a copy of verses written to Thom. Legh of Adlington Esq must be understood of Bishop Coxe before mention'd NICHOLAS SAUNDERS the most noted defender of the R. Cath. cause in his time was born at Charlewood in Surrey educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1548 Bach. of the Laws 3 year after and about 1557 Shagling Lecturer or as he himself saith tanquam regius professor juris canonici But Religion putting on another face in the beginning of Q. Eliz. he left England about 1560 and going to Rome was made Priest and D. of D. and soon after went with Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius to the Council of Trent where he shew'd himself to be a Man of great parts by his several disputations and arguings Which Cardinal having an especial respect for made him his individual comparison in his journey into Poland Prussia and Lithuania As for the chief actions of his life that followed his Sisters Son John Pitseus will tell you But that which I must not forget now to let you know is that when he was a Nuntio from P. Gregory 13 into Ireland where he with 3 Ships full of Spaniards landed at Smerwick in Kerrey about the first of July 1579 to encourage the Irish there to take up arms and rebel against Qu. Elizabeth was after they with the said Spaniards had been overcome by the English forced to abscond in caves dens woods c. At length after two years time being not able to hold out longer did miserably perish by hunger and cold at the same time as my Author saith but as it seems false that Gerald Fitz-Gerald Earl of Desmond chief captain of the rebels was taken in a poor cottage and kill'd Of which matter hear what the learned Canmden tells us The principal of whom meaning the priests that persuaded the said Earlto forfeit his allegiance to his Prince was Nich. Saunders an English Man who very near at the same instant of time was miserably famish'd to death when forsaken of all and troubled in mind for the bad success of the rebellion he wandred up and down among woods forests and mountains and found no comfort or relief In his pouch were found several speeches and letters made and written to confirm the rebels stuffed with large promises from the Bishop of Rome and the Spaniard Thus the divine justice if a Man may judge stopped that mouth with hunger which had been always open to encourage rebellions and to belch forth malicious lies and slanders For to omit other things he was the first Man that broached that abominable lye concerning the birth of Qu. Elizabeths Mother which no Man in those days though the hatred and the malice of the Papists was then fresh against her and might remember it ever knew England in full forty years after never heard of the computation of time doth egregiously convince of falshood and vanity and he forgetting himself which a lyar should not do doth himself plainly confute c. The things that he hath written are mostly these The supper of our Lord set forth according to the truth of the Gospel and Cath. Faith with a confutation of such false doctrins as the Apologie of the Church of England Mr. Al. Nowells challenge or Mr. Jewells reply have uttered touching the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament In seven books Lovain 1566 in a thick qu. Answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge A Treatise of the images of Christ and of his Saints and that it is unlawful to break them and lawful to honour them With a confutation of such false doctrine as Mr. Jewell hath uttered in his reply concerning that matter Lov. 1567. oct Brief declaration which is the true Church of Christ This is written by way of preface to the Treatise of the images c. The rock of the Church wherein the primacy of St. Peter and of his Successours the Bishops of Rome is proved our of Gods word Lov. 1567 and St. Omer 1624. in oct Answered by the said W. Fulke Brief treatise of Usurie Lov. 1568. oct De typicâ honorariâ imaginum adoratione lib. 2. Lov. 1569. oct Sacrificii missae ac ejus partium explicatio Lov. 1569. oct Tractatus utilis quod Dominus in sexto capite Johannis de sacramento Eucharistiae propriè sit locutus Antw. 1570. in tw De visibili Monarchiâ Ecclesiae lib. 8. c. Lov. 1571. ' Antw. 1581. Wiceburg 1592. fol. In which book written before the Author went into Ireland he doth avow the Bull of P. Pius 5. against Qu. Elizab. to have been lawful and affirmeth that by virtue thereof one Dr. Nich. Moreton an old English fugitive and conspirator was sent from Rome into the north parts of England to stir up the first rebellion there whereof Charles Nevile Earl of Westmorland was a head captain And thereby it may manifestly appear to all Men how the said Bull was the ground of the rebellions both in England and Ireland De clave David seu regno Christi lib. 6. contra columnias Acleri pro visibili Ecclesiae Monarchiâ Wiceburg 1592. fol. De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani lib. 3. quibus historia continetur maxima ecclesiastica annorum 60 lectu dignissima c. Col. Agrip. 1585. Rom. 1586. Ingolst 1588. Col. Agrip. 1590. c. oct Which book being left in many places imperfect was supplied augmented and corrected by Edw. Rishton Afterwards the book being translated into French and printed 1673-4 gave occasion to Gilbert Burnet D. D. to write his two volumes of The Historie of the reformation of the Church of England In the appendix to the first of which you may read more of Saunders and his work de Schismate as also of Edw. Rishton and his corrections and additions of and to that book De justificatione contra colloquium Altenburgense lib. 6. in quibus c. Aug. Trev. 1585 in a thick oct This sometimes goes under the title of De Lutheranorum dissidiis circa justificationem Col. Ag. 1594. oct De militantis Ecclesiae Rom. potestate Rom. 1603. qu. De martyrio quorundam temp Hen. 8. Elizab. printed 1610. oct with other things which I have not yet seen the titles of which you may see in Joh. Pitseus who tells us that he died in Ireland about 1580. yet Edw. Rishton who was his contemporary and knew him well saith in the preface to the first edition of the book De orig progressu schism printed at Col. Agrip. 1585 that he died in Ireland in the County of Kerrey in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 So that how it comes to pass that Camden should say that he died in 1583 I cannot justly tell unless his information was that he died at that instant of â—â—me as is before said when the E. of Desmond was killed which was 1583 as he saith The reader must now know that whereas
one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held whether the same I know not WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower Son of Will. Whittyngham of Over Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire was born in the City of Chester became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts where being put under a careful Tutor did make great proficiency in learning In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College being then Bach. of Arts in which faculty proceeding two years after was made one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenish'd with the choicest Scholars in the University On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house whereupon he went into France and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time had intentions to go into Italy but being prevented by sickness which took him at Lyons he spent some time among the Students in Paris but chiefly in the University of Orleance About that time if I mistake not he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine by his Wife the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleance After he had spent more than an year there he went to certain Universities in Germany and thence to Geneva where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England But that King dying and Religion seeming to put on another face he went with other company into France where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort and were about with license from the Magistrate to settle a Church there did hasten thither and entred himself into their association But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion were forced to disjoyn and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva were to go to that place among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest as you may farther see in a book entit A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 Printed 1575 wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discern'd Soon after their settlement at Geneva John Knox a Scot Minister of the English congregation there was to leave that place and return to his Country so that Whittyngham being look'd upon as the fittest Person to succeed was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him but he alledging that in his former travels and observations with the learning of several languages he had fitted himself more for state employment than that he modestly denied it At length Calvin urging him farther he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him Soon after Miles Coverdale Christop Goodman Anth. Gilby Tho. Sampson Wil. Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible but before the greater part was finished Qu. Maary died So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England the exil'd Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolv'd to go through with the work did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown At the same time also he turned into meter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches inscribed with W. W. They are in number five of which the 119 Psalme is one as large as 22 other Psalmes as also the ten commandments and a prayer at the end of the book of Psalmes At length Whittyngham returning into England he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King an 1560 and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there while the said Earl defended it against the French Where tho he shew'd himself ready in his function yet he spared not to perswade the English from Uniformity and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church Notwithstanding this so great a respect had the said Earl for him that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham in 1563 in the place of Ralf Skinner Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham who enjoying it about 16 years was then succeeded by the said Wilson who enjoyed it not two years After Whittyngham had remained there for some time Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester he might have obtained it About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Church-men and so pressed that they that would not use the same should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry he then and not before submitted himself thereunto And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva he answered that he and others knew and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order they might not neglect their Ministry for so should they for tithing of Mint neglect the greater things of the Law And as concerning singing in the Church Whittyngham did so far allow of it that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queens Chappel to furnish his choire withal himself being skilful in Musick To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569 and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it an 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is stiled by certain Authors the false and unworthy Dean of Durham was because he was only Master of Arts the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England but of Geneva and that he was but a luke-warm conformist at the best The publick works that he hath done as to learning are 1 His Translation of the Geneva Bible 2 His turning into Meter several of the Psalmes of David as I have before told you 3 His translation into Latine the Liturgie of the Church of
much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing which he exercised as well in the publick Schools as at home Soon after he was licensed by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law but took no Degree therein in this University And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560 he went thereupon into Ireland where if I mistake not he was born and prosecuting his studies there as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues expert in the Mathematicks a proper Antiquary and an exact Divine His pen was not lazie as one saith but dayly breeding of learned books He wrot Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta And an oration also entit De Ligno Faeno Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College which was no other than a Christmas Lord or a Lord or King of misrule He hath written many other things which being done and printed beyond the Seas we see them but seldom or never in these parts JAMES WALSH an Irish Man born was educated in this University but what Degrees he took there I find not In the Year 1572 and belike before he had a Chamber and took his commons in Hart hall being then a Student in Divinity with Mr. Leonard Fitz-Simons his Countryman Both whom are entituled Magistri that year in the Matricula of the University under Aula cervina The said Jam. Walsh hath written Epigrammata diversa With other things of the like nature and translated into English The Topography of Ireland written in Lat. by Silv. Giraldus Which translation with Scholia's was made also much about the same time by Joâ— Hooker alias Vowell of the City of Exeter as you may see elsewhere In the time of this Jam. Walsh studied in Hart hall also divers of his Country men of Ireland some of whom having been afterwards Men of note or else writers you shall have their names as they follow 1 David Clere Bach. of Arts 1565. 2 Nich. Clere of the County of Kilkenny matriculated 1567. aged 19 3 David Sutton a Gentlemans Son of Kildare 1571 aged 16. 4 Pet. Nangle a Gent. Son of Dublin 1571. aged 15 5 Rich. Walsh a Merchants Son of Waterford aged 15. an 1572. 6 Rob. Boteler a Merch. Son of the said City aged 23. an 1572. 7 George Sherlock the Son of a Merchant also of the same City at 17. an 1572. 8 Rich. Masterson a Gent. Son of Wexford aet 15. an 1573. 9 Nich. Gaydon an Esq Son of Dublin aet 19. an 1574. 10 Tho. Finglas a Gent. Son of Finglas near to Dublin aet 18. an 1571. 11 Will. Nugent a Gent Son of Meath or of the County of Meath aet 21. an 1571. With several others of a later date as Alex. Barrington a Gentlemans Son of Ireland aet 18. an 1583. c. LEONARD FITZSIMONS was born in the Diocess and County of Dublin in Ireland admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll. from that of Corp. Ch. of which he was Clerk 17 June 1558 aged 17 and the next year was made Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1563 he proceeded in that faculty but being a R. Cath. in his heart and therefore unwilling to take holy Orders according to the Church of England left his Fellowship and retired to Hart hall about 1571. At length going into his own Country had some employment confer'd upon him and was in his latter years as I conceive a Rom. Priest He is charactarized by one who knew him to be profundus clericus qui utrasque linguas Theologiam Mathematicam admodum caluit coluit And there is no doubt but that he hath written and published several Books which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom see them in these parts He was famous and noted for his learning in Ireland in Fifteen hundred and eighty but when he died or where his relicks were lodg'd I cannot tell One Hen. Fitzsimons a famous Jesuit was also educated in Hart hall as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SECURIS a Wiltshire Man born and a most noted Person for his admirable parts while he studied in New Coll. in the time of Ed. 6 but not in the condition of a Fellow did retire to Paris for the improvement of his studies where applying his muse to the faculties of Physick and Astronomy became a diligent hearer of the Lectures of Dr. Jacobus Silvius of high learning and famous memory the reader of the Physick lecture in that University who usually had a thousand auditors every time he read After he had compleated his studies there he returned into England and settled within the City of Salisbury where he was much frequented for his great knowledge in Medicine and wrot Several Prognosticons One of which for the Year 1580 I have seen and to it is joyned A compendium or brief instruction how to keep a moderate diet In the title of the said Prognosticon he writes himself Master of Arts and Physick but whether he took those Degrees in Oxon. I cannot tell because the register containing the acts of Congregation and Convocation is almost totally neglected during the Reign of Ed. 6. In the Preface to the said Compendium he tells us that in his time fell near to Salisbury hailstones as big as a childs fist of 3 or four years old Our Author Securis hath also written A detection and querimonie of the daylie enormities and abuses committed in Physick concerning the three parts thereof that is of the Physicians part the part of Surgeons and the part of Poticaries Lond. 1566. in oct Dedicated in a Lat. Epist to both the Universities Oxford of which he saith he was an Alumnus and Cambridge After which follows a Preface to the reader in old English verse and at the end of the book is a peroration to both the Universities Contemporary with this noted Author Securis was another Astrologer called Evans Lloyd a Welsh Man educated in Logicals and Philosophicals in Oriel Coll. but took no Degree here Afterwards retiring to the great City wrot several Ephemerides which were much valued in their time one of them written for the Year 1582. I have seen supputated especially for the elevation and meridian of London but may generally serve for all England It was printed there the same year and approved by Dr. John Dee with whom as also with Securis he had acquaintance NICHOLAS QUEMERFORD was born in the City of Waterford in Ireland took a Degree in Arts 1562 after he had spent at least 4 years in this University in pecking and hewing at Logick and Philosophy Which Degree being compleated by Determination he went into his own Country entred into the sacred function and had preferment there but turned out from it because of his Religion He wrot in English a pithie and learned
