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
Vigiliis Paschatis Printed with the former book Apologia contra calumniatores suos Lond. 1619. qu. Emblemata varia dedicata Regibus Principibus Magnatibus Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae Poemata varia Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614. Which four last things were printed with his Apologia c. 1619. what other books he hath published I cannot justly tell However from those before mention'd it appears that the author was a phantastical and unsetled man and delighted as it seems in rambling CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire was born in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote An Apology for women or the womans defence Lond. 1620. oct Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks Afterwards he retired into the Country studied Divinity had a benefice conferr'd upon and tho he never took any degree in Arts in this University yet he took that of Bach. of Div. 1631 which is all I know of him JOHN KING Son of Philip King of Wormenhale commonly called Wornal near to Brill in Bucks by Elizazabeth his wife Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire Son of Thom. King brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon was born at Wornal before mention'd educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth successor to Will. Day 1565. at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferr'd upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University In 1611. he had the Bishoprick of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year had restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See made to him 18 of the same month at which time he was had in great reverence by all people He was a solid and profound Divine of great gravity and piety and had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often ãâã of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time When he was advanced to the See of London he endeavoured to let the world know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit shewing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too In which office he was so frequent that unless hindred by want of health he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London Deus bone quam canora Vox saith one vultus compositus verba selecta grandes sententiae Allicimur omnes lepore verborum suspendimur gravitate sententiarum orationis impetu viribus flâctimur c. He hath written Lectures upon Jonâs delivered at York Lond. 1594. Ox. 99. c. qu. Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon at Hampton-Court on Cantic 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. 2 At Ox. 5. Nov. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. 3 At Whitehall 5. Nov. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2 3 4. Ox. 1608. qu. 4 At S. Maries in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration on 1 Chron. ult 26. 27 28. Ox. 1608. qu. 5 Vitis palatina Serm. appointed to be preached at White-hall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614. qu. 6 Serm. at Pauls cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. 7 At Pauls cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal 123. 3. and a third on Psal 146. 3. 4. c. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature 30. March in sixteen hundred twenty and one year 1621 aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight Soon after Bishop Kings death the Rom. Catholicks endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit The Bishop of London his Legacy Or certain motives of Dr. King late B. of London for his change of religion and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England Printed by permission of the superiours 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter his son Hen. King not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Pauls cross soon after but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former who published a Sermon entit Abels offering c. on Gen. 4. ver 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh and whether he was of this Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN GUILLIM or Agilliams son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain I find one of both his names who was a student in Brasnose coll in the year 1581. aged 16 and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were according to the Matricula born in Herefordshire in which County the author of The worthies of England places Jo. Guillim the Herald of whom we now speak who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire was soon after called thence and made one of the Society of the coll of Arms. commonly called the Heralds Office in London by the name of Portsmouth and on the 26 Feb. 1617. Rouge Croix Pursevant of Arms in Ordinary He published The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. Written mostly especially the scholastical part by John Barcham of C. C. coll in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant superfluous and needless additions to it purposely to gain money from those
Poems and Epistles before mentioned and at the end are Elegies on the authors death Six Sermons Lond. 1634. qu. Fasciculus Poematum Epigrammatum Miscellaneorum Translated into English by Jasp Mayne D. D. with this title A sheaf of miscellany Epigrams Lond. 1632. oct Ignatius his Conclave or his inthronization in a late election in hell c. Lond. 1635. in tw there again in 1653. An edition of this came forth in 1626. in oct intit Ignatius his Conclave viz. of establishing a Church in the Moon Apology for the Jesuits Pr. with the former Eighty Sermons Lond. 1640. fol. Among which are involved the six Sermons before-mentioned These eighty Sermons are called The first vol. of Dr. Donns Sermons Declaration of that Paradox or Thesis that self homicide is not so naturally a Sin that it may not be otherwise Lond. 1644. 48. c. qu The original under the authors own hand I have seen in Bodley's Library dedicated to Edward L. Herbert of Cherbury Essays in Divinity c. Lond. 1651. oct Published by his Son John who tells us that they were written before his Father had entred into holy Orders Prayers Pr. with the former Paradoxes Problems Essays and Characters Lond. 1652. oct In which book are involv'd several or most of the Paradoxes Problems c. before-mentioned Various Sermons Lond. 1649. fol. vol. 2. Six and twenty Sermons never before published Lond 1660. 61. fol. This is called the Third vol. of Dr. Donns Sermons Letters to several persons of honour Lond. 1651. qu. Some of which I think were before printed He had also lying by him at his death many Sermon notes and other papers containing an extract of near fifteen hundred authors All which as his last Legacy he left to Dr. Hen. King afterwards B. of Chichester but what became of them after that Bishops death in 1669. I know not He also translated from Greek into English The ancient history of the Septuagint Lond. 1633. in tw written originally by Aristeus Which translation was revised and very much corrected by another hand Lond. 1685. oct He paid his last debt to nature on the last day of March year 1631 in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the South Isle behind the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul near to the Monument of Dr. Jo. Colet Both whose Epitaphs with the Pictures of their respective Monuments you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale lately Garter K. of Arms. Our Author Dr. Jo. Donne left behind him a Son of both his Names but of none of his virtues manners or generous qualities and therefore by many his memory is condemn'd to utter Oblivion while that of his Father flourisheth in the History of his life written by Isaac Walton the first edition of which printed 1653. coming into the hands of the best critick of the last age I mean Jo. Hales of Eaton he affirmed to his friends that he had not seen a life written with more advantage to the Subject or more reputation to the writer than it JOHN RAWLINSON a fluent and florid Preacher of his time was born in London educated in Grammaticals in Merchant-Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns coll 1591. aged 15. and was afterwards Fellow M. of A. and so great a frequenter of the Pulpits in Oxon that his name being cried up for an excellent Theologist became successively Rector of Taplow in Bucks Vicar of Asheldam in Essex Prebendary of Sarum D. of D. Principal of S. Edmunds hall Chaplain to Tho. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere L. Chanc. of England and in Ordinary to K. Jam. 1. Rector of Celsy in Sussex and of Whitchurch in Shropshire In all which places he was much followed for his frequent and edifying preaching great charity and publick Spirit He hath published Divers Sermons as 1 The four Summons of the Shulamite preached at Pauls Cross on Cantic 6. 12. Oxon. 1606. in oct 2 Fishermen Fishers of Men on Matth. 4. 19. Lond. 1609. qu. 3 The Romish Judas preached on the 5. Nov. 1610. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1611. qu. 4 Mercy to a Beast on Prov. 12. 10. Oxon. 1602. qu. 5 Vnmasking of the Hypocrite preached at S. Maries in Ox. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1616. qu. 6 Vivat Rex Let the King live or God save the King on 1 Sam. 10. 24. Ox. 1619. qu. 7 The Dove-like Soul on Psal 55. 6. Oxon. 1625. qu. 8 Lex Talionis on Judg. 1. 7. Ox. 1625. qu. 9 Surprising of Heaven on Mat. 11. 12. lb. 1625. qu. 10 The Bridegroom and Bride on Cant. 4. 8. lb. 1622. c. qu. Which four last Sermons viz. the 7 8 9 and 10. were all published together under the title of Quaâriga Salutis or Four Quadragesimal Sermons c. These are all the Sermons of his publication that I have yet seen and whether he be author of an Explication of the Creed Ten Commandments and Lords Prayer which is published under the name of Rawlinson in oct I know not He departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch in Shropshire before-mentioned where his name continues precious to this day among the inhabitants of that place and in the neighbourhood In his Prebendship of Salisbury called Netherbury in Ecclesia succeeded Thom. Fuller 18. Jun. 1631. the same who was afterwards the author of divers historical books and him Tho. Henchman 17. Aug. 1661. JOHN BUCKRIDGE Son of Will. Buckridge by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Tho. Keblewhyte of Baselden Son of John Keblewhyte Uncle to Sir Tho. Whyte the Founder of S. Johns college and he the Son of Henry some say John Keblewhyte of Fawley was born as I conceive at Draycot near to Marlborough in Wiltshire educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of the said coll in 1578. soon after Fellow and through the degrees in Arts Doctor of Divinity in the latter end of 1596. about which time he was Chaplain to Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury After he had left the University I find him to have been first of all Rector of North-Fambridge in Essex afterwards Chaplain to Robert E. of Essex Rector of North Kilworth in Leicestershire Vicar of S. Giles Church without Cripplegate London Archdeacon of Northampton Canon of Windsore and Hereford Chaplain to K. James and at length President of S. Johns college 1605. At which time his eminent abilities in the Pulpit had brought him into great credit with K. James insomuch that he was chosen to be one of the four Dr. Andrews B. of Chichester Dr. Barlow B. of Rochester and Dr. Jo. King then Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon were the other three who were appointed to Preach before his Maj. at Hampton Court in the month of Sept. 1606. for the reduction of the two Melvins and other Presbyterian Scots to a right understanding of the Church of England In
have seen he gave to the priests of Clare hall in Cambridge considerable summs of money and forty pounds to the chest of that house To every fellow of Qu. coll in Oxon six shillings and eight pence and forty marks to the elemosinary chest thereof besides a sute of vestments for a Priest Deacon and Subdeacon and four copes He gave maintenance also to a Chaplain that should celebrate service for him his Parents and all faithful deceased for the space of an hundred years in the Church of Applebie before-mentioned Which Chaplain was to receive for his labour eight marks yearly To the Friers the Carmes in Applebie 20 marks to pray for him besides several sums to the Friers of Oxon and Cambridge and to Rowland Machel and Elizabeth his wife sister to the said Bishop he gave several lands in Westmorland besides 200 marks He built also the little room which is now a large Bay-window to the Provosts dining-room in Qu. coll with curious vaulting under it Which vault is now no other than a portico to the coll chappel Over the said Bay-window is carv'd in stone a musical note called a Long on a Tun which is the rebus for his firname and out of the Bung-hole of the Tun springs a Vine tree which without doubt was put for Vinton or Vinchestre he being then Bishop of that place He left behind him a Nephew named Rob. Langton born also in Applebie and educated in Queens coll of which he was LL. D. He died at London in the month of June 1524. and was buried before the image of S. Michael in the body of the Church belonging to the Charter-house now Suttons hospital near London By his last Will and Test he bequeathed to Qu. coll before mention'd two hundred pounds to purchase Lands and make a School-house in Appleby and what his benefaction was besides as also of that of Bishop Langton you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 123. 124 125. WILLIAM SHJOY commonly called Joy partly educated here but more in the Univ. of Paris was by provision from the Pope made Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland 16. Cal. of June 1485 where sitting about 16 years gave way at length to fate 28. Dec. in fifteen hundred and one and was as I suppose buried in his Cathedral Church In his Archbishoprick succeeded Philip Pinson a Minerite as I shall anon tell you RICHARD who writes himself Episcopus Oleven being Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester as it seems was a Dominican or Black Frier in Warwick to whose fraternity there he gave 6l at the time of his death and educated among the Black Friers in Oxon to whom also he gave 6l to pray for him He yielded up his last breath in Sept. in fifteen hundred and two year 1502 and was I suppose according to his last Will which I have seen buried in the choire of the Church belonging to the Black Friers in the City of Worcester on the south side of the Tomb of John Lichfield and opposite to that of Rich. Wolsey who as he saith in the said Will was nuper Conoren Duneren Episcopus HENRY DEANE was educated in this University where he took the degrees in Arts and Divinity but in what coll or Hall it appears not However some are pleased to say that he was educated in New coll yet whether he was perpetual Fellow thereof the registers of that house tells us not After he had left the University he was made Prior of Lanthony near to Gloucester in the neighbourhood of which place I presume he was born and on the 13 of Sept. or 20. Nov. 11. Hen. 7. he was by Letters Pat. constituted Chancellour of Ireland to execute that office by himself or a Deputy On the first of Janu. following he was constituted Deputy and Justice of the said Realm where being setled he performed good service against that grand impostor Perkin Warbeck and being elected Bishop of Bangor after the death of Richard lately Bishop of that place had restitution of the temporalities belonging thereunto made by the King 6. Octob. 12. Hen. 7. Dom. 1496. In 1500. he was translated to Salisbury on the death of John Blyth lately Bishop thereof Son of Will. Blyth of Norton in Yorkshire Son of another William of Leedes in the said County and had restitution of the temporalities thereof made to him as the manner is on the 12. March the same year About which time he was made Chanc. of the Order of the Garter In 1501. he was elected Archb. of Canterbury upon the death of Cardinal Moreton whereupon being translated thither had restitution made of his temporalities on the second of Aug. the same year About that time the members of the University of Oxon received an Epistle of favour from him wherein among other things he stiles the said University his benignissima mater He died at Lambeth on the 15. of Febr. saith a certain author tho a register of that time tells us 't was on the 16. of that month in fifteen hundred and two Whereupon his body was carried to Canterbury and buried in the middle of the Martyrdom within the precincts of the Cathedral there leaving then behind him the character of a person altogether fit for those places that he successively enjoyed DAVID CREAGH was born in the County of Limerick in Ireland studied several years among his Country men the Civil and Canon Law of which faculâies he became at length Bachelaur Afterwards retiring to his native Country became thro several preferments Archb. of Cashills an 1483 where sitting about 20. years died 5. Sept. in fifteen hundred and three Of the great injuries done to him by Gerald Fits Gerald Earl of Kildare L. Deputy of Ireland of which Creagh complained to K. Hen. 7. by the advice of Sir Jam. de Ormond Knight the Histories of that Country will tell you PHILIP PINSON an English man studied among the Minorites or Grey Friers for a time in their house in Oxon. of which order he was a learned brother but whether he took the Degree of D. D. in this University we have no register that shews it Afterwards he became Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Hereford and afterwards of B. and Wells by whose endeavours but chiefly of those of K. Hen. 7. he was advanced at Rome to the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland on the 2. of Decemb. in fifteen hundred and three year 1503 and three days after died of the Plague Afterwards that See laid void two years and then 't was confer'd on Maurice O Fihely whom I have before among the writers mentioned JOHN ARUNDELL Son of Rainford or Rainford Arundell Knight by Jane his Wife Sister and heir of Joh. Coleshull third Son of Sir John Arundell of Talvern in Cornwall who died 13. Hen. 6. was born in that County received his Academical education in Exeter college became
decease of the said W. Worslley who had held with it other dignities among which was the Archdeaconry of Nottingham in which he was succeeded by Thom. Crosley in Aug. 1499. In 1505. he the said Rob. Sherebourne being elected Bishop of S. Davids under the title of Consiliarius regius had restitution of the temporalities of that See made to him on the 12. of Apr. the same year done in requiral of the many services and embassies which he had performed for his Master K. Hen. 7. In 1508. he was translated to the See of Chichester and had the temporalities belonging thereunto delivered to him on the 13. Dec. that year He was a person much given to hospitality was very charitable to the poor munificent to the coll that had given him Acad. education as may elsewhere be seen and bestowed much mony in beautifying and adorning his Cath. Ch. at Chichester At length after he had resigned his Bishoprick he gave way to fate on the 21. Aug. in fifteen hundred thirty and six aged 86 years or thereabouts and was buried in the said Cath. Ch. in a poor remembrance that he had made there on the south side of the same Church A certain note which Sir Will. Dugdale Garter K. of Arms collected by himself and afterwards communicated to me informs that the said R. Sherebourne founded a Free School in the time of Hen. 8. at Rowlston in Staffordshire at which place he was born of mean parentage But this note which he could not then tell whence he had I reject because the register of New coll tells us that he was born in Hampshire where is a Town called Sherbourne in which he or at least his Father or Grandfather was as 't is probable born After he had resigned his Bishoprick Mr. Rich. Sampson Dean of the Kings Chappel being elected thereunto had the temporalities thereof given to him 4. July 28. Hen. 8. Dom. 1536. JOHN KYTE was born as 't is said within the City of London and for a time educated in this University but in what house or what degrees he took it appears not Afterwards he had several dignities confer'd upon him was made Subdean of the King's Chappel and by K. Hen. 7. was sent Embassador into Spain In the latter end of 1513. he was made Archb. of Armagh by provision from P. Leo 10. the temporalities of which were given to him on the 20. May in the year following But he resigning the said Archbishoprick on the third of Aug. 1521. being newly made Bishop of Carlile in England on the death of Joh. Penny was made Archbishop of Thebes in Greece All these things were done by the endeavours made to the Pope by Card. Wolsey whose creature Kyte was And because the Bulls of translation and of Carlile with the retention of his other benefices should be expedited and done to the desire of Wolsey and Kyte the fees came to 1790. duckets but whether all was paid I think not because it partly appears by the letters of Joh. Clerk the Kings Orator at Rome afterwards B. of B. of Wells that for the sake of the said Card. 275 duckets were released to Kyte tho the World was then very hard at Rome He the said Kyte took his last farewell of this World after he had bestowed much money on Rose-castle the Seat of the Bishop of Carlile on the nineteenth day of June in fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 and was buried as 't is said in the middle almost of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Stepney near London Over his grave is a marble-stone yet remaining with an English Epitaph thereon contained in barbarous verses shewing that he was a person of great hospitality The five first run thus Under this ston closyde and marmorate Lyeth John Kitte Londoner natyff Encreasyng in vertues rose to high estate In the fourth Edwards chappel by his yong lyffe Sith whych the sevinth Henryes servyce primatyff Proceeding still c. How it came to pass that he was buried at Stepney I cannot tell Sure I am that by his Will and Test made the 18. June 29. Hen. 8 dom 1537. and proved 21. of the same month wherein he writes himself John Kyte Archb. of Thebes and Commendatory perpetual of Carlile he bequeaths his body to be buried by the body of his Father in St. Margarets Church in Westminster JOHN HILSEY a Dominican or Black Frier was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in 1535. and died in sixteen hundred thirty and eight year 1538 Under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Rochester succeeded Nich Heath whom I shall mention at large in his proper place JOHN STOKESLIE was educated in S. Mary Magd. coll of which he was Fellow and much noted for his excellent faculty in disputing whether in Philosophy or Divinity In 1502. he being then M. of A. of some years standing was admitted Principal of S. Mary Magd. hall and in the year following was elected the northern Procter of the University because he had been born in the north parts of England Afterwards he became Vicar of Willoughby in Warwickshire for a time and Rector of Slimbridge in Gloucestershire both by the gift of the said college Prebendary of the Kings Chappel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and S. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of Rich. Paice Doct. of Divinity and Chaplain to Rich. Fox B. of Winchester who gave him as I think the Archdeaconry of Surrey At length upon the translation of Tonstall to Durham he was made Bishop of London in 1530. In which See being installed 19. Jul. in the same year and about that time made the Kings Almoner fate there to the time of his death which hapning on the eighth of Sept. year 1539 in fifteen hundred thirty and nine was buried on the 14. of the said month in the Chappel of S. George within the Precinct of S. Pauls Cathedral Soon after was a memorial put over his grave running thus Hujus in obscuri tumuli c. Which in English is this as P. F. tells me Th'obscure recesses of this key-cold Tomb Do Stokeslies ashes and remains inhume Whose general name good life dexterity Of Pen Tongue Brain were known both far and nigh Who studied still to serve God and the King And benefit the publick in each thing What good he did in Forreign parts retrieve He brought it home like honey to his hive He knew the intreagues of Italy and Spain And of the Grecian Wyles did make much gain To many Kingdoms of the World being known And honour'd more returning to his own Who on our Blessed Ladies day being born Did on the self same day to dust return In 1529. he was sent to the Emperiour and Pope and to several Universities concerning the marriage of King Hen. 8. with his brother's Wife c. and was with Tho. Cranmer at
Oxon which was formerly the Priory of S. Frideswyde but then called Christ-church he the said Kynge notwithstanding continued in his office of Bishop and his chair was thence translated also but not his Palace Yet when K. Ed. 6. came soon after to the Crown and made a recital of his fathers erection of the aforesaid Episcopal See he left out Gloc. coll with intentions that it should remain with the Crown for another use in future time So that what house or lodgings the said Bishop Kynge had for his use during the remaining part of his life in truth I cannot tell All that I know more of him is that he being an aged man in Qu. Maries reign being then by Joh. Fox called the Bishop of Thame he did not care to have any thing to do with such that were then called Herâicks and therefore he is commended by Posterity for his mildness Also that he paying his last debt to nature on the fourth day of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and seven was buried on the North side of the East end of the Choire of Ch. Church year 1557 Over his grave was a Tomb of course Marble almost breast-high erected with a Canopy over it supported by Pillars of the same but no Arms put on it as never having any or any at least that he knew of But the said Tomb being afterwards looked upon as cumbersome to the place when the Choire was to be new wainscoted and paved with black and white marble Dr. Duppa being then Dean of Ch. Church it was taken away by Henry and John King Canons of the said Church Sons of Dr. Joh. King sometimes Bishop of London great Nephew to Dr. Rob. Kynge before-mentioned and by them it was placed under the lower South Window of the Isle joyning on the South side of the said Choire In which Window they caused to be painted soon after the Picture of the said Rob. Kynge in his Episcopal Robes with his Miter on his head and Crosier in his hand and the ruins of Osney Abbey behind him as also the Arms which the said Hen and John then pretended to The said window was pulled down when the Presbyterians and Independents governed an 1651. by one of the Family of the Kings then living who preserving it safe till the Restauration an 1660. was soon after set up again where it yet continues A certain author named VVill. Harrison tells us that in the time of Q. Mary who died 1558. one Goldwell was Bishop of Oxford who was a Jesuit dwelling in Rome and more conversant as the constant fame went in the Black Art than skilful in the Scriptures and yet he was of great countenance among the Roman Monarchs It is said also that observing the Canons of his Order he regarded not the temporality of that See But it seems since that he wist well enough what became of those commodities for by one mean or another he found the sweetness of 354. l. 16s 06d yearly growing to him c. Thus the said author Harrison By which Goldwell he means I suppose Thow Goldwell Bishop of S. Asaph as if he had been translated thence to Oxon on the death of Rob. Kynge before-mentioned for what Goldwell it should be else unless another Thomas whom I shall mention in the Fasti I know not forasmuch as the generality of authors say that the said Tho. Goldwell left the Bishoprick of S. Asaph when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and that thereupon he went to Rome where he lived in great repute for many years See more among these Bishops under the year 1580. RICHARD THORNDEN sometimes written Thornton a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict of Ch. Church in Canterbury received his Academical education in Canterbury coll in this University of which he became Warden or Guardian about 1528. Afterwards he proceeded in divinity run with the unsatiable humour of K. Hen. 8. and in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. was a great Gospeller and seemed to all to be an hearty Protestant But when Q. Mary came to the Crown he wheeled about was made Suffragan Bishop of Dover under Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury for the County of Kent where he shew'd himself an eager disputant against the poor Protestants as you may see by his arguings and reasonings with several of them about matters of religion in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church written by John Fox who adds of him farther that for his persecuting of Gods Saints he was suddenly taken with a Palsey on a Sunday at Bourn Bishops Bourn in Kent having the day before return'd from the Chapter house at Canterbury Whereupon being conducted to his bed he died soon after viz. in fifteen hundred fifty and seven year 1557 After him succeeded another Bishop of Dover appointed by Card. Pole who shewing himself also vexatious to the Protestants broke his neck suddenly as the said author reports In the year 1569. one Rich. Rogers bach afterwards Doctor of Divinity was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Dover by Matthew Archb. of Canterbury and in 1584. he became Dean of Canterb. upon the promotion of Dr. Th. Godwin to the See of B. and Wells He was Father to Franc. Rogers D. D. and Justice of the Peace in Kent who dying 23. of Jul. 1638. was buried in the Church of S. Margaret in the City of Canterbury After Bishop Rogers decease succeeded in the Deanery of Canterbury one Tho. Nevill D. D. who dying in the beginning of the year 1615. was buried within that Chappel joyning to the body of the Cathedral Ch. at Canterbury which was before repaired by him and wherein he had erected a monument for himself and his brother Alexander Nevill some years before that deceased WILLIAM FINCHE occurs Suffragan Bishop of Taunton under the Bishop of B. and Wells from the year 1539. to 1557. in which last year he was admitted Prebendary of Whitlakynton in the Church of Wells but whether he took a degree in this University tho study he did for a time it appears not In his time lived in the diocess of Exeter one William who writes himself Episcopus Hipponensis having been Suffragan to the Bishop of Exeter which is all I know of him only that he died in 1559. PETER PETO whom some call Will. Peto was born of and descended from the antient Family of the Peto's living at Chesterton in Warwickshire educated for a time for the sake of learning among the Grey Friers of Oxon of which Order he was a zealous brother but whether he took a degree among us it doth not appear unless he did it under another name as some have done Afterwards he became Chaplain if I mistake not to Q. Katherine in whose defence he shewed himself a stout Champion when K. Hen. 8. was about to divorce her as also against the Kings marriage with Anna Bulleyne In 1557. Jun. 13. he was made tho known to be unfit a Cardinal by P. Paul 3. and
of Magd. Hall 16. Tho. James of New Coll. Rob. Burton of Ch. Ch. June 8. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Coll. July 5. Rob. Moor of New Coll. a Compounder Adm. 19. Doct. of Law Oct. 13. John Hawley Principal of Glocester Hall formerly Fellow of S. Johns Coll. Mar. 23. Nich. Darrel of New Coll. He was about this time Prebendary of Winchester where dying in Oct. 1629 was buried in the Cath. Ch. there near to the body of his Wife Jane Doct. of Phys Jul. 12. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. He accumulated the Degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. May. 16. Edward James of Ch. Ch. Thom. James of New Coll. Brethren The last of which accumulated And to both I have seen several learned Epistles written by their Nephew Rich. James of C. C. C. who hath also written the Epitaph of the first who died some years before Thomas 30. John Simpson of C. C. C. He was about this time Prebendary of Canterbury See among the Doctors of Div. 1608. June 8. Will. Westerman of Oriel Adam Wilson of Qu. Coll. The last of which two died at Nutfield in Surrey of which place I think he was Rector in the beginning of 1634. 27. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. July 5. Nich. Love of New Coll. He was at this time Chaplain to his Majesty Warden of Wykehams Coll. near to and Prebendary of Winchester where dying about 1630 was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. Rob. Moor of New Coll. who accumulated was admitted the same day John Charlet of Oriel Coll. was also admitted the same day He was now Prebendary of Worcester and dying in 1640 Herb. Croft D. D. succeeded him in that Dignity Theodore Price was admitted as a member of New Coll. on the same day also He was originally Chorister of All 's Coll. afterwards Fellow of Jesus now Principal of Hart hall and about this time Subdean of Westminster Prebendary of Winchester and afterwards as 't is said by some Master of the Hospital of St. Cross He gave way to fate 15. Dec. 1631 and was buried at Westminster whereupon Dr. John Williams Dean of that place called together the Prebendaries of the Church and took great pains to make the World suspect that he died a Rom. Catholick only to raise a scandal on his enemy Bishop Laud who had commended him to the King for a Bishoprick in Wales A rigid and inveterate Presbyterian tells us that the said Dr. Land did endeavour to promote him to a Welsh Bishoprick but was opposed by Philip Earl of Pembroke so Dr. Morg. Owen was preferred in his stead This Price lived a professed unpreaching Epicure and Arminian and died a reconciled Papist to the Church of Rome having received extreme unction from a popish Priest c. Thus Prynne yet the Church Historian tells us that Dr. Williams beforemention'd did much endeavour to make him Archb. of Armagh but denied by the Duke of Bucks without any mention made of Dr. Laud his endeavours But so it was that Dr. Williams being a great favourer of the Puritan or Presbyterian Prynne therefore made no mention of him but laid all upon the score of Laud July 5. Robert Say Will. Twysse of New Thom. Wyatt of Oriel Coll. 6. Thom. Anyan President of C. C. Coll. who accumulated This Doctor who was born at Sandwych in Kent and had lately been Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper published 1 A Sermon preached at St. Maries Church in Oxon. 12. Jul. 1612 being the Act Sunday on Psal 1. 3. Lond. 1612. qu. 2 Sermon preached at St. Mary Spittle 10. Apr. 1615. on Acts 10. 34. 35. Oxon. 1615. qu. In the year 1619 he being then one of his Majesties Chaplains he was made Prebendary of Glocester and afterwards being found unfit to govern a College because he was a fosterer of faction he resign'd his Presidentship and was made Prebendary of Canterbury where dying 1632 was buried in the Cath. Ch. there Francis James of Ch. Ch. stood in the Act this year to compleat his Doctorship in Divinity but when he was admitted it appears not in the publick register He was now in great esteem for several Specimens of Latin Poetry which he before had made especially for his Poem published in 1612 entit Threnodia Henricianarum Exequiarum Sive Panolethria Anglicana c. He was near of kin to Dr. Tho. James mention'd before and among the Writers under the year 1629 was about this time Preacher or Read at the Savoy in the Strand near London and as it seems a Preacher at St. Matthews in Friday Street At length departing this mortal life in 1621 was buried I think at Ewbuâst in Surrey Incorporations July 7. Franc. Barrough lately of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge now of St. Johns in Oxon was incorporated either Bach. or Master of Acts. 9. Augustin Lindsell M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge He was born at Bumsted in Essex was bred Scholar and Fellow in the said Hall where he became well studied in Greek Hebrew and all antiquity Afterwards he succeeded Dr. Walt. Curle in the Deanery of Lichfield 1628 Dr. Will. Piers in the Episcopal See of Peterborough to which he was elected 22. Dec. 1632 and being translated thence to Hereford in December 1633 upon the translation of Dr. Juxon to London died at his Palace in Hereford 6. Nov. 1634. whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church there He was a Man of very great learning of which he gave sufficient evidence to the Church by setting forth that excellent edition of Theophylact upon St. Pauls Epistles Thomas Goodwin M. A. of the said University was also then July 9. incorporated as it is said in the publick register but if he be the same Person whom I shall mention among the creations an 1653. I should rather think that he was incorporated Bach. of Arts. Sam. Buggs was incorporated M. of A. the same day See more of him among the Writers in John King an 1638. July 12. Edmund Wilson Doctor of Phys of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians in London On the 18. Dec. 1616. he was installed Canon of Windsore on the death of Dr. Rich Field but because he was not ordained Priest within a year following he was deprived of his Canonry and Dr. Godfrey Goodman succeeded being installed 20. Dec. 1617. This Dr. Wââson who was Son of Will. Wilson mention'd among the Doctors of Divinity under the year 1607 and had practised his faculty several years in Windsore died in the Parish of St. Mary le Bow in London about the beginning of Oct. 1633 at which time or before he gave many books to Lincoln Coll Library in Oxon. Thomas Horsmanden D. D. of the said University of Cambridge was incorporated the same day July 14. Lancelot Langhorne Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He was now Parson of St. Martins Church within Ludgate London and had published Mary sitting at Christs feet Serm at the funeral
2 Sermon of St. Cyprian of the mortality of Man 3 Picus Earl of Mirandula his rules of a godly life 4 The gathered Councils of Isidore Which four translations were printed at Lond. 1560. in 8vo He hath also written Epistolae variae ad Edw. Leium Nisenum Paynellum Written from C. C. C. in Oxon as by their dates it appears Those to Edw. Lee Archb. of York were written in behalf of Erasmus between whom and the said Lee were learned bickerings and are printed in a Book entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum ex quibus perspicuum quanta sit Edwardi Lei virulentia Basil 1520. qu. Which virulence was against Erasmus In Ciceronis philippicas Sermones ad Clerum Preached mostly at Calais See the titles of other of his labours in Pitseus This Tho. Lupset submitted to the stroke of Death 27. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred thirty and two year 1532 aged 36 or thereabouts having two Years before been admitted Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury on the Death of John Fox Archdeacon of Winchester and was buried in the Church of St. Alphaghe or Elphaghe within Cripplegate in London which Church was translated afterwards to the Church now called St. Alphaghe by Sion Coll. Over his Grave tho there be no memory of him by Inscription yet Joh. Leland celebrates him in his Encomia Trophaea c. Near to his Grave was the body of Alice Lupset his Widow buried in 1545. JOHN BOURCHIER Lord Berners Son of Humph. Bourchier eldest Son of Sir Joh. Bourchier Knight Lord Berners of Hertfordshire the fourth Son of William Earl of Ewe by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. de Wodestock Duke of Glocester the sixth Son of K. Edw. 3. was instructed in several sorts of learning in this University in the latter end of K. Edw. 4 in whose Reign and before were the Sons of divers of the English Nobility educated in Academical literature in Balliol Coll. wherein as 't is probable this our Author was instructed also After he had left the University he travelled into divers Countries and returned a Master of several Languages and a compleat Gentleman But that which made him first known to the World was his valour shew'd in quelling the fury of the Rebels in Cornwall and Devon under the conduct of Michael Joseph a Blacksmith about 1495 whereby he greatly gained the favor of K. Hen. 7. In the 6. Hen. 8. he was made Chancellor of the Kings Exchecquer for life and about that time attended the Lady Mary the Kings Sister into France in order to her Marriage with K. Lewis 12. Afterwards being made Lieutenant of Calais and the Marches adjoyning in France spent most of his time there and wrot Of the duties of the Inhabitants of Calais Comedie called Ite in vineam meam Usually acted in the great Church at Calais after vespers He also translated into English 1 The life of Sir Arthur an Armorican Knight 2 The famous exploits of Hugh of Bordeaux 3 The castle of Love a Romance And besides something of Marc. Aur. Ant. must not be forgotten that noted translation of his which he performed at the command of K. Hen. 8. viz. The Chronicles of France and England composed originally in the French Tongue by Sir Joh. Frossard Canon and Treasurer of Chinay Clerk and Servant to K. Edw. 3. as also to Queen Philippa These Chronicles have been more than once if I mistake not printed in English in an English Letter in fol. This worthy Lord Sir Joh. Bourchier died at Calais beforemention'd 16 March in Fifteen hundred thirty and two aged 63 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of our Lady there where was if not still a comely Mon. over his Grave JOHN FRYTH Son of Rich. Fryth an Inholder of Sevenoake in Kent was born there some say at Westram in the said County and educated in Kings Coll. in Cambridge till he was Bachelaur of Arts. Afterwards being incited to go to Oxon for preferment was for his towardly parts made one of the junior Canons of Cardinal Wolsey's College and soon after viz. in Dec. 1525. he was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same degree of Bachelaur But before that time falling into the acquaintance of Will. Tyndale a zealous Lutheran they conferred together privately about the abuses in Religion So that in short time after he being by him converted to his opinion Fryth made a publick profession of it Whereupon being seized and examined by the Commissary of the University he was imprisoned within the limits of the said College At length being freed thence in 1528 or thereabouts he went beyond the Seas where improving himself much in his religious opinions returned into England about two Years after leaving his Wife behind But then again finding few Friends there that favoured his opinions he wandred to and fro and in fine was taken for a Vagabond at Reading in Berks. set in the Stocks and endured misery for want of relief At that time his condition being made known to Leonard Cox the Schoolmaster of that Town who presently understood the merits of the Person by his discourse procured his releasment refreshed his hungry stomack and gave him money Afterwards he went to London where endeavouring to gain Proselytes he was by the care of Sir Tho. More Lord Chancellor seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower where he had several disputes with Sir Tho. and others At length being examined by the Bishops sitting in St. Pauls Cath. who persuaded him to recant his opinions but in vain they condemned him to be burnt So that being delivered to the L. Mayor and Sheriffs was committed to Newgate where he remained in the Dungeon till he was conveyed thence to be burnt His works are Treatise of Purgatory Answer to Joh. Rastal's Dialogues of Purgatory This Jo. Rastal was Son in-Law to Sir Tho. More Answer to Sir Tho. More 's Dialogue concerning Heresies Answer to Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester The Subsidie or Bulwark to his first Book against Jo. Rastal His judgment upon Will Tracy of Todington in Glocestershire his Testament an 1531. Letter unto the faithful followers of Christ's Gospell Written from his Prison in the Tower 1532. A Mirror or Glass to know thy self Written in the Tower 1532. Mirror or Looking-glass wherein you may behold the Sacrament of Baptisme Written 1533. An Antithesis between Christ and the Pope Of the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ in answer to Sir Thom. More 's letter which he wrot against the first little treatise of Fryth made concerning the Sacrament c. an 1533. Lond. 1548. oct Articles wherefore he dyed Written in Newgate Prison 23. June 1533. All which treatises were reprinted at London in fol. an 1573. He also translated into English Patricks places written by Patr. Hamilton At length after he had remained in the said Prison about a Fortnight or more he was carried thence to Smithfield on the 4.
