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
of the posterity and next in blood to our Author Sir Tho. More The said Utopia also was published in Italian at Venice 1548. Epigrammata Bas 1518. 1563. oct Lond. 1638 c. Progimnasmata Bas 1563. Responsio ad convitia Martint Lutheri written in the Year 1523. This I take to be the same with Vindicatio Henrici 8. Regis Angliae Galliae à calumniis Lutheri Lond. 1523. qu. published under the name of Gul. Rosseus Quod pro fide mors fugienda non est Written in the Tower of London 1534. Precationes ex Psalmis Collected there the same Year Imploratio divini auxilii contra tentationem cum insultatione contra Demones ex spe fiducia in Deum Lugd. 1572. He also translated from Greek into Lat. Dialogi Luciani with other matters of that Author Bas 1563. All which except Precationes ex psalmis beforemention'd together with his History of K. Rich. 3. and his Expositio passionis Domini were printed at Lovaine 1566. Epistolae Bas Lond. 1642. Epistola ad Acad. Oxon an 1519. Ox. 1633. qu. See in Tho. James under the Year 1638. History of the pitiful life and unfortunate death of Edward 5. and the then Duke of York his Brother Lond. 1651. oct This last being in English and published the last of all his Works I do therefore put it here At length this our worthy Author being brought to his trial in Westminster-hall was there for Treason for denying the King's Supremacy condemned to be hang'd drawn and quarter'd But that Sentence being mitigated by the K. he only lost his Head on Tower-hill 6. July in Fifteen hundred thirty and five year 1535 Soon after his Body was buried in the Chappel belonging to the Tower called St. Peter ad Vincula by the care of his Daughter Margaret to which place as 't is said she afterwards removed the Body of John Fisher B. of Rochester who being beheaded for the same matter on 22. June going before was buried in the Church-yard of Allhallows Barkin But More 's Body continuing not long in that Chappel was by the said Margaret removed to Chelsey Church near London and there deposited on the South side of the Choire or Chancel Over it is a large Epitaph made by himself after he had given up his Chancellorship which is printed in several Books and by several Authors As for his head it was set upon a pole on London-bridge where abiding about 14 days was then privily bought by the said Margaret and by her for a time carefully preserved in a leaden Box but afterwards with great devotion 't was put into a Vault the burying place of the Ropers under a Chappel joyning to St. Dunstans Church in Canterbury where it doth yet remain standing in the said Box on the Coffin of Margaret his Daughter buried there Much more as 't is probable I could say of his Death and Burial could I see a Book intit Expositio fidelis de morte Thomae Mori Printed in 8 vo in the Year 1536. but the Book is very scarce and I could never see no more of it than the bare title One More of Hertfordshire descended from him had one of his Chaps and was by his among other rarities carefully preserved till the Rebellion broke out in 1642. Jasper and Ellis Heywood Jesuits Sons of Joh. Heywood the noted Poet in the time of Hen. 8 had one of the teeth of the said Sir Tho. More but they being loth to part with their right to each other the tooth fell asunder and divided of it self The said Sir Thomas had issue by his first Wife Jane the Daughter of John Cowlt of Cowlts Hall in Essex three Daughters and one Son named John who being little better than an Ideot as 't is said took to Wife in his Fathers life time Anne Daughter and sole Heir of Edward Cressacre of Baronburgh in Yorkshire by whom he had issue 1 Thomas right Heir of his Father and Grandfather who had 13 Children of which Five were Sons The four eldest lived in voluntary contempt and loathed the World before the World fawned on them The first was Thomas born anew and baptized on that day of the Year 6. July on which Sir Thomas suffered death This Thomas having the Estate come to him married and had several Children but being a most zealous Catholick and constantly affected to the French Nation and Crown did at his own cost and charge with unwearied industry assemble all the English Persons of note that were then in and about Rome to supplicate his Holiness for a dispatch of a contract between the K. of England and Henrietta Maria of France an 1624-25 which being done the said Thomas who was the Mouth or Speaker for the said English Persons died XI April according to the accompt followed at Rome an 1625. aged 59. and was buried in the middle almost of the Church of St. Lewis in Rome leaving then behind him the life of his Gr. Grandfather Sir Tho. More 's incomparably well written published at London I think in 4to about 1627 and dedicated to Henrietta Maria beforementioned Over the said Tho. Mores Grave was soon after laid a monumental Stone at the charge of the English Clergy at Rome and an Epitaph engraven thereon a Copy of which was sent to me by I know not whom as several things of that nature are from other places running thus D. O. M. S. Thomae Moro dioc Ebor. Anglo magni illius Thomae Mori Angliae Cancellarii Martyris pronepoti atque haeredi viro probitate pietate insigni qui raro admodum apud Britannos exemplo in fratrem natu minorem amplum transcripsit patrimonium presbyter Romae factus inde fuisse sedis Apostolicae in patriam profectus plusculos annos strenuam fidei propagandae navavit operam postea cleri Anglicani negotia septem annos Romae 5 in Hispaniâ P. P. Paulo 5to Gregorio 15 summa cum integritate industria suisque sumptibus procuravit Tandem de subrogando Anglis Episcopo ad Urbanum 8 missus negotio feliciter confecto laborum mercedem recepturus ex hac vita migravit XI Apr. An. 1625. aet suae 59. Clerus Anglicanus moestus P. The second Son of the said Joh. More Son of Sir Thomas was Augustine who dyed unmarried The third was Thomas the second or Thomas junior born at Chelsey 8. Aug. 23. Hen. 8. who when he came to mans Estate degenerated from the Catholick Religion and lived and died a professed Minister leaving Issue several Children of whom the eldest Cressacre More who was born at Baronburgh in Yorkshire 3. July 1572. lived afterwards in no commendable fashion The fourth was Edward born after Sir Thomas his death and having not his blessing as Thomas the first and Augustin in bad degenerated from the Catholick Religion The fifth was Bartholomew who died young of the Plague in London The Pictures of most of these Mores mention'd here
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
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
Geneva 4 Nich. Rydleys Declaration of the Lords Supper Genev. 1556. To which Whittyngham put a Preface of his own making 5 N. Rydlies protestation This I have not yet seen and know nothing more of it 6 His translation from Lat into English of The Book of prayer or the English Liturgie See more in A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 c. Printed 1575. p. 34. 35. He also wrot the Preface to Christoph Goodmans book entit How superior powers ought to be obeyed c. with several other things which are not yet as I conceive published As for the works of impiety that he performed while he sate Dean of Durham were very many among which I shall tell you of these Most of the Priors of Durham having been buried in coffins of stone and some in marble and each coffin covered with a plank of marble or free-stone which laid level with the paving of the Church for antiently Men of note that were laid in such coffins were buried no deeper in the ground than the breadth of a plank to be laid over them even with the surface of the pavement he caused some of them to be plucked-up and appointed them to be used as troughs for horses to drink in or hogs to feed in All the marble and free-stones also that covered them and other graves he caused to be taken away and broken some of which served to make pavement in his house He also defaced all such stones as had any pictures of brass or other imagery work or chalice wrought engraven upon them and the residue he took away and employed them to his own use and did make a washing-house of them at the end of the Centory-garth So that it could not afterwards be descerned that ever any were buried in the said Centory-garth it was so plain and straight The truth is â—e could not abide any thing that appertained to a goodly religiousness or Monastical life Within the said Abbey-church of Durham were two holy-water stones of fine marble very artificially made and engraven and bossed with hollow