes Fellow of Trin. coll in Cambridge and from him after his death which happened in July 1672. into those of Dr. Rich. Busby Prebend of the said Church They were in number ten thousand but when John Pell D. D. sometimes a member of Trin. coll in Cambridge became acquainted with Warner they were by him or his direction made an hundred thousand as the difference of hands will shew in the MS. if Dr. Busby will communicate it He also I mean Warner wrote a Treatise of Coynes and Coynage in relation to Mint-affairs a copy of which John Collins Accomptant to the Royal Fishery Company had in his possession but what became of it after his death I know not The sixth book of Optiques in Marsennus is generally said to be his and the seventh is Hobbes's of Malmsbury He also did make it appear in a MS. of his composition that the blood in a body did circulate which he communicating to the immortal Harvy he took his first hint thence concerning that matter which he afterwards published as the first inventor I have been informed by those that knew Warner well that he had but one hand and was born so that as he received a pension from the Earl of Northumberland so did he tho smaller from Sir Tho. Aylesbury and lastly that he died at the Wolstable near the waters-side not far from Northumberland house which is near Charing Cross where he commonly winter'd but kept his summer with Sir Thomas in Winsore-Park much about the time when the Long Parliament began in Nov. 1640. or rather in the latter end of that year leaving behind him a brother who was High-Sherriff of Leicestershire or at least prick'd for that office in the beginning of the rebellion that hapned under K. Ch. 1. As for our author Hariot who for some time lived in Sion coll near to London year 1621 died 2 July in sixteen hundred twenty and one whereupon his body was conveyed to S. Christophers Church in London by the brethren of the Mathematical faculty and by them committed to the earth with solemnity Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument with a large Inscription thereon but destroyed with the Church it self by the dreadful fire that hapned in that City in the beginning of Sept. in 1666. This person tho he was but little more than 60 years of age when he died yet had not an unusual and rare disease seized upon him he might have attained as 't is thought to the age of 80. The disease was an ulcer in the Lipp and Dr. Alex. Rhead was his Physitian who tho he had cured many of worser and more malignant diseases yet he could not save him In the treatise of ulcers in the said Rheads works is this mention of him Cancerous Vlcers also seise on this part the Lipp c. This grief hastned the end of that famous Mathematician Mr. Harriot with whom I was acquainted but short time before his death Whom at one time together with Mr. Hues who wrote of Globes Mr. Warner and Mr. Torpley the Noble Earl of Northumberland the favourer of all good learning and Mecaenas of learned men maintained whilst he was in the Tower for their worth and various literature RICHARD TILLESLEY Son of Tho. Tillesley of Eccleshall in Staffordshire by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Rich. Barker of Shropshire was born in the City of Coventry entred a Commoner in Ball. coll in Lent-Term 1597. aged 15 elected Scholar of S. Johns coll two years after took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became Chaplain to Dr. Buckridge Bishop of Rochester whose Neece he marrying viz. Elizabeth Daughter of George Buckridge was thereby a way made for his preferment In 1613. he was admitted Bach. of Divinity about which time being Rector of Kuckstone and Stone in Kent he resigned his Fellowship Soon after he proceeded in his faculty and was by the favour of the said Dr. Buckridge made Archdeacon and Prebend some say Dean but false of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Sanderson and higher would he have been promoted had he not unexpectedly been cut off by death He was a person of great reading and learning as his writings shew He was also very devout in the strict observance of all the Church ceremonies the reasonableness of which he convinced many that retired to him for satisfaction He was one of three that undertook to answer Seldens Hist of Tithes he and Montague the Law-part and St. Nettles the Rabinical or Judaical As for that which our author published it bears this title Animadversions on Mr. Seldens History of Tithes and his review thereof Lond. 1619. and 21. qu. What else he hath written and published it appears not nor any thing besides only that he dying to the great reluctancy of all learned men in the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and one was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Church of Rochester year 1621 leaving then behind him a Son named John who was an Infant in 1619. One Eliseus Burgess whom I shall mention elsewhere was installed Archdeacon of Rochester in his room on the 24. of the said month of Nov. in 1621. who continued in that Dignity till the grand rebellion broke out and after FRANCIS MORE Son of Edw. More Gent. by Elizab. his Wife Daughter and Heir of one Hall of
filius Sampsonis Camden pictoris Loââincosiâ THOMAS WHITE Son of Joh. White was born in the City of Bristow in Temple Parish but descended from the Whites of Bedfordshire entred a Student in Madg. hall in the year 1566. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted and frequent preacher of Gods word Afterwards retiring to London he was made Minister of St. Gregories Church near to St. Paul's Cathedral and at length Rector of St. Dunstans in ãâã where he was held in great esteem for his golly and practical way of preaching In 1584. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in Nov. in the year following he had a Canonry in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul and a Prebendship there called Wenlocks barn conferr'd upon him by John Bishop of London upon the nat death of Reb. Towers Bac. of Div. In Apr. 1592. he was made Treasurer of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Sprint deceased in 91. Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and in 93. of S. Georges Church at Windsore All that he hath published are only Sermons as 1 Two Serm. at S. Paul's in the time of the Plague the first on Zeph. 3. 1 2 3. the other on Jer. 23. 5 6. Lond. 1577. oct 2 Fun. Serm. on Sir Hen Sidney on 1 Joh 3. 2 3. Lond. 1586. oct 3 Serm. at Pauls Cross on the Queens day 1589. on Luke 3. 10 11 12 13 14. Loâa 1589. oct and others which I have not yet seen This worthy Doctor who was esteemed by all that knew him an honest and generous minded man and a great encourager of learning gave up the Ghost on St. David's day 1 Mar. in sixteen hundred twenty and three and in few days after was solemnly inter'd in the Chancel of his Church of S Dunstan in the West before mentioned Soon after his death being certified to the Heads of the University they in honour to his memory caused an Oration to be publickly delivered by the mouth of Will. Price the first reader of the Moral Philos. Lecture lately founded by the said Dr. White To which speech certain Academians adding verses on the benefactors death were with the speech printed under the title of Schola moralis ãâã Oxon. ãâ¦ã Oxon. 1624. in 2. th in qu. In 1613. he sounded an Alms house in Temple parish within the City of Brislow endowing it with 92 l. per aâ in 1621. he founded a moral philosophy lecture in the University of Oxon and the same year he setled an exhibition for five Students in Magd. hall See ãâã in Hist ãâã Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 43. and 370. a. and b. As for his ãâã to Sion coll in London and to other places expending most if not all his estate which he got from the Church on publick uses let others tell you while I proceed to the next writer to be mention'd according to time JOHN âAVOUR born in the Borough of South ãâã in ãâã was educated for a time in Grammatical learning there Afterwards being compleated for the University in ãâã School he was elected Probationer of ãâã coll in 1576. and two years after was made compâât fellow In ãâã he proceeded Doctor of the civil ãâã and in the year following he became Vicar of Halifax in Yorks in the place of Dr. Henry Ledsham sometimes Fellow of Mert. college resigning At which place he being setled he preached every Lords day lectur'd every day in the week exercised justice in the Common-wealth being Justice of Peace as Vicar of that place practiced for Gods sake and meerly out of Charity Physick and Chirurgery on those that were not able to entertain a professed Doctor or Practitioner On the 23. March 1616. he was collated to the Prebendship of Driffeild in and to the Chauntorship of the Ch. of York on the death of Dr. Joh. Broke or Brook deceased and in the beginning of March 1618. was made Warden of the Hospital of St. Mary Madg. near Ripon in Yorkshire on the death of Ralph Toâstall He was esteemed a person of great piety and charity and one well read in substantial and profound authors as it appears by those books he hath written especially in that published entit Antiquity triumphing over novelty c. or Antiquity a certain note of the Christian Cath. Church Lond. 1619. qu. He concluded his last day in this world on the tenth of March in sixteen hundred twenty and three and was buried in his Church of Halyfax a copy of whose Epitaph you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 144. a. In his Vicaridge succeeded Rob. Clây D. D. of Mârt coll and him Hugh Ramsden B. of D. another ãâã in 1628. and in his Chantourship of York succeeded Hân Hook D. D. as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SHAW a Westmoreland man born became a Student in Qu. coll about the beginning of 1579. ââed 19. took one degree in Arts left the coll and at length became Vicar of Oling or Wââing in Sârrey where he was had in esteem by many for his preaching and by some for his Poetry His works are these The blessedness of Mary mother of Jesus Serm. on Luke 1. ver 28. and 45. Lond. 1618. oct The comfort of a Christian by assurance of Gods love to him written in verse The complaints of a Sinner The comfort of our Saviour in verse also These two last are printed with the former Sermon Bibliorum Summula seu argumenta singulerum capitum Scripturae Canonicae utrinsque Testamenti alphabâtice distichis comprehensa Lond. 1621. and 23. c. in oct Dedicated to Poynings More Son of Sir Rob. More a servant to K. James Son of Sir George More Son of Sir W. More Kt. These are all the things that I have seen written by this John Shaw who was living at Okâng before mentioned in sixteen hundred twenty and three before which time he had a Son named Tobias who was Bach. of Arts of Magd. coll As for other Sermons and books which go under his name of Joh. Shaw I shall mention hereafter in their proper place as having been written by others of both those names SIMON WASTELL a ãâã and man born and descended from those of his name living at Wastellhead in the ãâã County was entred a Student also in Queens coll in 1580. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts five years ãâã at which time being accounted a great proficient in classical learning and Poetry was made Master of the Free-School at Northampton whence by his sedulous endeavours many were sent to the Universities He hath written The true Christians daily delight being a sum of every Chapter of the Old and New Testament set down alphabetically in English verse that the Scriptures we read may more happily be remembred c. Lond. 1623. in tw Published afterwards with amendments and some additions with this title ãâã or the Bibles âpitome c. Lond. 1629. c. in tw This person
peritus c. But before that Apologia was extant he wrote Academiarum quae aliquando fuere hodie sunt in Europâ catalogus Lond. 1590. qu. contracted by the author and printed on one large sheet of Paper to be put into a frame At the end of the said book he published Chronographia sive origo collegiorum Oxoniensis Academiae This last was mostly written by Tho. Neal of New coll in Lat. verse and to it is added a description of the Divinity and publick Schools and an Epitome of the Halls Our author Windsore had intentions to write a book of the Antiquity of the Univ. of Oxon. and in order thereunto had made many collections but Twyne with his forward and natural genie undertaking that work Windsore forbore to proceed and imparted to him his collections At length after he had lived to a fair age he surrendred up his last breath in his lodgings near S. Michaels Church in Oxon. in sixteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the outer Chappel of C. C. coll under the north wall behind the Vicepresidents seat At that time he left many if not all his collections of Antiquities containing many dotages and fooleries to Twyne before mentioned Legacies to the prisoners in the prison called Bocardo to the parishioners of S. Michaels Parish and to the Chest in the Tower of C. C. coll After Twynes death some of the said collections were put into the Libr. of the said coll and others were scatter'd about when the great fire hapned in Oxon. soon after Twynes death One vol. of which came at length into my hands wherein I find many vain and credulous matters not at all to be relyed upon committed to writing MILES SMITH a Fletchers Son received his first breath within the City of Hereford became a Student first in C. C. coll about 1568. whence translating himself soon after to Brasnose took the degrees in Arts as a member of that house wherein by the benefit of a severe discipline that was in his time exercised and by his indefatigable industry he proved at length an incomparable Theologist About that time he was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. and took the degree of Bach. of Div. as a member of that Royal foundation Afterwards he became Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral Ch. of Hereford Doctor of Divinity and in 1612. Bishop of Glocester to which See which was given him for his great pains in translating the Bible he received consecration 20. Sept. the same year From his youth he constantly ââplyed himself to the reading of antient Classical authors of the best note in their own Languages wherewith as also with Neotericks he was plentifully stored and lusted after no worldly thing so much as books of which tho he had great store yet there were none scarce to be found in his Library especially of the Ancients that he had not read over as hath been observed by those who have perused them since his death He ran thro the Greek and Latin Fathers and judiciously noted them in the margin as he went The Rabbins also as many as he had with their Glosses and Commentaries he read and used in their own idiom of speech And so conversant he was and expert in the Chaldaick Syriack and Arabick that he made them as familiar to him almost as his own native tongue Hebrew also he had at his fingers ends and with all stories of all times And for his rich and accomplished furniture in that study he had this Elogy given him by a learned Bishop of this Kingdom that he was a very walking Library For this his exactness of those Languages he was thought worthy by K. Jam. 1. to be called to that great work of the last translation of our English Bible wherein he was esteemed the chief and a workman that needed not be ashamed He began with the first and was the last Man in the translation of the work for after the task of translation was finished by the whole number set a-part and designed to that business being some few above 40. it was raised by a dozen selected from them and at length referred to the final examination on Bilson Bishop of Winton and this our author who with the rest of the twelve are stiled in the History of the Synod of Dort vere eximii ab initio in toto hoc opere versatissimi as having happily concluded that worthy labour All being ended this excellent person Dr. Smith was commanded to write a Preface which being by him done 't was made publick and is the same that is now extant in our Church Bible the original whereof is if I am not mistaken in the Oxonian Vatican He hath written besides what is before-mentioned Sermons Lond. 1632. fol. They are 15 in number and were transcribed out of his original MSS the first of which is on Jer. 9. 23. 24. He departed this mortal life in the beginning of Nov. year 1624 in sixteen hundred twenty and four having always before been very favourable to the Calvinian Party in his Diocess and was buried on the 9. of the same month in our Ladies Chappel in the Cath. Ch. of Gloucester leaving behind him two Sons which he had by his first Wife Mary Hawkins of Cardiff named Gervase of the Midale Temple Gent. and Miles Smith and this character by the zealous men of the Ch. of England that tho he was a great Scholar yet he was a severe Calvinist and hated the proceedings of Dr. Laud especially after he was made Dean of Gloucester Over his grave was afterwards a white stone laid without any inscription thereon only his Arms impaled by those of the See of Glouc. RICHARD CRAKANTHORPE was born of a gentile Family at or near Strickland in Westmorland became a Student in Queens coll in 1583. aged 16. and soon after a poor serving Child then a Tabarder and at length in 1598. Fellow of the said coll About which time being a noted Preacher and a profound Disputant in Divinity of which Faculty he was a Bachelaur was admired by all great men and had in veneration especially by the Puritanical Party he being himself a Zealot among them as having with others of the same coll entertained many of the principles of Dr. Joh. Rainolds while he lived there After K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the Lord Evers who in 1603. or thereabouts was sent Embassador extraordinary to the Emperour of Germany By which opportunity he as Tho. Morton his Brother Chaplain in that Voyage afterwards B. of Durham did advantage themselves exceedingly by conversing with learned men of other Perswasions and by visiting several Universities and Libraries there After his return he became Chaplain to Dr. Ravis B. of London Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty and by the favour of Sir John Levesen who had sometimes three Sons of Qu. coll Rector of Blacknotley near to
an 1584. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining some months was at length released set on Shipboard with Dr. Jasp Heywood Edw. Rishton Joh. Colleton and others and waâted over the Seas to the coast of Normandy where they were left to shift for themselves In 1587. he being about to return into England he was sent by Cardinal Alan to Sir will Stanley a Colonel to whose Regiment in the Low Countries he was by him made Chaplain In 1588. he was promoted to the degree of D. of D. in the University of Trier in Germany and in 89. he was sent for to Doway by the Jesuits whom he was always affraid to offend to assist Dr. Rich. Barret President of the English college in the Government of that place In 91. he was sent to Bruxells and remitted to the Camp to exercise the office of Chaplain again where with other Exiles they acted many things which tended much to the destruction of the Q. of England and not long after returned to Doway again and by the command of Cardinal Cajetan Protector of the English Nation he was made President of the English coll there ann 1599. At length being grown old and unfit to govern returned into England lived sometimes in London and sometimes in Staffordshire But that which is to be farther noted of him is that having for the most part of his life lived in the habit of a Secular Priest did about six months before his death take upon him the order and habit belonging to the Society of Jesus His works are Annotations on the Old Testament Duac 1609. in two Tomes in qu. Catalogus Martyrum pro Religione Catholicâ in Angliâ âââisorum ab an 1570. ad an 1612. Printed 1612. and 14. in oct Before which book is Narratio de origine Seminariorum de Missione Sacerdoâum in Anglia This Catalogue and Narration taken mostly from a collection intit Concertatio Eccl. Catholicae in Anglia c. could not be sold more than for six pence when it was published for it contains but 4 sheets in oct yet in 1682. when the choice Library of Mr. Rich. Smith mentioned before in Sir Joh. Davies was sold by way of Auction Dr. Tho. Marshall Dean of Gloucester and Rector of Linc. coll gave eleven shillings and six pence being then great bidding for before he could get it The Anchor of Christian Doctrine wherein the most principal points of Christian Religion are proved by the only written word of God c. Doway 1622. in two thick quarto's containing four parts viz. the first vol. one the other three These two quarto's were as one saith printed at London and sold by the author in his lodgings in Turnbull-street for 14 shillings which might have been afforded for five The Mysteries of the Rosary This I have not yet seen He also corrected and translated the Doway Bibles and translated into Lat. and published Anti-Haeretica motiva c. written by Rich. Bristow Attrebat 1608. in two Tomes in qu. before which he hath put a lame account of the author This person Tho. Worthington who was esteemed very learned among those of his perswasion and had hazarded his life and done great service for the Cause did quietly lay down his head and submit himself to the stroke of death in the house of one Bidulph Esq of Bidulph commonly called Biddles in Staffordshire near to Congleton in Cheshire year 1626 about sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried in the Parochial Church there as I have been informed by one of his Society who was well acquainted with him having some years before his death been made titular Archdeacon of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire ALEXANDER SPICER a Minister's Son and a Somersetshire man born became a Batler of Exeter coll in 1590. aged about 15. took one degree in Arts was made Fellow of that house and proceeded in his Faculty At length entring into the Sacred Function was a Preacher for some years in these parts Afterwards upon an invitation he went into Ireland where by the savour of Sir Arthur Chichester Baron of Belfast and L. Dep. of that Country he became well beneficed and dignified and in great estimation for his learning He hath published Davids Petition on Psal 19. 13. Lond. 1616. oct The Pope at Babylon Serm. on the 5. of Nov. at Colerain in the North of Ireland on Dan. 3. 6. Lond. 1617. Elegies on the death of Arthur Lord Chichester c. Printed 1625. which Lord dying much about the time that K. Jam. 1. of England died was buried at ãâã in Ireland to the great grief of his Country because it was in such a time that it most required his assistance courage and wisdom which are often at odds and seldom meet yet in him shook hands as friends and challenged an equal share in his perfections Other things were written and published by the said A. Spicer as some of the ãâã of his coll have informed me but such I have not yet sâen nor do I know any thing besides of the ãâ¦ã he left behind him the ãâ¦ã lid Divine WILLIAM PELHAM the eldest Son of Sir Will. Pelham of Brocklesby in Lincolnshire Master of the Ordnance by Elianor his Wife Daughter of ãâ¦ã of ãâã was born in London near or ãâ¦ã became Fellow-Commoner of New coll in the beginning of 1582. aged 14. continued a sedulous Student there for at least two years in a Chamber within one of the turrets of the College wall that encompasses the Garden Afterwards he travelled and improved his learning in the Universities of Strasburg Heidelburg Wittenburg and Lipswick in Germany as also in Paris and Geneva and returning to his native Country setled again for a time in this University till Mars distracted him from the studies of Minerva as he himself used to say But when that Planet was set he retired to a Country lise at Brocklesby where after he had received satiety of all worldly blessings did in his old age incline his heart to more supernatural contemplations Which being by him committed to writing for the benefit of his Children of which he had plenty were published under this title Meditations upon the Gospel of S. John Lond. 1625. in tw and other things as his Son Dr. Herbert Pelham sometimes Fellow of Magd. coll hath told me but whether printed I know not This Sir Will. Pelham who was Knighted by K. Jam. 1. at Newmarket 20. Nov. 1616. lived after the publication of that book two three or more years but when he died I cannot yet find Among the Sons that he left behind him was Hen. Pelham one sometimes a Student in this University afterwards in one of the Inns of Court and a Barrester At length being chosen a Burgess for Grantham in Lincolnshire to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. sided with the Presbyterians and was by that party elected Speaker of the House of Commons when the
am that after he had continued many years there and had taken the degrees in Divinity he was promoted to the See of Landaff upon the translation of Dr. Godwin to Hereford in the year 1618. and the same year was one of the learned English Divines that were by his Majesties command sent to the Synod of Dort where he behaved himself so admirable well to the credit of our Nation as some Ch. Historians will tell you that after his return he was upon the translation of Dr. Harnet to Norwich elected to the See of Chichester confirmed by his Maj. 20. Sept. 1619. He was a person of a solid judgment and of various reading a bitter Enemy to the Papists and a severe Calvinist which may farther appear in some of these books following of his composition Heroici Characteres ad illustriss equitem Henricum Nevillum Oxon. 1603. qu. Several of his Latin verses are in the University book of verses made on the death of Sir Phil. Sydney in Bodleiomnema and in other books Tithes examined and proved to be due to the Clergy by a divine right Lond. 1606. 1611. qu. Jurisdiction Regal Episcopal Papal Wherein is declared how the Pope hath intruded upon the jurisdiction of Temporal Princes and of the Church c. Lond. 1610. qu. Consensus Eccles Catholicae contra Tridentinos de scripturis Ecclesia fide gratia c. Lond. 1613. oct Dedicated to the Mertonians A thankful remembrance of Gods mercy in an historical collection of the great and merciful deliverances of the Church and State of England from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1624. qu. The fourth edit came out in 1630. qu. adorned with cuts Short directions to know the true Church Lond. 1615. c. in tw Dedicated to Prince Charles as the former book was Oration made at the Hague before the Prince of Orange and the Assembly of the High and Mighty Lords the States General Lond. 1619. in one sh and an half in qu. The madness of Astrologers or an examination of Sir Christop Heydons book intit A defence of judiciary Astrology Lond. 1624. qu. Which being written twenty years before that time was then published by Tho. Vicars Bach. of Div. who had married the authors Daughter It was reprinted at Lond. in 1651. Examination of those things wherein the author of the late Appeale holdeth the doctrine of the Pelagians and Arminians to be the doctrines of the Church of England Lond. 1626. and 36. in qu. Besides this answer or examination made to the Appeale of Rich. Mountague who succeeded Carleton in the See of Chichester came out six more viz. one by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff Dean of Exeter a second by Dr. Dan. Featly a third by Franc. Rouse sometimes of Broadgates hall in Oxon a fourth by Anth. Wotton of Cambridge a fifth by Joh. Yeates Bach. of Div. sometimes of Eman. coll in Cambridge afterwards Minister of S. Andrews in Norwich and the sixth by Hen. Burton of Friday-street in London A joynt attestation avowing that the discipline of th Church of England was not impeached by the Synod of Dort Lond. 1626. qu. Vita Bernardi Gilpini vere sanctiss famaque apud Anglos aquilonares celeberrimi Lond. 1628. qu. Published in Engl. at Lond. 1636. oct and also in Lat. in Dr. Will. Bates his collection of lives Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Testimony concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low Countries and Episcopal government in England Printed several times in qu. and oct The edit in qu. at Lond. 1642. is but one sheet Latin Letter to the learned Camden containing some notes and observations on his Britannia MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Publ. Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of which Letter is Dum nuper Mi Camdene Brittaniam tuam c. Several Sermons viz. one that is joyned to the English life of Bern. Gilpin Another on Luke 2. from ver 41. to 50. in tw A third on Rev. 20. 3. 4. in oct c. He had also a hand in the Dutch Annotations and in the New Translation of the Bible which were ordered by the Synod of Dort to be undertaken yet were not compleated and published till 1637. At length having lived to a good old age he concluded his last day in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Choire near to the Altar of his Cath. Church at Chichester on the 27. of the same month By his first Wife named Anne Daughter of Sir Hen. Killegrew Knight and Widdow of Sir Hen. Nevill of Billingbere in Berks he had Issue a Son named Henry Carleton living sometimes in the Parish of Furâe in Sussex elected Burgess for Arundel to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. and from the unhappy Parliament which began on the 3. Nov. following he received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain in which office and command he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Bishops JOHN DODERIDGE or Doddridg was born at or near to Barnstaple in Devonshire became a Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1572. took one degree in Arts about 4 years after and compleated it by Determination About that time being entred into the Middle Temple he made great proficiency in the Common Law became a noted Counsellour and in 45. Eliz. Lent Reader of that Inn. In 1603. Jan. 20. he was made Serjeant at Law being about that time Prince Henry's Serjeant but in the year following he was discharged of his Serjeantship and became Solliciter Gen. to King James 1. In 1607. Jun. 25. he was constituted one of the Kings Serjeants and on the 5. July following he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. at Whitehal In 1612. Nov. 25. he was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas afterwards of the Kings Bench and in Feb. 1613. he was actually created Master of Arts in Serjeants Inn by the Vicechanc both the Proctors and five other Academians Which degree was conferred upon him in gratitude for his great service he had then lately done for the University in several Law suits depending between the said University and City of Oxon. While he continued in Exeter coll he was a severe Student and by the help of a good Tutor he became a noted Disputant So that by the foundation of learning which he had laid in that coll forwarded by good natural parts and continual industry he became not only eminent in his own profession but in the Arts Divinity and Civil Law insomuch that it was difficult with some to judge in which of all those Faculties he excelled But being mostly taken up with the Common Law he could not be at leisure to honour the World with his great knowledge only with these things following The Lawyers light or due direction for the study of the Law c. Lond. 1629. qu. A compleat Parson or a description of Advowsons and Church-livings c. Lond. 1630. qu. Delivered in several
Thursday March 2. S. Ceddes day the Lord Brook shot in the left Eye and killed in the place at Lichfield going to give onset upon the Close of the Church he ever having been fierce against Bishops and Cathedrals His bever up and armed to the knee so that a Musket at that distance could have done him but little harm Thus was his Eye put out who about two years since said he hoped to live to see at S. Pauls not one stone left upon another c. This Lord Brook who did often bragg that he should live to see the millinary fools paradice begin in his life time did give occasion by words that he uttered to certain observing persons to think that his death was near viz. that at his going out of Coventry when he went towards Lichfield he give order to his Chaplain that he should preach upon this Text If I perish I perish being the words of Ester in a different but a far better cause Est 4. 16. Also that in a prayer of above an hour long which he conceived before his setting on the Close he was heard to wish that if the cause he was in were not right and just he might be presently cut off using the like expressions to his Souldiers also JOHN BEAUMONT Son of Francis Beaumont one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth was born of and descended from an ancient and noble family of his name living at Gracedieâ in Leicestershire became a Gent. Com. with his Brethren Henry and Francis in Broadgates hall in the beginning of Lent-term an 1596. aged 14. Whence after he had spent about three years he retired to one of the Inus of Court and afterwards to his native Country where taking to Wife one of the family of Fortescue was at length in 1626. made a Baronet The former part of his life he successfully employed in Poetry and the latter he as happily bestowed on more serious and beneficial Studies And had not death untimely cut him off in his middle age he might have prov'd a Patriot being accounted at the time of his death a person of great knowledge gravity and worth He hath written Bosworth Field A Poem Lond. 1629. oct A taste of the variety of other Poems Printed with the former Poem He hath also made translations into English from Horace Virgil Lucan Persius Ausânius Claudian c. All which were collected together after the authors death by his Son Sir Joh. Beaumont Bt. and were printed with the former Poems in 1629. being then usherd into the world by the commendation-Poems of Tho. Nevill Tho. Hawkyns Benj. Johnson Mich. Drayton Philip King Son of the B. of London c. This Sir John Beaumont the Poet departed this mortal life in the Winter time year 1628 in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Church at Gracedieu leaving behind him a Son named John beforemention'd who died without issue another called Francis afterwards a Jesuit and a third named Thomas who succeeded his brother in his estate and honour As for Francis Beaumont who with his elder brother Sir John came to Broadgates hall in 1596. as I have before told you he must not be understood to be the same with Francis Beaumont the eminent Poet and Comedian for tho he was of the same family and most of his name studied in Oxon yet he was educated in Cambridge and after he had made himself famous over all England for the 50. Comedies and Tragedies which he with Joh. Fletcher Gent. had composed made his last exit in the beginning of March and was buried on the ninth of the same month in 1615 at the entrance of St. Benedicts Chappel within the Abby Church of St. Peter within the City of Westminster As for John Fletcher Son of Rich Fletcher B. of London he was also a Cambridge man and dying of the Plague was buried in the Church or yard of S. Mary Overey in Southwark 29 Aug. 1625. aged 49. Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet hath in his Choice Poems of several sorts c. Pr. 1658. in oct an Epitaph on Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger who as he saith lye buried both in one grave in St. Mary Overies Church in Southwark yet the register of that Church saith that Massinger was buried in one of the four yards belonging to that Church as I shall tell you when I come to him under the year 1639. Later in time than Sir Jo. Beaumont hath appeared another of both his names who hath written and published Observations upon the Apology of Dr. Hen. More Cambr. 1685. qu. And is at present the Kings prof of Div. there JOHN DENISON who in his time was cried up for an eminent preacher became a Student in Balliol coll at the beginning of the year 1590. and when M. of A. entred into orders preached frequently in these parts was made Chaplain of K. James 1. chief moderator of the Free-School in Reading in Berks and at length Vicar of St. Maries Church there In which last he was succeeded by Tho. Bunbury of Ball. coll but thrust out thence by the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil Wars Denison was a learned man well read in Theological authors and wrote and published these things following Several Sermons as 1 The Christian Petitioner preached on Act Sunday 7 Jul. 1611. on Nehem. 13. 22. Lond. 1611. qu. 2 The sin against the Holy Ghost at Pauls Cross on Heb. 10. 26 27. Ib. 1611. qu. 3 Christians care for the Souls safety on Mark 8. 36. Lond. 1621. oct 4 Heavenly Banquet or the doctrine of the Lords Supper set forth in seven Sermons on 1 Cor. 11. from verse 23. to 29. Lond. 1619. oct 5 Blessedness of Peacemakers two Sermons on Matth. 5. 9. Lond. 1620. oct 6 The Sinners acquittance before the K. at Greenwich on Isa 53. 4. Lond. 1624. oct 7 Check to curiosity and The safest service two Serm. at Whitehall on Joh. 21. ver 22. Lond. 1624. oct 8 Heavens joy for a sinners repentance on Luke 15. 7. Ibid. 1623. oct c. A threesold resolution concerning earths vanity hells horror and heavens felicity Lond. 1616. oct 4th edit Justification of the gesture of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1619 oct On the two Sacraments Baptism and the Lords Supper Lond. 1621. qu. De confessionis auricularis vanitate adversus Card. Bellarmini Sophismata Ox. 1621. qu. De sigilli confessionis impietate contra Scholasticorum Neotericorum quorundam dogmata disputatio Printed with the former He dyed in the latter end of January and was buried on the first of Feb. in the Church of St. Mary at Reading before mentiond in sixteen hundred twenty and eight He had a Brother or near Kinsman called Stephen Denison D. D. and many years Minister of St. Catherine Kree Church in London who hat published several things of Divinity as the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue
the performance of which service he took for his Text these words of the Apostle Let every Soul c. Rom. 13. 1. In canvassing whereof he fell upon the point of the Kings Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical which he handled as the most rev Arch. Spotswood who was present at the Sermon hath informed us of him both soundly and learnedly to the satisfaction of all the hearers only it grieved the Scotch Ministers to hear the Pope and Presbytery so often equalled in their opposition to Soveraign Princes c. As for the Presidentship of S. Johns coll our author Buckridge keeping but a little more than five years became B. of Rochester to which he was consecrated 9. June 1611. Afterwards by the endeavours of his sometimes Pupil Dr. Laud B. of Bathe and Wells he was nominated B. of Ely upon the death of Dr. Nich. Felton who died 1626. the Temporalities of which See were restored to him 18. Jul. 1628. A person he was of great gravity and learning and one that knew as well as any other person of his time how to employ the two-edged Sword of the holy Scripture of which he made good proof in the times succeeding brandishing it on the one side against the Papists and on the other against the Puritans and Non-conformists In reference to the first 't is said of him in general by a certain author that he endeavoured most industriously both by preaching and writing to defend and propagate the true Religion here by Law established which appears plainly by his learned laborious piece entituled De potestate Papae in rebus temporalibus sive in regibus deponendis usurpata adversus Robertum Cardinalem Bellarminum Lib. 2. In quibus respondetur authoribus Scripturis rationibus exemplis contra Gul. Barclaium allatis Lond. 1614. in a larg qu. In which book he hath so shaken the Papal Monarchy and its superiority over Kings and Princes that none of the learned men of that party did ever undertake a reply unto it Johannem itaque Roffensem habemus saith my before mentioned author quem Johanni Roffensi opponamus Fishero Buckridgium cujus argumentis siquid ego video ne a mille quidem Fisheris unquam respondebitur With like success but less pains unto himself he managed the controversie concerning kneeling at the Lords Supper against those of the Puritan Party the piety and antiquity of which religious posture in that holy action he asserted with such holy reasons and such clear authorities in A Sermon preached at Whitehall 22. Mar. 1617. touching prostration and kneeling in the Worship of God on Psal. 95. 6. Lond. 1618. qu. and in A discourse concerning kneeling at the Communion printed with the Sermon that he came off without the least opposition of that party also Besides which he hath published Serm. preached at Hampton-Court 23. Sept. 1606. on Rom. 13. 5. London 1616. qu. Another on Heb. 4. 7. printed 1618. qu. A third which is a Funeral Serm. on Heb. 13. 6. was printed 1626. qu. and a fourth on the same chap. vers 16. was published at the end of B. Andrew's Sermons in fol. Lond. 1661. The day and place when and where this most worthy and learned Bishop died I know not only that he was buried in the parish Church of Bromley in Kent the manner of which belongs to the See of Rochester on the last day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt. Carle whom I shall mention elsewhere and in Ely Dr. Francis White the Kings Almoner JOHN HOSKYNS Junior was born at Mounton in the parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1601. took the degrees in the Civil Law that of Doctor being compleated 1613. in which year he left the coll being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Rob. Bennet B. of Hereford as he was afterwards to K. James Prebendary of Hereford and Parson of Ledbury in his native Country He was an able Civilian but better Theologist and much followed for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching He hath published Eight Sermons preached at S. Maries in Oxon. Pauls Cross and elsewhere Lond. 1615. qu. The first is on Luke 12. 41. The second on Isa 28. 1. The 3. and 4th on Matth. 11. 19. c. He hath also extant a Sermon upon the parable of the King that taketh an account of his Servants on Matth. 18. 23. Lond. 1609. oct A short Catechisme upon the Lords Prayer the ten Commandements and the Creed very profitable for Children and others Lond. 1678. 9. oct published by Charles Townsend M. of A. He ended and finished his course at Ledbury before mentioned 8. August in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the parish Church there Soon after was an Epitaph put over his Grave consisting of eight verses the two first of which are these Sub Pedibus Doctor jacet hic in Legibus Hoskyns Esse pios docuit quodque docebat erat The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 145. 6. DANIEL PRICE elder brother to Sampson Price before mentioned was born in the antient Borough of Shrewsbury and there educated in Grammar learning In 1594. and in the sixteenth year of his age he became a Commoner of S. Maries hall in Midsomer Term but before he took a degree in Arts he was transplanted to Exeter coll where by the benefit of a diligent Tutour he became in short time a smart disputant After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he had holy Orders confer'd upon him and was a frequent and remarkable preacher especially against the Papists About that time he was constituted one of Prince Henries Chaplains in Ordinary whereupon taking the degrees in Divinity he was made Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. as afterwards to K. Ch. 1. Dean and Canon residentiary of Hereford Rector of Worthyn near Caus Castle in Shropshire and of Lanteglos in Cornwall Justice of the Peace also for the Counties of Shrewsbury Hereford Montgomery and Cornwall He hath written and published The defence of truth against a book called The triumph of truth sent over from Arras 1609. by Humph. Leech Oxon. 1610. qu. He hath also published at least Fifteen Sermons Among which are these 1 Praelium praemium The Christians war and reward on Rev. 2. 26. Oxon. 1608. qu. 2 Recusants Conversation on Esay 2. 3. Ibid. 1608. qu. 3 The Merchant on Matth. 13. 45. 46. Lond. 1608. qu. 4 Spiritual Odours to the Memory of Pr. Henry in four of the last Sermons preached in S. James after his Highness death the last being the Sermon before the body the day before the burial The first is intit Meditations of Consolation on our Lamentations on Psal. 90. 15. The second which hath the same title is on 2 Sam. 12. 23. The third which is intit Sorrow for
his Father-in Law Will. Purefey Esque as also of Vindiciae Sabbathi c. Lond. 1641. qu. as I shall tell you farther in Tho. Broad under the year 1635. And of Brief notes upon the whole book of Psalms c. Lond. in qu. besides other things But whether this George Abbot was ever of Oxford I cannot as yet tell A third George Abbot I find to have been elected Probationer Fellow of Merton coll 1622. and admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1630. but he hath written nothing and nothing else do I know of him only that he was Son of Sir Maurice Abbot sometimes Lord Mayor of London brother to Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury HENRY CARY Son of Sir Edw. Cary of Aldenham and Berchamsted in Hertfordshire Knight Master of the Jewel house to Q. Elizabeth and K. James by Katherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Hen. Knevet Knight was born in that County and at about 16 years of age was sent to obtain Academical learning in this University particularly as it seems to Exeter coll where by the help of a good Tutor and extraordinary parts be became a most accomplished Gentleman 'Ts said that during his stay in the Vniversity of Oxford his Chamber was the rendezvouz of all the eminent Wits Divines Philosophers Lawyers Historians and Politicians of that time but how true it is seeing Henry was then a young man and not graduated I cannot in the least perceive Had those things been spoken of Lucius Cary his Son who retired several times to and took commons in Exeter coll while his Brother Lorenzo studied therein 1628. and after I should have rather believed it But let the matter rest as 't is Sure I am that after Hen. Cary had left the University where he had obtained a celebrated name he was introduced into the Royal Court was made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold one of his Privy Council Lord Deputy of Ireland an 1622. and about the same time Viscount Falkland in Scotland being then in much esteem by that King for his great abilities and experience in state affairs He wrote several things but not printed and is supposed to be author of The History of the most unfortunate Prince K. Edw. 2. with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites Gaveston and Spencer containing several passages of those times not found in other Historians Lond. 1680. oct Which book being found among the Papers of the said Henry Visc Falkland was published therefore as his when the Press was open for all such books that could make any thing against the then Government with a Preface to the Reader patch'd up from very inconsiderable authors by Sir Ja. H. as is supposed The Reader is to know that in 1628. was published at Lond. in oct an historical Poem intit The deplorable life and death of Edward the Second K. of England together with the downfal c. written by one Rich. Hubert which Poem being printed without the knowledge of the author and so consequently full of faults and not according to his mind a true copy was printed at Lond. in the year following in oct bearing this title The History of Edw. 2. sirnamed Carnarvon one of our English Kings together with the fatal downfal of his two unfortunate Favourites Gaveston and Spencer Published by the authors own copy with the Addition of some other observations both of use and ornament written by his elder Brother Sir Franc. Hubert or Hobert Knight As for Henry Lord Falkland he gave way to fate occasioned by the breaking of his Leg on a stand in Theobald's Park in Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 but where he was buried I cannot tell He left behind him a Son named Lucius Cary begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfield L. Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had the Mannor of Great Tew the Priory with the Rectory and Demesnes of Burford in Oxfordshire and other Lands Whether this Lucius was born at Burford as some think he was the publick Register of that place which commences about the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. takes no notice of it However that he was mostly nursed there by a wet and dry Nurse the Ancients of that Town who remember their names have some years since informed me So that the place of his Nativity being yet doubtful to me I must tell you that when his Father became Lord Deputy of Ireland he carried his Son Lucius then a wild Youth with him into that Country where he caused him to be educated in Academical learning in Trinity coll near to Dublin and afterwards sent him to travel under the tutelage and protection of a discreet person who making a very great reformation in him as to life manners and learning Lucius had ever after a great respect and veneration for him Upon his return he retired several times to Oxon to enlarge that learning which he had acquir'd as I shall anon tell you His first years of reason were spent in Poetry and polite learning into the first of which he made divers plausible sallies which caused him therefore to be admired by the Poets of those times particularly first by Ben. Johnson who hath an Epigram on him in his Vnderwood in the second vol. of his works 2. By Edm. Waller of Beconsfield who highly extols his worth and admirable parts and 3. By Sir John Suckling who afterwards brought him into his Poem called The Session of Poets thus He was of late so gone with Divinity That he had almost forgot his Poetry Though to say the truth and Apollo did know it He might have been both his Priest and his Poet. Much about the time of his Fathers death he became one of the Gent. of his Majesty's Privy Chamber had frequent retirements to Great Tew and sometimes to Oxon as he had done very frequently before his Marriage for the company of and conversation with learned and witty men Among whom were Will. Chillingworth of Trinity coll John Earle and Hugh Cressy of Merton coll George Aglionby of Ch. Ch. Charles Gataker of Pembroke coll Son of Thom. Gataker of Redriff or Ridrith near to London who I think was afterwards his Chaplain Thom. Triplet a very witty man of Ch. Ch. and others He had also intimate acquaintance with George Sandys the Poet who usually lived at Caswell near to Witney in the house of Sir Franc. Wânman who married his Sister whose company was usually frequented when Lucius retired to his house at Burford In 1639. he was put in Commission for his Majesty in the expedition against the Scots and upon his safe return thence Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and a great admirer of him hath an excellent copy of verses wherein are several things honourably mentioned of him and his learning In the
beginning of the year 1640. he was chosen a Member of the House of Commons for Newport in the Isle of Wight to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster on the 13. of Apr. the same year and again for the same place for that Parliament that began there also 3. Nov. following In which last he shewed himself a great reformer of divers abuses and a stickler for the Commons against the Kings Prerogative and Bishops But being taken off from those proceedings by being made one of the Secretaries of State he ever after adher'd to his Majesty was with him at York in 1642. and had a hand in most of those Declarations published by his Majesty's special command in all places in England to shew the reason of his intentions and proceedings Afterwards he was a constant follower of his Majesty was with him at Edghill fight and afterwards at Oxon where he discharged his office with a great deal of prudence While he lived and especially after his death he was esteemed by many a Socinian having been as 't is said strengthned in that opinion by Chillingworth and I know not what but one that knew him very well doth tho a zealous Papist clear him from being guilty of any such matter and tells us withal that he was the greatest ornament to our Nation that the last age produced Another also who had been intimate with him saith that he was the envy of this age and will be the wonder of the next that he honoured and served his Creator in the days of his youth that he was not a Candidate of Atheism c. The truth is all that knew the said Lucius L. Falkland were fully possessed with opinions to the contrary and have usually said that he was a sincere Christian that he always led a virtuous life and despised all worldly things in comparison of necessary divine truth that he was a lover of veracity and sincerity and what not for the accomplishment of a religious man As for his parts which speak him better than any Elogy they were incomparable and needed no supplies of industry His answers were quick and sudden and tho he had a great deal of true worth treasured up in him yet he had much of modesty withal So that all these things put together to which more might be added his memory ought to be precious especially with such who have any esteem for virtue heroical fidelity to their Prince or to incomparable learning Among several things of his that are printed are 1 A speech in Parliament concerning Vniformity 2 Sp. concerning ill Counsellours both spoken in 1640. 3 Sp. about Ship-money 5. Dec. 1640. 4 Sp. concerning John Lord Finch lately L. Keeper and the Judges 5 Sp. to the Lords of the upper House after the reading of the Articles against John L. Finch 14. Jan. 1640. 6 Sp. concerning Episcopacy 9. Feb. 1640 the beginning of which is Mr. Speaker he is a great stranger in Israel c. Which Sp. is said by Dr. P. Heylyn to be a bitter Speech against the Bishops upon which account it is much used and quoted by the Presbyterians I have seen another Speech also intit A draught of a Speech concerning Episcopacy found among the L. Falklands papers since his death written with his own hand Oxon. 1644. in 1 sh in qu. The beginning of which is Mr. Speaker whosoever desires this total change c. Also another thing of his intit A discourse concerning Episcopacy Lond. 1660. qu. Published then I presume by one who was not a Friend to Bishops being the same I think that was by Dr. Heylyn taken to be a bitter Speech against them He hath also written A dscourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome several times printed in qu. Whereupon an answer to it being made the Lord came out with a reply All published together by Tho. Triplet sometimes Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards D. of D. and Prebendary of Westminster printed at London 1651. qu. with a dedicatory epistle before them See more in Dr. Hen. Hammond under the year 1660. But before Triplets edition another was put out by Anon. to which J. P. put a Preface to it which is omitted in that of Triplet See more in Hugh Cressy under the year 1674. By this Discourse of infallibility it is apparent that the L. Falkland had framed a judgment touching the R. Cath. Church out of certain Cath. writers who represented it too disadvantagiously and not with such qualifications as the Ch. her self has done He also wrote An answer to a letter of Mr. Walt. Mountague who justifies his change of Religion an 1635. printed at the end of his Discourse of Infalibility an 1651. and A Letter to Mr. Fr. M. an 1636. printed at the end of Five captious questions propounded by a Factor for the Papacy Lond. 1673. qu. As also a Comedy called The marriage night Lond. 1664. qu. At length this learned author being with his Majesty King Ch. 1. at Newbury in Berks. when he was about to fight the Rebels he called for a clean shirt in the morning before the encounter began and being asked the reason for it he answered that if he was slain in the Battle they should not find his body in foul linnen Whereupon his friends endeavouring to disswade him from going into the fight as having no call to it or that he was a military Officer he said he was weary of the times and foresaw much misery to his own Country and did believe he should be out of it before night Into the Battle therefore he did go notwithstanding all perswasions to the contrary and was there slain 20 Sept. 1643. much lamented as a great Parliamentarian saith of all that knew him being a Gentleman of great parts ingenuity and honour courteous and just to all and a passionate promoter of all endeavours of Peace betwixt the King and Parliament Whether the Church of England lost a friend by his death some have doubted Sure it is learning it self had a loss and one of the greatest as many Clergymen have said that ever hapned in that or in the age before His body was conveyed to Oxon and afterwards to Great Tow before mention'd where it was buried in the Church without being carried into his house there Over his grave tho there be not yet any memory extant yet Sir Franc. Wortley of Wortley in Yorkshire Knight and Baronet an admirer of his virtues and learning who stiles him Musarum militumque patronus hath bestowed an Epitaph and an Elegy on him in his book intit Characters and Elegies printed 1646. in qu. His person was little and of no great strength his hair blackish and somewhat flaggy and his eye black and quick He left behind him a most disconsolate Widdow named Letice the Daughter of Sir Rich. Morison of Tooley-Park in Leicestershire Knight the most devout pious and virtuous woman of the time she lived in who dying about
the 35. year of her age was buried by her husband in Feb. 1646. Soon after was composed a book by one John Duncon a sequestred Divine intit The returns of spiritual comfort and grief in a devout soul Represented by entercourse of Letters to the right honourable the Lady Letice Vi-countess Falkland in her life time And exemplified in the holy life and death of the said honourable Lady c. Lond. 1648. c. oct To the said book if it may be had I refer the Reader wherein he may soon perceive the unspeakable piety of the woman and the great command of her Pen. By her husband Lucius L. Falkland she had several children of which the eldest named Lucius became a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of the year in Lent time 1646. being then a young man of great hopes but died soon after at Paris as I have heard The next was Henry not educated in Academical learning but so exceeding wild and extravagant that he sold his Fathers incomparable Library for a Horse and a Mare as I have been informed by Sir J. H. who married his Widdow Afterwards he took up and prov'd a man of parts which might have been much advantaged if he had submitted himself to education was elected one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament that began at Westminster 27 Jan. 1658. Burgess for the City of Oxon for that called the Healing Parliament which began 25 Apr. 1660. and a Knight again for the said County to serve in the Parliament that began in May in the year following and at length by his Majesties favour he was made about that time Lord Leiutenant of Oxfordshire He died 2 Apr. 1663. aged 29. or thereabouts and was buried by the graves of his Father and Mother leaving then behind him issue by Rachel his Wife Dau. of Sir Anth. Hungerford of Blackbourton in Oxfordshire Kt. a Son named Anthony now L. Falkland Treasurer Paymaster to the Navy during the raign of K. Jam. 2. a person of great parts and worth HENRY FERRERS Son and heir of Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley-Clynton in Warwickshire Esq was born in that County became a Student in this University in Hart hall as it seems in the beginning of the raign of Qu. Elizabeth but whether he took a degree it doth not appear Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony which was considerable and prosecuting his natural Genie to the study of Heraldry Genealogies and Antiquities became highly valued for his eminent knowledge in them whereby he did not only give a fair lustre to his ancient and noble family whereof he was no small ornament but also to the County of his nativity He was well known to and respected by the Learned Camden who in his Discourse of the antiquity of the City of Coventry in Warwickshire doth make this honorable mention of him Thus much of Coventry yet have you not all this of me but willingly to acknowledge by whom I have profited of Henry Ferrers of Baldesley a man both for parentage and for knowledge of antiquity very commendable and my special friend who both in this place and also elsewhere hath at all times curteously shewed me the right way when I was out and from his Candle as it were hath lightened mine What this Mr. Ferrers hath published I know not sure I am that he made several volums of choice collections one of which in fol. containing Pedegrees I have seen in the Sheldonian Library now in that of the college of Arms from which but chiefly from those of Sir Sim. Archer of Vmberslade in the parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire a person naturally qualified with a great affection to Antiquities Will. Dugdale Gent. afterwards a Knight laid a large foundation of that elaborate work which is his Master-piece intit The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated c. Lond. 1656. fol. After Sir Will. Dugdales death several of Mr. Ferrers collections that had come into his hands were reposited in the Ashmolean Musaeum see the book marked with Z. He had also in his younger days a good faculty in Poetry some of which I have seen scattered in divers books printed in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth At length dying on the tenth day of Oct. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 aged 84. was buried in the middle of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Baldesley-Clynton before mentioned leaving behind him the character of a well bred Gent a good neighbour and an honest man WILLIAM FOSTER a Londoner born became a Student in S. Johns coll in Mich. Term 1609. aged 18. afterwards M. of A. Chaplain to Rob. L. Dormer E. of Carnarvan and Parson of a little Town called Hedgley near to Beconsfield in Bucks He hath published Sermon on Rom. 6. 12. printed 1629. qu. Hoplocrisma-Spongus Or a Sponge to wipe away the weapon salve Wherein is proved that the cure taken up among us by applying the Salve to the weapon is magicall and unlawful Lond. 1631. qu. In the composure of which book he had some light from Johannes Roberti a Jesuit and D. of D. who because some Protestants practice this and characterical cures which notwithstanding are more frequent among Roman Catholicks he therefore calls them Magi-Calvinists Characterists c. He makes that generally in them all doctrinal which is but in some few personally practiced But our author Foster tho he hath written rationally and in his book hath shew'd great reading yet he hath been answered not without some scorn by Rob. Fludd Doctor of Physick as I shall tell you elsewhere This Will. Foster lived some years after the publication of his Sponge but when he died or what other things he hath extant I cannot yet tell EDWARD WESTON Son of Will. Weston sometimes of Linc. coll afterwards one of the Society of Lincolns Inn by his Wife Daughter of John Story LL. D. of whom I have made mention under the year 1571. was born in London and at about 12 or 13 years of age an 1578. was sent to the said coll of Lincoln where he had a Tutor that taught him Grammar and Logick for a time Afterwards being taken thence by his Parents he was put under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Case who with licence from the University read to Scholars Logick and Philosophy in his house in S. Mar. Magdalens parish Under him he profited in several sorts of learning to a miracle became a good Disputant and very well read in Philosocal authors But his Parents who were R. Catholicks taking him away from his conversation with the Muses after he had spent at least 5 years in Oxon. without the taking any degrees was sent into France where for a short time he setled in the English coll at Rheimes Thence he went to the English coll at Rome where partly in Philosophy and partly in Divinity he spent six years and at length took the degree of Doctor of Div. in the
maxims of the Laws of England Lond. 1641. qu. Afterwards printed in oct and tw Perfect conveyancer or several select and choice Precedents Lond. 1655. qu. 2d edit collected partly by Will. Noy and partly by Sir Rob. Hendon Knight sometimes one of the Barons of the Exchequer Rob. Mason sometimes Recorder of London and Henry Fleetweod formerly Reader of Greys Inn. Reports and cases in the time of Qu. Elizabeth K. James and King Charles 1. containing the most excellent exceptions for all manner of Declarations Pleadings and Demurs exactly examined and laid down London 1656. fol. The compleat Lawyer or a Treatise concerning Tenures and Estates in Lands of inheritance for life and other hereditaments and chattels real and personal c. Lond. 1661. and 74. in oct with his picture before it Arguments of Law and Speeches He also left behind him several choice collections that he had made from the Records in the Tower of London reduced into two large paper books of his own hand-writing One contained collections concerning the Kings maintaining his Naval power according to the practice of his Ancestors and the other about the privileges and jurisdiction of ecclesiastical Courts Dr. Tho. James of Oxon. when he compiled his Mannduction or Introduction unto Divinity printed 1625. he afterwards acknowledged himself beholding to the Extracts out of the Tower fairly and largly transcribed as he saith by the said Mr. Noy a great Antiquary of Law Which extracts I presume are the same with those before mention'd At length his body being much out of Order by continual toyling and drudging he retired to Tunbridge-wells to gain health in the month of July but the waters effecting nothing he died there on Saturday the 9. of Aug. following in sixteen hundred thirty and four year 1634 whereupon his body being conveyed to New Brentford in Middlesex was privately buried on the Munday following under the communion table of the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was a stone soon after laid with a brass plate fastned thereunto and an inscription thereon but soon after defaced The next day after his departure the news of it came to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury then at Croydon who thereupon made this observation of him in his Diary I have lost a dear friend of him and the Church the greatest she had of his condition since she needed any such His body being opened after his decease his heart was found shrivel'd like a leather penny Purse nor were his Lungs right which caused several conjectures by the Puritans But that which was most observable after his death was his Will dated 3 June 1634. at which all the world wondred because the maker thereof was accounted a great Clerk in the Law for therein after he had bequeathed to his Son Hamphrey an hundred marks per an to be paid out of his tenements in the hundred of Pydar in Cornwall he concludes reliqua omnia c. and the rest of all my Lands Goods c. I leave to my Son Edward Noy whom I make my Executor to be consumed and scattered about nec de so mellus speravi c. But Edward lived not long to enjoy the estate for within two years after he was slain in a Duel in France by one Captain Byron who escaped scot-free and had his pardon as Will. Prynn an inveterate enemy to Will. Noy his Father reports As his Majesty was somewhat troubled at his loss and the Clergy more so the generality of the Commons rejoyced The Vintners drank carouses in hopes to dress meat again and fell Tobaco Beer c. which by a fullen capricio Noy restrained them from The Players also for whom he had done no kindness did the next Term after his decease make him the subject of a merry Comedy stiled A projector lately dead c. He had his humours as well as other men but certainly he was a solid rational man and tho no great Orator yet he was a profound Lawyer and none more better vers'd in Records than he In his place of Attorney General succeeded Sir Joh. Banks and the next year Sir Rob. Heath being removed from the Ch. Justiceship of the Kings Bench for bribery Sir John Finch came into play whereupon these verses were made Noyes Flood is gone The Banks appear Heath is shorn down And Finch sings there THOMAS HICKS or Hyckes Son of Francis Hicks mention'd under the year 1630 was born at Shipson in the parish of Tredington in Worcestershire became a Student in Balliol coll in Mich-Term an 1616. aged 17. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and at length by the favour of Doctor Duppa Dean of Christs Church became one of the Chaplains or Petticanons of that House about 1628. He hath written The life of Lucian gathered out of his own writings Oxon. 1634. qu. Which life is set before his Fathers translation of certain dialogues of that author Notes and illustrations upon each dialogue and book of Lucian c. Besides his great skill in the Greek rongue he was esteemed among the Academians a good Poet and an excellent Limner And without doubt had not death cut him off in the prime of his years on the sixteenth day of December in sixteen hundred thirty and four he might have benefited the Commonwealth of learning with other matters He died in Christ Church and was buried in the Cathedral there which is all I yet know of him only that Dr. J. F. the publisher of Hist Antiq. Oxon. committed a grand mistake of him in that book lib. 2. p. 283. b. Another of both his names was author of A dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker c. To which a continuation was added by the same author in 1673. in oct ARTHUR PITS or Pitsius as he writes himself a younger Son of Arthur Pits Bach. of Law sometimes Fellow of All 's coll afterwards Registrary of the Diocess and Achdeaconry of Oxford and Impropriator of Eifley near to and in the County of Oxon. was born at Eifley educated for a time either in All 's or Brasnose coll or in both successively having been a Chorister of the first as it it seems but before he took a degree he left the University Country and Relations went to Doway spent some time in the English coll there return'd into his Country was taken and imprison'd but at length being released and ship'd with other Priests and Jesuits at Tower-Wharf at the Queens charge in Febr. 1584. was set on shoar in Normandy Whereupon retiring to Doway passed a course in Divinity became Doctor of that faculty and at length was made Chancellour to the Cardinal of Loraine being then a person much in esteem for his great knowledge in the supream faculty He hath written In quatuor Jesu Christi Evangelia Acta Apostolorum commentarius Duac 1636. in a thick quarto Which being all that he hath written as I suppose was published after his death by