five which was the second and third Years of K. Philip and Qu. Mary JOHN PHILPOT Son of Sir Pet. Philpot Knight of the Bath and twice Sheriff of Hampshire was born at Compton in that County educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in the Year 1534 had a Civilians place there and took as 't is said the Degree of Bach. of the Lawes but whether in this University it appears not in the registers thereof However he was then esteemed a good Civilian and admirably well skill'd in the Greek and Hebrew tongues In 1541 his Fellowship became void because of absence being then I presume in his travels in Italy After his return retiring to Winchester he read Lectures in the Cathedral there on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans Which tho they were done gratis were not acceptable to the Catholick Clergy or Citizens of that place In the time of Edw. 6. he became Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of one Will. Bolen who succeeded Rich. Pates upon his resignation an 1529. In 1553 he let drop certain passages in a convocation of the Clergy savouring of Heresie as 't was then temp Mariae accounted Whereupon being imprison'd he was after an Year and a half confinement examined in points of faith by the Bishop of London and his assistants who finding him obstinate in his opinions and past all recantation was by them condemned to be burn'd He hath written Epistolae Hebraicae lib. 1. De proprietate Linguarum lib. 1. An apology for spitting upon an Arrian with an invective against the Arrians and an admonition to all that be faithful in Christ to beware of them and of other late sprung Heresies Printed at London in 3 Sheets in oct at the end of The examinations of John Philpot c. which examinations were afterwards remitted by John Fox into the Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. but not the Apology Supplication to K. Philip and Qu. Mary Letters to the Lady Vane Letters to the Christian congregation Exhortation to his Sister See the said Book of John Fox under the Year 1555. Oration The beginning of which is 'T is a lamentable thing to behold at this present in England the faithless departing c. This is in MS. in Bodly's Library qu. D. 23. Th. bound with John Bradford's the Martyr Treatise of predestination with an answer to certain enormities calumniously gathered of one to slander Gods truth MS. The said Joh. Philpot hath also translated into English 1 Calvinus Homelies 2 Chrysostome against Heresies with other things which I have not yet seen He suffered death in Smithfield by burning year 1555 on the 18. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred fifty and five See his story in Joh. Fox before mentioned under the Year 1555. and Rob. Parsons his answer to it in The third part of a treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604. chap. 16. p. 286. 287 c. and elsewhere In the Archdeaconry of Winchester succeeded Mr. Philpot one Steph. Cheston LL. Bach. Prebendary of the same place who dying 1571. Dr. Joh. Ebden Preb. of the said Church of Winton also succeeded ROBERT ALDRICH or Aldrisius as some call him was born at Burnham in Bucks educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in the Year 1507 where he took the Degrees in Arts and about that time was stiled by Erasmus in a certain Epistle blandae eloquentiae juvenis Afterwards he became Proctor of the said University Schoolmaster of Eaton Fellow of the College there and at length Provost In 1529 he retired to Oxon where he was incorporated Bach. of Div. as he had stood at Cambridge and soon after performing his exercise for the Degree of Doctor in that faculty he was licensed to proceed in April 1530. Which Degree being compleated by standing in the Act which was shortly after celebrated is the reason why I put him in these Athenae Oxon. About the same time he was made Archdeacon of Colchester and in 1534. May 7. he was installed Canon of Windsore and in the same Year constituted Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter In 1537 Jul. 18. he was consecrated Bishop of Carlile in the place of Joh. Kyte deceased from which time to that of his death though there were many changes in the Church and State yet he ran through all and so consequently complied with them His works are many but all that I have seen are only these Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum The beginning of which is Suscipies Hormanne tue c. 'T is written in Lat. Verse and is remitted into the Book called Antibossicon mention'd in Will Horman among these Writers under the Year 1535. Epigrammata varia And certain matters against Rob. Whittington He gave way to fate at Horncastle in Lincolnshire where was then an house belonging to the Bishop of Carlile on the fifth day of March in Fifteen hundred fifty and five and was as I suppose buried there John Leland the Antiquarian Poet was his familiar acquaintance and therefore having had experience of his most admirable parts and learning did not without just desert commend them to posterity in his Encomia * Trophaea c. illustrium aliquot eruditorum in Anglia virorum c. to which I refer the Reader JOHN PROCTOR a Somersetshire Man born was elected Scholar of Corpus Christi Coll. in Jan. 1536 and when Bach. of Arts Fellow of Allsouls with Joh. Watson was was afterwards Bishop of VVinchester This Person who was Master of Arts in 1544 I take to be the same John Proctor that was soon after School Master of Tunbridge in Kent who wrote and published The Fall of the late Arrian Lond. 1549. oct History of Wyats Rebellion and Conference with the degenerate and seditious for the search and cause of their great disorder Lond. 1554. 55. tw In the beginning of the first Vol. of Rap. Holinsheds Chronicle are the names of such Authors from whence he chiefly compiled that Chron. and among them is William Proctor's Book called the History of Wyat's Rebellion Which should have been Joh. Proctor JOHN STANDISH was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile family of his name living in Lancashire and at about 17 Years of Age in 1524 he was by the care of his Unkle Dr. Henry Standish Bishop of St. Asaph sent to Brasenose College where making great proficiency in Logick was elected Scholar of that of Corp. Chr. in Januar. 1528. partly by the endeavours made in his behalf of one Mr. Edw. Standish Fellow of Brasenose who was either his Brother or Unkle and partly by the said Doctor After he was settled in that Coll. he went through the usual classes of Logick and Philosophy with unwearied industry became a most noted Disputant took the Degrees in Arts holy Orders and drudging much in the faculty of
Probationer-Fellow of Merton College in 1536 he being then Masters standing or more and three years after proceeded in Arts. About that time he became a shagling Lecturer in Philosophy before the University in the publick Schools a profound Disputant in Philosophical matters and homo semper nimium Metaphysicus as one doth deservedly stile him He was the chief man that disputed with Bishop Rydley in the Divinity School an 1554. as I have elsewhere told you And Joh. Fox who hath a full relation of the said disputation saith of this our Author thus Mr. Ward amplified so largely his words and so high he climed into the Heavens with Duns his Ladder and not with the Scriptures that it is to be marvelled how he could come down again without falling c. But what Fox hath ironically said concerning this matter is fully answered by one of Wards perswasion As for the works that this our Author hath written I never saw any and therefore cannot give you the titles only say with our old and later Catalogue or Register of Fellows of Merton Coll. that he wrot Dialectica Philosophica quaedam c. Joh. Foâ before-mention'd hath published His disputation with B. Nich. Rydley in the Divinity-School at Oxon. Which you may see in the Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church under the Year 1554. A little before Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown Mr. Warde who seems to have been then Bach. of Div. travelled to Rome where paying his last debt to nature on the 14. Oct. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 was there buried but in what Church or Chappel I know not Whereupon the report of it coming to Oxon his exequies were celebrated by the Society of Merton College 17. Novemb. following according to our accompt Of the same Family tho remote was Will. Warde alias Walker alias Slaughter Son of Mr. Rob. Warde of the County of Cumberland who having spent 7 years in studying the Arts in Brasnose Coll. travelled into Spayne with one Mr. Dutton a R. Cath. and there became one of his opinion Afterwards he returned into England to settle his concerns went beyond Sea again and upon a Commission received he returned into his own Country a second time to convert Persons to his profession but being taken after he had been a Priest 24 years was imprison'd in Newgate Soon after being tried for his life he was executed at Tybourne on Munday 26. July 1641. JOHN HOLYMAN a most stout Champion of his time in his Preachings and Writings against the Lutherans was born at Codyngton near to Hadenham in Buckinghamshire educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1512 took a Degree in the Canon Law afterwards that of M. of A. left the Coll. about 1526. being then Bach. of Divinity and beneficed But being desirous of the conversation of learned Men and Books entred himself in the condition of a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. where he continued for some time At length he became a Monk of St. Maries Abbey at Reading in Berks and in 1530 proceeded in Divinity at which time Hugh Abbat of the said Monastery wrot to the University in Epistle wherein our Author is thus charactarized Dominus Holymannus non vitâ minus quà m eruditione Theologus insignis Londini nuper è suggesto Paulino cencionatus est tam frequenti hominum conventu tantâ admiratione tam magnâ apud omnes gratiâ ut jamdudum nemo qui christum sincerè praedicat majorem ab illo populo vel laudem vel amorem consequutus est c. The said Epistle was written as I have elsewhere told you in the Year 1530. to the end that the University would be pleased to dispense with him from Preaching at Oxon for the Degree of D. of Divinity and that instead thereof he might Preach at London upon pretence that the City was much polluted with Luther's Doctrine In 1535 he was ejected from his Abbey because of the dissolution thereof for a profane use and lived afterwards partly at Hanborough near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire of which place he seems to have been Rector and partly in Exeter Coll. in 1554 he was promoted to the See of Bristow upon the deprivation of Paul Bush the first Bishop thereof the Temporalities of which See being given to him 28. Nov. the same Year sate there to the time of his death in good repute He hath written Tract contra doctrinam M. Lutheri Defensio matrimonii Reginae Catherinae cum Rege Henrico octavo lib. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen This Person who was a most zealous Catholick gave way to fate either in or near to Oxon much about the time when his Predicessor P. Bush died and was according to his will as I presume buried in the Chancel of the Church of Hanborough before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 Mr. Alexand. Belsire sometimes Fellow of New College afterwards the first President of that of St. John Bapt. who was his great Friend and Overseer of his last Will was buried near to him in 1567 being while living seldom from him The said Bishop Holyman in his last Will and Testament dated 4 June 1558 and proved 16. Feb. following did give to the College near to Winchester the works of St. Augustine St. Jerome St. Cyprian St. Cecill Tertullian Ireneus c. Which afterwards were chained in the Library there RICHARD TURNER a Staffordshire Man born was educated in Magd. College of which house he became afterwards Fellow and esteemed in the University especially by the reformed party a right godly and learned Man and a good Preacher Afterwards he belonged to the Church at Windsore where he helped Jo. Merbeck in making the Concordance of the Bible But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he fled beyond Seas and setling at Basil in Germany was a frequent Preacher among the English exiles for whose sake he composed An Exposition on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians Hebrews Expos on the Gen. Epist of St. James These expositions which were read at Basil were fit for the Press in 1558 but whether they were ever afterwards Printed I know not In the said Year Baleus tells us that he was living at Basil and Joh. Fox doth further inform us that he died in Exile So I presume that he concluded his last day between the beginning of Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 and the Month of Novemb. the same year in which Month Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown of England and soon after the exiles return'd to their Country REYNOLD POLE whose piety learning and integrity of life did make him more illustrious than the splendor of his royal blood was a younger Son of Sir Ric. Pole Knight of the Garter Cosin german to K. Hen. 7. by Margaret his Wife Daughter of George Duke of Clarence younger Brother to K. Ed. 4.
3. Oct. 1543 upon the death of Joh. Southwode LL. D. When King Hen. 8. had extirpated the Popes power he seemed to be very moderate and also in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. but when Qu. Mary succeeded he shew'd himself a most zealous Person for the Roman Catholick Religion and a great enemy to Luther and Reformers His works are Sermons fruitful godly and learned Lond. 1557. qu. containing 1 A declaration of the seven gifts of the holy ghost 2 A Homely of the articles of Christian Faith 3 Homely of Ceremonies and of mans Laws 4 A perfect exposition of St. Peters first Epistle in XX treatises or Sermons What other things he hath published I cannot yet find neither should I have known any thing of the said Fruitful Sermons had I not accidentally seen them in that choice collection of Books in Balliol Coll. Library given thereunto by the no less curious than learned Sir Thom. Wendy Knight of the Bath sometimes Gentleman-commoner of the said House This Dr. Edgeworth took his last farewell of this World in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred and sixty year 1560 and was directly buried before the choire door in the Cathedral Church at Wells Whereupon Dr. Gilbert Bourne Bishop of that place did present or collate to the said Chancellourship of the Church of Wells one Gilbert Bournford Bachelaur of Divinity on the second day of April in the same Year THOMAS PHAYER was born in Wales particularly as it seems in Pembrokeshire had his Academical education among the Oxonians whom after some years he left and retired to the Inns of Court Lincolns Inn as I conceive where at length he attained to a considerable knowledge in the municipal Laws Afterwards being a Person of a mutable mind he eagerly addicted his Muse to the study of Medicine took the Degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in an Act celebrated 21. Mar. 1558-9 at which time he was much famed among the Academians for his sufficiencies in the Art of Poetry which afterwards were made publick He hath committed to posterity these Books following of his writing and translation Of the nature of Writts Whether the same with that written by the great Lawyer Anth. Fitzherbert who lived before Phayers time I know not Exemplars of common places for the writing of several sorts of Instruments It is the same which we now call A Book of precedents I have a MS. lying by me written on parchment in the time of H. 6. or Ed. 4. containing Copies of all matters to be used by Lawyers but who the compiler of it was I cannot tell In the beginning of it is written in a pretty ancient character George Hardley A goodly bryefe treatise of the pestylence with the causes signs and cures of the same Lond. 1544. and 46. oct Declaration of the veynes of mans body and to what dyseases and infirmities the opening of every one of them doe serve This is printed with the former Book an 1544. c. A Book of children And this also which treats of the grief and diseases of Children Remedies or prescriptions of Physick for the Body Published by Hen. Holland 1603. whom I shall mention at the end of Hen. Holland under the Year 1625. He also translated from French into English The regiment of Life Lond. 1544. and 46. oct and from Lat. into English Nine Books of Virgils Aencidos The three first of which were by him finished in the Forest of Kilgarran in Pembrokshire in the Year 1555. The fourth at the same place an 1556. The fifth in 1557 being ended 3. May just after the translator had undergone a great danger at Caârmerden The sixth and seventh were also finished by him in the same Year and in the same place The eighth there also in Kilgarran forest an 1558. The ninth was ended 3. Apr. 1560. The tenth was begun by him in the said Year but died as it seems before he could go through it Afterwards a young Physician named Tho. Twyne meeting with the aforesaid translations in MS. he finished the said tenth Aeneid 23. May an 1573. Which being done he translated the eleventh twelfth and thirteenth Aeneidos and published them altogether an 1584. as I shall tell you elsewhere As for Dr. Phaer he ended his days at Kilgarran before-mentioned after the 12. of Aug. on which day his last will and testament was dated in Fifteen hundred and sixty year 1560 and was buried in the Parish Church of that place Over his grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid with an Epitaph engraven thereon made and devised by his good friend Mr. George Ferrers of Lincolns -Inn but what the contents of it are I know not nor of any other Epitaph made for him only that by Sir Thom. Chaloner a most noted Latine Poet of his time who having been well acquainted with the Doctor doth in a pathetical manner highly commend him for his learning and great skill in Physick He the said Doctor left behind him a Widow named Anne and two Daughters Eleanor the Wife of Gruffith ap Eynon and Mary THOMAS ROBERTSON was a Yorkshire Man born either at or near Wakefeild was originally I think of Queens afterwards Demie or Semicommoner of Magdalen College Master of the School joyning to it in the place of Joh. Stanbridge Master of Arts 1525 at which time he was a great Oppugner and Vilifier of the Questionists in the University and at length Fellow of the said House In 1539 he being about that time Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Rich. Sampson supplicated the venerab congreg of the Regents to be admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then esteemed Flos decus Oxonii but whether he was admitted it appears not and in 1540 he by the favour of Longland Bishop of Lincolne was made Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Will. More Suffragan Bishop of Colchester deceased in which dignity being installed 5. March the same Year enjoyed it to 1560. as I shall anon tell you In 1546. Jun. 3. he was instituted Vicar of Wakefield before-mention'd on the death of Dr. Tho. Knolles by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Chambre M. D. Dean and the convent of the Kings Chappel of the Virgin Mary and St. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster Whereupon in the beginning of 1548. he gave up the Treasurership of Salibury in which Dignity Thom. Stevens succeeded 28. May the same Year He the said Robertson was an exact Grammarian and Humanitian and went as 't was thought beyond his two Predecessors in Magd. College School in the education of Youth In 1532 he Printed a Comment on the rules which Will. Lilye wrot in verse and added thereunto Quae Genus and the versifying rules dedicating it to Bishop Longland before mention'd with reference to Henley School which some think was founded or at least inlarged by Longland From whose pains I mean of Robertson and also the
violent and busie Person had got a license to read and preach it hapened that in a Lecture of his delivered at Thistleworth near to London he did therein inveigh much against the Poyson of Pelagius which had then infected the People very much in all parts of the Nation This Lecture of his being answered in print by one who was his auditor he staightway come out with a reply entit A Preservative or Triacle against the poyson of Pelagius lately renewed and stirred up again by the furious sect of the Anabaptists Lond. 1551. in tw which Book being dedicated to Hugh Latimer was usher'd into the world by several copies of Lat. and Eng. verses set before and at the end of it made by Nich. Grimoald of Merton Coll Tho. Norton of Sharpenhoe Randol Hurleston or Huddleston and Tho. Soame a Preacher Afterwards our Author Turner published A new Book of spiritual Physick for divers diseases of the Nobilitie and Gentlemen of England Said to be printed at Rome but false an 1555. oct by Marcus Antonius Constantius otherwise called Thraso miles gloriosus 'T is printed in an English Character and in the title are 4 Lat. verses directed by Turner ad nobilem Britannum The hunting of the Fox and the Wolfe because they did make havock of the Sheep of Jesus Christ printed in oct A Book of the natures and properties as well of the Bathes of England as of other Bathes in Germany and Italy Collen 1562. in a thin fol. and in an Eng. Char. Treatise of the Bath at Baeth in England Printed with the former Book Of the nature of all waters Printed with the former also The nature of wines commonly used here in England with a confutation of them that hold that Renish and other small Wines ought not to be drunken either of them that have the stone the rume or other diseases Lond. 1568. oct Of the nature and vertue of Triacle Printed with the next Book going before The rare treasure of English Bathes Lond. 1587. qu. Several things in this Book were published from his former Books of Bathes He also translated into English 1 A comparison between the old learning and the new Printed in Southwarke an 1538. originally written by Urb. Regius 2 The Palsgraves catechismi Lond. 1572. oct What else he hath written and translated you may see in Joh. Bale cent 8. nu 95. At length after all the rambles and troubles that our Author Turner had made and did endure he did quietly lay down his head and departed this life 7. year 1568 July in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight Whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Olaves in Hertstreet in London leaving then behind him several Children of whom Peter a Doctor of Physick was one Father to Samuel and Peter as I shall tell you elsewhere WILLIAM BARLOWE was bred a Canon Regular of the order of St. Austin in the Monastery of St. Osith in Essex and partly among those of his order in Oxon where besides a nursery for was an Abbey and Priory of that order and there obtained a competency in Theology of which faculty as 't is said he was a Doctor Afterwards he was made Prior of the Canons of his Order living at Bysham near Maydenhead in Berkshire and by that name and title he was sent in an Embassie to Scotland as I shall tell you elsewhere About the time of the dissolution of his Priory he was elected to the Episcopal See of St. Asaph the temporalities of which being delivered to him on the second day of Febr. 27. Hen. 8. Dom. 1535. he was consecrated to the said See 22. of the same Month. Thence he was translated to St. Davids in the Month of Apr. 1536. and thence to Bathe and Wells in 1547 being then a zealous Professor and Preacher of the reformed Religion In 1553 upon Qu. Maries coming to the Crown he was deprived of his Bishoprick for being married whereupon retiring with many others into Germany under pretence of Religion lived there in a poor and exile condition At length when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he was made Bishop of Chichester in Decemb. 1559 where he sate to the time of his death and in 1560 he was made the first Canon or Prebendary of the first stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster then founded by Qu. Elizabeth which Dignity he held with his Bishoprick five years His works are these A Dialogue describing the original ground of these Lutheran factions and many of their abuses Lond. 1553. in oct Printed in an English Char. Christian Homelies Cosmography which two last I have not yet seen He departed this mortal life in the Month of Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1568 and was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester After this William Barlowe had been a Prior and a Bishop he took to Wife one Agatha Wellesbourne by whom he had issue five Daughters that were all married to Bishops viz. 1 Anne who after she had buried her first Husband named Austin Bradbridge bridge of Chichester sometimes Fellow of New College married Harbert Westphaling Bishop of Hereford 2 Elizabeth Wife of Will. Day Dean of Windsore afterwards Bishop of Winchester 3 Margaret Wife of Will. Overton B. of Lichf and Cov. 4 Frances who after she had buried her first Husband named Matthew Parker a younger Son of Dr. Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury was married to Tobie Mathew who died Archb. of York 5 Antonia the Wife of Will. Wykeham Bishop of Winchester The said Will. Barlowe had also a Son of both his names whom I shall mention in his proper place JOHN MAN being the next according to time to be mentioned I must tell you that he was born in the Parish of Lacocke in Wiltshire elected from Winchester School Probationer of New Coll. in 1529. and was made perpetual Fellow two Years after In 1537 he proceeded in Arts was the Southern Proctor of the University three years after and in 1547 he was made Principal of Whitehall since involved into Jesus Coll. After Qu. Elizabeth was settled in the Throne he became Chaplain to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury who having a respect for did put him in Warden of Merton Coll. 1562. upon a dissent among the Fellows in an Election of one for that office as I have told you at large elsewhere In 1565 he was made Dean of Glocester in the place of Will. Jennings deceased who from being a Monk of that place was made the first Dean 1541. and in 1567. in the Month of Aug. he was sent by the Queen her Ambassador to the K. of Spain who the Year before had sent to our Queen his Ambassador called Goseman or Gooseman de Sylva Dean as 't was said of Toledo Of which Ambassadors Qu. Eliz. used merrily to say that as her Brother the K. of Spain had sent to her a Goos-man so she had sent to him a Man goose
While he continued at Madrid in Spain in the quality of an Ambassador he was accused to have spoken somewhat unreverently of the Pope Whereupon he was excluded from the Court and afterwards thrust out of Madrid into a Country Village his Servants compelled to be present at Mass and the exercise of his own Religion forbidden and this whether in more hatred to the Queen of England or to Religion I cannot say whereas she in the mean time had shewed all kindness to Goseman the Spanish Ambassador allowing him his own Religion This Man-goose hath as I have been informed written and translated several things but none have I yet seen only his translation from Latin into English of Common places of Christian Religion gathered by Wolfg. Musculus c. Lond. 1563. fol. and 1573. in a thick qu. He paid his last debt to nature at London 18. March in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight and received sepulture in the Chancel of St. Anns Church near Aldersgate in the same City leaving issue by his Wife Frances Dau. of Edm. Herenden of London Mercer several Children some of whose posterity do now or at least did lately live at Hatfield-Braddock in Essex In his Deanery of Glocester succeeded Dr. Tho. Cooper afterwards B. of Winchester and in the Wardenship of Merton Coll. Dr. Tho. Bickley afterwards B. of Chichester Besides this Jo. Man I find another of both his names of New Coll. born at Writtle in Essex who being LL. B. was presented by the Warden and Fellows of the said Coll. to the rectory of Great-Horwood in Bucks an 1551 where he died 1565. EDMUND BONNER a Person much esteemed by those of his profession for the zeal he bore to the R. Catholick cause was the natural Son of George Savage Priest Parson of Davenham in Cheshire natural Son of Sir Job Savage of Clifton in the said County Knight of the Garter and one of the counsel to K. Hen. 7. Which Geo. Savage Priest had seven natural Children by three sundry Women viz. 1 George Savage Chancellour of Chester 2 Joh. Wymesley Parson of Torperley in Cheshire who was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Ed. Bonner 3 Randal Savage of Lodge in the said County 4 Edm. Bonner of whom we are to make further mention begotten on the body of Elizab. Frodsham who was the Wife after Bonner had been begotten of Edm. Bonner a Sawyer living with a Gentleman called Armingham of Potters Hanley in Worcestershire besides three Daughters named Margaret Ellen and Elizabeth Our Author who was called by his supposed Fathers name Edm. Bonner was born either at Elmeley or at Potters-Hanley in Worcestershire and in 1512 or thereabouts became a Student of Broadgates hall now Pembroke Coll. being then a noted nursery for Civilians and Canonists Soon after having made a sufficient progress in Philosophy and the Laws he was on the 12. June admitted Bach. of the Canon and on the 13. of July following an 1519. Bach. of the Civil Law About that time he entred into Holy Orders and performed many matters relating to his faculty in the Dioc. of Worcester by the appointment of the then Bishop In 1525 he was licensed to proceed in the Civil Law and about that time obtained the rectories of Ripple Bledon Dereham Cheswick and Cherriburton in Yorks Afterwards he was one of the Kings Chaplains a favourer of the Lutherans of the divorce between the K. and Catherine of Spain a favourer of the Kings proceedings in expelling the Popes authority from the Kingdom of England and Master of the Faculties under Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury In 1535 he became Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Edw. Fox promoted to the See of Hereford which Fox had been installed in that Archdeaconry upon the resignation of Steph. Gardener LL. D. 27. Sept. 1531. and by the endeavours of Thom. Cromwell Secretary of State he was employed Ambassador to the Kings of Denmark and France to the Pope and to the Emperour of Germany and made Bishop of Hereford 1538 the temporalities of which See were restored to him by the K. 4. March the same Year But before he was consecrated thereunto he was elected Bishop of London 1. Oct. 1539 being then in an Embassie had restitution made of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 18 Nov. following and was consecrated 3. Apr. 1540. After the death of K. Hen. 8. and Religion being about to be reformed by K. Ed. 6. Bonner seemed at first to be forward for it but recanting what he had done he was enjoyn'd to preach a Sermon at Pauls cross to make farther trial perhaps of his humour wherein leaving out the article of the Kings authority was upon the complaints of Joh. Hooper and Will some call him Hugh Latymer Bach. of Div. and Parson of St. Laurence Pountney who prosecuted him very zealously for it and his slowness in forwarding reformation in his Diocess first committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea 20. Sept. and in the beginning of Oct. following an 1549. was depriv'd of his Bishoprick Soon after which time his Mother Elizab. Frodsham died and was buried at Fulham at whose Funeral Bonner tho a Prisoner gave to several Persons mourning coats In the beginning of Aug. 1553. he was released out of the Marshalsea and restored to his Bishoprick by Qu. Mary in whose Reign he shew'd himself severe being put upon it by publick authority against the Protestants as may be fully seen in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church As for the writings of the said Bonner they are many but all that I have yet seen are only these viz. Preface to the oration of Stephen Bish of Winchester concerning true obedience Printed at London in Lat. 1534. 35 and at Hamburgh 1536. oct Translated and imprinted by a most zealous enemy to the Papists called Mich. Wood who wrot a bitter and libellous Epistle before and a conclusion after it to the Reader Print at Roan 1553. oct I have seen another translation of it perhaps by the same hand without the said lib. Epist printed in oct an 1536. In the said Pref. written by Bonner are several matters against the Popes power in England and in defence of the Kings divorce from Qu. Catherine Several Letters to the Lord Tho. Cromwell an 1538. A declaration to the Lord Th. Crom. describing to him the evil behaviour of Steph Bish of Winchester an 1538 These two last are mention'd in the Acts and Mon. of the Church under that year Responsum exhortatio Lond. 1553. in oct Which answer and exhortation to the Clergy in praise of Priesthood beginning Dum tacitus apud me considero c. were utter'd by our Author after Joh. Harpesfield had finished his Sermon to the Clergy in St. Pauls Cath. in Lond. 16. Oct. 1553 and the orations ended of John Wymesley Archdeacon of London before-mention'd and of Hugh Weston Dean of Westminster All which were printed and bound together in one volume Articles
Armamentario Romano These two last are printed at the end of Historiae Britannicae defensio written by Sir Joh. Prise Lond. 1573. qu. Chronicon Walliae à Rege Cadwalladero usque ad an Dom. 1294. MS. in Cottons Library under Caligula A. 6. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 The judgment of Urines Lond. 1551. oct 2 The Historie of Cambria now called Wales Afterwards corrected augmented finished and continued by David Powell Lond. 1584 qu. 3 The treasure of health containing many profitable Medicines Lond. 1585. oct written by Pet. Hispanus To which translation our Author Lhuyd added the causes and signes of every disease with the Aphorismes of Hypocrates These are all I think that he hath written and translated for among my searches I have seen no more nor do I know any thing else of the Author only that he paid his last debt to nature year 1570 about Fifteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Church of Whitchurch near Denbigh before-mention'd Soon after was a Monument of Alabaster set up in the wall over his grave to his memory On which was portraied his Effigies in a praying posture with a desk and a book laying thereon before him a sword by his side but nothing else military in his habit Under his said Effigies is a plain free stone in the said wall whereon are engraven eight barbarous English verses The two first of which run thus The corps and earthly shape doth rest Here tomyd in your sight Of Humfrey Lloid Mr. of Art A famus worthy Wight In the last verse is mention made of an Epitaph annex'd but where that was written unless on the stone lying on his grave wherein probably the day and year of his death were set down I cannot tell Many years before his death he took to Wife Barbara Daughter of George Lumley and Sister to John Lord Lumley by whom he had issue Splendian and John who both died without issue Henry an inhabitant of Cheame in Surrey and Jane the Wife of Rob. Coytmore LAURENCE VAUS Vaux or Vaulx so many ways I find him written was born near to Blackrode in Lancashire received his Academical education in Oxon partly as it seems in Queens Coll. but mostly in that of Corp. Ch. were he was either Clerk or Chorister and much favoured by Jam. Brokes Fellow of that house How long he continued there or whether he took a Degree in Arts it appears not About the Year 1540 he applyed his studies to the Theological faculty and was made a Priest being then esteemed to be Vir eximiae doctrinae pro instruendâ in fide catholicâ juventute Afterwards he became Chaplain to the said Brokes when he was Bishop of Glocâster Warden of Manchester Coll. in his own Country on the death of George Collier of the Family of the Colliers near to Stone in Staffordshire in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Mary and in 1556 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in this University Upon the coming to the Crown of Qu. Eliz. and the reformation of Religion that followed he left his preferment in which Will. Byrch of the Family of Byrch hall in Lanc. succeeded 2. Eliz. and went into Ireland where he was dispoiled of all he had by thieves and narrowly escaped death Thence he went into the Low Countries where at Lovaine he was made a Monk as one saith of the order of St. Dionyse meaning I suppose of the Cenobie of St. Dionyse because there is no such order where he wrot A Catechisme or a christian doctrine necessary for Children and ignorant People Lov. 1567. Antw. 1574. printed again 1583. 1599. c. all in oct and tw An instruction of the laudable customes used in the Cath. Church This is some editions is entit The use and meaning of holy Ceremonies in Gods Church Godly contemplations for the unlearned These two last are printed with one two or more of the editions of the Catechisme Certain brief notes of divers godly matters Printed with the Catechisme in 1583 99 oct At length our Author Vaux making a return into England to propagate his and strengthen others in Religion was apprehended and imprisoned in the Gate-house at Westminster where he dyed in great necessity about the Year as I find it reported year 1570 Fifteen hundred and seventy but where buried I cannot justly say because the register of St. Margarets Church wherein the Prison called the Gate-house before-mentioned is situated makes no mention of him in that Year three years before or three years after as I have been informed by the Letters of Dr. Simon Patrick Prebendary of St. Peters Church in the said City and Dean of Peterborough afterwards Bishop of Chichester RICHARD SHAGENS who is written in one of our registers Schaftnes was born in Ireland became Fellow of Balliol Coll. in 1556 being then Bach. of Arts a noted disputant and an excellent Philosopher In 1560 he took the Degree of Master and four years after resigniag his Fellowship he retired into his native Country where he gained a good report for his noted parts in speaking and penning Rich. Stanyhurst his countryman saith that he was afterwards Schoolmaster in Ireland and a learned and a vertuous Man but telleth us not what he hath written and therefore I suppose that what he did of that nature was after Stanyhurst had given the said character of him Contemporary with this Shaghens or a little before were Students in Oxon these Irish Men following 1 Patrick Cusack a Gentleman born who after he had left Oxon was a Schoolmaster in Dublin where his admirable learning gave great light to his Country but employed his studies rather in instructing of Scholars than in penning of Books He wrot in Lat. Diversa Epigrammata 2 One Dormer a Civilian who was born at Rosse and wrot in Ballad royal The decay of Ross 3 One Sheine who wrot De republica See more among the Bishops under the Year 1582 and in the Fasti 1523. 4 Peter Lombard a most learned Man of his time but did not take any Degree See more of him in Pet. White among the writers under the Year 1590. 5 Elias Sheth who wrote Divers Sonnets 6 One Taylor a Bach. of Arts who proceeded in the University and wrot Epigrammata diversa What his Christian name was I cannot justly say because many of his Sirname and time did proceed Masters in this University as Tho. Taylor in 1539. Will. Taylor 1541. and 1551. and Tho. Taylor of All 's Coll. 1563. Whether this last be the same Th. Taylor who was a Lancashire Man born and chosen Fellow thereof 1557. or another chosen in 1562 I know not Many other Irish Men were also conversant in studies here even till an University was founded at Dublin after which time we had but few JOHN STORIE a most noted Civilian and Canononist of his time was educated in Philosophical learning and in the rudiments of