bosses upon the ouer-sides of the stones very curiously wrought They were both of the same work but one much greater than the other Both these were taken away by this unworthy Dean Whittyngham and carried into his kitchin and employed to profane uses by his Servants steeping their beef and salt fish in them having a conveyance in the bottoms of them to let forth the water as they had when they were in the Church to let out holy water c. He also caused the image of St. Cuthbert which before had been removed from its proper place by Dean Rob. Horne who also had a hand in such impieties and also other antient monuments to be defaced and broken all to pieces to the intent that there should be no memory of that holy Man or of any other who had been famous in the Church and great benefactors thereunto as the Priors his Predecessors were left whole and undefaced I say it again that he did this to the end that no memory or token of that holy Man St. Cuthbert should be left who was sent and brought thither by the power and will of Almighty God and was thereupon the occasion of the erection of the monastical Church of Durham where the Clergy and Servants have all their Livings and Commodities from that time to this day At length after his many rambles in this world both beyond and within the Seas and his too to forward zeal for the promoting his Calvinistical if not worse opinion whereby much mischief hapned to the Church of England he did unwillingly being then full of worldly troubles submit himself to the stroke of death on the tenth day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Durham Soon after was a tomb-stone laid over his grave with an Epitaph of 12 long and short verses engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto which with most if not all of the monuments which were set up after his time were miserably defaced by the Scots when they invaded England in 1640. The first four verses run thus Quae Whittinghami cernis monumenta sepulti Et vitae mortis sunt monumenta piae Anglia testis erat testis quoque Gallia vitae Exilis haec vidit Praesulis illa decus So that as he before had in a woful manner violated the monuments of his predecessors and others so was his by Invaders and nothing now left to preserve his memory or Person to shew the place where his carkase was lodg'd HENRY COLE a zealous maintainer for a time of the Rom. Cath. Religion was born at Godsbyll in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1523 studied the Civil Law travelled some years after into Italy was at Padöuo where he advanced his studies and afterwards notwithstanding all this he did acknowledge K. Hen. 8. to be the supreme head of the Church in England In 1540 he being then returned and settled in London he took the Degree of Doctor of the Civil Law and the same year resign'd his Fellowship being then an Advocate in the Court of Arches Prebendary of Salisbury and about that time Archdeacon of Ely in the place as it seems of Rich. Coxe In 1542 he was elected Warden of New Coll. and in 45 he was made Rector of Newton Longvill in Bucks Soon after when K. Ed. 6. came to the Crown he was altogether for reformation was an admirer of Pet. Martyr was a frequenter of Protestant service and a receiver of the holy communion according to their way did after preach up reformation in the Church of St. Martin commonly called Carfax in Oxon did approve of the proceedings of King Ed. 6. and other matters as a learned and puritannical Author tells you In 1551. 5. Ed. 6. he resigned his Wardenship and the year after the aforesaid Rectory In 1554 2. Mariae he was made Provost of Eaton Coll. in the place of Tho. Smith LL. D. of Cambridge of which house he had been Fellow and the same year had the Degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him Soon after he was appointed one of the Commissioners to visit the University of Cambridge became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral on the removal of Feckenham to Westminster an 1556 Vicar general of the spiritualities under Card. Pole Archb. of Cant. and in 1558 one of the overseers of the said Cardinals will I find extant under Dr. Coles name these things following Letters to Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury upon occasion of a Sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty and her honorable Counsell an 1560. Lond. 1560 in a pretty thick oct It was afterwards remitted into Jewells works I find also that divers letters of Dr. Cole were sent to Bishop Jewell after he had preached at
Countess of Pembroke At length Sir Philip being wounded in the battle at Zutphen while he was getting up the third horse having had two slain under him before on the 22 Septemb. year 1586 in Fifteen hundred eighty and six he was carried to Arnheim where languishing under his wound 25 days or thereabouts he died on the sixteenth of October following This was that Sidney whom as Gods will was he should be therefore born into the world even to shew unto our age a sample of ancient virtues so his good pleasure was before any looked for it to call for him again and take him out of the world as being more worthy of Heaven than Earth Soon after his death his body was brought to Flushing and being embarqued with great solemnity on the first of November landed at Tower Wharf on the sixth day of the said month Thence 't was conveyed to the Minories without Aldgate where it lay in state for some time till his magnificent funeral in St. Pauls Cathedral 16. of Feb. following which as many Princes have not exceeded in the solemnity so few have equalled in the sorrow for his loss He was buried near to that place which his Father-in-law Sir Francis Walsingham had designed as I have heard to be entombed in without any monument or inscription save only a copy of English verses written on a wooden table that were divers years after his death put over his grave When his said Father-in-law was buried in that place afterwards there was a fair tomb designed for them both and epitaphs composed by Dr. Jo. Rainolds a copy of which for Sidney you may see elsewhere James King of Scots afterwards of England honored him with an Epitaph of his composition The muses of Oxon also lamenting much for his loss composed verses to his memory printed at Ox. 1587. qu. among which I find Cardinal Wolsey's Daughter lamenting the loss of her Alumnus Those of New Coll. in their Peplus Sidnaei dedicated to Henry Earl of Pembroke who married Sir Philips Sister as having been formerly of that house did bewail his death The most ingenious of Cambridge University did also exercise their fancies made publick by Alex. Nevill a member thereof Lond. 1587. qu. besides several private Persons among which was L. B. who wrot a pastoral Elegie and Eglogue on his death entit Astrophel printed at the end of Edm. Spencers Poetry called Colin clouts c. Lond. 1595. qu. The said Sir Philip left behind him a Daughter named Elizabeth who being born in 1585 Scipio Gentilis an eminent Civilian wrot a Lat. Poem on her nativity entit Nereus sive de natali Elizabethae illustriss Philippi Sydnaei filiae Lond. 1586. in one sh in qu. She was afterwards married to Rog. Mannours Earl of Rutland but died without issue by him THOMAS BOURCHIER was descended from those of his name who were Earls of Bathe but in what County born I cannot yet tell received some parts of literature in this University particularly as I conceive in Magd. Coll. yet took no Degree there unless in the Reign of Edw. 6. when the common register of the University was in a manner totally neglected Afterwards upon pretence of being weary of the heresie as he call'd it that in his time was practised in England he went beyond the Seas settled in Paris took upon him then if not before the habit of St. Francis and lived as a Brother in the house of that order there where also others of his Country lived and at length became Doctor of Divinity of the Sorbon at which time he was held in great esteem for his Religion and learning Afterwards going to Rome he lived among those of his order in the Monastery called by Latin Authors Ara coeli and at length became Penitentiary to the Church of St. John Lateran there He hath written Historia Ecclesiastica de Martyrio fratrum ordinis Minorum Divi Francisci de observantia qui partim in Anglia sub Henrico 8 Rege partim in Belgio sub Principe Auriaco partim in Hybernia tempore Elizabethae regnantis Reginae passi sunt ab an 1536. ad an 1582. Par. 1582. and 1586. in oct Ingolst 1583. in tw The names of those English Men that suffered Martyrdome in