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.
many pretty stories in comely colours and most delightful discourses Printed at Lond. twice at least in an English character one of which editions bears date 1608. in qu. written in imitation of a book intit The pallace of pleasure beautified adorned and well furnished with pleasant histories and excellent Novells c. Lond. 1569. qu. written by Will. Painter Clerk of the ordinance and armory within the Tower of London The aforesaid Petite pallace c. I have in my study and for the respect I bear to the name of the Author he having been uncle to my Mother Maria la Petite I will keep it but 't is so far now from being excellent or fine that it is more fit to be read by a School-boy or rustical amoratto than by a Gent. of mode or language The said George Pettie translated from French into English with a preface of his own put to it The civile conversation of M. Stephen Guazzo in 4. books Lond. 1586. qu. written originally in the Italian tongue which I have also Three of the said books were translated by the said Pettie the fourth was begun by him but finished by Barthelm Young of the Middle Temple Gentleman being the same Barthelmew as I think who lived afterwards at Ashurst in Kent and died therein 1621. What other matters G. Pettie hath written or translated I cannot tell nor do I know any thing material of him besides only that he died in the prime of his years at Plymouth in Devonshire being then a Captain and a Man of note about the latter end of July in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 and was buried as I have been told in the great Church there The Lands which he had by his Fathers gift in Aston-Rowant in Kingston in the Parish thereof and at Tetsworth in Oxfordshire he gave to his Brother Christopher Pettie JOHN GARBRAND alias Herks Son of Garbrand Herks a Dutch Man and Bookseller living sometimes in St. Maries Parish in Oxon was born within the City of Oxon educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1562 being esteemed then a good Poet. Afterwards he by the favour of Bishop Jewell who had been well acquainted with his Father while he lived in the University became Prebendary of Yatesbury in the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of Tho. Whyte LL. D. in Nov. 1565 being then only Bach. of Arts and Prebendary of Minor pars Altaris in the said Church In 1567 he left his Coll. and on the 18. of March 1568 he was made Preb. of Chute and Cheesenbury in the said Church of Sarum on the deprivation of Joh. Fuller Garbrand being then Rector of North-Crowley in Bucks In 1582 he took the Degrees in Divinity was then accounted an eminent Theologist and a noted Preacher but withal a severe Puritan He hath gathered together corrected and compleated several things of the said B. Jewell whome he in a marvellous manner had admired as i A view of a seditious bull sent into England from Pius 5. Pope of Rome an 1569. 2 A short treatise of the Holy Scriptures Lond 1582. oct Both which Jewell delivered in divers Sermons in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury an 1570. 3 An exposition on the two Epistles to the Thessalonians Lond. in oct 4 Certain Sermons preached at Pauls Cross Lond. 1583. oct They are in number six 5 Treatise of the Sacraments gathered out of certain Sermons preached at Salisbury Lond. 1583. oct This Dr. Garbrand died in the Winter time about Christmas in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 and was buried in the Church of North-Crowley before-mention'd He gave by his will several books to New Coll. Library And all such books and papers that were given to him by B. Jewell as also all such loose sheets which he the said Garbrand had drawn for common places gathered out of that Bishops books he gave to Rob. Chaloner and John Rainolds Doctors of Divinity LAURENCE HUMPHREY or Humfredus as he sometimes writes himself was born at a mercate Town called Newport Paynell in Bucks educated in Latine and Greek learning at Cambridge made Demie of Magd. Coll. in Oxon 1547 perpetual Fellow two years after being then Bach. of Arts and Master of the said faculty in 1552. About that time he was made Greek reader of his Coll. took holy orders and became a zealous and forward student in the Theological faculty In June 1555 2. and 3. of Phil. and Mary the President Vicepresident Deans c. of that Coll. gave leave to the said Humphrey who in the opinion of all was much commended for his life and conversation as also for the excellency of his learning and wit that he might freely for the cause of study travel into trasmarine parts for one year conditionally that he contain himself from those places that are suspected to be heretical or favourers of heresie and that also he refrain from the company who are or were authors of heresie or heretical opinions c. Which leave being procured he went forthwith to Zurich and associated himself with the English exiles there that had fled from the Nation for Religion sake After the death of Qu. Mary he returned to his Coll. and was restored to his Fellowship having been expelled thence because he did not return thereunto after his time of leave was expired In the Year 1560 he was constituted the Queens Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxon being then about 34 years of age at which time was a very great scarcity of Theologists throughout the body of Students and in the year following he was elected President of his Coll. In 1562 he took the Degrees in Divinity and in 1570 he was made Dean of Glocester upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Cooper to the See of Lincoln In 1580 he was constituted Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Watson promoted to the See of Winchester which was the highest preferment he had among the Clergy and the reason for it as 't was guested was because that in matter of ceremony or indifferency he altogether consented not to the Church of England For the truth is that from the City of Zurich remarkable for the Preachings and death of Zwinglius and the correspondence that he had at Geneva he brought back with him at his return into England so much of the Calvinian both in doctrine and discipline that the best that could be said of him was that he was a moderate and consciencious Nonconformist Whence 't was that by his being many years President of Magd. College publick Professor of Div. in the University and several times Vice-chancellour he did not only upon advantage issuing from those place stock his Coll. with a generation of Nonconformists which could not be rooted out in many years after his decease but sowed also in the Divinity School such seeds of Calvinisme and labored to create in the younger sort such a
say so I cannot tell unless the plague came upon him as a judgment for the sacrilege he committed while he was Vicar of S. Leonards Church before mentioned Qu. RICHARD EDES whose name and brothers posterity did lately if not still live at Sewell in Bedfordshire was born perhaps in that county and being made full ripe for the University in Westminster School was elected Student of Ch. Church in 1571. where going thro the usual Classes of Logick and Philosophy proceeded in Arts in 1578. being then Junior in comitiis or of the Act that year About the same time taking the sacred function on him he became a most noted and celebrated preacher was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1584. being that year installed Preb. of Yatminster prima in the Church of Sarum made chaplain to Q. Elizabeth Canon of Ch. Ch. in the lâ—tter end of 1586. and in 89. Doct. of Divinity In the latter end of 1596. he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Franc. Willys deceased being then and ever after to his death for he â—as also chapl to K. James 1. held in great admiration at Court not only for his preaching but most excellent and polite discourse His younger years he spent in poetical fancies and composing of plays mostly Tragedies but at riper he became a pious and grave Divine an ornament to his profession and a grace to the pulpit No two men were ever more intimate than he and Tob. Mathews Dean of Ch. Ch. for they intirely loved each other for vertue and ingenuity sake and when Mathews was to remove to the Deanery of Durham in 1584. our author Eedes intended to have him on his way thither for ones days journey but so betrayed were they by the sweetness of each others company and their own friendship that he not only brought him to Durham but for a pleasant pennace wrote their whole journey in latin verse intit Iter boreale several copies of which did afterwards fly abroad Then also and before in their youthful acquaintance passed so many pretty apothegms between that if a collection had been made of them they would have fill'd a manual His works are Iter boreale MS. The beginning of which is Quid mihi cum Musis quid cum borealibus oris A copy of this written by an unknown hand I have in my little Library Various Poems MS. in Lat. and Engl. Six learned and godly Sermons preached some of them before K. James and some before Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1604. oct The two first are called The duty of a King on Micah 6. 8. 3 A fruitful Meditation upon the sickness on Micah 6. 13. 4 The principal care of Princes to be nurses of the Church on Isay 49. 23. 5 Of the difference of good and evil on Isay 5. 20. 6 Of heavenly conversations on Phil. 3. 20 21. Three Sermons Lond. 1627. qu. One of which is on Ephes 2. ver 19. to 33. Another on Eph. 5. 15 c. This learned Doctor dyed at Worcester on the nineteenth of Nov. year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four and was buried in the chappel at the east end of the choir leaving behind him a Widdow named Margaret daughter of Dr. Harb Westphaling Bishop of Hereford who soon after was at the charge of putting a monument over his Grave with an inscription thereon containing a dialogue in verse between the Passenger and the Monument a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 266. b. In this Deanery of Worcester succeeded James Mountague D. D. of Cambridge who being made Bishop of B. and Wells was succeeded in the said Deanery by Arth. Lake D. D. 23. Apr. 1608. who succeeded him also in B. and W. as I shall tell you elsewhere THOMAS STORER Son of John Storer a Londoner was elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1587. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1594. at which time he was had in great renown for his most excellent vein in poesie not only expressed in verses printed in several books made occasionally by the members of the University but for that writ in English verse intit The life and death of Tho. Wolsey Cardinal Divided into 3 parts his aspiring triumph and death Lond. 1599. in ten sheets in qu. Which book being perused by the learned Dr. Alberic Gentilis he doth occasionally make this mention of Wolsey and our author Atque o utinem c. quod Wolsaeo aedificatori magnificentissimi collegii Christi praestitum ab ingenioso poeta est c. The truth is Storer obtained from the then Academians great credit for that work particularly from his friend Ch. Fitzgeoffry the poet of Broadgates hall but more among others for his Pastoral Aires and Madrigalls which were afterwards remitted into a book called Englands Holâ—con What other things this ingenious person hath extant I know not nor any thing else of him only that he died in the parish of St. Michael Basinghaugh within the City of London in November year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four and was as I conceive buried in the Church there Divers copies of verses were made on his death by his acquaintance in this University and elsewhere but are not as I conceive printed RICHARD TURNBULL was born in Lincolnshire admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 9. Nov. 1566. aged 16. or thereabouts and was afterwards made Fellow M. of Arts and a Priest At length being beneficed in London where he was much followed for his edifying way of preaching wrote and published An exposition on the canonical Epistle of St. James Lond. 1591. oct in 28 Sermons Exposition on the Canon Epist of St. Jude In 10 Sermons Printed there the same year in oct Four Sermons on Psal 15. Which Sermons with the former Expositions were printed in quarto at Lond. 1606. the author being then dead I find that one Will. Turnfull L. L. Bac. was installed Preb. of Worcester 1557. which he resigned in 1558. being then Parson of Fladbury in Worcestershire and that he died in Jul. or Aug. 1573. Whether this William was a writer or had any relation to Richard before-mentioned it doth not yet appear to me WILLIAM HUBBOCKE was born in the County Palatine of Durham elected from Magd. hall to be Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll in the Month of Octob. 1581. aged 21 years took the degrees in Arts and was afterwards beneficed and in great repute for his learning He hath written and published An Oration gratulatory to K. James 12. of Febr. when his Majesty entred the Tower of London in order to his Coronation c. Oxon. 1604. qu. The Title is in English but the Oration is in good Latin Several Sermons One of which is on 1 Pet. 3. 21 22. What other things he hath published I know not nor the time or place when and where he died EDMOND ANDERSON a Cadet of a gentile Family living in the Parish
the civil Wars of death and fortune c. London 1609. A Poem in oct The triumph of death or the picture of the plague according to the life as it was in an 1603. Printed with Humours heaven and earth c. Wits pilgrimage by poetical essayes through a world of amorous Sonnets soul-passions and other passages divine philosophical and poetical Lond. in a pretty thick qu. but not expressed when printed 'T is dedicated to Philp Earl of Mountgomery Muses sacrifice or divine meditations Lond. 1612. in tw The muses tears for the loss of their hope heroick and never too much praised Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. Times sobs for his Pr. Hen. untimely loss with Epitaphs Printed with The Muses tears Consolatory strains to wrest nature from her vent in immoderate weeping Printed with that also Ecclogues Lond. 1614. oct They are at the end of The Sheapards Pipe written by Will. Brown of the Inner Temple A select second husband for Sir Tho. Overburies wise now a matchless widdow Lond. 1616. oct Dedic to Will E. of Pembroke Elegies on the death of Sir Tho. Overbury Speculum Proditori Printed with the former book 1616. oct Several copies of verses of his are also published in other books as a large copy before Ph. Hollands translation of Camdens Britannia another in the Odcombian banquet c. He dyed about the year sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried year 1618 as one tells us within the precincts of S. Giles ch in the Feilds near Lond. I find one Joh. Davies Gent. to have lived in the parish of S. Martin in the Feilds who dying in the beginning of July or thereabouts in 1618. was buried near to the body of Mary his sometimes wife in the church of St. Dunstan in the West Whether the same with the Poet I cannot justly tell because may author here quoted Tho. Fuller saith but upon what authority I know not that he was buried at S. Giles in the Feilds One John Dunbar a Latine Poet of Scotland hath an Epigram on J. Davies the Poet which may serve for an Epitaph wherein he tells us that he was another Martiall and that he out-stript in Poetry Sam. Daniel Josh Silvester the Merchant adventurer c. THOMAS THOMPSON a very noted preacher in the time he lived was born in the County of Cumberland wedded to the Muses in Queens coll in Mich. Term 1589. aged 15 made a poor serving child of that house in the year following afterwards Tabarder and in 99. Fellow being then Master of Arts. About that time addicting his mind severely to the studies of the superiour faculty became a noted Disputant Schoolman and very familiar with the Fathers At length leaving the coll about the time he was adwitted Bach. of Div. which was 1609. he became one of the publick preachers in the City of Bristow and Minister of S. Thomas Church there where he was much followed and admired for his edifying and orthodox doctrine Afterwards leaving that City in 1612. upon what account I know not he became Minister in the town and liberties of Montgomery in Wales where if I mistake not he continued till the time of his death He hath written and published Concio ad clerum de clavibus regni coelorum habita pro forma Oxon. intemplo B. Mariae 16. Feb. an 1609. in Matth. 16. ver 19. Lond. 1612. oct De votis monasticis Theses disputatae sub prâ—sidio Tho. Holland Reg. prof Printed with the former 〈◊〉 Serm. Besides these two things he hath Several Sermons in English as 1 A diet for a Drunkard in two Sermons in the Church of S. Nich. in Bristow on Ester 1. 8. Lond. 1612. qu. 2 Friendly farewell to a faithful â—lock taken in a Sermon preached in S. Thomas Church in Bristow on Easter Tuseday 6. Apr. 1612. on 2 Cor. 13. ver 14. Lond. 1616. qu. 3 Antichrist arraigned Sermon at Pauls Cross on 1 Joh. 2. 18 19 20. Lond. 1618. qu. 4 The trial of Guides by the touchstone of Teachers c. Serm. on Luke 6. 39 40. Lond. 1618. qu. dedicated to Richard Bishop of St. Asaph his Patron These are all that I have seen going under his name and all that I yet know of the author SAMUEL DANIEL the most noted Poet and Historian of his time was born of a wealthy Family in Somersetshire and at 17 years of age in 1579. became a Commoner of Magd. hall where he continued about three years and improved himself much in Academical learning by the benefit of an excellent Tutor But his Genie being more prone to easier and smoother studies than in pecking and hewing at Logick he left the University without the honour of a degree and exercised it much in English History and Poetry of which he then gave several ingenious Specimens After his departure I find nothing memorable of him for several years only that at about 23 years of age he translated into English the worthy tract of Paulus Jovius containing a Discourse of rare inventions both military and amorous called Imprese Lond. 1585. oct To which he hath put an ingenious Preface of his own writing He was afterwards for his merits made Gentleman Extraordinary and afterwards one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber to Anne the Queen Consort of King James 1. who being for the most part a favourer and encourager of his Muse as she was of Jo. Florio who married Sam. Daniel's Sister and many times delighted with his conversation not only in private but in publick was partly for those reasons held in esteem by the men of that age for his excellencies in Poetry and History and partly in this respect that in writing the History of English affairs whether in Prose or Poetry he had the happiness to reconcile brevity with clearness qualities of great distance in other authors This is the opinion of a late author but one who lived in Samuel Daniel's time tells us that his works contain somewhat a flat but yet withal a very pure and copious English and words as warrantable as any mans and fitter perhaps for Prose than Measure Our author Daniel had also a good faculty in setting out a Mask or a Play and was wanting in nothing that might render him acceptable to the great and ingenious men of his time as to Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet Camden the learned Sir Rob. Cotton Sir H. Spelman Edm. Spencer Ben. Johnson John Stradling little Owen the Epigrammatist c. He hath written The complaint of Rosamond Lond. 1594. 98. 1611. and 23. qu. Various Sonnets to Delia. Wherein as Parthenius Nicaeus did excellently sing the praises of Arete so our author in this piece hath divinely sonneted the matchless beauty of his Delia. Tragedy of Cleopatra Lond. 1594. 98. qu. Of the Civil Wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York Lond. 1604. 09. oct and 1623. qu. Written in eight books in verse with his picture before them The
Vision of the twelve Goddesses presented in a Mask c. Lond. 1604. oct and 1623. qu. Some copies have it The wisdom of the 12 Goddesses in a Mask at Hampton-Court 8. Jan. Panegyrick congratulatory delivered to K. James at Burleigh-Harrington in Rutlandshire Lond. 1604. and 23. qu. Epistles to various great Personages in verse Lond. 1601. and 23. qu. Musophilus containing a general defence of learning Printed with the former Tragedy of Philotas Lond. 1611. c. oct Hymens Triumph A pastoral Trag. Com. presented at the Queens Court in the Strand at her Maj. magnificent entertainment of the Kings Maj. being at the Nuptials of the Lord Roxborough Lond. 1623. qu. second edit Muso or a defence of Ryme Lond. 1611. oct The Epistle of Octavia to M. Antonius Lond. 1611. oct The first part of the History of England in 3 books Lond. 1613. qu. reaching to the end of King Stephen in Prose To which afterwards he added a second part reaching to the end of K. Ed. 3. Lond. 1618. 21. 23. and 1634. fol. continued to the end of K. Rich. 3. by Joh. Trussel sometimes a Winchester Scholar afterwards a Trader and Alderman of that City Lond. 1638. fol. c. Which Trussel did continue in writing a certain old MS. belonging to the Bishops of Winton containing as it were an History of the Bishops and Bishoprick which continuation was made by him to Bishop Curles time He also wrote A description of the City of Winchester with an historical relation of divers memorable occurrences touching the same fol. Also a Preamble to the same Of the Origen of Cities in general MS. Sam. Daniel also wrote The Queens Arcadia A pastoral Trag-Com presented to her Majesty and her Ladies by the University of Oxon in Christ Church in Aug. an 1605. Lond. 1623. qu. Funeral Poem on the death of the Earl of Devon Lond. 1623. qu. Towards the end of our authors life he retired to a Country-Farm which he had at Beckington near to Philips-Norton in Sommersetshire at or near to which place he was born where after he had injoyed the Muses and religious Contemplation for some time with very great delight year 1619 surrendred up his Soul to him that gave it in sixteen hundred and nineteen and was buried in the Church of Beckington before-mentioned On the wall over his grave was this inscription afterwards put Here lies expecting the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the dead body of Samuel Daniel Esq that excellent Poet and Historian who was Tutor to the Lady Anne Clifford in her youth she that was Daughter and Heir to George Clifford Earl of Cumberland who in gratitude to him erected this monument in his memory a long time after when she was Countess Dowager of Pembroke Dorset and Montgomery He died in Octob. an 1619. By the way it must be noted that this Anne Countess of Pembroke was the same person who lived like a Princess for many years after in Westmorland was a great lover and encourager of learning and learned men hospitable charitable to the poor and of a most generous and publick temper She died 22. Mar. 1675. aged 86. or thereabouts and was buried under a splendid monument which she in her life-time had erected in the Church of Appleby in Westmorland It must be also farther noted that there was one Sam. Daniel Master of Arts who published a book intit Archiepiscopal Priority instituted by Christ Printed an 1642. and another if I am not mistaken called The Birth Life and Death of the Jewish Vnction But whether he was of the University of Oxon I cannot yet find JOHN PANKE was a very frequent and noted Preacher of his time and well read in Theological authors but withal a very zealous Enemy in his Writings and Preachments against the Papists but in what College or Hall educated I cannot as yet find After he had left the University he became Minister of Broadhinton afterwards of Tidworth in Wilts and at length had some Cure in the Church of Salisbury His works are Short Admonition by way of Dialogue to all those who hitherto upon pretence of their unworthiness have dangerously in respect of their Salvation withdrawn themselves from coming to the Lords Table c. Oxon. 1604. oct The fall of Babell by the confusion of tongues directly proving against the Papists of this and former ages that a view of their writings and books being taken it cannot be discerned by any Man living what they would say or how be understood in the question of the Sacrifice of the Mâ—ss the Real Pressence or Trâ—â—substantiation c. Oxon. 16â—8 qu. Dedicated to the Heads of Colleges and Scholars of the University of Oxou. Collectancae out of S. Gregory the Great and S. Bernard the Devout against the Papists 〈…〉 the Doctrine of the present 〈…〉 most fundamental points between them and us Oxon. 1618. oct With other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen not do I know any thing else of the author DERMITIUS MEARA or de Meara who was born at Ormond in Ireland whence being sent to this University continued there in Philosophical studies several years but whether in Vniv. coll Glouc. or Hart. hall â—eceptacles for Irish-men in his time I know not For tho he writes himself in the first of his books which I shall anon mention lately a Student in the Vniversity of Oxon. yet in all my searches I cannot find him matriculated or that he took a degree Some years after his retirement to his native Country he wrote in Latin verse having been esteemed a good Poet during his conversation among the Oxonians these things following Ormonius sive illustriss herois ac domini D. Thomae Butler Ormoniae Osoriae Comitis Vicecom de Thurles Baronis de Arcklo c. Prosapia laborumque praecipuorum ab eodem pro Patria Principe susceptorum commemoratio heroico carmine conscripta Lond. 1615. oct Epicedion in obitum Tho. Butler Ormoniae Osoriae Comitis c. Anagramaticon Acrosticon Chronologica in eundem Tho. Butler These two last were printed with Ormonius and are dedicated to Walt. Butler Earl of Ormond and Ossâ—â—y Much about the time when these Poetical things were printed the author practiced Physick in his own Country and gained great repute for his happy success therein In that faculty he wrote several books but all that I have seen is only this De morbis haereditariis tractatus Spagyrico-dogmaticus Dubl 1619. oct He was Father to Edm. de Meara an Ormonian born sometimes a Practitioner in Physick in the City of Bristow being the same person who answered Dr. Tho. Willis's book intit Diatribae duae Medico-Philosophicae c. SABIN CHAMBERS a Leicestershire Man born took the degrees in Arts as a Member of Broadgates hall that of Master being compleated 1583. at which time he had the vogue of a good disputant But soon after being dissatisfied in many points
Religion which is set before it and Discourse concerning such Englishmen as have either been or in our histories reputed Cardinals of the Church of Rome which is put at the end of it But this Edition of 1615. with the said two additional discourses being very full of faults and not to be endured by any ordinary Reader he put them forthwith into Latine entitling them De Praesulibus Angliae commentarius c. Lond. 1616. qu. The Reader is now to understand that after the first Edition of the said Catalogue of Bishops came out in 1601. Sir John Harrington of Kelston near the City of Bathe Son of John Harrington of the said place Esquire who dying near to the Bishops Pallace of and in London 1. Jul. 1582. was buried in the Church of S. Gregory near to Pauls Cathedral and he the Son of Alex. Harrington descended from a younger brother of the Harringtons of Brierley in Yorkshire I say that the said Sir John Harrington sometimes an Eaton Scholar and afterwards M. of Arts of Camb. being minded to obtain the favour of Prince Henry wrote a discourse for his private use intit A brief view of the state of the Church of England as it stood in Qu. Elizabeths and King James's raign to the year 1608. c. This book is no more than a character and History of the Bishops of those times and was written to the said Prince Henry as an additional supply to the before mention'd Catalogue of Bishops of Dr. Fr. Godwin upon occasion of that Proverb Henry the eighth pulled down Monks and their Cells Henry the ninth shall pull down Bishops and their Bells In the said book the author Harrington doth by imitating his Godmother Qu. Elizabeth shew himself a great enemy to married Bishops especially to such that had been married twice and many things therein are said of them that were by no means fit to be published being as I have told you before written only for private use But so it was that the book coming into the hands of one John Chetwind Grandson by a Daughter to the author a person deeply principled in presbyterian tenents did when the Press was open print it at London 1653. in oct And no sooner it was published and came into the hands of many but 't was exceedingly clamour'd at by the Loyal and orthodox Clergy condemning him much that published it The truth is that tho it did not give offence so much as Sir Anthony Weldons book intit The Court and character of K. James which was publish'd three years before yet it was exceedingly pleasing to the Presbyterians and other Diffenters And there is no doubt but that if it had come into the hands of Prynne before mentioned he would have raked out many things thence and aggravated them to the highest to furnish his Common Place book when he was about to publish The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. Our author Godwin wrote also Appendix adcommentarium de Praesulibus Angliae Lond. 1621. 22. in two sh in qu. Râ—rum Anglicaerum Henrico VIII Edwardo VI. Maria regnantibus Annales Lond. 1616. 28. 30. in qu. and fol. Translated into English by his Son Morgan Godwin Bac. of Arts of Ch. Ch. afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law of Pembr coll Master of the Free-School at Newland in Glocestershire Canon of Hereford and Doctor of his Faculty Which English translation hath been several times printed The man in the Moon or a discourse of a Voyage thither Lond. 1638. and 57. oct written while he was a Student of Ch. Ch. under the seigned name of Domingo Gozales and published some years after the authors death by E. M. of Ch. Ch. This book which hath before the title of it the picture of a man taken up from the top of a Mountain by an Engine drawn up to the Moon by certain flying Birds was censured to be as vain as the opinion of Copernicus or the strange discourses of the Antipodes when first heard of Yet since by a more inquisitive search in unravelling those intricacies men of solid judgments have since found out a way to pick up that which may add a very considerable knowledge and advantage to posterity Among which Dr. Wilkins sometimes Bishop of Chester composed by hints thence given as 't is thought a learned piece called A discovery of a new World in the Moon Nuncius inanimatus Utopiae 1629. Lond. 1657. oct Translated into English by Anon. who intitles it The mysterious Messenger unlocking the secrets of mens hearts Printed with The man in the Moon Lond. 1657. oct in two sheets only At length after our authors many labours wherein he aimed mostly at the publick he was taken with a long lingring disease which bringing him to his desired haven year 1633 in the beginning of the year in Apr. as it seems sixteen hundred thirty and three was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Whitborne which with the mannour thereof belongs to the Bishops of Hereford situate and being about 14. miles distant from the said City To the said See after his death was elected Dr. William Juxon but before he was consecrated he was translated to London as I shall tell you elsewhere That which I have forgot to let the Reader know is that whereas there goes under the name of the Bishop of Landaff A treatise on the blessed Sacrament printed in oct and one or more Sermons on the sixth Psalm they are not be attributed to Dr. Godwin but to his predecessor as I suppose in Landaff called Gerv. Babington Sed de hoc quaere HUGH HOLLAND Son of Rob. Holland by his Wife the Daughter of one Pain of Denbigh Son of Lewys Holland Son of Llewellin Son of Griffith Holland of Vaerdre by Gwervilla his Wife Daughter of Howell ap Madock ap Jem ap Einion was born at Denbigh bred in Westminster School while Camden taught there elected into Trinity coll in Cambridge an 1589. of which he was afterwards Fellow Thence he went to travel into Italy and was at Rome where his over free discourse betrayed his prudence Thence he went to Jerusalem to do his devotions to the holy Sepulcher and in his return touch'd at Constantinople where he received a reprimand from the English Embassador for the former freedom of his tongue At his return into England he retired to Oxon spent some years there as a Sojournour for the sake of the publick Library and as I have been informed had his Lodging in Ball. coll which is partly the reason why I insert him here He is observed by a Cambridge man to have been no bad English but an excellent Latine Poet and by some thought worthy to be mention'd by Spencer Sidney and others the chiefest of our English Poets His works are these MSS. Verses in description of the chief Cities of Europe Chronicle of Qu. Elizab. raign Life of Will Camden Clarenceaux K. of Armes A Cypress Garland for the sacred forehead of
in Rushia in 1619. and esteemed to be a person well vers'd in most parts of learning He was noted by all those that knew him to be a very good Greecian Poet an excellent Critick Antiquary Divine and admirably well skill'd in the Saxon and Gothick languages But as for his Preaching it was not except by the graver sort approved by any in the University For of three Sermons delivered to the Academians one of which concerning the Observation of Lent was without a Text according to the most ancient manner another against the Text and a third beside it shewing himself thereby a humorous person The famous Selden was much beholding to him for the drudgery he did for him when he composed his Marmora Arundeliana acknowledging him in his Preface to that book to be Vir multijugae studiique indefatigabilis Sir Rob. Cotton also his great Patron and his Son Sir Thomas could not but acknowledge his like drudgery in the ordering disposing and setling their incomparable Library with the first of whom no great friend to the Prerogative being intimate and familiar was confin'd to close keeping by the Lords when Sir Robert was imprisoned for certain matters uttered in Parliament an 1629. Nothing was wanting to our author and his studies but a Sinecure or a Prebendship either of which if confer'd upon him Hercules his labours would have seem'd a trifle His works are these Several Lat. Sermons as 1 Anti-Possevinus sive concio habita ad clerum 〈◊〉 Acad. Oxon an 1625. in 2 Tim. 4. 13. Oxon. 1625. qu. 2 Conc. habita ad clerum Oxon de Ecclesia in Matth. 16. 18. Oxon. 1633. qu. c. Several Engl. Sermons as 1 Serm. concerning the Eucharist delivered on Easter day in Oxon. on Matth. 26. ver 26 27 28. Lond. 1629. qu. 2 History of Preaching or concerning the Apostles preaching and ours on 1 Cor. 9. 16. Lond. 1630. qu. 3 Serm. concerning the observation of Lent-fast Lond. 1630. qu. To which tho there be no Text yet it is grounded on Luke 4. 2. 4 Serm concerning the times of receiving the Sacrament and of mutual forgiveness delivered in C. C. C. at the election of a President on 1 Cor. 11 25. Lond. 1632. â—qu 5 Apologetical Essay for the righteousness of miserable unhappy People preached at S. Maries in Oxon on Psal. 37. 25. Lond. 1632. qu. Poemata quaedam in mort clariss viri Roberti Cottoni Thomae Alleni Oxon. 1633. qu. With which Poems he published Sir Thom. More 's Epistle written from Abendon in Berks an 1519. to the Univ. of Oxon for the embracing of the Greek tongue which had been for many years neglected among the Members thereof He also translated into English Octavius Ox. 1636. in tw written by Minutius Felix All the afore-mentioned works except the translation bound in one vol. the author gave to Bodlies Library with a copy of verses of his composition written in a spare leaf before the first of them beginning thus Dear God by whom in dark Womb's shade I am to fear and wonder made c. The said copy of verses was made by him when he was confin'd to close custody by the Lords He died of a Quartan Fever in the house of Sir Tho. Cotton Bt. near to Westminster hall by too much studying as 't was supposed and wracking his body with hardship in the beginning of Decemb. year 1638 in sixteen hundred thirty and eight and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in S. Margarets Church within the said City He left behind him several MSS. of his own composition and others collected by him from various authors to the number of 45. or thereabouts all written with his own hand which coming after his death into the hands of his intire Friend and Colleague Mr. Tho. Greaves came after his death to the Bodleian Library where they now are The MSS. of his composition are these 1 Decanonizatio Thomae Cantuariensis suorum fol. This book containing 760. pages hath this beginning Viam regiam mihi patefacit ad decanonizationem ficti fucati Martyris c. and the beginning of the Epist to the Reader is this Amice lector rogatus sum saepius c. 2 Comment in Evangelia S. Johannis in two parts in qu. The beginning is Postmodo ad textum sacrae historiae deveniam ubi prius c. Both parts contain about 12 sheets 3 Notae in aliquot loca Bibliae in 3 sh in qu. The beginning is Videte sub ficu Paraphrastes sub umbrosa ficu c. 4 Antiquitates Insulae Victae in 17 pages in qu. The beginning is Angli Saxones Marciarum c. and of the Epistle to the Reader Vtrum moriar priusque hoc opus perficium deus novit c. 'T is only a specimen or a foundation for a greater work to build on 5 Epistolae ad amicos suos doctos The beginning of the first Ep. which was written to Dr. Seb. Benefeild of C. C. coll is this Sancte Deus c. 'T is a thick quarto and containeth Epistles mostly written to C. C. coll men Epitaphs and some English copies of verses 6 Epigrams in Lat. and Engl. with other Poems 7 Reasons concerning the attempts on the lives of great personages c. These reasons which are six or more have this beginning Sir if you please to learn my mind concerning the attempts on the lives of great personages c. written in 2 sh in fol. 8 Two Sermons The first on James 5. 14. the other on John 12. 32. Both written in fol. papers 9 Iter Lancastrense This Itinerary which was written in English verse 1636. hath this beginning High Holt of Wood and 't is contained in two sheets and an half 10 Glossarium Saxonicum-Anglicum 'T is a long pocket-book 11 Glos Sax. Angl. another part in oct 12 A Rushian Dictionary with the English to it 13 Observations made in his travels through some parts of Wales Scotland on Shetland Greenland c. In 4 sheets in qu. 14 Observations made on the Country with the manners and customs of Rushia or Rusland an 1619. in oct 'T was intended to be transcrib'd and to have other matters added to it but what hindred the design I cannot tell Besides these 14 books I have another of Epigrams written mostly in Latin and partly in Greek in oct dedicated to his Tutor Dr. Sebast Benefeild As for his collections which are in four and twenty quartoes and in about 7 thin folio's all under his own hand are contained in them for the most part notes from ancient MSS. sometimes from printed authors relating to Hist and Antiq. and any thing that could be found against S. Thomas of Canterbury the greatness and corruption of Popes Cardinals Bishops Abbats Priors Monks Friers and the Clergy before the time of Reformation And when he thought that the matter it self from the authors whence he made his collections was not enough sufficient to make them bad his
1606. oct 7 Caveat for the Covetuos on Luke 12. 15. Lond. 1609. oct 8 Samuel's Funeral Serm. at the Fun. of Sir Anth. Cope Kt. and Bt. Lond. 1618. 19. qu. Besides other Sermons printed in 1614. 16. 19. 1623. 24. 28. 1630. c. A pithy short and methodical way of opening of the Ten Commandments Lond. 1622. oct Treatise of the cumbers and troubles of Marriage Lond. 1624. qu. Prototypes or Examples out of the book of Genesis applied to our information and reformation Lond. 1640. fol. Published by the authors great admirers Edward Liegh Esq and Hen. Scudder Minister of Colingbourne Ducis in Wiltshire Before which book is his character written by the said Scudder a Presbyterian This Will. Whately surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the tenth day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and nine year 1639 and was buried in the yard belonging to the Church at Banbury Over his grave is a large rais'd monument of stone and thereon a Lat. and Engl. Epitaph in verse a Lat. and Engl. Anagram and a double Chronogram All which shall be now for brevity sake omitted except part of the Engl. Epitaph running thus Whatsoe'ere thou l't say who passest by Why here 's enshrin'd Celestial dust His bones whose name and fame can't dye These Stones as Feoffees weep in trust It 's William Wheatly that here lies Who swam to 's Tomb in 's Peoples eyes Death was his Crown c. EDWARD CHETWYND the fourth Son of Jo. Chetwynd Esabque was born of an ancient and gentile Family living at Ingestrie near to and in the County of Stafford about the year 1577. admitted Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1592. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a frequent Preacher in and near to Oxon. In 1606. he was elected by the Mayor and Corporation of Abendon in Berks their Lecturer being then Bac. of Divinity and in the year following upon the desire of the Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Bristow he was sent by Dr. Hen. Airay Vicechancellour of the University and Dr. Jo. Rainolds of C. C. C. to that City where being kindly receiv'd he was established their Publick Lecturer on the 2. June the same year to preach one Sermon every Sunday in the afternoon in any Church of that City that the Mayor for the time being should appoint and one Sermon every Holyday as he should think fit In 1613. he was sworn Chaplain to Q. Anne in 1616. he was admitted D. of D. and in the year after upon the death of Dr. Sim. Robson he was promoted by K. James 1. to the Deanery of Bristow to that Cities great satisfaction being elected thereunto 16. June the same year So that whereas he was a little before presented to the rich Rectory of Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire twice tâ—e value of his Deanry he thereupon gave it up purposely because he would live among and so consequently please the inhabitants of Bristow In that Rectory succeeded an eminent Scholar named Joh. Burgess M. of A. and Doct. of Physick whose memory is fresh in those parts among the Godly What other preserments Chetwynd had besides the Vicaridge of Banwell in Somersetsh and the Vicaridge of Barcley in Glouc. on the houses belonging to which Vicardiges he bestowed above 300 l. I know not He hath published Concio ad clerum pro gradu habita Oxoniae 19. Dec. 1607. in Act. 20. 24. Oxom 1608. in oct Several English Sermons as 1 The straight and narrow way to life in certain Sermons on Luke 13. 23. 24. Lond. 1612. oct 2 Vow of tears for the loss of Prince Henry Serm. at Bristow on Sam. 5. 15 16. Lond. 1613. oct 3 Serm. on Psal. 51. 10. Lond. 1610. besides others as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He departed this life on the 13. May in sixteen hundred thirty and nine and was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Bristow near the Communion Table and the grave of Helena his sometimes Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Harrington the eminent Poet of Kelston in Somersetsh Kt which Helena died in Childbed 9. Nov. 1628. aged 39. The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that this Dr. Edward Chetwynd with John Whetcombe Joh. Standard c. Divines and Doctors of Divinity Sir Sim. Baskervile Knight and Rob. Vilvaine Doctors of Physick were the learned persons of Exeter college which Dr. Joh. Prideaux in an Epistle before a Sermon preached at the consecration of the Chappel in that Coll. an 1624. did enumerate as being then living and ornaments of the said house See more in Thom. Holland under the year 1611. WILLIAM LEIG a Lancashire man born was entred a Student in Brasnose coll an 1571. and in 73. he was elected Fellow thereof Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and became a painful Preacher in the University and parts adjacent In 1586. or thereabouts he being promoted to the Rectory of Standish in his own Country took the degree of Bac. of Div. and on the 24. of Nov. 1587. he resigned his Fellowship setled at Standish for altogether was made Justice of the Peace there and held in great esteem for his learning and godliness He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Fun. Serm. Job 14. 14. printed 1602. in oct 2 The first step towards Heaven or Anna the Prophetess her holy haunt to the Temple of God preached in Standish Church on Luke 2. 36 37 38 39. Lond. 1609. oct 3 Q. Elizabeth parallel'd in her princely vertue with David Joshua and Hezekiah in three Sermons the first on Psal. 123. 1 2 3 4. The second on Joshua 10. 12. And the third on 2 Kings 18. 5 6. Lond. 1612. oct 4 The damp of death beaten back with the glorious light and life of Jesus Christ preached at Lancaster Assize on Coloss 3. 3 4. Lond. 1613. oct 5 The Soul's solace against Sorrow Fun. Serm. preached in Childwal Church in Lancashire at the burial of Mrs. Katharine Brettergh 3. June 1601. on Isay 57. 1. Lond. 1617. oct 6 Serm. on Acts 2. 19 20 21. Printed 1613. oct 7 Serm. on Heb. 9. 27 28. Printed in qu. with others which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in a good old age in sixteen hundred thirty and nine year 1639 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Standish 28. Nov. Over his grave is a brass plate fastned to the wall at the east end of the said Chancel whereon is this engraven Conditum est hic corpus Gulielmi Leigh S. T. bac verae religionis professoris sinceri haeresium propulsatoris acerrimi concionatoris suavissimi hujus Ecclesiae quinquaginta tres annos pastoris vigilantiss cujus nonnulla extant pluraque desiderantur opera evocati ex hac vita 26. Nov. an dom 1639. aetatis suae octogessimo nono HENRY WOTTON a person singularly accomplish'd Son of Tho. Wotton Esq by his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter
great Discretion and Prudence as well as of Learning he was Elected by them their Provincial Minister that is the chief Governor or Master of them and their Order in England which laudable Office he executed for some Years with great approbation He hath written according to Anton. Senensis Comment sup 4. libros sententiarum Tract de unitate formarum Lecturae Scholasticae and other things which I have not yet seen This William Beeth was in great renown among Learned Men especially among those of his Order in the Reign of K. H. 7. of England but when he died it appears not JOHN PERCEVALL discovered even in his Childhood an early affection to Learning and when at the Age of about Twenty he diligently applied his Muse to Philosophical Learning in the Universities of England especially in this of Oxon wherein he obtained a considerable competency in humane and Divine Learning At riper Years he upon mature consideration entred into the most Holy Order of the Carthusians and soon after by a severe and strict life among them mostly by fasting and a continual and religious contemplation his divine Soul was at length totally refin'd and fitted for the Society of the Saints in Heaven He hath transmitted to Posterity Compendium divini amoris Par. 1530. in Oct. This Book was Printed elsewhere before that time Epistolae ad solitarios besides other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen Theodor. Petreius in his Bibliotheca Cartusiana tells us that this John Percevall was Prior of the Carthusians at Paris in the Year 1550 but my Author Jo. Baleus before quoted mentions no such matter only that he was a bare Carthusian and that he was in great esteem among Men for his Piety and Learning Fifty Years before that time The Reader is now to know that contemporary with the former lived another John Percevall Doctor of Divinity of Oxon and by order a Franciscan or Grey Frier who being a Person of great note among his Brethren or among those of his Society was elected the Seven and Fortieth Provincial Minister of them but what relation there was between this and the former it appears not This John Percevall the Franciscan died at London and was buried in the Church of the Franciscans now commonly called Christ-Church within Newgate whereupon Hen. Standish D. D. whom I shall mention elsewhere succeeded him in the Provincialship It is also farther to be noted that whereas a Learned Author tells us that this John Percevall succeeded in that honourable Office one Will. Goddard a Doctor of Divinity of Oxon it is a great mistake for that Will. Goddard whom he sets down to have been Provincial Minister was only Warden or Guardian of the House or College of Franciscans at London before-mention'd to which he was a Benefactor who dying 26. Sept. 1485. was Buried in the Chappel of the Apostles joyning to the Church of the said House As for the famous Dr. Will. Goddard who was the Provincial Minister of the Franciscans he died 30 Octob. 1437. and was buried in the said Church on the right side of the Tomb of Sir John Hastyngs So that I believe two three or more were Provincials between this last Dr. Goddards death and the time when Dr. John Percevall took the Provincialship upon him ROBERT BALE called by some Robert Bale Junior because there was another of both his Names a Lawyer of London and before him in time was born in the County of Norfolk entred when Young among the Carmes or Carmelites commonly called White-Friers in the City of Norwych spent some time for the sake of Study among those of his Order living in the North Suburb of Oxon where he improv'd himself much in the faculty of Theology as I presume he did partly at Cambridge among those of his Society there Afterwards he became Prior of the Carmes at Burnham in his own Country where he was had in veneration by them and others for his great love towards Learning and Learned Men. All the time that he could procure he greedily spent in his beloved Study of Divinity and Histories both Divine and Profane and having to his great expence obtained a considerable Library of Books they at length came after his Death to that of the Carmes at Burnham He hath written Annales perbreves Ordinis Carmelitarum The beginning of which is Anno Mundi 3042. Helias Thesb c. Historia Heliae Prophetae The beginning of which is Ecce ego mitto c. Officium Simonis Angli The beginning of which is Simon pater inclytus c. This famous Simon was Simon Stock the most noted and religious Brother of the Carmes that ever was the first of all his Order that took a degree in this University as I have told you elsewhere and the same who many Years after his death was Canoniz'd Besides the said Books he the said Rob. Bale composed Several Sermons which went from hand to hand as one of his Order will farther tell you who addeth year 1503 that he giving way to fate in Fifteen hundred and three which was about the 18th Year of K. Hen. 7. was buried in his Monastery of Burnham before-mentioned RICHARD BARDNEY was born at or near to Bardney in Lincolnshire became when Young a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict in his own Country received his Learning in the supreme faculty among those of his Society in Oxon and afterwards retiring to his Monastery wrot in Verse Vita Roberti Grostest quondam Episcopi Lincolniensis 'T is as yet in Manuscript and was finished by the Author in 1503. he being then Bachelaur of Divinity and by him dedicated to Will. Smythe Bishop of Lincoln The beginning of this Book is Lincolniensis apex presul sacrate Wilelme c. Many fabulous things are inserted therein not at all agreeable to so profound and subtile a Philosopher as Grostest was who in his Life and Actions did very humbly imitate or at least endeavoured so to do St. Austin Archbishop of Canterbury The said Author Bardney tells us that Grestest was Born at Stow in Lincolnshire which no Author besides himself hath in the least mentioned and other matters of him which are false tho some are true and fit to be mention'd in History What else our Author Bardney hath written I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he was in good esteem for some parts of Learning especially by those of his Society during the time that King Henry 7. lived but when he died it appears not DONALD O-FIHELY a Person much valued among his Country-men for his unwearied industry in matters relating to History and Antiquity was Born of an Antient Family in the County of Cork in Ireland whence in his Youthful Years being sent to Oxon improved himself much in Academical Learning but whether he took a Degree we have no Register that testifies it Afterwards receeding to
Erasmum alios Grammatica Vulgaria Puerorum Epigrammata with other things which are mentioned by Leland and Bale While Dr. Colet was Dean of St. Pauls our Author Grocyn did read in his open Lecture in that Cathedral the Book of Dionysius Areopagita commonly called Hierarchia Ecclesiastica for the reading of the Holy Scripture in the said Cathedral was not in use and in the very first entry of his Preface cried out with great vehemency against them whosoever they were which either denied or stood in doubt of the Authority of that Book in the number of whom he noted Laur Valla and divers other of like judgment But afterwards the said Grocyn when he had continued a few Weeks in his reading thereof and had farther considered of the matter he utterly alter'd and recanted his former sentence protesting openly that the said Book in his judgment was never written by that Author whom we read in the Acts of the Apostles to be called Dionysius Areopagita He the said Grocyn died at Maidstone beforementioned in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and two year 1522 aged 80 or more Whereupon his Body was Buried at the Stall-end in the high Choir of the Coll. of Allhallows before-mentioned Thomas Lynacre the Famous Physician was his Executor to whom he left considerable Legacies and William Lilye the Grammarian who was his God-son had a little Memorial bequeathed to him in his last Will which I have seen To and with this Grocyn and other eminent Scholars of England who were of his time was well known and familiar Andreas Ammonius a Clerk of Luca in Italy Son of Elizab. de Harena or Arena a grave Matron of that place which Andrew who was an Apostolick Prothonotary Collector for the Pope in England Latin Secretary to King Henry 8. and a Learned Man did as I have just reason to conceive spend some time in Oxon for the sake of Study while Grocyn or at least Erasmus were conversant there But being not certain of the matter I shall only say that Ammonius dying in Septemb. 1517. 9. Henry 8. being then Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury which Dignity was conferr'd upon him on the Death of Gendesalvus Ferdinandus 17 Jul. 1513. was Buried in the King's Chappel of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Stephen situate and being within the Palace of Westminster leaving then a considerable part of his Wealth to his Executor Mr. Peter de Vannes an Italian his Sisters Son whom I shall mention elsewhere WILLIAM LILYE was born at Odyham in Hampshire Elected one of the Demies or Semi-commoners of St. Mary Magd. Coll. in 1486. Aged 18 Years took as it seems one Degree in Arts and then giving a farewel to the University went for Religion sake to Jerusalem where after he had paid his Vows put in at his return at the Isle of Rhodes and making some stay there he learned the Latin and Greek Tongues exactly which matter hath seemed strange to some forasmuch as Rhodes was not Rhodes in that Age except some great Critick was casually there Thence he went to Rome where he heard Joh. Sulpitius and Pomponius Sabinus great Masters of Latin in those days Read and Teach After his return he settled in London and taught Grammar Poetry and Rhetorick with good success At length Dr. John Colet Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral made him the First Master of the School which he had Founded in the Yard belonging to the said Cathedral in the Year 1512. where teaching about Ten Years many issued thence who were afterwards serviceable in the Church and State He hath written many things in English and Latin and in Verse and Prose among which are these An Introduction to the Eight Parts of Speech This is generally said to be written by Lilye yet some there are that stick not to tell us that the said Introduction was written by Dr. Colet or Dav. Tolley The Construction of the Eight Parts of Speech This also goes under the Name of Lilye Monita Paedagogica seu Carmen de moribus ad suos discipulos The beginning of which is Qui mihi discipulus c. Brevissima Institutio seu ratio Grammatices cognoscendae ad omnium puerorum utilitatem praescripta c. This contains the four Parts of Grammar viz. 1 Orthographia 2 Etymologia 3 Syntaxis and fourthly Prosodia In which Book or Books very many times Printed that part in Verse called Propria quae Maribus c. and another called As in praesenti c. were afterwards published by John Ritwise Lilye's Successor in Colet's School with an Interpretation of the words in them about the Year 1530. 22. Hen. 8. Omnium nominum in regulis contentorum tum Heteroclitorum ac Verborum interpretatio aliqua All these beforementioned were published at London 1513 and afterwards in 1520 and had additions and annotations put to them by Ritwise before mentioned Tho. Robertson c. Tho the rules in them were excellent in that Age yet they have been much meliorated and more compendiously methodized by very many since even to these our days In aenigmatica Antibossicon Primum Secundum Tertium ad Guliel Hormannum Lond. 1521. qu. The said three Antibossicons are witrily written in an elegant Stile and neat Verse not only against the said Horman but also against Rob. Whittington a Laureat Grammarian Rhetorician The beginning of them is Non Hormanne latet c. In which Antibossicons the said Whittingâ—on had under the feigned name of Bossus much provoked Lilye with scoffs and biting Verses Poemata varia Printed with the said Antibossicons De laudibus Deiparae Virginis Apologia ad John Skeltonum Rob. Whittington Besides these he hath written other things as Baleus and Pitseus will tell you and hath made several translations from Greek into Latin and from Italian into English At length this Learned Author being infected with the Plauge died of it to the great grief of Learned Men on the fifth of the Cal. of Mar. in Fifteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the North-yard belonging to the Cath. Church of St. Paul leaving then behind him a Son named George begotten on the body of his Wife Agnes whom I shall hereafter mention and Peter a Dignitarie as it seems in the Church of Canterbury Father of another Peter Lilye D. D. sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge afterwards a Brother of the Hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near London Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral and of the Church of Sarum Archdeacon of Taunton and a Writer of certain Books as 1 Conciones duae una inscripta Pax Liliana in Act. 15 39. Altera Columba Ecclesiae in John 19. 9. 10. Lond. 1619. qu. published by his Widow Dorothy 2 Two Sermons 1. A preparative Lilie to cure Souls on Mark 16. 6. and the other How to seek and find Christ on Luke 24. 5. Both Printed at Lond. in 1619. qu. published by
his said Widow Dorothy whose Daughter Mary hath Verses before in commendation of them This Dr. Peter Lilye gave way to fate in the latter end of 1614 12. Jac. 1. and was buried in the Church belonging to the Savoy beforementioned Will. Lilye the Grammarian had a Daughter named Dionysia who was married to his Usher John Ritwise or Rightwyse afterwards Master of St. Paul's School on the Death of his Father-in Law and a most eminent Grammarian in his Generation This Person by the way I must tell you was born at Sawl in Norfolk educated in Eaton School near Windsor elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1507. made the Tragedy of Dido out of Virgil and acted the same with the Scholars of his School before Cardinal Wolsey with great applause One Rich. Jones Succeeded him in the Government of St. Paul's School 1532. 24. Hen. 8. in which Year Ritwise perhaps died Afterwards his Widow Dionysia took to her second Husband James Jacob who was one of the Masters of the said School by whom he had a Son called Polydore Jacob. In the next Centery after the Death of our Famous Will. Lilye appeared as a Comet to the Vulgar from Leicestershire one of both his Names a great pretender to Astrology and Physick and in â—uch considering his Education which was without the help of an Academy he was eminent He began to write much about the time when the grand Rebellion commenc'd wrot in favour of the Long Parliament and their proceedings and many notorious matters against the Royal Family which being highly resented by the generous Loyalist he was aimed at upon His Majesties Restauration in 1660. to be brought to condign punishment But upon the Intercession of George Wharton to whom Lilye had been civil in the times of Usurpation and others he escaped and continued in writing his Ephemerides to the time of his Death This Person who pretended much to Prophecy of which he hath published several Pamphlets especially in his said Ephemerides and had exercised the trade of Conjuration among ignorant People died at Walton upon Thames in Surrey where he had purchased a fair Estate with the Moneys he had got by imposing on the Vulgar with his Juggles on the 9th day of June an 1681. Aged near 80 Years and was buried in the middle of the Church there towards the North Wall Soon after was a black Marble Stone with an Inscription thereon laid over his Grave by his Friend Elias Ashmole Esq A little before his Death he did adopt for his Son by the Name of Merlin Junior one Will. Coley a Taylor by Trade and a Native of Magd. Parish in the North Suburb of Oxon and at the same time gave him the Impression of his Ephemeris after it had been Printed for 36 Years which Coley continues to this day The Writings of this Lilly being too many to be here inserted I shall only give you the canting and amusing Titles of some as 1 Englands Prophetical Merlin 2 English Merlin revived c. 3 Storry Messenger or an interpretation of the strange Apparition of three Suns 4 A Collection of Ancient and Modern Prophecies c. 5 Astrological Prediction of the occurrences in England 6 The Worlds Catastrophy 7 Monarchy and no Monarchy c. 8 Annus tenebrosus or the dark Year c. 9 Christian Astrology c. JOHN STANBRIDGE another noted Grammarian of his time was born at Heyford in Northamptonshire educated in Trivials in Whykehams School near Winchester admitted after two Years of probation true and perpetual Fellow of New College in the Year 1481 left it Five Years after and being naturally delighted in the faculty of Grammar tho then Bac. of Arts he was made first Usher of the Free-School joyning to Magd. Coll. for so he occurs in the Year 1488. and after the Death of Job Anwykyll chief Master thereof in which employment he continued if I mistake not to the time of his Death and became so happy in the practice of his profession that many Persons who proved afterwards eminent acknowledged to have received instruction from him Among such Rob. Whittington was one by whose endeavours as also those of Stanbridge Will. Horman and Will. Lilye all Oxford Students the Latin tongue was much refin'd and amended This Jo. Stanbridge was a right worthy Lover of his faculty and an indefatigable Man in teaching and writing as it may appear by those things that he hath published very grateful to the Muses and publick concerns The last of which he consulted more than his own private interest and when in his old Age he should have withdrawn himself from his profession which is esteem'd by the generality a drudgery and have lived upon what he had gotten in his younger Years he refused it lived poor and bare to his last yet with a juvenile and cheerful Spirit He hath written Embryon relimatum sive Vocabularium Metricum This I have seen Printed in an old English Character about 1522. in qu. In the title of which is the Authors Picture Printed from a Wooden Cut sitting in a Chair with his Gown on and a Hood on his Shoulders but no Cap on his Head only a close one like to a Curlot This Book was view'd and corrected in Qu. Elizabeth's time by Thomas Newton of Cheshire who hath an Encomium upon it Afterwards enlarged and made to run in compleat Verse by that noted Grammarian John Brinsley sometimes a Schoolmaster and Minister in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk an 1636. I mean the same Brinsley who married the Sister of Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Norwich and wrot and published several Books of Divinity and Grammar besides translations Stanbridge also wrot Parvulorum Institutiones De ordine constructionum Vulgaria With other things which I have not yet seen He lived beyond the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and two but when he died or where he was buried unless in Magd. Coll. Chap. or Yard belonging thereunto I know not One Thomas Stanbridge his Kinsman I think took the Degree of Master of Arts in this University an 1518. being then a noted Schoolmaster of Benbury in Oxfordshire who dying 1522 left several Books to the Coll. of which he had been Fellow which if I mistake not was Magd. College NICHOLAS VAUX Son of Sir Will. Vaux of Harwedon in Northamptonshire by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Gregory Penystone of Curtesels in Piemont a Province of Italy was born in that County Northamptonshire and in his juvenile Years was sent to Oxon where by reading Humane and Romantick rather than Philosophical Authors advanced his Genie very much in Poetry and History In his riper Years he followed the Camp did King Hen. 7. noted service in the Battel of Stoke near Newark in the second Year of his Reign and thereupon he received the Honor of Knighthood In the 17th Year of that Kings Reign he appeared like a Star at the Marriage of Prince Arthur for the Gown of Purple Velvet which he
c. These two bound together are in Bodlies Library Vulgaria de institutione Grammaticulorum opusculum libello suo de concinnitate Grammatices accommodatum in quatuor partes digestum Printed at Lond. by Wynand de Worde 1524 in Lat. and Engl. having been printed several times before 'T is the same if I mistake not with his Grammar printed at Lond. 1500. qu. Secunda pars Grammatices de syllaba ejus quantitate Lond. 1516 qu. With which is bound up this following Whittintoni editio cum interpretamento Francisci Nigri Diomedes de accentu in pedestri oratione potius quam soluta observando Printed there the same Year De nominum appellativorum Deorum Dearum Heroum Heroinarum locorumque synonimis Lond. 1514 qu. De Epithetis Deorum Dearum Heroum Heroin clar virorum Animalium De variandi formulis tam pedestri quam soluto sermone Experientiae de virtutis immortalitate De veterum Romanorum Magistratibus These four last were printed with his De nominum appellativorum c. De octo partibus orationis Lond. 1513. 23. c. qu. De nominum generibus Lond. 1521. 24 c. qu. De preteritis supinis Lond. 1524. qu. De nominum declinatione Lond. 1522. qu. De Heteroclitis Lond. 1524. qu. Syntaxis Lond. 1524. qu. Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum Lond. 1521. qu. Responsiva contra Gul. Hormanni invectivas literas Lond. 1521. qu. in long and short verses with other things which may be seen in Baleus who tells us that he was in great renown for his learning in Fifteen hundred and thirty 22. Hen. 8. but when he died or where he was buried I cannot yet find See more of him in W. Lilye and Will. Horman ROBERT SHIRWODE received his first breath in the City of Coventry whence being translated to the University of Oxon made a considerable progress in Logicals but more by far in the Hebrew and Greek Languages Thence in his mature Years he went to Lovaine in Brabant where about the Year 1519. he succeeded Rob. Wakfeld an English Man in the reading the Hebrew Lecture to the Academians of that place But he reading there only for a Month went to other Universities and had a Book of his composition published bearing this title Liber Hebraeorum Concionatoris seu Ecclesiasticen nuper ad veritatem Hebraicam recognitus cum nonnullis annotationibus Chaldaicis quorundam Rabbinorum sententiis textus obscuros aliquos litteraliter explanantibus Antw. 1523. qu. Dedicated to one Joh. Webe whom he calls Monachorum decus Prior of the Monastery of the Benedictins at Coventry In the title of which Booke he is not stiled Doctor and therefore I presume he had that degree conferr'd on him after that time but in what University I cannot yet tell Job Baleus and his follower Pitseus do stile him Doctor Oxoniensis but the truth is in all my researches I cannot find that he took that degree there unless under another name He the said Dr. Shirewood hath also various Sermons extant as those Authors report who also tell us that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and thirty but when he died or where he was buried I am altogether as yet ignorant JOHN SKUISH a Cornish Man born was conversant for a time among the Oxonian Muses either in Exeter Coll. or in Hart Hall but whether he took a degree it appears not However by the help of an happy Genie accompanied with industry prudence and dexterity he obtained a Name among Men and was held in great esteem by several of the Nobility for his proficiency in various sorts of Learning At length being received into the Family of the great Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was by him entrusted with many matters of consequence All which he performing with singular fidelity was made one of his Cabinet Council and by him promoted to places of trust At leisure times he improved his natural Genie by the reading of Histories as well Ancient as Modern which at length being made easie to him by the help of a good memory composed several little Books as Chronicorum Epitome in one Book De bello Trojano lib. 1. and as 't is probable other things in the time of Hen. 8 and before and after the said Cardinal's fall The time when he surrendred up his last breath is yet unknown as also the place of his Sepulâ—ure SIMON FISH a zealous Man for the Reformation of abuses in the Church was born in Kent and after he had been instructed in Academical Learning he retired to Greys Inn in Holbourn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law About which time one Mr. Roo or Roe having composed a Play wherein one part deeply reflected on Cardinal Wolsey he undertook when divers refused to act it For which being soon after forced to leave the Nation he found out Will. Tyndale in Germany with whom for a time he sorted himself In 1527 or thereabouts he made a little Book entit The supplication of Beggars The beginning of which is Most lamentably complaineth their woful misery c. It containeth a great deal of bitter stuff against Bishops Abbats Priors Monks Fryers c. and indeed against the generality of the Clergy In 1528 a Copy of it was sent to the Lady Anne Bulleyne which after perusal she gave it to the King who did not dislike it and soon after were divers Copies scattered in London streets which was complained of by the Cardinal to the said King Afterwards the Cardinal being out of favor the Author Fish was sent for home and graciously countenanced by the King for what he had done About which time he translated from Dutch into English The summ of the Scriptures which was also published and well approved At length being overtaken by the Pest year 1531 died of it in Fifteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Church of St. Dunstan in the West Afterwards James Baynham Son of Sir Alex. Baynham of Glocestershire Knight Married his Widow which James being a zealous Protestant suffer'd death soon after in the Flames as you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Church written by Jo. Fox JOHN BATMANSON a Person most noted while living for his great Piety and Learning did after he had been instructed in Sophistry enter into the most holy Order of the Carthusians abiding in the House commonly called the Charter-house near to London In his elder Years he became the Head or Prior of that House and about that time or rather before was conversant in the Theological faculty with us but whether he took a degree therein tho supplicate he did to oppose in Divinity it appears not This Person being intimate with Dr. Edw. Lee afterwards Archbish of York did at his intreaty write Animadversiones in annotat Erasmi in Nov. Testam Which animadversions he retracted in another piece Tract contra a Doctrinam M. Lutheri This also he retracted in
of the posterity and next in blood to our Author Sir Tho. More The said Utopia also was published in Italian at Venice 1548. Epigrammata Bas 1518. 1563. oct Lond. 1638 c. Progimnasmata Bas 1563. Responsio ad convitia Martint Lutheri written in the Year 1523. This I take to be the same with Vindicatio Henrici 8. Regis Angliae Galliae à calumniis Lutheri Lond. 1523. qu. published under the name of Gul. Rosseus Quod pro fide mors fugienda non est Written in the Tower of London 1534. Precationes ex Psalmis Collected there the same Year Imploratio divini auxilii contra tentationem cum insultatione contra Demones ex spe fiducia in Deum Lugd. 1572. He also translated from Greek into Lat. Dialogi Luciani with other matters of that Author Bas 1563. All which except Precationes ex psalmis beforemention'd together with his History of K. Rich. 3. and his Expositio passionis Domini were printed at Lovaine 1566. Epistolae Bas Lond. 1642. Epistola ad Acad. Oxon an 1519. Ox. 1633. qu. See in Tho. James under the Year 1638. History of the pitiful life and unfortunate death of Edward 5. and the then Duke of York his Brother Lond. 1651. oct This last being in English and published the last of all his Works I do therefore put it here At length this our worthy Author being brought to his trial in Westminster-hall was there for Treason for denying the King's Supremacy condemned to be hang'd drawn and quarter'd But that Sentence being mitigated by the K. he only lost his Head on Tower-hill 6. July in Fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 Soon after his Body was buried in the Chappel belonging to the Tower called St. Peter ad Vincula by the care of his Daughter Margaret to which place as 't is said she afterwards removed the Body of John Fisher B. of Rochester who being beheaded for the same matter on 22. June going before was buried in the Church-yard of Allhallows Barkin But More 's Body continuing not long in that Chappel was by the said Margaret removed to Chelsey Church near London and there deposited on the South side of the Choire or Chancel Over it is a large Epitaph made by himself after he had given up his Chancellorship which is printed in several Books and by several Authors As for his head it was set upon a pole on London-bridge where abiding about 14 days was then privily bought by the said Margaret and by her for a time carefully preserved in a leaden Box but afterwards with great devotion 't was put into a Vault the burying place of the Ropers under a Chappel joyning to St. Dunstans Church in Canterbury where it doth yet remain standing in the said Box on the Coffin of Margaret his Daughter buried there Much more as 't is probable I could say of his Death and Burial could I see a Book intit Expositio fidelis de morte Thomae Mori Printed in 8 vo in the Year 1536. but the Book is very scarce and I could never see no more of it than the bare title One More of Hertfordshire descended from him had one of his Chaps and was by his among other rarities carefully preserved till the Rebellion broke out in 1642. Jasper and Ellis Heywood Jesuits Sons of Joh. Heywood the noted Poet in the time of Hen. 8 had one of the teeth of the said Sir Tho. More but they being loth to part with their right to each other the tooth fell asunder and divided of it self The said Sir Thomas had issue by his first Wife Jane the Daughter of John Cowlt of Cowlts Hall in Essex three Daughters and one Son named John who being little better than an Ideot as 't is said took to Wife in his Fathers life time Anne Daughter and sole Heir of Edward Cressacre of Baronburgh in Yorkshire by whom he had issue 1 Thomas right Heir of his Father and Grandfather who had 13 Children of which Five were Sons The four eldest lived in voluntary contempt and loathed the World before the World fawned on them The first was Thomas born anew and baptized on that day of the Year 6. July on which Sir Thomas suffered death This Thomas having the Estate come to him married and had several Children but being a most zealous Catholick and constantly affected to the French Nation and Crown did at his own cost and charge with unwearied industry assemble all the English Persons of note that were then in and about Rome to supplicate his Holiness for a dispatch of a contract between the K. of England and Henrietta Maria of France an 1624-25 which being done the said Thomas who was the Mouth or Speaker for the said English Persons died XI April according to the accompt followed at Rome an 1625. aged 59. and was buried in the middle almost of the Church of St. Lewis in Rome leaving then behind him the life of his Gr. Grandfather Sir Tho. More 's incomparably well written published at London I think in 4to about 1627 and dedicated to Henrietta Maria beforementioned Over the said Tho. Mores Grave was soon after laid a monumental Stone at the charge of the English Clergy at Rome and an Epitaph engraven thereon a Copy of which was sent to me by I know not whom as several things of that nature are from other places running thus D. O. M. S. Thomae Moro dioc Ebor. Anglo magni illius Thomae Mori Angliae Cancellarii Martyris pronepoti atque haeredi viro probitate pietate insigni qui raro admodum apud Britannos exemplo in fratrem natu minorem amplum transcripsit patrimonium presbyter Romae factus inde fuisse sedis Apostolicae in patriam profectus plusculos annos strenuam fidei propagandae navavit operam postea cleri Anglicani negotia septem annos Romae 5 in Hispaniâ P. P. Paulo 5to Gregorio 15 summa cum integritate industria suisque sumptibus procuravit Tandem de subrogando Anglis Episcopo ad Urbanum 8 missus negotio feliciter confecto laborum mercedem recepturus ex hac vita migravit XI Apr. An. 1625. aet suae 59. Clerus Anglicanus moestus P. The second Son of the said Joh. More Son of Sir Thomas was Augustine who dyed unmarried The third was Thomas the second or Thomas junior born at Chelsey 8. Aug. 23. Hen. 8. who when he came to mans Estate degenerated from the Catholick Religion and lived and died a professed Minister leaving Issue several Children of whom the eldest Cressacre More who was born at Baronburgh in Yorkshire 3. July 1572. lived afterwards in no commendable fashion The fourth was Edward born after Sir Thomas his death and having not his blessing as Thomas the first and Augustin in bad degenerated from the Catholick Religion The fifth was Bartholomew who died young of the Plague in London The Pictures of most of these Mores mention'd here
tuas Novit eloquii Phaenix utriusque Melancthon Quam te Phaebus amet pieriusque chorus Parga tuas cecinit cecinitque Lutetia Laudes Urbs ergo doctos officiosa viros Talia cum constent c. In the Year 1540. 32. Hen. 8. I find that he was living at Carleon in his native Country where I think he taught School and the same Year to publish Commentaries on Will Lily's construction of the eight parts of Speech Besides which he had before in the said Year translated from Greek into Latin Marcus Eremita de Lege Spiritu and from Lat. into English The paraphrase of St. Paul's Epistle to Titus written by Erasmus Roterod. with whom he was well acquainted Baleus tells us that the said Cox was from his Youth instructed in all liberal arts that he was a Grammarian Rhetorician Poet Divine and a Preacher of God's word Also that he had written against those who in his time wrot of Justification by works and that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and forty All which works besides Verses of divers kinds and Epistles were by him written before the end of that Year as also Latin Verses occasionally set before Books that were published particularly before John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement an 1530. He was living in the Reign of Ed. 6. but when or where he died I cannot yet tell He left behind him a Son named Francis Cox who proceeded D. of D. as a Member of New Coll. in the Year 1594 and he a Son named William who was a Divine of Chichester in Sussex THOMAS WYATT the delight of the Muses and of Mankind Son of Henr. Wyatt of Allington Castle in Kent Knight and Banneret by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Skinner of Surrey was born of an ancient and gentile Family in the said County of Kent sent to Cambridge to be initiated in Academical Learning transplanted thence to Oxon purposely to advance himselfe in knowledge by the hearing of the Cardinals Lectures then lately settled there but whether he took a Degree with us or at Cambridge I find not as yet Afterwards he being sent to travel he return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman and was esteemed by all those that knew him to be a Person adorn'd with the endowments as well of body and mind as of fortune By the dayly and unwearied practice of the two former while he was in his travels and after his return he became not only well skill'd in military matters but also in several Arts and Tongues And as esteemed strong and valiant in body so powerful in mind and counsel At length he with Hen. Haward or Howard Earl of Surrey who also had travel'd into Italy and there tasted the sweet and stately measures and style of the Italian Poesie being esteemed to be the first refiners of the English Tongue Wyatt was introduced into the Court was beloved of K. Hen. 8. who honored him with the Degree of Knighthood and sent him in several Embassies beyond the Seas which he very prudently performed with great trust to the honor of his Master But that which is here to be in a special manner marked was his admirable skill in Poetry which in his first Years of reason he expressed in several amorous Songs and Poems With which as also his witty jests the King himself being in an high manner delighted they were so much admired by the Men of that and the next Age tho I persume they are now lost that some have not stuck to report that as Mecaenas Ovid Tibullus c. have been among the Latins most famous for Elegie So Sir Tho. Wyatt the elder Henry Haward Earl of Surrey Sir Franc. Brian of the Privy Chamber to K. Hen. 8. and a Traveller in 1528 Sir Phil. Sydney George Gascoigne Esq c. have among the English been most passionate to bemoan the perplexities of Love For his translation also of David's Psalms into English meeter and other of his Poetry Leland the Antiquarian Poet forbears not to compare him to Dant and Petrarch thus Bellum suo merrito c. translated by another hand as followeth Let Florence fair her Dante 's justly boast And royal Rome her Petrarchs numbred feet In English Wyatt both of them doth coast In whom all grateful eloquence doth meet In his younger Years as I have told youbefore he composed Several Songs and Poems Many of which are in the Songs and Sonnets of Hen. Haward Earl of Surrey Son of that victorious Prince the Duke of Norfolk and Father of that learned Howard sometimes his most lively Image Henry Earl of Northampton Which incomparable Earl of Surrey who entirely loved our Author Sir Tho. Wyatt hath among other things translated Virgils Aeneids the first and second Book whereof he hath admirably rendred almost line for line Sir Th. Wyatt also in his elder Years translated into English meeter 1 The penitential Psalms in one Book 2 The whole Psaltery of David in praise of which last is an Encomium in the Songs and Sonnets of the Earl of Surrey before-mention'd At length our Author Wyatt being sent by the King towards Falmouth in Cornwall to conduct Montmorantius sirnamed à Courriers thence to London for he came from Spain in an Embassie did by endeavouring and labouring to please the King rather than to consult his own health make more hast than good speed For by too much riding which was not necessarily requir'd in a very hot season he fell into a violent Feaver Whereupon putting in at a Mercate Town call'd Shirebourn in Dorsetshire was within few days after cut off from among the living in the 38 Year of his Age to the great reluctancy of the King Kingdome his Friends and all that knew the great worth and virtues of the Person He was buried in the great Church there year 1541 in Summer time in Fifteen hundred forty and one and the next Year was a little Book of Verses published on his death by his great admirer John Leland entit Naenia Before the first page of which is Sir Thomas's face with a long curl'd beard like to a Man of 80 Years of Age printed from a wooden cut engrav'd from his face which was painted by a Dutchman commonly call'd Hans Holbin At the same time was an Epitaph made on him by the Earl of Surrey as it seems another also by Sir Tho. Chaloner in long and short Verses and a third which was a large one in Prose by his entire Friend Sir Joh. Mason Chancellor of this University 1553. a Copy of which I have seen and in some things do follow it in my aforesaid discourse This Sir Tho. Wyatt left behind him a Son of both his names begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Thom. Brook Lord Cobham who being a Commotioner in the Reign of Qu. Mary lost his Head and left issue by Jane his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Will. Hawte of Bourn Kt.