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
Camden whom I follow in some things tells us that our Author N. Saunders was miserably ramish'd to death seems to be contrary to what a certain Author of Camdens time reports but he being one of Saunder's perswasion may perhaps not be believed by many He tells us that before the end of the said war wherein Desmond was kill'd Saunders was overtaken with the flux a usual disease with strangers in Ireland and tho he was strong and in the judgment of all near to him far from the approach of death yet in the beginning of the night he desired Cornelius the Bishop titular of Killaloa to give him the extreme unction for saith he this night I shall die having received a call from my Creator Whereupon Cornelius made answer that there was no need of it seeing that his body was strong and no sign of death near it Notwithstanding this his disease pressing forward he was anointed in the middle of the night and about the time of Cock-crowing he surrendred up his Soul to God In the night following he was carried to his grave by 4 Irish chevaliers whereof Dermitius Osullevan father to the Author whom I here quote was one and was buried by certain Priests according to their manner his body having been exposed to the sight of certain Persons as well of England as of Ireland who for privacy sake were prohibited their presence at his funeral Afterwards Cornelius went into Spain and died at Lisbon an 1617. Thus in effect the said Author who tells us not the name of the place where he died or was buried neither the time when EDMOND CAMPIAN another stiff defender of the R. Cath. Religion was born in London on St. Pauls day in Jan. 1540. educated in School-learning among the blew coats in Ch. Ch. Hospital within the said City spoke an eloquent oration before Qu. Mary there at her first coming to the Crown an 1553 put in Scholar of St. Johns Coll. by the worthy founder thereof at its first foundation took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1564 and was Junior of the Act celebrated on the 19. of Feb. the same year at which time speaking one or more most admirable orations to the envy of his contemporaries caused one of them who was afterwards an Archbishop to say that rather than he would omit the opportunity to shew his parts and dominare in una atque altera conciuncula did take the oath against the Popes Supremacy and against his conscience Soon after if not before he took holy orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Rich. Cheyney Bishop of Glocester who had encouraged him in his studies and became a florid Preacher In 1566 when Qu. Elizab. was entertained by the University of Oxon he did not only make an eloquent oration before her at her first entry but also was Respondent in the Philosophy Act in St. Maries Church performed by him with great applause from that Queen and the learned auditory In 1568 he was the junior Proctor of the University being the first of his Coll. who did undergo that office and in the Year following he took a journey into Ireland where improving his time very industriously did by the help of his admirable parts write in short time a history of that Country but then he being discovered to have left the Church of England and to labour for Proselytes was seized and detained for a time but getting loose from his keepers did with much ado obtain footing on the British shoare an 1571 where making but short stay took shipping again and went into the Low Countries and settling for a time in the English Coll. at Doway made an open recantation of his heresie as they there stil'd it studied Divinity and had the Degree of Bach. of that faculty conferr'd upon him Thence he went to Rome where he was admitted into the Society of Jesus in 1573 and being esteemed by the General of that order to be a Person every way compleat was sent into Germany where living for some time at Brune and afterwards at Vienna compos'd a Tragedy called Nectar Ambrosia acted before the Emperor with great applause Soon after setling at Pragne in Bohemia where had been newly erected a College for Jesuits taught there for about 6 years time Philosophy and Rhetorick and became amongst them a constant Preacher in the Latin tongue At length being called thence to Rome was with Father Persons sent at the command of P. Gregory 13 into England in 1580 where arriving at Dover on the day next following that of St. John Baptist was the day after that received with great joy by the Catholicks in London Afterwards he printed privately and by stealth his neat well penn'd book called Rationes decem of which many copies were dispersed in St. Maries Church at an Act-time an 1581. by one who was sometimes a Member of St. Johns Coll. in the time of Campian named Will. Hartley a R. Priest a native of Nottinghamshire and a learned Man who being taken in short time after was imprison'd and in Feb. 1584 being released was with other Priests and Jesuits put on Ship-board at Tower-wharf and thence at the Queens charge was wafted over the Seas to Normandy where he and his company were left to their shifts Afterwards it being commonly known that Campian was in England great inquisition was made after him At length at the desire and insinuation of Walsingham Secretary of State one George Eliot a Priest-catcher sometimes a zealous Catholick undertook for a considerable reward to find him out But all his searchings in London availing not he did at length upon some intimation received go into Berks. where with his attendants making great enquiries did with much ado find him out disguised like a Royster as 't is said in the house of Edw. Yates Esq at Lyford a little before which time Persons the Jesuit who had been with and accompanied him in his travels to and fro had left him and diverted his course towards Kent So that being carried as a Prisoner with triumph through Abendon Henly Colebroke and so through part of London with a paper fastned to his hat and a writing thereon to shew to the People that he was Edm. Campian a most pernicious Jesuit was chap'd up a close Prisoner within the Tower of London where he did undergo many examinations from several People abuses wrackings tortures and I know not what but scarcely answered the expectation raised of when certain Divines disputed with him About which time a little Pamphlet was published in oct containing a discourse of his apprehension which I have not yet seen All writers whether Protestant or Popish say that he was a Man of most admirable parts an elegant Orator a subtile Philosopher and disputant and an exact Preacher whether in English or Lat. tongue of a sweet disposition and a well polished Man A certain writer saith he was of a sweet nature constantly carrying
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
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
carrere dignus Culleolo insutus si te mea musa sileret c. As for his Writings they were many but none of them only one were published till after his Death some of which are these Elenchus Annalium Regum Edwardi 5. Rich. 3. Hen. 7. 8. Lond. 1579. and 1597. in tw Dedicated to Sir Tho. Bronley Lord Chancelor of England This is called among the Lawyers Table to the Annals or Year-Book of Edw. 5. Rich. 3. c. The office of a Justice of Peace Together with instructions how and in what manner Statutes shall be expounded Lond. 1658. Oct. Observations upon the Eyte of Pickering Lambert's Areheion c. MS. Fol. sometimes in the Library of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultrey-Compter with other things which I have not yet seen This eminent Lawyer did mostly dwell in London in a street called Noble-street within Aldersgate-ward in an house which himself newly built wherein he dyed but was buried as I suppose in the Church at Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire where he had purchased an estate in the latter end of fifteen hundred nienty and three for on the 7th of March that year was a commission granted from the Prorogative Court of Canterbury to Mariana his Widdow daughter of Joh. Barley of Kingsey in the said county to administer the goods debts and chattels of her Husband Will. Fleetwood lately deceased He left behind him two Sons whereof Sir Will. Fleetwood Knight was one who succeeded him in the Estate at Missenden and the other was Sir Thomas of the Middle-Temple afterwards Attorney to Prince Henry He had also divers Daughters one whereof was married to Sir David Foulis Knight and Baronet and another to Sir Tho. Chaloner Tutor to the said Prince Son of the learned Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight JOHN WOOLTON was born at a Market Town in Lancashire called Wigan or Wiggen entred a Student in Brasnose Col. 26. Oct. 1553. aged 18 or thereabouts having perhaps wore a Gown in the University before that time supplicated for the Degree of Bach of Arts in the beginning of 1555. but it doth not appear that he was admitted Afterwards as it is said he went to or with his Uncle Alex. Nowel into Germany to which place several Protestants of England had receeded as voluntary Exiles In the beginning of Q. Eliz. he returned and in 1563. being about that time Canon Residentiary of Exeter he was admitted by the Name of John Wolton Bach. of Arts to the Church of Spaxton in the Diocess of Wells In April 1574. he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences but whether his desire was granted or he admitted it appears not In May 1575. being then Warden of Manchester College in his own Country he supplicated under the Name of John Wolton a Minister of Gods Word and sometimes a Student of this Vniversity that he might be licensed to proceed in Divinity but whether that also was granted it doth not appear Sure it is that he being then the designed Bishop of Exeter was consecrated thereunto in the beginning of August following He was a Person of great Piety and Reason and an earnest assertor of conformity against the Opposers thereof for which he was blamed by many but commended by more after his Death He hath written The armour of proof shewing the firm sortress of defence and haven of rest in these troublesome times Lond. 1576. oct Of the immortality of the Sou wherein is declared the Origin Nature and Power of the same c. Christian Manual Or the Life and Manners of true Christians wherein is declared how needful it is for the Children of God to manifest their Faith by their Works Castle for Christians and Fortress for the Faithful besieged and defended now almost 6000 years New Anatomy of the whole Man as well of his Body as of his Soul declaring the condition and constitution of the same in his first creation corruption regeneration and glorifiration Discourse of the conscience wherein is declared the unspeakable joys and comfort of a good conscience and the grief of an evil conscience All which six Treatises were printed at London in oct An. 1576. At length he having sate Bishop about 14 years with great commendations dyed on the 13th of March in fifteen hundred ninety and three and was buried in his Cathedral Church at Exeter on the South side of the Presbytery or Choire leaving then a Son behind him named John Fellow of Allsouls college Master of Arts and a Graduat in Physick Over his Grave was a Monument soon after erected with an inscription thereon containing six Verses two of which run thus Ingenium genium mores pietatis honore Eloquiumque pium busta perusta tegent THOMAS WATSON a Londoner born did spend some time in this University not in Logick and Philosophy as he ought to have done but in the smooth and pleasant studies of Poetry and Romance whereby he obtained an honourable Name among the Students in those Faculties Afterwards retiring to the Metropolis studied the Common Law at riper years and for a diversion wrote Ecloga in obitum D. Francisci Walsingham Eq. aur Lond. 1590. in two sheets in qu. Amintae Gaudia Lond. 1592. qu. Written in Lat. Hexamiter and dedicated to the incomparable Mary Countess of Pembroke who was a Patroness of his Studies He hath written other things of that Nature or Strain and something pertaining to Pastoral which I have not yet seen and was highly valued among ingenious Men in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth I shall make mention of another Tho. Watson who in his younger years was a Poet also in the Fasti following among the Incorporations of the year 1554. HENRY SMITH Son of Erasmus Smith of Bosworth Son of Joh. Smith alias Harrys of Withcock in Leicestershire was matriculated as a Member of Lincoln Col. in 1575. thus Henricus Smithe Leicestrensis generosus Aetat 15. What stay he made in the same House or whether he was the same Heâ Smyth who received the Benefaction of Jo. Claymond in Bras Col. An. 1574. or took the Degre of Batchelaur of Arts it appears not Sure it is that having some Ecclesiastical employment conferred upon him was absent from the University for some time and at length in 1583. did take the Degree of Master of Arts as a Member of Hart Hall being then esteemed the Miracle and Wonder of his Age for his prodigious Memory and for his fluent eloquent and practical way of Preaching Afterwards he became Lecturer of St. Clements Danes without Temple-Bar near London where being much frequented by the Puritanical Party was by them esteemed as he was by the generality the prime Preacher of the Nation which his Sermons taken into the Hands of all People did shew Some of them were printed in 1591 92 and 93 while he lived but after his Death 40 or more were collected into one Volume
to and hated him Card. Allen and Sir Fr. Inglefield as bitter Enemies Of this Nic. Dolman who was a grave Priest and of a mild disposition you may read in a book intit A relation of a Faction began at Wisbich 1595 c. p. 12 13 14 c. 32. 47 c. A copy of a Letter written by a Master of Arts of Cambridge to his Friend in London concerning some talk passed of late between two worshipful and grave men about the present state and some proceedings of the Earl of Leicester and his Friends in England c. Written in 1584. but the certain year when prinâed unless in 1600. I cannot tell It was also printed in oct as the other was in 1631. and hath this running title on the top of every leaf of the book A Letter of State of a Scholar of Cambridge The first edit and perhaps the second was printed beyond the Seas and most of the copies being sent into England bound with the outside of the leaves coloured with green the book was commonly called Father Persons Green-coat 'T is the same book with that intit Leicesters Common-wealth being a dialogue between a Scholar a Gent. and a Lawyer Lond. 1641. qu. This book tho' commonly reported to be Persons and that he had most of his materials for the composition thereof from Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh which I presume did arise from Dr. Tho. James his affirmation that he was the author of it yet Persons himself saith in his Preface to the Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword that he did not write Leicesters Commonwealth And certainly if he had been the author it Pitseus and Ribadeneira with his Continuators would have mentioned it in their respective Catalogues of our author's works whereas they are altogether silent in that matter Liecesters Commonwealth Lond. 1641. oct written in verse This is a small thing and containeth not the same sense with the former Leicesters Ghost in verse also To both which tho the name of Rob. Persons Jesuit is set in the title yet I cannot any where find that he was the author Apologetical Epistle to the Lords of her Maj. Council in defence of his Resolution in Religion Printed 1601. oct Brief apology or defence of the Catholick Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and Subordination in England erected these later years by P. Clem. 8. and impugned by certain Libels printed and published of late c. S. Omer 1601. in oct Soon after were certain notes wrote on this by Humph. Ely Manifestation of the folly and bad spirit of certain in England calling them Secular Priests Printed 1602. qu. This is called a Libel in a Reply made to it by W. C. printed 1603. qu. And it was animadverted upon by A. C. in his Second Letter to his dis-jesuited Kinsman concerning the appeal state Jesuits c. Printed 1602. qu. A Decachordon of 10 Quodlibetical Questions about the contentions between the Seminary Priests and the Jesuits Printed 1602. qu. De perigrinatione lib. 1. Printed in tw This I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether it be in Lat. or Engl. The Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword Pr. 1602. in oct Answer to O. E. whether Papists ' or Protestants be true Catholicks Pr. 1603. in ect Treatise of the three conversions from Paganism to Christian Religion Published under the name of N. D. that is Nic. Doleman in three Volumes in oct The first Vol. which containeth two parts of the said treatise was printed at S. Omers an 1603. The second Vol. which containeth the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the Kalender or Catalogue of Protestant Saints Martyrs and Confessors devised by Joh. Fox c. for the first six months was printed at the said place in 1604. And the third Vol. which containeth also the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the said Kalender of John Fox for the last six months was printed at the same place in the same year under the initial Letters of N. D. When the said three Volumes were first published they were sold in Oxon for 20 shillings but some years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. I bought them for 3 sh The same year 1604 came out Around answer to Parsons alias Doleman the Noddy in qu. but whither to any of the former treatises I know not A relation of a trial made before the K. of France upon the year 1600. between the Bishop of Eureux and the Lord Pleffis Mornay about certain points of corrupting and falsifying authors whereof the said Plessis was openly convicted S. Omers 1604 in oct Published under the initial Letters of N. D. A defence of the precedent relation of a conference about Religion Printed with the Relation of a Trial c. Review of ten publick disputations or conferences held within the compass of four years under K. Ed. and Q. Mary concerning some principal points in Religion especially of the Sacrament and Sacrifice of the Altar S. Omer 1604. in oct under the name of N. D. Fore-runner of Bells downfal or an answer to Tho. Bells downfal of Popery Pr. 1605. in oct An answer to the fifth part of Reports lately set forth by Sir Edw. Coke Knight the Kings Attorney Gen. c. S. Omer 1606. in qu. Published under the name of a Cath. Divine De Sacris alienis non adeundis quaestiones duae Ad usum praximque Angliae breviter explicatae Audomar 1607. in oct Treatise tending to mitigation towards Cath. Subjects in England against Tho. Morton Pr. 1607. qu. The said Morton was afterwards Bishop of Durham The judgment of a Catholick Gent. concerning K. James his Apology for the oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1608. in qu. Answered by Will. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln Sober reckoning with Mr. Tho. Morton Pr. 1609. qu. Discussion of Mr. Barlowes answer to The judgment of a Catholick Englishman concerning the Oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1612. This book being almost finished before Persons's death was afterwards compleated and published by Tho. Fitzherbert See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. The Liturgy of the Mass of the Sacrament of the Mass Pr. 1620. in qu. A memorial for reformation or a remembrance for them that shall live when Catholick Religion shall be restored in England in 3 parts 'T is the same I suppose that is called The high Court or Council of Reformation for England The author of it tho twenty years as 't is said in compiling it all which time and after it was secretly kept yet it was never printed in his time 'T was finished by him 1596. and as I have been informed 't was published some years after his death At length a copy of it coming into his hands of Edw. Gee Rector of S. Benedict near Paul's Wharf in Lond. and Chaplain in Ord. to K. Will. and Qu. Mary he published it under this title A Memorial of the Reformation of England containing certain notes and advertisements which seem
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
the 15. Ap. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet near London As for Albert Morton before mention'd who was Nephew to Sir Henry Wotton was elected Scholar of Kings coll 1602. went with his Uncle in the quality of Secretary when he went on his Embassie to the States of Venice Afterwards he was thrice Agent in Savoy Secretary to the Lady Elizabeth in Heidleburg and there imployed as Agent for the King with the Princes of the Union Afterwards he became one the Clerks of the Council and a Knight as I have before told you and at length one of the Secretaries of State He ended his days in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster in the winter time in Nov. as it seems an 1625. having a little before been elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the Univ. of Cambridge He then left behind him a Widdow named Elizabeth by whom he had if I mistake not a Son of both his names who was elected Scholar of Kings coll in the said University 1638. but left that house soon after and became a Leiuetenant Colonel in the Wars in Ireland NATHANIEL TORPORLEY a Shropshire man born applied his Muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church an 1579. aged 16. about which time he became one of the Students of that house Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Arts which being compleated by Determination he left the University and whether he then travelled beyond the Sea I cannot tell For that he was in France for two or more years and was Amanuensis to the celebrated Mathematician Fran. Vieta of Fontenay in the Province of Poictau is notoriously known but the time when whether before or after he was M. of A. we cannot tell Sure it is that his Genie being mostly enclined to the Mathematicks and Astronomy in which faculties he had obtained in his absence a sufficicient knowledge he returned to the University and entring himself into Brasnose coll did as a member thereof take the degree of Master of Arts an 1591 being then eight years standing in that of Bachelaur Afterwards he retired to the great City and became so famous for his singular knowledge that being made known to the great Earl of Northumberland named Henry Piercy the generous favourer of all good learning was received into his Patronage and had a pension paid yearly unto him for several years from his Purse About the same time he was made Rector of Salwarp in his native Country in the place of Tho. Forest deceased 1608. where residing sometimes but mostly in Sion coll in London of which he was a Student and a most eminent member continued in the last till the time of his death He hath transmitted to posterity Diclides Caelometricae seu Valvae Astronomicae universales omnia artis totius munera Psephophoretica in sat modicis finibus duarum tabularum methodo nova generali facilimâ continentes Lib. 2. Lond. 1602. qu. Tabula praemissâis ad declinationes caeli mediationes Printed with the former book in five parts Directionis accuratae consummata doctrina Astrologis hac tenus plurimum desiderata Written by way of Preface to the two former books He hath also printed something against Fr. Vieta under the name of Poulterey which is Torpurley's name transpos'd but that book I have not yet seen and hath also written MSS. in Bib. coll Sion Congestor Opus Mathematicum Imperfect Pholosophia Atomorum atopia demonstrata Imperfect Corrector Analyticus artis posthumae Imperfect He took his last farewel of this world in Sion coll before mention'd and was buried in the Church of St. Alphage near to that college on the seventeenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred thirty and two year 1632 By his nuncupatory Will which he spake on the 14. day of the same month he gave to the use of those that study in the Library of the said coll all his mathematical books and others all his Astronomical instruments notes mapps and his brass clock Among the said books were some few MSS. of which one contained Certain definitions of the Planisphere made by Walter Warner a most noted Mathematician of his time LEWES BAYLY was born in the antient Borough of Caermerthen in Wales but in what house educated unless in Exeter coll or what degrees he took in Arts I find not only that as a member of the said coll he was admitted to the reading of sentences an 1611. being about that time Minister of Evesham in Worcestershire Chaplain to Prince Henry and Minister of St. Matthews Church in Friday-street in London and that he proceeded in Divinity two years after Much about the same time he being fam'd for his eminence in preaching was made one of the Chaplains to King James 1. who nominating him Bishop of Bangor in the place of Dr. H. Rowlands was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth with Dr. Lake to the See of B. and Wells on the 8. of Dec. an 1616. On the 15. July 1621. I find this passage of him Episcopus Bangoriensis examinatur in Le Fleet datur sed paulo post liberatur What his crime was my author tells me not nor do I lift further to inquire unless it concern'd the Princes match with the Infarta of Spain He hath published The practice of Piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God Printed about 40 times in oct and tw the eleventh edition of which was printed at Lond. 1619. It was also printed once or more in the Welsh tongue and once or more in the French an 1633. c. And in France having been much cried up did therefore cause John Despagne a French writer and a Preacher in Somerset-house Chappel an 1656. to make some complaint of not for any ill thing in it because the generality of the Plebeians do look upon the authority of it equal with that of the Scripture It is said by an author who takes all advantages to speak against the Bishops and Church of England that this book called The practice of Piety was written by a Puritan Minister and that a Bishop not altogether of a Chast life did after the Authors death bargain with his Widdow for the Copy which he received but never paid her the money Afterwards he interlopating it in some places did publish it as his own c. But let this report which hath been common with some as also that which saith it was written by one Price Archdeacon of Bangor remain with their authors while I tell you that Dr. Bayly dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two was buried in his Church of Bangor year 1632 He left behind him four Sons Nicholas John Theodore and Thomas John was Fellow of Exeter coll and a publisher of certain Sermons as I have already told you Thomas Bayly the youngest Son was not educated in
Religion which is set before it and Discourse concerning such Englishmen as have either been or in our histories reputed Cardinals of the Church of Rome which is put at the end of it But this Edition of 1615. with the said two additional discourses being very full of faults and not to be endured by any ordinary Reader he put them forthwith into Latine entitling them De Praesulibus Angliae commentarius c. Lond. 1616. qu. The Reader is now to understand that after the first Edition of the said Catalogue of Bishops came out in 1601. Sir John Harrington of Kelston near the City of Bathe Son of John Harrington of the said place Esquire who dying near to the Bishops Pallace of and in London 1. Jul. 1582. was buried in the Church of S. Gregory near to Pauls Cathedral and he the Son of Alex. Harrington descended from a younger brother of the Harringtons of Brierley in Yorkshire I say that the said Sir John Harrington sometimes an Eaton Scholar and afterwards M. of Arts of Camb. being minded to obtain the favour of Prince Henry wrote a discourse for his private use intit A brief view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Qu. Elizabeths and King James's raign to the year 1608. c. This book is no more than a character and History of the Bishops of those times and was written to the said Prince Henry as an additional supply to the before mention'd Catalogue of Bishops of Dr. Fr. Godwin upon occasion of that Proverb Henry the eighth pulled down Monks and their Cells Henry the ninth shall pull down Bishops and their Bells In the said book the author Harrington doth by imitating his Godmother Qu. Elizabeth shew himself a great enemy to married Bishops especially to such that had been married twice and many things therein are said of them that were by no means fit to be published being as I have told you before written only for private use But so it was that the book coming into the hands of one John Chetwind Grandson by a Daughter to the author a person deeply principled in presbyterian tenents did when the Press was open print it at London 1653. in oct And no sooner it was published and came into the hands of many but 't was exceedingly clamour'd at by the Loyal and orthodox Clergy condemning him much that published it The truth is that tho it did not give offence so much as Sir Anthony Weldons book intit The Court and character of K. James which was publish'd three years before yet it was exceedingly pleasing to the Presbyterians and other Diffenters And there is no doubt but that if it had come into the hands of Prynne before mentioned he would have raked out many things thence and aggravated them to the highest to furnish his Common Place book when he was about to publish The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. Our author Godwin wrote also Appendix adcommentarium de Praesulibus Angliae Lond. 1621. 22. in two sh in qu. Rârum Anglicaerum Henrico VIII Edwardo VI. Maria regnantibus Annales Lond. 1616. 28. 30. in qu. and fol. Translated into English by his Son Morgan Godwin Bac. of Arts of Ch. Ch. afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law of Pembr coll Master of the Free-School at Newland in Glocestershire Canon of Hereford and Doctor of his Faculty Which English translation hath been several times printed The man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage thither Lond. 1638. and 57. oct written while he was a Student of Ch. Ch. under the seigned name of Domingo Gozales and published some years after the authors death by E. M. of Ch. Ch. This book which hath before the title of it the picture of a man taken up from the top of a Mountain by an Engine drawn up to the Moon by certain flying Birds was censured to be as vain as the opinion of Copernicus or the strange discourses of the Antipodes when first heard of Yet since by a more inquisitive search in unravelling those intricacies men of solid judgments have since found out a way to pick up that which may add a very considerable knowledge and advantage to posterity Among which Dr. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester composed by hints thence given as 't is thought a learned piece called A discovery of a new World in the Moon Nuncius inanimatus Utopiae 1629. Lond. 1657. oct Translated into English by Anon. who intitles it The mysterious Messenger unlocking the secrets of mens hearts Printed with The man in the Moon Lond. 1657. oct in two sheets only At length after our authors many labours wherein he aimed mostly at the publick he was taken with a long lingring disease which bringing him to his desired haven year 1633 in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems sixteen hundred thirty and three was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Whitborne which with the mannour thereof belongs to the Bishops of Hereford situate and being about 14. miles distant from the said City To the said See after his death was elected Dr. William Juxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London as I shall tell you elsewhere That which I have forgot to let the Reader know is that whereas there goes under the name of the Bishop of Landaff A treatise on the blessed Sacrament printed in oct and one or more Sermons on the sixth Psalm they are not be attributed to Dr. Godwin but to his predecessor as I suppose in Landaff called Gerv. Babington Sed de hoc quaere HUGH HOLLAND Son of Rob. Holland by his Wife the Daughter of one Pain of Denbigh Son of Lewys Holland Son of Llewellin Son of Griffith Holland of Vaerdre by Gwervilla his Wife Daughter of Howell ap Madock ap Jem ap Einion was born at Denbigh bred in Westminster School while Camden taught there elected into Trinity coll in Cambridge an 1589. of which he was afterwards Fellow Thence he went to travel into Italy and was at Rome where his over free discourse betrayed his prudence Thence he went to Jerusalem to do his devotions to the holy Sepulcher and in his return touch'd at Constantinople where he received a reprimand from the English Embassador for the former freedom of his tongue At his return into England he retired to Oxon spent some years there as a Sojournour for the sake of the publick Library and as I have been informed had his Lodging in Ball. coll which is partly the reason why I insert him here He is observed by a Cambridge man to have been no bad English but an excellent Latine Poet and by some thought worthy to be mention'd by Spencer Sidney and others the chiefest of our English Poets His works are these MSS. Verses in description of the chief Cities of Europe Chronicle of Qu. Elizab. raign Life of Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Armes A Cypress Garland for the sacred forehead of
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
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
the Univ. of Oxon and became a considerable benefactor thereunto particularly to the reparation of Canon Law School in S. Edwards parish to the finishing of the re-edification of S. Maries Church and of the edification of the Divinity School In all which places were his Arms set up in colours in the Windows or else engraven in Stone But such is the vicissitude of time that nothing of Arms or any thing like them doth at this time remain Those that belonged to him were Quarterly gules and ermine a Goats head erased in the first and fourth quarter argent given or else taken in allusion to the Arms of the Corporation of Shomakers of which Corporation the Father of this Archb. was as 't is said a member They were curiously engraven on Stone at the bottom of the Stone-pulpit in St. Maries Church as also the rebus of his name an M. upon a Tun. Which Pulpit was pulled down when the inside of that Church was alter'd while Dr. Ralph Bathurst was Vicechancellor an 1676. They were also engraven on the Respondents Pew or Seat of Stone in the Divinity School which also were taken away when the inside of that School was altered an 1669. to what it now is But tho these monuments are decayed yet the memory of the person is fresh among some men who have said that he was a wife and eloquent man but in his nature harsh and haughty that he was much accepted by the King but envied by the Nobility and hated by the people He won the Kings mind with secrecy and diligence chiefly because he was his old servant in his less fortunes and for that also he was in his affections not without an inveterate malice against the House of York under which he had been in trouble Whatsoever else was in the man he deserveth a most happy memory in that he was the principal means of joyning the two Roses At length dying of great years about 90. but of strong health and powers about the latter end of Septemb. in fiveteen hundred year 1500 was buried in the Cath. Church of Canterbury before the image of the Virgin Mary commonly called Our Lady of Vndercroft Over his Stone-coffin or Sepulcher which was but just deposited in the ground was a marble-stone laid even with the surface of the pavement which stone being afterwards crack'd and broken several parts of his body wrap'd up in divers Cear-cloathes were taken away by certain rude and barbarous people At length the head being only in a manner remaining in the said Stone-coffin 't was beg'd out of a pious mind purposely to save it of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury in 1670. by that truly noble and generous Rophe Shedon of Beoley in Worcestershire Esquire who esteeming it as a choice relique provided a leaden box to preserve it with its Cear-cloathes about it and with great devotion kept it to his dying day an 1684. Afterwards that choice relique with very many rarities which he in his life time had gathered together came by vertue of his last Will into the hands of his Uncles Daughter named Frances Sheldon sometimes one of the maids of honour to Catherine the Royal Consort of King Charles 2. The said Cardinal Moreton did by his last Will and Testament leave maintenance for a Priest to celebrate Mass for 20. years space in the Church of Bere in Dorsetshire for the Soul of him the said Archbishop and for the Souls of his relations and parents buried there He also left maintenance during that time for 20 poor Scholars in Oxon and ten in Cambridge I find one John Moreton to be made Prebend of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells on the resignation of Robert Stillington afterwards B. of Bath and Wells in July 1447. and Minister of Axbridge and Charlton Mesgrose in the Dioc. of B. and Wells but this John Moreton who died about the month of Dec. 1463. is in the registers belonging to the Bish of B. and Wells written Sacrae Theologiae Professor I find also another Joh. Moreton who translated into English Speculum Vitae Christi written by S. Bonaventure Which John was living in 1438 in which year he with his Wife Juliana were admitted among the Suffrages and Prayers of the Dominicans or Black Fryers at York THOMAS LANGTON was born in a Market Town called Appleby in Westmorland where being educated in Religion and Grammar learning among the Carmes or White Friers was at ripe years sent to Oxon particularly as it seems to Queens coll but a pest breaking out in the University soon after he went to Cambridge and became a member of Clare hall one saith of Pembroke hall took the degrees in the Canon Law in which afterwards he was incorporated at Oxon and had considerable Dignities in the Church bestowed him among which was the Prebendship of S. Ducaman in the Church of Wells an 1478. In 1483 he being about that time Provost of Qu. coll in Oxon and Master of S. Julians Hospital in Southampton was consecrated Bishop of S. Davids whence being translated to the See of Salisbury on the death of Leonel Woodvill had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto 4. May 1 Rich. 3. dom 1484. In a certain writing in Queens coll treasury dat 19. Aug. 4. Hen. 7. dom 1489. he occurs by the titles of Doctor of the Laws Bishop of Salisbury and Provost of Qu. coll Whence we may conclude that he kept the said Provostship in Commendam with Salisbury as probably he had done with S. Davids In 1493. he was translated to the See of Winchester and had restitution made to him of the temporalities thereof 27. June the same year Where being setled he put in practice his good deeds which he had done at Sarum viz. by shewing himself a Mecaenas of learning for which I find he had so great respect that he took care to have youths trained up at his own charge in Grammar and Musick the last of which he was infinitely delighted in in a School which he set apart within the precincts of his house It was usual with him and he took a great pleasure in it to make his scholars or exhibitioners repeat at night before him such dictates that they in the day time had learned from their Master and such that could give a laudable account he either encouraged with good words or small rewards saying to those about him that the way to increase vertue was to praise it c. In his episcopal office he behaved himself so well that he was in great authority with three Kings especially for his learning religion and experience in civil affairs annd had not death snatch'd him untimely away would have succeeded Moreton in the See of Canterbury He died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred and one and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester near to the tomb and shrine of S. Swithune By his last will and test which I