England were Father Anton. Brorbe or as some call him Brockby Tho. Cortt Thom. Belchiam and Father John Forest All which were executed in 1537. and 38. What other things our Author Bourchier hath written I cannot tell nor any thing else of him only year 1586 that he departed this mortal life about Fifteen hundred eighty and fix and was buried either in the Church of St. John Lateran or in that belonging to the Monastery called Ara coeli before-mention'd THOMAS BRASBRIDGE a Northamptonshire Man born was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. by the endeavours of Peter Morwyng an 1553 aged 16 where after he had continued a sedulous Student for some years was elected Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls College in 1558. Thence also he returned to Magd. Coll. of which he became Fellow in 1562 and soon after proceeding in Arts applied his mind partly to Divinity and partly to Physick In 1574 he supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the Sentences but whether he was really admitted it appears not The next year he resign'd his Fellowship having a spiritual cure or School or both conferr'd on him at or near to Banbury in Oxfordshire where as it seems he practised Physick His works are The poor Mans Jewell viz. a Treatise of the pestilence To which is annexed a Declaration of the virtues of the hearbes Carduus benedictus and Angelica c. Lond. 1578. and 91. in oct Questiones in Officia M. T. Ciceronis c. c. Oxon. 1615. oct Dedicated to Dr. Laur. Hamphrey President of Magd. Coll. an 1586. What other things he published I cannot yet tell nor any thing of his latter end JOHN FOX the noted Martyriologist was born at St. Botolphs town commonly called Boston in Lincolnshire an 1517 became a Student of Brasenose Coll. at about 16 years of age under the inspection and patronage of Mr. Joh. Hawarden Fellow thereof Afterwards he was elected Fellow of Magd. Coll. and proceeded Master of Arts in 1543 which was the highest Degree he attained to in this University being then esteemed eminent for his learning and knowledge in the three tongues About that time King Hen. 8. setting up a mongrel Religion in the Land which our Author did not like by shewing his opinion in several respects especially by absenting himself from the Chappel did with others of the same mind resign his Fellowship about St. Mary Magd. day in 1545 meerly as 't was thought to prevent expulsion Afterwards he was entertain'd for a time in the house of Sir Thom. Lucy in Warwickshire where as 't is said he took to him a Wife and then went to Riegate in Surrey to be tutor and teacher to the children of the Duke of
and printed at London in 1594. in qu. Among them are 1 A preparative to Marriage 2 Treatise on the Lord's Supper 3 Examination of Vsury 4 Benefit of Contentation 5 Affiuity of the Faithful 6 Christians Sacrifice 7 Tryal of Spirits 8 Wedding Garment 9 Way to walk in 10 Pride of Nebuchaduâ—zzar c. There hath been also printed of late times a Quarto Volume containing 53 Sermons besides Discourses Prayers Letters c. Among which is God's Arrows against Atheists c. which hath been translated and printed in Lat. at Openkeim beyond Sea An. 1614. oct All written by the said Henry Smith among which are those numbred that were printed 1594. This Person was in very great renown among Men in fifteen hundred ninety and three in which year if I mistake not he died aged 34. but where he was buried the Register of St. Clements before-mentioned tells us not for his Brother who lived to about the time of the Restauration of King Charles 2. did assure my Friend that he retired for Health's sake out of the said Parish and dyed in another more remote THOMAS COUPER or Cooper was born within the City of Oxon educated in Grammer Learning in the School joyning to St. Mary Magd. Col. being then a Choirister of that House where with very great industry making proficiency beyond his years was elected Probationer in 1539. and in the year following perpetual Fellow of the said House Afterwards proceeding in the Faculty of Arts he was made Master of the School wherein he had been educated left his Fellowship about 1546. and gave himself solely up to the studies of Humanity and Medicine In the Reign of Q. Mary he being then inclined to the Protestant Religion he took as it seems a Degree in Physick and practiced that Faculty in Oxon but when she was dead he re-assumed his former Faculty of Divinity became a frequent Preacher took the Degrees in that Faculty in the latter end of 1566. being about that time made Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and was several years after Vice-chancelour of the University In 1569. he was made Dean of Glocester in the place of John Man deceased and in 1570. Feb. 24. he was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln In 1584. he was translated to Winchester where as in most parts of the Nation he became much noted for his Learning and sanctity of Life I have heard some reverend and ancient Divines of this University say as they had heard it from others who knew the Man that at what time Dr. Cooper was to leave Oxon to go to the See of dincoln he did humbly confess in his farewel Sermon to the University That he was born of very mean Parents in Cat-street that he had undergone several mean and servile Offices in Magdalen College till by the favour of Friends he was advanced to be Fellow and Schoolmaster c. And so going forward with a recital of the chief parts of his Life did in conclusion humbly acknowledge God's great providence towards him praying withal That he would be pleased to prosper him in that great Imployment which was put upon him c. Of this Person much may be said and perhaps some wrong might redound to his memory if I should say little for he was indeed a reverend man very well learned and exceeding industrious as it appears by that great Dictionary which yet bears his Name and was the cause of his preferment the foundation of which was taken from Sir Tho. Eliot's Dictionary and the materials for the most part from Rob. Stephens's Thesaurus and Joh. Frisius's Lat. and Germ. Dictionary The course of his Life in Oxon was very commendable and in some sort Saint-like if it be Saint-like to live unreproveable to bear a cross patiently and to forgive great Injuries freely this Man's example was without pattern The Truth is he being little acquainted with the World of Men he did unhappily marry an Oxford Woman who proved too light for his gravity and in the end became so notorious for her ill living that the Libels that then came forth did sound out her infamy especially that made by Th Bulkley of Alis col which tells us That a certain Person did so much frequent her Company that at length he was bound in a bond of 100. l. not to come near her Nay another tells us That the whole Vniversity in reverence of the Man and indignity of the matter offered him to separate his Wife from him by publick Anâ—â—ority and to set him free being the innocent Pâ—rts But he would by no means agree thereto alledging he knew his own infirmity that be could not live unmarried and to divorce and marry again he would not charge his conscience with so great a scandal He hath written The Epitome of Chronicles from the 17th year after Christ to 1540. and thence afterwards to the year 156â— Lond. 1560. qu. The Reader is to note that one Thâ— Lanquet a young Man of 24 years of Age had composed a Chron. consisting of two parts reaching from the beginning of the World to the time of our Saviour and was proceeding on a third part but death cutting him off in his eager pursuit of the work in 1545. our Author Cooper undertook to finish it and his part which is the third contains almost thrice as much as the two parts of 〈◊〉 All which being finished a third Person contrary to the Mind of Cooper published all the parts under the Title of Lanquet's Chronicle an 1559. which being very full of faults our Author made a view and correction of and published them in the year following under the general Title of Coper's Chronicle c. with a running Title of Lanquet's Chronicle at the top of every leaf of the first and second part and The Epitome of Chronicles at the top of every leaf of the third part which as I have told you was composed by Cooper who hath further written Thesaurus linguae Romanae Britannicae c. Lond. 1565. in a large fol. This is commonly called Cooper's Dictionary which was so much esteemed by Q. Elizabeth that ever after she endeavoured to promote the Author as high in the Church as she could Of this Dictionary see more in Tho. Eliot under the year 1546. Dictionarium Historicum Poeticum Printed with the former Book A brief exposition of such Chapters of the Old Testament as usually are read in the Church at Common Prayer on the Sundays throughout the year Lond. 1573. qu. Sermon at Lincoln 1575. on Matth. 16. 26 27. Lond. in oct Twelve Sermons on Rom. 1. 16. Matth. 7. 15 16. on 1 Cor. 10. 1. 3. 5. Matth. 13. 3. 5. and Joh. 8. 46. Lond. 1580. qu. An admonition to the People of England wherein are answered not only the slanderous untruths reproachfully uttered by Martin the Libeller but also many other crimes by some of his Brood objected generally against all Bishops c. Lond. 1589. qu. This