Guade a pious Priest and Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. This Preface with the Book it self all in the like Verse was published at Oxon. about 1584. in oct by George Etheridge a Physician sometimes Pupil to the said Joh. Shepery Vita Epicedion Johannis Claymondi Praesidis Coll. Corp. Chr. MS. in C. C. C. Library The beginning of which is Tristia quisquis ades c. written in long and short Verses He also translated from Greek into Latin several Books as Euripides his Hecuba and Seneca's Hercules furens something of Basil c. besides compositions in Poetry and Prose which after the Author's death came into the hands of George Etheridge before-mention'd who promised in the Year 1584. to make them publick but what hindred him unless death I know not As for our Author Sheperey he gave way to fate at Agmundesham commonly called Amersham in Bucks in the Month of July in fifteen hundred forty and two year 1542 and was buried I persume in the Church there Soon after his death being known in Oxon divers ingenious and learned Men made Verses to his memory in Greek and Latin and caused them to be stuck up on St. Mary's Church doors to be read by the Academians as they passed by Some Persons whether for the sake of his memory or for Poetry I know not got copies of them very greedily and gathered all they could get to the end that with the help of Etheridge they might be published At length being put into the hands of Herman Evans a Stationer for that purpose he kept them till he could get more to be added to them but what hindered their birth I know not WILLIAM THYNNE otherwise Botevill was as it seems a Solopian born and educated among the Oxonians for a time Afterwards retiring to the Court became through several petite employments chief Clerk of the Kitchin to K. Hen. 8. and is stiled by Erasmus Thynnus Aulicus This Person who was poetically given from his Youth did make a search after all the works of Jeffery Chaucer the Prince of our English Poets many of which were then in MS. At length having collected all the ancient Copies of that Author he took great pains to correct and amend them Which being so done he put notes and explanations on and printed them altogether in one Volume in Folio not in double columns as they have been since and dedicated them to K. Hen. 8. an 1542 having been partly and imperfectly done several Years before by Will. Caxton Afterwards Joh. Stow the Chronologer did correct increase and publish them with divers ample notes collected out of several records and monuments All which he delivering to his Friend Tho. Speght a Cantabrigian he drew them into good form and method mixed them with his own and published them 1597. See more in Franc. Thynne under the Year 1611 who was as it seems descended from him Whether this Will. Thynne whom I have mentioned before be the same with Will. Thynne Esq one of the Clerks of the Green-Cloth and master of the Houshold of K. Hen. 8. the same Will. Thynne I mean who died 10. Aug. 1546. and was buried in the Church of Allhallowes Barkin in London I am yet to learn I find another Will. Thynne Esq Brother to Sir John Thynne Knight who after he had travell'd through most parts of Europe return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman and in the 1. Edw. 6. Dom. 1547. went into Scotland under the command of Edward Duke of Somerset to which Duke his Brother Sir John was Secretary where as an Eques catafractus that is a Chevalier arm'd cap a pee he performed excellent service in the Battel at Muscelborough against the Scots This Person I take to be the same to whom K. Hen. 8. by his Letters Pat. dat 8. May 38. of his Reign Dom. 1546. gave the office of general Receiver of two Counties in the Marches of Wales commonly call'd The Earl of Marches Lands At length when the infirmities of Age came upon him he gave himself solely up to devotion and was a daily Auditor of divine service in the Abbey Church at Westminster He surrendred up his Soul to him that gave it 14. March 1584 and was buried in the said Church opposite to the door leading into the Cloister Over his Grave was soon after erected a Monument of Alabaster and 100 Years after was another stately Monument erected near to it Westward for one descended from Sir Joh. Thynne beformention'd namely for Tho. Thynne of Langleat in Wilts Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. who was barbarously murder'd in the Pall-mall by a German Sweed and Pole on Sunday in the Evening 12. Feb. 1681. For whom was a large inscription made to be engraved on the said Monument but for certain passages therein reflecting on Justice and I know not what was not suffer'd to be put thereon JOHN HOKER was first Demie or Semicommoner afterwards Fellow of St. Mary Magd. College and in 1535. Master of Arts being then accounted excellently well read in Greek and Latin Authors a good Rhetorician and Poet and much commended for his facete fancy Leland is pleased to mention him in one of his works and to stile him not without desert Nitor artium bonarum He hath written Piscator or the Fisher caught a Comedy An Introduction to Rhetorick Poema de vero crucifixo Epigrammata varia and other things which I have not yet seen He was living in Magd. Coll. in Fifteen hundred forty and three being then Bach. of Divinity of three Years standing as it appears in the Bursars accompts of that House I presume he died shortly after and not in 1541 as Bale and Pits do tell you EDWARD LEE Son of Rich. Lee of Lee-magna in Kent Esq Son of Sir Rich. Lee Knight sometimes twice Lord Mayor of the City of London was born in Kent particularly as I suppose at Lee before-mentioned sent to St. Mary Magd. Coll. about 1499 and took as 't is said one Degree in Arts but whether true I cannot justly affirm because the Register of that time and other writings are imperfect In the Year 1523 one Ed. Lee was admitted Bachelaur of Arts but him I take to be too late for this Edw. Lee whom we are further to mention Afterwards he went to Cambridge as one reports being probably driven hence by Pests that frequently then hap'ned in Oxon. Yet the Reader is to know that he is not reckoned among the Archbishops and Bishops which have been educated in that University by Dr. Matthew Parker in his Catalogue of them at the end of his Cat. of Chancellors Proctors c. thereof in his Edition of Antiquitates Britannicae c. Printed an 157 2-3 Howsoever it is I shall not dispute it only say that afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and his Almoner being then a violent Antagonist of Erasmus but whether greater in Learning than he or his equal was then
place of credit and considerable profit and introduced into the acquaintance of most of the Nobility that frequented the Court He hath transmitted to posterity Opusculum plano divinum de mortuorum resurrectione extremo judicio in quatuor linguis succinctè conscriptum viz. Lat. Angl. Ital. Gall. Lond. 1545. and 47. in qu. Declaration of certain Articles with a recital of the capital errours against the same Lond. 1546. in oct Meditations on death declinatione verborum De Italica De Gallica He hath also translated from French into English A treatise of Nobility with other things written and translated which I have not yet seen At length being clap'd up Prisoner within the Tower of London whether for matters of Religion or any other thing I know not did to avoid publick shame as 't is thought hang himself in his Chamber with his girdle on the tenth of May in Fifteen hundred fifty and two year 1552 leaving this character behind him by a Calvinistical Author that he was an open Enemy to the Gospel and all godly Preachers The Reader is to note that several of both his names occur in records as first Joh. Clerke a Berkshire Man born who became Fellow of Magd. Coll. 1482. 2 Joh. Clerke of the same Coll. as it seems who proceeded M. of A. 1516. 3 Joh. Clerke a Cambridge Man afterwards Bishop of B. and Wells whom I shall elsewhere mention 4 Joh. Clerke who was originally of Cambridge afterwards of Cardinal College in Oxon and incorporated M. of A. 1525 but ejected the said Coll. soon after for Lutherisme 5 Joh. Clerke a Benedictine Monk incorporated Bach. of Divinity 13. July 1538 as he before had stood at Cambridge proceeded in that faculty at Oxon within few days after and stood in an Act to compleat that Degree 29. of the same Month in the said Year But of all the said Joh. Clerks not one as I conceive is Joh. Clerke the writer except you 'll say the second ALEXANDER de BARKLAY who seems to have been born at or near a Town so called in Somersetshire was for a time educated in this University particularly as it seems in Oriel Coll. of which his great Patron and Favourer of his studies Tho. Cornish Bishop of Tyne was then Provost Afterwards he travel'd beyond the Seas and at his return became by the said Bishops endeavours to whom he was Chaplain one of the Priests of the College of St. Mary at Otery in Devonshire founded by Joh. Grandison B. of Exeter But his Patron dying soon after he entred into the Order of St. Benedict or into that of St. Francis as one who gives him an ill report because he lived and died a single Man tells us but at what place I know not Sure 't is that living to see his Monastery dissolv'd he being about that time Doctor of Divinity became Vicar of Much Badew in Essex and in 1546 Vicar of the Church of St. Mathew the Apostle at Wokey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Rich. Eryngton which I think was all the preferment that he had to the time of his death In his younger days he was esteemed a good Poet and Orator as several specimens of his composition in those faculties shewed but when Years came on he spent his time mostly in pious matters and in reading the Histories of Saints His works are The figure of our Mother Holy Church oppressed by the French King Printed at London by Rich. Pynson in qu. The miseries or miserable lives of Courtiers Besides his answer to Job Skelton the Poet and other things which I have not yet seen He translated from Lat. into English The lives of St. Margaret St. Catherine St. Etheldreda St. George c. Several things also of Jo. Bapt. Fiera Mantuam and other matters as Baleus tells you But above all must not be forgotten his translation out of Latin French and Dutch into the English Language a Book intit The Ship of Fools an 1508. Printed at Lond. by Pich Pynson 1509. fol. and dedicated by the translator to the said Tho. Cornish B. of Tyne and suffragan Bishop of Wells This translation is adorned with great variety of Pictures printed from wooden cuts which could not be but very delightful to the Reader in those days The original Author of that Book was one Sebastian Brantius much famed in his time for his excellent works As for his translator Dr. Barklay who also translated from French into English The Castle of Labour lived to be an aged Man and dying at a Mercat Town called Croyden in Surrey before the 10. of June for on that day his will was prov'd in Fifteen hundred fifty and two was buried in the Church there year 1552 leaving then behind him among some the character of a good Scholar EDWARD SEYMOURE Son of Sir Joh. Seymoure of Wolfhall in Wilts Knight was educated in trivials and partly in quadrivials for some time in this University and whether he afterwards studied in Cambridge of which he was Chancellour in the Reign of Edw. 6. I cannot say If so 't is very strange that one that had conversed with the Muses of both Universities should be so unlearned as one who was an enemy to his memory reports that he could scarce write or read Afterwards K. Hen. 8. marrying his Sister Jane he ascended to and obtained great honours and places in the Realm of England as all Histories will tell you While he was Lord Protector there went under his name Epistola Exhortatoria ad pacem missa ad nobilitatem ac plebem universumque populum regni Scotiae Lond. 1548. qu. In which Year also came out his Expedition into Scotland written by another hand After he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for divers miscarriages in his Government he made very great shew of sanctity and seemed not to omit any opportunity whereby he might employ his time religiously as it well appears by a Book that he then wrot entituled A spiritual and most precious Pearl teaching all Men to love and embrace the cross as a most sweet and necessary thing c. Lond 1550 oct At that time before and after he was much courted by John Calvin and Peter Martyr as being the chief Person that carried on the reformation The former wrot to him the said Protector An Epistle of godly consolation 22. Oct. 1549. Writ before the time and knowledge of his trouble Which Epistle being delivered to him in the time of his trouble was translated by him from French into English Printed at Lond. 1550. oct The other P. Martyr wrot an Epistle to him about the same time in the Lat. tongue which being much pleasing to him was by his desire translated into English by that noted Zealot Thom. Norton Printed 1550. in oct From which Epistles it doth plainly appear what great respects they Calvin and Martyr and their Parties had for him and what solemn wishes and prayers they continually
with other things which Baleus mentions He also wrot several Verses which were sent by him to the Oxonians Of which and his published Books much esteemed by K. Hen. 8 John Leland hath exercis'd his Muse in his Encomia The said Sir Rich. Morysine hath also translated into English 1 The Epist of Joh. Sturmius to the Cardinals and Bishops that were chosen by the Bishop of Rome to search out the abuses of the Church Lond. 1538. oct 2 The Symboles of Lud. Vives much about the same time with other matters which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate at Strasburgh being then there in voluntary exile for the Protestant Religion which he professed on the 17. March in Fifteen hundred fifty and six but whether buried there I know not He left behind him a Son named Charles begotten on the body of his Wife Dame Bridget and a natural Son named Marcellus Morysine besides two Daughters begotten on the body of one or more Concubines Joh. Hales a noted Scholar of that time to whom he gave his Books was one of his Executors as having always been an entire friend to him Bernardine Ochine also with his Wife and Children did tast sufficiently of his liberality The same Bernard I mean who was Author of the Dialogue of the unjust usurped primacy of the Bishop of Rome translated from Latin by John Ponet afterwards B. of Winchester Lond. 1549. qu. The said Sir R. Morysine had a fair estate most of which was obtained by his own endeavours as the Mannour of Whitesbury or Whichbury with all its appurtenances in Wilts and Hampshire the Mannour of East-Chinnock in Somersetshire the Mannour of Cashiobury in Hertfordshire where he had began to build a stately House c. All which descended to his Posterity JOHN HUNTINGTON was educated for sometime in good arts but whether he took a Degree here it appears not only that while he continued in this University he was noted among his contemporaries for a tolerable Poet. His works are Epitaphium Ricardi Pacaei car 1. The beginning of which is Noscitur omnis homo c. Humanae vitae deploratio car 1. The beginning is Nunc ubi magnanimi c. The Genealogie of Heresies De lapsu philosophiae besides several Sermons In 1553. Decemb. 3. he was brought before her Majesties Council for composing a rhime against Dr. Stokes and the Sacrament but making a recantation and an humble submission for what he had done with a promise to amend as well in Doctrin for he was a godly Preacher as in way of living was suffer'd to depart Afterwards he left the Nation and lived mostly in Germany with Joh. Bale who calls him his beloved Son in Christ RICHARD TRACY Son of Will Son of Hen. Tracy was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family living at Todyngton in Glocestershire the body of which William was taken out of the grave and burn'd in the time of Hen. 8. for a Will that he made then savouring of Heresie was conversant among the Muses for a time took a Degree in Arts and became noted for his pregnant parts Afterwards his learning being much improved in his elder years by reading and experience he became noted for it an enemy to the Roman Church and a zealous Reformer as it may partly appear by his Writings the titles of which follow Of the preparation to the cross and to death and of the comfort under the cross and death in two Books Lond. 1540. in oct Dedic to Thom. Lord Cromwell Which Book wrap'd up in canvase being found in the belly of a Cod when brought from Lin-Regis in Norfolk to Cambridge Mercat to be sold on Midsummer Eve 1626 it was reprinted soon after as 't is said under the name of Joh. Frythe The profe and declaration of this proposition Faith only justifyeth Not said when or where Printed 'T is in oct and ded to K. Hen. 8. Treatise of the errours and blindness of the Popish Clergy Declaration of the Sacrament Lond. 1548 oct Confutation of the articles of Papisme With other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen only know that some of them were prohibited to be read by the Proclamation of K. Hen. 8. The Author was living in an absconded condition in Fifteen hundred fifty and six which was the 3. and 4. of Philip and Marie and perhaps was in being several years after JOHN GWYNNETH was a Welsh Man born and tho of very poor parentage yet of most excellent natural parts and exceeding apt to embrace any kind of juvenile learning But so it was that he having little or nothing to maintain him in his studies at Oxon he was exhibited to by an Ecclesiastical Mecaenas who well knew that his abilities were such that in future time he might be an Ornament to the Cath. Church by writing against the Hereticks as they were then called The younger years of this Gwynneth were adorned with all kind of polite literature and his elder with the reading of the Scriptures and conversation with Books written by and against the Lutherans and Zwinglians At length perceiving full well what ground their Doctrine had gotten he wrot Declaration of the state wherein Hereticks do lead their lives Lond. in qu. Detection of that part of Fryths Book which he termeth His foundation Lond. 1554. oct Printed also if I mistake not before that time Against Joh. Fryth on the Sacrament of the Altar Lond. 1557. qu. Printed also I think before that time Declaration of the notable victory given of God to Qu. Mary shewed in the Church of Luton 22. July in the first Year of her Reign Lond. 1554 oct with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen This Joh. Gwynneth I take to be the same with Jo. Gwynneth a Secular Priest who for his great proficiency and works performed in the faculty of Musick had the Degree of Doctor of the said faculty conferr'd upon him by the Members of this University an 1531. See more in the Fasti under that Year WILLIAM PYE a Suffolk Man born was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. in 1529 and after he had continued in the Degree of Master some years he studied Physick became thrice Proctor of the University and as it seems D. of D. On the 7. of Oct. 1545. he became Archdeacon of Berkshire upon the resignation of Dr. Jo. Crayford and in the Reign of Ed. 6. a pretender to reformation but when Qu. Mary succeeded he changed his mind was in the beginning of her Reign not only made Dean of Chichester in the place if I mistake not of Barthelm Traheron but also Prebendary of Lytton in the Church of Wells upon the deprivation of Will. Wrythiosley and Rector of Chedsey in Somersetshire on the deprivation also of Mr. Nich. Mason All that I have seen of his labours are only these following Oratio coram patribus clero habita
life on the 28. year 1558 Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Hadley in Middlesex I have seen a Copy of his Will wherein the stiles himself one of the Justices of the Common-pleas under the King and Queen and desires that his Body may be buried in the Parish Church of Islyngdon Hadley or Houndsworth His posterity remaineth in Staffordshire Warwickshire and elsewhere to this day ROBERT TALBOT was very much esteemed in his time and after for his singular knowledge in the antiquities of England and for his care in preserving and collecting antient Books and Monuments decayed by time His cronie John Leland is full of his praises and not a little are Joh. Baleus Joh. Cajus Abr. Ortelius Camden and others the last of which stiles him Vir antiquitatis bene peritus in hac Angliae parte meaning in the Iceni i. e. Norfolk Suffolk c. versatissimus He the said Talbot was born at Thorpe in Northamptonshire but whether at Thorpe Mandevil or Thorpe Longa. I know not and seems to be of the same Family with the Talbots of Grafton He was educated in Grammaticals in Wykeham's School near to Winchester in Logicals and Philosophicals in New Coll. of which he became Fellow after he had served two Years of probation an 1523. and left it 5 Years after being then only Bach. of Arts supplicated for the Degree of Master 1529 but not admitted as I can find in the Register of that time However that he was written Master and Doctor afterwards it doth manifestly appear in various writings so that I presume he took those Degrees elsewhere On the 23. Jun. 1541 he was admitted to a Prebendship in the Church of Wells called Wedmer secunda and on the 9. Apr. 1. Ed. 6. Dom. 1547. the Dean and Chapter of Norwych did by their Letters Pat. confer a Prebendship or office of Treasurer of their Church on him void by the death of one Will. Herydans On the 27. Aug. 5. and 6. of Phil. and Mary Dom. 1558. he gave to John Harpesfeild Dean and to the said Chapter of the Cath. of Norwych three Acres of Land in Lakenham and soon after died as I shall tell you afterwards But that which is chiefly to be noted is that during his abode at Norwych he wrot a Book thus intit Roberti Talboti Annotationes in eam partem Itinerarii Antonini quae ad Britanniam pertinent The beginning of which is Itinera hic sunt in Britanniâ numero xv c. It endeth at the word Luguvallo at the end of the fifth Itinerary and goeth no farther Which Book the learned Camden in his Britannia and Will. Burton in his Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary and others did much use It is not Printed but remains in MS. in obscure places And for ought I know there are but three Copies of it in being viz. one in the Library of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge another in that of Sir Joh. Cotton at Westminster which if I mistake not did sometimes belong to Mr. Tho. Allen of Glouc. Hall got out of his hands by Rich. James of C. C. C. for the said Library and a third in Bodlyes Vatican Our Author Talbot hath also written a Book called Aurum ex stercore vel de Aenigmaticis propheticis MS collected from old Books of verses and rimes that have been long since lost The beginning of which is Certe non est rarum c. In this Book are verses called Magistrates every one of which was worth an ordinary Groat Mr. Allen before mention'd had a Copy of valued it much and would often repeat verses thence at times of refection but where that Copy is now I know not Sure I am that one written in qu. in the archives of C. C. C. bound with the observations from humanity Authors made by John Twyne was given thereunto by Brian his Grandson Our Author Talbot hath also made choice Collections De Chartis quibusdam Regum Britannorum MS. in the Library of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge What else he hath written I know not nor any thing more of him only that he took his last farewell of this World a little after the 27. year 1558 Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight and was buried in the Cathedral Church there as I have been instructed from the researches of Mr. afterwards Dr. Hump. Prideaux Prebendary of that Church made from several Registers and Charters belonging thereunto By Rob. Talbot's Will dated 20. Aug. 1558 which is almost three Months before Qu. Mary died he left the best and rerest of his MSS. to New Coll. in Oxon. Which MSS. did then lye at Thorpe and Cranesley and maintenance also for an Anniversary to be kept at Thorpe for himself Father Mother his Brother John and for his Unkle Sir Rich. Whitryns Which Anniversary was to be performed for the present by Sir Christopher his Priest at Thorpe before-mention'd But this last I presume was never performed The Reader is to know now I am got into the name of Talbot that after Rob. Talbots time lived one Tho. Talbot commonly called Limping Talbot from a lameness in one of his legs Son of John Talbot of Salebury in Lancashire Esq who died 30. Aug. 1551. which Thomas heing promoted to the Clerkship of the Records in the Tower of London did at length by the help of a good memory become a most excellent Genealogist and a Man of singular skill in our antiquities Camden in his Britannia doth acknowledg his help in the succession of the Earls of each County since the Norman conquest and Tho. Abingdon the sometimes Antiquary of Worcestershire in his MS. History of the Bishops of Worcester saith thus of him But these first meaning the first Bishops of Worcester I had out of the Collections of an excellent Antiquary Mr. Thomas Talbot who gathered the same out of a Leiger of the Priory of Worcester which I think is now perished He left choice Collections behind him some of which coming into the hands of Sir Rob. Cotton he put them into his Library as choice Monuments and being bound in one Volume in fol are thus intit by a late hand Analecta quamplurima diversi generis viz. ex quibusdam chronicis cartis aliisque autenticis registris Epitaphia Gencalogiae alia ad rem historicam spectantia besides several Collections of Antiquities in Yorkshire I have seen also in the Sheldonian Library now reposed in the Heralds Office divers of his Collections viz. among them is a thin fol. intit Escaetorum inquisitiones de tempore Reg. Ed. 4. c. Now whether this Tho. Talbot who was living an 1580 and for ought that I know was living ten Years after was of kin to Robert before-mentioned I know not nor can I safely believe that he is the same Thomas Talbot who was admitted Bach. of Arts of Oxon. in July 1533. I
of the convocation of the whole Clergy of the Diocess of Canterbury where in speaking and acting he behaved himself with great commendation The same year being forced to leave the said Deanery to make room for Dr. Joh. Fekenham the former Abbat of Westminster and the Monks had that of Windâ—ore bestowed upon him an 1556. But being taken in adultery as some say was deprived of the said Deanery by Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury in 1557. Whereupon looking on himself as much abused did appeal to an higher Power So that being about to take a journey to Rome to complain to his holiness was seized and clapt up Prisoner within the Tower of London where as I conceive he died Jo. Leland gives him the character of a noted Preacher and Orator of his time and seems to intimate that he had written several Books Jo. Bale who speaks well of few Men saith that he had been sore bytten with a Winchester gose and was not as yet 1554 healed thereof And tells us of his old familiar Mary Huckvale of Oxford and of his provider Goodwife Person and Chrystian Thompson the Widow and I know not what Another equal with Bale in scurrilities saith that Hugh Weston is a drunken burnt tail man a baudy beast a leacherous locust a companion with curtezans of Coleman hedge more meet to be coupled with his old play-fellow and pack-borse Goodwife Hugfaile at Oxon at the tayle of a Cart than to be reverenced and reputed a Mayden Preist in good Queen Maries Court But to let pass this brutish language more fit to be spoken at Billingsgate than by a Person that made Divinity his delight I must tell you that there goes under this Dr. Weston's name Oratio coram patribus clero habita 16. Oct. 1553. The beginning of which is Cum Demosthenes totius Graeciae lumen c. Lond. 1553. oct Disputations with Cranmer Ridley and Latimer in the Divnity School at Oxon. an 1554. At which time he was Moderator in the disputations of several Doctors had with them as you may see at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. wherein are also several conferences and discourses of the said H. Weston had with other Persons At length he giving way to fate within the Tower of London as it seems in the Month of Decemb. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight was buried before the image of the Crucifix in the middle of the Church belonging to the Hospital of the Savoy situated in the Strand near to London In his will dat 26. Nov. 1558 made within the Tower of London he bestowed most of his wealth on pious and publick uses took a great deal of care about the ceremoney to be performed at his burial and for the praying for his Soul by several Persons in several places as moneys for a Dirige and Mass to be performed 1 By the Master and Fellows of Balliol Coll. 2 By the Rector and Fellows of Lincoln Coll. 3 By the Chapl. or Priest of the University of Oxon. 4 By the Priest at Islip near Oxon. of which perhaps he had been Rector 5 By the Priest of Burton Novery in Leycestershire at which place if I mistake not he had received his first breath because his Brethren lived there c. with many other things therein which not only shew'd him to be a zealous Catholick but also a Person of a publick spirit WILLIAM FORREST was related to John Forrest before-mentioned but where born I cannot justly say spent several years in study among the Oxonians and was there a Student when the question was discussed among the Doctors and Masters concerning the divorce of King Hen. 8. from his Royal Consort Qu. Catherine in 1530 as in the life of the said Queen which I shall anon mention appeareth He was a Priest and had preferment in the Church was well skill'd in Musick and Poetry had a collection of the choicest compositions in Musick that were then in use Which coming after his death into the hands of Dr. Heather founder of the Musical Praxis in this University he gave them to the publick School thereof where they yet continue and are kept only as matters of antiquity Among them are the compositions of Joh. Taverner of Boston sometimes Organist of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon of Joh. Merbeck Org. of Windsore Rob. Fairfax a Doctor of Musick of Cambridge Dr. Christ Tye Joh. Sheppard John Norman c. All the Books that our Author Forrest hath composed which have as yet come to my view were written in English Poetry such as was commonly used in the Reigns of Hen. 8. and Ed. 6. The titles of which follow A true and most notable History of a right noble and famous Lady produced in Spayne entituled the second Gresield practised not long out of this tyme in much part tragedous as delectable both to hearers and readers This is a MS. containing the life of Queen Catherine the first Wife of K. Hen. 8. and is by the Author dedicated to Qu. Mary he being then Chaplain to her T is a broad thin Folio written very fairly on Vellam and seems to be the very same it being now my proper Book that the Author presented to the said Queen There be many things in it that are very zealously written against the Hereticks of those times as he calls them which plainly shews him to be entirely devoted to the Church of Rome And tho there be no great streins in it yet the historical part of it is good if not too much partiality therein and I have discovered from the said Book many things relating to the Affairs of Oxon acted during the time of the said divorce which I could never see elsewhere The beginning of the prologue to Qu. Mary is this As nature hath no inclination c. and of the work it self Wryters have many endeavoured their pains c. Throughout the whole History the Author makes use of the name of Grysild the second for Qu. Catherine and the name of Walter for K. Hen. 8. At the end of it contained in 20 Chapters is this written Here endethe the Historye of Grysilde the seconde dulie meanyng Qu. Catharine Mother to our most dread Soveraigne Lady Qu. Mary fynysched the 25. day of June the Yeare of owre Lorde 1558. by the symple and unlearned Syr Wyllyam Forrest Preeiste propria manus At the end of the said Historie is written in verse also An Oration consolatory to Queen Mary 'T is contained in six leaves and hath this beginning Among much inward profound perpending c. This Book richly bound in laced Sattin hath on every brass boss at each corner this sentence embossed in an English Character Ave Maria Gratia plena Our Author Forrest hath also written in old English verse The tragedious Troubles of the most chast and innocent Joseph Son to the holy Patriarch Jacob MS. in two vol. in fol. dedicated to Thom.
beginning of March Martyr went to Oxon was incorporated Doctor of Div. as he had stood at Padua and tho addicted more to the Zwinglian than to the Lutheran Doctrines in point of the Sacrament was in the beginning of the year following appointed by the King to read a public Lecture to the Academians in the Divinity School and for his reward to have an Annuity of 40 Marks What followed and how he and his Adversaries behav'd themselves thereupon I have largely told you elsewhere In the same year 1548 upon the receeding from the University of Dr. Rich. Smyth the Kings Professor of Divinity that Lecture with the profits belonging thereunto was confer'd by the King on Martyr and in the year following being much troubled with the R. Catholicks as in all the year before he disputed publickly with three of the most eminent of them as I have also told you in the same place In the year 1550 he had a Canonrie of Ch. Ch. bestowed upon him by the King on the death of Mr. Will. Haynes whereupon being installed 20 January the same year entred into his Lodgings belonging to him then joyning on the North side to Ch. Ch. great Gate leading into Fishstreet With him also setled his beloved Wife Catherine as the Wife of Dr. Rich. Cox did about the same time with him in the Deans Lodgings being the first Women as 't was observ'd that resided in any Coll. or Hall in Oxon. By whose Example it was not only permitted that any Canon beside might marry if he please but also a Head of a Coll. or Hall whereby other Women or idle Huswives were tolerated if the said Head allowed it to serve in them Which act beside their permitting of bawling Children to come among them was looked upon as such a damnable matter by the R. Catholicks and others too that they usually stiled them Concubines and the Lodgings that entertained them and their Children Stews and Cony-buries While Martyr continued in the said Lodgings whose Windows were next to Fishstreet he continually especially in the night time received very opprobrious Language from the R. Catholicks as well Scholars as Laicks and often had his Windows broken So that his Studies and Sleep being often disturb'd he changed his Lodgings which were those belonging to the Canons of the first Canonry for those in the Cloyster which belonged to those of the second being formerly the very same which belonged to the Prior of S. Frideswide in which being setled he spent the remaining part of his Abode in Oxon in Peace However for the severer enjoyment of his Thoughts and Studies he erected a Fabrick of Stone in his Garden situated on the East side of his Lodgings wherein he partly composed his Commentary on the first Ep. to the Corinthians and certain Epistles to learned men which were afterwards printed This Fabrick which contained two Stories stood till the latter end of March 1684 at which time they were plucked down by that Canon that was Owner of the Lodgings to which the Garden and Fabrick appertained About that time Martyr's Wife dying she was buried in the Cathral Church near to the place where S. Frideswydes Reliques had been reposed but four years after or thereabouts her body was taken up thrown out of the Church with scorn and buried in a Dunghil but when Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown the body was taken up again and reburied as I have elsewhere at large told you After the death of K. Edward 6. and Religion alter'd when his Sister Mary was setled in the Throne Pet. Martyr left Oxon went to London and so to Lambeth and obtaining his safe Conduct from the Qu. he left England and went to Strasburgh from whence he came where he taught Philosophy and Divinity for some time Thence he travell'd to Zurich an 1556. where he met with Joh. Juell and several exil'd Divines of England and took to his second Wife one Catherina Merenda While he continued there Maximilian Celsus an exil'd Count and the chief Minister of the Italian Church at Geneva died whereupon being invited to take his place upon him refused it for several Reasons When Qu. Mary died Queen Elizabeth invited him to return into England and there to accept of what Preferment he pleas'd but he fearing another mutation he modestly refused it To pass by several other matters not now fit to be related I shall give you the Titles of some of his Works as they follow Comment in Epist S. Paulis ad Romanos Bas 1558. fol. translated into Engl. by H. B. Lond. 1568 fol. Com. in priorem ad Corinth Epistolam Written at Oxon. and ded to K. Ed. 6. Printed several times at Zurich in fol. Defensio doctrinae veteris Apostolicae de Sacramento Eucharisticae adversus Step. Gardineri librum sub nomine M. Antonii Constantii editum c. Printed in fol. 1502 in four parts Tractatio de Sacramento Eucharistiae habita Oxonii cùm jam absolvisset interpretationem xi Capitis prioris Epistolae ad Corinthios Printed 1562. fol. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in qu. Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. Printed 1562 and translated into English Com. in Genesin Tig. 1579. fol. Com. in lib. Judicum Tig. 1582. fol. which is the second or third Impression Translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. 1564. Com. in lib. duos posteriores Regum Heid 1599. fol. Com. in Samuelis Prophetae libros duos Tig. 1595. fol. Loci communes sacrarum literarum Tig. 1587. fol. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. De lib. arbitio De providentia praedestinat Tig. 1587. fol. An Deus sit causa author peccati An missa sit sacrificium Ib. eod an fol. Theses propofitae ad disputandum publicè in Schola Argentinensi an 1543. Ib. eod an fol. Ib. eod an fol. Oratio de Utilitate dignitate sacri Ministerii Oratio de Morte Christi Oratio de Resurrectione Christi These three last are also translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. 1583. Sermo in xx cap. Johan Christus die unto Sabbat c. 'T is translated into English and printed 1583. Exhortatio ad sacrarum literarum studium Translated also into English Oratio quam Tiguri primam habuit cum in locum D. Conradi Pellicani successiscet Translated also into English Adhortatio ad coenam Domini Mysticam Translated also Epistolae Theologicae Some of which were written at Oxon. and also translated into English and published Note that P. Martyr's Common places and all those things that follow which I have said were translated were put into the English Tongue by Anth. Marten Gentleman Sewer to her Majestie Lond. 1583. fol. One Anth. Marten of London was Father to Sir Hen. Marten as I shall tell you among these Writers ann 1641. Whether the same with the Translator I cannot yet tell Praeces ex Psalmis Davidis desumptae Tig.
Ch. Ch. by the players in their gowns for they were all Scholars that acted among whom were Miles Windsore and Thom. Twyne of C. C. C. before the Queen came to Oxon was by them so well liked that they said it far surpassed Damâ—n and Pythias than which they thought nothing could be better Likewise some said that if the Author did proceed to make more plays before his death he would run mad But this it seems was the last for he lived not to finish others that he had laying by him He also wrot Several Poems in Engl. and Latine Those that speak English are for the most part extant in a Book intit The paradise of dainty devises Lond. 1578. qu. Which Book being mostly written by him was published by Hen. D'isle a Printer with other Mens Poems mix'd among them Among which are those of Edward Vere Earl of Oxford the best for Comedy in his time who died an aged Man 24 June 1604. Will. Hunnys a crony of Tho. Newton the Lat Poet who hath about nine Copies in the said collection Jasp Heywood Nich. Lord Vaux Franc. Kynwelmersh who hath about 8 Copies therein R. Hall R. Hill T. Marshall Tho Churchyard a Salopian Lodowyke Lloyd one Yâ—oop and several others At length this noted Poet and Comedian R. Edwards made his last Exit before he arrived to his middle age year 1566 in Fifteen hundred sixty and six or thereabouts When he was in the extremity of his sickness he composed a noted Poem called Edwards Soulknil or the Soules knell which was commended for a good piece One George Turbervile in his Book of Epitaphs Epigrams Songs Sonnets c. which I shall hereafter mention printed at Lond. the second time 1570 hath an Epitaph on his death made by Tho. Twyne of C. C. Coll. and another by himself ROBERT POINTZ to whom Alderliâ— in Glocestershire where his Family was gentile gave breath and Wykehams School near to Winehester education was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1554 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being confer'd upon him in 1560 but went away before he compleated it by standing in the Comitia Afterwards leaving his Relations Country and all future expectation for Religion sake settled at Lovaine in Brabant as it seems became a Student in Divinity and published Testimonies for the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar set forth at large and faithfully translated out of six ancient Fathers which lived far within six hundred years Lov. 1566. oct Certain notes declaring the force of those testimonies and detecting sometimes the Sacramentaries false dealing Printed with the former book Miracles performed by the Eucharist This last with other things that he hath written as 't is said I have not yet seen An 100 years after this R. Pointz lived another of both his names and of the same Family a writer also and a Knight of the Bath whom I shall remember hereafter ANTHONY BROWNE Son of Sir Weston Browne of Abbesroding and of Langenhoo in Essex Knight by Eliz. his Wife one of the Daughters of Will. Mordant of Turwey in Bedfordsh Esq Son of Rob. Browne by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Charlton Son of Rob. Browne of Wakefield in Yorkshire by Joane Kirkham his second Wife Son of another Rob. Browne of the West Country was born in Essex and being made soon ripe for the University was sent thereunto but before he had taken a Degree he was transplanted to the Middle Temple of which after he had been some years an Inner Barrester he was elected summer-Reader 1 o Mariae but did not read till the Lent following In the 2 Year of the said Queens Reign he with several others were by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law and was the antientest of the call and soon after was made Serjeant to the King and Queen In oct 1558. 5. and 6. of Ph. and Mar. he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-pleas but the said Qu. Mary dying soon after and Elizabeth succeeding she remov'd him thence and placed in his room Sir James Dyer Whereupon A. Browne was made for a time as it seems a Justice of the Common-pleas and soon after one of the Justices of the Common-bench in which dignity he dyed having but an year before his death received the honor of Knighthood from the Queen at the Parliament house Edom. Plowden the famous Lawyer doth give this testimony of him that he was a Judge of a profound genie and great eloquence And all eminent Men of that Age did esteem him as able a Person as any that lived in Qu. Elizabeths time and therefore fit to have obliged posterity by his Pen had not too much modesty laid in the way What he did as to that was concealed and partly published under another name as his Arguments for Marie Queen of Scots her right of Succession to the Crown of England which were published by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse as I shall tell you in Morgan Philipps under the Year 1577. Besides which there is a folio MS. at this day in a private hand entit A discourse upon certain points touching the inheritance of the Crown conceiv'd by Sir Anth. Browne Justice Which Book coming into the hands of Sir Nich. Bacon L. Keeper of England was by him answered and perhaps therein are contained the Arguments before mentioned Our Author Sir Anthony wrot a Book also against Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester as one reports but what the contents of it are he mentions not At length having always lived a R. Catholick he gave way to fate at his house in the Parish of South-weld in Essex on the 6. of May in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven year 1567 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the tenth of June following What Epitaph was put over his Grave I know not Sure it is that these verses were made on him several years after his death which may serve for one Elizabetha nonum regni dum transegit annum Gentis Anglorum regia sceptra tenet Antonium rapiunt Maii mala sydera Brownum Legum qui vivus gloria magna fuit On the 9. Nov. in the same Year in which Sir Anthony died Joan his Widow Daughter of Will. Farington of Farington in Lancashire and formerly the Widow of Charles Bothe Esq died and the 22 of the same Month was buried near to the grave of her second husband Sir Anthony before-mentioned who was Nephew to Sir Humph. Browne of the Middle Temple made Serjeant at Law 23. Hen. 8. one of the Justices of the Kings-bench 34. Hen. 8. and continued in that place till 5 Elizab. at which time he died being about 33 Years after he was made a Serjeant WILLIAM SALESBURY a most exact Critick in British antiquities was born of an ancient and gentile Family in Denbighshire spent several year in
cannot say that this our Author was born there because the statutes of Allsouls Coll. of which he was Fellow oblige the society to choose their Members from the Province of Canterbury His Relations therefore having in his time and perhaps before lived in Lincolnshire I shall appoint that County for his native place but the house of Learning in Oxon. of which he was originally a student I cannot assign unless University Coll. Howsoever it is sure I am that he was in 1525 elected Fellow of All 's Coll being then about 3 years standing in the University where running through the several Classes of Logick and Philosophy took the Degrees in Arts and made so great a proficiency in his studies that he became an eminent Latinist Grecian Poet and Orator excellent also for all kind of worth and at length antiquitatum nostratium plane helluo as one is pleased to stile him In the Year 1534 he was unanimously chosen Scribe or Registrary of the University being then esteemed most worthy of that place because he had a command of his tongue and pen For in his time and long before it was commonly the Registraries office to speech it before and write Epistles as the Orator doth now to great personages But as he was excellent in those matters so to the contrary in the performance of his Registraries place For whether it was upon a foresight of the utter ruin of the University which was intended as he thought by the Reformers for he lived in the changeable times of Religion or his being besotted with a certain crime which he could not avoid till old age cured it he became so careless in committing the acts of congregation and convocation to writing that divers articles being publickly put up against him by the Masters he was deprived of that place in 1552 and Will. Standish M. of A. of Magd. Coll. succeeded by virtue of the Kings Letters sent to the University in Oct. 1543 for the next reversion of that office In 1559 he was made Prebendary of Stratton in the Church of Sarum by virtue of the Queens Letters dated in Dec. the same year in 1561 he was elected the Head or Master of Univ. Coll. to which he was afterwards a considerable benefactor and upon the death of Pet. Vannes whom I shall anon mention which hapned in the beginning of 1563 he became Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in the County and Dioc. of Worcester All which he kept to his dying day He hath written Assertio antiquitatis Oxoniensis Academiae Finished on the first of Sept. 1566 as a copie thereof under his own hand in my possession attesteth Which book being written within the space of seven days was by him presented in MS. to Qu. Elizab. at her being entertain'd by the University in the said month of Sept. A copie of which book coming into the hands of Joh. Cay Doctor of Physick of Cambridge he wrot an answer to it in a book entit De antiquitate Cantabrigiensis Academiae and were both by him published contrary to the knowledge of our Author Cay of Oxon under the name of Londinensis Lond. 1568. in oct and there again under the name of Joh. Cains an 1574 in qu. Whereupon our Author being unwilling to sit down and see himself so unworthily dealt withal wrot a reply soon after the first edition of his Assertio was printed bearing this title Examen judicii Cantabrigiensis cujusdam qui se Londinensem dicit nuper de origine utriusque Academiae Lati. Before which is written an Apologie for himself why he wrot his Assertio and why the said Reply But this book being never printed there only went about from hand to hand some MS. Copies of it one of them Mr. Tho. Allen of Glocester-hall and another Mr. Miles Windsore of Corp. Ch. Coll. had in their respective libraries From one of which Copies I remember formerly I took some notes being then in other hands but where either of those Copies are now in truth I cannot tell Our Author Th. Key translated from Lat. into English Erasmus his Paraphrase on St. Mark being that part of the New Test which he was desired to translate by Qu. Catherine Pare Also from English into Lat. The Sermons of Dr. Jo. Longland Bishop of Lincolne from Greek into Lat. Aristotles book De mirabilibus mundi dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury Euripides his Tragedies and the third oration of Isocrates called Nicocles with other things which I have not yet seen At length arriving to the age of Man he concluded his last day in his Lodgings in Univers Coll. about the middle of the month of May in Fifteen hundred seventy and two year 1572 and was buried on the 20 of the same month under the North wall of the alley or isle joyning on the North side of the body of the Church of St. Peter in the East near to and within the East gate of the City of Oxon. Over his grave tho there was never any Epitaph to celebrate his memory yet certain noted Poets of his time have done it in their respective works by Encomia's and Epigrams to which I refer the curious reader as they are cited in the margin As for Pet. Vannes whom I have before-mention'd he was the Son of Steph. de Vannes of the City of Luca in Italy was brought into England by Andrew Ammonius his Mothers brother and made Secretary of the Latin tongue to K. Hen. 8. who sent him to Rome with Steph. Gardiner and others to sollicite the Pope for a divorce from Qu. Catherine In the Year 1527. March 5. he was made Prebendary of South Grantham in the Church of Sarum upon the resignation of one Will. Burbanke and in 1529. Dec. 4. Preb. of Bedwyn in the same Church on the resignation of Thom. Winter In 1534 he was made Archdeacon of Worcester in the place of Dr. Will. Cleybroke deceased and the same year Feb. 25. was admitted Preb. of Bool in the Church of York In Feb. 1539 he by virtue of the Kings Letters became Dean of Salisbury but whether in the place of Reymund Pade who obtained that Deanery in Januar. 1522. I cannot tell nor do I know yet to the contrary but that he was deprived of that Dignity in the beginning of the Reign of K. Edw. 6. because that one Tho. Cole is said to be Dean of Salisbury in that Kings time Howsoever it is sure I am that Vannes was Dean in the time of Qu. Mary and beginning of Qu. Elizabeth and that several years before viz. in 1543. March 12. he was made Preb. of Shipton Shipton under wood in the said Ch. of Sarum on the death of Dr. Joh. London that in 1545 he occurs one of the Canons of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. at Oxon and soon after Rector of Tredington in the Dioc. of Worcester On the sixth day of May 1563 he resigned his Deanery of Salisbury and in few days after died
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
Laurence in the Old Jewrie to which the learneder sort in the City of London would resort Afterwards also when he was L. Chanc. of England he wrot treatises against the Lutherans and when at home on Sundays he would sit in the choir in a surplice and sing service But to return as for our Author Rich. Taverner he for security sake when Qu. Mary came to the Crown did receede to his house called Norbiton hall in Surrey where he mostly continued all her Reign But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he presented to her a gratulatory Epistle in Latin by which being made more known to her than formerly she had so great respect for and confidence in him that she not only offer'd to him the Degree of Knighthood but put him into the commission of peace for the County of Oxon wherein he had several mannors that had belonged to religious houses entrusted him with a considerable share of the concerns thereof and in the 12 Year of her Reign Dom. 1569 made him High Sherriff of the said County In which office he appeared in St. Maries Pulpit with his sword by his side as 't is said and a chain of gold hanging about his neck and preached to the Scholars a Sermon there being then a great scarcity of Divines in the University beginning thus Arriving at the mount of St. Maries in the stony stage where I now stand I have brought you some five biskets baked in the oven of charity carefully conserv'd for the chickens of the Church the sparrows of the spirit and the sweet swallows of salvation c. Which way of preaching was then mostly in fashion and commended by the generality of Scholars This Rich. Taverner hath written and published The sum or pith of the 150 Psalmes of David reduced into a forme of prayers and meditations with other certaine godly orisons c. Lond. 1539. oct Recognition or correction of the Bible after the best exemplars Lond. 1539 fol. Allowed to be publickly read in Churches in the English tongue with an Epist dedic to the King whose servant Taverner then was But after the death of the Lord Cromwell the Kings Secretary an 1540 the Bishops caused the Printers of the Bible in the Engl. tongue to be imprison'd and punished and this our Author for his labours was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London but he so well acquitted himself that he was shortly after released and restored to his place in Court and in the Kings favour The Epistles and Gospels with a brief postill upon the same from Advent to Low Sunday which is the Winter part drawn forth by divers learned Men for the singular commoditie of all good Christian Persons and namelie of Priests and Curats Lond 1540. qu. The Epist and Gosp with a brief postill upon the same from after Easther till Advent which is the summer part set forth c. Lond. 1540. qu. Fruite of faith containing all the prayers of the holy Fathers Patriarks Prophets Judges Kings renowned Men and Women in the Old and New Test Lond. 1582. in tw Various Poems in Latine and English Hortus sapientiae lib. 2. Sententiarum flores In Catonis disticha lib. 4. In Mimum publianum Catechismus fidei These are mention'd by Jo. Bale but I have not yet seen any of them and therefore I cannot tell you whether they are in Engl. or Lat. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 Rob. Capito Grosthead his prayers on the Psalmes Lond. 1539. oct 2 Confession of the Germans exhibited to the Emperour Charles 5. in the Councell of Augusta in the Year 1530 to which is added The Apologie of Melancton of the said confession Lond. 1536 in oct Translated at the command of the Lord Cromwell Lord Privy Seal 3 Common places of Scripture orderly and after a compendious forme of teaching c. Lond. 1577. oct Written by Erasmus Sarcerius 4 An introduction to a Christian concord and unitie in matters of Religion Translated from Erasm Roterd. De sarciendâ ecclesiae concordiâ Which translation was done by our Author upon K. Hen. the eighth his coming into the Parliament house an 1545 at which time he exhorted the members thereof of which number R. Taverner our Author was one to charity unity and concord At length after he had lived beyond the age of Man and had been a zealous promoter of reformation and the Protestant Religion laid down his head in peace and willingly resign'd up his last breath at Woodeaton near to and in the County of Oxford in the mannour-house now standing there which he did build from the ground about 1544 on the 14 day of July in Fifteen hundred seventy and five Whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church there by two Heralds or Officers of Arms about 5 days after year 1575 was buried in the Chancel with great solemnity near to the body of his first Wife Margaret Soon after the said Officers caused to be hung up on the North wall of the said Chancell an helmet standard pennon and other cognisances belonging to Esquires All which continued there several years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. and then were pulled down by Mr. Joh. Nourse the Lord of that mannour to make room for a monument and banners for his Relations He the said Rich. Taverner had married two wives the first was Margaret Dau. of Walt. Lambert Esq by whom he had several Sons whose male issue is now as I conceive worn out except that of Peter his second Son of Hexton in Hertfordsh His second Wife was Mary Daughter of Sir Joh. Harcourt of the noble and antient family of the Harcourts of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire by whom having only one Daughter that survived named Penelopie she was married to my Grandfather by the Mothers side named Robert Le Petite commonly called Pettie of Wifald near to Henlie and of Cottesford near Bister in Oxfordshire Gentleman a younger Son of Joh. Pettie of Tetsworth and Stocke-Talmache near Thame in the said County Esq The next Brother in order to the said Rich. Taverner was named Roger born in Norfolk also and educated for a time in Cambridge afterwards surveyour general on this side of the river Trent of the Kings woods to Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Elizabeth who in the Year 1560 wrot a book De fame viz. of the means to prevent famine in this land dedicated to Qu. Elizab. who delivering it to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury he gave it afterwards with many other MSS. to Bennet Coll. Library in Cambridge where it now remains and hath had this testimony given of the writer by some of that house in the beginning of Ch. 1. that tho the Author was no professed Scholar yet he was competently learned well versed in the affairs of the Commonwealth and of the Estates of Kingdoms in Forreign parts and that the book was worthy of publication He died at Upminster in Essex where he had a fair Estate and was buried
Geneva 4 Nich. Rydleys Declaration of the Lords Supper Genev. 1556. To which Whittyngham put a Preface of his own making 5 N. Rydlies protestation This I have not yet seen and know nothing more of it 6 His translation from Lat into English of The Book of prayer or the English Liturgie See more in A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 c. Printed 1575. p. 34. 35. He also wrot the Preface to Christoph Goodmans book entit How superior powers ought to be obeyed c. with several other things which are not yet as I conceive published As for the works of impiety that he performed while he sate Dean of Durham were very many among which I shall tell you of these Most of the Priors of Durham having been buried in coffins of stone and some in marble and each coffin covered with a plank of marble or free-stone which laid level with the paving of the Church for antiently Men of note that were laid in such coffins were buried no deeper in the ground than the breadth of a plank to be laid over them even with the surface of the pavement he caused some of them to be plucked-up and appointed them to be used as troughs for horses to drink in or hogs to feed in All the marble and free-stones also that covered them and other graves he caused to be taken away and broken some of which served to make pavement in his house He also defaced all such stones as had any pictures of brass or other imagery work or chalice wrought engraven upon them and the residue he took away and employed them to his own use and did make a washing-house of them at the end of the Centory-garth So that it could not afterwards be descerned that ever any were buried in the said Centory-garth it was so plain and straight The truth is â—e could not abide any thing that appertained to a goodly religiousness or Monastical life Within the said Abbey-church of Durham were two holy-water stones of fine marble very artificially made and engraven and bossed with hollow bosses upon the ouer-sides of the stones very curiously wrought They were both of the same work but one much greater than the other Both these were taken away by this unworthy Dean Whittyngham and carried into his kitchin and employed to profane uses by his Servants steeping their beef and salt fish in them having a conveyance in the bottoms of them to let forth the water as they had when they were in the Church to let out holy water c. He also caused the image of St. Cuthbert which before had been removed from its proper place by Dean Rob. Horne who also had a hand in such impieties and also other antient monuments to be defaced and broken all to pieces to the intent that there should be no memory of that holy Man or of any other who had been famous in the Church and great benefactors thereunto as the Priors his Predecessors were left whole and undefaced I say it again that he did this to the end that no memory or token of that holy Man St. Cuthbert should be left who was sent and brought thither by the power and will of Almighty God and was thereupon the occasion of the erection of the monastical Church of Durham where the Clergy and Servants have all their Livings and Commodities from that time to this day At length after his many rambles in this world both beyond and within the Seas and his too to forward zeal for the promoting his Calvinistical if not worse opinion whereby much mischief hapned to the Church of England he did unwillingly being then full of worldly troubles submit himself to the stroke of death on the tenth day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Durham Soon after was a tomb-stone laid over his grave with an Epitaph of 12 long and short verses engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto which with most if not all of the monuments which were set up after his time were miserably defaced by the Scots when they invaded England in 1640. The first four verses run thus Quae Whittinghami cernis monumenta sepulti Et vitae mortis sunt monumenta piae Anglia testis erat testis quoque Gallia vitae Exilis haec vidit Praesulis illa decus So that as he before had in a woful manner violated the monuments of his predecessors and others so was his by Invaders and nothing now left to preserve his memory or Person to shew the place where his carkase was lodg'd HENRY COLE a zealous maintainer for a time of the Rom. Cath. Religion was born at Godsbyll in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1523 studied the Civil Law travelled some years after into Italy was at Padöuo where he advanced his studies and afterwards notwithstanding all this he did acknowledge K. Hen. 8. to be the supreme head of the Church in England In 1540 he being then returned and settled in London he took the Degree of Doctor of the Civil Law and the same year resign'd his Fellowship being then an Advocate in the Court of Arches Prebendary of Salisbury and about that time Archdeacon of Ely in the place as it seems of Rich. Coxe In 1542 he was elected Warden of New Coll. and in 45 he was made Rector of Newton Longvill in Bucks Soon after when K. Ed. 6. came to the Crown he was altogether for reformation was an admirer of Pet. Martyr was a frequenter of Protestant service and a receiver of the holy communion according to their way did after preach up reformation in the Church of St. Martin commonly called Carfax in Oxon did approve of the proceedings of King Ed. 6. and other matters as a learned and puritannical Author tells you In 1551. 5. Ed. 6. he resigned his Wardenship and the year after the aforesaid Rectory In 1554 2. Mariae he was made Provost of Eaton Coll. in the place of Tho. Smith LL. D. of Cambridge of which house he had been Fellow and the same year had the Degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him Soon after he was appointed one of the Commissioners to visit the University of Cambridge became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral on the removal of Feckenham to Westminster an 1556 Vicar general of the spiritualities under Card. Pole Archb. of Cant. and in 1558 one of the overseers of the said Cardinals will I find extant under Dr. Coles name these things following Letters to Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury upon occasion of a Sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty and her honorable Counsell an 1560. Lond. 1560 in a pretty thick oct It was afterwards remitted into Jewells works I find also that divers letters of Dr. Cole were sent to Bishop Jewell after he had preached at
Norfolk where remaining for some time was the first Man as 't is said that ever preached the Gospel in that place even when the Roman Catholick Religion was in great strength But Gardiner Bishop of Winchester having notice of caused search to be made after him Whereupon the said Duke being careful of sent him safely into Germany where in the City of Basil he became a most painful labourer at his Pen in the house of Operinus a learned Printer Being then about 30 years of age he had read over all that either the Greek or Latin Fathers had left in their writings the Schoolmen in their disputations the Councils in their Acts or the Consistory in their Decrees and acquired no mean skill in the Hebrew tongue After King Hen. 8. had been dead some time he returned to Magd. Coll. whence after a little stay he went again to his charge at Riegate and there remaining till after Queen Mary came to the Crown left England once more and retired to his old Landlord at Basil where continuing a severe drudge at his book till Queen Elizabeth was settled in the Throne he returned to his Country and was received by the said Duke then living at his mannour place called Christ Church in London who very bountifully entertain'd him From that house he travelled weekly every Munday to the house of John Day the Printer to consummate his Acts and Monuments of the Church and other works in English and Latin But as for the preferments he then enjoyed for he was offer'd to accept in a manner what he pleased were only the Prebendship of Shipton in the Church of Salisbury which he obtained on the death of Peter Vannes in the month of May 1563 and as some say the Vicaridge of St. Giles near Cripplegate in London but this last I suppose he kept if he had it at all but a little while in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth being always averse to subscribe to the Canons tho tendred to him by Parker Archbishop of Canterbury and to the ceremonies in some part of the Church He was a Person of good natural endowments a sagacious searcher into historical antiquity incomparably charitable of exemplary life and conversation but a severe Calvinist and a very bitter enemy in his writings exceeding the rules of charity as 't is conceived by some against the Rom. Catholick party He hath written De Christo triumphante Comaedia Lond. 1551. Bas 1556. oct c. Written at Basil in the house of Operinus before-mention'd translated into English by Rich. Day or D'aiia Son of John Day the noted Printer in Queen Elizabeths Reign with this title Christ Jesus triumphant wherein is describ'd the glorious triumph and conquest of Christ over sin death and the Law c. Lond. 1579 and 1607 oct Which Ric. Day by the way it must be noted was bred a Scholar in Kings Coll. in Cambridge and afterwads exercis'd the place of Minister at Riegate in Surrey in the room of our Author Fox but soon after leaving that profession followed the trade of Printing and lived several years near to Aldersgate in London where his Father had lived before In 1672 it was published again at Lond. in oct and dedicated to all Schoolmasters to the end that it might be admitted into their respective Schools for the eminent elegance of its style by T. C. Mast of Arts of Sydney Coll. in Cambridge De censurâ seu excommunicatione ecclesiasticâ interpellatio ad Archiep. Cantuar. Lond. 1551. oct Tables of Grammar Lond. 1552. Commentarii rerum in Ecclesia gestarum maximarumque per totam Europam persecutionum à Wiclevi temproibus ad hanc usque aetatem descript Argent 1554. oct in one book To which the Author added 5 more books all printed together at Basil 1559. fol. Articuli seu Aphorismi aliquot Job Wiclevi sparsim ex variis illius opusculis excerpti per adversarios Papicolas ac concilio Constantiensi exhibiti Collectanea quaedom ex Reginaldi Pecoki Episc Cicestrensis opusculis exustis conservata ex antiquo psegmate transcripta Opistographia ad Oxonienses These three last are printed with his Commentarii Locorum communium Legicalium tituli ordinationes 150 ad seriem praedicamentorum decem descripti c. Bas 1557. qu. Probationes resolutiones de re materiâ sacramenti Eucharistici Lond. 1563. or thereabouts Acts and Monuments of matters most special and memorable hapning in the Church with an universal historie of the same Wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course from the primitive age to these later times of ours c. Lond. 1583. in two vol. in fol. the 4th edition There again 1596 c. Printed also in 3. Volumes 1632 c. In the Year 1684 the said book came out again in 3 volumes with copper cuts the former editions having only wooden The undertakers of which impression had in a manner obtained a promise from King Charles 2. to revive the order in Queen Elizabeths time of placing the said book of Acts and Monuments in the common Halls of Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons Heads of Colleges c. according to the Canons of Dr. Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury an 1571 to the end that they might not be losers by the said impression c. As our Author Fox hath taken a great deal of pains in the said volumes and shew'd sometimes much judgment in his labours so hath he committed many errours therein by trusting to the relations of poor simple People and in making such Martyrs that were living after the first edition of his book came forth tho afterwards by him excused and omitted Nay Father Parsons if he may be believ'd tells us of his wilful corruptions and falsifications of Authors particularly Ven. Bede of his tergiversation impertinent and ignorant arguments contempt of antiquity his rejection of our ancient Historiographers and I know not what But these matters being beyond my Province to mention I shall only refer the reader to the two parts of conversions in the first volume of those three called A treatise of three conversions of England c. where he may not only find much discourse concerning the said book or volumes of Acts and Mon. but also of the Author of them as the index at the latter end will direct him See also the said Parsons his Relation of a trial held in France about religion Printed 1604. p. 59. 60. De Christo crucifixo Concio in die Paracev in 2. Cor. cap 5. ver 20. 21. Lond. 1571. qu. Printed also in English Lond. 1609. oct De Olivâ Evangelica Concio in baptismo Judaei habita Londini 1. Apr. cum narratione capitis XI D. Pauli ad Romanos Lond. 1578. Translated into English by Jam. Bell. To which Latin Sermon is an appendix De Christo triumphante which is the same I have mentioned before Concerning mans election to salvation Lond. 1581. oct Certain notes of election added to Beza his
matter after that Pope Sixtus 5. had bestowed on him the title of Cardinal and the Spaniard had gave him an Abbacy in the Kingdom of Naples and nominated him Archbishop of Machlin When the Bull of Excommunication against Q. Elizabeth at that time that the great Navy was provided for England came forth he brought it into the Low Countries and caused it to be printed in English Withal he wrote an Admonition to the Englishmen that they should stick to the Pope and Spaniard but being deceived of all his hopes he returned again back to Rome where being wearied with the discords hatreds and dissentions of the English Run-aways both Scholars and Nobles at last he dyed in the 63 year of his Age c. Another saith That he was so ill deserving to be accounted English as that like another Herostratus he endeavoured to raise a combustion in the Church and State c. But let Writers say what they please certain it is that he was an active Man and of great parts and high prudence that he was Religious and Zealous in his Profession restless till he had performed what he had undertaken that he was very affable gentile and winning and that his personage was handsome and proper which with an innate gravity commanded respect from those that came near or had to do with him His Works as to learning are these A defence of the Doctrine of Catholicks concerning Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead Antw. 1565. in oct Brief Reasons concerning Cath. Faith Treatise made in defence of the lawful Power and Authority of Priesthood to remit Sins Lov. 1567. oct The People's duty for confession of their Sins to God's Ministers Printed with the Treatise made c. The Churches meaning concerning Indulgences commonly called Pope's Pardons Printed also with the Treatise made c. Which three last were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge De Antw. 1576. qu Sacramentis in genere Sacramento Eucharistiae Sacrificio Euch. Apology and true declaration of the institution and endeavours of the two English Colleges the one in Rome the other now resident in Rhemes against certain finiste informations given up against the same Printed at Mounts in Heâ—â—cault 1581. in a large oct This Books is said by one to be a princely grave and flourishing piece of natural and exquisite English Apologia pro sacerdotibus Societatis Jesu Seminariorum alumnis contra Edicta Regia Printed in a Book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in oct 1594. in qu. part 3. Piissima admonitio consolatio verè Christiana ad afflictos Catholicos Angliae Printed also in the said Book A true sincere and modest defence of the English Catholicks that suffer for their Faith both at home and abroad against a slanderous Libel entit The Execution of Justice in England Not expressed where or when Printed but by the character and some passages therein is shew'd that it was Printed beyond the Seas about 1583. in oct Printed also in Latin at Ingolst 1584. in oct and in a Book entit Concertat Eccles Cath. in Anglia c. 1594. This defence was answered by Dr. Tho. Bilson in the third part of his Book of the Supremacy or in that Book called The true difference between Christian Subjection and Vnchristian Rebellion As for The Execution of Justice which the defence answers was written as it was then and since reported by Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh The second impression of which made at Lond. 1583. in five sheets in oct I have and bears this Title The execution of Justice in England for maintenance of Publick and Christian Peace against certain stirs of sedition and adherents to the Traytors and Enemies of the Realm without any persecution of them for questions of Religion as is falsly reported c. Epistola de Daventriae ditione Cracov 1588. in oct Printed also about that time in English It must be noted that in 1587. Will. Stanley and Rowl York Englishmen did traiterously deliver up a Fort near Zutphen and the strong Garrison of Daventry to the Spaniard whereupon our Author Dr. Allyn did being provoked by the Bull of Pius 5. against Q. Elizabeth not only commend the Treason but excited others in the said Epistle to the like exploit or perfidiousness as if they were neither bound to serve nor obey an excommunicated Queen At which time the said Allyn dispatched away divers Priests to Rowl York whose Regiment of 13 hundred consisted all of English and Irish to be Chaplains and Confessors to them In the year 1588. our author Allyn compiled a Book to be published when the Spaniard should arrive into England to stir up all the English Papists to take up Arms against the Queen The first part of the said Book was intit A declaration of the Sentence of Sixtus 5. Grounded on the said Pope's Crusaido whereby he gave plenary Indulgence and Pardon of all Sins to all that gave their helping hand to deprive Q. Elizabeth of her Kingdom The second part was entit An admonition to the Nobility and People of England Which Book or Books coming straightway to the knowledge of the Queen she dispatched away D. Val. Dale to the Prince of Parma Vice-Roy of the Low Countries for the King of Spain who being introduced into his presence he did mildly expostulate with him about the said Book or Books written by Allyn wherein as Dale said he exhorted the Nobility and People of England and Ireland to joyn with the Spanish Forces under him the said Prince to invade England c. but he pretended he knew nothing of such a Book and so sent him away unsatisfied However so it was that presently upon the overthrow of the great invincible Armado under their heroical Adlantado certain Roman Catholicks procured the whole impression to be burned saving some few that had been sent abroad beforehand to Friends and such as had otherwise been conveyed away by the Printer and others in secret wise What else our Author Allyn hath written Joh. Pitseus who speaks very honorably of him will tell you who adds that he gave up the ghost on the 6 of Oâ—â—ob according to our accompt in fifteen hundred ninety and four and was buried in the Church or Chappel of the English Colledge at Rome where there is an Epitaph for him which being printed by two several Authors at least I shall now pass it by The Jesuits triumphed openly as one saith at his Death and among other of the calumniations against him they said That God had taken him away in a good time for if he had lived longer he would have disgraced himself and lost the credit which he had got In one or more Books containing the lives or at least characters with the Arms of the Popes and Cardinals of Rome it appears that the Arms of Cardinal Allyn are Argent 3 Connies or Rabbets passant Sable yet the ancient Arms belonging to
the Allens or Allyns of Staffordshire from whom he is descended are Parted per Chevron Gules and Ermine two Lyons heads erased in the upper part or The next Card. that the English Nation hath been honoured with is Philip Howard third Son of Henry Earl of Arundel and younger Brother to Henry Earl of Norwich and Duke of Norfolk who at this day is living at Rome He was born in Arundel House in the Parish of St. Clement Danes without Temple-Bar near London an 1629. and there educated under several Tutors till he was 14 years of age At length upon the eruption of the Civil War he left the Nation and travelled with his Grandfather Thomas Earl of Arundel into Italy and at 15 years of age became a Dominician or Black-Frier at Cremona After several years spent there he returned into England and upon the Marriage of King Charles 2. with Katherine the Infanta of Portugal he became Lord Almoner to her and continued in her service several years Afterwards upon the People's being exasperated against Popery he quitted that Noble Office and went to Bornheim in Flanders where having a Convent of English Fryers of his Order had not continued there long but at the desire of his sometimes Tutor then Confessor to Pope Clement 10. had a Cardinals Cap sent to him by the said Pope in the month of May 1675. by his Messenger Seignior Con at which time Father Howard was at Antwerp with the Bishop of that place By vertue of which and the instrument with it he was made Cardinal Priest Sub tt Ecclesiae S. Mariae supra Minervam which Church was in most ancient time built upon the ruines of the Temple of Minerva at Rome where the said Card. is now generally stiled The Cardinal of Norfolk and by some The Cardinal of England Afterwards taking his journey towards Rome he was attended by his Uncle William Viscount Stafford beheaded in 1680. upon account of being engaged in the Popish Plot Mr. John Howard Son of the said William Lord Thomas Howard Nephew to the said Cardinal and younger Brother to the present Duke of Norfolk Seignior Con before-mentioned Dr. Joh. Laybourne President of the English or Clergy College at Doway then Secretary or Auditor to the Cardinal and others He took his journey through Flanders to Doway where he was with great solemnity received and lodged in the said Coll. The next day he designing to visit the College of English Benedictines at that place he was received by the whole Convent in their Church in a solemn procession with Copes a Te Deum and other Ceremonies as appointed in the Ritual for such receptions From the Church he was conducted into the Cloyster and entertained with a banquet and a Panigyrick spoken to him by a Student of that college All which was so well performed that Visâ— Staâ—â—ord was pleased to say that it was the only fit reception his Eminence had met with in all his journey Afterwards his Eminence went to Paris where he continued for some time incognito At length with other Nobility and Persons of Quality added to the former company he journeyed to Rome and made his entry for the defraying of which and his journey he had the assistance of the Pope and not of King Charles 2. and Queen Catherine as the common report then went ADAM HYLL a most noted and eloquent Preacher of his time was elected Fellow of Baliol Coll. in 1568. being that Bachelaur of Arts stood in the Act to compleat the degree of Master of that Faculty in 1572. and on the 12. of Jan. following he resigned his Fellowship About that time he being noted for his practical way of Preaching he became Vicar of Westbury in Wilts in which County he was as it is probable born Parson of Goosage in Dorsetshire and at length Prebendary of Gillyngham Minor in and Succentor of the Cath. Church of Salisbury In 1591. he took the degrees in Divinity and had he not been untimely snatched away by Death he would have been advanced to an high degree in the Church He hath written and published Several Sermons Among which are 1 Godly Sermon shewing the Fruits of Peace and War on 2 Cor. 20. 1 Lond. 1588. oct 2 Serm. On Gen. 18. 21 22. Lond. 1593. oct 3 Serm. concerning Christs descent into Hell Preached 28. Feb. 1589. but on what Subject I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it It was answered by Alex. Humo a Scot whereupon our Author Hyll came out with a Book intit A defence of the Article Christ descended into Hell with an Answer to the arguments objected against the truth of the said Doctrine by one Alexand. Hume c. Lond. 1592. qu Afterwards Hume came out with A Rejoinder wherein the answer to Dr. Hylls Sermon is justly defended Printed 1593. qu. But before our author Hyll could come out with another answer he gave way to fate which hapning at Salisbury about the 16. of Febr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Cath. Church there on the nineteenth day of the same Month. Soon after his dignity or dignities in the said Church were bestowed on one Tho. Crump As for the said Alex. Hume he was Master of Arts of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated here as I shall tell you in the Fasti and wrote besides what is before mentioned A Treatise of Conscience c. 2 Treatise of the Felicity of the World to come c. 3 Four discourses of praises unto God c. All which were printed at London in 1594. in oct JOHN THORIE or Thorius Son of John Thorius Doctor of Physick who intitles himself Balliolanus Flandrus was born in London matriculated in this University as a Member of Ch. Ch. 1 Oct. 1586. aged 18. but whether he took a degree it appears not though in one of his Books he writes himself a Graduat of Oxenford He was a Person well skilled in certain Tongues and a noted Poet of his time as several pieces of his then published shew All the things that I have seen of his writing or translating are these A Spanish Dictionary Lond. 1590. qu. Added to his translation into English of a Spanish Grammar written by Auth. de Corro which Dictionary contains the explication of all the Spanish Words cited in the said Grammer and is as a Key to open every thing therein Letters and Sonnets to Gabr. Harvey An. 1593. See at the end of a book entit Pierces Superarogation written by the said Harvey And at the end of another called Have with you to Saffron Walden c. written by Tho. Nash anoted Poet of his time and a Dramatick Writer as his published Comedies shew Our author Thorius also translated from Spanish into English a book entit The Councellour A Treatise of Councils and Councellours of Princes Lond. 1589. qu. written by Barth Philip. L. L. D. and another entit The Serjeant Major or a Dialogue of the
another hand but not without the help of that translation of Turbervile though not acknowledged The person that performed it was Tho. Harvey who writes himself Gent. But whether the same Tho. Harvey who was Master of Arts the first Master of Kington School in Herefordshire founded 1620. and the author of The Synagogue in imitation of divine Herbert I know not As for George Turbervile he lived and was in great esteem among ingenious men in fifteen hundred ninety and four 36. Reg. Elizab. but when he dyed I cannot yet learn I find one George Turbervile to be author of 1 Essays politick and moral Printed 1608. in oct 2 The noble art of Venery or hunting and hawking Printed with figures in 1611. in qu. c. Whether George Turbervile before-mentioned was the author of the said two books or another of both his names who was a Dorsetshire man born and a Commoner of Glouc. Hall An. 1581. aged 18. or a third G. Turbervile who was born in the said County and became a Student in Magd. Hall 1595. aged 17. I cannot justly tell you unless I could see and peruse the said two books of which I am as yet totally ignorant HENRY WALPOOLE elder Brother to Mich. and Rich. Walpoole Jesuits was born in the County of Norfolk educated in both the Universities but in what College or Hall in Oxon it doth not appear because not matriculated so that his stay here being I persume but short nothing occurs memorable of him only that he was inclined to Puritanism which made Pasquil in his Apology to challenge Oxford men to enquire and tell him whether the said Walpoole was not a Puritan when he forsook them Soon after his retirement from the University he became so zealous a Roman Catholick that endeavouring to perswade others to his Opinion he was forced to leave his station whereupon going to Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus in 1584. aged 25 years where continuing for some time he went afterwards into Spain and when he had spent certain years there he journeyed into Holland where he suffer'd much upon account of Religion In 1593. he was sent into England was seized on at his first entry therein and carried to York where he was imprisoned for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Church of England The next year he was sent to London and committed Prisoner to the Tower where he suffered much misery After an years durance there in which time several Ministers were with to persuade him to recant but in vain he was sent back to York where he suffered death as I shall tell you anon He hath written in English Verse The Martyrdom of Edm. Campian the Jesuit and other things that are not printed having been secured by certain Protestants when the author was imprisoned at York at which place he was hanged drawn and quartered for Treason on the 17. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 See more of him in a book intit Bibl. Script Soc. Jesu written originally by Pet. Ribadeneira Lugd. 1609. in oct continued by Philip Alcgambc Antw. 1643. fol. and at length by Nath. Sotvellus commonly called Southwell of the Family of the Southwells in Norfolk Rom. 1676. fol. See also in Historia Provinciae Anglicanae Soc. Jesu lib. 5. nu 33 34. written by Henry More an English-man a descendant from Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England Which Hen. tells us that the said Hen. Walpoole was educated in Cambridge without any notice taken of Oxon. The learned Camden in his Annals of Queen Elizabeth doth make mention of one of the Walpooles an 1598. but which I cannot yet tell JOHN HARTE was educated in most kinds of literature in Oxon but in what College or Hall I cannot find One Mr. Harte was a Sojournour of Exeter College An. 1551. 5. Ed. 6. but him I take to be too soon for our author who was but a young Man when he encountred Dr. Jo. Rainolds in a disputation What degrees he took here it appears not though those of his Profession the Jesuits tell us that he was Bachelaur of Divinity of Oxon yet upon the strict perusal of our Registers I cannot find the least authority for it After he had left this University being then and before very unsettled and wavering in mind he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion took priestly Orders and was sent into the Mission of England but soon after taken and committed to Prison to a filthy dungeon as a noted author tells us who adds that after he whom he calls the happy young Confessor had been often by Famine tormented was unexpectedly brought out to encounter Joh. Rainolds before-mentioned An. 1583. or thereabouts Which disputation being smartly held on both sides those of Harte's Persuasion say that Rainolds was foiled though the opposite not upon some years after was published The summ of a conference between Joh. Rainolds and Jo. Hart touching the Head and the Faith of the Church c. Lond. 1588. qu. See more in Jo. Rainolds under the year 1607. Afterwards our Author Harte who is stiled by a learned Author Vir praecaeteris doctissimus being banished with divers other R. Priests in 1584. he went to Verdune where he entred into the Society of Jesus Thence he was called to Rome where making some stay till authority commanded him thence he went into Poland and settled for a time at Jareslaw At length giving way to Fate on the 14. of the Cal. of Aug. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 or thereabouts was buried at Jareslaw or Joreslaw Seven years after his Body was taken up and translated to another place belonging to the Jesuits who had an high esteem for his Person while living sanctity of Life and Learning and when dead for his memory I find another John Hart who was Chester Herald and wrote and published An Orthography containing the due Order and Reason how to write or paint the Image of Man's Voice most like to the Life or Nature Lond. 1569. And another Jo. Hart of later time who among other Books did publish The burning Bush not consumed wherein one may judge whether he be the Child of God or not Lond. 1641. 2. fourth edit But whether this last who was a zealous Puritan if not worse or the former who was an Herald were of this University I know not as yet THOMAS DIGGES Son of Leonard Digges mentioned before under the year 1574. by Sarah his Wife Sister to Jam. and Tho. Wilford two most valiant Knights of Hartridge in the Parish of Crainbrook in Kent was born in that County and for a time educated among the Oxonian Muses but in what House I cannot yet tell neither whether he be the same Mr. Digges which the famous Lampoon or Libel made by Th. Bulkley in the time of Q. Elizabeth on several Scholars and others of Oxon points at However of this I am sure he the said Tho. Digges did spend
in his Church of St. Laurence but when it appears not leaving then behind him a Son of both his Names Scholar of St. Johns coll an 1600. which he left after he was M. of A. to prevent expulsion I find another John Smith who hath published 1 The bright Morning Star or the resolution and exposition of the 22 Psalm Cambr. 1603. in tw 2 A pattern of true Prayer being an exposition or commentary on the Lords Prayer c. Lond. 1605. and 1624. oct besides other things But in his Epistle Dedicatory before the said Exposition it appears that he was then 1605 and before a Lecture in the City of Lincoln and that he had received part of his education in Cambridge I shall make mention of another Joh. Smith of St. Johns coll under the year 1616. PETER BALES Balesius a most dextrous Person in his profession to the great wonder of Scholars and others spent several years in Sciences among the Oxonians particularly as it seems in Gloucester hall But that study which he used for a diversion only proved at length an employment of ptofit His Works are these The art of Brachygraphy that is to write as fast as a man speaketh treatably Lond. 1597. in tw 2 edit The order of Orthography The Key of Calygraphy that is of fair Writing Printed with the former Before these Treatises are 18 copies of Verses made in praise of them four whereof or more were made by the Students of Glouc. hall among whom Edw. Mychilbourne a most noted Poet of his time hath two and three or more by the Students of St. Johns Col. who are proprietaries of that hall What afterwards became of the said Balesius who was engaged in the Earl of Essex his treasons An. 1600. I cannot tell nor whether he published any other matters I find one of both his Names a Divine who published 1. The Lords prayer pleading for better entertainment Lond. 1643. qu. 'T is a Sermon as it seems on Luke 11. 2. 2. Infirmities inducing to Conformity on Jam. 3. 2. Printed 1650. qu. and other things Whether this Peter Bales was Son or kinsman to the former I cannot tell FRANCIS CLERKE or Clarke was originally of Oxon but making little stay there he retired to Doctors Commons in London and for about 40 years practiced the Civil Law in the most famous Courts in England as in the Court of Arches Admiralty Audience Prerogative and Consistoral of the Bishop of London besides his employment divers times in the Ecclesiastical Causes of the delegated Power of the King and chief Commissioners In 1594. he having then practiced his Faculty 35 years at 〈◊〉 had the degree of Bach. of Civil Law conferred upon him by the venerable Convocation of Doctors and Masters not by way of creation but as the Register saith by admission to the reading of the imperial institutions tho no exercise he did for it in this University The reason for this their Civility was that he had performed the part of chief Proctor for the said University by vertue of Letters and their common Seal in all their concerns in the aforesaid Courts He hath written Praxis tam jus dicentibus quam aliis omnibus qui in foro Ecclesiastico versantur apprime utilis This book was finished by the Author and made ready for the press in April 1596. but what diverted him from the publication thereof unless death I know not Afterwards several imperfect Copies of it flying abroad one supposed to be true came into the hands of Tho. Bladen D. D. Dean of Ardfort in Ireland and Chaplain to the Duke of Ormond who caused it to be printed at Dublin in 1666. qu. Praxis curiae Admiralitatis Angliae Dubl 1666. qu. published by the said Doctor But the Copy from whence that Edition was published being as 't was pretended false in many matters a better Copy was published at London 1667. in 8vo by E. S. One Sir Franc. Clerke of Bedfordshire Knight was a benifactor to Sydney Col. in Cambridge tho not educated there whom I take to be the same with Sir Francis Clerk of Merton Priory or Abby in Surrey Son of Barthol Clerk mentioned in the Fasti under the year 1574. quite different from the Writer JOHN MARTIALL a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause was born at Dalysford in Worcestershire near Chippingnorton in the County of Oxon educated in Grammatical learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of probation an 1551. took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law five years after about which time he was made Usher or second Master of the aforesaid School under Tho. Hide whom I shall anon mention In the beginning of Q. Eliz. he left his Employment Fellowship and at length the Kingdom and going beyond the Seas to Lovaine he made proficiency there in the studies of Divinity and at length by the procurement of Lewis Owen Archdeacon of Cambray afterwards Bishop of Cassano he was made Canon of St. Peters Church at L'isle in Flanders Which place he keeping eight years resigned it being then D. of D. to the end that he might give himself solely upto his devotions and prepare himself for another World He hath written A Treatise of the Cross gathered out of the Scriptures Councils and ancient Fathers of the primitive Church Antw. 1564. in oct Whereupon Jam. Calfhill of Ch. Ch. making an answer to it our Author came out with a reply intit A reply to Mr. Calfhills blasphemous answer against the Treatise of the Cross Lov. 1566. qu. Afterwards he wrote Treatise of the tonsure of the Clerks Left imperfect and therefore never printed He departed this mortal Life at L'isle beforementioned to the great grief of the R. Catholicks in the Arms or Embraces of Will Gifford Dean of that Church year 1597 on the 3. of Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter before-mentioned At his death he bequeathed a rich ring with a stone in it to adorn a piece of our Saviour's Cross in the Cathedral there Whose Will being performed by the said Gifford that bequest was esteemed as a Trophy of Victory over Calfhill and is at this day as I have been informed preserved as a choice relick there THOMAS HIDE a noted Rom. Priest of his time was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks. Descended from the ancient and gentile Family of his Name in that County educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual fellow of New Col. 1543 took the degrees in Arts that of master being compleated 1549. In the year after he leâ—t his Fellowship was made Prebendary of Winchester and in 1552. succeeded Will. Everard in the chief mastership of the said School where continuing till Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he left all he had and all he pretended to for Conscience sake and going beyond the Seas spent the remainder of his
one County three such Divines as Jewel Hooker and Rainolds of the second of which hear I pray what the learned Camden saith In this year meaning 1599. which is false dyed too many in that one Rich. Hooker born in Devonshire and bred in C. C. coll in Oxford a Divine very moderate temperate and meek and vertuous even to the best imitation and besides very famous for his learned works as his Books of Ecclesiastical Policy set forth in the English but worthy to speak Latin do testifie of him c. At Boscomb he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy which were entred into the Register in Stationers hall 9. March 1592. and afterwards came out with this Title The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in four books Lond. 1594. fol. To which he added a fifth book which is larger than the first four printed by its self at Lond. 1597. fol. Part of the first four being read by Dr. Tho. Stapleton in Latin to P. Clement 8. who before had heard much in their commendation he the said Pope in conclusion said thus There is no learning that this Man hath not searched into nothing too hard 〈◊〉 his Vnderstanding This man indeed deserves the Name of an Author His books will get reverence by age for there are in them such seeds of Eternity that if the rest bâ— like this they shall last till the last Fire shall consume all learning c. At the same time K. James of Scotland afterwards of England did put an high esteem upon the said books and usually said They were the pictures of a Divine Soul in every page of Truth and Reason King Ch. 1. had read them over several times was well vers'd in and commended them to be read by the Prince afterwards K. Ch. 2. and his other Children next to the Bible The learned Vsher Primate of Ireland Morton B. of Durham Hales of Eaton c. had the same high opinion of the author and his Works and Gauden Bishop of Worcester said he had been highly esteemed of all prudent peaceable and impartial Readers But before the fifth book had been extant two years was published a Pamphlet intit A Christian Letter of certain English Protestants unfeigned Lovers of the present state of Religion authorized and professed in England unto that reverend and learned man Mr. Hooker requiring resolution in certain matters of Doctrine expresly contained in his five books of Ecclesiastical Polity Printed 1599. in qu. which matters of Doctrine as they say seem to overthrow the foundation of Christian Religion and of the Church among us But therein it doth appear that their ignorant malice hath done him great honour who in an argument so distasted by them and coming with a proud confidence to reprehend have only carped sillily at some things neither of moment or importance whereof humility and charity would have craved no answer But these being willing and desirous to find something to oppose have only discovered Mr Hookers great mature and grave judgment and their own small undigested and shallow learning Soon after came out an answer to the said letter entit A just and temperate defence of the 5 books of Ecclesiastical polity c. against an uncharitable letter of certain English protestants c. Lond. 1603. qu. written and published by Will. Covel D. D. born in Lancashiâ—e near the place where Dr. Chaderton B. of Lincoln received his first breath bred in Christs and Queens coll in Cambridge and a writer of other books that came out soon after As for the other three books of Ecclesiastical Policy which our author Hooker compleated before his death they with the consent of his unlucky Widdow were seized on in his study soon after his decease by Will. Charke a noted Puritan and another Minister that lived near to Canterbury who making the silly Woman believe that they were writings not fit to be seen did either burn them in the place or convey them away secretly So that the foul copy being only remaining with many interlinings Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll in Oxon. his ancient and entire Friend got it into his hands who using the assistance of Hen. Jackson of the said coll as an Amanâ—ensis and otherwise did compleat it as much as could be and kept it by him till his latter end with an intent that it should be published but upon what account he was hindred I cannot tell Sure it is that when he lay on his death-bed he bequeathed the said copy containing the three last books fairly transcribed by the hand of the said H. Jackson to Dr. Jo. King B. of London After his death the copy rested in the hands of his Son Henry who became B. of Chichester 1641. till Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury commanded them out of his custody authorizing Dr. Joh. Barcham to require and bring them to him to Lambeth which accordingly was done The said Archbishop esteeming them as rarities did put them into the Library there where remaining till the decollation of Archb. Laud were then by the Brethren of the Predominant Faction given with the Library to that most notorious Villain Hugh Peters as a reward for his remarkable service in those sad times of the Churches confusion And though they could hardly fall into a fouler hand yet there wanted not other endeavours to corrupt and make them speak that Language for which the Faction then fought which was to subject the Soveraign Power to the People From the said copy several transcripts were taken not only I presume while it remained in the said Library but while it continued in the hands of Peters differing much in words There was a copy of the sixth and eighth books published at London in 1648. in qu. and said by the Editor of them to be collected and compared with five copies viz. with that in Bodley's Library that at Lambeth that in Bish Andrew's that in Archb. Vsher's Library and in that of the Lord Edw. Conway at Ragley but whether the publisher may be believed I know not Sure I am that the said three last books which are said to be true and genuine but from whence obtained I cannot tell were published by Dr. Joh. Gauden under this title The Works of Mr. Rich. Hooker that learned godly judicious and eloquent Divine vindicating the Church of England as truly Christian and duly reformed in eight books of Ecclesiastical Polity now compleated as with the sixth and eighth so with the seventh c. out of his own MSS. never before published with an account of his holy Life and happy Death Lond. 1662. fol. But whether the said MSS. were of his own hand-writing we have good reason to question as also the greater part of his Life which he the said Gauden hath falsly written who with great confidence hath used divers arguments to satisfie the World that the before-mentioned three books were pen'd by Mr. Hooker
is hanging in the School-Gallery at Oxon which shews him to have been of statute tall and of a cheerful complexion JOHN LLOYD or Lhuyd nearly related to Humph. Lhuyd mentioned under the year 1570. was born in the ancient Borough of Denbigh in Denbighshire in Wales educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1579. took the degrees in Arts was Junior of the Act in 1585. and soon after became in eminent Preacher In 1595. he proceeded in Divinity became Vicar of Writtle in Essex on the death of Dr. Maschiart 1598. and was in high esteem there in the Neighbourhood and the University for his rare Learning and excellent way of Preaching He hath published Interpretatio Latina cum Scholiis in Flav. Josaphum de Macabaeis seu de rationis imperio c. Oxon. 1590. oct Done by the help of an excellent Exemplar more corrected and compleat than ever before He also was the first that published Barlaamus de Papae Principatu Gracè Latinè Oxon 1592. What other things he hath written and published I now not not any thing else material of him only this that he paid his last debt to Nature at Writtle before-mentioned in sixteen hundred and three year 1603 and was buried in the Church there He was succeeded in that Vicaridg by Matthew Davies Doct. of Div. by the gift of the Warden and the Society of New college of which he was Fellow and continued there to the time of his death an 1624. Soon after succeeded Dr. Joh. South the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University EDWARD PHILIPS was entred a Student into Broadgates hall now Pembroâ—e coll in 1574. took the degrees in Arts and became a Preacher at St. Saviours in Southwark near to London where he was by those of his large Auditory mostly zealous Puritans esteemed A person zealous of the truth of God powerful in his calling faithful in his message powerful in his Speech careful of his flock peaceable and blameless in his life and comfortable and constant in his death While he lived it doth not appear that he published anything but after his death a certain Gentleman of Greys-Inn named Hen. Yelverton afterwards a Judge Son of Judge Christopher Yelverton published Two and thirty godly and learned Sermons Lond. 1605. qu. The first of which is on Matth. 1. ver 1. 2. On Matth. 1. 18 19 20 21 c. All which Sermons were taken from the authors mouth by the pen of the said Yelverton This Edw. Philips who was a zealous Calvinist as Yelverton then was and both bitter enemies to popery died year 1603 as I guess in sixteen hundred and three or thereabouts and received sepulture in the Church before mention'd Whether any thing else besides the said Sermons were published after Phillps his death that were of his speaking or writing I cannot tell HUMPHREY ELY brother to Will. Ely sometimes president of S. Johns coll was born in Herefordshire and from being a Student in Brasnose was chose Scholar of S. Johns coll before mention'd in 1566. But before he took a degree or as I think was made Fellow he left that place and giving a farewel to his friends country and religion he crossed the Seas settled at Doway studied the Civil Law and became Licentiat therein Afterwards he went to Rome with his great friend Dr. Will. Allen where being made Doctor of his faculty he returned into France and settling at Rheimes was wholly taken up for a time in the correcting and printing the said Allens books At length upon the breaking out of the civil dissentions in that country he was called into Loraine in 1588. About which time he was made the publick and the Dukes professor of the Civil Law in the University of Pont à Mousson where he continued till the day of his death He was by those of his religion esteemed a wise and learned Priest of sincere honesty void of dissimulation full of zeal to the truth and equity c. But that which is mostly to be noted of him is that upon a controversie that arose among the English popish Clergy concerning the receiving of an Archpriest into England and the power that was to be allotted to him he wrote with a long preface to it Certain brief notes upon a brief apology set out under the name of the priests united to the Archpriest Paris about 1602 3. in tw and oct which book written against Fa. Persons I once saw among many other rarities of the like nature in Balliol coll Library given thereunto by that curious collector of choice books Sir Tho. Wendy of Haselingfield in Cambridgeshire Knight of the Bath sometimes Gentleman commoner of the said House Our author Ely hath written other books as 't is said but such I have not yet seen nor can I say any more of him at this time only that he dying at Pont à Mousson on the Ides of of March in sixteen hundred and three was buried there in the church of the Nuns called Clarissae that is of the order of S. Clare Over his grave was soon after a monument put with a large inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now omit THOMAS FLOYD a Welsh-man became a Batler or Commoner of New Inn in the beginning of 1589. took one degree in Arts which being compleated by Determination he translated himself to Jesus coll and as a member and fellow of that house took the degree of Master and afterwards wrote The picture of a perfect Commonwealth describing as well the offices of Princes and inferiour Magistrates over their Subjects as also the duties of Subjects towards their Governours c. Lond. 1600. in tw He hath written as 't is probable other things but what I cannot tell only certain Latine Poety scattered in several books particularly in that intit Academia Oxoniensis pietas erga Jacobum Regem an 1603. I find three or more of both his names his contemporaries and Welsh-men also of Jesus college but whether either of them hath any thing extant I cannot tell JOHN CHAMBER a person for his life and learning worthily honoured by all that knew him was born in Yorkshire and in the year 1569. was tho Merton coll had then no Lands in that county chosen purely for his merits by the consent of all the Society Probationer-Fellow of the said house In which place as also in that of Bach. fellow he went beyond all of the same election for subtile disputations and knowledge in the Greek tongue After he had taken the degree of Master in 1573. he applied his Muse to the study of Medicine and Astronomy about which time he read publickly on the Almagest of Ptolomy In the year 1582. he became fellow of Eaton coll near to Windsore being then in holy orders and two years after supplicated the congregation of Ven. Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of Hypocrates But whether he
