continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon or whether he took a Degree it appears not neither can we find means to resolve us because the University Registers of that Age are deficient However this is certain that at what time our Author studied in this University Grocynus read publickly the Greek Tongue there whom he constantly hearing became a great proficient in that Language and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor then if I mistake not Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws translated himself to Lincolns Inn where easily conquering those Studies was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning Wisdom Experience and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with conferr'd these honors and employments successively upon him viz. the Mastership of the Request the intrusting him in several Embrassies the honor of Knighthood the Treasureship of the Exchecquer Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster the Embassage to the Emperor and French King and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly or with greater liking to the generality of People than he On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Mannour House called York-place near Westminster in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King in his Mannour of Pleasaunce otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight After this Sir Thomas retired to his House at Chelsey near London where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse not without severe devotion was at length for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining several Months very close to the endangering of his health his Daughter Margaret Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent wrot a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State the contents of which I have seen intreating him to be good to her Father in Prison kept so close that his health is utterly decayed Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband whose close keeping destroys his body Also the be good to her and hers considering their necessity For my good Master saith she as I would be saved before our Lord I am driven to that point that I am fain to make sale of certain imployments and old stuff to find Mr. More and me and my poor houshold with c. with other like matters written by that whining Woman which I shall now for brevity omit and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient pious and severe in the course of his life than he He was also very meek humble charitable and a despiser of the things of this World and nothing was wanting in him to make a compleat Christian His parts were great and profound his skill in Divinity municipal Laws the Latin and Greek Languages in Poesie Mathematicks and what not was excellent and without compare All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles but of the lights of Learning of his time as Erasmus Colet Tonstal B. of Durham Fisher B. of Rochester Grocyn Lynacre Liyle Paice Elyot Lupset Leland c. most of which especially Foreign Writers have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations He hath written in English A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Fryer Written in Verse Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Fathers House Containing 9 Pagiants and Verses in each Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503. Verses on the Book of Fortune These four beforegoing being written in his Youth are not numbred among his Works History of K. Rich. 3. This which was never quite finished is the same I presume that is intituled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More 's Name at London 1651. in 8vo His Great Grandson saith that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated but in Latin also not yet printed Memorare novissima Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion Supplication of Souls made against the supplication of Beggars This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory written against that of Beggars made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn Gent. The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More 's Dialogues The second part of the confutation Written 1533. Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament Written the same Year An Apology This was written against a Book intit A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality Against which Apology was published a Book called Salem Bizance written Dialogue-wise Lond. 1533. oct The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance Lond. 1533. oct Answer to the first part of the poysoned Book which a nameless Heretick hath named The Supper of our Lord. Treatise upon the passion of Christ A Godly instruction Godly meditation Devout Prayer Letter to his Lady his Wife Certain Letters written by him after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London an 1557. fol. Among them are A godly instruction written in Lat. His Epitaph In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book intituled Ancient funeral Monuments p. 522 523 and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English 1 The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula 2 An exposition of a part of the possion of Christ His Latin Works besides those two little things before-mentioned are these De optimo repub statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus aureus c. Basil 1518. there again 1563 both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct Translated into English with notes added to it in the Margin by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. Lond. 1557. oct Published also at the same place 1639. in oct by one Bernard Alsop who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq one
homine Written and finished at Lovaine 1518. Pompeius fugiens Liber in Pseudo-Dialectios Veritas sucata seu in triumphum prae lectio Written at Lovaine 1519. Praelectio in somnium Scipionis apud Ciceronem Written at Lovaine 1520. Declamationes septem Finished at Bruges In Suetonium quaedam Finished at Lovaine 1521. De consultatione Fin. at Oxon. 1523. De institutione feminae Christianae lib. 3. Written to Catherine Qu. of England from Bruges 1523. De ratione studii puerilis Dedicated by his Epist dat at Oxon. non Oct. an 1523 to Catherine Qu. of England his only Patroness Introductio ad sapientiam Written at Bruges 1524. Satellitium animi vel symbola Ded. to Princess Mary Dau. of K. Hen. 8. from Bruges 1524. Epist ad Hen. 8. dat Ox. 12. Mar. 1525. De concordia discordia lib. 4 De subventione pauperum Written at Bruges 1526. De passione Christi meditatio De sudore Jesu Christi sacrum diurnum At Bruges 1529. De corruptis artibus Tom. 3. De disputatione lib. 1. At Burges 1531. De ratione dicendi lib. 3. At Brug 1532. De communione rerum ad Germanos inferiores At Bruges 1535. Exercitationes animi in Deum At Antw. Aug. 1535. Preces meditationes diurnae At Bruges 1535. Exercitatio linguae latinae Written at Breda 1538. De anima vita lib. 3. At Bruges 1538. With many other things which for brevity sake I shall now omit He also translated into Latin Isocrates his Nicocles dedicated to Card. Wolsey by his Epist dat at Oxon 15. Dec. 1523. with other translations which I also shall omit As to the time of this worthy Authors death many Writers differ and the just day or year is yet uncertain Anton. Postevin saith he died at Bruges in Flanders 1536. or therebouts having left off writing in 1535. Ludovic Guicciard in his description of Bruges reports it an 1540. Thuanus who saith he was a Professor at Lovaine tells us that he died there 1541 and Job Whyte in his Diacosio-Martyrion printed 1553 would have it at Bruxels 1545. Which last Author being before all the former in time and perhaps may know or remmeber Vives ought therefore to be believed before the rest But these matters notwithstanding being uncertain I shall venture to put his death under Fifteen hundred forty and four year 1544 which being at Bruges was buried in the Church of St. Donantius there See more of him in a Book intit Bibliotheca Hispanica Printed at Rome in two Tomes in fol. 1672. Tom. 1. p. 552 553 c. Both which Tomes were written by Nicholaus Antonius Hispalensis J. C. Kt. of the Order of St. James ROBERT SHYNGLETON descended from a good Family of his name living in Lancashire was always esteemed an ingenious Man while he resided in the University but whether he was honored with a Degree it appears not Afterwards being a Priest and a Requent Preacher he took occasion to reflect on the times and certain Persons in his Sermons For which being called to an account and committed was forced with two other Persons to make his Palinodie before a Convention of certain Bishops at London an 1543. 35. H. 8. His works are these Treatise Of the seven Churches Of the Holy Ghost Comment on or explanation of certain Prophecies The two first were formerly perhaps still in the King's Library at Westminster The last giving high offence as containing many treasonable matters and most severe reflections the Author was hanged for it at London in Fifteen hundred forty and four year 1544 Anton. Possevinus stiles him a Martyr for the Rom. Cath. Cause and John Pitseus omits him as being an Heretick or at least for the honorable mention made of him by Jo. Bale WILLIAM LATYMER became Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1489 whence after he had spent some Years in Logicals and Philosophicals he travelled into Italy and settling at Padöua for a time did much advance his learning especially in the Greek tongue After his return he was incorporated M. of A. as it seems became most eminent and was worthily numbered among the lights of learning in his time by Jo. Leland as I have elsewhere told you About the beginning of Hen. 8. he was Master or Tutor to Reynold Pole afterwards Cardinal and Archb. of Canterbury by whose endeavours he had some preferment in the Church confer'd upon him He was learned in all sacred and profane Letters and as Erasmus saith was verè Thologus integritate vitae conspicuus 'T is said also that he hath written several things but what they are except Epistolae ad Erasmum I know not However he with Lynacre and Grocin did undertake the translation of all Aristotles works into Latin but the latter being taken away by death before they were half finished Latymer desisted and would not go any farther as being perhaps terrified with the immense labour to be taken therein He died very aged at his Rectory of Seyntbury near to Camden in Glocestershire which he kept with that of Wotton under Edge and a Prebendship in the Church of Salisbury about the Month of Sept. year 1545 in Fifteen hundred forty and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there dedicated to St. Nicholas Over his Grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid with a large Inscription on a brass plate fastned thereunto which hath been long since taken away and defaced I have seen a Copy of his Will whereby he gave with certain conditions all his Greek and Lat. Books to Allsouls and Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon. yet whether they received them it appears not I find one Will. Latymer D. D. to have been Dean of Peterborough in the place of Job Boxhall ejected an 1560 and Archdeacon of Westminster who dying in the Summer time after 29. July 1583 was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Peterborough beneath the Pulpit but of what kin he was to the former I know not He was succeeded in the said Deanery by Rich. Fletcher D. D. of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge afterwards B. of London THOMAS SOLME called by some Sulmo Sowlman and Solimont was born in the Isle of Gernsey educated for a time in this University and was afterwards Secretary of the French tongue to King Hen. 8. This Person who was much conversant in English History wrot The acts and ghests of St. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury Select antiquities relating to Britain And dying in fifteen hundred forty and five year 1545 was buried in the Monastery of the Carmes or Carmelites at London leaving behind him the Character of a learned Man I find one Tho. Solme to be Author of a Treatise entit The Lords Flaile being an exposition on the commandments Printed at Basil in oct but when unless in the time of Qu. Mary the beginning or end of the Book shews not One Tho. Somus a Preacher in the time of Ed. 6. hath English Verses at the end of Will.