1606. oct 7 Caveat for the Covetuos on Luke 12. 15. Lond. 1609. oct 8 Samuel's Funeral Serm. at the Fun. of Sir Anth. Cope Kt. and Bt. Lond. 1618. 19. qu. Besides other Sermons printed in 1614. 16. 19. 1623. 24. 28. 1630. c. A pithy short and methodical way of opening of the Ten Commandments Lond. 1622. oct Treatise of the cumbers and troubles of Marriage Lond. 1624. qu. Prototypes or Examples out of the book of Genesis applied to our information and reformation Lond. 1640. fol. Published by the authors great admirers Edward Liegh Esq and Hen. Scudder Minister of Colingbourne Ducis in Wiltshire Before which book is his character written by the said Scudder a Presbyterian This Will. Whately surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the tenth day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and nine year 1639 and was buried in the yard belonging to the Church at Banbury Over his grave is a large rais'd monument of stone and thereon a Lat. and Engl. Epitaph in verse a Lat. and Engl. Anagram and a double Chronogram All which shall be now for brevity sake omitted except part of the Engl. Epitaph running thus Whatsoe'ere thou l't say who passest by Why here 's enshrin'd Celestial dust His bones whose name and fame can't dye These Stones as Feoffees weep in trust It 's William Wheatly that here lies Who swam to 's Tomb in 's Peoples eyes Death was his Crown c. EDWARD CHETWYND the fourth Son of Jo. Chetwynd Esabque was born of an ancient and gentile Family living at Ingestrie near to and in the County of Stafford about the year 1577. admitted Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1592. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a frequent Preacher in and near to Oxon. In 1606. he was elected by the Mayor and Corporation of Abendon in Berks their Lecturer being then Bac. of Divinity and in the year following upon the desire of the Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Bristow he was sent by Dr. Hen. Airay Vicechancellour of the University and Dr. Jo. Rainolds of C. C. C. to that City where being kindly receiv'd he was established their Publick Lecturer on the 2. June the same year to preach one Sermon every Sunday in the afternoon in any Church of that City that the Mayor for the time being should appoint and one Sermon every Holyday as he should think fit In 1613. he was sworn Chaplain to Q. Anne in 1616. he was admitted D. of D. and in the year after upon the death of Dr. Sim. Robson he was promoted by K. James 1. to the Deanery of Bristow to that Cities great satisfaction being elected thereunto 16. June the same year So that whereas he was a little before presented to the rich Rectory of Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire twice tâe value of his Deanry he thereupon gave it up purposely because he would live among and so consequently please the inhabitants of Bristow In that Rectory succeeded an eminent Scholar named Joh. Burgess M. of A. and Doct. of Physick whose memory is fresh in those parts among the Godly What other preserments Chetwynd had besides the Vicaridge of Banwell in Somersetsh and the Vicaridge of Barcley in Glouc. on the houses belonging to which Vicardiges he bestowed above 300 l. I know not He hath published Concio ad clerum pro gradu habita Oxoniae 19. Dec. 1607. in Act. 20. 24. Oxom 1608. in oct Several English Sermons as 1 The straight and narrow way to life in certain Sermons on Luke 13. 23. 24. Lond. 1612. oct 2 Vow of tears for the loss of Prince Henry Serm. at Bristow on Sam. 5. 15 16. Lond. 1613. oct 3 Serm. on Psal. 51. 10. Lond. 1610. besides others as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He departed this life on the 13. May in sixteen hundred thirty and nine and was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Bristow near the Communion Table and the grave of Helena his sometimes Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Harrington the eminent Poet of Kelston in Somersetsh Kt which Helena died in Childbed 9. Nov. 1628. aged 39. The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that this Dr. Edward Chetwynd with John Whetcombe Joh. Standard c. Divines and Doctors of Divinity Sir Sim. Baskervile Knight and Rob. Vilvaine Doctors of Physick were the learned persons of Exeter college which Dr. Joh. Prideaux in an Epistle before a Sermon preached at the consecration of the Chappel in that Coll. an 1624. did enumerate as being then living and ornaments of the said house See more in Thom. Holland under the year 1611. WILLIAM LEIG a Lancashire man born was entred a Student in Brasnose coll an 1571. and in 73. he was elected Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and became a painful Preacher in the University and parts adjacent In 1586. or thereabouts he being promoted to the Rectory of Standish in his own Country took the degree of Bac. of Div. and on the 24. of Nov. 1587. he resigned his Fellowship setled at Standish for altogether was made Justice of the Peace there and held in great esteem for his learning and godliness He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Fun. Serm. Job 14. 14. printed 1602. in oct 2 The first step towards Heaven or Anna the Prophetess her holy haunt to the Temple of God preached in Standish Church on Luke 2. 36 37 38 39. Lond. 1609. oct 3 Q. Elizabeth parallel'd in her princely vertue with David Joshua and Hezekiah in three Sermons the first on Psal. 123. 1 2 3 4. The second on Joshua 10. 12. And the third on 2 Kings 18. 5 6. Lond. 1612. oct 4 The damp of death beaten back with the glorious light and life of Jesus Christ preached at Lancaster Assize on Coloss 3. 3 4. Lond. 1613. oct 5 The Soul's solace against Sorrow Fun. Serm. preached in Childwal Church in Lancashire at the burial of Mrs. Katharine Brettergh 3. June 1601. on Isay 57. 1. Lond. 1617. oct 6 Serm. on Acts 2. 19 20 21. Printed 1613. oct 7 Serm. on Heb. 9. 27 28. Printed in qu. with others which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in a good old age in sixteen hundred thirty and nine year 1639 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Standish 28. Nov. Over his grave is a brass plate fastned to the wall at the east end of the said Chancel whereon is this engraven Conditum est hic corpus Gulielmi Leigh S. T. bac verae religionis professoris sinceri haeresium propulsatoris acerrimi concionatoris suavissimi hujus Ecclesiae quinquaginta tres annos pastoris vigilantiss cujus nonnulla extant pluraque desiderantur opera evocati ex hac vita 26. Nov. an dom 1639. aetatis suae octogessimo nono HENRY WOTTON a person singularly accomplish'd Son of Tho. Wotton Esq by his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter
of Sir Will. Finch of the Mote in St. Martins Parish in the County of Kent but the Widdow of one Morton of the same County Esq was born at Bocton hall in Kent 30. March 1568. educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and thence in the beginning of 1584 he was transplanted to New coll where living in the condition of a Gent. Com. had his Chamber in Hart hall adjoyning and to his Chamber-Fellow there Rich. Baker his Countryman afterwards a Knight and a noted writer But continuing there not long he went to Queens coll where by the benefit of a good Tutor and severe discipline there practiced he became well vers'd in Logick and Philosophy and for a diversion now and then he wrote a Tragedy for the private use of that house called Tancredo On the 8. June 1588. he as a Member of Qu. coll did supplicate the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of the Logick of Aristotle that is to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should determine in the Lent following but whether he was admitted or did determine or took any other degree it doth not appear in any of the University Registers which I have exactly searched and the more for this reason because the author of his life saith that at 19 years of age he proceeded Master of Arts and at that time did read three Lat. Lectures De Ocello which being learned caused a friendship between him and Alberic Gentilis who thereupon ever after called him Henrice mi Ocelle The said author also saith that the University Treasury was rob'd by Townsmen and poor Scholars of which such light was given by a Letter written to Hen. Wotton from his Father in Kent occasioned by a dream relating to that matter that the Felons were thereupon discovered and apprehended c. But upon my search into the University Registers Records Accompts c. from 1584. to 1589. in which time our author Wotton was resident in Oxon I find no such robbery committed To pass by other mistakes in the said life especially as to time which are not proper to set down in this place I shall go forward After our author had left Oxon he betook himself to travel into France Germany and Italy and having spent about 9 years in those places he returned into England and became Secretary to Robert Earl of Essex with whom continuing till towards his fall he left England once more and retiring to Florence became so noted to the Great Duke of Tuscany that he was by him privately dispatched away with letters to James 6. K. of Scots under the name of Octavio Baldi to advise him of a design to take away his life Which message being welcome to that K. he was by him when made K. of England honoured with the degree of Knighthood sent thrice Embassador to the Reipub. of Venice once to the States of the Vnited Provinces twice to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy once to the united Princes of Vpper Germany in the Convention at Heylbrune also to the Archduke Leopald to the Duke of Wittenbergh to the Imperial Cities of Strasburgh and Vlme as also to the Emperor Ferdinando the second On the 15. July 1619. he returned from his Embassie at Venice with a vain hope of obtaining the office of Secretary of State but missing his design I cannot yet tell to the contrary but that he was sent to Venice again Sure 't is that about 1623. he had the Provostship of Eaton coll confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day being all the reward he had for the great services he had done the Crown of England He hath written these things following Epistola de Casparo Scioppio Amberg 1613. oct This Scioppius was a man of a restless spirit and a malicous pen who in books against K. Jam. 1. took occasion from a sentence written by Sir Hen. Wotton in a Germans Album viz. Legatus est vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causâ to twit him in the teeth what principles in Religion were professed by him and his Embassador Wotton then at Venice where the said sentence was also written in several glass windows Epist ad Marc. Velserum Duumvir Augustae Vindelicae an 1612. The elements of Architecture Lond. 1624. qu. in two parts Reprinted in Reliquiae Wottonianae an 1651. 54. and 1672. c. oct Translated into Latin and printed with the Great Vitruvius and a great Elogy concerning Wotton put before it Amstel 1649. fol. Plausus vota ad Regem è Scotiâ reducem Lond. 1633. in a large qu. or rather in a little fol. Reprinted by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in a book intit by him Monarchia Britannica Oxon. 1681. oct 'T is in English also in Reliquiae Wotton Parallel between Rob. late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Bucks Lond. 1641. in four sh in qu. Short view of the life and death of George Duke of Bucks Lond. 1642. in four sheets and an half in qu. Difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Bucks and Robert Earl of Essex Characters of and Observations on some Kings of England The election of the new Duke of Venice after the death of Giovanno Bembo Philosophical survey of education or moral Architecture Aphorisms of education The great action between Pompey and Caesar extracted out of the Rom. and Greek writers Meditations on 22 Chap. of Gen. Christmas day Letters to and characters of certain personages Various Poems All or most of which books or treatises are reprinted in a book intit Reliquiae Wottonianâ before-mentioned Lond. 1651. 54. 1672. and 1685. in oct published by Is Walton at the end of Sir H. Wottons life Letters to the Lord Zouch Printed at the latter end of Reliq Wottom in the edition of 1685. The state of Christendom or a more exact and curious discovery of many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the times Lond. 1657. fol. Letters to Sir Edm. Bacon Lond. 1661. oct He hath also several Letters extant to George Duke of Bucks in a book called Cabala Mysteries of State Lond. 1654. qu. and others in Cabala or Scrinia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Journal of his Embassies to Venice -MS fairly written in the Library of Edw. Lord Conway Three propositions to the Count d'Angosciola in matter of duel comprehending as it seems the latitude of that subject MS. sometimes in the Library of my most worthy Friend Ralph Sheldon Esq now among the books in the Coll. of Arms. The first proposition is Quale sia stato c. The said Count was a Gentleman of Parma from whence he was banished and afterwards lived in the Court of Savoy where he was esteemed a very punctual Duelist and there managed many differences between Gentlemen Other MSS. also of his composition do go from hand
Prof. of Div. of that University 22. Oct. 1617. afterwards made Prebendary of Ely and Parson of Somersham Who in succeeding times proving a high Royallist was removed from his Provostship by order of Parliament 1645. Afterwards he lived retiredly in Cambridge till the time of his death 1651. leaving then behind him the character of a Great Scholar Our author Fitzherbert afterwards wrote and published Of the Oath of Fidelity or Allegiance against the Theological disputations of Rog. Widdrington S. Omer 1614. qu. The Obmutesce of F. T. to the Epphata of Dr. Collins c. Printed 1621. oct with other things which I have not yet seen He surrendred up his Soul to that God that inspired it on the 17. of Aug. according to the accompt followed at Rome year 1640 in sixteen hundred and forty and in that of his age eighty and eight and was buried in the chappel belonging to the English college at Rome He had a Son named Edward living I suppose at the time of his death to whom he dedicated the first part of the Treatise concerning Policy and Religion an 1606. which Edward was a most zealous man for the Rom. Catholick Religion and whether he was a Priest or a Gentleman I know not THOMAS JACKSON the ornament of the University in his time was born at Witton on the River Weer in the Bishoprick of Durham on the day of S. Thomas the Apostle an 1579. became a Student in Queens coll under the tuition of Crakanthorpe in Midsomer Term 1595. was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 24. of March 1596. and Prob. Fellow 10. May 1606. being then M. of A. and had laid the grounds carefully in Arithmetick Grammar Philology Geometry Rhetorick Logick Philosophy Oriental Languages Histories c. with an insight in Heraldry and Hieroglyphicks All which he made use of to serve either as rubbish under the foundation or as Drudges and Day labourers to Theology In 1622. he proceeded D. D. and two years after left his coll for a Benefice in his own Country which the President and Society thereof had then lately confer'd on him But he keeping the said living not long was made Vicar of S. Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tine where he was much followed and admired for his excellent way of Preaching which was then Puritanical At length being elected President of C. C. coll partly with the helps of Neile Bishop of Durham who before had taken him off from his precise way and made him his Chaplain but more by the endeavours of Dr. Laud and also made Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty he left the said Vicaridge and was made Prebendary of Winchester Vicar of Witney in Oxfordshire and Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Joh. Towers promoted to the Episcopal See thereof by the favour of the said Laud an 1638. He was a person furnished with all learned languages Arts and Sciences especially in Metaphysicks which he looked upon as a necessary hand-maid to Divinity He was also profoundly read in the Fathers and was of a wonderful and deep judgment as it appears by his works that are much admired by all persons None wrote more highly concerning the attributes of God and more vigorous in some of his works against the Church of Rome than he I speak it in the presence of God saith one I have not read so hearty vigorous a Champion against Rome amongst our writers of his rank so convincing and demonstrative as Dr. Jackson is I bless God for the confirmation which he hath given me in the Christian Religion against the A. theist Jew and Socinian and in the Protestant against Rome c. In a word he was a man of a blameless life studious humble courteous and very charitable devout towards God and exemplary in private and publick beloved of Laud Archb. of Cant. and blamed by none in any respect but by the restless Presbyterians the chief of whom Will. Prynne who busily concerned himself in all affairs doth give him this character in the name of the Brethren Dr. Jackson of Oxon is a Man of great abilities and of a plausible affable courteous deportment till of late he hath been transported beyond himself with Metaphysical contemplations to his own infamy and his renowned Mothers shame I mean the Vniversity of Oxon who grieves for his defection from whose duggs he never sucked his poysonous doctrines Also that he is as in another place he tells us of civil conversation and learning which made his errours and preferments more dangerous and pernicious and that it was his Arminian errours not his learning or honesty that were the ground of his advancement to his Dignity c. He tells us also in another place that he was convented in the last Parliament yea openly accused in the last Convocation for his heretical Arminian books which have been censured by Mr. Hen. Burton in his Seven Viols and particularly answered by acute and learned Dr. Twisse c. The Parliament that Pryune means was that which sate in 1628. wherein he had like to have been sore shent for certain Tenets I cannot say so far driven by him as by some men since and now they have and are with great applause His works are these The eternal truth of Scriptures and Christian belief thereon wholly depending manifested by its own light Lond. 1613. qu. This is the first book of his Comments on the Creed How far the ministry of men is necessary for planting true Christian Faith and retaining the unity of it planted Lond. 1614. qu. This is the second book of his Com. on the Creed Blasphemous positions of Jesuits and other later Romanists concerning the authority of the Church Lond. 1614. qu. This is the third book of his Com. on the Creed Justifying Faith Or the Faith by which the Just do live A treatise containing a description of the nature properties and conditions of Christian Faith Lond. 1615. and 1631. qu. This is the fourth book of his Com. on the Creed A discovery of misperswasions breeding presumption and hypocrisie and means how Faith may be planted in unbelievers Printed with the former book called Justifying Faith c. Treatise containing the original of unbelief misbelief or misperswasions concerning the verity unity and attributes of the Deity c. Lond. 1625. qu. This is the fifth book of his Com. on the Creed Treatise of the divine Essence and Attributes Lond. 1628 qu. the first part The second part was also printed there in 1629. qu. Which two parts make the sixth book of his Comments on the Creed The first part was dedicated to Will Earl of Pembroke with a plausible Epistle wherein as one saith The author professeth himself an Arminian and Patron of their Tenets And from chap. 8. to the 20. he professedly maintains a mutability in Gods eternal Decrees of Election and Reprobation depending upon the actions and wills of Men Vniversal Grace and Redemption with other Arminian errours This
near Winchester became Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation in 1456 was afterwards Doctor of Decrees and Commissary the same now with Vicechancellour of the University an 1468. About that time he was made Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London Archdeacon of Essex Canon of Windsore 1497 Dean of the Kings Chappel and at length upon the refusal of Christoph Vrswyke Dean of Windsore he became Bishop of Norwich in the room of James Goldwell deceased The temporalities of which See after his election thereunto were restored to him 21. Jul. 14. Hen. 7. dom 1499. where sitting little more than an year he concluded his last day in the month of Aug. or thereabouts in the year fiveteen hundred By his Will dated 20. Jul. the same year he bequeathed his body to be buried in his own Cathedral Church if it should happen that he dye in Norwich or within 16 miles of that place He had before his death been a benefactor to New coll as I have told you elsewhere and as it should seem to the building of S. Maries Church in this Univ. of Oxon if his answer was equivalent to an Epistle written in its name to desire his benefaction thereunto In the time of this worthy Bishop Tho. Jane or rather before studied in this University Tho. Scot alias Rotheram Son of Sir Tho. Rotheram Knight by Alice his Wife but going soon after to Cambridge we can hardly lay claim to him In an old book of Epistles written by the University of Ox. to great personages is an Epistle written to the Bishop of Lincoln and he that then sat there must according to time be the said Rotheram In which Epistle are certain circumstances that shew that he had sometimes studied in the said University and besides the members thereof did seldom âor never write Epistles to any except such who had originally been Students among them He died Archb. of York in 1500 and was succeeded in that See by Tho. Savage See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 243. a. b. JOHN MORETON Son of Rich. Moreton of S. Andrews Milbourn in Dorsetshire Son of Will. Moreton of the said place and he the second Son of Charles Moreton the first being Rob. Moreton of Moreton in Nottinghamsh from whence sprang the Moretons of Bautrey in Yorkshire was born saith Camden at St. Andr. Milb before mention'd others particularly one of Camdens contemporaries at a little Market Town call'd Bere in the said County of Dorset which seems to be most true by those things that I shall anon mention from his last Will and Testament When he was a boy he was educated among the Religious in Cerne Abbey and at ripe years was sent to Balliol coll where making great progress in Academical learning he took the degrees in the Laws without any regard had to those in Arts. In 1446. he being then in his Regency he became one of the Commissaries of the University about which time one Will. Moreton of the same coll was the northern Proctor but whether related to him I cannot tell Afterwards Jo. Moreton was Principal or moderator of the Civil Law School situated in the Great Jewry in Oxon and about 1453. became Principal of Peckwaters Inn at which time he being also an Advocate in the Court of Arches his parts and great learning were so remarkable that Tho. Bouchier Archb. of Canterbury taking cognisance of him sought means to prefer him In 1458. Nov. 8. he became Prebendary of Fordinton and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury void by the death of one Will. Walesby being also about that time Rector of S. Dunstans Church in the West in the Suburbs of London Afterwards having other spiritualities conferr'd upon him he was for his great wisdom and prudence made Master of the Rolls an 1473 and in the year following Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was then void by the death of one Vinc. Clement sometimes a Doctor of Oxon In Feb. 1475 he being then Preb. of Dynre in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in that month and was succeeded therein by Mr. Will. Dudley he was collated to the Prebendship of S. Ducuman in the said Church on the death of one Joh. Pope which Dignity he keeping till Jan. 1478. he then gave it up and Tho. Langton Doctor of Decrees succeeded him as I shall anon tell you In 1476. Nov. 6. he was made Archdeacon of Berkshire upon the resignation of John Russell Doctor of the Canon Law not of Div. as one saith who was afterwards Bishop of Lincoln In 1478. Aug. 9. he was elected Bishop of Ely on the death of Will. Grey and about that time was made Privy Councellour to the King In 1484. 2. Rich. 3. he was committed prisoner to the Tower of London for some jealousies that that King had of him as being totally inclined to the Lancastrian family and 't is probable that there he would have continued during all that Kings raign but the reverence of the man or undeservedness of his wrongs moved so the affection of the members of this University that they directed to the King who professed much seeming love to the University as 't is elsewhere told you a petitionary Epistle in Latine no less eloquent and pithy than circumspect and wary wherein they much pleaded for his liberty Whereupon the K. being well pleased with it was content to release him from the Tower and commit him to the custody of Henry Duke of Buckingham to his Castle at Brecknock in Wales Thence after he had spent some time he found liberty to steal to the Isle of Ely and for a round sum of money found a safe passage into France purposely to joyn with the Earl of Richmond to pluck down the said Rich. 3. Soon after the said Earl obtaining the Crown by the name of Hen. 7. called unto his Privy Council the said Moreton Bishop of Ely with Rich. Fox about that time B. of Exeter both vigilant men and discreet and such as kept watch with the King almost upon all men else They were both vers'd in his affairs before he came to the Crown and were partakers of his adverse fortune and therefore the King was resolved to promote them in the Church as high as he could In the beginning of the year 1486. Archbishop Bouchier before mentioned died whereupon the K. making means that the Monks of Canterbury should elect Dr. Moreton for his Successor the Pope did forthwith confirm it So that being translated to the said See he had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the sixth of Decemb. the same year In 1487. he was made Lord Chancellor of England in which high office he acted very beneficial for the King and in 1493. he was declared a Cardinal by Pope Alexand. 6. under the title of S. Anastasius The year after he was elected Chanc. of
either in Oriel or Lincoln college or successively in both In the former I have reason to suppose so because several of his name and kindred were members thereof soon after if not in his own time and in the other because in the Bursars accompts thereof I find one Mr. Will. Smyth to have been a Commoner of that house before and in the year 1478. being the same without all doubt with this person of whom we now speak Howsoever it is tho I am not ignorant that he was a benefactor to both the said colleges especially the last and that in an Epistle to him concerning his election to the Chancellourship of the Univ. of Oxon the Members thereof do say that he was sometimes Alumnus Academiae Oxon sure I am that he as others being fearful of divers pests hapning in Oxon in their time did receed to Cambridge where this Will. Smyth became Fellow and afterwards Master of Pembroke hall About that time he was made Archdeacon of Surrey D. D. of Cambridge in which degree he was incorporated at Oxon and afterward Clerk of the Hamper if I mistake not for we have an Epistle written to one Mr. Will. Smyth Cler. Hamperii for the expedition of the consummation of the privileges of the University and at length being elected Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry had restitution made of the temporalities of that See 29. Jan. 8. H. 7. dom 1492. After he had sate there about three years he was elected Bishop of Lincoln so that having restitution made of the temporalities thereof on the 6. Feb. 1495. sate there till the time of his death became a great man in the Kings favour Councellour to Prince Arthur President of Wales being the first of all that bore that office Chancellour of the University of Oxford and the prime founder of Brasnose coll there He gave way to fate on the second day of January in fifteen hundred and thirteen year 1513 and was buried in the great middle Isle near to the Sepulchre of Will. Alnwyke sometimes B. of Linc. towards the west end of the Cath. Church at Lincoln Over his grave was a very large marble Tomb-stone soon after laid even with the pavement having thereon engraven on a large brass plate the portraicture of a Bishop mitred and vested for the Altar with a Crosier in his left hand and on the verge of the said stone was this inscription engraven on several narrow plates of brass Sub marmore isto tenet hic tumulus ossa venerabilis in Christo Patris ac Domini Domini Willielmi Smyth quondam Conventriensis Lychfeldensis ac deinde Lincolniensis Presulis qui obiit secundo die mensis Januarii anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo tertio decimo cujus anime propitietur deus qui pius misericors in die tribulationis misericors peccata remittit Ecclesiastiio At the foot of the portraicture are these verses following engraven on a brass plate fastned to the said stone Cestrensis Presul post Lyncolniensis Amator Cleri nam multos cis mare transque aluit Quique utriusque fuit Prefectus Principis aule Fundavitque duas perpetuando Scholas Aulaque sumptu hujus renovatus est Enea Criste Hic situs est anime parte benigne sue You may see more of this worthy Bishop in Hist Antiq Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 104. b. 161. b. 212. 415. b. He the said Dr. Smyth gave three hundred pounds to John the Prior and Convent of Laund in Leycestershire to have the Parsonage and Parish Church of Roysthorne in Cheshire bought and appropriated to their house Which accordingly being done the said Prior and Convent did in consideration thereof give and confirm under their Common Seal to the Mayor and Citizens of Chester an annuity of ten pounds to be paid from the Monastery of S. Werburgh within the said City to the end that they pay that annuity to a Master or Bachelaur of Arts or at least to a Master of Grammar that should teach Grammar freely at Farnworth in Lancashire This was done 22. Hen. 7. and soon after was a School settled there He also gave many ornaments and other stuff to Brasnose coll to be used in their Chappel and elsewhere CHRISIOPHER BAINBRIDGE Bambridg or Baynbrigg was born at Hilton near Appleby in Westmoreland educated in Queens coll of which he became Provost before the year 1495. being about that time LL. D. and afterwards a liberal benefactor thereunto In Feb. 1485. he being then Prebendary of South-Grantham in the Cath. Church of Salisbury which he resigned became Prebendary of Chardstock in the said Church and in Apr. 1486. was made Preb. of Horton in that Church on the resignation of R. Morton In 1503. Sept. 28. he was admitted Preb. of Strenshall in the Cath. Ch. of York then void by the consecration of Jeffr. Blyth to the See of Lich. and Coventry and on the 21. Dec. following he was installed Dean of the said Church of York in the place of the said Jeffr. Blyth who had been installed in that Dignity in the place of Dr. Will. Sheffield deceased 24. Mar. 1496. In 1505. he was not only made Dean of Windsore but Master of the Rolls and one of the Kings Councellours in which year he resigned his Rectory of the Ch. of Aller in the Dioc. of B. and Wells In 1507. he being elected Bishop of Durham had restitution made to him of the temporalities of that See 17. Nov. the same year and in the next being elected Archbishop of York on the death of Thom. Savage had the temporalities also of that See restored to him 12. Dec. 24. Hen. 7. In March 1511. he was made Cardinal of S. Praxedis for the service he did in perswading K. Hen. 8. to take part with the Pope in the Wars between him and Lewis 12. King of France and in 1514. being then in Rome was poisoned by one Rinaldo de Modena an Italian Priest who was his Steward upon malice and displeasure conceived for a blow his Master gave him as the said Rinaldo when he was executed for it confessed at his death He ended his days on the 14. July in fifteen hundred and fourteen and was as certain authors say buried in the English hospital now called the English college in Rome year 1514 The author of Cardinal Wolseys life saith that the said Cardinal Bainbridge died at Rohan in France being then and there the Kings Embassador Onuph Panvinius and Joh. Baleus with his authors tells us that Christopher Vrswyke who was Predecessor to the said Cardinal Bainbridge in the Deanry of Windsore was made Cardinal of S. Praxedis but false for it must be understood of Bainbridge As for Christoph Vrswyke he had been Recorder of London in part of the Reign of Edw. 4. in the time of Ric. 3. and in part of Hen. 7. To which last King being Chaplain and afterwards Almoner was by him imployed in several Embassies especially to
Charles 8. K. of France choosing him then the rather for that imployment because he was a Church-man as best sorting with an Embassie of pacification as that and others were to the said King In 1488. May 22. he being then LL. D. he was confirmed Dean of York by his Proctor in the place of Rob. Bothe who died 25. Jan. going before Which dignity Vrswyke resigning was succeeded therein by Will. Sheffield LL. D. in the month of June 1494. In 1490. he was made Canon of Windsore and about that time Archdeacon of Wilts in the place if I mistake not of one Hugh Pavy who had succeeded in that dignity Pet. Courtney upon his promotion to the See of Exeter in the beginning of Febr. 1478. and in 1493. Mar. 21. was not only only made Preb. of Botevaunt in the Church of York on the resignation of Edward Cheyney but also Archdeacon of Richmond on the promotion of John Blyth to the See of Sarum In 1495. Nov. 20. he was installed Dean of Windsore in the place of Dr. Jo. Morgan made Bishop of St. Davids and about the same time became Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter Afterwards he was offered the Bishoprick of Norwich upon the death of James Goldwel but refused it and in the beginning of Febr. an 1504. became Archdeacon of Oxford on the promotion of Dr. Rich Mayhew to the See of Hereford At length after he in the chief part of his life-time had refused great honours and so consequently riches he retired to Hackney near London where in a contented condition he spent several years in a religious and close retirement even to his death which hapning in a good old age on the 24. Octob. in 1521. was buried on the north side of the Chancel of the Ch. there where was lately if not still a monument of white free-stone remaining over his grave JAMES STANLEY Son of Thomas Earl of Derby was born in Lancashire and educated in this University but in what house I cannot yet tell On the 3. March 1491. he became Preb. of Yatminster prima in the Cath. Church of Sarum and in the year following Preb. of Beminster prima in the said Church In 1500. Dec. 3. he became Archdeacon of Richmond on the resignation of Christop Vrswyke and in 1505. in Sept. Chantor of the Cath. Ch. of Sarum being then Warden of the coll at Manchester in his own Country On the 18. June 1506. he by the name of Jacobus Stanley nuper hujus Vniversitatis Scholasticus did supplicate the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be licensed to proceed in the Civil Law which was granted with some conditions and being soon after elected Bishop of Ely after the death of Rich Reaman the temporalities thereof were restored to him 5. Nov. following On the 29. Jan. 1507. the said Regents with the Non-Regents did grant that he the said James Stanly Bishop of Ely might be created Doctor of decrees by a cap put on his head by Will Archb. of Canterbury and Richard B. of London Which grant being accordingly performed with solemnity a Letter of thanks was sent to the University for the honour they had done unto him He left behind him at his death a natural Son called John de Yarford a Knight whom probably he had begotten on a Concubine which as Dr. Fr. Godwin tells us he kept at Somersham in his Diocess In his last Will and Test dated 210. March 1514. and proved 23. May 1515. I find that it was his desire to be buried in a new Chappel to be made within the precincts of the Cath. Ch. of Ely or else in his new Chappel then in building at Manchester His will farther was That the Chappel to be made for him to be buried and rest his bones in should be made at the east end of the Cathedral Church of Ely for which be would that 100 marks be bestowed on a Tomb for him to be erected therein Also that another Chappel be built at Manchester on the north side of the Church between St. James Chappel and the east end of the Church wherein he would have a Tomb made for him On which Chappel and Tomb he would have an hundred pounds bestowed for the building of them c. In this last Chappel dedicated to S. Joh. Bapt. which joyns on the north side of the collegiate Church at Manchester wherein I presume he was buried because there is neither Tomb or inscription for him at Ely I find this inscription following Of your charytye pray for the Sowle of James Stanley sometymes Byshop of Elye and Wardeyn of Manchester who decessed thys transytory Wourld the xxii of March yn the yere of owre Lord God mdxv upon whose Sowle and all Christen Sowles Jesu have mercy c. Vive deo gratus toto mundo tumulatus Crimine mundatus semper transire paratus Filii hominum c. In a catalogue or rather history of the Wardens of Manchester coll which I have seen I find these matters of James Stanley At Manchester he built a most sumptuous Chappel on the north side of the Church being 28 yards long and 9 yards broad and a square Chappel on the north side of that again he built He built the south side of the wood-work in the Quire the seats for the Warden Fellows and Church-men being thirty seats on both sides and Mr. Rich. Bexwick that builded Jesus Chappel builded the other side He lyeth buried on the north side of this Chappel in a fair Tomb with his picture in brass in his pontificial robes and the Arms of Derbie and his Bishoprick impaled c. In the See of Ely succeed James Stanly one Nicholas West Doctor of both the Laws of Cambridge who had restitution made of the temporalities of that See 6. Sept. 7. Hen. 8. dom 1515. He was born at Putney in Surrey educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School near Windsore chose Scholar of Kings coll in 1477. Where proving a factious and turbulent person set the whole College together by the Ears about the Proctorship of the Vniversity And when he could not obtain his desires he set fire on the Provosts lodgings stole away silver spoons and ran away from the Colledge But within short space after he became a new Man repaired to the Vniversity and with general approbation for his excellent learning he was made Doctor of Divinity He was well experienced in the Civil and Canon Laws and had such an art and faculty in opening dark places and sentences of the Scripture that none of his time could exceed him c. In 1510. he became Dean of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thom. Hobbes Warden of All 's coll deceased and Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter Afterwards King Hen. 8. sent him often Embassador to Foreign Princes and Q. Katherine chose him and Bishop Fisher her Advocates in the cause of divorce from K.
