that the exercise to be performed for it might be deferr'd till Michâ—elmas Term following because he shortly after designed to return to his native Country But the Regents upon mature consideration return'd this answer that he might take the said Degree when he pleased conditionally that he perform all exercises requisite by the statute before he take it On the same day Giles Gualter M. of A. of 8 years standing in the University of Caen another Exile as it seems did supplicate under the same form but whether either of them was admitted it appears not Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 3. Griffith or Griffin Lloyd Principal of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of the Civil Law and Chancellour to the Bishop of Oxford He died in Doctors Commons 26. Nov. 1586 and was buried two days after in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf in London ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 10. Adam Squyre Master of Ball. Coll. This Person who was a learned but fantastical Man married the Daughter of Dr. Jo. Elmer Bishop of London by whose favour he was made Archdeacon of Middlesex but when I cannot tell Apr… John Bold of C. C. Coll. In the year 1578. Sept. 25. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland by Dr. Barnes Bishop of Durham on the resignation of Mr. Franc. Bunney who some years before had succeeded Mr. Ralph Lever in that Dignity After Dr. Bold had resign'd it Ralph Tonstall M. A. was collated thereunto 29. Oct. 1581 but who succeeded him the register of the Church of Durham which is deficient tells us not till Bishop Neyles time who collated to the said Archdeaconry Gab. Clerke DD 7. Aug. 1619. upon the resignation of Dr. John Craddock See more among the Masters of Arts an 1612. Jul. 6. Pet. Lozillerius Villerius a French Man Doctor of the Civil Law and Divinity of an University in his own Country was then admitted to proceed in Divinity and three days after did compleat that Degree by standing in the Act then celebrated He was an Exile for his Religion lived in Ch. Ch. for some time but whether he read a lecture or taught privately as other Exiles did I know not Sure I am he was a learned Man and had newly corrected and set forth Beza's New Testament in Greek Incorporations June 5. Tho. Hakeluyt M. A. of Cambridge 22. Will. Smyth M. of A. of the same University I take this to be the same Will. Smyth who was afterwards Master of Clare Hall Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth Vicechanc. of the said University an 1603 Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. and at length Provost of Kings Coll. to which he was elected 22. Aug. 1612. He died 26. March 1615 and became a considerable benefactor to the said College Jul. 10. Humph. Tindall M. A. of the same University He was afterwards Master of Queens Coll. there and became the fourth Dean of Ely in the place of John Bell D. D. who died 31. Oct. 1591 aged 61. The said Tindall was descended from the antient and gentile family of his name living in Norfolk and dying 12. Oct. 1614 aged 65 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Ely July 11. Peter Baro D. D. of Cambridge This learned and worthy Divine was born at Estampes in France left that Country upon account of Religion came into England for refuge setled in Cambridge by the endeavours of Dr. Andr. Perne and being afterwards of Trin. Coll. succeeded Dr. John Still in the Margaret Professorship of that University and read there several years to the great liking of many At length the Calvinistical Party disgusting certain matters which they looked upon as hetrodox vented by him in his readings and prints viz. in his Comment on Jonah and his book De Fide one of them named Lawrence Chadderton had a contest with him Their objections were 1 That in his readings upon Jonah he taught the Popish Doctrine of the cooperation of faith and works to justification which tho in terms a little changed yet the Doctrine was one and the same in effect 2 That he laboured to make Men believe that the reformed Churches Doctrine was not so differing from Popish Doctrine but that by distinctions they might be reconciled and therefore concluded that both professions might be tolerated And thirdly that in his said readings he taught that the Heathen may be saved without the Faith of the Gospel and other strange matters which they looked upon as damnable errors c. Besides also as they observed that after many years wherein he had sundry ways hurt the sincerity of the Doctrine he brought the Popish Schoolmen into credit and diminished the honour of the learned Writers of that age Since which time the course of studies in Divinity and the manner of preaching hath been much changed in that University by some who have followed that vain and left the study of sound Writers as they stile them and apply themselves to the reading as they father add of popish barbarous and fantastical Schoolmen delighted with their curious questions and quiddities whereby they draw all points of Christian faith into doubts being the high-way not only to Popery but to Atheisme c. For these I say and such like matters he was by the zealous travel of some of the Brethren in the said University removed from his place of Margaret Professor about the year 1596 not without the consent of Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury For so it was and they could not be beaten out of it that they thought that as a certain Spaniard named Ant. Corranus was brought to and setled in Oxon. purposely to corrupt the true Doctrine so Pet. Baro a French Man was for Cambridge which last is nevertheless reported in the following age by a high Church of England Man that tho he was a Forreigner by birth yet be better understood the Doctrine of the Church of England than many of the Natives his contemporaries in the Vniversity of Cambridge c. His writings are these 1 In Jonam Prophetam praelectiones 39. 2 Conciones tres ad clerum Cantabrigiensem habitae in templo B. Mariae 3 Theses publicae in Scholis peroratae disputatae Which Theses being only two were translated into English by John Ludham with these titles First Gods purpose and decree taketh not away the liberty of mans corrupt will The second Our conjunction with Christ is altogether spiritual Both printed at Lond. 1590. in oct 4 Precationes quibus usus est author in suis praelectionibus inchoandis finiendis All which were published at Lond. 1579. fol. by the care and labor of Osmund Lake Bach. of Div. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge who viewed and corrected them before they went to the press This Osm Lake by the way I must tell you had been Proctor of that University was afterwards Vicar of Ringwood in Hampshire and a publisher of several books besides others
Articles according to the order of the Creed of the Apostles Lond. 1581. oct 1584. qu. Annexed to John Baker's Lectures on the Creed These 100 Articles were before Printed viz. an 1550. in oct Declaration of the 10 holy Commandments of Almighty God Lond. 1550. and 88. oct With other things which I have not yet seen the trite or slender titles of which you may see in Baleus He also translated from Lat. into English Turtullians second Book to his Wife concerning the choice of a Husband or Wife Lond. 1550. oct and perhaps other things At length he suffered death in the flames near to the College of Priests in the City of Glocester on Saturday the ninth of Febr. in Fifteen hundred fifty and four 1. and 2. of Philip and Mary being then near sixty Years of Age and much lamented by those that pretended to Reformation EDWARD WOTTON Son of Rich. Wotton superior Beadle of Divinity of this University of Oxon by Margaret his Wife was born within the City of Oxon. particularly as I conceive in the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin wherein his Father lived and had Houses in Cat-street After he had been educated in the Grammar School joining to Magd. Coll. he was first made Semicommoner or Demie of that House and after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts which was 1513. he was as I conceive made Fellow At length upon the desire of John Claymond and Rob. Morwent who knew the singular virtues and learning of the Person he left that Coll. and by the favour of that most worthy Person Bishop Fox Founder of that of Corp. Christi was made socius compar thereof with leave to travel into Italy for three Years an 1520. So that after he had read the Greek Lecture there for some time he journied into Italy studied Physick and took the Degree of Doctor in that faculty at Padöua After his return he was settled Greek Reader of his Coll. was incorporated in the same Degree in the latter end of 1525 was made Physician to K. Hen. 8. and not only became famous for his happy practice in that faculty in these parts and afterwards in London for he was one of the College of Physicians there but also for his great knowledge in Philosophy and things natural He hath transmitted to posterity De differentiis Animalium lib. 10. Par. 1552. fol. By the publishing of which he obtained a famous name among learned Men especially with Mich. Neander who saith that no Author hath written of Animals more learned and elegant than Wottonus See more in Thom Mouffet under the Year 1590. What other things the said Wotton hath published I know not nor anything else of him or his only 1 That he dying 5. Octob. year 1555 in Fifteen hundred fifty and five in the climacterical Year of his Age 63 was buried in St. Albans Church in Woodstreet in the City of London 2 That Catherine his Widow dying 4 Dec. 1558. was buried by him and both had a stone with an inscription thereon laid over their Graves But that part of it which remained an 100 Years after was totally consumed in the grand conflagration of London an 1666. 3 That he is much celebrated by the Antiquarian Poet John Leland under the name of Eadverdus Ododunus 4 That among the Children he left behind him for he had a numerous issue Brian Wotton LL. Bach. and Fellow of New Coll. was one who bequeathed his Body to be buried in the yard belonging to St. Albans Church before-mention'd Another was called Hen. Wotton first a Student of Ch. Ch. and afterwards Proctor of the University Greek Reader and Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. who proceeding in the faculty of Physick an 1567. became afterwards famous for the practice thereof NICHOLAS RYDLEY was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Willymondswyke in Northumberland educated in Grammatical Learning at Newcastle upon Tyne in Academical at Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon he was elected into one of Walt. Skyrlaw's Fellowship of University Coll. 13. Apr. 1521. Which place he keeping but a little while and therefore the Members of that House can hardly lay claim to him he returned to Cambridge where he became D. of D. and Master of Pembroke Hall Afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Ed. 6. and at length through Rochester the temporalities of which See were restored to him 27. Sept. 1547. became Bishop of London 1549. He was a Person small in stature but great in learning and profoundly read in Divinity quo viro as one who knew him saith nihil integrius omnibus egregiis dotibus ornatius Anglia nostra multis hisce retro saeculis habuit c. Among several things that he wrot were these Treatise concerning images not to be set up nor worshipped in Churches Written in the time of K. Ed. 6. Brief declaration of the Lords Supper Printed 1555. and 1586. oct Written by him while he was a Prisoner in Oxon. It was translated into Lat. by Will. Whittyngham bearing this title Assertio de coena Dominica Genev. 1556. Answered by another Book entit Confutatio Catholica Nich. Rydley de Eucharistia Par. 1556. qu. Written by Alban Langdale D. D. of St. John's College in Cambridge Certain godly and comfortable conferences between him and Mr. Hugh Latymer during the time of their imprisonment Lond. 1555. 56. and 74 in oct A friendly farewell written during his imprisonment at Oxford unto all his true Lovers a little before his death Lond. 1559. oct A piteous lamentation of the miserable state of the Church of England in the time of the late revolt from the Gospel Lond. in oct A comparison between the comfortable Doctrine of the Gospel and the traditions of Popish Religion Print with the former An account of a disputation at Oxford an 1554 Oxon. 1688. qu. Written in Latin and published from the Original MS by Gilb. Ironside D. D. Warden of Wadham Col. and then Vicehanc of the Univ. of Oxon. Treatise of the blessed Sacrament The beginning of which is Many things confound the real memory c. published with the former by the aforesaid Person from an original MS. to which he added A Letter written by Mr. Jo. Bradford the Martyr never before Printed Letter of reconciliation written to Bishop Hooper Lond. 1689. qu. published by Sam. Johnson Author of the Short account of the life of Julian the Apostate Lond. 1682. oct He the said Dr. Rydley had a hand also in the compiling of the Common Prayer-Book now in use among us has also disputations arguings communications and conferences about matters of Religion in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church written by John Fox In which Book under the Years 1554. and 55. you may see a full account of his sufferings and afterwards of his burning near to Balliol College in Oxon. year 1555 on the 16. of Oct in Fifteen hundred fifty and