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-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
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
Turners Book entit A preservative or Triacle printed in oct an 1551. Whether these two last be one and the same Person I know not nor can I be positive in it whether Tho. Solme Author of the Lords Flaile be the same with Thom. Solme the Historian THOMAS LANKET or Lanquet whose place of nativity or Hall or Coll. wherein he studied being yet uncertain I shall only say that he being a studious Young Man and curious searcher into ancient History laid the Foundation of a great work I mean a Chronicle consisting of two parts reaching from the beginning of the World to the time of our Saviour and was proceeding with a third part but death preventing the compleating thereof Thom. Croper of Magd. Coll. finished and entituled it Lanquets Chronicle See more in Tho. Cooper under the Year 1594. Lanquet also wrot Treatise of the Conquest of Bulloigne When or where printed I know not nor any thing else of the Author year 1545 only that he died at London in Fifteen hundred forty and Five which was the seven and thirtieth Year of K. H. 8. but in what Church or Yard he was buried I cannot tell THOMAS ELYOT was born as 't is said of a Knightly Family in Suffolk and educated in Academical learning in the Hall of St. Mary the Virgin where he obtained a considerable proficiency in Logick and Philosophy The Year when he first began to salute the Muses it cannot through the deficiency of record be well known unless it should be about the Year 1514 for four Years after an 1518 I find one Tho. Elyot to be admitted ad lecturam alicujus libri facultatis artium Logices Aristotelis which is the admission to the Degree of Bach. of Arts and in the time of Lent the same Year he did compleat that Degree by Determination in School-street It doth also appear that the said Tho. Elyot was in the beginning of Aug. an 1524. admitted ad lecturam alicujus libri Institutionem that is to the Degree of Bach. of the Civil Law Now if we could find that Sir Tho. Elyot was about 50 Years of Age when he died then we may certainly conclude that Elyot the Bac. of Arts and of the Civil Law might be the same with him otherwise we cannot well do it After he had left the University he travelled beyond the Seas and upon his return was introduced into the Court Whereupon being made known to the King a lover of Scholars who found him to be a Person of good parts conferr'd on him the honor of Knighthood and employed him in certain Embassies bejond the Seas particularly to the Emperor Charles the 5th at what time his great Friend and Crony Sir Tho. More was beheaded He was a very good Grammarian Gracian Poet Philosopher Physician and what not to compleat a Gentleman He was admired by and beloved of Scholars and his memory was celebrated by them in their respective works particularly by Leland his contemporary The truth is his Learning in all kind of knowledge brought much honor to all the Gentry and Nobility of England He hath transmitted to posterity The Castle of health Lond. 1541. 1572. 80. 95 c. in oct The Governor in 3 Books Lond. 1544 47. 80. c. in oct Of the Education of Children Lond. in qu. Banquet of sapience Lond. in oct Preservative against the fear of death De rebus memorabilibus Angliae For the compleating of which he had read and perused many old Monuments of England See in Rog. Ascham's Treatise of Archery in two Books p. 28. A Defence or Apologie for good Women Bibliotheca Eliotae Elyots Library or Dictionary Lond. 1541. c. fol. Which work Thom. Cooper augmented and enriched with 33000 words and phrases besides a fuller account of the true signification of words Sir Tho. Elyot also translated from Greek into English The Image of Governance compiled of the Arts and Sciences by Emperor Alexander Severus Lond. 1556 1594 c. oct and from Lat. into Engl. 1 St. Cypreans Sermon of the mortality of Man Lond. 1534 in oct 2 The rule of a Christian life written by Picus Earl of Mirandula Printed there the same Year in oct See more among the translations of Tho. Lupset numb 38. This worthy Knight who was a servant to the King was buried in the Church of Carleton in Cambridgshire of which County he had been Sheriff 25. March in Fifteen hundred forty and six year 1546 and had soon after a Monument put over his Grave Besides several Mannors that he had in Cambridgshire he had one or more in Hampshire JOHN LONGLAND received his first breath in a Mercat Town called Henley in Oxfordshire was first made a Semicommoner or Demie and afterwards Fellow of Magdalen College About which time being Master of Arts and in Orders he addicted himself very severely to study and devotion and became famous for his exemplary life and conversation In 1505 he was made Principal of Magd. Hall in 1510 2. Hen. 8. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences and in the Year after he proceeded in Divinity In Decemb. an 1514 he succeeded Dr. Will. Atwater in the Deanery of Salisbury and in 1519 he was made Canon of Windsore At which time he being in great favour with the King for his excellent way of Preaching he did not only make him his Confessor but also upon the death of Atwater Bishop of Lincoln and about that time Lord Almoner To the same See therefore he being consecrated 5. May 1521 had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto 26. June following In 1528. or thereabouts he was the first Man of account that mention'd a divorce to the King to be between him and his Qu. Catherine for which afterwards when it was known he was much blamed and the more because he took all occasions to forward and not in the least to contradict it In 1532 he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxen which office he keeping to his dying day shew'd himself a special Friend thereunto in maintaining it privileges and in exhibiting as he had done before to the wants of certain Scholars and in solely maintaining others I have seen divers Epistles written to him from the venerable House of Regents and Non-Regents wherein they in an high manner do proclaim his Religion and Doctrin and do not stick to compare him to Joseph the Patriarch His writings are these Declamatio five concio coram reverendiss in Ch. patribus Domino D. Thomâ Rom. Ecclesiae Presbytero Cardinali Ebor. Archiep. c. laurentio Cardinali sedis Apost de latere quoque Legato principio visitationis Ordinis S. Benedicti apud Westmonasterium initae 10. Jan. 1519. in Gen. 18. Descendam videbo c. Concio babita coram eruditiff Oxoniae Academiae auditorio in jaciendo collegii Cardinalis fundamento an 1525. in Prov. 9. Sapientia aedificavit sibi domum Concio habita coram
Divinity proceeded Doctor therein an 1542. at which time he was one of the Fellows of Whyttingdon Coll. in London and having a Chamber in Brasenose took Commons there when he receeded to the University for conversation sake with Men and Books In the time of K. Edw. 6. he seemed to be a zealous Reformer was then if not before made Rector of Wygan in his own Country and took to him a Wife who lived not long with him for when Qu. Mary came to the Crown they were separated In 1550. Aug. 2. he was installed the second Canon of the eighth Canonry of the Church of Worcester in the place of Rog. Stanford deceased When Qu. Mary ruled the Scepter he wheeled about and seeing what great mischief was like to follow upon the translation of the Bible into the English tongue in the time of K. Ed. 6. and before bestirred himself so much about it that he found means to have the matter proposed in Parliament in the beginning of Queen Mary that all such Bibles that were in the English tongue should be prohibited and burn'd This being very displeasing to many he was hated of them and therefore one after his usual manner calls him Morio and Scurra and another as foul'mouth'd as he Dr. Inkpot and a blenking Coxcomb who married against his conscience as he saith more fit to make a riding fool than Chaplain for a King This being the language of two zealous reformers incited one of another opinion who was after them in time to characterize our Author Standish to be Vir doctrina pietate fide divinae gloriae zelo conspicuâ—s His works are A little treatise against the protestation of Rob. Barnes at the time of his death Lond. 1540. oct Which R. Barnes was burn'd in Smithfield 3. Jul. 32. Hen. 8. Dom. 1540. Soon after came out a confutation of the said little treatise in oct Treatise of the Union of the Church Lond. 1556. Written to Card. Pole Treatise against the translation of the Bible in the vulgar Language with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature about the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 but whether buried at Worcester or Wygan I know not In his Canonry succeeded one Leonard Pollard Bach. of Div. and Chaplain to Dr. Pates Bishop of Worcester who having written Five Sermons were after they had been revised by Dr. Bonner B. of Lond. printed there 1556 in qu. This Pollard who was not of the University of Oxon that I can find died about the beginning of March the same Year 1556 having enjoyed his Canonry but few Months Of the same Family of Standish I find another very active Person of his time named Rich. Standish LL. D. and Parson of Standish in Lancashire but his education had been in Cambridge who dying at London in his Lodging in or near to Pater-noster-row in the Winter time 1552 was as 't is probable buried in the Church of St. Faith under the Cathedral of St. Paul JOHN BYRDE received his first breath within the City of Coventrie descended if I mistake not from the ancient Family of his name in Cheshire educated in Theologicals in the House or Coll. of the Carmes he being one of that order in the University of Oxon. where making considerable proficiency in his studies was admitted to oppose in Divinity in the publick School of that faculty in the beginning of May 1510 and in June following was admitted to the reading of the Sentences In 1513 he proceeded in the said faculty and three Years after was made Provincial of his Order throughout England But he enjoying that office only three Years was succeeded therein by one Rob. Lesbury who keeping it till 1522 Byrde came in again and continued Provincial till the dissolution of Monasteries When the Pope was like to lose his Power in England be became a zealous Preacher for the King's Supremacy for which being rewarded with a Bishoprick in Ireland as Baleus saith who calls it Episcopatus Penricensis tho Waraeus remembers no such place was translated thence to Bangor an 1539 The temporalities of which See he received by the title of the King's Chaplain only without that of Episc Penricensis on the 9. Sept. the same Year In 1541 he was translated to Chester made the first Bishop thereof and paid his obedience to the Archb. of York 13. Apr. 1542 where he continued till the Reign of Qu. Mary He wrot and published Lectures on St. Paul De fide justificante lib. 1. Learned homelies With an Epicede on one Edmund in Prose At length when Queen Mary came to the Crown he was notwithstanding he complyed with that time deprived of his Bishoprick for being married and living at Chester with his Wife year 1556 till Fifteen hundred fifty and six then died but in an obscure condition Whereupon his Body was buried in the Cathedral Church there In the said See succeeded Dr. George Cootes as I shall tell you when I come to speak of the Bishops under the Year 1555. RICHARD MORYSINE or Morison was born in Oxfordshire as 't is reported spent several Years in this University in Logicals and Philosophicals took a Degree in Arts afterwards travelled and making great improvement in the Latin and Greek tongues became an accomplish'd Gentleman and well known among the great Men of his time In 1537 Jul. 17. he being newly return'd from Padöua was made Prebendary of Yatminster secunda in the Church of Salisbury on the promotion of Reginald Pole Which Dignity he keeping till 1539. Hen. Cole of New Coll. succeeded At length being commended for a Person of worth and parts to K. Hen 8. was by him sent Ambassador to the Emperor Charles the 5. as he was afterwards by K. Ed. 6. In whose Reign being a Person zealous for reformation was by him appointed one of the number of such that were to reform this University of Oxon an 1549. At which time he shew'd himself a great friend to and a Protector of Pet. Martyr when he encountred the Trimviri in a solemn disputation in the Divinity School Afterwards having the honor of Knighthood conferr'd upon him being then esteemed a great learned Man he went into Italy and in his return died in Germany as I shall anon tell you His works are partly these Apomaxis calumniarum convitiorumque quibus Johan Coclaeus homo Theologus exiguus artium professor c. Henrici 8. nomen obscurare rerum gestarum gloriam faedare nuper edita non tam ad regem quam in regis invidiam epistola studuit Lond. 1537. qu. Dedicated to Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State An exhortation to stir all English Men to the defence of their Country Lond. 1539. oct Invective against the great and detestable vice treason c. Lond. 1539. oct Comfortable consolation for the birth of Prince Edward rather than sorrow for the death of Qu. Jane
The birth of this most noble Person was as a learned Author reports at Stoverton Castle in Staffordshire or as another who was a Forreigner tells us but false as I presume at London in the Month of March 1500. His education in Grammatical learning was partly in the Carmes House commonly called White Friers in the North suburb of Oxon and his Academical in the Coll. of St. Mary Magdalen where continuing for some time he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle that is to the Degree of Bach. of Arts an 1515. In which year he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might wear panni pretiosi and pellurae pretiosae and be admitted to enter into the Library How long he tarried in that Coll. after he had taken his Degree or whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts or a Degree in any other faculty it appears not in our Registers In the Year 1517. March 19. he was made Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury in 1519. Apr. 10. Preb. of Yatminster secunda in the said Church and on the 14 of Feb. 1523 he was admitted Fellow of Corp. Chr. College by command from the founder Which place I presume he never enjoyed being then absent if not happily Dean of Winbourne Minster in Dorsetshire from whence he was promoted to be Dean of Exeter Afterwards his life being chiefly spent in Italy he became by the favour of the Pope Cardinal of St. Nereus and Achilleus afterwards of St. Mary in Cosmedin and at length of St. Prisca was employed also by him in several Embassies to the French King and to the Emperor and lastly after the said Popes death Paul 3. he was in the Conclave of Cardinals chose twice by them to succeed him an 1549. But he upon some account refusing both the elections craved license to depart unto a certain Monastery in the Territory of Verona there to spend the remainder of his days To which place afterwards retiring he exercis'd himself for some years in great devotion and retiredness At length the news of K. Edw. death being brought of him and that Qu. Mary had obtained the Crown he procured of P. Julius 3. license to be sent his Legat into England to reconcile that Nation to the Romish See and the rather for this cause that being not in holy orders tho a Cardinal he might be in a capacity being one of the three that were named to marry the Queen Soon after coming into England the Queen being then married he was elected Chancellour of this University and was made Archb. of Canterbury in the place of Cranmer to which he was consecrated 22. March 1555. being about that time invested with the Temporalities of that See and kept it to his dying day He was a Person of great learning eloquence and judgment of singular piety charity and exemplary life as several Writers tell us who add also that he was an excellent Canonist and well read in the Laws of ecclesiastical polity as may partly be seen in the Books written by him which are these Pro unitate ecclesiastica ad Hen. 8. Rom. in fol. Oratio ad Imperatorem contra Evangelicos cum Scholiis Athanasii Print 1554. in qu. Oration of Speech in the Parliament House 27. Nov. 1554. The contents of which you may see in John Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under that year Letter to P. Julius 3. touching the restoring of the Realm of England dated on the last of Nov. 1554. See there again under the same year Unitatis Ecclesiasticae defensio c. lib. 4. Argent 1555. fol. Ingolst 1587. oct Oratio in materia de pace Ven. 1558. qu. Reformatio Angliae ex decretis Reg. poli an 1556. