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.
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
from the riding tales of Bartello 'T is among Gascoignes Poems called Weedes And from Greek into English Jocasta a Tragedie written by Euripides This also was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted in Greys Inn 1566. In this translation the said Gascoigne had the assistance of Francis Kynwelmersh before mention'd who translated about half of it The Epilogue was written by an ingenious Gentleman of the said Inn called Christoph Yelverton afterwards an eminent Counsellour a Knight and a Judge who dying at Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire 1607 left behind him several Sons of whom Henry was the eldest afterwards a Knight and a Judge also as I shall tell you elsewhere This Trag is among Gascoignes Poems called Hearbes All which poems and translations being gathered together were printed in an English character in two vol. in qu. One of which was printed at London about 1577 and the other there after the Authors death an 1587 at which time it was usher'd into the world by various copies of verses written by the Poets of that time As for the Author of them he made his last exit or yielded to nature in his middle age at his house in Walthamstow before-mention'd in Octob. or Nov. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 and was buried as I suppose in the Church there I find another George Gascoigne Esq but later in time than the former of whom I know nothing only but that he was of the Middle Temple and that he dyed about 1619. JOHN HARPESFEILD a grand zealot for the Rom. Cath. Religion was born in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen in Old Fishstreet within the City of London educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1534 took the Degrees in Arts holy Orders was made Chaplain to Bonner Bishop of London and left his Fellowship about 1551 being then beneficed in London About 1554 he being then D. of D. he was made by his Patron Archdeacon of that place in the room of Joh. Wymesley of less activity by far than Harpesfeild and it was then temp Mariae Reg. observed that as Dr. Bonner B. of London shew'd himself the most severe of all Bishops against Hereticks as they were then called so our Author Harpesfeild of all Archdeacons which was the reason he fared the worse for it upon the change of Religion In 1558 some months before Qu. Mary died he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Norwych upon the resignation of John Boxall but forced to leave that dignity in the beginning of 1560 to make room for John Salisbury suffragan Bishop of Thetford who had been ejected in the first year of Qu. Mary I find published under this Doctor Harpesfeilds name these things following Concio ad clerum in Ecclesia S. Pauli 16. Oct. 1553 in Act. cap. 20. 28. Lond. 1553. oct Homelies to be read in Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554-55 At the end of Bonners Catechisme Disputations for the degree of Doctor of Divinity 19. Apr. 1554 Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church by Joh. Fox In which disputation Archb. Cranmer bore a part Disputes talkings arguings examinations letters c. Printed also in the said book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet where continuing for an year or more was released upon security given that he should not act speak or write against the doctrine of the Church of England Whereupon retiring to the house of a near relation of his dwelling within the Parish of St. Sepulcher in the Suburb of London spent the remainder of his days in great retiredness and devotion At length paying his last debt to nature in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 was buried as I conceive in the Church of that Parish On the 5. Dec. in the same year one Anne Worsop the nearest of kin to him had a Commission granted to her from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods debts and chattels of Joh. Harpesfeild D. D. of the Parish of St. Sepulcher in Lond. lately deceased so that I presume he died either in Oct. or Nov. going before He had a brother named Nicholas whom I shall remember under the Year 1583. JOHN FOWLER was born in the City of Bristow educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation in 1555 resigned it in 1559 and the year after took the Degree of Master of Arts but did not compleat it by standing in the Comitia About that time leaving England he took upon him the trade of printing partly at Antwerp and partly at Lovaine whereby he did signal service for the R. Catholicks in printing their books for the vindication of their cause against the Protestants in England He was well skill'd in the Greek and Latin tongues a tolerable Poet and Orator and a Theologist not to be contemn'd So learned he was also in Criticismes and other polite learning that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry Stephens Printers He did diligently peruse the Theological sums of St. Thomas of Aquine and with a most excellent method did reduce them into a Compendium To which he gave this title Loca communia Theologica c. lib. 1. He wrot also Additiones in Chronica Genebrandi A Psalter for Catholicks Answered by Tho. Sampson sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. Epigrams and other verses He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Osorius and The oration of Pet. Frarin of Antwerp against the unlawful insurrections of the Protestants under pretence to reform Religion Antw. 1566. oct answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge At length giving way to fate at Newmarck called by some Krainburg in Germany 13. Febr. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight was buried in the Ch. yard of St. John the Evangelist there near to the body of John Harrys sometimes Father to Alice his Wife GEORGE FERRERS seems to have been born at or near to St. Alban in Hertfordshire was educated for a time in Oxon. whence going to Lincolns Inn did after he was Barrester became as eminent for the Law as before he was for his Poetry having been as much celebrated for it by the learned of his time as any This Person tho he hath not writ much as I can yet find yet he is numbred among the the illustrious and learned Men of the Age he lived in by Joh. Leland the Antiquary He hath written Miscellany of Poems And translated from French into Latin The Statutes called Magna Charta The beginning of which is Hic habes candide lector leges c. He ended his days at Flamsted in Hertfordshire in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was as I conceive buried there You may see more of him his character and employments in the Author before quoted In the Year 1542 I find