second a Lyon passant or all within a bordure Ermine The creast is A Stork or Crane standing resting its right foot on the top of an hour-glass With this Motto under allâ— Plus vigila Allowed to our author Count Rich. Whyte with two Dragons for the Supporters by Sir Will. Dethick Garter principal King of Arms in allusion to the Arms of his Kinsman Dr. John Whyte sometimes Bishop of Winton whose Arms are quite different from those of his Brother Sir Joh. Whyte Lord Mayor of London an 1563. Explicatio brevis privilegiorum juris consuetudinis circa ven sacramentum Eucharistiae Duac 1609. oct De reliquiis veneratione sanctorum Duac 1609. and other things as you may elsewhere see At length this learned person dying at Doway in sixteen hundred and twelve or thereabouts was buried in the Parish Church of S. James there Contemporary with him in New coll was one Will. Pomerell Chaplain of that house who taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1557. went afterwards to his native Country of Ireland and became benefited in Drogheda From thence he went to Lovaine where by continual hearing of Lectures and Disputations more than by private study he obtained great knowledge in Divinity gaining thereby as 't was usually said of him all his learning bâ— hearsay He died at Lovaine in 1573. being then Bach. of Div. NICHOLAS FITZHERBERT second Son of John Fitzherbert second Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert Knight the great Lawyer Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire Esq was a Student in Exeter coll and exhibited to by Sir Will. Petre about 1568. but what continuance he made there I know not Sure 't is that his bare name stands in the Register called Matricula under the title of Coll. Exon in 1571. and 72. he being then the Senior Under-graduat of that College About that time he left his native Country Parents and Patrimony for Religion sake and went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile At first he setled at Bononia in Italy purposely to obtain the knowledge of the Civil Law and was living there in 1580. Not long after he went to Rome took up his station there and in the year 1587. began to live in the Court of Will. Alan the Cardinal of England whose person and vertues he much adored and continued with him till the time of his death being then accounted eminent for his knowledge in both the Laws and for humane literature His works are Oxoniensis in Anglia Academiae descriptio Rom. 1602. in 3 sh and a half in oct De antiquitate continuatione Catholicae Religionis in Anglia Rom. 1608. in oct Vita Cardinalis Alani Epitome He also translated from the Italian into the Latin tongue Joh. Casa Galateus de moribus Rom. 1595. He was drowned in a journey taken from Rome in sixteen hundred and twelve year 1612 but where or in what Church buried I know not nor what his employment was after the death of the said Cardinal notwithstanding I have sent more than once to the English coll at Rome for resolution but have received no answer GEORGE BLACKWELL a Middlesex Man born was admitted Scholar of Trinity coll at 17 years of age 27. May 1562. Probationer in 65. being then Bach. of Arts perpetual Fellow the year following and Master of his Faculty in 67. But his mind being more addicted to the Catholick than Reformed Religion he left his Fellowship and retired to Gloucester hall for a time where he was held in good repute by Edm. Rainolds and Th. Allen the two learned Seniors Afterwards going beyond the Seas where he spent some time in one of the English Seminaries newly erected to receive exil'd Catholicks of the English Nation was at length in the year 1598. constituted by Henry Cardinal Cajetane Protector of the English Nation at Rome with leave first obtained from P. Clem. 8. the Superiour of the of the English Clergy with the Power and Name of Archpriest of England and by the said Pope made Notary of the Apostolick Seat This matter being taken very ill by the Ecclesiastical Papists of our Nation and the rather for this reason that Blackwell was altogether at the beck of Henr. Garnet Provincial of the Jesuits of England they fell together by the Ears in their own Country in a most grievous manner For the Jesuits against the Secular Priests fought continually with sharp pens poisoned tongues and contumelious books insomuch that they detracted in an high degree from Blackwells authority Hereupon he degraded them of their Faculties so that afterwards they appealing to the Pope of Rome he caused them in a book to be declared Schismaticks and Hereticks This aspersion they soon wiped off having the censure of the University of Paris approving the same which was answered by Blackwell as I shall tell you anon The office of Archpriest he kept till 1607. at which time George Birket a learned Priest succeeded And the reason of the change was because our author having been taken near Clerkenwell by London 24. June the same year was committed first to the Gatehouse in Westminster and afterwards to the Clink in Southwork and consequently deprived of liberty required to act in his Office Soon after upon his taking the oath of Allegiance he was freed from the Clink and set at liberty Concerning which matter there was a book published intit The examination of George Blackwell upon occasion of his answering a Letter sent by Cardinal Bellarmine who blamed him for taking the oath of Allegiance Lond. 1607. qu. As for those things which were written by our author Blackwell who was by those of his perswasion and others too accounted a learned and pious Man and a good Preacher the titles of them follow Letter to Card. Cajetane in commendation of the English Jesuits Written 1596. Answers upon sundry Examinations while he was a Prisoner Lond. 1607. qu. Approbation of the Oath of Allegiance Printed with the Answers upon c. Letters to the Romish Priests touching the lawfulness of taking the Oath of Allegiance Another to the same purpose Epistolae ad Anglos Pontificios Lond. 1609. qu. Epistolae ad Rob. Card. Bellarminum See more in the third tome of the works of Melch. Goldasti Haiminsfeldii from pag. 565. to 605. Answer to the Censure of Paris in suspending the Secular Priests obedience to his authority dat 29. May 1600. Replyed upon by Joh. Dorel or Darrel Dean of Agen the same year See more in a book intit Relation of a Faction begun at Wisbich in 1595. c. Printed 1601. in qu. p. 81. Afterwards was a book printed intit In Geor. Blackvellum quaestio bipartita written by Joh. Milson Lond. 1609. but whether it relates to the said controversie I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it A Treatise against Lying and fraudulent Dissimulation MS. among those given to Bodies Lib. by Archb. Laud 40. E. 45. At the end of which is the approbation of the
hundred and fourteen according to the accompt there followed and was buried year 1614 I presume among the brethren in their house there who had a most entire respect for him and his learning while he was living JOHN REINOLDS the most noted Epigrammatist next to Joh. Owen and Sir Jo. Harrington of his time received his first being in this world at Tuddington in Bedfordshire was elected Probationer of New coll from Wykeham's School near to Winchester in 1600. and two years after was admitted Perpetual fellow being then noted for a good Grecian Orator and Poet. Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law and wrote and published Disticha classis Epigrammatum sive carminum inscriptorum Centuriae duae The first part was printed at Oxon 1611. in oct and containes an 110. Epigrams concerning the British and English Kings each Epigarm consisting but of two Verses The other part was printed at the same place in 1612. in oct Besides which Epigrams he hath much of his Poetry printed in divers books particularly in that made by certain fellows of New coll on the death of Ralph Warcup Esq an 1605 wherein he flourishes in his Greek Poetry He ended his days in the prime of his years in sixteen hundred and fourteen and was buried year 1614 as it seems in New coll Cloyster I find another of both his names and equal almost in time with him who was born within the City of Excester and by the books that he published had gained a famous name among the vulgar Scholars Gentlemen and Women of love and mode The titles of them are 1 The triumphs of Gods revenge against the crying and execrable sin of Murder c. Lond. 1621. qu. the first book Five more came out afterwards at several times mostly taken from French printed copies which he had gathered in his Travels into France All the six books were printed at London in one fol. 1635. and several times after At length the sixth edition being adorned with Cuts was published at Lond. 1679. fol. by Sam. Pordage of Lincolns Inn Son of Joh. Pordage Rector of Bradfield in Berks. and formerly Head Steward of the lands to old Philip Earl of Pembroke 2 Gods revenge against the abominable sin of Adultery containing ten several Histories Lond. 1679. fol. This being never printed before was illustrated with Cuts and published by the said Sam. Pordage with the former book 3 The flower of fidelity Displaying in a continuate history the various adventures of three foraigne Princes Lond. 1650. oct Dedicated to his Father-in-law Rich. Waltham Esq Justice of Peace of Devon and other things which I have not yet seen Among the translations that he hath made from French into English is A Treatise of the Court written by Monsieur de Refuges and by the Translator dedicated to Prince Charles afterwards K. Ch. 1. Whether the said John Reynolds was ever a Student in Oxon I cannot in my searches yet find However some of the Antients of Exeter coll who knew the man have averred it several times that he had received some Accademical education but before he could take a degree was call'd away to travel into France He was living in the times of Usurpation but whether in those of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. I cannot tell ARTHUR HOPTON fifth Son of Sir Arth. Hopton Knight of the Bathe by Rachell his Wife daughter of Edm. Hall of Gretford in Lincolnshire Son of Sir Owen Hopton sometimes Leivtenant of the Tower near London was born in Somersetshire at Wytham as it seems became a Gent. Commoner of Lincoln coll in Michaelmas Term an 1604. aged 15. or more where falling under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor became the miracle of his age for learning In 1607. he was admitted Bach. of Arts and then left the University to the great sorrow of those who knew the wonderful pregnancy of his parts Afterwards he setled in London in one of the Temples as I conceive where he was much admired and beloved by Selden and all the noted men of that time who held him in great value not only for his antient and gentile Extraction but for the marvellous forwardness of his Mathematical genie which led him to perform those matters at one or two and twenty years of age which others of forty or fifty could not do as in these Books following of his composition may appear Baculum Geodaticum sive Viaticum Or the Geodetical Staff containing eight books Lond. 1610. in a pretty thick qu. Speculum Topographicum Or the Topographical Glass containing the use of the Topographical Glass Theodelitus plain Table and Circumferentor c. Lond. 1611. qu. A Concordancy of years containing a new easie and a most exact computation of time according to the English accompt Lond. 1616. oct To which were additions made by Joh. Penkethman Lond. 1635. in qu. in one sh and half He hath also divers copies of verses scattered in books which shew that he was a tolerable Poet of his time He ended his days in the prime of his years within the Parish of St. Clements Danes without Temple-Bar near to London in the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred and fourteen year 1614 and was buried if I mistake not in the Church there His untimely death as I have been informed by those that remember him was much regretted by all those who were acquainted with him and knew his extraordinary worth His Nephew Ralph Hopton Son of his Brother Robert was a Gent. Com. also of Linc. coll and after the Rebellion brake out in 1642. he was a General of an Army under K. Ch. 1. and by him made a Baron ROBERT COOKE who writes himself Cocus was born at or near to Beeston in Yorkshire was entred a Student in Brasenose coll in 1567. aged 17. or thereabouts where with unwearied diligence travelling through the various Classes of Logick and Philosophy he became the most noted Disputant of his time On the 2. Dec. 1573. he was unanimously elected Probationer-Fellow of that coll and three years after took the degree of M. of A. About which time entring into Holy Orders and being noted for his admirable learning was therefore elected one of the Proctors of the University In which office he behaved himself so admirably well that his house gained credit by it In 1584. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and in the beginning of June 1590. resigning his Fellowship retired to his new obtained Vicaridge of Leedes in Yorkshire where making the best advantage of his time became a Man learned in the Church singularly well studied in the disquisition of antiquity especially for the discerning of the proper works of the Fathers from the forged and counterfeit as it may appear in a book which he wrote intit Censura quorundam Scriptorum quae sub nominibus Sanctorum veterum auctorum à Pontificiis passim in eorum Scriptis sed potissimum in quaestionibus hodie controversis
effected Lond. 1584. qu. and other matters pertaining to Virtuosity and something as it seems to Pastoral but whether extant I cannot tell He died about the 17. Nov. in sixteen hundred and fifteen year 1615 and was buried in the Parish Church of Cheswich in Middlesex near to the body of Elizabeth his first Wife Daughter of Will. Fleetwood sometimes Recorder of London by whom he had Issue Will. Chaloner of Gisburgh in Yorkshire soon after his Fathers death made a Baronet Thomas James c. which two last were of the number of Judges that sate in Judgment on King Charles 1. of Blessed Memory as I shall tell you at large He had also several Children by his second Wife Judith Daughter of Will. Blount of London some of whose Posterity as I think liveth at or near Steeple-Claydon in Bucks where Sir Thomas had a fair Estate JOHN DRUSIUS or Driesschus commonly called Vander Driesche the most noted Critick Linguist and Theologist of his time was born at Oudenard a City of Flanders situated between Gaunt and Tourney 28. June 1550. educated in Grammar learning in Gaunt in Academical in the University of Lovaine where he took the degree of Bâ—ch of Arts. About which time his Father Clement Driesche being proscribed for Religion and deprived of his Estate fled into England and took this his Son with him When he came to London he met with Anth. Cevallerius a Professor at Caen in Normandy exceeding skilful in the Hebrew Tongue who reading there to several Scholars and Laicks our author attended him went also with him to Cambridge where he read the said Language and afterwards for a time into France and by his diligence became an exact proficient in the Hebrew as well as in the Greek Language Soon after he returned to London and when he purposed to go back into France he heard of the Massacre at Paris which made him alter his mind So that turning his course to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1572. he was entertained by the Society of Morton coll admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of that house in July the same year and in the beginning of Aug. following had a Chamber set apart for him by the Society who then also decreed that he should have forty shillings yearly allowed to him so long as he read a Hebrew Lecture in their common Refectory For 4 years at least he lived in the said house and constantly read as he did sometimes to the Scholars of Magd. coll upon the desire of Dr. Laur. Humphrey President thereof either Hebrew Chalde or Syriack Lectures In 1573. he was as a Member of the said house of Merton licensed to proceed in Arts and in the year following was recommended by the Chancellour of the University to the Members of Convocation that he might publickly read the Syriack Language in one of the publick Schools and that for his pains he receive a competent stipend Soon after upon consideration of the matter they allowed him twenty marks to be equally gathered from among them and ordered that the same respect be given to him as to any of the Lecturers In 1576. he left Oxon and in the year following the States of Holland chose him to be the Professor in Hebrew Chalde and Syriack in the University of Leydon Soon after being Married the States of Frisland who had erected an University at Franeker invited him thither to be a Professor where continuing many years was held in high esteem of all Scholars and Foreigners that repaired thither He was an excellent Hebrician and well versed in the Rabbines and hath given great light to a large part of the Scriptures as these books following shews most of which are remitted into the several Tomes of the Criticks Comm. ad Voces Hebraicas Novi Testum viz. pars prior Com. ad Voc. Hebr. N. Test viz. pars posterior Antw. 1582. qu. Both printed together at Franek 1616. fol. Quaestionum Hebraicarum libri 3. In quibus varia S. Scripturae explicantur Lugd. 1583. oct Animadversionum lib. 2. Lugd. 1585. oct Com. in librum Esther Lugd. Bat. 1586. oct Additiones Apocryphae latinè versae cum Scholiis Miscellanea locutionum Sacrarum Franek 1586. oct Versio Com. in lib. Ruth ejusque translatio Graeca cum notis ad candem Franek 1586. oct c. Alphabetum Hebraicum vetus veterum Gnomae Heb. Lat. Franek 1587. Parallela seu locorum vet Testamenti quae Novo citantur conjuncta commemoratio Franek 1588. qu. Proverbiorum sacrorum classes 2. seu explicatio Proverb Salomonis Franek 1590. qu. Lectiones in Amos Nahum Habuc Sophoniam Joel Jonam Abdiam Lugd. Bat. 1591. oct c. Liber Tobias Graecè cum castigationibus Franek 1591. qu. Lectiones in Jonam Lugd. Bat. 1591. oct Observationum Sacrarum lib. 16. Franek 1594. oct Carmina Hebraica in obitum Jos Scaligeri Franek 1591. qu. De quaesitis per Epistolam Printed 1595. oct Ecclesiastices Graecè cum versione notis Franek 1596. qu. Versio Scholia ad Proverbia Ben-Syrae Franek 1597. qu. Adagiorum Hebraicorum Decuriae aliquot cum Scholiis Quaest Hebr. lib. 3. Franek 1599. oct Lectiones in Hoseam Lugd. Bat. 1599. oct Versio notae ad librum Hasmonaeorum seu priorem Machabaeorum Franek 1600. qu. Grammatica Chaldaica ex tabb. Merceri descripta Franek 1602. oct De Hasidaeis Franek 1603. oct De nomine Elohim Franek 1604. oct De nomine Tetragrammato cum Scholiis in Pauli Burgensis 12. questiones de eodem subjecto Franek 1604. oct Amst 1634. qu. Comm. de 3 sectis Judaeorum contra Serarium Franek 1605. Comm. de sectis Judaicis viz. de Hasidaeis de 3. sectis Judaeorum spicilegium Tribaeresii Nic. Serarii Franek 1603. and 1605. oct Arnh. 1619. qu. Respons ad Nic. Seraerii Minerval Franek 1606. oct Notae ad Sulpitii severi historiam sacram Franek 1607. oct Opuscula Grammaticalia Franek 1609. qu. Annot. in Nov. Test sive praeteritorum libri 10. Franek 1612. qu. c. Annot. pars altera Franek 1616. qu. Apothegmata Hebraeorum ac Arabum ex variis authoribus collecta Lat. Franek 1612. qu. c. De Patriarchâ Henoch ejus libro ubi etiam de libris in S. Scriptura memoratis qui nunc interciderunt Franek 1615. qu. Comm. in difficiliora loca Pentateuchi Franek 1617. qu. Comm. in difficiliora loca Josuae Judicum Samuchs Franek 1618. Vet. Gr. Interp. fragm in vetus Test cum notis Arnh. 1622. qu. Com. seu Lectiones in 12 Prophetas Minores Amstel 1627. Published with additions and amended by Sixt. Amama Annot. in librum Kohèleth seu Ecclesiasten Amstel 1635. Versio Scholia in lib. Job Amstel 1636. Veterum Interpretum Graecorum fragmenta in Pentateuchum cum notis Conjectanea in Graecam editionem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lxx Tetragrammaticon sive de nomine dei proprio c. Amstel 1634. qu. Historia Ruth Graece ad
This is the first part The second part containeth the lives and characters of English Writers The third containeth an Appendix of which I shall speak more anon and the fourth fifteen indices which are as 't were the Epitomy of memorable things of the said first tome Concerning which I shall make these observations following 1 That according to the time wherein 't was written things are expressed in eloquent Latine 2 That the most part thereof especially concerning the Writers is taken from Joh. Bale's book De Scriptoribus majoris Britanniae notwithstanding he declares an abhorrence of him and his book 2 That therein he omitts Wycleve and all the Wyclevists Irish and Scotch Writers which Bale for the most part commemorates and in their room he gives us an account of R. Cath. Writers such for the most part that had left their Country upon the reformation of religion made by Q. Elizabeth and after which is the best and most desired part of his book 3 That several Writers in the Appendix are taken from a book entit Ecclogua Oxonio Cantabrigensis written by Tho. James of New coll Of which book also he makes use when he tells you in what Libraries the MSS. of certain authors which he mentions are preserved 4 That tho he pretends to give you an account only of R. Cath. Writers especially about the time that reformations were made or endeavoured to be made yet he sets down for want of full information I presume some that were sincere Protestants or at least more Protestants than Papists as Sir Anth. Cope who died 1551. Joh. Redman who died the same year Tho. Key or Cay Master of Vniv. coll who died 1572. Joh. Leland the Antiquary Rob. Record Mathematician Dr. Alb. Hyll an intimate acquaintance with Jo. Bradford the Martyr Joh. Cay the Antiquary of Cambridge Pet. Morwyn or Morwyng of Magd. coll c. and in the Appendix George Coriat rather a Puritan than a true Son of the Church of England Robert for Roger Taverner whom I have mention'd in Rich. Taverner an 1575. Timothy Bright of Cambridge Doct. of Physick and Rector of Methley in Yorkshire by the death of Otho Hunt in July 1591. Tho. Mouffet a Doctor of Physick contemporary with the former Joh. Huntington a zealous reformer and the beloved Son in Christ of Joh. Bale See among the Writers under the year 1556. c. 5 That whereas he pretends to follow Jo. Leland his Collectanea de Scriptoribus Angliae for very many times he familiarly mentions and quotes them 't is only that he may avoid the naming of Bale for whom all R. Catholicks nay zealous Protestants have little or no kindness at all because his book is stuff'd with revilings and such Language that befits rather a Huckster at Billingsgate than the meanest or worst of Scholars The truth is our author Pits never saw the said Collectanea he being but 20 years of age or little more when he left the Nation neither was it in his power afterwards if he had been in England because they were kept in such private hands that few Protestant Antiquaries and none of those of the Church of Rome could see or peruse them 6 That in the said tome are very many errors misnomers c. and so consequently in Bale whom he follows too many now to reckon and how he and Bale are most egregiously deceiv'd in what they mention of Amphibalus Junior and of Gildas Badonicus you may at large see in the learned Usserius in his book De primordiis Ecclesiarum c. printed in qu. an 1639. p. 539. 533 477. 539 557. and 1144. 7 That whereas Pits pretends to set down in the said book or tome only English Writers he hath mix'd among them some that are out landish among which are these Herbertus Losinga num 182. born as he saith in Suffolke but false for the MS. which I follow in my marginal notes and additions of and to the Bishops of Norwich mentioned by Franc. Bishop of Landaff in his book De Praesulibus Angliae Commentarius saith that he was born in Pago Oxinnensi or Oximensi in Normannia Jo. Erigena nu 133. said by him and many others to be born in the City of S. David in Wales but the generality say in Ireland c. At the end of the book of illustrious Writers our author Pits hath Appendix illustrium scriptorum trecentorum octoginta circiter ordine alphabetico per centurias continens Made up mostly from Bale and partly from Dr. Tho. James his Ecloga before-mentioned But therein are many authors put which are before in the work it self De script illust Angliae as 1 Godfridus Historicus cent 2. num 94. p. 844. is the same with Godfridus Arturius or de Monmouth in the body of the work nu 212. 2 Gualt Cepton cent 2. nu 4. p. 846. the same with Walter Catton in the body nu 550. 3 Guliel Califord cent 2. nu 18. p. 851. is the same with Gul. Cockisford nu 653. 4 Guliel de Dunclmo cent 2. nu 27. is the same with Gul. Shirwood in the body of the work nu 348. 5 Gul. Worcestrius c. 2. nu 53. the same with Gul. Buttonerus in the work it self nu 848. p. 648. 6 Joh. Anglicus cent 2. nu 78. seems to be the same with Joh. Hoveden nu 396. P. 356. 7 Joh. de Alton cent 2. nu 94. seems to be the same with Joh. Acton nu 416. p. 372. 8 Joh. Yorcus cent 3. nu 10. is the same with Joh. Eboracensis in the same Appendix p. 874. nu 1. 9 Joh. Vton cent 3. nu 35. is the same with Joh. Stone in the body of the work nu 862. p. 657. 10 Rich. de Montibus cent 3. nu 80. seems to be the same with Will. de Montibus nu 302. p. 285. 11 Rich. Ruys c. 3. nu 92. the same with Rich. Rufus nu 380. p. 348. 12 Rob. Bridlington c. 3. nu 100. the same with Rob. Scriba nu 244. P. 242. 13 Rob. Cestrensis c. 4. nu 2. the same with Rog. Cestrensis nu 514. p. 438. 14 Miserorum Simplissimus c. 3. nu 52. seems to be the same with Joh. Wethamstede nu 818. P. 630. 15 Rob. Dominicanus c. 4. nu 8. the same with Rob. Holcot nu 333. p. 463. 16 Rob. Herefordiensis c. 4. nu 11. the same with Rob. Foliot B. of Hereford nu 236. p. 236. 17 Robertus Prior c. 4. nu 13. is the same with Rob. Canutus nu 234. p. 234. Which R. Canutus also is supposed to be the same with Rich. Greekladensis p. 397. nu 448. and that Rich. to be the same with Rob. Greekladensis mentioned by Leland in vol. 3. collect p. 36. where 't is said that the said Rob. wrote 40 Homilies and a Tract De connubio Jacob which makes me think that the said Robert Prior may be the same with the said Rob. Greeklade and the same R. Greeklade to be the same with
Rob. Canutus 18 Rog. Junius c. 4. nu 23. seems to be the same with Rog. Herefordiensis nu 238. p. 237. See more fully in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 53. 19 Roger Varro c. 4. nu 27. seems to be the same with Gul. de Waria nu 384. p. 349. 20 Simon Dominicanus c. 4. nu 35. is the same with Sim. Henton nu 591. p. 486. 21 Steph. Anglicus cent 4. nu 38. seems to be the same with Steph. Langton nu 326. p. 302. 22 Tho. Wicket c. 4. nu 68. the same with Tho. Wiccius nu 425. p. 379 23 Anonymus alter c. 1. nu 20. the same with Rich. Canonicus nu 283. p. 267. c. And as our author Pits hath repeated many writers in the said Appendix which were before in the work it self so hath he mixed a great many outlandish writers among them supposing them to be English among whom are 1 Alacenus cent 1. nu 8. who was an Arabian as from his works may be gathered 2 Anonymus Sacerdos c. 1. nu 26. who hath written In Apocalypsim S. Johannis lib. 8. Which book divers writers do attribute to Peter Scaliger Bishop of Verona 3 Joh. de Muriis c. 2. nu 97. Who was a French man of Paris 4 Joh. Major c. 3. nu 15. he was a Scot born 5 Joh. Mearus c. 3. nu 18. whom I take to be Joh. de Meara an Irish man 6 Guido Folla Episc Eliensis c. 2. nu 13. He is the same with Guido Elnensis in Majorica who sometimes writes himself Guido Perpinian Elnensis No Guido Folla was ever Bish of Ely 7 Gilla Lincolniensis c. 2. nu 93. He was an Irish Man was Bishop of Limerick and died about 1139. 8 Anton Pacinus c. 1. nu 28. he was an Italian c. At length after our author Jo. Pits had spent most of his time in rambling and but little at Liverdune he gave way to fate there on the 17. Octob. according to the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 whereupon his body was buried in the collegiate Ch. at that place and had soon after this inscription put over his grave Hic jacet D. Pittz quondam Decanus Officialis Canonicus hujus Ecclesiae Doctor SS Theologiae qui decessit ex hâc vita 17. Oct. an 1616. As for the other volumes which our author saith he hath written viz. a vol. of the Kings another of the Bishops and a third of Apostolical men of England they were not buried with him as he desired in case he should not live to finish them but were saved and are to this day preserved as rarities in the Archives of the Coll. or Church at Liverdune One of the said volumes if not more were used and quoted by Edward Maihew a Benedictine Monk sometimes Scholar to our author Pitscus in a book which he published at Rheimes an 1619. intit Congregationis Anglicanae Ordinis S. Benedicti Trophaea Which Maihew was a Salisbury Man born and a professed Monk of the Congregation at Cassino called by the French Mount-Cassin about 48 miles distant from Naples The other book of Bishops which our author wrote and often refers to in his book De scriptoribus is chiefly a collection taken from the Catalogue of the Bishops of England published by Francis Godwin Sub-Dean of Exeter an 1601. as I have been informed by one that hath seen and perused the book HENRY AIRAY was born in Westmorland educated in Grammatical learning by the care of Bernard Gilpin the northern Apostle and by him sent to S. Edmunds hall an 1579. aged 19. or thereabouts of whose benefaction he did not only then participate but also of his Legacies in his last Will dated 27. Oct. 1582. Soon after our author Airay was translated to Queens coll where he became Pauper Puer Serviens that is a poor serving Child that waits on the Fellows in the Common hall at Meals and in their Chambers and do other servile work about the College After he was Bachelaurs standing in 1583. he was made Pauper Puer or Tabardus or Tabardarius that is a Tabarder or Tabitter so called because anciently they wore Coats or upper Gowns much according to the fashion of those belonging to Heralds and in the year 1586 Master of Arts and Fellow Which servile work belonging to Pauper Puer Serviens when Under-graduats all are to undergo before they can be Fellows About the time he was Master he entred into Holy Orders and became a frequent and zealous Preacher in the University particularly in the Church of S. Peter in the East joyning to Qu. coll and taking the degree of B. of Div. in 1594. was four years after chose Provost of his College In 1600. he proceeded in Divinity and six years after did undergo the office of Vicechancellour wherein as always before he shewed himself a zealous Calvinist and a great maintainer of such that were of his mind which then went beyond the number of those that were true English Ch. men He is reported by those of his party especially such that had an admiration for him that he condemned himself to obscurity and affected a retired and a private life but being generally noted and esteemed for his holiness integrity learning gravity and indefatigable pains in the discharge of his Ministerial Function c. he could not hide himself from the eyes of the World Also that by his singular wisdom and dexterity in the Government of his College many learned Ministers were sent thence into the Church and many worthy Gentlemen into the Commonwealth c. To pass by other commendations which are needless now to repeat I shall only tell you of his writings which were published after his death viz. Lectures upon the whole Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians Lond. 1618. qu. Which Lectures having been Preached in the Church of St. Peter in the East in Oxon were published after his death by Christop Potter Fellow of Queens coll with an Epistle before them of his composition The just and necessary Apology touching his suit in Law for the Rectory of Charlton on Otmore on Oxfordshire Lond. 1621. oct Published also by the said Potter a great admirer of this author and his doctrine Treatise against bowing at the Name of Jesus When printed I know not for I have not yet seen it Tho. Beacon an old Calvinist had long before written on that subject and about Airay's time Dr. W. Whittaker and Andr. Wille◠did the like As for our author he died in Queens coll on the sixth of the Ides of Octob. year 1616 in sixteen hundred and sixteen aged 57. and was buried in the inner Chappel of the said coll Over his grave was soon after put two Monuments one on the ground and another in the South wall with inscriptions on both of them the copies of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vnivers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b. FRANCIS TATE Son of Barthelm Tate of
Delapre in Northamptonshire Esq was born there or at least in that County became a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. aged 17. where laying a foundation of leâ—rning for a greater structure to be erected thereon departed without a degree to the Middle Temple 〈…〉 became a noted Counsellour a person of great 〈…〉 in the Law and eminent for his knowledge in 〈◊〉 and in the Saxon Language In the latter â—nd of Q Elizabeth he was a Parliament Man and in the 5. Jac. 1. he was Lent-Reader of the Middle Temple and about that time one of the Justices Itinerant for S. Wales He hath written several matters relating to Antiquity which being crept into private hands the publick is thereby rob'd of the benefit of them However some of them I have seen which bear these titles Nomina Hydarum in com Northampton MS. much used by Augustine Vincent Son of Will. Vincent of Wellingborough and Thingdon in Northamptonshire in his intended Survey or Antiquities of Northamptonshire I have a copy of this lying by me Explanation of the abbreviated words in Domsday book Used also the by said Vincent who after he had been Rouge Croix and Windsore Herald as also had published A discovery of Errors in two Editions of the Catalogue of Nobility written by Raphe Brook did yield to nature on the 11. Jan. in 1625. and was buried in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls Wharf in London The said two MSS. of Franc. Tate were reserved as rarities in the Library of Christop Lord Hatton of Kirkly in Northamptonshire but where they are now I know not His opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England See more in Joh. Doderidge under the year 1628. Learned Speeches in Parliaments held in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen He lived a single Man and dying so on the 16. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 was buried I suppose in the Church belonging to the Temples He had a Nephew Son of his elder Brother Sir William Tate of Delapre called Zouch Tate who became a Gentleman Com. of Trinity coll in 1621. aged 15. but took no degree In 1640. he was chosen a Burgess for Northampton to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year where siding with the Factious Crew took the Covenant and became a zealous Enemy to the King and his Cause Two or more Speeches of his are printed one of which was spoken in a Common Hall at London 3. Jul. 1645. containing Observations on the King and Queens Cabinet of Letters Lond. 1645. qu. Which Speech with that of John L'isle and Rich. Browne were animadverted upon by Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. as hereafter it shall be told you There were also Annotations printed at the end of the said Cabinet of Letters taken at Naseby Battle where the King was worsted Printed at Lond. 1645. qu. but who the author of them was I cannot tell RICHARD FIELD received his first being in this World in the County of Hertford was entred a Student in Magd. coll in 1577. where continuing in drudging at his book till he was about Bachelaurs standing retired to Magd. hall took the degrees in Arts and afterwards for about 7 years was not only a daily Reader of Logick and Philosophy but also a Moderator and every Sunday a discusser of controversies against Bellarmine and other Pontificians before his Fellow-Aularians and many others Afterwards being Bach. of Divinity he became first a Reader thereof in the Cath. Church of Winchester and afterwards in Lincolns Inn and when Doctor Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Elizab. and after her death to K. James the last of whom not only gave him a Prebendship of Windsore on the death of Jo. Chamber an 1604. but also the Deanry of Gloucester in 1609. in the place of Dr. Tho. Morton promoted to the Deanry of Winchester Both which he kept with the Rectory of Burcleere or Burrowcleere in Hampshire and all little enough for the encouragement of so right learned a Man as this our author Dr. Field was who in his time was esteemed a principal mountainer of Protestancy a powerful Preacher a profound Schoolman exact Disputant and so admirable well knowing in the Controversies between the Protestants and the Papists that few or none went beyond him in his time as it doth plainly appear in these his labours Of the Church four books Lond. 1606. fol. To which he added a fifth book Lond. 1610. fol. with an Appendix containing A defence of such passages of the former books that have been excepted against or wrested to the maintenance of the Romish Errours All which were reprinted at Oxon 1628. fol. He also published A Sermon Preached before the King at Whitehall on Jude ver 3. Lond. 1604. qu. He surrendred up his pious Soul to the great God that first gave it on the 21. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 being then reviewing the said books and about to give answer to such that had oppugned them and was buried in the outer Chappel of St. George at Windsore a little below the Choire Over his grave was soon after laid a plank of black Marble and thereon this inscription engraven on a Copper plate fastned thereunto Richardus Field hujus olim coll canonicus Ecclesiae Glocestrensis Decanus verè Doctor Theologiae author librorum quinque de Ecclesia Vna cum Elizabetha Harrisia Sanctissima Charissima conjuge ex qua sex reliquit filios filiam unicam Hic sub communi marmore expectant Christi reditum qui faelicitatem quam ingressi sunt adventu suo perficeat ac consummet Obierunt in Domino ille an sal 1616. aetatis suae 55. Haec an sal 1614. aetatis suae 41. In Dr. Field's Deanry of Gloucester succeeded Dr. William Land and in his Canonry of Windsore Edm. Wilson Doctor of Physick and Fellow of Kings coll in Cambridge RICHARD HAKLUYT was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Yetton in Herefordshire elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School in 1570. took the degrees in Arts lived for some time in the Middle Temple where I presume he studied the Municipal Law Afterwards he entred into holy Orders and at length became Prebendary of the fourth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of one Dr. Rich. Webster an 1605. and Rector of Wetheringset in Suffolk But that which is chiefly to be noted of him is this that his Genie urging him to the study of History especially to the Marine part thereof which was encouraged and furthered by Sir Francis Walsingham made him keep constant intelligence with the most noted Seamen at Wapping near London From whom and many small Pamphlets and Letters that were published and went from hand to hand in his
à Jesu printed at S. Omer in 1613. quarto Curry-comb for a Coxcombe Or Purgatories Knell In answer to a Libel by Jebal Rachel against Sir Edw. Hobies Counter-snarle intituled Purgatories Triumph over hell Lond. 1615. qu. Several motions speeches and arguments in the four last Parliaments in Queen Elizabeth Published in the Historical collections of Hayw. Townsend Esq He translated from French into English Politique discourses upon truth and lying An instruction to Princes to keep their faith and promises Lond. 1586. qu. Composed by Sir Mart. Cognet Knight one of the Privy-Councel to the most Christian King master of the Requests to his Houshold and lately Embassador to the Cantons of Zwitzers and Grisons And also from Spanish into English The Origine and practice of War Lond. 1597. oct Written by Don Bernard de Mendoza At length he giving way to fate in Queenburgh Castle on the first day of March St. David's day in sixteen hundred and sixteen his body was conveyed to Bysham before mentioned and buried there in a Chappel called Hoby's Chappel on the south side of the Chancel of the Church there near to the body of his Father Sir Thomas The said Sir Edward left behind him a natural Son named Peregrin Hoby born of the body of one Katherin Pinkney an 1602. From which Peregrin are the Hobyes now of Bysham descended THOMAS EGERTON the natural Son of Sir Rich. Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire was born in that County applyed his Muse to learning in this University about 1556. particularly as 't is said in Brasnose coll of which he was a Commoner in the year of his age 17 or thereabouts where continuing about 3 years laid a foundation whereon to build profounder learning Afterwards going to Lincolns-Inn he made a most happy progress in the municipal laws and at length was a Counsellour of note In 1581. June 28. he was constituted by the Queen her Solicitor General and soon after he became Lent-reader of the said Inn. In 1592. June 2. the said Queen made him her Attorney General in 1594. he being then a Knight he was made Master of the Rolls and two years after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal In which emiment office he continued during the whole remainder of Qu. Elizabeths happy Reign On 21. of Jul. 1603. he was raised to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of L. Ellesmere and upon the 24. of the said Month he was made Lord Chancellour of England In the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was unanimously elected Chanc. of the University of Oxon. and in 14. Jac. 1. dom 1616. he was advanced to the dignity of Vicount Brackley He was a most grave and prudent man a good Lawyer just and honest of so quick an apprehension also and profound judgment that none of the Bench in his time went beyond him He hath written Speech in the Exchequer Chamber touching the Post-nati Lond. 1609. in qu. in 16. sheets Certain observations concerning the office of Lord Chancellour Lond. 1651. oct and left behind him at his death four MSS. of choice collections fit to be Printed concerning 1 The prerogative Royal. 2 Priviledges of Parliament 3 Proceedings in Chancery 4 The power of the Starr-chamber He resigned up his last breath in York-house in the Strand near London 15. March in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Church of Dodleston in Cheshire His memory was much celebrated by Epigrams while he was living and after his death all of the long Robe lamented his loss We have his Picture drawn to the life in the habit of Lord Chancellour setting in a Chair hanging in the Gallery belonging to the Bodleian Library called the School-gallery WILLIAM MARTYN Son of Nich. Martyn of the City of Exeter by his first Wife Mary Daughter of Leonard Yeo of Hatherley in Devon Son of Rich. Martyn of the said City and he the second Son of William Martyn of Athelhampton in Dorsetshire Knight was born and educated in Grammar learning within the said City of Exeter where making early advances towards Academical learning was sent to Broadgates hall now Pomb coll an 1579. aged 17. In which place falling under the tuition of a noted Master laid an excellent foundation in Logick and Philosophy Afterwards going to the Inns of Court he became a Barester and in 1605. was elected Recorder of Exeter in the place of John Hele Serjeant at Law But his delight being much conversant in the reading of English Histories he composed a book of the Kings of England as I shall tell you anon Upon the publication of which K. James as 't is said taking some exceptions at a passage therein either to the derogation of his family or of the Realm of Scotland he was thereupon brought into some trouble which shortned his days He hath written Youths instruction Lond. 1612. qu. dedicated to his Son Nich. Martyn then a Student in Oxon. In the said book is shewed a great deal of reading and consequently that the author was no loser of his time The History and Lives of the Kings of England from William the Conquerour to K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1616. and 28. fol. usher'd into the world with the copies of Verses of Nicholas William and Edw. Martyn the Sons of the author and by Pet. Bevis his Son-in-Law To this History was afterwards added the History of K. Edw. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth by B. R. Master of Arts Lond. 1638. fol. At the end of all the impressions was Printed The succession of the Dukes and Earls of this Kingdom of England from the Conquerour to the 12. of James 1. with the then Viscounts Barons Baronets c. which was drawn up by the author and continued after his death by R. B. before-mention'd What other books the said Will. Martyn hath either written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of S. Petrock in the City of Exeter 12. year 1617 Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen The inscription which was on the Stone supposed to be laid for him is worn out and a new inscription cut thereon for one of the same family buried there The next who must follow according to time was a severe Puritan as Martyn was FRANCIS BUNNRY Younger brother to Edmund whom I shall anon mention was born in an antient House called the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks on the 8. of May 1543. became a Student in the University in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Mary an 1558. and perpetual Fellow of Madg. coll in 1562. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy Orders and began to preach Gods word on the first of Nov. 1567. Whose Sermons being noted among many he became soon after Chaplain to the Earl of Bedford but continuing with him not long he left his Fellowship in 1571. and retiring into the north parts of
Vigiliis Paschatis Printed with the former book Apologia contra calumniatores suos Lond. 1619. qu. Emblemata varia dedicata Regibus Principibus Magnatibus Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae Poemata varia Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614. Which four last things were printed with his Apologia c. 1619. what other books he hath published I cannot justly tell However from those before mention'd it appears that the author was a phantastical and unsetled man and delighted as it seems in rambling CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire was born in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote An Apology for women or the womans defence Lond. 1620. oct Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks Afterwards he retired into the Country studied Divinity had a benefice conferr'd upon and tho he never took any degree in Arts in this University yet he took that of Bach. of Div. 1631 which is all I know of him JOHN KING Son of Philip King of Wormenhale commonly called Wornal near to Brill in Bucks by Elizazabeth his wife Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire Son of Thom. King brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon was born at Wornal before mention'd educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth successor to Will. Day 1565. at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferr'd upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University In 1611. he had the Bishoprick of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year had restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See made to him 18 of the same month at which time he was had in great reverence by all people He was a solid and profound Divine of great gravity and piety and had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often 〈◊〉 of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time When he was advanced to the See of London he endeavoured to let the world know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit shewing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too In which office he was so frequent that unless hindred by want of health he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London Deus bone quam canora Vox saith one vultus compositus verba selecta grandes sententiae Allicimur omnes lepore verborum suspendimur gravitate sententiarum orationis impetu viribus flâ—ctimur c. He hath written Lectures upon Jonâ—s delivered at York Lond. 1594. Ox. 99. c. qu. Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon at Hampton-Court on Cantic 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. 2 At Ox. 5. Nov. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. 3 At Whitehall 5. Nov. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2 3 4. Ox. 1608. qu. 4 At S. Maries in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration on 1 Chron. ult 26. 27 28. Ox. 1608. qu. 5 Vitis palatina Serm. appointed to be preached at White-hall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614. qu. 6 Serm. at Pauls cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. 7 At Pauls cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal 123. 3. and a third on Psal 146. 3. 4. c. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature 30. March in sixteen hundred twenty and one year 1621 aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight Soon after Bishop Kings death the Rom. Catholicks endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit The Bishop of London his Legacy Or certain motives of Dr. King late B. of London for his change of religion and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England Printed by permission of the superiours 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter his son Hen. King not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Pauls cross soon after but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former who published a Sermon entit Abels offering c. on Gen. 4. ver 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh and whether he was of this Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN GUILLIM or Agilliams son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain I find one of both his names who was a student in Brasnose coll in the year 1581. aged 16 and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were according to the Matricula born in Herefordshire in which County the author of The worthies of England places Jo. Guillim the Herald of whom we now speak who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire was soon after called thence and made one of the Society of the coll of Arms. commonly called the Heralds Office in London by the name of Portsmouth and on the 26 Feb. 1617. Rouge Croix Pursevant of Arms in Ordinary He published The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. Written mostly especially the scholastical part by John Barcham of C. C. coll in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant superfluous and needless additions to it purposely to gain money from those
Involved in a book intit Monumenta Westmon â—r an historical account of the original increase and present State of S. Peter's or the Abby Ch. of Westminster c. Lond. 1682. in oct Published by Hen. Keep of the Inner Temple Gent. sometimes a Gent. Com. of New Inn in Oxon. Remains concerning Britain their Languages Names Surnames Allusions c. Lond. 1604. 14. c. qu. Published at first under the two letters of M. N. which are the two last letters of the authors name To this book were several additions made by Jo. Philipot Herald of Arms under the title of Somerset Lond. 1637. c. qu. afterwards in oct with Camden's picture before all the editions Rerum 〈…〉 regnante Eli 〈◊〉 in 4 parts The first half with an Apparatus beâ—ore it reaching from the beginning of the Reign of Q. Elizab. to the end of the year 1588. was printed at Lond. in fol. 1615. having had several things therein before that time expunged especially such that related to the story of Mary Q. of Scots The other half reaching from the beginning of 1589. to the death of Q. Elizab. and an Appendix were printed at the same place in fol. 1627. Both printed in two tomes at Leyden in oct and in a thick oct at Amsterdam 1639. and all translated into English by B. N. Gent. and several times printed in fol. The last half was translated into English by Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. afterwards Canon of Windsore and by him intit Tomus alter idem or The History c. Lond. 1629. in qu. His opinion concerning the High Court of Parliament Lond. 1658. oct Printed with the opinions on the same subject of Joh. Doderidge Arth. Agard and Franc. Tate I have seen also a discourse of his concerning the High Stewardship of England but 't is not as I conceive printed Epistolae variae ad viros doctos Written mostly in Latin Annales Regis Jacobi These reach from the death of Q. Elizab. 24. of March 1602-03 to the 18. of Aug. 1623. and no farther because the author being then very ill in body remaining in that condition till his death he could not well continue them any farther So that there wants memories more than for a year to the end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. These Annals are written with the authors own hand in fol. being only a Skeleton of a History or bare touches to put the author in mind of greater matters that he had in his head had he lived to have digested them in a full History as that of Q. Elizabeth The original came after his death into the hands of Mr. Joh. Hacket afterwards D. D. and at length Bishop of Lichfield who as I have been divers times informed did privately convey it out of the Library of the author Hacket being then a Master of Arts of some years standing This original being communicated by the said Dr. Hacket while he was living at Lichfield to Mr. afterwards Sir Will. Dugdale then Norroy King of Arms he contrary to the Doctors knowledge took a copy of it which I have seen and perused at Sir Williams house called Blith hall in Warwickshire but therein I found many mistakes as it afterwards more evidently appeared to me when that Transcript was put into the Ashmolean Musaeum Another copy I have seen in the hands of Sir Hen. St. George Clarenceaux King of Arms which having been transcribed by one that understood not Latin are innumerable faults therein and therefore not at all to be relyed upon After Dr. Hacket's death the original was put into the Library of Trin. coll in Cambridge where it now remains Our author Camden did also put into Latin Actio in Henricum Garnet Societatis Jesu in Anglia Superiorem c. adjectum est supplicium de Hen. Garnet Londini sumptum c. Lond. 1607. qu. And also viewed corrected and published certain old writers to whom he gave this title Anglica Normanica Hibernica Cambrica per varios authores c. Francof 1603. 04. fol. The first of which writers is Asser Menevensis his book De vita rebus gestis Regis Aelfredi At length our author Camden paying his last debt to nature in his house at Chiseihurst in Kent on Sunday the ninth of Nov. about 4 or 5 of the clock in the morn in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 his body afterwards was conveyed to Westminster to the house there where he used to dwell where laying in State for some time 't was on the 19. day of the same month carried to St. Peters commonly called the Abby-Church within that City accompanied by several of the Heralds in their formalities many of the Nobility Clergy Gentry and others All which being placed Dr. Christop Sutton a Prebendary of that Church stept up into the Pulpit and made a true grave and modest commemoration of his life Adding that as he was not sactious in Religion so neither was he wavering or inconstant of which he gave good testimonies at his end prosessing in the Exordium of his last Will that he died as had lived in the Faith Communion and Fellowship of the Church of England Sermon being ended the body was carried into the S. Cross Isle where it was buried in the west side or part of it As soon as the news of his death was certified to the Sages or Governours of the University they in gratitude of so worthy a Benefactor as he had been caused his memory to be celebrated in an Oration publickly delivered by the mouth of 〈…〉 M. of A. and Student of Ch. Ch. who was then the Deputy Oâ—â—tor To which Speech many of the Academians adding verses on the Benefactors death they were with the Speech printed under the title of Camdeni Insignia Oxon. 1624. qu. After these things were done was a Monument erected on the west Wall of the said S. cross isle with the bust of the Defunct resting his hand on a book with Britannia insculp'd on the Leaves thereof This Monument which was composed of black and white Marble was somewhat defaced in 1646. when the Hearse and Effâ—gies of Robert Earl of Essex the Parliamentarian General were cut in pieces and defaced The Inscription however being left intire I caused it to be printed elsewhere In the last Will and Testam of this great Scholar which I have more than once perused I find besides his publick benefactions his Legacies of 16 l. 10 l. and 5 l. to all his learned acquaintance then in being as to Ja. Gruter Library Keeper to the Prince Pal. Elector of Heidelberg 5 l. To Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloc. hall in Oxon. 16 l. To Jo. 〈◊〉 of the Inner Temple 5 l. c. besides a piece of plate to Sir 〈◊〉 Grevill Lord Brook Chancellour of the Exchequer who preferr'd him gratis to his Office and another of 16 l. price to the Company of Painter-Stainers of London and this to be engraven thereon Gul. Camden Clarenceaux
filius Sampsonis Camden pictoris Loâ—â—incosiâ— 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 〈◊〉 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. Loâ—a 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 〈◊〉 Oxon. 〈…〉 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 〈◊〉 in Hist 〈◊〉 Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 43. and 370. a. and b. As for his 〈◊〉 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 â—AVOUR born in the Borough of South 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 was educated for a time in Grammatical learning there Afterwards being compleated for the University in 〈◊〉 School he was elected Probationer of 〈◊〉 coll in 1576. and two years after was made compâ—â—t fellow In 〈◊〉 he proceeded Doctor of the civil 〈◊〉 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 Toâ—stall 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. Clâ—y D. D. of Mâ—rt coll and him Hugh Ramsden B. of D. another 〈◊〉 in 1628. and in his Chantourship of York succeeded Hâ—n 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. â—â—ed 19. took one degree in Arts left the coll and at length became Vicar of Oling or Wâ—â—ing in Sâ—rrey 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 alphabâ—tice 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 Okâ—ng 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 〈◊〉 and man born and descended from those of his name living at Wastellhead in the 〈◊〉 County was entred a Student also in Queens coll in 1580. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts five years 〈◊〉 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 〈◊〉 or the Bibles â—pitome c. Lond. 1629. c. in tw This person
ingratitude 4 Afflictions the Christians portion 5 Duty and affinity of the faithful 6 No peace with Rome c. Oxon. 1629. qu. Status quaestionum inter nos pontificios MS. in qu. containing 92. pages in Lat. in the Libr. of Dr. Tho. Barlow At length after he had lived 34. years he was to the great grief of many untimely snacth'd away by the Plague that was then in Oxon. 25. July in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and was privately buried late at night in the south yard belonging to S. Maries Church within this University leaving then behind him a disconsolate Widdow named Elizabeth Daughter of Dr. Râ—b Hoveden sometimes Warden of All 's coll besides children Over his grave was soon after an altar-monument erected with an Epitaph engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 181. b. RAPHAEL THORIUS commonly called Thoris a French man born was in his younger days conversant among the Oxonians in the condition of a Sojourner and made a considerable progress in the faculty of medicine but took no degree therein only numbred among those of the Physick line Afterwards he setled in London practiced that faculty with good success and was in his time accounted Corypheus Medici gregis and as a Physitian famous so no vulgar Poet. The works that he hath written are many but none were published till after his death the titles of some of which follow Hymnus Tabaci sive de Pacto libri duo Which books being procured from the author in Feb. 1624. by Ludov. à Kinschot were by him published at Lond. 1627. oct This elegant Lat. Poem was translated into English verse by Pet. Hansted M. A. of Cambridge afterwards D. D. Lond. 1651. oct Cheimonopegnia A winter song in Lat. verse published also by the said Kinschot 1627. oct and translated into English by P. Hausted before mentioned Epistolae duae de Isaaci Casauboni morbi mortisque caussa written in 1614. Put at the end of Isaac Casaubons epistles published by Joh. Freder Gronovius 1638. qu. In the first of Car. 1. when the plague raged in London he acted more for the publick by exposing his person too much than his most dear concern Wherefore being deeply infected with that disease died of it in his house in the parish of S. Bennet Finck in Jul. or Aug. in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 but where he was buried I know not unless in the Church or Ch. yard of that parish He left behind him a Son named John whom I shall elsewhere mention and a most dear friend who lamented his death in a Lat. Poem not to be contemn'd entit Lessus in funere Raphaelis Thorii Medici Poetae praestantissimi c. In which if it can be seen which I think not for I never saw but one you may read many things justly said of him JOHN FLORIO the Resolute as he used to write himself was born in London in the latter end of the raign of K. H. 8 a little before which time his Father descended from the Florii of Sienna in Tuscany and Mother who were Waldenses had fled from the Valtoline into England for religion sake But when K. Ed. 6. died and the protestant religion silenc'd by the succession of Qu. Mary they left England and went to another Country where Jo. Florio received his puerile literature After Protestancy was restored by Q. Elizab. they return'd and Florio for a time lived in this University At length Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham sending his Son Emanuel to Magd. coll to obtain Acad. literature in the quality of a Commoner about 1576. Florio was appointed to attend him as a Tutor in the Italian and French tongues At which time wearing a Gown he was matriculated as a member of that house in 1581. aged about 36 years and as a teacher and instructor of certain Scholars in the University After K. James came to the Crown he was appointed Tutor to Pr. Henry for those languages and at length made one of the Privy Chamber and Clerk of the closet to Qu. Anne to whom he was a Tutor also He was a very useful man in his profession zealous in the religion he professed and much devoted to the English nation His works are His first fruits which yield familiar speech merry proverbs witty sentences and golden saying Lond. 1578. qu. 91. oct Perfect introduction to the Italian and English tongues Printed with the former and both dedicated to Rob. Earl of Leicester His second fruits to be gathered of twelve Trees of divers but delightsome tastes to the tongues of Italian and English men Lond. 1591. oct Garden of recreation yielding six thousand Italian Proverbs Printed with the former Dictionary Ital. and English Lond. 1597. 98. fol. Which Dictionary was by him afterwards augmented and to the honour of Queen Anne did intitle it Queen Anna's new world of words Lond. 1611. fol. which for the variety of words was far more copious than any extant in the world at that time But this notwithstanding being also defective our author did out of other Dictionarys and Italian authors which came accidentally into his hands collect out of them an addition of many thousand words and phrases relating to Arts Sciences and Exercises intending if he had lived to come out with a third edition After his death his additions being transmitted to Gio Torriano an Italian and professor of the Italian tongue in London were by him diligently perused and in very many places supplied out of the generally approved Dictionaries of the Academici della crusca and several others that were set forth since Florio's death The said Torriano also did much correct the English interpretations and where there was cause he reduced them to their genuine sense as they are now used in these modern times Which additions and corrections were printed at Lond. 1659. fol. Florio also translated from French into English The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne Lond. 1603. 13. 32. fol. and others things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen At length retiring to Fulham in Middlesex to avoid the plague raging in London was there overtaken by it in his old age of which he died in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and five and received year 1625 as I suppose sepulture either in the Ch. or yard there I have several times sent for his Epitaph but receiving none you may take this for one Virtute suâ contentus nobilis arte Italus Ore Anglus pectore uterque opere Floret adhuc adhuc florebit floriat ultra Florius hâc specie floridus optat amans THOMAS LODGE was descended from those of his name living in Lincolnshire but whether born there I cannot tell made his first entry into this University about 1573. and was afterwards Servitour or Scholar under the learned and vertuous Mr. Edward Hobye of Trinity coll where making early advances his ingenuity began
an 1584. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining some months was at length released set on Shipboard with Dr. Jasp Heywood Edw. Rishton Joh. Colleton and others and waâ—ted over the Seas to the coast of Normandy where they were left to shift for themselves In 1587. he being about to return into England he was sent by Cardinal Alan to Sir will Stanley a Colonel to whose Regiment in the Low Countries he was by him made Chaplain In 1588. he was promoted to the degree of D. of D. in the University of Trier in Germany and in 89. he was sent for to Doway by the Jesuits whom he was always affraid to offend to assist Dr. Rich. Barret President of the English college in the Government of that place In 91. he was sent to Bruxells and remitted to the Camp to exercise the office of Chaplain again where with other Exiles they acted many things which tended much to the destruction of the Q. of England and not long after returned to Doway again and by the command of Cardinal Cajetan Protector of the English Nation he was made President of the English coll there ann 1599. At length being grown old and unfit to govern returned into England lived sometimes in London and sometimes in Staffordshire But that which is to be farther noted of him is that having for the most part of his life lived in the habit of a Secular Priest did about six months before his death take upon him the order and habit belonging to the Society of Jesus His works are Annotations on the Old Testament Duac 1609. in two Tomes in qu. Catalogus Martyrum pro Religione Catholicâ in Angliâ â—â—â—isorum ab an 1570. ad an 1612. Printed 1612. and 14. in oct Before which book is Narratio de origine Seminariorum de Missione Sacerdoâ—um in Anglia This Catalogue and Narration taken mostly from a collection intit Concertatio Eccl. Catholicae in Anglia c. could not be sold more than for six pence when it was published for it contains but 4 sheets in oct yet in 1682. when the choice Library of Mr. Rich. Smith mentioned before in Sir Joh. Davies was sold by way of Auction Dr. Tho. Marshall Dean of Gloucester and Rector of Linc. coll gave eleven shillings and six pence being then great bidding for before he could get it The Anchor of Christian Doctrine wherein the most principal points of Christian Religion are proved by the only written word of God c. Doway 1622. in two thick quarto's containing four parts viz. the first vol. one the other three These two quarto's were as one saith printed at London and sold by the author in his lodgings in Turnbull-street for 14 shillings which might have been afforded for five The Mysteries of the Rosary This I have not yet seen He also corrected and translated the Doway Bibles and translated into Lat. and published Anti-Haeretica motiva c. written by Rich. Bristow Attrebat 1608. in two Tomes in qu. before which he hath put a lame account of the author This person Tho. Worthington who was esteemed very learned among those of his perswasion and had hazarded his life and done great service for the Cause did quietly lay down his head and submit himself to the stroke of death in the house of one Bidulph Esq of Bidulph commonly called Biddles in Staffordshire near to Congleton in Cheshire year 1626 about sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried in the Parochial Church there as I have been informed by one of his Society who was well acquainted with him having some years before his death been made titular Archdeacon of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire ALEXANDER SPICER a Minister's Son and a Somersetshire man born became a Batler of Exeter coll in 1590. aged about 15. took one degree in Arts was made Fellow of that house and proceeded in his Faculty At length entring into the Sacred Function was a Preacher for some years in these parts Afterwards upon an invitation he went into Ireland where by the savour of Sir Arthur Chichester Baron of Belfast and L. Dep. of that Country he became well beneficed and dignified and in great estimation for his learning He hath published Davids Petition on Psal 19. 13. Lond. 1616. oct The Pope at Babylon Serm. on the 5. of Nov. at Colerain in the North of Ireland on Dan. 3. 6. Lond. 1617. Elegies on the death of Arthur Lord Chichester c. Printed 1625. which Lord dying much about the time that K. Jam. 1. of England died was buried at 〈◊〉 in Ireland to the great grief of his Country because it was in such a time that it most required his assistance courage and wisdom which are often at odds and seldom meet yet in him shook hands as friends and challenged an equal share in his perfections Other things were written and published by the said A. Spicer as some of the 〈◊〉 of his coll have informed me but such I have not yet sâ—en nor do I know any thing besides of the 〈…〉 he left behind him the 〈…〉 lid Divine WILLIAM PELHAM the eldest Son of Sir Will. Pelham of Brocklesby in Lincolnshire Master of the Ordnance by Elianor his Wife Daughter of 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 was born in London near or 〈…〉 became Fellow-Commoner of New coll in the beginning of 1582. aged 14. continued a sedulous Student there for at least two years in a Chamber within one of the turrets of the College wall that encompasses the Garden Afterwards he travelled and improved his learning in the Universities of Strasburg Heidelburg Wittenburg and Lipswick in Germany as also in Paris and Geneva and returning to his native Country setled again for a time in this University till Mars distracted him from the studies of Minerva as he himself used to say But when that Planet was set he retired to a Country lise at Brocklesby where after he had received satiety of all worldly blessings did in his old age incline his heart to more supernatural contemplations Which being by him committed to writing for the benefit of his Children of which he had plenty were published under this title Meditations upon the Gospel of S. John Lond. 1625. in tw and other things as his Son Dr. Herbert Pelham sometimes Fellow of Magd. coll hath told me but whether printed I know not This Sir Will. Pelham who was Knighted by K. Jam. 1. at Newmarket 20. Nov. 1616. lived after the publication of that book two three or more years but when he died I cannot yet find Among the Sons that he left behind him was Hen. Pelham one sometimes a Student in this University afterwards in one of the Inns of Court and a Barrester At length being chosen a Burgess for Grantham in Lincolnshire to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. sided with the Presbyterians and was by that party elected Speaker of the House of Commons when the
Independent-party fled with Will. Lenthal their Speaker to the Head Quarter of the Army then at Windsore 30. Jul. 1647. In which office he continued but till the 6. of Aug. following at what time the General of the Army Fairfax restored Lenthall to his Chair but suffered Pelham to keep his Recordership of Lincoln City which he had confer'd upon him by the Presbyterians upon the ejection of Sir Charles Dalison JOHN TERRY received his first breath at LongSuttoâ— in Hampshire was elected Probationer Fellow of New college from Winchester School in 1574. and two years after he was made compleat Fellow In 1582. he proceeded in Arts and about 8 years after had the Parsonage of Stockton in Wilts confer'd upon him where he always expressed himself a zealous Enemy against the R. Catholicks not only in his Lectures and Sermons but also in his writings the titles of which follow Theological Logick Or the trial of truth containing a discovery of the chiefest points of the doctrine of the great Antichrist and his Adherents the false Teachers of the times Oxon. 1600. qu. In 1602. was published the second part of Theol. Logick and in 1625. the third part both in qu. and the last dedicated to the B. of Bath and Wells Reasonableness of wise and holy truth and the absurdity of foolish and wicked errour Serm. on Joh. 17. ver 17. Oxon. 1617. qu. Defence of Protestancy proving that the Protestants Religion hath the promise of Salvation c. Lond. 1635. second edition Before which time the author was dead ANTHONY HUNGERFORD Son of Anth. Hungerford of Dewne-Ampuâ—y in Gloucestershire by Bridget his Wife Daughter of one Shelley a Judge was educated in this University with other R. Catholicks but for a short time for his Father being much troubled with the incumbranceâ— of his Estate and therefore could not well look after the Son the Mother who was a zealous Papist caused him to be trained up in her Religion from his Childhood So that carrying his opinion on till 1584. about which time he had left Oxon being then 20 years of age stagger'd somewhat in his opinion upon the reading of Capians book called Decem rationes wherein he found some undecent passages but confirmed in his mind soon after by Mr. Tho. Neale of Cassington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire and at length totally setled by one Twiford a Priest or Jesuit who was brought to him by George Etheridge a Physician of Oxon. In this setled course he held on till the beginning of the year 1588. at which time it pleased God as he said to make a hand that had given the wound the means to make good the cure when it aimed at a further mischief being occasioned mostly from certain words unwarily dropt from one Hopton a Priest and his acquaintance concerning an invasion then about to be made for the relief chiefly of Rom. Catholicks who laid under the heavy hand as they said of Q. Elizabeth In 1594. one of both his names was actually created Master of Arts and 't is supposed that he was the person because he had formerly spent some time in this University In 1607. he received the honour of Knighthood and about that time being then of Blackbourton near Witney in Oxfordshire wrote The advice of a Son professing the Religion established in the present Church of England to his dear Mother a Rom. Catholick Oxon. 1639. qu. Which book lying by him till his death and several years after in his Cabinet his Son Sir Edw. Hungerford carried it at length upon a sight as he thought of the increase of Popery in England to one of the Chaplains of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury to have it licensed an 1635. but he refusing so to do because there were several offensive passages in it against the Papists he therefore got it to be printed at Oxon and added to it another thing of his Fathers writing intit The memorial of a Father to his dear Children containing an acknowledgment of God's great mercy in bringing him to the profession of the true Religion at this present established in the Church of England Finished and compleated for the Press at Blackbourton in Apr. 1627. This person who hath written other matters of the like nature but not printed gave way to fate about the latter end of June in sixteen hundred twenty and seven year 1627 and was buried in the Church at Blackbourton He left behind him Issue by his Wife Lucy Daughter of Sir Walt. Hungerford of Farley Castle in Somersetshire Sir Edward Hungerford who had Issue another Edward made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. who most unworthily squander'd away the Estate of his Ancestors JOHN DAY Son of a famous Printer of both his names in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth was born near or over Aldersgate in London entred a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1582. aged 16. elected Fellow of Oriel coll in 1588. being then Bach. of Arts proceeded in that Faculty entred into holy Orders and became the most frequent and noted Preacher in the University In the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he with leave from his Society travelled for 3 years beyond the Seas whereby he improved himself much in learning and experience and as I was about to say in Calvinism After his return he was made Vicar of S. Maries Church in Oxon in Jan. 1608. where by his constant and painful Preaching he obtained great love and respect not only from those of the University but City But missing the Provostship of his Coll. upon the resignation of Mr. Will. Lewis in 1621. he left his Fellowship and Vicarage in the year following and by the favour of Sir Will. Sâ—ame Knight became Minister of one of the Thirlows Great Thirlow I think in Suffolk where he continued to his dying day not without some discontent for the loss of the said Provostship He was a person of great reading and was admirably well vers'd in the Fathers Schoolmen and Councels He was also a plain Man a primitive Christian and wholly composed as 't were to do good in his Function His works are these Several Sermons as 1 Davids desire to go to Church in two Sermons on Psal. 27. 4. Ox. 1612. oct and 1615. qu. 2 Day 's Festivals or twelve of his Sermons Ox. 1615. qu. The first of which is of our Saviours Nativity on Esa. 9. 6. To these twelve Sermons are added Several fragments concerning both the Sacraments in general and the Sacrament of the Supper in particular He hath also written Day 's Diall or his twelve hours that is twelve Lectures by way of Catechism as they were delivered in Oriel coll Chappel an 1612. and 13. Oxon. 1614. qu. Conciones ad Cierum viz. 1 In 2. Reg. 6. ver 1 2 3 4. Oxon. 1612. and 1615. qu. 2 Iâ— Joh. 9. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. Commentaries on the first eight Psalms of David Ox. 1620. year 1627 qu. He concluded his last day
readings in an Inn of Chancery called New Inn in Lond. 1602. and 1603. History of the ancient and modern Estate of the Principality of Wales Dutchy of Cornwal and Earldom of Chester c. Lond. 1630. qu. The English Lawyer Being a treatise describing a method for the managing of the Laws of this Land and expressing the best qualities requisite in the Student Practicer Judges c. Lond. 1631. qu. Opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England Lond. 1658. oct Published by John Doddridge Esq a Counsellour of the Middle Temple and Recorder of Barnstaple descended from or at least near of kin to our author Sir Joh. Doderidge With the aforesaid Opinion are published also the opinions of Arth. Agard Joseph Holland Francis Tate and Will. Camden all eminent Antiquaries and Historians the two last of which I have before mentioned and the two first I shall speake of anon Treatise of particular Estates Lond. 1677. in twelv printed at the end of the fourth edition of Will Noy's book called Grounds and Maxims of the Laws of this Nation A true presentation of fore-past Parliaments to the view of the present times and posterity This I saw in MS. in a thin fol. in the Library of Dr. Tho. Barlow now B. of Lincoln but whether it was ever printed I know not Our author Doderidge also did peruse and enlarge a book intit The Magazine of Honour or a treatise of the several degrees of the Nobility of this Kingdom with their rights and privileges Also of Knights Esquires c. Lond. 1642. oct The MS. of which I saw also in the said Library fairly transcribed and dedicated by T. S. of Wycombe to John Lord Lovelace an 1637. This book which is the collection of Will Bird I take to be the same which was afterwards published with a title something different from the former under our author Doderidge's name running thus The Law of Nobility and Peerage wherein the antiquities titles degrees and distinctions concerning the Peers and Nobility of this Nation are excellently set forth with the Knights Esquires Gent. c. Lond. 1657. 58. oct What else he hath written besides certain Speeches which are extant in books put out by others I know not and therefore I shall only say of him that he surrendred up his last breath at Forsters near to Egham in Surrey 13. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and that his body was carried to the City of Exeter year 1628 where 't was reposed with great solemnity in our Ladies Chappel joyning to the Cath. Ch. there 14. Oct. following where at this time is visible a very fair monument over his grave and that of his Wise Now as for Arthur Agard whom I have before mentioned I desire the Reader to know of him these things that he was the Son of Clem. Agard of Foston in Derbyshire by his Wife Elianor Daughter of Tho. Middlemore of Edgbaston in Warwickshire that he was bred up to the Law got to be a Clerk in the Exchequer and at length to be Deputy-chamberlian thereof which office he held 45 years while these persons following were successively Chamberlains a place formerly of great honour and worth viz. Sir Nich. Throckmorton Sir Tho. Randolphe Postmaster Sir Tho. West after Lord La Warr Mr. George Young a Scot Sir Will Killigrew Knight Sir Walt. Cope Knight and in his last days in 1615. to Sir Joh. Poyntz Knight While he held that place he learned and received all his knowledge and learning in Antiquities from his faithful and dear friend Sir Rob. Cotton a singular lover of and admirably well read in English Antiquities to whom when Agard died he gave all his Leiger books and MSS. at least 20 in number to be reposed as choice things in his Library among which was Agard's book of his own writing intit Tractatus de usu verbis obscurioribus libri de Domesday which was afterwards put under the Effigies of Vitellius nu 9. The learned Camden stiles him Antiquarius insignis as having been well acquainted with him and his prodigious works collected with his own hand out of his Maj. Records in the Abbey of Westminster where the Exchequer-Office was and elsewhere He died 22. Aug. 1615. and was buried in the Cloyster of St. Peters Church in Westminster near to the Chapter-house door where he had set up a monument in his life-time for himself and his Wife At the time of his death his will and desire was that eleven Manuscripts of his writing and collection should for a small reward given to his Executor be reposed in the Exchequer because they were necessary both for the Kings service and readiness for the subject Also a book of his collection in the Treasury wherein is first contained what records are in the Kings Maj. four Treasuries and how the same are placed and especially how to be preserved And after is contained A collection of all leagues and treaties of Peace entercourses and marriages with Foreign Nations Which book was three years labour and was I think still very carefully preserved for the Kings service The writer and collector thereof took order that it should be preserved in his Maj. Court of Receipt under the charge and custody of the Officers there and to be delivered to them by Inventory because it is very necessary for the Kings use good of the Subject and readiness and light to the Officers As for the other person Joseph Holland whose Opinion concerning the antiquity power c. of Parliament before-mentioned which was also published I can say only this of him that he was a Devonian born an excellent Herald Genealogist and Antiquary as several things of his writing now in being in the Coll. of Arms commonly called the Heralds Office shew Among which is a very long roll of Parchment containing the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Devon before and to his time made in 1585. There also goes from hand to hand a folio MS. of his collection not only containing the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Devonshire but also of Somersetshire and Cornwall FULKE GREVIL descended from an ancient and knightly fam of his name living at Milcot in Warwickshire was born in that County an 1554 being the same year wherein Sir Philip Sidney received his first breath did spend some time in the condition of a Gent. Commoner in this University either before he went to Trin. coll in Cambridge or at his return thence but in what house unless in Ch. Ch. or Broadgates I cannot well tell nor doth it matter much seeing that he was more properly a Cambridge man to which University he was a Benefactor than an Oxonian After he had left the University he travelled and at his return being well accomplished was introduced into the Court by his Uncle Rob. Grevil a Servant to Q. Elizabeth where he was esteemed a most ingenious person and
our author Gifford whom he stiles Scriptor mendicissimus ut omnibus constat iracundus Ex Anglis ad Hispanos transfuga hostium mancipium hostis patriae turpissimum popularium suorum propudium comptus calmistratus apud mulieres Belgicas gratiosus c. He also wrote a book at the instance of the D. of Guise which I have not yet seen and translated from French in Engl. The Inventory of erroùrs contradictions and false citations of Philip Morney Lord of Plessis written by Fronto Ducens a Jesuit Besides which he hath written and translated other matters but they having been printed beyond the Seas we seldom or never see them here and so consequently I cannot give you a Cat. of them in this place This great Archb. and Duke Dr. Gifford gave way to fate on the eleventh of April in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 according to the accompt follow'd in France and was buried with great solemnity in the Church of the Blessed Virgin at Rheimes behind the great Altar near to the grave of Lewis Card. Guise In his Archbishoprick succeeded Hen. de Loraine Son of Charles Duke of Guise born at Paris 4. Apr. 1614. so that he was but 15 years of age when he was made Archbishop which was per accessum but being not consecrated he renounc'd it in 1641. about which time he succeeded his Father in the Dukedom of Guise and took to him a Wise CHRISTOPHER SUTTON a Hampshire man born was entred a Batler or Commoner of Hart hall in 1582. aged 17. translated soon after to Linc. coll and as a Memb. thereof took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entring into Orders he became successively Vicar of Roneham in Essex Parson of Caston in his own Country Parson of Woodrising in Norfolk Parson of Murley-Bromley in Essex and at length of Cranworth in Norfolk Which two last he kept to his dying day with his Prebendship of Westminster that had been bestowed on him by K. Jam. 1. for his excellent and florid preaching His works are Disce vivere Learn to live Lond. 1608. in tw and several times after Disce Mori Learn to die Lond. 1609. in tw and several times after In both which is shewed in what manner every well disposed Christian may learn first how to live the life of the righteous and how to die the death of the righteous Godly meditations upon the most holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1622. c. in tw the thirteenth edition of which came out in 1677. Append. touching the controversie about the holy Eucharist Printed with the Godly meditationâ— c. Godly meditations concerning the divine presence Printed also with the former Meditat. He â—eparted this mortal life in May or June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 and was buried as I have been informed in the Abby Church of S. Peter at Westminster before the Vestry dore where the choir-men keep their Supplices to whom he gave five pounds In his Prebendship given to him much about the time of the death of Dr. Joh. Yong B. of Rochester who kept that Prebendship in Commendam with his See succeeded Lambert Osbaldeston M. A. as I shall else where tell you ROBERT HEGGE a prodigy of his time for forward and good natural parts was born within the City of Durham an 1599. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 7. Nov. 1614. Prob. Fellow thereof 27. Dec. 1624. being then M. of A. and accounted considering his age the best in the University for the Mathematical faculty History and Antiquities and therefore much beloved by Tho. Allen of Gloucester hall as afterward he was for his excellent knowledge in the Sacred Scripture as may be seen in certain books he wrote the titles of which follow Teatise of Dials and dialling MS. in C. C. coll Library In which book is the picture of the Dial in the said college Garden made by Nich. Kratzer whom I have mention'd under the year 1550. with a short discourse upon it In like manner there is the picture of that fair Cylinder standing on a Pedestal in the middle of the said coll quadrangle made by Charles Turnball 1605. with a short discourse on it which he intitles Horologium Sciotericum in gratiam speciosissimi Horoscopii in area quadrata C. C. C. c. The Legend of S. Cuthbert with the antiquities of the Church of Durham written 1626. and left in MS. behind him at his death so exactly and neatly written that many have taken it to be printed Afterwards a Copy of it under the authors hand coming into the possession of Thomas Lord Fairfax was by him reposed as a precious Monument in his Library of MSS. At length one who writes himself R. B. Esq sometimes of the retinue of the said Lord as I have been informed published it at Lond. 1663. in oct in a very bad letter and worse Paper not without some derogation to the memory of the author by concealing his name and putting the two first letters of his own with the writing a Prologue to it The truest Copy under the authors hand is now in the possession of Dr. Edw. Pocock Can. of Ch. Ch. and the Kings Hebr. Professor of this University having an Epistle to the Reader before it under the authors own hand dated 1. Jul. 1626. which the printed hath not Betwixt this MS. and the printed Copy I find much difference there being in the latter many omissions some additions besides literal mistakes especially in names of men and places and several passages transpos'd In aliquot Sacrae paginae loca lectiones Lond. 1647. in 4. sh or more in qu. published by John Hall of Greys Inn whom I shall anon mention who in his Preface to the said Lections tells us that if they took and were approv'd by Scholars he had more laying by him to publish but whether he did so or not I cannot tell Our author Hegge also left behind him 4. or 5. Sermons fit for the Press learned suppositions in C. C. C. Chappel verses Cat. of Schol. and Fell. of C. C. coll c. All which or at least some of them are at this day in the Libr. of the said college He died suddenly of an apoplexy to the great reluctancy of those who were acquainted with his admirable parts year 1629 on the eleventh of June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine having scarce attained to the thirtieth year of his age and was buried in the Chappel of the said coll As for John Hall before mentioned who had a great respect for his memory and his works and was well acquainted with if not allied to his relations was born also in the said City of Durham of gentile Parents in Aug. 1627. and being fitted for the University was hindred from going to it by the eruption of the Civil War Whereupon giving himself solely up to studies at home especially in the Library at Durham improved himself to a miracle After Oxon was reduced by
Philosophy of the Stoicks Lond. 1598. oct And published Two short Treatises against the orders of the begging Fryers written by Joh. Wicliffe Also as 't is said a book intit Fiscus Papalis Sive Catalogus indulgentiarum reliquiarum septem principalium Ecclesiarum urbis Romae ex vet MS. discriptus Lond. 1617. qu. The Latine out of the MS. is set down in one Colum and the English in another by the publisher This I say is reported to have been published by our author James tho others tell us that it was done by Will. Crashaw of Cambridge Howsoever it is sure we are that it hath supplyed with matter a certain scribler named Henry Care in his Weekly pacquet of advice from Rome when he was deeply engaged by the Fanatical party after the popish Plot broke out in 1678. to write against the Church of England and the members thereof then by him and his party supposed to be deeply enclining towards Popery c. I say by that Hen. Care whose breeding was in the nature of a petty Fogger a little despicable wretch and one that was afterwards much reflected upon in the Observators published by Rog. L'estrange which Care after all his scribbles against the Papists and the men of the Church of England was after K. James 2. came to the Crown drawn over so far by the R. Cath. party for bread and money-sake and nothing else to write on their behalf and to vindicate their proceedings against the men of the Church of England in his Mercuries which weekly came out intit Publick occurrences truly stated The first of which came out 21. Feb. 1687. and were by him continued to the time of his death which hapning 8. Aug. 1688. aged 42. was buried in the yard belonging to to the Black-friers Church in London with this inscription nailed to his Coffin Here lies the ingenious Mr. Henry Care who died c. This person I can compare to none more than to Marchemont Nedham whose parts tho he wanted yet they were Weather-Cocks both alike as I shall tell you more at large when I shall come to that person which will be in the 2d Vol. As for our learned and industrious author Dr. James he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the north Suburb of Oxon in the month of Aug. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged about 58. years and was buried towards the upper end of New college Chappel leaving behind him this character that he was the most industrious and indefatigable writer against the Papists that had been educated in Oxon since the Reformation of Religion Which character being made manifest by his writings it would have been esteemed as generous an act for the Society of that House to have honoured his reliques with a Mon. and Epitaph as they did those of Tho. Lydiat the Mathematitian I shall make mention of another Thomas James in my discourse of Hen. Gellibrand under the year 1637. ROBERT WAKEMAN Son of Tho. Wakeman of Fliford-Flavel in Worcestershire Minister of Gods word was born in that County became a student of Ball. col in the beginning of 1590 aged 14. made Chaplain-Fellow thereof 17. Jul. 1596. being then Bach. of Arts. About that time entring into Orders was a frequent preacher for some years in these parts At length being made Rector of Beer-Ferres and afterwards of Charlton in Devon took the degrees in Divinity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Christian practice at S. Maries in Oxon. on Act. Sunday 8. Jul. 1604. on Acts 2. 46. Lond. 1605. in oct 2 Solomons exaltation before the King on 2 Cor. 2. 8. Ox. 1605. oct 3 The Judges charge on 2 Cor. 19. 6. printed 1610. oct 4 Jonahs Sermon and Ninevehs repentance at Pauls Cross on Jonah 3. ver 4. 5. Ox. 1606. oct 5 The true Professor opposed against the formal Hypocrites of these times on Luke 10. 28. Lond. 1620. oct and others which I have not seen among which is a Serm. on Eccles 11. 1. printed 1607. he gave up the ghost in Septemb. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried on the South side of the Chancel of the Church at Beer-Ferres on the nineteenth day of the same month leaving then behind him several Children who were all in the beginning of the civil war as the Tradition goes there perswaded from their Religion to that of Rome by one Capt. Rich. Read as 't was supposed who quarter'd in the house where they lived and married one of the Doctors Daughters Afterwards they retired into Worcestershire where they or at least their issue now live JOHN SANFORD Son of Rich Sanford of Chard in Somersetshire Gent. descended from those of his name in Devon was born in Somersetshire entred a Commoner of Ball. college about the time of the Act in 1581. where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was then made one of the Chaplains of Magd. coll At length having contracted a friendship with John Digby Commoner of that House did travel with him into France Spain and Italy whereby he did much advantage himself in the modern languages Afterwards he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the said Digby then known by the name of Sir John Digby at which time he as sent into Spain to treat of a marriage between the Infanta Sister of the King of that Realm and Prince Charles of England After his return Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. made him his domestick Chaplain and at length Prebendary of Canterbury and Rector of Ivychurch in Kent He was a person of great learning and experience and a Solid Divine well skill'd in several languages and a tolerable Lat. Poet. His works are Gods arrow of Pestilence serm on Psal. 38. 2. Oxon. 1604. oct Le Guichet Francois Janicula scu introductio ad linguam Gallicam Ox. 1604. qu. A brief extract of the former Lat. Grammar done into English for the easier instruction of the Learner Oxon. 1605. qu. Grammar or introduction to the Ital. tongue Oxon. 1605. qu. An entrance to the Spanish tongue Lond. 1611. and 1633. qu. and other things as 't is probable with I have not yet seen year 1629 He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the 24. Septemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 60. and more and was buried in the middle almost of the north Isle joyning to the nave er body of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury Over his Grave was soon after laid a white free-stone with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 199. b. wherein is mention'd his great charity to Widdows Orphans and the Poor EDWIN SANDYS Second Son of Edwin sometimes Archbishop of York was born in Worcestershire particularly as I suppose within the City of Worcester when his father was Bishop of that Diocess before his translation to York admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Sept. 1577. and
the sins of the times preached on the third Sunday after the Prince's death is on Ezech. 9. 4. And the fourth which is called Tears shed over Abner is on 2 Sam. 3. 31. All which four Sermons were printed at Oxon. 1613. qu. 5 Lamentation for the death of the illustrious Pr. Henry and the dissolution of his religious family Two Sermons on Matth. 26. 31. Lond. 1613. qu. 6 Maries memorial on Matth. 26. 13. Lond. 1617. qu. 7 Hearty Prayer in the needful time of trouble on Psal. 118. 25. Lond. 1625. qu. These eleven are all that I have seen of fifteen Sermons or thereabouts that he hath published He yeilded up his last breath at Worthyn or Worthing before mention'd on the 23. Sept. in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there Over his Grave was a brass Plate soon after fixed to the Wall and thereon engraven a Latine and English Epitaph made by a fantastical Pedagogue The Latine is in four verses containing a Chronogram of the Doctors death the English his Dignities and Employments which I have before mentioned But that which I am to let the Reader now know is an odd story that hangs at the tayl reported by a R. Catholick Priest but whether true or no the Reader is to judge as he please Dr. Price saith he by the worth of his parts and learning was honoured by being particularly known and respected by his Majesty and then afterward was made Dean of Hereford a place of great estimation All his life time he enjoying his health shewed himself much averse to the Catholicks and troubled divers of them In his lest sickness he desired of his Doctor of Physick that he would senâ— to him a Romish Priest whereupon he was accordingly brought The Doctor told the said Priest that he was then in judgment a Catholick and did intend to dye a member of that Religion Whereupon he took the Sacrament and so was incorporated into the mystical of Christs Cath. Church and with a constant resolution died a member of the holy Church c. Dr. Hen. Butts Vicechancellour of Cambridge hanged himself in his garters in his own Chamber on Easter day 1632. being that day to preach to the Vniversity But Dr. Price like a worthy and Christian confessour of the true Catholick and Roman Religion by means of a natural death we hope now enjoyes the felicity of the Saints Dr. Butts maintaining as is reported the heretical doctrine of Predestination in the end died a Reprobate and by the help of a rope wherewith he hanged himself doth remain in insufferable torments with the Devils c. RICHARD PILKINGTON was descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Rivington in Lancashire but where born unless in the County Pal. of Durham I cannot justly say At about 17 years of age he was sent to Cambridge where continuing till after he was M. of A. retired to Oxon and setling in Queens coll was incorporated in the same degree an 1599. At that time being esteem'd eminent in the faculty of Theology he was admitted in the year following to the reading of the sentences and 7 years after was licensed to proceed in the same faculty In 1625. he was made Archdeacon of Leicester in the place of Robert Johnson deceased being at that time the rich Rector of Hambleton in Bucks which were all the preferments I think that he enjoyed His works are Parallela Or the grounds of the new Rom. Catholick and of the antient Christian Religion out of the holy Scriptures composed together in answer to a late popish Pamphlet intit A Manual of Controversies c. by A. C. S. Lond. 1618. qu. What else he hath written I find not nor any thing material of him besides only that he departed this life about the middle of Sept. year 1631 in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Hambleton at which time was the most dreadfullest storm of Wind thunder and lightning as ever was known in those parts It occasion'd so great a darkness that the neighbours were forced to convey the Corps to the Grave by lights at four of the Clock in the afternoon I have been also informed by the Rector of that Church Dr. Fr. G. that the storm was so violent that it moved and broke some of the stones that were to cover the Grave and that it forced the Shovel out of the Clerks hand shatter'd it and made an impression on the Chancel Wall as he had received the story from Dr. Pilkingtons servant who then lived in the Parsonage House This last tho very improbable yet certain it is that that most unusual storm did occasion certain odd reports concerning the said Doctor to be made by the R. Catholicks to whom in general he had been a bitter enemy in his preaching and writing ROBERT BOLTON a most religious and learned Puritan was born at Blackbourne in Lancashire on Whitsunday 1572. educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. Yate in the Free-school founded at that place in the 9. year of Q. Elizabeth where in short time by the benefit of excellent parts strong memory labour and attention he became the best Scholar in that schoole At about 18. years of age he being full ripe for the University he was sent to Lincoln coll about 1590. where being put under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Randal a person then of consisiderable note in the University he profited in Logick and Philosophy to the admiration of all meerly occasioned by that ground-work of learning that he had got at School It was then observed that tho he was well skill'd in the Greek tongue yet that he might obtain an exactness in it he did with intollerable pains write out with his own hand either all Homer or Hesiod in a fair Greek character He wrote that language better than English or Latine and was so excellent a Disputant in it that he did with as much facility course or oppose his Antagonist in the publick Schools as in Latine Nay he wrote and spoke it stilo imperatorio as Lipsius calls it and 't was so familiar to him that he could not avoid it From the said college he removed to Brasenose purposely to get a Fellowship because the Society thereof consists mostly of Lancashire and Cheshire men In the beginning of December 1596. he as a member of that coll took the degree of Bach. of Arts but having few friends he stayed long without a Fellowship yet because he should not be disincouraged for he was poor and had little to maintain him Dr. Rich. Brett a very good Greecian of Linc. coll did contribute towards his relief At length with much adoe he became Fellow in 1602. and in the same year proceeded Master of Arts. So that growing famous he was successively chosen reader of the Lectures of Logick and of Moral and Natural Philosophy in that house In 1605.