many pretty stories in comely colours and most delightful discourses Printed at Lond. twice at least in an English character one of which editions bears date 1608. in qu. written in imitation of a book intit The pallace of pleasure beautified adorned and well furnished with pleasant histories and excellent Novells c. Lond. 1569. qu. written by Will. Painter Clerk of the ordinance and armory within the Tower of London The aforesaid Petite pallace c. I have in my study and for the respect I bear to the name of the Author he having been uncle to my Mother Maria la Petite I will keep it but 't is so far now from being excellent or fine that it is more fit to be read by a School-boy or rustical amoratto than by a Gent. of mode or language The said George Pettie translated from French into English with a preface of his own put to it The civile conversation of M. Stephen Guazzo in 4. books Lond. 1586. qu. written originally in the Italian tongue which I have also Three of the said books were translated by the said Pettie the fourth was begun by him but finished by Barthelm Young of the Middle Temple Gentleman being the same Barthelmew as I think who lived afterwards at Ashurst in Kent and died therein 1621. What other matters G. Pettie hath written or translated I cannot tell nor do I know any thing material of him besides only that he died in the prime of his years at Plymouth in Devonshire being then a Captain and a Man of note about the latter end of July in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 and was buried as I have been told in the great Church there The Lands which he had by his Fathers gift in Aston-Rowant in Kingston in the Parish thereof and at Tetsworth in Oxfordshire he gave to his Brother Christopher Pettie JOHN GARBRAND alias Herks Son of Garbrand Herks a Dutch Man and Bookseller living sometimes in St. Maries Parish in Oxon was born within the City of Oxon educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1562 being esteemed then a good Poet. Afterwards he by the favour of Bishop Jewell who had been well acquainted with his Father while he lived in the University became Prebendary of Yatesbury in the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of Tho. Whyte LL. D. in Nov. 1565 being then only Bach. of Arts and Prebendary of Minor pars Altaris in the said Church In 1567 he left his Coll. and on the 18. of March 1568 he was made Preb. of Chute and Cheesenbury in the said Church of Sarum on the deprivation of Joh. Fuller Garbrand being then Rector of North-Crowley in Bucks In 1582 he took the Degrees in Divinity was then accounted an eminent Theologist and a noted Preacher but withal a severe Puritan He hath gathered together corrected and compleated several things of the said B. Jewell whome he in a marvellous manner had admired as i A view of a seditious bull sent into England from Pius 5. Pope of Rome an 1569. 2 A short treatise of the Holy Scriptures Lond 1582. oct Both which Jewell delivered in divers Sermons in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury an 1570. 3 An exposition on the two Epistles to the Thessalonians Lond. in oct 4 Certain Sermons preached at Pauls Cross Lond. 1583. oct They are in number six 5 Treatise of the Sacraments gathered out of certain Sermons preached at Salisbury Lond. 1583. oct This Dr. Garbrand died in the Winter time about Christmas in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 and was buried in the Church of North-Crowley before-mention'd He gave by his will several books to New Coll. Library And all such books and papers that were given to him by B. Jewell as also all such loose sheets which he the said Garbrand had drawn for common places gathered out of that Bishops books he gave to Rob. Chaloner and John Rainolds Doctors of Divinity LAURENCE HUMPHREY or Humfredus as he sometimes writes himself was born at a mercate Town called Newport Paynell in Bucks educated in Latine and Greek learning at Cambridge made Demie of Magd. Coll. in Oxon 1547 perpetual Fellow two years after being then Bach. of Arts and Master of the said faculty in 1552. About that time he was made Greek reader of his Coll. took holy orders and became a zealous and forward student in the Theological faculty In June 1555 2. and 3. of Phil. and Mary the President Vicepresident Deans c. of that Coll. gave leave to the said Humphrey who in the opinion of all was much commended for his life and conversation as also for the excellency of his learning and wit that he might freely for the cause of study travel into trasmarine parts for one year conditionally that he contain himself from those places that are suspected to be heretical or favourers of heresie and that also he refrain from the company who are or were authors of heresie or heretical opinions c. Which leave being procured he went forthwith to Zurich and associated himself with the English exiles there that had fled from the Nation for Religion sake After the death of Qu. Mary he returned to his Coll. and was restored to his Fellowship having been expelled thence because he did not return thereunto after his time of leave was expired In the Year 1560 he was constituted the Queens Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxon being then about 34 years of age at which time was a very great scarcity of Theologists throughout the body of Students and in the year following he was elected President of his Coll. In 1562 he took the Degrees in Divinity and in 1570 he was made Dean of Glocester upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Cooper to the See of Lincoln In 1580 he was constituted Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Watson promoted to the See of Winchester which was the highest preferment he had among the Clergy and the reason for it as 't was guested was because that in matter of ceremony or indifferency he altogether consented not to the Church of England For the truth is that from the City of Zurich remarkable for the Preachings and death of Zwinglius and the correspondence that he had at Geneva he brought back with him at his return into England so much of the Calvinian both in doctrine and discipline that the best that could be said of him was that he was a moderate and consciencious Nonconformist Whence 't was that by his being many years President of Magd. College publick Professor of Div. in the University and several times Vice-chancellour he did not only upon advantage issuing from those place stock his Coll. with a generation of Nonconformists which could not be rooted out in many years after his decease but sowed also in the Divinity School such seeds of Calvinisme and labored to create in the younger sort such a
ministers of the reformed Churches beyond the Seas maintained against the Donatists Oxon. 1641. qu. Taken I presume by the publisher from our authors book intit A vindication c. At length our author Mason surrendring up his pious soul to him that first gave it not without the great grief of those who well knew his learning and piety in the month of Dec. in sixteen hundred twenty and one was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Orford before-mentioned year 1621 Over his grave was soon after a Monument put with an Inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by In his Archdeaconry of Norf. was installed Tho. Muriel M. A. 30. Dec. 1621. After him was installed Writhington White 19 Oct. 1629. and after him Rob. White Bach. of Div. 23. Sept. 1631. who dying in the times of usurpation Philip Tenison was installed in his place 24. Aug. 1660. who dying Edw. Reynolds M. A. and Son to Dr. E. Reynolds B. of Norwich was installed therein 15. Apr. 1661. HENRY JACOB was a Kentish man born entred a Commoner or Batler in S. Maries hall 1579. aged 16 took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became beneficed in his own Country particularly as I have been informed at Cheriton but upon search into that Parish register wherein are the names of all the Rectors of that Church set down since 1591. H. Jacob. occurs not as having been perhaps Rector before that time He was a person most excellently well read in Theological authors but withal was a most zealous Puritan or as his Son Henry used to say the first Independant in England His writings against Francis Johnson a Brownist exile for Jesus Ch. as he stiles himself and Tho. Bilson Bishop of Winton speak him learned With the former he controverted concerning the Churches and Ministers of England and with the other concerning Christs suffering and descention into Hell Which controversie though eagerly bandied to and fro between them yet it was afterwards plyed more hotly in both the Unisities in 1604. and after where Bilsons doctrine was maintained and held up yet publickly opposed by many of our Zealots both at home and abroad At home by Gabr. Powell a stiff Puritan mentioned under the year 1607. and abroad by Hugh Broughton and Rob. Parker I mean that Robert a Divine sometimes of Wilton in Wilts who leaving the Nation for conscience sake died at Deusbourgh in Gelderland in Autumn time or after an 1630. leaving behind him a Widdow named Dorothie and a Son named Thomas author of De traductione peccatoris There were two more brethren at least of the separation who opposed Bilson's doctrine but their names I cannot now justly tell you The works of our author Hen. Jacob are these Treatise of the sufferings and victory of Christ in the work of our redemption c. written against certain errours in these points publickly preached in Lond. 1597. Lond. 1598. oct The points weâ—e 1 That Christ suffered for us the wrath of God which we may well term the pains of Hell or hellish sorrows 2 That Christ after his death on the Cross went not into Hell in his Soul Defence of the Church and ministry of England against Francis Johnson Brownist Middleburg 1599. qu. They had several disputes in Amsterdam about the Church of England being a true Church Defence of a treatise touching the sufferings and victory of Christ in the work of our redemption Printed 1600. qu. Reasons taken out of Gods word and the best humane testimonies proving a necessity of reforming our Churches of England c. Printed 1604. qu. A position against vain glorious and that which is falsly called learned preaching Printed 1604. oct The divine beginning and institution of Christs true visible and material Church Leyden 1610. oct Plain and cleer exposition of the second commandement Printed 1610. oct Declaration and opening of certain points with a sound confirmation of some others in a treatise entit The divine beginning c. as before Middleburg 1611. He hath written and published other things as the Counter poyson c. which being printed by stealth or beyond the Seas year 1621 are rare to be either seen or procured He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred twenty and one or thereabouts aged 60. years or more but where buried unless in London where he began to gather a congregation in the year 1616. I cannot tell He left behind him a Son of both his names who was afterwards Fellow of Mert. coll and a prodigy for curious and critical learning as I shall tell you at large when I come to him HENRY SAVILE second Son of Hen. Savile by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Rob. Ramsden Gent. second Son of Joh. Savile of New hall in Yorksh Esq was born at Bradley alias Over-Bradley near to Halifax in the same County on the last day of Nov. an 1549. 3. Ed. 6. made his first entry into this University in the beginning of the year 1561. and then according to the fashion had a Tutor to teach him Grammar and another Dialect or else one and the same person did both In the beginning of Lent 1565. he was admitted Bach. of Arts and forthwith determined to the admiration of his Auditors who ever after esteemed him a good Philosopher About that time an election of Bach. Fellows of Merton coll then in a very poor condition for good Scholars as most places in the University were being made he was chosen one of the number as was Edm. Bunney afterwards a learned Theologist In 1570. our author Savile proceeded in his faculty and read his Ordinaries on the Almagest of Ptolomy Whereby growing famous for his learning especially for the Gr. tongue and Mathematicks in which last he voluntarily read a Lecture for some time to the Academians he was elected Proctor of the University for two years together with Joh. Vnderhill of New college afterwards Rector of that of Lincoln and Bishop of Oxon. For then and after those that executed the Procuratorial office were elected by the Doctors and Masters of the University for learning worth experience and magnanimous Spirits but when the Caroline Cicle was made in 1629. they were elected in their respective Coll. by a few notes In 1578. he travelled into France and other Countries and thereupon improving himself in learning languages and the knowledge of the World and Men became a most accomplished person at his return About that time he was instituted Tutor to Q. Elizab. for the Gr. tongue who taking a liking to his parts and personage was not only the sooner made Warden of Merton coll tho a noted person Bunney before-mentioned was elected with him and presented to the Archb. of Cant. for confirmation but also by her favour was made Provost of Eaton coll in the year 1596. upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Day to the See of Winton While he governed the former which was 36 years Summâ curâ as 't is said diligentiâ