into England he setled in his native Country but being soon after apprehended was conveyed to London and there kept in prison several weeks At length being condemned to die according to the Statute against Seminaries was executed at Tybourne with George Haddock Tho. Emerferd and Joh. Nutter 12. Febr. 1582 3. All which are inrolled among the R. C. Martyrs that suffered during the Reign of Q. Elizabeth JOHN CARTWRIGHT who seems to have been descended from the Cartwrights of Washbourne in Glocestershire received his Academical education in Magd. coll but whether he took a degree in this University it appears not Afterwards he travelled was as it seems in holy Orders and after his return published these books following The Preachers travels Wherein is set down a true Journal to the confines of the E. Indies through the great Countries of Syria Mesopotamia Armenia Media Hircania and Parthia c. A relation of Sir Anth. Sherley's entertainment in the Court of the K. of Persia Description of the Port in the Persian Gulf commodious for the East-India Merchants of England Rehearsal of some gross absurdities in the Turkish Alcoran Which four Treatises were printed in one vol. at London 1611. in qu. At which time the author of them was living in Southwark near London Afterwards the said treatises being contracted were remitted into Sam. Purchaâ—s second part of Pilgrims lib. 9. p. 1422. Lond. 1625. fol. JOHN BOND Bondius a most noted critick in Greek and Latin learning of his time was born in Somersetshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winton became a Student in this University about the nineteenth year of his age an 1569. took a degree in Arts 4 years after being either one of the Clerks or Chaplains of New coll and much noted for his proficiency in Academical learning In 1579. he proceeded in Arts and had soon after the Mastership of the Free-School of Taunton St. Maryâ— Madg. in his own Country conferred on him by the Warden and Society of New coll At which place continuing many years he did exercise such an admirable way of teaching that many departed thence so excellently well grounded in humane learning that they proved afterwards eminent either in Church or State At length being in a manner worn out with the drudgery of a School he did for diversion I cannot say profit practice Physick tho he had taken no degree in that Faculty in this University and became at length Chief Secretary to the Lord Chancellour of England Egerton if one of his admirers may be credited As for his writings which are used by the Juniors of our Universities and in many Free-Schools and more admired and printed beyond the Seas than in England they are these Commentarii in Poemata Q. Horatii Flacci Printed 1606. oct and several times after beyond the Sea and at London Comment in sex Satyras A. Persii Lond. 1614. oct published after the author's death by Rog. Prows who married his Daughter Elizabeth He hath at least written if not published other things but such I have not yet seen He yielded up his last breath on the third of Aug. in sixteen hundred and twelve year 1612 being then possessed of several lands and tenements in Taunton Wilton near Taunton and in Newenton and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Taunton before-mentioned Over his grave was this Epitaph soon after put Qui Medicus doctus prudentis nomine clarus Eloquii splendor Pieridumque decus Virtutis cultor pietatis vixit amicus Hoc jacet in tumulo spiritus alta tenet The Reader is now to know that there was another John Bond but after the time of the former Son of Dennis Bond of Dorchester in Dorsetshire who having been educated in his youthful years under John White commonly called The Patriarch of Dorchester and from him sucked in most dangerous principles was sent to Cambridge and placed I think in S. Johns coll where he took the degree of Bach. of Civ Law Afterwards he was made a Lecturer in the City of Exeter and carried himself conformable for a season But when the times turned in 1641. and he saw that the Puritan began to be uppermost then did he Preach very seditiously and published what he had said under this title A door of Hope Also holy and loyal activity Two Treatises delivered in several Sermons in Exeter The first on Psal. 126. 1 2. and the other on Exod. 17. 11. Lond. 1641. qu. Both which do contain most scandalous and rebellious stuff besides what he preached in a Serm. in the said City before the Deputy-Lievtenants Lond. 1643. qu. So that having thus began his pranks and shewed himself a zealous Brother for the Cause and a rank Covenanteer he was made Preacher or Minister of the Savoy in the Strand near London in the place of Joh. White before-mentioned when he passed over the water to Lambeth to take possession of the Rectory there belonging to Dr. Dan. Featly one of the Assembly of Divines and about that time Doctor of the Laws This J. Bond by the way you must know being scarce warm in the Pulpit but he began to threaten Heaven with some of his Divinity by telling the auditory with great zeal that they ought to contribute and pray and do all they were able to bring in their Brethren of Scotland for the setling of Gods Cause I say this is Gods Cause and if ever God had any Cause this is it and if this be not Gods Cause then God is no God for me but the Devil is got up into Heaven c. About the same time he became a frequent Preacher before the Long-Parliament and hath 3 or more Sermons preached before the Members thereof published as 1 Salvation in a mystery c. on Jer. 45. 25. Lond. 1644. qu. It was a Fast Serm. pr. before the H. of Commons 27. Mar. 1644. 2 Ortus occidentalis or a dawning in the West c. on Isa. 25. 9. Lond. 1645. qu. 'T was a Thanksgiving Serm. for the Parliament Forces their gaining of Bathe Bridgwater Sherbourne Castle c. preached before the H. of Commons 22. Aug. 1645. and on the eleventh of Dec. following the said Jo. Bond was made Master of the Hospital called the Savoy under the great Seal 3 A Thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of Com. on Psal. 50. 23. Lond. 1648. qu. preached on the 19. Jul. 1648. In which year he had a Serm. published intit Grapes among Thornes preached before the H. of Commons In all which Sermons as in others which he delivered in London and Westminster are contained many strange positions rebellious doctrines religious cantings and I know not what About that time he was made Master of Trinity hall in Cambridge which Mr. Jo. Selden refused and in 1654. he was made an assistant to the Commissioners of Middlesex and Westminster for the ejection of such whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters These things I thought
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
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
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
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.
