Geneva 4 Nich. Rydleys Declaration of the Lords Supper Genev. 1556. To which Whittyngham put a Preface of his own making 5 N. Rydlies protestation This I have not yet seen and know nothing more of it 6 His translation from Lat into English of The Book of prayer or the English Liturgie See more in A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 c. Printed 1575. p. 34. 35. He also wrot the Preface to Christoph Goodmans book entit How superior powers ought to be obeyed c. with several other things which are not yet as I conceive published As for the works of impiety that he performed while he sate Dean of Durham were very many among which I shall tell you of these Most of the Priors of Durham having been buried in coffins of stone and some in marble and each coffin covered with a plank of marble or free-stone which laid level with the paving of the Church for antiently Men of note that were laid in such coffins were buried no deeper in the ground than the breadth of a plank to be laid over them even with the surface of the pavement he caused some of them to be plucked-up and appointed them to be used as troughs for horses to drink in or hogs to feed in All the marble and free-stones also that covered them and other graves he caused to be taken away and broken some of which served to make pavement in his house He also defaced all such stones as had any pictures of brass or other imagery work or chalice wrought engraven upon them and the residue he took away and employed them to his own use and did make a washing-house of them at the end of the Centory-garth So that it could not afterwards be descerned that ever any were buried in the said Centory-garth it was so plain and straight The truth is â—e could not abide any thing that appertained to a goodly religiousness or Monastical life Within the said Abbey-church of Durham were two holy-water stones of fine marble very artificially made and engraven and bossed with hollow bosses upon the ouer-sides of the stones very curiously wrought They were both of the same work but one much greater than the other Both these were taken away by this unworthy Dean Whittyngham and carried into his kitchin and employed to profane uses by his Servants steeping their beef and salt fish in them having a conveyance in the bottoms of them to let forth the water as they had when they were in the Church to let out holy water c. He also caused the image of St. Cuthbert which before had been removed from its proper place by Dean Rob. Horne who also had a hand in such impieties and also other antient monuments to be defaced and broken all to pieces to the intent that there should be no memory of that holy Man or of any other who had been famous in the Church and great benefactors thereunto as the Priors his Predecessors were left whole and undefaced I say it again that he did this to the end that no memory or token of that holy Man St. Cuthbert should be left who was sent and brought thither by the power and will of Almighty God and was thereupon the occasion of the erection of the monastical Church of Durham where the Clergy and Servants have all their Livings and Commodities from that time to this day At length after his many rambles in this world both beyond and within the Seas and his too to forward zeal for the promoting his Calvinistical if not worse opinion whereby much mischief hapned to the Church of England he did unwillingly being then full of worldly troubles submit himself to the stroke of death on the tenth day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Durham Soon after was a tomb-stone laid over his grave with an Epitaph of 12 long and short verses engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto which with most if not all of the monuments which were set up after his time were miserably defaced by the Scots when they invaded England in 1640. The first four verses run thus Quae Whittinghami cernis monumenta sepulti Et vitae mortis sunt monumenta piae Anglia testis erat testis quoque Gallia vitae Exilis haec vidit Praesulis illa decus So that as he before had in a woful manner violated the monuments of his predecessors and others so was his by Invaders and nothing now left to preserve his memory or Person to shew the place where his carkase was lodg'd HENRY COLE a zealous maintainer for a time of the Rom. Cath. Religion was born at Godsbyll in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1523 studied the Civil Law travelled some years after into Italy was at Padöuo where he advanced his studies and afterwards notwithstanding all this he did acknowledge K. Hen. 8. to be the supreme head of the Church in England In 1540 he being then returned and settled in London he took the Degree of Doctor of the Civil Law and the same year resign'd his Fellowship being then an Advocate in the Court of Arches Prebendary of Salisbury and about that time Archdeacon of Ely in the place as it seems of Rich. Coxe In 1542 he was elected Warden of New Coll. and in 45 he was made Rector of Newton Longvill in Bucks Soon after when K. Ed. 6. came to the Crown he was altogether for reformation was an admirer of Pet. Martyr was a frequenter of Protestant service and a receiver of the holy communion according to their way did after preach up reformation in the Church of St. Martin commonly called Carfax in Oxon did approve of the proceedings of King Ed. 6. and other matters as a learned and puritannical Author tells you In 1551. 5. Ed. 6. he resigned his Wardenship and the year after the aforesaid Rectory In 1554 2. Mariae he was made Provost of Eaton Coll. in the place of Tho. Smith LL. D. of Cambridge of which house he had been Fellow and the same year had the Degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him Soon after he was appointed one of the Commissioners to visit the University of Cambridge became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral on the removal of Feckenham to Westminster an 1556 Vicar general of the spiritualities under Card. Pole Archb. of Cant. and in 1558 one of the overseers of the said Cardinals will I find extant under Dr. Coles name these things following Letters to Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury upon occasion of a Sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty and her honorable Counsell an 1560. Lond. 1560 in a pretty thick oct It was afterwards remitted into Jewells works I find also that divers letters of Dr. Cole were sent to Bishop Jewell after he had preached at
continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon or whether he took a Degree it appears not neither can we find means to resolve us because the University Registers of that Age are deficient However this is certain that at what time our Author studied in this University Grocynus read publickly the Greek Tongue there whom he constantly hearing became a great proficient in that Language and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor then if I mistake not Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws translated himself to Lincolns Inn where easily conquering those Studies was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning Wisdom Experience and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with conferr'd these honors and employments successively upon him viz. the Mastership of the Request the intrusting him in several Embrassies the honor of Knighthood the Treasureship of the Exchecquer Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster the Embassage to the Emperor and French King and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly or with greater liking to the generality of People than he On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Mannour House called York-place near Westminster in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King in his Mannour of Pleasaunce otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight After this Sir Thomas retired to his House at Chelsey near London where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse not without severe devotion was at length for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining several Months very close to the endangering of his health his Daughter Margaret Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent wrot a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State the contents of which I have seen intreating him to be good to her Father in Prison kept so close that his health is utterly decayed Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband whose close keeping destroys his body Also the be good to her and hers considering their necessity For my good Master saith she as I would be saved before our Lord I am driven to that point that I am fain to make sale of certain imployments and old stuff to find Mr. More and me and my poor houshold with c. with other like matters written by that whining Woman which I shall now for brevity omit and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient pious and severe in the course of his life than he He was also very meek humble charitable and a despiser of the things of this World and nothing was wanting in him to make a compleat Christian His parts were great and profound his skill in Divinity municipal Laws the Latin and Greek Languages in Poesie Mathematicks and what not was excellent and without compare All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles but of the lights of Learning of his time as Erasmus Colet Tonstal B. of Durham Fisher B. of Rochester Grocyn Lynacre Liyle Paice Elyot Lupset Leland c. most of which especially Foreign Writers have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations He hath written in English A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Fryer Written in Verse Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Fathers House Containing 9 Pagiants and Verses in each Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503. Verses on the Book of Fortune These four beforegoing being written in his Youth are not numbred among his Works History of K. Rich. 3. This which was never quite finished is the same I presume that is intituled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More 's Name at London 1651. in 8vo His Great Grandson saith that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated but in Latin also not yet printed Memorare novissima Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion Supplication of Souls made against the supplication of Beggars This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory written against that of Beggars made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn Gent. The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More 's Dialogues The second part of the confutation Written 1533. Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament Written the same Year An Apology This was written against a Book intit A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality Against which Apology was published a Book called Salem Bizance written Dialogue-wise Lond. 1533. oct The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance Lond. 1533. oct Answer to the first part of the poysoned Book which a nameless Heretick hath named The Supper of our Lord. Treatise upon the passion of Christ A Godly instruction Godly meditation Devout Prayer Letter to his Lady his Wife Certain Letters written by him after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London an 1557. fol. Among them are A godly instruction written in Lat. His Epitaph In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book intituled Ancient funeral Monuments p. 522 523 and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English 1 The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula 2 An exposition of a part of the possion of Christ His Latin Works besides those two little things before-mentioned are these De optimo repub statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus aureus c. Basil 1518. there again 1563 both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct Translated into English with notes added to it in the Margin by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. Lond. 1557. oct Published also at the same place 1639. in oct by one Bernard Alsop who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq one
was to be divorced from the said King this our Author Forest shew'd himself a zealous Enemy against it and in few Years after when the King was intent to eject the Pope and his power from England he out of a passionate zeal which he had for the Catholick Religion did in secret confession declare to many of the King's Subjects that the King was not Supreme Head of the Church whereas before he had been sworn to the said Supremacy These matters coming to the knowledg of the King's Council he was examined by certain Persons appointed by them to whom he made answer that he took the Oath with his outward man but his inward man never consented thereunto Afterwards being further accused of divers heretical Opinions as they were then called he submitted himself to the punishment of the Church So that his abjuration being sent to him to be read he utterly refused it Whereupon his confinement in the Prison called Newgate being made more close these Verses were wrot on him by a Protestant Forest the Fryer that obstinate Lyer That willfully will be dead Incontinently the Gospel doth denye The King to be Supreme Heade About the same time he took a great deal of pains in writing a Book whether in English or Latin I know not entit by Latin Writers De autoritate Ecclesiae Pontificis Maximi The beginning of which is this Nemo sibi sumat honorem nisi fuerit vocatus à Deo tanquam Aaron c. In which Book he inveighed much against the pride and impiety of the King because that without any call he did not scruple to intitle himself The Head of the Church of England and to take upon him that which he was not capable of whereas if he had thought himself a true Member of the Cath. Church he should have given God thanks that he was so and to have rested therein without endeavouring to tear it to pieces c. The contents of this Book which was ready for the Press but whether ever printed in England I cannot tell coming to the knowledge of certain inquisitors and at length to the Kings ear he was forthwith condemned to dye and having some days allowed him to make his peace with God and all Men he wrot Several Letters Some of which I have seen printed in Latin as first His Answer to the Letter which Qu. Catherine sent to him 2 An answer to the Letter written to him by Elizab. Hammon Maid of honour to the said Queen 3 Answer to the Letter of Tho. Abell who was executed two Years after for denying the King's Supremacy with several others which he wrot to comfort the afflicted Catholicks At length being drawn upon a Sledge from his Prison to Smithfield where a pair of Gallows was set up to receive him he was hanged thereon by the middle and arm-pits quick and under the Gallows a Fire being made he was burnt and utterly consum'd to ashes year 1538 May in Fifteen hundred thirty and eight aged 60 and in the 43 Year of his professed and religious estate At the time he was to suffer and before he went up the Ladder Hugh Latymer B. of Worcester did from a Pulpit set up there near to the Gallows Preach a Sermon purposely to move him to repentance but all availed nothing He had then several discourses with that Bishop which were verbatim taken by some of the Brethren of his order In conclusion Latymer asked him what state he would die in Whereupon Forest with a loud voice answered if an Angel should come down from heaven to teach him any other Doctrine than he had received and believed from his Youth be would not now believe him and that if his body should be cut joint after joint or member after member burnt hanged or what pain soever might be done to his body he would never turn from his old profession c. and added that seven years past he Latymer durst not have made such a Sermon for his life This being said he was conducted from the place where he stood which was erected above the People to the Gallows and there suffered ANTHONY FITZHERBERT whose great Learning in the Wisdom of the Law both the judicial Court of Pleas wherein he sate Justice a long time and also those exact Books of our Common Law by him exquisitely penn'd and publish'd do sufficiently Witness was born of being the Son of Ralph Fitzherbert Esq and descended from a right Ancient Family living at Norbury in Derbyshire laid a Foundation of Learning in this University on which he built a firm structure in after times but in what House here or in what Inn of Court afterwards it appears not Sure it is that having made a most fruitful progress in his Studies he was constituted Serjeant at Law 18. Nov. 2. Hen. 8. Dom. 1510 one of the Kings Serjeants six Years after being about that time made a Knight and in 1522. one of the Justices of the Common-pleas and not of the Kings-bench as one doth falsely report In which place carrying himself with great prudence justice and knowledge became at length the Oracle of the Law and was admired by all for his profundity in it His works are Grand abridgment of the common Law contained in the Year Books and other Books of Law Readings and Records Lond. 1516. 1565. fol. afterwards in qu. divided into several parts or vol. From which abridgment and others Rich Bellew of Lincolns Inn did collect cases adjudged in the time of K. Rich. 2. A Calender or Index See in Will. Rast all Magna charta cum diversis aliis statut is Lond. 1519. in 12. Office and authority of Justices of Peace Lond. 1547. and 63. qu. enlarged by Rich. Crompton Esq Lond. 1583. qu. c. Office of Sheriffs Bayliffs Escheators Constables Coroners c. Printed several times with the former Of the diversity of courts Compiled 21. H. 8. So Sir Edw. Coke in his Reports Vol. 10. in the Proem Natura Brevium Novel Printed at Lond. 26. Hen. 8. and afterwards several times in oct and qu. corrected and revised with a Table added by Will. Rastall Printed also several times in French in oct c. The same is also translated into English and hath added thereunto the authorities in Law and some other Cases and Notes c. See more in Will. Rastall under the Year 1565. This Natura Brevium is esteemed an exact work excellently well penn'd and hath been much admired by the noted Men in the common Law Of the surveving of Lands Lond. 1567. The Book of Husbandry very profitable and necessary for all Persons Printed in the Reign of Queen Mary and in the beginning of Queen Eliz. This Book I have seen more than once under Anth. Fitzherberts name yet there are not wanting some who say 't was penn'd by his Brother Job Fitzherbert This famous Lawyer Ant. Fitzherbert who had been an enemy to Card. Wolsey paid his last debt to nature in