after his death in the collegiat Church he built an house to be employed for a School joyning to the coll there on the West part Of this School he appointed a Master and an Usher who were to teach Children Grammar after the use manner and form of the School at Banbury in Oxfordshire where Tho. Stanbridge taught the Grammar composed by John Stanbridge He appointed the President of C. C. coll in Oxon for the time being to elect a Schoolmaster and an Usher the former to have 10l and the other 5 l. per an The Master was to teach freely without reward or taking of Cock-pennies Victor-pennies Potation-pennies c. Whether this School did go to ruine in the time of K. Ed. 6. or was like to be dissolved I know not Sure I am that Hugh Bexwyck clerk and Joan Bexwyck widdow setled the said School 10 Elizab. THOMAS HALSAY or Halsey an English man was conversant with the Muses in this Universitie for a time but in what house or hostle for Civilians or Canonists I cannot yet tell Afterwards travelling beyond the Seas where I presume he had the degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon him he was made Penitentiarie of the English Nation in the Church of S. Peter in Rome and the Popes Prothonotarie of Ireland At length by the endeavours of Christop Bainbridge Archb. of York and Cardinal he was by the provision of P. Jul. 2. made Bishop of Laighlin in Ireland about the year 1513 but never lived as it seems to visit his See or abide there In 1515 and 16. he was present at the council of Lateran while in the mean time his Vicar general Charles Cavenagh managed his diocess After his return into England in order to go into Ireland year 1519 he died in Westminster about fifteen hundred and nineteen whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to the Savoy hospital in the Strand Near his tomb-stone on the left side was Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld in Scotland buried an 1522. having been suddenly deprived of his life by the Pest In the same year 1519 died also Joh. Imurily Bishop of Ross in Ireland sometimes a Cistercian monk of Maur in the county of Cork but whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot tell Sure I am that several of the sirname of Immerley studied there in the time or age wherein Jo. Imurily lived JOHN PENNY whose native place is as yet to me unknown was educated in Lincoln coll but whether in the condition of a Fellow I cannot tell Afterwards he being Doctor of the Laws and noted for an eminent Canonist was made Bishop of Bangor in 1504 having before been Abbat of Leycester as John Lâland saith where sitting till 1508. was by the Popes Bull dated at Rome 10. cal Oct. in the same year translated to Carlile and on the 23 of January following paid his obedience to the Archb. of York year 1520 He gave way to fate about fifteen hundred and twenty but where buried unless in his church of Carlile I know His predecessor in that See was Dr. Rog. Laybourne of Cambridge who by his will dated 17. Jul. 1507. desired to be buried in the parish church of S. James near to Charing Cross by London but whether he died in that or in the year following I cannot tell because there was no probat made of his Will Walter Redman D. D. and Master of the coll at Greystock in Cumberland was one of his Executors WILLIAM ATWATER a Somersetshire man born as it seems was first Demie and afterwards Fellow of Magd. coll where while he continued in the state of Bachelaur he was esteemed a good Disputant in Philosophy as afterwards when Master in Divinity In 1489. Dec. 19. he was collated to the Church of Hawbridge in the Dioc. of Wells and in 1492. in Feb. as it seems he proceeded D. of D. In 1497. and several years after he did undergo the office of Commissary of the University being then Rector of Pedylhynton in the Diâc of Sarum and Vicar of Comnore near Abendon in Berks and in Jul. 1498. he was made Rector of Dychcat commonly called Dichet in Somersetshire by the death of John Gunthorp Which Rectory he holding till Oct. 1513. was in the next month succeeded therein by Andr. Ammonius an Italian then Preb. of Compton-Dunden in the Church of Wells In 1499. the said Doctor Atwater became Canon of Windsore and about the same time Fellow of Eaton coll and Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 1502. I find him to be Dean of the Kings Chappel and on the 5. of July 1506. I find him installed Chanc. of the Church of Lincoln Which dignity he holding six years Nich. Bradbridge was installed therein 16. Nov. 1512. In the beginning of Sept. 1509. he was made Dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Thom. Ruthall or Rowthall to the See of Durham in which year Thom. Writhiously Garter K. of Arms granted to him the said Atwater a Coat of Arms by the name of Will. Atwater Professor of Divinity of Davington in Somersetshire and Dean of the Kings Chappel c. by which it may appear that he was originally of Davington if such a Town or Village or Hamlet be in that County On the â June 1514. he was installed by proxy Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Joh. Constable Doctor of Decrees and being made Bishop the same year Rich. Rawlyns D. D. was installed in that Dignity on the 18. of Novemb. He was a person much esteemed and valued by Cardinal Wolsey who finding him a man of parts did use his advice and council in all or most of his publick concerns At length by his endeavours he was made his Successor in the Episcopal See of Lincoln to which being consecrated on the twelfth day of Nov. 1514. fate there to the time of his death year 1520 which hapned in fifteen hundred and twenty He was buried in the great middle Isle of the Cath. Chat Lincoln at the foot of the Tomb of Bishop Alnwyke and had soon after a large tomb-stone laid over his grave with the portraiture of a Bishop engraven on a large brass plate fastned thereunto with this inscription following engraven also on plates of brass Hic requiescit reverendus in Christo Pater Willielmus Atwater sacre Theologie professor regum Henrici septimi octavi sacelle prius Decanus mox eorundem a consiliis postea hujus percelebris Ecclesie Episcopus Presedit annos sex menses tres Obiit anno etatis sue octogesimo primo consecrationis septimo à Christo nato millesimo quingentessimo vicessimo die mensis Februarii quarto WILLIAM ROKEBY Brother to Sir Rich. Rokeby Treasurer of Ireland was born in Yorkshire educated partly in an ancient hostle for the reception of Canonists in S. Aldates Parish he himself being afterwards Doctor of the Can. Law and about the same time Rector of Sandall near Doncaster and Vicar of
his Monastery dissolved went afterwards to Oxon and settled in Exeter coll in January 1545. in the condition of a Sojourner WILLIAM GILBERT a Canon Regular and Prior of Brewton or Bruton in Somersetshire in which county he was born became Doct. of Div. of this University in 1506. and in the year after was made Vicar of Mynhead in his own country on the death of Tho. Beaumont sometimes Fellow of Merton coll Afterwards being esteemed a man of note reverence and great Religion he was made Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Bathe and Wells under the title of Episc Majorensis which is in partibus Infidelium and by that title he was admitted Vicar of Southpertherton in the Dioc. of Wells 16. Dec. 1525. by the presentation thereunto of Jo. Herte Abbot of Athelney as also to other benefices and one or more dignities to keep up his port Afterwards or about that time he went to Rome and there procured of the Pope that the Priory of Brewton might be changed into an Abbey After his return he was always called Abbat Gilbert and with its name did so change the buildings of his Abbey that it was but little better than re-edified by him Whether he was the last Abbat I know not RICHARD FOX the worthy Founder of Corp. Ch. coll in this University of whom having made mention at large elsewhere I shall only say that he was born at Ropesley near to Grantham in Lincolnshire educated in Grammar learning at Boston in the said county in Academical for a time in Magd. coll in Oxon whence being transplanted to Cambridge became at length Master of Pembroke hall there Prebendary of Bishopston in the Church of Sarum and in Feb. 1485. Preb. of South Grantham in the same Church upon the resignation of Dr. Christop Bainbridge This person having been a constant Adherent to Henry Earl of Richmond against King Rich. 3. was by him when made King of England by the name of Hen. 7 made in the beginning of his reign one of his Privy Council he being then LL. D. and nominated to be Bishop of Exeter in Feb. 1486. On the 24 of the same month he had the custody of the Privy Seal conferr'd on him and being elected to the said See the K. restored to him the Temporalities belonging thereunto 2. Apr. 1487. On the 5. Jul. following he had by the Kings command twenty Shillings per diem allowed to him to commence from the 24. Feb. before-mention'd which was allowed to him as I suppose as Keeper of the said Seal And being elected afterwards to the See of B. and VVells had restitution of its temporalities made to him by the King 4. May 1492. In 1494. he was translated to Durham and afterwards was elected Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and being settled at Durham he forthwith out of a great vast Hall in the Castle there did take as much away as made a fair Buttery and a Pantry even to the Pulpits or Galleries on each side of the Hall wherein the Trumpeters or Wind-musick used to stand to play while the meat was usher'd in And on the Wall which parted the said buttery from the Hall was a great Pellican set up to shew that it was done by him because he gave the Pellican to his Arms. When Dr. Richard Neile became B. of Durham he took away part of the said hall at the other end to enlarge the great Parlour and yet the hall continued fair and large still At length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Langton he was elected B. of Winchester the temporalities of which being restored to him by the King 17. Octob. 1500. was soon after installed with great solemnity After he was settled there he performed many acts of piety and charity among which was the foundation and establishment of C. C. coll before-mention'd and dying in fifteen hundred twenty and eight year 1528 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at VVinchester on the South side of the high Altar After him followed in that See Card. Tho. VVolsey of whom I shall make mention anon HUGH INGE or Ynge was born at Shipton-Mallet in Somersetshire educated in VVykehams School made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1484. took the degrees in Arts and left the coll in 1496. Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas where he was made Doct. of Divinity was successively made Preb. of East Harptrey in and Succentor of the Church of VVells Guardian of VVapulham in the Dioc. of Lincoln Preb. of Auste in the Church of VVestbury in the Dioc. of VVorcester to which the Vicaridge of VVellow in the Dioc. of B. and VVells was annexed by the Pope Vicar of Oldeston in the Dioc. of Lincoln of Dultying in Somersetshire by the presentation of Richard the Abbat and Conv. of Glastenbury on the death of Mr. VVill. Speckington and of VVeston alias Sowey by the presentation of the said Ab. and Conv. on the death of Mr. Rob. Stafford In the beginning of Apr. 1511. he was incorporated D. of D. in this University and in the latter end of that year was made Bishop of Meath in Ireland Thence he was translated to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin in the place of Dr. VVill. Rokeby an 1521. and about that time was made Chancellour of Ireland where he was accounted a person of great probity and justice He gave way to fate at Dublin 3 Aug. in fifteen hundred twenty and eight year 1528 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Patrick there In the said See of Dublin succeeded Dr. John Allen whom I shall mention in his proper place THOMAS BELE Beel or Beyll was bred a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austen and educated in Acad. learning among those of his Order studying in S. Maries coll in Oxon of which he became Prior about 1508. Afterwards taking the degrees in divinity he became Lord Prior of S. Mary Spytell without Bishopsgate in London and at length Suffragan Bishop to Rich. Fitz-James B. of London under the title of Episcop Lydensis which is under the Patriarch of Jerusalem In that titular See succeeded one Joh. Holt but whether educated in this University I cannot tell He lived mostly in the Town of Bury S. Edmund in Suffolk where dying about the 12. of Aug. 1540. was buried in the Church of our blessed Lady S. Mary there in our Ladies Isle near to the head of John Holt Gent. THOMAS WOLSEY the great and mighty Cardinal of the time he lived in whose life having been written several years after his death by Thom. Cavendish his Gentleman Usher we are informed therein that he was born at Ipswych in Suffolk but not that he was a Butchers Son as others have publickly reported as well in the Cardinals life time as since the first of which was he who wrote a Libel in English Verse against him a little before his fall called A dialogue between two Priests servants named
Watkin and Jeffry published in octavo perhaps written also by a canting and severe Lutheran who writes himself N. O. But so it was that he the said T. Wolsey being very apt to learn when he was a Child his Parents and other good Friends made shift to maintain him in Oxon particularly in Magd. coll where making a most wonderful progress in Logick and Philosophy be became Bach. of Arts at 15. years of age an 1485. Soon after he was elected fellow and when he had taken the degree of M. of A. was made Master of the Grammar School joining to the said College In the 14. Hen. 7. Dom. 1498. he was Bursar of that House in which year the stately Tower was finisht In the beginning of Oct. 1500. he became Rector of Lymyngton in Somersetshire on the death of Joh. Borde by the presentation thereunto of Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset which Rectory he conferr'd upon him for the great care he had of his Sons under his Tuition in the Grammar School before-mention'd But that great man dying in Sept. 1501. and his hopes of being introduced into the court frustrated he struck into acquaintance with one Sir Joh. Naphant Treasurer of Calais a Gent. of the said county who forthwith made him his chaplain And finding him to be a man of parts committed his employment to him he himself being grown old and consequently unfit for business At length he being mindful of his chaplains good service he never left him until he had found means to make him the Kings chaplain Which matter being according to his mind effected he became known to one of the Kings grave Counsellors and Favourites named Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester who finding VVolsey to be not only an active but a witty man did with one Sir Tho. Lovel another grave Counsellor commend him to the service of the King who also upon discourse with him finding him to be a man of Eloquence and to understand State affairs sent him in the quality of an Embassador to Maximilian the Emperour then abiding in Flanders not far from Calais Which Embassage he performed with so great dexterity and quickness that the K. taking especial notice of it did soon after confer upon him the Deanery of Lincoln void by the death of Jeffrey Simeon sometimes Fellow of New college Proctor of this University of Oxon and Dean of the chappel Royal to K. Hen. 7. which Jeffrey died 20. Aug. 1508. Of which Church I say being made Dean 2. Feb. 1508. was installed by proxy 25. March 1509. and in person 21. of Aug. 1511. After the death of K. Hen. 7. he quickly got into the favour so much of his successor Hen. 8. that he was by him presented to the Rectory of Turrington in the dioc of Exeter 28. Nov. 1510. being then Bach. of Div. and on the 17. Feb. following was made Canon of the collegiate church of VVindsore and about that time Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter In 1512. Jan. 31. he by the name of the Kings Almoner was made Prebendary of Bagthorp in the church of York by the favour of Cardinal Bainbridge Archb. thereof in the place of James Harryngton Dean of that church who died in Dec. 1512. and on the 21. Febr. following he was admitted Dean in the said Harryngtons place who had been installed in that dignity in the room of the said Bainbridge 31. Januar. 1507. In 1513. he being then with the King at the taking of Tournay in France his Majesty not only gave him the revenues of the Bishoprick of that City but also made him actual Bishop thereof as some are pleased to say In 1514. March 26. he was consecrated B. of Linc. in the place of Will. Smyth deceased and in Nov. the same year he was made Archb. of York In 1515. Sept. 7. he was created cardinal of S. Cecilia and in the year following Dec. 7. he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and about the same time Legate a latere for the Kingdom of England In 1518. Aug. 28. he had the temporalities of the See of Bathe and VVells conferr'd upon him with liberty of holding the same See being perpetual Commendatarie thereof with the Abbatship of S. Albans and other Ecclesiastical Livings in commendum with York About the same time he laid in by his Factors at Rome for the Papacy especially upon the death of Leo 10. and Adrian 6. but the reasons why he was not elected were 1 That he would never to go to Rome in Person 2 That he was nimis potens 3 That he was not old enough as by the Letters of Dr. Tho. Hannyball and Jo. Clerk the Kings Orators and the Card. Agents at Rome appears In 1523. he had the Bishoprick of Durham given to him and thereupon resign'd B. and Wells and soon after began the Foundations of his two most noble and splendid colleges at Oxon and Ipswych as I have largely elsewhere told you In 1529. he had the See of Winchester conferr'd upon him whereupon renouncing Durham the profits and revenues of the said See were given to the Lady Anna Boleyne for the space of one year But before he was quite warm in Winchester he fell into the Kings displeasure and thereupon being soon after commanded to live in his dioc of York about the beginning of 1530. retired to the Archbishops Palace at Cawood where spending the Summer following in great Hospitality was about the latter end of Octob. ensuing arrested for High Treason Whereupon being to be conveyed to London to answer for it he died at Leycester in the way thither year 1530 on the 29. Nov. following and was buried in S. Maries Chappel within the precincts of the Abbey-church there Of all the Clergy-men of his time and before and after him Wolsey was indisputably the greatest He managed a most inflexible King with so great dexterity that of one who always threw his Riders none held the reins either so long or so succesfully He had a vast mind and a great sense of regulation and glory which by some is construed Pride He lived always with great splendour and yet left the most lasting and most noble monuments of his bounty No Prelate indeed especially in this Nation had ever so many and large but withal none ever imployed them more generously so that his vast revenues were hardly proportionable to his great and extraordinary designs His parts were prodigious and it must be owned that he wanted not a sense of his own sufficiency and therefore his demeanor and management of himself was such as was more fitted with the greatness of his mind and his fortune than to the meanness of his birth Many Historians of that time whether out of envy of his order or contempt of his birth or hatred of his Religion have not been very favourable to his fame and the traditionary reporters since who have pretended to an exact account of his actions have upon too slight enquiries and
with too great confidence transcribed the former narratives So that we yet want an exact and faithful History of the greatest most noble and most disinteress'd Clergy-man of that age His publick imployments gave him little leisure for the publication of any works of learning and if any were published they are dead with him excep perhaps those which I have seen which are the Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes in Ipswich School set before the Grammar of W. Lilye and printed in 1528. THOMAS DILLON was born in the County of Meath in Ireland studied here in Oxon several years but whether he took a degree it appears not At length retiring to his own Country became thro several preferments Bishop of Kildare where sitting about eight years year 1531 gave way to fate in fifteen hundred thirty and one In the said See succeeded one Walter Wellesley as I shall anon tell you WILLIAM WARHAM Son of Rob. Warham was born of a gentile Family at Okely in Hampshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1475. took the degrees in the Laws left the coll 1488. and about that time became an Advocate in the Court of Arches and soon after Principal or chief Moderator of Civil Law School then situated in S. Edwards Parish in Oxon. On the 2. Nov. 1493. he was collated to the Chantorship of Wells upon the death of Tho. Overey sometimes Fellow of All 's coll and on the 13. of Feb. following he was constituted Master of the Rolls Afterwards being elected to the See of London he had the Great Seal of England delivered unto him on the 11. of Aug. 1502 So that in few days after being consecrated Bishop of that See had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the first of Octob. following In the beginning of January in the same year he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and in Nov. as one saith in 1504. he was translated to the See of Canterbury whose inthronization there appointed to be on the 9. March following was performed then with great and wonderful solemnity and magnificence as it may be partly elsewhere seen In 1506. May 28. he was unanimously elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon being then and ever after an especial friend to it and its members as may be discerned in several Epistles that passed between them In some the said members stile him Sanctissimus in Christo Paeter and in others they proclaim in an high manner his prudence profound understanding c. All which I presume was done because he had been a benefactor to the finishing of S. Maries Church and the Divinity School It must be now known that there was a young Knight called William Warham Godson and Nephew to the Archbishop as being Son to his Brother Hugh Warham that waited upon him in his chamber With him the Archb. being always ready to discourse did more than once seriously tell him that if ever after his death any should succeed him in the See of Canterbury called Thomas he should in no wise serve him or seek his favour and acquaintance for there shall said he one of that name shortly enjoy this See that shall as much by his vicious living and wicked heresies dishonour wast and destroy the same and the whole Church of England as ever the blessed Bishop and Martyr St. Thomas did before benefit bless adorn and honour the same c. This is reported by Nich. Harpessfield from the mouth of the said Sir Will. Warham being prophetically spoken by the said Archb. concerning the Thomas that succeeded him meaning Thom. Cranmer After Dr. Warham had sate in Canterbury in great prosperity about 28 years he concluded this life at S. Stephens near to the said City on the 22. of Aug. between the hours of 3 and 4 in the morning year 1532 in fifteen hundred thirty and two Whereupon his body was laid in a little Chappel built by himself for the place of his burial on the north side of the Martyrdom of S. Thomas of Canterbury and had there a reasonable fair Tomb erected over his body but defaced in the beginning of the grand Rebellion began and carried on by the Presbyterians Erasmus of Rotterdam having been a great acquaintance of the said Archbishop had the honour to have his picture sent to him by the owner Which being with great devotion received Erasmus sent him his and between them passed several Epistles In one of which or else in another place Erasmus who had the Parsonage of Aldington in Kent bestowed on him so commends him for humanity learning integrity and piety that in the conclusion he saith nullan absoluti Praesulis dotem in eo desideres The said Archb. left all his Theological books to All 's coll Library his Civil and Can. Law books with the prick-song books belonging to his Chappel to New coll and his Ledgers Grayles and Antiphonals to Wykehams coll near to Winchester See more of him in a book intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae c. Lond. 1572-3 p. 348. 349. c. THOMAS SKEVYNGTON was descended from a right ancient Family of his name living in Leicestershire but whether born in that County I cannot justly tell became when young professed in the Monastery of Cistercians at Merevale or Myrdvale in Warwickshire instructed in Theological and other learning in S. Bernards coll originally built for Cistercians in the north Suburb of Oxon being now S. Johns coll to which place he bequeathed on his death-bed twenty pounds towards its reparation Afterwards he was made Abbat of Waverley a house of the said Order in Surrey and on the 17. of June 1509. was consecrated Bishop of Bangor Where after he had sate several years much commended for the austere course of his life and great charity he submitted to the stroke of death in the month of June or thereabouts in fifteen hundred thirty and there year 1533 Whereupon his heart was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Bangor before the picture of S. Daniel whereon a stone was soon after laid with an inscription thereon shewing that it was the heart of Thomas late Bishop of Bangor and his body in the Choire of Monastery of Beaulieu under a Tomb which he had erected nigh unto the place where the Gospel used to be read In the See of Bangor succeeded John Salcot alias Capon Doct. of divinity of Cambridge translated thence to Salisbury in 1529 where dying in the summer time in August as it seems an 1557. was buried in the Cath. Church there under a Tomb which he in his life-time had provided and erected on the south side of the Choire JOHN ALLEN Doctor of the Laws of this University was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin in the place of Dr. Hugh Inge deceased in the year of our Lord 1528. and died on the 25. of July saith one and another the 28.
year 1534 of the same month in fifteen hundred thirty and four under which year you may see more of him among the writers His death which was no more than a down-right murder is attibuted by some precise writers as a judgment on him for his unworthy and base dealing in the dissolution of Daventry Priory in Northamptonshire being one of those many which were dissolved for the erection of the Cardinals coll in Oxon. On the 25. of July early in the morning Tho. Fitz-Gerald eldest Son of the Earl of Kildare caused him the said rev Prelate to be brought before him at Tartaine being then feeble by a late sickness who kneeling at his feet in his shirt and mantle bequeathing his Soul to God and his body to the Traytors mercy the wretched young man Tho. Fitz-Gerald before-mentioned commanded him there to be brain'd like an Ox. The place where this fact was done was afterwards hedged in overgrown and unfrequented in detestation of the fact The people have observed that all the accessaries thereof being after pardon'd for Rebellion ended their lives miserably HENRY STANDISH Doctor of Div. an eminent and learned man and a Grey Frier of the Order of S. Francis was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in July 1519. You may see more of him among the writers under the year fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 in which year he died In the said See succeeded William Barlow in the latter end of the year 1535. who a little before in the same year was sent into Scotland with one Holcroft about points of Religion against the Pope at which time he the said Barlow was stiled Prior of Bisham He was also sent soon after with William Lord Howard into the same Country at which time he went by the title of the Bishop of St. Asaph Their business then was about the interview with the Scotch King induced thereunto by his Council especially those of the Clergy See G. Buchanan in Rerum Scotic hist RICHARD RAWLINS was admitted Fellow of Merton coll in the year 1480. and afterwards proceeding in Arts he entred into the sacred Function On the 19. Feb. 1491. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences left the coll soon after being then beneficed and in 1495. proceeded in Divinity In 1504. Oct. 1. he was admitted Subdean of York on the death of Edw. Cressacre in which Dignity he was succeeded by Dr. James Harryngton in Jul. 1507. and in 1505. he became Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Rob. Sherebourne promoted to the See of S. David In 1506. he was made Canon of Windsore and in the middle of June 1507. he was admitted Archdeacon of Clievland on the death of Joh. Raynolds LL. B. who died on the vigil of the Nativity going before In Dec. 1508. he was admitted Warden of Mert. coll being then also Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral and in great repute for his learning In 1512. he went with the King into France and was present at the Siege of Turwin and Tournay and in 1514. he was made Almoner to the said King in the place of Tho. Wolsey and Archd. of Huntingdon In 1521. he was deprived of his Wardenship of Mert. coll by the Archb. of Canterbury for many unworthy misdemeaners the particulars of which are too large to be here set down and soon after because he should not be a looser had the Bishoprick of S. David confer'd upon him about the beginning of the year 1523. To which See being consecrated on the 26. Apr. the same year sate there to the time of his death which hapned about the beginning of fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 His immediate Predecessor in the said See was Edw. Vaughan of the University of Cambridge who dying in Nov. or Dec. in 1522. was buried in the Chappel of the holy Trinity within the Cath. Ch. of S. David Which Chappel he a little before his death had built at his own charge RICHARD NIKKE or Nix a Somersetshire man born as it seems but in what house in Oxon where he had spent some years in study he was educated it appears not In the beginning of the year 1473. he by the name of Rich. Nikke Clerk was collated to the Church of Ashbury in the Dioc. of Sarum and in Sept. 1489. he by the title of Doctor of the Laws became Rector of Chedsey in Somesetshire being then Preb. of Yotton in the Church of Wells In 1492. he was constituted Vicar General to Rich. Fox Bishop of B. and Wells and in Jul. 1494. he was made Archdeacon of Wells with the Prebend of Huish annexed on the resignation of Will. Nikke LL. D. In 1496. he was made Canon of Winasore and about the same time Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter Afterwards he had one or more benefices confer'd on him in the Diocess of Wells and in that of Durham besides the Archdeaconry of Exeter and at length on the death of Dr. Tho. Jane being elected to the Episcopal See of Norwich had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto by the name of Rich. Nikke Clerk Dean of the Kings Chappel on the 24. of Apr. 1501. where sitting about 35 years died blind in fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 He was buried between two pillars on the south side of the body of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych next to those two pillars between which Miles Spencer Dr. of Law and Chanc. of Norwych was buried Over the said Nikkes grave was a low Tomb erected whereon were the Arms of the See of Norwych impaling a Chevron between 3 Leopards heads being the same that are on the roof of the north cross Isle Which roof is supposed to have been either repaired or built by him as also part of if not all the said Isle In the See of Norwych succeeded one Will. Rugg alias Repps a Doctor of Div. of Cambridge and Abbat of the Monastery of S. Benedict in Hulmo Son of Will. Rugg of North-Repps in Nofolk who resigning the said Bishoprick in January 1549. died 21. of Sept. 1550. and was buried in the middle of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych As for Will. Nikke before-mentioned he was as I conceive brother to the Bishop aed being Preb. of Ilton in the Church of Wells became Archd. of Wells on the resignation of Tho. Bridlington in the month of Apr. 1473. ROBERT SHEREBOURNE a Hampshire man born was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester became true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1474. afterwards M. of A. and in Orders Canon of Lincoln Preb. of Whitechurch and Beneger in the Church of Wells which he resigned in Octob. 1493. Archdeacon of Taunton with the Preb. of Milverton annex'd upon the resignation of Will. Worsley LL. D. in the month of Dec. 1496. Archdeacon of Huntingdon about the same time and in 1499. Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London on the
coll in Oxon to which See Q. Elizab. to whom he was Chapl. in Ordinary prefer'd him for his excellency in Preaching and reverend aspect and deportment He dyed 30. Aug. 1630. aged 75 years and was buried in the north Isle of the Cath. Ch. of Peterborough over whose grave was a comely monument erected with a large inscription thereon but level'd with the ground by the Rebels in 1643. He left behind him a son named Thomas who occurs Archdeacon of Northampton 1618. having succeeded in that dignity if I mistake not Dr. Joh. Buckridge In the See of Peterborough succeeded Dr. Aug. Lindsell Rector of Houghton in the Spring in the County Pal. of Durham who after he was elected to it had restitution made of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the 20. of Feb. 1632. But being translated thence to Hereford in Dec. 1633. succeeded Franc. Dee D. D. who being elected to the said See of Peterborough had the temporalities thereof given to him 7. June 1634. See more of him in the Fasti under the year 1603. WILLIAM BARLOW a Canon Regular was first made Bishop of S. Asaph afterwards of B. and Wells and at length of Chichester He died in fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1568 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Chichester succeeded Rich. Curteis or Coortesse a Lincolnshire man born and Doctor of Divinity sometimes Fellow of S. Johns coll in and Proctor of the University of Cambridge and afterwards Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury who was consecrated at Canterbury gratis or without reward or fees on the feast of the holy Trinity an 1570. he being then 48 years of age The said Dr. Coortesse hath written 1 An exposition of certain words of S. Paul to the Rom. intit by an old writer Hugo A treatise of the work of three days Lond. 1577. oct 2 Two Sermons one at Pauls Cross and another at Westminster an 1576. the first on Apocal 12. the first nine verses and the other on Acts 20. 28 29 30 31. Both printed at Lond. 1584. oct 3 Serm. at Greenwich 1573. on Ecclesiastices 12. the first seven verses Lond. 1586. oct 4 Serm. at Richmond 1575. on Judges 1. the first 13 verses Lond. in oct and other things as'tis probable Quaere In the See of Chichester succeeded him Tho. Bickley whom I shall mention at large among these Bishops under the year 1596. HUGH CURWYN or Coren was descended from an antient Family of his name in Westmorland but whether born in that County I cannot tell became a Student in this University in one of the Inns or Hostles frequented by Civilians and Canonists or in Brasnose coll or both successively about 1521. took one degree in Arts holy Orders and some years after was made one of the Chaplains to K. Hen. 8. In 1532. he proceeded in the Civil Law and about that time was a great promoter of the Kings marriage with Anna Bulleyn In 1533. when Frier Peto afterwards a Cardinal had inveighed much against it in his Sermon or Sermons before the King at Greenwich Dr. Curwyn the next Sunday following hapned to Preach there at which time he spake as much for the marriage as Peto had against it uttering there several things against it and wondred why a subject should behave himself so audacious as he did before the Kings face c. After this he was prefer'd to the Deanery of Hereford where he continued all K. Edwards time At length when Q. Mary succeeded to whom he was Chaplain she nominated him Archbishop of Dublin Whereupon being consecrated thereunto in S. Pauls Cathedral at London 8. Sept. 1555. he was in few days after designed by the said Queen then at Greenwich Chancellour of the Kingdom of Ireland In 1567. he supplicated Q. Elizabeth to have the Bishoprick of Oxford conferr'd upon him being desirous to spend the remainder of his days in peace So that soon after being elected thereunto by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon the Queen consented to the election on the eighth of Octob. and gave him the temporalities belonging to that See 3. of Decemb. following the same year About that time he setled at Swinbroke near to Burford in Oxfordshire having then no House or Pallace belonging to his See where dying in the latter end of October was buried in the Parish Church of that place on the first of Nov. year 1568 in fifteen hundred sixty and eight He had a Kinsman named Rich. Coren a Lancashire man born who was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll in 1519. and afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and one in divinity was made Canon of the first foundation of the colledge of K. Hen. 8. at Oxon and when Doctor of his Faculty Archdeacon of the diocess of Oxon 1534. and about that time Canon of the Kings Chappel of S. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster This I thought fit to let the Reader know that each person might have his right that is that the Archdeaconry of Oxon might be intitled on Dr. Rich. Coren and not on Dr. Hugh which most authors that occasionally mention him do tell you EDMUND BONNER sometimes a Student in Broadgates hall became Bishop of Hereford towards the latter end of the year 1538. but before he was consecrated thereunto he was translated to London To which See he was consecrated in the beginning of Apr. 1540. year 1569 He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred sixty and nine under which year you may see more of him among the writers In Hereford succeeded him Jo. Skypp and in London Nich. Ridley in the reign of Ed. 6. at which time Bonner was deprived and Edm. Grindall in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth when the said Bonner was depriv'd a second time GILBERT BOURN son of Philip Bourn of Wor. cestershire became a Student in this University in 1524 Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1531. and in the year after he proceeded in Arts being then esteemed a good Orator and disputant In the 33. Hen. 8. Dom. 1541. he was made one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester after the said King had converted the Prior and Monks of that place into a Dean and Prebendaries and two years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences that is to the degree of Bach. of div which was the highest degree as it appears in the register of that time that he took in this University About that time he became Chaplain to Bishop Bonner and a Preacher against the Hereticks of the times In 1549. he closed so much with the reformation then on foot that he became Archdeacon of Bedford on the death of Dr. Joh. Chamber being also then or about that time Archdeacon of Essex and Middlesex and Canon of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. but whether he kept the said dignities altogether I cannot tell In the beginning of Q. Mary he turn'd about and became so zealous for the Rom.