Camden whom I follow in some things tells us that our Author N. Saunders was miserably ramish'd to death seems to be contrary to what a certain Author of Camdens time reports but he being one of Saunder's perswasion may perhaps not be believed by many He tells us that before the end of the said war wherein Desmond was kill'd Saunders was overtaken with the flux a usual disease with strangers in Ireland and tho he was strong and in the judgment of all near to him far from the approach of death yet in the beginning of the night he desired Cornelius the Bishop titular of Killaloa to give him the extreme unction for saith he this night I shall die having received a call from my Creator Whereupon Cornelius made answer that there was no need of it seeing that his body was strong and no sign of death near it Notwithstanding this his disease pressing forward he was anointed in the middle of the night and about the time of Cock-crowing he surrendred up his Soul to God In the night following he was carried to his grave by 4 Irish chevaliers whereof Dermitius Osullevan father to the Author whom I here quote was one and was buried by certain Priests according to their manner his body having been exposed to the sight of certain Persons as well of England as of Ireland who for privacy sake were prohibited their presence at his funeral Afterwards Cornelius went into Spain and died at Lisbon an 1617. Thus in effect the said Author who tells us not the name of the place where he died or was buried neither the time when EDMOND CAMPIAN another stiff defender of the R. Cath. Religion was born in London on St. Pauls day in Jan. 1540. educated in School-learning among the blew coats in Ch. Ch. Hospital within the said City spoke an eloquent oration before Qu. Mary there at her first coming to the Crown an 1553 put in Scholar of St. Johns Coll. by the worthy founder thereof at its first foundation took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1564 and was Junior of the Act celebrated on the 19. of Feb. the same year at which time speaking one or more most admirable orations to the envy of his contemporaries caused one of them who was afterwards an Archbishop to say that rather than he would omit the opportunity to shew his parts and dominare in una atque altera conciuncula did take the oath against the Popes Supremacy and against his conscience Soon after if not before he took holy orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Rich. Cheyney Bishop of Glocester who had encouraged him in his studies and became a florid Preacher In 1566 when Qu. Elizab. was entertained by the University of Oxon he did not only make an eloquent oration before her at her first entry but also was Respondent in the Philosophy Act in St. Maries Church performed by him with great applause from that Queen and the learned auditory In 1568 he was the junior Proctor of the University being the first of his Coll. who did undergo that office and in the Year following he took a journey into Ireland where improving his time very industriously did by the help of his admirable parts write in short time a history of that Country but then he being discovered to have left the Church of England and to labour for Proselytes was seized and detained for a time but getting loose from his keepers did with much ado obtain footing on the British shoare an 1571 where making but short stay took shipping again and went into the Low Countries and settling for a time in the English Coll. at Doway made an open recantation of his heresie as they there stil'd it studied Divinity and had the Degree of Bach. of that faculty conferr'd upon him Thence he went to Rome where he was admitted into the Society of Jesus in 1573 and being esteemed by the General of that order to be a Person every way compleat was sent into Germany where living for some time at Brune and afterwards at Vienna compos'd a Tragedy called Nectar Ambrosia acted before the Emperor with great applause Soon after setling at Pragne in Bohemia where had been newly erected a College for Jesuits taught there for about 6 years time Philosophy and Rhetorick and became amongst them a constant Preacher in the Latin tongue At length being called thence to Rome was with Father Persons sent at the command of P. Gregory 13 into England in 1580 where arriving at Dover on the day next following that of St. John Baptist was the day after that received with great joy by the Catholicks in London Afterwards he printed privately and by stealth his neat well penn'd book called Rationes decem of which many copies were dispersed in St. Maries Church at an Act-time an 1581. by one who was sometimes a Member of St. Johns Coll. in the time of Campian named Will. Hartley a R. Priest a native of Nottinghamshire and a learned Man who being taken in short time after was imprison'd and in Feb. 1584 being released was with other Priests and Jesuits put on Ship-board at Tower-wharf and thence at the Queens charge was wafted over the Seas to Normandy where he and his company were left to their shifts Afterwards it being commonly known that Campian was in England great inquisition was made after him At length at the desire and insinuation of Walsingham Secretary of State one George Eliot a Priest-catcher sometimes a zealous Catholick undertook for a considerable reward to find him out But all his searchings in London availing not he did at length upon some intimation received go into Berks. where with his attendants making great enquiries did with much ado find him out disguised like a Royster as 't is said in the house of Edw. Yates Esq at Lyford a little before which time Persons the Jesuit who had been with and accompanied him in his travels to and fro had left him and diverted his course towards Kent So that being carried as a Prisoner with triumph through Abendon Henly Colebroke and so through part of London with a paper fastned to his hat and a writing thereon to shew to the People that he was Edm. Campian a most pernicious Jesuit was chap'd up a close Prisoner within the Tower of London where he did undergo many examinations from several People abuses wrackings tortures and I know not what but scarcely answered the expectation raised of when certain Divines disputed with him About which time a little Pamphlet was published in oct containing a discourse of his apprehension which I have not yet seen All writers whether Protestant or Popish say that he was a Man of most admirable parts an elegant Orator a subtile Philosopher and disputant and an exact Preacher whether in English or Lat. tongue of a sweet disposition and a well polished Man A certain writer saith he was of a sweet nature constantly carrying
one County three such Divines as Jewel Hooker and Rainolds of the second of which hear I pray what the learned Camden saith In this year meaning 1599. which is false dyed too many in that one Rich. Hooker born in Devonshire and bred in C. C. coll in Oxford a Divine very moderate temperate and meek and vertuous even to the best imitation and besides very famous for his learned works as his Books of Ecclesiastical Policy set forth in the English but worthy to speak Latin do testifie of him c. At Boscomb he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy which were entred into the Register in Stationers hall 9. March 1592. and afterwards came out with this Title The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in four books Lond. 1594. fol. To which he added a fifth book which is larger than the first four printed by its self at Lond. 1597. fol. Part of the first four being read by Dr. Tho. Stapleton in Latin to P. Clement 8. who before had heard much in their commendation he the said Pope in conclusion said thus There is no learning that this Man hath not searched into nothing too hard 〈◊〉 his Vnderstanding This man indeed deserves the Name of an Author His books will get reverence by age for there are in them such seeds of Eternity that if the rest bâ— like this they shall last till the last Fire shall consume all learning c. At the same time K. James of Scotland afterwards of England did put an high esteem upon the said books and usually said They were the pictures of a Divine Soul in every page of Truth and Reason King Ch. 1. had read them over several times was well vers'd in and commended them to be read by the Prince afterwards K. Ch. 2. and his other Children next to the Bible The learned Vsher Primate of Ireland Morton B. of Durham Hales of Eaton c. had the same high opinion of the author and his Works and Gauden Bishop of Worcester said he had been highly esteemed of all prudent peaceable and impartial Readers But before the fifth book had been extant two years was published a Pamphlet intit A Christian Letter of certain English Protestants unfeigned Lovers of the present state of Religion authorized and professed in England unto that reverend and learned man Mr. Hooker requiring resolution in certain matters of Doctrine expresly contained in his five books of Ecclesiastical Polity Printed 1599. in qu. which matters of Doctrine as they say seem to overthrow the foundation of Christian Religion and of the Church among us But therein it doth appear that their ignorant malice hath done him great honour who in an argument so distasted by them and coming with a proud confidence to reprehend have only carped sillily at some things neither of moment or importance whereof humility and charity would have craved no answer But these being willing and desirous to find something to oppose have only discovered Mr Hookers great mature and grave judgment and their own small undigested and shallow learning Soon after came out an answer to the said letter entit A just and temperate defence of the 5 books of Ecclesiastical polity c. against an uncharitable letter of certain English protestants c. Lond. 1603. qu. written and published by Will. Covel D. D. born in Lancashiâ—e near the place where Dr. Chaderton B. of Lincoln received his first breath bred in Christs and Queens coll in Cambridge and a writer of other books that came out soon after As for the other three books of Ecclesiastical Policy which our author Hooker compleated before his death they with the consent of his unlucky Widdow were seized on in his study soon after his decease by Will. Charke a noted Puritan and another Minister that lived near to Canterbury who making the silly Woman believe that they were writings not fit to be seen did either burn them in the place or convey them away secretly So that the foul copy being only remaining with many interlinings Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll in Oxon. his ancient and entire Friend got it into his hands who using the assistance of Hen. Jackson of the said coll as an Amanâ—ensis and otherwise did compleat it as much as could be and kept it by him till his latter end with an intent that it should be published but upon what account he was hindred I cannot tell Sure it is that when he lay on his death-bed he bequeathed the said copy containing the three last books fairly transcribed by the hand of the said H. Jackson to Dr. Jo. King B. of London After his death the copy rested in the hands of his Son Henry who became B. of Chichester 1641. till Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury commanded them out of his custody authorizing Dr. Joh. Barcham to require and bring them to him to Lambeth which accordingly was done The said Archbishop esteeming them as rarities did put them into the Library there where remaining till the decollation of Archb. Laud were then by the Brethren of the Predominant Faction given with the Library to that most notorious Villain Hugh Peters as a reward for his remarkable service in those sad times of the Churches confusion And though they could hardly fall into a fouler hand yet there wanted not other endeavours to corrupt and make them speak that Language for which the Faction then fought which was to subject the Soveraign Power to the People From the said copy several transcripts were taken not only I presume while it remained in the said Library but while it continued in the hands of Peters differing much in words There was a copy of the sixth and eighth books published at London in 1648. in qu. and said by the Editor of them to be collected and compared with five copies viz. with that in Bodley's Library that at Lambeth that in Bish Andrew's that in Archb. Vsher's Library and in that of the Lord Edw. Conway at Ragley but whether the publisher may be believed I know not Sure I am that the said three last books which are said to be true and genuine but from whence obtained I cannot tell were published by Dr. Joh. Gauden under this title The Works of Mr. Rich. Hooker that learned godly judicious and eloquent Divine vindicating the Church of England as truly Christian and duly reformed in eight books of Ecclesiastical Polity now compleated as with the sixth and eighth so with the seventh c. out of his own MSS. never before published with an account of his holy Life and happy Death Lond. 1662. fol. But whether the said MSS. were of his own hand-writing we have good reason to question as also the greater part of his Life which he the said Gauden hath falsly written who with great confidence hath used divers arguments to satisfie the World that the before-mentioned three books were pen'd by Mr. Hooker
neither any Register belonging to the Cathedral and therefore I have put him under the year 1620. wherein he was in great esteem for his learning MICHAEL WIGMORE was born of a gentile Family in Somersetshire entred a Commoner in Magd. hall 1602. aged 14. elected when Bach. of Arts as a native of the Dioc. of Gloucester Fellow of Oriel coll an 1608. After he had proceeded in his Faculty he took upon him the Sacred Function and became a painful and zealous Preacher and a publisher of Several Sermons as 1 The holy City discovered besieged and delivered on Eccles. 9. 14 15. Lond. 1619. qu. 2 The way of all flesh on Prov. 4. 1. Lond. 1619. qu. 3 The good adventure on Rev. 4. 2. 3. Lond. 1620. qu. c. one Mich. Wigmore was author of a Serm. intit The dissâ—â—tion of the brain on Isa. 9. 15. Printed 1641. which person I take to be the same with the former When our author Mich. Wigmore of Oriel died or where he was beneficed I cannot yet tell Quaere ROBERT STAFFORD a Knight's Son was born within the City of Dublin in Ireland entred a Sojournour in Exeter coll under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Prideaux an 1604. aged 16. but took no degree as I can yet find He published A Geographical and Anthological description of all the Empires and Kingdoms both of Continent and Islands in this Terrestial Globe c. Lond. 1618. and 34. qu. Usher'd into the World by the commendatory verses of Tho. Rogers Caspar Thomannus of Zuriche sometimes an Oxf. Student Joh. Glanvill and Joh. Prideaux Which last was supposed to have had a chief hand in the campiling the said book as the tradition goes in Exeter coll The said Rob. Stafford lived afterwards in Devon at Dowlton I think and had a Son of the same coll GEORGE GYFFARD or Gifford was a Student in Hart hall several years before 1568 10. Elizab. at which time did also study there others of his Sirname and allies as Humphrey Walter and Rob. Gifford but whether our author George was originally of this University or that he took a degree in Arts Law Physick or Divinity therein it doth not at all perhaps by the imperfectness of the registers appear Several persons in his time and before did tho they were beneficed retire to this University purposely to improve themselves in learning and by conversation and 't is supposed that this Gifford did the like Afterwards he became Minister of Maldon in Essex a very noted preacher and one most admirably well vers'd in several sorts of learning which were rare and much in esteem in his time but withal a great Enemy to Popery His works are Country divinity containing a discourse of certain points of Religion which are among the common sort of Christians with a plain confutation thereof Lond. 1581. 