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1569. oct De concilio lib. 1. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1567. fol. 69. oct c. This is printed in Canones Decreta concilii Tridentini published by Philip Labbe Par. 1667. fol. De Baptismo Constantini Imperatoris Printed with the former Book De summi pontificis officio potestate Lov. 1569. oct A Treatise of Justification Lov. 1569. qu. in two Books This was found among the Writings of Card. Pole remaining in the custody of Mr. Hen. Pyning Chamberlain and receiver general to the said Cardinal then lately deceased at Lovaine With it were Printed and bound certain translations touching the said matter of justification viz. 1 The sixth Session of the generall Councel of Trent which is of justification with the Canons of the same Session 2 A Treatise of St. Augustin that famous Doctor by him intit Of faith and works c. Which translations were made by the Cardinal who sate several times in the said Council 3 A Sermon of St. Chrysostome of praying unto God 4 A Serm. of St. Basil of Fasting 5 Certain Sermons of St. Leo the great of the same argument 6 A notable Sermon of St. Cyprian of Almesdeeds He also Card. Pole had been several years gathering and obtaining from divers learned Persons the various readings emendations castigations c. of Cicero's works with intentions to have published a compleat Copy of them but death seizing on him unexpectedly that good work was stopp'd and what are become of the papers of corrections I know not This great Person who was in an high manner venerated by all Men tho extremely hated by K. Hen. 8. yielded to nature 18. Nov. early in the morning being the very next day that Qu. Mary died in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 58. years Whereupon his body being carried to Canterbury in the latter end of Decemb. year 1558 following was buried with solemnity in the Cathedral there within the Chappel of St. Thomas the Martyr being as yet 1689. the last Archb. of that See that hath been there buried See more of him in his life written in the Italian tongue by Ludov. Bacatellus sometimes Domestick to this great Cardinal and afterwards advanced to the Archbishoprick of Rhaguse for his rare piety and learning translated into Latin by Andr. Duditius Sâ—ordellatus Episc Tininiensis Ven. 1563. qu. Who afterwards left his Religion and became a Protestant and Socinian HUGH WESTON was a Leycestershire Man born entred a Student in Balliol Coll. about 1526 took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1530 about which time being chose Fellow of Lincoln Coll. I mean into one of those Fellowships founded by Edw. Darby he proceeded in his Faculty studied Physick and was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University In 1538 he was elected Rector of the said College was admitted the year after to the reading of the sentences and in 1540. he proceeded in Divinity About which time he was made Margaret Professor Archdeacon of Colchester and Rector of Cliff in Kent In the first of Qu. Mary he had the Deanery of Westminster bestowed on him in the place of Dr. Ric. Coxe was made prolecutor
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
Woman in the Moon was published It is said also that he wrote something against Mart. Marprelate in defence of Dr. Cooper Bishop of Winton but what I cannot tell unless it be any of those answers which I have mentioned in John Penry alias M. Marprelate under the year 1593. Quere RICHARD HAYDOCK was born at Grewel in Hampshire educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1590. took the degrees in Arts and travelled for some time beyond the Seas At his return he studied Physick took one degree in that Faculty and in 1605. left the college and settling in the City of Salisbury practiced Physick there many years He hath translated from Italian into English A Tract containing the Arts of curious Painting Graving and Building Oxon. 1598. fol. Written originally by Joh. Paul Lomatius This translation which hath in the title page the picture of Ric. Haydock is by him dedicated to Tho. Bodley Esq a favourer of his Muse as Dr. Joh. Case and other chief men of the University then in being were not only for his learning but for his great curiosity in painting and engraving for which among many he was esteemed eminent This is that Rich. Haydock whom a certain author reports that he would practice Physick in the day-time and Preach in his sleep in the night about the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. The whole story of which being too large for this place I shall refer the Reader to him who errs in several particulars of it especially in that that when Haydock had ingeniously confessed the cheat to the King who made a discovery of it his Majesty thereupon gave him preferment in the Church He was not in Orders but lived always a Physician of good repute at Salisbury and retiring for a time to London dyed and was buried there a little before the Grand Rebellion broke out as I have been informed by those that knew the Man The Reader is now to note that one Ric. Haydock translated from Italian into English An ample declaration of the Christian Doctrine Doway 1604. intw written by Card. Rob. Bellarmine But this person who was a Doctor of Divinity a Rom. Catholick and had spent most of his time beyond the Seas in the English Seminaries must not be taken to be the same with the former who was a Physician as some have done REYNOLDE SCOT a younger Son of Sir John Scot of Scots-hall near to Smeeth in Kent by his Wife Daughter of Reynolde Pimp of Pimps-court Knight was born in that County and at about 17 years of age was sent to Oxon particularly as it seems to Hart hall where several of his Country-men and name studied in the latter end of K. Hen. 8. and in the Reign of Ed. 6. c. Afterwards he retired to his native Country without the honour of a degree and settled at Smeeth where he found great incouragement in his studies from his kinsman Sir Tho. Scot. About which time taking to him a Wife he gave himself up solely to solid reading to the perusing of obscure authors that had by the generality of Scholars been neglected and at times of leisure to husbandry and gardening as it may partly appear from these books following A perfect platform of a Hop-garden and necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof with notes and rules for reformation of all abuses c. Lond. 1576. qu. the 2. edit as it seems The discovery of Witchcraft wherein the leud dealing of Witches and Witchmongers is notably detected the knavery of Conjurers the impiety of Inchantors the folly of Southsayers c. With many other things are opened which have long been hidden howbeit very necessary to be known Lond. 1584. qu. in 16 books Discourse upon Devils and Spirits In this and the former both printed together it plainly appears that the author was very well versed in many choice books and that his search into them was so profound that nothing slip'd his Pen that might make for his purpose Further also in the said Discovery and Discourse though he holds that Witches are not such that were in his time and before commonly executed for Witches or that Witches were or are not yet they which were written for the instruction of all Judges and Justices of that age being the first of that nature that were published in the Mother tongue did for a time make great impressions in the Magistracy and Clergy tho afterwards condemned by James King of Scots the same who succeeded Qu. Elizabeth in the Monarchy of England in his Preface to Damonology printed under his Name at Edinburgh in 1597. qu. and by several others since among whom was Rich. Bernard of Batcomb in his Epist Ded. before his Guide to Grand Jury-men c. Lond. 1627. in oct What else our author Scot hath written I cannot yet tell nor any thing else of him only but that he dyed in Sept. year 1599 or Oct. in fifteen hundred ninety and nine and was buried among his Ancestors in the Church at Smeeth before-mentioned In the time of the said Reynold Scot and before have been conversant among the Muses in Hart hall the Sackviles of Sussex the Colepepers of Kent and Sussex the Sedlies of Kent and the Scots before-mentioned with others of inferiour note of the said Counties ROBERT TURNER was born at Barnstaple in Devonshire to which place if I mistake not his Father came from St. Andrews in Scotland and educated for a time in Exeter coll But leaving the University without a degree wherein he saith he spent his time in trifles and toys and afterwards his Country and Parents for Religion sake went first into France afterwards into Italy and at length to Rome where he spent some time in the Liberal Arts in the German coll there Afterwards being made Priest he applyed himself more severely to the study of Divinity and in fine was made Doctor of that Faculty This person hath several times confessed that he had been Scholar to Edm. Campian the Jesuit but whether in St. Johns coll or in that of the English at Rome is yet uncertain Sure it is that for the great respect he had to his memory he published not only several of his Works after his death but also his Life At length after many travels and services done for the Cause he was made Professor of Eloquence and Ethicks in and afterwards Rector of the University of Ingolstade in Bavaria and in short time after one of the Privy Council to William Duke of that place but falling into his displeasure he left him and retired for a time to Paris About an year or two after he returned into that Country again was made Canon of Breslaw in Silesia and afterwards Secretary for the Latin Tongue to Ferdinando of Gratz who had an especial esteem for him as all others of his persuasion had His Works are these Ingoldstad 1602. c. oct
chief Master of the School at Manchester in Lancashire where also he practiced his Faculty with good success He hath written The Haven of Health made for the comfort of Students and consequently for all those that have a care of their health c. Lond. 1586. qu. there again 1605. and 1612. qu. A preservative from the pestilence with a short censure of the late Sickness at Oxford Printed with the former The said Sickness hapned in 1575. Epistolarum familiarium Ciceroâ—is Epitome secundâ—m tria genera libro secundo Epist 3. proposita Cantab. 1602. oct Epistolae item aliae familiares Ciceroâ—is 〈…〉 genera demonstrativum deliberativum 〈◊〉 redactâ—â— Orationes aliquot faciliores Ciceroâ—is in 〈◊〉 tria genera Rhetoribus usitata depositae What other things he wrote I know not nor any thing else of him only that he deceased at Manchester in sixteen hundred and seven and was buried in the Church there 10. June leaving behind him the character of an able Physician and Latinist a good Neighbour and an honest Man JOHN POPHAM second Son of Edw. Popham Esque of the ancient and gentile Family of his Name living at Huntwâ—rthy in Somersetshire spent some time in â—ludy among the Oxonians particularly as it seems in 〈◊〉 coll being then observed to be given at leisure hours to manly Sports and Encounters Afterwards he retired to the Middle-Temple lived a loose life for a time but taking up soon after his juvenile humour was reduced to gravity So that making great proficiency in his studies became a Barrester Summer or Autumn-reader of the said Inn an 1568. Serjeant at Law soon after Solicitor General in 1579. Attorney General two years after and Treasurer of the Middle-Temple In 1592. he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench as Camden tells us tho' others say of the Common Pleas in the place of Sir Christop Wray deceased and the same year hereceived the honour of Knighthood from her Majesty While he held that honourable office of L. Ch. Justice he administred it towards Malefacters with such wholsome and available severity that England was beholding unto him a long time for a part of her private Peace and home Security For the truth is the Land in his days did swarm with Theeves and Robbers whose ways and courses he well understood when he was a young Man some of whom being condemned by him to die did gain their Pardons not from Qu. Elizabeth but from K. James which being soon discovered to be prejudicial to Justice and the Ministers thereof this our worthy Judge complained to the King of it Whereupon granting of Pardons were not so often afterwards issued out His works that are extant are these Reports and Cases adjudged in the time of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1656. fol. To which are added Remarkable Cases and Reports of other learned Pens since his death These Reports were afterwards printed again Resolutions and Judgments upon Cases and Matters agitated in all Courts at Westminster in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth Lond. in qu. collected by Joh. Goldeshurg Esque one of the Protonotaries of the Common Pleas. At length our author Popham dying on the 10. of June in sixteen hundred and seven year 1607 aged 76 years was buried in the South Isle of the Church at Wellington in Somersetshire Which Town he had for several years before graced by his habitation By his last Will and Test dated 21. Sept. 1604. and proved 17. June 1608. wherein he stiles himself Chief Justice of the Pleas he makes provision for an Hospital to be at Wellington for 6 Men and 6 Women and for other works of Charity Afterwards was a noble Monument erected over his grave with a short inscription thereon wherein he is said to have been Privy Councellor to Queen Elizabeth and King James HENRY LYTE Esq Son of John Son of Tho. Lyte was born of and descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Lytes-Carey in Somersetshire became a Student of this University in the latter end of Hen. 8. about the year 1546. but in what coll or hall I know not as yet or whether he took a degree the Registers of that time and in Ed. 6. being very imperfect After he had spent some years in Logick and Philosophy and in other good learning he travelled into Foreign Countries and at length retired to his Patrimony where by the advantage of a good foundation of literature made in the University and abroad he became a most excellent Scholar in several sorts of learning as by these books following it appears most of which I have seen and perused Records of the true original of the noble Britains that sprang of the remains of the Trojans taken out of Oblivions treasure MS. The beginning of which is Isis the principal river of Britaine c. The copy of this that I saw was written with the authors own hand very neatly an 1592 the character small lines close some words in red Ink and others only scored with it The mystical Oxon. of Oxonford alias a true and most antient record of the original of Oxford and all Britaine Or rather thus Certain brief conjectural notes touching the original of the University of Oxon and also of all Britaine called Albania and Calydonia Sylva MS. The beginning of which is The antient City and famous Vniversity of Oxford in Britayne c. The copy also of this that I saw was written with the authors own hand in 1592. like the former The said two books being written in a small character and very close are contain'd but in a little quantity of Paper In the last of which are many pretty fancies which may be of some use as occasion shall serve by way of reply for Oxon against the far fetch'd antiquities of Cambridge They were both sometimes in the library of Miles Windsore formerly fellow of C. C. coll after whose death they came into the hands of Br. Twyne and after his to the University of Oxon. The light of Britaine being a short summ of the old English History Dedicated to Qu. Elizabeth He also translated from French into English The History of Plants wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of Herbs and Plants c. Lond. 1578. fol. written by Rembert Dodonaeus It was then printed with Sculptures from woodden cuts and without Sculptures by Ninion Newton Lond. 1589. qu. printed the third time in fol. at Lond. 1619. This book which hath been taken into the hands of curious Physicians had an Epigram made on its first edition by that noted Poet Tho. Newton friend to the Translator What else our author Hen. Lyte hath written and translated I know not nor any thing of him besides only that paying his last debt to nature in sixteen hundred and seven aged 78. was buried in the north Isle of the Church of Charlton-Makerel in Somerset-shire which Isle belongs to the Lytes of Lytes
