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
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
This is the first part The second part containeth the lives and characters of English Writers The third containeth an Appendix of which I shall speak more anon and the fourth fifteen indices which are as 't were the Epitomy of memorable things of the said first tome Concerning which I shall make these observations following 1 That according to the time wherein 't was written things are expressed in eloquent Latine 2 That the most part thereof especially concerning the Writers is taken from Joh. Bale's book De Scriptoribus majoris Britanniae notwithstanding he declares an abhorrence of him and his book 2 That therein he omitts Wycleve and all the Wyclevists Irish and Scotch Writers which Bale for the most part commemorates and in their room he gives us an account of R. Cath. Writers such for the most part that had left their Country upon the reformation of religion made by Q. Elizabeth and after which is the best and most desired part of his book 3 That several Writers in the Appendix are taken from a book entit Ecclogua Oxonio Cantabrigensis written by Tho. James of New coll Of which book also he makes use when he tells you in what Libraries the MSS. of certain authors which he mentions are preserved 4 That tho he pretends to give you an account only of R. Cath. Writers especially about the time that reformations were made or endeavoured to be made yet he sets down for want of full information I presume some that were sincere Protestants or at least more Protestants than Papists as Sir Anth. Cope who died 1551. Joh. Redman who died the same year Tho. Key or Cay Master of Vniv. coll who died 1572. Joh. Leland the Antiquary Rob. Record Mathematician Dr. Alb. Hyll an intimate acquaintance with Jo. Bradford the Martyr Joh. Cay the Antiquary of Cambridge Pet. Morwyn or Morwyng of Magd. coll c. and in the Appendix George Coriat rather a Puritan than a true Son of the Church of England Robert for Roger Taverner whom I have mention'd in Rich. Taverner an 1575. Timothy Bright of Cambridge Doct. of Physick and Rector of Methley in Yorkshire by the death of Otho Hunt in July 1591. Tho. Mouffet a Doctor of Physick contemporary with the former Joh. Huntington a zealous reformer and the beloved Son in Christ of Joh. Bale See among the Writers under the year 1556. c. 5 That whereas he pretends to follow Jo. Leland his Collectanea de Scriptoribus Angliae for very many times he familiarly mentions and quotes them 't is only that he may avoid the naming of Bale for whom all R. Catholicks nay zealous Protestants have little or no kindness at all because his book is stuff'd with revilings and such Language that befits rather a Huckster at Billingsgate than the meanest or worst of Scholars The truth is our author Pits never saw the said Collectanea he being but 20 years of age or little more when he left the Nation neither was it in his power afterwards if he had been in England because they were kept in such private hands that few Protestant Antiquaries and none of those of the Church of Rome could see or peruse them 6 That in the said tome are very many errors misnomers c. and so consequently in Bale whom he follows too many now to reckon and how he and Bale are most egregiously deceiv'd in what they mention of Amphibalus Junior and of Gildas Badonicus you may at large see in the learned Usserius in his book De primordiis Ecclesiarum c. printed in qu. an 1639. p. 539. 533 477. 539 557. and 1144. 7 That whereas Pits pretends to set down in the said book or tome only English Writers he hath mix'd among them some that are out landish among which are these Herbertus Losinga num 182. born as he saith in Suffolke but false for the MS. which I follow in my marginal notes and additions of and to the Bishops of Norwich mentioned by Franc. Bishop of Landaff in his book De Praesulibus Angliae Commentarius saith that he was born in Pago Oxinnensi or Oximensi in Normannia Jo. Erigena nu 133. said by him and many others to be born in the City of S. David in Wales but the generality say in Ireland c. At the end of the book of illustrious Writers our author Pits hath Appendix illustrium scriptorum trecentorum octoginta circiter ordine alphabetico per centurias continens Made up mostly from Bale and partly from Dr. Tho. James his Ecloga before-mentioned But therein are many authors put which are before in the work it self De script illust Angliae as 1 Godfridus Historicus cent 2. num 94. p. 844. is the same with Godfridus Arturius or de Monmouth in the body of the work nu 212. 2 Gualt Cepton cent 2. nu 4. p. 846. the same with Walter Catton in the body nu 550. 3 Guliel Califord cent 2. nu 18. p. 851. is the same with Gul. Cockisford nu 653. 4 Guliel de Dunclmo cent 2. nu 27. is the same with Gul. Shirwood in the body of the work nu 348. 5 Gul. Worcestrius c. 2. nu 53. the same with Gul. Buttonerus in the work it self nu 848. p. 648. 6 Joh. Anglicus cent 2. nu 78. seems to be the same with Joh. Hoveden nu 396. P. 356. 7 Joh. de Alton cent 2. nu 94. seems to be the same with Joh. Acton nu 416. p. 372. 8 Joh. Yorcus cent 3. nu 10. is the same with Joh. Eboracensis in the same Appendix p. 874. nu 1. 9 Joh. Vton cent 3. nu 35. is the same with Joh. Stone in the body of the work nu 862. p. 657. 10 Rich. de Montibus cent 3. nu 80. seems to be the same with Will. de Montibus nu 302. p. 285. 11 Rich. Ruys c. 3. nu 92. the same with Rich. Rufus nu 380. p. 348. 12 Rob. Bridlington c. 3. nu 100. the same with Rob. Scriba nu 244. P. 242. 13 Rob. Cestrensis c. 4. nu 2. the same with Rog. Cestrensis nu 514. p. 438. 14 Miserorum Simplissimus c. 3. nu 52. seems to be the same with Joh. Wethamstede nu 818. P. 630. 15 Rob. Dominicanus c. 4. nu 8. the same with Rob. Holcot nu 333. p. 463. 16 Rob. Herefordiensis c. 4. nu 11. the same with Rob. Foliot B. of Hereford nu 236. p. 236. 17 Robertus Prior c. 4. nu 13. is the same with Rob. Canutus nu 234. p. 234. Which R. Canutus also is supposed to be the same with Rich. Greekladensis p. 397. nu 448. and that Rich. to be the same with Rob. Greekladensis mentioned by Leland in vol. 3. collect p. 36. where 't is said that the said Rob. wrote 40 Homilies and a Tract De connubio Jacob which makes me think that the said Robert Prior may be the same with the said Rob. Greeklade and the same R. Greeklade to be the same with
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
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.
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
Probationer-Fellow of Merton College in 1536 he being then Masters standing or more and three years after proceeded in Arts. About that time he became a shagling Lecturer in Philosophy before the University in the publick Schools a profound Disputant in Philosophical matters and homo semper nimium Metaphysicus as one doth deservedly stile him He was the chief man that disputed with Bishop Rydley in the Divinity School an 1554. as I have elsewhere told you And Joh. Fox who hath a full relation of the said disputation saith of this our Author thus Mr. Ward amplified so largely his words and so high he climed into the Heavens with Duns his Ladder and not with the Scriptures that it is to be marvelled how he could come down again without falling c. But what Fox hath ironically said concerning this matter is fully answered by one of Wards perswasion As for the works that this our Author hath written I never saw any and therefore cannot give you the titles only say with our old and later Catalogue or Register of Fellows of Merton Coll. that he wrot Dialectica Philosophica quaedam c. Joh. Fo◠before-mention'd hath published His disputation with B. Nich. Rydley in the Divinity-School at Oxon. Which you may see in the Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church under the Year 1554. A little before Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown Mr. Warde who seems to have been then Bach. of Div. travelled to Rome where paying his last debt to nature on the 14. Oct. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 was there buried but in what Church or Chappel I know not Whereupon the report of it coming to Oxon his exequies were celebrated by the Society of Merton College 17. Novemb. following according to our accompt Of the same Family tho remote was Will. Warde alias Walker alias Slaughter Son of Mr. Rob. Warde of the County of Cumberland who having spent 7 years in studying the Arts in Brasnose Coll. travelled into Spayne with one Mr. Dutton a R. Cath. and there became one of his opinion Afterwards he returned into England to settle his concerns went beyond Sea again and upon a Commission received he returned into his own Country a second time to convert Persons to his profession but being taken after he had been a Priest 24 years was imprison'd in Newgate Soon after being tried for his life he was executed at Tybourne on Munday 26. July 1641. JOHN HOLYMAN a most stout Champion of his time in his Preachings and Writings against the Lutherans was born at Codyngton near to Hadenham in Buckinghamshire educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1512 took a Degree in the Canon Law afterwards that of M. of A. left the Coll. about 1526. being then Bach. of Divinity and beneficed But being desirous of the conversation of learned Men and Books entred himself in the condition of a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. where he continued for some time At length he became a Monk of St. Maries Abbey at Reading in Berks and in 1530 proceeded in Divinity at which time Hugh Abbat of the said Monastery wrot to the University in Epistle wherein our Author is thus charactarized Dominus Holymannus non vitâ minus quà m eruditione Theologus insignis Londini nuper è suggesto Paulino cencionatus est tam frequenti hominum conventu tantâ admiratione tam magnâ apud omnes gratiâ ut jamdudum nemo qui christum sincerè praedicat majorem ab illo populo vel laudem vel amorem consequutus est c. The said Epistle was written as I have elsewhere told you in the Year 1530. to the end that the University would be pleased to dispense with him from Preaching at Oxon for the Degree of D. of Divinity and that instead thereof he might Preach at London upon pretence that the City was much polluted with Luther's Doctrine In 1535 he was ejected from his Abbey because of the dissolution thereof for a profane use and lived afterwards partly at Hanborough near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire of which place he seems to have been Rector and partly in Exeter Coll. in 1554 he was promoted to the See of Bristow upon the deprivation of Paul Bush the first Bishop thereof the Temporalities of which See being given to him 28. Nov. the same Year sate there to the time of his death in good repute He hath written Tract contra doctrinam M. Lutheri Defensio matrimonii Reginae Catherinae cum Rege Henrico octavo lib. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen This Person who was a most zealous Catholick gave way to fate either in or near to Oxon much about the time when his Predicessor P. Bush died and was according to his will as I presume buried in the Chancel of the Church of Hanborough before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 Mr. Alexand. Belsire sometimes Fellow of New College afterwards the first President of that of St. John Bapt. who was his great Friend and Overseer of his last Will was buried near to him in 1567 being while living seldom from him The said Bishop Holyman in his last Will and Testament dated 4 June 1558 and proved 16. Feb. following did give to the College near to Winchester the works of St. Augustine St. Jerome St. Cyprian St. Cecill Tertullian Ireneus c. Which afterwards were chained in the Library there RICHARD TURNER a Staffordshire Man born was educated in Magd. College of which house he became afterwards Fellow and esteemed in the University especially by the reformed party a right godly and learned Man and a good Preacher Afterwards he belonged to the Church at Windsore where he helped Jo. Merbeck in making the Concordance of the Bible But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he fled beyond Seas and setling at Basil in Germany was a frequent Preacher among the English exiles for whose sake he composed An Exposition on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians Hebrews Expos on the Gen. Epist of St. James These expositions which were read at Basil were fit for the Press in 1558 but whether they were ever afterwards Printed I know not In the said Year Baleus tells us that he was living at Basil and Joh. Fox doth further inform us that he died in Exile So I presume that he concluded his last day between the beginning of Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 and the Month of Novemb. the same year in which Month Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown of England and soon after the exiles return'd to their Country REYNOLD POLE whose piety learning and integrity of life did make him more illustrious than the splendor of his royal blood was a younger Son of Sir Ric. Pole Knight of the Garter Cosin german to K. Hen. 7. by Margaret his Wife Daughter of George Duke of Clarence younger Brother to K. Ed. 4.