Brother to that mirrour of Piety Mrs. Cath. Brettergh was a Com. or Gent. Com. of S. Albans hall an 1577. aged 18. where he was much noted for an early Zealot Our author Will. Hinde did also revise correct and publish The discovery of the Man of Sin c. Oxon. 1614. qu. written by Jo. Rainolds before-mentioned and An exposition on the last Chapter of the Proverbs Lond. 1614. qu. penn'd by Rob. Cleaver the Decalogist then lately dead At length after our author had undergone several troubles concerning matters of indifferency he surrendred up his last breath in his study at Bunbury in the month of June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 1629 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there as I have been informed by his Grandson Thomas Hinde D. of D. sometimes Fellow of Brasnose college afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of Ormond and Dean of Limerick in Ireland who died in his house at Limerick in Nov. 1689. HUMPHREY LEECH or Lechius as he is sometimes written was born at Allerton commonly called Ollerton in Shropshire was entred a Student in Brasnose coll before the month of Nov. in 1590. for in that year and of his age 19. he was as a Member of that house matriculated But before he took the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Cambridge where taking the degree of Master he returned to Oxon in 1602. and in June the same year he was incorporated in that degree About that time he was made Vicar of St. Alkmonds Church in Shrewsbury where making a short stay he returned to Oxon and became one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. Of whose Preaching and what followed you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. sub an 1608. In which year being suspended of his Chaplainship for Preaching publickly some Popish Tenets for so they were accounted by the puritanical Doctors of the University in those days he left the Church of England and went to Arras in Artois where he wrote these things following The triumph of Truth Or a declaration of the doctrine concerning Evangelical counsayles in two parts Doway 1609. oct Sermon in defence of Evangelical counsayles and the Fathers on Apoc. 20. 12. Printed with the former book Twelve motives which perswaded him to embrace the Catholick Religion An honourable Grand-Jury of 24 Fathers testifying the distinction betwixt legal precepts and evangelical counsayles by their uniform Verdict Which book with the Motives were printed with The triumph of Truth Humble considerations presented to King James concerning his premonitory Epistle sent to all Christian Princes S. Omâ—r 1609. Afterwards our author going to Rome was admitted into the Society of Jesus an 1618. before or after which time he lived in the English coll of Jesuits at Liege and was most commonly the Porter there At length being sent into the English Mission settled in a R. Cath. house in Cheshire near the River Mersie own'd by one Massie where he departed this life in July about the 18. day in sixteen hundred twenty and nine year 2629 as I have been informed by Will. Lacey of Oxon one of his Society whom I shall remember when I come to the year 1673. as having been originally of this University THOMAS GOFFE or Gorgh a Ministers Son made his first entry on the stage of this transient World in the County of Essex was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1609. aged 18. where applying his Muse to polite studies became an excellent Poet and Orator Afterwards he proceeded in Arts entred into the Sacred Function and shortly after became a quaint Preacher and a person of excellent language and expression In 1623. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time had the Parsonage of East-Clandon in Surrey conferr'd upon him where taking to Wife a meer Zantippe the Widdow of his Predecessor notwithstanding he had always before prosessed himself an Enemy to the Female Sex and esteemed by many another Joseph Swetnam he was so much overtop'd by her and her children which she had by her former Husband that his life being much shortned thereby died at length in a manner heart-broken But before his Marriage he composed most of these things following some of which were printed after his death Oratio funebris habita in Ecclesiâ Cath. Christi Ox. in obitum Gul. Goodwin istius Eccles Decani S. T. Doctoris Ox. 1620. in one sh and an half in qu. Oratio funebris habita in Scholâ Theol. Oxon. in obitum D. Hen. Savilii Oxon. 1622. qu. Deliverance from the grave Sermon at St. Maries Spittle in Lond. 28. Mar. 1627. on Ezek. 37. 13. Lond. 1627. qu. The raging Turk or Bajazet the Second Trag. Lond. 1631. qu. Couragious Turk or Amurath the First Trag. Ibid. 1632. qu. Tragedy of Orestes Lond. 1633. qu. These three Tragedies were reprinted at Lond. 1656. in oct by the care of Rich. Meighen the authors friend Selimus Emperour of the Turks Trag. Lond. 1638. qu. Careless Shepardess Trag. Com. Lond. 1656. qu. It was printed before but lying dead had a new title bearing date the same year put to it The Bastard Trag. Lond. 1652. qu. Some say it was not written by Goff but by Cosmo Manuche and therefore perhaps 't was only a translation Qu. He the said Th. Goffe made his last Exit at E. Clandon before-mentioned and was buried 27. year 1629 July in sixteen hundred twenty and nine in the middle of the Chancel of the Church there leaving then behind him other things fit for the Press as I have been informed by one that was acquainted with the author but what became of them he could not tell THOMAS JAMES or Jamesuis as he writes himself was born in the Isle of Wight at Newport as it seems educated in Grammaticals in Wykchams School and in Academicals in New coll of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1593. where drudging day and night in several sorts of learning he proceeded in Arts in 1599. About that time he being taken into the favour of Mr. afterwards Sir Tho. Bodley for his excellent worth in the knowledge of books as well printed as written and of the ordering of them he was by him designed the first keeper of the Publick Library at Oxon then in founding which office being confirmed to him by the University in 1602. he did much good therein and laid a most admirable foundation for his Successors to build upon In 1614. he took the degrees in Divinity and having about that time the Subdeanery of Wells conferr'd upon him freely without seeking by the Bishop of that place and the Parsonage of Mongcham in Kent with other Spiritualities by the Archb. of Canterbury without asking he resigned his place of Keeper of the Publick Library being about that time also a Justice of Peace and betook himself more severe to his studies He was very well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and so much vers'd in
discourses and writings against them So that as 't is presumed that party having a hatred towards them the English Recollect Friers at Doway did often brag that this our author and his brother Daniel should one day either carry faggots upon their shoulders or be burned in Smithfield or else recant and be glad to have the office to sweep their Church wherein they had preached false doctrine for an everlasting pennance and their Wives to carry out the dust and filth c. He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Londons warning by Loadicea's Lukewarmness on Rev. 3. 15 16. Lond. 1613. qu. 2 A heavenly proclamation to fly Remish Babylon on Rev. 18. 4. Oxon. 1614. qu. 3 Ephesus warning before her woe on Rev. 2. 5. Lond. 1616. qu. 4 Clearing of the Saints sight on Rev. 7. 17. Lond. 1617. qu. 5 Beauty of Holiness on Joh. 10. 22 23. Lond. 1618. qa Preached in the Chap. at the Free-School in Shrewsbury 10. Sept. 1617. at what time the said Chappel was consecrated by the B. of Cov. and Lichfield 6 The Twinns of birth and death preached at the Funeral of Sir Will. Bird 5 Sept. 1624. on Eccles. 3. 2. Lond. 1624 5. qu. 7 Londons remembrancer for the staying of the plague on Psal. 42. 4. Lond. 1626. qu. These seven Sermons are all that I have yet seen of his composition and therefore I can saynomore of him but that he was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel of Ch. Church before-mentioned in sixteen hundred and thirty year 1630 and was succeeded in his Vicarage by Mr. Edw. Finch of Cambridge Brother to Sir Joh. Finch afterwards Lord Finch of Fordwich The said Dr. Samp. Price had an elder Brother called Dr. Daniel Price whom I shall mention under the year 1631. FRANCIS HICKS or Hyckes Son of Rich. Hicks an Arras-Weaver of Barcheston commonly called Barston in Warwickshire was born within the large Parish of Tredington in Worcestershire particularly as I conceive in a Muket Town called Shipson matriculated as a Worcestershire man and a Member of S. Maries hall in the beginning of 1579. aged 13. and four years after took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of that house having had his Tutor and his Chamber as it seems in Oriel college But before he had compleated that degree by Determination he left the University and was diverted by a Country retirement Where tho as a plain man he sye at his time in Husbandry yet he never left the true tast and relish that distinguishes men of his education but rather made continual improvement of that nutriment which he had received in his younger days from the breasts of his honour'd Mother the Univ. of Oxon. His study or rather recreation was chiefly in the Greek tongue and of his knowledge therein he hath left unto the World sufficient Testimonies as his translation from Greek into Latin of 1 Certain select dialogues of Lucian together with his true history Oxon. 1634. qu. Published by his Son Thom. Hicks M. A. and Chaplain of Ch. Ch. 2 The history of the Wars of Peloponesus in 8 books written by Thuciaides the Athenian MS. in Ch. Ch. Library in Oxon. Q. 4. Arts sol 3 The history of Herodian beginning from the Reign of Emperour Marcus MS. in the Archives of the said Libr. in qu. Given thereunto with the former MS. by Tho. Hicks before-mentioned Our Translatâ—r Franc. Hicks having spent most of his time at Barston before-mentioned and at Shipson adjoyning died in a Kinsmans house at Sutton in Gloucestershire near to Brayles in Warwickshire on the 9. day of Jan. in sixteen hundred and thirty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there As for Thom. Hicks whom I have touched upon before he was an ingenious man has done something about Lucan and therefore shall be remembred elsewhere HENRY BRIGGS Briggius one of the most admired Mathematicians of his time was born in an obscure Hamlet called Warley Weed in the large Parish of Halifax in Yorkshire whos 's Genie being naturally inclined to the Mathematicks was sent from the Grammar School in the Vicinity of Warley to the University of Cambridge where in short time he became Fellow of S. Johns coll After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he was preser'd to be the first Geometry-Reader in Gresham coll at London an 1596. where continuing about 23 years in reading to and improving his auditors Sir Hen. Savile desired him to accept of his Lecture of Geometry chiefly because it was not only better as to revenues but more honouraâ—â—â— Wâ—ereupon going to Oxon 1619. and setling in 〈…〉 coll in the condition of a Fellow-Commoner was soon â—fter incorporated M. of A. and kept the Lecture to the timâ— of his death It must be now known that 〈…〉 Scotch man perhaps the same mentioned in the 〈…〉 under the year 1605. among the â—â—corporation coming out of Denmark into his own 〈◊〉 called upon 〈◊〉 Neper Baron of Marcheston near 〈◊〉 and told him among other discourses of a new 〈◊〉 in Denmark by Longomontanus as 't is said to save the tâ—â—ious multiplication and division in Astronomical calculations Neper being solicitous to know farther of him concerning this matter he could give no other account of it than that it was by proportionable numbers Which hint Neper taking he desired him at his return to call upon him again Craig after some weeks had passed did so and Neper then shew'd him a rude draugâ—â— of that hâ— called Canon mirabilis Logarithmoâ—am Which draught 〈◊〉 me alterations he printing in 1614. it came forthwith into the hands of our author Briggs and into those of Will Oughtred from whom the relation of this matter 〈◊〉 Both which consulting about the perfecting of it the former took a journey into Scotland to confer with Neper about it At length having received some satisfaction from him he perused the matter and in few years after put forth two books of Logarithms after a more commodious method The first is intitled Arithmetica Logarithmetica The other Trigonometria Britannica The former of which shews the construction of Logarithmetical Tables the latter the conjunction of the Tables of Sines Tangents and Secants and the doctrine of Triangles to the great advantage of Astronomy and Astronomical operations These two parts were published with this title Arithmetica Logarithmetica sive Logarithmorum chiliades triginta pro numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 20,000 a 90. 000. ad 100,000 c. Lond. 1624. fol. Besides these he hath written Treatise concerning the North-west passage to the South Sea through the continent of Virginia c. Lond. 1622. and Commentaries on the Geometry of Pet. Ramus MS. Which after Briggs's death came into the hands of Mr. Joh. Greaves of Merton coll Successor to Dr. Bainbridge in the Astronomy Lecture and from him to his Brother Thomas and from Tho. to Mr. Theod. Haak a Member of