the deprivation of Dr. Alb. Langdale of Cambridge Pursglove being thus deprived he retired to the place of his nativity and with the wealth that he had heaped from the Church founded a Grammar School there and an Hospital for 12 poor and impotent people as also a Grammar School at Gisbourne before-mentioned the donation or patronage of which he gave to the Archbishop of York and his Successors for ever an 1575. This Clerk of great renown as he is to this day stiled by the Men of Tideswall year 1579 gave way to fate on the second day of May in fifteen hundred seventy and nine and was buried in the Church at Tideswall Over his grave was a large monument erected with twenty rude and barbarous verses in English engraven thereon which being too many to set down in this place I shall for brevity sake pass them by THOMAS GOLDWELL was in all probability descended from a family of his name living long before his time at Goldwell in Kent but whether born in that County I cannot tell About the year 1520. he became a Student in this University particularly as it seems in Allsouls college where one or more of his name and kindred had studied before his time In 1531. he proceeded in Arts and two years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then known to be more eminent in Astronomy and Mathematicks than in Divinity What were his preferments and imployments 20 years after I know not Sure I am that he being a most zealous person for the R. Catholick Religion he was by Q. Mary promoted to the Bishoprick of S. Asaph to which See being elected he had restitution made of the temporalities belonging thereunto 22. January 1555. Soon after he procured the Pope to renew the indulgences granted to such that went in Pilgrimage to S. Winefrids well commonly called Halywell in Flintshire The original of which place with an account of many miracles performed there is largely set down by Robert a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict afterwards Prior of the Congregation of Cluniaks at Shrewsbury in a book intitled Vita mirabilis S. Winefridae Virginis Martyris Abbatissae lib. 2. written by him about the year 1140. 5. Reg. Steph. and dedicated to Guarinus Prior of Worcester the author being then Prior of Shrewsbury before-mentioned So that how it comes to pass that Silv Giraldus who lived afterwards in K. Johns time did not make any mention of the said Well in his Itinerarium Cambriae which Camden doth take notice of I know not After Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown Bishop Goldwell conveyed himself away beyond the Seas was present at the Council of Trent under P. Pius 4. an 1562. and afterwards going to Rome lived very pontificially among the Theatines was appointed by the Pope to baptize Jews there and to confer orders on all such English men that fled their Country for Religion's sake which he did there and in several places elsewhere in other Countries to the time of his death He was esteemed among them a most useful person was had in great veneration for his learning having as I have been informed wrote one or more books and was living at Rheymes in fifteen hundred and eighty year 1580 being then about 80 years of age Afterwards going to Rome died there soon after and was either buried among the Theatines or else in the chappel belonging to the English college there See more of him in Rob. Kynge among these Bishops under the year 1557. as also in a book intit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia c. among the matters relating to the martyrdom of Ralph Sherwin Joh. Fox in his book of Acts and Monuments c. doth tell us of one Thom. Goldwell a Priest living at Brussells mentioned in a letter written to Bishop Rich. Thornden in June 1554. but whether he be the same with Tho. Goldwell before-mentioned I cannot tell RICHARD DAVYES sometimes a Student as it seems of New Inn. was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph in the place of Goldwell before-mentioned 21. Jan. 1559. aged 50 years was translated thence to S. Davids in which See he was confirm'd 21. May 1561. and died in fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of St. Asaph succeeded Thomas Davyes a Doctor of divinity of Cambridge who being rich left much money for pious uses and setled a Scholarship in Queens coll in the said University He gave way to fate about the Feast of S. Michael 1573. and was buried either in the Church at Abergwilly or in the Church of Llanpedery Kenuen In the See of St. Davids succeeded the said Rich. Davyes Dr. Marmaduke Middleton as I shall tell you under the year 1592. RICHARD COXE sometimes of Kings coll in Cambridge afterwards Canon of Card. Wolseys coll in Oxon was consecrated Bishop of Ely 1559. and died in fifteen hundred eighty and one under which year you year 1581 may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded Martin Heton of Oxon whom I shall mention among these Bishops under the year 1609. MATHEW SHEYNE an Irish man born laid a foundation of literature here in Oxon which afterwards he well improved At length returning to his Country was thro several preferments made Bishop of Cork and Cloyne to which being consecrated in 1572. sate thereto the time of his death which hapned according to some on the thirteenth day of June in fifteen hundred eighty year 1582 and two Whether this M. Sheyne or John Sheyne was the author of the book De reipublica I cannot yet tell See in Rich. Shagens among the writers under the year 1570. and in the Fasti 1523. JOHN WATSON was born at a Market Town in Worcestershire called Evesham admitted Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1540. took the degree of Master of Arts two years after and about that time applied his mind to the study of Medicine in which afterwards he had considerable practice At length about the time that Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown if not happily before he entred into holy Orders was made Prebendary of Winchester Archdeacon of Surrey and Chancellour of S. Pauls In the 15. year of Q. Elizab. Dom. 1572. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Franc. Newton deceased and in 1575. he was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Physick About which time he being in great favour at Court he was made Bishop of Winchester tho somewhat against his will in the year 1580. to which being consecrated on the 18. of Sept. in the same year sate there to the time of his death He died on the 23. of January in fifteen hundred eighty and three aged 63 years and on the 17. of Feb. his Funeral was solemnized in the Cath. Ch. of Winchester at which time his corps was buried in the body thereof By his last Will
great portion that he had conveyed half the Bishoprick to her that because he had the Gout he could not stand to his marriage with such and the like scoffs to make him ridiculous to the vulgar and odious to the Queen The Earl of Bedford hapning to be present when these tales were told and knowing the Londoners Widdow the Bishop had married said merrily to the Queen after this manner Madam I know not how much the Widdow is above 20. but I know a Son of hers is but a little under forty c. The conclusion of the premises was this that to pacifie his persecutors and to save Banwell he was fain to part with Wyvelscomb commonly called Wilscomb for 99 years and so purchased his peace To conclude his reading had been much his judgment and doctrine sound his government mild and not violent his mind charitable and therefore not to be doubted but when he lost this life he won Heaven In his last days being taken with an quartan Ague he did by advice of his Physicians remove to the place of his Nativity Okingham before-mentioned with hopes of recovery but nothing availing he gave way to fate 19. of Novemb. in fifteen hundred and ninety aged 73 years year 1590 Whereupon being buried on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Parish Church there had a monument soon after set up in the wall over his grave by his Son Franc. Godwin then Subdean of Exeter In the See of Bathe and Wells succeeded John Still D. D. Master of Trin. coll in Cambridge Son of William Still of Grantham in Lincolnshire who had been installed Canon of the seventh stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of Thom. Aldridge deprived for Nonconformity an 1573. and Archdeacon of Sudbury 28. of March 1576. He died 26. of Feb. 1607. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Wells leaving then behind him several Children which he had by his two Wives especially the first MARMADUKE MIDDLETON Son of Tho. Middleton of Cardiganshire descended from the Middletons of Middleton in Westmorland by Lucia his Wife daughter of Rob. Nevill had part of his education here but took not as I can yet find a degree Afterwards he went into Ireland where he became Rector of Killare in the diocess of Meath and on the death of Patr. Walsh B. of Waterford and Lisemore in 1579. In 1581. he was translated to S. Davids and about two years after he was actually created Doct. of div of this University He was afterwards not only deprived of his Bishoprick but degraded from all holy Orders for many notable misdemeanours And the sentence for it was accordingly executed by and before the High Commissioners at Lambeth house not only by reading of it in Scriptis but by a formal degrading him of his Episcopal robes and Priestly vestments He departed this mortal life on the 30. of Nov. in fifteen hundred ninety and two leaving then a Son behind him year 1592 named Richard who was Archdeacon of Cardigan In the See of S. Davids succeeded Anthony Rudd D. of div of Cambridge and a Yorkshire man born whom I shall mention in the Fasti under the year 1577. JOHN UNDERHILL is according to time to follow Tho. Godwin but before I enter upon him I must let the reader know that after the death of Dr. Hugh Curwyn Bishop of Oxon that See continued void about 21. years At the term of which a great person Sir Fr. Walsingham out of pure devotion to the leases that would yield good fines recommended the said Vnderhill to it perswading him to take it as in a way to a better but as it should seem it was out of his way very much for e're the first fruits were paid he died in much discontent and poverty Yet his preferrer to seem to do some favour to the University for recompence of the spoil done to the Bishoprick of Oxon erected a new lecture at his own charge which Dr. Rainolds of C. C. coll did for some time read as I have told you elsewhere This John Vnderhill was born in an ancient tenement or receptacle for guests called the Cross Inn in St. Martins Parish within the City of Oxon where his name lived two or three generations if not more and continued there till the daughter and heir of Vnderhill was married to one Breys or Brice After he had been trained up in Grammar learning in Winchester school he was sent to New coll of which he became true and perpetual fellow in 1563. After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts it hapned that Doctor Horne Bishop of Winchester visited the said coll but Vnderhill making opposition by questioning the Bishops right for what he did or should do as to visitation he was removed from his fellowship in 1576. Whereupon making his complaint to Robert Earl of Leycester chancellour of the University of Oxon he hearkned to and encouraging him to go to law with the Bishop for what he had done the Bishop forthwith let the cause fall to the ground knowing very well that he should be a loser by carrying on the cause if that great Count should stand by Vnderhill In 1577. he was elected Rector of Lincoln coll and proceeded in Divinity in 1581. About which time he was made Chaplain to the Queen one of the Vicars of Bampton and Rector of Witney in Oxfordshire In 1589. he was nominated Bishop of Oxon upon Walsinghams motion as I have before told you whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. C. on the 8. day of Decemb. was consecrated thereunto about the latter end of the same month in the said year He paid his last debt to nature at London on the 12. of May in fifteen hundred ninety and two and soon after his body being conveyed to Oxon year 1592 was buried in the Cath. Ch. towards the upper end of the choire just before the Bishops chair leaving then this character of him that he was Vir clarus eloquio acutus ingenio From the time of his death to the consecration of Dr. Jo. Bridges his successor an 1603. the patrimony of the Bishoprick of Oxon was much dilapidated and made a prey for the most part to Robert Earl of Essex to whom it proved as miserably fatal as the gold of Tholouse did of old to the soldiers of Caepio The said Joh. Bridges had been sometimes fellow of Pembr hall in Cambridge was D. of D. and made Dean of Salisbury in the beginning of Januar. 1577. upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Piers to the Episcopal See there He was a learned man in the time he lived and wrot several books as the Bodleian or Oxford catalogue will tell you See more of him in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 291. b. JOHN WOOLTON sometimes of Brasnose coll was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in Aug. 1574. died in the latter end of fifteen hundred ninety and three year 1593 and was buried
listen what would come after such strange words as if they had taken it for some conjuration then he shewed their folly that when he spake English whereby they might be instructed and edified they neglected and hearkned not to it and now to read Hebrew which they understood no word of they seem'd careful and attentive When there was talk of dangers rumours of wars and invasions then he was commonly chosen to Preach in the Court and he would do it in so cheerful a fashion as not only shewed he had courage but would put courage into others Here is much talk saith he of Malum ab aquilone and our Cole-prophets have prophesied that in exaltatione lunae leo jungetur leaenae and the Astronomer tells us of a watry Trigon But as long as Virgo is in that ascendent with us we need not fear of any thing Deus nobiscum quis contra nos and for this the Queen would much commend him yet she would not remove him In the See of London succeeded Dr. Rich. Fletcher sometimes of C. C. coll in Cambridge and him Rich. Bancroft an 1597. who being remov'd to Canterbury 10. Decemb. 1604. Rich. Vaughan Bish of Chester was translated to London 24. of the same month JOHN PIERS was born of plebeian and sufficient Parents at South Henxsey near to Abendon in Berks and within a short mile of Oxon was educated in Grammar learning in the free-school joyning to Magd. college in Academicals in the said coll of which he was admitted perpetual fellow 25. July 1546. being then Bach. of Arts. Soon after upon an invitation he was elected into the number of the senior Students of Ch. Church which place he being unwilling to take had liberty granted to him that if he did dislike it at the years end he might leave it Whereupon being weary of it at the term of that year he was elected Probationer of Magd. coll before-mention'd 26. Jul. 1548. and the next year proceeded in Arts. About that time he entred into holy orders and being soon after made divinity reader of that house obtained also the rectory of Quainton in Bucks both which places he kept together for some time But so it was that he being a man of good parts and accounted by his contemporaries an excellent disputant yet by keeping rustical company at Quainton or at some small cure that he had near to his native place before he had obtained Quainton where 't was usual with him to sit tipling in a blind Ale-house with some of his neighbours was in great hazard to have lost all those excellent gifts that came after to be so well esteemed and rewarded in him In 1558. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences being about that time Prebendary of Chester of which Church being soon after made Dean in the place of Rog. Walker M. A. he proceeded in divinity In the beginning of 1570. he was elected Master of Balliol coll but before he was setled therein he was made Dean of Ch. C. in Oxon. So that resigning his Mastership in May 1571. was on the 15. of March following made Dean of Salisbury upon the resignation of Dr. Edm. Freke made Bishop of Rochester Which Deanery he kept with that of Ch. Ch. till he was consecrated Bishop of Rochester 15. Apr. 1576. About which time being made the Queens Almoner she gave him leave notwithstanding to keep a commendatary title to Salisbury till 1577. and then in the beginning of that year she made him Bishop of that place on the death of Dr. Edm. Gheast who died in Feb. 1576. In the said See he sate several years with great honour and repute and was beloved of all At length upon the death of Dr. Edwin Sandys being made Archb. of York was translated to that place on the 19. of Feb. in 1588. He died at Bishops-Thorp in Yorkshire 28. Sept. in fifteen hundred ninety and four aged 71. year 1594 years leaving then behind him the character of a great and modest Theologist whereupon his body was buried in the third Chappel at the east-end of the Cath. Ch. of York Over his grave was soon after erected a fair monument on the east Wall the inscription on which wherin his character is contained at large you may see in Historia Antiquitates Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 225. a. b. He left his estate to Joh. Piers Registrary to the Archb. of York Son of Thomas Piers of S. Henxsey before-mention'd the Archb. brother who married Elizabeth daughter of Rich. Bennet and Sister of Sir John Bennet Kt. Judge of the Prerogative Court of Cant. WILLIAM ALLYN Allen or Alan sometimes fellow of Oriel coll was created Cardinal under the title of S. Martin in Montibus an 1587. and in 1589. he was made Archbishop of Mechlin the Metropolis of Brabant He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred ninety year 1594 and four as I have told you elsewhere See more among the writers under that year In the See of Mechlin succeeded Levinus Torrentius a native of Gaunt and Bishop of Antwerp founder of the coll of Jesuits at Lovaine who dying 6. of the Cal. of May 1595. aged 70. and more was buried in his Cath. Church LEWES OWEN or Owen Lewes by both which names he is written was born in the village of Maltrayth in Bodean in the Isle of Anglesie was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester made perpetual and true fellow of New coll in 1533. took the degree of Bach. of the civil law in Feb. 1558. and made a farther progress in that faculty with intentions to proceed therein But his opinion as to religion not suffering him so to do left the University about 1561. tho his fellowship was not pronounced void till 1563. and went to Doway where he was for his great merits made the Regius Professor of his faculty At length being nominated Bishop of Cassano in the Kingdom of Naples by Philip 2. King of Spain and elected by P. Sixtus 5. whose Referendary he was of each signature was consecrated thereunto at Rome on the third of Febr. 1588. according to the accompt there followed In which See sitting about seven years died full of commendations and praise on the fourteenth of Octob. according to the same accompt year 1594 in fifteen hundred ninety and four Whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel belonging to the college of the English Students at Rome dedicated to S. Thomas Archb. of Canterbury Soon after was a marble stone laid over his grave with this inscription thereon which gives a farther account of the man D. O. M. Audoeno Ludovico Cambro-Britanno I. V. D. at Professori Oxonii in Anglia ac Regio Duaci in Flandria Archidiacono Hannoviae Canonico in Metropolitana Cameracensi atque Officiali Generali Vtriusque signaturae Referendario Caroli Cardinalis Borromaei Archiepiscopi Mediolanensis Vicario generali Gregorii xiii et Sexto v. in congregatione de consultationibus
diocess of which place being then pretty well stock'd with such people that could scant brook the name of a Bishop yet by his Episcopal way of living among them he obtained their love and were content to give him a good report In 1607. June 2. he was translated to London where sitting but for a short time paid his last debt to nature to the great reluctancy of all good men especially such who knew the piety of the Bishop and how he had for many years with much vigilancy served his Church King and Country on the fourteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 Whereupon his body was buried in the upper end of the north Isle joyning to S. Pauls Cath. Ch. and soon after had put over it a monument with an inscription thereon a copy of which being already printed at least twice I shall now omit it and pass to the next In his Prebendship of Westminster succeeded Hugh Goodman M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. installed therein 10. May 1607. in his Deanery Dr. Joh. King and in his Bishoprick Dr. Geo. Abbot JOHN LINCH Son of James Linch was born at Galloway in Ireland and educated in New Inn as it seems with Will. Laly his Countryman afterwards Archb. of Tuam took the degree of Bach. of Decrees in Apr. 1555. and soon after going into his own Country had several beneces bestowed on him At length by the favour of Q. Eliz. he was promoted to the Bishoprick of Elphine an 1584 which place he keeping about 27. years resigned it 19. Aug. 1611. and dying soon after was buried in the Ch. of S. Nicholas in Galloway In the said See succeeded one Edw. King a Huntingdonshire man born Doct. of div of the University of Dublin who was consecrated thereunto in Dec. 1611. See another Joh. Linch in the Fasti 1618. among the Incorporations GILES TOMSON a Londoner born was entred an Exhibitioner of Vniversity coll in 1571. took the degrees in Arts and in 1580. was elected fellow of Allsouls coll In 1586. he was one of the Proctors of the University and about that time Divinity reader of Magd. coll When he was a Junior he gave a great hope and good presage of his future excellency having a rare gift ex tempore in all his School Exercises and such a happy wit to make use of all occurrences to his purpose as if he had not taken the occasions as they fell out by accident but rather bespoken such pretty accidents to fall out to give him the occasions Afterwards he was chaplain to the Qu. Residentiary of Hereford Rector of Pembridge in Herefordshire was installed Dean of Windsore 2. March 1602. being then Doct. of div Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter and a most eminent Preacher At length being nominated and elected B. of Glocester had restitution of the temporalities belonging to it made to him on 27. June 1611. and was in the next month consecrated thereunto with liberty then allowed to him to keep his Deanery in Commendam for one year and no longer He departed this mortal life to the great grief of all that knew the piety and learning of the man after he had taken a great deal of pains at the command of K. Jam. 1. in translating the four Gospels Acts of the Apostles and Apocalyps on the 14. June in sixteen hundred and twelve year 1612 Whereupon his body was buried in Brays chappel on the south side of that of S. George at Windsore and had soon after a monument put over him with his Bust to the middle and this inscription under it Individua Trinitati per omnia saecula sit gloria per quam sui sum ero Hic situs est Aegidius Tomson hujus Capcllae quondam Decanus cujus mens sincera lingua docta manus munda fuit Londini natus educatus Oxoniae in collegio Omnium Animarum Bonorum Indigentium Eruditorum amantissimus semper vixit cujus corpus quamvis mortalitas terrae subjecit illius tamen animam pietas caelis inseruit Hunc virum moribus gravem prudentia insignem pietate summum haec Regia Capella per annos decem Decanum habuit Inde a serenissimo Rege Jacobo in Episcopatum Glouc. Commendatum mors intempestiva anno decurso praesulem rapuit Obiit 14. Junii An. Dom. 1612. aetat 59. RICHARD DEANE Son of Gilb. Deane of Saltonstall in Yorkshire by Elizabeth his Wife daughter of Edm. Jennings of Syelsden in Craven was born at Saltonstall and after he had been educated in Grammaticals in his own Country became a Student in Merton coll 1587. aged 17. years where continuing about 5. years in the quality as it seems of a Portionist retired to S. Albans hall and as a member of that house took the degree of Bach. of Arts in Octob. 1592. and that of Master three years after which was the highest degree he took in this University Afterwards he taught school at Caermerthen in Wales as a note that came thence which I have seen reports tho I hardly believe it was made Dean of Kilkenny in Ireland and at length Bishop of Ossory there about the latter end of the year 1609. He yielded up his last breath on the 20. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried near to the Bishops chair in the Church at Kilkenny year 1612 In the said See of Ossory succeeded Jonas Wheeler another Oxford Student whom I shall at large mention among these Bishops under the year 1640. HENRY USHER a Dublin man born was educated in the University of Cambridge till he was Bach of Arts and some time after In the beginning of the year 1572. he went to Oxon setled in Vniversity coll was incorporated in the same degree in the beginning of July the same year and in few days after was licensed to proceed in Arts. Which degree being compleated by standing in the Act he made some continuance here studied the Theological faculty and laid a sure foundation therein by the helps of divers noted men then in the University among whom Dr. Humphrey and Dr. Holland were two Afterwards he retired to his native Country became Archdeacon of Dublin and at length Archb. of Armagh and so consequently Primate of all Ireland To which See being consecrated in Aug. 1595. sate there till the time of his death in great honour and repute among all Protestants in that country He died at Termon-Fechan on the second day of April in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 and was buried in S. Peters Church at Drogheda commonly called Tredagh In the See of Armagh succeeded Dr. Christopher Hampton and him Dr. James Vsher nephew to Henry before mention'd whom I shall mention in the Fasti under the year 1626. HENRY COTTON a younger Son of Sir Ric. Cotton Kt. one of the Privy Council to K. Ed. 6. was born in Hampshire educated in the Free school at Guildford became a commoner
Gam or Game of Allsoules Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University He was now Principal of Biham commonly called Beame Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. Which Principality he resigned this year to make room for Hugh Pole of the same Coll. Doct. of Div. John Thornden or Thornton did proceed in Divinity about this Year He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University and a Bishop as I have before told you This year one John Newland a Black or Regular Canon of the Order of S. Augustin supplicated for a Degree in Divinity but whether granted which is very imperfect or not at all tells us not This is the same John Newland who was born at Newland in the Forest of Deane in Glocestershire and was commonly called and written John Naileheart alias Newland He was the last Abbat saving one of the Monastery of S. Austin at Bristol in which Monastery as also in the Church belonging thereto he expended much Money in building and adorning He was called the Good Abbat being a Person solely given up to Religion and Almsdeeds and after he had ruled 33 years or thereabouts he gave way to Fate in a good old Age and was buried on the south side of the Choire of the Church of S. Austin now the Cath. Church at Bristol Over his Grave is his Statua in Pontificalia graven or carved out from Stone laying on the Back with a Crosier in his Hand and a Miâre on his Head His Arms do now or did lately continue in the Church and other Buildings of that Monastery which are a Man's heart pierced thro from top to bottoââ with three nails which is as 't were a Rebus for Naileheart An. Dom. 1503. An. 18 19 Hen. 7. Chanc. Rich. Mayhew D. D. Archdeacon of Oxford c. at length Bish of Hereford Commiss John Thornden or Thornton D. D. John Kynton D. D. a Minorite Sim. Greene alias Fotherbie D. D. of Linc Coll. Proct. John Stokesley of Magd. Coll. Rich. Dudley of Oriel Coll. The Senior who was the Northern Proctor was afterwards Bish of London and the Junior who was the Southern Proctor was afterwards Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury He was Master of Arts of this University but whether he took any Degree in Divinity therein I find not See more in 1508. Bachelaurs of Arts Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Faculty of Arts of the Logick of Aristotle Edward Lee of S. Mar. Magd. Coll. seems to have been admitted Bach. of Arts this year among twenty or thereabouts that were admitted within the compass of the same year We have no Register that shews it only certain imperfect and broken Scripts containing sums of money received for the taking of Degrees which I have seen but I think are now perish'd Bach. of Physick Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Rich. Barthlet Master of Arts and Fellow of Allsoules Coll. See more among the Doctors of Physick under the year 1508. Doct. of Div. Will. Salyng or Selling Lord Prior of Martyn or Merton in Surrey Rob. Tehy or Thay of Magd. Coll. Rich. Sydenore of the same Coll. about this time Archdeacon of Totness In 1518 he was made Canon of Windsor and in 1524 constituted Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter He died 1534 and was I presume buried in the Chap. of S. George at Windsor In his Canonry and Registrary's place succeeded Rob. Aldridge who was afterwards Bish of Carlisle and in his Archdeaconry of Totness succeeded as it seems George Carew This year was a Supplication made in the ven Congregation of Regents for one Rich. Bere a Benedictin Monk to be graduated in Divinity but whether in the Degree of Bach. or Doct. it appears not or whether he was admitted to either 'T was the same Rich. Bere who was installed Abbat of Glastenbury on the Death of John Selwood the former Abbat 20 January 1493 after the Election of another Person named Tho. Wasyn a Monk of the same Order had been cassated by Rich. Fox Bish of B. and Wells on the 12. of Nov. going before This Rich. Bere who was well known to and reverenced by Erasmus died 20. Jan. 1524 whereupon Rich. Whyting was elected Abbat in his place on the third of March following there being then in the Monastery of Glastenbury 47 Monks If you are pleased to know more of this Bere you may read what Leland saith of him and his Benefaction to the said Abbey thus Rich. Bere Abbat built the new Lodgings by the great Chamber called the Kings Lodgings in the Gallery He builded also new Lodgings for Secular Priests and Clerks of our Ladies Chappel He also arched on both sides the East part of the Church He built Edgar's Chappel at the East end of the Church Abbat Whyting performed part of it Abbat Bere made the Vault on the Steple in trancepto He also made a rich Altar of Silver and guilt and set it afore the high Altar And coming from his Embassadry out of Italy made a Chappel of our Lady of Loretto joyning to the North side of the Body of the Church He made the Chappel in the South end Navis Ecclesiae Glaston whereby he is buried sub plano mannore in the South Isle of the Body of the Church He made an Almshouse in the North part of the Abbey with a Chappel for seven or ten poor Women He also made the Mannor place at Sharpham in the Park two miles by West from Glaston It was before a poor Lodge c. An. Dom. 1504. An. 19 20 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Mayhew by whose Persuasion K. Hen. 7 gave 10l yearly Revenue to the Univ. of Oxon conditionally that the Members thereof celebrate a solemn Maâs for him yearly in S. Maries Church Commiss Sim. Greene again John Kynton again Rob. Tehy or Thay D. D. of Magd. Coll. Proct. Laur. Stubbes of Magd. Coll. Bor. elected 17. Apr. John Beverston of Mert. Coll. Principal of S. John Bapt. Hall Austr elected 17. Apr. Mast of Arts. Edward Finch Of what Coll. or Hall he was a Member I cannot yet find sure I am that on the 23 Sept. 1517 he became Predendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury on the death of Andrew Ammonius an Italian whom I have mention'd among the Writers in Will. Grocyn an 1522. that also he was made Archdeacon of Wiltshire on the death of Christoph Vrshwyke 12 May 1522 and Preb. of Chermister and Bere in the said Church of Sarum on the death of Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll in this University 30. June 1524. Philip Dense Fellow of Mert. Coll. He hath this Character added to his Name in the Album of that Society Medicus Astronomus cum primis doctus In the Act wherein these two proceeded were about 14 Masters but whether any of them were afterwards Bishops Writers or
July and November yet not set down as admitted In a certain writing dated this year he is written thus John Incent LL. Bac. Episcopi Winton commissarius ejusdem consistorii Episcopalis Praesidens He became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in 1537 in the place of Richard Sampson promoted to the See of Lichfield and about the same time was made Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near Winchester He founded a Free-school at Berchamsted the place of his nativity in Hertfordshire for 120 Scholars to be taught therein allowing to the Master Ushers and School it self a very ample salary 33. Hen. 8. The visitor of which is the Warden of All 's College and several of its Masters have been of that society In the old hall belonging to Doctors Commons near St. Pauls Cathedral were in one of the Windows his Arms viz. Argent on a bend gules a fair and innocent Virgin stark naked with her hair loose about her shoulders or her right hand is extended above her head holding a Chaplet of roses therein and her other hand covers her privities The other four who supplicated were 1 Matthew Knightley 2 Richard Browne 3 William Marbull 4 Peter Ligham all Bachelers of the Civil Law Doct. of Can. Law May 25. Edmund Horde sometimes by a mistake written Forde of Allsouls College This Person whom I have mention'd among the Civilians in 1510 was about this time a noted Advocate in the Court of Arches and Procurator of the Charter house near London William Fleshmonger of New Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Chichester in the place of John Young Bishop of Callipolis who died 1526 and a Benefactor to New College See Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. a. There also supplicated for this Degree 1 Ailnoth Arscot sometimes Principal of Perkwaters Inn now involv'd within the limits of Christ Church 2 Michael Wogan or Ogan Both which were Bachelers of the Canon Law Doct. of Div. Apr. ult William Goderyche May 4. Fr. Henry Osbourne a Dominican 13. The ven Father Hugh Whitehead a Benedictine Monk In 1512 he succeeded Thomas Castell in the Wardenship or Gardianship of Durham College in Oxon and in 1524. he succeeded another Thomas Castell in the Priorship of the Church of Durham See more in the year 1511 among the Doctor of Div. This Hugh Whitehead living to see his Priory dissolved he was soon after made the first Dean of Durham by the foundation Charter of King Hen. 8. dat 12. May an reg 33. Dom. 1541. In which Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Horne of Cambridge by the donation of King Ed. 6. dat 20. Nov. an reg 5. Dom. 1551. The said Whitehead dying at London was buried in the Church of the holy Trinity called the Minories but when I cannot yet tell May 15. Kobert Hyll of Merton Coll. June 27. Fr. Thomas Anyday Robert Saunderson Gilbert Saunders John Smythe John Browne Minorites or Grey-fryers Nov. 19. Nov. 25. Richard Ferys the Provincial of the Carmes or White fryers He was now or lately Prior of the Coll. of Carmes in the North suburb of Oxon. January 22. John Baker 23. Edm. Forest Prior of Langthony See among the Bach. of Divinity 1509. 25. Laurence Stubbes of Magdalen Coll. Afterwards President of that house in the room of Dr. John Hygden 29. John Hygden of Magdalen Coll. In 1516 he became President of that College in 1524 Dec. 2. he was admitted Prebendary of Wighton in the Church of York and the year following Dean of Cardinal College in Oxon. In 1529 he was made Prebendary of Wetwang in the said Church of York and in 1532 Dean of the Coll. in Oxon. founded by King Henry 8. on the site of that of Cardinal in which year dying he was succeeded by Dr. John Oliver in the said Deanery Feb⦠John Byrde a Carme In the year 1516 he succeeded the aforesaid Richard Ferys in the Provincialship of the Carmes and was at length Bishop of Chester as I have told you in 1510. Four also supplicated this year to be admitted Doctors of Div. of whom Robert Cheltenham a Benedictine was one and Simon Mollonde Bach. of Div. of Mert. College another but were not admitted The other two were afterwards admitted as I shall tell you when I come to them Incorporations Jul⦠John Wythers of Magd. Coll. M. of A. and sometimes Proctor of the University afterwards made Doctor of the Canon Law by the Popes Bull was then incorp Dr. of the Canon Law Oct⦠Thomas Hanyball or Hannyball Doctor of the Civil Law of Cambridge In the year 1504 May 14. he was installed Prebendary of Gevendall in the Church of York upon the resignation of John Hatton Bishop of Nigrepont and in the year 1514 he became Chancellour of the Diocels of Worcester in the place of one Rob. Hallesworth Doctor of Decrees who succeeded Tho. Alcock LL. D. in that office 1508 and Alcock Tho. Wodyngton Dr. of Dec. 1503. In 1522. 14 Hen. 8. I find the said Tho. Hanyball to be living in Rome in the quality of the King of Englands Orator and in that of Agent or Factor for Cardinal Wolsey to the last of which he ever and anon gave an account by Letters of the Affairs of Rome In one dated 13 Dec. 1522 he told the Cardinal that his Holiness hath sent for Erasmus Rot. under a fair colour by his brief and if he come not I think saith he the Pope will not be content c. In 1524 the said Dr. Hanyball was made Master of the Rolls in the place of Dr. John Clerke which honorable Office he keeping till 1528 was succeeded therein by Dr. John Taylor of whom I shall speak at large in 1522. Nov. ⦠Robert Byse or Bysse Dr. of the Civil Law in the Court of Rome In the year following 1514 he occurs by the Name of Rob. Besse LL. D. Principal of Henxsey Hall and in 1524 he became Vicar General to the Bishop of B. and Wells by the death of Roger Church Dec. Doctor and Canon of Wells as also a great Pluralist in the Dioc. of Wells and elsewhere He died in the month of Dec. or thereabouts 1546. Nov. 18. William Latymer Bach. of Art of this University and Mast of Arts beyond the Seas was then incorporated M. of A. Perhaps this William Latymer may be the same whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1545 where you 'll find another Will. Latymer who was Dean of Peterborough This year also supplicated to be concorporated 1 John Buke D. D. beyond the Seas 2 John Dolman Dr. of Civ Law of Cambridge 3 Charles Lucy Bach. of Phys of Cambridge but whether any of them were accordingly incorporated I cannot yet find I think Dolman was because his Supp was granted simpliciter There was also a Supplication made that Richard Mayster M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge might be incorporated but whether granted I know not I take this Rich. Mayster to be the