affirmed that her knees were hard with kneeling her justice and clemency in restoring noble houses to her own private loss and hindrance and lastly her grevious and patient death he fell into such an unfeigned weeping that for a long space he could not speak Then recovering himself he said she had left a Sister to succeed her a Lady of great worth also whom they were now bound to obey for saith he melior est canis vivus leone mortuo and I hope so shall Reign well and prosperously over us but I must say still with my Text Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes for certain it is Maria optimam partem elegit Afterwards Qu Elizabeth taking just indignation 〈◊〉 partly for his Sermon and partly for that he was a zealous Man for the R. Catholick cause and an enemy to the reformers of Religion commit him to custody and for threatning as 't is said to excommunicate her as Watson Bishop of Lincoln did was deprived of his Bishoprick for which he paid yearly 1000 l. to Cardinal Pole to keep up his state and dignity His works are Diacosio Martyrion i. e. ducentorum virorum testimonia de veritate corporis sanguinis Christi in Eucharistiâ ante triennium adversus Petr. Martyrem ex professo conscriptum sed nunc primum in lucem editum Lond. 1553. qu. in Lat. verse Epistola Petro Martyri This is printed with the former Book and treateth mostly of Martyrs disputation at Oxon. in K. Edwards days and is in vindication of Dr. Rich. Smith who disputed with and baffled him Epigrammatum lib. 1. Carmina in Matrimon Philippi Regis cum Maria Regina Angliae Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Qu. Mary 13. Dec. 1558. on Eccles 4. 2. MS. in the Libr. sometimes of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultrey-Compter You 'll find also several of his discourses in the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. published by Joh. Fox and also his discourse with Bishop Rydley at Oxon 30. Sept. 1555 when he was about to be burnt exhorting him to return from his Heresie as he then term'd it See also in Rob. Persons his animadversions on that discourse in The third part of a treatise intit Of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604. Chap. 14. p. 209. At length our Author Jo. Whyte being deprived of his Bishoprick in June 1559. he retired to his Sisters house at Southwarnborow in Hampshire where spending the little remainder of his days in great sanctity and recluseness gave way to fate on the eleventh day of January following Whereupon his body was soon after carried to Winchester and buried in the Cathedral there according to his will which partly runs thus My desire is to be buried in that my Cathedral of Winchester ut in novissima die resurgam cum patribus filiis quorum fidem teneo c. While he was Warden of the Coll. near Winchester and dream'd not in the least to be removed thence to a Bishoprick he provided a Tomb stone for himself to be laid on the ground in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. with intentions to be buried under it by the care of his Heir and Executor whensoever it should please God to call him out of this transitory life and caused to be engraven twenty long and short verses of his own composition under his picture engraven on a brass plate and fastned to the said stone The two first are these Hic tegor hic post fata Whitus propono jacere Scriptor Johannis carminis ipse mei But being afterwards contrary to all expectation promoted successively to two Bishopricks by Qu. Mary his mind was altered as I have before told you He gave to Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester his Miter and Crosier staff a silver tankard guilt a bason and eure of silver a Turkey-carpet and other choice goods and some years before his death he was a Benefactor to New Coll. as you may see in Hist Antiq. Univers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. b. JAMES BROKES another most zealous Bishop for the Rom. Catholick cause was born in Hampshire in the Month of May 1512 admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 1528 and Fellow in Jan. 1531 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he applyed his studies to Divinity took the degrees in that faculty that of Doctor being compleated 1546. The next Year he was made Master of Balliol Coll. and at length by Qu. Mary Bishop of Glocester to which See being elected after the deprivation of Joh. Hoper had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 8. May 1554 and in the Year following he was delegated by the Pope for the examining and trying of Cranmer Rydley and Latimer when they stood up for and were ready to dye in defence of the Protestant Religion He was a Person very learned in the time he lived an eloquent Preacher and a zealous maintainer of the R. C. Religion as well in his Sermons as Writings Some of which are published as Sermon at Pauls Cross in the first Year of Qu. Mary on Matth. 9. 18. Lond. 1553. 54 oct Oration in S. Maries Church in Oxon 12. March 1555 to Thom. Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury The beginning is My Lord at this present we are come to you as commissioners c. Oration in closing up the examination of Th. Cranmer Archbishop of Cant. The beg is Mr. Cranmer I cannot otherwise considering your obstinacy I am right sorry c. These two Orations are printed by John Fox in his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. wherein you 'll find some of his discourses with Rydley after they had been published by themselves What else is extant under his name I know not nor anything of him besides only that he dying in the beginning of Feb. about Candlemass in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine which was the second year of Qu. Elizabeth was buried in a stone Coffin in his Cathedral Church at Glocester but hath no memory over his Grave ROGER EDGEWORTH another zealot and a frequent Preacher against Protestants called in his time Hereticks was born at Holt castle within the Marches of Wales became a student in Oxon about 1503 took a degree in Arts in 1507 and the Year after was elected Fellow of Orâ—el College to which place he was a benefactor at the time of his death Afterwards proceeding in the said faculty he took holy orders and became a noted Preacher in the University and elsewhere In 1519 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and afterwards became very well dignified as Canon of Salisbury Well and Bristow being then D. of D Residentiary of the Cathedral of Wells and Chancellour of the same Church The last of which dignities was conferr'd on him 30. Apr. 1554 upon the deprivation of Joh. Tayler alias Cardmaker Besides all these he was Vicar also of St. Cuthberts Church in Wells to which he was admitted
3. Oct. 1543 upon the death of Joh. Southwode LL. D. When King Hen. 8. had extirpated the Popes power he seemed to be very moderate and also in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. but when Qu. Mary succeeded he shew'd himself a most zealous Person for the Roman Catholick Religion and a great enemy to Luther and Reformers His works are Sermons fruitful godly and learned Lond. 1557. qu. containing 1 A declaration of the seven gifts of the holy ghost 2 A Homely of the articles of Christian Faith 3 Homely of Ceremonies and of mans Laws 4 A perfect exposition of St. Peters first Epistle in XX treatises or Sermons What other things he hath published I cannot yet find neither should I have known any thing of the said Fruitful Sermons had I not accidentally seen them in that choice collection of Books in Balliol Coll. Library given thereunto by the no less curious than learned Sir Thom. Wendy Knight of the Bath sometimes Gentleman-commoner of the said House This Dr. Edgeworth took his last farewell of this World in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred and sixty year 1560 and was directly buried before the choire door in the Cathedral Church at Wells Whereupon Dr. Gilbert Bourne Bishop of that place did present or collate to the said Chancellourship of the Church of Wells one Gilbert Bournford Bachelaur of Divinity on the second day of April in the same Year THOMAS PHAYER was born in Wales particularly as it seems in Pembrokeshire had his Academical education among the Oxonians whom after some years he left and retired to the Inns of Court Lincolns Inn as I conceive where at length he attained to a considerable knowledge in the municipal Laws Afterwards being a Person of a mutable mind he eagerly addicted his Muse to the study of Medicine took the Degrees in that faculty in this University that of Doctor being compleated in an Act celebrated 21. Mar. 1558-9 at which time he was much famed among the Academians for his sufficiencies in the Art of Poetry which afterwards were made publick He hath committed to posterity these Books following of his writing and translation Of the nature of Writts Whether the same with that written by the great Lawyer Anth. Fitzherbert who lived before Phayers time I know not Exemplars of common places for the writing of several sorts of Instruments It is the same which we now call A Book of precedents I have a MS. lying by me written on parchment in the time of H. 6. or Ed. 4. containing Copies of all matters to be used by Lawyers but who the compiler of it was I cannot tell In the beginning of it is written in a pretty ancient character George Hardley A goodly bryefe treatise of the pestylence with the causes signs and cures of the same Lond. 1544. and 46. oct Declaration of the veynes of mans body and to what dyseases and infirmities the opening of every one of them doe serve This is printed with the former Book an 1544. c. A Book of children And this also which treats of the grief and diseases of Children Remedies or prescriptions of Physick for the Body Published by Hen. Holland 1603. whom I shall mention at the end of Hen. Holland under the Year 1625. He also translated from French into English The regiment of Life Lond. 1544. and 46. oct and from Lat. into English Nine Books of Virgils Aencidos The three first of which were by him finished in the Forest of Kilgarran in Pembrokshire in the Year 1555. The fourth at the same place an 1556. The fifth in 1557 being ended 3. May just after the translator had undergone a great danger at Caâ—rmerden The sixth and seventh were also finished by him in the same Year and in the same place The eighth there also in Kilgarran forest an 1558. The ninth was ended 3. Apr. 1560. The tenth was begun by him in the said Year but died as it seems before he could go through it Afterwards a young Physician named Tho. Twyne meeting with the aforesaid translations in MS. he finished the said tenth Aeneid 23. May an 1573. Which being done he translated the eleventh twelfth and thirteenth Aeneidos and published them altogether an 1584. as I shall tell you elsewhere As for Dr. Phaer he ended his days at Kilgarran before-mentioned after the 12. of Aug. on which day his last will and testament was dated in Fifteen hundred and sixty year 1560 and was buried in the Parish Church of that place Over his grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid with an Epitaph engraven thereon made and devised by his good friend Mr. George Ferrers of Lincolns -Inn but what the contents of it are I know not nor of any other Epitaph made for him only that by Sir Thom. Chaloner a most noted Latine Poet of his time who having been well acquainted with the Doctor doth in a pathetical manner highly commend him for his learning and great skill in Physick He the said Doctor left behind him a Widow named Anne and two Daughters Eleanor the Wife of Gruffith ap Eynon and Mary THOMAS ROBERTSON was a Yorkshire Man born either at or near Wakefeild was originally I think of Queens afterwards Demie or Semicommoner of Magdalen College Master of the School joyning to it in the place of Joh. Stanbridge Master of Arts 1525 at which time he was a great Oppugner and Vilifier of the Questionists in the University and at length Fellow of the said House In 1539 he being about that time Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Rich. Sampson supplicated the venerab congreg of the Regents to be admitted to the reading of the Sentences being then esteemed Flos decus Oxonii but whether he was admitted it appears not and in 1540 he by the favour of Longland Bishop of Lincolne was made Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Will. More Suffragan Bishop of Colchester deceased in which dignity being installed 5. March the same Year enjoyed it to 1560. as I shall anon tell you In 1546. Jun. 3. he was instituted Vicar of Wakefield before-mention'd on the death of Dr. Tho. Knolles by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Chambre M. D. Dean and the convent of the Kings Chappel of the Virgin Mary and St. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster Whereupon in the beginning of 1548. he gave up the Treasurership of Salibury in which Dignity Thom. Stevens succeeded 28. May the same Year He the said Robertson was an exact Grammarian and Humanitian and went as 't was thought beyond his two Predecessors in Magd. College School in the education of Youth In 1532 he Printed a Comment on the rules which Will. Lilye wrot in verse and added thereunto Quae Genus and the versifying rules dedicating it to Bishop Longland before mention'd with reference to Henley School which some think was founded or at least inlarged by Longland From whose pains I mean of Robertson and also the