have seen he gave to the priests of Clare hall in Cambridge considerable summs of money and forty pounds to the chest of that house To every fellow of Qu. coll in Oxon six shillings and eight pence and forty marks to the elemosinary chest thereof besides a sute of vestments for a Priest Deacon and Subdeacon and four copes He gave maintenance also to a Chaplain that should celebrate service for him his Parents and all faithful deceased for the space of an hundred years in the Church of Applebie before-mentioned Which Chaplain was to receive for his labour eight marks yearly To the Friers the Carmes in Applebie 20 marks to pray for him besides several sums to the Friers of Oxon and Cambridge and to Rowland Machel and Elizabeth his wife sister to the said Bishop he gave several lands in Westmorland besides 200 marks He built also the little room which is now a large Bay-window to the Provosts dining-room in Qu. coll with curious vaulting under it Which vault is now no other than a portico to the coll chappel Over the said Bay-window is carv'd in stone a musical note called a Long on a Tun which is the rebus for his firname and out of the Bung-hole of the Tun springs a Vine tree which without doubt was put for Vinton or Vinchestre he being then Bishop of that place He left behind him a Nephew named Rob. Langton born also in Applebie and educated in Queens coll of which he was LL. D. He died at London in the month of June 1524. and was buried before the image of S. Michael in the body of the Church belonging to the Charter-house now Suttons hospital near London By his last Will and Test he bequeathed to Qu. coll before mention'd two hundred pounds to purchase Lands and make a School-house in Appleby and what his benefaction was besides as also of that of Bishop Langton you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 123. 124 125. WILLIAM SHJOY commonly called Joy partly educated here but more in the Univ. of Paris was by provision from the Pope made Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland 16. Cal. of June 1485 where sitting about 16 years gave way at length to fate 28. Dec. in fifteen hundred and one and was as I suppose buried in his Cathedral Church In his Archbishoprick succeeded Philip Pinson a Minerite as I shall anon tell you RICHARD who writes himself Episcopus Oleven being Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester as it seems was a Dominican or Black Frier in Warwick to whose fraternity there he gave 6l at the time of his death and educated among the Black Friers in Oxon to whom also he gave 6l to pray for him He yielded up his last breath in Sept. in fifteen hundred and two year 1502 and was I suppose according to his last Will which I have seen buried in the choire of the Church belonging to the Black Friers in the City of Worcester on the south side of the Tomb of John Lichfield and opposite to that of Rich. Wolsey who as he saith in the said Will was nuper Conoren Duneren Episcopus HENRY DEANE was educated in this University where he took the degrees in Arts and Divinity but in what coll or Hall it appears not However some are pleased to say that he was educated in New coll yet whether he was perpetual Fellow thereof the registers of that house tells us not After he had left the University he was made Prior of Lanthony near to Gloucester in the neighbourhood of which place I presume he was born and on the 13 of Sept. or 20. Nov. 11. Hen. 7. he was by Letters Pat. constituted Chancellour of Ireland to execute that office by himself or a Deputy On the first of Janu. following he was constituted Deputy and Justice of the said Realm where being setled he performed good service against that grand impostor Perkin Warbeck and being elected Bishop of Bangor after the death of Richard lately Bishop of that place had restitution of the temporalities belonging thereunto made by the King 6. Octob. 12. Hen. 7. Dom. 1496. In 1500. he was translated to Salisbury on the death of John Blyth lately Bishop thereof Son of Will. Blyth of Norton in Yorkshire Son of another William of Leedes in the said County and had restitution of the temporalities thereof made to him as the manner is on the 12. March the same year About which time he was made Chanc. of the Order of the Garter In 1501. he was elected Archb. of Canterbury upon the death of Cardinal Moreton whereupon being translated thither had restitution made of his temporalities on the second of Aug. the same year About that time the members of the University of Oxon received an Epistle of favour from him wherein among other things he stiles the said University his benignissima mater He died at Lambeth on the 15. of Febr. saith a certain author tho a register of that time tells us 't was on the 16. of that month in fifteen hundred and two Whereupon his body was carried to Canterbury and buried in the middle of the Martyrdom within the precincts of the Cathedral there leaving then behind him the character of a person altogether fit for those places that he successively enjoyed DAVID CREAGH was born in the County of Limerick in Ireland studied several years among his Country men the Civil and Canon Law of which faculâ—ies he became at length Bachelaur Afterwards retiring to his native Country became thro several preferments Archb. of Cashills an 1483 where sitting about 20. years died 5. Sept. in fifteen hundred and three Of the great injuries done to him by Gerald Fits Gerald Earl of Kildare L. Deputy of Ireland of which Creagh complained to K. Hen. 7. by the advice of Sir Jam. de Ormond Knight the Histories of that Country will tell you PHILIP PINSON an English man studied among the Minorites or Grey Friers for a time in their house in Oxon. of which order he was a learned brother but whether he took the Degree of D. D. in this University we have no register that shews it Afterwards he became Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Hereford and afterwards of B. and Wells by whose endeavours but chiefly of those of K. Hen. 7. he was advanced at Rome to the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland on the 2. of Decemb. in fifteen hundred and three year 1503 and three days after died of the Plague Afterwards that See laid void two years and then 't was confer'd on Maurice O Fihely whom I have before among the writers mentioned JOHN ARUNDELL Son of Rainford or Rainford Arundell Knight by Jane his Wife Sister and heir of Joh. Coleshull third Son of Sir John Arundell of Talvern in Cornwall who died 13. Hen. 6. was born in that County received his Academical education in Exeter college became