1. oct Dialogue between a Papist and a Protestant applied to the capacity of the unlearned Lond. 1583. oct Against the Priesthood and Sacrifice of the Church of Rome wherein you may perceive their impiety in usurping that office and action which ever appertaineth to Christ only Lond. 1584. oct Catechism giving a most excellent light to those that seek to enter the path-way to salvation Lond. 1586. oct Discourse of the subtile practices of Devils by Witches and Sorceres c. Lond. 1587. qu. Short treatise against the Donatists of England whom we call Brownists wherein by answer unto their writings their heresies are noted Lond. 1590. qu. Plain declaration that our Brownists be full Donatists by comparing them together from point to point out of the writing of Augustin Lond. 1591. qu. Reply to Mr. Joh. Greenwood and Hen. Barrow touching read Prayer wherein their gross ignorance is detected These two last are dedicated to Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh Chanc. of Cambridge Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcrafts In which is laid open how craftily the Devil deceiveth not only the Witches but many other c. Lond. 1593. and 1603. qu. Treatise of true fortitude Ibid. 94. oct Comment or Sermons on the whole book of the Revelations Ibid. 96. qu. Exposition on the Canticles Lond. 1612. oct Besides all these books he hath Several Sermons extant as 1 Sermon on the parable of the Sower on Math. 13. ver 1. to 9. Lond. 1581. oct 2 Sermon on 2 Pet. ver 1. to 11. Lond. 1584. oct 3 Serm. on Jam. 2. ver 14. to 26. Ibid. 86. oct 4 Sermon on the first four chapt and part of the 5. of Ecclesiastes c. Pr. at the same place 1589. oct 5 Serm. at Paul's cross on Psal. 133. Lond. 1591. oct 6 Two Sermons on 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. wherein is shewed that the Devil is to be resisted only by a stedfast faith c. Lond. 1598. oct 7 Four Sermons upon several parts of Scripture Lond. 1598. oct The first Sermon is on 1 Tim. 6 17 18 19. c. 8 Fiveteen Sermons on the Song of Solomon Lond. 1620. oct He also translated into English Prelections upon the sacred and holy Revolations Lond. 1573. qu. Written in latin by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge This George Gifford hath written and translated other things which I have not yet seen and lived to a good old age but when he died it appears not LUDOVISIO PETRUCCI or à Petruccioli or as he writes himself Ludovicus Petruccius infelix Eques Son of Ariodant or Aridante â—etrucci was born at Sienna à Petigliano in Tuscany educated partly in juvenile learning in his own country but before he had made proficiency in Academicals he became a Souldier of fortune first in Creet for the Venetians where he was Sarjeant-major in 1602. secondly in the Hungarian wars where he was Captain of a Foot-company in the regiment first of Count Salma and afterwards in that of Colonel Ferdinand de Colonitsch serving for the Emperour and at length in the services of the Prince of Brandiburg and Nuburgh But being unfortunate in all his undertakings he left the trade of war and retiring into England took a journey to Oxâ—â— in 1610. and was entred into the publick Library in the beginning of the year following About that time he was a Commoner of S. Edmunds hall as he was afterwards of Ball. coll wore a gown spent four years or more in Academical learning and frequented the Prayers and Sacraments according to the Church of England But being notwithstanding suspected for a Papist or at least popishly affected and to keep intelligence with that party were several objections made against him for the inconveniency and evil consequence that might happen for his long continuance in the University Whereupon he was forced or at least desired to depart such were the jealousies of the puritanical party in the University He hath written Farrago Poematum diversis locis temporibus conscriptorum c. Oxon. 1613. in Ital. and Lat. in qu. Oratio ad D. Joh. Bapt. Bernardum Praetorem Patavinum universam curiam 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
which being very worthy of perusal I refer the Reader for his farther satisfaction In Waterford and Lismore succeeded Dr. Archibald Adair a Seer and him Dr. George Baker who died in Octeb or thereabouts an 1668. JOHN BANCROFT Son of Christ 〈…〉 by Andrey Andrews his Wife eldest Son of 〈…〉 of Farnworth in Lancashire by Mary his Wife daughter of John Curwyn brother to Hugh Curcoyn sometimes Bishop of Oxford was born in little Village called Astell or Eâ—well lying between 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 was admitted a Student of 〈…〉 more took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a Preacher for some years in 〈…〉 being newly admitted to proceed in Divinity was by the endeavours of his Uncle Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. a younger Son of John Bancroft before-mentioned elected Master of Vniversity college where he continued above 20 years In which time he was at great pains and expence to recover and settle the antient Lands belonging to that foundation In 1632. he was upon the translation of Dr. Corbet to Norwych nominated Bishop of Oxford whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter in April the same year had the temporalities of that See given to him on the 6. of June following being about that time consecrated In 1640. when the Long Parliament began and proceeded with great vigour against the Bishops he was possessed so much with fear having always been an Enemy to the Puritan that without little or no sickness he surrendred up his last breath in his lodging at Westminster Afterwards his body was carried to Cudesden in the diocess of Oxon and was buried near to and under the south wall of the Chancel of the Church there on the twelfth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred and forty leaving then behind him the character among the Puritans or Presbyterians then dominant of a corrupt unpreaching Popish Prelate The Reader is now to know that before this Mans time the Bishops of Oxford had no house left belonging to their Episcopal See either in City or Country but dwelt at their Parsonage-houses which they held in Commendam tho Dr. Jo. Bridges who had no Commendam in his diocess lived for the most part in hired houses in the City For as I have before told you in Dr. Rob. Kynge tho at the foundation of the Bishoprick of Oxford in the Abbey of Osney the King appointed Gloucester coll for the Bishops Pallace yet when that foundation was inspected into by K. Edw. 6. and a recital thereupon made of the foundation thereof done by his Father that place was left out of the Charter as being designed then for another use So that from that time till this Man Dr. Bancroft came to be Bishop there being no settled House or Pallace for him or his Successors he did resolve by the perswasions of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. to build one Wherefore in the first place the impropriate Parsonage of Cudesden before-mentioned five miles distant from Oxon which belonged to the Bishop in right of his See he let the lease thereof run out without any more renewing that in the end it might be made an improvement to the slender Bishoprick The Vicaridge also of his own donation falling void in the mean time he procured himself to be legally instituted and inducted thereunto All which being done he thro the power and favour of Dr. Laud before-mentioned obtained an annexation of it to the See Episcopal the design of bringing in the impropriation going forward still and soon after began with the help of a great deal of timber from the Forest of Shotover given to him by his Majesty to build a fair Pallace which with a Chappel in it being compleatly finished an 1635. was then out of curiosity visited by the said Dr. Laud which he remits into his diary thus Sept. 2. an 1635. I was in attendance with the King at Woodstock and went thence to Cudsden to see the house which Dr. Jo. Bancroft then Lord Bishop of Oxford had there built to be a house for the Bishops of that See for ever he having built that house at my perswasion But this house or Pallace which cost three thousand and five hundrend pounds proved almost as short liv'd as the Founder being burn'd down by Col. Will. Legg during the short time that he was Governour of the Garrison of Oxford in the latter end of 1644. for fear it might be made a Garrison by the Parliament Forces tho with as much reason and more piety as one observes he might have garrison'd it for the King and preserved the house Being thus ruined it laid so till Dr. Joh. Fell became Bishop of Oxon and then with monies out of his own purse and the help of timber which one of his Predecessors named Dr. Will. Paul had laid in in his life-time for that purpose did rebuild it upon the old foundation with a Chappel in it as before The outside of which being finished in 1679. the inside followed soon after METROPHANES CRITOPYLUS a Greecian born came into England to be instructed in the doctrine and discipline of the Church and in order thereunto to learn the Latin and the English tongues To these ends he addressed himself to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury who sent him forthwith to Baliol college where he had for his interpreter the noted Grecian Mr. Edw. Sylvester and continued there till the time of his departure from England which was about 1622. at which time he was Chancellour to the Patriarch of Constantinople After his return to his own Country he became Patriarch of Alexandria in the place of Cyrill Lucaris translated to Constantinople and wrote as some suppose The Confession of Faith which went under the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople published in the Greek tongue 1629. Which Confession was with a censure upon it printed at Rome 1632. the title of which rendred into English is this The condemnation of the confession of the Calvinists as it was set forth in the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople With this condemnation and confession is printed an answer to the Anathematisms of Cyrill Patriarch of Alexandria Predecessor to Critopylus wherein the said Anathematisms are acknowledged to be genuine tho they decry the said Confession as spurious This Critopylus was in great renown in his own Country in sixteen hundred and forty but when he died I cannot yet find FASTI OXONIENSES THESE Oxonian Fasti or Academical Annals contain in exact Order Method and Time from the Year of our Lord 1500 to the end of 1640. 1. A Catalogue of the Chancellours Commissaries oâ— Vicechancellours and Proctors of the Univ. of Oxon 2. The Names and Characters of eminent Grammarians Rhetoricians and Musicians who have been admitted to One or two Academical Degree or Degrees with the Titles of such Books if any that they have written The Names of 3. Writers Archbishops and Bishops Who have been admitted to 1 2 or more Degr. 4.
writers under the year 1537. Feb. 21. John Robyns John Mason of All 's Coll. Only twelve more were admitted and about four supplicated Bach. of Div. Four only were admitted to and eleven or more supplicated for that Degree whom I cannot find admitted this or some years after Among them were 1 William Sandwych a Benedictine Monk afterwards Warden of Canterbury College in Oxon. 2 Robert Carter of Magdalen College about this time Steward of the Houshold of Cardinal Wolsey and afterwards Canon of the College of King Hen. 8. in Oxon. 3 Oswald Benson Minister of the House of St. Robert near to Knaresborough of the Order of the Holy Trinity Doct. of Civ Law June ult Edwarde Carne or Kerne now or lately Principal of Greek hall in St. Edwards Parish He was the Son of Howell Carne of Cowbridge in Glamorganshire by his Wife Cicely Daugh. of William Kemys of Newport and lineally descended from Thomas Le Câ—rne second Son of Ithyn King of Gwent He was a wise Man learned in the Civil Law and afterwards Knighted by the Emperour Charles 5. In 1530 I find him the Kings Orator at Rome to remonstrate to his holiness that the King was not bound by the Law to make his appearance either by Person or by proxy in the Court of Rome according to a citation which was coming to him for his appearance in the matter of his divorce from Queen Catherine In the Reign of Queen Mary who valued him he was Ambassador there for her as also for Queen Elizabeth but when the Pope was stirred with anger upon the resolution of the last to expel his power from England he commanded Sir Edward Carne to lay down his Office of Ambassador and to take upon him the Government of the English Hospital at Rome Yet as 't is thought by some this crafty old Knight did voluntary chuse his banishment out of a burning zeal to the Roman Catholick Religion and eagerly desired to continue there though sent for to come home by the Queen rather than return to his Country which was then ready to be overspread with Heresie as he call'd it He died at Rome on the 14 of the Cal. of Febr. according to the accompt there followed in 1561 about which time the Abbat of Martinego the Popes Nuncio was denied entrance into England and was buried there in the Church belonging to the Monastery of St. Gregory in Coelo He was always accounted the last Ambassadour of the Kings of England to the Pope till Roger Earl of Castlemain was sent thither by King James 2. an 1687. Jim ult Richard Gwent of Allsouls College Principal or Chief Moderator of Canon Law School situated near St. Edwards Church He was about this time Archdeacon of Brecknock afterwards of London in the place as it seems of one William Clyffe Dean of the Arches and at length in 1542 Archdeacon of Huntingdon upon the promotion of William Knyght to the See of Bath and Wells He gave way to sate in 1543 being then Archdeacon of two places at least London and Huntingdon and was buried in the middle of St. Pauls Cathedral in London This Person who was a Welsh Man born was well known to John Leland the Antiquary who in his Encomia illustrium eruditorum virorum in Anglia doth highly celebrate him by the name of Richard Ventanus Juridicus for his virtues and learning Feb. 13. Henry Morgan about this time Principal of St. Edwards hall situated in the Church-yard of St. Edward and near to Canon Law School He was afterwards Bishop of St. David Doct. of Can. Law Mar. 10. Richard Muge or Mugg of Allsouls College He was now beneficed and dignified in the Church and was accounted by all that knew him a learned Canonist Doct. of Div. Not one was admitted this year nor one supplicated for the said Degree only Richard Stubbs or Stubbys Master of Arts Bachelaur of Divinity and Master of Balliol College Incorporations May… William Middleton Doct. of the Civ Law of the University of Lovaine June…Richard Brynckley a Minorite or Franciscan Fryer Dr. of Divinity of Cambridge and as our publick register saith General Minister of the Minorites throughout England His supplication which was granted simpliciter and his incorporation are set down in the said register under this year 1524 yet perusing Cambridge tables containing the names of such who were admitted Doctors of that University he is put down there under the year 1527 as being then admitted D. of D. In the said Generalship or Provincialship he succeeded Dr. Henry Standish whom I have mention'd among the Writers and was succeeded by Steph. Baron a Cambridge Man Confessor to K. Hen. 8. and an eminent Preacher of his time This year but the day or month appears not was a Supplicate made for one Rowland Lee Doctor of the Canon Law of Cambridge to be incorporated into that degree but whether he really was so I cannot justly tell his Incorporation having perhaps been neglected to be registred This Rowl Lee was the Son of Will. Lee of Morpeth in Northumberland Treasurer of Barwick by Isabel his Wife Daughter and Heir of Andr. Trollop Kt. who after he had been educated in Academical Learning in S. Nicholas Hostle in Cambridge became first Chancellour to Dr. Jeffr. Blythe Bishop of Lichfield and afterwards Prebendary of Corburgh in that Church At length for the several Services which he had done to please the unsatiable desire of K. Hen. 8. one of which was the marrying him to the Lady Anna Bulleyne was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Lichfield to which being elected by the Name and Title of Rowl Lee Decretorum Doctor Canonicus Prebendarius Eccles Cath. Lichf was consecrated thereunto 19 Apr. 1534 and on the 8 of May following received the Temporalities belonging thereunto In the year following he was made President of the Marches of Wales and dying at Shrewsbury 24 Jan. 1543 was buried there He had a Brother named George Dean of S. Chadds in Shrewsbury who dying without issue as his Brother the Bishop did the Sister of them named Isabel Wife of Rog. Fowler of Staffordshire became Heir to them both An. Dom. 1525. An. 17 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss Dr. Musgrave Proct. Anthony Sutton of Magd. Coll. John Tooker lately of Exeter now of Cardinal Coll. Bach. of Arts. July 17. Robert Talbot of New Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Antiquary Besides him were about 68 that were admitted and about 10 that supplicated several of whom were afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Bach. of Civ Law Octob. ult Robert Dobell See more among the Bachelaurs of Can Law following Bach. of Can. Law July 11. Arth. Bokeley or Bulkley of New Inn as it seems He was admitted Doctor the next day as I shall anon tell you and was afterwards Bishops of Bangor Oct. ult Robert Dobell He is sometimes written Dovell and Davel and therefore I take him to be the same with Robert Dovell or Davell who