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
and quartered at Tyburn 1. year 1581 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one At the same time suffered Edm. Campian before-mentioned who was much pittied by all learned Men especially by his contemporaries in Oxon as Sherwyn was who had been very often a companion with Campian in his travels Alex. Briant also whom I am now about to mention did suffer at the same time and tho not so much commiserated by Scholars yet by many others because he was as the character went on both sides juvenis pulcherrimus vultu innocens prope angelico c. Contemporary with Ralph Sherwyn was one Martin Ayray who after he had left this University was one of the first that was brought up in the English Coll. at Rome and was companion there with the said Sherwyn Afterwards he became a good workman in England and of great edification for divers years as those of his opinion say both before he was taken and afterwards in Prison He was living in 1602 which was the last year of Qu. Elizab. at which time he was Provost of the English Church and residence of St. George in St. Lucar of Spain ALEXANDER BRIANT received his first breath in Somersetshire was admitted a Student of Hart hall about Lent-term in 1573-74 aged 17 or more where being trained up under a tutor sufficiently addicted to Popery left the University and went to Rheimes and afterwards to Doway At the last of which places taking the Priesthood on him he returned into his own Country an 1579. and settling for a time in Somersetshire converted the Father of Rob. Persons the Jusuit to the R. Cath. Religion On the 28. Apr. 1581 he was taken in the night time in his Lodging by one Norton who took away 3 l. in money from him besides cloathes and conducting him to a Magistrate was after examination committed close Prisoner to the Compter in London where enduring great misery till the morrow after the Ascension was removed to the Tower of London and there as 't is reported he was tormented with needles thrust under his nayles racked also otherwise in cruel sort and specially punished by two whole days and nights with famine which they did attribute to obstinacy but indeed sustained in Christs quarrel it was most honorable constancy While he was in Prison he wrot Literae ad reverendos patres societatis Jesu in Anglia degentes The beginning of which is Quoties mecum cogito reverendi patres c. They were written purposely that they would be pleased to receive him into the Order of Jesus before he died which accordingly they did to his great comfort Several Letters to his friends and afflicted Catholicks Whether extant I know not At length being found guilty of high treason at a Sessions in London he was hang'd drawn and quartered at Tyburn on the first day of Dec. year 1581 in Fifteen hundred eighty and one whereupon his quarters were hanged up for a time in publick places He had for his Tutor in Hart hall after he had continued there for some time one Rich. Holtbie born at Fraiton in Yorkshire educated for a time in Cambridge and afterwards going to Oxon settled in the said hall an 1574 aged 21. and more but departing without any Degree in this University he went beyond the Seas to Doway then to Rheimes and other places became a noted Jesuit and spun out his time to a fair age The reader is now to know that during the principality of Philip Rondell of Hart hall who had weathered out several changes of Religion tho in his heart he was a Papist but durst not shew it many Persons who were afterwards noted in the Rom. Church were educated under him but they having not exercised their pens upon any subject that I can yet find I can claim no pretence to set them down among such writers that that ancient house of learning hath sent into the learned world JAMES DYER second Son of Rich. Dyer of Wymaulton in Somersetshire Esq by his Wife the Dau. of one Waiton of the said County was born as I conceive at Wymaulton but in what house he was educated in Oxon for he was a Commoner for some time there it appears not notwithstanding tradition tells us in Broadgates hall From thence without the honor of a Degree he went to the Middle Temple where making great proficiency in the municipal Laws was after he had continued for some time in the Degree of Barrester elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that house 6. Ed. 6. and about the same time was by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law In the Reign of Qu. Marie he was made a Justice of the Common pleas being about that time a Knight and Recorder of Cambridge and in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth Lord Chief Justice of that Court in the place of Sir Anth Browne and not Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings-bench as one doth falsly report As for his writings which shew him a great and eminent Sage of the Law and a Person of great abilities are these Reports or a collection of Cases with divers resolutions and judgments given upon solemne arguments c. and the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments in the Reigns of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Phil. and Mary and Qu. Eliz. Lond. 1601. 1621. c. fol. Abridged by Sir Tho. Ireland of Greys-Inn the same Person who abridged the Eleven Books of Reports of Sir Edw. Coke and by another with a table made to them printed by Rich. Tothill Learned reading upon the useful statute of 32. Hen. 8. chap. 1. of Wills and of 34 and 35. Hen. 8. chap. 5. for the explanation of that statute Lond. 1648. qu. At length this great Lawyer having arrived to a good old age paid his last debt to nature at Stowton in Hunting donshire where he had purchased an estate on the 24. March in Fifteen hundred eighty and one whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Much Stowton in the said County near to that of his Wife on the 9 day of Apr. 1582. His said Wife was named Margaret Dau. of Sir Maurice Abarrow of Hampshire Knight Widow of Sir Tho. Eliot of Carleton in Cambridgeshire by whom she had 3 Sons but all died without issue which Margaret died 25. Aug. 1569 but having had no Children by Sir James went after his death to Richard Son of his Brother Laurence Dyer whose posterity are at this time Baronets in Somersetshire RICHARD BRISTOW another most zealous Person for the R. Cath. cause was born of honest Parents within the City of Worcester educated in Grammar learning under one Rog. Golbourne M. A. the same I think who was a Reader in St. Bernards Coll. in the Year 1540 saluted the Oxonian Muses in 1555 but whether he was then entred into Exeter Coll. I know not One Bristow I find to be Chaplain of Ch. Ch. in 1549. 50. and 51. but him
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
the year 1594. Treatise wherein is manifestly proved that Reformation and those that sincerely favour the same are unjustly charged to be Enemies unto her Majesty and the State Printed 1590. in qu. This was answered in a Book intit Pasquils Apology the first part wherein he renders a reason of his long silence and gallops the Field with the Treatise of Reformation Printed where I was and where I shall be ready by the help of God and my Muse to send you a may-game of Martinism An. 1590. qu. Hay ' any work for a Cooper c. This was written against Dr. Tho. Coper before-mentioned and said to be printed in Europe not far from some of the bouncing Priests An. 1590. qu. Epitomy of the first Book of Dr. John Bridges against the Puritans Printed in qu. Oh! read over Dr. Joh. Bridges for it is a worthy Work This was written against Dr. Bridges Bishop of Oxon and said to be printed over Sea in Europe within two furlongs of a bouncing Priest at the cost and charges of Mart. Marprelate Gent. in qu. Epistles to the terrible Priests in the Convocation House in qu. The State of the Church of England in oct Petition for Peace in oct His Apology This I have not yet seen Of Prelatick Ministry Printed 1609. in qu. History of Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16. Ch. Applied to the Prelacy Ministry and Church Assemblies of England Printed 16. 9. qu. This Book being left imperfect by the Author when he was seized and imprisoned was published by one of his 〈◊〉 who saith in the Title that it was written by Joh. 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 of Jesus Christ and in the Epistle to the Reader 〈…〉 was a godly Man learned zealous and of a 〈…〉 carriage and courage That with all 〈…〉 he endeavoured to have the Gospel preached 〈◊〉 among his poor Country Men whose Case he 〈…〉 passion of in that they wanted the 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 After all this God using him as a 〈…〉 more clear manifestation of 〈…〉 imprisioned condemned and excuted and so 〈…〉 dom for the Name of Christ c. These 〈…〉 Titles I have here set down are all 〈…〉 knowledge if not too many 〈…〉 Author of which did in most of them 〈…〉 of England and its Members that 〈…〉 Roman 〈…〉 of them in their Books and Marprelate for a grave Author and Witness c. But this the Reader is to understand that the learned and sober Men did answer most or all of the said Books which were printed by stealth partly in that nest of rigid Puritans and Schismaticks at Fawsly in Northamptonshire and partly at Coventry and elsewhere because they knew Penry to have more than ordinary Learning in him yet they did not so much work on the Author and his Disciples make them ridiculous and put him and them to silence more than those Answers which were written in a buffooning stile as 1 that written by Tom Nash intit Pappe with an hatchet alias A Fig for my God-Son Or Crack me this Nut Or A Country Cuff that is A sound Box of the Ear for the Ideot Martin to hold his Peace Written by one that dares call a Dog a Dog Imprinted by John Ancke c. And are to be sold at the Sign of the Crab-tree Cudgel in Thwack-coat-Lane 2 That entit Martin's months mind c. pr. 1589. in qu. 3 That called The return of the renowned Cavaliero Pasquill of England from the other side of the Seas and his meeting with Marforius at London upon the Royal Exchange c. Lond. 1589. qu. against Martin and Martinism 4 Another entit A countercuff given to Martin Junior c. by the Pasquill of Engl. Cavaliero c. Lond. 1589. qu. 5 That entit The first part of Pasquill's Apology which I have before mention'd 6 A certain Oxford Scholar under the Name of Cuthbert Curry-Knave who in his Book called An Almond for a Parrot or an Alms for Mart. Marprelate c. Printed in qu. doth most egregiously run Martin down I say that these Buffoonries and Pasquils did more non-plus Penry and his Disciples and so consequently made their Doctrine more ridiculous among the common sort than any grave or learned Answer could do as in some part