Halyfax in his own Country In 1507. he was by the favour of P. Jul. 2. made Bishop of Meath in Ireland and the same year one of the Kings Privy Council there In the latter end of 1511. he was translated by the authority of the same Pope to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin and in 1515. was made Chancellour of Ireland by K. Hen. 8. in which great office as 't is supposed he continued to the time of his death He yielded to the stroke of death 29. Nov. in fifteen hundred twenty and one year 1521 and was buried as a certain author saith in the Church of S. Patrick near Dublin In his Will dated 22. Nov. and proved 4. February an 1521. wherein he stiles himself Archb. of Dublin and perpetual Vicar of Halifax I find these things following Item I will that after my death my body be embowelled and my bowels and heart to be buried in the Church of Halifax within the Quire and my body to be buried in the new Chappel at Sandall and thereon a Tomb of stone to be made and about the same to be written Ego Willielmus Dublin Archiepiscopus quondam Rector istius Ecclsie credo quod redemptor meus vivit qui obiit cujus anime proptietur deus amen Item I will that a Chappel be made in all convenient haste at Halifax on the south side of the Church after the direction of mine Executors and Church-Masters and there a Tomb to be made with my Image and thereupon written Hic jacet-Willlelmi Rokeby nuper Dublin Archiepiscopi Vicarii perpetui â—stius Ecclesie qui credo c. Item where I did obtain a Pardon for the Parish of Halifax and the Parishings thereunto adjoyning pro lacticiniis in quadragessima edendis I will that mine Executors at their discretion obtain sub plumbo the said license to be renewed and the profit thereof to be imployed for a Priest to sing at Halifax in my said new Chappel as long as may be by the advice and discretion of my Executors and the Church-Wardens Item I will that a Doctor of Div. have 10 l. to be occupied in Preaching c. Thus far part of his Will according to the tenour of which his heart was buried in the Chancel of the Ch. at Halifax and thereon was laid a stone with the figure only of an heart engraven thereon On the north side of the said Church was also founded a Chappel wherein was a monument built for him with an inscription put thereon Which being since partly defaced you shall have that part which lately remained thereon Orate pro anima Willielmi Rokeby jur Can. profess ac etiam Episcopi Medensis denide Archiepisc Dublin capelle fundatoris istius Qui obiit… Novembris an Dom. mcccccxxi What was performed at Sandall for the accomplishment of the other part of his Will I know not One Will. Rokeby LL. Bac. who was well beneficed in Yorkshire succeeded Joh. Dakyn LL. D. in the Archdeaconry of the East-riding of the said County in Dec. 1558. who dying in 1568. Martin Parkinson B. D. had that Dignity confer'd upon him in Dec. the same year but before he had kept it an year he gave way to fate Whereupon the said Dignity was confer'd on John Mey D. D. who was setled therein in the beginning of Aug. 1569. and soon after became Bishop of Carlile I find also one John Rokeby LL. D. to be Chanter Canon resid and Preb. of Duffeild of and in the Church of York who died in the latter end of 1574. Which John with William before-mentioned were of the same Family with Will Archb. of Dublin RICHARD FITZ-JAMES son of John Fitzjames by Alice his Wife daugh of Joh. Newbourgh son of James Fitz-james by Eleanor his Wife daugh and heir of Sim. Draycot was born in Somersetshire became a Student in the University of Oxon about 1459. elected probatoner-Fellow of Merton coll in 1465. took holy orders when he was Master and in 1473 was elected one of the Proctors of the University In the beginning of March 1474 he became Preb. of Taunton in the church of Wells upon the resignation of John Wansford and afterwards being constituted chaplain to K. Edw. 4. he proceeded in Divinity On the 12 of March 1482 he was elected Warden of Merton coll upon the resignation of John Gygur being then and after esteemed a frequent Preacher Which place he keeping about 25 years he shewed himself most worthy of it by his admirable way of government which he exercised by his continual benefaction thereunto and by his endeavours when in power to promote his Fellows In March 1484-85 he was made Vicar of Mynhead and about that time Rector of Aller in Somersetshire in which last he was succeeded by Mr. Christopher Baynbrigg in the latter end of May 1497. On the 2. of June 1495. he was admitted Almoner to K. Hen. 7. and on the 2. of January 1496. being then elected by the Monks of Rochester to be Bishop of that See was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 21. May following by Cardinal Moreton Archb. of Canterbury and his Assistants Landâ—ff and Bangor In January 1503. he was translated to the See of Chichester in the place of Dr. Edw. Story a Cantabrigian who dying in the latter end of the year 1502. was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester under a fair Tomb which he a little before had built for himself and on the 14. March 1505. he was nominated by the King to succeed Dr. Barons in the See of London On the 1. Aug. 1506. the temporalities of that See were restored to him So that soon after being setled there he resigned his Wardenship of Merton coll which he had kept in Commendam with Rochester and Chichester and all that time had administred the Government thereof with great commendation But this the Reader is to note that tho he was a Bishop several years while Warden yet did he according to statute and custom submit himself yearly in the month of January to the scrutiny of the Fellows of the said coll in the Chappel of S. Cross of Halywell near to Oxon de mora muribus Custodis Which statute continuing in use till the time of Hen. 8. was then disused by Dr. Joh. Chamber Warden thereof under pretence of absence in serving his Majesty as Physician He the said Dr. 〈…〉 bestowed much money in adorning the Cathedral of S. Paul as he had done before the collegiate Parish Church belonging to Merton coll in which house he built I cannot say all at his own charge the hall with a fair dining-room over it and a lodging room with a large vault under it both joyning on the west side to the said hall and dining-room for the use of him while Warden and his Successor in that office for ever Which hall dining-room and lodging Chamber were made as additions to the old lodgings belonging to the Wardens of the
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