expulsion wherein he disclaimeth the aforesaid Libel beginning thus Jenkin why Man Why Jenkin fie for shame c. But the Reader must know that none of these were printed JOHN DOVE a Surrey Man born of Plebeian Parents was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1580. aged 18. and after he had taken the degrees in Arts became a Preacher of note in the University In 1596. he proceeded in Divinity being at that time well beneficed if not dignified but where I cannot yet tell His works are A perswasion to the English Recusants to reconcile themselves to the Church of Rome Lond. 1603. qu. Confutation of Atheism Lond. 1605. and 1640. oct Defence of Church-Government wherein the Church Government in England is directly consonant to the Word of God c. Lond. 1607. qu. Defence of the Cross in Baptism as 't is used in the Church of England Printed with the Defence Advertisement to the English Seminaries and Jesuits shewing their loose kind of writings and negligent handling the cause of Religion c. Lond. 1610. qu. The conversion of Salomon A direction to holiness of life handled by way of Commentary upon the whole book of Canticles c. Lond. 1613. qu. Sermons on Ezek. 33. 11. and S. Matth. 19. 9. Lond. 1597. 1601. oct c. See more in Alb. Gentilis an 1611. where you will find him author of another book but whether printed I know not He concluded his last day in Apr. about the 19. day in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 but where buried I know not as yet I find one John Dove to be author of Polydorian or a miscellany of Moral Philosophical and Theological Sentences Printed 1631. oct But whether he was the same with the Doctor or another I cannot tell unless I see the book it self which I have not yet done RICHARD MOKET was born in Dorsetshire in the Dioc. of Salisbury elected from Brasnose to be Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1599. being then near four years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts. Afterwards he proceeding in that Faculty took on him the Sacred Function became Domestick Chaplain to George Archb. of Canterbury Warden of Allsouls Rector of Monks-Risborow in Bucks and of Newington near Dorchester in Oxfordshire D. of D. and one of the Kings Commissioners concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs He published in the Latin tongue Lond. 1616. fol. The Liturgy of the Church of England Greater and Lesser Catechisms Thirty nine Articles Book of ordination of Bishops Priests and Deacons Doctrinal points extracted out of the Book of Homilies To which he added his own book written in Latin intituled De politiâ Ecclesiae Anglicanae Reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct Which collection he published in a pious zeal for gaining honour to the Church of England amongst Foreign Nations But this his zeal was so little accompanied in the Constitutions of the said Church or so much byassed towards those of Calvins Platform that it was thought fit not only to call it in but to expiate the errours of it in a publick flame And the true cause which was conceived why the book was burn'd was that in publishing the twentieth Article concerning the authority of the Church he totally left out the first clause of it viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus caeremonias statuendi jus in controversiis fidei authoritatem By means whereof the Article was apparently falsified the Churches authority disowned and consequently a wide gap opened to dispute her power in all her Canons and Determinations of what sort soever He yielded up his last breath with grief as 't is thought for what had been done to his book on the day before the nones of July year 1618 in sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried at the upper end of Allsouls coll chappel just below the steps leading to the high Altar In his Wardenship succeeded Richard Astley D. of D. who dying in Febr. 1635. was succeeded by Gilb. Sheldon who was afterwards Bishop of London and at length Archbishop of Canterbury JOHN GOLDESBURG descended originally from those of his name living at Goldesburg in Yorkshire was born 18. oct 1568. spent some time among the Oxonians for form-sake about 1584. went thence to the Middle Temple were after he had continued in the degree of Barrester and for some years been resorted to in matters relating to his profession was made one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas. He wrote and left behind him fit for the Press Reports or collection of cases and matters agitated in all the Courts in Westminster in the latter years of the reign of Qu. Elizabeth with learned arguments at the Barr and on the bench Lond. 1635. c. qu. Published by Will. Shepphard Esq Upon which cases and matters Sir Edm. Anderson and Sir Jo. Popham Judges wrote Resolutions and Judgments year 1618 Our author Goldesburg concluded his last day on the 9. oct in sixteen hundred and eighteen Whereupon his body was buried near to the high Altar of the Church belonging to the Temples He left behind him other things as 't is said fit for the Press but in whose hands they are I could never learn WALTER RALEIGH a person in his time of a good natural wit better judgment and of a plausible tongue Son of Walt. Raleigh Esq by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Philip Champernoon Kt. was born at a place called Hayes in Parish of East-Budeleigh in Devonshire an 1552. Which Hayes is a farm and his Father having had a remnant of a Lease of 80 years in it came after the expiration thereof to one Duke unto whom afterwards our author W. Raleigh having a desire to purchase it wrote a Letter dated from the Court 26. July 1584. wherein he says that for the natural disposition he has to that place being born in that house he had rather seat himself there than any where else c. His Father was the first of his name that lived there but his ancestors had possessed Furdell in the same County for several Generations before where they lived in gentile estate and were esteemed antient Gentlemen In 1568 or thereabouts he became a Commoner of Oriel coll at what time C. Champernoon his kinsman studied there where his natural parts being strangely advanced by Academical learning under the care of an excellent Tutor became the ornament of the Juniours and was worthily esteemed a proficient in Oratory and Philosophy After he had spent about 3. years in that house where he had laid a good ground and sure foundation to build thereon he left the University without a degree and went to the Middle-Temple to improve himself in the intricate knowledge of the municipal Laws How long he tarried there 't is uncertain yet sure I am from a Epistle or copy of Verses of his composition which I have seen that he was abiding in the said Temple in Apr. 1576. at which time his vein for ditty and amorous Ode was esteemed
his Countryman and another by a Scot. Which last stiles our author Carew another Livie another Maro another Papinian and highly extolls him for his great skill in History and knowledge in the Laws Besides the Rich Carew was another but later in time author of Excellent helps by a warming-stone Printed 1652. qu. RICHARD KILBYE was born at Radcliff on the River Wreake in Leicestershire elected Fellow of Lincoln coll 18. Jan. 1577. being then about three years standing in the University Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a noted Preacher in the University In 1590. he was elected Rector of his College took the degrees in Divinity was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln and at length Hebrew Professor of this University He hath written Commentarii in Librum Exodi Part. 2. MS. in the hands sometimes of Will. Gilbert Fellow of Linc. coll The chief part of which is excerpted from the Monuments of the Rabbins and Hebrew Interpreters He also continued Jo. Mercers notes on Genesis and would have printed them but was denied had a hand also in the translation of the Bible appointed by K. Jam. 1. an 1604. and did other very laudable matters relating to learning Serm. in S. Maries Church Oxon 26. Mar. 1612. at the Funeral of Tho. Holland the King's Professor of Divinity in this Univ. on 1 Cor. 5. 55 56 57. Oxon. 1613. qu. He the said Dr. Kilbye was buried in that Chancel in Allsaints Church in Oxon. which is commonly called The College Chancel because it belongs to Linc. coll on the 17. year 1620 Nov. in sixteen hundred and twenty aged 60. or thereabouts Whereupon Paul Hood Bac. afterwards D. of Divinity succeeded him in his Rectorship and Edward à Meetkerk Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. in his Professorship Besides this Rich. Kilbye was another of both his names and a writer too as I have under the year 1617. told you JOHN CARPENTER received his first breath in the County of Cornwal was entred a Batler in Exeter coll about 1570. where going thro the courses of Logick and Philosophy for the space of four years or more with unwearied industry left the University without a degree and at length became Rector of an obscure Town called Northleigh near to Culleton in Devon He hath written and published A sorrowful Song for sinful Souls composed upon the strange and wonderful shaking of the Earth 6. Apr. 1586. Lond. in oct Remember Lots Wise two Sermons on Luke 17. 32. Lond. 1588. oct Preparative for Contentation Lond. 1597. qu. Song of the Beloved concerning his Vineyard or two Sermons on Isay 5. 1. Lond. 1599. oct Christian Contemplations or a Catechism Lond. 1601. oct K. Soloman's Solace Lond. 1606. qu. Plain Man's Spiritual Plough Lond. 1607. qu. He gave up the ghost at Northleigh before-mentioned in the latter end of the year viz. in March in sixteen hundred and twenty and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there before the 25. of the said month as it doth partly appear in the Register of that place leaving then behind him a Son named Nathaniel whom I shall mention under the year 1628. I find another Joh. Carpenter who wrote a book of Keeping Merchants Accompts by way of Debtor and Creditor Printed 1632. fol. but him I take not to be an Academian WILLIAM TOOKER second Son of Will. Tooker by Honora Eresey of Cornwall his Wife Son and Heir of Rob. Tooker was born in the City of Exeter educated in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1577. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1583. in which year he shewd himself a ready Disputant before Albertus Alaskie Prince of Sirad at his being entertained by the Oxonian Muses in S. Maries Church In 1585. he left his Fellowship being about that time promoted to the Archdeanconry of Barnstaple in his own Country Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth and Prebendary of Salisbury took the degrees in Divinity 1595. became Canon of Exeter and at length Dean of Lichfield on the death as it seems of Dr. George Boleyne in the latter end of 1602. He was an excellent Grecian and Latinist an able Divine a person of great gravity and piety and well read in curious and critical authors as may partly appear by these books following which he wrote and published Charisma sive donum Sanatiâ—nis seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilium Sanitatum gratiâ c. Lond. 1597. qu. In this book he doth attribute to the Kings and Queens of England a power derived into them by Lawful Succession of healing c. Which book is reflected upon by Mart. Anton. Delrius the Jesuit who thinks it not true that Kings can cure the Evil. With him agrees most Fanaticks Of the Fabrick of the Church and Church mens livings Lond. 1604. oct Singulare certamen cum Martino Becano Jesuitâ futiliter refutante apologiam monitoriam praefationem ad Imperatorem Reges Principes quaedam Orthodoxa dogmata Jacobi Regis Magnae Britaniae Lond. 1611. oct This learned author Dr. Tooker died at Salisbury on the 19. of March or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there 21. of the said month in sixteen hundred and twenty leaving behind him a Son named Robert Tooker of East-Grinsteade in Surrey In June following Dr. Walt. Curle of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanry of Lichfield and him Dr. Augustin Lindsell another Cantabrigian an 1630. HENRY SWINBURNE Son of Thomas Swinburne of the City of York was born there spent some years in the quality of a Commoner in Hart hall whence translating himself to that of Broadgates took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law married Helena Daughter of Barthelm Lant of Oxon and at length retiring to his native place became a Proctor in the Archbishops Court there Commissary of the Exchecquer and Judge of the Prerogative Court at York He hath written Brief Treatise of Testaments and last Wills In 7 parts Lond. 1590. 1611 35. 40. 77. c. qu. Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts c. Lond. 1686. qu. In which two books the author shâ—ws himself an able Civilian and excellently well read in authors of his Faculty He paid his last debt to â—â—â—ure at York and was buried in the North Isle of the Cathedral there Soon after was a comely Monument fastned to the wall near to this grave with his Effigies in a Civilians Gown kneeling before a deske with a book thereon and these verses under Non Viduae caruere viris non Patre Pupillus Dum stetit hic Patriae virque paterque suae Ast quod Swinburnus viduarum scripsit in usum Longius aeterno marmore vivet opus Scribere supremas hinc discat quisque tabellas Et cupiat qui sic vixit ut ille mori There is no day or year on the Monument to shew when this H. Swinburne died
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
he married was a Parliament man in the latter end of Qu. Eliz. and in 1603. received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds being then a person of repute in his own country At length being full weary of the vanities and fooleries of this world did retire to Doway in Flanders and there was by letters of confraternity dated in the beginning of Feb. 1617 received among the Brethren in the coll of English Benedictines who appointing him a little cell within the ambits of their house spent the remainder of his days therein in strict devotion and religious exercise After his settlement there he wrote Letters perswasive to his wife and children in England to take upon them the catholick religion Arguments to shew that the Rom. Church is a true Church written against Dr. R. Field his Four books of the Church Reply to the answer of his Daughter M. C. Mary Croft which she made to a Paper of his sent to her concerning the Rom. Church At the end of it is a little thing entit The four ministers of Charinton gag'd by four propositions made to the Lord Baron of Espicelliere of the religion prtended And presented on S. Martins day to du Moulin in his house and since to Durand and Mestrezat All these were published by Sir Herb. Croft at Doway about 1619. in tw containing 255. pages There were but eight copies printed viz. one for himself now in the libr. of the English Benedictines at that place formerly sent to me by a Brother of that order purposely to be perused for a time and then to be returned who for religion sake and in contempt of the world hath denied the inheritance of an Estate of at least three thousand pounds per. an Another copy was printed for Sir Herberts wife and the rest for his children but all without a title only dedicated to his wife and children with a short Epistle before them beginning thus I would have you know that although this ensuing discourse cometh to you in print c. The beginning of the book it self is this When it had pleased almighty God in his great mercy even after above 53. years of my mispent life c. At length after he had macerated his body with fasting hardship and devotion surrendred up his pious Soul to the Almighty on the 10 Apr. according to the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the said English Benedictines at Doway Soon after was a monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon a copy of it you may elsewhere see in which he is stiled vir prudens fortis nobilis patriae libertatis amantissimus c. He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a R. Catholick but afterwards a zealous Protestant and a Bishop of whom I shall hereafter make mention in his due place JOHN RANDALL sometimes a frequent and painful preacher in the City of London was born at Missenden in Bucks sent by his relations to S. Maries hall in 1581. being then very young where spending some time in Trivial learning was afterwards translated to Trinity coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts which he compleated by determination In 1587. July 6. he was elected Fellow of Lincoln coll and two years after proceeded in his faculty About that time entring into the sacred function he became one of the most noted preachers in the University In 1598 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity and the year after resigning his fellowship was made about that time Rector of the Church of S. Andrews Hubart in Little Eastcheap in London where after some time he became so great a labourer in Gods vineyard by his frequent and constant work in the ministry as well in resolving of doubts and cases of conscience as in preaching and lecturing that he went beyond his brethren in that City to the wonder of all But greater was the wonder especially to those of his parish and neighbourhood that this poor man who was for the most part strangely afflicted with sickness should undergo his duty so strictly and preach so many Sermons as he did for comfort and support in troubles This indeed did sound highly to his merit and plainly shewed that his great learning and parts could not be subdued with the pitiful afflictions here below He was accounted a judicious orthodox and holy man and by some a zealous and innocent puritan of a harmless life and conversation and one that was solely fram'd to do good acts His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The necessity of righteousness on Mat. 5. 20. Lond. 1622. and 1640. qu. 2 Description of fleshly lusts on 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. Lond. 1622. and 40. qu. 3 S. Pauls triumph c. eleven Sermons on Rom. 8. 38. 39. Lond. 1633. c. qu. published by Will. Holbrook preacher The great mystery of godliness or a treatise opening unto us what God is and Christ is Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1640. third edit Treatise concerning the Sacraments Lond. 1630. qu. c. Catechistical Lectures in number 23. upon the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1630. qu. c. Nine and twenty lectures of the Church for support of the same in these times c. Ibid. 1631. c. qu. besides other things fit for the press as one shewing what a true visible Church is and another what Predestination is He concluded his last day in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred twenty and two being then about 54. years of age year 1612 and was buried in the Church of S. Andrew before mentioned By his last will and testament he bequeathed a tenement to Linc. coll called Ship hall situated on the west side of that Street antiently called Schediardstreet now commonly called S. Mary hall lane in Oxon. The picture of this Mr. Randall drawn to the life when he was fellow of Linc. coll is or at least was lately hanging in the Common room of that house JOHN OWEN or Audoenus as some call him the most noted Epigrammatist in the age he lived was born at Armon in Caernarvonshire educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation there in 1584. took the degree of Bach. of Civil Law in 1590. and leaving his fellowship the year after taught School as some of his antient country men that remember him have told me at Trylegh near to Monmouth and at Warwick as the tradition goes there among the Schoolmasters in the School founded by K. Hen. 8. in the place of one Tho. Hall about the year 1594. He was a person endowed with several gifts especially with with the faculty of Poetry which hath made him famous for those books of Epigrams that he hath published wherein an ingenious liberty of joking being by him used was and is now with some especially forreigners
descended from the antient family of the Curwens of Wirkington in Cumberland was born in the Old Baily situated partly in the Parish of S. Sepulchre and partly in S. Martin near Ludgate in the said City on the second day of May 5. Edw. 6. Dom. 1551. When this most eminent person of whom I shall be more particular than of another author was a child he received the first knowledge of letters in Ch. Church hospital in London then newly founded for Blew-coated children where being fitted for Grammer learning he was sent to the Free-school founded by Dr. Colet near to S. Pauls Cathedral About which time 1563. he being infected with the Plague was sent to Islington where he remained for some time to the great loss of his learning In 1566. 8. Elizab. he was sent to Oxford and being placed in Madg. coll in the condition of a Chorister or Servitour did perfect himself in Grammer learning in the Free-School adjoyning then lately presided by D. Tho. Câ—â—per afterwards Bishop of Linc. But missing as 't is said a Demies place of that coll tho of great desert and partly grounded in Logick he was transplanted to an antient hostle called Broadgates now Pembr coll where he continued two years and an half under the tuition of a great encourager of learning called Dr. Tho. Thornton canon of Ch. Ch. who finding our author to be a young man of great vertue and in him tokens of future worth he took him to Ch. Ch. and gave him entertainment in his Lodgings so long as he continued in the University About that time he being a candidate for a Fellowship in All 's coll lost it for desending the religion then established as Dr. afterwards Sir Dan. Donn at that time Fellow did several times testifie and would often relate how our said author Camden was opposed by the Popish party of that house In the month of June 1570. he supplicated the ven Congregation of Regents that whereas he had spent four years in the study of Logick he might he admitted Bach. of Arts but what answer was made thereunto or whether he was then admitted it appears not In 1571. he relinquished his conversation with the Muses to the great reluctancy of those who were well acquainted with the pregnancy of his parts and whether he was afterwards favoured in his Scholastical endeavours by Dr. Gabr. Goodman Dean of Westminster whom he acknowledgeth to have been Patron of his studies I cannot positively affirm In 1573. he returned to Oxon for a time and supplicated again in the beginning of March for the said degree which though as it seems granted and so I presume took it yet he did not compleat it by Determination in Schoolstreet In 1575. he was made second Master of Westminster School upon the recommendations of Godfrey Nephew to Gabriel Goodman before-mentioned which Godfrey put him upon the study of Antiquities and bought and gave him books and in 1581. he contracted an entire friendship with Barnab 〈◊〉 the learned Chief Justice of France called by some 〈…〉 While he continued in teaching at Westm God so blessed his labours that Dr. King Bishop of London Noyle Archb. of York Parry Bishop of St. Asaph c. to say nothing of persons imployed in those times in eminent place abroad and many of special note at home of all degrees did acknowledge themselves to have been his Scholars Besides also as a testimony of his sincere love to the Church of England which some in his time did doubt he brought there to Church divers Gentlemen of Indeed as the Walshes Nugents O-Rayley Shee s the eldest Son of the Archb. of Casshills Pet. Lombard a Merchant's Son of Waterford a Youth of admirable docility the same who was afterwards titular Archb. of Armagh Priâ—ate of Ireland domestick Prelate and Assistant of his Holiness the Pope and author of a book intit De regno Hiberniae Sanctorum Insula commentarius Lov. 1632. qu. and others bred Pâ—pishly and so affected In 1582. he took a journey through Suffolk into Yorkshire and returned through Lancashire in the month of April in order to the compleating of his Britannia which he saith he published in the same year having with great industry at spare hours and on festival days composed it In 1588. Jun. 3. he by the name and tit of Will. Camden Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. supplicated the ven Convocation that whereas he had spent 16 years from the time he had taken the degree of Bachelaur in the study of Philosophy and other liberal Aâ—â— he might be dispensed with for the reading of three solemn Lectures and so be admitted to proceed in that 〈◊〉 Which supplication was granted conditionally that he stand in the Act following but whether he was admitted or stood it doth not appear in the Registers In the same month and year he took a journey Oxford being in his way to Ilfarcomb in Devonshire in order to obtain more knowledge in the Antiquities of that Country and elsewhere for the next edition of his 〈◊〉 and on the 6 Feb. following he was made Preb. 〈…〉 in the Ch. of Salisb in the place of one J. Hotman which Prebendship he kept to the time of his death and 〈…〉 succeeded him The said journey and 〈◊〉 that he took for that purpose the charges of them 〈◊〉 defrayed by the aforesaid Dr. Gab. Goodman In 〈◊〉 he journeyed into Wales in the company of Franc. 〈…〉 of Ch. Ch. afterwards author of the Commentary 〈…〉 Bishops and in 1592. Oct. 26. he was taken with a Qaâ—rtan Ague which made him often purge Blood In March 1592-3 he was made chief Master of Westminster School in the place of Dr. Ed. Grant and in 1594. in the month of June he was freed from his Ague In 1596. he travelled to Salisbury and Wells for the obtaining of more knowledge in Antiquities and returned through Oxon where he visited most if not all of the Churches and Chappels for the copying out of the several Monuments and Arms in them which were reduced by him into a book written with his own hand by me seen and perused In 97. he fell into a most dangerous sickness whereupon being taken into the house of one Cuthbert Line he was cured by the care of that persons Wife and in that year he published his Greek Grammar On the 22. of Oct. the same year he was for fashion sake after he had refused a Mastership of the Requests which was offered to him created Herald of Arms called Richmond because no person can be King before he is Herald and the next day he was created Clarenceaux King of Arms in the place of Rich. Lee Esq who died on the 23. of Sept. before-going This was done by the singular favour of Q. Elizabeth at the incessant supplication of his Patron Sir Foulk Grevill afterwards Lord Brook both of them having an especial respect for him and his great learning in English and other