did A. L. who entitles himself Anti-Martinus in his Monitio ad adolescentes utriusque Academia Lond. 1589. qu. At length our Author Penry being apprehended at Stepney near to London after his return from beyond the Sea for his writing and publishing infamous Books and Libels and the Religion then established was after condemnation rto die for the same hang'd at St. Thomas à Waterings on the 29. year 1593 May in fifteen hundred ninety and three He was adjudged at the King's Bench by Sir Jo. Popham Knight L. Ch. Justice of that Court and the rest of the Judges there assembled on the 25. of the said Month of May but was not executed on the next day after judgment as it was expected nor the second nor the third day after But when Men looked least for the same as one saith then was he brought forth being at dinner as I have heard by a Warrant under the Hands of John Archbishop of Canterbury Sir John Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Sir John Popham aforesaid and the matter being carried after a close manner he was suddenly conveyed to the place of Execution where he was as hastily bereaved of his Life and not suffered though he desired it to make declaration of his Faith towards God or of his Allegiance to her Majesty c. Thus by the Death of this forward and zealous Person with the condemnation of John Vdal and Henry Barrow before that time the neck of the Plots of the fiery Non-conformists were broken and their brags turned into Preaching of Preces and Lachrymae as the only means for Christian Subjects WILLIAM FLEETWOOD was born of being a natural Son and descended from the Fleet woods of Penwortham and they from those of Heskyn in Lancashire educated for a time in this University either in Brasnose Coll. or Broadgates Hall left it without a degree and retired to the Middle Temple where by continual industry advanced by good natural parts he attained to the name of an eminent Lawyer In 5 of Eliz. he was elected Autumn or Summer-Reader of that house and in the year following Autumn-Reader again but he omitting one of those times to read he was in the 11th year of the said Queen elected Double Reader thereof in Lent About that time being made Recorder of London he was afterwards by Writ called to the degree of Serjeant at Law An. 1580. and in 1592. he was made the Queen's Serjeant He was a learned Man and a good Antiquary but a marvelous merry and pleasant conceit And as touching his Learning Justice and Elocution I cannot better describe them than a Poet of those days hath done in certain Verses beginning thus Ipse forem brevibus gyaris
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
was married to John Marston of the City of Coventry Gentleman Which John dying 25 June 1634. was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples in London near to the body of John Marston his Father sometimes a Councellour of the Middle Temple JEREMY CORDEROY a Gentlemans son of Wiltshire of the same family with those of Chute in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans-hall in 1577. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts studied Divinity many years and being a frequent preacher in Oxon was made one of the Chaplains of Merton coll in 1590 at which time and during his stay in Oxon which was at least 13 years after his life and conversation was without exception He hath written A short dialogue wherein is proved that no man can be saved without good works Oxon. 1604. in tw sec edit The dialogue is between a Gallant and a Scholar He wrote another book also intit A warning for worldlings or a comfort to the godly and a terror to the wicked in a dialogue between a Scholar and Traveller Lond. 1608. in tw At which time tho the author was a deserving person yet he was not preferr'd to a living and whether he was afterwards he being scrupulous of taking one I know not nor of any other books that he hath published BARNABE BARNES a younger son of Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham was a Yorkshire-man born and at about 17. years of age 1586. became a student in Brasn coll but left the University without a degree and what became of him afterwards I know not His works are these A divine Century of spiritual Sonnets Lond. 1595. dedicated to Tob. Matthews B. of Durham Four books of Offices enabling private persons for the special service of all good Princes and policies Lond. 1606. Fol. The Devils charter a Trag. containing the life and death of P. Alex. 6. Lond. 1607. oct One Barnabe Barnes of the City of Coventry died in the time of the civil War about 1644. leaving behind him a widdow named Margery but what relation there was between this and the former Barnabe or whether the same I cannot tell WILLIAM OVERTON one of the prime preachers in the reign of Q. Elizabeth was born in London became Demy or Semicommoner of Magd. coll 25. Jul. 1539. aged 15 Perpetual-fellow in 1551. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy orders left the coll and absented himself during the reign of Qu. Mary In 1565 he took the degrees in Divinity being then well beneficed and dignifi'd and in 1579. was made Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry where he was much commended for his hospitality to the poor and the good reparation he kept of his house which a married Bishop as he was seldom did or doth He hath published Sermon against discord on Rom. 16. vers 17. Lond. in oct Oratio doctiss graviss habita in domo capitulari Lichfield ad Praebendarios reliquum clerum in visitatione Ecclesiae suae cathedralis congregatum an 1600. Lond. 1600. He died in a good old age in the beginning of April in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 and was buried in the Church of Eccleshall in Staffordshire near to the bodies of his two Wives In the See of Lichfield succeeded Dr. Rob. Abbot as I shall tell you elsewhere EDWARD STRADLING son of Sir Tho. Stradling Knight by Cath. his Wife Daughter of Sir Tho Gamage of Coyty Knight was born of and lineally descended from an antient and Knightly family of his name living at S. Donates castle in Glamorganshire educated in several sorts of learning in this University but before he took a degree he left it travelled into various Countries spent some time at Rome returned an accomplished Gentleman and retiring to his Patrimony which was large did build a firm structure upon that foundation of literature that he had laid here and elsewhere In 1575. or the year after he received the Honour of Knighthood was made a Justice of Peace became a very useful Man in his Country and was at the charge of such Herculean works for the publick good that no Man in his time went beyond him But above all he is to be remembred for his singular knowledge in the British Language and Antiquities for his eminent encouragement of learning and learned Men and for his great expence and indefatigable industry in collecting together several Monuments and ancient Manuscripts of Learning and Antiquity All which with other books were reduced into a well ordered Library at St. Donates to the great credit and renown of that place and his Family He hath written A Welsh Grammar When or where printed I know not Of which book written mostly in Latin one of his Country-men gives this character Hae institutiones Grammaticae adeò concinnè sunt compositae omnibus suis numeris absolutae ut nec eis addi quicquam nec ab eis demi meo judicio quicquam poterit nisi secundam hujus operis author in posterume editionem maturet He hath also written The winning of the Lordship of Glamorgan or Morgannwe out of the Welsh-mens hands c. Of which book you may see more in The History of Cambria now called Wales c. Printed 1584. p. 122. and 141. This learned and worthy person hath written other things but such I have not yet seen nor can I say more him only that he paid his last debt to nature in the Summer time in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 aged 80. or more and was buried in a Chappel built by his Father dedicated to the Virgin Mary joyning to the Parish Church of St. Donate between the bodies of his Great-Grandfather and Grandmother on the North side and the body of his Father on the South side He died without Male Issue whereupon the Estate went to his next Kinsman Sir John Stradling Knight who was soon after made a Baronet From whom was descended Sir Edw. Stradling Baronet a Colonel in the Army of K. Ch. 1. buried in Jesus coll Chappel 21. June 1644. MICHAEL RENNIGER commonly called Rhanger received his first being in this World in Hampshire became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll in 1547. afterwards Master of Arts and a Preacher in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. being then esteemed by those that knew him a person truly pious and of singular erudition But when Q. Mary came to the Crown he with others of the said coll voluntarily left the Land for Religion sake and lived mostly at Strasburg in Germany After her death he returned was made one of the Chaplains to Q. Elizabeth became a zealous assertor of the Protestant Religion but refusing considerable preferments that were then offered to him he accepted only of a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester for the present as also the Rectory of Crawley near to the said City In the year 1573. he took the degrees in Divinity and in 75. was upon the resignation of Dr. Joh. Ebden
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
Vision of the twelve Goddesses presented in a Mask c. Lond. 1604. oct and 1623. qu. Some copies have it The wisdom of the 12 Goddesses in a Mask at Hampton-Court 8. Jan. Panegyrick congratulatory delivered to K. James at Burleigh-Harrington in Rutlandshire Lond. 1604. and 23. qu. Epistles to various great Personages in verse Lond. 1601. and 23. qu. Musophilus containing a general defence of learning Printed with the former Tragedy of Philotas Lond. 1611. c. oct Hymens Triumph A pastoral Trag. Com. presented at the Queens Court in the Strand at her Maj. magnificent entertainment of the Kings Maj. being at the Nuptials of the Lord Roxborough Lond. 1623. qu. second edit Muso or a defence of Ryme Lond. 1611. oct The Epistle of Octavia to M. Antonius Lond. 1611. oct The first part of the History of England in 3 books Lond. 1613. qu. reaching to the end of King Stephen in Prose To which afterwards he added a second part reaching to the end of K. Ed. 3. Lond. 1618. 21. 