great portion that he had conveyed half the Bishoprick to her that because he had the Gout he could not stand to his marriage with such and the like scoffs to make him ridiculous to the vulgar and odious to the Queen The Earl of Bedford hapning to be present when these tales were told and knowing the Londoners Widdow the Bishop had married said merrily to the Queen after this manner Madam I know not how much the Widdow is above 20. but I know a Son of hers is but a little under forty c. The conclusion of the premises was this that to pacifie his persecutors and to save Banwell he was fain to part with Wyvelscomb commonly called Wilscomb for 99 years and so purchased his peace To conclude his reading had been much his judgment and doctrine sound his government mild and not violent his mind charitable and therefore not to be doubted but when he lost this life he won Heaven In his last days being taken with an quartan Ague he did by advice of his Physicians remove to the place of his Nativity Okingham before-mentioned with hopes of recovery but nothing availing he gave way to fate 19. of Novemb. in fifteen hundred and ninety aged 73 years year 1590 Whereupon being buried on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Parish Church there had a monument soon after set up in the wall over his grave by his Son Franc. Godwin then Subdean of Exeter In the See of Bathe and Wells succeeded John Still D. D. Master of Trin. coll in Cambridge Son of William Still of Grantham in Lincolnshire who had been installed Canon of the seventh stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of Thom. Aldridge deprived for Nonconformity an 1573. and Archdeacon of Sudbury 28. of March 1576. He died 26. of Feb. 1607. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Wells leaving then behind him several Children which he had by his two Wives especially the first MARMADUKE MIDDLETON Son of Tho. Middleton of Cardiganshire descended from the Middletons of Middleton in Westmorland by Lucia his Wife daughter of Rob. Nevill had part of his education here but took not as I can yet find a degree Afterwards he went into Ireland where he became Rector of Killare in the diocess of Meath and on the death of Patr. Walsh B. of Waterford and Lisemore in 1579. In 1581. he was translated to S. Davids and about two years after he was actually created Doct. of div of this University He was afterwards not only deprived of his Bishoprick but degraded from all holy Orders for many notable misdemeanours And the sentence for it was accordingly executed by and before the High Commissioners at Lambeth house not only by reading of it in Scriptis but by a formal degrading him of his Episcopal robes and Priestly vestments He departed this mortal life on the 30. of Nov. in fifteen hundred ninety and two leaving then a Son behind him year 1592 named Richard who was Archdeacon of Cardigan In the See of S. Davids succeeded Anthony Rudd D. of div of Cambridge and a Yorkshire man born whom I shall mention in the Fasti under the year 1577. JOHN UNDERHILL is according to time to follow Tho. Godwin but before I enter upon him I must let the reader know that after the death of Dr. Hugh Curwyn Bishop of Oxon that See continued void about 21. years At the term of which a great person Sir Fr. Walsingham out of pure devotion to the leases that would yield good fines recommended the said Vnderhill to it perswading him to take it as in a way to a better but as it should seem it was out of his way very much for e're the first fruits were paid he died in much discontent and poverty Yet his preferrer to seem to do some favour to the University for recompence of the spoil done to the Bishoprick of Oxon erected a new lecture at his own charge which Dr. Rainolds of C. C. coll did for some time read as I have told you elsewhere This John Vnderhill was born in an ancient tenement or receptacle for guests called the Cross Inn in St. Martins Parish within the City of Oxon where his name lived two or three generations if not more and continued there till the daughter and heir of Vnderhill was married to one Breys or Brice After he had been trained up in Grammar learning in Winchester school he was sent to New coll of which he became true and perpetual fellow in 1563. After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts it hapned that Doctor Horne Bishop of Winchester visited the said coll but Vnderhill making opposition by questioning the Bishops right for what he did or should do as to visitation he was removed from his fellowship in 1576. Whereupon making his complaint to Robert Earl of Leycester chancellour of the University of Oxon he hearkned to and encouraging him to go to law with the Bishop for what he had done the Bishop forthwith let the cause fall to the ground knowing very well that he should be a loser by carrying on the cause if that great Count should stand by Vnderhill In 1577. he was elected Rector of Lincoln coll and proceeded in Divinity in 1581. About which time he was made Chaplain to the Queen one of the Vicars of Bampton and Rector of Witney in Oxfordshire In 1589. he was nominated Bishop of Oxon upon Walsinghams motion as I have before told you whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. C. on the 8. day of Decemb. was consecrated thereunto about the latter end of the same month in the said year He paid his last debt to nature at London on the 12. of May in fifteen hundred ninety and two and soon after his body being conveyed to Oxon year 1592 was buried in the Cath. Ch. towards the upper end of the choire just before the Bishops chair leaving then this character of him that he was Vir clarus eloquio acutus ingenio From the time of his death to the consecration of Dr. Jo. Bridges his successor an 1603. the patrimony of the Bishoprick of Oxon was much dilapidated and made a prey for the most part to Robert Earl of Essex to whom it proved as miserably fatal as the gold of Tholouse did of old to the soldiers of Caepio The said Joh. Bridges had been sometimes fellow of Pembr hall in Cambridge was D. of D. and made Dean of Salisbury in the beginning of Januar. 1577. upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Piers to the Episcopal See there He was a learned man in the time he lived and wrot several books as the Bodleian or Oxford catalogue will tell you See more of him in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 291. b. JOHN WOOLTON sometimes of Brasnose coll was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in Aug. 1574. died in the latter end of fifteen hundred ninety and three year 1593 and was buried