Canon of Windsore in 1479. and about that time Rector of Sutton Courtney near Abendon in Berkshire In 1489. he was made Prebendary of Bolun in the Cath. Church of York on the death of Dr. Tho. Chaundler and in the same year in Nov. he was made Preb. of Beamister secunda in the Cath. Church of Sarum upon the promotion of Rich. Hyll to the See of London being then also dignified in the Cath. Ch. at Exeter On the 6. of Nov. 1496. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichf and Coventry and on the 28. of the same month had the temporalities of that See restored to him The author of the Comment of the English Bishops tells that he was translated from that See to Exeter 1501 tho elsewhere I find that the translation was made on the last day saving one of June 1502. and that the temporalities thereof were not given to him till 26. Sept. 19. Hen. 7. Dom. 1503. He surrendred up his last breath in the house belonging to the Bishops of Exeter within the parish of St. Clements Danes without Temple Barr year 1503 near to London 15. March in fifteen hundred and three and was buried on the sourth side of the high altar in the Church of St. Clement before mention'd This Joh. Arundell did upon the desire of the chief members of this University promise to them 20l. towards the finishing of S. Maries Church but he dying before 't was given they recovered that sum of his Executors I find another John Arundell of Exeter coll who was one of the Proctors of the University 1426. afterwards Doctor of Physick Physitian to K. Hen. 6. and Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter I take him to be the same John Arundell M. D. who was collated to the Archdeaconây of Richmond in the latter end of Octob. 1457. in the place of Laur. Bothe promoted to the See of Durham and had for his successor in that Dignity John Bothe collated to it in May 1459 and afterwards became Bishop of Exeter JOHN MORGAN alias Yong a Weââ man and Doctor of the Laws of Oxon. was installed Dean âââsore in the place of Will. Benley an 1484. 2. ãâ¦ã and being elected Bish of S. Davids on the death of ãâ¦ã sometimes B. thereof an Oxford Scholar and a âenefactor to the building of S. Maries Church had restitution made to him of temporalitie belonging to that See 23. Nov. 12. Hen. 7. Dâm 1496. He gave way to fate in the latter end of Apr. or beginning of May in fifteen hundred and four whereupon his body was buried between the pillars on the sourth side of the body of the Cath. Church of S. David By his Will which I have seen dated 25. Apr. 15â4 and proved the 15. of May following it appears that his desire was to have a Chappel made over his grave in the best manner that might be according to the disposition of his Executors but whether ever performed I know not THOMAS PYGOT a Denbighshire man born as it seems was consecrated Bishop of Bangor in the year of our Lord 1500 year 1504 and paying his last debt to nature on the fifteenth day of Aug. in fifteen hundred and four was as I suppose buried in his own Church This Tho. Pygot I take to be the same who supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of this University in order to to the taking of the degree of Bachelaur of the Civil Law an 1458. One of both his names was confirmed Abbat of the Monastery of the Virgin Mary at York on the death of Thom. Stayngreve 24. May 1398. and died in 1405. but what relation the former had to this I cannot tell WILLIAM BARONS Doctor as it seems of the Law Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and afterwards Master of the Rolls in the room of Dr. Will. Warham 1502 and one of the Kings Council was upon the translation of the said Dr. Warham to Canterbury elected to the See of London which being consented to by the King the temporalities thereof were restored to him 13. Nov. 20. Hen. 7. Dom. 1504. He died in Oct. or Nov. in fifteen hundred and five and was buried in his own Church of S. Paul He had studied the Laws in Oxon. and had presided the Chair but in what hall or School it doth not appear In his Bishoprick succeeded Richard Fitz James as I shall hereafter tell you WILLIAM SEVER or Siveyer was born at Shinkley in the County Pal. of Durham educated in this University but whether in Merton coll I am as yet uncertain However as to that which the author of the Commentary of the English Bishops saith that he was Warden of Merton coll and Provost of that of Eaton near Windsore is false for 't was not William but Henry Sever who lived before this mans time that enjoyed those places After Will. Sever had left Oxon wherein I presume he had studied either in Glouc. or Durham college nurseries for those of the Order of St. Benedict he himself being a Benedictine he retired to his Monastery of S. Mary at York succeeded Thom. Bothe in the Abbatship of that place and in 1495. being elected B. of Carlile on the death of Rich. Bell who had been formerly Prior of Durham had the temporalities thereof delivered to him on the eleventh of Decemb. the same year and liberty then given to him to keep his Abbatship in Commendam In 1502. he being elected to the See of Durham had the temporalities thereof surrendred into his hands by the King on the 15. of Octob. the same year where setting but three years payed his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred and five and was buried in the Cath. Church there In his Abbatship succeeded Rob. Wanhop in Dec. 1502. Sever being then Bish of Durham and in his Chaire at Durham Christop Bainbridge whom I shall hereafter mention The book or Hist of the Ch. of Durham calls this Bish Will. Sinewes or Senwse and Leland Senose which book tells us that he was translated from Carlile to Durham by vertue of a Bull sent from the Pope and so by the Breve of K. Hen. 7. dat 15. Oct. in the 18. year of his raign he was consecrated Bishop of Durham 1502. and stood three years c. so that according to time this Sinews must be the same with Sever. THOMAS CLERKE and English man became Archdeacon of the Isle of Man after he had left the University and and at length by provision from the Pope became Bishop of Killala in Ireland 1498. which office he keeping till fifteen hundred and five then resigned it I take this Thomas Clerke to be the same with Thomas written and stiled Thomas Aladensis Episcopus that is Tho. Bish of Killala who by that name and title was admitted Rector of Chedsey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Joh. Fynne 12. Janu. 1505. and dying
in the year 1508. Rob. Fisher was admitted to the said rectory on the 18. Dec. the same year JOHN PAYNE a Dominican or Black Frier spent several years in the study of Divinity of which he was afterwards Doctor in the coll of Dominicans in the south suburb of Oxon. Afterwards retiring to Ireland was thro several preferments made Bishop of Meath by the Popes provision and installed in the Choire there on the feast of St. Dominick Aug. 4. in 1483. In the year 1493. he was made Master of the Rolls in Ireland being then much celebrated for his great charity and hospitality and dying on the sixth day of March in fifteen hundred and six year 1506 21. Hen. 7. was buried in the Monastery of his Order at Dublin or rather as the Historian of Ireland tells us in the Church of S. Patrick there where his monument near the west door of that Church was remaining in his time with an inscription thereon MATTHEW MACRAIH an Irish Man and a Civilian as it seems from some of our Records wherein I find his sirname sometimes to occur became Bishop of Clonfort in his own Country in 1482. and dying in fifteen hundred and seven year 1507 was buried at Kicomaing leaving behind him the character of a person celebrated for the many vertues of his mind THOMAS O-CONGALAU another Irish man and contemporary with the former who succeeded in the See of Ardagh one Will. O-Ferall year 1508 and dying in fifteen hundred and eight left the character behind him him of a person of great prudence and liberality towards the poor WALTER BLAKE was born in the County of Galloway in Ireland and for some time educated in this University Afterwards he retired to his native Country became Canon of Enagdune alias Enaghcoin and at length by the favour of P. Innocent 8. Bishop of Clocmacnois or Clonmacnois in the beginning of 1487. where sitting about 21 years submitted to fate in the month of May in fifteen hundred and eight year 1508 One Thomas succeeded him in that See but his sirname is yet unknown EDMUND COMERFORD was also educated for a time in this University and afterwards being made Dean of Kilkenny was consecrated there Bishop of Fernes in 1505. In which See sitting but four years died in fifteen hundred and nine year 1509 and was succeeded by one Nicholas Comyn THOMAS VIVIAN a Cornish man born or at least descended from those of his name living in Cornwall and Devon was from his youth bred a Black Cannon or Cannon Regular and among those in Oxon did he spend some time Afterwards retiring into his own Country he became Prior of the Black Cannons at Bodmin in Cornwal and at length Suffragan Bishop to the Bishop of Exeter under the title of Episc Majorensis or Megarensis that is as I suppose Megara Joh. Leland tells us that the Priory at Bodmin stood at the east south-east part of the Parish Ch. yard there There lay buried before the high Altar in an high Tomb of very darkish gray marble one Thom. Vivian Prior of Bodmin and Suffragan Magarensis Episcopatus He died not long since c. One Tho. Vivian of Exeter coll proceeded Master of A. in an Act celebrated 10 March 7. Hen. 8. Dom. 1515. and was afterwards Rector of the said coll for a time but him I take not to be the same with the Bishop yet Quaere CHRISIOPHER FISHER an Oxford man by Academical education was afterwards Bishop of Elphine in Ireland and Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York which Dignity he obtained after he was made Bishop In fifteen hundred and eleven or thereabouts he departed this mortal life and that year one Thom. Waâlashe succeeded him in the said Prebendship but who in the See of Elphine except one John who became Prebendary of Amplesord in the Ch. of York 3. Nov. 1530. and died on the Feast of the Assump of the B. Virgin 1536. being then Prior of Welbeck in Nottinghamshire I know not NICHOLAS MAGWIRE an Irish man was promoted to the See of Laighlin in Ireland in 1490. and died in fifteen hundred and twelve year 1512 under which year you may see more of him among the writers DAVID ap OWEN a Welsh man sometimes a Student in the Civ and Can. Law in Oxon afterwards Abbat of Stratmarkell and of Conway in his own Country was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in the year 1503. and dying on the 11. or 12. of Febr. in fifteen hundred and twelve year 1512 was buried in the Cathedral Ch. of S. Asaph near the high Altar on the south side There is a monument of a Bishop near to the Throne in the said Chancel which as the tradition goes there was put for the said Dav. ap Owen MAURIT de PORTU or O-Fihely an Irish man became by provision from P. Jul. 2. Archbishop of Tuam in his own Country year 1513 26. June 1506. and died in fifteen hundred and thirteen See more of him among the writers under that year THOMAS CORNISH a Somersetshire man born as it seems was educated in Oriel coll of which he was afterwards Fellow and being Master of Arts was made Vicar of Banwell in the Diocess of Wells In Aug. 1483. he became Master of St. Johns house or hospital in the City of Wells and soon after Chanter and Residentiary in the Cath. Ch. there In 1491-2 he was made Suffragan Bishop to Rich. Fox B. of Bath and Wells under the title of Episcopus Tynensis by which I suppose is meant Tyne the last Island belonging to the Republick of Venice in the Archipelago In 1493. he by the name of Tho. Cornish Bishop of Tyne was made Provost of Oriel coll and in 1497. Jul. 29. he was collated to the Vicaridge of S. Cuthberts Ch. in Wells In Oct. 1505. he became Vicar of Chew in Somersetshire on the death of Rob. Wydow in which County he had other Churches successively confer'd upon him to keep up the state of a Bishop and in 1507. resigning his Provostship of Oriel coll retired to Wells being then also Suffragan to Hugh Oldham Bishop of Exeter year 1513 and dying on the third day of July in fifteen hundred and thirteen was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Wells in the north Isle near to the door that leads up to the Chapter-house Over his grave was a fair monument erected which continues to this day with so much of the inscription thereon left that shews the day and year of his death One Thom. Woulf or Wulff titular Bishop of Lacedemon had a Commission granted to him 30. Sept. 1513. to be Suffragan Bishop in the place of the said Cornish but whether he was ever of Oxon I have not yet seen any record to prove it WILLIAM SMYTH Son of Rob. Smyth was born at Farnworth in the Parish of Prescote in Lancashire educated partly in Grammar learning in his own Country partly in Academical in this University
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.
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.
a secular or of any religious Order I cannot tell nor whether justly he took a degree in this University Certain it is that being made Suffragan Bishop of Hull under the Archbishop of York was made Prebendary of Langtoft and VVistow in the Church of York 1541. and in 1549. January 31. was installed Archdeacon of Nottingham on the death of Cuthbert Marshall D. D. who had succeeded Will. Fell D. D. in that dignity in Jan. 1527. He either died in the beginning of Q. Maries reign 1553. or was deprived because then or soon after I find one Rob. Pursglove to occur by the title of Bishop of Hull as I shall at large tell you under the year 1579. JOHN STANYWELL or Stonywell was born in the Parish of Longdon in Staffordshire within which Parish is a small Hamlet called Stonywell from a Well wherein is at the bottom a large stone which seems to be no more than a little Rock whence springs the water that supplies that Well This person being much addicted to learning and religion when a Youth was taken into a certain Monastery that at Pershore in Worcestershire as it seems and was bred a Benedictine Monk Thence he was sent to Glocester College in Oxon where the Monks of Pershore had an apartment for their Novices to be trained up in Academical learning of which College he was when in his elder years Prior for a time and was then noted among those of his profession for his learning and strict course of life Afterwards being Doctor of divinity he became Lord Abbat of the said Monastery of Pershore and at length a Bishop suffragan only as it seems under the title of Episcopus Poletensis He paid his last debt to nature after he had arrived to a great age in the beginning of fifteen hundred fifty and three year 1553 and was burled according to his Will in a new chappel built by him within the Parish Church of S. James in Longdon he bequeathed all his books his two Chalices his Crewetts holy water stock Vestmens Albes Altar-clothes with other things belonging to his private chappel in Longdon JOHN HOPER or Hooper sometimes either of Merton coll or S. Albans hall or of both successively was consecrated Bishop of Glocester in the latter end of the year 1550. and about two years after had the Bishoprick of Worcester given to him to keep in Commendam with the former He yielded up his last breath in the flames in the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In Glocester succeeded him James Brokes and in Worcester Rich. Pate Of the former you may read more among the writers under the year 1559. and of the other among the Bishops following an 1560. GEORGE BROWNE an Austin Frier of the convent of that order in London was educated in Academicals among those of his order in Oxon. Afterwards growing eminent among them was made Provincial of the said order in England and about the same time supplicated the Regents of this University that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1523 but whether he was really admitted it appears not Afterwards taking the degree of Doctor of divinity in an University beyond the Seas as it seems was incorporated in the same degree at Oxon 1534. and soon after at Cambridge On the 19. of March 1535. he was consecrated in England Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland and in 1551. he obtained leave from K. Ed. 6. that he and his successors for ever in that See may be Primates of all Ireland but recalled soon after by Queen Mary who in 1554. caused him to be deprived of his Archbishoprick for being married What became of him afterwards I know not nor when he died EDWARD STAPLE received his first breathings in this World in Lincolnshire studied Logic and Philosophy for a time in this University and went afterwards to Cambridge where he took the degree of Master of Arts. Thence returning to Oxon was incorporated in that degree and in the latter end of 1525. supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences being then one of the canons of Card. Wolseys college but whether he was really admitted it dot not appear In 1530. he by provision from P. Clem. 7. became Bishop of Meath in Ireland being at that time Warden or Master of S. Bartholomews Hospital in London which for some time he kept in commendam with his Bishoprick At length Qu. Mary coming to the Crown he was deprived of the said Bishoprick for being married as I suppose in the year 1554. and soon after died In the said See succeeded one Will. Walsh D. D. of whom I shall speak more under the year 1576. ROBERT FERRAR was born within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire within four miles of which place he gave Lands to his near relations and when a young man was made a Canon regular of the order of S. Austin but in what Priory or Abbey I know not Sure I am that he having partly received his Academical education in Cambridge did when he had entred into the same order retire to a nursery for the Canons thereof in Oxon named S. Maries college situated in the Parish of S. Michael and S. Peter in the Bayly where I find him in 1526. in which year Tho. Garret Curate of Honey lane in London and a forward and busie Lutheran did supply him with prohibited books or books which were written against the R. Cath. Ch. and the members thereof he being then esteemed one of that party that then opposed the established Church and Doctrine In 1533. he as a member of the said coll of S. Mary was admitted to the reading of the sentences having a little before opposed in divinity and about that time became chaplain to Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury by whose example as one saith he learned to get himself a woman also under the name of a wife and by his endeavours had some preserment in the Church In 1547. he being then in great favour with Edward Duke of Somerset he was by him appointed Bishop of S. Davids upon the removal of W. Barlow to the See of B. and Wells and accordingly was consecrated thereunto the same year But upon the fall of the said Duke in 1549. who was an upholder of him and his unworthy doings were 56. Articles drawn up against him by some of his neighbours viz. Hugh Rawlins Clerk and one Tho. Lee accusing him as an abuser of his authority a maintainer of superstition to be covetous wilfully negligent foolish c. All which he being not able to answer was committed to safe custody in London during the remaining part of the reign of K. Ed. 6. After Qu. Mary came to the Crown it being fully understood that he was a Lutheran Heretick as the men of those times stiled him
at the same time Legat a Latere in England and soon after Bishop of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Salcot alias Capon on purpose to thwart Cardinal Pole whom that Pope took to be his Enemy or rather out of stomach to work that Cardinals displeasure whom he before had recalled to Rome to be accused and charged as suspected corrupt in Religion But Q. Mary albeit she was most affectionately devoted to the Ch. of Rome interposed or rather opposed her self so that Peto was forbidden to enter into England and the power Legantine left entire and whole to her Cousin Pole Whereupon Peto continued in France where he died in Apr. year 1558 in fifteen hundred fifty and eight leaving then behind him the character of a very godly and devout person yet simple and unknowing of matters of State or of the world which ought in some measure to accompany a person of his high degree See more of him in Historia minor provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum in the first tome of the Scholastical and Historical works of Franc. Ã Sancta Clara sect 25. p. 53. PAUL BUsh was made the first Bishop of Bristow in 1542 was deprived of it for being married in the beginning of the Reign of Q Mary and died in Octob. year 1558 in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers JOHN HOLYMAN sometimes Fellow of New college was made Bishop of Bristow in the place of Bush before-mentioned year 1558 an 1554. and died in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Bristow succeeded Rich. Cheyney which he held in Commendam with Gloucester as I shall tell you anon in Jam. Brokes under the year 1559. REYNOLD POLE sometimes a Student in S. Mary Magd. coll afterwards a Cardinal and elected twice to the Papacy was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in the latter end of 1555. year 1558 and died in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers After him succeeded in the said Archiepiscopal See Matthew Parker who was born in the City of Norwych 6. of Aug. 1504. Son of Will. Parker who died 16. of Jan. 1516. by Alice Monings his Wife who died 20. of Sept. 1553. Which Will. Parker who was an honest poor Man as a Schismatical writer tells you and a scowrer or calender of worsteds in Norwych was the Son of John Parker and he the Son and Heir of Nich. Parker a Notary Publick of the dioc of Norwych principal Registrary belonging to the Archb. of Canterbury and keeper of the Registers belonging to the Court thereof As for Matthew Parker after he had been trained up in Grammar learning at home he was sent to the University of Cambridge at about 17 years of age and being placed in Corp. Ch. coll became soon after one of the Bible-Clerks in the said house Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts was made Fellow thereof took holy Orders and became a noted Preacher not only in the University but also in other publick places in the Kingdom Whereupon his fame being spred abroad he was sent for to the Court and made chaplain to Q. Anne about 1534. by whose favour and endeavours he was soon after made Dean of Stoke near to Clare in Suffolk and some time after Prebendary of Ely In 1538. he was made Doct. of div about which time by letters of commendation from the King to whom he was chaplain he was elected Master of C. C. coll before-mentioned now known by the name of Bennet college the Fellows of which soon after presented him to the Rectory of Landbeach near to Cambridge In 1545. he was Vicechanc. of the said Univ. and in 1549. he took to Wife Margaret the daughter of Rob. Harleston of Norfolk born 23. Jun. 1519. by whom he had Issue 1 Joh. Parker born 5. May 1548. who married Joan daughter of Dr. Rich. Coxe B. of Ely 2 Matthew who died young and thirdly another Matthew who married Frances dau of W. Barlow Bishop of B. and Wells and afterwards of Chichester but this Matthew dying 28. Jan. 1574. she was afterwards married to Dr. Tob. Matthews Dean of Durham the same who was afterwards Archb. of York In 1548. the said Dr. M. Parker was again elected Vicechanc. of Cambridge and in 1552. he was made by K. Edw. 6. to whom he was chaplain Dean of Lincoln in the place of Dr. Joh. Tayler promoted to the See of Lincoln But soon after when Q. Mary came to the Crown losing all his spiritualities because he was married he retired in private and spent all her Reign within the house of one of his Friends His headship of C. C. coll was thereupon bestowed on Dr. Laur. Mapted and his Deanery on Dr. Franc. Mallet an 1554. he being then Canon of Windsore Confessor to Q. Mary and Master of Michael-house in Cambridge of which University he had before been at least twice Vicechancellour This Mallet by the way it must be known was the same person who translated into English Erasmus's Paraphrase on John who dying in the latter end of Decemb. 1570. had for his Successor in that Deanery Dr. Joh. Whitgift afterwards Archb. of Canterbury When Q. Elizab. came to the Crown Dr. Parker tho a married man for his Wife died not till 17. of August 1570. was nominated to the See of Canterbury after several persons had refused it whereupon being consecrated thereunto in the Archb. chappel at Lambeth 17. of Dec. 1559. after a Sermon invocation of the Holy Ghost and celebration of the Eucharist had been performed by the laying on of the hands of three Bishops viz. Will. Barlow B. of B. and Wells Joh. Scorey of Chichester and Miles Coverdale of Exeter assisted also by Joh. Hodgeskyn Suffragan Bishop of Bedford sate there with great honour to the time of his death He was a religious and a learned man and of modest manners and behaviour He was well read in English history and a diligent and curious collector of antient Mss. that had been scatter'd at the dissolution of Monasteries which he gave to the coll wherein he had been educated He is also reported to have been a person of great charity a noted benefactor to the publick and an eminent ornament to the places which gave him birth and education The chief book which he wrote and published assisted therein as 't is said by his servant or chaplain Joh. Jostine was that intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae privilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis cum Archiepiscopis ejusdem 70. Lond. 1572-3 fol. Most of the copies of this impression that were commonly fold conclude with the life of Reynold Pole Archb. of Canterbury who died 1558. The other copies which remained and were to be bestowed on publick Libraries or else to be given to special Friends had in the year 1574 added to them 1
Bishop who was esteemed a learned man and a profound Theologist of his time hath written 1 An exposition on Nehemiah 2 Expos on Aggeus and Abdias Lond. 1562. oct 3 Of the causes of the burning of Pauls Church against a libel cast in the streets at Westchester an 1561. Lond. 1563. oct c. At length submitting to sate at Bishops Aukland 23. January 1575. aged 55 years was buried there for a time afterwards taken up and re-buried in the Choire of the Cath. Church at Durham on the 24. of May following leaving then several Children behind him begotten on the body of his Wife Alice of the Knightly family of the Kingsmylls in Hampshire Soon after was a tomb erected over his grave whereon was insculp'd a Monâdie made by Dr. Laur. Humphrey beginning thus Hic jacet Antistes cradeli morte peremptus and an Epicede by Joh. Fox the Martyriologist beginning Tantum te nostrae possint celebrare camenae besides a large epitaph in prose Most or all of which hath many years since as I have been informed been defaced and obliterated In the See of Durham succeeded Rich. Barnes of Oxon as I shall tell you hereafter MAURICE GRIFFYTH or Griffyn a Welsh man by birth and a Dominican or Black Frier by Order had his Academical education for a time among those of his profession in their house in the S. Suburb of Oxon was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in July 1532. by the name of Maurice Gryffyth being if I mistake not the same Maur. Gryxffyth who was admitted Bach. of Can. Law in February following Afterwards he was Archdeacon of Rochester in the plâce of one Nich. Metcalf who occurs Archdeacon of that place in 1536. and afterwards being elected to the See of Rochester upon the translation of Joh. Scory to Chichester which John had been promoted to Rochester propter singularem sacrarum literarum doctrinam was consecrated thereunto on the first of Apr. and had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the 18. of the same month in the 1. and 2. of Phil. and Mary dom 1554. He ended his days either in Nov. or Dec. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1539 and was buried in the Church of S. Magnus the Martyr near to London-bridge In the said See of Rochester succeeded one Edm. Guest or Gheest Bach. of div Archdeacon of Canterbury and sometimes Fellow of Kings coll in Cambridge who being consecrated thereunto 21. Januar. 1559. received the temporalities thereof 3. May following and about that time was made Almoner to the Queen After his translation to Salisbury followed Edm. Freke Dean of Salisbury of whom you may read more in the Fasti under the year 1570. And after him Dr. Joh. Piers of Oxon as I shall tell you among these Bishops under the year 1594. Upon his translation also to Salisbury succeeded in the said See of Rochester Dr. Joh. Young born in Cheapside in London educated in Pembr hall in Cambridge of which he was Fellow and afterwards Master Minister of St. Giles Cripplegate London twice Vicech of Cambridge Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. E. Freke promoted to the See of Rochester and 1572. which he kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick till about the time of his death He died at Bromley in Kent 10. Apr. 1605. aged 71 years and was buried in the Church there on the 14. of May following Soon after a comly monument was put over his grave with an inscription thereon Wherein 't is said that he was non minus varia doctrina prudentia quam vitae sanctimonia clarus c. He hath extant An exposition which some call a Sermon on Psal 131. Lond. 1685. oct HENRY MORGAN a Welsh man born became a Student in this University about the year 1515. took the degrees in the Civ and Can. Law that of Doctor being compleated in an Act celebrated 17. Jul. 1525. and soon after he became Principal of an ancient Hostle for Civilians wherein probably he had been educated called S. Edwards hall near to the Canon Law Schools situated sometimes in the Parish of S. Edward and near to the Church thereof Afterwards he being esteemed a most admirable Civilian and Canonist he was for several years the constant Moderator of all those that performed exercise for their degrees in the Civil Law in the School or Schools pertaining to that Faculty situated also in the same Parish Which Schools Hall and Church have been time out of mind gon to ruine and the ruines themselves ruined In 1553. ââ Mariae he was elected Bish of S. David upon the deprivation of Rob. Ferrar which was as it seems in Nov. the same year and being consecrated thereunto had the temporalities thereof restored to him on the 23. of Apr. 1554. In that See he sate till after Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and then being deprived about Midsomer an 1559. year 1559 2o. Elizab. retired among his Friends and died a devoted Son to the Church of Rome on the 23. of Decemb. following Of whose death hear I pray what Joh. Fox saith in this manner Morgan Bishop of S. Davids who sate upon the condemnation of the blessed Martyr Bish Ferrar and unjustly usurped his room was not long after stricken by Gods hand after such a strange sort that his meat would not go down but rise and pyck up again sometimes at his mouth sometimes blown out of his nose most horribly to behold and so he continued till his death Thus Fox followed by Tho. Beard in his Theatre of Gods judgments But where or when his death hapned they tell us not nor any author hitherto only when which B. Godwin mentions Now therefore be pleased to know that the said Bishop Morgan retiring after his deprivation to and near Oxon where he had several relations and acquaintance living particularly the Owens of Godstow in the Parish of Wolvercote near to the said City did spend the little remainder of his life in great devotion at Godstow but that he died in the condition which Fox mentions there is no tradition among the inhabitants of Wolvercote True it is that I have heard some discourse many years ago from some of the Ancients of that place that a certain Bishop did live for some time and exercised his charity and religious counsel among them and there died but I could never learn any thing of them of the manner of his death which being miserable as Jo. Fox saith methinks that they should have a tradition of it as well as of the man himself but I say there is now none nor was there any 30 years ago among the most aged persons then living at that place and therefore whether there be any thing of truth in it may be justly doubted and especially for this reason that in the very same chapter and leaf containing the severe punishment upon Persecutors of Gods people he hath committed a most
cause both short and wearisome afterwards unto him Thus Dr. Will. Allen in his Answer to the Libel intit The execution of justice in England The said Dr. Ogelthorp was deprived of his Bishoprick about Midsomer in the year 1559. and about the beginning of the next year died suddenly of an Apoplexy year 1560 otherwise had he lived 't is thought the Queen would have been favourable to him He founded at Tadcaster before-mention'd a Free-School and Hospital dedicated to our Saviour Jesus Christ called The School and Hospital of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of Tadcaster The School is endowed with 40 l. per an and the Hospital with revenues for 12 poor People each to have one shilling every week In the beginning of Ch. 1. there were but six in pay how many now I know not The said Bishop built a fair house in Headley upon Bramham in Yorkshire where there is a memory by verses and his Arms over the door I think yet remaining After his deprivation and death Bernard Gilpin the northern Apostle was designed to succeed him in Carlilâ but vhe refusing tho much pressed to it the Bishoprick was confer'd on one Joh. Best a learned and pious man RICHARD PATES an Oxfordshire man born was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 1. June 1522. and the year following Bach. of Arts. Which degree being compleated by Determination he went to Paris where he was made Master of Arts and at his return Archdeacon of Winchester on the resignation of Joh. Fox in 1526. In 1528 he resigned that dignity being that year made Archd. of Lincoln upon the death of Will. Smyth Doctor of decrees By which title as also that of Bach. of Arts of this University and Master of Paris he supplicated on the 17. Jan. 1530. that he might not be bound to be present at Exequies in S. Maries Church which shews that he was not then incorporated Afterwards he was imployed in several Embassies and in 1534. I find him resident in the Emperours Court and there again in 1540. in which year wss a pass-port made for him by Secretary Cromwell to Calais in order to reside with the Emperour as Embassador for the K. of England In which pass-port he is stiled Dr. Rich. Pates Archdeacon of Lincoln In 1542. he was attained of High Treason whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on George Heneage and his Prebendship of East-Harptre in the Church of Wells on Joh. Heryng LL. D. In the year 1554. he being preferr'd by Q. Mary to the Episcopal See of Worcester had restitution made to him by the name of Rich. Pate only of the temporalities belonging thereunto 5. March the same year at which time Hooper his Predecessor had been dead about 3 weeks After Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was not imprisoned in the Tower of London as Jo. Fox saith but being deprived he went beyond the Seas sate in the Council of Trent uninvited as one saith as he had done before and whether he died there or at Rome I cannot tell He was a learned man of a peaceable disposition zealous in the Faith he professed yet always against inflicting corporal punishments on such that were opposite in Religion to him In the said See of Worcester succeeded Edwin Sandys Son of Will. Sandys of Furnes in Lancashire Justice of the Peace and the Kings Receiver of that County by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Joh. Dixon of London To which See being elected upon Pates his deprivation by the name and title of Edwin Sandes Capellanus regius SS Thol Professor had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging to it 23. March 2. Elizab. dom 1559. JAMES TURBERVYLE a younger Son of Joh. Turbervyle son and heir of Richard second son of William first son of Sir Robert Turbervyle of Bere and Anderston in Dorsetshire Knight who died 6. Aug. 1424. by Margaret his Wife of the Family of the Carews Barons was born at Bere before-mentioned which is now a little Market Town in the said County educated in Wykchams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1514. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated in July 1520. and on the 8. of March following was elected the publick Scribe or Registrary of the University on the resignation of Tho. Fykes M. A. and Fellow of the said coll In 1529. he left his Fellowship which he kept with his Scribes place being then promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice as he was soon after to a Dignity and taking the degree of Doct. of Div. in another University was incorporated here in 1532. In 1555. he being then Preb. of Winchester and elected to the Episcopal See of Exeter on the death of Joh. Harman was consecrated thereunto in St. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London with Will. Glynn to Bangor on the eighth day of Sept. the same year and on the 21. of the said month had the temporalities of the said See delivered to him and there sate with due commendations for about four years In 1559. 2. Elib he was deprived of his Bishoprick for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church and afterwards lived a private life saith one and another that he lived at his own liberty to the end of his life adding that he was an honest Gentleman but a simple Bishop and a third that he lived a private life many years and died in great liberty But at length a fourth person who comes lagg as having lately appeared in print I mean Richard Izack then Chamberlain of Exeter tells us in his Antiquities of the City of Exeter full of mistakes that he died on the first of Nov. 1559. and in another place in the said book that after his deprivation he lived a private life ANTHONY DUNSTAN a Benedictine Monk of Westminster received his Academical education in Glocester coll in the N. W. Suburb of Oxon in an apartment therein built for such young Monks of Westminster that were designed for the University In 1525. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences having a little before opposed in divinity in the School of that faculty and in the year following he occurs by the name and tit of Anth. Dunstan Prior of the Students of Gloc. coll before-mentioned In 1538. he proceeded in divinity being then Abbat of the Benedictine Monks of Einsham near to and in the County of Oxon and in 1545. he by the name and title of Anthony Kechyn the Kings Chaplain and Bishop elect of Landaff received the temporalities belonging thereunto on the 8. of May the same year being then about 68 years of age He is much blamed by one of his successors in the See of Landaff for impoverishing his Bishoprick accounted by some to have been before his time one of the best in England and since to be the worst He gave way to fate 31. Oct. in fifteen hundred sixty and
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.