they are descended from the said Family of the Savelli I cannot in the least conjecture being the name of a Town nor can I believe it no more than that the Corbets of Shropsphire are descended from the Corvini another ancient Family in Italy GEORGE CORYAT received his first being in this World in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City Salisbury educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1562. took the degrees in Arts and in June 1570. became Rector of Odcombe in Sommersetshire on the death of Tho. Reade and at length Bach. of Divinity In 1594 he was made Prebendary of Warthill in the Church of York and had some other Dignity but what I cannot tell He was a person much commended in his time for his fine fancy in Latin Poetry and for certain matters which he had written quoted by John Case the Philosopher Jam. Middendorp Joh. Cay and others All that I have seen of his composition are only these things following Poemata varia Latina Lond. 1611. qu. Published by his Son Thomas after his death and by him intit Posthuma fragmenta Poematum Descriptio Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae Written in Lat. verse as it seems and dedicated to Q. Elizabeth He died in the Parsonage house at Odcombe on the fourth of March in sixteen hundred and six whereupon his Son Tom upon some design preserving his body from stench above ground till the 14 of Apr. following was then buried in the Chancel of the Church at Odcombe at which time one Gibbs Gollop M. A. who was admitted to that Rectory 23. Mar. 1606 did officiate Gertrude Widdow of the said G. Coryate lived many years after at Odcombe and near to it where dying was buried near to the Reliques of her Husband on the 3. Apr. 1645. 21. Car. 1. as I have been informed by the searches by Mr. Humph. Hody M. A. of Wadham coll a Native of Odcombe At the same time that George Coryat was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll was elected also one John Mundyn born at Maperton in Dorsetshire who being a Civilian and not conforming himself to the Protestant Religion was ejected thence by the B. of Winchester in his Visitation of that coll 1566. Afterwards he went beyond the Seas was made a Seminary Priest and sent into the Mission of England But being taken on Hounslow-heath in his journey from Winchester to London was by Sir Fr. Walsingham Secretary of State committed to Prison Afterwards being convicted according to the Law against Seminaries was with 4 other Priests executed at Tybourne 12 Feb. 1583. See more in a book intit Concertatio Eccles Catholicae in Anglia Printed at Trier 1594. fol. 140 141. WILLIAM BURTON a Native of the City of Winchester was educated in Wykchams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1563. and left that house after he had taken one degree in Arts. This person I take to be the same Will. Burton who was a Minister in Bristow and afterwards at Reading in Berks. And author of these things following Several Sermons as 1 Sermon Preached at Norwith 21. of Dec. 1589. on Jer. 3. 14. Lond. in oct 2 Davids Evidence or the assurance of Gods love in 7 Sermons on Psal 41. 11 12 13. Lond. 1592. oct 1602. qu. 3 A Caveat for Sureties two Serm. at Bristow on Prov. 6. from 1. to the 5. verse Lond. 1593. oct 1602. qu. 4 The rousing of the Sluggard in 7 Sermons on Prov. 6. from 6. to the 11. verse Lond. 1595. oct 5 Sermons on the Churches Love to Christ her Husband on Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. These Sermons are intit Gods Wooing his Church 6 Davids Thanksgiving for the arraignment of the Man of Earth two Sermons on Psal 10. 17 18. Lond. 1598. oct dedicated to Sir Will. Periam Knight Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer a favourer of the authors Muse 7 Ten Sermons on Matthew 5. 3 4. Lond. 1602. qu. 8 The Anatomy of Beliel in 10 Sermons on Prov. 6. 12 13 14 15. Lond. 1602. qu. dedic to Ralph Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esque a great favourer of the author Catechism containing certain Questions and Answers concerning the knowledge of God and the right use of the Law Lond. 1591. oct Conclusions of Peace between God and Man containing comfortable meditations for the Children of God on Prov. 7. 1 2. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. Exposition of the Lords Prayer drawn into Questions and Answers Lond. 1594. oct 1602. qu. Certain Questions and Answers concerning the attributes of God Lond. 1602. qu. second edit Questions and Answers concerning the right use of the Law of God Lond. 1602. qu. An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbath briefly yet fully and plainly set forth Lond. 1606. oct These are all and enough which I have seen published by Will. Burton a Minister in Bristow and afterwards in Reading Whether he be the same Will. Burton of the Parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate in Lond. Clerk who died in that Parish in Oct. or Nov. in 1612. 16. Jac. 1. and left behind a Widdow called Dorothy I know not WILLIAM MONSON a Lincolnshire Man born a Knight's Son and of the same Family with those of South Carleton in that County was a Gent. Com. or at least a Commoner of Balliol coll where he continued for at least two years But his mind being more Martial than Mercurial he applied himself to Sea-service wherein he attained to great perfection was a Captain in several Expeditions against the Spaniard Vice-Admiral and Admiral In 1594. he was actually created Master of Arts and in 1596. he received the Honour of Knighthood from Robert Earl of Essex at the Sacking of Cadiz In 1602. when Ireland was cleared of the Spanish Forces he was appointed Vice-Admiral under Sir Rich. Levison Admiral to carry on the War by Sea against the Spaniard lest they should invade England wherein he performed most admirable Service especially in the taking of a great Carack of 1600 Tun from them at Cezimbria against Barbarum the Promontory of Portugal This heroical person left behind him at his death written with his own hand A true and exact account of the Wars with Spain in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth being the particulars of what hapned between the English and Spanish Fleets from the year 1585. to 1602. shewing the expeditions attempts c. Lond. 1682. fol. dedicated to his Son John Monson In some copies of this book the Title runs thus A particular and exact account of the last xvii years of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign both Military and Civil Lond. 1682. fol. The first written by Sir Will. Monson the other by Heywood Townshend This worthy Knight was in great renown in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. and the last time I find him mentioned in his Sea-service is in 1605. in which year he conveyed over Sea