23. and 1634. fol. continued to the end of K. Rich. 3. by Joh. Trussel sometimes a Winchester Scholar afterwards a Trader and Alderman of that City Lond. 1638. fol. c. Which Trussel did continue in writing a certain old MS. belonging to the Bishops of Winton containing as it were an History of the Bishops and Bishoprick which continuation was made by him to Bishop Curles time He also wrote A description of the City of Winchester with an historical relation of divers memorable occurrences touching the same fol. Also a Preamble to the same Of the Origen of Cities in general MS. Sam. Daniel also wrote The Queens Arcadia A pastoral Trag-Com presented to her Majesty and her Ladies by the University of Oxon in Christ Church in Aug. an 1605. Lond. 1623. qu. Funeral Poem on the death of the Earl of Devon Lond. 1623. qu. Towards the end of our authors life he retired to a Country-Farm which he had at Beckington near to Philips-Norton in Sommersetshire at or near to which place he was born where after he had injoyed the Muses and religious Contemplation for some time with very great delight year 1619 surrendred up his Soul to him that gave it in sixteen hundred and nineteen and was buried in the Church of Beckington before-mentioned On the wall over his grave was this inscription afterwards put Here lies expecting the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the dead body of Samuel Daniel Esq that excellent Poet and Historian who was Tutor to the Lady Anne Clifford in her youth she that was Daughter and Heir to George Clifford Earl of Cumberland who in gratitude to him erected this monument in his memory a long time after when she was Countess Dowager of Pembroke Dorset and Montgomery He died in Octob. an 1619. By the way it must be noted that this Anne Countess of Pembroke was the same person who lived like a Princess for many years after in Westmorland was a great lover and encourager of learning and learned men hospitable charitable to the poor and of a most generous and publick temper She died 22. Mar. 1675. aged 86. or thereabouts and was buried under a splendid monument which she in her life-time had erected in the Church of Appleby in Westmorland It must be also farther noted that there was one Sam. Daniel Master of Arts who published a book intit Archiepiscopal Priority instituted by Christ Printed an 1642. and another if I am not mistaken called The Birth Life and Death of the Jewish Vnction But whether he was of the University of Oxon I cannot yet find JOHN PANKE was a very frequent and noted Preacher of his time and well read in Theological authors but withal a very zealous Enemy in his Writings and Preachments against the Papists but in what College or Hall educated I cannot as yet find After he had left the University he became Minister of Broadhinton afterwards of Tidworth in Wilts and at length had some Cure in the Church of Salisbury His works are Short Admonition by way of Dialogue to all those who hitherto upon pretence of their unworthiness have dangerously in respect of their Salvation withdrawn themselves from coming to the Lords Table c. Oxon. 1604. oct The fall of Babell by the confusion of tongues directly proving against the Papists of this and former ages that a view of their writings and books being taken it cannot be discerned by any Man living what they would say or how be understood in the question of the Sacrifice of the Mâ—ss the Real Pressence or Trâ—â—substantiation c. Oxon. 16â—8 qu. Dedicated to the Heads of Colleges and Scholars of the University of Oxou. Collectancae out of S. Gregory the Great and S. Bernard the Devout against the Papists 〈…〉 the Doctrine of the present 〈…〉 most fundamental points between them and us Oxon. 1618. oct With other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen not do I know any thing else of the author DERMITIUS MEARA or de Meara who was born at Ormond in Ireland whence being sent to this University continued there in Philosophical studies several years but whether in Vniv. coll Glouc. or Hart. hall â—eceptacles for Irish-men in his time I know not For tho he writes himself in the first of his books which I shall anon mention lately a Student in the Vniversity of Oxon. yet in all my searches I cannot find him matriculated or that he took a degree Some years after his retirement to his native Country he wrote in Latin verse having been esteemed a good Poet during his conversation among the Oxonians these things following Ormonius sive illustriss herois ac domini D. Thomae Butler Ormoniae Osoriae Comitis Vicecom de Thurles Baronis de Arcklo c. Prosapia laborumque praecipuorum ab eodem pro Patria Principe susceptorum commemoratio heroico carmine conscripta Lond. 1615. oct Epicedion in obitum Tho. Butler Ormoniae Osoriae Comitis c. Anagramaticon Acrosticon Chronologica in eundem Tho. Butler These two last were printed with Ormonius and are dedicated to Walt. Butler Earl of Ormond and Ossâ—â—y Much about the time when these Poetical things were printed the author practiced Physick in his own Country and gained great repute for his happy success therein In that faculty he wrote several books but all that I have seen is only this De morbis haereditariis tractatus Spagyrico-dogmaticus Dubl 1619. oct He was Father to Edm. de Meara an Ormonian born sometimes a Practitioner in Physick in the City of Bristow being the same person who answered Dr. Tho. Willis's book intit Diatribae duae Medico-Philosophicae c. SABIN CHAMBERS a Leicestershire Man born took the degrees in Arts as a Member of Broadgates hall that of Master being compleated 1583. at which time he had the vogue of a good disputant But soon after being dissatisfied in many points
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
in the year of his age 16 or thereabouts being then Pupil to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker who made use of his and the judgment of George Cranmer when he compiled his books of Ecclesiastical Policy In 1579. Jan. 23. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that House being then Bach. of Arts and on the 17. March 1581. he was collated to the Prebendship of Wetwang in the Church of York Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he left his Fellowship travelled into several Countries and at his return grew famous for his learning prudence and vertue In the month of May 1602. he resign'd his Prebendship on the 11. of May 1603. he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by K. Jam. 1. and was afterward by him imployed in several affairs of great trust and moment He was very dexterous in any great employment kept as constant time in all Parliaments as he that held the Chair did and was esteemed an excellent Patriot in all transactions faithful to his Country without any falseness to his Prince But this I must say that being found factious and too daring in the Parliament held 1621. he was with Selden committed to custody to the Sheriff of London 16. June in that year and not delivered thence till the 18. July following Which matter being ill resented by the House of Commons they on the eighth of Nov. following did dispute the matter tumultuously taking it for a great breach of their Privileges that any one of them should be imprison'd At length Secretary G. Calvert protesting before them that neither he or Selden were imprisoned for any Parliamentary matter a stop was thereupon put to the dispute What I find farther of Sir Edwin is that he was Treasurer to the undertakers for the Western Plantations which he effectually advanced that he was a person of great judgment and of a commanding Pen a solid Statesman and as my author saith ingenio gravitate morum insignis Farther also that he was as famous for those matters he published as his Brother George was for his Travels and Poems This worthy Knight Sir Edwin hath written Europae Speculum Or a view or survey of the state of Religion in the Western part of the World Wherein the Roman Religion and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same are notably displayed c. Written by the author at Paris and by him finished 9. Apr. 1599. A copy of which coming into the hands of an unknown person in England an impression of it full of errours stole into the world without the authors name or consent an 1605. besides another the same year or soon after Notwithstanding which the book was esteemed so much by Scholars and thereupon cried up at home for a brave piece of ingenuity that it was forthwith translated into French and printed I think at Paris But as soon as 't was finish'd the printer to his great sorrow received information that it would be called in and suppress'd as it was shortly after whereupon he dispersed most of the copies into remote parts before he did disperse any at home and so was a gainer by his Politicks At length after the author had taken great care that the English impressions should be called in and the Printers punished he caused a true copy thereof to be printed a little before his death anno 1629. From which were printed the impressions of 1632. and 37. at London in quarto and another there in 1673. in oct One copy under the authors hand as 't is said I have seen in Bodlics Library and another in that of Dr. Barlow which I suppose were dispersed to vindicate the author from spurious printed copies that flew abroad I find one Sir Edwin Sandys who paraphrastically turned in English verse Sacred Hymnes consisting of 50 select Psalms of David c. set to be sung in 5 parts by Rob. Taylor Printed at Lond. 1615. in qu. Whether this version was performed by Sir Edwin Sandys before-mentioned or by another of both his names of Latimers in Bucks I know not Our Sir Edwin Sandys author of Europae Speculum died about the beginning of Octob. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine leaving then 1500 l. to the Univ. of Oxon for the endowment of a Metaphysick Lecture and was buried in the Ch. of Nortbourn in Kent where he had a Seat and a fair Estate joyning to it Over his grave is a handsome monument erected but as I have been informed there is no inscription upon it He left behind him at the time of his death at least 5 Sons namely Henry Edwin Richard Robert and Thomas Who all one excepted proved zealous Parliamenteers in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642. The outrages of the Second then called Colonel Edwin Sandys which he made against the Church and the vengeance that followed him for so doing the common prints that in those times fâ—ew abroad do sufficiently testifie He published or rather one for him a Pamphlet intit Col. Sandy's travailes 〈◊〉 Kent which gives an account of the Sacrileges and outtages he had committed for the sake of the Blessed Parliament then sitting and another called His Declaration in vâ—nâ—icatiâ—n of himself from those calumnious aspersions cast upon him by Lucius L. Falâ—land and Secretary Nicholas 11. Oct. 1642. printed at Lond. 17. of the same month Which was followed with another Pamphlet intit A vindication of Câ—l Sandys's Honour and Loyalty from a Declaration pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester 11. Oct. 1642. But whether the said Colonel was educated in Oxon 't is not worth the enquiry nor any thing else of him And therefore I shall only let the Reader know that he died of his wounds which he had received in the Parliaments Cause near to Worcrster from the hands of a French-man called Arnold de L'isle a Captain of a Troop of Horse in Sir Joh. Byron's Regiment for which service he was soon after Knighted whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester in the month of Oct. 1642. I find one Edwyn Sandys an Essex man born and a Knights Son to be entred a Gent. Com. of C. C. coll in 1608. aged 17. But this person must not be taken to be the same with the Colonel who was then but one or two years of age WILLIAM PINKE a Hampshire man born was entred a Commoner in Magd. hall in Mich. Term 1615. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and soon after became Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll Which office he performing with great commendation was elected Fellow of that house in 1628. being then accounted by some a serious person in his studies devout and strict in his conversation and therefore a Puritan by others He had in him a singular dexterity in the Arts a depth of judgment acuteness of wit and great skill in the Hebrew Greek and Arabick languages which made him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reverenced by the Academians He wrote The