am that after he had continued many years there and had taken the degrees in Divinity he was promoted to the See of Landaff upon the translation of Dr. Godwin to Hereford in the year 1618. and the same year was one of the learned English Divines that were by his Majesties command sent to the Synod of Dort where he behaved himself so admirable well to the credit of our Nation as some Ch. Historians will tell you that after his return he was upon the translation of Dr. Harnet to Norwich elected to the See of Chichester confirmed by his Maj. 20. Sept. 1619. He was a person of a solid judgment and of various reading a bitter Enemy to the Papists and a severe Calvinist which may farther appear in some of these books following of his composition Heroici Characteres ad illustriss equitem Henricum Nevillum Oxon. 1603. qu. Several of his Latin verses are in the University book of verses made on the death of Sir Phil. Sydney in Bodleiomnema and in other books Tithes examined and proved to be due to the Clergy by a divine right Lond. 1606. 1611. qu. Jurisdiction Regal Episcopal Papal Wherein is declared how the Pope hath intruded upon the jurisdiction of Temporal Princes and of the Church c. Lond. 1610. qu. Consensus Eccles Catholicae contra Tridentinos de scripturis Ecclesia fide gratia c. Lond. 1613. oct Dedicated to the Mertonians A thankful remembrance of Gods mercy in an historical collection of the great and merciful deliverances of the Church and State of England from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1624. qu. The fourth edit came out in 1630. qu. adorned with cuts Short directions to know the true Church Lond. 1615. c. in tw Dedicated to Prince Charles as the former book was Oration made at the Hague before the Prince of Orange and the Assembly of the High and Mighty Lords the States General Lond. 1619. in one sh and an half in qu. The madness of Astrologers or an examination of Sir Christop Heydons book intit A defence of judiciary Astrology Lond. 1624. qu. Which being written twenty years before that time was then published by Tho. Vicars Bach. of Div. who had married the authors Daughter It was reprinted at Lond. in 1651. Examination of those things wherein the author of the late Appeale holdeth the doctrine of the Pelagians and Arminians to be the doctrines of the Church of England Lond. 1626. and 36. in qu. Besides this answer or examination made to the Appeale of Rich. Mountague who succeeded Carleton in the See of Chichester came out six more viz. one by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff Dean of Exeter a second by Dr. Dan. Featly a third by Franc. Rouse sometimes of Broadgates hall in Oxon a fourth by Anth. Wotton of Cambridge a fifth by Joh. Yeates Bach. of Div. sometimes of Eman. coll in Cambridge afterwards Minister of S. Andrews in Norwich and the sixth by Hen. Burton of Friday-street in London A joynt attestation avowing that the discipline of th Church of England was not impeached by the Synod of Dort Lond. 1626. qu. Vita Bernardi Gilpini vere sanctiss famaque apud Anglos aquilonares celeberrimi Lond. 1628. qu. Published in Engl. at Lond. 1636. oct and also in Lat. in Dr. Will. Bates his collection of lives Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Testimony concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low Countries and Episcopal government in England Printed several times in qu. and oct The edit in qu. at Lond. 1642. is but one sheet Latin Letter to the learned Camden containing some notes and observations on his Britannia MS. among those given by Seldens Executors to the Publ. Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of which Letter is Dum nuper Mi Camdene Brittaniam tuam c. Several Sermons viz. one that is joyned to the English life of Bern. Gilpin Another on Luke 2. from ver 41. to 50. in tw A third on Rev. 20. 3. 4. in oct c. He had also a hand in the Dutch Annotations and in the New Translation of the Bible which were ordered by the Synod of Dort to be undertaken yet were not compleated and published till 1637. At length having lived to a good old age he concluded his last day in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Choire near to the Altar of his Cath. Church at Chichester on the 27. of the same month By his first Wife named Anne Daughter of Sir Hen. Killegrew Knight and Widdow of Sir Hen. Nevill of Billingbere in Berks he had Issue a Son named Henry Carleton living sometimes in the Parish of Furâ—e in Sussex elected Burgess for Arundel to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm 13. Apr. 1640. and from the unhappy Parliament which began on the 3. Nov. following he received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain in which office and command he shew'd himself an Enemy to the Bishops JOHN DODERIDGE or Doddridg was born at or near to Barnstaple in Devonshire became a Sojournour of Exeter coll in 1572. took one degree in Arts about 4 years after and compleated it by Determination About that time being entred into the Middle Temple he made great proficiency in the Common Law became a noted Counsellour and in 45. Eliz. Lent Reader of that Inn. In 1603. Jan. 20. he was made Serjeant at Law being about that time Prince Henry's Serjeant but in the year following he was discharged of his Serjeantship and became Solliciter Gen. to King James 1. In 1607. Jun. 25. he was constituted one of the Kings Serjeants and on the 5. July following he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. at Whitehal In 1612. Nov. 25. he was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas afterwards of the Kings Bench and in Feb. 1613. he was actually created Master of Arts in Serjeants Inn by the Vicechanc both the Proctors and five other Academians Which degree was conferred upon him in gratitude for his great service he had then lately done for the University in several Law suits depending between the said University and City of Oxon. While he continued in Exeter coll he was a severe Student and by the help of a good Tutor he became a noted Disputant So that by the foundation of learning which he had laid in that coll forwarded by good natural parts and continual industry he became not only eminent in his own profession but in the Arts Divinity and Civil Law insomuch that it was difficult with some to judge in which of all those Faculties he excelled But being mostly taken up with the Common Law he could not be at leisure to honour the World with his great knowledge only with these things following The Lawyers light or due direction for the study of the Law c. Lond. 1629. qu. A compleat Parson or a description of Advowsons and Church-livings c. Lond. 1630. qu. Delivered in several
this University but in Cambridge and after he had taken the degrees in Arts he was presented by his Majesty to the Sub-deanry of Wells in the latter end of May 1638. upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Roberts to the See of Bangor In 1644. he among other Loyal Ministers retired to Oxon and in the month of Aug. was incorporated Master of Arts and afterwards had the degree of D. of D. confer'd upon him In 1646. I find him with the Marquess of Worcester in Ragland Castle which as a Commission-Officer he help'd to defend against the Parliamentarians But that Castle being surrendred on the 19. Aug. the same year upon good Articles mostly of Bayly's framing he travelled afterwards into France and other Countries where spending that considerable stock of money which he had gotten from the said Marquess he returned into England and published a book intit Certamen religiosum or a conference between K. Ch. 1. and Henry late Marquess of Worcester concerning Religion in Ragland Castle an 1646. Lond. 1649. oct but blamed by the true Sons of the Church of England for so doing because the Romish cause is there set out in great pomp he being then warping towards if not altogether drawn over to the Church of Rome and it was looked upon by some as nothing else but his Prologue in order to the declaring himself a Papist and thereupon the said conference was suspected by the Orthodox party to have nothing therein of the stile of K. Ch. 1. and that the Marquess had not those abilities in him to maintain a discourse of religious matters with the said King There was An answer with considerations on Dr. Bayly's parenthetical interlocution printed at Lond. 1651. in tw made unto it by Ham. L'estrange and also answered upon account as being fictitious by Christop Cartwright of York About the same time an Advertisement was put cut against it as a counterfeit thing by Dr. Pet. Heylyn in his Epistle to the Reader before his collection of his Majesty's works wherein the said conference is put intit Bibliotheca Regia c. but omitted in other impressions of it as also in the works of the said King printed in folio The same year 1649. Dr. Bayly published The Royal Charter granted unto Kings by God himself c. To which he added A treatise wherein is proved that Episcopacy is jure divino Both which were afterwards reprinted at Lond. 1656. and 1680. oct But in them the Doctor doth in many particulars egregiously err and as an unskilful builder diruit aedificat for what he rears with one hand he pulls down with the other And amongst many stories of his travels having freely rail'd at all the Commonwealths in Europe doth at last fall desperately on the new erection of that in Eng. Which angry and unpleasing history provoked strict examination whereupon the author being found out he was committed prisoner to Newgate where being kindly and easily used he penned a book intit Herba parietis Or the wall Flower as it growes out of the Stone-Chamber belonging to the metrapolitan Prison c. being a History which is partly true partly Romantick morally divine Whereby a marriage between reality and fancy is solemnized by Divinity Lond. 1650. in a thin fol. In the Epistle before which he falls foul on P. Heylyn whom he calls a fellow without a name c. for his advertisement before mention'd which charged him with six matters the first for wronging the late K. Ch. 1. very much and another that he composed the said Conference himself c. Bayly also tells us there of his great sufferings in the late Civil War that he had not only lost 1000 l. per an for his Majesties sake but also blood and liberty that he was a Peers Son and his Mother a Knights Daughter c. As soon as this book was published he made an escape out of Prison went into Holland and having rambled abroad much more in his mind than he had in his body he at last declared himself a Rom. Catholick and became a grand zealot in that interest wherein if he met with any occasion he would break forth into rage and fury against the Protestant Religion which he before had preached and professed Thence he went into Flanders and setling for a time at Doway he published this book The end to Controversie between the Rom. Catholick and Protestant Religions justified by all the several manner of ways whereby all kind of Controversies of what nature soever are usually or can possibly be determined c. printed at Doway 1654. in qu. and dedicated to Walt. Montague Abbot of Nanteul afterwards L. Abbot of Pantoise There also goes under his name The life and death of that renowned John Fisher Bishop of Rochester c. Lond. 1655. oct but he was not the author of it The true and genuine writer thereof was one Rich. Hall D. D. sometimes of Christs coll in Cambridge the same of which B. Fisher was a member afterwards Canon and Official of the Cathedral Church at St. Omer who leaving it behind him in MS. at his death an 1604. 't was as a choice rarity reposed in the Library of the English Benedictines at Dieuward in Lorain Afterwards several Copies of it going abroad one came into the hands of a person who call'd himself West From him it came into the possession of Franc. a Sancta Clara an 1623. and from his as he himself hath told me divers times to Sir Wingfield Bodenham who keeping it in his hands several years with an intention to print it in the name of the true author did impart it for a time to Dr. Tho. Bayly So that forthwith he taking a Copy of it and making some alterations therein he sold the said Copy to a Bookseller for a small sum of money who caus'd it to be printed at London under the name of Tho. Bayly D. D. I have seen a MS. containing the said Bishops Life beginning thus Est in Eboracensi comitatu octogesimo a Londino lapide ad aquilonem Beverleiae oppidum c. But who the author was I cannot tell 'T was written before Halls time and 't is not unlikely but that he had seen it There also goes under Tho. Baylys name The golden Apothegmes of King Ch. 1. and Henry Marquess of Worcester c. Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. All which were taken from a book intit Witty Apothegmes delivered at several times and upon several occasions by K. James K. Ch. 1. and the Marq. of Worcester c. Lond. 1658. oct published by Anonymus After Dr. Bayly had left Flanders he went into Italy where as several Rom. Catholicks have told me he was received into the service of Cardinal Ottobon and that he died in his family while the said Cardinal was Embass or Nuntio at Ferrara from the Pope and also that Prince Cajetan had a care of his Son whom he took with him after his death But an English
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
he left the coll tho then Fellow and Bach. of Lawes standing his friends relations and Country went into Spain and being made a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict at Compostella changed his name to Leander de Sancto Martino and at length became D. of D. Thence he went to Doway where he executed the office of publick professor of his faculty and of the Hebrew tongue in the coll or cenobie of S. Vedastus for several years He was Prior of the Benedictine coll of S. Gregory there and the design'd Abbat of Cismar in Germany Vicar General also to the English Benedictines of the Spanish congregation living out of Spain twice President or chief Superior of the Benedictines in England and titular Prior of the Catholick Ch. of Canterbury He was a person of extraordinary eloquence generally knowing in all arts and sciences beloved of all that knew him and his worth and hated by none but by the Puritans and Jesuits Towards his latter end he was invited into England by Doctor Laud Archb. of Canterbury to consult with him about certain important points of Controversie in Religion as those of our authors profession say but W. Prynne who was always an inveterate enemy to Laud tells us that he sent for him into England to reconcile us to Rome or to make a reconciliation between the Church of Rome and England But how true those matters were let such that have read that Archbishops trial judge while I tell you that our author hath written Sacra ars memoriae ad Scripturas divinas in promptu habendas memoriterque ediscendas accommodata Duac 1623. oct At the end of which is this book following Conciliatio Locorum communium totius Scripturae Besides the said two he hath other things which I have not yet seen He also set forth the Bible with glosses in six large volumes the works also as 't is said of Ludov. Blosius and had a hand in that elaborate work intit Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia c. published by Clem. Reyner 1626. But a greater hand I have heard had Aug. Baker of whom more hereafter As for our author Leander he paid his last debt to nature on the seventeenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 having been much vexed in his time by the Jesuits and was buried in the Chappel of the Capuchins situate and being in Somerset-house in the Strand near to London He had been Ordinary of the Dames or Nunns of our Lady of Comfort of Cambray of the Order of S. Benedict and spiritual father to them for many years CHRISTOPHER WHITE a Worcestershire man born as it seems was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. about 1606 took one degree in Arts and became a preacher In 1620. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he was Rector of Letley in Hampshire He hath published Several Sermons as 1 Serm. at Ch. Ch. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1622. qu. 2 Of Oathes their Object form and bond c. in three Sermons in Oxon. on Joshua 9. 19. Lond. 1627. qu. and others which I have not yet seen He concluded his last day in winter time before the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and six year 1636 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Letley before-mentioned leaving behind him the character of a good and edifying preacher a charitable man and a loving neighbour JAMES PERROT natural son of Sir John Perrot sometimes L. Deputy of the Kingdom of Ireland was born in Pembrokshire became a Gent. Com. of Jesus coll in 1586 aged 15 left it without a degree retired to the Inns of Court for a time and afterwards travelling return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman lived on his estate at Haroldston in Pembrokshire was dub'd a Knight and elected a Burgess for several Parliaments in the raign of King James 1. in which shewing himself a frequent and bold if not a passionate speaker especially in that dissolved 6. January 19. Jac. 1. Dom. 1621. and therefore numbred among the ill temper'd spirits therein as the King usually call'd them he was not imprison'd in London or Southwark as some of them were but was sent with Sir Dudley Digges and others into Ireland for their punishment joyned in commission with certain persons under the Great Seal of England for the inquiry after certain matters concerning his Majesties service as well in the government Ecclesiastical and Civil as in point of revenue and otherwise within that Kingdom He hath written The first part of the consideration of humane conditions wherein is contained the moral consideration of a mans self as what who and what manner of man he is Oxon. 1600. qu. Dedic to Tho. Lord Buckhurst Chancellour of the Univer of Oxon Whether any other parts followed I know not Meditations and Prayers on the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandements Printed 1630. in tw besides other things which I have not yet seen He ended his days at Haroldston before mention'd on the fourth day of Feb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six and was buried in the parish Church of S. Mary in the Town and County of Haverford-west to which place Haroldstone adjoyns This Sir James Perrot intermarried with Mary Daughter of Rob. Ashfield of the parish of Chesham in Bucks Esq but died without issue by her CHARLES FITZ-GEFFRY or Fitz-Geoffry Son of Alex. Fitz-Geoffry was born of a gentile family in the County of Cornwall became a Commoner of Broadgates hall in 1592. aged 17 took the degrees in Arts entred into the Theological function and at length became Rector of S. Dominick in his own Country where he was esteemed a grave and learned Divine as before he was while resident in the University an excellent Latine Poet. His works are The life and death of Sir Francis Drake Which being written in lofty verse when he was Bachelaur of Arts he was by those of his time called The high towering Falcon. Affaniae sive Epigrammata lib. 3. Cenotaphia lib. 1. Oxon. 1601. in oct Divers Sermons as 1 Deaths Sermon unto the living delivered at the funerals of Philippa late Wife of Sir Anth. Rous of Halton in Cornwall on Eccles. 7. 2. Lond. 1620. qu. dedicated to Jo. Pym Esq 2 Elisha his lamentation c. Sermon at the funeral of Sir Ant. Rous late of Halton in Cornwall Knight on 2 Kings 2. 12. Lond. 1622. qu. 3 The curse of Corn-horders with a blessing of seasonable selling in three Sermons on Prov. 11. 26. Lond. 1631. qu. 4 The blessed birth day celebrated in some religious meditations on the Angels anthem Luke 2. 14. Oxon. 1634. and 36. qu. second edition To which are added Holy Transportations in contemplating some of the most observable adjuncts about our Saviours nativity 5 Compassion towards captives chiefly towards our brethren and countrymen who are in miserable bondage in Barbary urged and published in three Sermons on Heb. 13. 3. at Plymouth in Octob. 1636. Oxon. 1637.