the late Soveraign K. James Lond. 1625. a Poem and other things which I have not yet seen but he was not the author of the Appendix to the Commentary of Engl. Bishops as one or more think He died within the City of Westminster having always been in animo Catholicus in sixteen hundred thirty and three whereupon his body was buried in the Abby Church of S. Peter there near to the door entring into the Monuments or the door thro which people enter to see the Monuments on the three and twentieth day of July in the same year I have seen a copy of his Epitaph made by himself wherein he is stiled miserimus peccator musarum amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus c. and another made by a second person which for brevity sake I now pass by In my searches I find one Hugh Holland to have been admitted Bac. of Arts with Tho. Worthington afterwards a Jesuit in Mich. Term an 1570. and another Hugh Holland an Esquires Son of Denbighshire to be matriculated as a member of Ball. coll an 1582. aged 24. with others of that Sirname of the same house but whether any of them were authors I cannot yet tell or whether the last was the same with the Poet. Qu. GEORGE ABBOT younger brother to Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd under the year 1617. was born in the same Town and house where Robert was bred also in the same School under Mr. Franc. Taylor entred a student in Ball. coll 1578. aged 16. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow thereof 29. Nov. 1583. being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into holy Orders and became a celebrated preacher in the University In 1597. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in the same year being elected Master of Vniversity coll gave up all right that he had to his Fellowship In the latter end of 1599. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Martin Heton promoted to the See of Ely Which Dignity he keeping till 1609. succeeded then Dr. Thom. Morton Dean of Glocester On the third of Dec. 1609. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 29. of the same month In Febr. following he was translated to London and being elected soon after to the See of Canterbury had the Kings consent to it 29. March 1610. On the 9. of Apr. 1611. he was translated to the said See of Canterbury and on the 4. of May following had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto On the 23. of June ensuing he was sworn a member of his Majesties Privy Council and accordingly took his place So that he having never been Rector or Vicar of a parish and so consequently was in a manner ignorant of the trouble that attended the ministers of Gods word was the cause as some think why he was harsh to them and why he shew'd more respect to a Cloak than a Cassock He was a person pious and grave and exemplary in his life and conversation He was also a learned man and had his erudition all of the old stamp He was stiffly principled in the doctrine of S. Augustine which they who understand it not call Calvinism and therefore disrelish'd by them who incline to the Massilian and Arminian Tenets Those that well remember him have said that tho he was a plausible preacher yet his brother Robert was a greater Scholar and tho an able Statesman yet Robert was a deeper Divine The things that he hath written are these which shew him to be a man of parts learning vigilancy and unwearied study tho overwhelm'd with business Questiones sex totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theologicâ Oxomiae pro formâ habitis discussae disceptatae an 1597 in quibus è sacra scriptura Patribus quid statuendum sit definitur Oxon 1598. qu. Francof 1616. qu. which last edition was published by Abrah Scultetus Exposition on the Prophet Jonah contained in certain Sermons preached in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Lond. 1600. and 1613. The reasons which Dr. Hill hath brought for the upholding of Papistry unmasked and shewed to be very weak c. Oxon. 1604. qu. Which book was in answer to one intit A quartron of reasons of Cath. Religion with as many brief answers of refusal Antw. 1600. qu. written by Tho. Hill D. D. then living at Phalempyne beyond the Sea who a little before had left the Church of England to embrace the Doctrine of that of Rome He was also answer'd by Franc. Dillingham Bac. of Div. of Cambridge in a book intit A quartron of reasons composed by Dr. Hill unquartered and proved a quartron of follies Cambridge 1603. qu. Preface to the examination of George Sprot London 1608. qu. Sermon at Westminster 26 May 1608. at the funeral solemnities of Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord High Treasurer of England on Isaiah 40. 6. London 1608. qu. Brief description of the whole world Lond. 1617. qu the 9th edition Other editions in oct followed and the book is commonly called Abbots Geography Treatise of perpetual visibility and succession of the true Church in all ages Lond. 1624. qu. His name is not set to this book only his Arms empaled by those belonging to the See of Canterbury are put before it and 't is generally reputed to be his and none but his History of the Massacre in the Valtoline At the end of the third vol. of Joh. Fox hs book of Acts and Mon. of the Church Lond. 1631. 41. c. His Judgment of bowing at the name of Jesus Ham. 1632. oct Several Speeches and Discourses in Parliament and elsewhere At length he being found guilty of casual homicide the particulars of which are mention'd by Historians he retired for a time to Guildford in Surrey the place of his nativity where he had erected an Hospital for men and women Afterwards removing to Croyden he gave way to fate in his Pallace there on the fourth day of August year 1633 in sixteen hundred thirty and three aged 71. Whereupon according to his desire his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady within Trinity Church in Guildford Over his grave was soon after built a sumptuous Altar or Table-monument with his proportion in his Pontificalia lying thereon supported by six pillars of the Dorick order of black Marble standing on six pedestals of piled books with a large inscription thereon beginning thus Sacrum memoriae honoratiss Archipraesulis c. At the east end of the said Mon. is another large inscript which begins also thus Aeternae memoriae Sacrum Magni hic Hospes Hospitis monumenta vides c. Besides this Dr. George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury I find another of both his names to have been a writer also but later in time and author of The whole book of Job Paraphrased c. London 1640. qu. Dedicated to
ascended the Throne he became the Latin Secretary and proved to him very serviceable when employed in business of weight and moment and did great matters to obtain a name and wealth To conclude he was a person of wonderful parts of a very sharp biting and satyrical wit He was a good Philosopher and Historian an excellent Poet Latinist Grecian and Hebritian a good Mathematician and Musitian and so rarely endowed by nature that had he been but honestly principled he might have been highly useful to that party against which he all along appeared with much malice and bitterness As for the things which he hath published are these 1 Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in England and the causes that hitherto have hindred it c. Lond. 1641. qu. At which time as before the Nation was much divided upon the Controversies about Church Government between the prelatical party and Puritans and therefore Milton did with great boldness and zeal offer his judgment as to those matters in his said book of Reformation 2 Animadversions upon the Remonstrants defence against Smectymnus Lond. 1641. qu. Which Rem defence was written as 't is said by Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter 3 Apology against the humble Remonstrant This was written in vindication of his Animadversions 4 Against prelatical Episcopacy This I have not yet seen 5 The reason of Church Government nor this 6 The doctrine and discipline of divorce c. in two books Lond. 1644-45 qu. To which is added in some Copies a translation of The judgment of Mart. Bucer concerning divorce c. It must be now known that after his settlement upon his return from his Travels he in a months time courted married and brought home to his house in London a Wife from Forsthill lying between Halton and Oxford named Mary the Daughter of Mr. Powell of that place Gent. But she who was very young and had been bred in a family of plenty and freedom being not well pleas'd with her Husbands retired manner of life did shortly after leave him and went back in the Country with her Mother Whereupon tho he sent divers pressing invitations yet he could not prevail with her to come back till about 4 years after when the Garrison of Oxâ—n was surrendred the nighness of her Fathers house to which having for the most part of the mean time hindred any communication between them she of her own accord returned and submitted to him pleading that her Mother had been the chief promoter of her frowardness But he being not able to bear this abuse did therefore upon consideration after he had consulted many eminent Authors write the said book of Divorce with intentions to be separated from her but by the compromising of her Relations the matter did not take effect so that she continuing with him ever after till her death he had several Children by her of whom Deborah was the third Daughter trained up by the Father in Lat. and Greek and made by him his Amanuensis 7 Tetrachordon Expositions upon the four chief places in Scripture which treat on marriage on Gen. 1. 27 28. c. Lond. 1646. qu. 8 Colasterion A reply to a nameless answer against the doctrine and discipline of divorce c. printed 1645. qu. Upon his publication of the said three books of Marriage and Divorce the Assembly of Divines then sitting at Westmirster took special notice of them and thereupon tho the Author had obliged them by his pen in his defence of Smectymnus and other their Controversies had with the Bishops they impatient of having the Clergies jurisdiction as they reckon'd it invaded did instead of answering or disproving what those books had asserted cause him to be summoned before the House of Lords but that House whether approving the Doctrine or not favouring his Accusers did soon dismiss him To these things I must add that after his Majesties Restauration when the subject of Divorce was under consideration with the Lords upon the account of John Lord Ros or Roos his separation from his Wife Anne Pierpont eldest Daughter to Henry Marquess of Dorchester he was consulted by an eminent Member of that House as he was about that time by a chief Officer of State as being the prime person that was knowing in that affair 9 Of Education written or addressed to Mr. Sam. Hartlib In this Treatise he prescrib'd an easie and delightful method for the training up of Gentry to all sorts of Literature that they might at the same time by like degrees advance in virtue and abilities to serve their Country subjoyning directions for their obtaining other necessary or ornamental Accomplishments And to this end that he might put it in practice he took a larger house where the Earl of Barrimore sent by his Aunt the Lady Rannelagh Sir Thomas Gardiner of Essex to be there with others besides his two Nephews under his Tuition But whether it were that the tempers of our Gentry would not bear the strictness of his discipline or for what other reasons I cannot tell he continued that course but a while 10 Areopagetica A speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England Lond. 1644. qu. written to vindicate the freedom of the Press from the Tyranny of Licensers who for several Reasons deprive the publick of the benefit of many useful Authors 11 Poemata quorum pleraque intra annum aetatis vigesimum conscripsit author c. Lond. 1645. oct 12 A mask printed 1645. oct 13 Poems c. printed the same year Hitherto we find him only to have published political things but when he saw upon the coming of K Charles 1. to his Tryal the Presbyterian Ministers clamorously to assert in their Sermons and Writings the privileges of Kings from all accountableness or to speak in the language of that time Non-resistance and Passive Obedience to be the Doctrine of all the reformed Churches which he took to be only their malignity against the Independents who had supplanted them more than for any principles of Loyalty he therefore to oppose that Thesis which as he conceiv'd did encourage all manner of Tyranny did write and publish from divers Arguments and Authorities 13 The tenure of Kings and Magistrates proving that it is lawful c. to call to account a Tyrant or King and after due conviction to depose and put him to death c. Lond. 1649 50. qu. Soon after the King being beheaded to the great astonishment of all the World and the Government thereupon changed he was without any seeking of his by the endeavours of a private acquaintance who was a member of the new Council of State chosen Latin Secretary as I have before told you In this publick station his abilities and acuteness of parts which had been in a manner kept private were soon taken notice of and he was pitch'd upon to elude the artifice so it was then by the Faction called of Eikon Basilice Whereupon he soon after published 14