c. Andrew Henley son of the aforesaid Henley was his Executor who had his library remaining at â—ramsell wherein mostly in the books he found as I have been credibly informed about a thousand pound in gold I shall now proceed to give you a farther account of Sir W. Raleigh's works The Prerogative of Parliaments in England proved in a dialogue between a Counsellour of State and a Justice of Peace Middleburg some copies have it Hamburge 1621. Lond. 1640. qu. Instructions to his son and posterity Lond. 1632. 36. 1651. oct 56. in tw The life and death of Mahomet the conquest of Spaine together with the rising and ruin of the Sarazen Empire Lond. 1637. in tw In another title printed the year following 't is called The History of Mahomet The Prince or Maxims of State Lond. 1642. in 7 sh in qu. there again in 51. and 56. in tw 'T is the same with his Aphorisms of State Lond. 1661. oct published by John Milton Lond. 1651. and 56 in tw The Sceptick or Speculations Observations of the magnificency and opulency of Cities State of Government Letters to the King and others of quality Demeanour before his Execution His Pilgrimage in verse Certain verses Observations on the first invention of shipping or invasive War the Navy-Royal and Sea-service Lond. 1650. 1667. oct Apology for his Voyage to Guiana Printed with the Observations c. 'T was by him penned at Salisbury in July 1617. I have a copy of it in MS. bound with his Confession which is in MS. also and begins thus I thank God of his infinite Goodness that he hath sent me to die in the light and not in the darkness c. Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollanders and other Nations as it was presented to King James Lond. 1653. 56 in tw The Cabinet-Council containing the chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State Lond. 1658. oct This book was published by John Milton before-mentioned of whom you may see more in the Fasti an 1635. Historical and Geographical description of the great Country and River of the Amazons in America c. Lond. 1661. published by W. H. Wars with Foreign Princes dangerous to our Common-wealth Or Reasons for Foreign Wars answered When printed I know not Various Letters See in the Cabala or Screnia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Divers Speeches and Arguments in several Parliaments towards the latter end of Q. Elizab. See in H. Townsend's Historical Collections Lond. 1680. fol. The Sons advice to his Father The great Cordial Upon which N. le Febure hath written an English discourse Lond. 1664. oct I have seen a book in MS. containing Sir Walt. Raleigh's Speech at the time of his death and His Ghost or a conference between Sur Gundamoure his Maj. Embassadour of Spain the Fryer Confessor and Father Baldwyn the Jesuit at Ely House in Holbourne in 1622. but whether ever printed I know not However the Reader is to understand that Sir Walter 's Ghost before-mentioned is not the same with his Ghost or Apparition to his intimate Friend willing him to translate into English the learned book of Leonard Lessius intit De providentia numinis animi immortalitate Lond. 1651. in tw translated in compliance with Sir Walter 's late request because he had been often soully aspersed for an Atheist There is also a MS. going about from hand to hand said to have been written by our author Sir Walter which is concerning The present state of Spain with a most accurate account of his Cath. Majesty's power and riches c. Whether this or his Discourse touching a consultation about Peace with Spain MS. sometimes in the Libr. of Arthur Earl of Anglesey were ever printed I know not He hath also written The life and death of Will the Conquerour MS. sometimes in the Library of Sir Ken. Digby afterwards in that of George Earl of Bristow Of Mines and trials of Minerals MS. c. with other things which I have not yet seen But I say it again that I verily think that several of those things before-mentioned which go under his name were never written by him At length he was beheaded in the old Pallace-yard in Westminster year 1618 on 29. 〈◊〉 in sixteen hundred and eighteen aged 66. Whereupon his body which he sometimes designed to be buried in the Cath. Church at Exeter was conveyed to St. Margarets Church in the said City of Westminster and buried in the Chancel there at the upper end almost near to the Altar Over whose grave tho there was never any Epitaph put yet this following among others was made for him Here lieth hidden in this pit The wonder of the World for wit It to small purpose did him serve His wit could not his life preserve He living was belov'd of none Yet at his death all did him moan Heaven hath his Soul the World his fame The Grave his Corps Steukley his shame Some writers in the long Rebellion under K. Ch. 1. especially such who were not well-wishers to Monarchy have reported that his death was no less than a downright Murder having had his blood spilt upon a Scaffold meerly to satisfie some unworthy ends and the revenge of the Spaniard Nay and farther they have not stuck to say that the Conspiracy of Gowry seemed rather a Conspiracy of the K. of Scots against Gowry as many of that Nation have declared The said Sir Walt Raleigh left behind him a Son named Carew Raleigh born in Middlesex in the Tower of London as it seems while his Father was Prisoner there became a Gent. Com. of Wadham coll in 1620. aged 16. but proved quite different in Spirit from his Father Afterwards he was Gent. of the Privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. who honoured him with a kind token at his leaving Hampton Court when he was jugled into the Isle of Wight cringed afterwards to the Men in Power was made Governour of Jersey by the favour of General George Monk in the latter end of January 1659. and wrote a book as 't was generally reported intit Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately made publick intit A compleat History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Q. of Scotland and of James K. of England written by Will. Sanderson Esq Lond. 1656. in 3 sh in qu. I have seen also some Sonnets of his composition and certain ingenious discourses but whether ever printed I know not I have seen also a Poem of his which had a Musical composition of two parts set to it by the incomparable Hen. Lawes Servant to K. Ch. 1. in his publick and private Musick Sir Hen. Wotton gives him the Character of a Gentleman of dextrous abilities as it appeared in the management of a publick concern in Sir Henries time and so by others he is with honour mentioned but far god wot was he from his Fathers parts either as to the Sword or Pen. He was buried in his Fathers grave in the
whose coates of Arms the publishers added without any consideration had to the spoyling of the method of the book One of the said editions was put out by Alexander Nowers a Herald-painter burned in his bed to which he went drunk in his house about Lothbury behind the Exchange within the City of London by a fire that occasionally happened in those parts 25. July 1670. The other edition was put out by Rich. Bloome then a kind of an Arms Painter but originally a ruler of books and paper who hath since practiced for divers years progging tricks in employing necessitous persons to write in several arts and to get contributions of Noble men to promote the work What he hath done as to the Arms Crests and supporters of the Nobility is most egregiously erronious and false also in the quarterings In 1679. he set forth the said book again which is the 5 edition with the pictures at large of several of the Nobility whereby the book is so much disguised that I verily believe if the author or authors of it were living they could scarce know it To the said edition is added Analogia honorum or a treatise of honour and nobility c. in two parts Said by Bloome to have been written by Capt. John Logan of Idbury in Oxfordshire but Qu. This person Bloome is esteemed by the chiefest Heralds a most impudent person and the late industrious Garter Sir W. D. hath told me that he gets a livelyhood by bold practices and that he is the pretended author of a book called Britannia Or a Geographical description of the Kingdom of England Scotland and Ireland c. Lond. 1673. fol. Scribled and transcribed from Camdens Britannia and Speeds Mapps as also the publisher of Cosmography and Geography in two parts c. As for Jo. Guillim the Herald he died on the 7. of May sixteen hundred twenty one but where buried unless at Minsterworth I know not for the register belonging to the Church of S. Bennet near to Pauls Wharff in which parish the Heralds Office is situated doth not mention any thing of his burial there THOMAS HARIOT or Harriot tumbled out of his mothers womb into the lap of the Oxonian Muses an 1560. but in what parish I cannot yet tell All the registers that begin before that time namely that of S. S. Ebbe S. Aldate S. Thomas which begins that year S. Michael All-Saints and S. Peter in the East I have searched but cannot find his name That of S. Maries parish wherein I suppose this our author was born hath been lost several years and there is no register remaining that goes above the year 1599. After he had been instructed in Grammar learning within this City of his birth became either a Batler or Commoner of S. Maries hall wherein undergoing the severe discipline then and there kept up by Rich. Pygot and Thom. Philipson the Principals thereof he took the degree of Bac. of Arts in 1579. and in the latter end of that year did compleat it by determination in School-street Soon after coming to the knowledge of that heroick Knight Sir W. Raleigh for his admirable skill in the Mathematicks he entertain'd him in his family