Catholick cause that preaching at Pauls cross in the behalf of the said Bonner then present against his late unjust sufferings and against the unhappy times of King Edw. 6. as he called them had a dagger thrown at him by one of the auditors Whereupon Bourn withdrawing himself to prevent farther danger the work was carried on by another and search being made after the Assissinate certain persons were imprison'd for it In the year 1554. Sir Joh. Bourn of Batenhall in Worcestershire Uncle to the said Gilb. Bourne being then Principal Secretary of State to Q. Mary the said Gilb. was elected to the See of Bathe and Wells upon the free resignation as 't is said of D. Will. Barlow Whereupon he had the temporalities thereof given to him 20. of April the same year at which time Barlow fled into Germany upon account of Religion Soon after Gilb. Bourn was made President of Wales and was in great favour during the reign of Q. Mary but when Q. Elizab. succeeded he was deprived of his bishoprick for denying her Supremacy notwithstanding he had done many good offices for his Cath. Church and had been a benefactor thereunto Afterwards he being committed to free custody with the Dean of Exeter he gave himself up wholly to reading and devotion At length dying at Silverton in Devenshire 10. Sept. in fifteen hundred sixty and nine was buried in the Parish Church there on the south side of the Altar bequeathing then what he had to his brother Rich. Bourn of Wyvelscomb in Somersetsh Father of Gilb. Bourn of the City of Wells In the See of Wells did not succeed Will. Barlow who returned from his exile in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth as 't was expected but Gilb. Berkley D. of div a Lincolnshire man born and a descendant from the Noble Family of the Berkleys WILLIAM ALLEY sometimes a Student in this University of which he was afterwards Bach. and Doct. of divinity was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in July 1560. where sitting about 10 years died in the beginning of fifteen hundred and seventy year 1570 See more of him among the writers under that year In the said Bishoprick succeeded Will. Bradbridge as I shall hereafter tell you JOHN BEST a Yorkshire man born was originally of this University and afterwards was dignified in the Church of Wells and elsewhere but leaving all in the beginning of Q. Mary for Religion sake lived obscurely and as occasion serv'd At length after Q. Elizab. came to the Crown he being then Bach. of Divinity was consecrated Bishop of Carlile in the place of Owen Ogelthorp depriv'd on the second of March in fifteen hundred and sixty aged 48 years the temporalities whereof were given to him by the Queen on the 18. of Apr. following and in 1566. he was actually created Doct. of divinity year 1570 He ended his days on the 22. of May in fifteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Carlile In 1533. one Joh. Best was admitted to inform in Grammar as I shall further tell you in the Fasti under that year and in 1558. one Joh. Best was elected into a Founders fellowship of Vniversity coll from that of Lincolne What relation this last had to the Bishop I know not nor do I know yet to the contrary but that Jo. Best the Grammarian was afterwards the same who was Bishop THOMAS STANLEY was a Cadet of the noble family of the Stanleys Earls of Derby and after he had spent some time in this and another University beyond the Seas return'd to his native country of Lancashire became Rector of Winwick and Wygan therein as also of Badsworth in the diocess of York and dignified in the Church At length upon the vacancy of the See of the Isle of Man he was made Bishop thereof but when I cannot justly say because he seems to have been Bishop in the beginning of K. Ed. 6. and was really Bishop of that place after the death of Dr. Man whom I have before mention'd under the year 1556. This Thom. Stanley paid his last debt to nature in the latter end of fifteen hundred and seventy having had the character when young of a tolerable Poet of his time and was succeeded in the See of Man by one John Salisbury whom I shall mention anon JOHN JEWELL sometimes Portionist or Post-master of Merton coll afterwards Scholar and Fellow of that of Corp. Christi was nominated Bishop of Salisbury by Q. Elizabeth To which See being elected by the Dean and Chapter of that place she gave her consent to it 27 Dec. 1559. He departed this mortal life in fifteen hundred seventy and one year 1571 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Salisbury succeeded Edm Gheast Son of Thom. Gheast of the family of the Gheasts of Rough heath in Worcestershire which Edmund was born as a certain writer saith at Afferton in Yorkshire and dying 28. of Feb. in 1576. was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury JOHN SALISBURY seems to have been descended from the antient family of his name living in Denbighshire but the Town or County which gave him his first breath I cannot yet learn This person after he had studied some years in this University but more in another entred into the Sacred Function and being beneficed and dignified in the Church was made Suffragan Bishop of Thâtford in Norfolk but the year when I cannot tell and in 1540. Dean of Norwych in the place of Will. Castleton who having been the last Prior of the Black Moaks there was made the first Dean of the Cath. Ch. in 1539. But Salisbury being outed of his Deanery for what cause I know not in the first year of Q. Mary Dr. John Christopherson was installed in that dignity 18. of Apr. 1554. and soon after became Bishop of Chichester On the 4. of Dec. following the said Salisbury was installed Chancellour of the Church of Lincoln in the place of Joh. Pope who had then lately obtained the Archdeaconry of Bedford In 1560. he was restored to his Deanery upon the deprivation of Dr. Joh. Harpesfield and in the beginning of the year 1571. being made Bishop of the Isle of Man was confirmed in that See on the seventh of Apr. the same year at which time he had liberty given him to keep the Deanery of Norwych in Commendam with it He concluded his last day about the latter end of Septemb. in fifteen hundred seventy and three and was year 1573 as I suppose buried in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych In the said Deanery succeeded George Gardiner D. D. installed therein 24. of Dec. 1573. and in the See of Man one Joh. Merick as I suppose of whom I shall make farther mention under the year 1599. HUGH JONES a Welsh man born but in what hall or college educated unless in New Inn I know not was admitted Bach. of the Civil law by the name of Hugo Jonys
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
and Test dat 23. Oct. 25. Eliz. and proved 22. Jul. 1584. he gave 40 l. to All 's college 20 l. to the University of Oxon 100 marks to certain poor Scholars studying there to five poor Students of Oxon studying there also 4 l. a-piece for five years after his decease and to the poor of Evesham before-mentioned he was a liberal benefactor for whose sake also he gave a stock of 40 l. to set them on work THOMAS CHESTER a Londoner born was a Student in this University in the time of K. Hen. 8. but in what house I cannot yet find took one degree in Arts and was afterwards beneficed and dignified In 1580. he was made Bishop of Elphine in Ireland where sitting about 4 years gave way to fate at Killiathan in that County in the month of June in fifteen hundred eighty year 1584 and four In the said See succeeded one John Linch whom I shall mention at large among these Bishops under the year 1611. RICHARD BARNES Son of Joh. Barnes by Fridesmonda his Wife daughter of Ralph Gifford of Cleydon in Buckinghamshire was born at Bould near to Waryngton in Lancashire admitted Fellow of Brasnose coll by the authority of the Kings Council 6. Edw. 6. Dom. 1552. where making a quick progress in Logick and Philosophy took the degree of Master of Arts 1557. About that time he took holy Orders and was made Minister of Staingrave in Yorkshire In 1561 Jul. 12. he was admitted Chancellour of the Cath. Ch. of York in the place of Jeffry Downes D. of D. who had succeeded in that dignity one Dr. Hen. Trafford in Aug. 1537. and about the same time was made Canon residentiary and Preb. of Laughton in the said Church as also a publick Reader of divinity therein About 1567. he was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Nottyngham in the Church of S. Peter at York and in 1570. June 25. being elected to the See of Carlile in the place of Jo. Best deceased was confirm'd therein on the 7. Aug. following In 1557. Apr. 5. he was elected to the See of Durham was confirmed the 9. of May following and was ever after a favourer of Puritanism In Feb. 1579. he was actually created Doctor of divinity at Oxon having taken the degree of Bachelaur in that Faculty at Cambridge year 1587 and dying in fifteen hundred eighty and seven was buried in the Choire sometimes called the Presbyterie of the Cath. Ch. of Durham Over his grave was a monument soon after put with this inscription thereon Reverendo in Christo Patri ac Domino Dom. Richardo Barnes Dunelmensis Episcopo Praesuli pio docto liberali munifico P. S. precariss P. P. P. P. Obiit xxiv Aug. an dom 1587. aetatis suae 55. Astra tenent animam corpus hoc marmore clausum Fama polos penetrant nomen nati atque nepotes Conservant vivis semper post funera virtus WILLIAM BLEYTHYN a Welsh man born was educated in New Inn or Broadgates hall or in both where applying his studies to the Civil Law took one degree in that Faculty in 1562. and afterwards became Archdeacon of Brecknock and Prebendary of Osbaldswyke in the Church of York In 1575. Apr. 17. he was consecrated Bishop of Landaff year 1590 and dying in Octob. in fifteen hundred and ninety was buried in the Chancel of the Ch. at Matherne in Monmouthshire where the B. of Landaff hath a Seat near to the body of Hugh Jones his Predecessor At which time he left behind him three Sons William Timothy and Philemon THOMAS GODWIN was born at a Market Town in Berkshire called Okingham and bred in Grammar learning in the School there where being fitted for a gown was sent to the University of Oxon about the year 1538. was elected Probationer of Magd. coll in 1544. and the year after true and perpetual Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1547. he proceeded in that Faculty and two years after did upon pretence of being disturb'd by certain Papists in that house he himself being heretically inclin'd as they said leave his Fellowship and accepted from the said college the Rectory of their School at Brackley in Northamptonshire Afterwards he took to him a Wife and what time he had to spare he bestowed on the study of Theology But so it was that when Queen Mary came to the Crown he was silenced and in a manner put to his shifts whereupon applying his study to Physick to maintain him and his he was admitted to the reading of any the books of Hypocrates or of the Aphorisms of Hypocrates that is to the degree of Bachelaur of Physick an 1555. When Queen Elizabeth succeeded and Religion thereupon was altered he took holy Orders from Dr. Bullyngham B. of Lincoln who made him his Chaplain and being a chief instrument of his Preaching several times before the Queen she approved of him and his person so well that she thereupon made him Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon in June 1565. So that taking the degrees in divinity the same year and being esteemed much by all for his learning and piety he was made Dean of Canterbury in the place of Dr. Nich. Wotton deceased an 1566. In 1584. he was nominated Bishop of Bathe and Wells after that See had laid void three years whereupon being consecrated thereunto on the 17. of Sept. his Son Fr. Godwin saith the 13. the same year sate there to the time of his death without any removal He came to the place as well qualified as one saith for a Bishop as might be unreprovable without Simony given to good hospitality quiet kind affable a Widdower and in the Queens good opinion If he had held on as cleer as he had entred he would have been extoll'd by all But see his misfortune that first lost him in the Queens favour and after forced him to another mischief For so it was that he being aged diseased and lame of the Gout he married as some thought for opinion of wealth a Widdow of London which was his second Wife at least A chief favourite of that time Sir Walt. Raliegh had laboured to get the Mannor of Banwell from his Bishoprick and disdaining the repulse did upon hearing of this intempestive marriage take advantage thereof and caused it to be told to the Queen knowing how much she disliked such matches and instantly persued the Bishop with letters and mandats for the Mannor of Banwell for an 100 years The good Bishop not expecting such a sudden tempest was greatly perplexed yet a while he held out and endured many sharp messages from the Queen of which Sir Joh. Harrington of Kelston near to Bathe carried one being delivered to him by Robert Earl of Leycester who seemed to favour the Bishop and mislike Sir Walter for molesting him but they were soon agreed like Pilate and Herod to condemn Christ Never was harmless man so traduced to his Soveraign that he had married a Girl of 20 years old with a
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
Deanery for some time in Commendam with Chichester This Dr. Watson who spent his life in celebacy as his Predecessor Bickley did gave way to fate at his house in Cheame or Cheyham in Surrey being then Almoner to K. Jam. 1. whereupon his body was buried in the Church there on the third day of Oct. 1605. By his last Will and Testam he gave an hundred pounds to Christs coll in Cambridge where he had been educated before he became Fellow of Bennet college and divers other Legacies for pious uses RICHARD MEREDYTH a Welsh man born became a Student in this University about 1568. but in what house unless in S. Johns coll it appears not In 1575. he proceeded M. of Arts as a Member of Jesus coll which was the highest degree he took in this University Afterwards being Chaplain to Sir Joh. Perot L. Lievtenant of Ireland he was by him made Dean of S. Patricks Church near Dublin and at length B. of Leighlin To which See being consecrated in the month of Apr. 1589. sate there till the time of his death which hapning on the third of August in fifteen hundred ninety and seven was year 1597 buried on the north side of S. Patricks Church before-mentioned In the said See of Leighlin succeeded one Rob. Grave Dean of Cork but whether he was ever a Student in Oxford I cannot yet tell JOHN BULLYNGHAM received his first breath in the County of Gloucester was elected Probationer of Magd. coll in July 1550. being then Bach. of Arts and intimate with Julius Palmer the Protestant Martyr whose story he hath written in a large letter dated from Bridgnorth about 1562. for the satisfaction of Jo. Fox when he was in writing his English book of Acts and Monuments c. but before he took the degree of Master he left the University Q. Mary being then in the Throne and retired as it seems beyond the Seas where continuing mostly all her reign returned when Q. Elizabeth succeeded became well beneficed and in 1567. was made Archdeacon of Huntingdon but in whose room unless in that of Anth. Draycot I know not In 1568. he compleated the degree of D. of div in an Act celebrated on the twelfth of July and two years after was made Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Libbeus Byard deceased In 1581. Sept. 3. he was consecrated Bishop of Glocester about which time he had the See of Bristow given to him in Commendam but that being taken away from him in 1589. the rectory of Kilmington alias Culmington in the dioc of Wells was conferr'd on him in Jul. 1596. He paid his last debt to nature about the 20. of May in fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 and was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester Whereupon his rectory was bestowed on Rich. Potter father of Franc. Potter author of the Interpretation of the number of 666 c. as I shall tell you when I come to him in the next volume of this work and his Bishoprick on Godfrey Goldsborough Doct. of div of Cambridge JOHN MERICK was born in the Isle of Anglesie educated in Wykehams School near Winchester made perpetual fellow of New coll in 1557. took the degrees in Arts became one of the Proctors of the University in 1565. Vicar of Hornchurch in Essex in 1570. and three years after Bishop of the Isle of Man on the death of John Salisbury He yielded up his last breath in Yorkshire as it seems in Sept. or Oct. year 1599 in fifteen hundred ninety and nine and was succeeded in the said See by Dr. George Lloyd of Cambridge Son of Meredyth Lloyd Son of Joh. Lloyd of Caernarvanshire who was translated thence to Chester in 1604. This Joh. Merick left behind him a brother named Will. Merick LL. D. and another called Maurice Merick then M. of Arts and certain letters concerning Ecclesiastical and other affairs which I have seen in the Cottonian Library under the picture of Julius F. 10. WILLIAM HUGHES Son of Hugh ap Kendrick of Caernarvanshire by Gwenllian his wife daughter of John Vychan ap John ap Gruff ap Owen Pygott was born in the said County and for a while educated in this University Afterwards retiring to Christs coll in Cambridge he took there the degrees in Arts and holy orders and being soon after made chaplain to Thom. Haward or Howard Duke of Norfolk attended him to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1568. where on the same day that the said Duke was created Master of Arts this his chaplain was incorporated Bach. of div as he had stood in Cambridge The year after the said Duke writing letters to Dr. Laur. Humphrey in his behalf he was by the said Humphreys endeavours made to the Vicechancellour and Convocation permitted to proceed in his faculty Whereupon being licensed the same year stood in an Act celebrated 10. Jul. 1570. to compleat that degree In 1573. he was promoted to the Episcopal See of S. Asaph to which being consecrated in Lambeth chappel on the thirteenth of Sept. the same year sate there to the time of his death without any removal He concluded his last day in Octob. in sixteen hundred year 1600 and was as I suppose according to his will buried in the choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Asaph leaving then behind him a Son named William and a daughter named Anne the then Wife of Tho. Mostyn Gent. begotten on the body of his Wife Lucia daughter of Rob. Knowesley of Denbighshire By his last Will and Test dated 16. Oct. 1597. and proved 9. Nov. 1600. he left lands and revenues for the founding a free school in the Cath. Ch. of S. Asaph He the said Dr. Hughes was succeeded in St. Asaph by Dr. Will. Morgan author of the first translation of all the Bible since printing was used into the ancient and unmixed language of the Britains The translation he dedicated with a latin epistle prefix'd to Q. Eliz. and was printed in 1588. For which work he was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Landaff first and afterwards with that of S. Asaph JOHN CHARDON or Charldon sometimes fellow of Exeter coll was consecrated B. of Downe and Connor in Ireland year 1601 an 1596. and died in sixteen hundred and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Downe and Connor succeeded one Rob. Humpston Master of Arts but whether of this University I cannot tell HERBERT WESTPHALING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Hereford in 1585. and departed this mortal life in the latter end of sixteen hundred and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Bennet sometimes of Trin. coll in Cambridge Son of Leonard Bennet of Baldock in Hertfordshire who was consecrated thereunto 20. Feb. 1602-03 By his last Will dated 3. Mar. 14. Jac. 1. he bequeathed his body to be
May 1621. leaving behind him a Son named Rutland Snoden of Horncastle in Lincolnshire who was afterwards a Justice of the Peace begotten on the body of his Wife Abigal daugh of Rob. Orme of Elston in Nottinghamshire After him followed in the said See of Carlile Ric. Milbourne B. of S. David descended from those of his name in Pembrokeshire but born in London his mother being occasionally there at the delivery of him educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester and from thence was sent to Qu. coll in Camb. where he continued several years Afterwards he became Minister of Sevenoke in Kent Chapl. to P. Hen. Chantor of S. Davids cath ch and Dean of Rochester as I shall elsewhere tell you At length he being made B. of S. David was after he had sate there about 6. years translated to Carlile where he continued till 1624. In which year dying he left monies as 't is said for the endowing of a School and monies for the building of an Hospital He hath a Serm. in print concerning the imposition of hands preached while he was Minister of Sevenoke at the Archb. Metropolical Visitation 7. Sept. 1607. on 1 Tim. 5. 22. printed in oct To him succeeded in the said See of Carlile Rich. Senhouse Dean of Glocester who was first admitted a Student in Trin. coll in Camb. and afterwards was removed to that of S. Johns of which he was made Fellow and continuing there many years took the degree of D. of div as a Member thereof about 1622. He was first chaplain as 't is said in the Earl of Bedfords family afterwards chaplain to Pr. Charles and at length to K. Jam. 1. who advanced him to a Deanery and afterwards to the said See of Carlile for his transcendent parts and admirable gifts in Preaching He hath extant Four Sermons preached at Court and left behind him at his death Lectures on the first and second Psalms which are not as I conceive made yet publick HENRY PARRY or ap Harry sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll was consecrated B. of Gloucester 12. Jul. 1607. translated thence to Worcester in the latter end of Sept. 1610. the temporalities of which See were restored to him 23. Oct. the same year He yielded to nature in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 under which year you may see more of him among the writers He was succeeded in Gloucester by Dr. Giles Tomson and in Worcester by Dr. Joh. Thornborough Of the first I have made mention already among the Bishops and of the other I shall speak in the second volume of this work under the year 1641. WILLIAM JAMES sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. became Bishop of Durham in 1606. and died in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 under which year you may see more of him among the writers After his death Rich. Neile Bishop of Lincoln was translated to Durham and thence to Winchester as I shall elsewhere tell you WILLIAM LYON a Cheshire man born was partly educated in this University but whether in Oriel or S. Johns coll where several of his sirname and time have studied I cannot tell Afterwards he went into Ireland became Vicar of Naas and Chaplain to Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton L. Lievtenant of that Country who promoting him to the Episcopal See of Ross was consecrated thereunto in the year 1582. and the year following was constituted commendatory of Cork and Cloyne by the favour of Qu. Eliz. He bestowed a thousand pound in building the Bishops house at Cork and other monies in repairing the Bishops house at Ross which three years after was burnt by the Rebel O-Donow This W. Lyon died in a good old age on the 4. Oct. year 1617 in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Cork leaving then behind him a Son of both his names who in the 17 year of his age 1610. became a Com. or else Gent. Com. of S. Johns coll in this Univ. In the said Sees of Ross Cork and Cloyne succeeded Dr. Joh. Boyle whom I shall anon mention ROBERT ABBOT Master of Balliol college was consecrated B. of Salisbury on the third of Decemb. 1615. to the great joy of all Scholars especially such who knew the learning and piety of the man He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred and seventeen under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Martin Fotherby Son of Maurice Fotherby of the ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Grimsby in Lincolnshire which Martin having been bred Fellow of Trin. coll in Cambridge was after he had been Prebendary of Canterbury 22 years consecrated at Lambeth on the 18. Apr. 1618. He surrendred up his last breath on the eleventh day of March an 1619. and was buried in Allsaints Church in Lombardstreet within the City of London Soon after was a very fair monument erected over his grave with a large inscription thereon but destroyed by the great Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. He hath extant at least 4 Sermons besides his Atheomastix which being put into the press before his death was not published till 1622. fol. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Robert Tounson or Tonson Dean of Westminster sometimes Fellow of Queens coll in Cambridge who was consecrated thereunto on the 9. July 1620. See more in the Fasti among the incorporations under the year 1599. JOHN BOYLE a Kentish man born and brother to Rich. Boyle the first Earl of Cork in Ireland received some education with us but whether D. of div of this Univ. as one reports it appears not in the publick Registers He was consecrated B. of Cork before-mentioned in 1618. at which time liberty was allowed him to keep the See of Ross in Commendam He died in sixteen hundred and twenty year 1620 and was buried at Youghall of which place his brother before-mentioned was Baron In the said See of Cork and Ross succeeded Rich. Boyle Dean of Waterford and Archd. of Limerick brother to Michael Boyle B. of Waterford and Lismore which Richard kept the See also of Cloyne in Commendam with the two former JOHN KING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Dean of that house was consecrated Bishop of London in 1611. and died in sixteen hundred twenty and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers To him succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne Bishop Almoner sometimes Dean of Westminster who was translated from Loncoln to London 20. July 1621. ROWLAND SEARCHFIELD a Londoner born was educated in Grammar learning in Merchant-Taylors School admitted Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1582. aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Fellow of that house Proctor of the University Doct. of div and successively Vicar of Emley in Northamptonshire Rector of Bowthorp in Gloucestershire Vicar of Cherlbury in and Justice of
his body was carried to Chigwell in Essex and was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church there Over his Grave was soon after a Monument of black Marble set up with the Effegies of the Defunct engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Among the several books that this Doctor Harsnet hath published are 1 A discovery of the fraudulent practices of John Darrel Minister written in answer to a book intit A true narration of the strange and grevious vexation by the devil of Seven persons in Lancashire and Will Sommers of Nottingham printed 1600. qu. Wherupon Darrell came out with a reply intit A detection of that sinful shameful lying and ridiculâus discourse intit A discovery c. printed 1600. qu. 2 A Declaration of egregiâus Pâpish impostures to withdraw the hearts of her Majesties Subjects from their allegiance c. practiced by Edmunds alias Westân a Jesuit c Lond. 1603 qu. besides one or more Sermons and four or more MSS. fit for the Press of which one is De Necessitate Baptismi c. This Learned and Judicious Prelate was born as 't is said in the Parish of St. ãâã in the antient borough of ãâã in Essex educated in Pemb. hall where he was first Scholâr and afterwards Fellow When he was some years ãâã Master he was chosen Proctor which ãâã he went through with great credit to himself Afterwards he become Vicar of Chigwell in Essex Archdeacon of ãâã Chaplain to Archb. Bancroft Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral Master of Pemb. hall in and twice Vicechancellour of the University of Cambridge From whence he had an easie Progress to the see of Chichester and afterwards to ãâã After his death ãâ¦ã being elected to the See of ãâã 28. Feb. 1631. was translated thereunto and on the 16 oâ Feb. 1632. was ãâã in the person of Dr. Phineas Hodson Chanc. of the Church of York GEORGE CARLETON sometimes Fellow of Merton coll was consecrated Bishop of Landaff on the 12. July an 1618. translated thence to Chichester in Sept. 1619. year 1628 and departed this life in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Rich. Mountague who after election and confirmation thereunto was consecrated in the Archbishops chappel at Croyden in Surrey 24. Aug. 1628. This learned person who was Son of Laurence Mountague Minister of Dorney in Bucks And he the Son of Rob. Mountague of Boudney in the Parish of Burnham in the said County was born at Dorney educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School elected a Member of Kings coll in Cambridge 1594. took the degrees in Arts became Parson of Wotton-Courtney in Somersetshire Prebendary of Wells Rector of Stanford-Rivers in Essex Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. Archdeacon and Dean of Hereford which last dignity he changed with Ol. Lloyd LL. D. for a Prebendship of Windsore in 1617. and being about that time made Fellow of Eaton coll which he kept with Windsore by a dispensation did learnedly read for 8 years together the Theological Lecture in the chappel at Windsore Afterwards he was made Rector of Petworth in Sussex bestowed much money in the repairing of the Parsonage house there as he did afterwards on the Bishops house at Aldingbourne At length his Majesty being minded to translate him to Norwych was elected thereunto by the Dean and Chapter 4. of May 1638. where sitting to the time of his death which hapned in Apr. 1641. leaving then behind him a Son named Richard was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. belonging to that place where to this day is this only written on his grave Depositum Montacutii Episcopi He came to Norwych with the evil effects of a quartan Ague which he had had about an year before and which accompanied him to his grave yet he studied and wrote very much had an excellent Library of books and heaps of papers fairly written with his own hand concerning the Ecclesiastical History He was a person exceedingly well vers'd in all the learning of Greeks and Romans and as well studied in the Fathers Councils and all other antient monuments of the Christian World as any Man besides in the whole Nation K. Jam. 1. knew the Man well and was exceedingly pleased with his performance against the History of Tithes wherein he had beaten the then thought matchless Selden at his own weapon and shew'd himself the greatest Philosopher of the two Upon which ground his Majesty looked upon him as the fittest person and therefore commanded him to view and purge the Church History which was then taken and judged by many to be corrupted and depraved with various figments by certain writers of the R. Cath. pârty especially by Baronius which he accordingly did with great industry and admirable judgment What other things he wrote you may mostly see in the Bodleian or Oxford catolague And what he suffered for his New Gag for the old Gospel or his Answer to the late Gagger of Protestants occasioned by the Puritan and also for his Apello Caesarem you may see at large in Dr. Heylyns History of the life and death of Will Laud Archb. of Canterbury under the years 1624. 25. c. He also set forth Nazianzen's invective orations against Julian in Greek and was employed by Sir Hen. Savile who countenanced him much in correcting most part of Chrysostom in Greek before it went to the Press WILLIAM GIFFORD the Ornament of the English Catholicks of his time was sometimes a Member of Lincoln coll but took no degree in this University Afterwards retiring beyond the Seas he became thro various preferments Archbishop of Rheimes in 1622. He paid his list debt to nature in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said Archbishoprick succeeded Henry de Loraine Son of Charles Duke of Guise as I have before told you JOHN HANMER a Shropshire man born but descended from those of his name living at Hanmer in Flintshire was admitted Fellow of Allsouls coll from that of Oriel in 1596. aged 20. and when five years standing Mast of Arts was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University in 1605. Afterwards he became Rector of Bingham in Nottinghamshire in which Church he was succeeded by Dr. Math. Wren in May 1624. and Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Dr. Joh. Langworth sometimes of New coll about the latter end of 1614. and shortly after was licensed to proceed in Divinity he being then Chapl. in Ord. to K. Jam. 1. At length upon the death of Dr. Rich. Parry he being nominated Bishop of St. Asaph was elected thereunto about the 20. of January in 1623. consecrated 15. of Feb. following and on the 23. of the said month had the temporalities of that See given to him with liberty then allowed to keep his Prebendship in Commendam with it He died at
Pentrerpant or Pentrepant near to Oswestrey in Shropshire 23. July in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 and was buried the next day in the Church at Sillatin or Selattyn To the poor of which place as also of Oswestrey and S. Asaph he gave to each five pounds In his Prebendship succeeded Giles Thornborough M. of A. afterwards D. D. Nephew to Dr. John Thorborough B. of Worcester who kept it to the time of his death 1663 and in the See of S. Asaph succeeded Joh Owen D. D. of Cambridge and Archdeacon of S. Asaph who was consecrated thereunto 20. of Sept. 1629. He died at Perthkinsey 15. Oct. 1651. and was buried on the 21. of the said month in the Cath. Church of S. Asaph under the Bishops Throne This Dr. Owen who was the Ministers Son of Burton-Latimers in Northamptonshire and born there as also bred Fellow in Jesus coll in Cambridge hath written Herod and Pilate reconciled Or the concord of Papists Anabaptists and Sectaries against Scripture Fathers Councils and other Orthodox Writers for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings Published 1663. and by the author dedicated to the Loyal Subjects of Great Britain What other things he hath written and published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only that he was a great Loyalist a true Son of the Church of England and had been much respected by Laud Arch. of Canterbury who obtained for him from his most gracious King the said Bishoprick of S. Asaph which lying void after his death till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Dr. George Griffith was consecrated thereunto JOHN BUCKRIDGE sometimes Fellow afterwards President of S. Johns college became B. of Rochester in 1611. and from thence was translated to Ely in 1627. He was conducted to the habitation prepared for old age in sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt Curle and in Ely Dr. Francis White both Cambridge men by education JOHN HOWSON sometimes Student and Canon of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Oxford in the month of May 1618. was translated thence to Durham in 1628. and departed this moral life towards the latter end of sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631-2 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Durham succeeded Dr. Thom. Morton B. of Lichfield and Coventry the temporalities of which he received from the King 12. Jul. 1632. and dying in the house of Sir Hen. Yelverton of Easton-Manduit in Northamptonshire on the morrow after S. Matthews day in 1659. aged 95 years was succeeded in the year following by Dr. Joh. ãâã of Cambridge LEWES BAYLY sometimes a Member of Exeter coll was consecrated Bishop of Baâger in 1616. and departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of ãâã succeeded a Native of Segroet near Denbigh a certain learned Doctor of div named David Dâlben of S. Johnâ coll in Cambridge a younger Son of Robert ãâã Dâlben of ãâã before-mentioned in Denbighshire who dying in Bangor-house situated in Shoe-lane near S. Andrews Church in ãâã in the Suburb of London on the 27. of Nov. 1633. was buried in the Church at ãâã which he kept in Commendam with his Bishoprick He was succeeded in the See of Bangor by Edm. Griffith of whom I shall speak by and by JOHN RIDER sometimes a Student in Jesus coll was consecrated Bishop of ãâã in Ireland on the 12. of Jan. 1612. and concluded his last in a good old age in sixteen hundred thirty and two ãâã which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said Bishoprick succeeded one Lewes Jones a Welshman sometimes a Student in this University whom I shall mention at large among the Bishops in the second vol. of this work FRANCIS GODWIN sometimes a Student of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Landaff in 1601 thence translated to Hereford in 1617 and died in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 under which year you may see more of him among ther writers To the said See after Goodman of Glocester had endeavoured to obtain was elected Dr. Will. Juxon of Oxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London whereupon Dr. Augustin Lindsell Bishop of Peterborough was translated thereunto in Dec. 1633. After him followed Mathew Wren D. of D. of Cambridge the temporalities of which See Hereford were given to him 24 March 10. Car. 1. Dom. 1634-35 But he being soon after translated to Norwych Theophilus Field of Pembroke hall in Cambridge born in the parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond. succeeded The temporalities also of which were restored to him 23. Janu. 1635. This Dr. Field dying soon after George Cook sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge brother to Sir Joh. Cook Secretary of State succeeded and had the temporalities thereof given to him 7. July 1636. He was the Son of Rich. Cook of Trusley in Derbyshire by Mary his wife daughter and heir of Tho. Sacheverell of Kirby in Nottinghamshire and he the Son of Will. Cook of the same place by his wife the daughter of Ralph Fitzherbert of Tyssyngton in the said county of Derby Which George Cook dying in 1646. 22. Car. 1. the see of Hereford laid void till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and then 't was supplied by Dr. Nich. Monk of Oxon of whom I shall make large mention in his proper place GEORGE ABBOT sometimes of Balliol college afterwards Chaplain to Thomas Lord Buckhurst and then to the Earl of Dunbar with whom he was solemnly sent into Scotland for an effecting of an Union in the Hierarchie was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 3 Dec. 1609 translated to London about the latter end of January following and in 1610 he was translated to Canterbury on the death of Dr. Richard Bancroft He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Canterbury succeeded Dr. William Laud as I shall tell you at large when I come to the next Vol. of this work JOHN PHILIPPS was a Welsh-man born as it seems and having received his Academical education in Oxon became afterwards Parson of Thorp Basset and Slingesby in Yorkshire which last he obtained in the latter end of March 1591. About that time he being Chaplain to Henry Earl of Derby became Archdeacon of Clievland on the resignation of Rich. Bird Bach. of div in Apr. 1601 also Archdeacon of the Isle of Man and at length about 1614. Bishop of that place but in whose room I cannot tell for between the translation thence of Dr. George Lloyd to Chester 1604. some person yet unknown to me did succeed