which was some Weeks after the death of Pet. de Soto RICHARD SMYTH the greatest pillar for the Roman man Catholick cause in his time was born in Worcestershire admitted Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the Year 1527 Master of Arts 1530 and the Year after was on the resignation of Rob. Taylor Fellow of the said Coll unanimously chosen the publick Scribe or Registrary of the University Afterwards he became Rector of Cuxham in Oxfordshire for a time Principal of St. Albans hall Divinity Reader of Magd. College the Kings Professor of Divinity in the said University and Doctor of that faculty But being forced to leave his Professorship in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. to make room for P. Martyr he went to Lovaine in Brabant where being received with solemnity became publick Professor of Divinity there for a time and read openly on the Apocalips of St. John When Qu. Mary was advanced to the Crown he was not only restored to his Professorship in the University of Oxon but also was made one of the Chaplains to that Queen and Canon of Christ Church In 1559 Qu. Elizabeth being then in the Throne he lost those with other preferments of which the Rectory or Headship of Whittingdon Coll. in Lond. was one and was committed to custody with Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury by whose perswasions he recanted what he had written in defence of the celebacy of Priests See more of this matter in a Book intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae c. in Mathaeo Printed about 1572-3 being the first impression of that Book Afterwards our Author R. Smyth giving Matthew the slip he went to Doway in Flanders and was constituted Dean of S. Peters Church at that place by Philip K. of Spain who erecting an Academy there about that time made him the first Kings Professor thereof He was by those of his perswation accounted the best Schoolman of his time a subtile disputant and admirably well read in the Fathers and Councils which did evidently appear in his disputations in the Divinity School with Pet. Martyr whom as the R. Cath. Writers of his time say he did in a most egregious manner baffle several times The wholy story of it you may see elsewhere and therefore I shall not make a recital of it now only say that the Protestant Writers report that he was more a Sophister than Divine that he was non-plus'd several times by Martyr and that he was a goggle-ey'd fellow and very inconstant in his Opinion As for his Writings they are these Assertion and defence of the Sacrament of the Altar Lond. 1546. oct Defence of the sacrifice of the Mass Lond. 1546. oct An answer to all Martyn Luthers and his Scholar's reasons made against the sacrifice of the Masse c. Printed with the Defence before-mention'd Brief treatise setting forth divers truths necessary both to be believed of all Chrysten People and kept also which 〈◊〉 are not expressed in the Scripture but left to the Church by the Apostles tradition Lond. 1547. oct Declaration upon his retractation made at Pauls cross 15. May 1547. Lond. 1547. oct This retraction was for certain articles contained in two Books of his making viz. one in Defence of the sacrifice of the Masse and that called as it seems A brief treatise c. wherein he endeavoured to prove that unwritten verities ought to be believed under paine of damnation Diatriba de hominis justificatione contra Pet. Martyrem Lovain 1550. oct Defensio caelibatûs sacerdotum contra P. Mart. Lov. 1550. oct Printed also as it seems at Paris the same year Confutatio quorundam articularum de votis monasticis Pet. Martyris Itali These two last being printed at Lovaine in one Vol. are very full of faults by the negligence of the Printer and absence of the Author who pretended they were printed against his Will and wished afterwards that he had never made them because he was then perswaded with himself that the Priests of England made a vow a religious vow when they were made Priests which he perceived afterwards was not true This he told Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury in a certain letter when he heard that he the said Cranmer had made a Collection of or answer to the aforesaid Books De caelibatu votis monasticis Disputation with Bish Rydley in the Div. School at Oxon his Sermon at his and Latimers burning with Speeches Orations c. See in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church A bucklar of Cath. Faith of Christ's Church containing divers matters now of late called into controversie by the new Gospellers Lond. 1555. in two books or parts The things controverted were 1 Whether a man may keep Gods commandements 2 Concerning works of superarrogation 3 Concerning purgatory 4 The signe of the cross and crucifex c. Refutatio luculenta crassae exitiosae haeresis Johannis Calvini Christop Carlili Angli qua astruunt Christum non discendisse ad inferos alios quam ad infernum infimum Printed 1562. The said tenet that Christ descended into hell was maintained in a Commencement held at Cambridge in 1552. by the said Carlile and opposed then in disputations by Sir Joh. Cheek Whereupon Smyth wrot the Refutation before-mention'd Afterwards Christoph Carlile came out with a book entit Concerning the immediat going to Heaven of the souls of the faithful Fathers before Christ and concerning his descent into hell c. Lond. 1582. oct sec edit I find one Christopher Carlile to have lived for some time at Barham in Kent whence removing to the Parish of St. Botolph near Billingsgate in London died there in the beginning of the Year 1596 leaving then behind him a Relict called Marie Whether this Chr. Carlile be the same with the former I cannot tell Another also of both his names lived in his time whose warlike skill was sufficiently tried in the Low Countries France and Ireland and in America at Carthage and Santo Dominico an 1585 Which worthy Soldier died about the Year 1593. R. Smyth hath also written De missae sacrificio contra Melanctonum Calvinum alios Lov. 1562. oct De Infantium baptismo contra Calvinum Printed there the same Year Defensio externi visibilis sacerdotii propugnatio altarium cum confutatione communionis Calvinianae Ibid. Confutatio earum quae Philip. Melancthon objecit contra propitiatorium missae sacrificium Ibid. De libero hominis arbitrio contra Calvinum Lov. 1563. oct and other things which you may see in Pitseus This learned Doctor gave way to fate on the seventh of the ides of July according to the accompt followed at Doway in Fifteen hundred sixty and three year 1563 aged 63. Whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady joyning to the Church of St. Peter at Doway before-mentioned Several of both his names have been Writers but they being after him in time I shall
as it seems at Digges Court educated for a time in this University but in what house unless in Univ. Coll. I know not where laying a foundation of greater learning departed without a Degree and afterwards became a most excellent Mathematician a skilful Architect and a most expert surveyour of Land At length lest it should be thought that he studied only for himself and not for the benefit of others he published a book entit Tectonicon Briefly shewing the exact measuring and speedy reckoning of all manner of lands squares timber stones steeples c. Lond. 1556. qu. Augmented and published again by his Son Tho. Digges Lond. 1592. qu. Printed there again 1647 qu. Our Author Leon. Digges wrot also A Geometrical practical treatise named Pantometria in 3. bookes Which being attempted in his younger years his said Son Thomas supplied such parts of it after his death as were left obscure and imperfect adjoyning thereunto A discourse Geometrical of the five regular and Platonical bodies containing sundry Theorical and Practical propositions arising by mutual conference of these solides Inscription Circumscription and Transformation Lond. 1591. fol. Prognostication everlasting of right good effect or choice rules to judge the weather by the Sun Moon Stars c. Lond. 1555 56. and 64 qu. corrected and augmented by his said Son Thomas with divers general tables and many compendious rules Lond. 1592. qu. what else he wrot I find not nor certainly when he died unless about the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and four or whether his death was at Eltham in Kent or at another place There is some memory of him and his Family in whose veines hereditary learning doth seem to run on a Monument in Chilham Church in Kent not to shew that he was buried there but to shew the genealogie of his Family set up by his Grandson Dudley Digges of whom I shall make mention in 1638 which being too long for this place I shall pass it by at present for brevity sake RICHARD WILLS who in his books writes himself Willeius which is the reason why some call him Willey was a Western Man born educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and in Academical for a time in his Coll. at Oxon but before he took a Degree or was made Fellow he left the University and travelled into France Germany and Italy where spending some years in several Universities return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman And being noted for his admirable dexterity and honorable advance in the Latine Empire as Joh. Brownswerd was at the same time wrot and published Lond. 1573. oct Poematum liber ad Gul. Baronem Burghleium De re poetica disputatio In suorum poemat Librum Scholia With other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen In the Year 1574 Apr. 24. he by the name and title of Rich. Wills Master of Arts of the University of Mentz in Bavaria supplicated the ven congregation of Regents that he might be incorporated into the same Degree in this University but the said Regents suspecting his opinions did grant his desire conditionally 1 That he produce a testimony of his creation under the seal of the University of Mentz 2 That he render a testimony of his faith before the Vicechanc. and Proctors and 3 That he acknowledge the Queen to be his legitimate Governess or Monarch of all England c. whether he performed these conditions or was really incorporated appears not in any of the registers RICHARD TAVERNER Son of Joh. Taverner of Brisley in Norfolke was born at Brisley or else in that County in the Year 1505 descended from an ancient Family of his name living sometimes at North Elmham near to Brisley before-mentioned educated for a time in Logick in Bennet Coll. in Cambridge but before he had consummated an year and an half there did with others of that University go to Oxon for preferment about the same time that Card. Wolsey did begin his Coll. there At length being admitted one of the Junior Canons of that Coll. he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts in the Year 1529 and about that time obtaining a competent knowledge in Philosophy the Greek tongue and Divinity left Oxon some time before the said Coll. came into the Kings hands by Wolseys fall and forthwith went to an Inn of Chancery near London call'd Staire Inn otherwise Strond Inn pulled down when Edw. D. of Somerset built Somerset house in the Strond or Strand and thence to the Inner Temple for before his time and some years after students were not admitted into the Inns of Court before they had read the ground of Law in one of the Inns of Chancery where his humour was to quote the Law in Greek when he read any thing thereof In 1534 he went to the Court and was there taken into the attendance of Tho. Cromwell then Principal Secretary to K. Hen. 8. by whose commendation he was afterwards made by the said King one of the Clerks of the Signet in ordinary an 1537. Which place he kept till the first of Q. Mary having been in good repute not only with K. Hen. 8. but also with K. Edw. 6. and most of all with Edw. Duke of Somerset Lord Protector In 1552 he tho a mere Lay-man obtained by the name of Rich. Taverner Master of Arts being Master of Arts of both the Universities a special licence subscribed by K. Ed. 6. to Preach in any place of his dominions and the more for this reason because the scarcity and slackness of Preachers was so great that some of the Kings Chaplains were appointed to ride circuit about the Kingdom to preach to the People especially against Popery I have been informed by some notes of him written by his Grandson that he preached before the King at Court and in some publick places in the Kingdom wearing a velvet bonnet or round cap a damask gown and a chain of gold about his neck in which habit he was seen and heard preaching several times in St. Maries Church in Oxon. in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. In like manner other Lay-Gentlemen such that had been educated in the Universities did either preach or else write books concerning controversies in Religion or else make translations from Divinity books Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks. Esq whom I have mention'd in Joh. Jewell sometimes of Univ. Coll. was often seen in the same habit in Pulpits in London and in his own Country and would often give the printed Catechismes in the book of Common-Prayer to Children as he walked in London streets to learn without book and would after call out those children and examine them and for encouragement would give especially to the poorer sort of them money silk points ribbands c. Sir Tho. More also after he was called to the bar in Lincolns Inn did for a considerable time read a publick Lecture out of St. Austin De civitate Dei in the Church of St.