Deanery for some time in Commendam with Chichester This Dr. Watson who spent his life in celebacy as his Predecessor Bickley did gave way to fate at his house in Cheame or Cheyham in Surrey being then Almoner to K. Jam. 1. whereupon his body was buried in the Church there on the third day of Oct. 1605. By his last Will and Testam he gave an hundred pounds to Christs coll in Cambridge where he had been educated before he became Fellow of Bennet college and divers other Legacies for pious uses RICHARD MEREDYTH a Welsh man born became a Student in this University about 1568. but in what house unless in S. Johns coll it appears not In 1575. he proceeded M. of Arts as a Member of Jesus coll which was the highest degree he took in this University Afterwards being Chaplain to Sir Joh. Perot L. Lievtenant of Ireland he was by him made Dean of S. Patricks Church near Dublin and at length B. of Leighlin To which See being consecrated in the month of Apr. 1589. sate there till the time of his death which hapning on the third of August in fifteen hundred ninety and seven was year 1597 buried on the north side of S. Patricks Church before-mentioned In the said See of Leighlin succeeded one Rob. Grave Dean of Cork but whether he was ever a Student in Oxford I cannot yet tell JOHN BULLYNGHAM received his first breath in the County of Gloucester was elected Probationer of Magd. coll in July 1550. being then Bach. of Arts and intimate with Julius Palmer the Protestant Martyr whose story he hath written in a large letter dated from Bridgnorth about 1562. for the satisfaction of Jo. Fox when he was in writing his English book of Acts and Monuments c. but before he took the degree of Master he left the University Q. Mary being then in the Throne and retired as it seems beyond the Seas where continuing mostly all her reign returned when Q. Elizabeth succeeded became well beneficed and in 1567. was made Archdeacon of Huntingdon but in whose room unless in that of Anth. Draycot I know not In 1568. he compleated the degree of D. of div in an Act celebrated on the twelfth of July and two years after was made Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Libbeus Byard deceased In 1581. Sept. 3. he was consecrated Bishop of Glocester about which time he had the See of Bristow given to him in Commendam but that being taken away from him in 1589. the rectory of Kilmington alias Culmington in the dioc of Wells was conferr'd on him in Jul. 1596. He paid his last debt to nature about the 20. of May in fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 and was buried as I suppose in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester Whereupon his rectory was bestowed on Rich. Potter father of Franc. Potter author of the Interpretation of the number of 666 c. as I shall tell you when I come to him in the next volume of this work and his Bishoprick on Godfrey Goldsborough Doct. of div of Cambridge JOHN MERICK was born in the Isle of Anglesie educated in Wykehams School near Winchester made perpetual fellow of New coll in 1557. took the degrees in Arts became one of the Proctors of the University in 1565. Vicar of Hornchurch in Essex in 1570. and three years after Bishop of the Isle of Man on the death of John Salisbury He yielded up his last breath in Yorkshire as it seems in Sept. or Oct. year 1599 in fifteen hundred ninety and nine and was succeeded in the said See by Dr. George Lloyd of Cambridge Son of Meredyth Lloyd Son of Joh. Lloyd of Caernarvanshire who was translated thence to Chester in 1604. This Joh. Merick left behind him a brother named Will. Merick LL. D. and another called Maurice Merick then M. of Arts and certain letters concerning Ecclesiastical and other affairs which I have seen in the Cottonian Library under the picture of Julius F. 10. WILLIAM HUGHES Son of Hugh ap Kendrick of Caernarvanshire by Gwenllian his wife daughter of John Vychan ap John ap Gruff ap Owen Pygott was born in the said County and for a while educated in this University Afterwards retiring to Christs coll in Cambridge he took there the degrees in Arts and holy orders and being soon after made chaplain to Thom. Haward or Howard Duke of Norfolk attended him to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1568. where on the same day that the said Duke was created Master of Arts this his chaplain was incorporated Bach. of div as he had stood in Cambridge The year after the said Duke writing letters to Dr. Laur. Humphrey in his behalf he was by the said Humphreys endeavours made to the Vicechancellour and Convocation permitted to proceed in his faculty Whereupon being licensed the same year stood in an Act celebrated 10. Jul. 1570. to compleat that degree In 1573. he was promoted to the Episcopal See of S. Asaph to which being consecrated in Lambeth chappel on the thirteenth of Sept. the same year sate there to the time of his death without any removal He concluded his last day in Octob. in sixteen hundred year 1600 and was as I suppose according to his will buried in the choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Asaph leaving then behind him a Son named William and a daughter named Anne the then Wife of Tho. Mostyn Gent. begotten on the body of his Wife Lucia daughter of Rob. Knowesley of Denbighshire By his last Will and Test dated 16. Oct. 1597. and proved 9. Nov. 1600. he left lands and revenues for the founding a free school in the Cath. Ch. of S. Asaph He the said Dr. Hughes was succeeded in St. Asaph by Dr. Will. Morgan author of the first translation of all the Bible since printing was used into the ancient and unmixed language of the Britains The translation he dedicated with a latin epistle prefix'd to Q. Eliz. and was printed in 1588. For which work he was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Landaff first and afterwards with that of S. Asaph JOHN CHARDON or Charldon sometimes fellow of Exeter coll was consecrated B. of Downe and Connor in Ireland year 1601 an 1596. and died in sixteen hundred and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Downe and Connor succeeded one Rob. Humpston Master of Arts but whether of this University I cannot tell HERBERT WESTPHALING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Hereford in 1585. and departed this mortal life in the latter end of sixteen hundred and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Bennet sometimes of Trin. coll in Cambridge Son of Leonard Bennet of Baldock in Hertfordshire who was consecrated thereunto 20. Feb. 1602-03 By his last Will dated 3. Mar. 14. Jac. 1. he bequeathed his body to be