In the Rectory of Slingesby succeeded Sam. Philipps M. A. in Jan. 1618. and in Clievland Henry Thurcross M. A. an 1619. as I shall tell you in the Fasti an 1610. So that I presume those two places were kept in Commendam with the Bishoprick by the said John Philipps whom I take to be the same with Joh. Philipps who took the degree of M. of Arts as a Member of S. Maries hall in the month of May 1584. Which degree he compleated as a Member of Broadgates in an Act celebrated 10. of July the same year The said Joh. Philipps Bishop of Man translated the Bible into the Manks language that is the language commonly spoken in the Isle of Man assisted in the said work by Sir Hugh Cannal Minister of Kirk St. Michael in the said Isle He concluded his last day about the year sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 and was succeeded in the said See of Man by William Forster a Divine of some note in his time but whether he was ever of Brasnose coll as some think he was wherein several of his sirname and time have studied I cannot tell One Will. Forster a Warwickshire man born was entred a Student in S. Johns coll 1601. and another of that house was a writer as I have before told you among the writers under the year 1633. One Joh. Philipps wrote A summon to repentence Lond. 1584. oct but he is not to be taken to be the same with the former and another Joh. Philipps wrote The way to Heaven on Acts 2. 47. Printed in qu. 1625. Which book I having not yet seen I cannot say to the contrary but that it may be published by Joh. Philipps the Bishop Qu. FRANCIS GOUGH commonly called Goffe the fifth Son of Hugh Gough Rector of Allcannyngs in Wilts by Jane his Wife Daughter of one Clifford of Clifford-hall in Devonsh was born in Wiltshire entred a Batler in S. Edmunds hall in the latter end of 1611. aged 17 years and afterwards was made one of the Clerks of New college where continuing some years returned to the said hall and as a Member thereof took the degree of M. of Arts in 1618. Soon after he having a just opportunity of going into Ireland became first Chancellour then Bishop of Limerick to which See being consecrated at Cashills 17. Sept. 1626. sate there till the time of his death which hapning on the 29. of August in sixteen hundred thirty and four was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Limerick leaving then year 1636 behind him his eldest brother named Hugh who was Chanter of Limerick and Justice of Peace In the See of Limerick succeeded George Web whom I shall mention in the next volume under the year 1641. WILLIAM PILSWORTH was born in Fleetstreet in the west suburb of London elected and admitted Demie of Magd. coll 29. Sept. 1578. aged 18 years on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour following took one degree in Arts as a member of Magd. hall in Dec. 1581 left the University without any other degree went into Ireland became Prebendary of Monabannoc and at length Bishop of Kildare To which see being consecrated at Balsoon in the county of Meath 11. Sept. 1604 sate there without any removal to the time of his death which hapning at Naas on the 9. of May in sixteen hundred thirty and five year 1635 was buried at Dunfert in the country of Kildare In the said See succeeded Robert Vsher D. D. Son of Hen. Vsher sometimes Archbishop of Armagh who lived upon it till the Rebellion broke out in Ireland an 1641 and then retired into England for protection RICHARD CORBET sometimes Student afterwards Dean of Christ Church was consecrated Bishop of Oxford in 1629. tho in some respects unworthy of such an office and translated thence to Norwych in the beginning of 1632. He died in the latter end of July in sixteen year 1635 hundred thirty and five under which year you may see more of him among the writers After his death a Native of the Parish of S. Peters Cheap in London named Dr. Math. Wren B. of Hereford was translated to Norwych the temporalities of which See were restored to him 24. of Nov. 1635. being elected thereunto on the tenth day of the same month Afterwards upon the death of Dr. Franc. White Bishop-Almoner he was translated to Ely the temporalities of which were restored to him on the 5. of May 1638. where he sate to the time of his death He by the way I must tell you was the Son of Franc. Wren Citizen of London a branch of the Wrens of Binchester in the Bishoprick of Durham and being an eminent Scholar in his youth became first a Student in Pembroke hall in Cambridge then Greek Scholar and Fellow of that house and soon after Chaplain to Lancelot Andrews Bishop of Winchester Afterwards he was made Master of Peter house Vicechancellour of the said University Chaplain to K. Charles 1. when he was Prince whom he attended after he had taken his journey to Spain as also when he was King Prebendary of Winchester Dean of Windsor in which honourable Dignity he was installed 24. Jul. 1628. sworn Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter 23. of Sept. following and in 1633 became Clerk of the Closet in the place of Dr. Will. Juxon In 1634 he became Prebend of Westm in the room of Dr. John Wilson and near upon that time Bishop of Hereford But continuing there not long he was translated to Norwych as I have before told you And being made Dean of the Chappel Royal upon Juxons advance to the Treasurers staff an 1636 he was translated to Ely in the beginning of 1638 as 't is already said In all which offices his deportment was with such gravity exemplary piety and Government with no less prudence that upon the beginning of the unparallel'd rebellion raised by the Presbyterians commonly then called Puritans who had an implacable hatred for him for his pride insolence and high hand used towards them as they frequently reported he was by them miserably persecuted and grievously oppressed by plunder of his goods seizure of his estate and by a strait and tedious imprisonment in the Tower of London which he endured with great patience and magnanimity near 18 years After his Majesties return he was set at liberty was restored to his Bishoprick of Ely and notwithstanding his former losses performed several acts of Piety Among which was his building a new Chappel in Pembroke hall before mentioned which being beautified with splendid and decorous Furniture and amply endowed with an annual revenue was upon the Feast of S. Mathew 21. Sept. in 1665. solemnly consecrated and dedicated by himself in person and by his Episcopal authority to the honour of Almighty God A noble and lasting Monument of the rare piety and munificence of that great and wise Prelate and in every point accorded to his character which was then so well
known that the sole nomination of the Founder was a sufficient account of the elegance and magnificence of the foundation Before evening service the exterior or outer Chappel and the Cloyster leading to it a new Fabrick of Sir Robert Hitchams foundation were by his Lordship also consecrated for places of Sepulture to the use of the Society together with a cell or vault at the east end of the chappel under the Altar for a dormitory for his Lordship He paid his last debt to nature in Ely House in Holbourn near London on Wednesday 24 of Apr. 1667. aged 81 years and upwards Whereupon his body being embalm'd was conveyed to Cambridge and deposited with great solemnity in a stone coffin in the vault before-mention'd This worthy and learned Bishop hath written 1 Increpatio Bar. Jesu sive Polemicae adsertiones locorum aliquot S. Scripturae ab imposturis perversionum in catechesi Racoviana Lond. 1660. qu. remitted into the ninth vol. of the Criticks 2 The abandoning of the Scotch covenant Lond. 1661. qu. 3 Epistolae variae ad viros doctiss Among whom are to be numbred Ger. Jo. Vossius As also two or more Sermons one of which is on Prov. 24. 21. printed 1627. and another on Psal 44. 18. printed in 1662. both in qu. c. He left behind him several Sons who will be mention'd elsewhere MICHAEL BOYLE was a Londoner born Son if I mistake not of Michael Boyle of S. Mar. Magd. Parish in Milkstreet who died in the latter end of 1596. and nearly related to the Boyles of Kentish Town in Middlesex was educated in Merchant Taylors School became Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1593. aged 18. years took the degrees in Arts holy orders and was made Vicar of Finden in Northamptonshire In 1611. he proceeded in Divinity and three years after resigning his Vicaridge he went into Ireland was made Dean of Lismore and at length in the latter end of the year 1619. was consecrated Bishop of Waterford and Lismore being then esteemed a person of good learning and prudence He yielded up his last breath at Waterford on the 27. Dec. in sixteen hundred thirty and five year 1635 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of the holy Trinity there leaving then behind him a brother named Richard Boyle Archb. of Tuam whom I shall mention in the Fasti among the incorporations an 1601. There was another Michael Boyle who was Archb. of Dublin 1663. but he was Nephew to the former Michael by being Son to Richard before mention'd EDMUND GRIFFITH a Caernarvanshire man born was admitted in the quality of an Exhibitioner into Brasnose college on the 8. Apr. 1587. having before as I conceive been a Student of that of Jesus took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1592. About which time being in full Orders had some employment agreeable to his profession in these parts In 1599. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and afterwards being made Dean of Bangor in the place of Dr. Joh. Williams deceased in Sept. or Oct. 1613. was at length made Bishop of that place on the death of Dr. Dav. Dolben an 1633. To which See being consecrated the temporalities thereof were restored to him on the 26. of Febr. the same year He died in sixteen hundred thirty and seven year 1637 and was as I suppose buried in the Church of Bangor In the said See succeeded Dr. Will. Roberts Subdean of Wells and Archdeacon of Anglesie sometimes Fellow of Queens coll in Cambridge and Proctor of that University who having the said Bishoprick bestowed on him the endeavours of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. for discovering Church goods to the value of 1000 l. had the temporalities thereof given to him 24. Sept. 13. Car. 1. Dom. 1637. with liberty then allowed to him to keep his Archdeaconty in Commendam In the time of Rebellion he suffered much and about 1649. he was sequestred of all or most of his Estate whether spiritual or temporal In the great year of the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to all he had lost and dying in 1665. one Drâ¦â¦ Price was elected Bishop but he dying before consecration in the same year Robert Morgan Dr. or Bach. of div Rector of Llanddyfnan in Anglesie and Archdeacon of Merioneth being elected into his place was consecrated at Lambeth on the first day of July 1666. He died in Sept. 1673. leaving behind him a Relict called Anne JONAS WHEELER Dean of the Church of the Holy Trinity commonly called Christ Church in Dublin and Chaplain to K. James 1. was consecrated Bishop of Ossory in S. Patricks Church near Dublin on the eighth day of May 1613. and died in the ninety seventh year of his age at Dunmore on the 19. of April in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 Whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Kilkenny He was born in Oxfordshire as 't is said particularly as I suppose within the City of Oxon was educated in this University but in what house unless in that of Brasnose where one or more of his name and kindred studied about his time I know not nor what degrees he took because many have studied in the said University five seven ten years or more and yet never took any degree JOHN ATHERTON Son of John Atherton who became Rector of Bawdripp in Somersetshire in 1584. was born in that County at Bawdripp as it seems and at 16 years of age 1614. became either a Batler or Commoner of Gloucester hall where continuing till after he had taken one degree in Arts was transplanted to Lincoln college took the degree of Master as a Member of it holy Orders and soon after was made Rector of Huish Combflower in his own Country At length being made known to Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lievtenant of Ireland for his great sufficiencies in the Canon Law and Ecclesiastical affairs was by him made Prebendary of Ch. Ch. in Dublin and afterwards Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in the year 1636. he being then Doctor of divinity in which office he behaved himself for some time with great prudence tho forward enough if not too much against the R. Catholicks in that Country At length being charged with a crime not now to be named was seized on and imprisoned And being found guilty of it was first degraded and afterwards suffered death by hanging at Dublin being the first of his Function that suffered that kind of death as he said it openly to the People at the Gallows on the fifth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 Afterwards his body was buried according to his desire in the remotest or obscurest part of the Yard where rubbish used to be laid belonging to S. Johns Church in Dublin Nich. Bernard D. D. sometimes Chaplain to the learned and religious Dr. Vsher Archb of Armagh hath written and published a book of his penitent death with a Sermon at his burial to
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
Dean of the said Cathedral in the third of Ed. 6. Dom. 1549. In 1552 he succeeded Dr. Richard Coxe in the Chancellourship of this University which honourable office he keeping till 1556 did then resign it purposely to make room for Cardinal Pole then designing to visit and to do great matters for it He was also a Privy Counsellour to Queen Mary and much respected by her but did not hold any Ecclesiastical Dignity in her Reign as I can yet learn For giving up the Deanery of Winchester in the first year of her Reign Dom. 1553. Edmund Steward LL. D. of Cambridge was then installed and kept it till 1559. After her death he became a Privy Counsellour to Queen Elizabeth and in 1559 was elected Chanc. of this University again being then Treasurer of the Queens Chamber and Master of the Hospital in Abendon the erection of which he had before procured as also the Incorporation of that Town but whether a possessor of any Dignity in the Church in her Reign I find not He paid his last debt to nature 20. Apr. 1566 and was buried in the North Chancel or the North Isle joyning to the Chancel of the Cathedral Ch. of St. Paul in London whereupon Sir Franc. Knollis Knight succeeded him in the Treasurership of the Qu. Chamber Soon after was a large Epitaph set over his grave which tho since consumed yet his memory lives among the learned Men in the Encomia illustrium virorum penned by John Leland Bach. of Civ Law Mar. 3. William Roberts he was afterwards Archdeacon of Merionithshire and Principal of New Inn. In a certain Register he is stiled Archd. of Monmouth 1528. Four admitted in the Can. and about 9 in the Civ Law Three supplicated in the former and as many in the latter Mast of Arts. June 19. Thomas Lupset who had studied four years at Paris and Oxon was then admitted M. of A. Jul. 5. Thomas Runcorne He was afterwards made Provost of the Collegiat Church of St. Elizabeth Daughter of the King of Hungary founded in the time of Ed. 1. in the meadow of St. Stephen situate before and opposite to the gates of Wolvesey Castle near to Winchester This Thomas Runcorne surrended the said Coll. into the hands of K. Hen. 8. and thereupon he was made one of the first Prebendaries of the Cath. Church of Winchester Afterwards the King granted the said Coll. and its site to Thomas Lord Writhâousley who sold it to the Warden and Fellows of Wykeham's Coll. near to Winchester for 360 l. provided that they either make the Church there a Grammar School for 70 Persons to be taught therein or to pull it down to the ground before Penticost an 1547. Which last they did sooner than the first because it should not be prejudicial to their School This Thomas Runcorne was a learned Man and among the learned Men of his time is he remembred by Leland in his Encomia beforemention'd p. 67. Bach. of Div. Dec. 7. Father Richard Stopys or Stopes Abbat of Meaux or Melsa in Yorkshire of the Cistercian Order now studying in St. Bernards College Fa. William Thryske Abbat of Fountaines in the Dioc. of York was admitted the same day Fa. William Hestyngton Abbat of Roche in Yorkshire of the Cluniac or Cistercian Order was admitted the same day being then of St. Bernards Coll. Feb. 6. John⦠Prior of the Order of the Dominicans See in an 1532. Besides these were 8 at least admitted and 12 at least that supplicated all whom except two were of religious Orders Several also were admitted to oppose in Divinity that were not admitted Bach. of that faculty among whom were Father Rich. Wyche of Whalley a Cistercian Monk now studying in St. Bernards College Doct. of Law Not one admitted either in the Can. or Civ Law and only Will. Lytherlond Bach. of the Can. Law supplicated to be admitted Doctor of that faculty and John Noble before mentioned supplicated to be admitted Dr. of the Civ Law Doct. of Physick Jul. 3. Thomas Moscroff or Musgrave of Mert. Coll. In 1522 he was Card. Wolseys Physick reader in and in 1523 he was Commissary of the University being then a Student in Divinity and on the eleventh of March the same year he did supplicate the ven Congregation of Regents that it might be dispensed with him from circuiting and certain exercises preceding if so be it should happen that he should be admitted to the reading of the Sentences The reason for this was because he was Commissary and that it did not become a Doctor to circuit for an inferior Degree This supplication was granted conditionally that he Preach a Sermon in the Church of St. Peter in the East Afterwards his exercise being all performed as twice answering in the Schools and 4 times Preaching in St. Maries Ch. all done in the space of one year he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences that is to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity by Dr. John Young Bishop of Callipolis and Warden of New Coll. in the presence of 8 Doctors of Divinity In 1527 he would have proceeded in that faculty but was prevented by death Doct. of Div. June 3. Fr. David Williams a Minoritie or Franciscan or Grey fryer Three also supplicated for the said Degree viz. Richard Stubbes William White and William Curters a Minorite all Bachelauis of Divinity Incorporations May⦠Patrick Gower M. of A. of Paris and Cambridge Nov⦠John Rayne LL. D. of Cambridge Nov. 25. George Thyle B. A. of Colen Mar. 3. Henry Marshe Dr. of Phys by authority of the Popes Bull was then Incorporated In the year 1514 Mar. 26. he was admitted to practise Physick by the ven Congreg of Regents of this University 16. John Crayford M. A. of Cambridge He had been lately of Qu. Coll. in that University from whence being ejected he went to Oxon. and was made Fellow of Vniv. College See in 1546. among the Incorporations In January one Edward Pennant Bach. of Can. Law of Cambridge supplicated to be incorporated but whether granted I find not See more in Hen. Morgan among the Bishops One John Pennant Doct. of Dec. and Chancellour to the Bishop of Bathe and Wells was constituted by him the said Bishop his Vicar General in the beginning of June 1526 and dyed in Apr. or May 1529. This year but the day or month I know not was a supplicate made in the behalf of Richard Sampson sometimes of Trin. hall in Cambridge to be incorporated LL. D. but whether he was so it appears not and therefore I shall only say these matters of him that he had that Degree conferr'd upon him beyond the Seas was incorporated at Cambridge the last year was installed Dean of Windsore by proxy 14. Nov. 1523 being then in remote parts about the Kings affairs made Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral about 1530 Dean of Lichfield in 1532 Treasurer of the Church of Sarum 16. Mar. 1534 Bishop of Chichester in 1536 translated thence to
the month of May or thereabouts an 1552 lest much of his substance to pious uses On the 2 of June the same year he being then dead Leonard Bilson succeeded him in the Prebendship of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the Church of Salisbury John Feyter of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day John Tregoâwell sometimes of Broadgates afterwards Principal of Vine hall alias Peckwaters Inn was admitted also the same day June 23. He was an eminent and learned Man in his profession and therefore was employed to be Proctor for K. Hen. 8. in that long and costly cause of his divorce from Qu. Catherine wherein shewing himself very diligent was by him Knighted and for an inconsiderable sum of money had settled on him and his heirs for ever the rich demesne and site of the mitred Abbey of Milton alias Middleton for Benedictine Monks in Dorsetshire He gave way to fate in the latter end of the year 1564 7. Elizab. and was buried in the Church there Doct. of Can. Law June 23. Father John Burton a Canon Regular Prior of St. ârideswydes Monastery in afterwards Abbat of Osney near to Oxford John Prynne a Secular Chaplain was admitted the same day He was afterwards Subdean and Can. resident of Lincolne and dying 29. Apr. 1558 was buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincolne Anthony Draycot lately Principal of White hall involved afterwards within the limits of Jesus Coll. and of Pirye hall adjoyning was admitted also the same day In 1542 he was made Archdeacon of Stow in the place of Edward Darbye sometimes of Linc. Coll. deceased and in the year following Archdeacon of Huntington in the place of Dr. Richard Gwent deceased He was Chancellour for a time to Dr. Longland Bish of Linc. and to Dr. Ralph Bayne Bish of Lichfield in which Offices he acted much against the Protestants as John Fox in his book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. will tell you In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths Reign he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet and suffer'd much upon account of Religion Nich. Saunders tells us that one Draycot Archdeacon of York was ejected from that Dignity or left it of his own accord in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth but I find no such Man in my Catalogue of Archdeacons of that place which is punctually made from the registers of the Church of York Doct. of Div. Jul. 3. Fath. Peter Lee a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict This year Jun. 2. Rowland Philips M. of A. supplicated for the Degrees of Bach. and Doctor of Divinity and was as it seems admitted Soon after by the power of the Archbishop of Canterbury he was thrust in Warden of Merton College He was now Vicar of Croyden in Surrey one of the Canons of Pauls a famous and notable Preacher and a forward Man in the Convocation of the Clergy an 1523 in acting and speaking much against the payment of a Subsidie to the King Incorporations May 2. George Henneage Bach. of the Canon Law of Cambridge Archdeacon of Oxford and Chaplain to John Bishop of Lincolne With him it was then dispensed that he might uti palliis ac sumptuoso omni vestitu pellibus ac serico pertinent In Apr. 1521 he was installed Archdeacon of Oxford on the death of Christoph Vrswyke in 1528 he became Dean of Lincolne on the death of John Constable who dyed 15. July in the same year and in 1542 Archdeacon of Lincolne upon the attainder of Richard Pates I mean him who was afterwards B. of Worcester This G. Henneage died in 1549 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Linc. near to the tomb of Mr. Sim. Fotherbie sometimes Chanc. of that Church directly before the image of the Virgin Mary without her Chappel In the Archdeaconry of Line succeeded Nich. Bullyngham in Sept. 1549. and the same year succeeded John Tayler D. D. in the Deanery Feb. 18. Nich. de Burgo a Minorite Bach. of Divinity of the University of Paris He was an Italian born did succeed Dr. Tho. Brynknell in the reading of Card. Wolsey's Divinity Lecture lately erected in this University And when the matter of the divorce of K. H. 8. from Qu. Catherine was in agitation in the University he shewed himself so forward for it that the Women of Oxon did not only scold at him publickly but threw stones after him as he passed along the street Whereupon complaining of their rudeness thirty of them were the next day imprisoned in Bocardo where they continued 3 days and as many nights I find one Nicholaus Italus to be Sub-commissary of this University in Aug. 1534. whom I take to be the same with Nich. de Burgo beforemention'd a very learned Man of his time Feb. 19. Nich. Cracher or Kratzer Bach. of Arts of Colen and Wittenburgh In the month of May one John Taylor Dr. of Decrees and of the sacred Canons beyond the Seas having been lately incorporated at Cambridge supplicated for incorporation in this University which being granted he was as it seems taken into the bosome thereof This Person who was Archdeacon of Derby and Bucks and had been Rector of Sutton Colfield in Warwickshire was Clerk of the Parliaments that sate in 1515. 7. Hen. 8. and prolocutor of the Convocation of the Clergy that was dissolved 21. Dec. the same year In which Parliaments and Convocation arose those most dangerous seditions between the Clergy and Seculars concerning several Ecclesiastical Liberties In 1528. the said Dr. Taylor who had been employed in several Embassies beyond the Seas succeeded Thomas Hanyball in the Mastership of the Rolls and dying in 1534 was succeeded in that office by Thomas Cromwell This Dr. Taylor who was a learned Canonist and a Statesman was born being the Son I suppose of a Taylor in a poor Cottage at Barton in the Parish of Tatinhills in Staffordshire and being the eldest of the Tremelli which his Mother had at one birth were by command of the King to whom they were presented as he rode in hunting in that Country carefully educated in good Letters Afterwards in gratitude to the place that gave him birth he built a fair Chappel upon or near the site where the Cottage stood In his rectory of Sutton Colfield succeeded George Henneage beforemention'd An. Dom. 1523. An. 15. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Tho. Moscroff or Musgrave M. D. now or lately Fellow of Merton Coll. Proct. Tho. Canner again Edm. Campion Apr. 19. The Senior was soon after preferred to be one of the first Canons of Cardinal Coll. of which he became Subdean 1527. and the other who was of Linc. Coll. had a Dignity soon after confer'd upon him Grammarians Mar. 14. Jam. Davenport a Secular Chaplain One Joh. Wooddys another Sec. Chapl. supplicated to be admitted to inform but whether he was so it appears not Bach. of Arts. Dec. 15. Richard Pates or Patys of Corp. Ch. Coll. He was afterwards through several preferments Bishop of Worcester Besides
nativity and a Minorite by profession Jun. 4. Father Will. Sandwych a Benedictine He was afterwards Gardian or Warden of Canterbury Coll. in Oxon. 27. Fa. Tho. Levett a Benedictine Feb. 27. Fa. Rich. Gorton a Ben. and Bach. of Arts. Nine more were admitted and about 15 there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom John Hylsey was one afterwards Bishop of Rochester Doct. of Civ Law Nov⦠David Pole or Poole of All 's Coll. Febr⦠John Payne Principal of New Inn and Moderator or Principal of Civil Law School in St. Edwards Parish Two also there were that supplicated for the said Degree viz. Hen. Russell Bach. of the Civil Law and Thom. Breewood or Brerewood Bac. of the said faculty of All 's College Which last was about this time Canon of Exeter afterwards about 1536 Archdeacon of Barnstaple and Chancellour to the Bishop of Exeter Doct. of Can. Law Nov⦠Dav. Pole or Poole beforementioned Jan⦠Hen. Whyte He was afterwards Principal or chief Moderator of Can. Law School and is sometimes written Praelector Cathedrae juris Canonici One Will. Cleyton Bachelaur of Decrees supplicated to be admitted Doctor of the Canon Law but he was not admitted this year Doct. of Physick Feb. 13. Thom. Gwynne of All 's Coll. George Owen of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day This Person was born in the Dioc. of Worcester was admitted Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1519 afterwards he was Physician to K. Hen. 8. Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London Physician to K. Edw. 6. and Qu. Mary and dying of a malignant and Epidemical Feaver 10. Oct. 1558 was buried in the Church of St. Stephen in Walbroke London His memory is celebrated among the learned Men of his time by John Leland the Antiquarian-poet and by John Parkhurst Bishop of Norwych his Fellow collegiat One of his descendants of Godstow near Oxon. whose Christian name I do not yet know was condemned to dye 17 May 1615 for stifly maintaining that a Prince may be removed out of the way by death or otherwise if lawfully excommunicated by the Pope Doct. of Div. Feb. 10. The ven Father John Newbolt a Benedictine Monk One Tho. Newbolt was Abbat of Evesham next before Clement Lychfield whom I have mention'd under the year 1501. Nine this year appears to have supplicated to be Doctors of Divinity among whom were Anth. Dunstan a Benedictine Monk of Westminster and Prior of Gloucest Coll. in the suburb of Oxon. See more in the year 1538. Rich. Thornden who was afterwards Suffragan Bishop of Dover Rog. Otteford Bac. of Div. and a Benedictine John Tybbys a Cistercian c. Incorporations Jul. 8. Will. Armsted M. of A. beyond the Seas Feb. 7. Jam. Blyth Bach. of Div. beyond the Seas sometimes of this University was then incorp Bac. of Div. See among the Doctors of Div. 1535. He was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Christoph Plummer deprived by attainder 25. of Aug. 1536 and had other Dignities and dying in 1546. he was buried in St. Georges Chap. at Windsore An. Dom. 1528. An. 20. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. John Cottysford Proct. John Belletory Chapl. of Mert. Coll. Walter Buckler Fell. of the said and Canon of Cardinal Coll. elected Apr. 22. Grammarians Nov. 5. Christoph Haldesworth a Secular Chaplain One Tho. Myttons an instructor of Youth at Banbury in Oxfordshire and John Parry a Secular Chapl. did supplicate to be admitted but whether they were so it appears not Bach. of Arts. May 16. John Standish of Brasen Coll. He was soon after of Corp. Christi Jul. 15. Gilb. Bourne He was afterwards of All 's Coll. Will. Bradbridge or Brodbridge of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Jul. 24. John Parkhurst Nov. 5. Rich. Moryson Jun. 24. Will. Pye of Oriel Coll. All which were afterwards either Writers or Bishops Besides them were about 50 admitted this year and about 20 that supplicated who were not admitted Bach. of Law Six were admitted in the Canon and eight in the Civil Law Nine or thereabouts supplicated to be graduated in the former and about 7 in the other but not one of them can I yet find was afterwards a Bishop Writer or a Dignitary Mast of Arts. Jul. 14. John Doone of C. C. C. He was a noted Grecian Greek reader of that house and afterwards Dean of the Kings Chappel and well dignified About thirty were admitted this year and about eleven that supplicated to be Masters but were not admitted Opponents in Div. Jun 18. Father Will. Beawdley Abbat of Flaxley of the Cistercian Order in Glocestershire Jul. 3. Fa. Will. Harford or Hartford of the Order of St. Benedict He was about this time an Abbat or a Prior. These two I cannot find to be admitted Bach. of Div. which usually follows opposition in that faculty and therefore I have put them here Bach. of Div. Jun. 26. Fa. John Byle or Byley or Beyley a Benedictine and about this time an Abbat Jul. 15. Tho. Canner now of Cardinal lately of Magd. Coll. In 1532 he was made the eighth Canon of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. founded on that of Card. Wolseys of which he had been made the first Canon by the Cardinal and in 1542 he was admitted Provost of the Free-Chappel of St. Nicholas under Hampden in the Dioc. of Wells and had other Dignities bestow'd on him Edw. Leyton or Leighton was admitted the same day This Person did about this time solely give himself up to please the unlimited humour of the King as another of his Sirname did about the same time See in the year 1506. 17. William Tiesham of Mert. Coll. Jul. 18. Fath. Thom. Essex Feb. 20. Fa. Humph. Webley March 11. Fa. Will. Bennet of the Order of St. Benedict Which three Fathers were now either Abbats or Priors March 11. Fa. Tho. Sparke a Benedictine Monk He was now or soon after Prior of a certain cell as it is mention'd in the publick register of this time wherein it is further added that in 1529 he was about to leave the University cum pannis suis to go to the Monastery at Durham Fa. John Else a Dominican was adm this year but the day or month appears not Besides these were four more admitted and eight at least that supplicated of whom John Bekinsau of New College was one Doct. of Civil Law Jun. 25. Thomas Baggard originally of New Inn afterwards one of the first Canons of Cardinal College In 1535 he became Chancellour of the Diocess of Worcester in the place of one Dr. Thomas Parker and in the 33 Hen. 8. Dom. 1541 he was named the very first Canon or Prebendary of the first stall in the Church of Worcester by the King when he changed the Prior and Monks of that place into a Dean and Canons He died in 1544 and was succeeded in his Chancellourship and Prebendship by Rob. Johnson LL. Bach. whom I shall mention elsewhere Jul. 13. Rob. Hunt a Secular Chaplain and