allowed him an yearly pension and was instructed by him at leisure-hours in that art In 1584. he went with the said Knight and first Colony into Virginia where being settled he was imployed in the discovery and surveying thereof and to make what knowledge he could of the commodities it yeilded and concerning the inhabitants and their manners and customs After his return into England Sir Walter got him into the acquaintance of that noble and generous Count Henry Earl of Northumberland who finding him to be a gentleman of an affable and peaceable nature and well read in the obscure parts of learning he did allow him an yearly pension of 120 l. About the same time Rob. Hues and Walter Warner two other Mathematicians who were known also to the said Count did receive from him yearly pensions also but of less value as did afterwards Nich. Torperley whom I shall mention elsewhere So that when the said Earl was committed prisoner to the Tower of London in 1606. to remain there during life our author Hues and Warner were his constant companions and were usually called the Earl of Northumberlands three Magi. They had a table at the Earls charge and the Earl himself did constantly converse with them either singly or altogether as Sir Walter then in the Tower did Our author Hariot was a great acquaintance with Sir Tho. Aylisbury Kt. a singular lover of learning and of the Mathematick arts To whom Dr. Rich. Corbet sending a Poem when the blazing Star appeared dated 9. Dec. 1618 doth by the way mention our author thus Now for the peace of God and Men advise Thou that hast wherewithal to make us wise Thine own rich studies and deep Harriots Mine In which there is no dross but all refine But notwithstanding his great skill in Mathematicks he had strange thoughts of the Scripture and always undervalued the old story of the creation of the world and could never believe that trite position Ex nihilo nihil fit He made a Philosophical Theology wherein he cast off the Old Testament so that consequently the New would have no foundation He was a Deist and his doctrine he did impart to the said Count and to Sir Walt. Raleigh when he was in compiling the History of the World and would controvert the matter with eminent Divines of those times who therefore having no good opinion of him did look on the manner of his death which I shall anon mention as a judgment upon him for those matters and for nullifying the Scripture When he was a young man he was stiled by an author of note juvenis in illis disciplinis meaning in the Mathematicks excellens When in his middle age by another homo natus ad artes illustrandas c. and when dead by a third of greater note Mathematicus insignis His Epitaph which was made or caused to be made by his Executors or those to whom he left his goods books and writings viz. Sir T. Aylesbury before mention'd and Rob. Sidney Viscount L'isle saith that Omnes scientias calluit in omnibus excelluit Mathematicis Philosophicis Theologicis veritatis indagator studiosissimus Dei Trini-unius cultor piissimus c. As for his Writings they are these A brief and true report of the New-found Land of Virginia of the commodities there found to be raised c. Lond. 1588. qu. Put into Latine by C. C. A. and published and adorned with many admirable Cutts by Theodore de Bry of Liege Francof ad Moenum 1590. fol. The English copy is mostly if not all involved in the third Vol. of R. Hakluyts voyages p. 266. c. Ephemiris Chyrometrica MS. in the Library at Sion coll Lond. Artis Analyticae praxis ad aequationes Algebraicas nova expedita
of the Spanish and Italian Monks into one Congregation While he continued there he wrote Dissertatio contra Aequivocationes Par. 1625. oct c. dedicated to P. Vrban 8. at which time the author was the prime person of the English Mission for assisting the Spanish Congregation In 1627. I find him in Oxon again in the condition of a Gentleman and a Sojournor to the end that he might obtain materials from the Bodleian Library towards the composition of a work by him then in hand and about that time published a book against the Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia published by Clem. Reyner D. D. and Secretary to the Congregation of the Benedictines an 1626. fol. Which being esteemed a piece savouring of too much impudence and contradiction if not Heresie it was prohibited the reading by the Brethren and thrown aside among unlicensed and heretical books and soon after had a reply published against it which in some copies of the Apostolatus is put at the end without a name to it or any naming of Barnes It must be now known that this learned person being a very moderate man in his opinion and deeply sensible by his great reading and observation of several corruptions of the Romish Church and doctrine which partly were expressed in his discourse but mostly in a book which he wrote called Catholico-Romanus Pacificus became for that tho not printed and his answer to Apostol so much hated by those of his Order that endeavours were made to seize upon and make him an example Whereupon Barnes perceiving a storm approaching he fled to Paris and was there protected by the English Embassador But so it was that by the endeavours of Clem. Reyner before-mentioned and his interest made with Albert of Austria he was carried out from the midst of that City by force was divested of his habit and like a four-footed Brute was in a barbarous manner tyed to a Horse and violently hurried away into Flanders Where continuing for some time was thence soon after carried to Rome where by command of the Pope he was as a contriver of new doctrine thrust into the dungeon of the Inquisition Soon after being distracted in mind as a certain Jesuit saith was removed to a place for the reception of Mad-men behind the Church of S. Paul the less there to continue till he came to his senses Afterwards several copies in MS. of Cath. Rom. Pacificus flying abroad a true copy of it was made up by comparing it with others and printed at the Theatre in Oxon an 1680. oct Several years before that some of the sections therein were made use of by another person as that 1 Of Councils Popes Schism 2 Of the priviledges of the Isle of Great Britain 3 Of the Pope's Supremacy and the Supreme Power of Kings both in Temporals as also in Spirituals c. Our author Barnesius hath written also a Tract of the Supremacy of Councils which I have not yet seen and other things and also hath translated from the Spanish into the Latin tongue Pugna Spiritualis c. written by Joh. Castiniza a Benedictine Monk It was also afterwards translated into the same tongue by Jodochus Lorichius D. D. of Friburg Duac 1625. in sixt By those of the reformed party he the said Barnes who was living in sixteen hundred and thirty is stiled the good Irenaeus a learned peaceable and moderate man but by the R. Catholicks especially by those of his Order a person of a turbulent and contradictory Spirit occasioned by too much confidence and presumption of his own parts and wit which was greater than his humility and so consequently did expose him to great danger as they say of Apostacy and disobedience to his Superiours as also unworthy gratitude towards some who had deserved better returns from him The time of his death or place of burial I cannot yet obtain nor any thing else of him only this that certain fierce People at Rome being not contented with his death have endeavoured to extinguish his fame boldly publishing that he died distracted JOHN DONNE a person sometimes noted for his Divinity knowledge in several languages and other learning was born of good and vertuous Parents in London became a Commoner of Hart hall with his younger Brother Henry in the beginning of Michaelmas-Term an 1584. being then but eleven years of age where continuing about three years in which time Sir Hen. Wotton had a Chamber there he went to Cambridge and spending three more there he was transplanted to Lincolns Inn to obtain knowledge in the Municipal Laws where he had for his Chamber fellow for some time Mr. Christop Brook an eminent Poet of his time After he had continued there two years in exercising his poetical fancy he began to survey the Body of Divinity wherein he made very good notes and observations Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas advanced himself much in the knowledge of countries men manners and languages and was at his return made by Egerton L. Chanc. of England his chief Secretary and soon after was admitted M. of A. of this University as I shall tell you elsewhere But continuing not long in that