against her The second doth handle her title to the Crown of England and the third doth answer the book of Joh. Knox the Scot entit Against the monstrous government of Women But not long after the said book was published John Lesley Bishop of Ross in Scotland who at that time was Embassador for the said Qu. of Scots in England did more largely handle in the second book of a treatise which he published her title to the Crown of England c. Thus he so that according to this Authors opinion here quoted Lesley had no hand in the said treatises but in another different from them which I think is most true At length after our Author Morg. Philipps had suffered about 17 years exile died at Lovaine year 1577 or rather at Doway in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven for on the 15. Feb. the same years was a Commission granted from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to George Farmour of Estneston in Northamptonshire Esq to administer the goods debts chattels c. of Morgan Philipps Clerk sometimes Chauntor of the Cath. Ch. of St. David who lately died in parts beyond the Seas THOMAS DORMAN was born at Berchamstede in Hertfordsh partly educated in the Free-School there under Mr. Rich. Reve a Protestant by the care and exhibition of his Uncle Tho. Dorman of Agmondesham alias Amersham in the Country of Bucks and partly in Wykehams School near to Winchester At length being made full ripe for the University he was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. but leaving that house before he was made compleat Fellow upon what account I know not was after Qu. Mary came to the Crown elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1554 where following his studies with indefatigable industry was admitted in the University to the reading of any book of the institutions of the Civil Law an 1558. But upon the alteration of Religion which soon followed in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. he left all he had in the University his friends country and patrimony and went to Antwerp where being encouraged in his studies by Dr. Tho. Hardyng then an Exile in those parts and therefore zealously took his part against Jewell became Bach. and at length Doctor of Divinity He hath written A proof of certaine articles in religion denied by Mr. Jewell Antw. 1564. qu. A request to Mr. Jewell that he keep his promise made by solemne protestation in his late Sermon at Pauls cross 15 June 1567. Lond. 1567. oct Disproof of Mr. Alex. Nowells reproof Antw. 1565 qu. Besides other things which being printed beyond the Seas we seldom see them in these parts As for the death of this our learned and pious Author year 1577 which hapned at Tournay in the Law Countries about Fifteen hundred seventy and seven this note following written in a MS. remaining in the English Coll. of Seculars at Doway doth intimate thus of it Thomas Dormannus vir doctus qui unum aut alterum librum edidit contra Haereticos postea fuit pastor in civitate Tornacensi ibidem obiit circa an 1577. GEORGE GASCOIGNE an Esquire and an Essex Man born had his education in both the Universities chiefly as I conceive in Cambridge whence being translated to Greys Inn to study the municipal Law made less progress in that profession than in Logick which was but little for having a rambling and unfixed head he left that place went to various Cities in Holland and became a Soldier of note which he afterwards professed as much or more as learning and therefore made him to take this motto Tam Marti quam Mercurio From thence he went into France to visit the fashions of the royal Court there where he fell in love with a Scottish Dame At length being weary of those vanities and his rambles in other Countries he returned into England and retiring to Greys Inn again was esteemed by all ingenious Men there to be a Person of breeding eloquent and witty the most passionate among them to bewail and bemoan by his dexterous Pen the perplexities of love and the best of his time for his activity in advancing the stage part Afterwards receeding to his patrimony at Walthamstow in the Forest within the Province of Essex at which place if I mistake not he was born he published several matters among which are these that follow Flowers Poems so called The first of which is entit The anatomie of a Lover The second The arraignment of a Lover The third The passion of a Lover and the last is The Lover encouraged by former examples determineth to make virtue of necessity Several of these Poems are contained in those made by him called The Devises The delectable historie of sundry adventures passed by Dan Barthelmew of Bathe This is written in verse The Reporter or the Reporters conclusion This is also a Poem Fruits of War written upon this Theame Dulce bellum inexpertis Began to be written at Delft in Holland Hearbs Poems so called In which are several translations as I shall tell you anon and several copies of verses that are in The Devises Weedes Poems so called with several things intermix'd in prose The Divises These are also Poems among which are various copies of verses made by our Author on certain Theams given by several Gentlemen among which are Francis and Anthony Kynwelmersh Essexians and noted Poets of their times the former having had several Poems printed in a Book entit The paradise of dainty Devises Lond. 1578 Alex. Nevill of Cambridge Richard Courtop c. The steele Glass A Satyre Lond. 1576. qu. Before which is the Authors picture in armour with a ruff and a large beard On his right hand hangs a musquet and bandileers on his left stands books and inkhorn and under him is written Tam Marti quam Mercurio Among several commendatory verses set before it Walt. Rawley of the Middle Temple hath one The complaynt of Phylomene An Elegie Lond. 1576. qu. This Elegy was begun in Apr. 1562 continued in Apr. 1575 and finished the 3 day of the same month 1576. Discourse of the adventures of Mr. F. J. Freeman Jones Written mostly in prose about 1572. Glass of government A tragical comedie so entit because therein are handled as well the rewardes of virtue as also the punishment for vice Lond. 1575. qu. Written partly in rhime but mostly in prose Princelie pleasures at Kenilworth castle A mask written in verse and prose 'T is a relation of the entertainment of Qu. Elizabeth given to her there by Robert Earl of Leycester 9. 10. 11. c. of July 1575. Certaine notes of instruction concerning the making of verse or rime in English This is written in prose He also translated from Italian into English 1 The suppeses a Comedy Originally written by Aristo This Com. was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted at Greys Inn in 1566. 'T is among his Poems called Hearbes 2 The pleasant fable of Ferdinando Jeronimi and Leonora de Valesco Transl
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
other things A little before that time an University being erected at Doway he hastned thither at the desire of Dr. Will. Allen and for a time performed the Office of Catechist Reader at Anchine near to that place Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity as Bachelaur Licentiat and Doctor under Matthew Gallen Provost of the Church of St. Amoure and Chancellor of the University at Doway had a Canonry bestowed on him in the said Church by Gallen and was made the King's Professor of Divinity of the said University Afterwards being minded to put himself into a Religious Order he renounced his Canonry and Professorship and entred into the Society of Jesus at Doway But after a long and diligent probation finding that Order not to agree with his genie and course of Life he left it and returned to his former way of teaching to the great joy of many and became a Canon once more of the said Church of St. Amoure At length being called to Lovain he was made the King's Professor of Divinity and wrote there several matters against Dr. W. Whittaker of Cambridge so that his Fame in short time being over all those parts and he in great esteem with the King of Spain had the Deanry of the Church of Hilverbeck in Kampenland in Brabant bestowed on him little enough God wot for such a rare and most learned Clerk as he was In all kind of literature he obtained such perfection that he was numbred among the most learned men of that age And it was generally thought that he deserved a Cardinals cap before Allen but so it was that his ability being ecclipsed by the activity of the other he did not rise higher than a Dean Pope Clement 8. was so much delighted with his learned Works that he commanded them to be read dayly at times of his refection and invited him to Rome with a design to conser on him the place of Apostolical Protonotary and as some say to make him a Cardinal Cardinal Perron also who was very knowing in the controversies of his time was wont to postpone all Writers of controversies in comparison of those of Stapleton which he took to be the best of his time and before To pass by all commendations given of him by men of his persuasion I shall conclude with those of his Antagonist Whittaker who saith Stapletonus hanc cansum de traditionibus omnium acutissimè ac accuratissimè tractavit c. And elsewhere speaking of the opinion as well of Papists as Protestants in divers matters saith modestly that he Whittaker differed as much from Stapleton in many things as to knowledge as Troilus from Achilles He hath written and translated many things most of which were printed in four large volumes in fol. at Paris 1620. The Titles of them are these De principiis fidei doctrinalibus lib. 12. Par. 1579. and 82. c. Defensio successionis Ecclesiasticae lib. 1. Relectio principiorum fidei doctrinalium Antw. 1592. Defensio anthoritatis Ecclesiasticae contra Gul. Whittakerum Anglo-Calvinistam Triplicatio pro Ecclesiae authotitate adversus eundem Whittakerum These five Treatises before-mentioned are printed in the first vol. of his Works De universae justificationis doctrinà hodie controvers lib. 12. Speculum pravitatis haeriticae per orationes quasi ad oculus demonstratae Duac 1580. Orationes funebres Antw. 1577. Orationes Academicae Miscellaneae Some of which were published 1602. Orationes Catecheticae sive manuale peccatorum de septem peccatis capitalibus Antw. 1598. De magnitudine Romanae Ecclesiae lib. 2. Antw. 1599. qu. Fortress of Faith first planted amongst us Englishmen c. Antw. 1565. qu. Which learned Treatise the author wrote upon occasion of his translating of Bede's Ch. History into English wherein he endeavours to shew that the same Faith was professed in the primitive times as in his When the learned Vsher of Ireland was Bach. of Arts he read over this book several times and mistrusting the quotations of ancient authors therein did put him upon reading the Fathers The horn-blast or a reply to the answer of Rob. Horne the false B. of Winchester In 4 Books Lov. 1567. Discourse of Protestancy and the first authors of it These 9 Treatises immediately going before are in the second vol. of his Works Antw. 1595. Antidota Evangelica in Mathaeum In Marcum In Lucam In Johan Antidota Apostolica in Act. Apost Tom. 1. Antw. 1595. In Epist Pauli ad Romanos Tom. 2. Ibid. 1595. In duas Epistolas ad Corinthios Tom. 3. Ib. 1598. 1600. These before-going are in the third vol. of his Works Antw. 1521. Venet. 1594. Promptuarium in Evangelia Dominicalia pars Hymalis Promptuarium in Evangelia Dominicalia pars Aestualis Prompt Catholicum in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni Col. 1592. c. 1602. pars Hymalis Prompt Catholicum in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni Col. 1592. c. 1602. pars Aestualis Prompt Cath. super Evang. ferialia totius Quadrages Prompt Cath. sup Evang in festis SS totius anni Tres Thomae seu res gestae S. Thomae Apost S. Tho. Archiep. Cant. Tho. Mori Angliae Cancellarii Duac 1588. c. These five last are in the fourth vol. of his Works De justificatione Par. 1582. Return of untruths against Mr. Jewel Antw. 1566. He also translated from Lat. into English The History of the Church of England Antw. 1565. qu. written by Ven. Bede Which translation with some notes added in the margin by Stapleton is censured by the learned Selden as not altogether true He translated also Fred. Staphyles large vol. De desidiis Haereticorum Antw. 1565. but this I have not yet seen At length after our author Stapleton had arrived to the sixty third year of his age did end his days at Lovain to the great grief of all learned Catholicks on the 12. Oct. according to the accompt there followed in fifteen hundred ninety and eight year 1598 and was buried in the Church of St. Peter there Soon after was put over his grave a monument with a large inscription thereon containing in brief the succession of his Employments in the Universities and Church here and beyond the Seas a copy of which you may see elsewhere The next according to time that is to crave a place among these Writers was a learned Sage of the Law THOMAS OWEN Son of Rich. Owen Gent. by Mary his Wife one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Tho. Oteley of Shropshire Esq was born at or near to Condover in that county and for some time was conversant among the Muses either in Broadgates hall or in Ch. Church From thence having first taken a degree in Arts as it seems he retired to Lincoln's Inn where by his unwearied industry advanced by a good natural genie and judgment he became a noted Councellour and much resorted to for his advice In 25. Elizab. dom 1583. he was elected Lent-Reader of that house in 1590. he was by
they are descended from the said Family of the Savelli I cannot in the least conjecture being the name of a Town nor can I believe it no more than that the Corbets of Shropsphire are descended from the Corvini another ancient Family in Italy GEORGE CORYAT received his first being in this World in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City Salisbury educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1562. took the degrees in Arts and in June 1570. became Rector of Odcombe in Sommersetshire on the death of Tho. Reade and at length Bach. of Divinity In 1594 he was made Prebendary of Warthill in the Church of York and had some other Dignity but what I cannot tell He was a person much commended in his time for his fine fancy in Latin Poetry and for certain matters which he had written quoted by John Case the Philosopher Jam. Middendorp Joh. Cay and others All that I have seen of his composition are only these things following Poemata varia Latina Lond. 1611. qu. Published by his Son Thomas after his death and by him intit Posthuma fragmenta Poematum Descriptio Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae Written in Lat. verse as it seems and dedicated to Q. Elizabeth He died in the Parsonage house at Odcombe on the fourth of March in sixteen hundred and six whereupon his Son Tom upon some design preserving his body from stench above ground till the 14 of Apr. following was then buried in the Chancel of the Church at Odcombe at which time one Gibbs Gollop M. A. who was admitted to that Rectory 23. Mar. 1606 did officiate Gertrude Widdow of the said G. Coryate lived many years after at Odcombe and near to it where dying was buried near to the Reliques of her Husband on the 3. Apr. 1645. 21. Car. 1. as I have been informed by the searches by Mr. Humph. Hody M. A. of Wadham coll a Native of Odcombe At the same time that George Coryat was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll was elected also one John Mundyn born at Maperton in Dorsetshire who being a Civilian and not conforming himself to the Protestant Religion was ejected thence by the B. of Winchester in his Visitation of that coll 1566. Afterwards he went beyond the Seas was made a Seminary Priest and sent into the Mission of England But being taken on Hounslow-heath in his journey from Winchester to London was by Sir Fr. Walsingham Secretary of State committed to Prison Afterwards being convicted according to the Law against Seminaries was with 4 other Priests executed at Tybourne 12 Feb. 1583. See more in a book intit Concertatio Eccles Catholicae in Anglia Printed at Trier 1594. fol. 140 141. WILLIAM BURTON a Native of the City of Winchester was educated in Wykchams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1563. and left that house after he had taken one degree in Arts. This person I take to be the same Will. Burton who was a Minister in Bristow and afterwards at Reading in Berks. And author of these things following Several Sermons as 1 Sermon Preached at Norwith 21. of Dec. 1589. on Jer. 3. 14. Lond. in oct 2 Davids Evidence or the assurance of Gods love in 7 Sermons on Psal 41. 11 12 13. Lond. 1592. oct 1602. qu. 3 A Caveat for Sureties two Serm. at Bristow on Prov. 6. from 1. to the 5. verse Lond. 1593. oct 1602. qu. 4 The rousing of the Sluggard in 7 Sermons on Prov. 6. from 6. to the 11. verse Lond. 1595. oct 5 Sermons on the Churches Love to Christ her Husband on Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. These Sermons are intit Gods Wooing his Church 6 Davids Thanksgiving for the arraignment of the Man of Earth two Sermons on Psal 10. 17 18. Lond. 1598. oct dedicated to Sir Will. Periam Knight Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer a favourer of the authors Muse 7 Ten Sermons on Matthew 5. 3 4. Lond. 1602. qu. 8 The Anatomy of Beliel in 10 Sermons on Prov. 6. 12 13 14 15. Lond. 1602. qu. dedic to Ralph Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esque a great favourer of the author Catechism containing certain Questions and Answers concerning the knowledge of God and the right use of the Law Lond. 1591. oct Conclusions of Peace between God and Man containing comfortable meditations for the Children of God on Prov. 7. 1 2. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. Exposition of the Lords Prayer drawn into Questions and Answers Lond. 1594. oct 1602. qu. Certain Questions and Answers concerning the attributes of God Lond. 1602. qu. second edit Questions and Answers concerning the right use of the Law of God Lond. 1602. qu. An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbath briefly yet fully and plainly set forth Lond. 1606. oct These are all and enough which I have seen published by Will. Burton a Minister in Bristow and afterwards in Reading Whether he be the same Will. Burton of the Parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate in Lond. Clerk who died in that Parish in Oct. or Nov. in 1612. 16. Jac. 1. and left behind a Widdow called Dorothy I know not WILLIAM MONSON a Lincolnshire Man born a Knight's Son and of the same Family with those of South Carleton in that County was a Gent. Com. or at least a Commoner of Balliol coll where he continued for at least two years But his mind being more Martial than Mercurial he applied himself to Sea-service wherein he attained to great perfection was a Captain in several Expeditions against the Spaniard Vice-Admiral and Admiral In 1594. he was actually created Master of Arts and in 1596. he received the Honour of Knighthood from Robert Earl of Essex at the Sacking of Cadiz In 1602. when Ireland was cleared of the Spanish Forces he was appointed Vice-Admiral under Sir Rich. Levison Admiral to carry on the War by Sea against the Spaniard lest they should invade England wherein he performed most admirable Service especially in the taking of a great Carack of 1600 Tun from them at Cezimbria against Barbarum the Promontory of Portugal This heroical person left behind him at his death written with his own hand A true and exact account of the Wars with Spain in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth being the particulars of what hapned between the English and Spanish Fleets from the year 1585. to 1602. shewing the expeditions attempts c. Lond. 1682. fol. dedicated to his Son John Monson In some copies of this book the Title runs thus A particular and exact account of the last xvii years of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign both Military and Civil Lond. 1682. fol. The first written by Sir Will. Monson the other by Heywood Townshend This worthy Knight was in great renown in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. and the last time I find him mentioned in his Sea-service is in 1605. in which year he conveyed over Sea