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 praemissâ—is 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
this University but in Cambridge and after he had taken the degrees in Arts he was presented by his Majesty to the Sub-deanry of Wells in the latter end of May 1638. upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Roberts to the See of Bangor In 1644. he among other Loyal Ministers retired to Oxon and in the month of Aug. was incorporated Master of Arts and afterwards had the degree of D. of D. confer'd upon him In 1646. I find him with the Marquess of Worcester in Ragland Castle which as a Commission-Officer he help'd to defend against the Parliamentarians But that Castle being surrendred on the 19. Aug. the same year upon good Articles mostly of Bayly's framing he travelled afterwards into France and other Countries where spending that considerable stock of money which he had gotten from the said Marquess he returned into England and published a book intit Certamen religiosum or a conference between K. Ch. 1. and Henry late Marquess of Worcester concerning Religion in Ragland Castle an 1646. Lond. 1649. oct but blamed by the true Sons of the Church of England for so doing because the Romish cause is there set out in great pomp he being then warping towards if not altogether drawn over to the Church of Rome and it was looked upon by some as nothing else but his Prologue in order to the declaring himself a Papist and thereupon the said conference was suspected by the Orthodox party to have nothing therein of the stile of K. Ch. 1. and that the Marquess had not those abilities in him to maintain a discourse of religious matters with the said King There was An answer with considerations on Dr. Bayly's parenthetical interlocution printed at Lond. 1651. in tw made unto it by Ham. L'estrange and also answered upon account as being fictitious by Christop Cartwright of York About the same time an Advertisement was put cut against it as a counterfeit thing by Dr. Pet. Heylyn in his Epistle to the Reader before his collection of his Majesty's works wherein the said conference is put intit Bibliotheca Regia c. but omitted in other impressions of it as also in the works of the said King printed in folio The same year 1649. Dr. Bayly published The Royal Charter granted unto Kings by God himself c. To which he added A treatise wherein is proved that Episcopacy is jure divino Both which were afterwards reprinted at Lond. 1656. and 1680. oct But in them the Doctor doth in many particulars egregiously err and as an unskilful builder diruit aedificat for what he rears with one hand he pulls down with the other And amongst many stories of his travels having freely rail'd at all the Commonwealths in Europe doth at last fall desperately on the new erection of that in Eng. Which angry and unpleasing history provoked strict examination whereupon the author being found out he was committed prisoner to Newgate where being kindly and easily used he penned a book intit Herba parietis Or the wall Flower as it growes out of the Stone-Chamber belonging to the metrapolitan Prison c. being a History which is partly true partly Romantick morally divine Whereby a marriage between reality and fancy is solemnized by Divinity Lond. 1650. in a thin fol. In the Epistle before which he falls foul on P. Heylyn whom he calls a fellow without a name c. for his advertisement before mention'd which charged him with six matters the first for wronging the late K. Ch. 1. very much and another that he composed the said Conference himself c. Bayly also tells us there of his great sufferings in the late Civil War that he had not only lost 1000 l. per an for his Majesties sake but also blood and liberty that he was a Peers Son and his Mother a Knights Daughter c. As soon as this book was published he made an escape out of Prison went into Holland and having rambled abroad much more in his mind than he had in his body he at last declared himself a Rom. Catholick and became a grand zealot in that interest wherein if he met with any occasion he would break forth into rage and fury against the Protestant Religion which he before had preached and professed Thence he went into Flanders and setling for a time at Doway he published this book The end to Controversie between the Rom. Catholick and Protestant Religions justified by all the several manner of ways whereby all kind of Controversies of what nature soever are usually or can possibly be determined c. printed at Doway 1654. in qu. and dedicated to Walt. Montague Abbot of Nanteul afterwards L. Abbot of Pantoise There also goes under his name The life and death of that renowned John Fisher Bishop of Rochester c. Lond. 1655. oct but he was not the author of it The true and genuine writer thereof was one Rich. Hall D. D. sometimes of Christs coll in Cambridge the same of which B. Fisher was a member afterwards Canon and Official of the Cathedral Church at St. Omer who leaving it behind him in MS. at his death an 1604. 't was as a choice rarity reposed in the Library of the English Benedictines at Dieuward in Lorain Afterwards several Copies of it going abroad one came into the hands of a person who call'd himself West From him it came into the possession of Franc. a Sancta Clara an 1623. and from his as he himself hath told me divers times to Sir Wingfield Bodenham who keeping it in his hands several years with an intention to print it in the name of the true author did impart it for a time to Dr. Tho. Bayly So that forthwith he taking a Copy of it and making some alterations therein he sold the said Copy to a Bookseller for a small sum of money who caus'd it to be printed at London under the name of Tho. Bayly D. D. I have seen a MS. containing the said Bishops Life beginning thus Est in Eboracensi comitatu octogesimo a Londino lapide ad aquilonem Beverleiae oppidum c. But who the author was I cannot tell 'T was written before Halls time and 't is not unlikely but that he had seen it There also goes under Tho. Baylys name The golden Apothegmes of King Ch. 1. and Henry Marquess of Worcester c. Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. All which were taken from a book intit Witty Apothegmes delivered at several times and upon several occasions by K. James K. Ch. 1. and the Marq. of Worcester c. Lond. 1658. oct published by Anonymus After Dr. Bayly had left Flanders he went into Italy where as several Rom. Catholicks have told me he was received into the service of Cardinal Ottobon and that he died in his family while the said Cardinal was Embass or Nuntio at Ferrara from the Pope and also that Prince Cajetan had a care of his Son whom he took with him after his death But an English
President of Trinity coll and his Successors to be there remaining in the Dining-room of the said President for ever Another copy he gave to the Cottonian Library and a third to his old Friend Dr. Tho. Clayton Master of Pembroke college whose Son Sir Thomas hath it at this day I shall make mention of another Tho Allen under the year 1636. ROBERT HAYMAN a Devonian born was entred a Sojourner of Exeter coll while he was very young an 1590 where being noted for his ingenuity and pregnant parts became valued by several persons who were afterwards eminent among whom were Will. Noy Arth. Duck his kinsman Will. and George Hakewill Tho. Winniff Rob. Vilvaine Sim. Baskervile c. all of that House Will. Vaughan of Jesus coll Charles Fitzgeffry of Broadgates c. Afterwards he retired to Lincolns Inn without the honour of a degree studied for a time the municipal Law but his Genie being well known to be poetical fell into acquaintance with and received encouragement to proceed in his studies from Mich. Drayton Ben. Johnson John Owen the Epigrammatist George Wither the puritanical Satyrist John Vicars of Ch. Ch. Hospital c. and at length writing several specimens of his wit which I think are quite lost had tho phantastical the general vogue of a poet After he had left Linc. Inn and had arrived toward the fortieth year of his age he was made Governour of the plantation of Harbor-Grace in Bristol-hope in Britaniola anciently called New found-land where after some time of residence he did at spare hours write and translate these matters following Quodlibets lately come over from New Britaniola antiently called New-found-land Epigrams and other small parcels both moral and divine These two divided into four books were printed at London 1628. in qu. the author of them being then there He also translated from Lat. into English verse Several sententious epigrams and witty sayings out of sundry authors both ancient and modern especially many of the epigrams of Joh. Owen Lond. 1628. qu. As also from French into English The two railing Epistles of the witty Doctor Francis Rablais On the 17. of Nov. in 1628. he being then bound to Guiane in America to settle a Plantation there made his Will a copy of which I have seen wherein he desires to be buried where he dies year 1632 On the 24. of January in sixteen hundred thirty and two issued out a Commission from the Prerog Court of Canterbury to a certain person who had moneys owing to him by Hayman to administer the goods debts chattels c. of him the said Rob. Hayman lately deceased So that I suppose he died beyond the Seas that year aged 49. or thereabouts WILLIAM SUTTON a Citizens Son was born in London sent by his Relations from Merchant-Taylors School to Ch. Ch. in 1578. aged 15. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and in the year 1592. was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he was Parson of Blandford St. Mary in Dorsetshire and Vicar of Sturminster-Marshal in the same County He was a very learned man an excellent Orator Latinist Grecian and Preacher He had a well furnish'd Library wrote much but ordered his Son to print nothing after his death All that was made publick in his life-time was only this The falshood of the chief grounds of the Romish Religion descried and convinced in a brief answer to certain motives sent by a Priest to a Gentleman to induce him to turn Papist Which book stealing into the Press and coming out full of faults his Son Will. Sutton Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. corrected and reprinted it after his Fathers death Lond. 1635. in oct or tw He finished his course about the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred thirty and two and was buried in the Church of Blandford St. Mary before-mentioned I have been informed that other things of our author Will. Sutton were published after his death but such I have not yet seen JOHN RIDER received his first being in this World at Carrington in Cheshire applied his Genie to Academical studies in Jesus coll an 1576. took the degrees in Arts as a Member thereof and after he had remained some years in the University in the instruction of Youths in Grammar became Minister of S. Mary Magd. at Bermondsey near to London afterwards Rector of the rich Church of Winwick in Lancashire Archdeacon of Meath in Ireland Dean of St. Patricks Church near to Dublin and at length Bishop of Killaloe an 1612. where he was much respected and reverenced for his Religion and learning While he remained in Oxon he composed A Dictionary English and Latin and Lat. and Engl. Oxon. 1589. in a large thick qu. It was the first Dictionary that had the English before the Latin epitomizing the learnedst and choicest Dictionaries that were then extant and was beheld as the best that was then in use But that part of it which had the Latin before the English was swallowed up by the greater attempts of Franc. Holyoake who saith that he designed and contrived it so before the Vocabularies or Dictionaries of Becman Funger and Martin came out notwithstanding it appears that he was beholding to them and made use of their materials in his Dictionary that he published an 1606. Besides the said Dictionary our author Rider hath also written A Letter concerning the news out of Ireland and of the Spaniards landing and present state there Lond. 1601. qu. And having had controversies with one Hen. Fitz-Simons a learned Jesuit of Ireland published a book intituled Claim of Antiquity in behalf of the Protestant Religion When this was printed I know not The confutation of it I am sure with a reply to Rider's Rescript or Postscript written by the said Fitz-Simons were printed at Roan in Normandy an 1608. qu. as I shall tell you under the year 1643. He also Rider published other matters which having been printed in Ireland and therefore few or none of them come into these parts I cannot give you the titles of them He departed this mortal life on the twelfth day of Novemb. year 1632 in sixteen hundred thirty and two and was buried at Killaloe in the Cathedral Church there dedicated to the memory of S. Flannan leaving behind him the character of a learned and religious Prelate EDWARD JORDEN a learned candid and sober Physician of his time was born at High-Halden in Kent and educated for a time as it seems among several of his Countrymen in Hart hall where some of his Sirname did about that time study but whether he took a degree here it appears not Afterwards designing Physick his profession he travelled beyond the Seas spent some time at Padua where he took the degree of Doctor of that Faculty and upon his return practiced in London and became one of the Coll. of Physicians there Afterwards he setled in the City of Bathe where practicing with good success
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
University of Monreale in Italy Soon after he returned to Rhemes where remaining for some time eh went to Doway and in the English coll there taught and professed Divinity for about 10. years Afterwards he went into England to preach the word of God to administer to the distressed Catholicks and to gain Souls to his Religion where he was living in 1611. But his same for the exquisite writings that he published gaining him a great name was called thence and made Canon of the collegiat Church of S. Mary at Bruges in Flanders which he kept till the time of his death He hath written Justificationes de triplici hominis officio ex notione ipsius naturali morali ac Theologica in 3. libris Antw. 1602. qu. In the Preface to which the author having utter'd several matters against the learned Dr. Joh. Rainolds which were by the Protestants taken for great reproaches were animadverted upon by Wake the Orator of Oxon in these words Eat autem Westonus c. Let yet Weston that lewd and shameless Rabshake belch out what reproaches he pleaseth against him Rainolds and charge him not only with stupid dulness but also that he counterfeited sickness and pretended only to a disease to preserve his credit c. Notwithstanding which this Weston himself so like his Uncle in his ill conditions and ignominious flight when he challenged all the Heads of the University and branded them for inpure only for that some of them had entred into the state of Matrimony could not find any one act out of Dr. Joh. Raynolds in all his life to blemish him withal c. Juris pontificii sanctuarium printed 1613. in oct This I have not yet seen The trial of christian truth by the rules of virtues namely these principal Faith Hope Charity and Religion c. Doway 1614. qu. This is the first part which treats only of Faith The rest I have not yet seen Theatrum vitae civilis ac sacrae five de moribus reipub christianae commentaria in quinque libros distributa Brugis Flandr 1626. fol. Jesu Christi D. nostri coruscationes simulque â—orum vi dictorum factorumque quarundam personarum eodem Christo praesente in Evangelicâ historiâ recensitorum enarrationes c. Antw. 1631. fol. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was living in sixteen hundred thirty and three as I have been informed by Franc. à S. Clara who told me also that he died and was buried at Bruges in Flanders Besides this Edw. Weston I find one Will. Weston born at Maidstone in Kent who was contemporary with Edm. Campian the Jesuit in the University of Oxon. which place he leaving he went beyond the Seas entred into the Society of Jesus 1571. aged 25. and after Jasp Heywoods departure out of England he was sent thither by Father Parsons from Paris to be his substitute in the place of Provincial and how he behaved himself in that Office let another tell you In 1587. he was taken and imprisoned in Wisbich Castle with others where I find him to be the prime promoter and carrier on of the faction between the Seculars and Jesuits see more in Christop Bagshaw under the year 1625. This Will. Weston is much noted in English Story by the name of Father Edmonds alias Weston especially upon the publication of a book written by Sam. Harsnet afterwards Archb. of York intit A declaration of egregious popish impostures to withdraw the hearts of her Majesties Subjects from their allegiance c. under the pretence of casting out devils practised by Edmonds alias Weston a Jesuit c. Lond. 1603. qu. He died 9 Apr. 1615. leaving then behind him a precious name among the Brethren of his Order This person tho evilly treated and disgracefully mentioned by the Secular Priests and certain Protestant writers yet Father Parsons in his Brief Apology or defence of the Catholick Ecclesiastical Hierarchie c. speaks very honourably of him as to his piety and mortified way of living WILLIAM NOY Son of Will. Noy of S. Burian in Cornwall Gent. by Philippa his Wife was born there became a sojournour of Exeter coll in 1593. aged 16. where continuing a severe Student about 3 years left the University without a degree went to Linc. Inn studied the Common Law and by his unwearied industry and moyling day and night he became eminent in his profession In the latter end of the raign of K. Jam. 1. he was chose a Burgess for Helston in his own Country to sit in that Parliament that began at Westminster 30. Jan. 1620. and for that which began there 19. Feb. 1623. In both which he shewed himself a profess'd enemy to the Kings prerogative In 1625. he was elected a Burgess for S. Ives to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 6. Feb. wherein as in another following shewing himself an enemy as before he was at length diverted from his proceedings by being made Attorney General an 1631. He was as famous a Lawyer as ever this Kingdom bred as a certain author informs us who adds that formerly he was a great Patriot and the only searcher of Presidents for the Parliaments By which he grew so cunning as he understood all the shifts which former kings had used to get moneys with This man the K. sent for told him he would make him his Attorney Noy like a true cynick as he was did for that time go away not returning to the King so much as the civility of thanks nor indeed was it worth his thanks I am sure he was not worthy of ours For after the Court solicitings had bewitched him to become the Kings he grew the most hateful man that ever lived c. he having been as great a deluge to this Realm as the flood was to the whole world For he swept away all our priviledges and in truth hath been the cause of all these miseries this Kingdom hath since been ingulphed whether you consider our Religion he being a great Papist if not an Atheist and the protecter of all Papists and the raiser of them up unto that boldness they were now grown unto or if you consider our Estates and Liberties which were impoverished and enthralled by multitudes of Papists and illegal ways which this Monster was the sole author of c. He was a man passing humorous of cynical rusticity a most indesatigable plodder and searcher of ancient Records whereby he became an eminent instrument of good and ill to the Kings Prerogative His apprehension as 't is said was quick and clear his judgment methodical and solid his memory strong his curiosity deep and searching his temper patient and cautious all tempered with an honest bluntishness far from Court insinuation He left behind him several things fit for the Press and under his name were these books afterwards published A Treatise of the principal grounds and
maxims of the Laws of England Lond. 1641. qu. Afterwards printed in oct and tw Perfect conveyancer or several select and choice Precedents Lond. 1655. qu. 2d edit collected partly by Will. Noy and partly by Sir Rob. Hendon Knight sometimes one of the Barons of the Exchequer Rob. Mason sometimes Recorder of London and Henry Fleetweod formerly Reader of Greys Inn. Reports and cases in the time of Qu. Elizabeth K. James and King Charles 1. containing the most excellent exceptions for all manner of Declarations Pleadings and Demurs exactly examined and laid down London 1656. fol. The compleat Lawyer or a Treatise concerning Tenures and Estates in Lands of inheritance for life and other hereditaments and chattels real and personal c. Lond. 1661. and 74. in oct with his picture before it Arguments of Law and Speeches He also left behind him several choice collections that he had made from the Records in the Tower of London reduced into two large paper books of his own hand-writing One contained collections concerning the Kings maintaining his Naval power according to the practice of his Ancestors and the other about the privileges and jurisdiction of ecclesiastical Courts Dr. Tho. James of Oxon. when he compiled his Mannduction or Introduction unto Divinity printed 1625. he afterwards acknowledged himself beholding to the Extracts out of the Tower fairly and largly transcribed as he saith by the said Mr. Noy a great Antiquary of Law Which extracts I presume are the same with those before mention'd At length his body being much out of Order by continual toyling and drudging he retired to Tunbridge-wells to gain health in the month of July but the waters effecting nothing he died there on Saturday the 9. of Aug. following in sixteen hundred thirty and four year 1634 whereupon his body being conveyed to New Brentford in Middlesex was privately buried on the Munday following under the communion table of the Chancel of the Church there Over his grave was a stone soon after laid with a brass plate fastned thereunto and an inscription thereon but soon after defaced The next day after his departure the news of it came to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury then at Croydon who thereupon made this observation of him in his Diary I have lost a dear friend of him and the Church the greatest she had of his condition since she needed any such His body being opened after his decease his heart was found shrivel'd like a leather penny Purse nor were his Lungs right which caused several conjectures by the Puritans But that which was most observable after his death was his Will dated 3 June 1634. at which all the world wondred because the maker thereof was accounted a great Clerk in the Law for therein after he had bequeathed to his Son Hamphrey an hundred marks per an to be paid out of his tenements in the hundred of Pydar in Cornwall he concludes reliqua omnia c. and the rest of all my Lands Goods c. I leave to my Son Edward Noy whom I make my Executor to be consumed and scattered about nec de so mellus speravi c. But Edward lived not long to enjoy the estate for within two years after he was slain in a Duel in France by one Captain Byron who escaped scot-free and had his pardon as Will. Prynn an inveterate enemy to Will. Noy his Father reports As his Majesty was somewhat troubled at his loss and the Clergy more so the generality of the Commons rejoyced The Vintners drank carouses in hopes to dress meat again and fell Tobaco Beer c. which by a fullen capricio Noy restrained them from The Players also for whom he had done no kindness did the next Term after his decease make him the subject of a merry Comedy stiled A projector lately dead c. He had his humours as well as other men but certainly he was a solid rational man and tho no great Orator yet he was a profound Lawyer and none more better vers'd in Records than he In his place of Attorney General succeeded Sir Joh. Banks and the next year Sir Rob. Heath being removed from the Ch. Justiceship of the Kings Bench for bribery Sir John Finch came into play whereupon these verses were made Noyes Flood is gone The Banks appear Heath is shorn down And Finch sings there THOMAS HICKS or Hyckes Son of Francis Hicks mention'd under the year 1630 was born at Shipson in the parish of Tredington in Worcestershire became a Student in Balliol coll in Mich-Term an 1616. aged 17. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts and at length by the favour of Doctor Duppa Dean of Christs Church became one of the Chaplains or Petticanons of that House about 1628. He hath written The life of Lucian gathered out of his own writings Oxon. 1634. qu. Which life is set before his Fathers translation of certain dialogues of that author Notes and illustrations upon each dialogue and book of Lucian c. Besides his great skill in the Greek rongue he was esteemed among the Academians a good Poet and an excellent Limner And without doubt had not death cut him off in the prime of his years on the sixteenth day of December in sixteen hundred thirty and four he might have benefited the Commonwealth of learning with other matters He died in Christ Church and was buried in the Cathedral there which is all I yet know of him only that Dr. J. F. the publisher of Hist Antiq. Oxon. committed a grand mistake of him in that book lib. 2. p. 283. b. Another of both his names was author of A dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker c. To which a continuation was added by the same author in 1673. in oct ARTHUR PITS or Pitsius as he writes himself a younger Son of Arthur Pits Bach. of Law sometimes Fellow of All 's coll afterwards Registrary of the Diocess and Achdeaconry of Oxford and Impropriator of Eifley near to and in the County of Oxon. was born at Eifley educated for a time either in All 's or Brasnose coll or in both successively having been a Chorister of the first as it it seems but before he took a degree he left the University Country and Relations went to Doway spent some time in the English coll there return'd into his Country was taken and imprison'd but at length being released and ship'd with other Priests and Jesuits at Tower-Wharf at the Queens charge in Febr. 1584. was set on shoar in Normandy Whereupon retiring to Doway passed a course in Divinity became Doctor of that faculty and at length was made Chancellour to the Cardinal of Loraine being then a person much in esteem for his great knowledge in the supream faculty He hath written In quatuor Jesu Christi Evangelia Acta Apostolorum commentarius Duac 1636. in a thick quarto Which being all that he hath written as I suppose was published after his death by
which he had to the faculty of Physick took both the degrees therein as a member of the said hall and about that time retired to the City of York and practised there till about the beginning of the Civil Wars He hath written Spadacrene Anglica or the English Spaw Fountaine being a brief Treatise of the acid or tart Fountain in the Forest of Knaresborough in Yorkshire Lond. 1626. in oct A relation of other medicinal waters in the said Forest Printed with the former book Admiranda chymica in oct tractatulis cum figuris Franc. 1630. 35. qu. Sam. Norton is esteemed half author of this book This eminent Physitian died before the Civil War brake forth but the particular time I know not HUMPHREY LYND a most learned Knight of his time a zealous Puritan and a grand enemy to such who were called Arminians was born in London but descended from those of his name if I mistake not in Dorsetshere educated in Westminster School elected Student of Ch. Church in 1596. aged 17. and four years after took a degree in Arts. About that time he was called away to be heir to a fair estate and being looked upon as a knowing person was made a Justice of the Peace a Knight by the favour of K. Jam. 1. 29. Oct. 1613. and was elected several times a Burgess to serve in Parliaments He was a person of great knowledge and integrity and a severe enemy to the Pontificians as well in his common discourse as in his writings which are Antient characters of the visible Church London 1625. Via tuta The safe way to the true antient and Catholick faith now professed in the Church of England Lond. 1628. oct Answer'd by Rob. Jenison alias Frevil a Jesuit in a book intit A pair of Spectacles for Sir Humph. Lynd c. Roan 1631. in oct Which Jenison was born in the County Pal. of Durham and died in England 10. oct 1656. Via devia The by-way leading the weak in dangerous paths of popish errour Lond. 1630. oct A case for a pair of Spectacles c. Refused to be Licensed by Bishop Lauds Chaplain upon no other pretence as one saith but that Sir Humphrey was a Lay-man but in verity because he the Chaplain was unwilling to have him vindicate himself and the truth against a rayling Jesuit c. However this book was afterwards published by Dr. Dan. Featly with a Supplement thereunto added by the Dr. in defence of Sir Humphrey Lond. 1638. qu. Sir Humphrey also hath written an Account of Bertram the Priest with observations concerning the censures upon his Tract De Corpore Sanguine Christi set by way of preface to it Lond. 1623. oct and by him dedicated to Sir Walt. Pye Knight the Kings Majesties Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Which account with observations as also the dedic Epistle of Sir Humphrey all set before the translation of that book were published again by Mathew Brian LL. D. sometimes a Student in Magd. hall Oxon. Lond. 1686 oct before which is set the picture of Charles the Great King of France and Emperour of Rome See more in Will. Hugh under the year 1549. Farther also our Author Sir Humphrey who was esteemed a deserving defender of the Cause of Religion and to whom in other respects the Church and common cause did owe much did in the year 1623 upon the motion of certain eminent Divines of whom Dr. Featly was one undertake the charge of printing the particular passages of many late writers castrated by the Romish knife The collections were made by Dr. Tho. James and were then in 1623 sent to Dr. Featly and others to prepare them for the Press They began with Pol. Virgil Stella Mariana Ferus c. Sir Hump. Lynd died on the eighth day of June in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 and was buried above the steps in the Chancel of the parish Church of Cobham in Surrey and not in Kent on the fourteenth day of the same month at which time Dr. D. Featly before mentioned preached the funeral Sermon shewing then to the Auditory the great vertues piety and learning that were once in the person that lay dead before them He left behind him three Sons Robert Alex. and Humphrey besides six Daughters THOMAS ALLEN an exact proficient in the Greek and Latine tongues was sent from the Kings School at Worcester to this University in Mich. Term 1589. aged 16 where making great advances in Philosophy was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll in 1593 and by the severe discipline then used he became a most noted Disputant After he had compleated his Regency he entred into the sacred function but instead of frequent preaching he exercised himself much in crabbed and critical learning Whereupon being well esteemed by his Governour Sir Hen. Savile he procured for him a Fellowship of Eaton coll where he found him very serviceable for his designs He hath written Observationes in libellum Chrysostomi in Esaiam Printed in Sir H. Saviles edition of S. Chrysostome in the eighth vol. p. 139 c. He also was one that helped the said Knight in making and framing his Annotations on Chrysostomes Homelies on Matthew and the other Evangelists as he doth acknowledge in his Preface to the said Annotations wherein he stiles this our author Vir doctissimus Graecarum literarum non minus quam Theologiae peritissimus c. He surrendred up his soul to him that gave it year 1636 in sixteen hundred thirty and six and was buried in Eaton coll Chappel near to Windsore Over his grave is a flat stone remaining having this inscription carved on a brass plate fixed thereunto Thomas Allenus Wigorniensis vir pietate insignis Theologus praestantissimus multarum optimarum linguarum variaeque eruditionis callentissimus in collegium hoc in quo diu socius vixit in collegia insuper alia locaque in quibus aliquam vitae suam partem posuit pie munificus hic jacet Obiit die decimo Mensis Octobris an 1636. He gave books to Mert. coll library and some to that of Brasenose in which last he had been a Student before he was elected into Merton Another of both his names but later in time was sometimes Pastor of a Church in Norwich and author of The Glory of Christ set forth in several Sermons from John 3. 34 35 36. c. published after the authors death in 1683. oct JOHN JONES the ornament of the English Benedictines in his time was born in London but descended from a family of his name living at Llan-Vrinach in Brecknockshire elected Scholar of S. Johns coll from Merchant Taylors School in 1591 aged 16 and soon after became Chamberfellow there with Will Land who was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury This person being entred and settled in a Jurists place he applyed himself to the study of the Civil Law and made a considerable progress therein but his mind being much inclined to the Rom. Religion
1615. qu. Discourse concerning the rights and priviledges of the Subject in a conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both houses 3 Apr. 1628. Lond. 1642. qu. The compleat Embassador or two treatises of the intended marriage of Q. Elizabeth comprised in Letters of negotiation c. Lond. 1655. fol. Which book tho it had nothing forged or suppositious therein yet it was never intended for the Press by the collector thereof Several speeches and discourses in Parliament See in Jo. Rushworths Collections part 1. where you 'll find much of him and his imprisonment in the year 1626. His death which the wisest men did reckon among the publick calamities of those times hapned on the 18. March in sixteen hundred thirty and eight Soon after his body which had for some days laid in State was remitted to the peaceful shades below in Chilham Church in Kent in which Town he enjoyed fair inheritances by his marriage with Mary the youngest Daughter and Coheire of Sir Tho. Kemp Knight There is a fair Monument over his Grave the inscription of which is partly remitted into the foregoing discourse and therefore not necessary of repeating it here neither of a large inscription in Latin containing his genealogy from K. Hen. the third to his time which he some years before his death set up in the said Church JOHN LEYCESTER was born in Cheshire of Plebeian parents but originally descended from a gentile family in that County became a Student in Brasenose coll 1618. aged 20 took one degree in Arts and afterwards followed the employment of teaching a School which I think he exercised to his dying day He hath written Enchiridion seu fasciculus Adagiorum selectissimorum Or a manual of the choicest Adagies c. Lond. 1623. oct in Lat. and Engl. besides other things which I have not seen He also translated from Lat. into Engl. An excellent oration of Dr. Joh. Rainolds c. Lond. 1638. oct very useful for all such as affect the studies of Logick and Philosophy and admire prophane learning See more in John Rainolds under the year 1607. JASPER FISHER a Gentlemans Son was born in Bedfordshire entred a Com. of S. M. Magd. hall in Mich. Term 1607 took the degrees in Arts became afterwards Divinity or Philosophy reader of Magd. coll Rector of Wilden in his own Country about 1631 and at length D. of D. He hath written and published Fuimus Troes Aeneid 2. The true Trojanes being a story of the Britains valour at the Romans first invasion Lond. 1633. qu. Before which time it had been once or more publickly represented by the Gentlemen-Students of Magd. coll in Oxon. Several Sermons as 1 Serm. on Malac. 2. 7. Printed 1636. in oct c. This person who was always esteemed an ingenious man while he lived in Magd. coll as those that knew him have divers times informed me lived several years after this 1633. but when he died or what other things he hath published I cannot learn JAMES ROWLANDSON a Westmorland man born became a Student in Queens coll in the beginning of the year 1596 aged 19. years afterwards a poor serving child then a Tarbarder and in 1605. Master of Arts and Fellow In 1614. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then noted to be a subtile Disputant and an edifying preacher About which time being made Chaplain to Dr. Bilson Bishop of Winchester he became Rector of East-Tysted in Hampshire Master of the Hospital of S. Mary Magd. near Winchester Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and in the year 1636. Doctor of Divinity In 1638. he was made Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Charles Sunninbank deceased and would have risen higher in the Church had he not been soon after cut off by death He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Gods blessing in blasting and his mercy in mildew two Sermons suitable to these times of dearth on Haggai 2. 17. Lond. 1623. qu. 2 Sermon at Bishop Andrews his Consecration of Jesus Chappel near to Southampton Printed 1627. in qu. This I have not yet seen nor-others which he as I conceive hath publish'd He paid his last debt to nature on the ninth of May in sixteen hundred thirty nine and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore In his Canonry John Hales of Eaton the Walking Library succeeded But soon after ejected by the restless Presbyterians without any regard had to his great Piety and learning WILLIAM WHATELY Son of Tho. Whately by Joyce his Wife was born at a market Town called Banbury in Oxfordshire in the month of May 1583 baptized there 26. of the said month instructed in Grammâ—r in those parts sent to Christs coll in Cambridge at 14. years of age where continuing under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Potman till he was Bach. of Arts an 1601 was taken home for a time by his Father But his pregnant parts being soon after discovered by understanding men who frequented Banbury the Father was resolved to make him a Minister wherefore sending him to S. Edmunds hall in Oxon in the year following was incorporated Bach. of Arts and with the foundation of Logick Philosophy and Oratory that he had brought with him from Cambridge he became a noted Disputant and a ready Orator In the year 1604. he took the degree of Master of Arts as a Member of the said hall being then esteemed a good Philosopher and a tolerable Mathematician and soon after entring into holy Orders he became Lecturer of Banbury which place he keeping 4 years he was made Vicar thereof He was an excellent Preacher a person of good parts well vers'd in the original Text both Hebrew and Greek but being a Calvinist and much frequented by precise and busie People there and in the Neighbourhood for his too frequent Preaching laid such a foundation of Faction in that place that it will never be easily removed His works are these Divers Sermons as 1 The new birth or a treatise of regeneration delivered in several Sermons Lond. 1618. qu. c. 2 The Bride-bush or Wedding Sermon on Ephes. 5. 23. Lond. 1617. 19. qu. In which Sermon were noted by curious readers two propositions as First That committing the Sin of Adultery by either of the married persons doth dissolve annihilate and untye the bond and knot of marriage Secondly That the malicious and wilful desertion of either of the married persons doth in like manner dissolve c. These I say being noted and complained of to the Archb. he was coven'd before the High Commission to make satisfaction for what he had said and written But he ingeniously confessing that he could not make any satisfactory answer he recanted the 4. May 1621. and was forthwith dismissed 3 Sin no more on Joh. 5. 14. Lond. 1628. qu. 4 The Oyl of Gladness in several Sermons Lond. 1637. oct 5 Poor Man's advocate in certain Sermons Lond. 1637. oct 6 Redemption of time on Ephes. 5. 16. Lond.