of Arts to be the same with him who became perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1513 and was afterwards an eminent Schoolmaster Jul. 11. Will. Tresham of Merton Coll. March 15. John Rogers Quaere Bach. of Div. Six admitted of whom Richard Glocester and John Newbolt Benedictines were two and about 23 supplicated who were not admitted this year among whom were John Perrot a Minorite Thomas Hill B. of A. and a Bonhome c. Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 6. John Leffe of New Coll. He was afterwards Warden of the College at Maidstone in Kent Vicar General and Keeper of the Spirituality to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near to Winchester He died 19 Aug. 1557 aged 66 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to Wykeham's Coll. near to the said City of which Coll. he was Fellow For the said Degree supplicated Edward Orenge LL. B. and for the Degree of D. of Canon Law supplicated two who were afterwards admitted Doct. of Div. Jan⦠Leonard Huchenson Master of Vnivers Coll. Jan. ult Robert Law or Low a Carme now Prior of the College of Carmes in the North Suburb of Oxon. In 1505 he was made Provincial of the Carmes in the place of John Vynde or Wynde which honorable Office he keeping about 17 years was succeeded in it by Rich. Ferys Feb. 11. Thomas Mole or Molle a Carme 25. Thomas Francis a Minorite or Franciscan There also supplicated for the said Degree John Burgeis Bach. of Divinity of Magdalen College who was elected President of that House upon Dr. Laurence Stubbes his resignation an 1527 and by the name of President he doth occur in a Deed or Writing dated 10 Jul. the same year but soon after being removed Dr. Richard Knolles was elected Others there were that supplicated who were afterwards admitted except one Mabot Bac. of Div. Incorporations May⦠Father Robert Myles a Dominican Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge Oct⦠Fernandus or Ferdinandus de Victoria Doctor of Physick beyond the Seas now Physitian to King Hen. 8. and the Queen Consort He Dr. Thomas Lynacre and Dr. John Chambre were the first Founders of the College of Physitians at London Oct⦠William Arden a Dominican or Black Fryer Prior elect of the College or Convent of the Black Fryers in the South Suburb of Oxon and D. of D. in the Court of Rome Feb⦠Thomas Wellys or Wells Master of Arts of this University and Doctor of Divinity elsewhere Whether he be the same with Thomas Wellys mention'd in the Incorporations under the year 1510 I know not This year the month I cannot tell I find that there was a kind of a Supplicate made for one Magnus a Doctor beyond the Sea to be incorporated here but in what Faculty I cannot yet discover This Person was the same with Thomas Magnus who was a Foundling at Newark upon Trent in Nottinghamshire and had the Sirname of Among us given to him as being maintained among certain People there or as some say by certain Yorkshire Clothiers who occasionally travelled that way early in the Morning and first found him At length being brought up in Literature in one of the Universities in England became so much noted to King Henry 8. that he was by him not only promoted to several Dignities but sent Embassador into various Countries whereupon he was by the generality of People called Dr. Magnus and by some Magnus Doctor Among several Embassies that he was employed in was that into Scotland an 1524 where he was employed as the Kings Agent to procure his business and to encline the young Kings eat towards him as also to give intelligence c. Among the Dignities he enjoyed were 1 The Archdeaconry of the East-Riding of Yorkshire to which he was collated in June 1504 upon the promotion of Dr. Richard Mayhew to the See of Hereford 2 The Sacristship of the Chappel of our Lady and the holy Angels at York to which he was collated in Dec. the same year 3 A Canonry in the Church of Windsore an 1520 which he resigning in the latter end of 1547 was succeeded by Dr. Richard Cox 4 The Mastership of the hospital of St. Leonard at York c. And among the benefices he had was the rectory of Bedall in Yorkshire one Towards his latter end he founded a Free-school in the place of his nativity which he well endowed and paying his last debt to nature at Sesay or Sessay in Yorkshire 27. Aug. or thereabouts in 1550 was buried in the Church there Whereupon John Dakyn LL. D. was installed in his Archdeaconry of the East-riding 13. April 1551. I have seen a copy of his last Will and Test dated 8. March 1549. and proved 30. Apr. 1551 wherein he desires that if he dye at his house at Sybthorp or nigh those parts to be buried in the Trinity Isle of the Church of Newark upon Trent afore the midst of the altar there for there he was baptized c. He makes mention therein of his singular good Lord and Master Savage sometimes Archbishop of York and his singular good Lord the Earl of Wilts and Lord Treasurer of England An. Dom. 1521. An. 13. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury Commiss Richard Benger D. of Dec. Proct. Henry Tyndall of Merton College Bor. John Wilde Austr April 17. Grammar May 12. John Kendall 13. Richard Guissoll Jul. 8. Henry Golde Sec. Chaplain One George Marshall did also supplicate but was not admitted Qu. Bach. Musick Feb⦠John Sylvester did supplicate and was as it seems admitted in that month being at the same time accounted very eminent in his profession Bach. of Arts. About 60 were admitted and about 29. supplicated who were not admitted this year Jul. 8. John Mason about this time Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. was then admitted He was born at a mercate town called Abendon in Berks the son of a Cowherd by his Wife the Sister of a Monk at that place Which last Person finding him very apt to learn he caused him to be trained up in Grammaticals and Academicals in this University where he obtained for him a Fellowship in the said Coll. of All 's Soon after his pregnant and acute parts being taken notice of by great Persons he was upon the motion of Sir Thomas More sent by the King to the University of Paris to be accomplished with other parts of learning After his return thence he became a favourite to K. Hen. 8. who employed him in several Embassies and made him one of his Privy Council After that Kings death he was made a Privy-counsellour to K. Ed. 6. and tho he was a Knight and a perfect Lay-man yet he enjoyed several Church Dignities or as one saith he was a great intruder into Ecclesiastical Livings Among which the Deanery of Winchester Cathedral was one installed therein in the place of William Kingesmyll the last Prior of St. Swithins Monastery there and the first
adorned with the degree of Bachelaur of Arts wearing then the Gown and Habit of a Compounder that is one who compounds or pays double or treble Fees for his Degree which is usually done by rich Dignitaries In the year following he was admitted into Commons in Exeter Coll. and allowed to take place among the Fellows of that Society He succeeded in that Dignity Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State an 1540 and was succeeded by John Goodman 1548. John Hopkyns was admitted the same day He is supposed to be the same John Hopkyns who had a hand in turning into English meetre several of Davids Psalms Nov. 3. Rich. Edwards of C. C. Coll. Jan. 12. Roch. Harford of Mert. Coll. Whether he took a higher degree in this University it appears not While he was Bach. of Arts he was Archdeacon of S. Davids which he keeping for some years was at length made Archdeacon of Hereford At the time of his death he gave Lands to Mert. Coll. situate and being within the Town of Walton near to Tewkesbury in Glocestershire Besides these four were 56 admitted In the month of June this year supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts one Will. Walker a Priest but whether he was admitted it appears not In Dec. 1554 he was made Succentor of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury in which Dignity he was succeeded by one Hen. Brither in the beginning of 1561. â But 4 Bach. of the Civ Law were admitted the encouragement for that Profession being now much decayed Mast of Arts Apr. 8. Edmund Daniel of Mert. Coll. See in the year 1556. June 13. Christoph Goodman of Brasn Coll. 25. John Heron John Proctor John Watson of All 's Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bish of Winchester Oct. 18. Hen. Pendleton of Brasn Coll. Jan. 28. Tho. Greenaway of C. C. Coll. This Person who was a Hampshire man born was Author of Vita Richardi Fox C. C. C. Oxon. fundatoris breviter descripta an 1566. The beginning of which was Richardus Fox familia satis splendida c. 'T is a Manuscript kept to this day in the Archives of C. C. C. Libr. He was afterwards Bach. of Div. as 't is said tho his Admission is neglected to be registred and at length President of the said Coll. He died at Heyford Purcells in Oxfordshire being then Rector of that place in August 1571 and was buried in the Church there Jan. 28. John Jewell of C. C. C. Besides these 8 were about 24 admitted and several who supplicated among whom Ralph Robinson of C. C. Coll. was one mentioned under the year 1540. Bach. of Div. June 14. James Brokes of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Glocester Two more who were of Brasn Coll. were admitted namely Will. Smyth and Tho. Typping and three there were that supplicated for the said Degree â Not one Doctor of the Civ Law or LL. was admitted or supplicated only one Rob. Raynold of New Coll. and not one in Physick or Divinity only in the last Will. Pye of Or. Coll. whom I have formerly mentioned Incorporations Mar. 11. Andr. Davyson Bac. of Arts of Cambridge afterwards M. of A. beyond the Seas was then incorporated Master of Art An. Dom. 1545 An. 37 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Long and Bishop of Linc. Commiss the same viz. Dr. Tresham Proct. John Stoyt of Mert. Coll. again Simon Perrot of Magd. Coll. Bach. of Arts. June⦠James Neyland See among the M of A. 1548. July⦠Will. Whittyngham of Brasn Coll. He was soon after of All 's Coll. and at length the unworthy thy Dean of Durham Jul⦠John Piers of Magd. Coll. He died Archbish of York Oct⦠Tho. Hyde of New Coll. James Bicton was admitted in the same month See among the Mast of Arts an 1547. The Admissions this year come in all but to about 32. Bach. of Civ Law Nov⦠Valentine Dale of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Dean of Wells See more among the Incorporations in 1552. Besides him were only three more admitted Mast of Arts. June⦠Tho. Bickley of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Chichester ⦠John Molens or Mullyns of the same Coll. Besides these two 25 more were admitted and some that supplicated who were never admitted Bach. of Physick ⦠George Ethryg or Etheridge of C. C. Coll. ⦠Rich. Master of All 's Coll. See more among the Doctors of this Faculty under the year 1554. ⦠John Throwley Bach. of Divinity lately a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict was then admitted Bach. of Physick Bach. of Div. ⦠Mathew Smyth the first Principal of Brasn Coll. For the said Degree supplicated Patrick Walsh who was afterwards Bish of Waterford in Ireland Will. Bocher afterwards President of C. C. Coll. and John Smyth afterwards Provost of Oriel which three were without doubt admitted but neglected to be registred by the publick Scribe of the University As for Smyth he was engaged in a Dispute with Hugh Latimer in the Divinity School 18 Apr. 1554. Doct. of LL. Jan⦠John Fuller of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Prebendary of Ely Chancellour to the Bish thereof and Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge You may read of him in the Acts and Mon. of the Church written by John Fox under 1555. In the same month Nich. Bullyngham of All 's Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree but was not admitted See among the Incorporations 1566. Also Rob. Weston of the same Coll. See in ann 1556 among the Doct. of Law â Not one Doct. of Physick was adm this year Doct. of Div. Nov⦠Will. Cheadsey of C. C. Coll. He was now Chaplain to Dr. Bonner Bish of London who was his Promoter to several Dignities in the Church Another Person was also admitted Doctor but his true Name is omitted in the Register Incorp Jun⦠Rich. Coxe M. of A. of this University afterwards D. D. of Cambridge and now Dean of Osney near Oxford was then incorporated D. of D. as he had stood at Cambridge An. Dom. 1546. An. 38 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. John Smyth of Oriel Coll. Simon Perrot again Elected the first day of Easter Term the senior being then as it seems Bach. of Divinity Bach. of Arts. Jul⦠Justinian Lancaster of C. C. Coll. Whether he took the degree of M. A. it appears not Afterwards he was made Archdeacon of Tauntoâ in Somersetshire in the place I suppose of John Fitzjames deprived an 1560. ⦠Michael Reninger commonly called Rhanger of Magd. Coll. ⦠John Cox of Brasn Coll. I find one of both his names to have made several Translations into the English Tongue as 1. An Exhortation to the Ministers of Gods word in the Church of Christ Lond. 1575. written by Henr. Bullinger 2. A Treatise of the word of God written against the traditions of men Lond. 1583. oct written by Anth. Sadeâll c. But whether the said Translations were made by the aforesaid John Cox of Brasn Coll. or another
in the Spittle there Doct. of Div. Apr. 20. John Harpesfield Jul. 13. Thomas Hardyng of New Coll. Both zealous and stout Champions for the Rom. Cath. cause Jun. 20. It was then granted to Hen. Cole LL. D. of New Coll. that he might have the Degrees of Bach. and Doctor of Divinity conferr'd upon him without any disputations or exercise done for the same Incorporations Certain Doctors of Div. of the Univ. of Cambridge having been commanded by their Chancellour Dr. Steph. Gardiner Bishop of Winchester to go to Oxford and there to joyn themselves with other Doctors and learned Men of that University to dispute with Archb. Cranmer Bish Rydley and B. Latimer concerning matters of Religion did accordingly come to Oxom 13. of Apr. this year and taking up their quarters at the Cross-inn near to Quatervois were the next day incorporated The names of them are these John Young D. D. Master of Pembroke hall and Vicechancellour He was a learned Man and is stiled by some Writers Joh. Giovanus John Seton or Seaton D. D. of St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and Prebendary of Winchester He was now famous in that University for the brief and methodical book of Logick which he had composed for the use of junior Scholars Rich. Atkinson D. D. Provost of Kings Coll. Will. Glynne D. D. Master of Queens Coll. and now or lately Archdeacon of Anglesie In 1555 Sept. 8. he was consecrated Bishop of Bangor within the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul in London and died a little before Qu. Mary Tho. Watson D. D. Master of St. Johns Coll. and Chaplain to Gardiner B. of Winchester In 1553 Nov. 18. he was instituted Dean of Durham by Dr. Tonstall B. thereof on the deprivation of Rob. Horne and in Aug. 1557 he was consecrated B. of Linc. From which See being removed by the authority of Parliament in the beginning of Q. Eliz. as being an enemy to reformation and the Qu. Supremacy over the Church was committed Prisoner to several places and kept in durance in and near London for about 20 years At length in the year 1580 he and Jo. Fekenham being sent Prisoners with others to Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire continued there to the time of his death He was buried in the Ch. belonging to the Town of Wisbich 27. of Sept. an 1584. In his younger years he was given much to Poetry and making of Plays and gained great commendations for his Antigone out of Sophocles by the learned Men of his time who have farther avowed that as George Buchannans Tragedy called Jepthe have among all Tragedies of that time been able to abide the touch of Aristotles precepts and Euâipides Examples So hath also the Tragedy of this Tho. Watson called Absalon which was in a most wonderful manner admired by them yet he would never suffer it to go abroad because in locis paribus Anapestus is twice or thrice used instead of Jambus In his elder years being then of a sour disposition as one saith and âarned in deep Divinity but surly with an austere gravity as another tells us published several matters of Divinity among which were Two Sermons of the real Presence before Qu. Mary on Rom. 12. 1. c. Lond. 1554. oct and Wholsome and Cath. Doctrine concerning the seven Sacraments c. Lond. 1558. qu. This Book consists only of Hemilies Cuthbert Scot D. D. Master of Christs Coll. and Prebendary of York He was afterwards Bish of Chester Thomas Sedgwyke D. D. the Queens Prof. of Div. in Cambr. Alban Langdale D. D. of S. John's Coll. in Cambr. In 1556 he being then Parson of Buxted in Sussex was made Archdeacon of Lewes on the death of one Dr. Breisley and about the same time Prebendary of Aâpleford in the Church of York In the beginning of Qu. Eliz. he was deprived of those and other Dignities 1 Because he had behaved himself zealous in the Reign of Q. Mary in carrying on the Rom. Catholick Cause against the Protestants 2 Because he denied the Queens Supremacy over the Church He lived afterwards many years a constant Member of the Church of Rome but when or where he died I cannot tell See more of him in Nich. Ridley pag. 78. An. Dom. 1555. An. 2 Mariae An. 3 Mariae Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Rich. Smyth D. D. sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Canon of Ch. Ch. and one of Qu. Maries Chaplains was admitted to his Office in Apr. this year Dr. Martiall occurs also Vicechancellour 16 Oct. at what time Rydley and Latimer were burnt in Canditch for then if I mistake not Dr. Smyth preached to them when they were at the Stake Proct. Will. Norfolke of Or. Coll. Jam. Gervys of Mert. Coll. elect 14 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Nov. 14. Rich. Shaghens of Ball. Coll. Jan. 11. Edw. Cradock of C. C. See among the D. D. an 1565. Feb. 13. Hen. Bedell of C. C. Coll. One of both his names was Author of A Sermon exhorting to pity the poor on Psal 41. Lond. 1571. oct and of another if not more which I have not yet seen Whether the same with Hen. Bedell the Bach. of Arts who was born in Oxfordshire I know not This year Apr. 26. John Woolton of Brasn Coll. afterwards Bishop of Exeter supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts but whether he was admitted it appears not or that he determined in the Lent following Adm. 33. Bach. of Civ Law June 26. John Calverley of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of John Bridgwater about 1574 and dying in 1576 he was succeeded by Dr. Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Besides Calverley were five admitted and three or more that supplicated for the same Degree Bach. of Decrees Apr. 3. Will. Laly or Lawley of New Inn. He was afterwards Archbish of Tuam in Ireland John Linch of New Inn also as it seems was admitted the same day He was afterwards Bishop of Elphine in Ireland Mast of Arts. Jun. 26. John Rastell of New Coll. He afterwards gained to himself an eminent name especially among those of his Profession for his Writings against Joh. Jewell Jul. 12. Harbert Westphalyng of Ch. Ch. 26. Pet. Whyte of Or. Coll. He was afterwards much celebrated by his Scholar Rich. Stanyhurst for his Learning Adm. 29. Bach. of Phys Mar. 28. Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll. See among the Doctors in 1559. June 17. Tho Godwyn of the same Coll. He afterwards applied his Studies to Div. and at length became B. of Bathe and Wells Mar. 13. Giles Wale c. Eight in all were admitted this year Bach. of Div. Nov. 14. Joh. de Villa Garcia or Garcina lately of Lincoln College now Divinity Reader of that of Magd He was commonly called Frier John and by Protestant Writers Johannes Frââerculus See among the D. of D. 1558. He was the only person that was admitted Bach. of Div. this year Two or more there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom Will.
Cholwell M. A. was one who being learned and a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause was designed by certain of the Queens Commissioners on the 8 Cal. May 1554 to preach concerning various matters which were controverted in Qu. Maries Reign Doct. of Civ Law Feb. 17. Thomas Darbyshire of Broadgates Hall now Canon of Pauls Chancellor of the Diocess of London and Archdeacon of Essex In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he was deprived of his Spiritualities whereupon Tho. Cole who had been Dean of Salisbury as 't is said in the time of K. Ed. 6. and afterwards an Exile in the time of Qu. Mary succeeded him in his Archdeaconry who kept it to the time of his death which was in the beginning of the year 1571. After Darbyshire was deprived he went beyond the Seas and at length entred himself into the Society of Jesus and became a noted person among the Rom. Catholicks He had great skill in the Scriptures and was profound in Divinity he catechised also many years publickly at Paris in the Latin Tongue with great concourse and approbation of the most learned of that City Whether he wrot any thing I find not as yet only that he died in a good old Age at Pont à Mousson in Loraine an 1604. 2 Jac. 1. While he was Chanc. of London he had much to do in examining Hereticks as they were then called that were brought before Bishop Bonner about matters of Faith Doct. of Physick Jul. 22. John Howell of All 's Coll. He was the only person that was admitted or licensed in that Faculty â Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted or licensed to proceed this year Incorporations Jul. 1. Thom. Martyn of New Coll. Doctor of the Civ Law of the University of Bourges in France was then incorporated in the same Degree Oct. 1. John Whyte Bishop of Lincoln D. of D. of another University Nov. 14. Peter de Sotho D. D. of an University in Spain was also incorporated being then a Reader and Instructor in this University to undo the Doctrine which Pet. Martyr had founded there in the time of K. Ed. 6. as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1563. pag. 109. Jan⦠John Thirlbye Bish of Ely and Doct. of the Civ and Can. Law of Cambridge was incorp in that month He had been sometimes Fellow of Trinity Hall in that University Whereas 't is affirmed by some that Barthelm Carranza of Miranda a Spanish Fryer of the Order of S. Dominick afterwards Archbishop of Toledo was a Reader about this time in Oxon and supposed to be incorporated also with Pet. de Sothâ I can find no such matter in the publick Register of this time or elsewhere tho there is no doubt but that he was in Oxon for some time and abode there as a Stranger An. Dom. 1556. An. 3 Mariae An. 4 Mariae Chanc. the same viz. Sir John Mason Kt. but he resigning by his Letters read in Convocation 26. Oct. the most noble Reynold Pole sometimes of Magd. Coll. now Cardinal of S. Mary in Cosmedin or in Schola Graeca in Rome Legat a Latere in this Kingdom and soon after Archbishop of Canterbury was elected into his place on the same day Commiss Dr. Will. Tresham who continuing in his Office till Nov. Tho. Raynolds D. of D. Warden of Mert. Coll. and Dean of Exeter was then designed Commissary or Vicechancellour by the Chancellours Letters dated the sixth of the said month during only his pleasure by vertue of which he took his place and had for his Deputy Dr. Rich. Martiall Dean of Ch. Ch. Proct. Hen. Wotton of Ch. Ch. Tho. Davye or Davys of New Coll. elect 15 Apr. But Hen. Wotton being chose Greek Reader and Fellow of C. C. Coll. 14 of Aug. the Fellows of which Coll. are disenabled by their Statutes from taking upon them the Procuratorial Office Will. Allyn or Alan M. of A. of two years standing and Fellow of Oriel Coll. was elected into his place the same day and served out the remaining part of the year Bach. of Arts. June 5. Rob. Poyntz of New Coll. He was afterwards a zealous Writer for the Rom. Cath. Cause Jul. 6. Rob. Vauce of Brasn Coll. Whether he be the same with Rob. Vaulx who translated into English Andr. Hiperius his Two common places in the first of which he sheweth The force that the Sun and Moon have over men and in the second Whether the Devââ have been the shewers of magical Arts c. Lond. 1581. oct I know not Quaere One Rob. Vaux was Bach. of Div. of Exeter Coll. 1594. Pet. Levens of Magd. Coll. was adm the same day He was afterwards an eminent Physitian Dec. 2. Tho. Stapleton of New Coll. A flout Champion in defence of the Rom. Cath. Cause Feb. 23. Christop Johnson Joh. Fower of New Coll. Both afterwards Writers the first in Phys the other in Divinity John Hannington of New Coll. was adm the same day This person who was born at Tadley in Hampshire and John Plankeney a Native of Forsthill alias Foresthill near to and in the County of Oxon who became perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1560 were both learned of good natural parts and very hopeful young men one in Philosophy and the other in the Civ Law But because they were zealous Papists or as John Fox saith blinded with Papistry the just Judgment of God therefore as he adds fell upon them that is to say that Hannington who had been Pupil to John Martiall who wrot of the Cross was drown'd in a Well about Rome or as some say about Padua and Plankeney drowned himself about Rewley near Oxon an 1566. he should have said 1565. and both were taken up with Crucifixes about their necks Admitted in all 49. Bach. of Civ Law Jul. 8. John Martiall of New Coll. Afterwards he became noted for his Writings against Dr. Jam. Calfill Besides him were five admitted this year of whom Rich. Edmunds and Geo. Catagree of the same House were two and Arth. Dakâns another Bach. of Decrees Aug. 12. Daniel Raine So is he written in his Admission but in his Supplication for that Degree Donaâdus Ryane being then as I suppose a Member of New Inn. See more in the year 1533. He was the only person that was admitted Bach. of Decrees this year Mast of Arts. Apr. 20. John Bridgwater Aquepontanus of Brasn Coll. 27. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. Jul. 6. John Rogers of Queens Coll. Quaere Dec. 17. The Palmer of Brasn Coll. He was this or the year following made one of the primary Scholars of S. Johns Coll. and at length Principal of Glocester Hall He was an excellent Orator and the best of his time for a Ciceronian Stile He collected several matters from Cicero which coming to the view of the learned Camden he judged them very fit to be printed This Th. Palmer after he had left his Principality had a considerable Estate given to him in Essex but he
London but the day when appears not May 1. It was likewise granted that Rich. Cheyney the present Bish of Glocester should have the Degree of D. of D. confer'd on him by a certain Graduate c. This also was accordingly done after he had been incorporated Bach. of Div. but the day when and place where appears not He was originally a R. Catholick but in the beginning of Qu. Mary a disputer against the Mass and real presence in the Convocation of the Clergy then held for which he absconded In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he was an incliner to Zuinglianisme and at length was a Lutheran See more among the Bishops in Jam. Brokes an 1559. An. Dom. 1566. An. 8 9 Elizab. Chanc. the same Commiss the same by virtue of the aforesaid election Proct. Will. Leech of Brasn Coll. Will. Stocker of All 's Coll. elect 24. Apr. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 5. Lancelot Salkeld of Qu. Coll. One of both his names became the last Prior of Carlile in the place of Christoph Slee 24. Hen. S. Dom. 1532 or thereabouts and afterwards the first Dean of Carlile when the Prior and Canons Regular were turn'd into a Dean and Canons Secular by K. Hen. 8. In the time of Ed. 6. he was ejected restored in the beginning of Qu. Mary and ejected again in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth But Lancelot Salkeld B. of A. must not be taken to be the same with the other because later in time His successor in the said Deanery in the time of Ed. 6. and beginning of Qu. Elizabeth was Sir Tho. Smythe as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1609. Apr. 6. Will. Wygges of St. Johns Coll. He afterwards left his Religion and Country went beyond the Seas and was made a R. Cath. Priest Afterwards returning into England was seized on and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle where upon some quarrel that followed between him and one of the Gentlemen that were Papists and Prisoners there he was as a certain note informs me slain tho elsewhere it appears that he was only beaten by one Bluet a Jesuit In 1582 you 'll find one Will. Wygge who was a Martyr for the Rom. Catholick cause John Smith of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day Jun. 25. Dan. Bernard of Ch. Ch. See among the D. of D. 1585. Jul. 3. Will. Blandie of New Coll. Jul. 5. Edw. Smith of Brasn Coll. One Edw. Smith translated into English A discourse touching the tranquillity and contentation of the mind c. Lond. 1592. qu. written by Joh. de L'espine whether the same with him of Br. Coll. I cannot tell Quaere Jul. 5. Rob. Hoveden of All 's Barthel Chamberlaine of Trin. Oct. 10. Tho. Bilson of New Coll. Jan. 17. Joh. Shert of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards a Schoolmaster in London and much resorted to for his excellent way of teaching but being a R. Cath. in his heart left his Country and went to Doüay where he studied Divinity Thence he went to the English Coll. at Rome where he was made a Priest and being sent into the Mission of England lived for some time in his own Country of Cheshire At length being taken and imprison'd was for being a Priest and denying the Queens Supremacy hang'd drawn and quarter'd at London 28. May 1582. Jan. 17. Tho. Clerk of Br. Coll. See in 1586. Mar. 22. Lewes Jones He was afterwards Bishop of Killaloa Admitted this year 103. Bach. of Civ Law Aug. 19. Thom. Buckley of All 's Coll. He was now much in esteem among the Academians for his Poetry but being given to libelling was forced to leave the University On the 30. of Apr. Joh. Rugge who for the space of 6 years had studied the Civ Law in upper Germany did supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of that fac but whether he was admitted it appears not In 1575 he was made Archdeacon of Welâs in the place of Dr. Joh. Cottrell deceased in 1576 he became Can. or Preb. of the fifth stall in the collegiat Ch. of St. Peter in Westminster on the death of Tho. A dridge who if I mistake not was also Master of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Cambridge and dying in 1581 being then beneficed in the Dioc. of Wells was buried in the Cath. Church at Weâls near to the body of the said Dr. Cottrell As for the said A dridge he was made Preb. of the seventh stall in the said Church in the place of one Joh. Pory an 1573. But being depriv'd for notorious nonconformity was upon his repentance and reconciliation made to the Church admitted Preb. of the fifth stall in the place of Rich. Alvey the first Preb. thereof an 1576 but died in the same year Admitted 7. Mast of Arts. Jun. 25. Tob. Mathew of Ch. Ch. Jul. 5. Tho. Cogan Rob. Garvey Tho. Bodley of Meât of Oriel Coll. Hen. Bedell was then also admitted and is I presume the same with him mention'd under the year 1555. Dec. 19. Miles Windsore of C. C. Feb. 25. John Garbrand of New Mar. 22. Rich. Forster of All 's Coll. Admitted 50 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. Jul. 8. John Bullyngham of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester Mar. 18. Tho. Cooper of Magd. Coll. about this time Dean of Ch. Church in Oxon. 22. Tho. Bernard Canon of Ch. Ch. He had suffer'd much in the Reign of Qu. Mary for being a Protestant and a married Man but restored to what he had lost in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth He had a Brother named John Bernard educated in Cambridge and afterwards a zealous Person for reformation who in the Reign of Qu. Mary wrot Oratio pia religiosa solâtii plena de vera animi tranquillitate Which coming after his death into the hands of his Brother Thomas beforemention'd was by him published at Lond. 1568. in a large quarto and by him dedicated to Pet. Osburne Remembrancer of the Treasury of the Exchecquer See more in Hist Antiq Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 261. a. For the same Degree did Will. Whittingham M. of A. and Dean of Durham supplicate but whether he was admitted it appears not Admitted 5. Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 3. Edm. Merick of Vniv. Coll. now or about this time Archdeacon of Bangor and Prebendary of Lichfield Doct. of Div. Mar. 18. Tho. Cooper beforemention'd who accumulated the Degrees in Divinity On the 17. of Feb. William Whittyngham beforemention'd who that day had supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Divinity did also supplicate for that of Doctor but it doth not appear that he was admitted to either Incorporations In the beginning of Sept this year Qu. Elizabeth being entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses these Cambridge Men following were incorporated on the sixth day of the same month Tho. Bynge Master of Arts and Fellow of Peter house in Cambridge He was lately Proctor of that University afterward Orator in the place of Will. Master Master of Clare Hall and the Kings Professor