and speak a Speech in praise of Sir Tho. Bodley every year on the 8. of Nov. on which day the Visitation of his Library is commonly made to be nominated by the Dean of Ch. Ch. and confirmed by the Vicechancellour for the time being But the said gift was not to take place till the death of his Widdow At length upon her decease which was at Great Wolford in Warwickshire 11. Nov. 1681. she being then the Wife of Tho. Keyt of that place Gent. the said annuity fell to the University Whereupon the year following Dr. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. nominating one of his own house Tho. Sparke M. A. there was a solemn Speech made by him in the Schola Linguarum on the 8. Nov. 1682. Which Speech is yet continued by Ch. Ch. men without any regard had to those of Allsouls coll wherein Dr. Morris had much of his education and had been Chaplain thereof or to any Master of another coll or hall The said Sir Thom. Bodley had a younger Brother named Josias Bodley who having received part of his education in Merton coll became afterwards a Soldier of note in Ireland a Knight and Overseer of the Trenches when the English laid Siege to Kingsale Baltamore Berehaven and Castlehaven in Ireland holden against them by the Irish assisted by the Spaniard an 1601. at which time Bodley behaved himself bravely both in their Works and Battle He left behind him to posterity 1 Observations concerning the Fortresses of Ireland and the British Colonies of Vlster MS. fol. sometimes in the Library of Sir Jam Ware now perhaps in that of Henry E. of Clarendon 2 A jocular description of a journey by him taken to Lecale in Vlster an 1602. MS. Sometimes in the same Library WILLIAM WARMINGTON a Dorsetshire Man born was as a Member of Hart hall then presided by one who was always in animo Catholicus matriculated 20. Dec. 1577. aged 21. or more having been there a Student for some time before Shortly after he left the Nation and his Religion and spending some yeâ—s in a Seminary in Philosophical and Theological studies was made a Priest and sent into the Mission of England but being soon after taken he was with others conveyed on Shipboard in the Month of Feb. 1584. and sent beyond the Seas with great menaces of utter ruine if they return again Afterwards being noted in Foreign Countries by those of his own Nation for his learning and piety he was made Chaplain to Cardinal W. Alan with whom continuing till about the time of his death did return again into England being then as he stiles himself An Oblate of the holy Congregation of S. Ambrose and did execute his Function very zealously among the Brethren At length being apprehended by two Pursevants 24. Mar. 1607. and committed Prisoner to the Clinke in Southwark the next day according to the English accompt by the Bishop of Londons order he entred somewhat more deeply into consideration of the controversie about the Oath of Allegiance than he had done before while at liberty So that in the end making sufficient proof of his Loyalty towards his Majesty by accepting of the Oath when it was required of him he did thereupon premeditate and provide reasons for so doing and at length reducing into method for the help of his memory certain notes in scattered papers that he had collected concerning that matter did frame thence a compleat discourse At length after it had laid by him for some time did publish it under this title tho he knew 't would displease his Holiness who in his breves had either admonished or prohibited all Rom. Catholicks to take the Oath of Allegiance or to teach the lawfulness of it A moderate defence of the Oath of Allegiance Wherein the author proveth the said Oath to be most lawful notwithstanding the Pope's Breves c. Printed by permission of the Superiours in 1612. qu. Whereunto is added The Oration of P. Sixtus 5. in the Consistory of Rome upon the Murther of K. Hen. 3. the French King by a Fryer Strange Reports or News from Rome Printed with the former book Upon the publishing of these things the Friends of the author Warmington and his kindred of the Rom. Perswasion became his Enemies and withdrew from him all the benevolence they used to allow him Warmington therefore being put to his shifts for maintenance for this his Loyalty and Obediencce petitioned the King for some allowance His petition thereupon was received and he commended by his Majesty to Dr. Bilson Bishop of Winchester with order to take him to himself to his own house there to provide for him The Bishop obeyed Warmington lived with him wanted nothing had his liberty as he pleased and freedom of his Religion ROBERT WOLCOMBE or Wollocombe born of and descended from the antient and gentile family of the Wollocombes of Wollocombe in Devonshire was educated for a time in Exeter coll left the University without a degree and became beneficed in his own Country where he was much resorted to especially by the precise Party for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching His works are Sinners Salve which applied and practiced as well of impenitent may be moved to conversion as the penitent armed against disputation Lond. 1595. in tw Armour for the Soul against the assaults of Death Printed with Sinners Salve c. A glass for the Godly containing many comfortable Treatises to perswade man from the love of this World to the love of the world to come c. Lond. 1612. oct in two Parts The first dedicated to Sir Edw. Seymour of Bury-pomery in Devon containeth 7 Treatises which are no other than the effect of Sermons The first is entit The seeking of Heaven on Mat. 6. 33. The second part dedicated to Sir Edw. Giles Kt. containeth likewise 7 Treatises the first of which is entit Spiritual balm for the afflicted on Joh. 16. 20. A Letter to a pensive friend Printed and bound with the former parts He also translated from Lat. into English The restitution of a Sinner entit The restoring again of him that was fallen Lond. 1581. oct Written by St. John Chrisostome What other things he hath written and translated I cannot tell nor when he died I find one of both his names a Ministers Son of Devonshire to have been matriculated as a member of Exeter coll an 1584. aged 16. which I take to be Son to the Writer THOMAS TWYNE Son of Joh. Twyne mention'd under the year 1581. was born in the City of Canterbury admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 6. Jul. 1560. and Probationer 9. Nov. 1564. being then Bac. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty he applyed his Muse to the study of Medicine retired to Cambridge where he continued for a time and then setling at Lewes in Sussex where his Patron Tho. Lord Buckhurst lived practiced his faculty and became successful therein In 1593. he was admitted Bach. of Physick
concerned in the matter Some time after Carre then Earl of Sommerset and his Lady Frances before-mentioned were brought to their trials for contriving his death and hiting others to make him away who being both found guilty had the sentence of death passed on them but through the clemency of the King being spared they were only banished the Court. As for our author Overbury who in learning and judgment excelled any of his years which as 't was generally thought made him while living in the Court to be proud to overvalue himself undervalue others and affected as 't were with a kind of insolence hath written A Wife Being a most exquisite and singular Poem of the choice of a Wife c. Printed several times at Lond. while the author lived In 1614 it was printed there again in qu. being the fourth or fifth impression bearing this title A Wife now the Widdow of Sir Tho. Overbury being c. Characters Or witty descriptions of the properties of sundry persons Which Characters as 't is observed were the first that were written and published in England To them are added 1 Certain Edicts from a Parliament in Eutopia written by the Lady Southwell 2 Newes from any whence or old truth under a supposal of novelty occasioned by divers Essays and private passages of Wit between sundry Gentlemen upon that subject 3 Paradoxes as they were spoken in a Mask before his Majesty at Whitehall 4 The Mountebanks Receipts 5 Songs Of the remedy of Love In two parts A Poem Lond. 1620. in about 2 sh in oct Observations in his travells upon the state of the 17. Provinces as they stood an 1609. Printed 1627. qu. This goes under his name but doubted by some whether he wrote it Observations upon the Provinces united And on the state of France Lond. 1651. oct with his picture before it an aetat 32. This also is doubted whether ever he wrote it The arraignment and conviction of Sir Walt. Ralegh at the King's Bench Bar at Winchester 17. Nov. 1603. c. Lond. 1648. in 5 sh in qu. Said to be copied by Sir Tho. Overbury but doubtful He yielded up his last breath occasioned by poyson as I have before told you on the 15. Sept. in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 and was buried as some authors say presently and very unreverently in a pit digged in an obscure and mean place But the Register of the Tower -Chappel dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula saith he was buried in the said Chappel 15. Sept. being the day of his death an 1613. as I have been informed by the Letters of that learned Gent. Sir Edw. Sherburne Knight late Clerk of his Maj. Ordinance and Armories within the Kingdom of England Over his Grave tho no memory by writing was ever put yet Ben. Johnson's Epigram written to him will eternize it and other verses by the Wits of his time set before his Poem called A Wife and in particular that Epigram written by Owen the Welsh Bard running thus Vxorem angelico describis carmine talem Qualem oratorem Tullius ore potens Qualem describis quamvis tibi nuberet Vxor Aequalis tale non foret illa viro Our author Sir Tho. Overbury had a Nephew of both his names a Knight and Justice of the Peace for the County of Gloucester who lived and injoyed the inheritance of the Overburies at Boorton on the hill before-mentioned He wrote 1 A true and perfect account of the examination trial condemnation and execution of Joan Perry and her two Sons John and Rich. Perry for the supposed Murder of Will Harrison Gent c. Lond. 1676. in 4 sh and half in qu. Written by way of Letter to Thom. Shirley Doctor of Physick in London 2 Queries proposed to the serious consideration of those who impose upon others in things of divine and supernatural revelation and prosecute any upon the aecount of Religion with a desire of their candid and christian resolution thereof Printed 1677. Answered by George Vernon Rect. of Boorton on the water the same year in his Ataxiae obstaculum Whereupon Sir Tho. came out with a reply intit Ratiocinium vernaculum or a Reply to Ataxiae obstaculum Being a pretended answer to certain Queries dispersed in some parts in Gloucestershire Lond. 1678. oct This Sir Tho. Overbury was not educated in any University only was a great Traveller in parts beyond the Seas and afterwards a favourer of Protestant Dissenters which is all I know of him only-that he sold his Inheritance at Boorton on the hill to Alex. Popham Esq about 1680. and afterwards retiring to an Estate that he had at Adminton in Queinton Parish in Gloucestershire died there 28. Feb. 1680. and was buried in Queinton Church JOHN HARMAR a most noted Latinist Grecian and Divine was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1574. took the degrees in Arts was made the Kings Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University 1585. being then in holy Orders one of the Proctors thereof two years after chief Master of Winchester School for nine years Warden of the coll there 17 years and at length Doctor of Divinity being always accounted a most solid Theologist admirably well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and in his younger years a subtile Aristotelian The chief actions of his Life an account of his travels of his disputing at Paris with the great Doctors of the Rom. Party and also of the things that he had written and published his Nephew John Harmar whom I shall mention under the year 1670. promised to give unto me a full narration in writing but sickness and death soon after following prevented him He hath published 1 Chrysostomi Archiep. Constant Homeliae sex ex MSS. cod in bib coll Novi Oxon. 1586. 2 Chrysostomi Homeliae ad populum Antiochenum omnes exceptâ primâ cum Latinâ versione Homeliae decimae nonae quae in latinis etiam exemplaribus hactenus desiderata est Lond. 1590. He also translated from French into English Sermons on the three first Chapters of the Canticles Ox. 1587 qu. Written by Theod. Beza And from Lat. into English Sermons on the 10. Commandments Lord. 1581. qu. written by Joh. Calvin and had a prime hand in the translation of the New Testament into English at the command of K. Jam. 1. an 1604. At length paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh of Oct. in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 was buried at the upper end of New coll Choire His Epitaph you may read in a book intit Historia Antiquit Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. a. He was a considerable Benefactor to the Libraries of both Wykehams colleges EDWARD BREREWOOD Son of Rob. Br. Wet-Glover thrice Mayor of the City of Chester was born and educated in Grammar learning there applyed his Muse to Academical studies in Brasenose coll in the latter end of 1581. aged