beginning of the year 1640. he was chosen a Member of the House of Commons for Newport in the Isle of Wight to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster on the 13. of Apr. the same year and again for the same place for that Parliament that began there also 3. Nov. following In which last he shewed himself a great reformer of divers abuses and a stickler for the Commons against the Kings Prerogative and Bishops But being taken off from those proceedings by being made one of the Secretaries of State he ever after adher'd to his Majesty was with him at York in 1642. and had a hand in most of those Declarations published by his Majesty's special command in all places in England to shew the reason of his intentions and proceedings Afterwards he was a constant follower of his Majesty was with him at Edghill fight and afterwards at Oxon where he discharged his office with a great deal of prudence While he lived and especially after his death he was esteemed by many a Socinian having been as 't is said strengthned in that opinion by Chillingworth and I know not what but one that knew him very well doth tho a zealous Papist clear him from being guilty of any such matter and tells us withal that he was the greatest ornament to our Nation that the last age produced Another also who had been intimate with him saith that he was the envy of this age and will be the wonder of the next that he honoured and served his Creator in the days of his youth that he was not a Candidate of Atheism c. The truth is all that knew the said Lucius L. Falkland were fully possessed with opinions to the contrary and have usually said that he was a sincere Christian that he always led a virtuous life and despised all worldly things in comparison of necessary divine truth that he was a lover of veracity and sincerity and what not for the accomplishment of a religious man As for his parts which speak him better than any Elogy they were incomparable and needed no supplies of industry His answers were quick and sudden and tho he had a great deal of true worth treasured up in him yet he had much of modesty withal So that all these things put together to which more might be added his memory ought to be precious especially with such who have any esteem for virtue heroical fidelity to their Prince or to incomparable learning Among several things of his that are printed are 1 A speech in Parliament concerning Vniformity 2 Sp. concerning ill Counsellours both spoken in 1640. 3 Sp. about Ship-money 5. Dec. 1640. 4 Sp. concerning John Lord Finch lately L. Keeper and the Judges 5 Sp. to the Lords of the upper House after the reading of the Articles against John L. Finch 14. Jan. 1640. 6 Sp. concerning Episcopacy 9. Feb. 1640 the beginning of which is Mr. Speaker he is a great stranger in Israel c. Which Sp. is said by Dr. P. Heylyn to be a bitter Speech against the Bishops upon which account it is much used and quoted by the Presbyterians I have seen another Speech also intit A draught of a Speech concerning Episcopacy found among the L. Falklands papers since his death written with his own hand Oxon. 1644. in 1 sh in qu. The beginning of which is Mr. Speaker whosoever desires this total change c. Also another thing of his intit A discourse concerning Episcopacy Lond. 1660. qu. Published then I presume by one who was not a Friend to Bishops being the same I think that was by Dr. Heylyn taken to be a bitter Speech against them He hath also written A dscourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome several times printed in qu. Whereupon an answer to it being made the Lord came out with a reply All published together by Tho. Triplet sometimes Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards D. of D. and Prebendary of Westminster printed at London 1651. qu. with a dedicatory epistle before them See more in Dr. Hen. Hammond under the year 1660. But before Triplets edition another was put out by Anon. to which J. P. put a Preface to it which is omitted in that of Triplet See more in Hugh Cressy under the year 1674. By this Discourse of infallibility it is apparent that the L. Falkland had framed a judgment touching the R. Cath. Church out of certain Cath. writers who represented it too disadvantagiously and not with such qualifications as the Ch. her self has done He also wrote An answer to a letter of Mr. Walt. Mountague who justifies his change of Religion an 1635. printed at the end of his Discourse of Infalibility an 1651. and A Letter to Mr. Fr. M. an 1636. printed at the end of Five captious questions propounded by a Factor for the Papacy Lond. 1673. qu. As also a Comedy called The marriage night Lond. 1664. qu. At length this learned author being with his Majesty King Ch. 1. at Newbury in Berks. when he was about to fight the Rebels he called for a clean shirt in the morning before the encounter began and being asked the reason for it he answered that if he was slain in the Battle they should not find his body in foul linnen Whereupon his friends endeavouring to disswade him from going into the fight as having no call to it or that he was a military Officer he said he was weary of the times and foresaw much misery to his own Country and did believe he should be out of it before night Into the Battle therefore he did go notwithstanding all perswasions to the contrary and was there slain 20 Sept. 1643. much lamented as a great Parliamentarian saith of all that knew him being a Gentleman of great parts ingenuity and honour courteous and just to all and a passionate promoter of all endeavours of Peace betwixt the King and Parliament Whether the Church of England lost a friend by his death some have doubted Sure it is learning it self had a loss and one of the greatest as many Clergymen have said that ever hapned in that or in the age before His body was conveyed to Oxon and afterwards to Great Tow before mention'd where it was buried in the Church without being carried into his house there Over his grave tho there be not yet any memory extant yet Sir Franc. Wortley of Wortley in Yorkshire Knight and Baronet an admirer of his virtues and learning who stiles him Musarum militumque patronus hath bestowed an Epitaph and an Elegy on him in his book intit Characters and Elegies printed 1646. in qu. His person was little and of no great strength his hair blackish and somewhat flaggy and his eye black and quick He left behind him a most disconsolate Widdow named Letice the Daughter of Sir Rich. Morison of Tooley-Park in Leicestershire Knight the most devout pious and virtuous woman of the time she lived in who dying about
Prof. of Div. of that University 22. Oct. 1617. afterwards made Prebendary of Ely and Parson of Somersham Who in succeeding times proving a high Royallist was removed from his Provostship by order of Parliament 1645. Afterwards he lived retiredly in Cambridge till the time of his death 1651. leaving then behind him the character of a Great Scholar Our author Fitzherbert afterwards wrote and published Of the Oath of Fidelity or Allegiance against the Theological disputations of Rog. Widdrington S. Omer 1614. qu. The Obmutesce of F. T. to the Epphata of Dr. Collins c. Printed 1621. oct with other things which I have not yet seen He surrendred up his Soul to that God that inspired it on the 17. of Aug. according to the accompt followed at Rome year 1640 in sixteen hundred and forty and in that of his age eighty and eight and was buried in the chappel belonging to the English college at Rome He had a Son named Edward living I suppose at the time of his death to whom he dedicated the first part of the Treatise concerning Policy and Religion an 1606. which Edward was a most zealous man for the Rom. Catholick Religion and whether he was a Priest or a Gentleman I know not THOMAS JACKSON the ornament of the University in his time was born at Witton on the River Weer in the Bishoprick of Durham on the day of S. Thomas the Apostle an 1579. became a Student in Queens coll under the tuition of Crakanthorpe in Midsomer Term 1595. was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 24. of March 1596. and Prob. Fellow 10. May 1606. being then M. of A. and had laid the grounds carefully in Arithmetick Grammar Philology Geometry Rhetorick Logick Philosophy Oriental Languages Histories c. with an insight in Heraldry and Hieroglyphicks All which he made use of to serve either as rubbish under the foundation or as Drudges and Day labourers to Theology In 1622. he proceeded D. D. and two years after left his coll for a Benefice in his own Country which the President and Society thereof had then lately confer'd on him But he keeping the said living not long was made Vicar of S. Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tine where he was much followed and admired for his excellent way of Preaching which was then Puritanical At length being elected President of C. C. coll partly with the helps of Neile Bishop of Durham who before had taken him off from his precise way and made him his Chaplain but more by the endeavours of Dr. Laud and also made Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty he left the said Vicaridge and was made Prebendary of Winchester Vicar of Witney in Oxfordshire and Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Joh. Towers promoted to the Episcopal See thereof by the favour of the said Laud an 1638. He was a person furnished with all learned languages Arts and Sciences especially in Metaphysicks which he looked upon as a necessary hand-maid to Divinity He was also profoundly read in the Fathers and was of a wonderful and deep judgment as it appears by his works that are much admired by all persons None wrote more highly concerning the attributes of God and more vigorous in some of his works against the Church of Rome than he I speak it in the presence of God saith one I have not read so hearty vigorous a Champion against Rome amongst our writers of his rank so convincing and demonstrative as Dr. Jackson is I bless God for the confirmation which he hath given me in the Christian Religion against the A. theist Jew and Socinian and in the Protestant against Rome c. In a word he was a man of a blameless life studious humble courteous and very charitable devout towards God and exemplary in private and publick beloved of Laud Archb. of Cant. and blamed by none in any respect but by the restless Presbyterians the chief of whom Will. Prynne who busily concerned himself in all affairs doth give him this character in the name of the Brethren Dr. Jackson of Oxon is a Man of great abilities and of a plausible affable courteous deportment till of late he hath been transported beyond himself with Metaphysical contemplations to his own infamy and his renowned Mothers shame I mean the Vniversity of Oxon who grieves for his defection from whose duggs he never sucked his poysonous doctrines Also that he is as in another place he tells us of civil conversation and learning which made his errours and preferments more dangerous and pernicious and that it was his Arminian errours not his learning or honesty that were the ground of his advancement to his Dignity c. He tells us also in another place that he was convented in the last Parliament yea openly accused in the last Convocation for his heretical Arminian books which have been censured by Mr. Hen. Burton in his Seven Viols and particularly answered by acute and learned Dr. Twisse c. The Parliament that Pryune means was that which sate in 1628. wherein he had like to have been sore shent for certain Tenets I cannot say so far driven by him as by some men since and now they have and are with great applause His works are these The eternal truth of Scriptures and Christian belief thereon wholly depending manifested by its own light Lond. 1613. qu. This is the first book of his Comments on the Creed How far the ministry of men is necessary for planting true Christian Faith and retaining the unity of it planted Lond. 1614. qu. This is the second book of his Com. on the Creed Blasphemous positions of Jesuits and other later Romanists concerning the authority of the Church Lond. 1614. qu. This is the third book of his Com. on the Creed Justifying Faith Or the Faith by which the Just do live A treatise containing a description of the nature properties and conditions of Christian Faith Lond. 1615. and 1631. qu. This is the fourth book of his Com. on the Creed A discovery of misperswasions breeding presumption and hypocrisie and means how Faith may be planted in unbelievers Printed with the former book called Justifying Faith c. Treatise containing the original of unbelief misbelief or misperswasions concerning the verity unity and attributes of the Deity c. Lond. 1625. qu. This is the fifth book of his Com. on the Creed Treatise of the divine Essence and Attributes Lond. 1628 qu. the first part The second part was also printed there in 1629. qu. Which two parts make the sixth book of his Comments on the Creed The first part was dedicated to Will Earl of Pembroke with a plausible Epistle wherein as one saith The author professeth himself an Arminian and Patron of their Tenets And from chap. 8. to the 20. he professedly maintains a mutability in Gods eternal Decrees of Election and Reprobation depending upon the actions and wills of Men Vniversal Grace and Redemption with other Arminian errours This
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.