who writes himself Cocus received his first breath at Chale in the Isle of Wight his Grammatical education in Wykehams School his Academical in New coll of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1592. being then accounted a good Latin Poet as several of his copies which afterwards were printed testifie In 1608. he proceeded in the Civil Law being about that time Rector of Houghton in Hampshire and in good esteem for his profession and excellencies in the Greek tongue His works are Juridicum trium questionum ad majestatem pertinentium determinatio in quarum primâ ultimâ processus judicialis contra H. Garnetum institutus ex jure civili canonico defendetur c. Oxon. 1608. qu. Dedicated to Bilson Bishop of Winchester to whom he was then Chaplain Poematavaria year 1611 He gave up the ghost in sixteen hundred and eleven but where buried unless in his Church of Houghton I know not One James Coâ—k of Warwick Chirurgeon and a pretender to Physick hath published certain matters relating to Physick and Chirurgery in the Reign of Oliver and after and therefore not to be taken for the same with the Civilian JOHN BLAGRAVE the second Son of John Blagrave of Bulmarsh Court near to Sonnyng in Berkshire by Ann his Wife Daughter of Sir Auth. Hungerford of Downe-Ampney in Gloucestershire Knight was born in Berks. educated in School-learning at Reading in Philosophical among the Oxonians particularly as it seems in St. John's coll about the time of its first Foundation But leaving Oxon without the honour of a degree retired to his Patrimony which was at Southcote Lodge in the Parish of S. Mary at Reading and prosecuted with great Zeal his Mathematical Genie to so considerable an height that he was esteemed the flower of Mathematicians of his age He hath written and published these books following A mathematical Jewel shewing the making and most excellent use of an Instrument so called the use of which Jewel is so aboundant that it leadeth the direct path-way through the whole art of Astronomy Cosmography Geography c. Lond. 1585. fol. Of the making and use of the Familier Staff so called as well for that it may be made usually and familiarly to walk with as for that it performeth the Geometrical mensurations of all altitudes c. Lond. 1590. qu. Astrolabium Vranicum generale A necessary and pleasant Solace and Recreation for Navigators in their long journeying containing the use of an Instrument or general Astrolabe c. compiled 1596. Printed in qu. The Art of Dyalling in two parts The first shewing plainly c. Lond. 1609. qu. with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen This worthy Mathematician who had a most generous love for his kindred gave way to fate in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 and was buried in the Church of S. Laurence within the antient Borough of Reading Soon after was a fair Monument erected in the Wall with his Bust to the middle over-against the Desk there where his Mother was before buried Part of the Epitaph which is engraven under his said Bust or proportion runs thus Johannes Blagravius totus Matthematicus cum matre Sepultus Obiit 9. Aug. 1611. Here lyes his Corps which living had a Spirit Wherein much worthy knowledge did inherit By which with zeal one God he did adore Left for Maid-Servants and to feed the Poor c. From one of the brethren of this Mathematician was descended Daniel Blagrave a Counsellour at Law who running with the rout in the beginning of the Rebellion was chosen a Burgess for Reading to serve as a Recruiter in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. About the same time he was made Steward of Reading and Treasurer of Berks and had given to him the Exegenters Office of the Common Pleas then esteemed 500 l. per an Afterwards he was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. bought the Kings Fee-Farm of the great Mannor of Sonnyng before-mentioned and other Estates at very easie rates was Master extraordinary in Chancery a constant Rumper and a great persecutor of the ministers in and near Reading especially when an Act of Parliament issued out for the ejection of such whom they then 1654. called Scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters At length upon the approach of his Majesties Restauration in 1659-60 he fled from the justice retired to Acon in Germany where living some years under a disguised name died in an obscure condition an 1668. and was buried in a certain piece of ground somewhat distant from that City appointed to receive the bodies of such whom they there call Hereticks RALPH BUCKLAND an Esquires Son was born of and descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at West-Harptre in Somersetshire became a Commoner of Mag. coll in Mich. term 1579. aged 15 or thereabouts but before he took a degree he went to London and studied the municipal Laws for some time At length being inflam'd with a love to the Rom. Cath. Religion he left his Parents Country and the prospect of a fair Inheritance for he was the first Heir to his Father and went forthwith by the instigation without doubt of some Priest to the English coll at Rheimes in which place and at Rome he spent about 7 years in the eager obtaining of knowledge in Philosophy and Divinity Afterwards being made Priest and sent into the mission of England lived chiefly I presume in his own Country and spent above 20. years in doing offices belonging to his profession The things that he hath written and published are these Seven sparks of the enkindled Soul Four lamentations which composed in the hard times of Qu. Elizabeth may be used at all times when the Church happeneth to be extreamly pesecuted â—Drawn out of the holy Scriptures after the form of Psalms Printed in twelves In the Title or end of these two little things with which was printed A Jesus Psalter but by whom written or published it appears not there is no place or time mentioned where or when they were printed neither is the Epistle dedicatory to his Mother B. B. dated However that they were printed after K. James 1. came to the Crown of England appears in the first Psalm p. 12. thus By the hand of thy great Servant James Shake off our Yoake that we may find him an honourable Comforter Beautifie him with a name more precious than his Crown by the true name of a good King c. A Copy of the said two little things which contain Ejaculations very full of most servent devotion for the reconcilement of England and Scotland to the Rom. Church coming afterwards into the hands of the most learned Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland he took occasion in a Sermon preached in S. Maries Church in Oxon 5. Nov. 1640. to tell the learned Auditory then present that the said two books having been printed at Rome in 1603. or thereabouts the Gunpowder-Treason
who was well known to John Sâ—â—w was living in Northampton in sixteen hundred twenty and three 21. J. c. 1. In his time was one Samuel Wastell a Master of Arts of New Inn 1628. but him I find not to be a writer or publisher of books WILLIAM BISHOP Son of John 〈◊〉 who died 1601. aged 92. was born of a gentile family at Brayles in Warwickshire sent to this University in the 17 year of his age in 157â— or thereabouts particularly as I conceive to Gloucester hall at which time it was presided by one who was a R. Catholick or at least suficieâ—tly addicted to the R. perswasion and that therein did then and especially after study 〈…〉 or else in 〈…〉 who was in anino Catholicus After he had continued in Oxon. about 3 or 4 years he left it his paternal estate which was considerable and all his friends and his native Country which was more So that setling himself in the English coll at Rheimes he applyed himself partly to the study of Divinity Soon after he was sent to Rome where making a fruitful progress in Philosophy and Divinity he was made Priest and sent into England to convert Souls but being taken in the haven was kept prisoner several years as one of his perswasion reports Afterwards being set at liberty an 1584. he went to Paris where he was honorably received and worthily numbred among the Sorbon Doctors At length he took another journey into England and laboured 9 years in the R. C. harvest Upon the expiration of which he was sent for to Rome about certain matters depending between the Jesuits and Secular Priests of which business a certain author hath a large story all which being determined he return'd the third time into England and after 8 years labouring therein to advance his religion was taken and committed prisoner to the Gate-house in Westminster where he was remaining in 1612. Afterwards being released and sent back beyond the Seas again lived at Paris in the Arras or Atrebatian coll newly rebuilt for Benedictin Monks by Philip Caverell Head or Prefect of the Monastery of S. Vedastus at Arras About the year 1622. our author being made Bishop of Chalcedon by the Pope he was sent into England to execute the office of a Bishop among the Catholicks and was by them received with great honour and respect He hath written Reformation of a Catholick deformed by Will Perkins Print 1604. in qu. Part 1. The second part of the reform of the Cath. c. Printed 1607. qu. An answer to Mr. Perkins's advertisement Pr. with the former A reproof of Dr. Rob. Abbots Defence of the Cath. deformed by W. Perkins Pr. 1608. in 2. parts in qu. Disproof of Dr. R. Abbots counter-proof against Dr. Bishops reproof of the defence of Mr. Perkins reform Cath. Par. 1614. in oct part 1. Defence of the Kings honour and of his title to the Kingdom of England He also published and added several things besides a Preface to Joh. Pits his book De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus and was one of the principal authors of the Libels written against the Archpriestship in England mentioned in George Blackwell an 1612. I find a book written by the Bp. of Chalcedon entit A treatise of the best kind of Confessors pr. in oct but whether written by this Bishop or Dr. Ric. Smith who was his Successor in that titular See I know not At length after this learned person who was in his latter time of the order of S. Benedict had lived 71. years he paid his last debt to nature near to London on the thirteenth day of April in sixteen hundred twenty and four year 1624 but where buried unless in S. Pancras Church near to the said City I know not One that remembers the man hath told my friend that he died at Bishops Court in London but where that place is unless in the Parish of S. Sepulchre I am yet to seek A Latine Manuscript containing the obits and characters of many eminent Benedictines since the reformation hath this character of Dr. Will. Bishop that he was carceribus exilio Apostolicis sudoribus inclitus qui a Sancta sede in patriam ad solamen Catholicorum missus clericis Religularibus ac ipsis laicis ob innatum unionis ac pacis affectum juxta charus extitit c. This obitat book which I have in my little Library was written by a Benedictin Monk of Doway named Tho. White alias Woodhop who having spent several years in the Sheldonian family at Beoly in Worcestershire in which County he was born retired at length in the time of the civil War to Doway was chosen Prior of the coll of English Benedictines and died there of the Plaâ—ue in 1654. From the said book wherein 't is said that Dr. Bishop died near to London was another composed in English with additions and therein is this said of that Doctor he was sent into England by the holy See for the comfort of Catholicks where he so modestly behaved himself that he was by all both Clergy and Seculars dearly beloved and honoured And after imprisonments and all sorts of afflictions patiently endured for the true religion died in peace near London c. This English obital was pen'd by another Benedictine named Tho. Vincent alias Vincent Sadler author of The Childes Catechisme c. pr. at Paris alias London 1678. in oct who died as I remember much about the time that K. Jam. 2. came to the crown He was nephew or near of kin to Fath. Vincent Sadler of the same order who died at Lond. 11. June 1621. after he had been Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury for some years MILES WINDSORE Son of Thomas Son of Andrew Lord Windsore was born in Hampshire at Stanwell I think elected from Balliol coll Scholar of that of Corp. Ch. in Jan. 1556. aged 15 or thereabouts made Probationer-Fellow 16 Feb. 1560 took the degrees in Arts left the coll soon after because popishly affected and spent the remaining part of his time within the City of Oxon. in a most retired condition He was a tolerable Latine Poet but a better Orator as was sufficiently witnessed by his speech intended to have been spoken in C. C. C. when Qu. Elizab. was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses 1566. and more especially by that which he most admirably well delivered before her at the Lord Windsores house at Bradenham a little after she left Oxon. Which giving the Queen great content she in an high manner did commend it before Dedicus Gosemannus de Sylva the Spanish Embassador then present and looking wistly on Windsore who then had a beard according to the fashion said to Goseman is not this a pretty young man At riper years he applyed himself to the study of Histories and Antiquities and had a hand as 't was frequently reported in the Apologia of B. Tuyne who stiles our author Windsore Antiquae Historiae artifex
at first to be observed by several of his compositions in Poetry After he had taken one degree in Arts and had spent some time in exercising his fancy among the Poets in the great City he was esteemed not Jos Hall of Emanuel coll in Cambridge excepted the best for Satyr among English men At length his mind growing more serious he studied Physick for the improvement of which he travelled beyond the Seas took the degree of Dr. of that faculty at Avenion returned and was incorporated in the University in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth Afterwards setling in London he practiced it became much frequented for his success in it especially by the R. Catholicks of which number he was by many suspected to be one and was as much cried up to his last for Physick as he was in his younger days for his poetical fancy He hath written Alarum against Usurers containing tried experiences against worldly abuses Lond. 1584. qu. History of Forbonius and Prisaeria with truths complaint over England Printed with the Alarum Euphues Golden Legacy found after his death in his cell at Silexedra bequeathed to Philautus Sonnes nursed up with their Father in England Lond. 1590. c. qu. The wounds of a civil War lively set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius and Scilla Lond. 1594. qu. A fig for Momus Pr. in qu. Looking-glass for London An historical Comedy Lond. 1598. qu. In the composure of which he had the assistance of Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge Liberality and prodigality Comedy Lady Alimony Com. Luminalia a Maske Lawes of nature Com. Assisted also in these by the said Rob. Green who is accounted the half author of them Treatise of the Plague containing the nature signs and accidents of the same c. Lond. 1603. qu. Countess of Lincol. Nusery Oxon. 1622. in 2. or 3. sh in qu. Treatise in defence of Plays This I have not yet seen nor his Pastoral Songs and Madrigals besides several other things which are as it were lost to the generality of Scholars He also translated into English 1 Josephus his History or Antiquities of the Jews Lond. 1602. 09. 20. c. sol 2 The works both moral and natural of Luc. An. Seneca Lond. 1614. 20. fol. c. This eminent Doctor who practiced his faculty in Warwick Lane in the beginning of K. Jam. 1. and afterwards on Lambert-hill removed thence a little before his last end into the parish of S. Mary Magd. in Old Fishstreet London where he made his last exit of the Plague I think in September in sixteen hundred twenty five year 1625 leaving then behind him a Widdow called Joan but where buried unless in the Church or yard there I know not His memory is celebrated by several Poets whose Encomiums of him being frequent I shall for brevity sake pass them now by and proceed to the next who had a name among those of his perswasion for an eminent Theologist HENRY HOLLAND was born at Daventry commonly called Dantry in Northamptonshire educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School near to Winâ—sore elected Scholar of S. Johns coll in 1565. took one degree in Arts left that house soon after his Friends Country and Religion and went to Dâ—way in Flanders where making a considerable progress in the Theological faculty was made Priest and Bach. of Div. Afterwards he went to Rheims and in the English coll there was a most noted preacher for several years and at length gave his assisting hand to the Translation of the Rheimish Testament Soon after he was sent into the English Harvest to gain souls to his religion but finding that imployment dangerous he retired to Doway again where being made 〈…〉 Divinity read and interpreted divine Letters fâ—r many years in the Monastery of Anchine near to that place His works are De venerabili Sacramento De Sacrificio Missae Duac 1609. Carmina diversa with other things printed beyond the Seas which seldom or never come into these parts He gave way to fate in a good old age within the said Monastery of Anchine year 1625 on the 28. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and five and was buried in the Cloyster there Over his grave is an Epitaph beginning thus Dantria me genuit me clara Vigornia fovit Aetona me docuit post doeet Oxonium The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 307. b. In this Hen. Holland's time were one two or more writers of both his names as 1 Hen. Hol. who wrote A treatise against Witchcraft c. Camb. 1590. qu. and the same as it seems who published Spiritual preservations against the Pestilence and added thereunto An admonition concerning the use of Physick Both printed 1603. qu. 2 H. Hol. who published the Hist of Adam or the fourfold state of Man c. Pr. 1606. qu. and Christian Exercise of Fasting private and publick c. Pr. 1596. qu. Whether this H. Holland be the same with the first who was of Cambridge as it seems I cannot tell unless I see their respective books neither can I say to the contrary but that he may be the same H. Holland who published the Posthuma of his Brother Abrah Holland sometimes of Trin. coll in Cambridge Lond. 1626. Which Abraham who was author also of a Poem called Naumachia or Hollands Sea-fight Lond. 1622. qu. died on the 18. of Febr. 1625. 3 Hen. Holland Son of Philemon Holland a Physician and Schoolmaster of the City of Coventry who was born there travelled with John Lord Harington into the Palatinate in 1613. and collected and wrote Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiae S. Pauli Lond. Printed in qu. Also Herologia Anglica sive effigies vitae elogia clarorum doctorum aliquot Anglorum ab an 1500. ad 1620. Lond. 1620. in two tomes fol. and did engrave and pub a book intit A book of Kings being a true and lively Effigies of all our English Kings from the Conquest till this present c. 1618. But this Hen. Holland was not educated either in Oxon or Cambridge having been a Member of the Society of the Stationers in London See in the Fasti among the incorporations an 1572. HENRY FINCH second Son of Sir Thom. Finch of East well in Kent was born in that County and for a time educated in this University particularly as I conceive in Oriel coll wherein several of his sirname and Family studied in the time of Q. Elizabeth From Oxon he was translated to Greys Inn wherein making great proficiency in the Municipal Laws became a Councellour of note Autumn or Summer-Reader of that house 2. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law 1614. and one of the Kings Serjeants and a Knight two years after being then in great esteem for his knowledge in his profession He hath written Nomotexnia cestascavoir un description del common Leys d' Angleterre solonique les rules del Art c. Lond. 1613. fol. in 4 books Done into English by the same author under this