time went beyond him either in that Faculty or for the Reading of the Antients particularly Dionysius Areopagita Origen S. Cyprian S. Ambrose S. Hierome S. Austin c. But as for Thomas Aquinas Jo. Duns Scotus and other Schoolmen he seemed not to delight in After his return from Italy he retired again to his Mother the University of Oxon where he publickly and freely without stipend or reward Expounded all S. Paul's Epistles about 1497. 98. 99. c. in which years Erasmus Rot. studied perhaps our Author Colet too in the College of S. Mary the Virgin a Nursery for the Canon Regulars of the Order of S. Austin Which most learned person did make this report of Colet that there was neither Doctor Abbat or Master in the whole University who frequented not and which was more took Notes of his Lectures In 1493. he was upon the resignation of Christoph Urswyke admitted by proxie being then absent Prebendary of Botevant in the Church of York in 1502 he became Preb. of Durnesford in the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of Rich. Rauson and about the year 1504. being then Doctor of Divinity he was by King Henry 7. made Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral in the place of Rob. Sherebourne promoted to the See of S. David After his settlement in Pauls he according to the blessed example of S. Paul became a free and constant Preacher of the Gospel by Preaching every Holyday in the Cathedral not customary in those times besides his Sermons at Court which made him be loved of the King and in many other Churches in the City In his own Church he Expounded the Scriptures not by retail but wholesale running over sometimes a whole Epistle which with his Sermons elsewhere were much frequented by Courtiers and Citizens and more especially for this cause that the strickt disciplinee of his Life did regularly corespond with the integrity of his Doctrine In 1512. 4. Hen. 8. he was at the charge of 4500 l. for the Founding a Free-School in the East part of S. Paul's Church-Yard for three hundred fifty and three poor Mens Children to be taught free in the School appointing a Master Usher and a Chaplain with sufficient stipends to endure for ever and committed the oversight of it to the Mercers of London whom he endowed with an hundred and twenty pounds yearly for the maîntenance thereof He also at the same time gave Orders for the Scholars whereby also the School-Masters themselves should be directed As for the Rents they being much increased since more comes to the School-Master than the whole endowment The first Master was William Lilye the famous Grammarian who before had privately taught Grammar elsewhere 2 John Retwise 1522. 3. Richard Jones 1532. 4. Thomas Freeman 1549. 5. John Cook 1559. 6. Will. Malyn 1573. 7. William Harrison 1581. 8. Rich. Mulcaster 1596. 9. Alexander Gill senior 1608. 10. Alexander Gill jun. 1635. 11. John Largley 1640. 12. Sam. Crumbleholme of C. C. C. Ox. 1657. 13. Thomas Gale of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge Our Author Colet was accounted one of the lights of Learning of his time and therefore entirely beloved of Erasmus who wrote his Life which I have seen and in some things follow Thomas Lynacre Sir Thomas Mere Richard Paice his successor in the Deanry of S. Paul's William Latymer William Grocyn and others As for the things that he wrote they are many which being found in his Study after his death few understood them because written only for his own understanding with intentions if life had been spared that they should have been all fairly transcribed and published The most part follow Orationes duae ad Clerum in Convocatione An 1511. c. Lond. in oct One of them was also Printed in three Sheets in quarto by Rich. Pynson Comment in Ecclesiasticam D. Dionysiii Hierarchiam MS. Comment in Proverbia Salomonis Comment in Evang. S. Matthei Comment in Epistolas D. Pauli The said Com. on the Epistles of S. Paul are said to be in MS. in the Library of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge Com. in Precationem Dominic Symbolum fidei The first of these two last is translated into English Breviloquium dictorum Christi De Reformidatione Christi Conciones Ordinariae Extraordinariae Some of these I think are published Epistolae ad Erasmum Some of these if not all are published in the Epistles of Erasmus De Moribus componendis Grammatices rudimenta Lond. 1539. oct This I think is called Paul's Accidence c. Eâ—â—â—olae ad Thom. Taylerum Daily Devotions or the Christians Morning and Evening Sacrifice c. Printed at London several times in twelves and sixteens Before one Impression if not more of this Book is Dr. Colet's Life tâ—â—ely and imperfectly written by Thomas Fuller of Waltham in Essex being mostly the same with that in his Abel Redivivus Monition to a godly life London 1534. 1563. c. oct This without doubt is the same with A right fruitful admonition concerning the order of a good Christian Mans life c. London 1577. oct Sermon of Conforming and Reforming made to the Convocation in S. Paul 's Church on Rom. 12. 2. An. 1511. This was also published at Cambridge in 1661. in octavo by Thomas Smith of Christs Coll. there with Notes of his making put to it and the Particulars of his Life in English framed from some of the Epistles of Erasmus Responsio ad argumenta Erasmiana de taedio pavore Christi This is mentioned in the thirty first Book of the Epistles of Erasmus ep 46. The Titles of other Books written by Dr. Colet you may see in John Bale's Book De Script Maj. Britan. Cent. 8 nu 63. At length our learned Author discovering the sweating Sickness to grow upon him he retired to his Lodgings that he had built in the Monastery of the Carthusians at Sheen near to Richmond in Surrey where spending the little remainder of his days in Devotion surrendred up at length his last breath to him that first gave it year 1519 on the 16. of September in Fifteen hundred and nineteen Afterwards his body was carried to London and by the care of his old decrepid Mother it was buried in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul nigh to the Image of S. Wâ—gefort Soon after was a comly Monument set over his Grave near to the little one which he had set up in his life time between the Choire and the South Isle which Monument remaining whole and entire till 1666. was then consumed in the dreadful Conflagration that happened in the City of London But before that time it was carefully preserved in Effigie by the industrious Pen of Mr. since Sir William Dugdale in his History of S. Paul's Cathedral Printed at London in fol. 1658. In the last Will and Testament of the said Dr. Colet dated 22. Aug. and proved the 5. of October in 1519. I find this passage Item The New Testament and other of my making
in number 37. to be enquired of in his general visitation exercised by him in the City and Dioc. of Lond. an 1554 These being very unusual articles I do therefore here set them down especially for this reason that Jo. Bale hath commented on them with a great deal of raillery in a Book entit A Declaration of Edmund Bonners articles Lond. 1561. oct A profitable and necessary doctrine or Catechisme with certaine Homelies adjoyned thereunto for the instruction and information of the People within the Dioc. of Lond. Lond. 1554. 55. qu. Or thus A necessary doctrine containing an exposition on the Creed seaven Sacraments ten commandments the pater noster Ave Maria and the seaven deadly sins Various letters declarations arguings disputes c. As in the said Book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he was for denying the Oath of Supreamacy deprived of his Bishoprick again as he himself hath set it down in a spare leaf before Eusebius his Ch. Hist with Ruffinus his commentary printed at Basil in the Year 1528. Which Book I some years ago bought for the sake of the note which he had written running thus Litera dominicali A. an dom MDLIX die Maii XXX vocatus ad concilium recusavi praestare juramentum omnino deprivatus Afterwards being committed to his former prison the Marshalsea in Southwarke near London continued there in a cheerful and contented condition till the time of his death which therefore made those that did not care for him say that he was like Dionysius the Tyrant of Syracuse who being cruel and peremptory in prosperity was both patient and pleasant in adversity 'T is said that Dr. Bonner being sometimes allowed liberty he would walk as his occasions served in the street and sometimes wearing his tippet one begg'd it of him in scoff to line a coat no saith he but thou shalt have a fools head to line thy cap. To another that bid him Good morrow Bishop quondam he streight replyed Farewel knave semper Which answers are Epigrammatiz'd by an admired Muse of our Nation in his time When another Person shew'd the said Bonner his own picture in the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. commonly call'd the Book of Martyrs on purpose to vex him he merrily laugh'd and said a vengeance on the fool how could he get my picture drawn so right And when one asked him if he were not ashamed to whip a Man with a beard he laugh'd and told him his beard was grown since but said he if thou hadst been in his case thou would'st have thought it a good commutation of pennance to have thy bumm beaten to save thy body from burning c. He gave way to fate in the aforesaid Prison 5. Sept. year 1569 in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine and was at midnight buried near to the bodies of other Prisoners in the Cemitery belonging to St. Georges Church in Southwark in which Parish the Marshalsea is situated He had caused formerly two of his Nephews Sons of one of his Sisters before-mention'd to be educated in Broadgates hall one of which was named Will. Darbyshire who by his Uncles favour became Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral and dying in Broadgates was buried in St. Aldates Church adjoyning 3. July 1552. The other was Tho. Darbyshire who proceeded Doctor of Laws as a Member of Broadgates in 1555 under which year you may see more of him in the Fasti ANDREW KINGSMYLL Son of John Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire was born there or in that County elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. from that of Corp. Chr. in 1558 studied the Civil Law wherein he attained to a considerable knowledge and was admitted to the reading of any Book of the Institutions in that faculty in the beginning of the Year 1563. About that time also he exercised himself much in the Scriptures and having a great memory could readily rehearse memoriter in the Greek tongue St. Pauls Epistles to the Romans and Galatians and St. Johns first Canonical Epistle besides other Chapters of the Old and New Test and several Psalmes He exercised himself also by writing of sundry matters that he might grow in judgment readiness and aptness to teach others if at any time he should be called thereunto whereof a little treatise entit A view of Mans estate c. yieldeth some proof which he wrot at about 22 years of Age. He esteemed not so much the preferment and profit whereunto many ways he might easily have attained by the profession of the Law as the comfortable assurance which he usually urged and blessed hope of life eternal Wherefore to further himself therein he sought not only the exact knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew tongues but also for a time to live in some one of the best reformed Churches where he might both by the doctrine and discipline of the Gospel be dayly confirm'd in the true worship of God and well prepared for the Ministry of the Church For this end he settled in Geneva where he remained the space of three years being well liked by the learned and godly there From thence he removed to Losanne where being too good for this world ended this mortal life leaving behind him a rare example of godliness among the Calvinistical Brethren there He hath written A view of mans estate wherein the great mercy of God in mans free justification is shewed Lond. 1574. 1580 c. oct A godly advice touching marriage Lond. 1580. oct Excellent and comfortable treatise for all such as are any manner of way either troubled in mind or afflicted in body Lond. 1578. oct Godly and learned exhortation to bear patiently all afflictions for the Gospel of Jes Ch. on Gal. 6. 14. Conference between a godly learned Christian and an afflicted conscience concerning a conflict had with Satan All which and I think a Sermon on S. Joh. 3. 16. printed in oct were published after the Authors death by his friend and contemporary Franc. Mylls a Kentish Man M. of A. and Fel. of All 's C. As for the Author he surrendred up his last breath in the prime of his years at Losanne and therefore the more lemented by the brethren in the Month of Sept. in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine year 1569 leaving behind him an excellent pattern of his virtues and piety which all should but few did imitate It must be now known that in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the Univ. of Oxon was so empty after the R. Cath. had left it upon the alteration of Religion that there was very seldom a Sermon preached in the University Church called Sr. Mary and what was done in that kind was sometimes by Laurence Humphrey President of Magd. C. and Thom. Sampson Dean of Ch. Ch. But they being often absent a young Man of Allsouls Coll. would often step up and Preach to the admiration of all his auditors This young Man whom as Sir Hen. Savile Warden