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
Brook I have spoken at large among the Writers under the year 1628. An. Dom. 1589. An. 31 Elizab. An. 32 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton Kt. who by the death of Robert Dudley Earl of Leycester became also High Steward of the Univ. of Cambridge Vicechanc. Nich. Bond D. D. President of Magd. Coll. Jul. 16. Proct. John Harding of Magd. Coll. John King of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 12. Will. Thorne of New Coll. June 25. Sebast Benefeild of C. C. Coll. July 12. George Benson of Queens Coll. See more among the Doctors of Div. an 1607. Nov. 5. Clem. Edmonds of All 's Coll. Dec. 1. Tho. Frith of Magd. Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Divin 1605. 17. Edmund Griffyth of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bangor Feb. 11. John Tapsell See among the Doct. of Div. 1617. Adm. 104. Bach. of Law June 30. Will. Gager July 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. See more among the Doctors of the Civ Law this year In the month of April this year Edwyn Sandys of C. C. Coll. did supplicate for the degree of Bach. of Law but was not admitted Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. June 9. George Warwick of Qu. Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Carlile in the place as I suppose of Hen. Dethick 18. Christoph Sutton of Linc. 21. Griffith Powell of Jes Coll. 27. John Budden of Gloc. Hall lately of Trin. Coll. July 4. Rich. Brett Joh. Randall of Linc. Coll. 11. George Cranmer Dec. 5. Alexand. Gill. of C. C. Coll. Adm. 74. Bach. of Phys Nov. 4. John Case the noted Philosopher of S. Johns Coll. Besides him was only one admitted and another licensed to practise Medecine Bach. of Div. July 6. Thomas Ravis of Ch. Ch. Mar. 21. Giles Tomson of All 's John Spenser of C. C. Coll. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law Apr. 30. Hen. Manning of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Exet. and died in 1614. Jun. 30. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the Degrees in the Civ Law Joh. Estmond of New Coll. was admitted the same day He was now Principal of Nâ—w Inn. Jul. 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. He was lately one of the Proctors of the University afterwards Vicar Gen. in Spirituals to the Archb. of York Prebendary of Langtoft in the Church of York Chancellour to Qu. Anne a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury In the beginning of 1617 he was sent Embassadour to Bruxelis to question the Archduke in behalf of his Master the King of Great Britain concerning a late famous Libel wrot and published as 't was supposed by Erycius Puteanus who neither apprehended the Author nor suppressed the Book untill he was sollicited by the Kings Agent there only interdicted it and suffered the Author to fly his Dominions Afterwards in 1621 the said Sir Joh. Bennet was for bribery corruption and exaction in his place of Judge of the Prerogative first committed to custody to the Sheriff of London then to prison afterwards fined 20000 l. and at length deprived of his place of Judicature till such time that he had restored what he had unjustly taken away He died in the Parish of Christ Church in London in the beginning of 1627 and was buried I suppose in the Church there July 11. Thomas Crompton M. A. of Merton Coll. His Grace had before been denied because he was suspected to have something of a Papist in him but afterwards making a protestation of his Religion according to the Church of England in a solemn Congregation of Regents he was permitted then July 11. to proceed He was afterwards a Knight Judge of the Court of Admiralty and one of the first Burgesses that the Members of this University chose to sit in after they had been impowr'd to send them to Parliament He died in the latter end of 1608 having before as I conceive been engaged in the Earl of Essex his Treasons Doct. of Phys June 30. John Bentley of Ch. Church Nov. 4. Joh. Case of S. Johns Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in Physick and were learned men Doct. of Div. July 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Dean of Worcester as I have before told you among the Writers Creations June 16. Sir Charles Blount Kt. He was originally of this University was afterwards Earl of Devonshire and dying in 1606 left behind him a natural Son named Montjoy Blount created Earl of Newport in the Isle of Wight by K. Charles I. which Montjoy dying in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon. 12 Feb. 1665 was buried in the south Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church near to the Grave of Will Lord Grandison the King with his Court having about that time left Oxon to which place he before had retired to avoid the Plague raging in London Sir Charles Danvers Kt. was actually created M. A. the same day He was afterwards beheaded on Tower hill near London for being deeply engaged in the Earl of Essex's Treasons an 1601. Sept. 17. Ferdinando Lord Strange He was soon after Earl of Derby and dying in the flower of his Youth not without suspicion of poyson on the 16 of Apr. 1594 having enjoyed his Earldom but for a little time was buried near to the body of his Father in a Chappel joyning to the Church of Ormeskirke in Lancashire Sept. 17. Sir George Carew Kt. He was afterwards Earl of Totness Sir John Spencer of Althorp in Northamptonshire Kt. All which were actually created Masters of Arts. An. Dom. 1590. 32 Elizab. 33 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. James D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 16 who in 1581 had undergone the same Office Proct. Jasp Colmer of Mert. Coll. Jeh Evelegh of Exet. Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 13. Tho. Bastard of New Jul. 9. Joh. Davies of Queens Coll. George Carew of Exeter Coll. was admitted the same day Quaere Dec. 14. Thom. Cooper or Couper of Ch. Ch. See among the Bach. of Div. 1600. Feb. 5. Sam. Page Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham of C. C. Coll. The two last I shall mention among the Writers in the second Volume Feb. 5. Mathew Lister Lionel Day of Oriel Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Incorporations an 1605 and of the other who was originally of S. Albans Hall among the Bach. of Div. 1608. 10. Lancelot Bulkley of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland Adm. 133. Bach. of Law May 2. John Owen of New Coll. the Epigrammatist Feb. 2. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. This person whom I have mention'd among the Masters in 1587 was Proctor of the University two years after and travelling beyond the Seas return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman In 1607 June 28. he received the honor of Knighthood at Richmond was sent Embassadour into the Low Countries soon after made Secretary of State 29 Mar. 1614 being the very day that Sir Tho. Lake was
among the Creations following 19. Ranulph Adams a Sect Bach. of Arts of the said University Feb. 24. Joh. Viccars Bach. of Arts of Cambridge now a Commoner of Linc. Coll. Creations Aug. 25. The honourable James de la Mariniere Baron of Montmartin Gruchy Borrivet le Vignies and Guhebert Ordinary Prefect of the Horse belonging to the most Christian King was actually created Master of Arts. Will. Browne of Exeter Coll. had leave then given to him to be actually created M. of A. but 't was not put in execution till 16 Nov. following He is stiled in the publick Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione instructus This person is the celebrated Poet whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1024. num 516. Peregrin Langford had then also the degree of M. of A. given to him when he would be pleased to come to the University for it On the 11 of Dec. following he supplicated the ven Congregation being then absent that his Creation might be deferred till Trinity Term following but whether he was then created it appears not Jan. 18. Gilb. Primerose mention'd before among the Incorporations was actually created D. of D. in the house of Convocation just after he had been incorporated by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University wherein is contained a large testimony of his singular probity and great learning and that he had spent twenty years in the study of Theology backed by recommendations from the King in consideration of his learning and worth He was a Scotch man born had been one of the French Preachers of the Protestant Church at Bourdeaux in France but now of the French Church in London and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King In 1628 Jul. 21 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. John Buckridge promoted to the See of Ely for he had kept that dignity several years in commendam with Rochester which place he keeping till his death Mr. Hugh Cressy sometimes of Merton Coll. was designed by his Majesty to succeed him but was never installed because he afterwards changed his Religion This Dr. Primerose hath written many things as you may see in the Oxford Catalogue among which are 1 Jacob's vow opposed to the vows of Monks and Friers Bergerac 1610. oct in 4 Tomes or Vol. All which were written in good French and the first Vol. containing two books was translated into English by John Bulteel a Minister Lond. 1617. qu. 2 La Trompette de Sion c. Bergarac 1610. oct in 18 Sermons translated into Latin under this Title Tuba Sionis seu Exhortatio ad poenetentiam jejunium Dantsic 1631. oct 3 The righteous mans evils and the Lords deliverances Lond. 1625. qu. in 9 Sermons 4 The Christian mans tears and Christs comforts Fast-sermon 7 Oct. 1624 on Matth. 5. 4. and on Luke 6. 21. Lond. 1625 in two parts in tw 5 The table of the Lord whereof 1. The whole service is the living bread c. Lond. 1626. oct in 3 Serm. c. He paid his last debt to nature in his house in Chisell street near the Artillery Yard in the Suburbs of London in Oct. or Nov. 1642 leaving then behind him several sons viz. 1 James Primerose Doctor of Physick 2 David Primerose Minister of the French Church at Roan in Normandy 3 Stephen who was born 1606 Jan. 12 new stile who after he came to age always rejected his Fathers counsel and would never follow any calling Afterwards he became a presumptuous and vain glorious person tho very ignorant did precipitate himself into divers and damnable Heresies would abuse his Father at his own Table in the presence of his elder Brother and others and would several times tell him that Jesus Christ was come to put division between Father and Children c. upon which account his Father left him nothing in his Will but six pence 4 John Primerose born 24 Nov. 1608 who had spent so much money at Paris London and in the Low Countries that he could give him no more in his Will Joh Durie a Scotch man became a sojourner in the University in the month of July this year for the sake of the publick Library but how long he continued there I cannot tell He afterwards travelled into various Countries beyond the Seas especially thro most parts of Germany where he visited the chief recesses of the Muses and by long continuance spoke the German Tongue so well and fluent that many English men after his return took him to be a German Native He was by profession a Divine was in Orders and a Preacher but whether he took them according to the way of the Church of England which he always scrupled it doth not appear He was a great pretender towards the making of a reconciliation between the Calvinists and Lutherans beyond the Seas or as he himself used to say For the making and setling a Protestant union and peace in the Churches beyond the Seas c. In which work he received encouragement from Archb. Laud tho Pryâ—nâ— his inveterate Enemy saith not but found so small encouragement from him that he oft complained thereof to his friends You may be pleased to see more of these matters and of various Transactions of the life of the said Durie in a Letter written by him to his antient Acquaintance Sam. Hartlib Esq who published it when the said Durie fell into the displeasure of the Presbyterians for shewing himself false to them in several respects with this Title The unchanged constant and single-hearted Peace-maker drawn forth into the World Or a Vindication of Mr. Jo. Dury from the aspersions cast upon him in a nameless Pamphlet called The time-serving Proteus and ambidexter Divine uncased to the World wherein c. Lond. 1650 in three sheets in quarto Upon the turn of the times occasion'd by the Presbyterians an 1641 he sided with them was one of the Preachers before the Long Parliament the members of which appointed him one of the Assembly of Divines and took from them several places of Employment Afterwards he sided with the Independents took the Engagement as he had the Covenant before and all other Oaths that followed till his Majesties Restauration 1660 at which time and after he was living He hath written and published about twenty Books and Pamphlets among which are 1 Consultatio Theologica super negotio pacis Ecclesiast Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Epistolary discourse to Tho. Goodwin Ph. Nâ—e and Sam. Hartlib Lond. 1644 c. qu. This being written against Toleration was answer'd by H. Robinson 3 Of Presbytery and Independency c. print 1646. qu. 4 Model of Ch. government print 1647. qu. 5 Peace-maker the Gospel way print 1648. qu. 6 Seasonable discourse for reformation Lond. 1649. qu. published by Sam. Hartlib 7 Considerations concerning the Engagement print 1650. This being answered Dury came out with a Reply 8 The reformed School Lond. 1650 in
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
about him the charms of a plausible behaviour of a fluent tongue and good parts and another who was his most beloved friend saith that he was upright in conscience deep in judgment and ripe in Eloquence As for the works by him written and published under his name they are these Nectar Ambrosia Trag. Much praised by Greg. Martin Rationes decem oblati certaminis in causa fidei redditae Academicis Angliae Printed first of all privately in the house of one Stonor a Cath. Gent. living near to Henly in Oxfordshire an 1581 afterwards at least five times publickly beyond the Seas of which once was at Aug. Trev. 1583 in Concertat Eccles Cath. and at length were translated into English Lond. 1687. qu. These reasons were very learnedly answered by Will. Whittaker of Cambridge and replyed upon by John Durey a Scot which Durey was answered by Dr. Laur. Humphrey Nine articles directed to the Lords of the Privy Council an 1581 See more in Mer. Hanmer under the Year 1604 and in Rob. Persons an 1610. Various conferences concerning Religion had with Protestant Divines in the Tower of London on the last of Aug. and on the 18 23 and 27. of Septemb. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. Among those Divines that he disputed with were Alex. Nowell Dean of St. Pauls Cath. and Will. Day Dean of Windsore The History of Ireland in two books Written 1570. The MS. or original of which being in the Cottonian Library was afterwards published by Sir James Ware of Dublin Knight Dubl 1633. fol. Chronologia Universalis Much commended by Greg. Martin before-mention'd Narratio de divortio Hen. 8. Regis ab uxore Catherina Printed at the end of Nic. Harpesfeild's Ch. History at Doway by the care of Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit who also added thereunto a Lat. translation of John Speeds Catalogue of religious Houses Colleges and Hospitals in England and Wales Ingolst 1602. oct Orationes Epistolae Tractatus de imitatione Rhetoricâ Among which orations are those as I suppose which he made at the funeral of Sir Tho. Whyte and of the Lady Amey Robsert the first Wife of Robert Earl of Leycester whose body having been at first buried in Comnore Church near Abendon for there she died or rather was murdered in the mannor house there belonging to Anth. Forster Gent. 8. Sept. 1560 was taken up and reburied in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Literae ad Rich. Chenaeum Episc Glocestr The beginning of which is Non me nunc alium c. Letters to Everard Mercurian General of the Society of Jesus giving an account of his proceedings in England an 1580. Printed in Lat. in Concertatio Eccles Cath. in Anglia part 1. p. 3. and elsewhere Besides all these are other things of our Author Compian which I have not yet seen that were collected and published among some of his works by Silvester à Petra Sancta a Jesuit of Italy printed at Antw. 1631. in tw but those things being scarce and rare to be had I can make no farther report of them nor their Author only that he with other Rom. Priests having been found guilty of treason according to the Act of 25. Ed. 3. and of adhering to the Bishop of Rome the Queens Enemy and of coming into England to disturb the peace and quiet of the Realm c. were executed at Tybourne near London on the first of Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 but what afterwards became of Campians carcass I know not Paul Bombin a Jesuit hath written his Life and Martyrdom published at Antw. 1618. in 12o. and afterwards at Mantua an 1620. in oct But that Pamphlet which I have several years look'd after but in vain is the Report of the death and martyrdom of E. Campian R. Sherwyn and A. Briant printed in English in oct soon after their death The two last of which I am now about to mention RALPH SHERWYN where born unless in the Western parts of England I know not was made Fellow of Exeter Coll. by Sir Will. Petre a principal benefactor thereunto in July 1568 went through with great industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy and in 1574 proceeding in Arts was made Senior of the Act celebrated 26 July the same year being then accounted an acute Philosopher and an excellent Grecian and Hebritian Afterwards he with Joh. Currey M. of A. and Fellow of the said Coll. obtaining leave to travel beyond the Seas in July 1575 left the University utterly renounced the Religion in which he had been mostly educated went to Doway spent some time in the study of Divinity in the English Coll. there and was made Priest with Laur. Johnson who afterwards was hanged by the name of Richardson 23. March 1576 7. In that place and for a time in the English Coll. at Rome he continued in making progress in divine studies till about the beginning of 1580 and then instead of going into England with certain Persons of his society into the Mission he went to Rheimes upon publick concerns to be had with Thom. Goldwell Bishop of St. Asaph then there who being at that time in a sickly condition and therefore not able to serve Sherwin and his Brethren as to Episcopal confirmation and other matters relating to the mission he waited upon the said Bishop in the quality of a Chaplain during his sickness Afterwards being well and sent for to Rome Sherwin went into England and before he was quite settled in London he was taken in the house of one Roscarriot or Roscarrock committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea and had fetters fastned to his legs While he continued there he had notice once or twice that he should prepare himself to dispute with certain Protestant Divines whereupon shewing himself very ready to encounter them he was translated to the Tower of London where after he had many questions proposed to him concerning Campian Persons and other Priests he shew'd himself afterwards to be a Man of parts and one that needed not to be asham'd of his education in Exeter College At length after he had continued there more than an year in great misery was at length tried for his life and refusing several times the Oath of Supremacy and going to hear service in the Protestant Churches was condemned to die His writings are Discourse in the tower of London with Edm. Campian the Jesuit ◠account of the disputations in Wisbich Castle between Will Fulk of Cambridge and certain R. Priests who were Prisoners there These two are not printed but kept in MS. as choice reliques among R. Cath. beyond the Sea Where or else in the Tower Rich. Stanyhurst saw them Epistles and Letters to divers Persons Two of which are in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae Aug. Trev. 1594. fol. 71. 72. c. See more of him in the latter end of Pet. White under the Year 1590. At length being found guilty of high treason was hang'd drawn
character given of him by one the knew him in Ireland I shall here insert for a conclusion of those things I have said of him which is this He was stately without disdain familiar without contempt very continent and chast of body no more than enough liberal learned and a great lover of learning perfect in blazoning of Arms skilful of Antiquities of wit fresh and lively in consultations very temperate in utterance happy which his experience and wisdom hath made artificial a preferrer of many a Father to his Servants and both in war and peace of commendable courage WILLIAM GOOD was born in the ancient Town of Glastenbury in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning there admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. Feb. 1545 afterwards Fellow Master of Arts 1552 and about that time Humanity reader in the said College After Queen Mary came to the Crown being then a most zealous R. Catholick he was promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice in his own Country called Middle Chinnoke and to a little Prebendship in the Church of Wells called Comba octava in Nov. 1556 besides the rectory of a School in the said City All which he keeping till Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and for some time after he voluntarily left them and his native Country for Religion sake and retiring to Tourney in Flanders entred himself there into the Society of Jesus in 1562 aged 35. After he had served his probationship he went into Ireland with Father David the titular Archbishop of Armagh who left no stone unremoved there for the settling of that Kingdom in the Catholick faith and obedience Four years being spent in that Country not without some danger he went to Lovaine where he met with Rob. Persons about to enter into the said Society whom he strengthned with many arguments in order thereunto In 1577 he was called to Rome to take upon him the profession of the four vows which being done he went into Sweeden and Poland in the company of Anth. Possevin to settle certain affairs relating to the society Two years after he returned to Rome and became Confessor to the English Coll. there newly converted from an Hospital dedicated to the Holy Trinity to a Seminary for the educating the youth of England that profess the R. Cath. Religion Vir fuit probatae virtutis doctrinae as one of his society saith atque imprimis in historiis Sanctorum Angliae optimè versatus quorum res gestas in templo collegii Anglicani curavit coloribus exprimi quae subinde in aes incisae prodierunt tacito ipsius inscriptae Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea Robnae 1584. fol. In the Library also of the English Coll. at Rome there is extant a Manuscript digested according to the years of Christ and Kings of Britaine containing the Acts of the Saints of Britain Which book is said there among those of England to have been composed and written by our Author Good who dying at Naples 5. July according to the accompt there followed in Fifteen hundred eighty and six year 1586 was buried in the College of the Jesuits there who have yet a great respect for his name One or more of whom have promised me a copy of his Epitaph if there be any but no answer have I yet received PHILIP SIDNEY the short-liv'd Ornament of his noble Family and the Marcellus of the English Nation hath deserv'd and without dispute or envy enjoyed the most exalted praises of his own and of succeeding Ages The Poets of his time especially Spencer reveren'd him not only as a Patron but a Master and he was almost the only Person in any age I will not except Mecaenas that could teach the best rules of Poetry and most freely reward the performances of Poets He was a Man of a sweet nature of excellent behaviour of much and withall of well digested learning so that rarely wit courage breeding and other additional accomplishments of conversation have met in so high a degree in any single Person It is to be wish'd that his life might be written by some judicious hand and that the imperfect essay of Sir Fulk Grevill L Brook might be supply'd In the mean time I am forc'd to consider him only as an Author and to give him these short notes of his life and education He was Son of Sir Hen. Sidney before-mention'd by the Lady Mary his Wife eldest Daughter of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland was born as 't is supposed at Penshurst in Kent 29. Nov. 1554 and had his Christian name given to him by his Father from K Philip then lately married to Qu. Mary While he was very young he was sent to Christ Ch. to be improved in all sorts of learning and was contemporary there with Rich. Carew Author of The Survey of Cornwall where continuing till he was about 17 years of age under the tuition of Dr. Tho. Thornton Canon of that house he was in June 1572 sent to travel for on the 24 Aug. following when the Massacre fell out at Paris he was then there and at that time as I conceive he with other English Men did fly to the house of Francis Walsingham Embassadour there from the Queen of England Thence he went through Loraine and by Strasburgh and Heydelburg to Frankfort in Sept. or Oct. following as his said life written by Sir Fulk Grevill his companion and friend attesteth But what is added there that Hubert Languet accompanied him in the whole course of his 3 years travels is a great mistake as will appear by Languets Epistles to our Author Philip Sidney printed more than once For so it was that in the next spring in May 1573 Larguet removed to Vienna where our Author met him again and stayed with him till September when he went into Hungary and those parts Thence he journied into Italy where he continued all the Winter following and most of the Summer an 1574 and then he returned into Germany with Languet and next spring he returned by Frankfort Heydelberg and Antwerp home into England about May 1575. The like mistakes are in the said life concerning Languets coming into England in Februar 1578 at which time 't is said he was about 66 years of age whereas he was but 61 that also he and Sidney parted at Sea which could not be for Duke John Caâ—â—mire with whom he came went away so suddenly that Languet could not take leave of him In the Year 1576 he was sent by the Queen to Rodolph the Emperour to condole the death of Maximilian and also to other Princes of Germany at which time he caused this inscription to be written under his Arms which he then hung up in all places where he lodged Illustriss generosiss virs Philippi Sidneii Angli Proregis Hiberniae filii Comitum Warwici Leycestriae nepotis sereniss Reginae Angliae ad Caesarem Legati The next year in his return he saw that gallant Prince Don John de Austria Vice Roy
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
Clemency could not be drawn into a Persuasion that in case of Religion Men should be burnt hang'd or quartered And therefore it was that one reporteth that he always was in animo Catholicus and another that he was of such credit and favour in Rome as if he was the greatest Papist in England He wrote as it is said several things pertaining to the Law but none of them are extant only this if I may say it is his and not his Name set to it for sale sake A Treatise concerning Statutes or Acts of Parliament and the Exposition thereof Lond. 1677. oct Whether ever before printed I know not Speeches spoken during the time of his Chancelorship MS. This great and worthy Person dyed on the 20th of November in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 aged 51. and was buried in the upper part of St. Paul's Cathedral in London on the 16th of December following Soon after came out a little Book of Verses made on his Death by several Hands intit Musarum plangores Christopher Lord Hatton Son of John Hatton the nearest Knsman of the Male Line to the aforesaid Sir Christopher was not of St. Mary's Hall but of Jesus College in Cambridge and afterwards a Doctor of the Civil Law of Oxon as I shall elsewhere tell you He published the Psalms of David with Titles and Collects according to the matter of each Psalm Printed at Oxon 1644. in oct and afterwards enlarged and published several times These Collects or Prayers at the end of every Psalm were compiled by Dr. Jeremiah Taylor and so were the Devotions for the help and assistance of all Christian People which are at the end of every impression of the aforesaid Book yet notwithstanding they go all under the Name of the aforesaid Christop L. Hatton having his Arms in the Title of them who dying 4 July 1670. being then or lately a Member of the Privy Council to his Majesty was buried in a private Chappel of the Collegiate Church at Westminster dedicated to St. Peter opposite to the Capella Regum on the North side See more in Jer. Taylor under the year 1667. BARTHELMEW CHAMBERLAINE was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family in Oxfordshire admitted Scholar of Trinity Col. 7. June 1563. aged 17 years Probationer in 67 and Fellow the year after About that time entring into Holy Orders he became a noted Preacher in these parts took both the Degrees in Divinity that of Doctor being compleated 579. before which time he was beneficed and dignified in the Church but where I cannot justly say He hath written and published Several Sermons as 1 The Passion of Christ and benefits thereby on Heb. 9. 28. Lond. 1581. and 1613. oct 2 Concio ad Academicos Oxomienses in Comitiis An. 1576. Lond. 1584. qu. 3 Sermon at Pauls on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1589. oct 4 Sermon at Farington in Berks on Lond. 1571. oct with others which I have not yet seen Between the time of the first coming of the said Barth Chamberlain to Trinity College to the year 1578. I find seven of his Sirname to be Students in the said College and some after but cannot in all my searches find out George Chamberlaine who was afterwards Bishop of Ypre and whether he ever abode in this University in the condition of a Student I cannot justly say it The said George Chamberlaine was the eldest Son of George Chamberlaine Esque by his Wife the Daughter of Moses Pring of Gaunt in Flanders and he the second Son of Sir Leonard Chamberlaine of Oxfordshire Knight Governor of the Isle of Guernsey who dyed there 2. Eliz. From which Sir Leonard are the Chamberlains of Sherburn in the said County desended the Heiress general of which Family named Elizabeth was married to John Nevile Baron of Abergavenny The said George Chamberlatine who was Bishop of Ypre was born at Gaunt before-mentioned An. 1576. and being bred up ro Learning and Religion became successively Canon Archdeacon and Dean of St. Bavon in Gaunt and at length in 1626. was made Bishop of Ypre within the Province of Machlin in Brabant on the Death of Antonius de Hennin where being settled he became much admired as he was partly before for his great Piety for his voluble Preaching in five Languages at least and beloved of Kings and Princes c. Had I time and room allowed I would give you a Copy of an Epitaph made on by one that knew and much admired him wherein no doubt but that high character of his Piety Learning and Worth is justly said but I must hasten and tell you that he dying to the reluctancy of all that knew him on the 19. Dec. according to the account followed at Ypre in 1634. aged 58 years one month and 19 days was buried in his own Cathedral Some years before his Death he came into England purposely to resign up his Heirship of his Estate at Sherburn before-mentioned and elsewhere which belonged to the noble Family of the Chamberlains sometimes Barons of Tanquervil in Normandy he being the first and true Heir And this he did for Religion sake and purposely to avoid the incumbrances of earthly things See more of him in Athenae Belgicae c. written by Franc. Sweertius printed at Antwerp 1628. where you will find several things that he had written and published ROBERT GWINN a Welsh Man born took one degree in Arts 1568. and in 1571. leaving the University went with Thom. Crowther another Batchelaur to Doway where being admitted into the English College made very great progress in Divinity Afterwards Gwinn returning into England and settling in Wales in the condition of a Secular Priest did write several Pious Works in the Welsh Tongue as Anton. Possivinus tells us but the Titles of them he omits and also translated from the English into the Welsh Language A Christian Directory or Exercise guiding Men to Eternal Salvation commonly called the Resolution Written by Rob. Persons the Jesuit which Translation was much used and valued and so consequently did a great deal of good among the Welsh People See more in Jo. Davies under the year 1634. WALTER BALEY or Bailey Son of Henry Baley of Warnwell in Dorsetshire was born at Portsham in that County educated in Wykchams School 〈◊〉 Win chester admitted perpetual fellow of New Colledge after he had served two years of probation an 1550 tok the degrees in Arts entred upon the Physick line was admitied to practice that faculty while he was Proctor of the University in the year 1558 and about that time was made Prebendary of Dultingcote alias Dulcot c. in the Church of Wells which he resign'd in 1579. In 1561 he was made the Queens Professor of Physick in this University proceeded in that faculty two years after and at length became Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much resorted to for his practice He hath written A discourse of three kinds of Pepper in