it of that Religion by Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury who sent for him upon notice received that he had been at the doleful Even-song in the Black-Friers in London 26. Oct. 1623. became a bitter Enemy to the Romanists and studied to do them what mischief he could by these books following The Foot out of the Snare with a detection of sundry late practices and impostures of the Priests and Jesuits in England c. Lond. 1624. qu. A gentle excuse to Mr. Greg. Musket for stiling him Jesuit These two which go and are joyned together were printed four times in the said year 1624. because all the copies or most of them were bought up by R. Catholicks before they were dispersed for fear their lodgings and so consequently themselves should be found out and discovered by the catalogues of all such Priests Jesuits Popish Physicians Chyrurgions c. with the names of the streets lanes c. in London where they mostly lived which were printed at the end of the Gentle Excuse before-mentioned Our author Gee hath also written and published Hold fast Sermon at Pauls Cross on Rev. 3. 11. Lond. 1624. qu. New shreds of the old Snare containing the apparitions of two Female Ghosts the copies of divers letters c. especially Indulgences purchased at Rome c. Lond. 1624. qâ— For the publishing of which books and for his mutability of mind he was very much blamed by both parties especially by those of the Rom. perswasion as I have been several times informed by a grave Bach. of Div. Mr. Rich. Washbourne Chanter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon who had been his contemporary in Exeter coll Which person having known Gee well and what he was as to his life and conversation blamed the writer of this book much for honouring the memory of such a sorry fellow as he was in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. He was afterwards beneficed at Tenterden in Kent where he died and was buried but when I cannot yet tell leaving then behind him a young Brother named Orlando Gee afterwards a Knight One Joh. Gee was Minister of Dunsford in Devon who died about the beginning of 1631. leaving a Relict behind him called Sarah Which Joh. Gee was perhaps Father to the aforesaid Joh. Gee the writer Qu. RICHARD VERSTEGAN or as some call him Rich. Rowland a great reviver of our English antiquities and a most admirable Critick in the Saxon and Gothick languages ought with all due ceremony to crave a place among these writers not only because he is little remembred among authors but also for that he had received part of his education among the Oxonians His Grandfather who was called Theodore Rowland Verstegan was born in the Duchy of Gelderlandt and there descended of an ancient and worshipful Family From which Duchy when it had been much ruined wasted and depopulated by the intestine Wars there raised and continued by Charles Duke thereof and Philip the Archduke and Charles the fifth his Son he the said Verstegan being then a young man and deprived of his Friends in the said Wars came into England about the latter end of Hen. 7. and there married and soon after died leaving behind him a Son but nine months old which gave cause of making his fortune meaner than else it might have been Afterwards when the said Son grew up to be about 16 years of age he was bound an Apprentice to a Cooper Nor is this any discredit Wolfgangus Musculus his Father being of that Trade This Cooper was Father to our author Rich. Verstegan born in the Parish of St. Catherine near to the Tower of London where his Parent mostly lived and gained so comfortable a subsistence by his Trade that he made shift to give his Son ingenious and Grammatical education which being improved by Academical in his University where he was mostly known by the name of Rowland became esteemed for some parts of learning that were not then among the Academians regarded Afterwards to avoid Oaths he left the University without a degree and being by that time a zealous R. Catholick he left England went into the Spanish Netherlands and setled at Antwerp where he composed Theatrum crudelitatum Hereticorum nostri temporis Antw. 1592. qu. in 12 sh Whether ever printed before as some say it was I cannot tell This book is full of Cuts representing the hanging quartering and beheading or butchering of Popish Martyrs engraven from the delineations made with the Pen of Verstegan who was observed while in England to be much delighted in drawing and painting The verses under to explain the meaning of them were made by one Joh. Bochius born at Bruxills and then 1592. Register if I mistake not at Antwerp Afterwards the Rebellious League beginning he conveyed himself and books to Paris where the English Embassadour complained of him to K. Hen. 3. and desired that he being born a Subject to the Q. of England and then a Fugitive and one that had abused her by his representation of Cruelties he might be delivered into his hands to be sent to England there to receive reward And the Embassador had reason for his request if that be true which is reported that K. Hen. 3. was so much possest with those cruel pictures and did put so much credit in them that he accused Q. Elizabeth of great cruelty calling her wicked and cruel woman Yet at the Embassadors desire Verstegan was imprisoned at which Jean Bouchier that active fire-brand of the League is not a little troubled and layeth it as an heretical fault on K. Hen. 3. At length Verstegan is released quits France and returns to Antwerp where as 't is said he reprinted his book exercised the Trade of Printing and by his rising up only as one tell us by Brocage and Spierie for the Hispanish'd Jesuits lived then and there 1602. as if he were an Hidalgo as who may not be a Gentleman who lives so far from home where he is not known c. At that time and before the Jesuits and Secular Priests falling out in England each party defended it self by the Pen. In this quarrel Verstegan concerns himself joyning with the Jesuits and writing in their behalf though not one of their number but rather a Secular shewing himself as zealous a railer as the best of them And indeed never was there quarrel composed of so many hard words either side considered yet whether Verstegan hath published any of his railings or whether they are done in other books I cannot tell for I have seen nothing of that nature Sure I am that about the death of Q. Elizabeth he employed his studies on a more noble subject which being finished he published it under this title A restitution of decayed intelligence in antiquities concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation Antw. 1605. qu. Before which Rich. Whyte of Basingstoke and Rich. Stanyhurst whom I have elsewhere mentioned have commendatory verses In this book are several
had in favour by all such that were lovers of Arts and Sciences At length obtaining an honourable Office under the Queen he became one of her favourites which he held for no short term but had the longest lease of any and the smoothest time without rub In the beginning of 1588. he among other persons of honour and quality was actually created Master of Arts which I think was the highest degree that was conferred upon him in this University In 1603. he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. and soon after obtained the grant of the ruinous Castle of Wâ—rwick In the 12. year of the said Kings reign he being constituted under Treasurer and Chancellour of the Exchequer he was made choice of for one of Kings Privy Council And meriting much for his faithful services in those employments was by Letters Patents bearing date 9. Jan. 18. Jac. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Brook of Beauchamps court In Sept. 1621. he was made one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Bedchamber whereupon giving up his Chancellourship of the Exchequer Rich. Weston afterwards Earl of Portland succeeded him He was always esteemed a brave Gentleman and honourably descended as being sprung from the family of Willoughby Lord Brook was favoured by Qu. Elizabeth and such that knew he had interest in the Muses His life was always single and tho he lived and died a constant Courtier of the Ladies yet he prosecuted his studies in History and Poetry In which consider him as a Gentleman of noble birth and great Estate he was most excellent in his time as these things following shew composed in his youth and familiar exercise with Sir Ph. Sidney Poems A Treatise of humane learning Inquisition upon fame and honour Treatise of Wars Tragedy of Alaham. Trag. of Mustapha Caelica containing 109 Sonnets Letter to an honourable Lady Letter of Travels Written to his Cousin GrevilVerney residing in France c. Some of the said things having been singly published were all remitted into a little thin Folio printed at Lond. 1633. and had this general title put to them Certain learned and elegant works of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke c. The first five years of King James or the condition of the State of England and the relation it had to other Provinces Lond. 1643. qu. The life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney with the true interest of England as it then stood in relation to all foreign Princes c. Lond. 1652. oct Published by P. B. Short account of the Maxims and Policies used by Qu. Elizab. in her Government Printed with the former book Remains containing Poems of Monarchy and Religion Lond. 1670. oct never before printed with other things among which is his Trag. of Marc. Tull. Cicero which I have not yet seen At length our author who was Counsellour of State to Ch. 1. neglecting to reward one Haywood who had spent the greatest and chiefest part of his time in his personal service for which he expostulated the matter with his Master but was sharply rebuked for it the said Haywood thereupon gave him a mortal stab on his Back they two being then only together in his Bed-chamber in Brook house in Holbourne near London of which wound he died 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight aged 74. year 1628 Which being done the Assassianate discerning his own condition desperate went into another room and there having lock'd the dore murdered himself with his own Sword On the 27 of Oct. following he the said Lord Brook was buried in a Vault situate on the north side of the collegiat Church at Warwick which formerly had been a chapter house belonging thereunto wherein he had in his life time erected a fair Tomb with this Epitaph thereon Fulke Grevil Servant to Queen Elizabeth Counsellour to King James and friend to Sir Philip Sidney In his honour and dignity succeeded his kinsman Robert Grevil being then 1628. one and twenty years of age educated in Academical learning not in this but in the other University of Cambridge as I have been informed where being well tutor'd became learned considering his quality But being afterwards unhappily attainted with fanatick and antimonarchical principles by the influence of one of his near relations and some Schismatical preachers tho in his own nature a very civil and well humour'd person was without much difficulty drawn in by those fiery spirits of the Long Parliament which began 1640. By whom being back'd on he became an active man in the House against the Prerogative Bishops and the establish'd discipline of the Church insomuch that no less than the abolishing of all decent order in the service of God would satisfie him So that the members of the said Parliament looking upon him as a faithful person for the cause that they then drove on appointed him a Commander in their Army as I shall anon tell you As for the things which he wrote and published are 1 The nature of truth c. Lond. 1643. oct Animadverted upon by John Wallis a Minister in London afterward Geom. Professor of Oxon Printed at Lond. 1643. 2 A discourse opening the nature of Episcopacy which is exercised in England Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Assisted therein by some puritanical Minister and printed when the Press was open to receive all books against the Prerogative and Bishops 3 Two speeches spoken in the Guild-hall in London concerning his Majesties resusal of a Treaty of peace Lond. 1642. qu. 4 Answer to the speech of Philip Earl of Pembroke concerning accommodation Which answer was spoken in the House of Lords 19 Dec. 1642. Pr. in one sh in qu. by order of the House 5 Speech at the election of his Captains and Commanders at Warwick Castle Lond. 1643. qu. In the beginning of the Civil War an 1642. he became Commander in chief of those Forces which were sent to assault the Church-Close at Lichfield then defended by a small Garrison placed there by his Majesty out of a pious intent for the preservation of the stately Cathedral which the Lord Brooke intended presently to destroy when taken by his Forces But so it fell out that he having planted his great Guns against the South-east gate of the Close he was tho harnessed with plate-armour cap-a-pe shot from the Church in the Eye by one Diot a Clergy-mans Son who could neither hear or speak as he stood in a dore whether he came to see the occasion of a sudden shout made by the Soldiers of which he instantly died This memorable accident hapned on the second day of March an 1642. which is the festival of that sometimes famous Bishop S. Cedd or Chad to whose memory Offa King of the Mercians did erect the said Cathedral and devoutly dedicate it Archbishop Laud being then a prisoner in the Tower of London did make this memoire of it in his Diary under the year 1642.
his Father-in Law Will. Purefey Esque as also of Vindiciae Sabbathi c. Lond. 1641. qu. as I shall tell you farther in Tho. Broad under the year 1635. And of Brief notes upon the whole book of Psalms c. Lond. in qu. besides other things But whether this George Abbot was ever of Oxford I cannot as yet tell A third George Abbot I find to have been elected Probationer Fellow of Merton coll 1622. and admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1630. but he hath written nothing and nothing else do I know of him only that he was Son of Sir Maurice Abbot sometimes Lord Mayor of London brother to Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury HENRY CARY Son of Sir Edw. Cary of Aldenham and Berchamsted in Hertfordshire Knight Master of the Jewel house to Q. Elizabeth and K. James by Katherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Hen. Knevet Knight was born in that County and at about 16 years of age was sent to obtain Academical learning in this University particularly as it seems to Exeter coll where by the help of a good Tutor and extraordinary parts be became a most accomplished Gentleman 'Ts said that during his stay in the Vniversity of Oxford his Chamber was the rendezvouz of all the eminent Wits Divines Philosophers Lawyers Historians and Politicians of that time but how true it is seeing Henry was then a young man and not graduated I cannot in the least perceive Had those things been spoken of Lucius Cary his Son who retired several times to and took commons in Exeter coll while his Brother Lorenzo studied therein 1628. and after I should have rather believed it But let the matter rest as 't is Sure I am that after Hen. Cary had left the University where he had obtained a celebrated name he was introduced into the Royal Court was made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold one of his Privy Council Lord Deputy of Ireland an 1622. and about the same time Viscount Falkland in Scotland being then in much esteem by that King for his great abilities and experience in state affairs He wrote several things but not printed and is supposed to be author of The History of the most unfortunate Prince K. Edw. 2. with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites Gaveston and Spencer containing several passages of those times not found in other Historians Lond. 1680. oct Which book being found among the Papers of the said Henry Visc Falkland was published therefore as his when the Press was open for all such books that could make any thing against the then Government with a Preface to the Reader patch'd up from very inconsiderable authors by Sir Ja. H. as is supposed The Reader is to know that in 1628. was published at Lond. in oct an historical Poem intit The deplorable life and death of Edward the Second K. of England together with the downfal c. written by one Rich. Hubert which Poem being printed without the knowledge of the author and so consequently full of faults and not according to his mind a true copy was printed at Lond. in the year following in oct bearing this title The History of Edw. 2. sirnamed Carnarvon one of our English Kings together with the fatal downfal of his two unfortunate Favourites Gaveston and Spencer Published by the authors own copy with the Addition of some other observations both of use and ornament written by his elder Brother Sir Franc. Hubert or Hobert Knight As for Henry Lord Falkland he gave way to fate occasioned by the breaking of his Leg on a stand in Theobald's Park in Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred thirty and three year 1633 but where he was buried I cannot tell He left behind him a Son named Lucius Cary begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfield L. Chief Baron of the Exchequer by whom he had the Mannor of Great Tew the Priory with the Rectory and Demesnes of Burford in Oxfordshire and other Lands Whether this Lucius was born at Burford as some think he was the publick Register of that place which commences about the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. takes no notice of it However that he was mostly nursed there by a wet and dry Nurse the Ancients of that Town who remember their names have some years since informed me So that the place of his Nativity being yet doubtful to me I must tell you that when his Father became Lord Deputy of Ireland he carried his Son Lucius then a wild Youth with him into that Country where he caused him to be educated in Academical learning in Trinity coll near to Dublin and afterwards sent him to travel under the tutelage and protection of a discreet person who making a very great reformation in him as to life manners and learning Lucius had ever after a great respect and veneration for him Upon his return he retired several times to Oxon to enlarge that learning which he had acquir'd as I shall anon tell you His first years of reason were spent in Poetry and polite learning into the first of which he made divers plausible sallies which caused him therefore to be admired by the Poets of those times particularly first by Ben. Johnson who hath an Epigram on him in his Vnderwood in the second vol. of his works 2. By Edm. Waller of Beconsfield who highly extols his worth and admirable parts and 3. By Sir John Suckling who afterwards brought him into his Poem called The Session of Poets thus He was of late so gone with Divinity That he had almost forgot his Poetry Though to say the truth and Apollo did know it He might have been both his Priest and his Poet. Much about the time of his Fathers death he became one of the Gent. of his Majesty's Privy Chamber had frequent retirements to Great Tew and sometimes to Oxon as he had done very frequently before his Marriage for the company of and conversation with learned and witty men Among whom were Will. Chillingworth of Trinity coll John Earle and Hugh Cressy of Merton coll George Aglionby of Ch. Ch. Charles Gataker of Pembroke coll Son of Thom. Gataker of Redriff or Ridrith near to London who I think was afterwards his Chaplain Thom. Triplet a very witty man of Ch. Ch. and others He had also intimate acquaintance with George Sandys the Poet who usually lived at Caswell near to Witney in the house of Sir Franc. Wâ—nman who married his Sister whose company was usually frequented when Lucius retired to his house at Burford In 1639. he was put in Commission for his Majesty in the expedition against the Scots and upon his safe return thence Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets and a great admirer of him hath an excellent copy of verses wherein are several things honourably mentioned of him and his learning In the
of Windsore and about that time Preb. of Canterbury He died 1. Nov. 1600. and was buried at Windsore Doct. of Civ Law John Gibbons lately of All 's Coll. now Principal of New Inn was admitted this year but the day or month is not set down He was afterwards a Member of Doctors Commons and died at London in the Parish of St. Faith the Virgin about the beginning of the year 1581. ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys or Divinity can I find admitted or licensed to proceed this year An. Dom. 1551. An. 5 Ed. 6. Chanc. the same Vicehanc Owen Oglethorpe D. D. President of Magd. Coll. who being several times absent this year Rich. Martiall Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. and John Warner Doct. of Phys of All 's Coll. officiated for him Proct. Will. Martiall of Mert. Coll. Pet. Rogers of Ch. Ch. Bach. of Arts. George Savage of Ch. Ch. See more in the year 1574. Harbert Westphaling of the same house He was afterwards B. of Hereford James Bell of C. C. Coll. In the latter end of May 1556 he as a Somersetsh Man born was elected Fellow of Trinity Coll. but whether he be the same Jam. Bell who suffer'd death by hanging at Lancaster for being a Rom. Priest in Apr. 1584 or James Bell a Translator of several books into English I cannot tell This last was a zealous Protestant and translated 1 A treatise touching the liberty of a Christian Lond. 1579. oct written in Latin by Dr. Mart. Luther 2 Sermon of the Evangelical Olive written by Jo. Fox See more in Jo Fox among the Writers an 1587. 3 The Pope confuted Written by the said Fox see there again 4 Answer apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective Lond. 1581. qu. Begun to be written in Lat. by Dr. Walt. Haddon but finished by John Fox beforemention'd The admissions and names of Determiners are omitted this year and therefore you are not to expect the just number of Bachelaurs that were admitted Bach. of Civ Law Nich. Saunders of New Coll. He was afterwards a zealous R. Catholick and a forward and indefatigable writer in defence of the Religion he professed Mast of Arts. Humph. Lhoyd or Lhuyd of Brasnose Coll. He was afterwards in much esteem for his great knowledge in British antiquities The admissions of Masters are this year omitted yet the number that stood in the Act or Comitia celebrated 6. of July is 21. The Junior of which called Ralph Treiver of Ch. Ch. was with the approbation of the Vicech and whole congregation admitted into the School of the Physicians or entred on the Physick line in Jan. 1552. Bach. of Div. John Morwâ—n of C. C. Coll. This Person did about this time upon a fight of the decay of the fac of Div. enter himself on the Phys line but whether he continued in it I cannot tell John Harpesfield of Nâ—w Coll. Christoph Goodman of Ch. Ch. sometimes of Brasen Coll. John Molens or Mullins of Magd. Coll. Hen. Pendleton of Brasnose Coll. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted or licensed to proceed this year as it appears in the imperfect register of this time Incorporations Rob. Johnson LL. Bach. of Cambridge as it seems was incorporated Bach. of both the Laws but the day or month when appears not In 1544 Jul. 10. he was installed Prebendary of the Church of Worcester in the place of Tho. Baggard LL. D. deceased and in the same month as it seems was made Chancellour of the Diocess of Worcester which had been held by the said Baggard In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he kept both those places though wrot privately against Jo. Hoper B. of Glocester and Worcester in 1555 Feb. 22. tertio Mariae Reg. he was installed Prebendary of Stillington in the Church of York and in Jul. 1558 he was collated by Nich Archb. of York to the rectory of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire on the death of Arth. Cole President of Magd. Coll. but enjoyed it for a short time This Person who was esteemed learned and well read in the Theological faculty did write a book against Hoper beforemention'd but did not publish it After his death which hapned in 1559 the book came into the hands of one Henry Joliff or Jolliff Bach. of Div. sometimes Proctor of Cambridge afterwards Rector of Bishops Hampton in Worcestershire one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester and in 1554 Dean of Bristew in the place of Tho. Rainolds promoted to the Deanery of Exeter I say that the said Jolliff having the book in his hands carried it with him beyond the Seas when he fled there upon the alteration of Religion in the beginning of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth and setling for a time at Lovaine did correct put some additions to and publish it under his and the name of Rob. Johnson with this title Responsio sub protestatione facta ad illos articulos Johannis Hoperi Episcopi Vigorniâ—e nomen gerentis in quibus à Catholica fide dissentiebat 〈◊〉 cum quibusdam confutationibus ejusdem Hoperi replicationibus reverendiss in ch pat Steph. Gardineri Episc Winton tunc temporis pro confessione fidei in carcere detenti Antwerp 1564. in a thick oct dedicated by Joliff to Philip K. of Spain acknowledging not only his favours shew'd to him in England while he was King there but also at Lovaine Whether Rob. Johnson the original Author died at Worcester or York I know not or Joliff at Lovaine Sure I am that the last died in 1573 for on the 28. Januar. in that year a commission issued out from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to one Will. Secrs a Stationer of London to administer the goods debts chattels c. of Hen Joliff Clerk late Dean of Bristow who died in parts beyond the Seas c. I find another Hen. Joliff in whom Dr. John Whyte Bishop of Winton took much delight for his towardliness and great vertues but he was a youth and dying 19. Aug. 1548 must not be understood to be the same with Hen. Joliff beforemention'd who also wrot against Nich. Rydley nor Rob. Johnson of All 's Coll. who was admitted Bach. of Law 1552 or thereabouts to be the same with him that was the original Author of Responsio c. About this time Abr. Ortelius of Antwerp spent some time in study in the condition of a Sojourner within this University Afterwards he became a most admirable Cosmographer the Ptolomey of his time and the ornament of the learned World He died in 1598. An. Dom. 1552. An. 6. Ed. 6. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Rich. Coxe to whom it was granted by the venerable congregation this year Jul. 19 that whereas he was about to resign his office of Chancellour within a short time he should never after be burdned with the office of Vicechancellour The 14. Nov. following he resign'd it and on the 18 the congregation of Regents and Non-regents elected according to their new statutes Sir