Johnson one of their Society to take the degree of Bach. of Arts in the University with certain conditions to be by him performed but whether he took the said degree it appears not Afterwards he went to Doway and studied Philosophy and Divinity thence to Rheimes where he was made a Priest At length being sent into the mission of England in Feb. 1579 changed his name to Lawrence Richardson because he was the Son of Rich. Johnson of Lancashire but being soon after taken and imprison'd was executed at Tybourne 30 May 1582. Adm. 84. Mast of Arts. Mar. 27. John Chardon of Ex. Coll. Edw. Graunt The last was the same who was adm Bach. of Arts 1571. 29. Mardochey Aldem of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards a Physitian as well as Divine became Canon of Windsore in 1607 in the place of Joh. King sometimes Fellow of Peter House in Cambridge and about that time Fellow of Eaton Coll. He died in 1615 and was succeeded in the said Canonry by Dr. John King of Merâ Coll. Nephew to the former John May 12. Franc. Trigge of Vniv. 17. Jo. Rainolds of Corp. Ch. Coll. Jun⦠Meridith Hanmer of Corp. Ch. Adam Hyll of Balliol John Case of S. Johns Coll. Jul. 11. Hen. Vsher of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Armagh Dec. 2. Rob. Persons of Ball. Coll. Feb. 26. John Norden of Hart Hall Mar. 17. Joh. Lane of C. C. Coll. He soon after resigned his Fellowship of that House travelled with Fa. Persons the Jesuit entred into the Society of Jesus and died with great opinion of Holiness in the University of Complutum in Spain an 1578. Adm. 61. Bach. of Div. Four were admitted of whom Joh. Chandler Prebendary of Winchester was one Jan. 22. and nine supplicated for the said Degree among whom were 1 John Oxenbridge but whether the same with Dr. Oxenbridge who was committed to custody in Wisbich Castle with Dr. Tho. Watson Bishop of Linc. Dr. John Fekenham sometimes Abbat of Westminster Dr. Yong c. an 1580 I cannot tell 2 Thom. Kingesâill of Magd. Coll. remembred before among the Writers and 3 Jeffry Downes M. A. of Cambridge not that Jeffr. Downes Tutor to John Bale who became Chancellour of the Church of York in Aug. 1537 in the place of Henry Trafford D. D. deceased but another of the same University who was a learned man â Not one Doct. of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations March 28. James Wats M. A. of the University of Lovaine Jun⦠Petrus Pitheus a Licentiate in the Civil Law of the University of Bourges in France was incorporated Doctor of the same Faculty He was at this time a Sojournour in Oxford for the sake of Study and Converse and afterwards became famous for his exact knowledge in all Antiquity Ecclesiastical History Laws c. All the great men of his time did make honorable mention of him in their respective books and some did dedicate their Writings to him and his Brother Francis Pitheus as the Lights of France Thuanus doth very much commend and at length concludes thus of him that In the Civil Law of the Romans he came to that height that it might be justly said of him and his famous Master Cujacius hunc discipulo praeripuisse ne primus Jurisconsultus esset illum praeceptori ne solus c. Many of his works are mention'd in the Oxford Catalogue Jul. 1. Hen. Vsher Bach. of Arts of Cambridge He soon after took the degree of Master as I have told you before 14. Felix Lewys LL. Bach. of Doway 15. Rich. Fietcher four years standing in the degree of M. of A. at Cambridge He was a Kentish man born as 't is said bred in Bennet commonly called Corp. Christi Coll. in Cambridge became Dean of Peterborough in 1583 and was present with Mary Queen of Scots when she suffer'd death at Foderinghey in Northamptonshire in the month of Febr. 1586. At which time being the person appointed to pray with and for her did perswade her to renounce her Religion contrary to all Christianity and Humanity as it was by many then present so taken to her great disturbance In 1589 he was made Bish of Bristow there being then many leases to be past in that Bishoprick and about that time Bish Almoner Whereupon Thomas Nevill D. D. of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanery of Peterborough an 1590. From Bristow he was translated to Worcester and soon after to London At length he took to him a second Wife a very handsome Widow called the Lady Baker Sister as 't is said to George Gifford the Pensioner At which Marriage the Queen being much displeased as she was at the marriage of all the Clergy he died discontentedly by immoderate taking of Tobacco on the 15 of June 1596 and was buried before S. George's Chappel within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul He had a Brother named Giles Fletcher a Kentish man born also as 't is said bred in Eaton School elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1565 where he became a learned Man an excellent Poet and Doctor of the Laws Afterwards he was sent Commissioner into Scotland Germany and into the Low Countries Embassador to Russia was made Secretary to the City of London and Master of the Requests At length he wrot and published The History of Russia c. Or Of the Russian Commonwealth Lond. 1591. oct Which book was quickly suppressed lest it might give offence to a Prince in amity with England Afterwards it was reprinted in tw an 1643 c. This Dr. Gil. Fletcher died in the Parish of St. Catherine in Colemanstreet in London in the month of Feb. 1610 and was buried I presume in the Ch. of St. Cath. there leaving then behind him a Son of both his names Bach. of Div. of Trin. Coll. in Camb. equally beloved of the Muses and Graces who died at Alderton in Suffolk an 1623. He left also behind him another Son named Phinees Fletcher of Kings Coll. in the same University where he was accounted an excellent Poet. Afterwards he was beneficed at Hilgay in Norfolke and became Author of several books among which one is entit A Fathers testament written for the benefit of his particular Relations Lond. 1670. oct at which time the Author had been dead several years The titles of two other books written by him you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue Rob. Bennet of three years standing in the Degree of M. of A. of Camb. was also then July 15. incorporated This Person who was of Trin. Coll. in the said Univ. was afterwards Chaplain to Will Lord Burleigh L. Treasurer of England Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near to Winchester was installed Dean of Windsore 24. March 1595 sworn Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter on the Feast of St. George 1596 and at length on the 20. of Feb. 1602. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford as I have told you before
taken and imprison'd was executed at Tyburn with John Mundin and others 12. Feb. 1582. Three more besides him were admitted and six there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom Rob. Garvey a learned Irish Man was one Mast of Arts. June 1. John Lilye of Magd. Rich. Meredyth of Jesus Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Leighlin in Ireland 3. John Hudson of Broadgates Hall He was afterwards Vicar of Patcham in Sussex and Author of A Sermon at Pauls Cross on Heb. 10. 19. Lond. 1584. oct and perhaps of other matters 20. Henry Robinson of Qu. Coll. 21. Christoph Bagshaw Tho. Holland Of Ball Coll. 27. John Thornborough of Magd. Coll. Nov. 25. Rich. Mâdox or Maddock of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the University and Author of A learned and godly Sermon to be read of all Men but especially for all Mariners Captains and Passengers which travel the Seas Preached at Waymouth and Melcomb Regis in the County of Dorset 3. Oct. 1581 on Matth. 8. 23. 24. 25. Printed in oct at London but when it appears not It was published after the Authors death by one Thom. Martin who being unacquainted with his Christian name sets him down in the title by the name of John Madox tho no such Person appears to have been ever Fellow of All 's Coll. In 1563 one Rich. Madox was admitted Bach. of Law and another in 1590 but they are both different and different from Rich. the Divine who was M. of A. Feb. 1. John Bodye of New Coll. The next year he was removed from his Fellowship for being a Papist whereupon going beyond the Seas he took upon him Priestly Orders and returning into England in the condition of a Seminary was taken and imprison'd and at length executed at Andever in Hampshire for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England an 1583. He was born in the City of Welâs was well vers'd in the Civil Law and esteemed by those of his opinion a learned Man See more of him in Card. Will. Alans book entit A sincere and modest defence c. or An answer to a Libell of English justice c. p. 5. and in Concertatio Ecclesiae Cath. in Anglia c. printed 1594. p. 293. c. I find another John Bodye who in 1552 supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Civ Law and another who was admitted Bac. of Arts 1554. and a third to that of Master an 1562. Whether they were one and the same Person I cannot tell or whether several Tho. Leyson of New Coll. was admitted the same day Feb. 1. Admitted 75. Bach. of Phys Thom. Williams of Mert. Coll. was admitted this year but the day or month when appears not He is stiled in the records of that Coll. vir in arte medica multum diuque versatus and doctus peritus medicus Bach. of Div. Jun. 13. John Nutter Whether he was the same John Nutter who suffer'd death at Tyburne 12. Feb. 1582 for being a R. Cath. Priest and denying the Queens Supremacy I know not Quaere Jul. 8. Thom. Sparke of Magd. Coll. He was now Chaplain to Thomas Bishop of Lincolne and a famous Preacher as the publick register saith Feb. 14. Thom. Summaster of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Cornwall John Leach of Exeter Coll. was admitted the same day being about this time Canon of Exeter and of some other Church One John Leech published a Sermon entit The trayne Soldier preached before the Society of the Captains and Gentlemen that exercise Arms in the Artillery Garden 20. Apr. 1619 on Heb. 12. 4. Lond. 1619. oct but this John Leech must not be understood to be the same with the former Ten in all were admitted this year besides 7 that supplicated for the same Degree Doct. of Civ Law Dec. 5. Rob. Whitmore Thom. Randolph mention'd among the creations under the year 1566 did supplicate for the Degree of Doct. of the Civ Law in June yet he appears not admitted He was afterwards made Doct. of that faculty in another Country when he performed one of his Embassies as it seems Quaere Doct. of Phys Jul⦠John Watson of All 's Coll. who had studied Physick for 20 years was admitted Doctor of that faculty He was afterwards Bishop of Winchester â Not one Doctor of Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations A supplicate was made for one Hugh Blythe Bach. of Div. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge to be incorporated but whether it was granted it appears not In 1572 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of George Carew made Dean of that Chappel he being about that time Schoolmaster of Eaton and in 1589 he succeeded Dr. Rich. Barber in the Archdeaconry of Leycester In this last dignity he was succeeded by Rob. Johnson a great benefactor to learning an 1591 and dying in 1610 he being then Doct. of Div. was succeeded in Windsore by Thom. Frith of All 's Coll. in Oxân An. Dom. 1576. An. 18 Eliz. An. 19 Eliz. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Lawr. Humphrey but he resigning the Chancellour by his letters designed for his Successor Dr. Harbert Westphalyng Canon of Chr. Ch. who accordingly was admitted 23. June Proct. John Vnderhill Henry Savile again Which Proctors were continued in their Offices at the special request of the Chancellour May 12. without any election by suffrages in a scrutiny in convocation Bach. of Arts. Dec. 17. Steph. Gosson of C. C. Jan. 21. John Harmar of New Feb. 16. John Doderidge of Exeter Coll. The last was afterwards a famous common Lawyer Admitted 122. Bach. of Law Three were this year admitted but not one of them do I find to have been a Bishop Writer or Dignitary Mast of Arts. Jun. 23. Sim. Wisdome of Gloucester Hall 26. Miles Smith of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop Thom. Lister was admitted the same day One of both his names was a Jesuit and wrot a book to prove that the Secular Priests in custody at Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire were schilmaticks about 1595 having been incited to it by several abuses received from them in their libels Jul. 3. John Rogers of Mert. Edw. Hobie of Trin Coll. 6. Tho. Rogers of Ch. Ch. Dav. Powell of Jes Coll. Oct. 29. John Prime of New Jan. 21. Rob. Coke of Brasn Coll. Admitted 55. Bach. of Div. Apr. 10. John Read of St. Johns Coll. He died in Apr. 1587. being then Prebendary of Westminster which he obtained on the deprivation of Dr. John Hardyman an 1567. by the endeavours of Sit Will. Cecill who was afterwards L. Burleigh and was buried in St. Johns Coll. Chappel Jul. 3. Barthelmâw Chamberlaine of Trin. Coll. Besides which two were 7 admitted On the 4. July Petrus Regius a French Man M. of A. of 12 years standing in the University of Paris now an Exile for his Religion and a Catechistical Lecturer in this University supplicated that he might be admitted Bach. of Div. and
and in his Chauntorship by Rich. Boughton Besides these were four that supplicated for the said degree among whom were Thomas Summaster of All 's Coll. and John Chandler Incorporations July 11. Lancolot Andrewes M. A. of Cambridge He was of Pembr Hall in that University and lately one of the honorary or tituler Scholars of Jesus Coll. in this University Afterwards he became Master of the said Hall Doct of Div. and Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Richard Bancroft promoted to the See of London an 1597 Dean of the said Church of Westminster in the room of Gabriel Goodman deceased 1601. Soon after he was made Bishop of Chichester then of Ely and at length on the 22 Feb. 1618 was translated to Winchester He died in Winchester House in Southwark 26 Sept. 1626 and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Saviour there Several Authors having made mention of this worthy person I shall forbear to speak any farther of him only say this that he was the most eminent Divine of our Nation in his time William Pembertom M. A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day This person who was second Son of Hen. Pemberton of Moreton in Châshire Gent. was afterwards Parson of High Ongar in Essex Doctor of Div. and a Publisher of several Sermons among which are 1 The godly Merchant preached at Pauls Cross on 1 Tim. 6. 6. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Sermon on Deut. 1. 16. 17. Lond. 1619. oct He died 10 March 1622 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at High Ongar In the same month of July was a Supplicate made for one Will. Temple M. of A. of Cambridge to be incorporated but whether he was so it appears not He was the same person who was Fell. of Kings Coll. in that University afterwards Master of the Free School in the City of Lincoln Secretary to Sir Philip Sidney when he received his Deaths Wound at Zutphân and after his death to Will. Davison one of the Secretaries of State and at length to Rob. â of Essex Earl Marshal of England whom if I mistake not he served while he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In 1609 he upon the importunate Solicitations of Dr. James Vsher accepted of the Provostship of Trinity Coll. near to Dublin after which he was knighted and made one of the Masters of the Chancery in Ireland He hath written 1 Pro Maldupetti de unica methodo defensione contra Diplodophilum commentatio Lond. 1581 oct 2 Nonnullarum â Physicis Ethicis quaestionum explicatio pro Petro Ramo contra a Lieblerum 3. Epistola de Rami dialectica ad Johannem Piscatorem Argentinensem 4. Analysis Anglica triginta psalmorum à primo scilicet ad tricesimum primum Lond. 1611. oct He gave way to fate an 1626 or thereabouts aged 72 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of the Holy Trinity leaving then behind him the Character of à person of great piety and learning An. Dom. 1582. An. 24 Elizab. An. 25 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Rob. Hoveden D. D. Warden of All 's Coll. July 12. Proct. Robert Cook of Brasn Coll. John Browne of Ch. Ch. The day when they were elected appears not because of the imperfectness of the Registers Bach. of Arts. March 28. Simon Presse of Broadgates Hall He was afterwards Minister of Egginton in Derbyshire and published A Sermon concerning the right use of things indifferent on 1 Cor. 8. ver 10 11 12 13. Oxon 1597 oct What other things he hath published I know not April 31. Geo. Abbot of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury July 4. John Buckridge of S. Johns Coll. He was made Bishop of Ely in 1627. 10. Tim. Willys of S Johns Coll. He was afterwards ejected from his place in that House for certain Misdemeanours but getting soon after into the favour of Qu. Elizabeth he was by her diploma made a Doctor Bullatus of the Laws I suppose and by her sent Embassador into Muscovy Nov. 15. Ralph Winwood lately of S. Johns now of Magd. Coll. See more among the Masters an 1587. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day March 18. Philip Jones One of both his names was Author of Three Sermons on Jam. 1. 9 10. Lond. 1588 oct Whether written by him or by Philip Jones who was admitted Bach. of the Civ Law an 1562 or by a third Phil. Jones who as a Bristol man born and a Member of Ch. Ch. was matriculated in 1581 aged 18 I know not Adm. 152. Mast of Arts. Mar. 30. Will. Warford of Thin May 4. Mathew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll. June 18. John Harmar John Terry of New Coll. July 2. Rich. Kilbye of Linc. Coll. 4 Isaac Colfe of Broadgates Hall Oct. 12. Will. Wâgge of New Coll. One Will. Wygge sometimes called Way was executed for being a Seminary and denying the Oath of Supremacy at Kingston in Surrey on the first day of Octob. 1588. Whether the same with him who was M. of A. I know not I have mention'd another Will Wygge or Wygges under the year 1566. Feb. 6. Edw Philipps of Broadgates Hall 7. Rob. Abbot of Baâl Coll. 15. John King of Ch. Ch. Mar. 23. Hen. Perry of Gloc. Hall Adm. 60. Bach. of Div. July 5. John Garbrand of New 10. Hen Robinson of Queens 13. Thomas Holland of Balliol Coll. Feb. 19. Dav. Powell of Jesus Coll. Joh. Argall of Ch. Ch. Adm. 10. Doct. of Law July 5. Will. Merick of New Coll. Chancellour of Bangor c. Clement Colmer of Brasn Coll. Chancellour of the Diocess of Durham was admitted the same day Miles Lee and Rich. Bellyngham both Bachelaurs of the Civ Law did supplicate for the said degree but were not admitted Doct. of Phys July 5. Anthony Aylworth of New Coll. the Kings Professor of Physick and Physitian to Queen Eliz. He died 18 Apr. 1619 and was buried in New Coll. Chappel 21. Will. Donne of Exeter Coll. Doct. of Div. July 5. William Souch or Zouch of Ch. Ch. On the 14 of Feb. 1583 he became Chauntor of Salisbury on the resignation of Tobie Mathews D. D. John Garbrand of New Coll. was admitted the same day He accumulated the degrees in Divinity Meredith Hanmer of C. C. Coll. was also admitted the same day On the 2 Apr. Tho. Blague a Student in Divinity and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to the Queen supplicated for the said degree of Doct. of Div. but whether admitted it appears not In 1591 Feb. 1. he being then D. of D. and about that time Master of Clare Hall in Cambridge was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of John Coldwell M. D. promoted to the See of Salisbury and in 1604 or thereabouts he became Rector of Bangor upon the Translation of Dr. Rich. Vaughan from Chester to London He died in Octob. 1611 and was succeeded in his Deanery by Rich. Miâbourne D. D. who was installed in that Dignity on the 11
London and a publisher of certain Sermons between the year 1610 and 1625 must not be taken to be the same with Tho. Muriel Mar. 22. Fines Moryson M. A. of Cambr. He was a Lincolnshire man born was Fellow of Peter House in that University and Brother to Sir Richard Moryson Vicepresident of Mounster After he had taken his Masters degree he studied the Civil Law and in 1589 being then 23 years of Age he obtained license of the Master and Fellows of his House to travel Presently after leaving the University he went to London to follow such Studies that were fit to enable him in his course of Travels and afterwards going to Oxon was incorporated M. of A. as I have told you before On the 1 May 1591 he took ship at Liegh distant from London 28 miles by land and 36 by water and after he had rambled about many parts of the World for 8 years returned and went into Ireland 1598. and became Secretary to Sir Charles Blount Lord Lieutenant of that Realm After his death which hapned about 1614 were published his Travels entit An Itinerary containing his ten years Travels through the twelve Dominions of Germany Bohmerland Sweitzerland Netherland Denmark Poland England Scotland and Ireland Divided in three parts Lond. 1617 in a thick fol. It was first written in Latin and afterwards translated by him into English There were also four more Cantabrigians incorporated among whom Robertus Hemmingius M. A. was one Feb. 23. Creations July 14. Sir Will. Hatton Sir Hen. Vnton Joh. Fitzjames Esquire Knights The first was Son to the Sister of Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor of England and being Heir to the said Sir Christophes did change his name from Newport to Hatton The second who had been of Oriel Coll. I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1595. The third who was of the antient Family of the Fitzjames of Somersetshire was originally also of this University which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1591. An. 33 Elizab. An. 34 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton who dying 20 of Nov. this year certain Members of the University especially those of the Puritanical Party were for Robert Earl of Essex before mention'd now in great favour with the Queen and others for Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst At length upon the receipt of Letters from the Queen in favour of Buckhurst the Academians elected him 17 Dec. following See more in the Incorporations this year Vicechanc. Dr. James again designed by Chancellour Hatton 16 July Proct. Rich. Braunche of Ch. Ch. Joh. Lloyd of New Coll. Apr. 16. Which Proctors with several Doctors and others went to London to admit the Chancellour to his Office being the first Admission out or without the limits of the University that I have yet met with Bach. of Arts. Mar. 27. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. now in much esteem for his Poetry Apr. 16. Rob. Moor June 4. Arth. Lake of New Coll. The former was adorn'd with variety of Learning the other was afterwards a Bishop Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Queens Coll. Afterwards a learned Nonconformist 9. Walter Wylshman of Exeter Coll. afterwards of Broadgates Hall Jan. 16. Rich. Haydock of New Feb. 7. Gerard Massie of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity an 1608. Adm. 116. Mast of Arts. May 20. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. lately of Gloc. Hall June 15. Samuel Burton of Ch. Ch. He became Rector of Dry Marston in Glocestershire seven years after this time afterwards Archdeacon of Glocester and at length Justice of the Peace for that County He hath published A Sermon preached at the general Assizes in Warwick 3 March being the first Friday in Lent 1619 on Rom. 1. 4. Lond. 1620. qu. and perhaps other things He died 14 June 1634 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Dry Marston before mention'd Jun. 21. Tho. Hutton Henr. Price of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 8. Nathan Torporley of Brasn Nov. 30. Joh. Day of Oriel Feb. 26. Joh. Hoskyns sen of New Coll. Adm. 56. Bach. of Div. Mar. 27. Henr. Rowlands of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor Apr. 27. Leonard Hutten Jul. 2. Joh. King of Ch. Ch. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day Nov. 15. Soh Smith of S. Joh. Coll. Adm. 15. â Not one Doctor of Law or of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. Tho. Hyde of Ball. Coll. On the fourteenth of June 1588 he became Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Whyte having before been Prebendary of Ilfracomb in the said Church and dying in Nov. 1618 was succeeded in his Chancellourship by Dr. Franc. d ee who was afterwards B. of Peterborough Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day On the 5. of July 1576 he was installed Archd. of Rochester in the place of Joh. Calverley deceased and in 1580 he succeeded Dr. Rob. Dorset in a Canonry of Ch. Ch. In an 1582 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury but whether he was Dean of that Church as I have told you in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 259. b. upon false information it appears not In his Archdeaconry of Rochester which he resigned was installed Th. Staller D. D. 5 Jul. 1593 and to his Archdeaconry of Sarum which he kept to the day of his death was collated Will. Barlow on the 12 of March being four days after the death of Pickover an 1614. This person Pickover is commended for a learned man for a good Greecian Hebritian and a frequent Preacher See in the said Hist Antiq. lib. 2. p. 260. a. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was adm the same day July 2. He accumulated as Pickover did Incorporations Jul. 13. George Downham M. A. of Cambridge He was Son of Will. Downham Bishop of Chester was educated in Christs Coll. in Cambridge of which he became Fellow about 1585 afterwards a great Aristotelian a follower of Ramus and at length Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland where dying in 1634 Apr. 17. was buried in the Cath. Church there The Catalogue of all or most of his works you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue Besides him were 15 Cantabrigians incorporated Masters of Arts on the same day being the next after the Act had been concluded but not one of them can I yet find who was afterwards a Writer Bishop c. On the same day also Will. Halke an English Man of the same University who had had the Degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him in the University of St. Andrew in Scotland an 1590 Andr. Melvin being then Rector was also incorporated in this University Oct. 22. Will. Paddie of St. Johns Coll. in this University lately made Doct. of Phys in the University of Leyden was incorporated in the same Degree He was afterwards Physician to K. Jam. 1. a Knight eminent for his practice in that faculty and President if I mistake not of the Coll.
tw published by S. Hartlib 9 Supplement to the reform School Lond. 1651. in tw published by the said Hartlib 10 The reform Library keeper Lond. 1650. in tw To which is added Bibliotheca Augusta sereniss Princ. D. Augusti Ducis Brunovicensis Luneb quae est Wolferbyti 11. Earnest plea for Gospel-Communion Lond. 1654. qu. 12 Summary platform of Divinity pr. 1654. c. An. Dom. 1625. An. 1 Car. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Prideaux again Jul. 19. Proct. Nich. Brookes of Oriel Coll. Sam. Marsh of Trin. Coll. Apr. 27. Bach. of Arts. May 5. Gervase Warmstrey Jun. 22. Hen. Elsynge Will. Hemmings of Ch. Ch. Jul. 6. Gasper Hicks of Trin. Rob. Cross of Linc. Nov. 22. Thom. Masters of New 24. Henry Savage of Ball. Dec. 16. Christopher Airay of Qu. Coll. Feb. 6. Nich. Gibbon 9. Hen. Parker of S. Edm. Hall Rich. Jones of Jesus 13. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. Coll. 14. Nath. Stephens Edw. Hyde John Lisle of Madg. Hall 15. Mich. Hudson Guy Carlton of Qu. Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Chichester All which will be mention'd at large elsewhere Adm. 256. Bach. of Law Only six this year were admitted the senior of whom was Rich. Basset of Lincoln Coll. a Compounder Mast of Arts. March 28. Joh. Viccars of Linc. Coll. Apr. 29. Joh. Ellis of Hart Hall May 21. Will. Claybroke of Ball. Coll. This person who was the second Son of an Esq left Oxon soon after changed his Religion went beyond the Seas and became Canon of some of the hither parts of France of Flanders as I have been informed June 23. George Hughes of Pembr lately of C. C. 25. Joh. Strickland of Qu. 30. Henry Hammond of Magd. July 5. John Marsham of St. Joh. Coll. July 2. Joh. Lee of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards one of the first Scholars of Pembroke Coll. at its first foundation where as at Balliol he was an indefatigable Student and of proficiency answerable He wrote an enterlude but never acted or published and hath a Lat. Speech in print which is all I know of him only that he was Son of Joh. Lee of Abendon in Berks. and educated in the Free-school there July 7. Joh. Sedgwick Joh. Angell of Magd. Hall James Eglesfield of Qu. Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterward Vicar of Chewton in his native Country of Somersetshire and Author of A heavenly hymne to the King of Heaven Sermon on Mark 7. 37. Lond. 1640. oct the Author being then dead What else was published under his name I know not nor any thing else him only that he was a Ministers Son and a learned Man Admitted 156. Bach. of Div. Apr. 1. Griffin Higgs of Mert. Elizeus Burges of St. Joh. Coll. The last was now Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of Rich. Tillesley deceased May 19. Hen. King Joh. King of Ch. Ch. June 28. John Davenport of Magd. hall July 1. Brian Duppa 2. Rog. Manwaring of All 's 8. Francis Potter of Trinity Coll. Admitted 19. Doct. of Law Mar. 31. William Skinner of All 's Coll. Chancellour of the Dioc. of Hereford â Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 19. Hen. King Joh. King Canons of Ch. Ch. Both the Sons of Dr. King sometimes B. of London and Accumulators and Compounders 26. Edw. à Meetkirke of Ch. Ch. Hebrew Professor of the University and about this time Prebendary of Winchester June 20. Charles Croke of the same house an Accumulator and Compounder He was at this time Rector of Amersham alias Agmundesham in Bucks and Fellow of Eaton Coll. and afterwards the writer and publisher of A sad memorial of Hen. Curwen Esq only Child of Sir Patr. Curwen of Warkington in Cumberland Baronet who died 21. Aug. 1638. aged 14 and was buried in the Church of Amersham in Bucks Serm. on Job 14. 2. Oxon. 1638. qu. at which time the Author was Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. What other writings he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was born in Oxfordshire and that he was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Croke of Chilton in Bucks one of the Justices of the Kings-bench July 1. Brian Duppa 2. Roger Manwaring of All 's Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in Divinity 8. Thomas Horne of Mert. Nath. Giles of Magd. Coll. Compounders The first became Canon of Windsore in Oct. 1616. in the place of Dr. Edm. Nuttal sometimes Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge deceased and dying on the seventh of the Ides of Nov. 1636. aged 60 was buried in St. Georges Chap. at Windsore The other Dr. Giles became also Canon of the said Chappel in the latter end of 1623 and in the latter end of 1626 Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Hen. Bright deceased He died in the time of the grand rebellion Incorporations The plague raging this year in London and therefore the Act put off few incorporations occur However those that are take as they follow Julyâ¦Tho Browne Bach. of the Laws of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Quaere 6. Edm. Prideaux M. A. of the same University This Person if I am not mistaken was the same who in the times of Usurpation was Commissioner of the great Seal and by ordinance did practice within the Bar as one of the Kings Council and after that was made Attorney General and Post-master for all the Inland-letters From which employments gaining a vast estate left at the time of his death 19. Aug. 1659 an incredible mass of gold as the credible report then went besides Lands of very great demesness July 12. Lodovic Rouseus Doctor of Phys of the University of Leyden in Holland Dec. 13. John Verneuil M. of A. of the Univ. of Mountalbon in France now or lately of Magd. Coll. Feb. 11. Thom. Levet of York Diocess a Licentiat of the Civil Law in the Univers of Orleance was incorporated Bach. of the same fac March 24. Edward Hayward M. of A. of Cambridge Quaere Creations Jan. 26. John Hassall or Halsall a Student in Divinity sometimes Bach. of Law and Fellow of New Coll. had then leave given to him by the venerable Convocation that he might be actually created Doctor of the said faculty when he pleased to accept of that Degree but the day when he was created appears not In the letters commendatory of the Chancellour of this Univ. Will. Earl of Pembroke written to the members thereof are these matters mention'd of the said Hassall He hath been a diligent and faithful preacher of the word of God in the Low-countries and hath gotten a singular good reputation with the English in those parts having been particularly favoured and cherished by the Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth his most Royal spouse He was when my self was a Student in the University a hopeful Scholar and of special note in the same house with me c. The Letters also of Sir Horatio Vere written in his behalf
to the University say also thus He hath not only gained a singular good report for his abilities but for his pious and sweet conversation and esteem among us meaning his Soldiers and Voluntiers in the Low countries where the said Sir Horatio was a Commander of a Regiment sent to joyn with the united Princes in Germany The said Dr. Hassall was installed Dean of Norwych in the place of Dr. Edm. Suckling on the 15. July 1628 which Dignity he obtained by the endeavours of the Lady Elizabeth beforemention'd He died and was buried at Creak in Norfolk in the times of Usurpation and was succeeded in his Deanery after the restauration of K. Charles 2. by Dr. Joh. Croft of Allsouls College Brother to William Lord Croft An. Dom. 1626. An. 2. Car. 1. Chancellour William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Will. Juxon LL. D. President of St. Johns College July 22. Proct. Hopton Sydenham of Magd. C. Dionys Prideaux of Ex. C. Apr. 19. Bach. of Musick July 24. John Frith of St. Johns Coll. Some of his compositions and Anthems I have seen but whether extant I cannot tell Bach. of Arts. Apr. 28. George Bate of St. Edm. Oct. 21. Giles Workman of Magd. Philip Hunton of Wadh. Hall Nov. 20. Calybute Downing of Or. Coll. 25. Hen. Wilkinson of Magd. hall commonly called Long Harry Dec. 4. Rich. Napier of Wadh. Jan. 30. Edw. Hinton of Mert. Coll. Of the first of these two last I shall make larger mention among the created Doctors of Phys an 1642 and of the other among the created Doctors of Div. an 1649. June 30. Joh. Prichet of St. Edm. hall lately of Queens Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester 31. Henry Edmondson of Qu. Thom. Browne of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was the first Man of note that was admitted to a Degree as a member of Pembroke Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician Vertuoso and Knight Feb. 1. Franc. Cheynell of Mert. Coll. Joh. Biscoe of New Inn. All which will be mention'd at large hereafter On the 15. of March Sir Charles Howard of Ch. Ch. had his grace granted for Bach. of Arts but whether admitted it appears not I take him to be the same Sir Ch. Howard who was lately made Kt. of the Bath and after the death of his Father became Earl of Berkshire He died about the beginning of the year 1679. Adm. 272. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Of nine Bachelaurs of Law that were admitted this year I cannot find one of them that was afterwards a Writer or Bishop or of any eminent place in the Church Mast of Arts. March 28. Edw. Pococke of C. C. Apr. 28. Hen. Tozer of Exeter May 4. George Griffith of Ch. Ch. Coll. June 27. Rob. Codrington of Magd. July 6. Arthur Salway of Brasn Coll. The last was afterwards Minister of Severne-stoke in his native Country of Worcestershire and hath published Halting stigmatized Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 25. Oct 1643. on 1. Kings 18. 21. Lond. 1644. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Feb. 26. Tobias Crispe of Ball. Coll. He is to be numbred among the Writers in the 2. Vol. of this work Admitted 134. Bach. of Phys Of Six Bachelaurs of Phys that were admitted this year I can not find one that was afterwards eminent Besides them were two Students in that faculty adm to practice viz. John Speed of St. Johns and Thom. Nourse of Lincoln Coll. both afterwards eminent Physicians Bach. of Div. May 6. John Morris Chaplain of All 's Coll. See more of him among the Doctors of Div. an 1634. Besides Mr. Morris were 10 more Bachelaurs admitted of whom I cannot as yet give any account â Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year nor one in Physick Doct. of Div. Dec. 14. Walt. Coningsbiâ of Exeter Coll. 16. Accepted Frewen President of Magd. Coll. a Compounder Feb. 17. Christopher Potter Provost of Queens Coll. Incorporations July 7. Edm. Layfield Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He hath published The Souls solace Fun. Serm. on Psal 73. 25 printed 1632. qu. And if he be the same Layfield who had been Chaplain to Geor. Earl of Cumberland in his travels he was Author of A large relation of Port Ricco voyage which is inserted in the fourth Vol. of Sam. Purchas his Pilgrims printed at Lond. 1625. p. 11. 55. One John Layfield D. D. had a hand in translating the Bible in the beginning of K. Jam. 1. but he you must know was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Parson of St. Clements Church without Temble-bar near London where he died in 1617. July 10. Thom. Aylesbury Bach. of Div. of the same University He hath published 1 Serm. preached at Pauls cross 2. June 1622 on Luke 17. 37. Lond. 1623. qu. 2 Treatise of the comfession of sin with power of the Keys c. printed 1657. qu. 3 Diatribae de aeterno divini beneplaciti ciroa creaturas intellectuales decreto ubi patrum consulta c. Cantab. 1659. qu. Edward Alston Doct. of Phys of the said Univ. of Cambridge was incorporated on the same day He was afterwards a Knight and President of the Coll. of Physicians at London He died in the Parish of Great St. Helens in Lond. in the Winter time 1669. July 24. James Vsher Archb. of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland was incorporated Doct. of Div. as he had stood in the Univ. of Dublin This was done while he lodged in Jesus Coll. purposely to peruse certain MSS. in the Publick Library and elsewhere In a Convocation held 10. March 1644. certain Doctors and Masters were by the Vicechanc. and Proctors appointed to take care and see that his Effigies should be engraven on a copper plate with an Elogium under it be prefix'd to his Annotations on Ignatius his Epistles then printing in Oxon. It was also then order'd that he said plate should be engrav'd at the charge of the University and in the name thereof The Elogium which was afterwards by their appointment made runs thus Jacobus Vsserius c. James Usher Archb. of Armagh Primate of all Ireland the most skilful of Primitive antiquity the unanswerable defender of the Orthodox Religion the maul of errors in preaching frequent eloquent very powerful a rare example of an unblameable life Rob. Pink Vicechanc. But this inscription with the Effigies was not put before the said Book but before that De Ro. Eccl. Symbolo Apost Lond. 1647. and some others since Jan. 31. Nich. Andrews was with Rich. Andrews both Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated here as they had stood there Nich. Andrews was afterwards Doct. of Div. Rector of Guilford and Vicar of Godalmine in Surrey where shewing himself a zealous Man for the Church of England and a great Loyalist was turn'd out of his livings by the Committee of Religion appointed by the Long Parliament an 1643. He is mention'd in The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests p. 8. Feb. 1. Tobias Crispe Bach. of