generali methodo resolvandas tractatus posthumus c. Lond. 1631. in a thin fol. and dedic to Henry E. of Northumberland The sum of this book coming into the hands of Aylesbury before-mention'd Walt. Warner did undertake to perfect and publish it conditionally that Algernon eldest Son of the said Henry E. of Northumb. would after his Fathers death continue his pension to him during his natural life Which being granted at the earnest desires and entreaties of Aylesbury made to that Lord Warner took a great deal of pains in it and at length published it in that sort as we see it now extant By the way it must be known that this Walt. Warner was a Leicestershire man born but whether educated in this University I cannot as yet find that he was esteemed as good a Philosopher as Mathematician that he made and invented a Logarithmical table i. e. whereas Brigg's table fills his Margin with numbers encreasing by unites and over against them sets their Logarithms which because of incommensurability must needs either be abundant or deficient Mr. Warner like a Dictionary of the Latine before the English fill'd the Margin with Logarithms encreasing by Unites and did set to every one of them so many continual meane proportionals between one and 10. and they for the same reason must also have the last figure incompleat These after the death of Warner came through the hands of one Tovey sometimes Fellow of Christs coll in Cambridge afterwards beneficed in Leicestershire and took to Wife the the Neece of Warner into those of Herbert Thorndyke Prebend of Westminster sometimes Fellow of Trin. coll in Cambridge and from him after his death which happened in July 1672. into those of Dr. Rich. Busby Prebend of the said Church They were in number ten thousand but when John Pell D. D. sometimes a member of Trin. coll in Cambridge became acquainted with Warner they were by him or his direction made an hundred thousand as the difference of hands will shew in the MS. if Dr. Busby will communicate it He also I mean Warner wrote a Treatise of Coynes and Coynage in relation to Mint-affairs a copy of which John Collins Accomptant to the Royal Fishery Company had in his possession but what became of it after his death I know not The sixth book of Optiques in Marsennus is generally said to be his and the seventh is Hobbes's of Malmsbury He also did make it appear in a MS. of his composition that the blood in a body did circulate which he communicating to the immortal Harvy he took his first hint thence concerning that matter which he afterwards published as the first inventor I have been informed by those that knew Warner well that he had but one hand and was born so that as he received a pension from the Earl of Northumberland so did he tho smaller from Sir Tho. Aylesbury and lastly that he died at the Wolstable near the waters-side not far from Northumberland house which is near Charing Cross where he commonly winter'd but kept his summer with Sir Thomas in Winsore-Park much about the time when the Long Parliament began in Nov. 1640. or rather in the latter end of that year leaving behind him a brother who was High-Sherriff of Leicestershire or at least prick'd for that office in the beginning of the rebellion that hapned under K. Ch. 1. As for our author Hariot who for some time lived in Sion coll near to London year 1621 died 2 July in sixteen hundred twenty and one whereupon his body was conveyed to S. Christophers Church in London by the brethren of the Mathematical faculty and by them committed to the earth with solemnity Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument with a large Inscription thereon but destroyed with the Church it self by the dreadful fire that hapned in that City in the beginning of Sept. in 1666. This person tho he was but little more than 60 years of age when he died yet had not an unusual and rare disease seized upon him he might have attained as 't is thought to the age of 80. The disease was an ulcer in the Lipp and Dr. Alex. Rhead was his Physitian who tho he had cured many of worser and more malignant diseases yet he could not save him In the treatise of ulcers in the said Rheads works is this mention of him Cancerous Vlcers also seise on this part the Lipp c. This grief hastned the end of that famous Mathematician Mr. Harriot with whom I was acquainted but short time before his death Whom at one time together with Mr. Hues who wrote of Globes Mr. Warner and Mr. Torpley the Noble Earl of Northumberland the favourer of all good learning and Mecaenas of learned men maintained whilst he was in the Tower for their worth and various literature RICHARD TILLESLEY Son of Tho. Tillesley of Eccleshall in Staffordshire by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Rich. Barker of Shropshire was born in the City of Coventry entred a Commoner in Ball. coll in Lent-Term 1597. aged 15 elected Scholar of S. Johns coll two years after took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became Chaplain to Dr. Buckridge Bishop of Rochester whose Neece he marrying viz. Elizabeth Daughter of George Buckridge was thereby a way made for his preferment In 1613. he was admitted Bach. of Divinity about which time being Rector of Kuckstone and Stone in Kent he resigned his Fellowship Soon after he proceeded in his faculty and was by the favour of the said Dr. Buckridge made Archdeacon and Prebend some say Dean but false of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Sanderson and higher would he have been promoted had he not unexpectedly been cut off by death He was a person of great reading and learning as his writings shew He was also very devout in the strict observance of all the Church ceremonies the reasonableness of which he convinced many that retired to him for satisfaction He was one of three that undertook to answer Seldens Hist of Tithes he and Montague the Law-part and St. Nettles the Rabinical or Judaical As for that which our author published it bears this title Animadversions on Mr. Seldens History of Tithes and his review thereof Lond. 1619. and 21. qu. What else he hath written and published it appears not nor any thing besides only that he dying to the great reluctancy of all learned men in the month of Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and one was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Church of Rochester year 1621 leaving then behind him a Son named John who was an Infant in 1619. One Eliseus Burgess whom I shall mention elsewhere was installed Archdeacon of Rochester in his room on the 24. of the said month of Nov. in 1621. who continued in that Dignity till the grand rebellion broke out and after FRANCIS MORE Son of Edw. More Gent. by Elizab. his Wife Daughter and Heir of one Hall of
and Lat. at Paris in 5 volumes at the charges of the Bishops and Clergy of France an 1621. The sixth vol. was put out by him in 1624. and the other volumes four in number came out before at different times at Heidleburg by other hands at it seems Sir Hen. Savile also procured six Manuscript copies of Bradwardins book De causa Dei to be compared and corrected to his great charge and afterwards published a true copy thereof under this title Thomae Bradwardini Archiep. olim Cantuariensis De causa Dei contra Pelagium de virtute causarum ad suos Mertonenses lib. 3. Lond. 1618. fol. Before which Sir Henry put of his own writing Vita Thomae Bradwardini Archiep. olim Cantuariensis He also wrote and was author of Praelectiones tresdecem in principium elementorum Euclidis Oxoniae habitae an 1620. Oxon. 1621. qu. Some of which Lectures he read when he was a Junior Master as I have before mentioned Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita an 1592. Oxon. 1658. qu. Published by Mr. afterwards Dr. Tho. Barlow of Queens coll from the original in the Bodleian Library and also by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in the second edit of Monarchia Britannica Oxon. 1681. oct Tract of the original of Monasteries Orations Tract concerning the Union of England and Scotland at the command of K. James 1. MSS. in the Bodleian Lib. Concerning the last of these John Thornborough B. of Bristow did write a book about the same time Our author Savile also did publish Nazianzen's Steliteuticks Zenophon's Institution of Cyrus c. and had many choice Exemplâ—rs in his Library which were by others published as from Bibliotheca Saviliana He also translated into elegant Lat. K. James the first his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance Which flâ—ing in that dress as far as Rome was by the Pope and the Conclave sent to Francis Suarez at Salamanca with a command to answer it When he had perfected the work which he calls Defensio fidei Catholicae c. cum responsione ad Apologiam pro juramento fidelitatis c. it was transmitted to Rome for a view of the Inquisitors who blotted out what they pleased and added whatsoever might advance the Pope's power Which matter Joh. Salkeld his his Assistant when he wrote at Salamanca did often profess when he came over to the Church of England and lived for some time in the House of Dr. King Bishop of London that the good old Man Suarez whose piety and charity he magnifyed much did not only disavow but detest it However printed it was at Colen I think an 1614. but so soon as any of the copies came into England one was burnt in detestation of the fact by publick command Sir Hen. Savile also made several notes with his Pen in many of his books in his choice Library particularly on Eusebius his Ecclesiastical History made use of by Hen. Valesius in his edition of that History an 1659. as he 'll tell you more at large if you 'll consult the Preface to that elaborate work He also made several notes on those books which he gave to the Mathematical Library in the School-Tower and on others which I have seen Divers of his Tracts of various subjects in MS. were greedily procured after his death sometimes also while he lived by industrious and ingenious Scholars which do now or at least did lately go from hand to hand At length after he had lived beyond the age of Man and had done many noble and generous works for the benefit of learning he departed this mortal life in Eaton coll near to Windsore on the nineteenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred twenty and one and was buried in the Chappel there near to the body of Henry his Son who died 1604 aged 8 years leaving behind him one only daughter named Elizabeth begotten on the body of his Wife Margaret Daughter of George Dacres of Cheshunt in Hertfordshire who was married to Sir Jo. Sedley of Kent Baronet Soon after the News of his death being sent to Oxon the Vicechancellour and Doctors ordered a Speech to be publickly spoken to the Academians in memory of so worthy a Benefactor and Scholar as Sir Henry was Which being accordingly done by Tho. Goffe of Ch. Ch. the Speech was shortly after made publick with many copies of verses made by the best Poets of the University added to it with this title Vltima Linia Savilii Oxon. 1622. qu. These things being done was a black Marble stone laid over his grave on the south side of the Communion Table in the said Chappel of Eaton coll and a most sumptuous honorary monument to his memory on the south wall at the upper end of the Choire of Merton coll the inscription on which you may see elsewhere In the Provostship of Eaton coll succeeded Tho. Murrey a Scot Tutor and Secretary to Prince Charles afterwards K. Ch. 1. who died as one observed on the first day of Apr. 1623. being then newly cut for the Stone and was buried in the Chap. of that Coll. whose Epitaph there saith that he died on the ninth day of the same month aged 59 years Afterwards the King designed Sir Will. Beecher to succeed but by Friends and many intreaties Sir Hen. Wotton had that place conser'd on him In the Wardenship of Mert. coll succeeded Nath. Brent LL. D. afterwards a Knight who minding wealth and the setling a Family more than generous actions that College did nothing near so well flourish as under the Government of Sir Henry ROGER HACKET an eminent Theologist in the time he lived was born in the Parish of St. James within the City of London educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1577. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and soon after was cried up for an eminent Preacher In 1591. or thereabouts he was made Rector of North-Crowley in Bucks And four years after proceeded in Divinity All that I have yet seen of his writing or publication are only Several Sermons viz. 1 Serm. at Pauls Cross on 1 Sam. 11. 5 6 7. Oxon. 1591. oct dedic to the Lord Norrys 2 Serm. on 2 Cor. 5. 20 21. Lond. 1593. oct 3 A Marriage present on Gen. 2. 22. Lond. 1607. qu. 4 Sick mans glass on Isaiah 30. 1 2 3. Lond. 1607. qu. 5 Serm. on Psal. 122. 6. c. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and one or thereabouts for in 1622. were several books conveyed into the publick Library at Oxon by his bequest and was buried as it seems in his Church of North-Crowley before-mentioned HERBERT CROFT Son of Edw. Croft Esq descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at Croft Castle in Herefordshire was educated in Academicals in Ch. Ch. as his Son Col. Sir Will. Croft use to say tho his name occurrs not in the Matricula which makes me think that his stay was short there Afterwards
peritus c. But before that Apologia was extant he wrote Academiarum quae aliquando fuere hodie sunt in Europâ— catalogus Lond. 1590. qu. contracted by the author and printed on one large sheet of Paper to be put into a frame At the end of the said book he published Chronographia sive origo collegiorum Oxoniensis Academiae This last was mostly written by Tho. Neal of New coll in Lat. verse and to it is added a description of the Divinity and publick Schools and an Epitome of the Halls Our author Windsore had intentions to write a book of the Antiquity of the Univ. of Oxon. and in order thereunto had made many collections but Twyne with his forward and natural genie undertaking that work Windsore forbore to proceed and imparted to him his collections At length after he had lived to a fair age he surrendred up his last breath in his lodgings near S. Michaels Church in Oxon. in sixteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the outer Chappel of C. C. coll under the north wall behind the Vicepresidents seat At that time he left many if not all his collections of Antiquities containing many dotages and fooleries to Twyne before mentioned Legacies to the prisoners in the prison called Bocardo to the parishioners of S. Michaels Parish and to the Chest in the Tower of C. C. coll After Twynes death some of the said collections were put into the Libr. of the said coll and others were scatter'd about when the great fire hapned in Oxon. soon after Twynes death One vol. of which came at length into my hands wherein I find many vain and credulous matters not at all to be relyed upon committed to writing MILES SMITH a Fletchers Son received his first breath within the City of Hereford became a Student first in C. C. coll about 1568. whence translating himself soon after to Brasnose took the degrees in Arts as a member of that house wherein by the benefit of a severe discipline that was in his time exercised and by his indefatigable industry he proved at length an incomparable Theologist About that time he was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. and took the degree of Bach. of Div. as a member of that Royal foundation Afterwards he became Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral Ch. of Hereford Doctor of Divinity and in 1612. Bishop of Glocester to which See which was given him for his great pains in translating the Bible he received consecration 20. Sept. the same year From his youth he constantly â—â—plyed himself to the reading of antient Classical authors of the best note in their own Languages wherewith as also with Neotericks he was plentifully stored and lusted after no worldly thing so much as books of which tho he had great store yet there were none scarce to be found in his Library especially of the Ancients that he had not read over as hath been observed by those who have perused them since his death He ran thro the Greek and Latin Fathers and judiciously noted them in the margin as he went The Rabbins also as many as he had with their Glosses and Commentaries he read and used in their own idiom of speech And so conversant he was and expert in the Chaldaick Syriack and Arabick that he made them as familiar to him almost as his own native tongue Hebrew also he had at his fingers ends and with all stories of all times And for his rich and accomplished furniture in that study he had this Elogy given him by a learned Bishop of this Kingdom that he was a very walking Library For this his exactness of those Languages he was thought worthy by K. Jam. 1. to be called to that great work of the last translation of our English Bible wherein he was esteemed the chief and a workman that needed not be ashamed He began with the first and was the last Man in the translation of the work for after the task of translation was finished by the whole number set a-part and designed to that business being some few above 40. it was raised by a dozen selected from them and at length referred to the final examination on Bilson Bishop of Winton and this our author who with the rest of the twelve are stiled in the History of the Synod of Dort vere eximii ab initio in toto hoc opere versatissimi as having happily concluded that worthy labour All being ended this excellent person Dr. Smith was commanded to write a Preface which being by him done 't was made publick and is the same that is now extant in our Church Bible the original whereof is if I am not mistaken in the Oxonian Vatican He hath written besides what is before-mentioned Sermons Lond. 1632. fol. They are 15 in number and were transcribed out of his original MSS the first of which is on Jer. 9. 