refectory at what time the said Doctor was returned from Salisbury after he had been installed Dean thereof an 1635. The said Pastoral is not printed but goes about in MS. from hand to hand Dr. Speed who was by all persons that knew him accounted an ingenious man year 1640 died in the month of May in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in the Chappel of S. John's coll leaving then behind him a Son named Samuel who was aftera Student of Ch. Ch. and M. of A. installed Canon of the said Church on the death of Dr. Seb. Smith on the sixth day of May 1674. and another named John afterwards Fellow of St. John's coll and Doctor of Physick living now at Southampton THOMAS FITZHERBERT Son of Will. Fitzherbert by Isabell his Wife Daughter and one of the heirs of Humph. Swinnerton of Swinnerton in Staffordshire fourth Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert Knight the famous Lawyer Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire was born in the said County of Stafford an 1552. in which County being initiated in Grammer learning was sent either to Exeter or Lincoln coll in 1568 But having been mostly before trained up in the Cath. Religion the college seemed uneasie to him for tho he would now and then hear a Sermon which he was permitted to do by an old Roman Priest that then lived abscondedly in Oxon for to him he often retired to receive instructions as to matters of Religion yet he would seldom or never go to prayers for which he was often admonished by the Sub-Rector of his house At length he seeming to be wearied with the heresie as he stil'd it of those times he receeded without a degree to his Patrimony where also refusing to go to his parish Church was imprison'd about 1572. But being soon after set at liberty he became more zealous in his Religion defended it against the Protestant Ministers and not only confirm'd and strengthned many wavering Catholicks therein but wrote also several valid reasons for the not going of Catholicks to Protestant Churches for which being like to suffer he withdrew and lived abscondedly In 1580. when Campian and Persons the Jesuits came into the mission of England he retired to London found them out shew'd himself exceeding civil and exhibited to them liberally Whereupon bringing himself into a promunire and foreseeing great danger to come on him and all Catholicks he went as a voluntary exile into France an 1582. where he continued a zealous sollicitor in the cause of Mary Queen of Scots with the K. of France and Duke of Guise for her relief tho in vain After her decollation and all hopes of the Catholicks frustrated for the present he left that Country and the rather because that he about that time had buried his Wife and forthwith went into Spain For some years there he became a zealous agitator in the Royal Court for the relief of Catholicks and their Religion in England but his actions and the labours of many more of that nature being frustrated by the Spaniards repulse in 1588. he under pretence of being weary with the troubles and toyles of this life receeded to Millaine with the Duke of Feria Whence after some continuance there he went to Rome where he was initiated in sacred Orders took a lodging near to the English college and observed all hours and times of Religion as they in the college did by the sound of their bell and there composed certain books of which that against Machiavel was one A certain author of little or no note named James Wadsworth tells us that the said Tho. Fitzherbert had been before a Pensioner and Spye to the King of Spain in France and his service being past and his pension failing him out of pure necessity he and his man were constrained to turn Jesuits or else starve And he being a worthy Scholar and a great Politician was very welcome to that Order But let this report remain with the author who is characteriz'd by a Protestant writer to be a Renegado proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade now living 1655. a common hackney to the basest Catch-pole Bayliffs c. while I proceed In 1613-4 he took upon him the habit of the Society of Jesus on the feast of the Purification initiated therein on the vigil of the Annuntiation following and on the next day he sung his first Mass Afterwards he presided the mission at Bruxells for two years and at length much against his will he was made Rector of the English coll or seminary at Rome which he governed with great praise about 22. years He was a person of excellent parts had a great command of his tongue and pen was a noted Politician a singular lover of his Country men especially those who were Catholicks and of so graceful behaviour and generous spirit that great endeavours were used to have him created a Cardinal some years after Allens death and it might have been easily effected had he not stood in his own way He hath written A defence of the Catholick cause containing a Treatise in confutation of sundry untruths and slanders published by the Hereticks c. S. Omers 1602. Apology or defence of his innocence in a fained conspiracy against her Majesties person for the which one Edw. Squire was wrongfully condemned and executed in Nov. 1598. Printed with the Defence before mention'd This is the book which the learned Camden tells us was written by Walpole a Jesuit or one under his name Treatise concerning policy and religion Doway 1606. qu. Wherein are confuted several principles of Machiavel The second part of the said Treatise was printed also at Doway 1610. and both together in 1615. qu. A third part was printed at Lond. 1652. qu. being then cried up for a good book as the other parts had been An sit utilitas in scelere vel de infelicitate Principis Machiavellani Rome 1610. oct Suppliment to the discussion of Mr. Dr. Burlows answer to the judgment of a Cath. Engl. Man c. interrupted by the death of the author F. Rob. Persons Jesuit S. Omer 1613. qu. published under the two letters of F. T. Censure of Dr. Joh. Donnes book intit Pseudo-Martyr Additions to the Suppliment These two last are printed at the end of the Suppliment to the discussion c. against Dr. Will. Barlow B. of Line before-mentioned Confutation of certain absurdities in Lancelot Andrews's answer to Bellarm. Printed 1603. qu. and published under the two letters of F. T. instead of T. F. This was written in vindication of Card. Bellarmine's Apology for his answer made to K. James's book De jure fidel Whereupon came out a book intit Epphata to F. T. or a defence of the Bishop of Ely Lanc. Andrews concerning his answer to Card. Bellarmine's Apology against the calumnies of a scandalous Pamphlet Cambr. 1617. qu. written by Sam. Collins D. D. a Buckinghamsh man born Provost of Kings coll in Cambridge elected the Kings
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 â—or 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
have seen he gave to the priests of Clare hall in Cambridge considerable summs of money and forty pounds to the chest of that house To every fellow of Qu. coll in Oxon six shillings and eight pence and forty marks to the elemosinary chest thereof besides a sute of vestments for a Priest Deacon and Subdeacon and four copes He gave maintenance also to a Chaplain that should celebrate service for him his Parents and all faithful deceased for the space of an hundred years in the Church of Applebie before-mentioned Which Chaplain was to receive for his labour eight marks yearly To the Friers the Carmes in Applebie 20 marks to pray for him besides several sums to the Friers of Oxon and Cambridge and to Rowland Machel and Elizabeth his wife sister to the said Bishop he gave several lands in Westmorland besides 200 marks He built also the little room which is now a large Bay-window to the Provosts dining-room in Qu. coll with curious vaulting under it Which vault is now no other than a portico to the coll chappel Over the said Bay-window is carv'd in stone a musical note called a Long on a Tun which is the rebus for his firname and out of the Bung-hole of the Tun springs a Vine tree which without doubt was put for Vinton or Vinchestre he being then Bishop of that place He left behind him a Nephew named Rob. Langton born also in Applebie and educated in Queens coll of which he was LL. D. He died at London in the month of June 1524. and was buried before the image of S. Michael in the body of the Church belonging to the Charter-house now Suttons hospital near London By his last Will and Test he bequeathed to Qu. coll before mention'd two hundred pounds to purchase Lands and make a School-house in Appleby and what his benefaction was besides as also of that of Bishop Langton you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 123. 124 125. WILLIAM SHJOY commonly called Joy partly educated here but more in the Univ. of Paris was by provision from the Pope made Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland 16. Cal. of June 1485 where sitting about 16 years gave way at length to fate 28. Dec. in fifteen hundred and one and was as I suppose buried in his Cathedral Church In his Archbishoprick succeeded Philip Pinson a Minerite as I shall anon tell you RICHARD who writes himself Episcopus Oleven being Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester as it seems was a Dominican or Black Frier in Warwick to whose fraternity there he gave 6l at the time of his death and educated among the Black Friers in Oxon to whom also he gave 6l to pray for him He yielded up his last breath in Sept. in fifteen hundred and two year 1502 and was I suppose according to his last Will which I have seen buried in the choire of the Church belonging to the Black Friers in the City of Worcester on the south side of the Tomb of John Lichfield and opposite to that of Rich. Wolsey who as he saith in the said Will was nuper Conoren Duneren Episcopus HENRY DEANE was educated in this University where he took the degrees in Arts and Divinity but in what coll or Hall it appears not However some are pleased to say that he was educated in New coll yet whether he was perpetual Fellow thereof the registers of that house tells us not After he had left the University he was made Prior of Lanthony near to Gloucester in the neighbourhood of which place I presume he was born and on the 13 of Sept. or 20. Nov. 11. Hen. 7. he was by Letters Pat. constituted Chancellour of Ireland to execute that office by himself or a Deputy On the first of Janu. following he was constituted Deputy and Justice of the said Realm where being setled he performed good service against that grand impostor Perkin Warbeck and being elected Bishop of Bangor after the death of Richard lately Bishop of that place had restitution of the temporalities belonging thereunto made by the King 6. Octob. 12. Hen. 7. Dom. 1496. In 1500. he was translated to Salisbury on the death of John Blyth lately Bishop thereof Son of Will. Blyth of Norton in Yorkshire Son of another William of Leedes in the said County and had restitution of the temporalities thereof made to him as the manner is on the 12. March the same year About which time he was made Chanc. of the Order of the Garter In 1501. he was elected Archb. of Canterbury upon the death of Cardinal Moreton whereupon being translated thither had restitution made of his temporalities on the second of Aug. the same year About that time the members of the University of Oxon received an Epistle of favour from him wherein among other things he stiles the said University his benignissima mater He died at Lambeth on the 15. of Febr. saith a certain author tho a register of that time tells us 't was on the 16. of that month in fifteen hundred and two Whereupon his body was carried to Canterbury and buried in the middle of the Martyrdom within the precincts of the Cathedral there leaving then behind him the character of a person altogether fit for those places that he successively enjoyed DAVID CREAGH was born in the County of Limerick in Ireland studied several years among his Country men the Civil and Canon Law of which faculâ—ies he became at length Bachelaur Afterwards retiring to his native Country became thro several preferments Archb. of Cashills an 1483 where sitting about 20. years died 5. Sept. in fifteen hundred and three Of the great injuries done to him by Gerald Fits Gerald Earl of Kildare L. Deputy of Ireland of which Creagh complained to K. Hen. 7. by the advice of Sir Jam. de Ormond Knight the Histories of that Country will tell you PHILIP PINSON an English man studied among the Minorites or Grey Friers for a time in their house in Oxon. of which order he was a learned brother but whether he took the Degree of D. D. in this University we have no register that shews it Afterwards he became Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Hereford and afterwards of B. and Wells by whose endeavours but chiefly of those of K. Hen. 7. he was advanced at Rome to the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland on the 2. of Decemb. in fifteen hundred and three year 1503 and three days after died of the Plague Afterwards that See laid void two years and then 't was confer'd on Maurice O Fihely whom I have before among the writers mentioned JOHN ARUNDELL Son of Rainford or Rainford Arundell Knight by Jane his Wife Sister and heir of Joh. Coleshull third Son of Sir John Arundell of Talvern in Cornwall who died 13. Hen. 6. was born in that County received his Academical education in Exeter college became
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 Archdeaconâ—y 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 Weâ—â— man and Doctor of the Laws of Oxon. was installed Dean â—â—â—sore in the place of Will. Benley an 1484. 2. 〈…〉 and being elected Bish of S. Davids on the death of 〈…〉 sometimes B. thereof an Oxford Scholar and a â—enefactor to the building of S. Maries Church had restitution made to him of temporalitie belonging to that See 23. Nov. 12. Hen. 7. Dâ—m 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. 15â—4 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
But the said promotions being not sufficient to keep up the Port of a Bishop he was made Archdeacon of Nottingham in the place of Tho. Crosley deceased in the beginning of Sept. 1506. He departed this mortal life on the 25. year 1516 Apr. in fifteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the north Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral Church at York In his Archdeaconry succeeded William Fell D. D. and in his Prebendary of Vlleskelf Brian Hygden LL. D. MILES SALLEY or Sawley a Benedictine Monk of Abendon Abbey Almoner thereof and in 1498. Abbat of the Monastery of Einsham near to and in the County of Oxford was promoted to the rich Bishoprick of Landaff in Nov. 1504. and in the year following did bestow considerable exhibitions on certain poor Scholars of Oxford in which University in Gloucester coll I think he had received his Academical education He departed his mortal life in the month of Septemb. in fifteen hundred and sixteen year 1516 at which time he bequeathed many good things to Einsham Abbey whereupon his heart and bowels were buried before the Image of S. Theodorick at the high Altar in the Church of Mathern in Monmouthshire at which place the B. of Landaff hath a Pallace and his body carried to Bristow where it was with great solemnity buried on the north side of our Ladies Chappel before the Image of S. Andrew situate and being within the college of Gaunts which Leland in his Itinerary stiles the Gauntes alias the Bonhomes founded originally by Hen. de Gaunt a Priest After him succeeded in the See of Landaff George Athequa a Black-Frier of Spain who by the name of Georgius de Aitien had the temporalities thereof given to him 23. Apr. 9. Hen. 8. dom 1517. and after him followed a Cambridge Doctor named Rob. Halgate or Holgate of Helmesworth in Yorkshire Master of the Order of Sempryngham and Prior of Watton who after election to that See had the Kings consent 29. March 28. Hen. 8. The next was Anthony Dunstan whom I shall hereafter mention JAMES Mac-MAHON who studied for some time Arts and the Civil Law retired to his native Country of Ireland became thro certain petite preferments Bishop of Derry 1507. and died a little before the nativity of our Saviour in fifteen hundred and seventeen year 1519 He held the Priorship of S. Pet. and S. Paul of Knock in the Province of Louth in Commendam with his Bishoprick THOMAS PURSELL whose place of Nativity is as much unknown to me as the House in Oxon wherein educated became Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland about 1486. and soon after took care that all the ancient charters of Lismore should be transcribed into a Register or Leiger-book which book remaining with his successors till 1617. was by accident then burnt He gave way to fate in fiveteen hundred and seventeen year 1517 but where buried I know not In my searches it appears that one John Bishop of Waterford was Rector of Bawdrob or Baudripp in the Diocess of Bath and Wells in January 1482. 22. Ed. 4. whom I take to be predecessor to Thom. Pursell tho not mention'd by the Author of the Com. of the Irish Bishops EDMUND COURCY was descended from the noble family of the Courcyes of the Province of Mounster in Ireland and when young became a Brother of the Franciscan Order in his own Country Afterwards going into England studied the Theological faculty of which he was in few years after Doctor among those of his Order in Oxon. At length being made Bishop of Clogher in his own Country in 1484. was translated thence to Ross on the sixth of the Cal. of Octob. 1494. He gave way to fate in a good old age in the Monastery of his Order at Temolage in the County of Cork on the 14. of March in fiveteen hundred and eighteen year 1518 and was buried there He is said by a certain Author to be much valued for his Fidelity by K. Hen. 7. and that he was the first of the English Nation that obtained the Episcopal See of Clogher RICHARD WYLSON a Northern man born who after he had spent some time in the Theological faculty among those of his Order in Oxon became Prior of the Manastery of Drax in Yorkshire on the death of one Thomas Hancocke an 1507. and about the year 1515. was made Suffragan Bishop to the Archb. of York under the title of Nigrepont In 1518. he built the Choire belonging to the Church of Bingley in Yorkshire in which Town as 't is probable he was born but when he died it appears not One Rich. Wilson an English man became by provision from the Pope Bishop of Meath in Ireland 1523. and sate there about six years whether the same with the former I cannot tell HUGH OLDHAM or Owldham descended from those of his name living at Oldham in Lancashire was as it seems born at Manchester in that County and being partly fitted for Academical learning was sent to Oxon where continuing for a while went to Cambridge took a degree there and in Sept. 1495. was made Preb. of South Aulton in the Church of Sarum on the death of John Coryndon he the said Oldham being about that time Chaplain to Margaret Countess of Richmond and Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln In 1499. he by the name of Hugh Oldham L. L. Bac. was admitted Preb. of South Cave in the ch of York in the place of Dr. Will. Worsley deceased and on the 12. of Jan. the same year he was installed in his proper person in that dignity In 1504. he being by the endeavours of the said Countess elected Bishop of Exeter by the name of Mr. Hugh Oldham without the addition of Doctor or Bach. was restored to the temporalities of that See 6 Jan. 1504. He sate there several years not without some disturbance from the Abbot of Tavistock occasion'd by a contention between them about the liberties of the Church of Exeter and dying on the 25. of June year 1519 in fiveteen hundred and nineteen was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Peter at Exeter in a Chappel of his own erection hallowed in honour of our Lord God S. Saviour joyning to the South side of the Church a little above the high Altar In which Chappel he appointed some of the Vicars Choral of Exeter to say Mass daily for his Soal He was a benefactor to the said Vicars by giving them the Lands which belonged to the Brethren of the Holy Trinity at Totness in Devonshire whose Cell there had been founded by one De la Bont Lord of Little Totness but suppressed by the said Oldham to the end that they might be reduced together every day at one Table to take Commons He was also an especial Benefactor to C. C. coll in Oxon as you may elsewhere see and at Manchester in Lancashire where his Obit was solemnised several years
Halyfax in his own Country In 1507. he was by the favour of P. Jul. 2. made Bishop of Meath in Ireland and the same year one of the Kings Privy Council there In the latter end of 1511. he was translated by the authority of the same Pope to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin and in 1515. was made Chancellour of Ireland by K. Hen. 8. in which great office as 't is supposed he continued to the time of his death He yielded to the stroke of death 29. Nov. in fifteen hundred twenty and one year 1521 and was buried as a certain author saith in the Church of S. Patrick near Dublin In his Will dated 22. Nov. and proved 4. February an 1521. wherein he stiles himself Archb. of Dublin and perpetual Vicar of Halifax I find these things following Item I will that after my death my body be embowelled and my bowels and heart to be buried in the Church of Halifax within the Quire and my body to be buried in the new Chappel at Sandall and thereon a Tomb of stone to be made and about the same to be written Ego Willielmus Dublin Archiepiscopus quondam Rector istius Ecclsie credo quod redemptor meus vivit qui obiit cujus anime proptietur deus amen Item I will that a Chappel be made in all convenient haste at Halifax on the south side of the Church after the direction of mine Executors and Church-Masters and there a Tomb to be made with my Image and thereupon written Hic jacet-Willlelmi Rokeby nuper Dublin Archiepiscopi Vicarii perpetui â—stius Ecclesie qui credo c. Item where I did obtain a Pardon for the Parish of Halifax and the Parishings thereunto adjoyning pro lacticiniis in quadragessima edendis I will that mine Executors at their discretion obtain sub plumbo the said license to be renewed and the profit thereof to be imployed for a Priest to sing at Halifax in my said new Chappel as long as may be by the advice and discretion of my Executors and the Church-Wardens Item I will that a Doctor of Div. have 10 l. to be occupied in Preaching c. Thus far part of his Will according to the tenour of which his heart was buried in the Chancel of the Ch. at Halifax and thereon was laid a stone with the figure only of an heart engraven thereon On the north side of the said Church was also founded a Chappel wherein was a monument built for him with an inscription put thereon Which being since partly defaced you shall have that part which lately remained thereon Orate pro anima Willielmi Rokeby jur Can. profess ac etiam Episcopi Medensis denide Archiepisc Dublin capelle fundatoris istius Qui obiit… Novembris an Dom. mcccccxxi What was performed at Sandall for the accomplishment of the other part of his Will I know not One Will. Rokeby LL. Bac. who was well beneficed in Yorkshire succeeded Joh. Dakyn LL. D. in the Archdeaconry of the East-riding of the said County in Dec. 1558. who dying in 1568. Martin Parkinson B. D. had that Dignity confer'd upon him in Dec. the same year but before he had kept it an year he gave way to fate Whereupon the said Dignity was confer'd on John Mey D. D. who was setled therein in the beginning of Aug. 1569. and soon after became Bishop of Carlile I find also one John Rokeby LL. D. to be Chanter Canon resid and Preb. of Duffeild of and in the Church of York who died in the latter end of 1574. Which John with William before-mentioned were of the same Family with Will Archb. of Dublin RICHARD FITZ-JAMES son of John Fitzjames by Alice his Wife daugh of Joh. Newbourgh son of James Fitz-james by Eleanor his Wife daugh and heir of Sim. Draycot was born in Somersetshire became a Student in the University of Oxon about 1459. elected probatoner-Fellow of Merton coll in 1465. took holy orders when he was Master and in 1473 was elected one of the Proctors of the University In the beginning of March 1474 he became Preb. of Taunton in the church of Wells upon the resignation of John Wansford and afterwards being constituted chaplain to K. Edw. 4. he proceeded in Divinity On the 12 of March 1482 he was elected Warden of Merton coll upon the resignation of John Gygur being then and after esteemed a frequent Preacher Which place he keeping about 25 years he shewed himself most worthy of it by his admirable way of government which he exercised by his continual benefaction thereunto and by his endeavours when in power to promote his Fellows In March 1484-85 he was made Vicar of Mynhead and about that time Rector of Aller in Somersetshire in which last he was succeeded by Mr. Christopher Baynbrigg in the latter end of May 1497. On the 2. of June 1495. he was admitted Almoner to K. Hen. 7. and on the 2. of January 1496. being then elected by the Monks of Rochester to be Bishop of that See was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 21. May following by Cardinal Moreton Archb. of Canterbury and his Assistants Landâ—ff and Bangor In January 1503. he was translated to the See of Chichester in the place of Dr. Edw. Story a Cantabrigian who dying in the latter end of the year 1502. was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester under a fair Tomb which he a little before had built for himself and on the 14. March 1505. he was nominated by the King to succeed Dr. Barons in the See of London On the 1. Aug. 1506. the temporalities of that See were restored to him So that soon after being setled there he resigned his Wardenship of Merton coll which he had kept in Commendam with Rochester and Chichester and all that time had administred the Government thereof with great commendation But this the Reader is to note that tho he was a Bishop several years while Warden yet did he according to statute and custom submit himself yearly in the month of January to the scrutiny of the Fellows of the said coll in the Chappel of S. Cross of Halywell near to Oxon de mora muribus Custodis Which statute continuing in use till the time of Hen. 8. was then disused by Dr. Joh. Chamber Warden thereof under pretence of absence in serving his Majesty as Physician He the said Dr. 〈…〉 bestowed much money in adorning the Cathedral of S. Paul as he had done before the collegiate Parish Church belonging to Merton coll in which house he built I cannot say all at his own charge the hall with a fair dining-room over it and a lodging room with a large vault under it both joyning on the west side to the said hall and dining-room for the use of him while Warden and his Successor in that office for ever Which hall dining-room and lodging Chamber were made as additions to the old lodgings belonging to the Wardens of the
said college and were built on the south side of those lodgings which were erected by Hen. Sever sometimes Warden He the said Dr. Fitz-James also bestowed much money in the building and finishing of S. Maries Church in Oxon. In memory of which benefaction were his Arms quartering those of Draycot engraven on stone over the north door leading from the Schoolstreet to the lower end on the north side of the body of that church His Arms also with those of Card. Joh. Moreton Archb. of Cant. and Edm. Audley Bish of Sarum were at the bottom of the Stone-pulpit in the said Ch. of S. Mary most curiously engraven and also on the roof of the old Library afterwards a Congregation-house on the north side of S. Maries Chancel To the reparation of which Church as also to the building of the Pulpit which consisted all of Ashler-stone there is no doubt but that he was a benefactor He also with his brother Sir Joh. Fitz-James L. Ch. Justice of England were the chief Founders of the School-house in Brewton in Somersetshire near which Town at Redlinch as 't is said they were both born Will. Gilbert Abbat of Brewton was a benefactor to it and so was John Edmonds D. D. Abbat of Glastenbury At length after good deeds had trod upon his heels even to Heaven gates he gave way to fate in a good old age in the beginding of fifteen hundred twenty and two year 1522 Whereupon his body was buried in the nave of his own Cathedral of S. Paul under the Altar of S. Paul near to the foundation or foot of the Campanile under a marble Tomb prepared and erected by him in his life time Afterwards was a little Chappel erected over the said Tomb wherein I presume were Masses said for his Soul But when the said Campanile was consumed with fire 1561. the Chappel then was consumed also THOMAS RUTHALL or Rowthall was born in a Market Town in Gloucestershire called Cirencester in the Church of which place I saw some years since a monument for one John Avenying and his Wife Which John dying 1401. might probably be according to time Grandfather to… Avenyng whom some call Avelyng Mother to Tho. Ruthall before-mentioned He was educated for some years in this University as it evidently appears in one or more of our Registers but in what coll or hall I know not Thence as 't is said he went to Cambridge for a time but when it doth not appear Sure it is that one Rothall took the degree of D. of D. in this University and in the year 1500. was incorporated at Cambridge with Dr. Rich. Mayhew President of Magd. coll In 1503. he was elected Chancellour of the University of Cambridge being then Archdeacon of Gloucester and in the beginning of Sept. 1505. he was made Dean of Salisbury in the place as it seems of one Edw. Cheyney who occurs Dean of that Church in Aug. 1499. About that time he being esteemed a person of great vertue and prudence he was made Secretary to K. Hen. 7. who a little before his death nominated him to the See of Durham upon the translation of Bainbridge to York Soon after K. Hen. 8. succeeding in the Throne he made him his Secretary for a time and one of his Privy Council And being then elected to the said See of Durham the temporalities thereof were restored to him 3. July 1. Hen. 8. dom 1509. Afterwards he was made L. Privy Seal was esteemed a famous Clerk and admirably well read in both the Laws being as 't is said Doctor or Professor of them Towards his latter end he founded a Free School at the place of his nativity and gave an house and seven pounds per an for the maintenance of a Master Which School having for the most part flourished in good sort hath educated many that have been eminent in Church and State He paid his last debt to nature at Durham place near London on Wednesday the fourth of Feb. in fifteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the Chappel of S. John Baptist joyning to the Abbey-Church of S. Peter in Westminster at which time Dr. Rowl Phillips Vicar of Croydon a great Divine and a renowned Clerk preached an excellent Sermon Some years after was a fair raised Tomb built over his grave with his Statua thereon mitred and vested and a small inscription on it but false as to the year of his death MAURICE FITZ-GERALD called by some Mauritius Johannis was of ancient extract in Ireland and for a time educated in Oxon under the name of Fitz-Gerard but whether he took a degree we have no Register of that time that shews it Afterwards by provision from P. Julius 2. he was made Archb. of Cashills in Ireland and died year 1523 as 't is reported in fifteen hundred twenty and three 'T is said that certain statutes made in a Synod by him held at Limerick 1511. were inserted in the Register of Thom. Pursell B. of Lismore and Waterford which with the Reg. it self were afterwards consumed in the flames as I have before told you JOHN TYNMOUTH sometimes a Grey-Frier at Lynne in Norfolk was edacuted in Theological learning among those of his Fraternity at Cambridge and afterwards among those at Oxon and at length made a Suffragan Bishop under the tit of the Bish of Argos then in partibus infidelium year 1524 He gave way to fate in fifteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the Ch. yard of Bostou in Lincolnshire of which place he was Vicar right against the midst of the high Altar to the end that his loving Parishioners when they should happen to see his Grave and Tomb might be sooner moved to pray for his Soul He gave at the time of his death to the houses of Grey Friers at Lynne Cambridge and Oxon 5 l. a piece EDMUND AUDLEY Son of Jam. Tuchet or Touchet Lord Audley by Alianore his wife was educated in Academical learning in Lincoln coll as it seems to which afterwards he was an especial benefactor took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1463 but whether that of Master it doth not appear in the reg of that time which is imperfect In Janu. 1471 he became Preb. of Farendon in the Church of Lincoln upon the resignation of one Rob. Skyllington or rather Stillington and in the month of Oct. 1475 Preb. of Codeworth in the Church of Wells on the death of Mr. Will Fulford On the 25. Dec. the same year he under the title of M. A. became Archdeacon of the East-Riding of Yorkshire on the death of Joh. Walker LL. B. and had other preferments in other Churches confer'd upon him At length being promoted to the See of Rochester his Archdeaconry was bestowed on a certain noble man named Edw. Pole installed therein 15. Oct. 1480. who being made Archdeacon of Richmond upon the consecration of John Shirwood B. of Durham was installed therein 6. Jan. 1484. So that thereupon
resigning his Archdeaconry of the East-riaing of Yorksh Will. Poteman sometimes Warden of All 's coll as I guess was installed on the 16. of the same month in the same year who dying 25. March 1493. Hen. Cornbull succeeded him Afterwards Edm. Audley was translated to the See of Hereford upon the death of Thom. Myllyng sometimes a Student among the Benedictines of Gloucester coll in the Suburbs of Oxon the temporalities of which were given to him 26. Dec. 1492. and from thence to Salisbury the temporalities of which See also were put into his hands on the 2. of April 1502. and about that time was made Chancellour of the most Noble Order of of the Garter In 1518. he gave 400 l. to Linc. coll to purchase lands for the use thereof and about that time bestowed upon the said house the Patronage of a Chauntry which he had lately founded in a Chappel built by him in the north part of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury He also was a Benefactor to the reparation of the Congregation-house sometimes a Library on the north side of S. Maries Chancel in Oxford to the erection of that curious piece of workmanship the stone Pulpit in the said Ch. finished 1508. at the bottom of which were his Arms a Fret impaled by the See of Sarum and gave 200 marks for the supply of Chichleys chest belonging to the University which had before been robb'd of its treasure But whether he built the choire or chancel of S. Maries church or gave the old Organs as a certain author is pleased to tell us I find it no where to appear At length departing this mortal life in a good old age at Ramsbury in Wilts year 1524 on the 23 of Aug. in fiveteen hundred twenty and four was buried in the chappel before-mention'd built by him in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary within the cath ch of Sarum to the reparation of which cathedral he bequeathed threescore pounds After his death Laur. Campegius Cardinal of S. Anastasius was made Bishop of Salisbury but whither he being almost continually absent or any of his Successors till the time of Dr. Seth Ward an 1671. were ever chancellours of the order of the Garter in doth not appear THEODORICK O-BRIEN sometimes written Terence and Terlach O-brien was descended from an ancient and noble family of his name in Ireland and after he had spent some time in good letters here in Oxon became Bishop of Killaloe in the said Country and a person of great name there for his liberality and hospitality yet addicted to warfare more than became his coat He paid his last debt to nature in fiveteen hundred twenty and five Several years before his time was another of both his names Bishop of that place and another after him whereupon by writers this Bishop was commonly written and called Terence O-Brien the second JOHN YOUNG received his first breath in this world at Newton-Longvill in Bucks was educated in Wykehams School near Winchester became perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1482. and left it in 1502. being then or about that time Doct. of Div. and Rector of S. Martins Church in Oxon. Afterwards he became well known to Cardinal Tho. VVolsey by whose endeavours he was made Dean of Chichester Bishop titular of Callipolis or Galipoli a City in Thrace about 1517. Judge as 't is said of the Prerogative of Canterbury and Warden of New coll in 1521. He died 28. year 1526 March in fifteen hundred twenty and six and was buried as I suppose in the Chappel of the said College under a Marble-stone that he had lain there some time before his death with an inscription thereon and a blank for the time of his death to be filled up by his Executor or Overseer of his last Will and Testament but was never performed The reader is to know that there was another John Young who from being Prebendary of Apesthorpe in the cath ch of York was admitted Dean of that Church by the name and title of Jo. Younge LL. D. on the 17. of May 1514. being at that time Master of the Rolls But he dying 25. Apr. 1516. and buried in the chappel of the Rolls in chancery-lave near London must not be taken to be the same with the former Besides the said two I find others of both their Names as 1 John Young a Monk of Ramsey who being well skill'd in the Hebrew tongue saved many books of that Language that were in the Library of that Monastery when 't was dissolved in 1535. or thereabouts 2 Joh. Young Giovanus a native of Yorkshire educated in Trin. coll in Cambridge afterwards Master of Pemb. hall and Vice-chancellor of that University of whom and his writings Baleus and Pitseus will inform you 3 Jo. Young one of the Bonhoms or Good men of the Monastery of Ashrugg in Bucks Who being turn'd out thence at the dissolution by K. Hen. 8. entred himself a Sojourner in Exeter coll about 1539. He was of kin to Jo. Young B. of Galipoli but what name or eminence there was in him I find not 4 Jo. Young born at Newton Longvill before mention'd Fellow of New coll 1512. Rector of his native place in 1525. and died therein 1545. which Jo. was nearly related to the Bishop WILLIAM HOW a Buckinghamshire man born as it seems or at least descended from those of his name living at or near the Wycombs was educated in all kind of Learning in this University and by the title of Master of Arts thereof and the Kings chaplain did supplicate the Ven. congregation of Regents in 1512. that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences but whether he was really admitted it appears not Afterwards he travelled was admitted Doct. of Div. in an University beyond the Seas and at his return retir'd to the University in the beginning of the year 1526. where by the name of Will. How Episcopus Aurensis supplicated the said congregation that whereas he had been created Doct. of Divinity beyond the Seas and had been a student in this University many years he might be incorporated in the same faculty which being granted simpliciter he was forthwith incorporated This Bishoprick in the same I presume with Auriensis or Orensis commonly called Orense under the Archbishoprick of Compostella in Spain to which courtry as 't is probable this W. How was sent about business by Catherine of Spain Queen of England the Royal consort to K. Hen. 8. I find one Will. How M. of A. presented by the King to the Church of Shipton-Mallet in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Reynold West in the beginning of Aug. 1516. and about that time became Rector of Alre or Aller in the same county but this Will. How dying in 1521. or 22. must not be understood to be the same with the former To this last was Joh. How prior of Plympton in Devonshire related who living to see
his Monastery dissolved went afterwards to Oxon and settled in Exeter coll in January 1545. in the condition of a Sojourner WILLIAM GILBERT a Canon Regular and Prior of Brewton or Bruton in Somersetshire in which county he was born became Doct. of Div. of this University in 1506. and in the year after was made Vicar of Mynhead in his own country on the death of Tho. Beaumont sometimes Fellow of Merton coll Afterwards being esteemed a man of note reverence and great Religion he was made Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Bathe and Wells under the title of Episc Majorensis which is in partibus Infidelium and by that title he was admitted Vicar of Southpertherton in the Dioc. of Wells 16. Dec. 1525. by the presentation thereunto of Jo. Herte Abbot of Athelney as also to other benefices and one or more dignities to keep up his port Afterwards or about that time he went to Rome and there procured of the Pope that the Priory of Brewton might be changed into an Abbey After his return he was always called Abbat Gilbert and with its name did so change the buildings of his Abbey that it was but little better than re-edified by him Whether he was the last Abbat I know not RICHARD FOX the worthy Founder of Corp. Ch. coll in this University of whom having made mention at large elsewhere I shall only say that he was born at Ropesley near to Grantham in Lincolnshire educated in Grammar learning at Boston in the said county in Academical for a time in Magd. coll in Oxon whence being transplanted to Cambridge became at length Master of Pembroke hall there Prebendary of Bishopston in the Church of Sarum and in Feb. 1485. Preb. of South Grantham in the same Church upon the resignation of Dr. Christop Bainbridge This person having been a constant Adherent to Henry Earl of Richmond against King Rich. 3. was by him when made King of England by the name of Hen. 7 made in the beginning of his reign one of his Privy Council he being then LL. D. and nominated to be Bishop of Exeter in Feb. 1486. On the 24 of the same month he had the custody of the Privy Seal conferr'd on him and being elected to the said See the K. restored to him the Temporalities belonging thereunto 2. Apr. 1487. On the 5. Jul. following he had by the Kings command twenty Shillings per diem allowed to him to commence from the 24. Feb. before-mention'd which was allowed to him as I suppose as Keeper of the said Seal And being elected afterwards to the See of B. and VVells had restitution of its temporalities made to him by the King 4. May 1492. In 1494. he was translated to Durham and afterwards was elected Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and being settled at Durham he forthwith out of a great vast Hall in the Castle there did take as much away as made a fair Buttery and a Pantry even to the Pulpits or Galleries on each side of the Hall wherein the Trumpeters or Wind-musick used to stand to play while the meat was usher'd in And on the Wall which parted the said buttery from the Hall was a great Pellican set up to shew that it was done by him because he gave the Pellican to his Arms. When Dr. Richard Neile became B. of Durham he took away part of the said hall at the other end to enlarge the great Parlour and yet the hall continued fair and large still At length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Langton he was elected B. of Winchester the temporalities of which being restored to him by the King 17. Octob. 1500. was soon after installed with great solemnity After he was settled there he performed many acts of piety and charity among which was the foundation and establishment of C. C. coll before-mention'd and dying in fifteen hundred twenty and eight year 1528 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at VVinchester on the South side of the high Altar After him followed in that See Card. Tho. VVolsey of whom I shall make mention anon HUGH INGE or Ynge was born at Shipton-Mallet in Somersetshire educated in VVykehams School made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1484. took the degrees in Arts and left the coll in 1496. Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas where he was made Doct. of Divinity was successively made Preb. of East Harptrey in and Succentor of the Church of VVells Guardian of VVapulham in the Dioc. of Lincoln Preb. of Auste in the Church of VVestbury in the Dioc. of VVorcester to which the Vicaridge of VVellow in the Dioc. of B. and VVells was annexed by the Pope Vicar of Oldeston in the Dioc. of Lincoln of Dultying in Somersetshire by the presentation of Richard the Abbat and Conv. of Glastenbury on the death of Mr. VVill. Speckington and of VVeston alias Sowey by the presentation of the said Ab. and Conv. on the death of Mr. Rob. Stafford In the beginning of Apr. 1511. he was incorporated D. of D. in this University and in the latter end of that year was made Bishop of Meath in Ireland Thence he was translated to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin in the place of Dr. VVill. Rokeby an 1521. and about that time was made Chancellour of Ireland where he was accounted a person of great probity and justice He gave way to fate at Dublin 3 Aug. in fifteen hundred twenty and eight year 1528 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Patrick there In the said See of Dublin succeeded Dr. John Allen whom I shall mention in his proper place THOMAS BELE Beel or Beyll was bred a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austen and educated in Acad. learning among those of his Order studying in S. Maries coll in Oxon of which he became Prior about 1508. Afterwards taking the degrees in divinity he became Lord Prior of S. Mary Spytell without Bishopsgate in London and at length Suffragan Bishop to Rich. Fitz-James B. of London under the title of Episcop Lydensis which is under the Patriarch of Jerusalem In that titular See succeeded one Joh. Holt but whether educated in this University I cannot tell He lived mostly in the Town of Bury S. Edmund in Suffolk where dying about the 12. of Aug. 1540. was buried in the Church of our blessed Lady S. Mary there in our Ladies Isle near to the head of John Holt Gent. THOMAS WOLSEY the great and mighty Cardinal of the time he lived in whose life having been written several years after his death by Thom. Cavendish his Gentleman Usher we are informed therein that he was born at Ipswych in Suffolk but not that he was a Butchers Son as others have publickly reported as well in the Cardinals life time as since the first of which was he who wrote a Libel in English Verse against him a little before his fall called A dialogue between two Priests servants named
Watkin and Jeffry published in octavo perhaps written also by a canting and severe Lutheran who writes himself N. O. But so it was that he the said T. Wolsey being very apt to learn when he was a Child his Parents and other good Friends made shift to maintain him in Oxon particularly in Magd. coll where making a most wonderful progress in Logick and Philosophy be became Bach. of Arts at 15. years of age an 1485. Soon after he was elected fellow and when he had taken the degree of M. of A. was made Master of the Grammar School joining to the said College In the 14. Hen. 7. Dom. 1498. he was Bursar of that House in which year the stately Tower was finisht In the beginning of Oct. 1500. he became Rector of Lymyngton in Somersetshire on the death of Joh. Borde by the presentation thereunto of Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset which Rectory he conferr'd upon him for the great care he had of his Sons under his Tuition in the Grammar School before-mention'd But that great man dying in Sept. 1501. and his hopes of being introduced into the court frustrated he struck into acquaintance with one Sir Joh. Naphant Treasurer of Calais a Gent. of the said county who forthwith made him his chaplain And finding him to be a man of parts committed his employment to him he himself being grown old and consequently unfit for business At length he being mindful of his chaplains good service he never left him until he had found means to make him the Kings chaplain Which matter being according to his mind effected he became known to one of the Kings grave Counsellors and Favourites named Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester who finding VVolsey to be not only an active but a witty man did with one Sir Tho. Lovel another grave Counsellor commend him to the service of the King who also upon discourse with him finding him to be a man of Eloquence and to understand State affairs sent him in the quality of an Embassador to Maximilian the Emperour then abiding in Flanders not far from Calais Which Embassage he performed with so great dexterity and quickness that the K. taking especial notice of it did soon after confer upon him the Deanery of Lincoln void by the death of Jeffrey Simeon sometimes Fellow of New college Proctor of this University of Oxon and Dean of the chappel Royal to K. Hen. 7. which Jeffrey died 20. Aug. 1508. Of which Church I say being made Dean 2. Feb. 1508. was installed by proxy 25. March 1509. and in person 21. of Aug. 1511. After the death of K. Hen. 7. he quickly got into the favour so much of his successor Hen. 8. that he was by him presented to the Rectory of Turrington in the dioc of Exeter 28. Nov. 1510. being then Bach. of Div. and on the 17. Feb. following was made Canon of the collegiate church of VVindsore and about that time Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter In 1512. Jan. 31. he by the name of the Kings Almoner was made Prebendary of Bagthorp in the church of York by the favour of Cardinal Bainbridge Archb. thereof in the place of James Harryngton Dean of that church who died in Dec. 1512. and on the 21. Febr. following he was admitted Dean in the said Harryngtons place who had been installed in that dignity in the room of the said Bainbridge 31. Januar. 1507. In 1513. he being then with the King at the taking of Tournay in France his Majesty not only gave him the revenues of the Bishoprick of that City but also made him actual Bishop thereof as some are pleased to say In 1514. March 26. he was consecrated B. of Linc. in the place of Will. Smyth deceased and in Nov. the same year he was made Archb. of York In 1515. Sept. 7. he was created cardinal of S. Cecilia and in the year following Dec. 7. he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and about the same time Legate a latere for the Kingdom of England In 1518. Aug. 28. he had the temporalities of the See of Bathe and VVells conferr'd upon him with liberty of holding the same See being perpetual Commendatarie thereof with the Abbatship of S. Albans and other Ecclesiastical Livings in commendum with York About the same time he laid in by his Factors at Rome for the Papacy especially upon the death of Leo 10. and Adrian 6. but the reasons why he was not elected were 1 That he would never to go to Rome in Person 2 That he was nimis potens 3 That he was not old enough as by the Letters of Dr. Tho. Hannyball and Jo. Clerk the Kings Orators and the Card. Agents at Rome appears In 1523. he had the Bishoprick of Durham given to him and thereupon resign'd B. and Wells and soon after began the Foundations of his two most noble and splendid colleges at Oxon and Ipswych as I have largely elsewhere told you In 1529. he had the See of Winchester conferr'd upon him whereupon renouncing Durham the profits and revenues of the said See were given to the Lady Anna Boleyne for the space of one year But before he was quite warm in Winchester he fell into the Kings displeasure and thereupon being soon after commanded to live in his dioc of York about the beginning of 1530. retired to the Archbishops Palace at Cawood where spending the Summer following in great Hospitality was about the latter end of Octob. ensuing arrested for High Treason Whereupon being to be conveyed to London to answer for it he died at Leycester in the way thither year 1530 on the 29. Nov. following and was buried in S. Maries Chappel within the precincts of the Abbey-church there Of all the Clergy-men of his time and before and after him Wolsey was indisputably the greatest He managed a most inflexible King with so great dexterity that of one who always threw his Riders none held the reins either so long or so succesfully He had a vast mind and a great sense of regulation and glory which by some is construed Pride He lived always with great splendour and yet left the most lasting and most noble monuments of his bounty No Prelate indeed especially in this Nation had ever so many and large but withal none ever imployed them more generously so that his vast revenues were hardly proportionable to his great and extraordinary designs His parts were prodigious and it must be owned that he wanted not a sense of his own sufficiency and therefore his demeanor and management of himself was such as was more fitted with the greatness of his mind and his fortune than to the meanness of his birth Many Historians of that time whether out of envy of his order or contempt of his birth or hatred of his Religion have not been very favourable to his fame and the traditionary reporters since who have pretended to an exact account of his actions have upon too slight enquiries and
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
The life of the author Matthew Parker containing 29 pages 2 A catalogue of such books which he gave to the common Library at Cambridge containing 4 pages 3 A cat of Chancellours Vicechancellours Proctors of and Doctors of all Faculties that took their degrees in Cambridge from the year 1500. to 1571. containing 6 pages Before which catalogue are the Arms of every college and hall there with the area or platform of the common Schools the Arms and Seal of the University and Seal of the Chancellour thereof 4 A cat from 1500 to 1571. of all the Bishops that have been educated in Cambridge among which have been divers that have been bred in Oxon who have only taken one degree and perhaps that neither there 5 The titles of such Charters that have been granted to that University by divers Kings and Queens from Hen. 3. to the 13. or 14. of Q. Elizab. 6 An account of the particulars that are successively delivered to the Magistrates and Servants of the said University when they enter into their respective places 7 The foundation of each coll and hall in Cambridge with the building of the publick Schools and an enumeration of the old hostles All which contained under this seventh head were involved in the first book of the History of the Vniversity of Cambridge written by Dr. Jo. Cay printed at Lond. 1574. in qu. As for the life of the said Matthew Parker mentioned under the first head it was as soon as it peeped into the World translated into English under this title The life of the 70 tie Archbishop of Canterbury presently sitting Englished c. This number of seventy is so compleat a number as it is great pitty there should be one more c. Printed in Holland in a Dutch character 1574. in oct It was translated by a thro-paced Separatist with very vile notes added in the margin endeavouring thereby to bring an odium on the Archbishop and make him ridiculous for erecting his monument while he lived At length paying his last debt to nature on the 17. of May 1575. was buried in the chappel where he was consecrated situate and being within his Pallace at Lambeth in Surrey It must be now known that in the times of usurpation when the Bishops were put down and their lands sold the said Pallace was inhabited by several Lay-persons of whom Tho. Scot one of the Regicides and one Hardyng were two Which last having the chappel allotted to him as part of his share he divided it into two rooms making the upper part towards the east a dining-room on the bottom of which he laid joysts and on them a floor of boards At length he hearing that the corps of Archb. Parker had been there interr'd he took up the floor and pavement under it and having so done dug up the corps which was put into cerecloth of many doubles in a coffin of lead The coffin he sold to a Plummer and after he had caused the cerecloth to be cut open to the flesh which he found fresh as if newly dead he conveyed the corps into an out-house where he kept Poultrey and there privately tumbled it into an hole About the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. that base fellow the Brute that removed it was forced to discover where he had laid it whereupon it was brought into the chappel and buried just above the Litany-desk near the steps ascending to the Altar JOHN HOPTON was born in Yorkshire particularly as I conceive at Myrfield where his Grandfather and Father were buried became when a young man a Black Frier of the Order of St. Dominick had his Academical education among those of his Order in Oxon but what degrees he took there it scarcely appears only that in his travels to Rome taking the degree of Doct. of div at Ronmia he was incorporated here after his return in 1529. and soon after was made Prior of the Convent belonging to the Black Friers in Oxon. In 1532. he was licensed to proceed in divinity so saith the same Register which told us that he was incorporated Doctor in that faculty and in the Act celebrated the 8. of July the same year he did compleat that degree by standing therein Afterward he was chaplain to the Lady Mary who when Queen of England nominating him by the name of her chaplain to the See of Norwyck upon the translation of Dr. Thirlby one of her Counsellours to Ely he was thereupon elected and having the temporalities of that See restored to him 4. of Oct. 1554 safe there till the time of his death which hapning about the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 was buried in his own Cath. Church By his Will dated 24 of Aug. 1558. and proved 2. of Dec. 1559. he gave part of his study of books to the Black Friers of Norwych if they should be restored to their Convent again and another part to Norwyeh Church for a Library there He also gave 5 l. to buy ornaments for the Church of Myrfield before-mentioned several things also to the Church of Leedes in Yorkshire and a Legacy to Christop Hopton of that place Esque without naming him his Kinsman I find one John Hopton to be made Prior of Bridlyngton in Yorkshire an 1510. upon the death of one John Ynglish but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I know not This Prior died in 1521. and was succeeded by one Will. Brounflete About the 22. of June 1559. the Dean and Chapter of Norwych elected Dr. Rich. Cox to succeed Dr. Hopton in the Chair there as it appears in a certain Reg. or Ledger book of that Church but the Queens mind being alter'd she nominated him soon after Bishop of Ely CUTHBERT TONStALL sometimes of Ball. coll afterwards of Cambridge was consecrated Bishop of London 19. of Octob. 1522. translated to Durham 25. of Mar. 1530. year 1559 and died in Nov. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine leaving then behind him the character of a person of great reputation and of very quiet behaviour See more of him among the writers under that year In the See of Durham succeeded James Pilhyngton Bach. of div born of a Knightly family at Rivyngton in the Parish of Bolton in Lancashire Son of Rich. Pilkyngton of Rivyngton Esq was educated in S. Johns coll in Cambridge where he made proficiency in all kind of learning was much addicted to reformation and therefore in the Reign of Q. Mary became an Exile in Foreign parts but upon his return thence being elected to the See of Durham was consecrated thereunto 2. of March 1560 and thirteen days after had the temporalities thereof delivered to him In the eighth year of Eliz. he being then D. of D. he erected a Free School at Rivyngton sub nomine auspiciis R. Elizabethae and endowed it with lands and tenements to the yearly value of seven and twenty pounds fourteen shillings and ten pence This worthy
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 Monâ—die 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 plâ—ce 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. â—â— 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
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 Thâ—tford 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
and dying on the day before the nones of January in fifteen hundred seventy and six was buried in the Church there belonging to the Cistercians In Meath succeeded one Hugh Brady to which being consecrated in 1563. sate there 20 years WILLIAM DOWNHAM received his first breath in the County of Norfolk was elected Probationer of Magdalen coll in July 1543. and in the year following he was made true and perpetual Fellow of the said house being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth who when Queen did not only make him the first Canon of the tenth stall in the collegiate Ch. of S. Peter in the City of Westminster an 1560. but in the year after Bishop of Chester to which See being consecrated on the 4. of May 1561. had the temporalities thereof given to him on the 9. of the same month In 1566. he was actually created Doct. of div and dying in Nov. in fifteen hundred seventy and seven was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Chester leaving then behind him two Sons viz. George Downham afterwards Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland and John Downham Bach. of div both learned and painful writers In the See of Chester succeeded Will. Chaderton D. D. Master of Queens coll in Cambridge sometimes Margaret afterwards the Kings Professor of div in that University and Prebendary or Canon of the fourth stall in the collegiate Church of S. Peter in the City of Westminster This learned Doctor was born at Nuthurst near Manchester in Lancashire being the Son of Edm. Chaderton by Margery his Wife dauof one Cliffe of Cheshire and he the Son of Jeffr. Chaderton both of Nuthurst He died Bishop of Lincoln leaving behind him one only daughter named Joane begotten on the body of his Wife named Katharine dau of Joh. Revell of London PATRICK WALSH was born as it seems in or near Waterford in Ireland and after he had been partly educated in Grammaticals in that country was sent to Oxon but to what coll or hall therein unless to that of Brasnose I know not In the latter end of the year 1534. he proceeded Master of Arts and about that time applying his mind to the Theological faculty supplicated at length the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences in 1545. but whether he was admitted it appears not in the publick Register which was much neglected by the then Scribe About that time he was Dean of Waterford and in so great repute for his learning and religion that he was made Bishop of that place and of Lismore To which being consecrated in August 1551. had liberty then allowed him to keep his Deanery in Commendam for a time He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred seventy and eight and was year 1578 as I suppose buried in his Church at Waterford He had a Son named Nich. Walsh who was then Bishop of Ossory and about that time had a hand in translating the New Testament into the Irish tongue This Nich. Walsh seems to have been educated in the University of Cambridge WILLIAM BRADBRIDGE or Brodebridge was a Londoner born but descended from those of his name in Somersetshire was admitted Fellow of Magdalen coll in 1529. and afterwards proceeding in Arts was at length admitted to the reading of the Sentences an 1539. being then arrived to some eminence in the Theological Faculty About the middle of March 1 and 2 of Phil. and Mary dom 1554. he was made Prebendary of Lime and Halstock in the Church of Saliâ—bury vacant by the death of one Rob. Bone and in the beginning of Q. Elizab. shewing himself conformable to the discipline then established was made Dean of the said Church in June 1563. void by the death of Pet. Vannes an Italian In 1565. he supplicated the ven Congreg of Regents that he might be admitted Doctor of divinity but whether he was really so or diplomated it appears not in the pubick Register and on the 18. of March 1570. he was consecrated at Lambeth Bishop of Exeter which See he laudably governed for about 8 years He ended his days suddenly at Newton-Ferrers in Devonshire on the 27. June saith one and another the 29. July in fifteen hundred seventy and eight and was buried on the north side of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter To him succeeded in the said See Joh. Woolton whom I have mentioned among the writers under the year 1593. and him Gervase Babington D. D. descended from the antient Family of the Babingtons in Nottinghamsh who while he was Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke assisted his Noble Countess Mary Sidney in her translation of the Psalms For it was more than a Womans skill to express the sense so right as she hath done in her verse and more than the English or Latin translation could give her THOMAS BENTHAM a learned and pious man of his time was born at Shirebourne a Market Town I think in Yorkshire admitted perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll 16. Nov. 1546. proceeded in Arts the year after and about that time did solely addict his mind to the study of Theology and to the learning of the Hebrew tongue in which last he was most excellent as in those of Greek and Latin which he had obtained before he was M. of A. After Q. Mary came to the Crown he was turn'd out of his Fellowship for his forward and malepert zeal against the Cath. Religion in the time of Edw. 6. by the Visitors appointed by her to regulate the University Whereupon retiring first to Zurich and afterwards to Basil in Germany became Preacher to the English Exiles there and expounded to them the intire book of the Acts of the Apostles Afterwards being recalled by some of the Brethren was made Superintendent of them at London and continued among them in a timorous condition for some time At length when Q. Elizab. succeeded he was nominated Bishop of Lichf and Coventry upon the deprivation of Dr. Ralph Bayne To which See being elected had the temporalities thereof restored to him 20 Feb. 1559. being then about 46 years of age On the 24. of March following he was consecrated and about six years following he was actually created Doct. of divinity being then in great repute for his learning He died on the 21. of Feb. in fifteen hundred seventy and eight leaving then behind him a Widdow named Matilda He was succeeded in Lichf and Cov. by Dr. Will. Overton of whom I have made mention among the writers under the year 1609. NICHOLAS HEATH or Heth a most wise and learned man of great policy and of as great integrity was descended from the Heaths of Aspley in the Parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire but whether born there where his brother had certain lands I cannot tell was educated for a time in C. C. coll in this University but before he took a degree there
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
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. 〈◊〉 of Cambridge LEWES BAYLY sometimes a Member of Exeter coll was consecrated Bishop of Baâ—ger 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 〈◊〉 succeeded a Native of Segroet near Denbigh a certain learned Doctor of div named David Dâ—lben of S. Johnâ— coll in Cambridge a younger Son of Robert 〈◊〉 Dâ—lben of 〈◊〉 before-mentioned in Denbighshire who dying in Bangor-house situated in Shoe-lane near S. Andrews Church in 〈◊〉 in the Suburb of London on the 27. of Nov. 1633. was buried in the Church at 〈◊〉 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 〈◊〉 in Ireland on the 12. of Jan. 1612. and concluded his last in a good old age in sixteen hundred thirty and two 〈◊〉 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
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 Dr…… 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
was admitted about this time Doctors of the Civ Law Robert Langton of Queens Coll. In the Month of Sept. 1485 he was made Prebendary of Fordington and Writblington in the Church of Salisbury and about that time Preb. of Chyâ—â—inster and Bere in the same Church In 1486 Jun. 25. he became Archdeacon of Dorset void by the Death of Will. Ascough and in 1509 Apr. 24. he was installed Treasurer of the Church of York in the place of one Martin Collyns deceased who had before been Chauntor of the said Church See more of him Rob. Langton among the Bishops in Tho. Langton an 150. Rob. Honywode of Allsoules Coll did proceed also this or the year before In 1506 he became Canon of Windsore and about that time Archdeacon of Taunton He died 22 Jan. 1522 and was buried in the Chappel of S. George at Windsore Doctors of Div. Thom. Swawell a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict and Warden or Gardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon. Sim. Greene alias Fotherbie of Linc. Coll. He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University and for his Merits made Chauntor and Residentiary of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln and also Predendary of Bykkylleswade or Biggleswade in the said Church He gave way to Fate 27 March 1536 and was buried in the Isle called Chauntor Isle within the Precincts of the Cathedral of Linc. Frater or Brother Thom. Latymer a Dominican or Black Fryer This year Thom. Beaumont of Merton Coll. of about 15 years standing in the Degree of Master of Arts did supplicate to be licensed to proceed in Divinity but whether he was licensed or admitted I cannot yet find Before this time he was Archdeacon of Bathe and in great repute there for his Learning which Dignity he surrendring up one John Pikman LL. Bac. was collated thereunto per dimissionem Tho. Beaumont 12 Jul. 1499. The very next day Beaumont was collated to the Provostship of Wells with the Prebendary called Combe de twelf on the Death of Mr. Thom. Barrow who had been also Archdeacon of Colchester and in 1502 he became Archdeacon of Wells and well beneficed in the Diocess belonging thereunto In Octob. or thereabouts in the year 1507 he died whereupon Cardinal Hadrian de Castâ—llo Bishop of B. and Wells did bestow the said Dignity of Archdeacon on his Kinsman Polydore Virgil alias Casteller with the Prebendary of Brent in the Church of Wells annexed on the sixth of Febr. the same year At which time Polydore being in great favour with R. Foxe B. of Winchester had as I conceive some Dignity or Benefice in the Church confer'd on him by that worthy Person In the Reign of Ed. 6. he being then well stricken in years he procured an Order or License from the King to depart from England to go to his native Country in which Order dated 2 June 4 Ed. 6. Dom. 1550. I find these matters Whereas our trusty and welbeloved Pollidoruâ— Virgilius hath made humble sure unto us that he being born in the Parts of Italy and having served our Grandfather K Hâ—n 7. and our Father K. Hâ—n 8. and Us by the space of fourty years and above in writing and putting forth in Print divers notable Works and Stories may be licensed to depart out of this our Realm and visit and see now in his old Age his said native Country and there to make his abode during his pleasure and also quietly c. to enjoy all the Profits of the Archdeaconry of Wells in the Cathedral Church of Wells and the Phebend of Nonyngton in the Cathedral Ch. of Hereford which the said Poâ—lidorus now enjoyeth c. By vertue of the said Order he departed but before he went he Sold the perpetuity of the House of Wells which belonged to the Archdeacon of Wells and dying at Vrbin in Italy the place of his Nativity was there buried in 1555. There was some Memory of him remaining divers years after his Death in the Choire at Wells and Jo. Leland takes notice of his Arms in the Arras Clothes as he calls them hanging over the Stalls in the Choire at Wells about which was this Verse Sum Laurus virtutis honos pergrata triumphis And about another in the same Arras Hangings this Haec Polydori sunt numera Virgilii In the beginning of Oct. 1510 he was naturalized or made a Native of England by the Name of Polydorus Virgilius alias dictus Polydorus Castellensis Clericus having lived several years before in England An. Dom. 1502. An. 17 18 Hen. 7. Chanc. the same viz. Mr. Will. Smyth B. of Lincoln but he resigning about the beginning of Aug. Dr. Rich. Fitzjanes Warden of Merton Coll. and Bishop of Rochester being at this time resident in the University became Cancellarius natâ—â— and in his absence Mr. John Kynton and Mr. John Thornden or Thoâ—â—â— At length after a great deal of disturbance in the University concerning the Election of a Chancellour Mr. Rich. Mayhew President of Magd. Coll. and the Kings Almoner was elected Chancellour about the latter end of Nov. following Commiss Will. Atwater again Tho. Banke again Hugh Saunders again This last as 't is said was Commissary only for that time when Dr. Fitzjames was Canc. nat Proct. Hugh Hawarden of Brasnose Coll. John Matson or Mackson of Mert. Coll. The Senior was the Northern the other the Southern Proctor Bach. of Musick Or such who were admitted to the reading of any of the Musical Books of Boetius Henry Parker of S. Mary Magdalens Hall He was eminent in these times for his Compositions in Vocal and Instrumental Musick some of which if I do not forget my self I have seen in the Musical Bibliotheca reposed in the School of that Faculty Mast of Arts. About nineteen Masters proceeded this year of which three or four were of All 's Coll. four of Merton and one or more of Magd. Coll. among whom Laur. Stubbes was one afterwards President thereof What were the Promotions or Dignities of any besides him I cannot yet tell Opponents in Divinity Thomas Wallashe now or soon after Prior of the Monastery of the Virgin Mary at Bradenstoke of the Order of S. Augustin in the Dioc. of Salisbury About the year 1511 he was admitted Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York in the place of Christop Fisher Bishop of Elphine in Ireland deceased Whether the said Th. Wallash was afterwards admitted to the reading of the Sentences which usually follows Opposition in Divinity I cannot yet find Bach. of Div. John Maynard a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict He was afterwards Prior of the Novices of the said Order living in Glocester Coll. in this University in the place of Dr. Stanywell before-mentioned and was succeeded in the said Priorship by one John Wynyscomâ—e or Wynchombe a learned Monk of the said Order who occurs Prior in the year 1512. Doctors of Physick Or such who were licensed to proceed in the Faculty of Medcine or Physick John
Gam or Game of Allsoules Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University He was now Principal of Biham commonly called Beame Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. Which Principality he resigned this year to make room for Hugh Pole of the same Coll. Doct. of Div. John Thornden or Thornton did proceed in Divinity about this Year He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University and a Bishop as I have before told you This year one John Newland a Black or Regular Canon of the Order of S. Augustin supplicated for a Degree in Divinity but whether granted which is very imperfect or not at all tells us not This is the same John Newland who was born at Newland in the Forest of Deane in Glocestershire and was commonly called and written John Naileheart alias Newland He was the last Abbat saving one of the Monastery of S. Austin at Bristol in which Monastery as also in the Church belonging thereto he expended much Money in building and adorning He was called the Good Abbat being a Person solely given up to Religion and Almsdeeds and after he had ruled 33 years or thereabouts he gave way to Fate in a good old Age and was buried on the south side of the Choire of the Church of S. Austin now the Cath. Church at Bristol Over his Grave is his Statua in Pontificalia graven or carved out from Stone laying on the Back with a Crosier in his Hand and a Miâ—re on his Head His Arms do now or did lately continue in the Church and other Buildings of that Monastery which are a Man's heart pierced thro from top to bottoâ—â— with three nails which is as 't were a Rebus for Naileheart An. Dom. 1503. An. 18 19 Hen. 7. Chanc. Rich. Mayhew D. D. Archdeacon of Oxford c. at length Bish of Hereford Commiss John Thornden or Thornton D. D. John Kynton D. D. a Minorite Sim. Greene alias Fotherbie D. D. of Linc Coll. Proct. John Stokesley of Magd. Coll. Rich. Dudley of Oriel Coll. The Senior who was the Northern Proctor was afterwards Bish of London and the Junior who was the Southern Proctor was afterwards Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury He was Master of Arts of this University but whether he took any Degree in Divinity therein I find not See more in 1508. Bachelaurs of Arts Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Faculty of Arts of the Logick of Aristotle Edward Lee of S. Mar. Magd. Coll. seems to have been admitted Bach. of Arts this year among twenty or thereabouts that were admitted within the compass of the same year We have no Register that shews it only certain imperfect and broken Scripts containing sums of money received for the taking of Degrees which I have seen but I think are now perish'd Bach. of Physick Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Rich. Barthlet Master of Arts and Fellow of Allsoules Coll. See more among the Doctors of Physick under the year 1508. Doct. of Div. Will. Salyng or Selling Lord Prior of Martyn or Merton in Surrey Rob. Tehy or Thay of Magd. Coll. Rich. Sydenore of the same Coll. about this time Archdeacon of Totness In 1518 he was made Canon of Windsor and in 1524 constituted Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter He died 1534 and was I presume buried in the Chap. of S. George at Windsor In his Canonry and Registrary's place succeeded Rob. Aldridge who was afterwards Bish of Carlisle and in his Archdeaconry of Totness succeeded as it seems George Carew This year was a Supplication made in the ven Congregation of Regents for one Rich. Bere a Benedictin Monk to be graduated in Divinity but whether in the Degree of Bach. or Doct. it appears not or whether he was admitted to either 'T was the same Rich. Bere who was installed Abbat of Glastenbury on the Death of John Selwood the former Abbat 20 January 1493 after the Election of another Person named Tho. Wasyn a Monk of the same Order had been cassated by Rich. Fox Bish of B. and Wells on the 12. of Nov. going before This Rich. Bere who was well known to and reverenced by Erasmus died 20. Jan. 1524 whereupon Rich. Whyting was elected Abbat in his place on the third of March following there being then in the Monastery of Glastenbury 47 Monks If you are pleased to know more of this Bere you may read what Leland saith of him and his Benefaction to the said Abbey thus Rich. Bere Abbat built the new Lodgings by the great Chamber called the Kings Lodgings in the Gallery He builded also new Lodgings for Secular Priests and Clerks of our Ladies Chappel He also arched on both sides the East part of the Church He built Edgar's Chappel at the East end of the Church Abbat Whyting performed part of it Abbat Bere made the Vault on the Steple in trancepto He also made a rich Altar of Silver and guilt and set it afore the high Altar And coming from his Embassadry out of Italy made a Chappel of our Lady of Loretto joyning to the North side of the Body of the Church He made the Chappel in the South end Navis Ecclesiae Glaston whereby he is buried sub plano mannore in the South Isle of the Body of the Church He made an Almshouse in the North part of the Abbey with a Chappel for seven or ten poor Women He also made the Mannor place at Sharpham in the Park two miles by West from Glaston It was before a poor Lodge c. An. Dom. 1504. An. 19 20 Hen. 7. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Mayhew by whose Persuasion K. Hen. 7 gave 10l yearly Revenue to the Univ. of Oxon conditionally that the Members thereof celebrate a solemn Maâ—s for him yearly in S. Maries Church Commiss Sim. Greene again John Kynton again Rob. Tehy or Thay D. D. of Magd. Coll. Proct. Laur. Stubbes of Magd. Coll. Bor. elected 17. Apr. John Beverston of Mert. Coll. Principal of S. John Bapt. Hall Austr elected 17. Apr. Mast of Arts. Edward Finch Of what Coll. or Hall he was a Member I cannot yet find sure I am that on the 23 Sept. 1517 he became Predendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury on the death of Andrew Ammonius an Italian whom I have mention'd among the Writers in Will. Grocyn an 1522. that also he was made Archdeacon of Wiltshire on the death of Christoph Vrshwyke 12 May 1522 and Preb. of Chermister and Bere in the said Church of Sarum on the death of Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll in this University 30. June 1524. Philip Dense Fellow of Mert. Coll. He hath this Character added to his Name in the Album of that Society Medicus Astronomus cum primis doctus In the Act wherein these two proceeded were about 14 Masters but whether any of them were afterwards Bishops Writers or
find any one that was afterwards a Bishop a Writer Dignitary or Man of note Bach. of Div. July Thomas Beel a Canon Regular of the Order of S. Austin and Prior of the Students of that Order living in S. Maries Coll. See more among the D. of D. an 1514. Oct. 17. Fr. John Howden a Dominican Jan. 16. James Dickson M. A. Feb. 1. Fr. Rob. Osbourne a Carme Which two last are several times mentioned in the public Register to be Clari perdocti viri Besides these were about thirteen that supplicated for the said degree but not admitted this year among whom was Will. Gyllingham of the Order of S. Benedict who succeeded Rob. Holyngbourne in the Guardianship or Wardenship of Canterbury Coll. in Oxon. about this year Doct. of Law Not one either in the Canon or Civ Law was licensed to proceed this year In the Canon Law were three that supplicated to be Doctors viz. David Talley Abbat of Tally in the dioâ— of S. David Will. Wollur and John Lacy all Bachelaurs of that Faculty In the Civil Law was only one whom I shall mention the next year Doct. of Physick Nov. 3. Rich. Barthlet mention'd under the year 1503 supplicated that he might be licensed to proceed in Physick but whether he was admitted or did really proceed or stood in the Act it doth not by the neglect of the Registrary appear in the Register of this or of any year following He was about this time admitted by the Name of Dr. Rich. Barlot into the Coll. of Physitians in London and some years after was made President thereof He died about the latter end of the year 1556 being then possessed of Lands in Cudesdon and Denton in Oxfordshire and was buried in the Church of Great S. Bartholomew in London In the Annals of the Coll. of Physitians before-mention'd is this Character left of him by the famous Dr. Jo. Cay of Cambridge This good and venerable old man very famous for his Learning great Knowledge and Experience in Physick died in the 87 year of his Age at whose Funeral the President and College attended it being the first time that the Statute Book of the College adoned with Silver was carried before the President He the said Dr. Bartlet did bequeath to Allsoules College his tender Parent his Bason and Ewre of Silver and to his Brother Edm. Bartlet and his Children of Castel Moreton in Worcestershire several considerable Legacies Doct. of Div. Not one was admitted or licensed to proceed or stood in the public Comitia which we usually call the Act. Four I find who supplicated for the said degree viz. 1. Fath. Walt. Goodfield a Minorite who proceeded in 1510. 2. Rich. Dudly of Oriel Coll. lately Proctor of the University 3. John Mylford a Benedictine and Bac. of Div. 4. Nicholas Bradbridge M. A. and Fell of Mert. Coll. Which last was afterwards D. of D. and Chancellor of the Cath. Church of Lincoln He died 14 March 1532 and was buried in the said Cath. Ch. See among the Incorporations in 1526. Incorporations Nov. 5. John Smyth D. of D. of Cambridge Dec. 12. John Wilcocks D. of D. in Vniversitate Tantaronensis as the Register saith Qu. in what Country that University is An. Dom. 1509. An. 1. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Will. Fauntleroy D. D. ' to whom were sometimes Deputies Dr. Tho. Mychell and Dr. Jo. Kynton Proct. Tho Erytage of Oriel Rich. Ducke of Exet. Coll. Both which Proctors were according to a former Statute lately much neglected elected on one and the same day being the first of Easter-Term Bach. of Musick May…John Wendon a Scholar of Musick whose Graâ—e was granted to be admitted Bachelaur conditionally that he compose a Mass to be sung in the Act following Jul. 2. John Clawsey was then admitted Bach. of Mus Both these were eminent in their Professions Bach. of Arts. About 15 were admitted of whom Rich. Consent or Consenett a Can. sec was one and James Fitzjames of Merâ— Coll. another and 7 supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of the Civ Law May…Lancelot Collyns or Colynson He was Nephew to Christopher Bambridge Archbishop of York by whose favour he became Treasurer of that Church in the beginning of May 1514 upon the Resignation of Robert Langton LL. D. mention'd under the year 1501. After Colynsons death Will. Clyff LL. D. of Cambridge was installed Treasurer of the said Church 13 Apr. 1539 the same Will. Clyff I mean who became Chauntor of that Church on the resignation of Will. Holgyll then or lately Master of the Savoy Hospital near London in the beginning of Nov. 1534. As for the Treasurership Clyff by this Letters resign'd it into the hands of K. Edw. 6. which being confirmed under the common Seal of the Dean and Chapter of York he was afterwards made the third Dean of Chester in the place of Hen. Man Bishop of the Isle of Man This Will. Clyff died at London about the 7th of Decemb. in 1558. and was succeeded in his Deanery by Roger Walker M. of A. June 2. Giles Hakeluyt of All 's Coll. One the 5 of Sept. 1514 he became Sub-dean of the Church of Salisbury on the Resignation of John Robinson Nine more were admitted Bach. of the Civil Law and seven supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of the Can. Law June 11. Oliver Poole or Pole of Nevylls Inn involved in the limits of C. C. C. afterwards Principal of Greek Hall near to the Ch. yard of S. Frideswyde and in that Parish was then admitted Bach. of the Can. Law He is stiled in the public Register of this time Vir doctus praeclarus which is all I know of him only that he was of noble Race June…Will Page a Canon Regular and Prior of Ivy Church in the County of Wilts One Richard Page who was an Oxford May by Education but not graduated as I can yet find occurs Prior of Idrose or Ederos in the same County an 1526. Besides these two were but two more admitted and 13 that supplicated who were not this year admitted Mast of Arts. Thirteen were admitted and five supplicated who were not admitted this year but none of them were afterwards Writers or Bishop and whether Dignitaries I know not Opponents in Div. Seven were admitted to oppose who were afterwards admitted Bach. of Div. and eight supplicated some of which were afterwards Bach. of Div. also Bach. of Div. May 10. The reverend Father Edmund Forest a Canon regular and Prior of the Monastery of Langthony near Glocester Jun… William Arden a Dominican See more among the Incorporations an 1520. Jun. 21. Robert Cleyton of Linc. Coll. Principal of Staple Hall in Schoolstreet stiled in the public Reg. Vir dâ—lus Jul. 5. Henry Broke a Benedictin One Thomas Brâ—ks who had been of this University of Glocester College I think did supplicate for or at least took a degree in this University but 't was before the time that these
Warham Archb. of Canterbury and a Dignitary Nov. 29. John Sixtinus LL. D. of the Univ. of Senes in Tuscany was then incorporated having been more than an year in this University He was afterwards dignified in the Church of England and was reckoned one of the Foreigners who were excused from paying a subsidie to the King an 1513. Petr. Carmelian Polyd. Virgil Erasm Roterodamus Andr. Ammonius c. who were beneficed and dignified in the Church were excused also Jan. … Rich. Talot or Tollet Bach. of the Civil Law of this Univ. and Doct. of the same fac at Cambridge Feb. 3. Brian Roos Doctor of Decrees of the Univ. of Valence He died 1529 and was buried in the Church of Chelray in… One Will. Petoe M. A. of Cambridge was also incorp on the 14. June One Peter whom some call William Petoe was a Cardinal See among the Bishops under the year 1558. An. Dom. 1511. An. 3. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Will. Fauntleroy again Tho. Drax D. D. of Lync Coll. John Roper Princ. of George hall John Cockys LL. D. Edm. Wylsford D. D. Provost of Oriâ—l Coll. Proct. Will. Brooke of Oriel Coll. Austr elected on the last day of Apr. Tho. Southerne Bor. elected 2. May. Grammarians Dec. 11. Maurice Byrchensaw a Scholar of the fac of Rhetorick was then admitted to inform in Grammar He taught in the School joyning to Magd. Coll. great gate and was afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law Mar. 18. Edw. Watson a Scholar of the fac of Gram. This Person had afterwards his grace granted to him for the Degree of Bacâ— of Grammar conditionally that he compose an hundred verses in praise of the University and also make a Comedy within one year after he had taken that Degree but whether he was admitted or did take it it appears not Bachel of Grammar Apr. 8. John Burgeys a secular Chaplain was admitted to the reading of any book of the fac of Grammar Bach. of Rhetorick Jun. 3. John Bulman a Scholar of the Art of Rhetorick was admitted to the reading of any book of the said faculty viz. the first book of Tullies Offices and the first book of his Epistles Bach. of Arts. Nov. 10. John Constable a famous Latin Poet of his time Feb. 3. John Dovell In one of his supplicates for that Degree he is written Will. Devell yet I cannot take him to be the same with Will. Dovell a Bernardine or white Monk who studied sometimes in St. Bernards Coll. and who succeeded one Rich. Paynter of that Order in the Abbatship of Clyve in Somersetshire Besides these two were 38. or more admitted Bach. of Arts and 8. at least that supplicated who were not adm this year Bach. of Civ Law Jul. … George Grey Son of the Marquess of Dorset Feb. 9. Thom. Colfox of All 's Coll. In the Catalogue of Fellows of that House he is stiled Decanus Salopiae Besides these were adm 4 more and 9 there were that supplicated for that Degree who were not adm this year I find also 5. who were adm Bach. of the Can. Law and six who supplicated most of whom were secular Chaplains Mast of Arts. Jun. 5. James Fitzjames of St. Albans hall lately of Mert. Coll. See more in the year 1516. June 21. John Quarre of Merton Coll. He is the same John Quarre as I suppose who occurs Archdeacon of Landaff 1541. Feb. 6. Rog. Edgworth of Oriel Coll. Feb. 12. John Blyss mention'd under the year 1507. Besides these were about 33 admitted and eleven or thereabouts that supplicated that were not adm this year Opponents in Div. May 31. John Bosforus a Cistercian Monk of St. Bernards Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon and Abbat of Tiltey in Essex About the same time he supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Div. which I presume was granted tho not set down in the register He is sometimes written Joh. Browne alias Brome Nov. 19. Frat. Rob. Low or Law a Carme Whether he was adm Bach. of Div. according to the custom of those that oppose in that fac it doth not appear in the publick register See more of him among the Doct. of Div. in 1520. Besides these were eleven more that opposed most of whom were afterwards adm Bac. of Div. Bach. of Div. Jul. 1. William Malverne alias Parker a Benedictine Monk On the 4. of May 1514 he was elected Abbat of St. Peters Church in Glocester on the death of one John Newton D. D. and continued Abbat till the dissolution of his Church See more among the Doctors of Div. 1515. Dec. 12. Joh. de Coloribus a Dominican Mar. 14. Hugh Whitehead of Durham now Trinity Coll. See among the Doctors of Div. under the year 1513. Mar. 22. Fr. Rich. Mallet a Fryer of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit who had studied 12. years here and at Cambridge … Rob. Schouldham a Benedictine Monk He was now or soon after an Abbat See in the year 1515. Six more were admitted and 7 supplicated that were not adm this year of whom Rog. Necham a Benedictine was one Doct. of Civ Law Not one admitted only John Jane LL. Bac. of New Coll. supplicated for the said Degree March 25. Doct. of Can. Law Not one admitted only Thom. Byrd supplicated for that Degree Whether he be the same Tho. Byrd who from being a Canon of the Order of St. Austin in the Priory of Taunton was elected Prior of Barlich of the same Order in Somersetsh 3. Sept. 1492 upon the deprivation of Rob. Wynde I know not He resign'd his Priorship on the first of Decemb. 1524 and the very next day one John Norman was elected into that place Doct. of Div. Dec. 15. John Longland of Magd. Coll. Afterwards Bishop of Lincolne Those that supplicated for the Degree of D. of D. this year were 1 Laur Stubbes afterwards President of Magd. Coll. 2 Tho. Castell a Benedictine Monk and Warden or Gardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon. I find one Tho. Castell a Doctor of Oxon to have succeeded in the Priorship of Durham John Aukland D. D. an 1494 but what relation there was between them unless this last was Uncle to the former I know not See more in the year 1513. 3 Will. Porter Bach. of Div. Warden of New Coll. and Chaunter of Hereford 4 John Esterfeild c. Incorporations Apr. 3. Hugh Inge or Yuge sometimes of New Coll. Master of Arts of this Univ. and D. of D. beyond the Seas was incorp D. of D. He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin Rob. Spence LL. D. beyond the Seas was incorporated the same day May … Rich. Smyth M. A. of this Univ. and Doctor of the Civ Law beyond the Seas June 26. Rob. Fairfax Doctor of Musick of Cambridge This Person did afterwards live in Hertfordshire and was buried in the Church at St. Albans near or under the seat where the Mayor of that place usually sits I have seen some of his Musical compositions of three or more parts which