as usually he did alone Upon which the Embassador willed him to stay longer with him but he then thankfully refused that offer and turned his face presently after towards Surat which was 300. miles distant from the place where the Embassador was and he lived to come safely thither But there being over-kindly used by some of the English who gave him Sack which they had brought from England he calling for as soon as he first heard of it and crying Sack Sack is there such a thing as Sack I pray give me some Sack and drinking of it moderately for he was very temperate it increased his flux which he had then upon him and this caused him within few days after his very tedious and troublesome travels for he went most on foot at that place to come to his journeys end as I shall anon tell you What became of his notes and observations which he had made in his long journeys I know not only these following which he sent to his friends in England who printed them in his absence Letters from Asmere the Court of the Great Mogul to several persons of quality in England concerning the Emperor and his Country of E. India Lond. 1616. qu. In the title of which is our authors Picture riding on an Elephant The first letter is written to Sir Edw. Philips of Montagâ—e in Somersetshire Kt. Master of the Rolls A Letter to his Mother Gertrude dated from Agra in E. India ult oct 1616. containing a speech that he spoke to the Gr. Mogul in the Persian Language See in the Pilgrimages of Sam. Purchase part 1. book 4. chap. 17. and also at the end of his Letters from Asmere before mentioned 'T is reported that in an Oration which our author Coryate did speak to the said Mogul he brought in that story of the Queen of Sheba 1 Kings 10. in which parts of that sacred History the Maâ—umetans have some knowledge and told him that as the Queen of Sheba having heard of the fame of K. Solomon came from far to visit him which when she had done she confessed that tho she had heard very much of him and many things beyond her belief yet now seeing what she did acknowledged that she had not heard half of that which she now saw concerning the wisdom and greatness and revenue and riches of Solomon So our Orator Coryate told the Mogul that he had heard very much of him before he had the honour to see him when he was very far off in his own Country but now what he beheld did exceedingly surmount all these former reports of him which came to his Ears at such a distance from him Then larding his short speech with some other piece of Flattery which the Mogul liked well concluded Afterwards the Mogul gave him one hundred Roopus which amounts to value of 12l 10s of our English money looking upon him as a Derveese or Votary or Pilgrim for so he called him and such that bear that name in that Country seem not much to care for money and that was the reason I conceive that he gave him not a more plentiful reward Certain observations from the Moguls Court and E. India See in Purchase before-mention'd Travels to and observations in Constantinople and other places in the way thither and in his journey thence to Aleppo Damasco and Jerusalem Ibid. part 2. lib. 10. cap. 12. His Oration purus putus Coriatus quintessence of Coryate Spoken extempore when Mr. Rob. Rugg dub'd him a Knight on the ruins of Troy by the name of Thomas Croyate the first English Knight of Troy Ib. cap. 12. Observations of Constantinople abridged Ib. cap. 12. Divers Lat. and Greek Epistles to learned men beyond the Seas Some of which are in his Crudities as those to Gasp Waserus Radolp Hospinian Hen. Bullinger descended from the famous Henry Bullinger Marc. Buellerus c. At length our author Coryate giving way to fate occasion'd by a Flux at Surat in E. India before-mention'd in the month of December in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 was buried there under a little Monument like to one of those that are usually made in one of our Chyards Sic exit Coryatus Hence he went off the Stage and so must all after him how long soever their parts seem to be For if one should go to the extremest part of the world East another West another North and another South they must all meet at last together in the field of Bones wherein our traveller hath now taken up his lodging and where I leave him to make way for the next as eminent almost for the Law as he for his Travels FERDINANDO PULTON alias Pâ—ulton Son of Giles Pulton Esq who died 1560. was born at Deusborough in Northampton-shire became commoner of Brasnose coll in the beginning of Q. Marys Reign laid there a foundation of Academical literature which he found useful to him afterwards when he grew eminent in the common Law But leaving that house before he took a degree he went to Lincolns Inn studied the said Law took the usual degrees and became eminent for the knowledge in and practice of it not only in London but the usual place of his residence in the country viz. at Borton in the Parish and County of Buckingham He hath written and published An abstract of all the Penal Statutes which be general Lond. 1600. qu. Digested alphabetically according to the several subjects they concern Abridgment of the Statutes of England that have been made and printed from Magna charta to the end of the Session of Parliament 4. Jac. 1. Lond. 1606. and 12. c. fol. Collection of Statutes repealed and not repealed Lond. 1608. fol. De pace regis regni declaring which be the general offences and impediments of Peace Lond. 1610. and 15 fol. Collection of sundery Statutes frequent in use with notes in the Margent and reference to the book Cases and books of Entry and Registers where they be treated of Lond. 1618. in two vol. in fol. theâ—e again 1632. fol. c. which collection reaâ—hes from 9. 〈◊〉 3. to 7. â—â—c 1. The Statutes at large concerning all such Acts which at any time heretofore have 〈◊〉 extant in 〈…〉 Charâ—a to the 16. of Jaâ— 1. c. divided 〈…〉 with marginal Notes c. Lond. 1618. c. fol. He departed this Life on the 20. January in sixteen hundred and seventeen aged 82. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Deusborough before-mention'd Over his grave was a large plain Stone soon after laid with an Epitaph engraven thereon wherein 't is said that he was Vir omni virtutis doctrinarum genere quondam illustrissimus necnon sedulus scriptor propagator legum hujus regni But if you are minded to read his English Epitaph see in Sir Joh. Beaumont's Tast of the variety of Poems at the end of his Bosworth-field Lond. 1629. oct The said Ferdinando Pulton left behind him
Vigiliis Paschatis Printed with the former book Apologia contra calumniatores suos Lond. 1619. qu. Emblemata varia dedicata Regibus Principibus Magnatibus Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae Poemata varia Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614. Which four last things were printed with his Apologia c. 1619. what other books he hath published I cannot justly tell However from those before mention'd it appears that the author was a phantastical and unsetled man and delighted as it seems in rambling CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire was born in that County became a Commoner of S. Albans hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote An Apology for women or the womans defence Lond. 1620. oct Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks Afterwards he retired into the Country studied Divinity had a benefice conferr'd upon and tho he never took any degree in Arts in this University yet he took that of Bach. of Div. 1631 which is all I know of him JOHN KING Son of Philip King of Wormenhale commonly called Wornal near to Brill in Bucks by Elizazabeth his wife Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire Son of Thom. King brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon was born at Wornal before mention'd educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth successor to Will. Day 1565. at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferr'd upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University In 1611. he had the Bishoprick of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year had restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See made to him 18 of the same month at which time he was had in great reverence by all people He was a solid and profound Divine of great gravity and piety and had so excellent a volubility of speech that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often 〈◊〉 of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time When he was advanced to the See of London he endeavoured to let the world know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit shewing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too In which office he was so frequent that unless hindred by want of health he omitted no Sunday whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London Deus bone quam canora Vox saith one vultus compositus verba selecta grandes sententiae Allicimur omnes lepore verborum suspendimur gravitate sententiarum orationis impetu viribus flâ—ctimur c. He hath written Lectures upon Jonâ—s delivered at York Lond. 1594. Ox. 99. c. qu. Several Sermons viz. 1 Sermon at Hampton-Court on Cantic 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. 2 At Ox. 5. Nov. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. 3 At Whitehall 5. Nov. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2 3 4. Ox. 1608. qu. 4 At S. Maries in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration on 1 Chron. ult 26. 27 28. Ox. 1608. qu. 5 Vitis palatina Serm. appointed to be preached at White-hall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614. qu. 6 Serm. at Pauls cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. 7 At Pauls cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal 123. 3. and a third on Psal 146. 3. 4. c. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature 30. March in sixteen hundred twenty and one year 1621 aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight Soon after Bishop Kings death the Rom. Catholicks endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit The Bishop of London his Legacy Or certain motives of Dr. King late B. of London for his change of religion and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England Printed by permission of the superiours 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter his son Hen. King not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Pauls cross soon after but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former who published a Sermon entit Abels offering c. on Gen. 4. ver 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh and whether he was of this Univ. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell JOHN GUILLIM or Agilliams son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain I find one of both his names who was a student in Brasnose coll in the year 1581. aged 16 and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were according to the Matricula born in Herefordshire in which County the author of The worthies of England places Jo. Guillim the Herald of whom we now speak who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire was soon after called thence and made one of the Society of the coll of Arms. commonly called the Heralds Office in London by the name of Portsmouth and on the 26 Feb. 1617. Rouge Croix Pursevant of Arms in Ordinary He published The display of Heraldry Lond. 1610. c. fol. Written mostly especially the scholastical part by John Barcham of C. C. coll in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant superfluous and needless additions to it purposely to gain money from those
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
in tw being the third edit This book is the effect of certain Lectures in Queens coll publick Refectory when he bore the office of Rhetorick Reader Brief direction how to examine our selves before we go to the Lord's Table how to behave our selves there and how to try our selves afterwards Lond. 1622. or thereabouts in oct Confutatio cujusd libelli de amplitudine regni caelestis sub ementito C. Secundi Curionis nomine in lucem emissi Ox. 1627. qu. He hath also translated from Lat. into English A Manuduction to Theology Lond. 1622. or thereabouts and 26. in oct written by Barthelm Keckerman Before which translation is a copy of verses made by Mich. Drayton the Poet an attestation by Ad. Airay B. D. and a dedication to Aâ—â—e the Wife of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester One Tho. Vicary published The Surgeons directory in 1651. oct who was as I suppose a Chirurgion by profession and therefore not to be taken to be the same with Tho. Vicars before mentioned SIXTIN AMAMA was born in the Province of Westsricsin in Holland educated for a time in the University in Franaker where obtaining considerable knowledge in Oriental tongues took a journey into England and about 1613. setled in Oxford taught the Hebrew tongue and for the sake of Dr. Prideaux Rector of Exeter coll whose person and doctrine he much admired became a Sojournour of that house and a zealous Student in the Sacred Faculty After he had continued there some years he retired 〈◊〉 a degree conser'd on him to his native Country where at Franaker he was made Hebrew Profess 〈…〉 length D. of D. and held much in esteem for his great learning He hath written 〈…〉 quinque librorum Mosis c. Franak 1620. qu. Supplex 〈◊〉 ad Synodos Episcopos Super-intendentes 〈…〉 〈…〉 Franak 1625. oct Coron ad Gram. Martino-Buxtoâ—sianum Ibid. Anti-Barbarus Biblicus in 3. libros distributus c. Amstel 1628. oct To which was added a fourth book Franak 1656. qu. De Decimis In the first Tome of the Criticks p. 1326. Responsio ad censuras D. Marini Marsenni Theologi Paris Franak 1628. oct See in the first Tome of the Criticks p. lx De nomine Tetragrammato dissertatio cum responsione ad argumenta cl viri D. Nich. Fulleri Angli quibus pro vulgatae lectionis Jehovah certitudine disputavit Fran. 1628. oct He hath also written the Preface before Joh. Drusius his Commentary on the more difficult places of the Pentateuch an 1617. which is remitted into the first Tome of the Criticks p. 50. and corrected and published with some additions his Commentary on the 12 Minor Prophets and his Com. de Sectis Judaicis He hath also written and published certain Dissertations and Orations in Latin but these I have not yet seen He was living and in great renown at Franaker in sixteen hundred twenty and eight having then as always before a natural Genie to enlighten the Text of Scripture and to find the notion of the Sacred Language When he died and what other books he hath written I cannot yet tell WILLIAM VAUGHAN Son of Walt. Vaughan of the Goldon Grove in Caermerthenshire Esq and younger Brother to Sir John Vaughan the first Earl of Carbury was born at the Golden Grove became a Commoner of Jesus coll in Mich. Term an 1591. aged 14. took the degrees in Arts and entred on the Law line but before he took a degree in that Faculty he went to travel and performing some exercise in order thereunto at Vienna did proceed Doctor there and at his return was incorporated at Oxon in the same Faculty an 1605. In which tho indifferently learned yet he went beyond most men of his time for Latin especially and English Poetry Afterwards spending much time in rambling to and fro did take a long journey for the honour and benefit of his Nation and became the chief undertaker for the Plantation in Cambriol the southermost part in New-found-land now called by by some Britaniola where with pen purse and person did prove the worthiness of that enterprize He hath written 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pium continens canticum canticorum Solomonis Psalmos aliquot selectiores una cum quibusdam aliis poematis e Sacrae Scripturae fontibus petitis Lond. 1597. oct Elegia gratulatoria in honorem illustriss Herois Caroli Howard Comitis Nottingham 23. Oct. 1597. meretiss creati Printed with the former Varia Poemata de Sphaerarum ordine c. Lond. 1589. oct Poemata continent Encom Roberti Comitis Fssex Lond. 1598. oct The Golden Grove moralized in 3 books A work very neeessary for all such as would know how to govern themselves their houses or their country Lond. 1600. and 1608. oct This book which is written in prose was commended to the World by some Poets or at least pretenders to Poety then 1600. living in the University as Dr. Joh. Williams Marg. Professor Will. Osbourne one of the Proctors Hen. Price Bac. of Div. of S. Johns coll Griffin Powel of Jesus Joh. Budden LL. D. Nich. Langford and Tho. Came Masters of Arts Gabr. Powel B. A. Sam. Powel Tho. Storer and Jo Rawlinson Masters of Arts Charles Fitzjeffry of Broadgates Tho. Michelbourne c. Cambrensium Carolcia Quibus nupiae regales celebrantur memoria regis pacifici renovatur praecepta necessaria ad rempub nestram faeliciter administrandum intexuntur reportata a Colchide Cambriola ex australissima Novae Terrae plaga Lond. 1625. oct 'T is a Latin Poem and dedicated by our author Vaughan under the name of Orpâ—eus Junior to King Charles 1. The Golden Fleece divided into three parts under which are discovered the errours of Religion the vices and decays of the Kingdom c. Lond. 1626. qu. in prose Transported from Cambrioll Colchos out of the southermost part of the Island commonly called New-found-land by Orphcus jun. alias Will. Vaughan There is no doubt but this our ingenious author hath other things extant but such tho with great scrutiny I cannot yet discover nor can I find any thing else relating to the author only that he was living at Câ—â—â—â—iol before-mentioned in sixteen hundred twenty and eight I find one will Vaughan a Physician who among several things that he hath published is a book intit Directions for health natural and artificial derived from the best Physicians as well modern as ancient c. Printed several times as in 1617. oct Lond. 1626. qu. the sixth edit and there again 1633. c. Another book also he wrote called The Newlanders cure with rules against the Scurvey Coughs c. Printed 1630. oct c. Whether this Physician was originally of Oxon. I cannot tell notwithstanding we have had several of both his names and time matriculated as Members of Ball. coll Jesus c. There is also another Will. Vaughan a Physician who published Disputatio medica de febre continuata Printed 1671. qu. GEORGE CAREW Son of Mr. George Carew sometimes