May 1621. leaving behind him a Son named Rutland Snoden of Horncastle in Lincolnshire who was afterwards a Justice of the Peace begotten on the body of his Wife Abigal daugh of Rob. Orme of Elston in Nottinghamshire After him followed in the said See of Carlile Ric. Milbourne B. of S. David descended from those of his name in Pembrokeshire but born in London his mother being occasionally there at the delivery of him educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester and from thence was sent to Qu. coll in Camb. where he continued several years Afterwards he became Minister of Sevenoke in Kent Chapl. to P. Hen. Chantor of S. Davids cath ch and Dean of Rochester as I shall elsewhere tell you At length he being made B. of S. David was after he had sate there about 6. years translated to Carlile where he continued till 1624. In which year dying he left monies as 't is said for the endowing of a School and monies for the building of an Hospital He hath a Serm. in print concerning the imposition of hands preached while he was Minister of Sevenoke at the Archb. Metropolical Visitation 7. Sept. 1607. on 1 Tim. 5. 22. printed in oct To him succeeded in the said See of Carlile Rich. Senhouse Dean of Glocester who was first admitted a Student in Trin. coll in Camb. and afterwards was removed to that of S. Johns of which he was made Fellow and continuing there many years took the degree of D. of div as a Member thereof about 1622. He was first chaplain as 't is said in the Earl of Bedfords family afterwards chaplain to Pr. Charles and at length to K. Jam. 1. who advanced him to a Deanery and afterwards to the said See of Carlile for his transcendent parts and admirable gifts in Preaching He hath extant Four Sermons preached at Court and left behind him at his death Lectures on the first and second Psalms which are not as I conceive made yet publick HENRY PARRY or ap Harry sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll was consecrated B. of Gloucester 12. Jul. 1607. translated thence to Worcester in the latter end of Sept. 1610. the temporalities of which See were restored to him 23. Oct. the same year He yielded to nature in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 under which year you may see more of him among the writers He was succeeded in Gloucester by Dr. Giles Tomson and in Worcester by Dr. Joh. Thornborough Of the first I have made mention already among the Bishops and of the other I shall speak in the second volume of this work under the year 1641. WILLIAM JAMES sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. became Bishop of Durham in 1606. and died in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 under which year you may see more of him among the writers After his death Rich. Neile Bishop of Lincoln was translated to Durham and thence to Winchester as I shall elsewhere tell you WILLIAM LYON a Cheshire man born was partly educated in this University but whether in Oriel or S. Johns coll where several of his sirname and time have studied I cannot tell Afterwards he went into Ireland became Vicar of Naas and Chaplain to Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton L. Lievtenant of that Country who promoting him to the Episcopal See of Ross was consecrated thereunto in the year 1582. and the year following was constituted commendatory of Cork and Cloyne by the favour of Qu. Eliz. He bestowed a thousand pound in building the Bishops house at Cork and other monies in repairing the Bishops house at Ross which three years after was burnt by the Rebel O-Donow This W. Lyon died in a good old age on the 4. Oct. year 1617 in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Cork leaving then behind him a Son of both his names who in the 17 year of his age 1610. became a Com. or else Gent. Com. of S. Johns coll in this Univ. In the said Sees of Ross Cork and Cloyne succeeded Dr. Joh. Boyle whom I shall anon mention ROBERT ABBOT Master of Balliol college was consecrated B. of Salisbury on the third of Decemb. 1615. to the great joy of all Scholars especially such who knew the learning and piety of the man He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred and seventeen under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the said See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Martin Fotherby Son of Maurice Fotherby of the ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Grimsby in Lincolnshire which Martin having been bred Fellow of Trin. coll in Cambridge was after he had been Prebendary of Canterbury 22 years consecrated at Lambeth on the 18. Apr. 1618. He surrendred up his last breath on the eleventh day of March an 1619. and was buried in Allsaints Church in Lombardstreet within the City of London Soon after was a very fair monument erected over his grave with a large inscription thereon but destroyed by the great Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. He hath extant at least 4 Sermons besides his Atheomastix which being put into the press before his death was not published till 1622. fol. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Robert Tounson or Tonson Dean of Westminster sometimes Fellow of Queens coll in Cambridge who was consecrated thereunto on the 9. July 1620. See more in the Fasti among the incorporations under the year 1599. JOHN BOYLE a Kentish man born and brother to Rich. Boyle the first Earl of Cork in Ireland received some education with us but whether D. of div of this Univ. as one reports it appears not in the publick Registers He was consecrated B. of Cork before-mentioned in 1618. at which time liberty was allowed him to keep the See of Ross in Commendam He died in sixteen hundred and twenty year 1620 and was buried at Youghall of which place his brother before-mentioned was Baron In the said See of Cork and Ross succeeded Rich. Boyle Dean of Waterford and Archd. of Limerick brother to Michael Boyle B. of Waterford and Lismore which Richard kept the See also of Cloyne in Commendam with the two former JOHN KING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Dean of that house was consecrated Bishop of London in 1611. and died in sixteen hundred twenty and one under which year you may see more of him among the writers To him succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne Bishop Almoner sometimes Dean of Westminster who was translated from Loncoln to London 20. July 1621. ROWLAND SEARCHFIELD a Londoner born was educated in Grammar learning in Merchant-Taylors School admitted Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1582. aged 17 years or thereabouts Afterwards he was made Fellow of that house Proctor of the University Doct. of div and successively Vicar of Emley in Northamptonshire Rector of Bowthorp in Gloucestershire Vicar of Cherlbury in and Justice of
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