Grammarian He was afterwards Prebendary of Wells Jan. 28. Thomas Nightinghall Vir lepidus poeta as Baleus saith See among the Writers under the year 1524. Besides these two five were admitted and about 16 that supplicated who were not this year admitted Bach. of Can. Law Thirteen were admitted and eleven there were that supplicated who were not admitted this year Many of which were without doubt afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Mast of Arts. June…John Constable of Byham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. See among the Writers an 1520. March 5. John Clark of Magd. Coll. Quaere Besides these two were about 25 admitted and eleven or more that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. April 29. Thomas Knolles of Magd. Coll. In the year 1507 he became Subdean of York upon the promotion of Dr. James Harrington to the Deanery of that Church and resigning in 1529 being then Prebendary of Aplethorpe in the said Church Will. Clifton LL. D. succeeded See more among the D. of D. an 1518. May 9. John Essex a Benedictin He was afterwards Lord Abbat of S. Austins at Canterbury Nine besides were admitted among whom was Roger Stanford a Benedictin Monk of Worcester afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there and about eighteen that supplicated Doct. of Law Not one admitted either in the Canon or Civil Law and but three that supplicated viz. William Barow John Blount and William Middleton Doct. of Physick Not one admitted only Malachias Arthur sometimes a Graduat of Oxon. and afterwards Doctor of Physick of Bononia supplicated to be admitted to practise in the said Faculty Oct. 23. which was accordingly granted Doct. of Div. June 10. Nich. Myles or Mylys of Queens Coll. He was a Benefactor to Learning See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 115. b. Dec. 13. Fr. Will. Wetherall Prior of the College of the Fryers of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit in Oxon. In the year 1531 I find that he was Provincial of the Austin Fryers of England and whether he was the last that bore that Office I know not He is sometimes written but falsely Wodiall See among the Incorporations this year Jan… Edmund Smythesby a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin In another place in the Register he is said among the Bach. of Div. to be a Fryer of the Order of S. Austin Besides these who were admitted Doctors of Divinity supplicated for the said dagree about 20 among whom were 1 Will. Malvern Lord Abbat of S. Peters in Glocester as the publick Register stiles him whom I take to be the same that Jo. Leland calls Malvern alias Parker late Abbat of Glocester who made a Chappel joyning to the Church of Glocester to be buried in 2 Rob. Showldham or Shuldeâ—m mentioned under the year 1511. He was a Benedictin or Black Monk and now or soon after Lord Abbat of S. Saviour or S. Mary Overie in Southwark Also Tho. Marshall a Benedictin Will. Hoddeson a Dominican John a Pantry Bac. Div. and Provost of Queens Coll. John Holder and John Hoper Masters of Arts of Mert. Coll. Tho. Barton and Tho. Sellyng Bachelaurs of Div. and Benedictines c. did supplicate Incorporations Apr… Tho. Martyr M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge Oct. 26. Fr. Will. Wetheral Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He soon after was admitted Doctor of that Faculty in this University as 't is before told you Mar… Will. Clerke M. A. of Cambridge c. An. Dom. 1516. An. 8 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Cant. Commiss Laurence Stubbes D. D. and others Proct. Richard Walker of Merton Coll. Edmund Grey of New Coll. April 2. Bach. of Musick Not one appears admitted by the negligence of the Scribe On the 13 of Apr. Hen. Peter or Petre a secular Chaplain who had spent 30 years in Practical and Theoretical Musick supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Musick which being granted he was without doubt admitted One John Draper also a Student in the said Faculty supplicated also which was granted with one or more conditions Bach. of Arts. June 17. James Timbervyle of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter December 16. Thomas Wylson See in 1546 and 53. Besides these were about 38 admitted and about 21 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Law Six in the Canon and nine in the Civil Law were admitted Thirteen in the Canon Law supplicated who were mostly secular Chaplains among whom was Richard Newman a Canon regular of the Order of Premonstratenses as the public Regist saith and about twelve in the Civil Mast of Arts. June 27. Thomas Abell or Able See among the Writers an 1540. John Clerk of Magd. Coll. Besides these were about 34 admitted and about 9 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. May 5. James Fitzjames of S. Albans Hall This person who was Son of John Fitzjames Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England was now Chancellor of the Church of Wells and had several Benefices in that Diocess whereof the Rectorship of the Collegiate Church of North-Cadbury was one In 1534 he was made Prebendary of Warmystre in the Church of Wells and in the same year by the death of Thomas Lovell Decr. Dr. he was made Subdean of Wells and Vicar General to the Bishop thereof He had other Preferments in the Cath. Church of S. Paul in London given to him by his Uncle Dr. Richard Fitzjames Bishop thereof was soon after a Doct. of Div. but whether of this University it appears not and died in the beginning of the year 1541. Besides him were about four admitted and about fifteen that supplicated who were not admitted among whom William York a Canon and Bac. of Arts was one Doct. of Can. Law June 21. William Burghyll a secular Chaplain John Morrice or Morres Peter Lygham or Lyngham February 7. William Clyfton In 1522 he became Succentor of the Church of York on the death of William Cooke and in May 1529 he was made Subdean of the said Church on the Resignation of Dr. Thomas Knolles In the former Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Nooke 1529 in which year Clyfton resigned and in the other by Rob. Babthorp D. D. in September 1548 in which year Clifton died Bapthorp dying in 1570 Edmund Buney succeeded him whom I have elsewhere mention'd Doct. of Div. Not one admitted only three or more supplicated viz. William Wall and William Germyn Minorites and Richard Doke all Bach. of Divinity whom I shall anon mention An. Dom. 1517. An. 9 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Mr. Rich. Doke or Duck of Exeter College now Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey Proct. Thomas Irish of Exon Thomas Musgrave of Mert. Coll. Bach. of Arts. Thomas Garret was this year admitted but the Month or Day when appears not because the Register is imperfect however in the year following he occurs by the Title of Bach. of Arts. He
him were about 52 admitted many of which were afterwards Prebendaries and Canons and but four who supplicated Bach. of Civ Law Oct. 27. Petrus Garsias de Laâ— M. of A. of the University of Parmuse and about this time a Lecturer or Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon. was then admitted Bach. of the Civil Law Feb. 8. John Lawrence of All 's Coll. He was afterwards made Archdeacon of Wiltshire upon the deprivation of John Pollard 10. Aug. 1554. being the second year of Qu. Mary He died in 1568 having before been deprived of his Archdeaconry See in an 1578. among the Doctors of Law Feb. ult Tho. Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Chauntor of St. David John Price of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day See in 1532. Besides these were 4 admitted in the Civil and about as many in the Canon Law Four also supplicated for the former and as many for the other Mast of Arts. March 9. John Sheyne Perhaps the same Sheyne an Irish Man who wrot a book De republica See among the Writers in Rich. Shaghens an 1570. Besides him were 24 admitted among whom John Tooker Rich. Champion and John Pierson Canons of Cardinal Coll. were of the number and about 3 that supplicated Bach. of Physick Jul. 21. Will. Freeman M. of A. The same day he was admitted to practice See under the year 1526. Bach. of Div. Ten at least were admitted among whom were Robert Wratton Richard Mychell Robert Norbury c. Benedictine Monks Thomas Krikham a Minorite Nicholas Cartwright Anthony Moâ—â—neaux c. Among these must not be forgotten William Hyberden of Exeter Coll. as it seems who was admitted 23. Nov. having been before as 't is said in the publick register Bach. of the Canon Law He was in these times and especially after a most eminent Preacher a Person of great devotion and of devout fasting and being a most zealous Bigot for the Church of Rome did while he was beneficed in or near Bristow make it his sole employment to preach against the hereticks as they were in his time so called viz. Luther Melancthon Zwinglius John Fryth William Tindall Hugh Latimer c. When King Ed. 6. reigned he withdrew and continued silent as much as he durst but when Queen Mary came to the Crown he made it his sole employment to ride about the Country and Preach in every Church that he approached against them See more of him in John Fox his book of Acts and Monuments of the Church under the year 1555 where you will find him called by him by the name of Hubberdin an old Divine of Oxford Seven also there were that supplicated for the said Degree of Bach. of Div. among whom were William Basyng a Benedictine Father Philip Davyes a Dominican William Swadell of the same Order c. Doct. of Can. Law Jan. 29. William Cuffold of New Coll. a learned Canonist Not one besides was admitted nor one that supplicated Doct. of Div. Apr. 24. Fr. John Mawdley or Maudlyn a Dominican or Preaching Fryer June 17. Fr. Richard Cromer an Austin Fryer He is stiled in his admission Compositor that is a Compounder because he paid double or treble fees for his Degree being then as it should seem a rich Dignitary Feb. 7. Nich. de Burgo a Minorite He is mention'd in the Incorporations in the beforegoing year Incorporations Oct. 26. Johan Ludâ—vicus Vives LL. D. beyond the Seas was then incorporated being this year a Lecturer in Oxon. as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1544. In the same month of Oct. Richard Wolman Doctor of Decrees of Cambridge and an Archdeacon supplicated to be incorporated but whether his supplication was granted it appears not See more in the Incorporations 1531. In the beginning of March one William Throckmorton LL. D. beyond the Seas supplicated also to be incorporated which was granted simpliciter In the Chancel of the Church at Shottsbrook in Berks. is an Epitaph for the said Throckmorton wherein he is stiled Gardianus istius Ecclesiae Which Church was a Collegiat Church and valued at the suppression of religious places in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. to be worth 33. l. 18 s. 8 d. per an He died 12. Jan. 1535 and was there buried About this time studied in Oxon Simon Grynaeus being then 30 years of age at least At which time but especially afterwards he was well skill'd in the Latin and Greek tongues in Philosophy and the Mathematick disciplines and therefore beloved of Erasmus who honourably mentions him in his Epistles Theod. Bibliander tells us that he really thinks that in him Christian piety all virtues and the muses had taken up their habitation He hath written several books the titles of most of which you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue and died in the prime of his years 1541. An. Dom. 1524. An. 16. Hen. 8. Chancellor the same Commiss Tho. Musgrave M. D. Proctor Edw. Leighton of Cardinal Coll. Philip Dale of Exet. Coll. Apt. 6. The Senior of which Proctors was made the ninth Canon of the College at Oxon founded by K. Hen. 8. an 1532. Grammarians Aug. 1. Tho. Lyonhyll Feb. 15. John Moreton Will. Gower Sec. Chapl. The said three Persons were admitted to inform in the faculty of Grammar Bach. of Musick Apr. 3. Will. Chell a Secular Chaplain Henry Young a Student in Musick supplicated for that Degree 25. of Feb. but was not as I can yet find admitted Bach. of Arts. May 30. Nich. Vdall of C. C. C. See among the writers under the year 1552. Jun. 20. John Fitzjames of Mert. Coll. afterwards of St. Albans hall He was of the same Family of which Jam. Fitzjames mention'd under the year 1516 was and by the name and title of John Fitzjames M. of A. was admitted Archdeacon of Taunton and Prebendary of Milverton in the Church of Wells on the death of John Redmayne 22. May 1554. Jul. 19. Richard Turner Whether the same who was of Magdalen College I know not This Richard Turner took not the Degree of Master if the publick register saith right See among the writers under the year 1558. Jul. 27. John Helyar of C. C. College a good Grecian and Hebritian Feb. 6. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Carlile c. About 50 were admitted and about 15 supplicated that were not admitted Bach. of Civ Law Aug. 1. Thom. Elyot of St. Maries hall Jan. ult John Twyne Who on the same day was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law Five were admitted in the Canon and 15 besides Elyot and Twyne in the Civil Law and five in each supplicated who were not admitted this year Mast of Arts. Jul. 27. Tho. Wode Whether he be the same Thomas Wood whom John Fox reports to have been elected Bishop of a certain See in England a little before Qu. Mary dyed an 1558. I know not Feb. 12. John Helyar of C. C. C. beforemention'd See among the
occurs Archdeacon of Northumberland an 1531 being then or soon after LL. D. In the said Archdeaconry succeeded Will. Carter written sometimes Carther D. of D. of Cambridge collated thereunto 3 Nov. 1558 and him Will. Kynge M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge afterwards Bach. of Div. Prebendary of Canterbury and in 1573 Canon of Windsore but the year when I cannot tell and him also Ralph Lever M. A. collated thereunto 21 Aug. 1566. Mast of Arts. Mar. 31. Walt. Buckler of Mert. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. in 1534. July 6. Thomas Robertson now a great Villifyer of the Questionists in this University Feb. 3. George Cores now as it seems of Magd. Coll. 8. Thomas Raynolds lately of Merton now of Cardinal Coll. See under the year 1536. Rich. Coxe of Cardinal Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Bishop of Ely March 5. John Bekynsau of New Coll. Besides these were about 42 Masters admitted this year Bach. of Physick Apr. 4. John Blyss M. of A. of Merton Coll. I shall mention him anon among the Doctors Nov. 14. George Owen M. of A. of the same Coll. See among the Doctors in 1527. Bach. of Div. May 31. Father Will. Kendall a Benedictin Monk Jan… Anth. Dunstan of the said Order He was afterwards Prior of Glouc. Coll. in the Suburb of Oxon and at length Bishop of Landaff Jan… Fath. Tho. Bennet Rob. Gale Benedictines Which four Monks had a little before opposed publickly in the Divinity School There were eight more that were admitted this year among whom Edw. Kyrkby and John Stockland Cistercians were two and Tho. Hull an Austin Fryer a third and three or more that supplicated for the said degree of whom Edw. Staple was one Mar. 9. who afterwards was Bishop of Meâ—â—h in Ireland Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 12. Edm. Bonner of Broadgates Hall He was afterwards Bishop of London Nov… Rich. Foxford He was afterwards Chancellour and Vicar Gen. to Dr. Stokesley Bishop of London and as John Fox saith a cruel Persecutor and common Butcher of the good Saints of God meaning many poor Protestants in the Dioc. of London an 1530 31 and 32 whom he either condemned or troubled or made them abjure He tells us also that by a Judgment from God he died suddenly about 1533 as he was sitting in his Chair his belly being burst and his guts falling out before him Doct. of Can. Law Jul. 12. Arth. Bokeley or Bulkley before mention'd 13. Hugh ap Rice or Price He was afterwards Prebendary of Rochester Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of S. David c. By his Will dated 8 Aug. 1574 and proved the last day of the same month he bequeathed threescore pounds per an to Jesus Coll. in Oxon conditionally that he might have the name of Founder of it In the Margin of the said Will are his Arms painted viz. Gules a Chevron Ermine between three flower de Lise or which are not the Arms that that Coll. now give or own tho the Society acknowledged him to be their Founder Besides these two were two others that supplicated for the said degree namely John Worthyall lately Principal of New Inn and Thomas Parker the last of which tho I find him not admitted yet about this time I find him written Decretorum Doctor Collegiorum de Stafford de Tomworth Decanus c. In 1522 he became Chancellor of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Dr. John Bell who had succeeded Dr. Tho. Hanyball in that Office 1518 and afterwards was made Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury in the place of one Edward Farmer which Dignity he keeping to the time of his death was succeeded by Rog. Townsend in the beginning of Sept. 1538 but Townsend dying soon after John Edmonds was collated thereunto 29 Oct. following Doct. of Physick Apr. 5. John Blysse of Merton Coll. He was a learned Physitian and Astronomer as I have before told you under the year 1507. Doct. of Div. May 8. John Thornall or Thornbill a Minorite or Grey Fryer June 1. John Loysche M. A. and Bach. of Div. 27. Will. Rashley a Dominican or Black Fryer Jul. 3. John Cottysford Rector of Linc. Coll. Afterwards Can. of the Coll. at Oxon founded by K. Hen. 8. Martin Lindsey of the said Coll. was admitted the same day He was a learned man and died on the second of March 1554. Jul. 13. Tho Ware of Oriel Coll. Afterwards Provost thereof He hath this Character given of him by a learned person Vir vita eruditione clarissimus I find another Thom. Ware who was not a sec Priest as the former was but a Monk of the Cistercian Order and sometimes a Student in S. Bernard's Coll in the North Suburb of Oxon. Afterwards he became the last Abbat of Flaxley in Glocestershire in the place of Will. Beawdley and living to see his House dissolved and himself and his Brethren turn'd out thence he retired to Aston Rowant near to Thame in Oxfordshire where spending the remaining part of his days in devotion and retiredness gave way at length to Fate in a good old Age an 1546 whereupon his Body was buried in the Yard belonging to the Church there Nov. 9. Rog. Edgworth of Oriel Coll. Will. Gryce M. A. and Bac. of Div. was admitted the same day He died in 1528. For the said Degree of D. D. supplicated 1 Anth. Molymeaux of Magd. Coll. 2 Rob. Tayler Bac. of Div. 3 John Cabull or Cable Bac. of Div. and Abbat of Newham as the Register saith perhaps the same with John Capul a Dominican who supplicated for the degree of Bac. of Div. in 1524 and 4 Rich. Stokys M. A. and Bac. of Div. Incorporations Jul. 12. Tho. Courthop B. of A. of Cambridge Oct… Rob. Sherton D. D. of the said University and about this time Master of S. John's Coll. there and Almoner to Qu. Catherine In 1527 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Jeffry Wrenn deceased and dying in 1535 Dr. Sim. Haynes Master of Queens Coll. in Camb. who was afterwards Dean of Exeter succeeded him in the Canonry Nov. 5. John Clerke John Fryer Godf. Harman M. of A. of Cambr. These three came to Oxon to be prefer'd in Cardinal Wolsey's Coll. but they proving violent Lutherans as Cox and Fryth whom I shall anon mention did were forced to leave that College John Fryer was upon account of Religion committed Prisoner to the Master of the Savoy where he did much solace himself with playing on the Lute having good skill in Musick for which reason a Friend of his would needs commend him to the Master but the Master answered Take heed for be that playeth is a Devil because he is departed from the Catholick Faith Afterwards he was set at liberty and travelling beyond the Seas he returned to that Religion wherein he was educated was made Doctor of Physick and after his Return he setled in the Parish of S. Martin Outwich in Bishopsgate street in
London where dying in the Winter time an 1563 was buried in the Church there He with Hen. Sumner and Richard Coxe had been bred in Kings Coll. in Cambridge and were esteemed excellent Scholars but as for Florentius a Dominican John Akers and Mich. Drumm who came with them I know nothing only the two last took the degrees in Arts here and Drumm one in Divinity Dec. 7. Hen. Sumner Rich. Coxe Will. Betts Joh. Fryth Winmer Allen B. of A. of Cambr. These also came to Oxon to be prefer'd in Card. Wolsey's Coll. March 9. Edw. Staple M. A. of Cambr. now of Card. Coll. Mar. 3. Edw. Wotton M. A. of this University and Doct. of Phys of an University beyond the Seas was then incorporated Doct. of Phys Mar… John Allen LL. D. beyond the Seas He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin An. Dom. 1526. An. 18 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Musgrave again to whom Dr. Roper was substitute Proct. Simon Ball of Mert. Coll. Austr Thomas Byrton lately of Magdalen now of Cardinal Coll. Bor. April 11. Grammarians Dec. 8. George Astley Whether he was admitted to inform only or Bach. of Gram. it appears not Not one beside him was admitted either Bach. or to inform nor one in Musick Bach. of Arts. June 26. Edm. Wolfe one of the jun. Canons of Card. Coll. He had before spent two years in Study in the Univ. of Cambr. Jul. 2. Tho. Key or Kay about this time of All 's Coll. He is mention'd among the Writers under the year 1572. Besides these two were about 37 admitted This year but the month or day I know not was a Supplicat made in behalf of one Tho. Winter to be Bach. of Arts but whether he was admitted I cannot in all my searches find This Tho. Winter who was Nephew or rather nat Son to Cardinal Tho. Wolsey had several Dignities confer'd upon him before he was of Age by the means of the said Cardinal among which was the Archdeaconry of York or of the West Riding of Yorkshire on the death of Hugh Ashton in which he was installed 31 August 1523 being about that time Chancellour of the Church of Sarum in the place of one William Wilton also the Deanery of Wells in the place of Dr. William Cosin sometimes Fellow of Kings College an 1525 and upon the death of Thomas Dalby which was in January the same year he had not only the Provostship of Beverley confer'd upon him but also the Archdeaconry of Richmond in which last he was installed 24 of Mar. the same year c. This Tho. Winter with several others after they had been maintained in the Schools at Oxon by the Cardinal were also by him maintained in the University of Paris to obtain if possible proficiency in such Arts and Sciences which our Universities in England could not yield The Governor or Tutor to Tho. Winter was Tho. Lupset of Corp. Ch. Coll in this University to whom as also to Winter the Cardinal would write that the said Winter should study the Dunces Logick Questions meaning I suppose the Logick Questions of John Dunse In the Schools at Paris I find him conversant in 1528 and what degree or degrees he took there I cannot tell Sure I am that about the time of the Cardinals fall he gave up all or most of his Dignities for about 1530 Dr. Richard Wolman succeeded him in the Deanery of Wells and in Decemb. 1529 Will. Knyght LL. D. succeeded in the Archdeaconry of Richmond and Edw. Lee in the Chancellourship of Sarum in Feb. following As for the Archdeaconry of York he keeping it till 1540 then resigned it whereupon Tho. Westby Bac. of Div. was installed therein 26 June the same year and whether he continued to be the last Provest of Beverley I cannot in truth tell The Arms with which he sealed did very much resemble those of Cardinal Wolsey as it appears in the Office of Arms. Bach. of Civ Law July 2. William Petre of All 's Coll. Feb… Rob. Geffry In 1531 he entred himself into the Soc. of the Brethren of the Order of S. Austin the Hermite Bach. of Can. Law July 2. David Pole or Poole of All 's Coll. He was afterward Bishop of Peterborough Will. Petre before mention'd was admitted Bach. of the Canon just after he had been admitted Bach. of the Civil Law See more under the Doctors of the Civil Law an 1532. Mast of Arts. June 27. John Pollard This person who was afterwards at least twice Proctor of the University became Archdeacon of Wiltshire on the death of Edw. Finch 15 Jan. 1538 and Prebendary of Husborne and Burbach in the Church of Salisbury on the death of Hen. Iden 25 Sept. 1556 c. Nov. 9. John Pekyns of Exeter Coll. The Records of that House saith that he was Proctor of the University Canon of Westminister Bach. of Div. and a Dignitary c. Feb. 25. Alexand. Belsire of New Coll. He was afterwards the first Canon of Osney the first Canon of the fourth Prebendship of Ch. Ch. and the first President of S. John's Coll. but whether Bach. of Div. it appears not in our Registers that are in the latter end of K. Hen. 8. and all the time of K. Ed. 6. very imperfect Besides these three were about 23 admitted and about 5 that supplicated among whom Nich. Vdall of C. C. Coll. was one Bach. of Div. June 10. Fath. Will. Basyng a Benedictine 26. John Holyman of New Coll. Fath. Rich. Talley a Cistercian was admitted the same day One David Talley I have mention'd under the year 1508. 28. Frat. Edm. Bricot a Minorite Jul. 3. Fath. Job Lawerne or Lorne a Ben. Monk of Worcester afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there He died 1551. Besides the said John Lawerne I find another of both his names who was a Benedictin also a Monk of Worcester educated in Philosophicals and Theologicals in Glocester Coll. within this University and at length was Doctor of Divinity He hath written 1 Actus contra quatuor peccata 2 Benedictiones laudationes in vesperiis Oxon 3 Variarum rerum Epistolae and 4 Quaedam chromice All which I have seen bound together in one Vol. with this note following at the end Expliciunt lectiones ordinariae Mri. Joh. Lawerne S. pag. Professoris editae publicè lectae in Scholis Theologiae Oxon. an dom 1448 49. Feb. 18. Fr. Edw. Baskervyle a Minorite He was afterwards Gardian of the Coll. of Minorites or Franciscans in the South Suburb of Oxon. Besides these were about 8 admitted and 10 at least that supplicated On the 12 of June this year Will. Knyght M. A. supplicated the ven Congregation to be admitted Bach. of Div. and the next month supplicated to proceed in the same Faculty but whether either of them were granted it appears not This Will. Knyght I take to be the same with him who was elected probat Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1503 and not Will. Knyght who was a
Civilian of New Coll. and afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells Doct. of Can. Law Jan. 28. John Voysey or Veysey For the same degree John Southwode did supplicate but was not admitted this year Doct. of Physick Jul. 7. Will. Freeman He was afterwards Fellow Censor and at length President of the College of Physitians at London Doct. of Div. June 11. Roger Dyngley of All 's Coll. He was Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and had two or more Dignities in the Church Feb. 27. Fr. John Perrot sometimes written Porret a Minorite Gardian or Prior of the Coll. of Minorites or Franciscans commonly called Grey Fryers at Bostom in Lincolnshire I find one John Perrot to have succeeded Martin Collyns in the Chantorship of York in Oct. 1503. a little before which time in Sept. the said Collyns became Treasurer of the Church there on the death of Hugh Trotter D. D. who had been also Provost of the Church at Beverley But the said John Perrot being a sec Priest must not be understood to be the same with him who was a Minorite Feb. 27. Fr. Thom Kyrkham a Minorete Gardian of the Coll. of Minorites at Doncaster in Yorkshire He was afterwards a very zealous man against the Divorce of King Hen. 8. from Q. Catherine Besides these three were but two that supplicated to be D. D. viz. Rob. Carter of Magd. Coll. and John Tychmersh a Cistercian of S. Bernard's Coll. Incorporations May…Nic Bradbridge M. of A. of this University and D. of D. beyond the Seas See more among the Doct. of Div. in 1508. June…Will Howe Bishop of Orense in Spain D. of D. beyond the Seas and 16 years a Student in this University was then incorp D. of D. Jun. 26. Thom. Forster Bac. of Arts of this University Master of Arts of Cambridge and Bac. of Div. of Lovaine in Brabant was then incorp B. of D. Feb… Rich. Warham Doctor of the Civil Law of the University of Orleans in France He is stiled in one of our Registers Archdeacon of Canterbury but he that enjoyed that Dignity now was Will. Warham and therefore there is a mistake in the Christian name An. Dom. 1527. An. 19 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same viz. Dr. Tho. Musgrave but he dying in Exeter Coll. this year about the latter end of Aug. or beginning of Sept. having made several Supplicates in the Congregation of Regents in the beginning of July going before in order to the taking the degree of D. of D. Martin Lyndsey D. D. and Fellow of Linc. Coll. officiated in his turn till the beginning of Mich. term and then he giving up that employment John Cottysford D. D. of Linc. Coll. became Commissary by the designment of the Chancellour and took his Oath 7. Dec. following Proct. Arth. Cole of Magd. Coll. Rich. Lorgan of Oriel Coll. May. 7. Bach. of Gram. March ult John Skerow or Sherow or Skyrou so many ways I find him written was then admitted Bach. of Grammar In 1538. in Oct. I find him by the name and title of John Sherow Bach. of Grammar to be a Candidate for the Degree of Bac. of Arts but whether he was admitted it appears not In Dec. this year John Parr or Party supplicated to be admitted to inform but not granted See in 1528. Bach. of Arts. Ap. 5. Richard Smyth John Ramridge of Mert. Coll. The former was afterwards an eminent writer and other Dean of Lichfield as I shall elsewhere tell you May 21. Rich. Taverner of Cardinal Coll. I have mention'd him among the writers under the year 1575. Rich. Sherrey of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He is also mention'd among the writers an 1550. Jan. 16. Tho. Goldwell He was afterwards B. of St. Asaph In all about 62 who were this year admitted Bach. of Civ Law Feb. 18. Will. Bennet I take this Person to be the same Will. Bennet who became Archdeacon of Dorset upon the consecration of John Stokesley to the See of London 20. Dec. 1530 and the same who about that time was constituted the Kings Orator to go to Rome to expedite the matter of Divorce from his Consort Qu. Catherine I find him there in 1532 as by the dates of his letters sent thence to the English Court appears And in the year following being dead Edward Fox who was afterwards Bishop of Hereford succeeded him in his Archdeaconry 24. Nov. 1533. See another W. Bermet among the Bach. of Arts an 1512. and another among the Doctors of Div. 1535. Feb. 18. John Pope of All 's Coll. In 1554 he became Archdeacon of Bedford upon the promotion of Gilb. Bourne to the See of Bathe and Wells and about that time was made Residentiary of Linc. Cathedral In Sept. 1558 he was put in Warden of All 's Coll. by Cardinal Pole Archb. of Cant. upon the resignation of Seth Holland but never came to the Coll. for admission He died at Lincolne on the eleventh of Nov. following and was buried in the Nave of the Cathedral there In his Wardenship succeeded Dr. John Warner a Physitian in the latter end of Nov. 1558 he having been Warden before but left it in the Reign of Qu. Mary and in his Archdeaconry of Bedford succeeded Mich. Dunnyng LL. D. of Cambridge and Chancellour of the Diocess of Norwych and him who enjoyed it but a little while Rich. Barber LL. B. of Oxon 14 March 1558. Feb. 18. Hugh Coren or Curwyn He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin in Ireland 19. Walter Wryght See more among the Doct. of Law an 1540. Besides these were about 15 that were admitted and 6 that supplicated Bach. of Can. Law Twenty two were admitted this year among whom Reynold Barnysley a Bened. Monk was one Jul. 8. Thaddaeus Raynold a Sec. Chapl. another Feb. 18. who if I mistake not was an Irish Man and several Welsh Men besides Thirteen also at least supplicated for the same Degree who were mostly Secular Chaplains Some of which were afterwards admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 5. John Marlow or Merlow of Mert. Coll. He was afterwards Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Wells and Canon of the Kings Chap. of St. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminister He died in the beginning of Oct. 1543. See among the Bach. of Div. in 1542. Feb. 14. David Tolley of St. Maries hall One and twenty Masters were admitted this year according to the publick register yet 37 stood in several Acts celebrated in the said year Bach. of Physick Jul. 8. Simon Ball M. A. Humph. Blewet M. A. of Mert. Coll. Both these were learned Men and the last a writer as I shall hereafter tell you For the said Degree supplicated John de Lapeys M. A. of an University beyond the Seas and John Mason M. A. of Allsouls Coll. who was afterwards a Knight and a Man of note as I have told you under the year 1521. but whether they were admitted it appears not Bach. of Div. May 29. Frater Anth. Papudo or Papodo a Portugues by
by a Writer of his Country to be a learned Man as indeed he was considering the time he lived in as other Authors also till us One Nich. Quemmerford I have mention'd among the Writers but what this Edward hath written I cannot yet find About 41 were admitted this year and about 10 that supplicated who were not admitted Bach. of Civ Law Jul. 12. Henry Siddall He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. and in the Reign of Edw. 6. a great admirer and follower of Pet. Martyr a turner about in Qu. Maries Reign and a returner in that of Qu. Elizabeth such was the mutability and poor spirit of the Man See more among the Doctors of Div. in 1552. and 1558. Besides him were seven admitted of whom Richard Plunket a Secular Chapl. was one and nine that supplicated for the said Degree but were not admitted Bach. of Can. Law Apr. 24. John Man a Sec. Chapl. and Fellow of New College Not the same with him who was admitted Bath of Arts 1533. but another Jul. 12. Henry Siddall beforemention'd Besides these two were seven also admitted and but two that supplicated Mast of Arts. Jun. 10. John Hoker of Magd. Coll. Jul. 1. Jam. Brokes of C. C. C. Afterwards B. of Gloc. Besides these two were about 27 admitted among whom August Cross of Exet. Coll. was one afterwards Fellow of Eaton Coll. and a rich Dignitary Bach. of Div. Apr. 23. Fath. Rob. Joseph a Benedictine Monk In the year 1537 I find him to be Prior of Glocester Coll. in Oxon. and in 1538 it appears that Thom. Wellys succeeded being the last of the Priors of that Coll. Jul. 1. Fath. Humph. Cherytey Nov. 3. Fath. Nich. Andrews John sometimes written Thom. Adelston John Neott Benedictines Feb. 12. Owen Oglethorp President of Magd. Coll. Besides these 8 more were admitted and about 13 that supplicated who were not this year admitted among whom were Fath. Will. Pond an Austen Fryer Fa. Hugh Glasyer a Minorite ☞ Not one Doctor of the Can. or Civ Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick Jul. 5. John Warner of All 's Coll. In the year following he was made Warden of the said Coll being about that time the publick Professor of Physick in the University and in 1541. or thereabouts he became one of the first Prebendaries of Winchester In 1547 in July he was made Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Dr. Rich. Langrigg or Langrish deceased and afterwards became Archdeacon of Ely in the room of Dr. John Boxall but the year when I cannot tell In 1559 1. Eliz. he being then Preb. of Vlfcomb in the Church of Sarum was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Edm. Steward and dying in his house in Warwick-lane in London 21. March 1564 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Great Stanemere in Middlesex In his Wardenship of All 's Coll. Rich. Barber LL. D. succeeded in his Archdeaconry of Clievland which he resign'd about an year before his death one Christoph Malton M. A. was installed in Apr. 1564. in his Archd. of Ely which also he had resigned one Rob. Wisdome of Cambridge a good Lat. and English Poet of his time and one that had been an Exile in Qu. Maries Reign succeeded but the year when I cannot justly say and in his Deanery of Winchester followed Franc. Newton D. D. an 1565. As for Rob. Wisdome before-mention'd who was also Rector of Settrington in Yorkshire died in 1568. Jul. 5. John Gaynes sometimes written Jaynys M. A. and Bac. of Phys was then adm being the same day on which Dr. Warner was admitted One Will. Coole M. A. and B. of Phys supplicated to be adm Doctor of that fac but was not Doct. of Div. May 8. James Blythe the Kings Chaplain See among the Incorporations an 1527. Jul. 5. Fa. Edward Hynmersh or Inmarsh a Benedictine He was lately Warden or Gardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon and now Chancellour to Cuthb Tonstall B. of Durham Jul. 5. Fa. Will. Bennet Roger Bell Benedictines Feb. 17. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. was then adm D. of D. having but 5 days before been admitted B. D. John Hastyngs of the Kings Coll. and Anth. Sutton both Masters of Arts and Bach. of Div. supplicated to be admitted Doctors of the said fac but were not this year An. Dom. 1536. An. 28. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same as in the year 1534. Proct. Will. Wetherton of Magd. Coll. Will. Pye of Oriel Coll. May 5. Bach. of Arts. May 29. Alexand. Nowell of Brasenose Coll. Jul. 5. John Harley of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards B. of Hereford 12. Ralph Skynner of New Coll. Whether he took the Degree of M. of A. or of any other faculty in this University I cannot in all my searches find Yet when he was elected Warden of New Coll. in the beginning of May 1551 he is said to be M. A. In 1560 March 5. he was installed Dean of Durham in the place of Rob. Horne promoted to the See of Winchester and dying in 1563 was succeeded by Will. Whittingham to whom the Queen gave it notwithstanding she had promised it to Dr. Tho. Wilson on the 19 Jul. the same year Feb. 27. John Harpesfeild of New Coll. He was afterward a grand zealot in the times of reformation for the R. C. cause Besides these four were about 30 more that were admitted besides about 7 that supplicated Bach. of Law Jun… Will. Binsley of New Coll. was then admitted Bach. of both the Laws After he had resign'd the Vicaridge of Adderbury in Oxfordshire 1554 he became about that time Chancellour to D. Pole Bishop of Peterborough and Archdeacon of Northampton in which last Dignity he was succeeded by one Nich. Sheppard Master of St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge about 1571. This Binsley is reported to have been a persecutor of Protestants in Queen Maries Reign while he was a Chancellour And that after Qu. Elizah came to the Crown he was notwithstanding that made Archdeacon of Peterborough c. Mar. 22. Rich. Read of New Coll. See among the Doctors in 1540. Besides these two were but two more that were admitted and but three that supplicated that were not admitted among whom Donatus Tayge an Irish Man was one Not one was admitted in the Canon Law nor one that supplicated For Religious houses being about this time dissolved there occurs not the third or fourth part of Bachelaurs of the Can. or Civ Law especially the former as before Mast of Arts. For the same reason but eleven Masters were admitted this year five of whom were of Merton Coll. and but two that supplicated who were not admitted Bach. of Div. May 13. Rich. Smyth of Merton Coll. now the Kings Professor of Divinity Jun. 28. Tho Raynolds of the same Coll. See afterwards among the Doctors this year Mar. 9. Father James Procter a Monk of that Order of St. Bernard alias Cisteaux and Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of Edw. Fox who
Alex. Nâ—well Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in his Canonry Feb. 13. John Man of New Coll. was then admitted Master being the same whom I have mention'd under the year 1533. In all 39 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. Dec. 3. Fath. Feb. 8. Fa. John Warham Rob. Nettleham Will. Lyncolne Benedictines 15. Will. Haynes of Oriel Coll. He was afterwards Provost of that College Fellow of Eaton the third Canon of Osney and the first of the first Canonry or Prebendship of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Some report that he was also Dean of Exeter but false for 't was Simon Heynes that enjoyed that Dignity Four more were admitted and about 7 there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom John Crayford a Minoritâ— was one who had spent several years in study both here and at Cambridge Rob. Wellys M. A. and Fellow of Eaton Coll. another and Thom. Massie a Canon regular a third which last was Prior of St. Maries Coll. in Oxon and was about this time adm Bach. of Divinity but neglected to be registred by the publick scribe Doct. of Civ Law Jan. 18. Richard Lyell of All 's Coll. Rowl Merick about this time of New Inn was adm the same day He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor For the same Degree supplicated one Rich. Arche LL. B. but was not admitted In 1526 I find him to be Principal of Broadgates hall by the name of Rich. Archer and now 1538 to be the Kings Chaplain and Canon of Windsore On the 28. Dec. 1551. he was made Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Matthew Wotton who had succeeded in that Dignity one Tho. Stevens Doct. of Div. Apr. 13. Father William Todde a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict of Durham Coll. as it seems and a Monk of Durham was then adm Doct. of Div. Not one besides was admitted nor one supplicated for that deg Incorporations May… Christop Massyngberd LL. Bach. of Cambridge and Chanc. of the Church of Linc. Afterwards he supplicated to the licensed to proceed in the Laws but whether he was so it appears not In 1543 he succeeded Dr. Anth. Draycot in the Archdeaconry of Stow and dying 8. March 1553 was buried in the middle of the Isle on the South side of the Choire belonging to the Church of Lincolne Whereupon John Aylmer or Elmer succeeded in that Dignity but before he had enjoyed it an year was deprived of it being then the first year of Qu. Mary and one John Harrison was put into his place 1554. This year on the 19. July the rev Father Anthony Brocke or Brockbey sometimes written Brorbe a Franciscan or Grey Fryer well read in Divinity and learned in the Greek and Heb. tongues sometimes a Student in St. Mar. Magd. Coll. Oxon suffer'd death by hanging for speaking against the Kings proceedings in extirpating the Popes power and demolishing of religious houses I put this observation under the year of his death because that he being reported by one to be a Licentiat in Divinity and by another a Professor of Divinity of this University I cannot find any such thing in our publick registers which are imperfect in several years before this time especially in the year 1517. An. Dom. 1538. An. 30. Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss the same Proct. Rich. Arderne of Magd. Coll. Thomas Roberts of Oriel Coll. May 8 Which Proctors were elected then as 't is said by the publick Suffrages of those whom it concerned to give as if an equal power of suffraging in such elections did not now pertain to all Masters Bach. of Arts. May 17. John Fox of Brasenose Coll. He was afterwards of that of St. Mary Magdalen and the noted Martyriologist Feb. 15. George Etheridge John Morwen of C. C. C. In all about 41 besides 14 or thereabouts that were candidates for the said Degree but not admitted this year ☞ Only two this year were admitted Bach. of the Civ Law and but 4 in the next Mast of Arts. Mar. 12. Rich. Caldwell of Brasenose Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician 20 Seth Holland of All 's Coll. In 1555 or thereabouts he became the third Prebendary of the second stall in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester in the place of John Compton alias Teale Bach. of Div. and sometimes Chaplain to K. H. 8. and in the same year he was elected Warden of All 's Coll. In 1557 about Michaelmas he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Philip Haford or Hawford alias Ballard who had been the last Abbat of Evesham in Worcestershire and about the same time became Rector of Bishops Cleeve in Glocestershire upon his resignation of the Rectory of Fladbury In Oct. or Nov. 1559 he was deprived of his Deanery whereupon John Pedder Bach. of Div. one of the Frankfort exiles in the time of Qu. Mary was installed in his place 27. Dec. the same year Holland was afterwards committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea where he died in the second year of Qu. Elizab. Mar. 18. James Curthopp of C. C. Coll. In 1546 he became the first Canon of the sixth stall in Ch. Ch. Cathedral Oxon and about the beginning of Qu. Mary he succeeded Gerard Carleton D. D. in the Deanery of Peterborough who in 1543 had succeeded in that Dignity Franc. Abre B. D. the same Abre I mean who from being the last Prior of Northampton was made the first Dean of Peterborough an 1541. James Curthopp died 19. July 1557 and was buried in the Isle next adjoyning on the North side to the choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. He was one of the examiners of John Philpot the Martyr in certain matters of Religion before the time of his suffering Besides these three were but eight Masters admitted if the register saith right and in but one Act celebrated this year on 29. July were only four Doctors of Divinity and one in the Laws that proceeded the Masters being reserved till the Act following which was on the last of March 1539. Bach. of Div. Apr. 8. Frat. John Byllynge a Minorite May 9. Fath. Rob. Dalton John Tewtie Nich. Marley Benedictines May 31. Fat Philip Action Rog. Whalley Rich. Hayles Cistercians alias Bernardines The first of which last three was about this time Provisor of St. Bernards Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon. Jul. 13. John Donne of C. C. C. I have made some mention of him under the year 1528. 14. Fa. Hugh Glasier a Minorite Jul. 23. Fath. Tho. Bede Will. Ambrose Benedictines Two more were also admitted and but two there were that supplicated for that Degree among whom Hen. Stretsham a Minorite who had spent several years here and at Cambridge in Logicals Philosophicals and Theologicals was one After the Abbeys were dissolved in 1535. 36. c. I find very many Monks and other religious Persons who had pensions allowed them out of the Exchecquer to retire to the University and to such places therein that were nurseries for them as Canterbury Coll.
John Cox who was a Student of C. C. 1555 I cannot yet resolve you … The Wylson of Brasn Coll. a Yorkshire man born See in the year 1516 and 1553. In all about 36. ☞ Not one Admission in the Law or Laws is this year registred Mast of Arts. … Tho. Neale of New Coll. now eminent for the Hebrew as well as for the Greek Tongue … Leonard Bilson lately of Mert. Coll. as it seems now the learned Schoolmaster of Reading in Berks. This person who was Uncle to Dr. Tho. Bilson B. of Winchester had several Dignities in the Church of which a Prebendship of Winchester was one … Will. Johnson of All 's Coll. He is reported to be afterwards Bishop of Meath in Ireland See in the year 1543. The Admissions of Masters being not registred by the Scribe I can only say that only 10 stood in the Act celebrated 11 Jul. this year ☞ The Admissions of Bach. of Div. are omitted in the Reg. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Physick was adm this year Doct. of Div. June… James Brokes of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Gloc. as I have before told you Incorporations June… John Crayford D. of D. of Cambridge He was originally of Queens Coll. in that University from whence being ejected he went to Oxon was elected Fellow of Vniv. Coll. an 1519. incorporated M. of A. in 152â— as I have before told you in that year became Proctor of Camb. in the year following and in 1523 he was made one of the Canons of Cardinal College Afterwards leaving Oxon he went to Cambridge the third time swhere he commenced D. of D. an 1535 and was soon after Vicechancellor of that University In Octob. 1544. he became Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury on the death of John Edmunds being then Prebendary of North Aulton in the said Church and in the middle of July 1545 he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Berkshire on the death of Rob. Audley On the 17 of March following he was collated to the Prebendship of Chermister and Bere in the Church of Sarum upon the resignation of George Heneage and in Sept. 1546 he having been newly incorporated D. of D. as 't is before told you he was elected Master of Vniv Coll being then also Prebendary of Winchester He concluded his last day soon after whereupon Henr. Parry succeeded him in the Chancellorship of Saâ—um in Sept. 1547 and in the Mastership of the said Coll. one Rich. Salveine M. A. As for his Archdeaconry which he before had resigned did succeed him therein Will. Pye 7 Oct. 1545. An. Dom. 1547. An. 1 Ed. 6. Chancellour the same namely John Longland D. of D. and Bish of Lincoln but he dying on the 7 day of May this year Rich Coxe D. of D. and Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon was tho at London by a solemn Decree of the University elected in a Convocation not in a Congregation of the Regents according to the antient manner on the twenty first day of the said month Dr. Hugh Weston in the mean time being Cancellarius natus The 22 of July following the said Chanc. coming to Oxon was received with the publick Congratulation of the Vicechancellour Doctors Proctors and other Members of the University at Magdalen Coll. near to the East Gate of the City where being present also Dr. Oglethorpe the President with the Fellows of that House Mr. Tho. Hardyng the Kings Professor of the Hebrew Tongue delivered an eloquent Oration before him which being done he was conducted to his Lodging at Ch. Ch. Vicechanc. or Commiss Walter Wryght L. L. D. sometimes Principal of Peckwaters Inn now Head or Governour of Durham Coll. and Archdeac of Oxford designed to the Office of Vicechanc. by Dr. Coxe about S. John Baptist's time Proct. Edm. Crispyne of Oriel Hen. Baylie of New Coll. Elected a little after the new Chancellour had taken his place the senior being then six years and the other five years standing in the degree of Master which was not altogether according to the order of K. Hen. 8. made 1541 appointing that the Proctors should be elected from the senior Masters of eight years standing at least These two Proctors were afterwards eminent Physitians in the time they lived and the senior died in the latter end of the year in March 1549. Bach. of Gram. Edward Pendleton the famous Schoolmaster of Manchester in Lancashire was admitted to the reading of any Book of the Faculty of Grammar that is to the degree of Bach. of Grammar but the day or month when is not set down in the public Register now very much neglected Bach. of Arts. Humph. Lhoyd or Lhayd now or soon after of Brasnose Coll. Julius Palmer of Magdalen Coll This person was elected Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. 25. Jul. 1549 and true and perpetual Fellow in the year following In 1553 he left his Fellowship and what became of him after John Fox in his Book of The Acts and Mon. of the Church c. will tell you at large among the Martyrs that stood up and died for the Protestant Religion under the year 1556. This year also was admitted Bach. of Arts one Barthelmew Green but whether the same with Bartier that is little Barthelmew Greene who suffered Martyrdom for the Protestant Cause an 1556 as you may see at large in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church under that year I cannot justly say John Fox who hath written his story tells you that he was educated in the University of Oxon and afterwards in the Inns of Court Thirty and one Bachelaurs were admitted this year Bach. of Law Tho. Randall or Randolphe of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Principal of Broadgates Hall and a frequent Embassadour in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth Besides him I find but one more admitted the Register as I have told you before being much or in a manner altogether neglected Mast of Arts. Thomas Godwyn Thomas Bentham of Magd. Coll. They were afterwards Bishops Richard Edwards William Whittyngham of Ch. Ch. The former was lately of C. C. Coll. and now in much esteem for his Poetry the other was lately of All 's Coll. but not as yet known to have any eminence in him James Bicton of Ch. Ch. now Dean of Kilkenny in Ireland He died in 1552 and was buried in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Christop Malton of Ch. Ch. also as it seems On the 3 of April 1564 he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Dr. John Warner resigning and dying in the latter end of the year in March 1569 was succeeded by Ralph Coulton M. of A. and Prebendary of York afterwards Bach. of Div. Bach. of Div. Jul… Rich. Bruerne of Linc. Coll. He was afterwards Hebrew Professor of this University Canon of Ch. Ch. and of Windsore Fellow of the College at Eaton of which he was elected Provost about 1561 but soon after ejected He died about the latter end of April 1565
of Windsore and about that time Preb. of Canterbury He died 1. Nov. 1600. and was buried at Windsore Doct. of Civ Law John Gibbons lately of All 's Coll. now Principal of New Inn was admitted this year but the day or month is not set down He was afterwards a Member of Doctors Commons and died at London in the Parish of St. Faith the Virgin about the beginning of the year 1581. ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Divinity can I find admitted or licensed to proceed this year An. Dom. 1551. An. 5 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicehanc Owen Oglethorpe D. D. President of Magd. Coll. who being several times absent this year Rich. Martiall Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. and John Warner Doct. of Phys of All 's Coll. officiated for him Proct. Will. Martiall of Mert. Coll. Pet. Rogers of Ch. Ch. Bach. of Arts. George Savage of Ch. Ch. See more in the year 1574. Harbert Westphaling of the same house He was afterwards B. of Hereford James Bell of C. C. Coll. In the latter end of May 1556 he as a Somersetsh Man born was elected Fellow of Trinity Coll. but whether he be the same Jam. Bell who suffer'd death by hanging at Lancaster for being a Rom. Priest in Apr. 1584 or James Bell a Translator of several books into English I cannot tell This last was a zealous Protestant and translated 1 A treatise touching the liberty of a Christian Lond. 1579. oct written in Latin by Dr. Mart. Luther 2 Sermon of the Evangelical Olive written by Jo. Fox See more in Jo Fox among the Writers an 1587. 3 The Pope confuted Written by the said Fox see there again 4 Answer apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective Lond. 1581. qu. Begun to be written in Lat. by Dr. Walt. Haddon but finished by John Fox beforemention'd The admissions and names of Determiners are omitted this year and therefore you are not to expect the just number of Bachelaurs that were admitted Bach. of Civ Law Nich. Saunders of New Coll. He was afterwards a zealous R. Catholick and a forward and indefatigable writer in defence of the Religion he professed Mast of Arts. Humph. Lhoyd or Lhuyd of Brasnose Coll. He was afterwards in much esteem for his great knowledge in British antiquities The admissions of Masters are this year omitted yet the number that stood in the Act or Comitia celebrated 6. of July is 21. The Junior of which called Ralph Treiver of Ch. Ch. was with the approbation of the Vicech and whole congregation admitted into the School of the Physicians or entred on the Physick line in Jan. 1552. Bach. of Div. John Morwâ—n of C. C. Coll. This Person did about this time upon a fight of the decay of the fac of Div. enter himself on the Phys line but whether he continued in it I cannot tell John Harpesfield of Nâ—w Coll. Christoph Goodman of Ch. Ch. sometimes of Brasen Coll. John Molens or Mullins of Magd. Coll. Hen. Pendleton of Brasnose Coll. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted or licensed to proceed this year as it appears in the imperfect register of this time Incorporations Rob. Johnson LL. Bach. of Cambridge as it seems was incorporated Bach. of both the Laws but the day or month when appears not In 1544 Jul. 10. he was installed Prebendary of the Church of Worcester in the place of Tho. Baggard LL. D. deceased and in the same month as it seems was made Chancellour of the Diocess of Worcester which had been held by the said Baggard In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he kept both those places though wrot privately against Jo. Hoper B. of Glocester and Worcester in 1555 Feb. 22. tertio Mariae Reg. he was installed Prebendary of Stillington in the Church of York and in Jul. 1558 he was collated by Nich Archb. of York to the rectory of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire on the death of Arth. Cole President of Magd. Coll. but enjoyed it for a short time This Person who was esteemed learned and well read in the Theological faculty did write a book against Hoper beforemention'd but did not publish it After his death which hapned in 1559 the book came into the hands of one Henry Joliff or Jolliff Bach. of Div. sometimes Proctor of Cambridge afterwards Rector of Bishops Hampton in Worcestershire one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester and in 1554 Dean of Bristew in the place of Tho. Rainolds promoted to the Deanery of Exeter I say that the said Jolliff having the book in his hands carried it with him beyond the Seas when he fled there upon the alteration of Religion in the beginning of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth and setling for a time at Lovaine did correct put some additions to and publish it under his and the name of Rob. Johnson with this title Responsio sub protestatione facta ad illos articulos Johannis Hoperi Episcopi Vigorniâ—e nomen gerentis in quibus à Catholica fide dissentiebat 〈◊〉 cum quibusdam confutationibus ejusdem Hoperi replicationibus reverendiss in ch pat Steph. Gardineri Episc Winton tunc temporis pro confessione fidei in carcere detenti Antwerp 1564. in a thick oct dedicated by Joliff to Philip K. of Spain acknowledging not only his favours shew'd to him in England while he was King there but also at Lovaine Whether Rob. Johnson the original Author died at Worcester or York I know not or Joliff at Lovaine Sure I am that the last died in 1573 for on the 28. Januar. in that year a commission issued out from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to one Will. Secrs a Stationer of London to administer the goods debts chattels c. of Hen Joliff Clerk late Dean of Bristow who died in parts beyond the Seas c. I find another Hen. Joliff in whom Dr. John Whyte Bishop of Winton took much delight for his towardliness and great vertues but he was a youth and dying 19. Aug. 1548 must not be understood to be the same with Hen. Joliff beforemention'd who also wrot against Nich. Rydley nor Rob. Johnson of All 's Coll. who was admitted Bach. of Law 1552 or thereabouts to be the same with him that was the original Author of Responsio c. About this time Abr. Ortelius of Antwerp spent some time in study in the condition of a Sojourner within this University Afterwards he became a most admirable Cosmographer the Ptolomey of his time and the ornament of the learned World He died in 1598. An. Dom. 1552. An. 6. Ed. 6. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Rich. Coxe to whom it was granted by the venerable congregation this year Jul. 19 that whereas he was about to resign his office of Chancellour within a short time he should never after be burdned with the office of Vicechancellour The 14. Nov. following he resign'd it and on the 18 the congregation of Regents and Non-regents elected according to their new statutes Sir
in the Spittle there Doct. of Div. Apr. 20. John Harpesfield Jul. 13. Thomas Hardyng of New Coll. Both zealous and stout Champions for the Rom. Cath. cause Jun. 20. It was then granted to Hen. Cole LL. D. of New Coll. that he might have the Degrees of Bach. and Doctor of Divinity conferr'd upon him without any disputations or exercise done for the same Incorporations Certain Doctors of Div. of the Univ. of Cambridge having been commanded by their Chancellour Dr. Steph. Gardiner Bishop of Winchester to go to Oxford and there to joyn themselves with other Doctors and learned Men of that University to dispute with Archb. Cranmer Bish Rydley and B. Latimer concerning matters of Religion did accordingly come to Oxom 13. of Apr. this year and taking up their quarters at the Cross-inn near to Quatervois were the next day incorporated The names of them are these John Young D. D. Master of Pembroke hall and Vicechancellour He was a learned Man and is stiled by some Writers Joh. Giovanus John Seton or Seaton D. D. of St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and Prebendary of Winchester He was now famous in that University for the brief and methodical book of Logick which he had composed for the use of junior Scholars Rich. Atkinson D. D. Provost of Kings Coll. Will. Glynne D. D. Master of Queens Coll. and now or lately Archdeacon of Anglesie In 1555 Sept. 8. he was consecrated Bishop of Bangor within the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul in London and died a little before Qu. Mary Tho. Watson D. D. Master of St. Johns Coll. and Chaplain to Gardiner B. of Winchester In 1553 Nov. 18. he was instituted Dean of Durham by Dr. Tonstall B. thereof on the deprivation of Rob. Horne and in Aug. 1557 he was consecrated B. of Linc. From which See being removed by the authority of Parliament in the beginning of Q. Eliz. as being an enemy to reformation and the Qu. Supremacy over the Church was committed Prisoner to several places and kept in durance in and near London for about 20 years At length in the year 1580 he and Jo. Fekenham being sent Prisoners with others to Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire continued there to the time of his death He was buried in the Ch. belonging to the Town of Wisbich 27. of Sept. an 1584. In his younger years he was given much to Poetry and making of Plays and gained great commendations for his Antigone out of Sophocles by the learned Men of his time who have farther avowed that as George Buchannans Tragedy called Jepthe have among all Tragedies of that time been able to abide the touch of Aristotles precepts and Euâ—ipides Examples So hath also the Tragedy of this Tho. Watson called Absalon which was in a most wonderful manner admired by them yet he would never suffer it to go abroad because in locis paribus Anapestus is twice or thrice used instead of Jambus In his elder years being then of a sour disposition as one saith and â—arned in deep Divinity but surly with an austere gravity as another tells us published several matters of Divinity among which were Two Sermons of the real Presence before Qu. Mary on Rom. 12. 1. c. Lond. 1554. oct and Wholsome and Cath. Doctrine concerning the seven Sacraments c. Lond. 1558. qu. This Book consists only of Hemilies Cuthbert Scot D. D. Master of Christs Coll. and Prebendary of York He was afterwards Bish of Chester Thomas Sedgwyke D. D. the Queens Prof. of Div. in Cambr. Alban Langdale D. D. of S. John's Coll. in Cambr. In 1556 he being then Parson of Buxted in Sussex was made Archdeacon of Lewes on the death of one Dr. Breisley and about the same time Prebendary of Aâ—pleford in the Church of York In the beginning of Qu. Eliz. he was deprived of those and other Dignities 1 Because he had behaved himself zealous in the Reign of Q. Mary in carrying on the Rom. Catholick Cause against the Protestants 2 Because he denied the Queens Supremacy over the Church He lived afterwards many years a constant Member of the Church of Rome but when or where he died I cannot tell See more of him in Nich. Ridley pag. 78. An. Dom. 1555. An. 2 Mariae An. 3 Mariae Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Rich. Smyth D. D. sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Canon of Ch. Ch. and one of Qu. Maries Chaplains was admitted to his Office in Apr. this year Dr. Martiall occurs also Vicechancellour 16 Oct. at what time Rydley and Latimer were burnt in Canditch for then if I mistake not Dr. Smyth preached to them when they were at the Stake Proct. Will. Norfolke of Or. Coll. Jam. Gervys of Mert. Coll. elect 14 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Nov. 14. Rich. Shaghens of Ball. Coll. Jan. 11. Edw. Cradock of C. C. See among the D. D. an 1565. Feb. 13. Hen. Bedell of C. C. Coll. One of both his names was Author of A Sermon exhorting to pity the poor on Psal 41. Lond. 1571. oct and of another if not more which I have not yet seen Whether the same with Hen. Bedell the Bach. of Arts who was born in Oxfordshire I know not This year Apr. 26. John Woolton of Brasn Coll. afterwards Bishop of Exeter supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts but whether he was admitted it appears not or that he determined in the Lent following Adm. 33. Bach. of Civ Law June 26. John Calverley of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of John Bridgwater about 1574 and dying in 1576 he was succeeded by Dr. Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Besides Calverley were five admitted and three or more that supplicated for the same Degree Bach. of Decrees Apr. 3. Will. Laly or Lawley of New Inn. He was afterwards Archbish of Tuam in Ireland John Linch of New Inn also as it seems was admitted the same day He was afterwards Bishop of Elphine in Ireland Mast of Arts. Jun. 26. John Rastell of New Coll. He afterwards gained to himself an eminent name especially among those of his Profession for his Writings against Joh. Jewell Jul. 12. Harbert Westphalyng of Ch. Ch. 26. Pet. Whyte of Or. Coll. He was afterwards much celebrated by his Scholar Rich. Stanyhurst for his Learning Adm. 29. Bach. of Phys Mar. 28. Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll. See among the Doctors in 1559. June 17. Tho Godwyn of the same Coll. He afterwards applied his Studies to Div. and at length became B. of Bathe and Wells Mar. 13. Giles Wale c. Eight in all were admitted this year Bach. of Div. Nov. 14. Joh. de Villa Garcia or Garcina lately of Lincoln College now Divinity Reader of that of Magd He was commonly called Frier John and by Protestant Writers Johannes Frâ—â—erculus See among the D. of D. 1558. He was the only person that was admitted Bach. of Div. this year Two or more there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom Will.
Hen. Wotton of Ch. Ch. was one afterwards an eminent Physician and five that supplicated for the said Degree the first of which was Madern Wisebecke a French Man who had studied Physick 20 years Bach. of Div. June 10. Lawrence Humphrey President of Magd. Coll. and the Queens Professor of Divinity Not one besides him was admitted yet four there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom Will. Downham Bishop of Chester was one but not admitted and Oswald Emerson another Doct. of Civil Law Jul. 7. John Griffyth of Allsouls Coll. Principal of New Inn and the Queens Professor of Civil Law Which last office he enjoyed four years while he was Bach. of that faculty ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 10. Lawrence Humphrey beforemention'd He had a month before been admitted Bach. of this faculty and two years before that time the Queens publick Professor of Divinity in this University he being then only Master of Arts. For the said Degree supplicated Rich. Bruerne lately the Queens Hebrew Professor and Will. Downham beforementioned but they were not admitted An. Dom. 1563. An. 5 Eliz. An. 6 Eliz. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Tho. Whyte Proct. Tho. Walley of Ch. Ch. Rog. Gifford of Mert. Coll. again elect 21. Apr. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 22. Joh. Garbrand of New Coll. May 13. Tho. Allen or Alan George Blackwell of Trin. Coll. Jun. 17. Will. Raynolds of New Coll. Jul. 26. Thom. Bodley of Mert. Coll. Feb. 11. Tob. Mathews of Ch. Ch. Mar. 24. George Coryat of New Coll. Admitted 55. Bach. of Civ Law Mar. 27. Andrew Kingsmyll of All 's Coll. He was afterwards a Calvinistical Writer May 21. Rich. Madox See among the M. of A. 1575. Mast of Arts. Apr. 26. John Hancock of Mert. Coll. He was now esteemed by the Academians to be a Person of an acute judgment in Philosophy an excellent Grecian and Hebrician Afterwards he was a godly and sincere Preacher of the word of God May 4. Leonard Fitzsimons of Trin. Coll. a learned Irish Man 8. Oliver Whiddon of Exeter Coll. He succeeded Rich. Bristow in his Fellowship of that house an 1573 he being then or soon after Archdeacon of Totness in Devonshire Will. Apsland of All 's Coll. was adm this year but the time when appears not He was afterwards one of the Chaplains to Qu. Elizabeth and Master of the Hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near London Admitted 30. Bach. of Phys Jun. 23. Rog. Gifford of Mert. Coll. now one of the Proctors of the University See among the Doctors of Phys 1566. For the said Degree supplicated Hierom. Raynolds M. A. now or lately one of the learned Fellows of C. C. C. I have made mention of this Person elsewhere Bach. of Div. Only two were admitted of whom Arth. Yeldard President of Trin. Coll. was one and three that supplicated who were never admitted Their names are John Sherbourne Will. Chamberlayne and Tho. Pyrrye all Masters of Arts. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted or licensed to proceed Doct. of Physick May…Henry Baylie 21. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. The last was now the Queens publick Professor of Medicine in this University ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was adm Incorporations This year in July as it seems was a supplicate made for one W. Butler of Cambridge to be incorporated but in what Degree whether in that of M. of Arts or Bac. of Physick I know not I take him to be the same Will. Butler who tho not Doctor of Physick was the most eminent Physician of his time and as much resorted to for his great knowledge in Physick as any Person that lived before him and had been more did he not delight to please himself with fantastical humours He died on the 29. of Januaâ— in the year 1617 and in that of his age 83 and was buried on the South side of the Chancel of St. Maries Church in Cambridge Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument in the wall with his bust to the middle and an inscription underneath part of which runs thus Gulielmus Butlerus Clarensis Aulae quondam socius medicorum omnium quos prâ—esens aetas vidit facile princeps hoc sub marmore secundum Christi adventum expectat monumentum hoc privata pietas statuit quod deburt publica Abiviator ad tuos reversus narra te vidisse locum in quo salus jacct Creations Mar. 29. Austin Brodbridge sometimes Fellow of New Coll. was then actually created Master of Arts at London by Will. Brodbridge afterwards B. of Exeter by virtue of a Commission under the Seal of the University directed to Hugh Turnbull D. D. Thomas Stempe Rob. Raynold Doctors of the Laws Will Brodbrige before-mention'd and Will. Langford Masters of Arts to be done by any one of them This Austin Brodbridge who had been an Exile at Strasburgh in the Reign of Qu. Mary was now beneficed in the Church and afterwards became Prebendary of Ferdington and Writhlington in the Church of Sarum by the death of one Rich. Basing 1566. This Person tho he had been before this creation but Bach. of Arts yet by his Dean he supplicated first to be Bachelaur of Divinity and afterwards to be Doctor An. Dom. 1564. An. 6 7 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Sir John Mason Knight but he resigning by his Letters dat 26. Dec. Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester Baron of Denbigh Master of the horse Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and of St. Michael one of the Queens Privy Council and Master of Arts as 't is said of this University was elected Chancellour on the last day of the same month Commiss Dr. Tho. Whyte whose office ending with the Chancellourship of Sir Jo. Mason John Kennall LL. D. and Canon of Ch. Ch. was chosen by Suffrages in a scrutiny on the last of Decemb. Proct. Rog. Marbeck of Ch. Ch. again Joh. Watkins of All 's Coll. elect 12. Apr. The senior of which Proctors was this year elected Orator of the University being the first of all after that office was made standing or perpetual Bach. of Arts. Apr. 18. Tho. Twyne of C. C. Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician Jun. 19. John Lister See among the Bac. of Arts an 1571. Jul. 24. Thom. Doylie of Magd. Coll. Dec. 11. John Vnderhill of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. 16. John Field See among the Writers under the year 1587. Jan. 26. Will. Harrys Rich. Knolles of Linc. Coll. Feb. 1. Will. Barlow of Ball. Rob. Hutton was admitted the same day One Rob. Hutton translated from Lat. into English The summ of Divinity drawn out of the holy Scriptures very necessary for Curats and young Students in Divinity Lond. 1567 oct Whether the same with Rob. Hutton Bach. of Arts who took no other Degree in this University I know not Feb. 1. Ralph Warcupp of Ch. Ch. Admitted 61. or thereabouts Bach. of Civ Law Ten
which he wrot that are not yet extant among which are A probe Theological or the first part of the Christian Pastors proof of his learned Parishioners faith Lond 1612. qu. He died in 1621 leaving then behind him the character of a learned Man As for the other works of Pet. Baro they are these 5 De praestantia dignitate divinae Legis lib. 2. printed 1586. oct 6 Tractatus in quo docet expetitionem oblati à mente boni fiduciam ad fidei justificantis naturam pertinere 7 Summa trium sententiarum de praedestinatione c. Hardrov 1613. oct printed with the Notes of Joh. Piscator Disquisition of Franc. Junius and Prelection of Will. Whittaker 8 Special treatise of Gods providence and of comforts against all kind of crosses and calamities to be fetched from the same with an Exposition on Psal 107. 8 Four Sermons The first on Psal 133. 1. 2. 3. The sec on Psal 15. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. c. After this Author Peter Baro had been removed from Cambridge he went to London lived and died in Crouched Friers and was buried in the Church of St. Olaves in Hartstreet At whose inteâ—ment the Bishop of London ordered the most eminent Divines and Ministers in that City to be present The Baro's or Barons as they are by some called who do now or did lately live at Boston in Lincolnshire and at Kings Lynn in Norfolk are descended from him Jul. 11. Walt. Travers M. of A. of Cambridge was then incorporated in the same Degree This Person had received his Academical education in Trin Coll. in the said University and afterwards travelled to Geneva where he became acquainted with Beza and at his return took the Degree of Bach. of Div. Soon after he went to Antwerp where he was ordained Minister according to the Presbyterian way and returning again into England he became Lecturer in the Temple while Mr. Rich. Hooker was Master between whom certain differences in Religion hapning Travers was discharged of his place by the Archbishop Whereupon by the endeavours of Dr. Adam Loftus Archb. of Dublin he was made Provost of Trin. Coll. there an 1594. But he keeping that place not long he returned into England and lived divers years as 't is said very obscurely but where I cannot tell Sure I am that one Walt. Travers succeeded Joh. Salkeld in the Vicaridge of Wellington in Somersetshire an 1635 but whether the same 't is doubtful Among several things that this W. Travers hath published is Declaration of ecclesiastical discipline out of the word of God and of the declining of the Church of England from the same Genev. 1580. oct It is also extant in latine but that I have not yet seen The other things that he hath written you may mostly if not all see in the Oxford or Bodleian Catalogue On the 4. of July was a supplicate made that Tho. Norton M. of A. of Cambridge might be incorporated but whether he was it appears not Had this supplication been made in 1560 I should have taken him to be the same Tho. Norton a famous Poet of his time whom I have mention'd among these Writers in Tho. Sternhold an 1549 and in Tho. Sackvile an 1608. An. Dom. 1577. An. 19 Elizab. An. 20 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. Cole D. D. President of C. C. Coll. was admitted to his office 13. July Proct. John Glover of St. Joh. Coll. Tho. Dochen of Magd. Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 17. Erasmus Dreyden The first of his Sirname that setled in Northamptonshire descended from the Dreydens of Staffhill or Staffle in Cumberland was by profession a Schoolmaster and being learned and well acquainted with Erasmus of Roterdam that Person was Godfather to one of his Sons which is the reason that that Christian name descends among the family of the Dreydens in that County some of whom have gloried in it in my hearing June 12. George Peele of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards an eminent Poet. 25. Tertullian Pine of St. Johns Coll. Whether he took a higher Degree in this University it appears not for travelling beyond the Seas he was made Doctor of the Laws in the University of Basil whence returning he was installed Archdeacon of Sudbury in the Dioc. of Norwych 20. July 1591 in the place of Dr. Jo. Still of Cambridge After Pine Cuthb Norrys D. D. was installed 6. Oct. 1599 and after his death Theophilus Kent 31. Dec. 1621. Some years after Kents death Anth. Sparrow D. D. of Camb. was install'd 7. Aug. 1660 who being promoted to the see of Exter Dr. John Spencer of the said Univ. succeeded an 1667. Jul. 1. John Davies of Gloc. Hall Afterwards an eminent Mathematician 8. Tho. Lodge of Trin. Coll. Oct. 29. Charles Turnbull John Spenser of Corp. C. C. Dec. 4. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. Feb. 6. Edw. Hutchins of Brasn Mar. 22. Will. Warford of Trin. Coll. Anth. Shirley of the same Coll. of the Holy Trin. was then also admitted See another Anth. Shirley among the Bach. of Arts an 1581. who was a Sussex Man born but this of Trin. Coll. was a native of Oxfordshire Admitted 124. Mast of Arts. Mar. 29. John Williams of All 's Rich. Hooker of C. C. Coll. May 17. Will. Greenwich of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Salop and died an aged Man in Apr. 1631. Jun. 25. Will. Wilkes of Mert. Jam. Bisse of Magd Will. Massie of Brasn Coll. 27. Rich. Hackluyt of Ch. Ch. Hen. Rowlands of New Coll. Jul. 3. Tho. Lovell Whether he be the same Tho. Lovell who wrote A Dialogue between custâ—m and verity concerning the use and abuse of dancing and minstrelsie Lond. in oct about 1589. I know not Feb. 18. Julius Caesar of Magd. Hall See among the Doctors of Civ Law 1583. Admitted 116. Doct. of Law Nov. 23. Tho. Glasier of Ch. Ch. In 1578 he was elected Rector of Exeter Coll. and dying 9. Mar. 1591. was succeeded in that Rectory by Dr. Thom. Holland ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Divinity was admitted not any to the reading of the sentences but one Incorporations May. 23. Tho. Bowsfield Bac. of Arts of Pembr Hall in Cambridge In the Act following he proceeded Master of his faculty in this University became Principal of St. Edmunds Hall in 1581 and the year after Prebendary of Grimston and Yatmister in the Church of Sarum Jul. 9. Sim. Harward Bach. of Arts of another University Rich. Remyngton M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day In 1582. Inn. 8. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Clievland upon the death of Ralph Coulton Bac. of Div. which hapned 8. May going before aged 55 and some years after about 1598 he became Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorkshire in the place of Tho. Cole whom I have mention'd before under the year 1567. In Clievland succeeded upon his resignation one Rich. Bird collated thereunto 21. of March 1588. and in the East-riding Marmaduke Blaxton as I
their zealous profession of the Gospel and also that the Count had been trained up in good Arts as well as in Divinity June 24. Thomas Bilson of New John Rainolds of C. C. Coll. Besides these three were but three more admitted Doct. of Law Jul… John Daye of Magd. Coll. He became Vicar Gen. to the B. of Bathe and Wells an 1587. He was the only person who was admitted Doctor of his Faculty this year ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was adm this year Doct. of Div. March 27. Ralph Tomson of Brasn Coll. He was now one of the Chaplains to the Queen and dying 18 Aug. 1591 was buried in the Church of Settrington of which he was Rector in Yorkshire Apr… Robert Dorset Canon of Ch. Ch. In the beginning of this year 1579 he became Dean of Chester in the place of Rich. Langworth or Longworth D. D. of Cambridge deceased who before had succeeded Dr. Jo. Piers but the year when I cannot tell This Dr. Dorset who was also Rector of Ewelme in Oxfordshire died 29 May 1580 and was buried in the Church there whereupon one Tho. Madesley or Modesley succeeded him in his Deanery July 3. John Langworth of New Coll. This person who was Son of Lancelot Langworth of Kertlebury in Worcestershire was installed Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Richard Longworth before mention'd an 1579 was afterwards Prebendary of Canterbury and in 1588 Feb. 4. was admitted Archdeacon of Wells but in whose place I cannot tell because from the death of John Rugg Archdeacon of Wells which hapned in 1581 to the year 1587 the Register of that Church is wanting or defective In the said Archdeaconry of Wells succeeded him one Steph. Nelson but when unless in the year 1610 I cannot tell and in his Prebendary of Worcester John Hanmer an 1614. John Woolton who became Bishop of Exeter this year did in the month of May supplicate for the degree of D. of D. but whether admitted or diplomated I find not Incorporations May…Edward Graunt or Grant Bach. of Div. of Cambridge and chief Master of Westminster School June…John Langworth Bach. of Div. of the same University In the month following he was admitted Doct. of his Faculty as before I have told you and proceeded as a Member of New Coll. in the Act that followed July 14. Eubuâ—e Thelwall Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in the said University He was afterwards Master of Arts of this University Counsellour at Law Master of the Alienation Office one of the Masters of the Chancery a Knight and at length Principal of and an especial Benefactor to Jesus College in Oxon. He died 8 Oct. 1630 aged 68 years and was buried in the Chappel belonging to that Coll. Godfrey Goldsborough Bach. of Div. of Cambridge was incorporated the same day This person who had been Fellow of Trin. Coll. in that University was installed Archdeacon of Worcester in the place of Dr. Thomas Powell resigning 15 July 1579 he being then Prebendary of Caddington in the Cath. Church of S. Paul and on the 12 August 1581 was installed Prebendary of the Church there in the place of John Bullyngham promoted to the See of Glocester At length upon the death to the said Bullyngham he became Bishop of Glocester an 1598 at which time he had license to keep his Preb. of Worcester in commendam and dying 26 May 1604 was buried in a little Chappel on the North side of a fair large Chappel at the East end of the Choire of the Cath. Church at Glocester Over his Grave was soon after a raised or Altar-Monument erected with the proportion of a Bish in his Pontifie 〈◊〉 lying thereon with this Inscription Aureus Fulvo nomen sortitus ab auro Hâc Goldisburgus nunc requiescit humo Scilicet orta solo pretiosa metalla parente In matrem redeunt inveterata suam He left behind him two Sons John and Godfrey and other Children as I conceive besides a Brother named John Richard Wood Bach. of Div. of the same University was incorporated the same day July 14. He was afterwards Doctor of his Faculty and became Can. or Preb. of Westminster in the place of John Read deceased in the month of May 1587. John Keltride M. A. of the same Univ. was also then July 14. incorporated in the same degree Whether he be the same with John Keltridge who wrot Exposition or Readings on the Lords Prayer on Luke 11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. as also A Sermon at the making of Ministers on 1 Tim. 3. 1 2 3. printed at Lond. 1578 as also of a Sermon against the Jesuits on Deut. 6. 4. Lond. 1581. qu. I cannot tell Quaere Creations Feb. 12. Richard Barnes M. of A. of this University and Bach. of Div. of Cambridge now Bishop of Durham was actually created Doctor of Divinity by certain persons appointed by the Members of the University but whether at London or elsewhere it appears not An. Dom. 1580. An. 22 Elizab. An. 23 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Arthur Yeldard D. D. President of Trin. Coll. July 13. Proct. Rob. Crayne of Ball. Coll. Tho. Stone of Ch. Ch. Elected in Congregation 13 Apr. The junior was afterwards Parson of Warkton in Northamptonshire and a great promoter of Presbytery He died there 1617. Bach. of Arts. June 13. Rob. Wright of Trin. Coll. Sabin Chambers of Broadgates Hall Hen. Cuffe of Trin. Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield the other a Jesuâ— and the last an eminent Grecian Jan. 13. Francis Godwin of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards successively B. of Landaff and Hereford Feb. 3. John Rider of Jesus Coll. He was also afterwards a B. in Ireland 17. Will. Hubbocke lately of Magd. Hall now of C. C. Coll. Admitted 103. Mast of Arts. June 15. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. March 10. Thomas Gibson of Queens Coll. originally as it seems of that of Mert. One of both his names hath published A fruitful Sermon preached at Okeham in Rutlandshire on 1 Cor. 9. 16. Lond. 1584 in oct Whether the same with him who was Master of Arts I cannot tell Another Tho. Gibson also I find who published The blessing of a good King in eight Sermons c. Lond. 1614 oct whether he was of Oxon I know not Mar. 16. Chacles Turnbull John Spenser of C. C. Coll. Adm. 49. ☞ Not one Bach. of Phys was this year admitted only three supplicated for that degree Five Bach. of Div. were admitted yet not one of them can I mention according to the method that I follow Doct. of Law July 20. Daniel Donne of All 's Coll. now Principal of New Inn. He was afterwards Dean of the Arches Master of the Requests one of the Commissioners appointed by Q. Elizabeth to treat with the Danes at Bremen an 1602 a Knight and one of the two first Burgesses elected by the Univ. of Oxon after the Members thereof were impowr'd to send Burgesses to Parliament an 1603. He died 15
Sept. 1617. One of both his names was M. of Arts and a Minister Author of A subpoena from the Star Chamber of Heaven Serm. at Pauls Cross 4 Aug. 1622 on Luke 3. 9. Lond. 1623. oct and perhaps of other things ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. June…Steph Townsend of Ch. Ch. July 8. Philip Bisse of Magd. Coll. He was now Archdeacon of Taunton in the place of Justin Lancaster and Subdean of Wells in which first Dignity he was succeeded by Mathew Sutcliff LL. D. in January 1585. This Dr. Bisse who was Son of Rich. Bisse of Stokeland in Somersetshire was an especial Benefactor to Wadham Coll. by giving thereunto 2000 Books valued at 700 l. John Brownyng of Cambridge was admitted the same day July 15. Edmund Lilly lately of Magd. Coll. and about this time Master of that of Balliol He was an excellent Divine universally read in the Fathers all whose Opinions he would reckon up upon any question at Divinity disputations in Ball. College and that with such volubility of language and rivers of eloquence as made all covet to hear him and his very enemies to admire him On the last of Nov. 1591 he was made Archdeacon of Wiltshire but whether in the place of Dr. John Sprint who died in the latter end of 1589 I know not He the said Dr. Lilly was buried in the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Oxon 12 Feb. 1609. Nich. Bond of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was now Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen became Canon of the fifth Stall in S. Peters Church at Westminster on the death of John Rugge an 1582 and in the beginning of 1590 was elected President of the said Coll. he being then Rector of Alresford in Hampshire In the said Prebendship he was succeeded by Will. Robinson D. D. Rector of Bingham in Nottinghamshire Brother by the Mothers side to Dr. Will. Laud who was installed therein 5 of March an 1607 and in his Presidentship succeeded John Harding D. of D. Jan. 24. Thomas Bilson of New Coll. He was afterwards successively B. of Worcester and Winchester Incorporations July 12 being the next day after the Act were fifteen Cambr. Masters incorporated among whom Rich. Clayton and Will. Smyth were two but whether either of them were afterwards a Bishop Writer or man of note I cannot ye find Jan. 26. Alexander Hume M. of A. of S. Andrews in Scotland See more of him in Adam Hyll among the Writers an 1594. nu 275. March 6. John Hottoman a French man Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Valence One John Hotman was Preb. of Sarum See in Will. Camden among the Writers an 1623. Albericus Gentilis an Italian Doct. of the Civ Law of the Univ. of Perugia was incorporated the same day On the 8 July supplicated to be incorporated one John Keeper Mast of Arts of the University of Lovaine but being a suspected Papist he was put aside An. Dom. 1581. An. 23 Elizab. An. 24 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. James D. D. Master of Vniv. Coll. Jul. 13. In his absence Oliver Wythyngton Doct. of Phys and Dean of Battel in Sussex supplied his place Proct. Rob. Crayne again Rich. Maddock of All 's Coll. Apr. 5. The junior of which Proctors renouncing his Office because he was about to travel into remote parts in order to which he supplicated the Convocation that he might have a faculty granted to him to preach the Word of God throughout the whole World Mr. Hen. Beaumont of All 's Coll. became his Deputy Bach. of Arts. Apr. 6. John Lloyd of New Coll. an excellent Grecian June 29. Oxen Wood. See among the Masters of Arts an 1584. July 7. Jeremy Corderoy of S. Alb. Hall Oct. 25. Henry Parry Will. Fulbeck of C. C. Coll. The first of which two last was afterwards B. of Worcester Nov. 18. John Smith of S. John's Coll. Both his names being common I must therefore tell you that he was the same who afterwards wrot on the Lords Prayer and the Creed Rich. Field of Magd. Hall was adm on the same day Dec. 16. Will. Pilsworth of Magd. Hall He was afterwards a Bishop in Ireland Jan. 19. John Milâ—ard See among the Masters 1584. Jan. 30. Richard Fowns William Sutton of Ch. Ch. Feb. 8. Anthony Shirley of Hart Hall He was afterwards of All 's Coll. and a famous Traveller 21. Peter Allibond of Magd. Hall Admitted 117. Bach. of Law Apr. 6. Charles Pinner of New Coll. Not one besides him was this year admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 12. Ralph Stanford of Oriel Coll. In the year after upon pretence of being weary of the Heresie as he call'd it practised in the University he left his Fellowship of the said house went to the English Seminary at Rheimes in France where he was made a Priest May. 29. Emanuel Barnes of Magd. Coll. He was Son of Dr. Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham was afterwards D. of D. of the University of Basil in Germany and eminent for his learning July 4. John Davies of Glocester Hall 8. Edward Hutchins of Brasn Coll. Dec. 1. Thomas Pett of Mert. Coll. He was expelled that house for not taking the Oath of Supremacy and afterwards going into Ireland became a Judge there Jan. 3. Leonard Hutten Thomas Ravys John Howson of Ch. Ch. Admitted 89. Bach. of Phys Jan. 15. Fabianus Niphus or Fabiand à Nipho an Italian Not one besides him was this year admitted Bach. of Div. July 1. Rob. Hoveden Warden of All 's 5. Meredith Hanmer of C. C. 7. John Vnderhyll Rector of Linc. Nov. 15. John Chardon of Exeter Coll. Dec. 11. Thom. White of Magd. Hall March 22. John Thornborough of Magd. Coll. Adm. 11. Doct. of Law June… Will. Prytherd or Prichard of Jesus Coll. For the degree of Doct. of Law supplicated Hen. Dithick Bach. of Law Archdeacon of Carlile and now or lately Chancellour of the Diocess belonging thereunto but whether he was admitted I cannot yet find In his Chancellourship of Carlile succeeded him George Dethick M. A. and in his Archdeaconry George Warewyck but the time when I cannot yet find nor could my Friend Mr. Hugh Todd Canon of Carlile tell me tho no man more than he is conversant among the Registers and Records of that Church Doct. of Phys July 11. John Barefoot of New Coll. Thomas Hall of Broadgates Hall Will. Donne M. A. and Bach. of Phys supplicated to be Doctor of the said Faculty in Feb. but was not admitted See in the next year Doct. of Div. July 1. Rob. Hoveden of All 's Coll. He accumulated Thomas Sparke of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day 7. John Vnderhyll of Linc. Coll. He accumulated March 13. James Cottingtom of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards if not at this time Archdeacon of Surrey and Chauntor of the Church at Wells He died in the latter end of 1605 and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Dr. Arth. Lake
or 3 hours Which being done not without great disdain by the Musician Bull in that time or less added forty more parts to the said Lesson or Song The Musician thereupon being called in he view'd it tried it and retri'd it At length he burst out into a great extasie and swore by the great God that he that added those 40 parts must either be the Devil or Dr. Bull c. Whereupon Bull making himself known the Musician fell down and ador'd him Afterwards continuing there and in those parts for a time became so much admir'd that he was courted to accept of any place or preferment suitable to his profession either within the Dominions of the Emperour King of France or Spain But the tidings of these transactions coming to the English Court Qu. Elizabeth commanded him home See more of him under the year 1592. John Mundy another eminent Musician now or after one of the Organists of her Majesties Chappel was admitted Bachelaur also the same day See more of him in 1624. One Will. Mundy was also a noted Musician and hath composed several divine Services and Anthems but him I find not to be graduated in this University or elsewhere One Benjam Hamm a Student of Musick supplicated to be Bac. of that fac in January which was granted conditionally that he compose a choral hymn of eight parts before the Passover following About the same time he supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts which was denied Bach. of Arts. Jun. 10. Charles Sonibanke of Ch. Ch. See among the Doct. of Div. 1607. Jul. 13. Rich Middleton of Jesus Coll. This Person who took no other Degree in this University I take to be the same with Rich. Middleton Son of Marmaduke Middleton Bishop of St. David and about this time Archdeacon of Cardigan One Rich. Middleton Chaplain to Charles Prince of Wales hath written and published 1 The Key of David Lond. 1619. in a thick tw Before which is his picture with a ruff and a great beard 2 The heavenly progress Lond. 1617. in tw 3 The card and compass of life containing many passages fit for these times c. Lond. 1613. oct Whether this Rich. Middleton the Writer be the same with Rich. Middleton the Bach. of Arts and Archdeacon of Cardigan I cannot well tell Quare Oct. 11. Rowland Searchfield of St. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bristow 12. Edw. Gee lately of Merton now of Linc. Coll. Oct. 12. Rich. Brett Christop Sutton of Linc. 19. John Budden of Trin. Nov. 9. Alex. Gill of C. C. Coll. The last was the Senior of both his names and afterwards Master of St. Pauls School Dâ—cemb 14. Sam. Slade See among the M. of A. 1593. Dec. 17. John Sanford of Bâ—llioâ— afterwards of Magd. Coll. Jan. 27. Franc. Mason Afterwards worthily characterized to be Vindex Ecclesiae Anglicane 30. Nich. Fuller of Hart hall Feb. 15. Lew. Thomas Edw. Bree-word of Bras Coll. John Day of St. Alb. hall afterwards of Oriel Coll. was admitted the same day 16. Anthony Benn of Broadgates hall He was afterwards Recorder of London and a Knight 17. Bernard Adams of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Limrick in Ireland 23. Tho. Clerke of Broadgates hall Whether this Person who was a Warwick hire Man born was the same Tho. Clerke who was a Seminary Priest of the Coll. at Rheimes but afterwards returned to the Church of England and recanted in a Sermon at Pauls Cross 1. Jul. 1593 which Sermon was printed at London 1594. in oct or the same Tho. Clerke who wrot The life and death of M. Pet. Kempe printed about the same time I know not See another Tho. Clerke who was admitted Bach. of Arts in 1566. Admitted 179. Mast of Arts. Apr. 20. John Buckridge of St. Johns Coll. Jan. 4. Rich. Parry of Ch. Ch. Laur. Keimis of Ball. Coll. was adm the same day This Keimis who was a Wilts Man born became afterwards companion in travel and counsellour in design to the renowned Knight Sir Walt. Rawleigh but whether he gave any assistance to the composure of his history is very doubtful In 1595 when that Knight undertook to gain a golden mine in Guiana this Keimis was one of his chief Captains and Conductors in that expedition but being unfortunate in his undertakings and therefore very much blamed by Rawleigh he out of a deep reluctancy pistol'd himself in his Cabin in Rawleigh's Ship in the Summer time in 1618 after he had view'd and travell'd through the remotest parts of the world Jun. 15. Henry Airay of Queens Coll. Jul. 6. Henry Penry lately of Cambridge now of St. Albans hall 8. Hen. Jacob of St. Maries hall Jan. 27 Henry Bright of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards Master of the Kings School at Worcester in which City he was born for 40 years together and Prebendary of the Church there for the last 7 years of his life He had a most excellent faculty in instructing youths in Lat. Gr. and Hebrew most of which were afterwards sent to the Universities where they proved eminent to emulation He was also an excellent Preacher was resorted to far and near and dying 4. March 1626 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester The posterity of this Hen. Bright do live now in gentile fashion in Worcestershir Mar. 16. John Dove of Ch. Ch. Admitted 65. or thereabouts Bach. of Div. Jul. 4. W. â— Massie of Brasn Coll. He was born in Cheshire and was at this time 〈◊〉 to Sir Edm. Trafford of Trafford in Lancashire He hath published A Sermon preached at Trafford in Lancashire at the marriage of a Daughter of Sir Edm. Trafford Knight 6. Sept. 1586 on Psal 128. 1. 2. Oxon. 1586. oct Two years alter he was removed from his Fellowship and perhaps did publish other things Will. Leigh of Brasn Coll. was adm the same day Admitted 8. Doct. of Law Jul. 4. Anthony Blencow Provost of Oriel Coll. Not one besides him was this year admitted ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 14. John Chardon of Exeter Coll. Jul. 9. Nich. Balgay of Magd. Coll. In 1583 he became Prebendary of Netherhaven in the Church of Salisbury and in May 1589 Subdean thereof in the place of Tho. Dillworth Both which Dignities he resigning to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker he became Master of the Temple in the said Mr. Hooker's place 1591. Incorporations Jul. 11. Lawrence Staunton M. of A. of Cambridge In 1601 he succeeded Dr. Will. Cole in the Deanery of Lincolne which dignity he keeping till 1613 was then succeeded by Roger Parker D. D. after he had been 14 years Chantor of the Church there The said Dr. Parker died 29. Aug. 1629 aged 71. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Lincolne whereupon his Deanery was bestowed on one Anth. Topham Simon Robson M. of A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day In the year 1598 the said Robson being then D. D. succeeded Dr.