Act celebrated in Sept. comes to 23. Bach. of Physick James Neyland of All 's Coll. Others were admitted but are not inserted in the register Bach. of Div. Jul⦠Bernard Gilpyn of Queens Coll. This Person who was born of an antient and gentile Family at Kentmeire in Westmorland became a poor serving child of the said Coll. in 1533. aged 17 or thereabouts and about the time that he proceeded M. of A. he was made Fellow thereof being then esteemed a good Disputant in Logick and Philosophy and well read in the Greek and Hebrew in which tongues he was instructed by his contemporary Thomas Neale of New Coll. who was afterwards Heb. Prof. of this University About that time his eminence in learning was such that he was made choice of to be one of the first Masters to supply Ch. Ch. when first founded for a Dean Canons and Students by K. Hen. 8. But continuing there not long was at length taken thence and by the care and charge of his Mothers Uncle Dr. Cuthb Tonstall Bishop of Durham he was sent to travel and while he continued in the University of Paris he did him some service in correcting and printing one of his books as I have elsewhere told you After his return he confer'd on him the rectory of Esington with the Archdeaconry of Durham annex'd about 1556 but in whose room or place I cannot tell unless in that of one Will. Franklin Bach. of Decrees and Chancellour of Durham who occurs Archdeacon of Durham 1531. After he was setled at Esington he preached much against the vices errors and corruptions of the times to the great displeasure of some of the neighbouring Ministers who were then R. Catholicks But his desire being to part with those troublesome places as too much for one Man to keep as he pretended he was presented to the rich rectory of Houghton in the Spring in the county pal of Durham where being setled his Preachings were so frequent and in other places as well remote as near thereunto that he was commonly called The Northern Apostle His almes were also so large frequent and constant that he was usually called The common father of the poor In his Archdeacony of Durham succeeded John Ebden Bach. of Div. sometimes Proctor of the University of Cambridge who had it given to him by Qu. Elizabeth while the See of Durham was void 22. May 1560 a little before which time Gilpyn had a congedeslier sent to him to be elected Bishop of Carlile on the death of Owen Oglethorp but refused it Soon after he erected a Grammar School at Houghton and bestowed 460 l. to buy Lands to endow it for a Master and Usher Which with other Moneys and Lands given for that purpose by Joh. Heath of Kepier Esq the School was setled in 1572 or thereabouts To conclude this worthy Person having his life written and published by one of his Scholars I shall now say no more of him only that he died on the 4. March 1583 aged 66 and was buried in the Church at Houghton and that by his will dated 17. Oct. 1582 he left half of his goods to the poor of that place and the other half in exhibitions upon Scholars and Students in Oxon viz. Mr. Rich. Wharton Mr. Steph. Copperthwaite George Carleton afterwards B. of Chich. Ralph Ironside born in Houghton before-mention'd Father to Gilbert Bishop of Bristow an 1660 Evan Airay Hen. Airay afterwards Provost of Qu. Coll. Will. Cayrus Franc. Risley Tho. Collinson c. He hath written several things but hath nothing extant only A Sermon before the King and Court at Greenwich on the first Sunday after Epiph. an 1552 on Luke 2. from verse 41. to 48. Lond. 1581. oct there again 1630. qu. â Not one Doctor of Law Phys or Divinity can I find to have been admitted this year for the reason before specified An. Dom. 1550. An. 4 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicech Dr. Walt. Wryght but he giving up his office according to the Edwardin statutes in the beginning of Michaelmas term Dr. Will. Tresham of Ch. Ch. who before had often been Commissary was elected according to a certain form into his place Proct. Rog. Elyott of All 's Tho. Frynde of New Coll. Bach. of Musick Tho the publick register of this time is very imperfect as having been neglected by one who was afterwards deservedly turn'd out of his place yet it appears therein tho very obscurely that one Joh. Merbeck or Marbeck Organist of St. Georges chap. at Windsore did supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Musick but whether he was admitted it appears not because the admissions in all faculties are for several years omitted All therefore that I can say of him is that he was an eminent Musician of his time as well for the Theory as practical part of Musick as may be seen in a book of his composition intit The book of Common-prayer noted Lond. 1550. qu. besides divers compositions that are not extant As for other books that he wrot and published relate to Divinity and matters against the Pope among which are 1 A concordance of the Bible c. Lond. 1550. fol. c. 2 The lives of holy Saints Prophets Patriarchs c. Lond in 4o. 3 The ripping up of the Popes fardel Ibid. 1581. oct 4 Book of notes and common places with their exposition c. Ibid. 1581. qu. 5 Examples drawn out of Holy Scripture with their application Also a brief conference between the Pope and his Secretary wherein is opened his great blasphemous pride Ib. 1582. oct 6 Dialogue between youth and old age wherein is declared the Persecution of Christs Religion since the fall of Adam hitherto Lond. 1584. oct John Fox in his book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. doth speak largely of this John Merbeck if not too much in the first edition thereof wherein he made him a Martyr while he was living which hath administred a great deal of sport among the R. Cath. writers as Alan Cope Rob. Persons c. Bach. of Arts. William Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards a Cardinal and an Archbishop Will. Overton John Bullyngham of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Bishops in England Pet. Whyte of Oriel Pet. Morwyng of Magd. Coll. c. The admissions of Bachelaurs ad Lecturam and of those ad Determinandum being omitted by the publick Scribe this year the just number therefore is unknown Mast of Arts. The number of Masters that were admitted I cannot tell because record is defective However the number of those that stood in the Comitia held 8. Sept. is fifteen among whom are James Dugdale afterwards Master of Vniv. Coll. and Will. Norfolk of Oriel afterwards Princ. of St. Maries hall and one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester Bach. of Div. John Jewell of C. C. John Harley of Magd. Coll. Both afterwards Bishops and the first a very learned Man Paul French of All 's Coll. In 1560 he became Canon
John Mason Knight sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. lately Ambassadour for K. H. 8. into several Foreign Countries and now Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester Vicechanc. or Prochanc James Brokes D. D. of C. C. Coll. for the first part of the year and Rich. Martiall D. D. of Ch. Ch. for the other part being elected in Convocation Prochanc 3. oct In his absence Dr. Tresham officiated and is sometimes stiled Procancellarius Proct. The Spencer of Ch. Ch. Maur. Bullock of New Coll. Both elected on the day before the Cal. of Octob. Bach. of Arts. Jun⦠John Rastell Oct. 4. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. Both afterwards writers and the last an eminent Physician About 26 were admitted this year one half of which are omitted in the Register Bach. of LL. Ellis Heywood of All 's Coll. He was afterwards a Jesuit and a writer Griffyth Willyams of New Coll. In 1554 he became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Rob. Johnson resigning and whether he be the same Williams who was Chancellour to the Bishop of Glocester about the same time remembred by Joh. Fox for his strange fearful and sudden death which befel him in 1558 after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and therefore esteemed as a judgment on him for condemning a blind boy to be burnt in 1556 I cannot justly tell you In 1557. Will. Turnball LL. Bac. succeeded Griffyth Willyams in the Chancellourship of Worcester In the publick register which is very imperfect in the beginning of this year it partly appears that one John Bodye supplicated to be admitted Bach. of LL. See in the year 1554. Mast of Arts. Alan Cope Lawr. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. Hieron Philippides Joh. Abulines or ab Vlmis of Ch. Ch. Whether either of these two last was a writer I cannot yet tell Qu. Will. Good of C. C. Coll. Jam. Calfill John Bavant of Ch. Ch. The last of the said Masters was afterwards one of the first Fellows of St. Johns Coll. and the first Greek reader there He was Tutor in the said house to Edm. Campian and Greg. Martin but upon the alteration of Religion leaving the Coll and his Country was made a Ro. Cath. Priest and afterwards was one of those that endured a tedious imprisonment in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire upon account of Religion Twenty Masters stood in the Act celebrated 18. July this year but how many were admitted it appears not in the register Bach. of Div Thom. Hardyng of New Coll. Thom. Bickley Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. The two last were afterwards Bishops Gilbert Burnford In 1554 he had the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells granted to him under the Seal of the Bishop and Chapter thereof But when he craved admission thereunto in 1560 he was denied because he refused the oath of Supremacy For the same reason he was deprived of the Prebendary of Hasilbere in that Church and of a rectory in the Dioc. of Wells Note that whereas always before this time when any Bach. of Div. was admitted he was registred as admitted ad lecturam libri sententiarum so now during the Reign of K Ed. 6. they are registred as admitted ad lectionem Paulinarum Epistolarum And this year those that were admitted are registred as admitted ad enaârationem Epistolarum Apostolicarum in ipsis comitiis hoc anno viz. 18. Julii Doct. of Civ Law Hen. Jones of All 's Coll. This Person was one of the learned Doctors of the Civ Law whom Qu. Elizabeth consulted concerning the matter of Lesley Bishop of Ross who while he was Embassador from Mary Qu. of Scots to Qu. Elizabeth consulted and promoted a Rebellion against her See in Camdens Annalls of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1571. This Dr. Jones died in or near Doctors Commons about the beginning of Feb. in 1591 and was buried as it seems in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls wharf in London â Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Rich. Martiall of Ch. Ch. Soon after he was made Prebendary of Winchester and Dean of his Coll. by the intercession of the Lord Arundell to whom he was Chaplain made to the Queen In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he seem'd to be a great Reformer and retracted what he zealously had held in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. After the death of K. Ed. 6. he returned to his former opinions and was more zealous for the Cath. cause than before But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he absconded for a time and went from place to place At length being taken and conveyed to London retracted again in hopes of being setled in his Deanery of Ch. Ch. which might have been had he behaved himself moderately in the Reign of Qu. Mary Afterwards as 't is said he went into Yorkshire where he died obscurely In his Deanery succeeded G. Carew as I have told you before under the year 1522. Hen. Pendleton of Brasn Coll. was also admitted this year and stood with Martiall in the Act that followed Henr. Syddall LL. B. and Canon of Ch. Ch. who had studied sacred letters for 18 years did this year supplicate that he might put on or be honour'd with the cap of Doct. of Divinity This desire of his was granted conditionally that he be inaugurated and dispute in Divinity in the next Act that should follow But whether he was so or did dispute it appears not in the publick register or in the Catalogues of Inceptors Incorporations Nov. 12. Brian Baynes Bach. of Arts of Cambridge The next year he proceeded in the said faculty being then a member of Ch. Ch. which is all I know of him Nov â¦Valentine Dale of All 's Coll. Doctor of the Civ Law beyond the Seas at Oreleans I think seems to be incorporated in that month because he had supplicated more than once for that Degree He was afterwards Master of the Requests Dean of Wells 1574 and about that time Embassadour to the French King upon the calling home of Sir Franc. Walsingham to be Secretary of State c. He died in his house near St. Pauls Cathedral 17. Nov. 1589. and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Gregory near to the said Cathedral leaving behind him a Daughter named Dorothy who being coheir to her Father was married to Sir John North Son and Heir to Roger Lord North. Dec. 2. Walter Haddon President of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. and Doctor of the Civil Law at Cambridge This Person who was a Buckinghamshire Man born and educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School was chose Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1533 where arriving to great eminence in the Civil Law was made the Kings Professor of that faculty in the said University and much esteemed for his eloquence and learning especially by Leland who calls him Heveddunus Afterwards being a Man much addicted to reformation he was by virtue of several letters written by the King in his behalf elected tho contrary to statute
with the Delegates of Denmark concerning matters of traffick c. and Perkins performed his part well as to that matter Soon after by the said Bishops endeavours he became substitute to Sir Dan. Donne Master of the Requests who by reason of his age could not well attend that place and when he died he became Master in his own right and a Knight About that time George Duke of Buckingham who was in great favour with K. Jam. 1. Sir Christopher thought that his only way to rise higher was to be married to one of his Relations Whereupon tho he had vowed Virginity he took to Wife his Mothers Sister yet with this condition that she should not expect that he should pay old debts to which she made answer that she would expect none Afterwards Buckingham hearing of the said vow detested him and made a resolution that he should rise no higher Afterwards out of a revenge Sir Christopher made his estate over to a Servant of his that was childless and in a deep consumption and he dying within a few months after Sir Christopher who departed this mortal life in the month of Aug. 1622. the said Servant left most of the estate to the Lady I have been credibly informed by a good Author that the said Sir Christopher had a hand in contriving and drawing up the Oath of Allegiance while he was intimate with Dr. Bancroft In the Deanery of Carlile succeeded the said Sir Christopher Dr. Franc. White afterwards Bishop of that place Apr. 14. Will. Burton of New Coll. June 2. Tho. Coventry Fellow of Ball. Coll. The last of the said two was afterwards Fellow of the Inner Temple Serjeant at Law a Knight and one of the Justices of the Court of Common-pleas and a Judge in the time of Jam. 1. He was Father to Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Jan. 14. Henr. Savile of Mert. Coll. 23. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. Admitted 45. Bach. of Law Five were admitted and four supplicated but not one of them appears yet to me to have been either a Bishop or Writer Mast of Arts. Feb. 13. John Argall Will. James of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Durham John Bereblock of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Fellow of Exeter Coll. and most admirably well skill'd in the art of Delineation and drawing the description of places some of which are extant particularly that of the City of Rochester at which place or near it he was born Admitted 14. Bach. of Div. Oct. 29. Edw. Cradock of Ch. Ch. now Margaret Professor A certain Author tells us that he was a learned Man and a Writer yet in all my searches I could never see any of his books Dec. 17. Thom. Godwyn Dean of Ch. Ch. lately of Magd. Coll. Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards of Broadgates hall the seventh Vicar of Mayhenet in Cornwall and Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter 16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop Adrian Hawthorne of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day being then Principal of Magd. hall On 25. Nov. 1568 he was admitted to the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells having about that time one or more benefices in that Diocess and dying in the latter end of 1576 in Feb. as it seems Rog. Goad D. D. and Provost of Kings Coll. in Cambridge was admitted into his place of Chancellour on the 7. March in the same year Edw. Andleser was adm this year but of him I know nothing â Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. Tho Godwyn Dean James Calfill Harb Westphalyng Canons of Ch. Ch. Edward Cradock mention'd before among the Bachelaurs of Divinity was admitted the same day Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne beforemention'd who accumulated John Piers of Magd. Coll. Dean of Chester Arthur Yeldard President of Trin. Coll. 16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry On the 26. Mar. Will. Bradbridge Dean of Salisbury supplicated for the said Degree but was not admitted He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter Also John Molens Archdeacon of London Jan. 23 but him neither can I find admitted Incorporations May⦠Rich. Cheyney Bach. of Div. of Pembr Hall in Cambridge and Bishop of Gloucester See more among the Creations Feb. 21. Gregory Garth Bac. of Div. of Cambridge George Wyther M. of A. of 4 years standing in the said University was incorporated on the same day In 1570 he became Archdeacon of Colchester on the death of James Calfill had other spiritualities and wrot and published 1 Laymans Letters delivering unto them such Letters as the Holy Ghost teacheth them in the word by things sensible Lond. 1585. 2 View of the marginal notes of the Popish Testament translated into English by the English Fugities Papists resiant at Rheimes in France Lond. 1588. qu. with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen Another of both his names lived an 100 years after and was a Poet whom I shall hereafter in his proper place remember Will. Fulke M. A. of three years standing in the said Univ. of Cambridge was also then Feb. 21. incorporated This learned Man who was born in the City of London bred Fellow of St. Johns Coll. and at length became Master of Pemb. Hall in the said University was when young a good Philosopher and when elder in years a pious and solid Divine as his works shew the titles of all or most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue He died Margaret Professor of Cambridge 28. Aug. 1589. Cyprean de Valera M. of A. of three years standing in the said University was also then incorporated He was a Spaniard born left his Country for Religion sake spent all or most of his time in England and wrot in Spanish 1 Institution of Christian Religion or the interpretation of Calvins institutions 2 The reformed Catholick 3 Of the lives of the Popes and their doctrine 4 Of the Mass 5 A swarm of false miracles wherewith Mary de la Visitation Prioress of the Annuntiada of Lisbon deceived very many c. The three last were written in Spanish about 1588. and the second edition of them came out with amendments and additions by the Author an 1599. oct Translated into English by John Golburne a Prisoner in the Fleet Lond. 1600. qu. He also published the Bible in Spanish printed the second time at Amsterdam 1602. fol. Owen Owen M. A. of two years standing in the said University was then also Feb. 21. incorporated All these except the first were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act had been concluded Creations Mar. 26. It was granted by the venerable Congregation that John Jewell Bishop of Salisbury should tho absent be actually created Doct. of Div. by a certain Graduate to be assign'd by the Commissary This was accordingly done at
among the Bishops in Harb Westphaling numb 157. In the Deanery of Windsore succeeded Dr. Giles Tomson a little before Qu. Elizabeths death and in the Mastership of the Hosp of St. Cross which was designed by the Queen for George Brook Brother to Henry Lord Cobham K. James at his first entry into England gave it to Mr. James Hudson who had been his Agent there during part of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth But Hudson being a Lay-man and therefore not found capable of it Sir Tho. Lake for some reward given to him to quit his interest therein prevailed with the King to give it to his Brother Arthur Lake Whereupon George Brook being discontented it put him upon plotting with his Brother Raleigh and others for which afterwards he suffered death Thom. Staller or Stallard M. A. of Camb. was also then incorporated He was afterwards D. of D. and Archdeacon of Rochester as I shall tell you among the Doctors of Div. an 1591. and 1605. Besides the aforesaid three Masters Fletcher Bennet and Stallard were 10 more of Camb. incorporated among whom John Langworth was one whom I shall mention elsewhere Jul. 17⦠Holland Bach. of Div. of the said Univ. His Christian name tho not set down yet as it seems 't was Thomas An. Dom. 1573. An. 15 Elizab. An. 16 Elizab. Chanc. the same Commiss the same viz. Dr. Humphrey Proct. John Tatham of Mert. Coll. Edm. Lillye of Magd. Coll. Ap. 1. Bach. of Arts. Ap. 1. Jam. Bisse Joh. Thornborough of Magd. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Worcester 27. John Lilye of Magd. Coll. Jul. 3. Tho. Lovell See in the year 1577. 7. Tho. Rogers of Ch. Ch. Jan. 14. John Williams afterwards of All 's Coll. Rich. Hooker of C. C. Coll. was admitted the same day 28. Tho. Lister See more among the Masters an 1576. Feb. 3. James Ley Will. Massie of Br. Coll. Of the last see more in 1586 among the Bach. of Div. 4. John Bond of New Coll. Eminent afterwards for his critical learning Edw. Habington or Abington was admitted the same day Whether this Person who seems to have been of Exeter Coll. was the same Ed. Habington who suffered for being engaged in the treasons of Mary Qu. of Scots I cannot tell See in Tho. Habington among the writers an 1647. 17. Hen. Rowlands He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor 19. Rich. Hackluyt of Ch. Ch. In the month of March Will. Camden who had studied Logick for 4 years supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts but occurs not admitted See in the year 1588. This year also Will. Gifford then or lately of Linc. Coll. did make the like supplication but was not admitted He was afterwards Archb. of Rheimes Admitted 172. or thereabouts Mast of Arts. Jun. 19. Thom. Williams Qu. whether the Welsh critick Jul. 1. Thom. White of Magd. Hall 31. Joh. Gibson One of both his names was Author of A Catechisme Lond. 1579. oct Also of The sacred shield of all true Soldiers Printed 1599. in oct c. Whether the same with Jo. Gibson M. of A. I cannot tell Octob. 7. John Chamber 8. John Drusius the Belgick critick Ralph Gualter Son of Ralph of Merton Coll. Jan. 21. Rich. Turnbull George More of C. C. Coll. One George More who was a Minister and Preacher of Gods word wroâ and published A true discourse concerning the certain possession and dispossession of seven Persons in one family in Lancashire Printed 1600 in oct at which time he had been a Prisoner in the Clinke about two years for bearing witness to and justifying the said matters Whether he be the same with him who was M. of A. I cannot tell Another George More I have mention'd among the writers pag. 418. Admitted 71. Bach. of Phys Jun. 10. Rich. Forster of Al 's Coll. See among the Doctors of Physick this year In July Joh. Banister was admitted to practise Physick having originally been a Student in this University Bach. of Div. Oct. 10. Joh. Elmer or Aylmer now an Archdeacon and a Justice of the Peace as the publick Register tells us Michael Renniger of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Dec. 10. Tob. Mathew President of St. Johns Coll. Jan. 26. Hen. Withers In 1569 he was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge c. Admitted 6. Doct. of Civil Law Oct. 13. Michael Maschiart 15. Will. Smyth of New Coll. The first was Poeta sui saeculi princeps as a learned Author stiles him John Chippyngdale of All 's Coll. was admitted on the same day being then accounted by the generality an eminent Civilian Doct. of Phys Jul. 2. Randall Trevor Rog. Marbeck or Merbeck of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He was the Son of John Merbeck Organist of Windsore whom I have mention'd in these Fasti an 1550 and the first standing or perpetual Orator of the University Afterwards he was Canon of Ch. Church Provost of Oriel and the chief Physician belonging to the Queen He died in July or thereabouts in 1605 and was buried as I conceive in the Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate London for in that Parish he died See more of him in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 47. a. and pag. 257. a. Jul. 2. Thom. Wanton of Merton Coll. Rich. Forster of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day This Person who was Son of Laurence Son of Will. Forster of the City of Coventry is stiled by a most learned Author Nobilis Mathematicus but whether he hath published any thing I cannot yet find He died at London 27. March 1616 to the great reluctancy of all those that knew the profound learning of the Person Doct. of Div. Oct. 10. Joh. Elmer or Aylmer who accumulated the Degrees in Divinity He was afterwards Bishop of London Michael Renniger of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He also accumulated Jan⦠Will. Cole President of C. C. C. He succeeded Dr. Jo. Rainolds in the Deanery of Lincolne an 1598. and dying in 1600 was succeeded by Laur. Staunton Besides these were five that supplicated for the said Degree most of which were afterwards admitted An. Dom. 1574. An. 16 Elizab. An. 17 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Humphrey without any nomination or designation to that office this year The name of Commissary was now omitted and that of Vicechancellour only used Proct. John Bust of Ch. Ch. Rich. Barret of Or. Coll. Apr. 20. Bach. of Arts. Mar. 30. Thom. Smith of Ch. Ch. Jul. 13. William Middelton Dec. 10. Will. Leigh of Brasn Coll. 17. Martin Heton Rich. Eedes Will. Watkinson of Ch. Ch. The first of which last three was afterwards Bishop of Ely This year supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts one George Snavenburgh or Sâavenburgh of Ch. Church a Baron of Sweden aged 20 but whether he was admitted it appears not For the said Degree supplicated also one Barthelmeus Clerke of Magd. Coll. but was not then admitted This Person who was
Sir Tho. Windebank of Haines hill in the Parish of Hurst in Berks. Knight sometimes one of the Clerks of the Signet and became intimately acquainted with Dr. Will. Laud while he studied in the said Coll. of St. John by whose endeavours when Bish of London he obtained for him of his gracious Master K. Ch. 1. the secretaryship of State in the place of Sir Dudley Carleton Viscount Dorchester deceased to which office he was sworn 15. June 1632 and about that time received the honour of Knighthood Afterwards he became ungrateful to his promoter and much hated by the Puritan for his high acting in his office Which being by that Party made notorious several articles were drawn up against him and presented to that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. Whereupon flying beyond the Seas wrot a Letter to the Lord Chamberlain in his own defence dat at Calais XI Jan. 1640 which was soon after printed When K. Ch. 1. retired to Oxon after Edghill battel Sir Francis returned înto England went to and endeavoured to speak with his Majesty but his Maj refusing to have any communication with him he went beyond the Seas again and died at Paris 1 11 Sept. 1646. Among the Sons he had Sir Thomas Windebank the eldest was one who was of the Privy Chamber to His Majesty and another called Colonel Franc. Windebanke Governor of Blechingdon house in Oxfordshire who for surrendring it to Col. Oliver Cromwell upon first summons about the 24. Apr. 1645 was shot to death in Broken hayes near Oxon whereupon his body was buried in one of the Chancels of the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of that City on the third of May following Feb. 11. Sam. Turner of St. Maries hall See among the Masters 1604. 13. Daniel Fairclough Joh. Bery or Bury George Webbe of C. C. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Canon Fairclough Bury and Webbe will be mention'd in the second vol. Admitted 177 Mast of Arts. May 17. Thom. Winniff of Exeter Coll. Jun. 20. Thom. Baughe of Ch. Ch. He published a Sermon entit A Summons to judgment on Job 31. 14. Lond. 1614. qu. and perhaps others which is all I know of him only that he was a Cheshire Man born and that in seeking after the Rectory of the Church of St. Sepulcher in London found a sepulcher therein being buried there on which his pleasant friend Tho. Freeman the Poet hath an ingenious Epigram 25. Mich. Boyle Joh. Sandsbury of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 1. Henry Tilson of Vniv. 10. Robert Johnson of Magd. Jan. 21. Robert Pink of New Coll. Adm. 86. Bach. of Physick Not one was admitted to the said Degree only some to practise Physick among whom were Nov. 28. Henr. Savile M. A. Edm. Deane B. A. Both originally of Merton Coll. now of St. Albans hall Bach. of Div. Dec. 17. Joh. Howson of Ch. Ch. Besides him were but 4 admitted among whom Ralph Ironside of Vniversity Coll. was one Father to Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristow an 1660. Doct. of Law Feb. 4. Sampson Hussee of New Coll. He was Brother to Jam. Hussee mention'd in the year before â Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. John King John Howson of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated and both were afterwards Bishops Feb. 15. Charles Ryves of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 6. Rob. Dallyngton M. of A. of Cambridge He was born in Northamptonshire educated in Pembroke hall of which he was Greek-Scholar and after became a Schoolmaster in Norfolk where having gained some money he travelled all over France and Italy was exact in his observations and after his return became first Secretary to the Earl of Rutland then one of the Privy Chamber to Prince Charles Master of the Charter-house into the School at which place he brought the custome of Chapter verses or versifying on passages of Holy Scripture and at length a Knight He hath written 1 A survey of the great Dukes state in Tuscany an 1596. Lond. 1605. qu. 2 A method for travel shewed by taking view of France as it stood in the year 1598. printed at Lond. in qu. 3 Aphorismes Civil and Military amplified with authorities and exemplified with history out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine Lond. 1615. fol. and other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He died in the latter end of the year 1637 and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the Charter house By his will dated 25. Apr. 1636 and proved 1. March 1637 he gave to the poor People of Geddington in Northamptonshire the place of his nativity 300 l. for the buying of an annual pension of 15 l. per an for their relief At which place in his life time he built a Free-school and was a benefactor in other respects July 16. Walt. Curle M. of A. of Cambridge This Person who was born at Hatfield in Hertfordshire was now Fellow of Peter house in the said University was promoted first in the Church by the Cecillian Family afterwards he became Chaplain to His Majesty Doctor of Divinity Dean of Lichfield in June 1621 upon the death of Dr. Will. Tooker Bishop of Rochester in 1627. upon the translation of Buckridge to Ely translated thence to B. and Wells in 1629 upon the death of Dr. Maw and thence to Winchester upon the removal of his Patron Dr. Neile to York being about that time made Lord Almoner Afterwards he suffered much for the Kings and his own cause was among the Royalists when they were besieged in Winchester whence marching in safety after its surrender for the use of the Parliament lived retiredly at Subberton in Hampshire till the time of his death which hapned in the Spring or Summer time an 1647 leaving then behind him a Widow named Elizabeth and certain Children All that I have yet seen which goes under his name is A Sermon preached at Whitehall 28. Apr. 1622 on Heb. 12. 14. printed in qu. Rich. Boyle M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the same day He was afterwards Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland Richard Parker another M. of A. of that University was also then incorporated Whether he be the same R. Parker who was bred in and became Fellow of Caius College and Author of Sceletos Cantabrigiensis MS. I cannot justly say or the same Richard Parker who was second Son of John Parker first Son of Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury which Richard was born at Cambridge 20. May 1577 I cannot also tell Quaere On the same day also were 13 more Masters of that University incorporated among whom Miles Spencer was one and Andrew Perne another the same I suppose who was Proctor of Cambridge 1616. See before in these Fasti an 1553. Aug. 7. Will. Barlow Doct. of Div. of the said University was also then incorporated in the
said Degree He was born of and descended from the antient and gentile family of the Barlows of Barlâw in Lancashire was about this time Fellow of Trinity hall in the said University became Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Edw. Grant deceased Dean of Chester in 1603 upon the death of Joh. Nuttall and in 1605 Bishop of Rochester from whence being translated to Lincolne sate there to the time of his death and kept his Prebendship in Commendam with it He hath written and published several things the Catalogue of all or most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue By his will which I have seen proved 13. Oct. 1613 for in that year he died he desires to be buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincolne if he dye near it or in the collegiat Church at Westminster if he dye there and to have such a tomb over his grave that may resemble that which Dr. Good Goodman Dean thereof set up for himself in the Church of Westminster He was a considerable benefactor to St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge as it there appears being Founder of the London Fellows and Scholars of that house I have made mention of another Will. Barlow and his works among the Writers an 1568. and of a third an 1625. Casparus Thomannus one of the Pastors or Teachers of the School at Zurich of which City his Grandfather by the male line had born the office of Pretor having been recommended by the Professors Teachers and Ministers of the Church and School there to live among and receive an exhibition from the Oxonians an 1599 did spend several years there and occurrs one of the first Persons that was entred a Student in the publick Library when first opened for use He was a learned Man and read a Lecture in the University but his education having been mostly at Geneva did with other strangers of the like breeding so corrupt the Students with their calvinistical Doctrine that it was many years before it could be rooted out An. Dom. 1602. An. 44 Elizab. An. 45 Elizab. Chanc. Thomas Lord Buckhurst Vicechanc. John Howson D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. Jul. 15. Proct. Daniel Pury of Magd. Coll. Walt. Bennet of New Coll. Apr. 14. Bach. of Musick Jul. 13. William Weelks of New Coll. was then admitted Bach. of Musick What he hath composed or published I know not sure it is that Thom. Weelks who was at this time Organist of Wâkehams Coll. near to Winchester did publish 1 Madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voyces Lond. 1597. in a large qu. Which being the first fruits of his labours he dedicated them to his singular Patron George Philpot Esq 2 Ballatts and Madrigals to five voyces with one to 6. voyces Lond. 1598. qu. 3 Madrigals of six parts apt for the viols and voyces Lond. 1600. qu. besides compositions in The triumphs of Oriana printed 1601 Hymns and Anthems to be sung in Cathedrals and Collegiat Churches the words of which may be elsewhere seen and other compositions which are remitted among the books reposited in our pub Musick School at Oxon. Quaere whether the Scribe or Registrary of the University hath not set down William for Tho. Weelks Bach. of Arts. May 7. Tho. Anyan lately of Linc. Coll. âow of that of Corp. Christi See among the Doctors of Div. 1614. Jun. 8. Benjam Culme of St. Alb. hall See among the Masters an 1605. Jun. 25. Franc. James of Ch. Ch. See among the Bach. of Div. 1612. 26. Rice or Rees Prichard of Jes Coll. 30. Jam. Rowlandson Lancelot Dawes of Qu. Coll. Jân 30. Tho. Aylesbury Rich. Corbet Rob. Burton alias Democritus junior Hen. Byam of Ch. Ch. Of the first of these last four you may see more among the Masters an 1605. Dec. 13. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards B. of Rochester Prichard Dawes Byham and Warner are to be mention'd in the other vol. of Writers and Bishops Admitted 156. Bach. of Law Jul. 8. Joh. Budden of Magd. Coll. Besides him were only 3 admitted and one incorporated named Joh. Crook Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. George Hakewill of Exeter Coll. May 18. Arth. Duck of Hart hall Jun. 6. Norwich Spackman of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Proctor of the University Chaplain to James Bishop of Bath and Wells and the publisher of A Sermon before the King at Whitehall on Matth. 9. 13. Lond. 1614. qu. and perhaps of other things which is all I know of him only that he was a Worcestershire Man born 30. Barnab Potter of Queens Jul⦠Rob. Bolton of Brasn 7. Tho. Broad of St. Alb. hall Coll. Feb. 22. Isaac Wake George Gerard of Mert. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Master of Suttons Hospital called commonly the Charter-house Admitted 71. Bach. of Phys June 14. Rich. Haydock of New Coll. Besides him was only one more admitted viz. Joh. Cheynell of C. C. Coll. and six admitted to practice Bach. of Div. Jun. 8. Will. Goodwin of Ch. Ch. See among the Doctors of Divinity following Jul. 8. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. Adm. 14. Doct. of Law July 8. Joh. Budden of Magd. Coll. He accumulated Oliver Lloyd of Allsouls Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Chancellour of Hereford and in 1615 became Canon of Windsore Which last dignity he changed for the Deanery of Hereford with Dr. Rich. Mountagâe of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1617. This Dr. Lloyd died in the City of Hereford in 1625. whereupon Dr. Dan. Price succeeded him in the said Deanery â Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 20. Joh. Spenser of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards President of that house June 8. Will. Goodwin of Ch. Ch. who accumulated In 1590 I find this Person to be Subalmoner to Qu. Elizabeth well beneficed in Yorkshire and Prebendary of York Also in 1605. Oct. 25. I find him collated to the Chancellourship of the Church of York on the death of Mr. Will. Palmer as also to another Prebendship in that Church and a Rectory in the said Diocess In 1611 he became Dean of Christ Church and afterwards Archdeacon of Middlesex and dying on the eleventh of June 1620. aged 65 was buried in one of the North isles joyning to Ch. Ch. choire He hath published A Sermon before the King at Woodstock 28. Aug. 1614 on Jer. 1. 10. Oxon. 1614. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Roger Bradshaw of Jesus Coll. the Kings Chaplain was admitted the same day 14. Will. Swaddon of New Coll. On the 10. of Nov. 1610. he was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester on the resignation of John Johnson D. D. and dying 2. Aug. 1623 was buried as I suppose in that North isle of the Cathedral Church of Worcester which adjoyns to the Parlor of the Senior Prebend In his Archdeaconry succeeded Hugh Lloyd D. D. who was admitted thereunto 18. Aug. the same year and dying in 1629 Edward Thornborough M. A. second Son by the first