beneficial imployment he did upon the solicitations of some of his Friends especially upon the motion of K. James 1. enter into the Sacred Function and not long after was made one of the Kings Chaplains Doctor of Div. of Cambridge and at length in 1621. Dean of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London upon the promotion of Dr. Val. Carey to the See of Exeter He was a person of great wit virtue and abilities learned in several Faculties and religious and exemplary in his life and conversation In all which being eminent he was therefore celebrated and his memory had in great veneration by the Wits and Virtuosi of his time among whom were Ben. Johnson Sir Lucius Cary afterwards L. Faulkland Sydney Godolphin Jasp Mayne Edward Hyde afterward L. Chancellour Enâ—ymion Porter Arthur Wilson c. As for those things by him written few of which were published in his time are these Pseudo-Martyr a treatise shewing from certain propositions and gradations that those that are of the Rom. Religion in England may and ought to take the Oath of Allegiance Lond. 1610. qu. See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. Devotions upon emergent occasions and several steps in his sickness Lond. 1624. in tw second edit An anatomy of the World Wherein by occasion of the untimely death of Mrs. Elizab. Drury the frailty and decay of this whole World is represented Lond. 1625. oct a Poem in two anniversaries The second anniversary is intit The progress of the Soul c. which is a Poem also Juvenilia or certain Paradoxes and Problems Lond. 1633. and 1652. in qu. Divine Poems with Epistles to Sir H. Goodeere Lond. 1633. qu. Poems Songs Sonnets Satyrs Letters Funeral Elegies c. Lond. 1633. qu. 35. oct In which are involved Divine
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
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
Mawdion D. D and Vicar gen to Dr. Smith Bishop of Lincoln Doctors of the Canon Law Or such who were licensed to proceed in the Decrees or Canon Law c. Roger Sandyford or Sandford Principal of Broadgates Hall in the Parish of All Saints Upon the Resignation of Philip Agard an Inceptor in the sacred Canons or Decrees the said Rog. Sandford succeeded in the Principality of that Hall in 1498. which Hall did once stand where now is a Yard containing divers Tenements belonging to Magd College the Gate leading to which is almost opposite to the sometimes Inn called the Swâ—n in that part of the High Street between the Churches of All 〈◊〉 and S. Mary Will. Horsley Principal of Pâ—ckwaters Inn. This Inn is involved in that Quadrangle belonging to Ch Ch. now called Peckwater This year was a Supplicate made in the venerable Congregation of Regents for one Tho. Dalby to be admitted to a Degree in Decrees but whether he was admitted I cannot yet tell This Tho. Dalby whom I find afterwards written Doctor of Decrees was installed Archdeacon of Richmond in Oct. 1506 upon the Promotion of James Stanley to the See of Ely was made about that time Prebendary of the Prebend of Stillington and Canon residentiary in the Church of York afterwards the thirty seventh Provost of the Church of S. John at Beverley Treasurer of the Pallace of Tho. Savage sometimes Archb. of York Chaplain and Counsellor to King Hen. 7. and Dean of the Chappel to the Duke of Richmond and Somerset This Dr. Dalby died 26 Jan. 1525 and was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cath. Church of York I find another Tho. Dalby who was Archdeacon of Richmond and Residentiary in the Church of York but he dying in 1400 must not be supposed to be the same with the former Doctors of Divinity Or such who were licensed to proceed in Divinity or admitted Doctors or Professors of Divinity or of the Holy Writ in order to their proceeding or being compleated in that Degree in the Act following William Vavasor Gardian or Warden of the House or Coll. of the Franciscans or Grey Fryers in the South Suburb of Oxon. This Coll. was situated without Little Southgate commonly called Watergate where now a Brewer and a Tanner besides other People live and the Gardens and Grove belonging thereunto situated on the West side of the said Coll. are now called by the Name of Paradise Garden This College was one of the famousest Places for learned Fryers in the Christian World and therein did Roger Bacon the Miracle of his Age for Learning live and die in the Habit of a Franciscan Another Miracle also did live and study there about Roger's death named John Doâ—â—s highly famed at this day beyond the Seas for those Books which he hath written yet so little valued now among many English Men that the Philosopher of Malmsbury doth not stick to say that any ingenious Reader not knowing what was the design meaning the Pope's design to carry on his Authority would judge him to have been the most egregious Blockhead in the World so obscure and senseless are his Writings Hugh Saâ—ders alias Shackspear of Merton Coll. He was afterwards Principal of S. Albans Hall and is stiled in one of our publick Registers Vir literis virtute percelebis John Stanywell Prior of the Benedictine Monks of Glocester Coll. now Gloc. Hall He was the same Person with John Stonywell who was soon after Lord Abbat of Pershore a Monastery for Benedictines in Worcestershire and a Bishop by the Title of Episc Poâ—etensis as I have among the Bishops told you Joh. Avery of Lincoln Coll. He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University John Percivall the seven and fortieth Minister or Provincial of the Minorites Franciscans or Grey Fryers in England did proceed about this Year in Divinity See among the Writers under the year 1502. Joh. Kynton a Minorite or Franciscan did also proceed this year but when admitted I find not An. Dom. 1501 An. 16 17 Hen. 7 Chancellour Dr. Will. Smyth Bishop of Lincoln afterwards the worthy Founder of Brasnose Coll. Commissaries Will. Atwater beforemention'd Tho. Bâ—â—ke D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll. Hugh Saunders D. D. beforemention'd Proctors John Game of Allsoules Coll. elected for the Southern Proctor Will. Dale elected for the Northern Proctor Bachelaurs of the Civil Law Or such who were admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Institutions Thomas Howell Archdeacon of Cardigan c. Mast of Arts Or such who were licensed to proceed in Arts c. William Hew He was afterwards Bishop of Oâ—â—se in Spain John Longland of S. Mar. Magd. Coll. He became Bishop of Linc. in 1521. Tho. Randolph of New Coll. did proceed about this year He was afterwards Canon and Prebendary of the Cath. Church at Lincoln Bach. of Divinity Tho. Brynknell of Linc. Coll. See more among the Writers under the year 1521. Clement Lychfeld a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of Eâ—â—sham in Worcestershire He was afterwards Abbat of that Place and continuing there till towards the dissoultion of Religious Houses with a resolution not to surrender his House for a profane use was at length by the tricks of Tho. â—romwel Secretary of State to K. Hen 8. perswaded to resign his pastoral Staff to one Philip Hawford alias Ballard a young Monk of Evesham which being done accordingly not altogether to the content of Lychfeld was a Surrender of that Monastery soon after made into the hands of the said King For which Service Ballard had not only a considerable Pension allowed but also the Deanery of Worcester given to him an 1553 â— Mar. upon the deprivation of one John Barlow M. A. who had been installed Dean in June 1544 in the place of Hen. Holbeach alias Rands the first Dean afterwards Bishop of Lincoln As for Lychfeld who was a most pious and zealous man in the way he professed he expended much Money in building the Abbey of Evesham and other places belonging to it as also in building and adorning the Choir He made also a right sumptuous and high square Tower of Stone in the Cemitery of Evesham This Tower had a great Bell in it and a goodly Clock and was as a Gatehouse to one piece of the Abbey This Abbat builded at his Mâ—â—or at Vssâ—nham about a mile above Evesham This good man died at or near Evesham and was buried in a Chappel which he before had built joyning to the Abbey-Church there 9 Octob. 1540. In memory of whom was in his life time an Inscription set up in a Window of the said Church running thus Orate pro anima Domini Clementis Lychfeld Sacerdotis cujus tempore turris Eveshamiae â—dficata est John Colet M. A. was about this time admitted to the reading of the Sentences Henry Rytoner Abbat of Rewley a Monastery for Cistercians in the West Suburb of Oxon.