London and a publisher of certain Sermons between the year 1610 and 1625 must not be taken to be the same with Tho. Muriel Mar. 22. Fines Moryson M. A. of Cambr. He was a Lincolnshire man born was Fellow of Peter House in that University and Brother to Sir Richard Moryson Vicepresident of Mounster After he had taken his Masters degree he studied the Civil Law and in 1589 being then 23 years of Age he obtained license of the Master and Fellows of his House to travel Presently after leaving the University he went to London to follow such Studies that were fit to enable him in his course of Travels and afterwards going to Oxon was incorporated M. of A. as I have told you before On the 1 May 1591 he took ship at Liegh distant from London 28 miles by land and 36 by water and after he had rambled about many parts of the World for 8 years returned and went into Ireland 1598. and became Secretary to Sir Charles Blount Lord Lieutenant of that Realm After his death which hapned about 1614 were published his Travels entit An Itinerary containing his ten years Travels through the twelve Dominions of Germany Bohmerland Sweitzerland Netherland Denmark Poland England Scotland and Ireland Divided in three parts Lond. 1617 in a thick fol. It was first written in Latin and afterwards translated by him into English There were also four more Cantabrigians incorporated among whom Robertus Hemmingius M. A. was one Feb. 23. Creations July 14. Sir Will. Hatton Sir Hen. Vnton Joh. Fitzjames Esquire Knights The first was Son to the Sister of Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor of England and being Heir to the said Sir Christophes did change his name from Newport to Hatton The second who had been of Oriel Coll. I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1595. The third who was of the antient Family of the Fitzjames of Somersetshire was originally also of this University which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1591. An. 33 Elizab. An. 34 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton who dying 20 of Nov. this year certain Members of the University especially those of the Puritanical Party were for Robert Earl of Essex before mention'd now in great favour with the Queen and others for Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst At length upon the receipt of Letters from the Queen in favour of Buckhurst the Academians elected him 17 Dec. following See more in the Incorporations this year Vicechanc. Dr. James again designed by Chancellour Hatton 16 July Proct. Rich. Braunche of Ch. Ch. Joh. Lloyd of New Coll. Apr. 16. Which Proctors with several Doctors and others went to London to admit the Chancellour to his Office being the first Admission out or without the limits of the University that I have yet met with Bach. of Arts. Mar. 27. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. now in much esteem for his Poetry Apr. 16. Rob. Moor June 4. Arth. Lake of New Coll. The former was adorn'd with variety of Learning the other was afterwards a Bishop Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Queens Coll. Afterwards a learned Nonconformist 9. Walter Wylshman of Exeter Coll. afterwards of Broadgates Hall Jan. 16. Rich. Haydock of New Feb. 7. Gerard Massie of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity an 1608. Adm. 116. Mast of Arts. May 20. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. lately of Gloc. Hall June 15. Samuel Burton of Ch. Ch. He became Rector of Dry Marston in Glocestershire seven years after this time afterwards Archdeacon of Glocester and at length Justice of the Peace for that County He hath published A Sermon preached at the general Assizes in Warwick 3 March being the first Friday in Lent 1619 on Rom. 1. 4. Lond. 1620. qu. and perhaps other things He died 14 June 1634 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Dry Marston before mention'd Jun. 21. Tho. Hutton Henr. Price of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 8. Nathan Torporley of Brasn Nov. 30. Joh. Day of Oriel Feb. 26. Joh. Hoskyns sen of New Coll. Adm. 56. Bach. of Div. Mar. 27. Henr. Rowlands of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor Apr. 27. Leonard Hutten Jul. 2. Joh. King of Ch. Ch. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day Nov. 15. Soh Smith of S. Joh. Coll. Adm. 15. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. Tho. Hyde of Ball. Coll. On the fourteenth of June 1588 he became Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Whyte having before been Prebendary of Ilfracomb in the said Church and dying in Nov. 1618 was succeeded in his Chancellourship by Dr. Franc. d ee who was afterwards B. of Peterborough Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day On the 5. of July 1576 he was installed Archd. of Rochester in the place of Joh. Calverley deceased and in 1580 he succeeded Dr. Rob. Dorset in a Canonry of Ch. Ch. In an 1582 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury but whether he was Dean of that Church as I have told you in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 259. b. upon false information it appears not In his Archdeaconry of Rochester which he resigned was installed Th. Staller D. D. 5 Jul. 1593 and to his Archdeaconry of Sarum which he kept to the day of his death was collated Will. Barlow on the 12 of March being four days after the death of Pickover an 1614. This person Pickover is commended for a learned man for a good Greecian Hebritian and a frequent Preacher See in the said Hist Antiq. lib. 2. p. 260. a. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was adm the same day July 2. He accumulated as Pickover did Incorporations Jul. 13. George Downham M. A. of Cambridge He was Son of Will. Downham Bishop of Chester was educated in Christs Coll. in Cambridge of which he became Fellow about 1585 afterwards a great Aristotelian a follower of Ramus and at length Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland where dying in 1634 Apr. 17. was buried in the Cath. Church there The Catalogue of all or most of his works you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue Besides him were 15 Cantabrigians incorporated Masters of Arts on the same day being the next after the Act had been concluded but not one of them can I yet find who was afterwards a Writer Bishop c. On the same day also Will. Halke an English Man of the same University who had had the Degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him in the University of St. Andrew in Scotland an 1590 Andr. Melvin being then Rector was also incorporated in this University Oct. 22. Will. Paddie of St. Johns Coll. in this University lately made Doct. of Phys in the University of Leyden was incorporated in the same Degree He was afterwards Physician to K. Jam. 1. a Knight eminent for his practice in that faculty and President if I mistake not of the Coll.
of Qu. Dec. 14. Geor. Warburton of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Div. created 1636. Feb. 1. Tobie Venner of S. Alb. Hall 16. Will. Higford of C. C. Coll. Winniffe Venner and Higford are to be remembred at large in the second Voll Adm. 111. Mast of Arts. June 26. Will. Laud of S. Joh. July 4. Thom. Thompson of Qu. 6. Rich. Lloyd of Linc. lately of Oriel 8. Rob. Fludd of S. Joh. Coll. Thom. Cheast of S. Maries Hall lately of Oriel Coll. was admitted the same day He hath published 1 The way to life serm at Pauls Cross on Amos 5. 6. Lond. 1609. qu. 2 The Christian path-way Serm. at Pauls Cross ult June 1611 on Ephes 5. 1. Lond. 1613. qu. and perhaps other things Oct. 17. Jam. Mabb of Magd. Coll. 20. Rich. Fitzherbert of New Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Dorset by which Title he occurs in 1640. 31. Nath. Brent of Mert. Coll. Nov. 7. Rich. Carpenter Edw. Chetwind of 〈◊〉 Coll. Feb. 5. Tho. James Tho. Lydyat of New Coll. 19. Will. Chibald or Chiball of Magd. Coll. Adm. 88. Bach. of Div. May 29. Christoph Sutton June 28. Joh. Randall of Linc. Coll. Jul. 19. Will. Bradshaw of Vniv. Coll. lately M. of A. of Balliol I set him down here not that he was a Writer but to distingtuish him from another of both his names who was sometimes Fellow of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards a writer and publisher of several Theological Tracts the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue ☜ Not one Doct. of the Civ Law was admitted Doct. of Phys Dec. 7. Joh. Gifford of New Coll. He accumulated the Degrees in Physick did afterwards practise in London and was one of the College of Physicians He died in a good old age in 1647 and was buried in the Parish Church of Hornchurch in Essex near to the body of his Wife Doct. of Div. Jul. 8. Thomas Maxfield of St. Edmunds hall He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity was about this time dignified in the Church and dying about 1604 was buried at the upper end of the Chancel of the Church at Ashe in Kent of which Church he was Rector Incorporations Jun. 7. Thom. Ridley Doctor of the Civil Law of Cambridge This learned Person who was the Son of Thomas Son of Lancclot Son of Nicholas Ridley of Willymonds Wyke in Northumberland Esq was born in the City of Ely educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School near to Windsore in Academical in Kings Coll. in Cambridge of which he was Fellow Afterwards he became Schoolmaster of Eaton one of the Masters of the Chancery a Knight Chancellour to the B. of Winchester and Vicar-general to George Archb. of Canterbury He was a general Scholar wrot A view of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law and dying 23. of January 1628 was buried on the 27. of the same month in the Parish Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls wharf in London Jul. 8. Sam. Heron D. of D. of the same University was then incorporated Doct. of that faculty He was Fellow of Trinity Coll. in Cambridge and dying about the latter end of the yeare 1615 was buried either in the Chap. belonging to that Coll. or in the Chancel of Market Fankenham in Norfolke where he had some cure A Person of eminent note who writes himself Samuel Hieron was born at or near to Epping in Essex educated in Eaton School elected Scholar of Kings Coll. 1590 where while he was Bach. of Arts he became eminent for his Preaching About that time he had a pastoral charge confer'd upon him by Mr. Hen. Savile Provost of Eaton College but the Church of Modbury in Devonshire soon after falling void he was presented thereunto by the Provost and Fellows of Kings Coll. where being setled he was much admired and resorted to for his practical way of preaching While he continued there he published several Sermons which with many others lying by him he remitted into one volume printed at London with certain Prayers at the end an 1614. fol. He died at Modbury in 1617 aged about 45 and was buried in the Church there After his death many of his Sermons and Lectures that had not before seen the light were collected together by one Rob. Hill whom I shall mention among the Incorporations 1604 who causing them to be printed in fol. 1620 are known by the name of the Second vol. of Mr. Sam. Hierons works These things I thought good to let you know to the end that what was written by Sam. Hieron might not be attributed to Sam. Heron. Jul. 10. Roger Manors Earl of Rutland M. A. of the said Univ. of Cambridge He was an eminent Traveller and a good Soldier was afterwards sent Embassador by K. Jam. 1. to the King of Denmark and dying 26. June 1612. was buried at Botsford in Leycestershire Jul. 11. Edw. Aubrey Joh. Bladworth Christop Wyell Bac. of Law of Camb. Joseph Hall M. of A. of the same Univ. was then also incorporated In 1611. Oct. 30. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Nottingham upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. King to the See of London and in Dec. 1616 he became Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Arth. Lake promoted to the See of Bathe and Wells He was afterwards first the most learned and religious Bishop of Exeter and afterwards of Norwych Laurence Bend Doct. of Div. of the said Univers was also then Jul. 11. incorporated Creations On the tenth of July these Knights and Esquires following were actually created Masters of Arts with one Lord. Thomas Lord Burgh Sir Christoph Blount Kt. He was beheaded on Tower-hill an 1601 for being deeply engaged in the treasons of Robert Earl of Essex Anthony Pawlet Francis Knollis Knights The last was Son of Sir Franc. Knollis mention'd among the Creations an 1566 and among the Writers an 1596. He was sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. and was now valued for his learning by Dr. Joh. Rainolds Rob. Osbourne Rob. Digby Rob. Vernon Esquires About this time Abraham Scultetus was a Sojouâ—nour in Oxon and much favoured by both the Abbots George and Robert He was afterwards a most eloquent Preacher a learned Divine and Author of several books which shew him to have been profound in Divinity Antiquity and Ecclesiastical History He died at Embden in E. Frislandt 24. Oct. 1626. and was there buried An. Dom. 1599. An. 41 Eliz. An. 42 Eliz. Chancellour the same Vicechanc. Dr. Tho. Thornton again Jul. 16. Proct. Will. Osbourne of All 's Coll. Franc. Sidney of Ch. Ch. Apr. 18. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 24. Barnab Potter of Qu. Coll. He was afterward Bishop of Carlile Jun. 18. Anth. Duck Jul. 8. George Hakewill of Exet. Coll. 23. Brian Twyne Tho. Jackson of C. C. Coll. Oct. 25. Norwych Spackman of Ch. Ch. See among the Masters an 1602. Thom. Broad of St. Alb. hall was admitted the same day Jan. 29. Barthelm Parsons of
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 ☞ 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 Barlâ—w 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 Wâ—kehams 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. â—ow 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. Jâ—n 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. Mountagâ—e 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 ☞ 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
Wife of Dr. John Thornborough Bishop of Worcester succeeded being admitted to it 3. Aug. 1629. Rob. Newman of New Coll. was admitted D. D. the same day Jun. 14 Jul. 8. Charles Langford Giles Tomson of All 's Coll. The first of these two was now Dean of Hereford in which Dignity he did succeed if I mistake not John Watkins who died about the middle of May 1594 and was succeeded by Dr. Rich. Mountague as I have before told you among the Doctors of Law this year The other Doctor Giles Tomson was installed Dean of Windsore on the 2. of March this year and afterwards was made Bishop of Glocester as before among the Bishops I have told you Jul. 8. Giles Thorne of New Coll. John Williams of Ch. Ch. The first of these two last was now Dean of Chichester and the other dignified in the Church One of both his names I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1613. and another I shall mention in these Fasti an 1608. sub tit Incorporations Incorporations Apr. 30. Will. Turner M. A. of Cambridge See among the Doct. of Physick 1608. Jun. 23. Humph. Leech M. A. of the same University He was originally of Brasn Coll. and was about this time Chaplain of Ch. Ch. July 3. Ralph Hulton Doct. of Phys of Cambr. 15. Will. Wheatly Bach. of Arts of Christs Coll. in the said University He was now a member of St. Edm. hall in this of Oxon. Jul. 15. Martin Day Phineas Hodson Dan. Dyke Jacob. Godscaleus M. of A. of Cambr. The first of these last four Mart. Day was afterwards Doct. of Div. Chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty Rector of St. Faiths Church in London and Rector of Stoke near Launceston in Cornwall In his life time he published Monument of Mortality c. containing four treatises printed in oct and after his death which hapned 1628 were published several Sermons of his under these titles 1 Doomesday or a treatise of the resurrection of the body delivered in 22 Sermons on 1. Cor. 15. Lond. 1636. qu. 2 Corinths collection or the Saints of Jerusalem in seven Sermons on the 1. Cor. 16. the first nine verses printed with the former and all dedicated to Dr. Josoph Hall sometimes an intimate friend of the Author The second Phineas Hodson was afterwards D. of D. and in 1611. Sept. 26. was collated to the Chancellourship of the Church of York upon the resignation of Dr. Will. Goodwin mention'd before among the Doctors of Divinity He died at or near York about the latter end of 1646. whereupon his Chancellourship lying void till the restoration of K. Ch. 2. Christopher Stone M. A. succeeded being installed therein 24. Oct. 1660. This Dr. Hodson hath published The Kings request or Davids desire c. Serm. on Psal 27. 4. Lond. 1628. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere The third Dan. Dyke was as 't is said born in Hertfordshire in a town called Hemstede of which his Father was Minister was an eminent Preacher wrot several things as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you among which is his book Of the deceitfulness of mans heart published after his death by his Brother Jerem. Dyke of Sydney Coll. an 1614. The fourth and last Jac. Godscaleus I take to be the same with James Godskal Author of The Kings Medicine against the plague for the year 1604. Printed 1604. in oct which is all I know of him as yet Jul. 15. Andr. Bing Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was Fellow of Peter House or St. Peters Coll. in the same University afterwards D. of D. and Hebrew Professor thereof See more in the Incorporations 1612. Oct. 25. Tho. Lodge Doct. of Phys of the University of Avenion About 27 Cambridge Men were incorporated this year in several faculties An. Dom. 1603. An. 1. Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again Jul. 23. Proct. Christop Dale of Mert. Coll. William Laud of St. Joh. Coll. May 4. Bach. of Musick Jul. 16. Thom. Boys of All 's Coll. He hath composed â—â—rtain Church services which is all I know of him Bach. of Arts. May 12. Hannibal Gamon of Broadgates hall July 1. Rob. Gentilis of Jes Coll. Son of Alberic Gent. 5. Rich. Tillesley of St. Johns Coll. 9. John Hales of C. C. Coll. afterwards of Morton and at length of Eaton Coll. Dec. 12. Edm. Gunter of Ch. Ch. 13. Will. Heale of Exeter Coll. Jan. 19. John Ball of Brasn Coll. See another of both his names among the Bach. of Arts an 1608. Feb. 15. Edw. Evans of Ch. Ch. As for Gamon Gentilis and Hales they will be mention'd in the next vol. Adm. 126. Bach. of Law Mar. 29. John Basire a French Man who had studied the Civ Law 12 terms in this University and 7 years in France and Germany was then admitted Jul. 5. Will. Juxon of St. Johns Coll. In his last days he became Archbishop of Canterbury 8. Eizo Tiards of Jesus Coll. He accumulated as I shall tell you anon Adm. 6. Mast of Arts. May 11. Henry Mason of C. C. Joh. Prideaux of Exet. Coll. Jun. 30. George Warburton of Brasn Coll. See among the Doctors of Div. 1636. July 7. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. Tob. Venner of St. Alb. hall John Eaton of Trin. Coll. Tancred Leill or Lelius of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day He was a learned Dane which is all I know of him 9. Thom. Jackson Brian Twyne of C. C. Barthel Parsons of Oriel Coll. Adm. 46. Bach. of Div. July 7. Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham Mar. 12. Sam. Page of C. C. Coll. Admitted 14. Doct. of Law July 8. Eizo Tiarda of Jesus Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in the Civ Law He was born of and descended from a gentile Family living in Groeningen in Germany ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 2. John Childerley of St. Johns Coll. While he was a junior Fellow of that house he became Preacher to the English Merchants trading at Stode and after his return became successively Chaplain to Richard Archb. of Canterbury and afterwards to George his successour Rector of St. Mary de Wolnoth in London of S. Dunstans in the East and of Sheinfield or Shemfield in Essex He was in his time a very eminent and frequent Preacher and learned Divine but blind by age and continual labour several years before his death Notwithstanding which he suffered much in the time of the rebellion and was outed of St. Dunstans by the restless Presbyterian and whether he kept Sheinfield to his last I cannot tell He died very aged in 1645 being then 66 years since his first coming to St. Johns Coll. and was buried either in the Chancel of St. Dunstan or in that of Sheinfield beforemention'd July 7. Nich. Higgs of Ball. Coll. He was about this time Rector of Higham in Somersetshire where or near it he dyed 1631. Incorporations May 23. Laurence Whittaker M. A. of Cambridge This Person who was a Somersetshire
Man born and an ingenious Poet was afterwards Secretary to Sir Edw. Philipps Master of the Rolls and a Burgess in several Parliaments particularly in that which began 3. Nov. 1640. being then a Burgess for Okehampton in Devonshire He died 15. Apâ— 1654 aged 76 and was buried in the Church of St. Giles in the fields near to London He was much admired by Tho. Coryat the traveller in the dishing out of whose Odcombian banquet he had a considerable hand an 1611. being numbred among the Poets of that age Jul. 12. Will. Knight M. A. of the same University I take him to be the same with 〈◊〉 Knight of Arâ—ington in Sussex a Divine who wrot A concordance Axiomatical containing a survey of Theological propositions with their reasons and uses in holy Scripture Lond. 1610. fol. and the same perhaps who published Mundus alter idem sive terra australis c. written by Joseph Hall who was afterwards Bishop of Norwych Francis Dee M. A. and Fellow of St. Johns Coll. in Cambr. was incorporated the same day He was the Son of David d ee of Shropshire who is said to be Rector of Great St. Bartholomews Church in London and he the great Grandson of the Great Bede Dee of an antient Family in those parts Afterwards he took the Degree of D. of D. being then Minister of Allhallows in Lumbard-street in London was Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury and in 1630 was made Dean of Chichester In 1634 Apr. 9. he was elected Bishop of Peterborough and on the 28. May following he was installed by proxy being then esteemed a Person of a pious life and conversation and of very affable behavior He died after he had been twice married on the eighth day of Octob. 1638 and was buried at the upper end of the choire belonging to the Cathedral Church at Peterborough near to the Episcopal seat A little before his death he gave to the Master and Seniors of St. Johns Coll. beforemention'd the impropriat Parsonage of Pagham in Sussex held by lease of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury for the maintaining of two Fellows and two Scholars therein for ever the Scholars to be elected out of Peterborough School John Pocklington M. A. and Fellow of Pembr hall in Cambr. was also then Jul. 12. incorporated He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of Yeldon alias Yevelden in Bedfordshire Vicar of Waresley in Huntingdonshire Prebendary of Peterborough and in 1639 Canon of Windsore in the place of Tho. Sheafe deceased being also about that time Chaplain to His Maj. Ch. 1. This is the Person who among other books published Altare Christianum c. Lond. 1636. and Sunday no Sabbath c. Lond. 1637. Which last being no other than a Sermon preached at Ampthill in Bedfordshire at the B. of Lincolns Visitation 17. Aug. 1635 was much brought up by and taken into the hands of young Students who usually read it at their common fires and according to their dispositions it was liked or disliked But both being in an high manner disgusted by the Puritans they who had the chief sway in the long Parliament that began 3. Nov. 1640 ordered them both on the tenth of March following to be publickly burnt by the common executioner in both the Universities and in the City of London About that time they deprived the Author of all his spiritualities beforemention'd and would have proceeded father as to other punishment but he being in a manner heart-broken prevented their fury by death which hapned at Peterborough I think in the Winter time 1642. Josephus Barbatus a Native of Memphis in Aegypt was conversant about this time with the Oxonian Muses He could speak French and Ital. very readily but most of all the Arabian tongue which was natural to him and therefore recommended by the Archb. of Canterbury to the Vicechanc. to read a lecture of it to the Academians He hath written one or more things in that language which were acceptable to the learners of it An. Dom. 1604. An. 2. Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Lord Buckhurst created this year Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Joh. Williams D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll. and reader of the Margaret Lecture July 14. Proct. Will. Ballow of Ch. Ch. George Darrell of All 's Coll. Apr. 18. Bach. of Musick Jul. 14. John Daniel of Ch. Ch. Some of his instrumental compositions we have remaining in the publick School of that faculty Bach. of Arts. May 8. Hen. Whistler of Trinity Jun. 10. Franc Kinaston of Oriel Jul. 20. Gabr. Richardson of Brasn Coll. Oct. 23. Nathaniel Pownoll of Ch. Ch. 26. Sim. Birckbek of Queens Dec. 12. Tho. Baylie of Magd. Coll. Jan. 23. Rob. Sanderson Thom. Hayne of Linc. Coll. The first of these two last was afterwards the learned and religious Bishop of Lincolne Feb. 4. Rich. Capell of Magd. Coll. All which Bachelaurs except Pownoll are to be mention'd at large as Authors in the next volume Adm. 180. Mast of Arts. March 27. John Dunster of Magd. Coll. May 1. Isaac Singleton of All 's Coll. This Person who was nearly related to Dr. Thom. Singleton Principal of Brasn Coll. of which house he was originally a Commoner but now Fellow of the said Coll. of All 's hath published The downfall of Shelna together with an application to the bloody Gowry of Scotland in two Sermons at St. Maries in Oxon on Isay 22. 15. Lond. 1615. qu. and perhaps other things In 1622 I find him Chancellour of the Dioc. of Carlile and some years after to be collated to the Archdeaconry of that place in the room of Robert Wrigt who had been collated thereunto in 1621. he being then only Bach. of Arts. In 1640 Isaac Singleton occurs by the title of Archdeacon of Brecknock but afterwards was deprived of that and other spiritualities which is all I know of him only that he was a Londoner born May 22. Dan. Price of Exet. Jun. 12. Will. Twysse of New Coll. 26. Will. Wheatlie of St. Edm. hall Oct. 22. Sam Turner of S. Albans Hall This person who was the Son of Dr. Pet. Turner mention'd before among the Incorporations under the year 1599 by Pascha his Wife Sister of Hen. Parry Bishop of Worcester was originally of S. Maries Hall afterwards for a time of C. C. Coll. but now of S. Albans Hall before mention'd and as a Member thereof did compleat his degree of Master in an Act celebrated 8 Jul. 1605. Afterwards he travelled and became Doct. of Phys of an University beyond the Seas and whether after his Return he practised that Faculty in Dorsetshire I am not certain Sure it is that he was several times chosen by the men of Shaftsbury in that County to serve as a Burgess for them in several Parliaments particularly in that called 1625 wherein he shew'd himself what he was of a bold Spirit and able Elocution in assaulting the Kings great Minion George Duke of Bucks as the main cause of divers infirmities in the State being
may see afterwards he became Chaplain to Alice Countess Dowager of Derby Wife of Tho. Lord Ellesmere and the publisher of Loves peereless paragon or the attributes and progress of the Church Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon and at Harfield in Middlesex on Cant. 2. 10. Oxon. 1613. qu. and perhaps of other things Nov. 9. Will. Sparke of Magd. 17. Will. Jewell of Exet. Coll. The last of these two did translate from French into English The golden Cabinet of true Treasure containing the summ of moral Philosophy Lond. 1612. oct What other things he hath translated or what he hath written I know not nor any thing else of him beside only that he was a Gentleman's Son of Devonshire and that he became a Sojournour of Exet. Coll. an 1603. aged 17. Adm. 97. Bach. of Div. Dec. 14. Rob. Bolton of Brasn Feb. 22. Tho. Thompson of Qu. Coll. Will. Loe of S. Alb. Hall did supplicate for the same degree but whether he was admitted it appears not Adm. 11. Doct. of Law June 28. Alexander Sheppard of Jesus Coll. He was a learned Civilian but what he hath published I know not Doct. of Physick Jun. 26. Thom. Johnson of Oriel Coll. He was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon 16 Nov. 1621 but whether he was Author of a Book which goes under the name of Dr. Johnson entit Practica medicinae de aegritudinibus capitis Lond. 1602. qu. I cannot justly say See another Thom. Johnson M. D. in these Fasti in the 2 Vol. an 1643. Doct. of Div. June… Rich. Mocket of All 's Coll. July… Walt. Bennet of New Coll. In Sept. 1608 he became Chauntor of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch and on the 7 of March 1609 Archdeacon of Wilts on the death of Dr. Edm. Lilly In his Chauntorship succeeded Hen. Cotton as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1610 and in his Archdeaconry one Tho. Leach 15 Nov. 1614. 19. Rob. Clay of Mert. Coll. He afterwards succeeded Dr. Joh. Favour in the Vicaridge of Halyfax and dying in 1628 left by will to the said Coll. 100 l. for two Sermons yearly to be preached to the University as Dr. Bickley had formerly given to them to be preached by a Yorkshire Man if any such be Fellow or Chaplain of that College who in his Prayer is to mention Dr. Clay sometimes Vicar of Halifax as the founder of those Sermons Jan. 24. John Bancroft of Ch. Ch. a Compounder He was soon after Master of Vniversity Coll. Incorporations Apr. 29. Thom. Wharton eldest Son of Philip Lord Wharton was incorporated M. of Arts. as he had stood at Cambridge He was Father to Philip Lord Wharton who openly appeared in armes against K. Ch. 1. an 1642. And many years after he was made one of the Privy Council to K. Will. 3. May 4. Josias Bird Bach. of Arts of Cambridge He was now of All 's Coll. under the inspection of his kinsman or uncle Dr. Will. Bird. Jun. 12. Hipocrates D'othon or Othen Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Montpellier He died 13. Nov. 1611 and was buried in the Church of St. Clements Danes without Temple Barr within the liberty of Westm Jul. 11. Will. Gonge M. A. of Cambridge He was a Native of Stratford bow in Middlesex was educated in Kings Coll. of which he was Fellow afterwards he was Doct. of Div. and the pious and learned Preacher of the Church in the Blackfriers in London where in his time he was accounted the Father of the London Ministers that is of such who were put in by the Authority of the rebellious Parliament in 1641 42. c. He was one of the Assembly of Divines was a good Text-man as his Whole armour of God Exposition of the Hebrews Exposition of the Lords Prayer and other learned works the titles of some of which you may see in Oxf. Cat. shew He is often honorably mention'd by Voetius Streso and other outlandish Divines and was always accounted by the Puritan eminent for his humility patience and faith He died 12. of Dec. 1653 and was buried in the said Church of the Black-fryers on the 16 of the said month aged 79 or thereabouts John Richardson M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day One Joh. Richardson was educated in Eman Coll. was afterwards D. D. Master first of Peter house then of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and Vicechancellour of that University This Person who had a hand in the translation of the Bible appointed by King Jam. 1. died about the beginning of 1625 and was buried in Trin. Coll. Chappel Another John Richardson who was D. D. succeeded Dr. Walt. Balcanquall in the Deanery of Rochester and died in Apr. 1636 and a third John Richardson I find who from being D. of D. of Dublin was made Bishop of Ardagh in Ireland Which Bishoprick he being forced to leave upon the rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom an 1641 retired to London where he died in 1654. Whether any of these three were the same with John Richardson the incorporated Master of Arts I cannot now justly tell Jul. 11. Abrah Dickonson D. D. of Cambr. was also then incorporated in that faculty An. Dom. 1610. An. 8. Jac. 1. Chanc. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterburry but he dying 2. Nov. Thom. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere Lord Chancellour of England and one of the Kings Privy Council was chosen into his place the next day and on the tenth was installed in the Bishop of Durhams house at London Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. King again Jul. 14. at which time the Chancellours letters being read for his election 't was order'd that the Heads of Colleges and Halls should at all times be ready and diligent to assist the Vicechanc. in his government of the University especially in matters of Religion for the suppressing of Popery and Faction c. The said Dr. King was soon after Bishop of London Proct. Râ—b Pink of New Coll. Sam. Radcliffe of Bras Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Musick July 11. Thomas Bartlet of Magd. Coll. He hath several compositions in Musick in MS. but whether extant I cannot tell On the 26. of Apr. Richard Deering did as a member of Christ Church supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Musick and had his desire as it seems granted tho not registred because in matters of his composition which were soon after by him made extant he entitles himself Bach. of Musick This Person who was born of and descended from a right antient Family of his name living in Kent was bred up in Italy where he obtained the name of a most admirable Musician After his return he practised his faculty for some time in England where his name being highly cried up became after many intreaties Organist to the English Nuns living in the Monastery of the blessed Virgin Mary at Bruxells At length after the Marriage of K. Ch. 1. he was made Organist to his Royal Comfort Henrietta Maria with
whom he continued till she was forced to leave England by the Presbyterian outrages in the time of the grand rebellion He hath written 1 Cantica sacra ad melodiam Madrigalium elaborata senis vocibus Antwerp 1618. qu. divided in six volumes according to the voices In the title of this book he write himself Richards Deringus Bac. Mus 2 Cantica sacra ad duas tres voces composita cum Basso continuo ad Organum Lond. 1662. c. published by John Playford and by him dedicated to Hen. Maria the Queen Dowager the Author who was always a Rom. Catholick having been dead about 4 or 5 years before A second set was published in the year 1674 entit Basso contiruo cantica sacra containing Hymes and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Lat. and English composed by Rich. Deering Christopher Gibbons Ben. Rogers Matthew Lock and others Printed in fol. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 26. Will. Page of Balliol afterwards of Allsouls Coll. 27. Hen. Welstede of Broadgates hall See among the Masters an 1612. 3â— Christoph Potter of Queens June 14. Rob. Skinner of Trin. Coll. 21. Nich. Grey of Ch. Ch. 28. Griffin Higgs of St. Johns Jul. 5. Nath. Carpenter of Exet. Coll. Nov. 6. Will. Strode of Broadgates hall Quare Dec. 13. Tho. Nevill of Trin. Coll. He was the eldest Son of Sir Hen. Nevill Knight 〈…〉 of Abergavenny 17. Christoph White of Ch. Ch. Jan. 24. Humph. Sidetham of Exeter afterwards of Wadham Coll. 28. Gilbert Wats of Linc. Coll. Jasp Fisher of Magd. hall afterwards of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Of all these Bachelaurs only Nath. Carpenter Christoph White and Jasp Fisher have been largely mention'd in this vol. among the Writers As for the others that are Writers they are to be mention'd in the next vol. Admitted 183. Mast of Arts. May 15. Edward Chaloner of Magd. Coll. afterwards of All 's June 22. John Reading of Magd. hall 26. Hen. Cotton of Brasn Coll. a Compounder This Person who was the Son of Dr. Hen. Cotton B. of Salisbury became Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the said Church on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch 29. Sept. 1608 Preb. of Bytton on the death of Meredith Morgan 4. Dec. 1612 Chauntor thereof by the death of Dr. Walt. Bennet 30. July 1614 and at length Prebendary of Highworth in the said Church of Sarum by the death of Dr. Pet. Lilye on the eleventh day of March following He died in 1622 and was succeeded in the Chauntorship by Dr. Humph. Henchman afterwards B. of Saâ—um Jul. 4. Joh. Wylde of Ball. Coll. This Person who was the eldest Son of Serj. Geo Wylde of Droitwich in Worcestershire was about this time a Student in the Inner Temple of which he became Lent reader 6. Car. 1. afterwards Serjeant at Law and Lord chief Baron of the Exchecquer in the time of the rebellion This was the Person who drew up the Impeachment against the Bishops and by him sent to the H. of Lords an 1641. being the prime manager in that affair and what he wrot as to that matter was afterwards printed He was the same also who upon the command or rather desire of the great Men sitting at Westminister did condemn to death at Winchester one Capt. Jâ—hn Burley for causing a drum to be beat up for God and K. Ch. at Newport in the Isle of Wight in order to rescue his captiv'd King an 1647. For which act after Burley had been executed at Winton on the 10. Feb. the same year he received 1000 l. out of the privy purse of Derby-house About the same time also he received another 1000 l. as 't was then confidently affirmed for the acquittance of Major Rolph who had a design to murder or poyson the said King so 't was all one to him whether he hung or hung not so he got the beloved pelf After Oliver came to the Protectorship he retired and acted not but when the Rump Parliament was restored after Richards deprivation then was he restored to the Exchecquer and after K. Charles 2. returned lived about 9 years in a retired condition At length giving way to fate at Hamstede near London his body was buried at Wherwell in Hampshire which is a Lordship belonging to Charles Lord de la Warr who married Anne Dau. and Heir of the said John Wylde Jul. 5. Joh. Seller or Sellar of Oriel Coll. One of both his names hath published Five Sermons Lond. 1636. oct and other things Whether the same with him of Oriel who was a Ministers Son of Glocestershire I cannot tell unless I could see the said Sermons Nor do I know anything to the contrary but that he may be the same with John Seller of C. C. Coll. a Ministers Son of Kent who was admitted Bach. of Arts 18. Feb. 1611. and Master 2. Jul. 1614. This last John Seller being a learned Man Mr. Rich. James whom I have mentioned among the Writers 1638. numbred him among his learned acquaintance and therefore wrot divers Epistles to him Jan. 23. Hugh Robinson of New Coll. Bach. of Physick Apr. 30. Theodore Goulson M. of A. of Merton Coll. He was the only Bach. of Phys that was admitted this year See among the Doct. following Bach. of Div. Mar 27. Tho. Winniffe Geor. Hakewill of Ex. June 21. Josias White of New 25. Brian Twyne Thom. Jackson Henry Masen of Corp. Ch. Coll. July 5. Barnab Potter of Qu. Coll. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch. Which two last were afterwards Bishops 6. Rob. Barnes of Magd. Coll. This Person who was Son of Joseph Barnes Printer to the University of Oxon and Fellow of the said Coll. of St. Mary Magd. became afterwards Minister of Greys in Oxfordshire by the favour of William Viscount Wallingford and published A Sermon preached at Henly at the visitation 27. Apr. 1626 on Psal 9. 16. Oxon 1626. qu. besides a collection of Verses made on the death of Will Son of Arth. L. Grey of Wilton Admitted 26. Doct. of Law Apr. 30. Francis Alexander of New College Prebendary of Winchester June 21. Tho. Ryves of the same Coll. He is to be remembred among the Writers in the 2. vol. Doct. of Phys Apr. 30. Theodore Goulsâ—n of Merton Coll. He accumulated the Degrees in Physick being now much in esteem for his knowledge therein Doct. of Div. June 11. Ralph Barlow of C. C. C. originally of Oriel and afterwards of New Coll. was then admitted D. of D. in the quality of a Compounder In Sept. an 1621. he succeeded Rich. Meredith in the Deanery of Wells and dying there was buried in the Cathedral 27. July 1631. Whereupon Dr. George Warburton Dean of Glocester succeeded him in that Dignity 13. Francis Kerrie of Ball. Coll. a Compounder He was now Canon residentiary of Hereford June 13. Job Best July 5. Silvan Griffith of Ch. Ch. Which two were Compounders the last being Archdeacon of Hereford 6. John Parkhurst Will. Langton of Magd. Coll. The first of
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. Bâ—nham 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. Weldâ—n 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 〈◊〉 and in the grand Rebellion suffer'd for the royal cause 〈◊〉 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 Hâ—n 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 Surrâ—y 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 ☜ 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
of Mrs. Mary Swaine the Wife of Mr. Will. Swaine at St. Botolphs without Aldersgate on Luke 10. 42. Lond. 1611. oct and perhaps other things He died about the beginning of November this year 1614 and was buried I presume in his Church of St. Martin beforementioned Mar. 23. Philip King M. A. of the same University Another of both his names was of this University as I shall tell you in these Fasti an 1618. and 1645. This year Charles de Beauvais of the Isle of Guernsey a young Man most conversant in the study of learned arts was entred a Student in Bodies Library but whether he was matriculated as a member of any Coll. or Hall it appears not He is the same Ch. de Beauvais without doubt who was afterwards Author of 1 Dedisciplinis scientiis in genere de recto ordine quo sunt in Scholis Academiis docendae c. 2 Recta delineatio disciplinae Vniversalis seu primae Philosophiae itemque Logicae Which two were printed at Lond. 1648. in oct 3 Exercitations concerning the pure and true and the impure and false religion Lond. 1665. oct at which time the Author was Rector of Witheham in Sussex An. Dom. 1615. An. 13. Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Lord Egerton Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again July 17. Proct. Hugh Dicus of Brasn Coll. Richard Baylie of St. John Coll. Apr. 19. Bach. of Arts. May 4. John Bayly of Exet. Coll. 5. Steph. Geree of Magd. Hall July 5. Cornelius Burges of Wadh. 7. Charles Herle of Exeter Nov. 9. Francis Gough of New Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland Dec. 13. James Lamb of Brasn College afterwards of St. Maries Hall Feb. 5. Thom. Twittie of Oriel 6. Thom. Paybody of Merton Coll. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the Bach. of Div. 1633 and of the other among the Masters of Arts an 1624. 7. John Brian of Queen Coll. I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same John Brian who published a funeral Sermon called The vertuous Daughter on Prov. 31. ver 29. Lond. 1636. qu. c. and perhaps other things Quaere 26. Alexander Gill Son of Alexander lately of Trin. Coll. now of Wadham and afterwards of Trinity again Five of these Bachelaurs namely Geree Burges Herle Lamb and Gill will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 203. Bach. of Law June Tho Merriot John South John Crook of New Coll. The first who will be mention'd in the next volume was a good Latinist and Orator The second was afterwards the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue and at length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Hyde Chauntor of Salisbury 24. Sept. 1666. He died at Writtle in Essex of which place he was Vicar in August 1672 and was buried in the Church there whereupon his Chauntorship was confer'd on Dr. Dan. Whitbye of Trin. Coll. As for the last John Crook he was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. 〈◊〉 Winchester Prebendary of the Cathedral there and Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magd. near to that City Admitted 9. Mast of Arts. May 3. Jerem. Stephens of Brasn 20. Will. Nicholson of Magd. Coll. Jun. 15. Rob. Weldon Barten Holyday of Ch. Ch. 17. Will. Thomas of Brasn Tho. Vicaâ— of Qu. 27. Griff. Higgs of Mert. Coll. Admitted 106. Bach. of Div. July 13. Sampson Price of Exeter Coll. Nov. 23. Edm. Gunter Samuel Fell Hen. Whistler of Trin. of Ch. Ch. Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. March 4. Fredericus Dorvilius of Exeter Coll. He writes himself Aquisgranensis natione Palatinus educatione being at this time a Sojournour in the said Coll. for the sake of Dr. Prideaux the Rector whom he much admired Adm. 15. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year Doct. of Physick July 3. Clement Westcombe of New Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in Physick He was about this time held in great value for the happy success in the practice of his faculty in and near the City of Exeter where he died in 1652 or thereabouts Doct. of Div. Mar. 27. Sam. Radcliff Principal June 17. John Barnston of Brasn Coll. The last of which who was now Chaplain to Egerton Lord Chancellour of England was about this time Canon Residentiary of Salisbury and afterwards a Benefactor to learning as I have told you elsewhere He lived to see himself outed of his spiritualities and dying 30. May 1645 was buried as it seems at Everton in Wilts Jun. 27. â—arnab Potter of Queens July 6. John King of Merton Coll. The last of these two was installed Canon or Preb. of the twelfth and last stall in the Collegiat Church at Westminster on the death of Dr. Will. Barlow Bish of Linc. an 1613 and this year 1615 Nov. 23 he became Canon of Windsore in the place of Mardoche Aldem deceased He died 7. Aug. 1638 and was buried in the Chappel of St. George at Windsore Dec. 1. John Hanmer of All 's Coll. See more among the Creations in the year following Feb. 27. Jasper Swyft of Ch. Ch. March 14. John Barcham of C. C. 21. John Davies of Lincoln Coll. Incorporations July 11. Will. Spicer Bach. of Law of Cambridge See among the Incorporations 1618. Abraham Gibson M. A. of the said University was incorporated the same day and again on the 15. July 1617. This Person who was afterwards Preacher to the Temples in London hath published 1 The Lands mourning for vain swearing Sermon on Jerem. 23. 10. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Christianae-polemica or a narrative to War Serm. at Wool-church in London before the Captains and Gentlemen of exercise in the Attillery-garden on Judg. 7. 18. Lond. 1619. oct and not unlikely other things He was afterwards D. of D. and dying in or near one of the Temples was buried near to the Communion Table in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Temples 5. Januar. 1629. July 11. Godfrey Goodman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge See more of him among the Bishops in Miles Smith an 1624. Samuel Purchas Bach. of Div. of the said University was incorporated the same day This worthy Divine who is by some stiled our English Ptolemy was born in the County of Essex either at Dunmow or Thacksted but in what Coll. or Hall in Cambridge educated I cannot yet tell After he had left the University he became Minister of Eastwood in Rochford hundred in his own Country but being desirous to forward and prosecute his natural Genie he had to the collecting and writing of voyages travels and pilgrimages left his cure to his Brother and by the favour of the Bishop of London got to be Parson of St. Martins Church within Ludgate He hath written and published 1 Pilgrimage or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered from the Creation to this present c. in 4 parts Lond. 1614. fol. second edit and there again 1626. fol. 2 Purchas his Pâ—â—grims
Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated the degrees in Divinity … Rich. Lloyd of Linc. Coll. He was about this time dignified in Wales and dying at Ruabon in Denbighshire of which place I think he was Minister about 1642 was buried there Jun. ult Samps Price of Exet. July 7. Rich Tillesley of S. Joh. Joh. Tapsell of Mert. Coll. This Joh. Tapsell who was the Son of Rob. Tapsell was born at Garsingdon near to and in the County of Oxon about the begining of Febr. 1571 admitted prob Fellow of the said house of Merton an 1593 took the degrees in Arts being then accounted a most excellent Disputant and Orator and a person of prodigious memory In 1599 Jul. 9 he according to the Statute of his Coll. did publickly dispute and speak speeches against the opinion of Aristotle which the said Satute stiles varying in the common Refectory of that house on these three Thâ—ses 1 Juvenis est idoneus auditor moralis philosophiae 2 Probanda est in sene verecumdia 3 Bonus à malo per dimidiam vitae partem differt Which Speeches being esteemed most admirable in their kind and of a Ciceronian stile were upon the desire of many of the Auditors printed in an octavo vol. but in what year I know not for few Copies being printed I could never see one He was afterwards a Lecturer in the City of York and at length in London where he died about 1630. July 9. John Holt 12. Dan. Featley of C. C. Coll. The first of these last two was Prebendary of Westminster and afterwards President of the said Coll. of C. C. He died 10 Jan. 1630 and was buried in the Church of S. Peter at Westminster whereupon Dr. Lodowick Weems or Wemmys succeeded him in his Prebendship As for the other Dr. Featly alias Fairclough will be large mention made of him in the second vol. Dec. 16. Francis Gibbons of Ch. Ch. He died in the Parish of S. Cross of which he was Parson near to Shrewsbury in 1639 or thereabouts Incorporations July 14. Arthur Lake M. A. of Cambridge He was Son if I mistake not to Sir Tho. Lake one of the Secretaries of State These following Masters of Cambr. were incorporated on the 15 July being the next day after the Act had been concluded Thomas Goad Mast of Arts of Kings Coll. He was afterwards Chaplain to Archb. Abbot Rector of Hadley in Suffolk Doct. of Div. Prebendary of Canterbury c. a great and general Scholar exact Critick and Historian a Poet Schoolman and Divine This pâ—rson who was Son of Dr. Roger Goad Provost of Kings Coll. before mention'd died in the year 1636 or thereabouts Another Tho. Goad was Doctor of the Laws and the Kings Professor of that Faculty in Cambridge who died about the beginning of 1666. Of one Tho. Goade see in the Pamphlet entit A Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 27. Benj. Laney M. of Arts. He was the fourth Son of a wealthy Merchant of Ipsuâ—ych named Joh. Laney Esq who sparing nothing that might advance his education took him from School and caused him to be admitted a Student in Christs Coll. in Cambr. Where making great proficiency in his studies was removed to Pembroke Hall of which he became Fellow and contemporary there with Ralph Brownrig Afterwards he was made Master of that house Doct. of Div. Vicechancellour of the University Chaplain in ordinary to K. Ch. 1 Prebendary of Winchester and about the same time of Westminster in the place of Lambert Osbaldeston deprived an 1638 and afterwards upon the restauration of Osbaldeston by the Long Parliament in the place of Griffith Williams an 1641. Soon after he was outed of his Mastership of Pembroke Hall for his Loyalty and about that time did attend in his Majesties Service in the Treaty at Vxbridge being then esteemed a learned Divine Afterwards when his Majesty Ch. 2. was in exile he did in a most dutiful manner attend him and for several years after suffer'd great calamity as innumerable Royalists did Upon his Majesty's return to his Kingdoms he was restored to his Headship and in recompence of his sufferings he was first made Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Turner in which Dignity he was installed 24 of July 1660 and soon after had the Bishoprick of Peterborough confer'd upon him with liberty to keep his Mastership in commendam to which he received Consecration in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster on Sunday Decemb. 2. an 1660. Afterwards upon the death of Dr. Rob. Sanderson he was translated to Lincoln and on the death of Dr. M. Wrenn to Ely where he sate to the time of his death in the latter end of 1674. Five of his Sermons preached before the King were printed in 1668 9. And after his death were published his Observations on a letter about liberty and necessity c. Lond. 1676 in tw which Letter was written to the Duke of Newcastle by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury Rich. Holdsworth M. A. of S. Johns Coll. This most eminent and loyal person was a Native of Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland where for some time he was educated in Gramaticals afterwards being sent to the said Coll. he made wonderful proficiency in Arts and Theology became successively Divinity Professor of Gresham Coll. being about that time D. of D. Master of Emanuel Coll. several times Vicechancellour of Cambridge Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Dr. Owen Gwynn Master of S. John's Coll. before mention'd deceased an 1633 which Dignity Gwynn had confer'd upon him in 1622 upon the resignation of Dr. Laud and at length upon the grant of the Deanery of Durham to Dr. Christopher Potter in the latter end of 1645 had the grant of the Deanery of Worcester made unto him having in the beginning of the grand Rebellion refused the Bishoprick of Bristow But the principles of this reverend Doctor being wholly orthodox he suffered therefore very much during the miserable condition which the Members of the Long Parliament had brought this Kingdom to lost most if not all his Spiritualities was several times imprison'd yet afterwards being at liberty he attended his Majesty in his disconsolate and afflicted condition at Hampton Court and in the Isle of Wight At length after he had seen him crown'd with Martyrdom he surrendered up his pious soul to him that gave it on the 22 Aug. 1649. Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Peter le poore in London of which Church he had been Minister till the violence of the Presbyterians forced him thence an 1642. After his death were published some of his Works viz. 1 Valley of vision in 21 Sermons printed 1651. qu. 2 Praelectiones Theologicae habitae in Collegio Greshamensi apud Londinenses Lond. 1661. fol. which last book was published by Dr. Pearson his Nephew who hath set an account of his life before that book Henry Burton Abraham Gibson Of these two who were
among the Bac. of Div. 1635. 25. Nathaniel Simpson John Lewgar Hâ—n Gellibrand of Trin. Coll. Dec. 11. John Oliver lately of Merton now of Magd. Coll. See more among the Doctors of Div. 1639. Jan. 19. Edw. Stanley of New 24. Hen. or Harry Marten of Vn. Coll. Feb. 3. Joh. Maynard of Qu. 8. Edm. Staâ—ntâ—n of C. C. Coll. The first of these two last was a Compounder and afterwards of Magd. hall Of all these Bachelaurs none but Atkinson Pinke Stinton Evans and Gellibrand are mention'd in this work Adm. 252. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Apr. 8. Joh. Ryves of New Coll. He was afterwards Prebendary of Winchester became Prebendary of Gillingham Major in the Church of Salisbury on the death of John Jessop 1. March 1625. and Archdeacon of Berks. on the resignation of Edw. Davenant 20. Nov. 1634. He died 19 Aug. 1665 and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Dr. Peter Mews of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon. Besides this Joh. Ryves were but two admitted Bach. of Law this year Mast of Arts. Apr. 24. Joh. Langley of Magd. hall 27. Lambert Osbaldeston of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards made Master of the College School at Westminster in the place of Dr. John Wilson and Prebendary of the tenth stall in the Church there in the place of Dr. Christoph Sutton deceased By his industry he did improve his Scholars to as great eminency of learning as any of his predecessors did Insomuch that he had as 't is reported above 80 Doctors in the three great faculties in the two Universities that did gratefully acknowledge their education under him before the grand Rebellion broke out But so it was that he having been much favoured and patroniz'd by Dr. Williams Dean of Westm and B. of Linc. did always stick close to in his controversies had between him and Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury for which he suffered in some measure especially after he had been found guilty of certain libellous passages in a letter written by him to the said Williams wherein he stiles Laud the little Vermin the Vrchin and Hocus pocus For which being called into question in the Star-chamber and found guilty he lost his Spiritualities was fined 5000 l. and sentenced to have his ears tack'd to the Pillory in the presence of his Scholars Which last sentence he avoided by a seasonable withdrawing himself from Westminster an 1638. Afterwards he was restored by the Long Parliament and suffered for a time to keep his Prebendship when all the rest of the Prebendaries were turn'd out But then seeing what mad courses the members of the said Parliament took favoured His Majesties cause and in some measure suffered for it lived retiredly during the interval and dying in the beginning of Octob. 1659 was buried on the 7 of the said month in the large South isle of St. Peters Church in Westm He was a learned Man but whether he hath published any book or books I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was the Son of Lambert Osbaldeston of the Parish of St. Olaves in Southwark near London who died an 1622. June 5. Rob. Grebby of New Coll. This Person who was a Lincolnshire Man born was one of the Chaplains of the said Coll. and afterwards as it became a true Scholar spent all his time in reading and writing especially in Divinity and Philosophy in which last he was a great Sceptick He wrot much in both and had his labours perused by his learned acquaintance yet none of them tho thought fit were ever published I find it reported by a certain Author that one Master Silo whom Mr. Odo de Ceriton or Seryton who lived in 1181 stileth Serlo a Master of the University of Paris and Professor of Logick had a Scholar there with whom he was very familiar Which Scholar being excellent in the art of Sophistry spared not all occasions whether on festival or other days to study and improve it This Sophister being very sick and almost brought to deaths door Mr. Silo earnestly desired him that after his death he would return to and give him information concerning his state and how it fared with him The Sophister dying he returned soon after with his hood stuff'd with notes of Sophistry and the inside loyned with flaming fire and told him that that was the reward which he had bestowed upon him for the renown that he had before obtained for his Sophistry But Mr. Salo esteeming it a small punishment he stretched out his hand towards him on which a drop or spark of fire falling 't was pierced through with terrible pain This passage the Defunct or Ghost beholding told him with a faint voice that he need not be amazed at that small matter for he was burning in that manner all over Is it so saith Silo then in very truth I know what I have to do Whereupon resolving to leave the World and enter himself into Religion called his Scholars about him and took his leave of and dismiss'd them with these metres Linquo coax ranis cras vaâ—â—que vanis Ad Logicam pergo que mortis non timet ergo Sed quorsum haec you 'll say or to what end do you tell this old story Then give me leave to make answer thus This Mr. Grebby having been always dubious of the immortality of the Soul of Man did some years before his death make a contract with two of his acquaintance of the same mind that he that died first of the three should make known to either of the other two his then state or being Grebby therefore dying first his resemblance shortly after appeared in the night time in the Chamber of Joh. Good Bach. of Div. and Fellow of Ball. Coll. commonly called Tutor Good who was one of the other two that had made the contract and opening his curtains said to him with a trembling and faint voice Sors tua mortalis non est mortale quod opto Afterwards the resemblance vanished and was tho much wish'd for again seen no more At the same time the other Person who was sometimes Chaplain of New Coll. but then living at his Benefice near Oxon had a dream that the said resemblance did appear to Good and that the doubt seem'd to be resolved which I have heard him several times very confidently report yet he being a reputed Banterer I could never believe him in that or any thing else 'T is true that Good who was a Scholastical retired and melancholy Man would sometimes tell these passages but with great shinels unless to his Philosophical acquaintance most of whom seemed to be well satisfied with and some to believe them This Mr. Grebby commonly called Father Grebby who had read and written so much till he was almost blind yet always cheerful and in a contented condition died in 1654 in the spring time I think aged 60 or more and was buried in the North Cloister of New Coll. near to the
door leading into the tower and the monumental inscription of Pet. Woodgate At which time being present a considerable number of his Philosophical acquaintance for he usually delighted in such tho never so young or mean was an eloquent oration delivered from a Pew set near to his grave by Rob. Mathew LL. B. afterwards Doctor a great admiter of the learning and virtues of him the said Grebby From this digression which many will laugh at let 's proceed to the rest of the admissions June 9. Bruno Ryves of Magd. Coll. 21. Will. Price of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards the first moral Philosophy Reader after the Lecture had been founded by Dr. Tho. White and the writer and publisher of Oratio fanebris habita Oxoniae 22. Apr. 1624. in Laudem Doctoris White lecturae moralis Philosophiae apud Oxonienses fundatoris Oxon. 1624. qu. 'T is at the end of a book of verses intit Schola Moralis Philosophiae Oxon in funere Whiti pullata mostly made by the Students of Magd. hall of which house Dr. White was originally a member Another Will. Price I find who was Bach. of Div. and a publisher of certain Sermons and Divinity tracts in the time of K. Jam. 1. and Char. 1. but whether he was of this University I cannot yet tell Nov. 9. Alex. Gill of Trin. Coll. Dec. 11. Jam. Lamb of St. Mar. hall Adm. 130. Bach. of Div. June 26. Robert Pink of New Jul. 1. Gilbert Ironside of Trin. 8. Gabr. Richardson of Brasn Accept Frewen of Magd. Coll. Nov. 24. Will. Dickenson of Mert. The last of these five who was now Chaplain to Will Earl of Pembroke published The Kings right briefly set down in a Sermon before the Judges of Assize held in Reading for the County of Berks. 28. Jun. 1619 on Psal 75. 7. Lond. 1619. qu. and perhaps other things which is all I know of him only that he was Son of Thom. Dickinson a Servant of Eaton Coll. near Windsore and now Rector of Appleton neat Abendon in Berks. Dec. 8. Rob. Johnson of Magd. Coll. Adm. 33. Doct. of Law Apr. 8. Richard Zouch Richard Clarke of New Coll. Both which especially the first were eminent Civilians One Will. Clerke LL. D. an Advocate in the Court of Arches died about the month of Aug. 1655 but whether he was ever of Oxon I know not as yet ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. May 12. Rich Parker of S. Maries hall June 15. John Wilson of Ch. Ch. who accumulated This Person who was born in the City of Westminster was about this time Master of the College School there having a faculty more than ordinary in instructing youth In Octob. 1623 he was installed Canon or Preb. of the third stall in the Church of Weston in the place of Dr. John Fox who in the year 1606 had succeeded one Percival Wyburne a Nonconformist after he had enjoyed the said stall 44 years without seldom or never wearing a hood and surplice Afterwards Dr. Wilson became Prebendary of Rippon and Dean thereof in the place of Anth. Higgins Bach. of Divinity Prebendary of Lincoln Vicar of Burston and Rector of Bedall in Yorkshire He died on the 19 Feb. 1634 and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Nottingham One of both his names Job Wilson was a Preacher of the word at Guilford in Surrey and wrot Some helps to faith shewing the necessity c. Lond. 1625. oct and another perhaps the same who published Zaccheus converted Serm. or Expos on 19 Luk. from ver 1. to 10. Lond. 1631. oct besides several other things Whether he was of this University I cannot yet tell June 15. Henry Watkins of Ch. Ch. 16. Henry Hook of Qu. Coll. a Compounder On the 30. June 1617 he was collated to the Archdeaconty of York or the West Riding of York on the death of Rog. Aeroid D. D. which Dignity he resigning Hen. Wickham M. A. was collated thereunto 20. Mar. 1623. On the 19. Mar. 1623 the said Hook was collated to the Chantorship of York on the death of Dr. Jo. Favour in which Dignity he had for his successor Richard Palmer Bach. of Div. admitted thereunto 23. Apr. 1624 and he who dyed on the place George Stanhop D. D. in the beginning of Nov. 1631. June 18. Tho. Clifford of Exet. Coll. 23 Sam. Fell Tho. Iles Joh. Brikenden of Magd. Coll. of Ch. Church Compounders Dec. 25. Rich. Clewet of Or. 26 Rob. Pink of New Will Smith Warden of Wad Coll. The last of which was afterwards Prebendary of Worcester and Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in that County July 5. Thom. Winniff of Ex. Nov. 6. Edw. Chaloner of All 's Coll. Incorporations Many Cambridge Men were incorporated on the 13. of July being the day after the conclusion of the Act of which these following were some Andrew Agar Bach. of Law Theophilus Wodenote M. A. He was born at Lankâ—nhorne about 6 miles distant from Launceston in Cornwall being the Son of Thom. Wâ—denote descended from an antient Family in Cheshire educated in Grammaticals in Eaton School near Windsore in Academicals in Kings Coll. in Cambridge of which he became Scholar 1608. Afterwards he was M. of A. Bach. of Divinity Rector of Lankenhorne beforementioned after the decease of his Father who also had been Fellow of the said Coll. and a writer of several books among which are these 1 Observations upon the history of Nabal and Abigail 1. Sam. 25. printed 1623. Oct. 2 Good thoughts in bad times 'T is a manual and 't was written at Broad Chalke in Wiâ—ts while he absconded in the house of a near relation of his Vicar of that place being then obnoxious to arrests 3 Hermes Theologus or a divine Mercury new descants upon old records Lond. 1649. in tw 4 Eremicus Theologus Or a sequestred Divine his aphocismes or breviats of speculation in two centuries Lond. 1654. oct c. When he died or where he was buried I know not nor any thing to the contrary but that he did live to be restored in 1660 to what he had lost for his loyalty during the time of the grand rebellion Robert Sibthorpe M. A. He was afterwards Bishop of Kilfenore in Ireland and at length of Limerick an 1642. He died in Apr. 1649 and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Werburge in Dublin Granado Chester M. A. He was afterwards D. D. and dignified in the Church Edward Davenant M. A. In Feb. 1623 he was collated to the Prebendship of Iâ—fracomb in the Church of Salisbury and upon the death of Lienel Sharp to the Archdeaconry of Berkshire In 1634 Nov. 19. he was collated to the Treasureship of the Church of Salisbury upon the death of Job Lee which he kept to the time of his death 12. of March 1679. Afterwards succeeded Dr. Tho. James as I shall tell you in the next volume Richard Hâ—nt M. A. One of both his names was installed Dean of
London his Paraenesis ad Scotos Genevensis disciplinae Zelotas He settled in Oxon for a time for the sake of the publick Library but whether he was incorporated in any Degree or created which some have avouched it appears not in the publick register An. Dom. 1621. An. 19. Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Will. Piers D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. and Dean of Chester July 20. Proct. Matthew Style of Exeâ— Coll. Nichol. Baylie of C. C. Coll. Apr. 11 The last of which was the first of his Coll. that even bore the office of Proctor Bach. of Arts. Apr. 20. Sam. Fancet of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters of Arts 1624. 25. John Maynard of Exet. June 8. Pet. Wentworth of Ball. Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity 1633. 12. Joh. Tombes of Magd. Hall 14. George Newton of Exet. Hen. Glemham of Trin. Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph Morgan Godwin of Ch. Ch. afterwards of Pembr Coll. was adm the same day See among the Incorporations an 1642. Jul. 6. Joh. Angell of Magd. Hall Joh. Greaves the Linguist Oct. 17. James Cranford of Ball. Coll. Nov. 20. Joh. Gumbleden Dec. 6. Will. Strode of Ch. Ch. Jan. 31. Will. Streat of Exet. Feb. 22. Jam. Eglesfield of Qu. Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Masters an 1625. 27. Joh Ellis of Hart Joh. Arnway of S. Edm. Hall 28. Joh. Leycester of Brasn Oliv. Whitby of Trin. Joh. Trapp of Ch. Ch. Coll. Of Whitby you may see more among the Masters an 1624. Mar. 1. Shackerlie Marmion of Wadh. Coll. As for Maynard who was afterwards Serjeant at Law Tombes Godwin Newton Glemham Angell Greaves Granford Gumbleden Strode Streat Ellis Arnway and Trapp will be mention at large made in the second Vol. of this Work or elsewhere Adm. 280. Bach. of Law Apr. 18. Will. Merick of New Coll. He was afterwards a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative as I shall hereafter tell you Besides him were only three more admitted Mast of Arts. May 16. Tho. Laurence June 1. Will. Paul of All 's 11. Joh. Atherton of Linc. Coll. 12. Joh. Geree of Magd. Hall 14. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. June 14. Meric Casaubon Zouch Tewnley George Morley Rob. Gomershal of Ch. Ch. As for Townley he was a Lancashire man born or at least extracted from an ancient Family of his name in that Country and now 1621 esteemed a noted Orator and Philosopher He hath written and published Oratio in memoriam clariss viri Gul. Camdeni Lecturae Historicae apud Oxonienses fundatoris c. Oxon. 1624. qu. set before a book of Lat. Verses intit Camdeni Insignia What else he hath published I know not nor any thing besides that is memorable of him only that he was several times Deputy-Orator of this University Jun. 21. Tho. Tyro of S. Edm. Hall One of both his names was a boon and jolly Blade in the time of Qu. Elizab. as it appears by his Roaring Megg planted against the walls of melancholy Lond. 1598. qu. and his Epistolae which shews him to have been a Scholar but whether of this University I know not as yet Jul. 6. Humph Chambers of Vniv. Coll. Thom. Colman of Magd. Hall Oct. 17. Joh. Gee of Ex. Coll. Adm. 123. Bach. of Physick Tho not one was admitted this year yet three were admitted to practise viz. Rich. Gardiner of Broadgates Hall Edw. Dawson of Lincon Coll. and Sam. Bave a German of Ch. Church Which last was commonly called Dr. Bavey of Bathe where he was in great practice to the time of his death Bach. of Div. Apr. 19. Rob. Skinner of Trin. 25. Aleâ—and Harry of Ex. Coll. Of the last you may see more in what I shall say of Will. Hicks among the Writers in the second Vol. an 1659. May 11. Tho Baylie of Magd. 12. Will. Page of All 's Coll. Mar. 8. Tho. Wilson of Mert. Coll. a Compounder See more among the Incorporations an 1645. Adm. 20. Doct. of Law Nov. 27. Will. Steed Mart. Aylworth of All 's Coll. The former of which was about this time Official of Canterbury Dec. 12. Will. Juxon President of S. Joh. Coll. ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was this year admitted Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. Paul Godwin Rob. Robotham Tho. Godwin of Ch. Ch. Joh. Hughes of C. C. Coll. Of Magd. Coll. Compounders Paul and Tho. Godwin were the Sons of Dr. Franc. Godwin Bishop of Hereford and Robotham and Hughes were his Sons in law having married two of his Daughters The last of which was benificed in Herefordshire where he died about 1648. Mar. 21. Joh. Tolson Provost of Oriel Coll. Incorporations Jun. 16. George Snell D. of D. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland These Cambridge men following were incorporated on the 10 of July being the next day after the conclusion of the Act. Michael Honywood M. of A. He was afterwards D. of D. and in 1660 was made Dean of Lincoln in the place of Anthony Topham who died in the rebellious times This Dr. Honyword died about 12 Sept. 1681 and was as I suppose buried in the Cathedral there Whereupon Dr. Dan Brevint suâ—ceeded him in his Dignity Will. Brough M. A. of Christs Coll. I shall speak at large of him among the Incorporations of Doctors of Div. an 1645. Christopher Dow M. of A. He was afterwards Bach. and Doct. of Div. much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury whose Creature and Champion he was and by him promoted to several ecclesiastical Benefices He hath written 1 A discourse of the Sabbath and Lords day wherein c. Lond. 1636. qu. second Edit 2 Innovations unjustly charged upon the present Church and State or an answer to the most material passages made by Mr. Hen. Burton in his book entit An Apology of an Appeal c. Lond. 1637. qu. with other things very offensive to the Puritan who held the Author to be a rank Arminian George Walker Bach. of Div. This learned person was born at Hawkeshead in Fournifalls in Lancashire educated in S. Joh. Coll. in the said Univ. of Cambr. where he was esteemed an excellent Logician Orientalian and Divine He was about this time Chaplain to Dr. Felton Bishop of Ely and Minister of S. John the Evangelist in Watlingstreet in London where he was ready upon all occasions to encounter with any learned Cath. Priest On the last of May 1623 was a set and solemn disputation between him and one that went by the name of Smith at which being present a great Auditory it was published for the satisfaction of both parties with this Title The sum of a disputation between Mr. Walker Pastor of S. Joh. the Evang. c. and a popish priest calling himself Mr. Smith but indeed Norris printed 1623. qu. Which Norris was a D. of D. and a publisher of several little popish Pamphlets about the same time In the year following he the said Walker had
to do with Fath. Joh. Fisher the Jesuit as being Dr. Dan. Featley's second and thereupon published Fishers folly unfolded or the vaunting Jesuits challenge answered Lond. 1624. Afterwards when our Author Walker who was a severe Puritan beheld the profanation of the Lords day he preached against it and other Practices and Opinions which procured him trouble and two years imprisonment as 't is said After the Long Parliament began he preached against the King and his Followers and published several things which before he was not permitted to do among which were 1 Socinianism in the fundamental point of justification discovered and confuted c. Lond. 1641. oct 2 The doctrine of the holy weekly sabbath c. Lond. 1641. c. In the year 1643 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines preached sometimes before the Members of Parliament and had his Sermons made publick one of which is ent Fast-sermon before the House of Commonâ— 9 Jan. 1644 on Psalm 58. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. He hath also other things extant as God made visible in all his works c. pr. 1641. qu. c. which for brevity sake I now pass by and only tell you that he died in 1651 aged about 70 and was buried in his Church of S. John before mention'd Edw. Martin Bach. of Div. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty domestick Chaplain to Archb. Laud and Rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and of Dunnington in Cambridgshire but being a zealous man for the Church of England was turned out of those livings by the Committee of Religion as you may largely see in that infamous libel ent The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests c. p. 41. He lost other spiritualities and suffer'd much for the Kings Cause notwithstanding he was a godly and learned man All that seems bad of him you may see in Canterburies Doom published by Will. Prynne an inveterate enemy to Prelacy good order in the Church Arminianism or any thing that look'd that way Foulk Robarts Bach. of Div. In Feb. 1616 he became Probendary of Norwich on the death of Hugh Castleton which he held to the time of his death in the interval or broken times He hath written 1 The revenew of the Gospel is tithes due to Ministery of the word by that word in Tim. 1. 5. 18. Cambr. 1613. qu. 2 Gods holy house and service described according to the primitive form thereof Lond. 1639. qu. and other things as 't is probable In 1660 Aug. 21. one George Kent M. of A. was installed Prebendary of Norwych in the place of the said Foulk Robarts who had been dead some years before Samuel Broke or Brooke D. D. and about this time Master of Trinity Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Coventry and wrot an Arminian Treatise of predestination which he communicated to Dr. Laud Bishop of London an 1630 so saith Prynne in Canterburies Doom and about the 16 of Sept. in the year following he departed this mortal life He had an ingenious Brother named Christop Brooke a Yorkshire man born who after he had left the University whether this or Cambridge I cannot yet tell notwithstanding several of his Sirname and time have studied in Vniversity Coll. he setled in Lincolns Inn purposely to advance himself in the municipal Law where he became known to and admired by Joh. Selden Ben. Johnson Mich. Drayton Will. Browne George Withers and Joh. Davies of Hereford especially after he had published An Elegy consecrated to the never dying memory of Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. In the year following he being then a Bencher was elected Summer Reader of his House became a Benefactor to the Chappel there and wrot another book ent Eglogues dedicated to his much loved friend Mr. Will. Browne of the Inner Temple Lond. 1614. oct He hath also Verses put before the first part of Britannia's pastorals pen'd by the said Browne also before a poetical piece called The legend of Great Cromwell written by Mich. Drayton and had a considerable hand in dishing out The Odcombian Banquet an 1611. Later in time than the former give me leave to divert my self I find another Christop Brooke who married a daughter of the famous Mathematician Will. Oughtred having been by him before initiated in Mathematicks Afterwards he became a maker and framer of mathematical Instruments and the publisher of 1 A new Quadrant of more natural easie and manifold performance than any one heretofore extant pr. in 1649 in 2 sheets in oct having been the invention of Oughtred 2 The solution of all sphaerical Triangles bâ—th right and oblique by the planisphaere c. Oxon. 1651. oct This Chr. Brooke being known to the ingenious and learned Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. had a Servants place of that House worth 30 l. per an confer'd upon him by that Doctor purposely to encourage his Ingenuity What else he hath published I know not nor any thing of him besides only that dying in his house near Wadham Coll. was buried in the Cloyster belonging thereunto situated and being between the Chappel and the Library an 1665. Edward Kellet D. D. of Kings Coll. See before among the Incorporations an 1616. where you 'll find the Titles of some of the books that he hath published All which Cantabrigians were I say incorporated on the 10 of July Aug. 30. Andrew Rivet D. D. of the University of Leyden in Holland was solemnly incorporated in that degree and taken into the bolom of the University in a Convocation then held at which time he gave several Books to the University Library This Rivet who received his first breath at St. Maixent in the Province of Poictou was a learned and godly Divine hath very well expounded Genesis the Prophetical Psames and Hosea and hath written learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus and against Grotius He is stiled by a learned Author Vir clarissimus nunquam satis laudatus Gallicae Belgicaeque ecclesiae micantissimum lumen c. The Titles of most of his books are in Oxford or Bodlies Catalogue See more of him in Athenae Batavae written by John Meursius lib. 2. p. 320. Creations Aug. 1. Joh. Keeling a Counsellour of the Inner Temple and a person well read in the municipal Laws of England was then actually created M. of A. in the house of Convocation Whether he was the same with John Keeling a Staffordshire man who was matriculated as a Member of Brasn Coll. an 1593 aged 17 I know not One of both his names was after the Restauration of King Ch. 2. made 〈◊〉 Knight one of the Justices of the Common Pleas and at length L. Chief Justice He died in the beginning of the year 1671. Nov. 24. Richard Wats of Oriel stiled in the common Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione feliciter instructus was actually created M. of Arts. He was entred in the publick Library as a Student in the
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 Jeâ—kins 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 ☞ 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. Doâ—ben 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
of the Gentlemen of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. and Clerk of the Council In 1640 he was employed by his Majesty to go to Henry Frederick Prince of Aurange or Orange about the marriage of the Princess Mary to the Prince his Son as also to the Queen of Bobemia and the Prince Elector an 1641 to hinder that Prince his coming over into England at the then juncture of affairs with promise to take into his consideration the concern of the Palatinate and other matters of state In the same year the said R. Browne was sent to Paris where he continued Resident in the Court of France for K. Ch. 1. and Ch. 2. to the French King Lewis the 13 and his Son Lewis 14 till the Restauration of his Majesty an 1660. In which time which was 19 years I find these things following to occur relating to him 1 That divers important matters of state were transacted by him with those great Ministers Cardinal Richlieu and Mazarine 2 That many advantages were offer'd him by the Usurpers of England to be false to his Masters but he resisted them 3 That he did to his great expence but more to his everlasting glory keep up in the large house which he hired at Paris the publick Service and Liturgy of the Church of England whither his Maj. Ch. 2. and then Duke of York did constantly resort From whence divers Ministers of the Church of England Exiles for their Loyalty had many disputes with the R. Catholicks and others concerning the visibility of their Church which they then kept up while it was ecclipsed in England 4 That he was employed by his Maj. Ch. 1. to carry the George and Garter to Bernard Duke of Espernon 5 That he did negotiate about the Queens portion out of which he had I think 1000 l. which with 200 l. more was all he touched in the said 19 years whilst he spent of his paternal Estate much more than that yearly during his abode at Paris 6 That on the first of Sept. 1649 he was created a Baronet being the first that K. Ch. 2. made by virtue of a dormant Warrant sent to him by Ch. 1. dated 1 Febr. 1643 and on the 19 of the said Sept. he received the honour of Knighthood at St. Germaines from his said Maj. Ch. 2. he being then also Clerk of the Council to him In 1660 he returned into England with his Majesty and did execute the said Office for some time But years then coming on he resign'd it and retired to Charlton in Kent where he spent the remainder of his time in a pleasant retiredness and studious recess At length giving way to fate in a good old Age on the 12 of Febr. 1681 was buried according to his desire in the Churchyard at Deptford close to the Wall of the Church where is a black Marble ballastred over his body On the other side of the Wall in the Church lies buried his Father Christop Browne Esq who died in March 1645 aged 70 years and his Grandfather Sir Rich. Browne Knight a younger Son of an antient Family at Hitcham in Suffolk seated afterwards at Horsley in Essex who being a Student in the Temple was by Robert Dudley the great Earl of Leycester taken into the service of the Crown when he went Governour of the Vnited Netherlands and was afterwards by Qu. Elizab. made Clerk of the Greencloth In which honorable office he also continued under K. James 1. untill the time of his death which hapned in May 1604 aged 65 years The before mentioned Sir Rich. Browne Grandson to this last Sir Richard lest behind him a Daughter named Mary who being his Heiress was several years before married to the learned Vertuoso Joh. Evelyn of Says-court in the Parish of Deptford Esq in which house or at least in that Parish Sir Richard was born as also three folio's of his dispatches several Letters some in cypher c. as well from his Maj. Ch. 1. at Oxon as from his Royal Consoâ—t and other great persons Jun. 27. Geâ—v Warmstrey Rich. Hemmings of Ch. Ch. July 8. Oliver Thomas of Hart Hall The time when he took the degree of Bach. of Arts appears not nor when or of what house he was matriculated And therefore all that I can say of him is that he was afterwards perhaps now beneficed in Shropshire that he wrot and published a book in Welsh entit Carwry Cymru c. printed 1630 or thereabouts and that dying at Felton in that County was there buried In the year 1647 one Oliver Thomas Minister of Oswestry did subscribe among other Ministers of Shropshire to the lawfulness of the Covenant who I suppose is the same with the former Jul. 11. Rich. Jones of Jesus Coll. Jan. 22. George Bate of S. Edm. Hall 29. Christop Ayray Guy Carlton Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. March 19. Joh. Price of Jesus Coll. This year Jun. 25. Joh. Davis of Magd. Hall sometimes of that of S. Edm was licensed to proceed Master of Arts and accordingly compleated that degree in the Act following which being all I know of him he therefore is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Davis M. of A. afterwards Lecturer of Christ Church in London and at length Pastor of a Congregation in Dover Author of Heaven and Earth shaken A treatise shewing hâ—w Kings Princes and their Government are turned and changed by Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1656. oct For this Joh. Davis the Author was originally of Cambridge where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards siding with the Faction was first a Presbyterian and took the Covenant afterwards an Independent and took the Engagement for which he stickled in his Lectuers at Ch. Ch. At length being discovered by the then godly Party to be every way fit to carry on the trade of Faction he was translated to Dover where he kept a Conventicle in a noted Brewhouse by the Reer and soon after was made Chaplain to the Castle there by Col. Tho. Kelsey then Governour and preached constantly at S. James Church tho he was no setled Incumbent Where continuing officiating till after the Kings Return he was then outed and afterwards kept a Conventicle in S. James street in Dover where he continued to the time of his death which was about 1663. Adm. 149. Bach. of Phys I find but three admitted this year of whom John Speed a learned Physitian of S. Joh. Coll. was one Jun. 20. Bach. of Div. May 7. Rich. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 14. Meric Casaubon of Ch. Ch. Nov. 11. Jerem. Stephens Gilb. Sheldon Rob Gomershall of Ch. Ch. of All 's Coll. Mar. 13. Will. Paul Tho. Lawrence of All 's Coll. Adm. 28. Doct. of Law Mar. 26. David Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Warden of Ruthin in Denbighshire Prebendary of Chester and afterwards Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Andr. Morrice sometimes Chaplain of All 's Coll. This Dr. Lloyd died about
in the Parish of S. Giles in the fields near London in the house of one Mr. Cothorne a Reader in the Church there on Saturday 12 Dec 1685 and was buried by the charity of Dr. Rich. Busby Schoolmaster of the Coll. School at Westm and Dr. Joh. Sharp Minister of the said Church of S. Giles in the Vault under part of the said Church commonly called the Vicars or Rectors Vault His Books and Papers came after his death into the hands of the said Busby among which is the last thing that he wrot The Tables which are according to his promise in the last line of his printed Tables of squares drawn up and finished and which Sir Cyrill Wych when President of the Royal Society did license for the Press There only wants a leaf or two for the explanation of the use of them which his death hath prevented See more in Tho Branker among the Writers in the second Vol. an 1676. Creations Dec. 17. Edmund Wright of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts in the house of Congregation which is all I know of him Georg. Alberti of Wad Coll. was created Mast of Arts the same day which is all I know of him also only that he had been lately a Student in the University of Heidelberg in Germany and that he was forced to leave that place because of the Wars in that Country An. Dom. 1632. An. 8 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud. Bishop of London Vicechanc. Brian Duppa D. D. and Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 19. Proct. Rich. Chaworth of Ch. Ch. Joh. Meredith of All 's Coll. April 11. Bach. of Arts. April 26. John Warner Rich. Hayter Joh. Charlton of Magd. Hall The last of these three who was Son of Rob. Charlton Esq was born in London and much about the time that he took the degree of B. of A. was entred a Student of Lincolns Inn of which he became a Barrister and a Counsellor of some note After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. an 1660 he was created Sergeant at Law and in the year following being elected a Burgess for Ludlow in Shropshire to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster 8 of May was made Deputy for Sir Geffry Palmer Chief Justice of Chester by the name of Job Charlton of Ludford in Herefordshire Esque and in Octob. the same year 1661 was made the first Judge of the Council of Wales and Marches of the same In 1662 he being then a Knight was made Chief Justice of Chester and on the 5 February 1672 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in the place of Sir Edw. Turner Knight At which time he spake two Speeches to his Majesty and Parliament upon his admission to that Office which were soon after printed in folio papers On the 15 of the said month he gave up the said honorable office under pretence of indisposition of body yet a certain Writer tells us that he whom he calls a dull welsh Judge had 500 l. per an for giving it up at which time succeeded Edw. Seymour Esq In the latter end of April 1680 he was constituted one of the Justices of the Common Pleas whereupon his Chief Justiceship of Chester was confer'd upon Sir George Jeffries Recorder of London Afterwards he was made Chief Justice of Chester again and was living in 1688 and perhaps may be still being a great friend to the Ch. of England May 12. Will Thomas of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards B. of Worcester June 7. John Bishop of Ball. Coll. See among the Masters an 1635. 11. Joh. Owen of Qu. 21. Charles Hoole of Linc. Tho. More of Mert. Coll. July 5. Henry Killigrew of Ch. Ch. Franc. Goldsmith of S. Joh. Coll. Oct. 20. Hen. Bignell of S. Maries Hall Hen. Bridgman of Oriel Coll. The first of these two was originally of Brasn Coll. the other was afterwards of the same Coll. 25. Will. Eyre of Magd. Hall Dec. 4. George Ashwell of Wadh. Randal Sanderson of Qu. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters in 1636. Feb. 27. Franc. Woodcock of Brasn Coll. All which except Jâ—b Chaâ—lton I. Bishop and R. Sanderson will be mention'd at large elsewhere Adm. 198. Bach. of Law Nov. 9. Rob. Price of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of Fernes and Leighlin in Ireland 27. Will. Fuller of St. Edm. Hall He was also afterwards a Bishop in Ireland and at length Bishop of Lincoln Besides these two were admitted nine more among whom were Giles Sweit of St. Maries Hall Justinian Lewin of Pemb. Coll. and John March of St. Edmunds Hall which last I take to be the same Joh. March who afterwards published several things of the common Law Qu. Mast of Arts. May 8. Constantine Jessop of Jesus Coll. June 5. Clem. Barksdale of Glouc. Hall Thom. Powell of Jes Coll. 26. Franc. Roberts of Trin. July 5. Obadiah Grew of Ball. Coll. Admitted 152. Bach. of Phys But two were this year admitted of whom Thomas Simpson of Ch. Ch. was one and one admitted to practice in the same faculty Bach. of Div. May 2. Joh. Gumbleden of Ch. Ch. 9. Thom. Wetherell Joh. Strickland Joh. Ellis of Jes Coll. of Qu. Coll. The first of these three Th. Wetherell who was a Cumberland Man born and eminent for his knowledge in the Greek tongue wrot Radices Linguae Graecae which are put at the end of one of the editions of Jo. Riders Dictionary One Tho. Wetherell Bac. of Div. published five Sermons in 1635. But he is not the same with the former as the Seniors of Queens Coll. tell me June 30. Bruno Ryves of Magd. July 6. Joh. Lewgar of Trin. Coll. Oct. 23. George Griffith of Ch. Ch. Feb. 23. Alex. Grosse of Exet. Coll. Besides these were nineteen more admitted of whom Thom. Cook of Brasn Coll. was one being then accounted a most learned Divine He was after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire and Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in the Diocess of Hereford in the place as it seems of Dr. Morgan Godwin You are now to understand that one Tho. Cook Bach. of Div. wrot a book entit Episcopacy asserted as it now stands established in our Church and Commonwealth c. Lond. 1641. qu. Which Th. Cook having been bred as I conceive in Cambridge and afterwards beneficed in the East parts of England he is not to be taken to be the same with the former of Brasnose who afterwards was a Covenanteer and never lived in those parts or tho very able published any thing He died 6. Apr. 1669. aged 73 and was buried in the Church at Bampton whereupon his Vicaridge and Archdeaconry were confer'd on Steph. Philipps M. of A. of Brasnose who married his only Daughter and Heir Doct. of Law June 30. Giles Sweit of St. Maries Hall lately of Oriel College accumulated the Degrees in the Civil Law He was afterwards Principal of St.