23. 24. He departed this mortal life in the beginning of Nov. year 1624 in sixteen hundred twenty and four having always before been very favourable to the Calvinian Party in his Diocess and was buried on the 9. of the same month in our Ladies Chappel in the Cath. Ch. of Gloucester leaving behind him two Sons which he had by his first Wife Mary Hawkins of Cardiff named Gervase of the Midale Temple Gent. and Miles Smith and this character by the zealous men of the Ch. of England that tho he was a great Scholar yet he was a severe Calvinist and hated the proceedings of Dr. Laud especially after he was made Dean of Gloucester Over his grave was afterwards a white stone laid without any inscription thereon only his Arms impaled by those of the See of Glouc. RICHARD CRAKANTHORPE was born of a gentile Family at or near Strickland in Westmorland became a Student in Queens coll in 1583. aged 16. and soon after a poor serving Child then a Tabarder and at length in 1598. Fellow of the said coll About which time being a noted Preacher and a profound Disputant in Divinity of which Faculty he was a Bachelaur was admired by all great men and had in veneration especially by the Puritanical Party he being himself a Zealot among them as having with others of the same coll entertained many of the principles of Dr. Joh. Rainolds while he lived there After K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the Lord Evers who in 1603. or thereabouts was sent Embassador extraordinary to the Emperour of Germany By which opportunity he as Tho. Morton his Brother Chaplain in that Voyage afterwards B. of Durham did advantage themselves exceedingly by conversing with learned men of other Perswasions and by visiting several Universities and Libraries there After his return he became Chaplain to Dr. Ravis B. of London Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty and by the favour of Sir John Levesen who had sometimes three Sons of Qu. coll Rector of Blacknotley near to
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
the 35. year of her age was buried by her husband in Feb. 1646. Soon after was composed a book by one John Duncon a sequestred Divine intit The returns of spiritual comfort and grief in a devout soul Represented by entercourse of Letters to the right honourable the Lady Letice Vi-countess Falkland in her life time And exemplified in the holy life and death of the said honourable Lady c. Lond. 1648. c. oct To the said book if it may be had I refer the Reader wherein he may soon perceive the unspeakable piety of the woman and the great command of her Pen. By her husband Lucius L. Falkland she had several children of which the eldest named Lucius became a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of the year in Lent time 1646. being then a young man of great hopes but died soon after at Paris as I have heard The next was Henry not educated in Academical learning but so exceeding wild and extravagant that he sold his Fathers incomparable Library for a Horse and a Mare as I have been informed by Sir J. H. who married his Widdow Afterwards he took up and prov'd a man of parts which might have been much advantaged if he had submitted himself to education was elected one of the Knights for Oxfordshire to serve in that Parliament called Richards Parliament that began at Westminster 27 Jan. 1658. Burgess for the City of Oxon for that called the Healing Parliament which began 25 Apr. 1660. and a Knight again for the said County to serve in the Parliament that began in May in the year following and at length by his Majesties favour he was made about that time Lord Leiutenant of Oxfordshire He died 2 Apr. 1663. aged 29. or thereabouts and was buried by the graves of his Father and Mother leaving then behind him issue by Rachel his Wife Dau. of Sir Anth. Hungerford of Blackbourton in Oxfordshire Kt. a Son named Anthony now L. Falkland Treasurer Paymaster to the Navy during the raign of K. Jam. 2. a person of great parts and worth HENRY FERRERS Son and heir of Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley-Clynton in Warwickshire Esq was born in that County became a Student in this University in Hart hall as it seems in the beginning of the raign of Qu. Elizabeth but whether he took a degree it doth not appear Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony which was considerable and prosecuting his natural Genie to the study of Heraldry Genealogies and Antiquities became highly valued for his eminent knowledge in them whereby he did not only give a fair lustre to his ancient and noble family whereof he was no small ornament but also to the County of his nativity He was well known to and respected by the Learned Camden who in his Discourse of the antiquity of the City of Coventry in Warwickshire doth make this honorable mention of him Thus much of Coventry yet have you not all this of me but willingly to acknowledge by whom I have profited of Henry Ferrers of Baldesley a man both for parentage and for knowledge of antiquity very commendable and my special friend who both in this place and also elsewhere hath at all times curteously shewed me the right way when I was out and from his Candle as it were hath lightened mine What this Mr. Ferrers hath published I know not sure I am that he made several volums of choice collections one of which in fol. containing Pedegrees I have seen in the Sheldonian Library now in that of the college of Arms from which but chiefly from those of Sir Sim. Archer of Vmberslade in the parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire a person naturally qualified with a great affection to Antiquities Will. Dugdale Gent. afterwards a Knight laid a large foundation of that elaborate work which is his Master-piece intit The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated c. Lond. 1656. fol. After Sir Will. Dugdales death several of Mr. Ferrers collections that had come into his hands were reposited in the Ashmolean Musaeum see the book marked with Z. He had also in his younger days a good faculty in Poetry some of which I have seen scattered in divers books printed in the raign of Qu. Elizabeth At length dying on the tenth day of Oct. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 aged 84. was buried in the middle of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Baldesley-Clynton before mentioned leaving behind him the character of a well bred Gent a good neighbour and an honest man WILLIAM FOSTER a Londoner born became a Student in S. Johns coll in Mich. Term 1609. aged 18. afterwards M. of A. Chaplain to Rob. L. Dormer E. of Carnarvan and Parson of a little Town called Hedgley near to Beconsfield in Bucks He hath published Sermon on Rom. 6. 12. printed 1629. qu. Hoplocrisma-Spongus Or a Sponge to wipe away the weapon salve Wherein is proved that the cure taken up among us by applying the Salve to the weapon is magicall and unlawful Lond. 1631. qu. In the composure of which book he had some light from Johannes Roberti a Jesuit and D. of D. who because some Protestants practice this and characterical cures which notwithstanding are more frequent among Roman Catholicks he therefore calls them Magi-Calvinists Characterists c. He makes that generally in them all doctrinal which is but in some few personally practiced But our author Foster tho he hath written rationally and in his book hath shew'd great reading yet he hath been answered not without some scorn by Rob. Fludd Doctor of Physick as I shall tell you elsewhere This Will. Foster lived some years after the publication of his Sponge but when he died or what other things he hath extant I cannot yet tell EDWARD WESTON Son of Will. Weston sometimes of Linc. coll afterwards one of the Society of Lincolns Inn by his Wife Daughter of John Story LL. D. of whom I have made mention under the year 1571. was born in London and at about 12 or 13 years of age an 1578. was sent to the said coll of Lincoln where he had a Tutor that taught him Grammar and Logick for a time Afterwards being taken thence by his Parents he was put under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Case who with licence from the University read to Scholars Logick and Philosophy in his house in S. Mar. Magdalens parish Under him he profited in several sorts of learning to a miracle became a good Disputant and very well read in Philosocal authors But his Parents who were R. Catholicks taking him away from his conversation with the Muses after he had spent at least 5 years in Oxon. without the taking any degrees was sent into France where for a short time he setled in the English coll at Rheimes Thence he went to the English coll at Rome where partly in Philosophy and partly in Divinity he spent six years and at length took the degree of Doctor of Div. in the
he left the coll tho then Fellow and Bach. of Lawes standing his friends relations and Country went into Spain and being made a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict at Compostella changed his name to Leander de Sancto Martino and at length became D. of D. Thence he went to Doway where he executed the office of publick professor of his faculty and of the Hebrew tongue in the coll or cenobie of S. Vedastus for several years He was Prior of the Benedictine coll of S. Gregory there and the design'd Abbat of Cismar in Germany Vicar General also to the English Benedictines of the Spanish congregation living out of Spain twice President or chief Superior of the Benedictines in England and titular Prior of the Catholick Ch. of Canterbury He was a person of extraordinary eloquence generally knowing in all arts and sciences beloved of all that knew him and his worth and hated by none but by the Puritans and Jesuits Towards his latter end he was invited into England by Doctor Laud Archb. of Canterbury to consult with him about certain important points of Controversie in Religion as those of our authors profession say but W. Prynne who was always an inveterate enemy to Laud tells us that he sent for him into England to reconcile us to Rome or to make a reconciliation between the Church of Rome and England But how true those matters were let such that have read that Archbishops trial judge while I tell you that our author hath written Sacra ars memoriae ad Scripturas divinas in promptu habendas memoriterque ediscendas accommodata Duac 1623. oct At the end of which is this book following Conciliatio Locorum communium totius Scripturae Besides the said two he hath other things which I have not yet seen He also set forth the Bible with glosses in six large volumes the works also as 't is said of Ludov. Blosius and had a hand in that elaborate work intit Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia c. published by Clem. Reyner 1626. But a greater hand I have heard had Aug. Baker of whom more hereafter As for our author Leander he paid his last debt to nature on the seventeenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 having been much vexed in his time by the Jesuits and was buried in the Chappel of the Capuchins situate and being in Somerset-house in the Strand near to London He had been Ordinary of the Dames or Nunns of our Lady of Comfort of Cambray of the Order of S. Benedict and spiritual father to them for many years CHRISTOPHER WHITE a Worcestershire man born as it seems was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. about 1606 took one degree in Arts and became a preacher In 1620. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he was Rector of Letley in Hampshire He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at Ch. Ch. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1622. qu. 2 Of Oathes their Object form and bond c. in three Sermons in Oxon. on Joshua 9. 19. Lond. 1627. qu. and others which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in winter time before the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Letley before-mentioned leaving behind him the character of a good and edifying preacher a charitable man and a loving neighbour JAMES PERROT natural son of Sir John Perrot sometimes L. Deputy of the Kingdom of Ireland was born in Pembrokshire became a Gent. Com. of Jesus coll in 1586 aged 15 left it without a degree retired to the Inns of Court for a time and afterwards travelling return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman lived on his estate at Haroldston in Pembrokshire was dub'd a Knight and elected a Burgess for several Parliaments in the raign of King James 1. in which shewing himself a frequent and bold if not a passionate speaker especially in that dissolved 6. January 19. Jac. 1. Dom. 1621. and therefore numbred among the ill temper'd spirits therein as the King usually call'd them he was not imprison'd in London or Southwark as some of them were but was sent with Sir Dudley Digges and others into Ireland for their punishment joyned in commission with certain persons under the Great Seal of England for the inquiry after certain matters concerning his Majesties service as well in the government Ecclesiastical and Civil as in point of revenue and otherwise within that Kingdom He hath written The first part of the consideration of humane conditions wherein is contained the moral consideration of a mans self as what who and what manner of man he is Oxon. 1600. qu. Dedic to Tho. Lord Buckhurst Chancellour of the Univer of Oxon Whether any other parts followed I know not Meditations and Prayers on the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandements Printed 1630. in tw besides other things which I have not yet seen He ended his days at Haroldston before mention'd on the fourth day of Feb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six and was buried in the parish Church of S. Mary in the Town and County of Haverford-west to which place Haroldstone adjoyns This Sir James Perrot intermarried with Mary Daughter of Rob. Ashfield of the parish of Chesham in Bucks Esq but died without issue by her CHARLES FITZ-GEFFRY or Fitz-Geoffry Son of Alex. Fitz-Geoffry was born of a gentile family in the County of Cornwall became a Commoner of Broadgates hall in 1592. aged 17 took the degrees in Arts entred into the Theological function and at length became Rector of S. Dominick in his own Country where he was esteemed a grave and learned Divine as before he was while resident in the University an excellent Latine Poet. His works are The life and death of Sir Francis Drake Which being written in lofty verse when he was Bachelaur of Arts he was by those of his time called The high towering Falcon. Affaniae sive Epigrammata lib. 3. Cenotaphia lib. 1. Oxon. 1601. in oct Divers Sermons as 1 Deaths Sermon unto the living delivered at the funerals of Philippa late Wife of Sir Anth. Rous of Halton in Cornwall on Eccles. 7. 2. Lond. 1620. qu. dedicated to Jo. Pym Esq 2 Elisha his lamentation c. Sermon at the funeral of Sir Ant. Rous late of Halton in Cornwall Knight on 2 Kings 2. 12. Lond. 1622. qu. 3 The curse of Corn-horders with a blessing of seasonable selling in three Sermons on Prov. 11. 26. Lond. 1631. qu. 4 The blessed birth day celebrated in some religious meditations on the Angels anthem Luke 2. 14. Oxon. 1634. and 36. qu. second edition To which are added Holy Transportations in contemplating some of the most observable adjuncts about our Saviours nativity 5 Compassion towards captives chiefly towards our brethren and countrymen who are in miserable bondage in Barbary urged and published in three Sermons on Heb. 13. 3. at Plymouth in Octob. 1636. Oxon. 1637.