of Windsore and about that time Preb. of Canterbury He died 1. Nov. 1600. and was buried at Windsore Doct. of Civ Law John Gibbons lately of All 's Coll. now Principal of New Inn was admitted this year but the day or month is not set down He was afterwards a Member of Doctors Commons and died at London in the Parish of St. Faith the Virgin about the beginning of the year 1581. ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Divinity can I find admitted or licensed to proceed this year An. Dom. 1551. An. 5 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicehanc Owen Oglethorpe D. D. President of Magd. Coll. who being several times absent this year Rich. Martiall Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. and John Warner Doct. of Phys of All 's Coll. officiated for him Proct. Will. Martiall of Mert. Coll. Pet. Rogers of Ch. Ch. Bach. of Arts. George Savage of Ch. Ch. See more in the year 1574. Harbert Westphaling of the same house He was afterwards B. of Hereford James Bell of C. C. Coll. In the latter end of May 1556 he as a Somersetsh Man born was elected Fellow of Trinity Coll. but whether he be the same Jam. Bell who suffer'd death by hanging at Lancaster for being a Rom. Priest in Apr. 1584 or James Bell a Translator of several books into English I cannot tell This last was a zealous Protestant and translated 1 A treatise touching the liberty of a Christian Lond. 1579. oct written in Latin by Dr. Mart. Luther 2 Sermon of the Evangelical Olive written by Jo. Fox See more in Jo Fox among the Writers an 1587. 3 The Pope confuted Written by the said Fox see there again 4 Answer apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective Lond. 1581. qu. Begun to be written in Lat. by Dr. Walt. Haddon but finished by John Fox beforemention'd The admissions and names of Determiners are omitted this year and therefore you are not to expect the just number of Bachelaurs that were admitted Bach. of Civ Law Nich. Saunders of New Coll. He was afterwards a zealous R. Catholick and a forward and indefatigable writer in defence of the Religion he professed Mast of Arts. Humph. Lhoyd or Lhuyd of Brasnose Coll. He was afterwards in much esteem for his great knowledge in British antiquities The admissions of Masters are this year omitted yet the number that stood in the Act or Comitia celebrated 6. of July is 21. The Junior of which called Ralph Treiver of Ch. Ch. was with the approbation of the Vicech and whole congregation admitted into the School of the Physicians or entred on the Physick line in Jan. 1552. Bach. of Div. John Morwâ—n of C. C. Coll. This Person did about this time upon a fight of the decay of the fac of Div. enter himself on the Phys line but whether he continued in it I cannot tell John Harpesfield of Nâ—w Coll. Christoph Goodman of Ch. Ch. sometimes of Brasen Coll. John Molens or Mullins of Magd. Coll. Hen. Pendleton of Brasnose Coll. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted or licensed to proceed this year as it appears in the imperfect register of this time Incorporations Rob. Johnson LL. Bach. of Cambridge as it seems was incorporated Bach. of both the Laws but the day or month when appears not In 1544 Jul. 10. he was installed Prebendary of the Church of Worcester in the place of Tho. Baggard LL. D. deceased and in the same month as it seems was made Chancellour of the Diocess of Worcester which had been held by the said Baggard In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he kept both those places though wrot privately against Jo. Hoper B. of Glocester and Worcester in 1555 Feb. 22. tertio Mariae Reg. he was installed Prebendary of Stillington in the Church of York and in Jul. 1558 he was collated by Nich Archb. of York to the rectory of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire on the death of Arth. Cole President of Magd. Coll. but enjoyed it for a short time This Person who was esteemed learned and well read in the Theological faculty did write a book against Hoper beforemention'd but did not publish it After his death which hapned in 1559 the book came into the hands of one Henry Joliff or Jolliff Bach. of Div. sometimes Proctor of Cambridge afterwards Rector of Bishops Hampton in Worcestershire one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester and in 1554 Dean of Bristew in the place of Tho. Rainolds promoted to the Deanery of Exeter I say that the said Jolliff having the book in his hands carried it with him beyond the Seas when he fled there upon the alteration of Religion in the beginning of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth and setling for a time at Lovaine did correct put some additions to and publish it under his and the name of Rob. Johnson with this title Responsio sub protestatione facta ad illos articulos Johannis Hoperi Episcopi Vigorniâ—e nomen gerentis in quibus à Catholica fide dissentiebat 〈◊〉 cum quibusdam confutationibus ejusdem Hoperi replicationibus reverendiss in ch pat Steph. Gardineri Episc Winton tunc temporis pro confessione fidei in carcere detenti Antwerp 1564. in a thick oct dedicated by Joliff to Philip K. of Spain acknowledging not only his favours shew'd to him in England while he was King there but also at Lovaine Whether Rob. Johnson the original Author died at Worcester or York I know not or Joliff at Lovaine Sure I am that the last died in 1573 for on the 28. Januar. in that year a commission issued out from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to one Will. Secrs a Stationer of London to administer the goods debts chattels c. of Hen Joliff Clerk late Dean of Bristow who died in parts beyond the Seas c. I find another Hen. Joliff in whom Dr. John Whyte Bishop of Winton took much delight for his towardliness and great vertues but he was a youth and dying 19. Aug. 1548 must not be understood to be the same with Hen. Joliff beforemention'd who also wrot against Nich. Rydley nor Rob. Johnson of All 's Coll. who was admitted Bach. of Law 1552 or thereabouts to be the same with him that was the original Author of Responsio c. About this time Abr. Ortelius of Antwerp spent some time in study in the condition of a Sojourner within this University Afterwards he became a most admirable Cosmographer the Ptolomey of his time and the ornament of the learned World He died in 1598. An. Dom. 1552. An. 6. Ed. 6. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Rich. Coxe to whom it was granted by the venerable congregation this year Jul. 19 that whereas he was about to resign his office of Chancellour within a short time he should never after be burdned with the office of Vicechancellour The 14. Nov. following he resign'd it and on the 18 the congregation of Regents and Non-regents elected according to their new statutes Sir
John Mason Knight sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. lately Ambassadour for K. H. 8. into several Foreign Countries and now Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester Vicechanc. or Prochanc James Brokes D. D. of C. C. Coll. for the first part of the year and Rich. Martiall D. D. of Ch. Ch. for the other part being elected in Convocation Prochanc 3. oct In his absence Dr. Tresham officiated and is sometimes stiled Procancellarius Proct. The Spencer of Ch. Ch. Maur. Bullock of New Coll. Both elected on the day before the Cal. of Octob. Bach. of Arts. Jun… John Rastell Oct. 4. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. Both afterwards writers and the last an eminent Physician About 26 were admitted this year one half of which are omitted in the Register Bach. of LL. Ellis Heywood of All 's Coll. He was afterwards a Jesuit and a writer Griffyth Willyams of New Coll. In 1554 he became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Rob. Johnson resigning and whether he be the same Williams who was Chancellour to the Bishop of Glocester about the same time remembred by Joh. Fox for his strange fearful and sudden death which befel him in 1558 after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and therefore esteemed as a judgment on him for condemning a blind boy to be burnt in 1556 I cannot justly tell you In 1557. Will. Turnball LL. Bac. succeeded Griffyth Willyams in the Chancellourship of Worcester In the publick register which is very imperfect in the beginning of this year it partly appears that one John Bodye supplicated to be admitted Bach. of LL. See in the year 1554. Mast of Arts. Alan Cope Lawr. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. Hieron Philippides Joh. Abulines or ab Vlmis of Ch. Ch. Whether either of these two last was a writer I cannot yet tell Qu. Will. Good of C. C. Coll. Jam. Calfill John Bavant of Ch. Ch. The last of the said Masters was afterwards one of the first Fellows of St. Johns Coll. and the first Greek reader there He was Tutor in the said house to Edm. Campian and Greg. Martin but upon the alteration of Religion leaving the Coll and his Country was made a Ro. Cath. Priest and afterwards was one of those that endured a tedious imprisonment in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire upon account of Religion Twenty Masters stood in the Act celebrated 18. July this year but how many were admitted it appears not in the register Bach. of Div Thom. Hardyng of New Coll. Thom. Bickley Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. The two last were afterwards Bishops Gilbert Burnford In 1554 he had the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells granted to him under the Seal of the Bishop and Chapter thereof But when he craved admission thereunto in 1560 he was denied because he refused the oath of Supremacy For the same reason he was deprived of the Prebendary of Hasilbere in that Church and of a rectory in the Dioc. of Wells Note that whereas always before this time when any Bach. of Div. was admitted he was registred as admitted ad lecturam libri sententiarum so now during the Reign of K Ed. 6. they are registred as admitted ad lectionem Paulinarum Epistolarum And this year those that were admitted are registred as admitted ad enaâ—rationem Epistolarum Apostolicarum in ipsis comitiis hoc anno viz. 18. Julii Doct. of Civ Law Hen. Jones of All 's Coll. This Person was one of the learned Doctors of the Civ Law whom Qu. Elizabeth consulted concerning the matter of Lesley Bishop of Ross who while he was Embassador from Mary Qu. of Scots to Qu. Elizabeth consulted and promoted a Rebellion against her See in Camdens Annalls of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1571. This Dr. Jones died in or near Doctors Commons about the beginning of Feb. in 1591 and was buried as it seems in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls wharf in London ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Rich. Martiall of Ch. Ch. Soon after he was made Prebendary of Winchester and Dean of his Coll. by the intercession of the Lord Arundell to whom he was Chaplain made to the Queen In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he seem'd to be a great Reformer and retracted what he zealously had held in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. After the death of K. Ed. 6. he returned to his former opinions and was more zealous for the Cath. cause than before But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded he absconded for a time and went from place to place At length being taken and conveyed to London retracted again in hopes of being setled in his Deanery of Ch. Ch. which might have been had he behaved himself moderately in the Reign of Qu. Mary Afterwards as 't is said he went into Yorkshire where he died obscurely In his Deanery succeeded G. Carew as I have told you before under the year 1522. Hen. Pendleton of Brasn Coll. was also admitted this year and stood with Martiall in the Act that followed Henr. Syddall LL. B. and Canon of Ch. Ch. who had studied sacred letters for 18 years did this year supplicate that he might put on or be honour'd with the cap of Doct. of Divinity This desire of his was granted conditionally that he be inaugurated and dispute in Divinity in the next Act that should follow But whether he was so or did dispute it appears not in the publick register or in the Catalogues of Inceptors Incorporations Nov. 12. Brian Baynes Bach. of Arts of Cambridge The next year he proceeded in the said faculty being then a member of Ch. Ch. which is all I know of him Nov …Valentine Dale of All 's Coll. Doctor of the Civ Law beyond the Seas at Oreleans I think seems to be incorporated in that month because he had supplicated more than once for that Degree He was afterwards Master of the Requests Dean of Wells 1574 and about that time Embassadour to the French King upon the calling home of Sir Franc. Walsingham to be Secretary of State c. He died in his house near St. Pauls Cathedral 17. Nov. 1589. and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Gregory near to the said Cathedral leaving behind him a Daughter named Dorothy who being coheir to her Father was married to Sir John North Son and Heir to Roger Lord North. Dec. 2. Walter Haddon President of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. and Doctor of the Civil Law at Cambridge This Person who was a Buckinghamshire Man born and educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School was chose Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1533 where arriving to great eminence in the Civil Law was made the Kings Professor of that faculty in the said University and much esteemed for his eloquence and learning especially by Leland who calls him Heveddunus Afterwards being a Man much addicted to reformation he was by virtue of several letters written by the King in his behalf elected tho contrary to statute