the next month into Scotland This worthy Doctor who was Son of Thomas Turner of Heckfield in Hampshire Alderman and Mayor of Reading in Berkshire was born in the Parish of St. Giles within the said borough and admitted Scholar of St. Johns Coll. in 1610 being their put under the tuition of Mr. Will. Juxon who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury After he had entred into holy orders he became a practical useful Preacher which he kept up to the very last and was much resorted to by those whose principles were orthodox Afterwards he was made domestick Chaplain to Bishop Laud Chaplain in ordinary to King Char. 1. Canon residentiary of St. Paul and Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Hen. King promoted to the See of Chichester in which Dignity he was installed 26. Feb. 1641. Soon after he was sequestred from his Church of St. Olave in Southwark plundered carried thence Prisoner by a Party of Horse and at length forced to fly to save his life In 1643 he had the Deanery of Canterbury bestowed on him by his Majesty on the death of Dr. George Eglionby so that he constantly adhering to the cause of his Master in the worst of his calamities particularly at Hampton-court and afterwards in the Isle of Wight suffered afterwards great misery himself during the times of Usurpation which he bore with a good courage being then as always before esteemed a great exemplar of humility most Christian simplicity and of most fervent zeal to the Church After the restauration of King Charles 2. he contented himself only with those spiritualities which he before had lost for his loyalty and dying on the eighth day of Octob. 1672 aged 81 or thereabouts was buried on the 17 of the same month within the Cathedral Church of Canterbury At which time Dr. Peter du Moulin preaching a funeral Sermon did speak honorably of the Person that then laid dead before him to which Sermon being extant I refer the reader He the said Dr. Turner hath published A Sermon preached at Whitehall on Matth. 9. 13. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He left behind him several Sons which he had by his Wife Margaret Daughter of Sir Francis Windebanke Knight sometimes Secretary of State to King Charles 1. of whom Francis was one now Bishop of Ely Apr. 3. Rich. Doughtie Fellow of All 's Coll. was actually created M. of A. which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1634. An. 10. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Rob. Pinke D. of D. Warden of New Coll. July 26. Proct. Herbert Pelham of Magd. Coll. John Warren of Wadham Coll. Apr. 16. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 18. Thom. Gawen 24. George Kendall of New Coll. Inn. June 18. Josias How of Trin. Coll. See among the created Bachelaurs of Div. an 1646. 20. Rob. Waring 21. Hen. Gregory of Ch. Ch. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1637. July 8. John Maplet of Ch. Ch. July 9. Ralph Brideoake Nov. 11. Matthew Smalwood of Brasn Coll. The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Chichester 20. Rich. Harwood of Magd. Hall Jan. 15. Hen. Janson of Ball. afterwards of Allsouls Coll. 24. Hen. Hall of Lincolne Christopher Merret of Oriel Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry in Ireland The other was afterwards of Glocester Hall and an eminent Physician Feb. 6. Nathan Heigmore of Trin. Job Fountaine of C. C. Coll. The last of these two was originally of Linc. Coll. See more among the Masters of Art in 1637. Feb… Will. Taylor of Magd. Hall All these Bachelaurs except Henry Gregory will be mention'd elsewhere Admitted 216. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Nineteen were admitted this year among whom George Wild of St. Johns Coll. was one Feb. 7. afterwards Bishop of Londonderry in Ireland as I shall tell you at large in the next Volume Mast of Arts. Apr. 24. Tho. Wood of Ch. Ch. 29. Rich. Allein of New Inn lately of St. Alb. Hall Jun. 11. John Wilkins Nich. Clagett Walt. Bushnell of Magd. Hall The first of these there was afterwards Bishop of Chester as I should have told you under the year 1631 and Clagett had before been of Mert. Coll. 14. Tim. Taylor late of Qu. Coll. now of St. Maries Hall June 28. Dan. Whitby of Brasn July 2. Joh. Toy of Pemb. Coll. Oct. 29. Christoph Fowler of St. Edm. Hall Dec. 5. Will. Rowland of Exet. Coll. Jan. 29. John Warner Rich. Hayter of Magd. Coll. Feb. 5. Will. Thomas of Jes Coll. Admitted 150. Bach. of Phys Oct. 10. Will. Denton of Magd. Hall Besides him were five more admitted the first of whom was John Dixon of Gloc. hall and the last John Aubrey of Magd. Coll. but not one of them was afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. Mar. 26. John Hoffman of Exeter Coll. He was the Son of John Hoffman a Merchant of Elsentia in the Palatinat of Germany was about this time Rector of Wotton near to Wodstock in Oxfordshire which place he kept during the time of the rebellion being himself a Presbyterian and published The Principles of Christian Religion in 30 questions and answers Lond. 1674. oct and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He died soon after and was buried at Wotton beforemention'd June 26. Edm. Staunton of C. C. Coll. Admitted 12. Doct. of Law July 5. George Ryves of All 's 23. Tho. Heath of Merton Coll. The last of these two was about this time Chancellour of Peterborough where continuing till that office was annull'd and all matters relating to the Church tending to ruine he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion for that of Rome and lived ever after especially in his last days in so great poverty at Gant in Flanders that he was mostly sustained by the almes of the Monastery of English Nuns there and partly by the contribution of some charitable Persons in that town He died on the second day of Febr. 1680. according to the accompt there followed and was buried by the charity of others having nothing of his own in the Parish Church of St. Nicholas near to the said Monastery Doct. of Phys Oct. 10. Will. Denton of Magd. hall He accumulated the Degrees in Physick and was the only proceeder in his faculty this year He is now living in Convent-garden near Lond. 1690. Doct. of Div. Mar. 26. Morgan Wynne of All 's Coll. In the beginning of Dec. 1629. he became Archdeacon of Lincolne but in whose room I cannot tell for between the death of Dr. John Hills which hapned in 1626 to Nov. 1629 that Dignity was enjoyed by one as yet unknown to me This Dr. Wynne who was Rector of Scotter in Lincolnshire died and was buried at Scotter as it seems an 1644. Whereupon Raphael Throckmorton succeeded him an 1645. May 10. John Morris Hebrew Professor of the University and Canon of Ch. Ch. sometimes
Chaplain of All 's Coll. 14. Anth. Clopton of C. C. Coll. June 25. Gilb. Sheldon of All 's Coll. Compounders 26. Edm. Staunton of C. C. C. He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity July 1. Thom. Leigh Rich. Parr of Bras Coll. The first of these two was a Compounder the other was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man 5. Will. Page of All 's Coll. 10. Edw. Willimot of Magd. Hall 26. George Eglionby of Ch. Ch. This Person who was sometimes Master of Westminster School and afterwards Tutor to Geor. the young Duke of Buckingham was made Canon or Preb. of the twelfth stall in St. Peters Church in Westminster on the death of his Uncle Dr. John King an 1638 Dean of Canterbury in the place of Dr. Isaac Bargrave deceased an 1642 and dying in the beginning of Nov. 1643 was buried on the eleventh of the same month in the Isle joyning on the South side of the Choire of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Nov. 4. Geor. Griffith of Ch. Ch. Incorporations May 4. Robert Bostock D. of D. of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland This Robert Bostock who was originally of Trin. Coll. in Oxon was installed Archdeacon of Suffolk in the place of Dr. Rob. Pearson deceased on the fourth day of Feb. an 1639 and dying soon after Richard Mileson M. of A. succeeded Dr. Bostock also was Canon residentiary of Chichester where dying in Nov. 1640 was there buried July… Roger Goodiere Will. Goddard John Hodge Doct. of Phys of Leyden Padua Mountpelier in Holland Italy France In the Reign of K. Jam. 1. lived in London one Will. Goddard a fantastical Poet among the Templers a sit seems Author of 1 A mastiff whelp with other ruff-Island-like curs from among the Antipedes alias London in 85 Satyrs 2 Dogs from the Antipedes in 41. Satyrs Both printed at London in qu. in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. But these I cannot say were made by Will. Goddard who was afterwards Doct. of Phys Oct. 21. John Ellis D. D. of the University of S. Andrew lately of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. Jan. 29. Joh. Spencer Doct. of Phys of Leyden One Rich. Lloyd M. of A. of Cambridge was incorporated this year but the day or month when I know not nor any thing else of him An. Dom. 1635. An. 11 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Dr. Pinke of New Coll. again Jul. 22. Proct. Joh. Edwards of S. Joh Coll. Guy Carleton of Qu. Coll. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 23. Will. Creed of S. Joh. Jan. 4. Anth. Hodges of New Coll. Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters an 1638. 16. Rich. Whitlock of Magd. Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. July 4. Franc. Bampfield of Wadh. Obadiah Walker of Vniv. 11. Thomas Smith of Queens Coll. The last was afterwards Bishop of Carlile Oct. 15. Joh. Godolphin of Gloc. 20. Nath. Hardy of Magd. Rich. Hooke of New Inn Hall One Rich. Hooke M. of A. and Minister of Lowdham in Nottinghamshire hath written The laver of regeneration and the cup of salvation in two treatises concerning Baptism and the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1653. Whether this Rich. Hooke who hath also one or more Sermons extant besides the said book be the same with Rich. Hooke of New Inn who was a Northamptonshire man born but not M. of A. of this University I cannot yet tell One Rich. Hook Vicar of Halyfax in Yorkshire is Author of The Nonconformists Champion c. pr. 1682. oct Oct. 23. Obadiah How Nov. 28. Hen. Wilkinson jun. of Magd. Hall Dec. 3. Rob. Cary Jun. 19. Rich. Burney of C. C. Coll. All these except Hodges and Hook will be mention'd elsewhere Adm. 234. Bach. of Law Nine were admitted this year but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or a Bishop Mast of Arts. Apr. 15. Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch. Joh. Bishop of Ball. Coll. One John Bishop was Author of The survey of Man on Job 14. 10. printed 1652. qu. and perhaps of other things Whether this Joh. Bishop be the same with Joh. Bishop of Ball. Coll. M. of A. before mention'd or the same with another Jo. Bishop who was Bach. of Arts of Hart Hall and a Wiltshire man born I cannot tell unless I could see The survey of man which I have not yet done May 12. Humph. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 4. Will. Eyre of Magd. Hall 16. Joh. Michel of Qu. Coll. Esquire a Compounder which is all I know of him 27. George Ashwell of Wadh. John Owen of Queens Coll. Oct. 15. Dudley Digges of Allsoules lately of Vniv. Coll. Jan. 19. Edward Gamage of S. Edm. Hall I take him to be the same Gamage who was afterwards Archdeacon of Landâ—ff in which dignity he was succeeded by Dr. George Bull an 1686. Adm. 128. Bach. of Physick Seven were admitted of whom Steph. Bridges of C. C. Coll. was the senior and Leonard Traherne of Pemb. Coll. was the junior but not one of them can I yet find that was then or afterwards a Writer Bach. of Div. June 6. Will. Evans of S. Maries Hall He had before this time published The translation of the book of nature into the use of grace Sermon on Rom. 12. 4 5. Oxon 1633. qu. Which is all I know of him only that he was living in 1660. 8. Edw. Stanley of New Jul. 22. Joh. Gauden of Ward Coll. Dec. 12. Joseph Henshaw of Magd. Hall Adm. 7. Doct. of Law Jun. 13. George Riddell or Riddle of Qu. Coll. Dec. 8. James Littleton of All 's Coll. When he was Bach. of Law he succeeded Dr. Christop Helme in the Chancellourship of the Diocess of Worcester and dying in the times of Usurpation was succeeded in that office by Tim. Baldwin LL. D. Oliver Lloyd of All 's Coll. was admitted the same day ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jun. 8. Edward Stanley of New Dec. 8. John Littleton of Jes Coll. The first of these two accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations Jun. 16. John Bugges a Londoner born and Doctor of Phys of Leyden Jun… Mathew Thoris M. of A. of Franaker in Westfriezen This person who was formerly of Pemb. Coll. was also a Londoner born and Son of Mich. Thoris which is all I know of him Jul. 10. Joh. Silvius Kentigern Moravius These were both Scots and Masters of Arts of the University of S. Andrew July… Will. Day M. A. of Cambridge He was a Native of Windsore in Berks and being educated in Eaton School was thence transplanted to Kings Coll. in the said University Afterwards he became Minister of Mapledurham near Henley in Oxfordshire and Author of An exposition of the book of the Prophet Isaiah Lond. 1654 fol. and of other things Oct. 20. Jeremiah Taylor M. A. of Cambr. soon after Fellow of All 's Coll. He will be at large mention'd in the other Volume 30. Joh. Munlossius M of A. of Bordeaux in France This year was incorporated Master of
and afterwards to K. Ch. 1. was installed Dean of Glocester after Dr. Tho. Winniff's removal to the Deanery of St. Pauls on the eleventh of June 1631 and on the 25. of Aug. or thereabouts following became Dean of Wells on the death of Ralph Barlow He hath published King Melchizedek Serm. at Court at East-hamstead 2. Sept. 1623. Lond. 1623. qu. and whether any thing else I cannot yet tell In 1640 he went to London to attend the Convocation of the Clergy that began with the Long Parliament and dying in Drury-lane in the month of Dec. or thereabouts an 1641 was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Walt. Rawleigh James Hena or Hannay a Scot. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. He was admitted to the Deanery of Wells 13. January 1641. Edw. Burby of Linc. Coll. He was now Prebendary and Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was before enjoyed by Ranulph Barlow D. D. of Cambridge George Gillingham of Pemb. Coll. He was at this time one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 2. Nov. 1639 was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Joh. Elly deceased He had other preferments and died 16. Dec. 1668 being then Rector of Chalton in Hampshire Daniel Escott Warden of Wadham Coll. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Morgan Owen of Jes Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lincolne and the last Bishop of Landaff Samuel Marsh of Trin. Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University and at this time Preb. of Roscombe in the Church of Sarum Steph. Goffe or Gough of St. Albans Hall lately of Mert. Coll. This Person who was Son of Steph. Goffe the puritanical Minister of Stanmer in Sussex travelled into the Low-countries after he had taken his Masters Degree and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Col. H. Vere whereby he gained good acquaintance and experience which wound him at his return so much into the favour of Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of St. Alban that he was made one of the Kings Chaplains by which title he was created Doctor of Divinity and afterwards employed in the quality of a minor Agent and Envoy into France then into Flanders Holland and other Countries c. In the time of the rebellion he also acted much for his Master in several Countries beyond the Seas and did him great Service but when he saw the English Church ruin'd and Monarchy declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and was thereupon taken into the society of the Oratorians at Paris an order very famous there tho but little known among us The brethren whereof having liberty to improve their particular estates for things are not common among them as with other orders he grew rich upon the stock which he had formerly gathered together by his endeavours whereby he was in capacity sometimes to do courtesies for his exil'd Countrymen Abrah Cowley the Prince of Poets was while at Paris preferr'd and plac'd by him tho the story is perverted in the Family of the said noble Henry then Lord Jermyn Through whose heroical bounty he was afterwards design'd to the Mastership of the Savoy but by certain enemies to the Muses was depriv'd of it Afterwards Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother to whom Goffe was Chaplain committed to the said Goffs care the tuition of the natural Son of K. Ch. 2. known then by the name of James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth with whom continuing till he was about nine years of age was taken from him and committed to the care of a Gentleman called Rose or Rosse who after his Majesties restauration went Secretary to Henry Coventry Esq in his Embassy into Sweeden This Doctor Goffe who was esteemed by some a learned Man and well read in the Fathers and therefore respected by Gerard Jo. Vossius and others died in the house of the Fathers or Brethren of the Oratory situated in the street called St. Howrè at Paris on Christmas day according to our account an 1681. aged 76 or thereabouts and was buried in the Chappel belonging to that house What writings of his are published besides Nine Latin Epistles to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius and his Negotiations taken by the Rebels at the battel at Sherburne in Yorkshire which with George Lord Digby's Cabinet and other things were published at Lond. in qu. 1646. I know not He had a younger Brother named John Goffe who was a true Son of the Church of England as I shall tell you among the Writers under the year 1661. and another called William originally a Salter or a Hatter as some day in London who closing with the Presbyterians in the time of the Rebellion became a Colonel great with Oliv. Cromwell one of the Judges of King Char. 1. and a member of the other house that is one of Olivers Lords See more in the Fasti an 1649. among the Creations Rich. Marsh of the University of Cambridge lately Chaplain to Archb. Laud afterwards to his Maj. Ch. 1. He was now Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York and soon after Vicar of Halyfax in the room of Hen. Ramsden deceased In Nov. 1644. he had the Deanery of York conferr'd upon him on the death of Dr. Job Scot who died in the Kings bench Prison in Southwark At which time his Majesty being at Oxon Dr. Pet. Heylyn endeavoured by his friends to obtain that Dignity but was put aside After his Majesties restauration he was elected 17. of Aug. and installed 20. of the same month an 1660. and dying 13. Oct. 1663. aged 78 was buried near to the grave of Matthew Hutton sometimes Archbishop of York in the South Isle joyning to the Cath. Church there In his Deanery succeeded Will. Sandcroft D. D. of Cambridge installed therein 26. Feb. 1663 who being removed to the Deanery of St. Pauls Cathedral in London Dr. Rob. Hitch of the same University succeeded in Dec. 1664. Dr. Marsh hath one or more Sermons extant Edw. Morton lately M. of A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge now Rector of Sefton in Lancashire Chaplain to the Lord Keeper and Prebendary of Chester He was born of an antient Family at Morton in Cheshire and was Father to Dr. Will. Moreton Bishop of Kildare in Ireland Samps Johnson of Magd. Coll. Thomas Whittington Thomas Manwaring of Brasn Coll. Meric Casaubon Edw. Thornborough of Ch. Ch. The last of these two was Son of Dr. Jo. Thornborough Bishop of Worcester was now Archdeacon of Worcester who dying in 1645 Will. Hodges Bach. of Div. of Oxon was admitted in his place 30. of May the same year Mich. Reade of Linc. Will. Haywood of St. Jo. Coll. Laur. Pay of Ch. Ch. These were all the Doctors of Divinity that were then created Afterwards these noble Persons were created in Oct. following Oct. 14. The most illustrious and high born Prince Christianus Landtgrave of Hassia Count in Catzenellebogen Dieza Ziegenhain and Nidda was diplomated Master of Arts. The most illustrious and high born Prince
of S. Alb. Hall was one a younger Son of Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter Mast of Arts. Mar. 28. Joh. Goad of S. Joh. Jun. 18. Sam. Fisher of Magd. Coll. Jun… Joh. Bachler or Bachiler of Gloc. Hall He is not to be understood to be the same with Joh. Bachiler Author of Golden sands c. Lond. 1647 The Virgins pattern c. Lond. 1661. oct and of several Sermons because he was bred in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge 31. Tho. Weaver of Ch. Ch. Jul. 9. Joh. French of New Inn. Oct. 20. Dudley Loftus of Vniv. Nov. 3. Will. Dingley of Magd. Coll. Jan. 16. Will. Hughes of New Inn. Mar. 6. Edw. Chamberlayne of S. Edm. 22. John Hinkley of S. Albans Hall Adm. 108. Bach. of Phys July 18. Edw. Greaves of All 's Franc. Goddard of Exet. Coll. Whether the last was afterwards a Writer I cannot tell The first I am sure was Bach. of Div. Jun. 20. Francis Davies of Jesus Coll. Jul. 7. George Bathurst of Trin. COll The last of these two who was Fellow of the said Coll. and a Native of Garsingdon near to Oxon hath extant Oratio funebris in obitum desideratiss viri Thomae Alleni Coll. Trinit olim socii Aulae Glocestrensis 62 annos commensalis Lond. 1632 qu. He was afterwards engaged in his Majesties Service was a Defendant within the Garrison of Farringdon in Berks. where he died of a wound in the thigh about 1644. 9. John Webberley of Linc. Coll. Jan. 30. Tho. Masters of New Coll. The first of these two who was the Son of Thom. Webberley of East-Kirbey in Lincolnshire was now esteem'd by all a high flown Socinian and afterwards a desperate Zealot for the Kings cause in the time of the grand Rebellion He had translated into English several Socinian books some of which he had published without his name set to them and others which were laying by him were taken out of his study by the Parliamentarian Visitors an 1648 in which year he suffer'd much for his Loyalty by Imprisonment first and afterwards by Expulsion See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 405. a. b. c. Adm. 16. Doct. of Law July 2. Rich. Chaworth of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Vicar General to the Archbishop of Canterbury a Knight Chancellour of Chichester and London He died and was buried at Richmond in Surrey in June or July 1673. Rouland Scudamore of Brasn Coll. was admitted the same day Oct. 17. Thom. Hyde of New Coll. He was a younger Son of Sir Laur. Hyde of Salisbury Knight was about this time Chancellour of that place and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty He died in 1661. Doct. of Phys Jun. 9. Charles Bostock of Ch. Ch. Not one besides him was licensed to proceed this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 18. Herbert Croft of Ch. Ch. Jun. 25. Hen. Croke of Brasn Coll. 26. Sebastian Smith of Ch. Ch. He was now or lately Prebendary of Peterborugh and Chauntor of the Church of Wells to which last he was admitted on the death of Edw. Abbot 9 of March 1634 and at length became Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Jul. 2. Will. Evans of Qu. Coll. now Prebendary of Hereford Nov. 28. Rob. Neulin President of C. C. Coll. He was ejected from his Presidentship in 1648 was restored in 1660 and dying 5 March 1687 aged 90 years or more was buried in C. C. Coll. Chappel Incorporations Jul. 14. Thom. Stanley M. of A. of Cambridge This Gentleman who was the only Son of Sir Tho. Stanley Knight was born at Cumberlow in Hertfordshire educated in Grammatical learning in his Fathers House under one Mr. Will. Fairfax in Academical in Pembroke Hall in Cambridge in the quality of a Gentleman Commoner where he became a very early proficient in several sorts of polite learning In the times of Usurpation he lived in the Middle Temple where he advanced his knowledge much by the Communication of his Kinsman Edw. Sherburne Esq then lately returned from his Travels became much deserving of the Commonwealth of Learning in general and particularly honour'd for his smooth air and gentle spirit in Poetry which appears not only in his own genuine Poems but also from those things which he hath translated out of the ancient Greek and modern Italian Spanish and French Poets His writings are 1 The History of Philosophy containing those on whom the Attribute of Wise was conferred Lond. 1655. fol. in three parts with Stanley's Picture before them The second Vol. was printed in 1656. fol. containing five parts making in all eight parts And at the end of the said second Vol. is The doctrine of the Stoicks in two parts The third Vol. of the said Hist of Philosophy was published in 1660. fol. contained also in several parts All which parts illustrated with Cuts were reprinted 1687 fol. 2 History of Chaldaick Philosophy c. Lond. 1662. 3 Poems Lond. 1651. oct dedicated to Love some of which and not others in his Translations had if I am not mistaken musical Compositions set to them by John Gamble in his book entit Ayres and Dialogues to be sung to the Theorbo-Lute or Bass Viol. Lond. 1651. fol. Which J. Gamble by the way I must let the Reader know was bred up in the condition of an Apprentice under a noted Master of Musick called Ambrose Beyland was afterwards a Musitian belonging to a Playhouse one of the Cornets in the Kings Chappel one of the Violins to K. Ch. 2. and a Composer of Lessons for the Kings Playhouse 4 Translation of with Annotations on Europa in the Idyll of Theocritus Cupid crucified Venus Vigils Lond. 1649. oct To the second Edition of which he added the Translation of and Notes on Anacreon Bion Kisses by Secundus printed 1651. oct 5 Version of and Commentary on Aeschyli tragoediae septem cum scoliis Graecis omnibus deperditorum Drammatum fragmentis Lond. 1664. fol. He also translated into English without Annotations 1 Aurora Ismenia and The Prince written by Don Juen Perez de Montalvan Lond. 1650. second Edit 2 Oronta the Cyprian Virgin by Signior Girolamo Preti Lond. 1650. second Edit 3 A Platonick discourse of love written in Ital. by Joh. Picus Mirandula printed 1651. oct 4 Sylvia's Park by Theophile Acanthus complaint by Tristan Oronto by Preti Echo by Marino Loves Embassy by Boscan The Solitude by Gongora All printed 1651. oct c. This learned Gent. Tho. Stanley died in his Lodgings in Suffolk street in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster 12 Apr. 1678 and was buried in the Church there He left behind him a Son of both his names educated in Pembroke Hall in Cambridge who when very young translated into English Claud. Elianus his Various Histories Jul… Thomas Philipot of Cambridge was incorporated after the Act time as a certain private note tells me but in what degree unless in that of Master of Arts I cannot yet find He was the Son of
affirmed that her knees were hard with kneeling her justice and clemency in restoring noble houses to her own private loss and hindrance and lastly her grevious and patient death he fell into such an unfeigned weeping that for a long space he could not speak Then recovering himself he said she had left a Sister to succeed her a Lady of great worth also whom they were now bound to obey for saith he melior est canis vivus leone mortuo and I hope so shall Reign well and prosperously over us but I must say still with my Text Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes for certain it is Maria optimam partem elegit Afterwards Qu Elizabeth taking just indignation 〈◊〉 partly for his Sermon and partly for that he was a zealous Man for the R. Catholick cause and an enemy to the reformers of Religion commit him to custody and for threatning as 't is said to excommunicate her as Watson Bishop of Lincoln did was deprived of his Bishoprick for which he paid yearly 1000 l. to Cardinal Pole to keep up his state and dignity His works are Diacosio Martyrion i. e. ducentorum virorum testimonia de veritate corporis sanguinis Christi in Eucharistiâ ante triennium adversus Petr. Martyrem ex professo conscriptum sed nunc primum in lucem editum Lond. 1553. qu. in Lat. verse Epistola Petro Martyri This is printed with the former Book and treateth mostly of Martyrs disputation at Oxon. in K. Edwards days and is in vindication of Dr. Rich. Smith who disputed with and baffled him Epigrammatum lib. 1. Carmina in Matrimon Philippi Regis cum Maria Regina Angliae Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Qu. Mary 13. Dec. 1558. on Eccles 4. 2. MS. in the Libr. sometimes of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultrey-Compter You 'll find also several of his discourses in the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. published by Joh. Fox and also his discourse with Bishop Rydley at Oxon 30. Sept. 1555 when he was about to be burnt exhorting him to return from his Heresie as he then term'd it See also in Rob. Persons his animadversions on that discourse in The third part of a treatise intit Of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604. Chap. 14. p. 209. At length our Author Jo. Whyte being deprived of his Bishoprick in June 1559. he retired to his Sisters house at Southwarnborow in Hampshire where spending the little remainder of his days in great sanctity and recluseness gave way to fate on the eleventh day of January following Whereupon his body was soon after carried to Winchester and buried in the Cathedral there according to his will which partly runs thus My desire is to be buried in that my Cathedral of Winchester ut in novissima die resurgam cum patribus filiis quorum fidem teneo c. While he was Warden of the Coll. near Winchester and dream'd not in the least to be removed thence to a Bishoprick he provided a Tomb stone for himself to be laid on the ground in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. with intentions to be buried under it by the care of his Heir and Executor whensoever it should please God to call him out of this transitory life and caused to be engraven twenty long and short verses of his own composition under his picture engraven on a brass plate and fastned to the said stone The two first are these Hic tegor hic post fata Whitus propono jacere Scriptor Johannis carminis ipse mei But being afterwards contrary to all expectation promoted successively to two Bishopricks by Qu. Mary his mind was altered as I have before told you He gave to Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester his Miter and Crosier staff a silver tankard guilt a bason and eure of silver a Turkey-carpet and other choice goods and some years before his death he was a Benefactor to New Coll. as you may see in Hist Antiq. Univers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. b. JAMES BROKES another most zealous Bishop for the Rom. Catholick cause was born in Hampshire in the Month of May 1512 admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 1528 and Fellow in Jan. 1531 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he applyed his studies to Divinity took the degrees in that faculty that of Doctor being compleated 1546. The next Year he was made Master of Balliol Coll. and at length by Qu. Mary Bishop of Glocester to which See being elected after the deprivation of Joh. Hoper had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 8. May 1554 and in the Year following he was delegated by the Pope for the examining and trying of Cranmer Rydley and Latimer when they stood up for and were ready to dye in defence of the Protestant Religion He was a Person very learned in the time he lived an eloquent Preacher and a zealous maintainer of the R. C. Religion as well in his Sermons as Writings Some of which are published as Sermon at Pauls Cross in the first Year of Qu. Mary on Matth. 9. 18. Lond. 1553. 54 oct Oration in S. Maries Church in Oxon 12. March 1555 to Thom. Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury The beginning is My Lord at this present we are come to you as commissioners c. Oration in closing up the examination of Th. Cranmer Archbishop of Cant. The beg is Mr. Cranmer I cannot otherwise considering your obstinacy I am right sorry c. These two Orations are printed by John Fox in his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. wherein you 'll find some of his discourses with Rydley after they had been published by themselves What else is extant under his name I know not nor anything of him besides only that he dying in the beginning of Feb. about Candlemass in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine which was the second year of Qu. Elizabeth was buried in a stone Coffin in his Cathedral Church at Glocester but hath no memory over his Grave ROGER EDGEWORTH another zealot and a frequent Preacher against Protestants called in his time Hereticks was born at Holt castle within the Marches of Wales became a student in Oxon about 1503 took a degree in Arts in 1507 and the Year after was elected Fellow of Orâ—el College to which place he was a benefactor at the time of his death Afterwards proceeding in the said faculty he took holy orders and became a noted Preacher in the University and elsewhere In 1519 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and afterwards became very well dignified as Canon of Salisbury Well and Bristow being then D. of D Residentiary of the Cathedral of Wells and Chancellour of the same Church The last of which dignities was conferr'd on him 30. Apr. 1554 upon the deprivation of Joh. Tayler alias Cardmaker Besides all these he was Vicar also of St. Cuthberts Church in Wells to which he was admitted
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 Caâ—rmerden 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
common use Printed 1588 in oct dedicated to Sir Jo. Horsey Knight Brief Treatise of the preservation of the Eye-sight Printed in the Reign of Qu. Eliz. in tw and at Oxon 1616 and 1654 in oct c. In that Edition of 1616 was printed another or second Treatise of the Eye-sight collected from Fernclius and Riolanus but by whom I know not They both now go under the name of Bailey who hath also written Directions for health natural and artificial with Medicines for all diseases of the Eyes Printed 1626 in qu. Explicatio Galeni de potu convaelescentium senum praecipuè de nosti ae Alae Biriae paratione c. MS. in qu. sometimes in the Library of Robert Earl of Aylesbury He the said Dr. Bailey surrendred up his last breath March 3. in fifteen hundred ninty and two aged 63 and was buried in the inner Chappel of New Coll. whose Epitaph you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. b. His posterity do live at this day at Ducklington near to Witney in Oxfordshire some of whom have been Justices of the Peace for the said County FRANCIS PUCCIUS Filidinus was born of the noble and renowned family of the Puccii at Florence from which had sprung before his time three Cardinals educated from his Childhood in good Letters and in the R. Cath. Religion exercis'd the trade of Merchandize at Lyons where many differences and disputes arising concerning Religion which were not then quite sopited our Author Puccius who was only a Spectator laid aside his trade and totally applied himself to the study of Sacred Letters to the end that he might perfectly understand the grounds of his belief and what was professed by the Protestants At length being satisfied in Conscience that those of the Ro. Church were in an errour he left France and Italy retired into England and being seemingly a Protestant he went to the University of Oxon got himself thro commendations of his sincerity to be entred into a Coll. or Hall wherein he studied Philosophy and Divinity very severely and took the degree of Master of Arts an 1574. About which time maintaining certain opinions contrary to those of the Grandees of the said University which were Calvinistical especially de fide in dcum quae qualis sit had many private disputes with Theologists there and at length publick Which disputes being altogether displeasing to them who esteemed them ridiculous and the author no better than an arrogant and an opinionative person they found means to remove him from the University much about the same time that he was endeavouring to be a Theol. or Catechistical Lecturer lest his Doctrine should take root among the juniors For at that time they being very zealous for a thro Reformation were jealous of all strangers that came among them and particularly of him whom they well knew to have been a zealous Papist and then no well-grounded Protestant From Oxford he went to London had several disputes there also and became acquainted with Ant. Corrano who living about that time in Oxon also his person could never be well relisht among them Afterwards Puccius went to Basil in Germany upon the invitation of Francisc Bettus a Roman then living there where meeting also with Faustus Socirus they had many discourses concerning the adventures of 〈◊〉 England and at length had several disputes 〈◊〉 himself with which he seeming 〈◊〉 Puccius wrote ten arguments de 〈…〉 primi hominis ante peccatum All which being answered by Socinus were by him with several disputations that had passed between them made publick Afterwards Puccius was forced to leave Basil because he had printed certain Theses to be disputed on in which he asserted universum humanum genus in ipso matris utero efficaciter particeps esse beneficiis Christi vitae immortalis beatae c. Whereupon he went into England and so to London where he began to publish his paradoxical opinions and that with such confidence as if Orpheus like he meant to charm all to follow him but his waters being narrowly watch'd he was seiz'd on imprison'd and suffered several calamities otherwise Oxford would have once more tasted of his Doctrine Afterwards being let loose he went into Flanders and Holland where he corresponded by Letters with Socinus From Holland he went to Antwerp where he did the like and had several cavilling disputes not only with such that he esteemed heterodox but with those of his own opinion Thence he removed to Cracaw in Poland where he had frequent disputes with the Jesuits and others nay and with some of his own perswasion Socinus being there also and wrote several matters in the Italian Tongue against the Church of Rome in 1585. While he continued in the said City of Cracaw it hapned that he became acquainted with two persons that had come to that place with Albertus Alaskie Prince or Vaywood of Sirad when he left England Their names were John Dee and Edward Kelley Magicians who having partly known Puccius in England did entertain and admit him into their secrets with great hope of some good to be done by his fellowship and in August the same year he was actually with them at Prague in Bohemia to which place they conveyed him while certain Spirits appeared to them Kelley being then Seer and d ee an observer or writer down of what was said by the Spirits and Kelley's seeing and interpreting At length Puccius did not deal truely and sincerely with them which much troubled Dee and thereupon he desired to be rid of him Puccius therefore perceiving it wrote a large and submissive Letter to the said Dee and Kelly and among other things gave him a very punctual account of what had passed between Philip Bishop of Placentià who was sent by the Pope as his Nuncio to have the said Magicians banished or else sent to Rome and himself concerning their cause apparitions high attempts c. But so it was that whither by the perswasions of the said Nuncio or some things utter'd by the Spirits that all the World should at length come to the Church of Rome he forthwith recanted before certain Rom. Priests and became a zealous Papist and at length a Priest All that I have seen of his works besides what are already mentioned are De Christi Salvatoris efficacitate in omnibus singulis hominibus quatenus homines sunt assertio Catholica c. Goudae 1592. oct Ded. to P. Clem. 8. Epistola ad Jo. Dee Edw. Kelly Dat. at Prag 15. Cal. oct 1585. 'T is a large Epistle in Latin and is the same with the submissive Letter before mentioned After the year fifteen hundred and ninty two he went to Rome and became Secretary to Cardinal Pompeius Arragon from whom he expected great matters but death snatching him untimely away in the midst of his aspiring thoughts about the year 1600 was buried in the Church of St.
Onuphrius in Rome I have more than twice sent to that place for the day and year of his death with a copy of his Epitaph but as yet I have received no answer Therefore take this Epitâ—â— made for him which I have met with elsewhere Inveni portum spes fortuna valete Nil mihi vobiscum ludite nunc alios HENRY SALESBURY born of and descended from a right ancient family of his name living in Denbigbshire became a commoner of S. Albans hall in 1581 aged 20 years took one degree in Arts and no more in this University entred on the Physick line practiced afterwards in his own country and was esteemed by the learned not only an eminent Physician but a curious Critick especially as to matters relating to the Antiquities and Language of his country He lâ—th written Dictionarium Britannicum Which being left 〈◊〉 in MS came into the hands of Job Davies who made great use of it when he was 〈◊〉 his Dictionary in British and Lat. and in Lat. and British What our author Salesbury hath written besides or when he died I find not nor any thing else of him only that he was of the same family with and very nearly related to Will. Salesbury whom I have mentioned under the year 1567 from whose endeavours this H. Salesbury found divers materials when he was composing his Dictionary before-mentioned and perhaps had received instruction from his own Person in matters relating to British affairs ISAAC COLFE fourth Son of Amandus Colfe alias Coult of Callis in France and of the City of Canterbury in England was born in Kent particulary as I suppose in the said City become a Commoner of Broadgates Hall in the beginning of the year 1576. took the Degrees in Arts Holy Orders and was afterwards beneficed if not dignified in his own Country His Works are Sermon 17. Nov. 1587. on Psal 118. 22. to the end of 26. Lond. in oct A Comfortable Treatise of the Temptation of Christ Lond. 1592. in oct with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen His eldest Brother Rich. Colfe was born at Callis educated in Ch. Ch. in this University and was afterwards Doctor of Divinity as I shall elsewhere tell you He left behind him several Sons among whom were Isaac of Ch. Ch. and Jacob of All Souls Col. JOHN PENRY or ap Henry that is the Son of Henry better known by the Name of Martin Marprelate or Marpriest as having been a Plague to the Bishops and Ministers of his time than by his own was born and bred as he used to say in the Mountains of Wales particularly as others say in the County of Brecknock became a Sub-sizer of Peter House in Cambridge about 1578. At which time as one a saith he was as arrant a Papist as ever came out of Wales and that he would have run a false Gallop over his Beads with any Man in England and help the Priest for a shift to say Mass at midnight c. In 1583. or thereabouts he took a Degree in Arts in that University and afterwards did perform some or most of the Exercise requisite for Master but leaving the said University abruptly for what cause I know not he retired to Oxon and getting himself to be entred a Commoner of St. Alban's Hall notwithstanding the vigour of Puritanism did then Reign among the Heads of the University which makes me to think that Penry was not then inclined to Popery he continued there for some time finished the remaining part of his Exercise and in the beginning of July 1586. he was licensed to proceed in Arts as a Member of the said Hall and on the eleventh of the said Month compleated that Degree in an Act celebrated in the Church of St. Mary About that time he took Holy Orders did Preach in Oxon and afterwards in Cambridge and was esteemed by many a tolerable Scholar an edifying Preacher and a good Man but being a Person full of Welsh Blood of a hot and restless Head did upon some discontent change the course of his Life and became a most notorious Anabaptist of which Party he was in his time the Corâ—pâ—â—â—us and in some sort a Brownist and the most bitter Enemy to the Church of England as any that appeared in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth He hath written A view of some part of such Publick Wants and Disorders as are in the Service of God within her Majesty's Country of Wales with an Humble Petition to the High Court of Parliament for their speedy redress Printed 1588. in oct Therein is shewed not only the necessity of Reforming the State of Religion among that People but also the only way in regard of substance to bring that Reformation to pass A defence of that which hath been written in the questions of the ignorant Ministry and the communicating with them Printed 1588. in oct written against Rob. Some D. D. of Cambridge who published the same year A Treatise deciding several questions concerning the Ministry Sacrament and Church Lond. in qu. As also A confutation of some of Mr. Penry's Errours About that time J. G. of Oxon published a Book entit Mr. Some laid open in his Colours wherein the indifferent Reader may easily see how wretchedly and loosly he hath handled the Cause against Mr. Penry Printed in oct Penry hath also written Exhortation unto the Governours and People of her Majesty's Country of Wales to labour earnestly to have the Preaching of the Gospel planted among them Printed 1588. in oct Theses Martinianae i. e. certain demonstrative conclusions set down and collected by Martin Marprelate the Great serving as a manifest and sufficient confutation of all that ever the College of Catercaps with their whole Band of Clergy-Priests have or can bring for the defence of their ambitious and Antichristian relacy Published by Martin Junior 1589. in oct and dedicated to John Kankerbury that is John Archbishop of Canterbury At the end of which Book Martin Junior hath an Epilogue The just censure and reproof of Mart. Marprelate to Martin Junior Printed with the former Protestation of Mart Marprelate Wherein notwithstanding the surprising of the Printer he maketh it known unto the World that he feareth neither proud Priest Antichristian Pope Tyrannous Prelate nor godless Catercap c. Printed 1589. in 120. by stealth and very full of faults Dialogue wherein is plainly laid open the tyrannical dealings of the Lords Bishops against God's Children Printed 1589. in qu. Therein are several reflecting stories on Dr. Martin Culpeper Warden of New College and on Dr. Nich. Bond of Magd. College and on his excellent dancing This scandalous Dialogue which was reprinted when the Long-Parliament began An. 1640. purposely to spite Archbishop Laud and the Bishops was with other like stuff of the said Mart. Marprelate answered by T. C. that is Thom. Cooper in his Admonition to the People of England c. See more in Tho. Cooper under
moity of the Church of Cotgrave He gave way to fate about the beginning of Dec. as it seems in fifteen hundred fifty and five year 1555 whereupon one Thomas Milner was instituted in the said moity on the 18. of Dec. the same year and Cuthb Scot. D. of D. of Cambridge was much about that time nominated to succeed him in the See of Chester the temporalities of which were given to him 25. of Sept. 1556. ARTHUR BOKELY or Bulkley was descended from an ancient Family of his name living in the Isle of Anglesie but in what coll or hall he was educated unless in New Inn I cannot justly tell About the time that he took the degree in the Canon Law he was beneficed and dignified in Wales where he was held in esteem for a good Canonist At length being promoted to the See of Bangor and consecrated thereunto had the temporalities of that See given to him on the eleventh of Febr. 1541. After his death which happened in fifteen hundred fifty and five year 1555 succeeded in the said See Dr. Will. Glynn of Qu. coll in Cambridge an excellent Scholar and a very good disputant of his time who dying about the latter end of May 1558. was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Bangor under that very place where the Sepulcher on Goodfriday and in Easter time use to stand Not long after his death Qu. Mary nominated to succeed in that See one Maurice Clennock a Welsh man Bach. of Law of this University Preb. of York and an Officer in the Prerogative Court under Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury but the said Queen dying before he was consecrated thereunto he with Goldwell Bish of S. Asaph fled beyond the Seas and going to Rome Clennock some years after became the first Rector of the English Hospital there after it was converted into a college for English students where he was mostly called by the name of Dr. Maurice and much noted by the said students for his great partiality used towards his own Country-men of Wales which always caused during his time a great faction between the Welsh and English students abiding in that college ROBERT ALDRICH Doctor of divinity of this University an eminent Orator and Poet of his time became Bishop of Carlile in 1537. and died in the latter end of the year fifteen hundred fifty and five under which year you may see more among the writers In the See of Carlile succeeded Dr. Owen Ogelthorpe of whom I shall make large mention among these Bishops under the year 1560. JOHN HARLEY was born as it seems in Herefordshire or at least extracted from those of his name there admitted Fellow of Magd. coll about 1537. being then Bachelaur of Arts and Master of the Free-school joyning to that college Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy orders became Preacher to the Earl of Warwick and Tutor to his children a zealous Preacher in Oxon against the R. Catholicks upon the coming to the crown of K. Ed. 6. as I have elsewhere told you and at length chaplain to that Prince who for the zeal Harley had in Preaching up the reformed religion gave him a Prebendship in the Church of Worcester on the decease of Humph. Webley Bach. of Div. an 1551. Where being settled he had the rectory of Vpton upon Severne and the Vicaridge of Kederminster in Worcestersh bestowed on him he being then Bach. of Div. Afterwards the See of Hereford being void by the death of Joh. Skipp he was elected Bishop of that place So that being consecrated thereunto on the 26. May 1553. was within few months after deprived of it by Qu. Mary for his wilful avoiding the hearing of Mass and for being married Joh. Leland the famous Antiquary who knew the said Harley well doth in an high manner praise him for his great vertue and learning especially in the classical Authors and Poets for his fine vein in Poetry c. but what he hath published that author tells us not nor Baleus or his follower Pitseus Afterwards Harley absconding for a time did at length go from place to place in an obscure condition to consolate the poor remnant of Protestants and confirm them in their belief but died soon after in his wandring to and fro in England In the See of Hereford succeeded one Rob. Perfey sometimes called Warbington and VVarton formerly Abbat of the exempt Monastery of S. Saviour of Bermondsey educated in the University of Cambridge of which he was Bach. of Divinity who dying in the time of winter 1557. was buried in his own Church at Hereford Afterwards Tho. Raynolds D. D. Dean of Exeter and Warden of Mert. coll was design'd to succeed him by Qu. Mary but she dying before he was consecrated he was laid aside whereupon Joh. Scory a Norfolcian born Doct. of Div. and Chaplain to the Queen succeeded in 1559 having been a sufferer upon account of religion during Qu. Maries reign in which time he wrote An Epistle unto all the faithful that be in prison in England or in any other trouble for the defence of Gods word c. printed at Waterford in Ireland 1555. oct Wherein he doth by the example of divers holy Martyrs comfort encourage and strengthen them particularly to suffer for Christs sake persecution In the same year also he published his translation of S. Augustin's two books the one of Predestination of Saints the other of Perseverance unto the end with the determination of two general Councils concerning that matter Printed in oct And in the year following he published his translation of S. Ciprian's Sermon of Mortality or the willing for saking of this life Also his Exhortation to Martyrdom and his Exhortation to keep and endure the faith of Christ c. Printed in oct This Joh. Scory dyed in his house or palace at VVhitbourne in the country of Hereford 26. June 1585. and was as I suppose buried there He left behind him a Son named Silvanus Scory a very handsom and witty man and of the best education both at home and beyond the Seas that that age could afford His Father lov'd him so dearly that he fleec'd the Church of Hereford to leave him an estate but Silvanus allowing himself the liberty of enjoying all the pleasures of this world reduced it to nothing so that his Son Edm. lived by hanging on Gentlemen and by his shifts Silvanus was also esteemed a learned man and upon that account did Ben. Johnson dedicate to him a piece of his Poetry but whether he published any thing I cannot yet tell nor any thing else of him only that he giving way to fate in the Parish of S. Peter near Pauls Wharff in London in Sept. or Oct. 1617. was buried in the chancel of S. Leonards Church by Shore-aâ—tch near to the grave of his Mother Elizabeth who dyed 8. March 1592. JOHN BELL a Worcestershire man born as it seems had most of his education in Balliol
coll to which he was partly in his life time but more at his death a special benefactor Afterwards he became Chancellor of the diocess of Worcester in the place of Dr. Thomâ— Hanybal an 1518. and about that time Archdeacon of Glocester and Warden of the collegiate Church of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire At length his abilities being made known to K. Hen. 8. he was by him employed beyond the Seas concerning state affairs was made Doctor of the Laws there one of the Kings Counsellors at his return a chief agitator for the King in defence of his divorce from his first Wife Qu. Catherine especially in the University of Oxon by endeavouring to gain the opinion of the members thereof concerning that matter as I have told you elsewhere and in 1531. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty as he had stood beyond the Seas In 1539. he was elected Bishop of Worcester the temporalities of which being restored to him on the fourth of Aug. the same year he was soon after consecrated In 1543. he abdicated or rather resigned his See but for what cause is yet uncertain Whereupon retiring to Clerkenwell near London lived there for some years year 1556 and dying on the eleventh day of August in fifteen hundred fifty and six was buried on the north side of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Islyngton near London By his last will k and test dated 10. of Aug. 1556. he bequeathed very liberally to the poor people of Stratford upon Avon before-mention'd to the poor of Bromesgrave in Worcestershire Tadcaster Wymbersley c. at which places 't is probable he had been beneficed He also gave 100 marks to certain poor Scholars of Oxon and Cambridge in which last University he seems to have received a part of his education One Joh. Bell D. D. was Dean of Ely and dying 31. of Octob. 1591. was buried in the Cath. Ch. there but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I cannot tell HENRY MAN was bred a Carthusian Monk and of the Carthusians at Shene in Surrey became Prior which Monastery he with his brethren surrendring into the Kings hands at the dissolution of Religious houses had a Pension allowed to him for some years In 1539. he took the degrees in Divinity in this University of Oxon and in the latter end of Hen. 8. was made the second Dean of Chester in the place of one Tho. Clerk and about that time tho the year when appear not was promoted to the Episcopal See of the Isle of Man He departed this mortal life at London on the 19. of Oct. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 and was buried in the chancel of the Church of S. Andrew Vndershaft within that City In his Deanery succeeded VVill. Clyve or Clyffe LL. D. who had been Chantor and afterwards Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at York but the year when I cannot justly say or whether the said Dr. Man kept the said Deanery in commendam with his Bishoprick and in the See of Man succeeded Thom. Stanley as I shall hereafter tell you JOHN BYRDE was made Bishop of Bangor in 1539. and translated thence to Chester in 1541. but deprived of that See by Qu. Mary for being married in the year 1553. He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded George Cootes of whom I have made mention before but died about an year before Byrde JOHN CHAMBERS a Benedictine Monk was partly educated in Oxon but more in Cambridge in which University he was as it seems admitted to the reading of the sentences In 1528. he was made Abbat of Peterborough in which Town he was born upon the decease of one Rob. Kirton and living to see his Monastery dissolved was by the favour of K. Hen. 8. nominated the first Bishop of that place when the said King by his charter dated 4. Sept. 1541 erected an Episcopal See there On the said day the temporalities of it were delivered to him and on the 23. of Oct. following was consecrated thereunto which is all I know of him only that he was a worldly man and that dying in the winter time before the month of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Peterborough The reader is now to know that Dr. Fr. Godwin doth in his Commentary of English Bishops tells us that the said Joh. Chambers was Doctor of Physick bred up in Merton college and afterwards Dean of S. Stephens cell in Westminster but very much mistaken for that John Chambers Bach. of Div. and Bishop died in 1556. as 't is before told you and the other who was Dr. of Physick and Dean died 1549. Pray be pleased to see more in the Fasti under the year 1531. among the incorporations ROBERT KYNGE was descended from the ancient Kings of Devonshire as the posterity of his brother Thomas say but where he was born unless in Oxfordshire I cannot justly tell While he was young being much addicted to religion and learning was made a Cistercian Monk and among those of that order did he for some years live in Rewley Abby in the West suburb of Oxon and partly as I conceive for the sake of learning among the Bernardins in their coll in the North suburb of the said City In 1506. he as a Cistercian Monk was admitted to the reading of the sentences and in 1510. 13. and 15. he supplicated to be licensed to proceed in Divinity by the title of a Monk of the order of S. Benedict in the last of which years he occurs Abbat of Bruerne near to Burford in Oxfordshire anciently founded for Monks of Cisteaux which is a branch of the Benedictine order as the Bernardins are In 1518. he proceeded in Divinity in an Act celebrated on the last of Febr. and afterwards was made Abbat of Thame in Oxfordshire the Monks of which were also Cistercians About the time that the Abbey of Osney near Oxon was to be dissolved he was made Abbat commendatary thereof being then a Suffragan or titular Bishop under the title of Roven Rovenesis in the province of Athens by which name or title I find him to occur in 1539. In 1542. when Oxford was made an Episcopal See by K. Hen. 8. and the Abbey of Osney appointed to be the place of habitation of the Dean and Canons of the Cathedral to be there he the said Rob. Kynge was made and constituted the first Bishop in the beginning of Sept. the same year at which time Glocester coll was appointed his Palace or place of residence the Abbats lodgings at Osney for the Dean and the other lodgings in that Abbey for the Canons and Officers belonging to the Cathedral In 1546. when the said Cath. Ch. at Osney was translated to Cardinal coll alias Kings coll or the coll of K. Hen. 8. in
being a zealous Rom. Catholick suffered much in his Person and Estate for Religion sake and therefore numbred by those of his Profession among the Confessors for the Cause in the time of Qu. Elizabeth Dec. 17. Rich. Mulcaster of Ch. Ch. March 10. Rich. Barnes of Bras Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Durham Admitted 27. Bach. of Physick This year Tho. Cooper M. A. and Master of the Free-School joyning to Magd. Coll. great Gate did supplicate the ven Congregation that whereas he had studied Philosophy 12 years and Physick five he might be admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorismes of Hypocrates Which being as it seems granted in Oct did practise Physick in Qu. Maries Reign But when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to his Divinity and at length became Bishop of Winchester Bach. of Div. July 23. Tho. Neale of New Coll. 29. Laurence Vaus Vaux or Vaulx sometimes of C. C. Coll. now Warden of the Coll. at Manchester Six Masters of Arts did supplicate this year to be admitted to the same Degree but were not Among them Edmund Daniel lately Fellow of Merton Coll. was one who was now Prebendary of Worcester and Dean of Hereford in the first of which he succeeded Gilb. Bourne and in the other Dr. Hugh Coren or Curwyn In 1559 he was depriv'd of the said Dignities whereupon his Prebendship was bestowed on Rob. Avise M. A. and his Deanery on Joh. Ellis as it seems who in Nov. 1570 became Preb. of Worcester Another who supplicated for that Degree was Nich. Smyth of New Coll. now Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. near Winton and afterwards Fellow of that at Eaton near Windsore Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 8. Reb. Westen of All 's Coll. He had formerly been Principal of Broadgates Hall and Deputy Professor of the Civ Law while he was Bach. of that Faculty for Dr. John Storie but now Dean of the Arches and Chancellour of Exeter Afterwards he became as it seems Dean of Wells and at length one of the Lords Justices of Ireland and for six years Lord Chancellour of that Realm He was so learned judicious and upright in the Court of Judicature all the time that he was Lord Chancellour I speak this from his Epitaph that no Order or Decree that he made was ever questioned or reversed He paid his last debt to Nature 20 May 1573 and was buried in S. Patricks Church at Dublin Over his Grave is a noble Monument yet remaining This Dr. Weston was the only Doctor of his Fac. that was licensed to proceed this year at which time was such a scarcity of Doctors of the Civil Law in the University that there was a dispensation pass'd the House that Tho. Darbyshire an Inceptor in that Faculty might undergo the place of Doctor in the Depositions of the said Dr. Weston ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick or Div. was admitted or licensed to proceed this year Will. Wryght Bac. of Div. and Master of Ball. Coll. did supplicate to proceed but was denied Incorporations June 5. Rich. Mulcaster B. of A. of Cambridge Soon after he took the Degree of Master as I have before told you and at length became a noted Writer of his time Jul. 21. Nicholas Ormanet Doctor of the Civ Law of Padua now one of the prime Visitors appointed by Cardinal Pole Legate à latere to visit this University was then incorporated John Fox in his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the year 1557 tells us that he was the Pope's Datary but false for at this time I find him thus written Nich. Ormanettus Patavinus Archipresbyter plebis Bodolesini Viennensis dioc He had been recommended to the Service of the said Cardinal by Pope Julius 3. who had an especial esteem for him and being a Visitor and an haughty person as the Protestants esteem'd him he thought it not fit to be presented and stand bare before the Commissary or Vicechanc for Incorporation and therefore it was agreed upon by the Members of the House that he should be diplomated by vertue of which he was also made Doctor of the Canon Law By some of the reformed Party now 1556 remaining in the University he was esteemed a supercilious man and intolerably arrogant but by the Rom. Cath. severe pious and prudent He afterwards sate in the Council at Trent was made Bish of Padua by Pope Pius 5. an 1570 in which See sitting 7 years died full of praise and in a good old Age. Nov. 12. Arthur Yeldard M. A. of Cambr. He was afterwards made the second President of Trin. Coll. Creations May… John Fekenham sometimes of Glocester Coll. now either Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral or Abbat of Westminster had the Degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd on him without any Exercise performed for the same At the same time he being absent it was granted by the venerable Regents and Non-Regents that either Dr. Will. Cheadsey Dr. John Harpesfield or Dr. Rich. Smyth might carry to and give him the Ensigns or Badges of his Doctorship An. Dom. 1557. An. 4 Mariae An. 5 Mariae Chanc. Card. Reynold Pole Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. or Commiss Dr. Tho. Raynolds before mention'd who holding his Office till about 16 Decemb. Tho. Whyte LL. D. and Warden of New Coll. succeeded by vertue of the Chancellours Letters dated 10 of the same month which Office he was to keep no longer than it pleased the Chancellour Proct. Fran. Babyngton of All 's Coll. Will. Allyn again elected 18 Apr. Of the senior Proctor I shall speak among the Doct. of Div. an 1559 of the other I have spoken already among the Writers Bach. of Arts. Oct. 30. Will. Pomerell of New Coll. He was afterwards numbred by his Countrymen of Ireland among the learned men of that Country See more of him in Rich. White among the Writers under the year 1612. pag. 324. Dec. 14. Tho. Gressop of All 's Coll. See among the Masters under the year 1561. John Neale of Exeter Coll. was adm the same day He was elected Rector of his Coll. while he was Bach. of Arts an 1560 such then was the scarcity of Masters in that and other Houses Admit 31. Mast of Arts. July 1. Rob. Newton of Exeter Coll. He was elected Rector of the said house on 17 Oct. following and afterwards became the second perpetual Rector John Wolley of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was a Shropshire man born was elected probat Fell. of that House in 1553 and about the time of his proceeding in Arts studied the Civ and Can. Law but took no Degree in either in this University In Nov. or Dec. this year he travelled beyond the Seas where he improved himself much as to Learning knowledge of Men and Manners After the death of Roger Ascham which hapned in 1568 he became Latin Secretary to the Queen and in 1569 he was made Prebendary of Compton-Dundo in the Church of Wells In 1578 he was made Dean
of Carlisle tho a Layman on the death of Sir Thomas Smyth and in 1589 Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter In 1592 he was made a Knight and about the same time one of the Privy Council to her Majesty being then a person most eminently perspicuous for his Learning Piety Integrity Goodness and Gravity He died at Pyrford in Survey where he had an Estate in the latter end of Feb. or beginning of March an 1591 whereupon his Body was buried in the middle of the Chancel behind the high Altar of S. Pauls Cathedral Over his Grave was soon after laid a flat stone with an Inscription thereon under which also Sir Franc. Wolloy his Son and Heir sometimes of Merton Coll. also was buried an 1611 as also Elizabeth Widow of Sir John All whose bodies were removed in 1614 and buried between S. George's Chappel and that of our Lady within the Precincts of the said Cathedral and had a very goodly Tombe with a large Inscription on it erected over them which was with the Cathedral it self consum'd in the dreadful Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. an 1666. Admitted 18. Bach. of Div. Only one was admitted this year viz. Hen. Henshaw alias Heronshaw of Magd. Coll. Dec. 3. In the next year he was elected Rector of Linc. Coll. There were also but two that supplicated for the said Degree one of which was named Will. Ely of Brasn Coll. who was made the second President of that of S. John by the Founder thereof an 1559. In 1563 or thereabouts he was removed from that place for maintaining the Pope's Authority and not the Queens over the Church of England whereupon leaving Oxon lived many years obscurely having if I mistake not entred into some religious Order beyond the Seas Afterwards being seized upon for a Seminary he was committed to the common Prison at Hereford where remaining several years died an aged man an 1609. being then accounted by those of his perswasion a most holy Confessour What I have farther to observe of him is this that when Archb. Cranmer was brought to the Stake to be burnt at Oxon. he took leave of some of his Friends standing by and seeing this Will. Ely among them went to stake him by the hand but he drawing back said It was not lawful to salute Hereticks and especially such an one that had falsly returned unto his Opinions that he had forsworn c. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted this year An. Dom. 1558. An. 5 Mariae An. 6 Mariae An. 1 Elizab. Chanc the said Cardinal Pole but he dying on the 18 of Nov. Dr. Will. Treshan became Cancellarius natus continuing in that Office till 24 Jan. following at which time Hen. Fitzalen Earl of Arundel High Steward of the University was chosen by the Suffrages of all the Electors and on the 6 of Feb. a Codicil of his Election was sealed and sent to him Commiss the same who was lately Canc. natus viz. Dr. Will. Tresham designed to that Office by Letters from the new Chancellour dat 24 Febr. to continue therein till the Feast of S. Michael following Proct. Alan Cope of Magd. Coll. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. elected 20 Apr. Gramm Jul. S. John Bedo an eminent Grammarian who had publickly instructed Youths in Grammar for four years in this University was admitted to inform and instruct in that Faculty Bach. of Arts. Nov. 18. Tho Brasbridge of All 's Coll. Dec. 12. John Merick of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Besides these two were about 63 more admitted but none of them can I yet find that were afterwards Bishops Writers or eminent Dignitaries in the Church Bach. of Civ Law July 9. Tho. Dorman Rob. Lougber of All 's Coll. Of the last see in the year 1564. Feb. 21. Owen Lewes or Lewes Owen of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Cassana in Italy Dev. de la Hyde of Merton and Alan Cope of Magd. Coll. who had studied the Civ Law five years supplicated to be admitted but were not Admitted 14. Mast of Arts. Jun. 10. Jasp Heywood lately of Merton Coll. afterwards a Jesuit 20. Anth. Rush of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Writer and a Dean Dec. 5. Leonard Stopes of S. John's Coll. In the year following he either left his Fellowship of the said Coll. or else was ejected and going beyond the Seas was made a Priest much about the same time that Ralph Windon another ejected Fellows of that House was made a Priest also Afterwards they both came into England were taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire where they endured a tedious Imprisonment and therefore accounted by those of their perswasion Confessors Contemporary with them was one Thom. Bramston alias Brimston a young Fellow of the same Coll. who with leave from the Founder thereof lived with John Eâ—kenham Abbat of Westminster but upon the alteration of Religion which was made soon after he went beyond the Seas and was made a Rom. Cath. Priest Afterwards he returned into England was taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle where we find him 1595. Afterwards being set at liberty lived beyond the Seas to about the year 1608. Admitted 39. Bach. of Phys Feb. 6. Tho. Phaer See among the Doct. of this Fac. following 21. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. They were both learned Physitians and were also admitted then to practise Admitted 6. Bach. of Div. Jul. 5. John Piers of Magd. Coll. 9. Franc. Babington of All 's Coll. See among the Doct. of Div. an 1559. But two more besides the said two were admitted and three there were that supplicated one of whom was called Frat. Anton Reschius or Raschius who for the space of twelve years had studied Divinity in Paris and Oxford His Grace was granted simplicity in July but whether he was ever admitted it appears not He was one of the Fryers that was appointed by publick Authority to undo the Doctrine that P. Martyr and others had setled in the University in the time of K. Ed. 6. and is the same if I mistake not whom John Fox in his book of Acts and Mâ—n of the Church doth call Fryer Richard in his Discourse of the burning of Archb. Cranmer at Oxon. Doct. of Civ Law Jul 8. Thom. Powell On the second day of 〈…〉 he was admitted Archd. of Worcester in the place of 〈…〉 and resigning in 1579 was succeeded by 〈…〉 Thom. Keymis or Keymish was admitted the time day Doct. of Phys Mar. 10. Thom. Phaer The same who took the Degr. of Bach. of Phys on the 6 of Feb. going before For the same degree also did supplicate Rich. Slythurst M. A. and Bach. of Physick but was not admitted or licensed to proceed Doct. of Div. Jul. 6. Fr. Joh. de Villa Garcia or Garcina the Kings publick Professor of Div. in this University This person who was now very forward in promoting the
degenerate into madness and frenzie and that the endeavours of others under the pretence of reformation was to bring in Anarchy and Sacrilege he published a learned Tract called by a certain Author notwithstanding P. Heylyn published a book with the same title A coal from the Altar And another learned book entit Noli me tangere Or a thing to be thought of printed 1641. qu. Against Anarchy he also declared himself for Episcopacy and the establish'd Liturgy and published another book entit Communion comeliness Wherein is discovered the conveniency of the Peoples drawing near to the table in the sight thereof when they receive the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1641. qu. In which book by many impregnable arguments he proves a high conveniency if not a necessity for that most laudable custome of having railes about the Lords Table So that this Person being discern'd by the faction to be a friend to the Protestant Religion established in the Church of England was look'd upon as their enemy and was by them branded with Popery or as popishly affected Yet his former reputation in the City bore him up against the obloquy of private discontent for a time At length when they came openly to defie their Sovereign the Lords anointed it was a fit time to silence and remove Mr. Vdall for neither Dr. Gouge his Church in the Black-friers or Mr. Jo. Goodwins in Colemanstreet were half so full before the Long Parliament began as Mr. Vdalls had been since First therefore they plunder his house take away his Library and Houshold stuff then remove him from the execution of his Ministry and sequester the profits thereof for a Levite of their own Afterwards they sought to commit him to Prison tho aged and very weak and infirm in body and at length carried his aged and decrepid Wife out of her doors by force and set her in the open street to shift for her self This most pious and meek Man who had been favoured in his Ministry by the Vincents of Stoke-Dawbernon in Surrey Baronets hath written other things among which is The good of peace Sermon on Psal 29. 11. Lond. 1642. qu. He surrendred up his most pious and devout Soul to God about the latter end of May 1647 at which time he desired that his body might be buried in the Chancel of Allhallows in Honey-lane in Cheapside in Lond. unless the Parishioners of St. Austin desire to have the disposing of it In a most unworthy Pamphlet entit The first century of scandalous malignant Priests c. print 1643. I find these matters of Ephraim Vdall viz. that he hath affirmed that the great reformers of the Church now are Hypocrites and hath made framed and published a book intit Noli me tangere without license charging the Parliament with Sacrilege in endeavouring to abolish Episcopacy and to take away the Lands of Deans and Chapters to amend therewith the maintenance of preaching Ministers and that thereby they have brought a national sin on the Land as was formerly done by them in taking away Monasteries c. For which and other passages in the said book he was thrown out of his rectory by the blessed Parliament as it was then called An. Dom. 1631. An. 7. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Bishop of London Vicechanc. Dr. Smith of Wadh. Coll. again July 16. Proct. Atherton Bruch of Bras C. John Doughty of Mert. C. Apr. 20. Which Proctors being removed from their places by the Kings command in the month of August as I have told you at large elsewhere were elected for the remaining purt of the year Mr. Joh. Earle of Mert. Coll. Laur. Washington of Brasn Coll. Presented 26. Aug. Bach. of Musick Jul. 8. Will. Child of Ch. Ch. He was now one of the Organists of his Majesties Chappel at Windsore having before been one of the Gentlemen thereof I shall speak more largely of him in the year 1663. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 27. Thom. Wood Will. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 30. George 〈◊〉 of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chester June 20. Rich. Allein of St. Alb. Oct. 20. Walt. Bushnell Joh. Wilkins Nich. Clagett of Mert. of Magd. Hall Dec. 10. Daniel Whitby of Brasn Jan. 17. Dudley Digges of Vniv. Feb. 9. Christop Fowler of Magd. Coll. The last of which was afterwards of St. Edm. Hall Mar. 22. Anth. Sadler of St. Edm. Hall 24. Joh. Shaw of Brasn Will. Rowland of Ex. Coll. All these will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 249. Bach. of Law Oct. 11. Tho. Reade of New Coll. See more of him among the Doctors of this faculty an 1638. Besides him were 18 admitted among whom Will. Dowdeswell of Pemb. Coll. was one often commended by Sir Tho. Bâ—owne the Physician for a learned Man and Franc. St Barbe of Ball. Coll. another Tho. Heath of All 's Coll. was also admitted the same year but whether he was afterwards Doctor of his faculty of this Univ. I cannot tell When Dr. Sheldon became Archbishop of Canterbury he was made if I mistake not Controller of his Family and a Knight but after the said Archb. death he retired to Stoke near Guilford in Surrey and died in the beginning of the year 1680. Mast of Arts. Apr. 30. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. May 4. Will. Sedgwick of Pemb. Coll. Jun. 18. Rich. Busby Jasp Mayne of Ch. Ch. Joh. Oxenbridge of Magd. Hall 22. Joh. Gregory of Ch. Ch. 25. Joh. Gough or Goffe of Magd. 30. Thom. Good of Ball. Coll. Oct. 17. Mirth Waferer of St. Albans Hall lately of Merton Coll. Nov. 10. Abraham Woodhead of Vniv. Dec. 10. Edm. Chilmead of Magd. Alex. Griffith of Hart Hall Coll. Jan. 24. Allan Blane Rich. Stannix of Qu. Coll. 27. Edm. Vaughan of C. C. C. Admitted 128. Bach. of Phys Six Bachelaurs of Physick were admitted this year of which Nich. Lamie a French Man of Pemb. Coll. was the junior who before this time had spent 7 years in the studie of the said faculty in the University of Caen in Normandy There was also one admitted to practise Physick and another Chirurgery named Will. Manowrier a French Man who in the publick register is stiled Dominus de Pratis Bach. of Div. March 30. Nathan Simpson of Trin. Coll. Apr. 21. Christopher Newstead of St. Alb. Hall May 12. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. June… Will. Sherley of Ch. Ch. This learned Divine who was a Dorsetshire Man born became Rector of Huish Comb flower in the Dioc. of Wells upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Atherton to the See of Waterford in Ireland in Feb. 1636 and about the same time beneficed in his own Country He is Author of The excellency of the order of the Church of England under Episcopal Government set forth in a Sermon at the Visitation at Blandsord an 1640 on 1. Cor. 11. 34. Lond. 1662. qu. Published by Rich. Harris of the Inner Temple after the
Authors death June… Henry Glemham of Trin. Coll. Joh. Tombes of Magd. Hall Dec. 10. Will. Strode of Ch Ch. Admitted 27. Doct. of Law Francis Gerard John Gervais of All 's Coll. They were admitted in Hillary term but the day and month when are omitted Doct. of Phys July 21. William Ford of Pembr Coll. Doct. of Div. May 18. Tho. Mason Tho. Westley of Magd. Coll. The last of these was Rector of Chart in Kent and preacher at the Savoy in the Strand near London where dying in Apr. 1639 was buried in the Chancel of the Church there May 26. John Hodges of Lanâ— March 10. Will Paul of All 's Coll. Incorporations Jim 30. Constantine Jessop Bach. of Arts of Trinity Coll. near Dublin I shall make farther mention of him elsewhere July 7. Thom. Clavering M. of A. but of what University 't is not set down was then incorporated in the same degree 8. Rob. Sparke M. of A. of Aberdene Mar. 1. Joh. Ramsey M. of A. of S. Andrews in Scotland One Dr. Rob. Sparke and Joh. Ramsey were afterwards Publishers of several Sermons but whether the same with the two former I cannot tell This year Thom. Randolphe the most celebrated Poet of Cambr. was incorporated M. of A. but the day or month when appears not I have made mention of him at large among the Writers under the year 1590. Joh. Pell also a Graduat of the same University was incorporated but in what degree whether in that of Bachelaur or Master of Arts it appears not This person tho I have several times occasionally mention'd in this Work yet I shall take liberty to be more large upon him now He was the Son of Joh. Pell and he of another John descended from those of his name in Lincolnshire where they seem to be of antient extraction His first breath was drawn at Southwyâ—ke in Sussex of which place his Father was Minister on S. Davids day an 1610 and his Grammar learning received in the Free-school then newly founded at Stenning a Market Town in the said County At 13 years of age he was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge being then as good a Scholar as some Masters of Arts in that University and tho he understood Lat. Gr. and Hebr. well yet he never stood at an Election of Scholars and Fellows of that house He was of a strong and good habit of body and therefore using Recreations seldom or never he plied his studies while others play'd About two years after he had taken the magisterial degree he married and understood then besides the said three Tongues Arab. Ital. French Spanish High and Low Dutch In Dec. 1643 he took a Journey to Amsterdam and was there made Professor of the Mathematicks next after Mart. Hoâ—tensius where his learned Collegue Ger. Jo. Vossius as he testifies de scientiis Math. c. 10. heard him with admiration read his publick Lectures upon Diophantus by whom likewise he is stiled a person of various erudition and a most acute Mathematician And in 1646 the Prince of Orange called him to be publick Professor of Philosophy and Mathematicks in the Schola illustris at Breda founded that year by his Highness While he continued there William Lord Brereton was sent by his Grandfather George Earl of Norwych to be his Scholar and became a good proficient especially in Algabra to which his Genius most inclin'd him and carried it on to his dying day which hapning on the 17 of March 1679 he being then a chief Member of the Royal Society was buried in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him the Character among the Vertuosi of a very good Algebrest and an excellent Musitian having composed several things of that faculty In 1652 J. Pell return'd into England and two years after Oliver Lord Protector sent him Envoy to the Protestant Cantons of Switzerlandt where he chiefly resided at Zurich He was sent with the Title of Ablegatus but afterwards he had order to continue there under the Title of Resident and by that Title he was known till hiâ— Return into England a little before Oliver's death an 1658 at which time it was vulgarly known among the Royalists that in the said Employment he had acted nothing to the injury of the Church of England After his Majesties Restauration he took holy Orders from Dr. Sanderson B. of Lincoln had procured for him by Dr. Sheldon B. of Land the Parsonage of Fobbing in Essex an 1661 and two years after the Parsonage of Lainden with the Chappel of Bartelsdon annexed in the same County After the said Bishop was translated to Canterbâ—â—y he became one of his Chaplains being then Doct. of Div. and expected soon after to be made a Dean but being not a person of activity as others who mind not learning are could never rise higher than a Rector The truth is he was a shiftless man as to worldly affairs and his Tenants and Relations dealt so unkindly with him that they cozen'd him of the profits of his Parsonages and kept him so indigent that he warned necessaries even Paper and Ink to his dying day This learned and curious person hath written 1 Controversia cum Christiano Longemontano de vera circuli mensura Amst 1647. qu. 2 An Idea of Mathematicks Lond. 1651. in tw written to Sam. Hartlib Esque and printed at the end of The reformed School written by Jo. Durâ—e It was before printed in Engl. and Lat. 3 A Table of ten thousand squaâ—e numbers namely of all the square numbers between O and an hundred millions and of their sides or roots which are all the whole numbers between O and ten thousand With an appendix concerning the endings or last figures of all square numbers Lond. 1672 fol. c. He hath also succinctly and clearly demonstrated the second and tenth book of Euclid which is in MS. in the 〈◊〉 of the Lord Brereton in Cheshire as also Archimedes his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the greatest part of Diophantus his six books of Arithmeâ—â—k Which last is done more and better than was before done by a certain French man Both which are in the aforesaid Library He also published a little Anonymous Exercitation concerning Easter and at the instance of Sir Charles Scarborough did demonstrate the proportion of the Diameter to the Circumference and shews the 〈◊〉 why 〈◊〉 did use those two numbers The 〈…〉 written in High Dutch by Rhonnius sometimes 〈…〉 is mostly also his Dr. Pell's His 〈…〉 is also extant and a Letter relating to the 〈…〉 Hamburgh by 〈…〉 He was the first Inventor of that excellent way or method of the marginal working in Algebra and was a great advancer of some things pertaining thereunto and the mathematical Faculty At length after he had spent his last days in great obscurity and had been once or twice cast into Prison for debt with shame be it spoken to the great Virtuosi of this age died in Dyet street