antient copies particularly with a MS. in Vniversity Coll. Library entit Octoteuchus two Greek MSS. translated into Arabick in the Bodlcian Library and an antient MS. formerly in that of Sir Robert Cotton but lost in the hands of a French Man to whom it was lent the said Pat. Young did promise to publish with notes added thereto and accordingly had compared the said copy with the others above named to the 15 Chapt. of Numbers and no farther if Dr. Br. Walton saith right The effect of this undertaking being much expected and desired by learned Men especially beyond the Seas certain Brethren of the Presbyterian perswasion were very zealous with the Assembly of Divines at Westminster to have the business encouraged Whereupon in the latter end of the year 1645 they sent to the house of Mr. Pat. Young to desire him to go forward with the work and an ordinance was read for printing and publishing of the said Testament of the Septuagint translation At which time also John Selden and Bulstrode Whitlock did undertake the printing of it but what hindred them in going on with the work I find not In 1649 P. Young who had sided with the Presbyterians left his place of Library keeper to the King the books there being mostly embezell'd whereupon the said Whitlock succeeding Young continued still a sojournor at Bromfield in Essex where I think he died an 1652 for in Sept. that year his next relation administer'd Afterwards Dr. Walton beforemention'd printed Youngs notes and annotations with his own continuation of collations in the sixth vol. of his Polyglot Bible and Dr. Jo. Fell the first Epistle of St. Clement from Youngs edition and Latine translation with some short running notes added thereunto Oxon. 1669. in tw In 1638. Young put out Expositio in Cant. Canticorum in qu. written by Gilb. Foâiot Bishop of London in the time of Hen. 2. and was one of the three Gottefridus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius being the other two who interpreted S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians Lond. 1687. oct After his death all or most of his Greek and Latine MSS. collected and written with his own hand came into the possession of Dr. John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Oct. 21. Daniel Calendar M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland These Persons following were incorporated while K. James 1. was entertain'd at Oxon. Aug. 30. Alexander Serle LL. Bach. of Cambridge To whose name is this added in the publick register ad causas negotia ecclesiastica civilia maritima forinseca Procurator regius generalis Thom. Howard Earl of Suffolk Rob. Cecill Earl of Salisbury M. A. of Cambr. The first of these two Counts was afterwards Lord Chamberlain of the Kings houshold L. Treasurer of England after Cecill Knight of the Garter and founder of the stately house called Aâdley Inne near to Walden in Suffolk He died in 1626 and was buried at Walden The other Ro. Cecill who was Son of Will Lord Burleigh was now Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge afterwards Lord Treasurer of England and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter He died in 1612 and was buried at Hatfield in Hertfordshire George Thomson M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland He was born in that City and afterwards became Pastor of the reformed Church at Chastegneraye in France He hath written several books among which are 1 De pompa in Jac. 1. introitâ in Londinum Sylva Lond. 1604. oct 2 Vindex veritatis adversus Lipsium lib. 2. Lond. 1606. oct 3 Quatre harmonies sur la Revelation print 1607. oct 4 La Chasse de la Beste Romaine etc. Rochel 1611. oct c. Tho. Dempster in his Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam hath two George Thomsons that were Writers viz. George Thomson a Priest an 1595 and George Thomson a Heretick as he calls him an 1599 which last I presume is our Author who was incorporated at Oxon and the same whom Joh. Dunbar a Scot doth celebrate for his learning in his book of Epigrams George Ruggle M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge One Ruggle of the said hall was Author of that celebrated Comedy called Ignoramus acted before K. Jam. 1. at Camb. 8. Mar. 1614. Whether the same with George I cannot yet affirm ⦠Craig a Scot Doctor of Phys of the University of Basil This is all that appears of him in the publick register So that whether he be the same with Dr⦠Craig the Kings Physician who died in Apr. 1620 I know not or whether he be Joh. Cragg Dr. of Phys Author of a MS. intit Capnuraniae seu Comet in ãâã subâmationis refutatio written in qu. to Tycho Brahe a Dane I am altogether ignorant One Dr. Joh. Cragg was buried in the Church of St. Martins in the Fields near London about 1653. Barnab Gouge Goch or Gooche Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr He was about this time Master of Magd. Coll. in that University afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Worcester and died at Exeter where he had an office or dignity in the latter end of 1625. One of both his names translated into English The pâpish Kingdom or Reign of Antichrist Lond. 1570. qu. written in Latine verse by Tho. Naogeorgius and Four books of husbandry Lond. 1586. qu. written in Lat. by Conr. Heresbachius and something of Palengenius But this translator if I mistake not was Barnab Gooche of Albin ãâã or Alvingham in Lincolnshire Grandfather to Barnab Gooche living there in 1634 and after John Hammond Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He was now Physician to Prince Henry and Father to Henr. Hammond afterwards the learned and celebrated Theologist Creations Jun. 28. Henry Rowlands Bach. of Div. and Bishop of Bangor was actually created Doctor of that faculty Aug. 13. Hen. Ashworth of Oriel John Cheynell of C. C. Coll. These two who were eminent and learned Physicians were then actually created Doctors of Physick because they were designed by the Delegates appointed by Convocation to be Opponents in the disputations to be had before the King at his entertainment by the Muses in the latter end of the said month of Aug. John Gourden Gordonius of Balliol Coll. was created D. of D. the same day Aug. 13. because he was to dispute before the King his kinsman After his disputation was ended he had his Degree compleated by the Kings Professor of Divinity purposely not that there was a necessity of it to shew unto His Majesty the form of that Ceremony This noble Person was born in Scotland of the house of Huntley was instructed in his youth in the Schools and Colleges as well in Scotland as in France in liberal Arts and Sciences and in the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Languages and other Orientals Afterwards he was Gentleman of three Kings Chambers in France viz. Charles 9. Hen. 3. and 4 and while he was in the flower of his age he was there assailed with many corruptions as well spiritual
Bonham afterwards drawn into method and form as now they are in the said book by Edward Poeton of Petworth Licentiat in Physick and Chirurgery late and long servant to the aforesaid Dr. Bânham Nov. 11. Franc. Kinaston M. A. of Cambridge lately of Oriel Coll. Mar. 9. Will. Young M. A. of Aberdeen in Scotland now a Student in Lincoln Coll. In the latter end of this year one Matthew Evans a Gentleman of London well skill'd in the Hebrew Greek Lat. and Vulgar tongues sojourned in the University purposely to compleat certain writings lying by him for the benefit of the learned republick c. Thus in the license granted to him by the ven congregation in order to his admission into the pub Library But what writings they were that he was about to finish with the help of the said Lib. I know not nor any thing else of the Man An. Dom. 1612. An. 10. Jac. 1. Chanc. theâ same Vicechanc. the same July 28. Proct. Tho. Seller of Trin. Coll. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. Ap. 22 The junior of which was afterwards Bishop of Oxon and Norwich Bach. of Arts. May 5. Richard Steuart of Magd. hall afterwards of All 's Coll. 14. Rob. Weldân Barten Holyday of Ch. Ch. July 1. Jerem. Stephens Vivian Molineux of Brasn Coll. The last of these two who was Son of Sir Rich. Molineux of Sefton in Lanc. and Visc Molineux of Marybourgh in Ireland travelled afterwards into several forreign Countries was at Rome where tho puritanically educated under the tuition of Sam. Radcliff of Brasn Coll he changed his Religion returned a well bred Man was ãâã and in the grand Rebellion suffer'd for the royal cause ãâã translated from Spanish into English A treatise of the difference betwixt the temporal and eternal Lond. 1672. oct written originally by Eusebius Nieremberg S. â Feb. 8. Will. Thomas of Bras Coll. Of about 198 Bachelaurs of Arts that were admitted this year I only find the aforesaid five Persons Molineux being excepted who were afterwards Writers as in the other volume you shall see at large Bach. of Law Nov. 16. Robert Gentilis of All 's Coll. Son of Aubrey Gentilis Besides him who will be mention'd also in the next vol. were only three more admitted Mast of Arts. May 5. Gilb. Ironside of Trin. Coll. 14. Edw. Boughen Gabriel Clarke of Ch. Ch. The last of these two I take to be the same Gabr. Clarke who was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland by Dr. Neile Bishop of Durham upon the resignation of Dr. John Craddock 7. Aug. 1619. Which G. Clarke who is stiled D. D. in the Registers of the Church of Durham became Archdeacon of Durham by the same hand on the death of Will. Moreton Bach. of Divinity in the beginning of Sept. 1620. Tho. Dugard of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day Quaere 23. Sam. Smith Accepted Frewen of Magd. Coll. June 30. Percivall Burrell of Ch. Ch. This Person who was originally of Hart hall and afterwards Preacher at Suttons Hospital called the Charter-house near London published Suttons Synagogue or the English Centurion Serm. on Luke 7. part of the 5. vers Lond. 1629. qu. and perhaps other things Jul. 2. Edw. Cotton of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was Son of Will. Cotton Bishop of Exeter and was about this time Archdeacon of Totness in the Dioc. of Exeter He departed this life in 1647 whereupon his Archdeaconry continuing void till the restauration of K. Charles 2. Franc. Fulwood D. D. then succeeded 9. Thom. Hayne of Linc. Tho. Howell of Jesus Will. Greenhill of Magd. Coll. Jan⦠John Heath Hen. Welstede of New Coll. The last of these two who was now Chaplain as I conceive of New Coll. but lately of Broadgates hall was the same Welstede who wrot and published The cure of a hard heart printed 1624. 5. Mar. 5. Nathaniel Grenfeild of St. Edm. hall He was afterwards Preacher at Whitfield in Oxfordshire and the writer and publisher of The great day or a Sermon setting forth the desperate estate and condition of the wicked at the day of Judgment on Rev. 6. 15 16 17. Lond. 1615. oct and perhaps of other things Quaere 18. Anthony White Chaplain of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Vicar of Wargrave in Berks. and the writer and publisher of 1 Truth purchased on Prov. 23. ver 23. 2 Errour abandoned on Jam. 1. 16. Both which were preached at St. Maries in Oxford and were printed at Oxon. 1628 and dedicated by the Author to his Patron Sir Hen. Nevill of Billingbere Admitted 110. Bach. of Div. July 9. Will. Bridges Will. Twisse of New Coll. The first of these two who was Son to Dr. John Bridges Bishop of Oxon was by his Fathers endeavours made Archdeacon of that Diocess in June 1614 he being then one of the Fellows of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester which dignity he holding to the time of his death was succeeded by Barten Holyday of Ch. Ch. before the year 1626. July 9. Franc. James Hân Byam of Ch. Ch. Of the first you may see more among the D. of D. an 1614. Admitted 22. Doct. of Law Jun. 30. Nathaniel Harris of New Coll. He died at Blechingley in Surrây 1625. Basil Wood of All 's Coll. He was about this time Chancellour of St. Asaph and of Rochester July 9. Arthur Ducke Dec. 7. Charles Caesar of All 's Coll. The last who was a younger Son of St. Julius Caesar Master of the Rolls was afterwards a Knight Judge of the Audience and Master of the Faculties â Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jun 30. John Prideaux John Whetcomb of Exet. Coll. July 2. Will. Whyte of Trin. Coll. 16. John Brookes of Vniv. Coll. He was about this time Canon residentiary of York and in Apr. 1615 became chauntor thereof in the place of Hen. Banks D. D. who had been admitted thereunto in Apr. 1613 on the death of John Gibson LL. D. and Knight which hapned 28. Feb. 1612. As for the said Brokes he died 23 March 1616. aged 49 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at York Janu. 27. John Abbott of Ball. Coll. Incorporations June 30. George Ramsey a Scot was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood elsewhere On the 14. Jul. being the day after the publick Act had been celebrated these Cantabrigians following were incorporated July 14. Henry Burton M. A. This Person who made a great noise and disturbance in his time was born in an obscure town called Birdsall in Yorkshire educated in St. Johns Coll. in the said University afterwards was Tutor or Master to the Sons of Robert Lord Carey of Lepington whose Lady was Governess to Pr. Char. when a Child sole officer which some call Clerk in the Closet of Pr. Henry and after his death to the said Prince Charles removed from his Service when that Prince became Kings for his pragmaticalness and impudence in demonstrating by a letter which he presented to the said King how popishly affected
two parts 1. of Divines 2. of Novility c. Lond. 1683 fol. before which is a canting narrative of his own life He died at Thistleworth or Istleworth in Middlesex 25 Dec. 1682. 3 Sam. Clark of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge who published certain matters in 1649 and after c. Jun. 25. Will. Kingsley of All 's Coll. 26. Joh. Flavell of Broadgates Hall July 4. Hen. Seward of Brasn Coll. Compounders The first of these three was at this time Archdeacon of Canterbury and died about the beginning of the year 1648. The second was a Dignitary and Rector of Tallaton in Devonshire where he died in 1623. Another of both his names was a Writer of Wadham Coll. as you may see among the Writers an 1617 and a third who was a Devonian born and Son or at least near of kin to him of Tallaton hath published several things some of which are mention'd in Joh. Flavell of Wadh. Coll. and was living divers years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but whether he was of the Univ. of Oxon I cannot yet tell Jo. Flavell of Tallatân had a Son named Thomas who was Bach. of Arts of Trin Coll. in this University afterwards Vicar of Mullian and Rector of Great Ruan in Cornwal also Prebendary of Exeter and died 1682 aged 77 years 9. Edw. Gee of Brasn 15. Edw. Chetwynd of Exet. Oct. 23. John Moseley of Magd. Nov. 7. Hânr Beaumont of All 's Coll. The last of which was a Compounder being at this time Dean of Peterborough and Canon of Windsore In 1622 May 18. he was installed Dean of Windsore in the room of Marc. Anton. de Dominis who in Feb. going before had left England This Dr. Beaumont died 30 June 1627 and was buried in S. George's Chap. there on the right side of the grave of Tho. Danett one of his Predecessors in that Deanery See more in the Incorporations an 1571. Feb. 10. Rich. Carpenter Joh. Standard of Ex. Coll. Both of these were learned men and so taken to be by Dr. Joh. Prideaux as I have elsewhere told you Dr. Standard was afterwards a Justice of Peace for Oxfordshire being Lord of Whithill and dying 16 Dec. 1647 aged 66 was buried in the Churchyard at Tackley in the said County Incorporations Apr. 24. Tho. Farnabie M. A. of Cambr. sometimes of Merton Coll. in this University and afterwards the eminent Schoolmaster of Kent I shall mention him at large in the second Volume of this work Jul. 2. Ralph Rand M. A. of S. Andrew in Scotland 9. Joh. Hacket M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr. About this time he wrot a Latin Comedy called Loiola printed at Lond. 1648. in oct was afterwards D. of D. Parson of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London Chaplain to K. Charles 1. Residentiary of S. Pauls and a great sufferer in the time of the Rebellion At length after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. to whom he was Chaplain in ordinary he became Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry to which being consecrated at Lambeth 22 Dec. 1661 sate there to the time of his death 28 Oct. 1670 aged 79. Afterwards came out under his name Christian Consolations taught from five heads in Religion printed 1671 in tw and A century of Sermons c. Lond. 1675 fol. Rob. Farsereus or Faisereus M. A. of Lovaine was incorporated the same day Jan. 14. Edw. Kellet M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambr. He was at this time Rector of Ragborough and Crocombe in Somersetshire and afterwards Canon residentiary of Exeter His Writings speak him a learned man some of which are 1 Miscellanies in Divinity in 3 books c. Camb. 1633 fol. 2 The threefold supper of Christ in the night that he was betrayed Lond. 1641 fol. besides Sermons of which one is entit A return from Argier preached at Minhead in Somersetshire 16 Mar. 1627 at the readmission of a relapsed Christian into our Church on Gal. 5. 2. Lond. 1628 qu. This was preached in the morning of the third Sunday in Lent and in the Afternoon preached Dr. Hen. Byam on the same occasion but not on the same subject He the said Kellet was a sufferer if I mistake not in the time of the Rebellion which began 1642. Febr. 20. Joh. Foxeroft Bach. of Arts of Cambr. See more among the Masters in the year following This year was a Supplicate made for one John Hayward LL. D. and Historiographer of Chelsey Coll. near to London to be incorporated in the same Faculty but whether he was really so I cannot tell In the year 1619 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall being then accounted a learned and godly man and one better read in Theological Authors than in those belonging to his own profession The Titles of all or of most of the Books that he published you may see in the Oxford Catalogue As for those of History which he hath published the phrase and words in them were in their time esteemed very good only some have wish'd that in his History of Hen. 4. he had not called Sir Hugh Lynne by so light a word as Mad-cap tho he were such and that he had not changed his Historical stile into a Drammatical where he induceth a Mother uttering a Womans passion in the case of her Son This Sir Joh. Hayward ended his days in his house in the Parish of Great S. Barthelmew in London on Wednesday 27 June 1627 and was buried in the Church belonging to that Parish You may see more of him in Camdens Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1601 where you 'll find him punished by a tedious Imprisonment for an unseasonable Edition of one of his books Creations Jul. 9. Francis Stewart of Ch. Ch. Knight of the Bath one of the Sons of the Earl of Murrey was actually created Master of Arts. He was a learned Gentleman was one of Sir Walt. Raleigh's Club at the Meremaid Tavern in Friday street in London and much venerated by Ben. Johnson who dedicated to him his Comedy called The silent Woman He was a person also well seen in marine Affairs was a Captain of a Ship and as I have been informed by those who remember him did bear the office for some time of a Vice or Reer Admiral Nov. 13. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. was then actually created D. of D. as the Register saith which was as I suppose no more than the completion of that degree which should have been done in the Act preceeding had he not been absent In the latter end of Aug. this year Prince Charles came honorably attended to the University and after he had been entertained with Ceremonies and Feasting sutable to his Dignity and Merit he was pleased with his own hand writing to matriculate himself a Member of the said University Aug. 28. with this Symbole or Sentence Si vis omnia subjicere subjice te rations To say no more he was afterwards a King of great Religion and Learning but
Bach. of Div. June 2. Alex. Huish of Wadh. 16. Cornel. Burges of Linc. 21. Hugh Robinson of New 27. Alexand. Gill of Trin. Coll. July 5. Will. Hayes of Magd. hall He was the same Person who had published The Lawyers Looking glass Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon at the Assizes 7. Jul. 1624 on Either 1. 15. Oxon 1624. qu. Whether he wrot or published any thing else I know not not do I know any thing of him besides only that he was a Hampshire Man born and that he was afterwards Rector of Skilgate and at length in 1635 Rect. of Orchard both in Somersetshire July 6. Thom. Lashington of Pemb. Coll. Adm. 27. Doct. of Law June ult Matthew Nicholas of New Coll. This Person who was afterwards Can. resident of Salisbury became Dean of Bristow on the death of Dr. Edw. Chetwynd an 1639. and in 1642 was made Canon of the fifth stall in the Collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster on the death of Dr. William Robinson Brother by the Mothers side to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Of which Dignities being deprived in the time of the rebellion became after his Majesties restauration Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in London In Bristow succeeded Dr. Hen. Glemham of Oxon an 1660 and in St. Pauls Dr. Joh. Barwick of Cambridge elected thereunto 15. Oct. 1661. To this Dr. Nicholas his piety and moderation the Church was as much beholding as the State was to his elder Brother Sir Edw. Nicholas The former died 15. Aug. 1661 the other on the first of Sept. 1669. aged 77 and was buried in Horsley Church in Surrey where there is a fair monument with a large inscription thereon over his grave By the way I desire the reader to know that the said Sir Edward was born at Winterbourne-Earles in Wiltshire where his name is or at least hath been antient and gentile that he had his education in this University and afterwards in the Royal Court where he became at length Secretary of State to K. Ch. 1. and afterwards a sufferer for his cause and an Exile with his Son Ch. 2. After the restauration of the last he continued in the office of Secretary but then growing antient he resigned it in Oct. 1662. At which time his Majesty in consideration of his fidelity constancy and affection to his and his Fathers service did freely offer to make him a Baron but Sir Edward according to his wonted candor and modesty after he had most humbly return'd his thanks besought his Majesty therein to spare him A Gentleman of both his names wrot An apologie for the honorable nation of the Jews and all the Sons of Israel Lond. 1648. in qu. What relation he had to the said Sir Edward I know not Jun. ult Will. Merick Will. Griffith of New Coll. The former was afterwards Judg of the Prerogative Court for the Province of Canterbury eminent for his great learning and abilities as also for his loyalty and affection to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. and to his glorious Father both at home and beyond the Seas Upon which account he was sent for to the Court 8. Nov. 1661. and had the honor of Knighthood confer'd upon him in his Majesties Bedchamber He died in the Winter time an 1668. and was succeeded in his Judgship by Dr. Leolin Jeâkins The other Will. Griffith was Chancellour of the Diocesses of St. Asaph and Bangor July 21. Charles Tooker of Oriel Jan. 14. Gilb. Jones of Allsouls Coll. The first of these two last died at Abendon in Berks an 1660 the other was about this time Chancellour of the Dioc. of Bristow â Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. June 16. Cornelius Burges of Linc. 21. Hugh Robinson of New 25. Vincent Peirse of Pemb. Coll. Which three Doctors did accumulate the Degrees in Divinity 27. George Byrom of Brasn July 4. Rich Puliston of Wad Feb. 21. Ant. Saunders of Vniv. Coll. The first of these last three was now beneficed in Cheshire and had for several years served K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. both as Commissioner of the Peace and a Commissioner of the High Commission for causes Ecclesiastical Incorporations On the 10. of July being the next day after the conclusion of the Act were 59 Cantabrigians incorporated in several faculties the names of some of which follow Rich Sterne Bach. of Div. of C. Christi Coll. This most worthy and loyal Person who was Son of Sim Sterne of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire descended from those of his name in Suffolk was afterwards D. of D. Master of Jesus Coll. and Chaplaine to Archb. Laud with whom he was present on the Scaffold when he was to be beheaded purposely to administer comfort to him But before that time he had been imprison'd by the endeavours of Oliver Cromwell a Burgess for the Town of Cambridge in the Long Parliament for being very instrumental in conveying the plate belonging to several Colleges and Halls in Cambridge to his Majesty then at York and thereabouts I say being hurried up to London with other Doctors was imprison'd in the Tower of London where by permission he attended the said Archbishop About that time he was ejected his Mastership of Jesus Coll. lost all he had suffer'd in an high manner for his loyalty and lived obscurely during the interval At length upon his Majesties restauration he was nominated by him Bishop of Carlile whereupon being consecrated thereunto in the Abby Church of St. Peter at Westminster on the second day of Decemb. an 1660. sate there till the death of Dr. Frewen Archb. of York and then being elected to succeed him in that See 28. Apr. 1664 was enthronized on the 10. of June following in the Person of Dr. Edmund Diggle a Dignitary of that Church This Dr. Sterne hath written 1 Sermons or a Comment on 103 Psalme Printed 1649. oct 3 Summa Logicae partim ex optimis quibusque autoribus tum antiquis tum recentioribus collecta maximè autem ex usu ad usum comparata exemplis omnium genorum abunde illustrata Lond. 1686. oct and as 't is probable other things This worthy Archb. died about 23. June 1683 and was buried in the Cath. Church of York Afterwards succeeded Dr. Joh. Doâben as I shall tell you elsewhere Joh. Burges Doct. of Phys and Parson of Sutton Colfield in Warwickshire was also then incorporated At which time liberty was allowed to him by the ven congregation that he might study in the publick library being then a conformist to the Ch of England He paid his last debt to nature on the last day of Aug. 1635 aged 72. or thereabouts and was buried in the Chancel of Sutton Colfield in the same vault where the body of his then late Wife Dorothy was buried He hath written An apology to the Bishop of Lincoln c. answer'd by Dr. Will. Covell an 1606. Also The Popes deadly wound resolving the controversies between us and them pr. in qu. and
continuator in the ãâ¦ã year 1553. a In Vita Joh. ãâã edit 1573. p. 2ââ c. b ãâ¦ã 1536. * See Card. Will. Alans book called A sincere or modest defence c. or An answer to the libel of English justice c. p. 11. * See in Roâ Persons brief ãâã in desence of Ecclesastical Sâbordination in England ãâ¦ã * Math. Parker in the first Edit of Antiq. Britan. Eccles. in ãâã a Camden in Annal. Reg. Elizab. an 1574. * In 1 part tom 5. Historiarum l. 117. â Godwin in lib ãâ¦ã est De ãâã Angliae in London b The continuator of Tâo Hatchers Cat. of Prov. Fell. and Scholars of Kings Coll. in Cambridge MS. sub an 1565. * Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1616. * ãâ¦ã â ãâ¦ã a See more of this matter in ãâ¦ã âook intit Observations on the History of ãâ¦ã Esq Lond. 1656 p. 73. b Idem in ãâ¦ã c. printed 1650. p. ãâã * ãâ¦ã in his ãâ¦ã c. lib. 9. ãâ¦ã 1595. * ãâ¦ã in Epist ãâã ad ãâ¦ã an 1575. â ãâã in Ann. 1. Reg. ãâ¦ã an 15â5 * Balliosergus c. per Hen. Savage p. 116. a In his preface to his Diatribe upon the first part of the Hist of Tithes b Reg. second Act. Coll. Mert. p. 129. c In his preliminary discourse to the Brigantâs alias Yorkshire a ãâ¦ã b In Britan. in Leâs c Tho. Fuller in ãâã of English in Cââshire d See in a book intit ãâ¦ã Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedra's and ãâ¦ã in the ãâ¦ã England Collected by Jââ Coffârd Lond. 1663. p. 56. 137. ãâã c a ãâ¦ã 1. written by Arth. Wilson Lond. 1653. a In James Châfford Collection of Divine Services and Anthems usually sââg in ãâã c. Lond. 1663. oct p. 45. 125. 185. b ãâ¦ã in The Court and character of K. James Lond. 1650 in ãâã p. 106 107. a ãâ¦ã b ãâ¦ã c ãâ¦ã d ãâ¦ã * ãâ¦ã Lond. 1670. p. 96. * MS. sometimes in the hands of ãâ¦ã a His Wife was named Mary eldest Daughter of Sir Will. Ryther L. May or of Lond. b Aul. ãâã or an answer to the Court and Char. of K. James printed at Lond. 1650. p. 100. * In a book intit Divine Services and ãâ¦ã c. Lond. 1663. ãâã a In his ãâ¦ã c. Lond. 1â58 oct p. 113. num 43. etc. * ãâ¦ã a ãâ¦ã in Hist ãâã c. Lond. 1674. p. â01 b ãâ¦ã in his ãâ¦ã c. Lond. 1630. qu. at the end ãâ¦ã c Rich. Montague in his Pref. to his ãâã on the first part of the Hist ãâã c. Lond. ãâã 1. d ãâ¦ã * ãâ¦ã Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 16â1 a See in the ãâ¦ã written by ãâ¦ã b ãâ¦ã 1646. p. 531. a The continuator of Tho. Hatchers Cat. of Provosts Fellows and ãâã of Kings Coll. in ãâã MS. b ãâã in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. an 1610. c ãâ¦ã in his Court and ãâ¦ã James printed 1650. in oct p. 191. d See the ãâã of the life of Will Lând printed 164â p. 19. a In his Poems called Run and a great cast being the second part of his Epigramâ printed ãâã Epigr. 97. b ãâã Fulâr in his ãâã of England in Northamptonshire c In the ãâã Office near St. Pauls Cathedral in reg Lâe Qu. 24. * One Miles Spencer was Doctor of the Laws and Chancellour of ãâã who dying about the ninetieth year of his age was buried in the Cath. Ch. there d Ibid in reg ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã * See in the book entit The divine Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals and Collâgiate ãâã in the Church of England collected and published by ãâ¦ã Lond. 1663. oct * In the ãâ¦ã c. written by ãâã L'estrange printed ãâ¦ã an 1656 second ãâã p. 24 25. ãâã an 16â5 â In ãâã Jac. Reg. I. MS. ãâã an 16â9 a ãâ¦ã b ãâ¦ã to his edit of St. ãâ¦ã c Dr. Br. Walâââ in ãâ¦ã note before his edition of ãâ¦ã on part of this ãâã d lord * Edit in octââo 1616. cent 6. ãâ¦ã * ãâ¦ã in his ãâã of the Reign of K. Ch. 1. under the year 1630. a ãâ¦ã Antiq Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 291. b Sir Anth. ãâã in his Court and ãâ¦ã printed 1650. p. â * Camden in Anna. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1618. * In ãâã Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib 1. p. 317. b. * Camb. in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1619. a ãâ¦ã b ãâ¦ã c ãâ¦ã * ãâ¦ã â ãâ¦ã a ãâ¦ã in his ãâã of England in Cambridgshire * ãâ¦ã in his Wârthies of England in Norwich * ãâ¦ã old cause ãâã unfolded c. Lond. 1660. oct p. ãâã a âwofdâ Prynne in his Canterburies Doome c. printed 1646. p. 355. b Here you ãâã out as to time for ãâ¦ã was not made Bishop of Landâff till 16â9 which was eight years after Dr. Price his death c Too âââer in his Church History c. lib. 11. Sect. 17. d Idem in the Worthies of England in Essex * ãâ¦ã Antiq. Vâiv Oxon ãâ¦ã * In biblioâhâca Joh. Bossârdi * ãâ¦ã ⦠Oxon. 16â4 â See The full view of the ãâã and actions of Oâ Cromwell printed 1600. in ãâã pag. 31â * ãâ¦ã c. lib. 2. cap. 16. ãâ¦ã a ãâ¦ã b ãâã an 1618. c ãâ¦ã * ãâ¦ã â ãâ¦ã d ãâ¦ã e ãâ¦ã f ãâ¦ã g ãâ¦ã x ãâ¦ã * In ãâ¦ã lib. ãâã p. â07 * Printed at Lond. 1646. p 167. * Carissââ de Imputat primi peccatâ cap. 17. â In Hist Antiq. Vâiv Oxon. l. 2. p. 44. b. â Reg. Univ. Oxon. N. fol. 145. â * See Hist Antiq. Vniv. lib. 2. p. 102. b. â ãâ¦ã He was nephew ãâ¦ã c ãâ¦ã d Reg. Convocat N. fol. 199. b. â Canterburies Doom printed 1646. p. 539. * Teid p. 541. e Vide Balââfergum or a Comment on the Foundation and Founders of Ballioâ Coll. p. 118. f Ibid. p. * See in the Epist dedic to Dr. Charles ãâã book entit The Royal Coll. of ãâ¦ã established by Law c. Lond. 16â6 qu. â See Lew. du Moulin his Patronut bona fidei in causa Puritanârum contra Hierarchos Angâae c. Lond. 1672 in specun contra Dârâllum p. 61. See also in Canterburies Deom in the Index for Lewâs and elsewhere * So I have been informed by Dr. Mâch Roberts sometimes Principal of Jesus Coll. his contemporary * To this Rich. Murray was near of kin a certain Gent. of quality named Mungo Murray Servant to King ãâã 2. in his Exile who dying at Antwerp in the times of Uââââation was buried aâ midnight in a poor Cloyster there by Dr. George Morley an Exile for his Loyalty at which Ceremony the Earl of Dysart his Kinsman was present * See in Canterburies Dââme p. 362. 363. * ãâã Lugd. Baâ 16. â qâ â ãâ¦ã â¡ ãâ¦ã * ãâ¦ã * ãâ¦ã * See in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 341. â * In Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 312. * The Arms thaâ Jâh Milton did use and seal his Letters with were Argent a spread Eagle with two heads gules legg'd and break'd sable â See in Jo. Milton's book ãâ¦ã Edit Hag. Câm 1654. p. 61. c. * Will. Sanderson in his Hist ãâ¦ã the year 1641. * The same as ãâ¦ã with Tâo Rosâ who was Library Keeper to his Majesty ãâã * The Author of ãâ¦ã c. printed 1677. p. 1â â Sober sadness or Historical Observations upon the proceedings pretences ãâã of a prevaâing ãâã in both ãâ¦ã c. ãâã 1643. qu. pag. 3. * ãâ¦ã 1646. pag. 9.
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