in the Spittle there Doct. of Div. Apr. 20. John Harpesfield Jul. 13. Thomas Hardyng of New Coll. Both zealous and stout Champions for the Rom. Cath. cause Jun. 20. It was then granted to Hen. Cole LL. D. of New Coll. that he might have the Degrees of Bach. and Doctor of Divinity conferr'd upon him without any disputations or exercise done for the same Incorporations Certain Doctors of Div. of the Univ. of Cambridge having been commanded by their Chancellour Dr. Steph. Gardiner Bishop of Winchester to go to Oxford and there to joyn themselves with other Doctors and learned Men of that University to dispute with Archb. Cranmer Bish Rydley and B. Latimer concerning matters of Religion did accordingly come to Oxom 13. of Apr. this year and taking up their quarters at the Cross-inn near to Quatervois were the next day incorporated The names of them are these John Young D. D. Master of Pembroke hall and Vicechancellour He was a learned Man and is stiled by some Writers Joh. Giovanus John Seton or Seaton D. D. of St. Johns Coll. in Cambridge and Prebendary of Winchester He was now famous in that University for the brief and methodical book of Logick which he had composed for the use of junior Scholars Rich. Atkinson D. D. Provost of Kings Coll. Will. Glynne D. D. Master of Queens Coll. and now or lately Archdeacon of Anglesie In 1555 Sept. 8. he was consecrated Bishop of Bangor within the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul in London and died a little before Qu. Mary Tho. Watson D. D. Master of St. Johns Coll. and Chaplain to Gardiner B. of Winchester In 1553 Nov. 18. he was instituted Dean of Durham by Dr. Tonstall B. thereof on the deprivation of Rob. Horne and in Aug. 1557 he was consecrated B. of Linc. From which See being removed by the authority of Parliament in the beginning of Q. Eliz. as being an enemy to reformation and the Qu. Supremacy over the Church was committed Prisoner to several places and kept in durance in and near London for about 20 years At length in the year 1580 he and Jo. Fekenham being sent Prisoners with others to Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire continued there to the time of his death He was buried in the Ch. belonging to the Town of Wisbich 27. of Sept. an 1584. In his younger years he was given much to Poetry and making of Plays and gained great commendations for his Antigone out of Sophocles by the learned Men of his time who have farther avowed that as George Buchannans Tragedy called Jepthe have among all Tragedies of that time been able to abide the touch of Aristotles precepts and Euâ—ipides Examples So hath also the Tragedy of this Tho. Watson called Absalon which was in a most wonderful manner admired by them yet he would never suffer it to go abroad because in locis paribus Anapestus is twice or thrice used instead of Jambus In his elder years being then of a sour disposition as one saith and â—arned in deep Divinity but surly with an austere gravity as another tells us published several matters of Divinity among which were Two Sermons of the real Presence before Qu. Mary on Rom. 12. 1. c. Lond. 1554. oct and Wholsome and Cath. Doctrine concerning the seven Sacraments c. Lond. 1558. qu. This Book consists only of Hemilies Cuthbert Scot D. D. Master of Christs Coll. and Prebendary of York He was afterwards Bish of Chester Thomas Sedgwyke D. D. the Queens Prof. of Div. in Cambr. Alban Langdale D. D. of S. John's Coll. in Cambr. In 1556 he being then Parson of Buxted in Sussex was made Archdeacon of Lewes on the death of one Dr. Breisley and about the same time Prebendary of Aâ—pleford in the Church of York In the beginning of Qu. Eliz. he was deprived of those and other Dignities 1 Because he had behaved himself zealous in the Reign of Q. Mary in carrying on the Rom. Catholick Cause against the Protestants 2 Because he denied the Queens Supremacy over the Church He lived afterwards many years a constant Member of the Church of Rome but when or where he died I cannot tell See more of him in Nich. Ridley pag. 78. An. Dom. 1555. An. 2 Mariae An. 3 Mariae Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Rich. Smyth D. D. sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Canon of Ch. Ch. and one of Qu. Maries Chaplains was admitted to his Office in Apr. this year Dr. Martiall occurs also Vicechancellour 16 Oct. at what time Rydley and Latimer were burnt in Canditch for then if I mistake not Dr. Smyth preached to them when they were at the Stake Proct. Will. Norfolke of Or. Coll. Jam. Gervys of Mert. Coll. elect 14 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Nov. 14. Rich. Shaghens of Ball. Coll. Jan. 11. Edw. Cradock of C. C. See among the D. D. an 1565. Feb. 13. Hen. Bedell of C. C. Coll. One of both his names was Author of A Sermon exhorting to pity the poor on Psal 41. Lond. 1571. oct and of another if not more which I have not yet seen Whether the same with Hen. Bedell the Bach. of Arts who was born in Oxfordshire I know not This year Apr. 26. John Woolton of Brasn Coll. afterwards Bishop of Exeter supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts but whether he was admitted it appears not or that he determined in the Lent following Adm. 33. Bach. of Civ Law June 26. John Calverley of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of John Bridgwater about 1574 and dying in 1576 he was succeeded by Dr. Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Besides Calverley were five admitted and three or more that supplicated for the same Degree Bach. of Decrees Apr. 3. Will. Laly or Lawley of New Inn. He was afterwards Archbish of Tuam in Ireland John Linch of New Inn also as it seems was admitted the same day He was afterwards Bishop of Elphine in Ireland Mast of Arts. Jun. 26. John Rastell of New Coll. He afterwards gained to himself an eminent name especially among those of his Profession for his Writings against Joh. Jewell Jul. 12. Harbert Westphalyng of Ch. Ch. 26. Pet. Whyte of Or. Coll. He was afterwards much celebrated by his Scholar Rich. Stanyhurst for his Learning Adm. 29. Bach. of Phys Mar. 28. Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll. See among the Doctors in 1559. June 17. Tho Godwyn of the same Coll. He afterwards applied his Studies to Div. and at length became B. of Bathe and Wells Mar. 13. Giles Wale c. Eight in all were admitted this year Bach. of Div. Nov. 14. Joh. de Villa Garcia or Garcina lately of Lincoln College now Divinity Reader of that of Magd He was commonly called Frier John and by Protestant Writers Johannes Frâ—â—erculus See among the D. of D. 1558. He was the only person that was admitted Bach. of Div. this year Two or more there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom Will.
Ignorance Treachery and Hypocrisie 33 Brief History of Muscâ—via and of other less known Countries lying eastward of Russia as far as Cathay c. Lond. 1682. oct 34 The right of the People over Tyrants printed lately in qu. These I think are all the things that he hath yet extant those that are not are The body of Divinity which my friend calls Idâ—a Theologiae now or at least lately in the hands of the Authors Acquaintance called Cyr. Skinner living in Mark lane London and the Latin Thesaurus in those of Edw. Philipps his Nephew At length this great Scholar and frequent Writer dying in his house at Bunhill near London in a fit of the Gout but with so little pain that the time of his expiring was not perceived by those in the room on the ninth or tenth day of Novemb. 1674 was buried in the grave of his Father who died very aged about 1647 in the Chancel of the Church of S. Giles near Cripplegate London See more of him in Sir Walter Raleigh among the Writers numb 458. He was of a moderate Stature and well proportion'd of a ruddy Complexion light brown hair and had handsome features yet his eyes were none of the quickest When he was a Student in Cambridge he was so fair and clear that many called him the Lady of Christs Coll. His deportment was affable and his gate erect and manly bespeaking courage and undauntedness On which account he wore a sword while he had his sight and was skill'd in using it He had a delicate tuneable voice an excellent ear could play on the Organ and bear a part in vocal and instrumental Musick The Estate which his Father left him was but indifferent yet by his frugality he made it serve him and his Out of his Secretaries Salary he saved 2000 l. which being lodg'd in the Excise and that bank failing upon his Majesties Restauration he utterly lost that sum By the great Fire which hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666 he had a house in Breadstreet burnt which was all the real Estate that he had then left To conclude he was more admired abroad and by Foreigners than at home and was much visited by them when he liv'd in Petty France some of whom have out of pure devotion gone to Breadstreet to see the House and Chamber where he was born c. Creations Jun. 16. Henry Bridgman of Brasnose lately of Oriel Coll. was actually created Master of Arts. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Jul. 30. David Smart of Hart Hall was actually created Master of Arts which is all I know of him An. Dom. 1636. An. 12 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Rich. Baylie D. D. President of S. Johns Coll. and Dean of Salisbury Jul. 22. Proct. Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. John Good of New Coll. April 27. Bach. of Arts. May 3. John Good Will. Walwyn of S. Joh. Coll. Of the last you may more among the Bach. of Div. 1647. Rich. West of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day See among the created Doctors of Divinity in Dec. 1660. 5. Edm. Gregory of Trin. 24. Christop Bennet of Linc. Coll. June 30. Rob. Wickins of Ch. Ch. Jul. 3. George Laurence of New Inn. 5. Tho. Holyoake of Qu. Coll. Oct. 15. Benj. Wells of S. Albans afterwards of S. Maries Hall and at length of All 's Coll. 20. Jerem. Turner of S. Edm. Hall Nov. 14. Edmund Ludlow of Trin. Coll. This person who was born at Mayden Bradley in Wilts did upon the breaking out of the Rebellion side with the Presbyterians became a Colonel Governour of Wardour Castle in his own Country one of the prime Officers in the Parliament Army and at length sate as one of the Judges when K. Ch. 1. was condemn'd to dye Afterwards he went into Ireland where he was Lieutenant General of the Army appointed by the Parliament and Lord Deputy for a time upon the death of Ireton In the time of Oliver he was a Major General a grand fanatick and a zealous favourer of all such who were anti-monarchical but upon a foresight of the Kings Restauration he fled into a strange land to avoid the halter was at Losanne with Goff Whaley Fare when Lisle was kill'd there in Aug. 1664 and soon after as 't was then said he with his Wife retired to Zurich He was the Son of Sir Hen. Ludlow of Mayden Bradley before mentioned Knight elected a Knight for his Country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 where he shewed himself an enemy to the King and his party and dying at Mayden Bradley 1660 or thereabouts was there buried By Letters dated at London 19 of Sept. 1689 I was informed that the said Edm. Ludlow who had lived several years in Switzerlandt was daily expected at Westminster with four Deputies from the Cantons to make an Offer to his Majesty K. Will. 3. to raise men in that Country for his service How true this is I know not yet sure I am that the said Ludlow was then in London and that his being there being notoriously known an Address was presented to his Majesty from the House of Commons on the 7 of Nov. following or thereabouts by the hands of Sir Edward Seymour a Member of Parliament that he would be pleased to put out a Proclamation for the apprehending of Col. Ludlow attainted for the Murder of K. Ch. 1. c. Whereupon Ludlow hastning away as soon as he heard of the motion of an Address to the sea side lay almost a Fortnight before he could be accommodated with a good Wind and then returned to Switzerlandt in the year of his age 74 at least In the beginning of March 1690 was published a pernicious Pamphlet entit A Letter from Major Gen. Ludlow to Sir E. S. Seymour comparing the Tyranny of the first four years of K Charles the Martyr with the Tyranny of the four years reign of the late abdicated King James 2. occasion'd by reading Dr Pelang's leud Harangues upon the 30 of January being the Anniversary or general madding day Amsterd alias Lond. 1691 in 4 sheets in qu. Written as a Preface to a larger work to come to Justifie the Murder of King Charles 1. not by the said Ludlow but by some malevolent person in England Much about which time was published under Joh. Milton's name The right of the people over Tyrants such is the liberty since the late Mutation allowed to the Press Jan. 15. John Birkenhead of Oriel afterwards Febr. 11. Henry Birkhead of Trin. afterwards of All 's Coll. March 9. Joseph Brookbank of Brasn 17. Hen. Vaughan of Jesus lately of Oriel Coll. All which Bachelaurs except Ludlow will be mentioned elsewhere Adm. 233. Bach. of Law Jun. 18. Hen. Janson of Ball. Coll. Jul. 3. John Godolphin of Gloc. Hall Besides these were sixteen more admitted and two created but not one of them can I yet find was afterwards a Writer or