England and changed his Name to Smyth for adhering to the deposed King Rich. 2. Further also I find another John Smyth commonly called Captain Smyth who wrote 1. A Map of Virginia with a Description of the Country the Commodities People Government and Religion Oxon. 1612. qu. 2. New Englands Trials c. Lond. 1620. qu. 3. General History of Virginia c. Lond. 1624. qu. 4. Travels in Europe c. Lond. 1630. with other things but this Captain Smyth was a Cheshire man and whether he had received any Education in this University of Oxon I cannot say to the contrary JOHN PRIME Son of Rob. Prime a Fletcher was born in the Parish of Halywell in the North Suburb of Oxford received his Grammatical Literature in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Col. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted puritanical Preacher in the City of his Nativity and much favoured by Dr. Cooper Bishop of Winchester In 1589. he proceeded in Divinity being at that time Vicar of Adderbury alias Eabburbury in Oxfordshire where he became much followed for his edifying way of preaching He hath written A short treatise of Sacraments generally and in special of Baptism and of the Supper Lond. 1582. oct Treatise of nature and grace Lond. 1583 oct Sermon briefly comparing the State of King Solomon and his Subjects together with the condition of Queen Elizabeth and her People preached at S. Maries in Oxon. 17. Nov. 1585. on 1 Kings 10. 9. Oxon. 1585. oct Exposition on the Galathians Ox. 1587. oct The consolations of David applied to Queen Elizabeth in a Sermon at S. Maries in Oxon. 17. Nov. 1588. on Psal 23. 4. Oxon. 1588. oct These as I think were all the books and Sermons that he hath published tho he intended more had he not been cut off in his middle Age. At length after he had been Vicar of Adderbury about 7 years he concluded his last day there about the 12 of April in fifteen hundred ninety and six year 1596 and was buried in the Church of that place but hath neither Epitaph or Inscription over his Grave FRANCIS KNOLLIS Son of Robert Knollis of Rotherfield-Gray commonly called Grays near to Henley in Oxfordshire did receive for a time his Grammatical and Dialectical Education in this University particularly as it seems in Magd. coll Afterwards he retired to his patrimony and at length to the court and became one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to K. Hen. 8. in the latter end of his reign When a reformation was set on foot by King Ed. 6. he was so zealous for the religion then professed as that when Qu. Mary began to reign and grow severe towards the Reformed party he fled into Germany where he sorted himself for a time among several of the English Divines that went away about the same time for conscience sake After the death of that Queen he returned and became so much in esteem by Q. Elizabeth who stood totally affected to the reformation as that in the first year of her reign he was made choice of for one of her privy Council and shortly after that she made him Vice-chamberlain of her houshold and employed him in matters of concern beyond the Seas In 1566. he was actually created Master of Arts being then chief Steward of the City of Oxon Captain of the Halbertiers and about that time Treasurer of the Queens Chamber in the place of Sir John Mason deceased Afterwards he was trusted with the custody of Mary Qu. of Scots while she was a prisoner in Bolton-castle in Yorkshire and in the 29. Elizab. being then a Knight he was one of those who by commission sate in judgment upon the said Queen at Foderingey At length he was made Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter being always by many accounted a faithful subject an honest and learned man and a person of great prudence and wisdom and by others so a great a friend to Calvin in his heart whose principles he embraced while he lived at Geneva that he was never a cordial friend to Episcopacy but rather a patron of the Non-conformists which appeared by several of his actions while he was a privy Counsellour His writings are these Treatise against the usurpation of Papal Bishops Printed 1608. in oct some attribute it to Jo. Rainolds the famous Divine A General Survey of the Isle of Wight with all the Castles and Fortresses near adjoining This is a MS. in fol. and was sometimes in the Lib. of Arthur E. of Anglesey From whence we may suppose that the author had some office in or relating to the said Isle but what in truth I cannot tell I have seen also several of his speeches spoken in Parliaments letters of state and letters written by him to the said Jo. Rainolds between whom there was great amity and intercourse but few or none of those letters or speeches I think are printed At length paying his last debt to nature in the Summer time before Septemb. year 1595 in fifteen hundred ninety and six was as I presume buried at Grays before mentioned By his Wife Catherine daughter of Will. Cary Esque by Mary his Wife daughter of Thom. Bolein Earl of Wiltshire as also Sister to the Lady Anne Bolein second Wife to K. Hen. 8. he had issue Henry his Eldest Son bred in the Free-School joyning to Maga College under the care as it seems of Tho. Robertson Afterwards he went with his Father and others into Germany and at his return if not happily before became a Commoner of the said College where he obtained so much literature as afterwards to gain the character by a learned Author of homo virtute animi dotibus non infimus and of homo religionis studiosissimus liberalissima literatura egregic ditatus c. But he dying without issue the estate went to the next Son called William afterwards Earl of Baâ—bury He had another Son named Francis 2 Knight whom I shall mention elsewhere as also a fourth who was a member of the said College and all four admired by some and envied by others for their great vertue and towardliness JOHN SMITH was a Berkshire man born as it seems became Fellow of St. Johns coll in the Founders time Master of Arts in in 1560. and afterwards Schoolmaster at and Vicar of the Church of St. Laurence in Reading in the aforesaid County He hath written The Doctrine of Prayer in general for all men that is universally for all Mankind c. Lond. 1595. qu. What else he hath published I know not being a difficult matter to distinguish his Works from others of both his names and time And whether he was author of The use of the Gospel printed 1580. in qu. which is said to be written by Jo. Smith I cannot tell The said Joh. Smith of Reading did give way to Fate there and was buried
exemplar Complutense cum Latina versione ex Ebraeo cum comment Amstel 1632. qu. Animadversionum libri duo pro emendatione 〈◊〉 Ebr. veterum Interpr in plurimis locis S. Scripturae Amstel 1634. qu. Grammatica linguae sâ—â—ctae Franek 1612. qu. Catechesis religionis christianae Heb. Gr. Lat. pr. 1591. oct Other things as 't is probable he hath published but such I have not yet seen He surrendred up his pious soul to God on this 12. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and fifteen and was buried as I suppose at Franeker after he had lived there a most severe student and in continual labour for the good and benefit of Literature about 31. years He left behind him a Son of both his names bred partly in this University but not to be numbred among most learned men especially such as was his Father as also a Daughter named Agnes the wife of Abel Curiander author of the Latin life of his Father-in-Law Joh. Drusius printed at Franaker 1616. qu. In which the Reader may see more of his life and works than are here set down by me THOMAS ROGERS a most admirable Theologist an excellent Preacher and well deserving every way of the sacred Function was born as I conceive in Cheshire and came full ripe to the University before 1568. About which time being made one the Students of Ch. Ch. took holy Orders very early and afterwards the degree of Master of Arts Scil. an 1576. before which time he was a sedulous and constant Preacher of Gods word What his preferments were successively afterwards I know not only that he was Chaplain to Doctor Bancroft Bishop of London and at length Rector of Horninger near to S. Edmonds Bury in Suffolke where and in the neighbourhood he was always held in great esteem for his learning and holiness of life and conversation His works are these A Philosophical discourse entit The Anatomy of the mind Lond. 1576. oct Before which is a copy of Verses in praise of it written by his Contemporary Will. Camden of Ch. Ch. Of the end of the world and second comming of Christ c. Lond. 1577. qu. The English Creed wherein is contained in tables an exposition on the articles which every man is to subscribe unto Where the articles are expounded by Scripture and the confessions of all the reformed Churches and Heresies are displayed Lond. 1579. and 85. fol. General Session containing an apology of the comfortable doctrine concerning the end of the world and seccond coming of Christ Lond. 1581. qu. The English Creed consisting with the true ancient Catholique and Apostolick Church in all the points and articles of Religion which every christian is to know and believe that would be saved c. In two parts The first printed at London in 1585. the second there 1587. and both in fol. An Exposition on the 39 Articles of the Church of England Lond. 1586. c. qu. Which book at the first appearance met not with that welcom entertainment which seemed due to the authors endeavours For besides the two extreams Papists and Schismaticks who were highly inraged many Protestants of a middle temper were much offended thereat Some conceived it presumption for a private Minister to make himself the mouth of the Church to render her sense in matters of so high-concernment Others were offended that his interpretation confin'd the charitable latitude formerly allowed in those Articles Howsoever it was sure it is the work in some years wrought it self in good esteem as dedicated to and countenanced by Dr. Bancroft before-mentioned A golden Chaine taken out of the rich treasure house of the Psalms of David Lond. 1587. in tw The Peerles of K. Soleman gathered into common places Taken from the Proverbs of the said King printed with the former book Historical dialogue touching Antichrist and Popery drawn and published for the comfort of our Church c. Lond. 1589. oct Serm. on 12. Rom. ver 6. 7. 8. Lond. 1590. qu. Miles Christianus Or a defence of all necessary writings and writers written against an Epistle prefixed to a Catechism made by Miles Moses Lond. 1590. qu. This Miles Moses was Bach. of Div. and published besides the former things The arraignment of Vsury in six Sermons Lond. 1595. qu. Table of the lawful use of an oath and the cursed state of vain Swearers Lond. Two dealogues Lond. 1608. He also translated into English 1 A discourse of the end of the world and second comming of Christ Lond. 1577. 78. oct written by Schelto à Geveren of Emden in Friesland 2 General discourse of the damnable sect of Vsurers c. Lond. 1578. qu. written by Philip Caesar To which is added A treatise of the lawful use of riches written by Nich. Heming 3 The profession of the true Church and Popery compared Lond. 1578. oct 4 Exposition on the 84. Psalm Lond. 1581. oct written by Nic. Heming for the instruction of the ignorant in the grounds of Religion and confutation of the Jewes Turks c. 5 S. Augustins heavenly meditations call'd A private talke with God Lond. 1581. in tw Purified by our Translator T. Rogers and adorned with annotations of Scripture 6 Of the foolishness of men and women in putting off the amendment of their lives from day to day Lond. 1583. and 86. oct written Joh. Rivius 7 Of the imitation of Christ Lond. 1584. 89. in tw written in three books by Tho. de Kempis and for the worthiness thereof oft since translated into sundry Languages Now newly translated by Tho. Rogers corrected and with most ample Texts and Sentences of holy Scripture illustrated 8 A method to Mortification called heretofore The contempt of the World c. Lond. 1586. in tw written by Didac Stella 9 S. Augustins Prayers Lond. 1591. in tw c. Purged by our Translator T. Rogers from divers superstitious points and adorned with manifold places of Scripture 10 A manual containing special and picked meditations and godly prayers Lond. 1591. in tw with corrections by the Translator 11 Enemy of security or a daily exercise of godly meditations Lond. 1580. and 91. in tw written by Joh. Avenar publick Professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Witeberge 12 Enemy to Atheism or christian godly prayers for all degrees Lond. 1591. in tw written in the German Language by Jo. Avenar translated out of Lat. by our author T. Rogers 13 Soliloquium animae The fourth book of the imitation of Christ Lond. 1592. in tw written by Th. de Kempis before mentioned What other thing our author hath written and translated I know not Nor any thing else of him only that he was a zealous opposer of the doctrine of the Sabbath and the first that publickly stood up against Dr. Nich. Bownds opinion of it in his Preface to the Exposition on the 39. Articles c. which made the other party the Puritan angry and so far to be enraged as maliciously to asperse and blemish him