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
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
Preacher and therefore much followed by ingenious men At length being made one of the Chaplains to his Maj. K. Jam. 1. who highly valued him for his fine fancy and preaching he was by his favour promoted to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon an 1620. being then D. of D. Senior Student of that house Vicar of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire and Prebendary of Beminster Secunda in the Church of Sarum At length upon the translation of Dr. Howson to the See of Durham he by vertue of the Kings Letters was elected Bishop of Oxon 30. July 1629. and afterwards consecrated at Lambeth 19. Octob. and installed in his Chair 3. Nov. following Upon the translation of Dr. White to Ely he was elected Bishop of Norwich 7. Apr. 1632. and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 12. of May the same year His writings that are published are only Poetica Stromata or a collection of sundry pieces of Poetry Lond. 1647. 48. c. oct made in his younger years and never intended to be published by their author He was buried at the upper end of the Choire belonging to the Cath. year 1635 Church of Norwich in sixteen hundred thirty and five and soon after was a large Free stone of a sandy colour laid over his body with this engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Richardus Corbet Theologiae Doctor Ecclesiae Cathedralis Christi Oxoniensis primum Alumnus inde Decanus exinde Episcopus illinc huâ— translatus hinc in Coelum Julii 28. an 1635. On the said stone are the ancient Arms of the Corbets of Shropshire viz. Or a Raven passant sab This person was hospitably disposed and ever ready to express himself generous towards publick designs Upon the repair of S. Paul's Cathedral an 1634. he used his utmost endeavour both by his excellent speech and exemplary gifts to advance that pious work not only contributing largely himself but also giving monies to some Ministers that had not to give to incourage others to contribute that might better give JOHN COLLETON or Collington Son of Edmund Colleton of Milverton in Somersetshire Gent. was born there and at 17 years of age an 1565. was sent to the University of Oxon particularly as 't is thought to Lincoln coll but leaving the place without a degree and his Country he crossed the Seas and went to Doway where applying himself to the study of Divinity in the English coll was made a Priest and returned into England with Father Campian an 1580. But being taken and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London was afterwards upon his trial for conspiring the death of the Queen at Rome or Rheimes set at liberty and charged to depart the Land within few days after In obedience therefore to that command he with others of his profession went or rather were sent accordingly in 1584. but tarrying there not long returned and spent many years in administring to the Brethren and gaining Proselytes In which time as Father Persons reports he was a principal author of the Libels against the Archpriestship See more in Christop Bagshaw under the year 1625. In the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he was made Archdeacon of London only titular Vicar General of the East parts of England and at length Dean of Chalcedon but when age grew upon him Greg. Fisher alias Musket Archdeacon of Surrey and Middlesex was added as a Coadjutor in the Office of Vicar-General 10. Feb. 1626. to assist in the East parts of England namely in Essex Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgshire Isle of Ely Bedfordshire Bucks Middlesex and Hertford He hath written and published A just defence of the slandred Priests wherein are contained reasons against their receiving Mr. George Blackwel to be their Superior c. Printed 1602. qu. concerning which book and Father Persons his character therein you may see in The Anatomy of Popish Tyranny c. written by Tho. Bell lib. 4. cap. 5. sect 4. Supplication to the King of Great Britain for a toleration of the Cath. Religion Epistle to P. Paul 5. with other things which I have not yet seen He ended his days in the house of a Rom. Catholick at Eltham in Kent on the fourteenth of the Calends of Novemb. year 1635 in sixteen hundred thirty and five aged 87. and was buried in the Church there dedicated to S. John Bapt. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid with an inscription round the verge a copy of which was sent to me by his Sisters Son named Joh. Kynn O. S. B. living at Beoly in Worcestershire Much about the time that this Joh. Colleton studied according to report in Linc. college one Joh. Filby an Oxfordshire man born studied there also who leaving that coll before he was Bac. of Arts went to Rheimes where he studied Divinity in the English coll and was made a Priest Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England he was taken imprisoned and at length being condemned to die was executed at Tyburn 30. May 1582. ALEXANDER GILL born in Lincolnshire on the 27. Feb. 1564. was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll in Sept. 1583. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1590. left the coll and became an instructer of Youth but where unless in the City of Norwich where he lived 1597. and then wrote his treatise of the Trinity I know not Sure I am that in 1608. he became the chief Master of S. Pauls School within the City of London in the place of Rich. Mulcaster was esteemed by most persons to be a learned man a noted Latinist Critick and Divine and also to have such an excellent way of training up youth that none in his time went beyond him Whence 't was that many noted persons in Church and State did esteem it the greatest of their happiness that they had been educated under him His works are Treatise concerning the Trinity in unity of the Deity Lond. 1601. oct written to Tho. Manering an Anabaptist who denied that Jesus is very God of very God Logonomia Anglica Qua gentis sermo facilius addiscitur Lond. 1621. qu. Sacred Philosophy of holy Scripture Or a Commentary on the Creed Lond. 1635. fol. At the end of which is printed also his Treatise of the Trinity before mention'd He died in his house in St. Pauls Ch. Yard on the 17. year 1635 Novemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and five and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in Mercers Chappel in London in a vault near to the Monument of Mr. Brown and Mr. Fishbourne He left behind him a Son of both his names whom I shall hereafter mention EDMUND DEANE Brother to Richard Deane Bishop of Ossory and both the Sons of Gilb. Deane of Saltonstall in Yorkshire was born there or in that County entred a Student in Merton coll in Lent-Term 1591. aged 19. took one degree in Arts and then retired to St. Albans hall where prosecuting his Genie
with the Delegates of Denmark concerning matters of traffick c. and Perkins performed his part well as to that matter Soon after by the said Bishops endeavours he became substitute to Sir Dan. Donne Master of the Requests who by reason of his age could not well attend that place and when he died he became Master in his own right and a Knight About that time George Duke of Buckingham who was in great favour with K. Jam. 1. Sir Christopher thought that his only way to rise higher was to be married to one of his Relations Whereupon tho he had vowed Virginity he took to Wife his Mothers Sister yet with this condition that she should not expect that he should pay old debts to which she made answer that she would expect none Afterwards Buckingham hearing of the said vow detested him and made a resolution that he should rise no higher Afterwards out of a revenge Sir Christopher made his estate over to a Servant of his that was childless and in a deep consumption and he dying within a few months after Sir Christopher who departed this mortal life in the month of Aug. 1622. the said Servant left most of the estate to the Lady I have been credibly informed by a good Author that the said Sir Christopher had a hand in contriving and drawing up the Oath of Allegiance while he was intimate with Dr. Bancroft In the Deanery of Carlile succeeded the said Sir Christopher Dr. Franc. White afterwards Bishop of that place Apr. 14. Will. Burton of New Coll. June 2. Tho. Coventry Fellow of Ball. Coll. The last of the said two was afterwards Fellow of the Inner Temple Serjeant at Law a Knight and one of the Justices of the Court of Common-pleas and a Judge in the time of Jam. 1. He was Father to Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Jan. 14. Henr. Savile of Mert. Coll. 23. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. Admitted 45. Bach. of Law Five were admitted and four supplicated but not one of them appears yet to me to have been either a Bishop or Writer Mast of Arts. Feb. 13. John Argall Will. James of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Durham John Bereblock of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Fellow of Exeter Coll. and most admirably well skill'd in the art of Delineation and drawing the description of places some of which are extant particularly that of the City of Rochester at which place or near it he was born Admitted 14. Bach. of Div. Oct. 29. Edw. Cradock of Ch. Ch. now Margaret Professor A certain Author tells us that he was a learned Man and a Writer yet in all my searches I could never see any of his books Dec. 17. Thom. Godwyn Dean of Ch. Ch. lately of Magd. Coll. Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards of Broadgates hall the seventh Vicar of Mayhenet in Cornwall and Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter 16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop Adrian Hawthorne of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day being then Principal of Magd. hall On 25. Nov. 1568 he was admitted to the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells having about that time one or more benefices in that Diocess and dying in the latter end of 1576 in Feb. as it seems Rog. Goad D. D. and Provost of Kings Coll. in Cambridge was admitted into his place of Chancellour on the 7. March in the same year Edw. Andleser was adm this year but of him I know nothing ☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Dec. 17. Tho Godwyn Dean James Calfill Harb Westphalyng Canons of Ch. Ch. Edward Cradock mention'd before among the Bachelaurs of Divinity was admitted the same day Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne beforemention'd who accumulated John Piers of Magd. Coll. Dean of Chester Arthur Yeldard President of Trin. Coll. 16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry On the 26. Mar. Will. Bradbridge Dean of Salisbury supplicated for the said Degree but was not admitted He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter Also John Molens Archdeacon of London Jan. 23 but him neither can I find admitted Incorporations May… Rich. Cheyney Bach. of Div. of Pembr Hall in Cambridge and Bishop of Gloucester See more among the Creations Feb. 21. Gregory Garth Bac. of Div. of Cambridge George Wyther M. of A. of 4 years standing in the said University was incorporated on the same day In 1570 he became Archdeacon of Colchester on the death of James Calfill had other spiritualities and wrot and published 1 Laymans Letters delivering unto them such Letters as the Holy Ghost teacheth them in the word by things sensible Lond. 1585. 2 View of the marginal notes of the Popish Testament translated into English by the English Fugities Papists resiant at Rheimes in France Lond. 1588. qu. with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen Another of both his names lived an 100 years after and was a Poet whom I shall hereafter in his proper place remember Will. Fulke M. A. of three years standing in the said Univ. of Cambridge was also then Feb. 21. incorporated This learned Man who was born in the City of London bred Fellow of St. Johns Coll. and at length became Master of Pemb. Hall in the said University was when young a good Philosopher and when elder in years a pious and solid Divine as his works shew the titles of all or most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue He died Margaret Professor of Cambridge 28. Aug. 1589. Cyprean de Valera M. of A. of three years standing in the said University was also then incorporated He was a Spaniard born left his Country for Religion sake spent all or most of his time in England and wrot in Spanish 1 Institution of Christian Religion or the interpretation of Calvins institutions 2 The reformed Catholick 3 Of the lives of the Popes and their doctrine 4 Of the Mass 5 A swarm of false miracles wherewith Mary de la Visitation Prioress of the Annuntiada of Lisbon deceived very many c. The three last were written in Spanish about 1588. and the second edition of them came out with amendments and additions by the Author an 1599. oct Translated into English by John Golburne a Prisoner in the Fleet Lond. 1600. qu. He also published the Bible in Spanish printed the second time at Amsterdam 1602. fol. Owen Owen M. A. of two years standing in the said University was then also Feb. 21. incorporated All these except the first were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act had been concluded Creations Mar. 26. It was granted by the venerable Congregation that John Jewell Bishop of Salisbury should tho absent be actually created Doct. of Div. by a certain Graduate to be assign'd by the Commissary This was accordingly done at
which he wrot that are not yet extant among which are A probe Theological or the first part of the Christian Pastors proof of his learned Parishioners faith Lond 1612. qu. He died in 1621 leaving then behind him the character of a learned Man As for the other works of Pet. Baro they are these 5 De praestantia dignitate divinae Legis lib. 2. printed 1586. oct 6 Tractatus in quo docet expetitionem oblati à mente boni fiduciam ad fidei justificantis naturam pertinere 7 Summa trium sententiarum de praedestinatione c. Hardrov 1613. oct printed with the Notes of Joh. Piscator Disquisition of Franc. Junius and Prelection of Will. Whittaker 8 Special treatise of Gods providence and of comforts against all kind of crosses and calamities to be fetched from the same with an Exposition on Psal 107. 8 Four Sermons The first on Psal 133. 1. 2. 3. The sec on Psal 15. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. c. After this Author Peter Baro had been removed from Cambridge he went to London lived and died in Crouched Friers and was buried in the Church of St. Olaves in Hartstreet At whose inteâ—ment the Bishop of London ordered the most eminent Divines and Ministers in that City to be present The Baro's or Barons as they are by some called who do now or did lately live at Boston in Lincolnshire and at Kings Lynn in Norfolk are descended from him Jul. 11. Walt. Travers M. of A. of Cambridge was then incorporated in the same Degree This Person had received his Academical education in Trin Coll. in the said University and afterwards travelled to Geneva where he became acquainted with Beza and at his return took the Degree of Bach. of Div. Soon after he went to Antwerp where he was ordained Minister according to the Presbyterian way and returning again into England he became Lecturer in the Temple while Mr. Rich. Hooker was Master between whom certain differences in Religion hapning Travers was discharged of his place by the Archbishop Whereupon by the endeavours of Dr. Adam Loftus Archb. of Dublin he was made Provost of Trin. Coll. there an 1594. But he keeping that place not long he returned into England and lived divers years as 't is said very obscurely but where I cannot tell Sure I am that one Walt. Travers succeeded Joh. Salkeld in the Vicaridge of Wellington in Somersetshire an 1635 but whether the same 't is doubtful Among several things that this W. Travers hath published is Declaration of ecclesiastical discipline out of the word of God and of the declining of the Church of England from the same Genev. 1580. oct It is also extant in latine but that I have not yet seen The other things that he hath written you may mostly if not all see in the Oxford or Bodleian Catalogue On the 4. of July was a supplicate made that Tho. Norton M. of A. of Cambridge might be incorporated but whether he was it appears not Had this supplication been made in 1560 I should have taken him to be the same Tho. Norton a famous Poet of his time whom I have mention'd among these Writers in Tho. Sternhold an 1549 and in Tho. Sackvile an 1608. An. Dom. 1577. An. 19 Elizab. An. 20 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. Cole D. D. President of C. C. Coll. was admitted to his office 13. July Proct. John Glover of St. Joh. Coll. Tho. Dochen of Magd. Coll. Apr. 17. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 17. Erasmus Dreyden The first of his Sirname that setled in Northamptonshire descended from the Dreydens of Staffhill or Staffle in Cumberland was by profession a Schoolmaster and being learned and well acquainted with Erasmus of Roterdam that Person was Godfather to one of his Sons which is the reason that that Christian name descends among the family of the Dreydens in that County some of whom have gloried in it in my hearing June 12. George Peele of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards an eminent Poet. 25. Tertullian Pine of St. Johns Coll. Whether he took a higher Degree in this University it appears not for travelling beyond the Seas he was made Doctor of the Laws in the University of Basil whence returning he was installed Archdeacon of Sudbury in the Dioc. of Norwych 20. July 1591 in the place of Dr. Jo. Still of Cambridge After Pine Cuthb Norrys D. D. was installed 6. Oct. 1599 and after his death Theophilus Kent 31. Dec. 1621. Some years after Kents death Anth. Sparrow D. D. of Camb. was install'd 7. Aug. 1660 who being promoted to the see of Exter Dr. John Spencer of the said Univ. succeeded an 1667. Jul. 1. John Davies of Gloc. Hall Afterwards an eminent Mathematician 8. Tho. Lodge of Trin. Coll. Oct. 29. Charles Turnbull John Spenser of Corp. C. C. Dec. 4. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. Feb. 6. Edw. Hutchins of Brasn Mar. 22. Will. Warford of Trin. Coll. Anth. Shirley of the same Coll. of the Holy Trin. was then also admitted See another Anth. Shirley among the Bach. of Arts an 1581. who was a Sussex Man born but this of Trin. Coll. was a native of Oxfordshire Admitted 124. Mast of Arts. Mar. 29. John Williams of All 's Rich. Hooker of C. C. Coll. May 17. Will. Greenwich of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Archd. of Salop and died an aged Man in Apr. 1631. Jun. 25. Will. Wilkes of Mert. Jam. Bisse of Magd Will. Massie of Brasn Coll. 27. Rich. Hackluyt of Ch. Ch. Hen. Rowlands of New Coll. Jul. 3. Tho. Lovell Whether he be the same Tho. Lovell who wrote A Dialogue between custâ—m and verity concerning the use and abuse of dancing and minstrelsie Lond. in oct about 1589. I know not Feb. 18. Julius Caesar of Magd. Hall See among the Doctors of Civ Law 1583. Admitted 116. Doct. of Law Nov. 23. Tho. Glasier of Ch. Ch. In 1578 he was elected Rector of Exeter Coll. and dying 9. Mar. 1591. was succeeded in that Rectory by Dr. Thom. Holland ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Divinity was admitted not any to the reading of the sentences but one Incorporations May. 23. Tho. Bowsfield Bac. of Arts of Pembr Hall in Cambridge In the Act following he proceeded Master of his faculty in this University became Principal of St. Edmunds Hall in 1581 and the year after Prebendary of Grimston and Yatmister in the Church of Sarum Jul. 9. Sim. Harward Bach. of Arts of another University Rich. Remyngton M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day In 1582. Inn. 8. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Clievland upon the death of Ralph Coulton Bac. of Div. which hapned 8. May going before aged 55 and some years after about 1598 he became Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorkshire in the place of Tho. Cole whom I have mention'd before under the year 1567. In Clievland succeeded upon his resignation one Rich. Bird collated thereunto 21. of March 1588. and in the East-riding Marmaduke Blaxton as I
Whereupon he wrote a vindication of himself in MS. now in the hands of a near relation of his At length after a great deal of pains taken for the benefit of the Church he gave up the Ghost at Horninger before mention'd otherwise called Horningshearth whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there under a rough unpolished and broken Gravestone without name or Epitaph 22. Febr. in sixteen hundred and fifteen as the Register of that Church tells us which I presume follows the English accompt and not the common as many country Registers do I find one Tho. Rogers a Cheshire man born to have been admitted Student of Ch. Ch. 1547. aged 24. or more being then Bac. of Arts and soon after made Master What relation he had to the former Th. Rogers I know not Another Tho. Rogers I find who was born in Glocestershire in or near to Tewksbury lived mostly in his latter days in the Parish of S. Giles in the fields near London and published a Poem entituled The tears or lamentations of a sorrowful Soul Lond. 1612. qu. written by Sir Will. Leighton Knight one of his Majesties band of Pensioners To which the said Tho. Rogers added of his own composition a Poem called Glocesters mite But this Tho. Rogers is quite different from the Divine before mention'd RICHARD NICCOLLS esteemed eminent for his Poetry in his time was born of Gentile Parents in London and at 18 years of age an 1602. was entred a Student in Mag. coll in Michaelmas-Term but making little stay there he retired to Mag hall and took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1606. being then numbred among the ingenious persons of the University After he had remained there for some time he retired to the great City obtained an employment suitable to his faculty and at length honoured the Devoto's to Poetry with these things following The Cuckow a Poem Lond. 1607. in qu. Dedicated to Mr. after Sir Thom. Wroth a favourer of his Muse The fall of Princes Lond. 1610. qu. A winter nights Vision Lond. 1610. qu. being an addition of such Princes especially famous who were exempted in the former History meaning in the History called The mirrour of Magistrates written in Verse by John Higens of Winceham an 1586. qu. This mirrour which was esteemed the best piece of Poetry of those times if Albions England which was by some preferred did not stand in its way contained the lives of some of our Kings and Queens and was exceedingly admired by ingenious Scholars and others Momodia Or Walthams complaint upon the death of the most vertuous and noble Lady late deceased the Lady Honor Hay Lond. 1615. oct I find another Rich. Niccolls who is stiled the Elder and of the Inner Temple Gent. who wrote 1 A Treatise setting forth the mysterie of our Salvation 2 A day Star for dark wandring souls shewing the light by a christian controversie Both which were published after the authors death at Lond. 1613. in oct But whether this R. Niccolls the Elder was ever of this University I find not as yet EDWARD EVANS a noted preacher of his time in the University was born in Denbighshire applyed his eager mind to Academical studies in Ch. Ch. an 1598. aged 16. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1607. and afterwards published Verba dierum Or the days report of Gods glory in four Sermons or Lectures upon one text in the University of Oxon. on Psal. 19. 2. Oxon. 1615. qu. Another of both his names I find to have been born at Westmeane in Hampshire admitted fellow of New coll 1595. and that he took the degree of M. of A. 1602. But this person leaving his fellowship in 1604. and so consequently the University he is not to be taken for the same who published the four Sermons before mention'd JOHN HEATH more famous for his Poetry than the former for his preaching was born at Stalls whether a hamlet or House I know not in Somersetshire educated in Wykehams School admitted Perpetual fellow of New coll 1607. aged 22. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1613. and three years after left his Fellowship But before that time when he was Bach. of Arts he wrote and published Two centuries of Epigrams Lond. 1610. in tw and had verses printed in several books that occasionly were published particularly in that on the death of Sir Th. Bodley Kt. He hath also made a translation from Spanish into English which I have not yet seen and wrote other matters fit for the Press but whether ever printed I cannot tell THOMAS BILSON Son of Harman Bilson the same I suppose who was fellow of Merton coll an 1536 Son of Arnold Bilson son and heir of Arnold Bilson a Native of High Germany by his Wife the Daughter natural or legitimate I know not of the Duke of Bavaria was born in the City of Winchester fitted for the University in Wykeham's School there admitted Perpetual fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1565. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a most solid and constant preacher in these parts and elsewhere Afterwards he was Schoolmaster say some then Prebendary of Winchester Warden of the coll there Doctor of Divinity and at length Bishop of Worcester to which See being consecrated 13. June 1596. was translated thence to Winchester in the year following and made one of his Majesties Privy Councellours He was as reverend and learned a Prelate as England ever afforded a deep and profound Scholar exactly read in Ecclesiastical authors and with Dr. Rich. Field of Oxon. as Whittaker and Fulke of Cambridge a principal maintainer of the Ch. of England while Jo. Rainolds and Tho. Sparke were upholders of Puritanism and Non-conformity In his younger years he was infinitely studious and industrious in Poetry Philosophy and Physicks and in his elder in Divinity To which last his genie chiefly inviting him he became so compleat in it so well skill'd in Languages so read in the Fathers and Schoolmen so judicious in making use of his readings that at length he was found to be no longer a Souldier but a Commander in chief in the spiritual warfare especially when he became a Bishop and carried prelature in his very aspect His works are Of the true difference between Christian subjection and unchristian rebellion wherein the Princes lawful power to command and bear the Sword are defended against the Popes Censure and Jesuits Sophismes in their Apology and defence of English Catholicks Also a demonstration that the things reformed in the Church of England by the Laws of this realm are truly Catholick against the late Rhemish Testament Oxon. 1585. Lond. 1586. in 4. parts in a thick oct In the third part of which is answer'd Dr. Will. Allens Defence of Engl. Cath. before mention'd It must be now noted that whereas in England the interest of the State had
a great influence upon the doctrine of Obedience Qu. Elizabeth therefore conceiving it convenient for her worldly designs to take on her the protection of the Low-Countries against the King of Spain did employ our author Bilson to write the said book of Christian subjection c. In which to justifie the revolt of Holland he gave strange liberty in many cases especially concerning religion for Subjects to cast off their obedience But this book which served her designs for the present did contribute much to the ruine of her Successor K. Ch. 1. which one calls a just judgment of God For there is not any book that the Presbyterians have made more dangerous use of against their Prince Ch. 1. than that which his predecessor commanded to be written to justifie her against the King of Spain However our authors Bilson Successor in Winchester I mean Dr. Morley saith that tho Bishop Bilson was in an errour yet he was not so much for the resisting of Kings as Mr. Rich. Baxter is Of the perpetual government of Christ his Church wherein are handled the fatherly superiority which God first established in the Patriarks and after continued in the tribe of Levi c. Also the points in question at this day touching the Jewish Synedrion c. Lond. 1593. qu. c. Printed in Lat. at Lond. 1610. The effect of certain Sermons touching the full redempton of mankind by the death and blood of Ch. Jesus wherein besides the merit of Christs sufferings the manner of his offering the power of his death the comfort of his Cross the glory of his Resurrection are handled c. Lond. 1599. qu. The clearing of certain objections made against the aforesaid doctrine The said Sermons being preached at Pauls Cross made great alarums among the puritanical brethren Whereupon they mustering their forces and comparing their notes sent them to Hen. Jacob an old Dessenter to have them published with his collections under his own name But the matter of the controversie coming to the Queens knowledge she being at Farnham castle belonging to the B. of Winchester she signified her pleasure to Bilson that he should neither desert the doctrine nor suffer the Function which he had exercised in the Church of England to be trodden and trampled under foot by unquiet men who both abhorred the truth and dispised authority Upon which command the Bishop did set himself upon the writing of that learned Treatise chiefly also delivered by him in Sermons entituled A survey of Christs sufferings and descent into Hell Lond. 1604. fol. See more in Hen. Jacob. He also published Sermon at Westm before K. and Qu. at their Coronation S. James day 28. Jul. 1603. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1603 oct and wrote MS. in my Libr. Orationes Carmina varia Vulgaria c. He also with Dr. Miles Smith added the last hand in the translation of the Bible commanded by K. James 1. At length after he had gone through many employments and had lived in continual drudgery as 't were for the publick good surrendred up his pious soul to God on the 18. year 1616 of June in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried saith one on the south side of Westminster Abbey Church near to the Monument of K. Rich. 2. or as the Register hath it near to the entrance into S. Edmunds Chappel One John Dunbar a Scot who writes himself Megalo-Britannus hath a learned Epigram on him which may serve for his Epitaph JOHN PITS or Pitsous as he writes himself a grand zealot for the Ro. Cath. cause Son of Hen. Pits by Elizabeth his Wife sister to Dr. Nich. Saunders was bron at a market Town called Aulton in Hampshire educated in juvenile learning in Wykeham's School near to Winton admitted Probationer-fellow of New coll in 1578. being then about 18. years of age but leaving that house before he was admitted perpetual Fellow which was to be in 1580. he went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile and going to Doway was kindly received there by the learned Tho. Stapleton who then gave him advice what course to take relating to his studies Thence he went to Rheimes and after one year spent in the English college he was sent to Rome and continued in the English coll there also in the zealous prosecution of the studies of Philosopy and Divinity for seven years and was made a Priest Thence he returned to Rheimes where he taught Rhetorick and Greek for two years But troubles arising in France he withdrew himself into Loraine and took the degree of Master of Arts which before he had neglected at Pont-a-musson and was soon after made Bach. of Divinity Thence taking a journy into High Germany he continued at Trier an year and an half where after he had performed certain exercise he was made a Licentiat of Divinity Thence after he had seen several of the best Cities in Germany he removed to Ingolstadt in Bavaria where remaining 3 years did in that time after he had performed solemn disputations take the degree of Doctor of his faculty So that by that time having viewed several parts of Italy and Germany and had learned their Languages he returned to Loraine where by Charles Cardinal of Loraine he was made Canon of Verdun After two years spent there he was called thence by the illustrious Princess Antonia Daughter to the Duke of Loraine and Wife to the D. of Cleve and was by her made her Confessor And that he might be the better serviceable to her he learned the French Tongue most accurately so that it was usual with him afterwards to preach in that Language In her service continuing about 12 years he had leisure to turn over the Histories of England whether Ecclesiastick or Republick Whence making several collections and observations he wrote and digested four great Volumes One was of the Kings another of the Bishops a third of Apostolical and a fourth of illustrious and learned men of this Nation At 12 years end the said Dutchess dying he went a third time into Loraine where by the favour of John Bishop of Toul sometimes his Scholar he was promoted to the Deanery of Liverdune of considerable value which with a Canonry and an Officialship of the said Church he kept to his dying day He hath written De legibus Tract Thâ—ologicus Trev. 1592. De beatitudine Tr. Th. Ingols 1595. De Peregrinatiene lib. 7. Dusseld 1604. in tw dedicated to Antonia Dutchess of Cleve Relationem Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis tom 1. quatuor partes complectens c. Par. 1619. in a thick qu. published by Dr. Will. Bishop of whom I shall speak elsewhere This book is the same with that De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus commonly called Pitseus de Scriptoribus And hath in the beginning of it certain prolegomina containing 1 De laudibus Historiae 2 De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britanniae 3 De Academiis tam antiquis Britonam quam recentioribus Anglorum