London and a publisher of certain Sermons between the year 1610 and 1625 must not be taken to be the same with Tho. Muriel Mar. 22. Fines Moryson M. A. of Cambr. He was a Lincolnshire man born was Fellow of Peter House in that University and Brother to Sir Richard Moryson Vicepresident of Mounster After he had taken his Masters degree he studied the Civil Law and in 1589 being then 23 years of Age he obtained license of the Master and Fellows of his House to travel Presently after leaving the University he went to London to follow such Studies that were fit to enable him in his course of Travels and afterwards going to Oxon was incorporated M. of A. as I have told you before On the 1 May 1591 he took ship at Liegh distant from London 28 miles by land and 36 by water and after he had rambled about many parts of the World for 8 years returned and went into Ireland 1598. and became Secretary to Sir Charles Blount Lord Lieutenant of that Realm After his death which hapned about 1614 were published his Travels entit An Itinerary containing his ten years Travels through the twelve Dominions of Germany Bohmerland Sweitzerland Netherland Denmark Poland England Scotland and Ireland Divided in three parts Lond. 1617 in a thick fol. It was first written in Latin and afterwards translated by him into English There were also four more Cantabrigians incorporated among whom Robertus Hemmingius M. A. was one Feb. 23. Creations July 14. Sir Will. Hatton Sir Hen. Vnton Joh. Fitzjames Esquire Knights The first was Son to the Sister of Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor of England and being Heir to the said Sir Christophes did change his name from Newport to Hatton The second who had been of Oriel Coll. I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1595. The third who was of the antient Family of the Fitzjames of Somersetshire was originally also of this University which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1591. An. 33 Elizab. An. 34 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton who dying 20 of Nov. this year certain Members of the University especially those of the Puritanical Party were for Robert Earl of Essex before mention'd now in great favour with the Queen and others for Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst At length upon the receipt of Letters from the Queen in favour of Buckhurst the Academians elected him 17 Dec. following See more in the Incorporations this year Vicechanc. Dr. James again designed by Chancellour Hatton 16 July Proct. Rich. Braunche of Ch. Ch. Joh. Lloyd of New Coll. Apr. 16. Which Proctors with several Doctors and others went to London to admit the Chancellour to his Office being the first Admission out or without the limits of the University that I have yet met with Bach. of Arts. Mar. 27. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. now in much esteem for his Poetry Apr. 16. Rob. Moor June 4. Arth. Lake of New Coll. The former was adorn'd with variety of Learning the other was afterwards a Bishop Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Queens Coll. Afterwards a learned Nonconformist 9. Walter Wylshman of Exeter Coll. afterwards of Broadgates Hall Jan. 16. Rich. Haydock of New Feb. 7. Gerard Massie of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity an 1608. Adm. 116. Mast of Arts. May 20. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. lately of Gloc. Hall June 15. Samuel Burton of Ch. Ch. He became Rector of Dry Marston in Glocestershire seven years after this time afterwards Archdeacon of Glocester and at length Justice of the Peace for that County He hath published A Sermon preached at the general Assizes in Warwick 3 March being the first Friday in Lent 1619 on Rom. 1. 4. Lond. 1620. qu. and perhaps other things He died 14 June 1634 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Dry Marston before mention'd Jun. 21. Tho. Hutton Henr. Price of S. Joh. Coll. Jul. 8. Nathan Torporley of Brasn Nov. 30. Joh. Day of Oriel Feb. 26. Joh. Hoskyns sen of New Coll. Adm. 56. Bach. of Div. Mar. 27. Henr. Rowlands of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor Apr. 27. Leonard Hutten Jul. 2. Joh. King of Ch. Ch. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day Nov. 15. Soh Smith of S. Joh. Coll. Adm. 15. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. Tho. Hyde of Ball. Coll. On the fourteenth of June 1588 he became Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Tho. Whyte having before been Prebendary of Ilfracomb in the said Church and dying in Nov. 1618 was succeeded in his Chancellourship by Dr. Franc. d ee who was afterwards B. of Peterborough Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. was adm the same day On the 5. of July 1576 he was installed Archd. of Rochester in the place of Joh. Calverley deceased and in 1580 he succeeded Dr. Rob. Dorset in a Canonry of Ch. Ch. In an 1582 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury but whether he was Dean of that Church as I have told you in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 259. b. upon false information it appears not In his Archdeaconry of Rochester which he resigned was installed Th. Staller D. D. 5 Jul. 1593 and to his Archdeaconry of Sarum which he kept to the day of his death was collated Will. Barlow on the 12 of March being four days after the death of Pickover an 1614. This person Pickover is commended for a learned man for a good Greecian Hebritian and a frequent Preacher See in the said Hist Antiq. lib. 2. p. 260. a. Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was adm the same day July 2. He accumulated as Pickover did Incorporations Jul. 13. George Downham M. A. of Cambridge He was Son of Will. Downham Bishop of Chester was educated in Christs Coll. in Cambridge of which he became Fellow about 1585 afterwards a great Aristotelian a follower of Ramus and at length Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland where dying in 1634 Apr. 17. was buried in the Cath. Church there The Catalogue of all or most of his works you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue Besides him were 15 Cantabrigians incorporated Masters of Arts on the same day being the next after the Act had been concluded but not one of them can I yet find who was afterwards a Writer Bishop c. On the same day also Will. Halke an English Man of the same University who had had the Degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him in the University of St. Andrew in Scotland an 1590 Andr. Melvin being then Rector was also incorporated in this University Oct. 22. Will. Paddie of St. Johns Coll. in this University lately made Doct. of Phys in the University of Leyden was incorporated in the same Degree He was afterwards Physician to K. Jam. 1. a Knight eminent for his practice in that faculty and President if I mistake not of the Coll.
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