our author Bunney who had a bulkey body and a broad face did several times come to Oxon accompanied with two men in black Liveries with horses and did preach or catechize in some Churches there and near to it where was none to do that office particularly in Allsaints Church to whom many resorted and took Notes Also that whatsoever he had given to him by way of gratuity he would bestow on his men and farther added that by his seeing holiness of life and soundness of doctrine many Scholars particularly himself were induced afterwards to take holy Orders He would travel over most parts of England like a new Apostle and would endeavour to act as the Apostles did So that being blamed for it by many as if there were none to be found to do that office but he and looked upon by others as a forward busie and conceited man he therefore wrote his Defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry and dispersed several copies of it abroad among his friends and acquaintance The truth is he was the most fluid Preacher in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth for he seldom or never studied for what he was to deliver but would preach and pray extempere as our beloved Saints did in the time of the rebellion under K. Ch. 1. and after insomuch that many were pleased to say he was troubled with the Divinity squirt I have heard some of our Ancients who remember him report that he was a severe Calvinist and that by the liberty he took did a great deal of harm by his Preaching in Corporation-Towns as many then did and some Gentlemen also with Licenses obtained from the Queen under pretence of a scarcity of Divines He hath written The summ of Christian Religion in two parts The first intreateth of the Trinity and the second of the Commandments Lond. 1576. oct Abridgment of Jo. Calvin's Institutions Lond. 1580. oct Translated into Engl. by Edw. May. Scepter of Judah or what manner of Government it was that unto the Commonwealth or Church of Israel was by the Law of God appointed Lond. 1584. oct Of the Coronation of K. David wherein out of that part of the History of David that sheweth how he came to the Kingdom we have set out what is like to be the end of these troubles that daily arise for the Gospels sake Lond. 1588. qu. Necessary admonition out of the Prophet Joel concerning that hand of God that of late was upon us and is not clean taken off as yet c. Lond. 1588. oct The Reader is to understand that Rob. Persons a Jesuit did put out a book intit Christian Exercise appertaining to Resolution c. in two parts The first of which coming forth before the other our author Bunney did correct alter and made it fit for the use of Protestants adding thereunto of his own composition A Treatise of Purification Lond. 1584. or thereabouts in oct But the Jesuit in the next edit of the said Resolution did much complain of our author for assuming to himself the labours of another person and of spoiling his work and the impression thereof Whereupon our author put out another book intit A brief answer unto those idle and frivolous quarrels of R. P. against the late edition of the Resolution Lond. 1589. oct He hath also written Of Divorce for Adultery and Marrying again that there is no sufficient Warrant so to do Oxon. 1610. qu. At the end of which is a note to shew that Rob. Persons was many years since answered The corner Stone Or a form of teaching Jesus Christ out of the Scriptures Lond. 1611. fol. A defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry MS. written 20. Jan. 1602. He also translated as some say into the English tongue or as others perverted it that excellent book of Joh. Gerson or rather of Tho. de Kempis intit Of the imitation of Christ but whether true I know not for I have not yet seen such a thing He ended his days at Cawood in Yorkshire 26. Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the south Isle joyning to the choire of York Cathedral Over his grave is a fair Monument in the wall with his Effigies carved from stone and this inscription by it Edmundus Bunnaeus ex nobili Bunnaeorum familia oriundus S. Th. Bac. coll Mertonensis in Oxâ—n olim Socius Parochiae de Bolton-Percy Pastor Ecclesiarum B. Pauli London B. Petri Eborum B. Mariae Carleol Praebendarius dignissimus concionator frequentiss vicatim oppidatim praedicando multos annos consum siâ— cum ob amorem christi haereditatem paternam fratri Riâ—â—â—â—â—â—uniori relinquisset Obiit die mensis Febr. 26. an 1617. Haec senis Edmundi Bunney est quem cernis imago A quo Bunnaei villula nomen habet Clarus â—rat tanti tumuit neque sanguinis aestu Haeres patris crat profuit esse nihil Denotat aetatem gravitas resolutio mentem Zelum Scripta aciem Pulpita facta fidem Vasa sacro librosque dedit post funera templo Et bona pauperibus caetera seque deo ROBERT ABBOT the eldest Son of Maurice Abbot Sherman who died 25. Sept. 1606. by Alice March his Wife was born at Guildford in Surry in an house now an Ale-house bearing the sign of the Three Marriners by the Rivers side near to the Bridge on the North side of the Street in St. Nicholas Parish educated in the Free School there founded by K. Ed. 6. 1551. under Mr. Franc. Tayler Schoolmaster thereof became a Student in Balliol coll 1575. aged 15 years elected Socius Sacerdotalis of that house 16. Jan. 1581. took the degree of M. A. in the year following became a noted Preacher in the University and a constant Lecturer at St. Martins Church in the Quadrivium and sometimes at Abendon in Berks. Afterwards being made Lecturer in the City of Worcester and Rector of Allsaints Church there he resigned his Fellowship 8. March 1588. and not long after became Rector of Bingham in Northamptonshire by the favour of Joh. Stanhope Esquire and afterwards took the degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated in 1597. In the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to him in the year 1609. he was unanimously elected Master of Balliol coll and in the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was made Prebendary of Normanton in the Church of Southwell In 1612. he was appointed Doctor of the Theological Chair usually called the Kings Professor of Divinity by his Majesty and in 1615. he was nominated by him to be Bishop of Salisbury meerly as 't is said for his incomparable Lectures read in the Divinity School concerning the Kings Supream Power against Bellarmino and Suarez and for his Antilogia which he a little before had published So that being consecrated thereunto on the third of Dec. the same year sate there till the time of his death which was soon after He was a
the civil Wars of death and fortune c. London 1609. A Poem in oct The triumph of death or the picture of the plague according to the life as it was in an 1603. Printed with Humours heaven and earth c. Wits pilgrimage by poetical essayes through a world of amorous Sonnets soul-passions and other passages divine philosophical and poetical Lond. in a pretty thick qu. but not expressed when printed 'T is dedicated to Philp Earl of Mountgomery Muses sacrifice or divine meditations Lond. 1612. in tw The muses tears for the loss of their hope heroick and never too much praised Henry Prince of Wales Lond. 1613. qu. Times sobs for his Pr. Hen. untimely loss with Epitaphs Printed with The Muses tears Consolatory strains to wrest nature from her vent in immoderate weeping Printed with that also Ecclogues Lond. 1614. oct They are at the end of The Sheapards Pipe written by Will. Brown of the Inner Temple A select second husband for Sir Tho. Overburies wise now a matchless widdow Lond. 1616. oct Dedic to Will E. of Pembroke Elegies on the death of Sir Tho. Overbury Speculum Proditori Printed with the former book 1616. oct Several copies of verses of his are also published in other books as a large copy before Ph. Hollands translation of Camdens Britannia another in the Odcombian banquet c. He dyed about the year sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried year 1618 as one tells us within the precincts of S. Giles ch in the Feilds near Lond. I find one Joh. Davies Gent. to have lived in the parish of S. Martin in the Feilds who dying in the beginning of July or thereabouts in 1618. was buried near to the body of Mary his sometimes wife in the church of St. Dunstan in the West Whether the same with the Poet I cannot justly tell because may author here quoted Tho. Fuller saith but upon what authority I know not that he was buried at S. Giles in the Feilds One John Dunbar a Latine Poet of Scotland hath an Epigram on J. Davies the Poet which may serve for an Epitaph wherein he tells us that he was another Martiall and that he out-stript in Poetry Sam. Daniel Josh Silvester the Merchant adventurer c. THOMAS THOMPSON a very noted preacher in the time he lived was born in the County of Cumberland wedded to the Muses in Queens coll in Mich. Term 1589. aged 15 made a poor serving child of that house in the year following afterwards Tabarder and in 99. Fellow being then Master of Arts. About that time addicting his mind severely to the studies of the superiour faculty became a noted Disputant Schoolman and very familiar with the Fathers At length leaving the coll about the time he was adwitted Bach. of Div. which was 1609. he became one of the publick preachers in the City of Bristow and Minister of S. Thomas Church there where he was much followed and admired for his edifying and orthodox doctrine Afterwards leaving that City in 1612. upon what account I know not he became Minister in the town and liberties of Montgomery in Wales where if I mistake not he continued till the time of his death He hath written and published Concio ad clerum de clavibus regni coelorum habita pro forma Oxon. intemplo B. Mariae 16. Feb. an 1609. in Matth. 16. ver 19. Lond. 1612. oct De votis monasticis Theses disputatae sub prâ—sidio Tho. Holland Reg. prof Printed with the former 〈◊〉 Serm. Besides these two things he hath Several Sermons in English as 1 A diet for a Drunkard in two Sermons in the Church of S. Nich. in Bristow on Ester 1. 8. Lond. 1612. qu. 2 Friendly farewell to a faithful â—lock taken in a Sermon preached in S. Thomas Church in Bristow on Easter Tuseday 6. Apr. 1612. on 2 Cor. 13. ver 14. Lond. 1616. qu. 3 Antichrist arraigned Sermon at Pauls Cross on 1 Joh. 2. 18 19 20. Lond. 1618. qu. 4 The trial of Guides by the touchstone of Teachers c. Serm. on Luke 6. 39 40. Lond. 1618. qu. dedicated to Richard Bishop of St. Asaph his Patron These are all that I have seen going under his name and all that I yet know of the author SAMUEL DANIEL the most noted Poet and Historian of his time was born of a wealthy Family in Somersetshire and at 17 years of age in 1579. became a Commoner of Magd. hall where he continued about three years and improved himself much in Academical learning by the benefit of an excellent Tutor But his Genie being more prone to easier and smoother studies than in pecking and hewing at Logick he left the University without the honour of a degree and exercised it much in English History and Poetry of which he then gave several ingenious Specimens After his departure I find nothing memorable of him for several years only that at about 23 years of age he translated into English the worthy tract of Paulus Jovius containing a Discourse of rare inventions both military and amorous called Imprese Lond. 1585. oct To which he hath put an ingenious Preface of his own writing He was afterwards for his merits made Gentleman Extraordinary and afterwards one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber to Anne the Queen Consort of King James 1. who being for the most part a favourer and encourager of his Muse as she was of Jo. Florio who married Sam. Daniel's Sister and many times delighted with his conversation not only in private but in publick was partly for those reasons held in esteem by the men of that age for his excellencies in Poetry and History and partly in this respect that in writing the History of English affairs whether in Prose or Poetry he had the happiness to reconcile brevity with clearness qualities of great distance in other authors This is the opinion of a late author but one who lived in Samuel Daniel's time tells us that his works contain somewhat a flat but yet withal a very pure and copious English and words as warrantable as any mans and fitter perhaps for Prose than Measure Our author Daniel had also a good faculty in setting out a Mask or a Play and was wanting in nothing that might render him acceptable to the great and ingenious men of his time as to Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet Camden the learned Sir Rob. Cotton Sir H. Spelman Edm. Spencer Ben. Johnson John Stradling little Owen the Epigrammatist c. He hath written The complaint of Rosamond Lond. 1594. 98. 1611. and 23. qu. Various Sonnets to Delia. Wherein as Parthenius Nicaeus did excellently sing the praises of Arete so our author in this piece hath divinely sonneted the matchless beauty of his Delia. Tragedy of Cleopatra Lond. 1594. 98. qu. Of the Civil Wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York Lond. 1604. 09. oct and 1623. qu. Written in eight books in verse with his picture before them The