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
Capellanus in 1541. Afterwards he was beneficed and dignified in his own Country and in the Reign of Q. Mary an 1556. became Vicar of Banwell in the dioc of Wells In the year 1566. he was consecrated at Lambeth to the much impoverished See of Landaff and on the sixth day of May the same year the temporalities of that See were restored to him He was buried in the Church of Mathern in Monmouthshire 15. of Nov. in fifteen year 1574 hundred seventy and four aged 66 years leaving then behind him a Wife named Anne Jones alias Henson and several daughters In Landaff succeeded William Blethin another Welsh man of whom I shall make large mention hereafter JOHN PARKHURST sometimes Fellow of Merton college became Bishop of Norwych in 1560. and died towards the latter end of fifteen hundred seventy and four year 1574 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded Dr. Edm. Freke elected by the Dean and Chapter of Norwych 13. of Jul. 1575. who being translated to Worcester Edm. Scambler D. D. and B. of Peterborough was elected thereunto 15. of Dec. 1584. and was translated in the latter end of that month He died 7. May 1594. aged 85 years and was buried on the 3. of June following in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych between the two Pillars next above the Tomb of Bishop Parkhurst Soon after was a monument of a yard and an half high with his Effigies in Alabaster laying thereon erected over his grave and all inclosed with an high iron grate In the time of that Rebellion which was began by the Presbyterians the grate was taken away the Effigies or Statua broken and the monument of free-stone on which it laid was pulled down as far as the brick-work which being unsightly was afterwards taken away and the space between the pillars left void as it now remains There was an inscription and four verses on it the first of which did run thus Vivo tibi moriorque tibi tibi Christe resurgam After his death Will. Redman Archdeacon of Canterb. and Rector of Bishops-Bourn in Kent Son of Joh. Redman of Shelford in Cambridgshire was promoted to the said See whereupon being elected thereunto 17. Dec. was consecrated 12. of Jan. and installed 24. Feb. 1594. He gave way to fate 25. Sept. 1602. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych leaving behind him a Relict named Isabell and several sons and daughters as also monies for a publick work to be done in Trin. coll in Cambridge of which he was sometimes Fellow To carry on the succession a little farther tho out of my road I desire the Reader to know that after Redmans death succeeded Dr. Joh. Jegon in the said See of Norwych born at Coggeshall in Essex 10. Dec. 1550. being Son of Rob. Jegon by Joan his Wife daughter of one… White of the same County educated in Grammar learning there and elsewhere became after some years spent in Logick and Philosophy in Cambridge Fellow of S. Johns coll in that University afterwards Master of C. C. commonly called Bennet coll which office he held 12 years four times Vicechancellour of that University installed Dean of Norwych in the place of Dr. Tho. Dove made Bishop of Peterborough 22. June 1601. and at length being elected Bishop of Norwych 18. Jan. was consecrated thereunto with Dr. Rob. Bennet to Hereford on the 20. Feb. 1602. In the year 1617. March 13. he died and was soon after buried in the Church at Aylesham in Norfolk and in 1619. his Widdow named Lilia was married to Sir Charles Cornwallis After him succeeded in Norwych Joh Overhall Bishop of Lichf and Coventry who being elected by the Dean and Chapter 21. May 1618. was confirmed 30. Sept. following He died 12. May 1619. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych About the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Dr. Cofin Bishop of Durham did in honour to his memory as having been one of the profoundest School divines of our Nation erect a monument on the next pillar to his grave After him followed Dr. Sam. Harsnet educated also in Cambridge who was translated thereunto from Chichester 28. Aug. 1619. and him Dr. Franc. White B. of Carlile and the Kings Almoner who being elected by the D. and Chapt. of Norwych upon the translation of Harsnet to York after D. G. Mountaigns death on the 22. Januar 1628. was soon after translated thereunto To him succeeded Dr. Rich. Corbet whom I have among the Writers mentioned NICOLAS BULLYNGHAM was born in the City of Worcester elected Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1536. took one degree in the Laws and some years after viz. in 1549. 3. Edw. 6. Sept. 2. was installed Archdeacon of Lincoln on the death of George Heneage being about that time Vicar-general to the Bishop of that place After Q. Mary came to the Crown he absconded and studied the Theological faculty wherein he obtained a considerable knowledge but when Q. Elizab. succeeded he was made Doctor of his Faculty at Cambridge was a Judge of Ecclesiastical matters in the Archb. Court of Canterbury and at length was promoted to the Episcopal See of Lincoln To which being elected after the deprivation of Dr. Tho. Watson was consecrated thereunto 21. of Jan. 1559. and on the 18. of Apr. following the temporalities thereof were restored to him In 1566. he was incorporated Doctor as he had stood at Cambridge and in Jan. 1570. he was translated to Worcester on the death of Jam. Calfhill who was nominated by the Queen to succeed Edwin Sandys in the said See but died before consecration where he continued much beloved to the time of his death He departed this mortal life on the 18. of Apr. year 1576 in fifteen hundred seventy and six and was buried in a Chappel on the north side of the Choire belonging to the Cath. Ch. of Worcester Over his grave was fastned a white marble table to the wall with these rude and barbarous verses engraven thereon Nicolaus Episcopus Wigorn. Here born here Bishop buried here A Bullyngham by name and stock A Man twice married in Gods fear Chief Pastor late of Lyncolne flock Whome Oxford trained up in youth Whome Cambridge Doctor did create A painful Preacher of the truth Who changed this life for happy fate 18. Apr. 1576. WILLIAM WALSH an eminent Theologist of his time was born in or near to Waterford in Ireland bred a Cistercian Monk and for some time lived among those of that Order in Oxon purposely for the improving himself in the supreme Faculty of which he was afterwards Doctor but whether of this University it appears not In Nov. 1554. he succeeded Edw. Staple in the Episcopal See of Meath in Ireland whence being ejected in the beginning of the Reign of Q. Elizab. for denying her Supremacy was cast into prison for a time Afterwards getting loose he went into Spain settled at Complutum spent most of his time in Religion
May 1621. leaving behind him a Son named Rutland Snoden of Horncastle in Lincolnshire who was afterwards a Justice of the Peace begotten on the body of his Wife Abigal daugh of Rob. Orme of Elston in Nottinghamshire After him followed in the said See of Carlile Ric. Milbourne B. of S. David descended from those of his name in Pembrokeshire but born in London his mother being occasionally there at the delivery of him educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester and from thence was sent to Qu. coll in Camb. where he continued several years Afterwards he became Minister of Sevenoke in Kent Chapl. to P. Hen. Chantor of S. Davids cath ch and Dean of Rochester as I shall elsewhere tell you At length he being made B. of S. David was after he had sate there about 6. years translated to Carlile where he continued till 1624. In which year dying he left monies as 't is said for the endowing of a School and monies for the building of an Hospital He hath a Serm. in print concerning the imposition of hands preached while he was Minister of Sevenoke at the Archb. Metropolical Visitation 7. Sept. 1607. on 1 Tim. 5. 22. printed in oct To him succeeded in the said See of Carlile Rich. Senhouse Dean of Glocester who was first admitted a Student in Trin. coll in Camb. and afterwards was removed to that of S. Johns of which he was made Fellow and continuing there many years took the degree of D. of div as a Member thereof about 1622. He was first chaplain as 't is said in the Earl of Bedfords family afterwards chaplain to Pr. Charles and at length to K. Jam. 1. who advanced him to a Deanery and afterwards to the said See of Carlile for his transcendent parts and admirable gifts in Preaching He hath extant Four Sermons preached at Court and left behind him at his death Lectures on the first and second Psalms which are not as I conceive made yet publick HENRY PARRY or ap Harry sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll was consecrated B. of Gloucester 12. Jul. 1607. translated thence to Worcester in the latter end of Sept. 1610. the temporalities of which See were restored to him 23. Oct. the same year He yielded to nature in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 under which year you may see more of him among the writers He was succeeded in Gloucester by Dr. Giles Tomson and in Worcester by Dr. Joh. Thornborough Of the first I have made mention already among the Bishops and of the other I shall speak in the second volume of this work under the year 1641. WILLIAM JAMES sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. became Bishop of Durham in 1606. and died in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 under which year you may see more of him among the writers After his death Rich. Neile Bishop of Lincoln was translated to Durham and thence to Winchester as I shall elsewhere tell you WILLIAM LYON a Cheshire man born was partly educated in this University but whether in Oriel or S. Johns coll where several of his sirname and time have studied I cannot tell Afterwards he went into Ireland became Vicar of Naas and Chaplain to Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton L. Lievtenant of that Country who promoting him to the Episcopal See of Ross was consecrated thereunto in the year 1582. and the year following was constituted commendatory of Cork and Cloyne by the favour of Qu. Eliz. He bestowed a thousand pound in building the Bishops house at Cork and other monies in repairing the Bishops house at Ross which three years after was burnt by the Rebel O-Donow This W. Lyon died in a good old age on the 4. Oct. year 1617 in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Cork leaving then behind him a Son of both his names who in the 17 year of his age 1610. became a Com. or else Gent. Com. of S. Johns coll in this Univ. In the said Sees of Ross Cork and Cloyne succeeded Dr. Joh. Boyle whom I shall anon mention ROBERT ABBOT Master of Balliol college was consecrated B. of Salisbury on the third of Decemb. 1615. to the great joy of all Scholars especially such who knew the learning and piety of the man He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred and seventeen under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Martin Fotherby Son of Maurice Fotherby of the ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Grimsby in Lincolnshire which Martin having been bred Fellow of Trin. coll in Cambridge was after he had been Prebendary of Canterbury 22 years consecrated at Lambeth on the 18. Apr. 1618. He surrendred up his last breath on the eleventh day of March an 1619. and was buried in Allsaints Church in Lombardstreet within the City of London Soon after was a very fair monument erected over his grave with a large inscription thereon but destroyed by the great Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. He hath extant at least 4 Sermons besides his Atheomastix which being put into the press before his death was not published till 1622. fol. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Robert Tounson or Tonson Dean of Westminster sometimes Fellow of Queens coll in Cambridge who was consecrated thereunto on the 9. July 1620. See more in the Fasti among the incorporations under the year 1599. JOHN BOYLE a Kentish man born and brother to Rich. Boyle the first Earl of Cork in Ireland received some education with us but whether D. of div of this Univ. as one reports it appears not in the publick Registers He was consecrated B. of Cork before-mentioned in 1618. at which time liberty was allowed him to keep the See of Ross in Commendam He died in sixteen hundred and twenty year 1620 and was buried at Youghall of which place his brother before-mentioned was Baron In the said See of Cork and Ross succeeded Rich. Boyle Dean of Waterford and Archd. of Limerick brother to Michael Boyle B. of Waterford and Lismore which Richard kept the See also of Cloyne in Commendam with the two former JOHN KING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Dean of that house was consecrated Bishop of London in 1611. and died in sixteen hundred twenty and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers To him succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne Bishop Almoner sometimes Dean of Westminster who was translated from Loncoln to London 20. July 1621. ROWLAND SEARCHFIELD a Londoner born was educated in Grammar learning in Merchant-Taylors School admitted Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1582. aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Fellow of that house Proctor of the University Doct. of div and successively Vicar of Emley in Northamptonshire Rector of Bowthorp in Gloucestershire Vicar of Cherlbury in and Justice of