unfortunate An. Dom. 1617. An. 15 Jac. 1. Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke sometimes of New Coll. Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again Jul. 17. Proct. Franc. Grevill of Mert. Coll. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. Apr. ult Bach. of Arts. May 10. Christop Harvey of Brasn Coll 23. Joh. Seager of S. Maries Hall Oct. 17. Pet. Heylyn of Magd. 23. Will. Tipping of Qu. Coll. Nov. 23. Joh. Atherton of Glocester Hall afterwards of Linc. Coll. and the unfortunate Bishop of Waterford in Ireland 27. Gilbert Sheldon of Trinity Coll. afterwards Fellow of All 's and at length Archb. of Canterbury Feb. 10. Robert Blake of Wadham Coll. This right valiant person having taken no higher degree in this University I must therefore make mention of him in this place Born therefore he was at Bridgwater in Somersetshire being the Son and Heir of Humphrey Blake of that place Gent. but descended of the antient Family of the Blakes of Blanchfield in the said County In the beginning of Lent Term an 1615 he being then about 15 years of age he was matriculated in the University as a Member of S. Albans Hall about which time standing for a Scholarship of C. C. Coll. with Rob Hegge and Rob. Newan was put aside whether for want of merit or friends I cannot tell While he continued in the said Hall he was observed by his Contemporaries to be an early riser and studious but withal he did take his pleasure in Fishing Fowling c. and sometimes in stealing of Swans Before the time came when he was to take a degree in Arts he translated himself to his Country men in Wadham Coll. and as a Member of that House he did stand for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. with Alex. Fisher John Doughtie Edw. Reynolds John Earle c. an 1619 but whether it was for want of Scholarship or that his person was not handsome or proper being but of stature little which Sir Hen. Savile then Warden of that Coll. did much respect he lost it continued in Wadham Coll. without the taking of any other degree and in 1623 wrot a Copy of Verses on the death of the learned Camden Afterwards he went into his own Country where he lived in the condition of a Gentleman but always observed to be puritancially inclin'd In 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Bridgwater to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13 Apr. 1640 but missing that Office in the same year when the Long Parliament began on the 3 Nov. following he sided with the Presbyterian took up arms for the Parliament soon after received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain of Dragoons and afterwards being made Governour of Taunton was made a Colonel Which Town as also afterwards Lyme he defended with great Valour against several famous and forcible Sieges of the Kings Army under the command of Prince Maurice and George Lord Goring At length the War being in a manner terminated the worth of this inestimable great Commander being so esteemed by those of his party was taken notice of by the Parliament whereupon they resolved that it should not lye hid at home but shew it self abroad and therefore he was made first one of the Commissioners of the Navy then one of the Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports and at length about 1649 one of the Generals at Sea At his entrance into which office he pent up Prince Rupert in the chief Port of Portugal and hunted him from Sea to Sea till he had reduced those Ships with him which before had revolted from the Parliament In the beginning of the year 1651 he reduced the Isle of Sciâ—ly to the Parliament Service and on the 25 Nov. following he was elected one of the Council of State being then in great repute with Oliver In 1652 Sept. 5. he sorely beat the French Fleet and at that time there being a Quarrel between the two Republicks England and the Vnited Provinces he and his Fleet were worsted in the Downes by Van Tromp the Dutch Admiral and his Fleet 29 of Nov. following but on the 18 of Febr. following that on which day hapned a most terrible Sea-sight betwixt them again near to the Isles of Wâ—ight and Portland the Dutch were in a woful manner worsted Ever after Blake continued a fortunate Vindicator of his Countries Privileges from the encroachments of insulting Neighbours a victorious Enemy of the Spaniard and was highly valued of all even the Royalist The last part and the most desperate attempt that he ever acted in a Sea-blood not that I shall now take notice of his daring piece of service at Tunis against the Turks an 1655 was against the Spaniards at Sancta Cruz in Apr. 1657 which made him as terrible as Drake had been before to them there being less difference betwixt the same and report of their actions and exploits than in the sound of their names For there with 25 sail he fought as 't were in a ring with seven Forts a Castle and 16 Ships many of them being of greater force than most of those Ships Blake carried in against them yet in spite of opposition he soon calcined the Enemy and brought his Fleet back again to the Coast of Spain full fraught with honour But what Commander is able to repel the stroke of death This is he that doth conquer the Conquerours and level the honours of the mightiest Monarchs with the meanest Captains there is no withstanding his force for all must fall Blake himself was compel'd to strike the top-sail and yield for in his return home he gave up the Ghost in the Ship called the George the Admiral as it entred into Plymouth Sound on Friday the seventeenth of August an 1657 aged 59 occasioned by the Scurvy and Dropsie which he had contracted by his seasaring The next day his body was imbowelled and closed in a sheet of lead and the bowels were interred in the great Church at Plymouth He was a man wholly devoted to his Countries Service resolute in his undertakings and most faithful in the performance of them With him Valour seldom mist its reward nor Cowardize its punishment When news was brought him of a metamorphosis in the State at home he would then encourage the Seamen to be most vigilant abroad for said he 'T is not our duty to mind State affairs but to keep foreigners from fooling us In all his expeditions the Wind seldome deceived him but most an end stood his friend especially in his last undertaking at S. Cruze in the Canary Islands To the last he lived a single life never being espoused to any but his Countries Quarrels Soon after his death and embalming the body was conveyed by Sea to Greenwych House where it remained for some time From thence it was conveyed by Water on the 4 of Sept. following with all due solemnity and honour in a barge of state coveâ—ed with Velvet adorned with Escocheons and Pencils accompanied with his brothers and
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