thereabouts took one degree in Arts but whether he was Fellow of that house or Master of that faculty it appears not In his Juvenile years he was accounted one of the chiefest among our English Poets to bewail and bemoan the perplexities of Love in his Poetical and Romantick writings but when he became Elder he applyed his Muse to the study of the sacred writ in which faculty he was admitted Bachelor in 1603. being then or about that time Vicar of Deptford alias West Greenwich in Kent and in 1611 he proceeded in his faculty being then much in esteem by the Clergy of the neighbourhood where he lived and reverenc'd by the Laity for his orthodox principles and continual and unwearied labours in his function His works are these God be thanked Serm. of Thanksgiving for the happy success of the English Fleets set forth by the company of Adventurers to the E. Indies on Psal. 126. 2. Lond. 1616. qu. Divine Sea service containing sundry and useful forms of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the help of such as travel by Sea fitted to their several necessities Printed with the former 1616. qu. Other Sermons as 1 Allegiance to the Clergy on Rom. 13. 2. Lond. 1616. qu. 2 The Supper of the Lord on Prov. 9. 5. Lond. 1616. qu. Preached at Hampton-court 3 Cape of good hope or Zebuluns blessing five Sermons for the use of the Merchant and Mariner on Deut. 33. 18 19. on Psal. 95. 5. c. Lond. 1616. qu. c. 4 Remedy of Drought two Serm. on 1 Kings 8. 35. and Psal. 68. 7. Lond. 1616. qu. A Manual of private devotions Published by Nath. Snape of Greys Inn Esq Godly and learned Exposition together with apt and profitable notes on the Lords Prayer Lond. 1631. qu. Publ. by the said Snape The broken heart Or Davids pennance fully exprest in holy meditations on 51 Psal. Lond. 1637. 39. and 1646. qu. He ended his days at Deptford before mention'd and was buried in the Church there on the eighth day of August year 1630 in sixteen hundred and thirty One Dr. Page published a book intit Jus fratrum or the Law of Brethren Printed in oct 1658. but whether it was written by Dr. Samuel or Dr. William Page or by another I cannot know unless I could see the book SEBASTIAN BENEFEILD was born at Prestbury in Glocestershire admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 30. Aug. 1586. aged 17. or thereabouts and Probationer 16. Apr. 1590. Afterwards taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into sacred Orders and became a frequent Preacher in these parts In 1599. he was constituted Rhetorick Reader in his coll and the year after was admitted to the reading of the sentences In 1608. he proceeded in Divinity and five years after was elected Margaret professor of the University Which office he executing with commendation for about 14 years resign'd it and receeded to the Rectory of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire which he had long before obtained by his predecessors guilt of Simony where he spent the remaining part of his days about 4 years in great retiredness and devotion He was a person for piety strictness of life and sincere conversation incomparable He was also so noted an Humanitian Disputant and Theologist and so well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen that he had scarce his equal in the University Some have blasted him I know not upon what account for a Schismatick yet Dr. Ravis sometimes B. of London and of honourable memory approved him to be free from Schism and much abounding in Science The truth is he was a Sedentary man and of great industry and so consequently as 't is observed by some morose and of no good nature Also that he was accounted no mean Lover of the opinions of John Calvin especially as to the points of predestination which is the cause why one calls him a downright and doctrinal Calvinist His works are these Doctrinae Christianae Sex capita totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theol. Oxon pro forma habitis discussa disceptata Oxon 1610. qu. Appendix ad caput secundum de conciliis evangelicis c. adversus Humphredum Leech Pr. with the former book Eight Sermons publickly preached in the University of Oxford the second at S. Peters in the East the rest at S. Maries Church Began 1595. Dec. 14. Oxon. 1614. qu. The sin against the Holy Ghost discovered and other Christian Doctrines delivered in 12 Sermons upon part of the 10 Chapt. of the Epist to the Hebrews Oxon. 1615. qu. Commentary or Exposition upon the first chapter of Amos delivered in 21 Sermons in the Par. Church of Meysey-Hampton in the Dioc. of Gloc. Oxon. 1613. qu. Translated into Lat. by Hen. Jackson of C. C. coll Openheim 1615. oct Other Sermons as 1. The Christian Liberty c. on 1 Cor. 9. 19. Ox. 1613. oct Printed with the Commentary in English beforementioned It was preached at Wotton Vnderedge before the Clergy at an Episcopal Visitation 2 Serm. at S. Maries in Oxon 24 Mar. 1610. being K. James his Inauguration day on Psal. 21. 6. Ox. 1611. qu. 3 The Haven of the afflicted in the Cath. Ch. of Gloc. 10. Aug. 1613. on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1620. qu. Commentary or Exposition upon the 2 chap. of Amos delivered in 21 Sermons in the par ch of Meysey-Hampton c. Lond. 1620. qu. Praelectiones de perseverentiâ Sanctorum Francof 1618. oct Com. or Exposition on the third chap. of Amos. c. Printed 1629. qu. He hath also a Latin Sermon extant on Rev. 5. 10. Printed in 1616. qu. which I have not yet seen He took his last farewel of this World in the Parsonage house at Meysey-Hampton before mention'd about 24. Aug. in sixteen hundred and thirty year 1630 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there on the 29 of the same month In the said Rectory succeeded his great admirer Hen. Jackson Bach. of Div. of C. C. coll before mentioned who being a writer also must crave a place in the next volume SAMPSON PRICE Son of Thom. Price sometimes Vicar of S. Chads Church in Shrewsbury was born there became a Batler of Exeter coll in 1601. aged 16 or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts as a Member of Hart hall entred into the sacred function as a Member of that coll became a smart Preacher in the University and near it especially against the Papists made one of the Lecturers of S. Martins church in Oxon afterwards of S. Olaves in London and took the degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated in 1617 About which time he was Chaplain in Ord. to K. Jam. 1. as he was afterwards to K. Ch. 1. and a most ready and frequent Preacher in the Court. At length he was made Vicar of Christ Church in London where being much resorted to and admired was usually stiled The Mawle of Hereticks meaning Papists he being a most bitter Enemy as his brother Daniel was in his preachings
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
a secular or of any religious Order I cannot tell nor whether justly he took a degree in this University Certain it is that being made Suffragan Bishop of Hull under the Archbishop of York was made Prebendary of Langtoft and VVistow in the Church of York 1541. and in 1549. January 31. was installed Archdeacon of Nottingham on the death of Cuthbert Marshall D. D. who had succeeded Will. Fell D. D. in that dignity in Jan. 1527. He either died in the beginning of Q. Maries reign 1553. or was deprived because then or soon after I find one Rob. Pursglove to occur by the title of Bishop of Hull as I shall at large tell you under the year 1579. JOHN STANYWELL or Stonywell was born in the Parish of Longdon in Staffordshire within which Parish is a small Hamlet called Stonywell from a Well wherein is at the bottom a large stone which seems to be no more than a little Rock whence springs the water that supplies that Well This person being much addicted to learning and religion when a Youth was taken into a certain Monastery that at Pershore in Worcestershire as it seems and was bred a Benedictine Monk Thence he was sent to Glocester College in Oxon where the Monks of Pershore had an apartment for their Novices to be trained up in Academical learning of which College he was when in his elder years Prior for a time and was then noted among those of his profession for his learning and strict course of life Afterwards being Doctor of divinity he became Lord Abbat of the said Monastery of Pershore and at length a Bishop suffragan only as it seems under the title of Episcopus Poletensis He paid his last debt to nature after he had arrived to a great age in the beginning of fifteen hundred fifty and three year 1553 and was burled according to his Will in a new chappel built by him within the Parish Church of S. James in Longdon he bequeathed all his books his two Chalices his Crewetts holy water stock Vestmens Albes Altar-clothes with other things belonging to his private chappel in Longdon JOHN HOPER or Hooper sometimes either of Merton coll or S. Albans hall or of both successively was consecrated Bishop of Glocester in the latter end of the year 1550. and about two years after had the Bishoprick of Worcester given to him to keep in Commendam with the former He yielded up his last breath in the flames in the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In Glocester succeeded him James Brokes and in Worcester Rich. Pate Of the former you may read more among the writers under the year 1559. and of the other among the Bishops following an 1560. GEORGE BROWNE an Austin Frier of the convent of that order in London was educated in Academicals among those of his order in Oxon. Afterwards growing eminent among them was made Provincial of the said order in England and about the same time supplicated the Regents of this University that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1523 but whether he was really admitted it appears not Afterwards taking the degree of Doctor of divinity in an University beyond the Seas as it seems was incorporated in the same degree at Oxon 1534. and soon after at Cambridge On the 19. of March 1535. he was consecrated in England Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland and in 1551. he obtained leave from K. Ed. 6. that he and his successors for ever in that See may be Primates of all Ireland but recalled soon after by Queen Mary who in 1554. caused him to be deprived of his Archbishoprick for being married What became of him afterwards I know not nor when he died EDWARD STAPLE received his first breathings in this World in Lincolnshire studied Logic and Philosophy for a time in this University and went afterwards to Cambridge where he took the degree of Master of Arts. Thence returning to Oxon was incorporated in that degree and in the latter end of 1525. supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences being then one of the canons of Card. Wolseys college but whether he was really admitted it dot not appear In 1530. he by provision from P. Clem. 7. became Bishop of Meath in Ireland being at that time Warden or Master of S. Bartholomews Hospital in London which for some time he kept in commendam with his Bishoprick At length Qu. Mary coming to the Crown he was deprived of the said Bishoprick for being married as I suppose in the year 1554. and soon after died In the said See succeeded one Will. Walsh D. D. of whom I shall speak more under the year 1576. ROBERT FERRAR was born within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire within four miles of which place he gave Lands to his near relations and when a young man was made a Canon regular of the order of S. Austin but in what Priory or Abbey I know not Sure I am that he having partly received his Academical education in Cambridge did when he had entred into the same order retire to a nursery for the Canons thereof in Oxon named S. Maries college situated in the Parish of S. Michael and S. Peter in the Bayly where I find him in 1526. in which year Tho. Garret Curate of Honey lane in London and a forward and busie Lutheran did supply him with prohibited books or books which were written against the R. Cath. Ch. and the members thereof he being then esteemed one of that party that then opposed the established Church and Doctrine In 1533. he as a member of the said coll of S. Mary was admitted to the reading of the sentences having a little before opposed in divinity and about that time became chaplain to Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury by whose example as one saith he learned to get himself a woman also under the name of a wife and by his endeavours had some preserment in the Church In 1547. he being then in great favour with Edward Duke of Somerset he was by him appointed Bishop of S. Davids upon the removal of W. Barlow to the See of B. and Wells and accordingly was consecrated thereunto the same year But upon the fall of the said Duke in 1549. who was an upholder of him and his unworthy doings were 56. Articles drawn up against him by some of his neighbours viz. Hugh Rawlins Clerk and one Tho. Lee accusing him as an abuser of his authority a maintainer of superstition to be covetous wilfully negligent foolish c. All which he being not able to answer was committed to safe custody in London during the remaining part of the reign of K. Ed. 6. After Qu. Mary came to the Crown it being fully understood that he was a Lutheran Heretick as the men of those times stiled him