that no other Church hath any salvation in it but only so far as it concurs with the Faith of the Church of Rome My body to be buried in S. Marg. Ch. in Westminster near to the Font in the meanest manner according to the deserts of my Sins Item I give 20 s. for the painting or otherwise of the said Font. It. I give my tenement in Yale and the two tenements in Caernarvanshire Cordmaur and Tudne to the Town of Ruthyn in Denbighshire where I was born c. The rent of the tenement in Yale he bequeathed to several uses and among the rest was 20 l. to be given to some Gentleman who should desire to travel and that he together with good security should undertake within the compass of two years to live two months in Germany two months in Italy two months in France and two months in Spain and that his own kindred be chosen before others for that purpose c. The books that he designed for Chelsey college he gave to Trin. coll in Cambridge but with this condition that if Chelsey coll be ever restored the books should be restored thereunto He gave 16 l. to outed and sequestred Ministers of the Loyal Party and a 100 l. to poor distressed Church-men Rom. Catholicks according to the discretion of his Executors Gabriel Goodman and Mrs. Sib. Eglionby He desired also that his collection of notes be perused by some Scholar and if any thing should be found worthy of printing that they be published c. It must be now known that in hate and detestation of Socinianism he did in his younger years examine all the mysteries in Religion and all the miracles in Scripture how far they agreed with natural reason and wherein they transcended and thereupon did publish a book intit The fall of man or the corruption of nature proved by natural reason Lond. 1616. and 1624. qu. And then he undertook to proceed in the rest of the Mysteries Together with these he drew up an History from the beginning of the World to his time and so he ended with the Church of England as seâ—led by Laws little regarding the opinion of particular men but Statutes Acts of State Proclamations Injunctions c. In which work he was much beholding to Sir Tho. Cottons Library But these with the rest of his goods were lost and whether they were ever recovered before his death I know not He hath also written Arguments or animadversions and digressions on a book intit An apology or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World c. written by Dr. George Hakewill Which arguments and digressions are with Hakewills answere involved in the sixth book of the said Apology printed at Oxon the third time 1635. fol. See more in G. Hakewill among the writers an 1649. Bishop Goodman also wrote The Court of K. James by Sir A. W. reviewed 'T is a MS. in a thin fol. in Bodl. Library and hath this beginning I cannot say that I was an eye and ear-witness but truly I have been an observer of the times and what I shall relate of my own knowledge God knows is most true My conjecturals I conceive c. The conclusion which is imperfect is this Yet notwithstanding I have given him Sir A. W. the name of a Knight because he hath pleased so to stile himself and that I might not offend him This manuscript book was made in answer to a published book intit The court and character of King James Lond. 1650. oct written and taken by Sir A. W. Which book being accounted a most notorious Libel especially by the Loyalists and Court-party was also answered in print by Anonymus intit Anlicus Coquinariae or a vindication in answer to a Pamphlet intituled The Court and Character of K. James c. Lond. 1650. The author of the said Court and Character was one Sir Anth. Weldon of Kent whose Parent took rise from Queen Elizabeths Kitchin and left it a legacy for preferment of his Issue Sir Anthony went the same way and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth in which place attending K. James into Scotland he practiced there to libel that Nation Which at his return home was found wrapt up in a Record of that Board and by the hand being known to be his he was deservedly removed from his place as unworthy to eat his bread whose birth-right he had so vilely defamed Yet by favour of the King with a piece of money in his purse and a pension to boot to preserve him loyal during his life tho as a bad creditor he took this course to repay him to the purpose In his life-time he discovered part of this piece to his Fellow-courtier who earnestly disswaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandal which as it seems in Conscience he so declined I have also been credibly informed that Sir A. Weldon did at the beginning of the Long Parliament communicate the MS. of it to the Lady Elizab. Sedley Mother to Sir Will. and Sir Charles accounted a very sober and prudent Woman who after perusal did lay the vileness of it so much to Sir Anthony's door that he was resolved never to make it publick Which perhaps is the reason why a certain author should say that with some regret of what he had maliciously written did intend it for the fire and died repentant tho since stolen to the Press out of a Ladies closet And if this be true our exceptions may willingly fall upon the practice of the publisher of the said libel who by his additions may abuse us with a false story which he discovers to the Reader in five remarkable passages and therefore in some manner gives us occasion to spare our censure on Sir Anthony who was dead some time before the said libel was published The second edition of it printed at Lond. in oct an 1651. is dedicated to the said noble Lady Elizab. Sedley and hath added to it 1 The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. 2 Observations instead of a character upon this King from his Childhood 3 Certain Observations before Q. Elizabeths death But these are not animadverted upon by Aulicus Coq or B. Goodman because they came out after they had written their respective answers The said Bishop Goodman hath also written The two mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity and wonderful incarnation explicated c. Lond 1653. qu. Dedicated by one Epist to Oliver Cromwell L. General and by another to the Master Fellows Scholars and Students of Trin coll in Cambridge Also An Account of his sufferings which is only a little pamphlet printed 1650. BERNARD ADAMS was born in Middlesex in the diocess of London admitted Scholar of Trinity coll in 1583. aged 17 years fellow five years after and when Master of Arts he went into Ireland where by the favour of the Lord
of Physicians in London See more among the Incorporations an 1600. Jan 6. or thereabouts Thom. Sackvile M. A. of Cambridge and Chancellour of this University was incorporated in his Lodgings at London by certain Offices appointed by the Venerab Convocation He was originally of this University as himself confesseth in his Letters sent thereunto dat 21. March following running partly thus I am given by common report to understand that contrary to your own statutes c. very few retain the old Academical habit which in my time was a reverend distinction of your Degrees c. The place wherein he studied was as is supposed Hart hall but took no Degree before he left us See among the Writers an 1608. An. Dom. 1592. An. 34 Elizab. An. 35 Elizab. Chanc. Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst Knight of the Garter afterwards Lord Treasurer of England Vicechanc. Dr. Nich. Bond President of Magd. Coll. Jul. 13. Proct. Tho. Savile of Mert. Coll. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. Apr. 5. But the Senior Proctor dying at London 12. January Mr. Richard Fisher of Mert. Coll. succeeded 15. of the same month Bach. of Musick Jul. 7. Giles Farnabie of Ch. Ch. who for 12 years had studied the fac of Musick was then admitted Bach. of Musick This Person who was of the family of Farnaby of Truro in Cornwall and near of kin to Tho. Farnaby the famous Schoolmaster of Kent was an eminent Musician and Author of Cansonets to four voices with a song of eight parts Lond. 1598. qu. dedicated to his Patron Ferdinando Heabourne Grome of her Majesties privy chamber What other things he hath published I find not Rich. Read who had studied the musical faculty 22 years was admitted the same day He hath composed certain Church Services and other matters for instruments which are scattered in several books George Waterhouse of the Queens Chappel who had spent there several years in the practical and theoretical part of Musick supplicated for the Degree of Bachelaur but was not as I can find admitted Bach. of Arts. May 5. George Andrew of Magd. hall Afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland 27. Nich. Hill of St. Johns Coll. Afterwards an eminent Chymist 30. Henry Savile of Mert. Coll. commonly called Long Harry Savile Jun. 26. Pet. Smart of Ch. Ch. He is to be remembred among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work George Ferebe of Magd. Coll. was adm the same day See among the Mast of Arts an 1595. Oct. 25. Rich. Deane of St. Albans hall lately of Merton Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Ossorie in Ireland 27. Rob. Bagnold or Bagnall of Ch. Ch. This Person who took no higher Degree in this University was matriculated as a Staffordshire Man born 1589 aged 18. and is the same as I suppose with Rob. Bagnall who was afterwards Minister of Hutton in Somersetshire and Author of The Stewards last account in five Sermons on Luke 16. 1. and 2. Lâ—nd 1622. qu. Dec. 16. Thom. Allen an eminent Grecian Feb. 9. Tho. Floyd of New Inn. 21. Sirach Hilton of Oriel Coâ—l Son of Will. Hilton Baron of Hilton Admitted 122. Mast of Arts. Jul. 5. Edm. Griffith of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bangor Jan. 18. Will. Thorne 22. Benj. Heydon of New Coll. The first of which was afterwards Dean of Chichester and a Writer and the other Dean of Wells Admitted 100. Bach. of Div. Apr. 6. Will. Sutton of Ch. Ch. Rob. Wright of Trin. Hen. Parry of C. C. Coll. Jun. 5. John Lloyd of New Coll. 14. Rich. Field of Magd. hall Nov. 20. John Buckridge of St. Johns Coll. Adm. 11. Doct. of Law Jun. 5. John Favour Franc. Betts Hen. Marten of New Coll. The last was now Official to the Archdeacon of Berks. Jul. 11. Evan Morice of All 's Coll. He was about this time Vicar Gen. in spirituals and principal Official of the Episcopal consistory of Exeter He died 1605 leaving behind him a Son named William Morice afterwards a Knight and Principal Secretary of State to K. Ch. 2. as I shall tell you at large among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work Doct. of Phys Aug. 17. Tho. Doâ—hym of Magd. Coll. In 1604. Nov. 4. he was elected superior Lecturer of Lynacres lectures on the death of Dr. Rob. Barnes and dyed 29. Jan. following Doct. of Div. July 14. George Clerke of Magd. Coll. He was a learned Divine but hath not published any thing Incorporations Jul. 7. Edw. Gibbons Bach. of Musick of Cambridge was then incorporated in the same Degree He was now or about this time the most admired Organist of the Cathedral Church at Bristow was Brother to the incomparable Orlands Gibbons whom I shall mention elsewhere and Brother also to Ellis Gibbons who hath several compositions in The triumphs of Oriana mention'd before in Tho. Morley As for this Edward Gibbons he made several compositions in his faculty some of which I have seen in the Musical Library reposed in the publick School of that profession in Oxon. John Bull Doct. of Musick of the said Univ. of Cambridge and one of the Gentlemen of her Maj. Chappel was incorporated the same day Jul. 7. This is the same Person who was admitted Bach. of Musick of this University an 1586 as I have told you under that year and would have proceeded in the same place had he not met with clowns and rigid Puritans there that could not endure Church Musick He was afterwards the first Musick lecturer of Gresham Coll. at London and one of three Will. Bird and Orlando Gibbons being the other two that composed and published a book intit Parthenia or The maydenhead of the first Musick that ever was printed for the Virginals Printed at London in fol. but not said when either in the title or at the end The book contains 21 lessons printed off from copper cuts and was the prime book for many years that was used by Novices and others that exercised their hands on that Instrument There is no doubt but that this Dr. Bull hath published other things besides the making of very many compositions to be sung and play'd which being thrown aside upon the coming out and publication of others by other hands have been since in a manner lost such is the fate of Musick as well as of Poetry After the death of Queen Elizab. he became chief Organist to K. James 1. was so much admired for his dexterous hand on the Organ that many thought that there was more than Man in him At length being possess'd with crotchets as many Musicians are he went beyond the Seas and died as some say at Hanborough or rather as others who remembred the Man have said at Lubeck His picture hangs at this day at the upper end of the publick Musick School in the University of Oxon. Jul. 11. Nich. Gibbons M. A. of Cambridge One Nich. Gibbens or Gibbons hath published Questions and disputations on Genesis printed 1602. qu. which some call An
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