the next month into Scotland This worthy Doctor who was Son of Thomas Turner of Heckfield in Hampshire Alderman and Mayor of Reading in Berkshire was born in the Parish of St. Giles within the said borough and admitted Scholar of St. Johns Coll. in 1610 being their put under the tuition of Mr. Will. Juxon who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury After he had entred into holy orders he became a practical useful Preacher which he kept up to the very last and was much resorted to by those whose principles were orthodox Afterwards he was made domestick Chaplain to Bishop Laud Chaplain in ordinary to King Char. 1. Canon residentiary of St. Paul and Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Hen. King promoted to the See of Chichester in which Dignity he was installed 26. Feb. 1641. Soon after he was sequestred from his Church of St. Olave in Southwark plundered carried thence Prisoner by a Party of Horse and at length forced to fly to save his life In 1643 he had the Deanery of Canterbury bestowed on him by his Majesty on the death of Dr. George Eglionby so that he constantly adhering to the cause of his Master in the worst of his calamities particularly at Hampton-court and afterwards in the Isle of Wight suffered afterwards great misery himself during the times of Usurpation which he bore with a good courage being then as always before esteemed a great exemplar of humility most Christian simplicity and of most fervent zeal to the Church After the restauration of King Charles 2. he contented himself only with those spiritualities which he before had lost for his loyalty and dying on the eighth day of Octob. 1672 aged 81 or thereabouts was buried on the 17 of the same month within the Cathedral Church of Canterbury At which time Dr. Peter du Moulin preaching a funeral Sermon did speak honorably of the Person that then laid dead before him to which Sermon being extant I refer the reader He the said Dr. Turner hath published A Sermon preached at Whitehall on Matth. 9. 13. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He left behind him several Sons which he had by his Wife Margaret Daughter of Sir Francis Windebanke Knight sometimes Secretary of State to King Charles 1. of whom Francis was one now Bishop of Ely Apr. 3. Rich. Doughtie Fellow of All 's Coll. was actually created M. of A. which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1634. An. 10. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Rob. Pinke D. of D. Warden of New Coll. July 26. Proct. Herbert Pelham of Magd. Coll. John Warren of Wadham Coll. Apr. 16. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 18. Thom. Gawen 24. George Kendall of New Coll. Inn. June 18. Josias How of Trin. Coll. See among the created Bachelaurs of Div. an 1646. 20. Rob. Waring 21. Hen. Gregory of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1637. July 8. John Maplet of Ch. Ch. July 9. Ralph Brideoake Nov. 11. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Chichester 20. Rich. Harwood of Magd. Hall Jan. 15. Hen. Janson of Ball. afterwards of Allsouls Coll. 24. Hen. Hall of Lincolne Christopher Merret of Oriel Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry in Ireland The other was afterwards of Glocester Hall and an eminent Physician Feb. 6. Nathan Heigmore of Trin. Job Fountaine of C. C. Coll. The last of these two was originally of Linc. Coll. See more among the Masters of Art in 1637. Feb⦠Will. Taylor of Magd. Hall All these Bachelaurs except Henry Gregory will be mention'd elsewhere Admitted 216. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Nineteen were admitted this year among whom George Wild of St. Johns Coll. was one Feb. 7. afterwards Bishop of Londonderry in Ireland as I shall tell you at large in the next Volume Mast of Arts. Apr. 24. Tho. Wood of Ch. Ch. 29. Rich. Allein of New Inn lately of St. Alb. Hall Jun. 11. John Wilkins Nich. Clagett Walt. Bushnell of Magd. Hall The first of these there was afterwards Bishop of Chester as I should have told you under the year 1631 and Clagett had before been of Mert. Coll. 14. Tim. Taylor late of Qu. Coll. now of St. Maries Hall June 28. Dan. Whitby of Brasn July 2. Joh. Toy of Pemb. Coll. Oct. 29. Christoph Fowler of St. Edm. Hall Dec. 5. Will. Rowland of Exet. Coll. Jan. 29. John Warner Rich. Hayter of Magd. Coll. Feb. 5. Will. Thomas of Jes Coll. Admitted 150. Bach. of Phys Oct. 10. Will. Denton of Magd. Hall Besides him were five more admitted the first of whom was John Dixon of Gloc. hall and the last John Aubrey of Magd. Coll. but not one of them was afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. Mar. 26. John Hoffman of Exeter Coll. He was the Son of John Hoffman a Merchant of Elsentia in the Palatinat of Germany was about this time Rector of Wotton near to Wodstock in Oxfordshire which place he kept during the time of the rebellion being himself a Presbyterian and published The Principles of Christian Religion in 30 questions and answers Lond. 1674. oct and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He died soon after and was buried at Wotton beforemention'd June 26. Edm. Staunton of C. C. Coll. Admitted 12. Doct. of Law July 5. George Ryves of All 's 23. Tho. Heath of Merton Coll. The last of these two was about this time Chancellour of Peterborough where continuing till that office was annull'd and all matters relating to the Church tending to ruine he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion for that of Rome and lived ever after especially in his last days in so great poverty at Gant in Flanders that he was mostly sustained by the almes of the Monastery of English Nuns there and partly by the contribution of some charitable Persons in that town He died on the second day of Febr. 1680. according to the accompt there followed and was buried by the charity of others having nothing of his own in the Parish Church of St. Nicholas near to the said Monastery Doct. of Phys Oct. 10. Will. Denton of Magd. hall He accumulated the Degrees in Physick and was the only proceeder in his faculty this year He is now living in Convent-garden near Lond. 1690. Doct. of Div. Mar. 26. Morgan Wynne of All 's Coll. In the beginning of Dec. 1629. he became Archdeacon of Lincolne but in whose room I cannot tell for between the death of Dr. John Hills which hapned in 1626 to Nov. 1629 that Dignity was enjoyed by one as yet unknown to me This Dr. Wynne who was Rector of Scotter in Lincolnshire died and was buried at Scotter as it seems an 1644. Whereupon Raphael Throckmorton succeeded him an 1645. May 10. John Morris Hebrew Professor of the University and Canon of Ch. Ch. sometimes
Arts John Milton not that it appears so in the Register for the reason I have told you in the Incorporations 1629 but from his own mouth to my friend who was well acquainted with and had from him and from his Relations after his death most of this account of his life and writings following 1 That he was born in Breadstreet within the City of London between 6 and 7 a clock in the morning of the ninth of Decemb. an 1608. 2 That his Father Joh. Milton who was a Scrivner living at the Spread Eagle in the said street was a Native of Halton in Oxfordshire and his Mother named Sarah was of the antient Family of the Bradshaws 3 That his Grandfather Milton whose Christian name was John as he thinks was an Under-Ranger or Keeper of the Forest of Shotover near to the said Town of Halton but descended from those of his name who have lived beyond all record at Milton near Halton and Thame in Oxfordshire Which Grandfather being a zealous Papist did put away or as some say disinherit his Son because he was a Protestant which made him retire to London to seek in a manner his fortune 4 That he the said John Milton the Author was educated mostly in Pauls School under Alex. Gill senior and thence at 15 years of age was sent to Christs Coll. in Cambridge where he was put under the tuition of Will. Chappell afterwards Bishop of Ross in Ireland and there as at School for 3 years before 't was usual with him to sit up till midnight at his book which was the first thing that brought his eyes into the danger of blindness By this his indefatigable study he profited exceedingly wrot then several Poems paraphras'd some of David's Psalms performed the collegiate and academical exercise to the admiration of all and was esteemed to be a vertuous and sober person yet not to be ignorant of his own parts 5 That after he had taken the degrees in Arts he left the University of his own accord and was not expelled for misdemeanours as his Adversaries have said Whereupon retiring to his Fathers house in the Country he spent some time in turning over Latin and Greek Authors and now and then made excursions into the great City to buy books to the end that he might be instructed in Mathematicks and Musick in which last he became excellent and by the help of his Mathematicks could compose a Song or Lesson 6 That after five years being thus spent and his Mother who was very charitable to the poor dead he did design to travel so that obtaining the rudiments of the Ital. Tongue and Instructions how to demean himself from Sir Hen. Wotton who delighted in his company and gave him Letters of commendation to certain persons living at Venice he travelled into Italy an 1638. 7 That in his way thither he touched at Paris where Joh. Scudamoure Vicount Slego Embassador from K. Ch. 1. to the French King received him kindly and by his means became kuown to Hugo Gâotius then and there Embassador from the Qu. of Sweden but the manners and genius of that place being not agreeable to his mind he soon left it 8 That thence by Geneva and other places of note he went into Italy and thro Legorne Pisa c. he went to Florence where continuing two months he became acquainted with several learned men and familiar with the choicest Wits of that great City who introduced and admitted him into their private Academies whereby he saw and learn'd their fashions of literature 9 That from thence he went to Sena and Rome in both which places he spent his time among the most learned there Lucas Holsteinius being one and from thence he journied to Naples where he was introduced into the Acquaintance of Joh. Bapt. Mansus an Italian Marquess to whom Torquatus Tassus an Italian Poet wrot his book De amicitia who shewed great civilities to him accompanied him to see the rarities of that place visited him at his Lodgings and sent to the testimony of his great esteem for him in this Distich Vt mens forma decor facies mos si pietas sic Non Anglus verum herculè Angelus ipse fores And excus'd himself at parting for not having been able to do him more honour by reason of his resolute owning his Protestant Religion which resoluteness he using at Rome many there were that dated not to express their civilities towards him which otherwise they would have done And I have heard it confidently related that for his said Resolutions which out of policy and for his own safety might have been then spared the English Priests at Rome were highly disgusted and it was question'd whether the Jesuits his Countrymen there did not design to do him mischief Before he left Naples he return'd the Marquess an acknowledgment of his great favours in an elegant copy of Verses entit Mansus which is among the Latin Poems 10 That from thence Naples he thought to have gone into Sicily and Greece but upon second thoughts he continued in Italy and went to Luca Bononia Ferrara and at length to Venice where continuing a month he went and visited Verona and Millan 11 That after he had ship'd the books and other goods which he had bought in his travels he returned thro Lombardy and over the Alpes to Geneva where spending some time he became familiar with the famous Joh. Deodate D. D. Thence going thro France he returned home well fraught with Knowledge and Manners after he had been absent one year and three months 12 That soon after he setled in an house in S. Brides Churchyard near Fleetstreet in London where he instructed in the Lat. Tongue two Youths named John and Edw. Philips the Sons of his Sister Anne by her Husband Edward Philips both which were afterwards Writers and the eldest principl'd as his Uncle But the times soon after changing and the Rebellion thereupon breaking forth Milton sided with the Faction and being a man of parts was therefore more capable than another of doing mischief especially by his pen as by those books which I shall anon mention will appear 13 That at first we find him a Presbyterian and a most sharp and violent opposer of Prelacy the established ecclesiastical Discipline and the orthodox Clergy 14 That shortly after he did set on foot and maintained very odd and novel Positions concerning Divorce and then taking part with the Independents he became a great Antimonarchist a bitter Enemy to K Cb. 1. and at length arrived to that monstrous and unparallel'd height of profligate impudence as in print to justifie the most exercable Murder of him the best of Kings as I shall anon tell you Afterwards being made Latin Secretary to the Parliament we find him a Commonwealths man a hater of all things that looked towards a single person a great reproacher of the Universities scholastical degrees decency and uniformity in the Church 15 That when Oliver
ascended the Throne he became the Latin Secretary and proved to him very serviceable when employed in business of weight and moment and did great matters to obtain a name and wealth To conclude he was a person of wonderful parts of a very sharp biting and satyrical wit He was a good Philosopher and Historian an excellent Poet Latinist Grecian and Hebritian a good Mathematician and Musitian and so rarely endowed by nature that had he been but honestly principled he might have been highly useful to that party against which he all along appeared with much malice and bitterness As for the things which he hath published are these 1 Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in England and the causes that hitherto have hindred it c. Lond. 1641. qu. At which time as before the Nation was much divided upon the Controversies about Church Government between the prelatical party and Puritans and therefore Milton did with great boldness and zeal offer his judgment as to those matters in his said book of Reformation 2 Animadversions upon the Remonstrants defence against Smectymnus Lond. 1641. qu. Which Rem defence was written as 't is said by Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter 3 Apology against the humble Remonstrant This was written in vindication of his Animadversions 4 Against prelatical Episcopacy This I have not yet seen 5 The reason of Church Government nor this 6 The doctrine and discipline of divorce c. in two books Lond. 1644-45 qu. To which is added in some Copies a translation of The judgment of Mart. Bucer concerning divorce c. It must be now known that after his settlement upon his return from his Travels he in a months time courted married and brought home to his house in London a Wife from Forsthill lying between Halton and Oxford named Mary the Daughter of Mr. Powell of that place Gent. But she who was very young and had been bred in a family of plenty and freedom being not well pleas'd with her Husbands retired manner of life did shortly after leave him and went back in the Country with her Mother Whereupon tho he sent divers pressing invitations yet he could not prevail with her to come back till about 4 years after when the Garrison of Oxân was surrendred the nighness of her Fathers house to which having for the most part of the mean time hindred any communication between them she of her own accord returned and submitted to him pleading that her Mother had been the chief promoter of her frowardness But he being not able to bear this abuse did therefore upon consideration after he had consulted many eminent Authors write the said book of Divorce with intentions to be separated from her but by the compromising of her Relations the matter did not take effect so that she continuing with him ever after till her death he had several Children by her of whom Deborah was the third Daughter trained up by the Father in Lat. and Greek and made by him his Amanuensis 7 Tetrachordon Expositions upon the four chief places in Scripture which treat on marriage on Gen. 1. 27 28. c. Lond. 1646. qu. 8 Colasterion A reply to a nameless answer against the doctrine and discipline of divorce c. printed 1645. qu. Upon his publication of the said three books of Marriage and Divorce the Assembly of Divines then sitting at Westmirster took special notice of them and thereupon tho the Author had obliged them by his pen in his defence of Smectymnus and other their Controversies had with the Bishops they impatient of having the Clergies jurisdiction as they reckon'd it invaded did instead of answering or disproving what those books had asserted cause him to be summoned before the House of Lords but that House whether approving the Doctrine or not favouring his Accusers did soon dismiss him To these things I must add that after his Majesties Restauration when the subject of Divorce was under consideration with the Lords upon the account of John Lord Ros or Roos his separation from his Wife Anne Pierpont eldest Daughter to Henry Marquess of Dorchester he was consulted by an eminent Member of that House as he was about that time by a chief Officer of State as being the prime person that was knowing in that affair 9 Of Education written or addressed to Mr. Sam. Hartlib In this Treatise he prescrib'd an easie and delightful method for the training up of Gentry to all sorts of Literature that they might at the same time by like degrees advance in virtue and abilities to serve their Country subjoyning directions for their obtaining other necessary or ornamental Accomplishments And to this end that he might put it in practice he took a larger house where the Earl of Barrimore sent by his Aunt the Lady Rannelagh Sir Thomas Gardiner of Essex to be there with others besides his two Nephews under his Tuition But whether it were that the tempers of our Gentry would not bear the strictness of his discipline or for what other reasons I cannot tell he continued that course but a while 10 Areopagetica A speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England Lond. 1644. qu. written to vindicate the freedom of the Press from the Tyranny of Licensers who for several Reasons deprive the publick of the benefit of many useful Authors 11 Poemata quorum pleraque intra annum aetatis vigesimum conscripsit author c. Lond. 1645. oct 12 A mask printed 1645. oct 13 Poems c. printed the same year Hitherto we find him only to have published political things but when he saw upon the coming of K Charles 1. to his Tryal the Presbyterian Ministers clamorously to assert in their Sermons and Writings the privileges of Kings from all accountableness or to speak in the language of that time Non-resistance and Passive Obedience to be the Doctrine of all the reformed Churches which he took to be only their malignity against the Independents who had supplanted them more than for any principles of Loyalty he therefore to oppose that Thesis which as he conceiv'd did encourage all manner of Tyranny did write and publish from divers Arguments and Authorities 13 The tenure of Kings and Magistrates proving that it is lawful c. to call to account a Tyrant or King and after due conviction to depose and put him to death c. Lond. 1649 50. qu. Soon after the King being beheaded to the great astonishment of all the World and the Government thereupon changed he was without any seeking of his by the endeavours of a private acquaintance who was a member of the new Council of State chosen Latin Secretary as I have before told you In this publick station his abilities and acuteness of parts which had been in a manner kept private were soon taken notice of and he was pitch'd upon to elude the artifice so it was then by the Faction called of Eikon Basilice Whereupon he soon after published 14
Bishop Mast of Arts. Jun. 25. Nathaniel Newbury of Magd. Hall He was afterwards Minister of Ludenham in Kent and published The Yeomans Prerogative Serm. on 2 Chron. chap. 26. ver 10. Lond. 1652. quarto 30. Charles Gataker or Gatacre of Pemb. Coll. lately of the University of Cambridge Jul. 5. Randall Sanderson of Qu. Coll. This person who was a Westmorland man born Fellow of the said Coll. and afterwards Rector of Weyhill in Hampshire and for many years Prebendary of Salisbury hath written and published An explication of the following direction for the reading of the Bible over in a year Also An explanation to the necessary use and practice thereof Both printed in one sheet of paper in qu. He died at Weyhill and was buried there about 1680. July 7. Charles Hoole of Linc. Thom. Hunt of Pembr Coll. 8. Edw. Gee of Brasn Jan. 24. Hen. Hall of Linc. Mar. 3. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. Adm. 136. Bach. of Phys Jun. 30. Christop Merret of Glouc. Hall Besides him were seven more admitted of whom Nath. Chamberlaine of Pembr Coll. was one which is all I know of him Bach. of Div. Apr. 1. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. Coll. Jun. 25. Herbert Croft of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards B. of Hereford and is this year 1690 living Jul. 8. Edw. Pocock of C. C. 23. Tim. Woodroff of Ball. 28. Hen. Tozer of Exeter Coll. Adm. 18. Doct. of Law May 31. Sam. Gardiner of New Coll. was admitted being then accounted a learned Civilian Doct. of Phys Jul. 7. Valentine Broadbent of Magd. Coll. 15. Sim. Owen of Hart Hall who accumulated the degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. Nov. 18. Thom. Godwin of Magd. Mar. 9. Alexander Gill of Trin. Coll. Incorporations March 26. Assuerus Regimorterus Londino-Anglus Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland was incorporated Doctor of the same faculty This person who was educated in School learning under the famous Tho. Farnabie hath extant Disputatio publica de febribus intermittentibus Lugd. Bat. 1635. qu. had a hand in a treatise De Rachitide c. Lond. 1650. oct and hath written as I have been informed by one or more Doctors of his Faculty Principia medicinae He lived and practised in Limestreet in London during the Reign of Oliver One of both his names lived at Northâreake in Norfolk and died in 1671 who perhaps was Son of the said Dr. Regimorter Qu. Aug. 31. Walt. Curle Bish of Winchester Math. Wren Bish of Norwich D. D. of Cambr. Of these two I have made mention at large before CREATIONS Aug. 13. Robert Skinner Bishop elect of Bristow lately Fellow of Trin. Coll. and Chaplain in ord to his Majesty Ch. 1. was diplomated or actually created D. of D. by a Diploma then dated under the Seal of the University The King Queen and their respective Courts having been entertained this year by the University on the 29 and 30 of August it was his Majesties pleasure upon his leaving the University which was the 31 of the same month that there should be a Creation in several faculties Whereupon the names of those that made sute to be actually created being given into the hands of the Chancellour by one of the Secretaries of State was a Convocation celebrated on the same day in the Afternoon wherein were actually created two Bachelaurs of Arts two Bach. of Law five and forty Masters of Arts ten Bachelaurs of Divinity three Doctors of the Civ Law three Doctors of Physick and one and twenty Doctors of Divinity The names of some who were so created are these Bach. of Arts. Frederick Sagittarie a German of Queens Coll. Son of Fred. Sag. of Heregord in the Palatinat He was afterwards a created Doct. of Phys of this University and practised his faculty in Dorsetshire John Kingsmyll of Trin. Coll. Son of Sir Hen. Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire Knight Mast of Arts. Prince Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhyne and Duke of Bavaria second Son of Frederick Prince Elector of the Empire and King of Bohemia by Princess Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of James 1. King of England was the first person that was actually created Master of Arts. He was afterwards an heroick General under his Uncle K. Ch. 1. when the Civil Wars began in England an 1642 a Knight of the Garter Earl of Holderness and Duke of Cumberland He gave way to fate after he had performed great Exploits at Sea against the Dutch 29 Nov. 1682 aged 63 or thereabouts and was buried in a Vault on the south side of the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster leaving then behind him a natural Son usually called Dudley Rupert begotten on the body of one of the Daughters of Hen. Bard Vicount Bellomont which Dudley stiled in Prince Ruperts last Will and Test Dudley Bard was educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School being then a modest and meek-temper'd Youth as was by all there observed But he being not much made for Learning he was bred to Arms I think under Sir Jonas Moor at the Tower and after the Prince's death went into the Palatinate to look after a Legacy and a great House left him there and in Germany and was as 't is said kindly received by the Prince Palatine Soon after going to the Siege of Buda he was kill'd in a desperate Attempt made by some English Gentlemen there upon a breach made in the Walls or Fortifications of that City in July or Aug. 1686. At which time his signal Valour being expressed tho scarce twenty years of age his loss was much lamented Pr. Rupert had also a natural Daughter commonly called The Lady Ruperta begotten as I have been informed at the Office of Arms on the body of one Mrs. Margaret Hewes James Steuart Duke of Lenox in Scotland afterwards of Richmond in England sometimes a Student in Trin Coll. in Cambridge He was slain in the Battel at Keinton commonly called Edghill fight 23 Oct. 1642 and was buried at the upper end of Ch. Ch. Choire in Oxon. Will. Seymour Earl of Hertford He was afterwards Duke of Somerset See more among the Bachelaurs of Arts under the year 1607. Rob. D'evreux Earl of Essex who in the year 1605 had been created M. of A. was now actually created again He was afterwards made Lieutenant General of his Majesties Army when he went his Expedition against the Scots an 1639 Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold and soon after such was the mutability of the man Captain Ceneral of the Army raised by the Parliament against the King He hath Several letters extant written to the Speaker and Parliament during the time that he bore that Office He died 14 Sept. 1646 and was buried in S. Pauls Chappel northward of the Capella Regum in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Thomas Howard Earl of Berks. He afterwards suffer'd much for the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and dying 16 July 1669 was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westm Thom. Bruce Earl of Elgin in
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 Pâems 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 Loâi 16â2 and 1616. oct a Poem Microcosmus The discovery of the little world with tâe government thereof Oxon 1603. qu. a Poem Ushered into the world by the verses of Jo. Sanford of Madg. coll ãâã Fitz-Gâffry of Broadgates and Rob. Burhill of C. C. câll Which last wonders why Davies our author who was laâeây 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 supâose 't was written by the same hand Humours heaven on earth with
the civil Wars of death and fortune c. London 1609. A Poem in oct The triumph of death or the picture of the plague according to the life as it was in an 1603. Printed with Humours heaven and earth c. Wits pilgrimage by poetical essayes through a world of amorous Sonnets soul-passions and other passages divine philosophical and poetical Lond. in a pretty thick qu. but not expressed when printed 'T is dedicated to Philp Earl of Mountgomery Muses sacrifice or divine meditations Lond. 1612. in tw The muses tears for the loss of their hope heroick and never too much praised Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. Times sobs for his Pr. Hen. untimely loss with Epitaphs Printed with The Muses tears Consolatory strains to wrest nature from her vent in immoderate weeping Printed with that also Ecclogues Lond. 1614. oct They are at the end of The Sheapards Pipe written by Will. Brown of the Inner Temple A select second husband for Sir Tho. Overburies wise now a matchless widdow Lond. 1616. oct Dedic to Will E. of Pembroke Elegies on the death of Sir Tho. Overbury Speculum Proditori Printed with the former book 1616. oct Several copies of verses of his are also published in other books as a large copy before Ph. Hollands translation of Camdens Britannia another in the Odcombian banquet c. He dyed about the year sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried year 1618 as one tells us within the precincts of S. Giles ch in the Feilds near Lond. I find one Joh. Davies Gent. to have lived in the parish of S. Martin in the Feilds who dying in the beginning of July or thereabouts in 1618. was buried near to the body of Mary his sometimes wife in the church of St. Dunstan in the West Whether the same with the Poet I cannot justly tell because may author here quoted Tho. Fuller saith but upon what authority I know not that he was buried at S. Giles in the Feilds One John Dunbar a Latine Poet of Scotland hath an Epigram on J. Davies the Poet which may serve for an Epitaph wherein he tells us that he was another Martiall and that he out-stript in Poetry Sam. Daniel Josh Silvester the Merchant adventurer c. THOMAS THOMPSON a very noted preacher in the time he lived was born in the County of Cumberland wedded to the Muses in Queens coll in Mich. Term 1589. aged 15 made a poor serving child of that house in the year following afterwards Tabarder and in 99. Fellow being then Master of Arts. About that time addicting his mind severely to the studies of the superiour faculty became a noted Disputant Schoolman and very familiar with the Fathers At length leaving the coll about the time he was adwitted Bach. of Div. which was 1609. he became one of the publick preachers in the City of Bristow and Minister of S. Thomas Church there where he was much followed and admired for his edifying and orthodox doctrine Afterwards leaving that City in 1612. upon what account I know not he became Minister in the town and liberties of Montgomery in Wales where if I mistake not he continued till the time of his death He hath written and published Concio ad clerum de clavibus regni coelorum habita pro forma Oxon. intemplo B. Mariae 16. Feb. an 1609. in Matth. 16. ver 19. Lond. 1612. oct De votis monasticis Theses disputatae sub prâsidio Tho. Holland Reg. prof Printed with the former ãâã Serm. Besides these two things he hath Several Sermons in English as 1 A diet for a Drunkard in two Sermons in the Church of S. Nich. in Bristow on Ester 1. 8. Lond. 1612. qu. 2 Friendly farewell to a faithful âlock taken in a Sermon preached in S. Thomas Church in Bristow on Easter Tuseday 6. Apr. 1612. on 2 Cor. 13. ver 14. Lond. 1616. qu. 3 Antichrist arraigned Sermon at Pauls Cross on 1 Joh. 2. 18 19 20. Lond. 1618. qu. 4 The trial of Guides by the touchstone of Teachers c. Serm. on Luke 6. 39 40. Lond. 1618. qu. dedicated to Richard Bishop of St. Asaph his Patron These are all that I have seen going under his name and all that I yet know of the author SAMUEL DANIEL the most noted Poet and Historian of his time was born of a wealthy Family in Somersetshire and at 17 years of age in 1579. became a Commoner of Magd. hall where he continued about three years and improved himself much in Academical learning by the benefit of an excellent Tutor But his Genie being more prone to easier and smoother studies than in pecking and hewing at Logick he left the University without the honour of a degree and exercised it much in English History and Poetry of which he then gave several ingenious Specimens After his departure I find nothing memorable of him for several years only that at about 23 years of age he translated into English the worthy tract of Paulus Jovius containing a Discourse of rare inventions both military and amorous called Imprese Lond. 1585. oct To which he hath put an ingenious Preface of his own writing He was afterwards for his merits made Gentleman Extraordinary and afterwards one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber to Anne the Queen Consort of King James 1. who being for the most part a favourer and encourager of his Muse as she was of Jo. Florio who married Sam. Daniel's Sister and many times delighted with his conversation not only in private but in publick was partly for those reasons held in esteem by the men of that age for his excellencies in Poetry and History and partly in this respect that in writing the History of English affairs whether in Prose or Poetry he had the happiness to reconcile brevity with clearness qualities of great distance in other authors This is the opinion of a late author but one who lived in Samuel Daniel's time tells us that his works contain somewhat a flat but yet withal a very pure and copious English and words as warrantable as any mans and fitter perhaps for Prose than Measure Our author Daniel had also a good faculty in setting out a Mask or a Play and was wanting in nothing that might render him acceptable to the great and ingenious men of his time as to Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet Camden the learned Sir Rob. Cotton Sir H. Spelman Edm. Spencer Ben. Johnson John Stradling little Owen the Epigrammatist c. He hath written The complaint of Rosamond Lond. 1594. 98. 1611. and 23. qu. Various Sonnets to Delia. Wherein as Parthenius Nicaeus did excellently sing the praises of Arete so our author in this piece hath divinely sonneted the matchless beauty of his Delia. Tragedy of Cleopatra Lond. 1594. 98. qu. Of the Civil Wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York Lond. 1604. 09. oct and 1623. qu. Written in eight books in verse with his picture before them The