following 12. Rich. Creke of Magd. Coll. Jan. 19. John Barefoot of C. C. Coll. Chaplain to Ambrose Earl of Warwick In 1581 he became Archdeacon of Lincoln in the place of Dr. John Robinson mention'd among the Incorporations an 1566 and dying in 1595 was succeeded in that Dignity by Rich. Cleyton D. D. collated thereunto 29 August the same year After Cleyton followed John Hills D. D. Master of S. Catherins Coll. or Hall in Cambridge who was collated to it 21 Sept. 1612. He died in 1626 about the month of Sept. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Horsheath in Cambridgeshire where there was if not still a Monument in the Wall over his grave Jan. 19. Barthelmew Chamberlayne of Trin. Coll. Edmund Bunney of Mert. Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree in February but was not admitted Incorporations July 7. Edward Chapman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He was soon after admitted Doctor as I have before told you 14. William Whitaker or Whittaker Bach. of Divinity of the said University This famous Divine for Learning and Life was born at Holme in the Parish of Burndâ—ey in Lancashire initiated there in Grammar learning taken thence by his Uncle Alexander Nowell Dean of Pauls and by him maintained in his house and put to the Free School there At eighteen years of age he was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge took the Degrees in Arts and the first thing that made him known for his excellency in the Gr. Tongue was the turning his Uncles Catechism into that Language Afterwards being famous for Theology he was made the Kings Professor in that Faculty and stood up in defence of the Protestant Religion and Church of England against Edmund Campian Nicholas Saunders William Rainolds Robert Bellarmine Thomas Stapleton c. At length having much impoverished his weak Body by continual study even at that time when the Question was so rise among the Divines Whether a true and justifying faith may be lost he was freed from this Body of flesh and lost his life having left behind him the desire and love of the present times and the envy of Posterity that cannot bring forth his parallel He gave way to Fate 4 December an 1595 aged 47 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge of which Coll. he had several years before been Master His Works are printed in Latin in two folio's at Genev. 1610. July 15. Gâ—vase Babington M. of A. of the same University of Cambridge He was a Nottinghamshire man born was Fellow of Trinity Coll afterwards Chaplain to Henry Earl of Pembroke Treasurer of Landaff and successively Bishop of Landaff Exeter and Worcester He published several Books of Div. which were all printed in one Volume in fol Lond. 1615 and go under the name of his Works He died in the year 1610 at which time he enriched the Library belonging to the Church at Worcester with many choice Books Brute Babington B. of A. of this University was incorporated the same day so also was William Cotton M. A. This person who was Son of John Cotton Citizen of Londâ—n third Son of Richard eight Son of John Cotton or Coton of Humpstable Ridware in Staffordshire was partly educated in Guildford School in Surrey afterwards in Queens Coll. in Cambridge and took the usual Degrees Some years after he became Archdeacon of Lewis Canon residentiary of S. Pauls Cath. Church and at length Bishop of Exeter He died at Silverton in Devon 26 August 1621 and was buried on the south side of the Choire or Presbytery of the Cath. Church at Exeter One William Cotton Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Oxon was admitted M. of A. in June 1577 but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I cannot tell This year also Sept. 1. Edward Stanhope Doct. of the Civ Law of Trinity Coll. in the said University did supplicate in a Convention called simile primum that he might be incorporated in the said Degree which tho granted simpliciter yet it appears not that he was incorporated He was afterwards a Knight Chancellour to the Bishop of London and Vicar General to the Archb. of Canterbury He paid his last debt to Nature on the sixteenth day of March an 1608 and was buried near to the great north door within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul in London He was Brother to John Lord Stanhope of Harrington An. Dom. 1579. An. 22 Elizab. An. 22 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Robert Earl of Leicester Vicechanc. Tobie Mathew D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. July 14. Proct. Will. Zouch of Ch. Ch. Isaac Vpton of Magd. Coll. Elected in Congregation 29 April Bach. of Arts. May 16. Robert Abbot of Ball. Coll. Afterwards a deep Divine and Bishop of Salisbury 19. John Philipps The same I think who was afterwards B. of the Isle of Man June 3. Robert Sackvile of Hart Hall See among the Masters following Oct. 16. Edwyn Sandys of C. C. William Tooker Roger Hacket of New Coll. 22. Edward Philipps of Broadgates Jan. 14. Henry Perry of Glocester Hall 26. John King of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of London Feb. 12. Thomas Hariot of S. Maries George Carleton of S. Edm. Hall The first of which two was afterwards an eminent Mathematician and the other a Divine and B. of Chichester 17. Isaac Colfe of Broadgates Hall March 9. Lawr. Hyde of Magd. Hall He was afterwards a Knight and Attorney to Queen Anno the Consort of King Jam. 1. Thomas Savile was admitted the same day See among the Masters an 1584. Admitted 128 or thereabouts Bach. of Law Eight were admitted of whom Gervase Carrington was one who in 1576 had been installed Prebendary of Worcester on the resignation of Arth. Dudley M. of A. Mast of Arts. June 3. Robert Sackvile of Hart. Hall He was now three years standing in the University and was in honour to his noble Race admitted Bach. and Master of Arts in one and the same Congregation On the 13 of July following he was Senior of the Act then celebrated and in 1608 succeeded his Father in the Earldom of Dorset July 6. George Peele of Ch. Ch. 9. Hen. Smith of Hart Hall See among the Masters in 1583. 10. John Bond of New Coll. Thomas Hethe or Heath of All 's Coll. was adm the same day Adm. 75. Bach. of Div. May 4. Hieronim Schlick Count of Passan or Passaun Lord in Weiskirden and Slackenward who had studied two years in the University of Prague and five in Lips where he professed Divinity and twice in one year elected Rector of the Univ. of Marpurg was then admitted to the reading of the Sentences or as 't was now call'd to the reading of any book of S. Pauls Epistles that is to the degree of Bach. of Divinity This the Members of the University did readily grant not only because he was an honorable person but also for that his Parents and Relations had suffered much in the Smalcaldic War for
Jam. Mabbe of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day March 16. Joh. Davies of Jesus Coll. Afterwards a reviver of the Welsh Language As for Brent and Mabbe they are to come among the Writers in the second vol. Admitted 117. Bach. of Law Jul… Griffith Powell of Jesus Coll. the eminent Philosopher and Disputant was then tho M. of A. of 4 years standing admitted Bach. of Law Besides him were but three more admitted of whom Tho. May of St. Johns Coll. was one Jan. 17. Mast of Arts. Apr. 3. Sebastian Bonefeild of C. C. Coll. June 19. Tho. Cooper of Ch. Ch. 28. Lancelot Bulkley lately of Brasn C. now of St. Edm. hall He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin Jul. 4. Jo. Parentius a Forreigner of Ch. Ch. who had studied two years in the University of Caen five at Paris and three at Oxon was then admitted One or more of his Sirname were learned Men and Writers but whether this John was a Writer I cannot tell Oct. 14. Clem. Edmonds of All 's Coll. Jan. 30. Sam. Slade of Mert. Coll. This Person who was a Dorsetsh Man born and Fellow of the said Coll. became afterwards a famous Traveller throughout most parts of the World was employed by Sir Hen. Savile to procure what fragments he could of St. Chrysostome in order to have them compared and published And while he was at Venice he became acquainted with that noted Person famous for his speaking and writing pure Greek called Gabriel Archb. of Philadelphia who finding Slade to be admirably well skill'd in the said Language he communicated to him some rare manuscript Fragments of St. Chrysostoms Greek works Which being by him well approved were conveyed into England to Sir Henry In his further travels also for he was in Greece a considerable while he met with other fragments and was so useful in bringing to light a true copie of the works of the said Author that the said Sir Henry could not but acknowledge with due commendations what he had done in that matter See in the eighth vol. of St. Chrysost works published by Sir Henry pag. 215. 920 c. This Mr. Slade who was elder Brother to Matthew Slade whom I have mention'd among the Writers an 1614 died in the Isle of Zant near Peloponesus in his return from his travels before the publication of St. Chrysostomes works and was there buried Adm. 72. Bach. of Phys Jul. 10. Thom. Twyne M. of A. of C. C. Coll. in Oxon afterwards a Student for some years in Cambridge was then admitted Bach. of Physick He took the Degree of Dr. of that faculty at Cambridge as I have before told you among the Writers 17. Matthew Gwinne of St. Johns Coll. See among the Creations â—ollowing Besides these two who were the only Men admitted this year were two admitted to practise of whom Jo. Woolton M. A. and Fellow of All 's Coll. was one Son of Joh. Wâ—olton Bish of Exeter Bach. of Div. Nov… Joh. Dove Feb. 11. Franc. Godwin of Ch. Ch. Mar. 4. Rob. Abbot George Abbot of Ball. Coll. Rich. Parry of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day All these except the first were afterwards Bishops Adm. 15. Doct. of Law Jul. 10. Will. Wilkinson of Cambridge He was about this time Chancellour of the Diocess of Salisbury and died about the latter end of Oct. 1613. ☞ Not one Doct. of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 6. Leonard Tayler of C. C. Coll. Mar. 23. Tho. Aubrey of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity Incorporations July 10. Francis Meres M. A. of Cambridge This Person who was the Son of Tho. Meres of Kirton in Holland in the County of Lincolne was about this time a Minister and Schoolmaster and afterwards Author of a noted School-book called Wits Common-wealth part the second Lond. 1598. oct The first part was put out by N. L. He hath also published Gods Arithmetick Serm. on Eccles 4. 9. Lond. 1597. oct and Sinners guide or the whole regiment of Christian life c. printed 1614. qu. c. and translated into English The devotions of Lewis of Granada Lond. 1598. oct Which is all I know of him only that he was Grandfather to Rob. Meres D. D. and Chancellour of the Church of Lincolne Jul. 10. Gilbert Bourne Doct. of the Laws of the University of Orleance He was Nephew to Gilb. Bourne sometimes Bishop of B. and Wells being Son of his Brother Rich. Bourne of Wyvelscombe in Somersetshire which is all I know of him only that his Testimonial for his Degree in the said University dated in a Congregation celebrated there 8. June 1583 was subscribed by Maximilian de Cobham Tertullian Pine Doct. of the Civil Law lately of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon George Talbot Giles Wroughton Nich. Wilson and George Manwaring English-men that also he was Vicar-general to the Bishop of B. and Wells and dying in Decemb. or thereabouts an 1595 was buried in the Cath. Church of St. Andrew in Wells near the body of his sometimes Wife Jan. 28. Joh. Pilkington M. A. of Cambridge of whom I know no more One of both his names who was Bach. of Divinity was collated by his Brother Jam. Pilkington Bishop of Durham to the Archdeaconry thereof upon the resignation of Joh. Ebden 5. Dec. 1563 and dying 16. Sept. 1581. was buried in the Cathedral Church at Durham Who succeeded him in that Dignity the registers of that Church which are imperfect shew not In July this year was a supplicate made in the ven congregation for one W. L'isle M. of A. of Cambridge to be incorporated in the said Degree but whether he was really incorporated it appears not I take him to be the same with Will. L'isle who after he had been educated in Eaton School was admitted into the society of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1584. And after he had continued some years in the Degree of M. of A. left his Fellowship because he had Lands fallen to him at Wilburgham in Cambridgshire He became afterwards a rare Antiquary one of the Esquires extraordinary of the Kings body and published A Saxon treatise concerning the old and new Testament written about the time of King Edgar 700 years ago by Aelfricus Abbas thought to be the same that was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury c. Lond. 1623. qu. published from an antient Copy in Sir Rob. Cottons Library with a large and learned Epistle to the Readers set before it by the said L'isle To this book he added these things following first found out by Joh. Josselin servant to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury which had been printed in oct by Joh. Day in the Reign of Qu. Elizab. 1 A testimony of Antiquity shewing the antient faith in the Church of England touching the Sacrament of the body and blood of our Lord c. 'T is the same with A Sermon of the paschal Lamb on Easter day and of the sacramental body and blood of Christ c. Before which is a
other things as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you See more of him in Tho. Wilcocks among the writers an 1599. George Stanhop John Partenton D. D. As for the other Persons of Cambridge who were incorporated on the said day July 10 I know no great matter of them and therefore I shall proceed to speak of others who were afterwards incorporated July 11. John Thorie Thorius or Thoris Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Dublin He was Son of Ralph Thorius a Physician and had formerly been Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. Rich. Hawley Doct. of Phys of Leyden in Holland was incorporated the same day He was now or lately Fellow of Merton College Octob. 25. Francis Glisson M. of A. of Gâ—nvil and Caies Coll. in Cambridge This learned Gentleman who was second Son of William Glisson of Rampisham in Dorsetshire and he the second Son of Walt. Glisson of the City of Bristow was afterwards Doct. of Physick the Kings publick Professor of that faculty in the said University Candidate of the Coll. of Physicians at London an 1634 Fellow the year after Anatomy reader in the said Coll. 1639 practised Physick at Colchester during the time of the rebellion where he was present when the generous Royalists of Kent were besieged 1648. and after In 1655 he was chosen one of the Elects of the said College and afterwards was President thereof for several years He hath written 1 Prolegomena Anatomica 2 Anatomia Hepatis 3 Do Lymphae-ductibas All which were several times printed and once at Amsterdam 1659. in tw 4 De natura substantiae energetica sewde via vitae c. Lond 1672. qu. 5 Deventriculo intestinis c. Lond. 1677. qu. and was one of the three Geo Bate and 〈◊〉 Regemâ—rter being the other two who wrot De Rachitide sive morbo puerili qui vulgo the Rickets dicitur Lond. 1650. oct The discovery also of the Capsula communis or Vagina Portae is owing to him who hath likewise given us certain notes for the more easie distinguishing of the Vena cava Porta and Vasa fellea in excarnating the Liver Further also he hath given such an excellent account of Sanguification discharging the Liver from that office and proved it by so good arguments and clear experiments that few have since doubted the truth thereof This worthy Doctor to whose learned Lucubrations and deep disquisitions in Physick not only Great Britain but remoter Kingdoms owe a particular respect and veneration died much lamented in the Parish of S. Bride alias S. Bridget in London in Oct. or Nov. 1677. Dec. 15. Edward Lake lately Bach. of Arts of Catherine Hall in Cambridge was incorporated in the same degree On the 24 Jan. following he was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law as a Member of S. Albans Hall This year was a supplicate made for one Hen. Jacie M. of A. to be incorporated but whether he was so or not I cannot find I take him to be the same with Henry Jessie alias Jacie a Preachers Son who was born at West Rowton in the north Riding of Yorkshire 3 Sept. 1601 and who in 1618 became Pensioner of S. Joh. Coll. in the said University Whence after he had taken one degree in Arts he was invited to live in the house of Brampton Gourdon of Assington in Suffolk Gent. Father to Joh. Gourdon a Burgess in the Long Parliament that began 1640 nominated one of the Judges to sit on K. Ch. 1. but was not present when Sentence was passed and to two others of that name who were Recruiters in that Parliament In which house being setled he studied Physick as well as Divinity After he had commenced M. of A. which was in 1626 he preached privately in the Neighbourhood and distributed practical Books among the Brethren Afterwards he removed to several places but was not permitted to tarry long in any because he was zealously averse to Conformity At length in 1645 he repaired to London where he joyned himself to the Congregation of which Mr. Hen. Jacob and Mr. Joh. Lathorp had been Pastors where he continued 25 years not without several disturbances especially before the grand Rebellion broke out He hath written 1 A catechism for Children The Answers in which were wholly in the words of the Scripture 2 The Scripture-Kalendar in use by the Prophets and Apostles and by our Lord Jesus Christ explaining the Accounts Measures c. This was first printed in 1645 and afterwards came out with several Additions to the time of his Majesties Restauration 1660 and perhaps after 3 The exceeding riches of grace advanced in the conversion of Mrs. Sarah Wight Lond. 1647. oct 4 Store-house of provision for resolving cases of conscience c. Lond. 1650 in tw 5 Description and explanation of 268 places in Jerusalem and the suburbs thereof with a large map printed 1653 qu. 6 The lords loud call to England being a true relation of some late various and wonderful Judgments or handy-works of God by Earthquake Lightning c. Lond. 1660. in six sheets in qu. This Book begins with certain matters relating to Oxon which being very false the Reader cannot otherwise but judge the rest so to be In 1661 came out an imposture of a most damnable design called Mirabilis annus or the year of prodigies and wonders c. and in 1662 the first and second part of Annus mirabilis secundus and probably other parts but such I have not yet seen When these came out which were advanced by several hands it was verily supposed that Henry Jessie had a principal share in them 7 Miscellanea sacra divers necessary truths seasonably published c. printed 1665 in oct 8 A looking-glass for children being a narrative of Gods gracious dealings with some little children Lond. 1674 oct He hath also written a Pref. or commendatory Epistle before Joh. Grayles Modest vindication of the doctrine of conditions in the covenant of Grace c. and other little things besides his own Experiences which I have not yet seen At length paying his last debt to nature 4 Sept. 1663 being then accounted the Oracle and Idol of the faction was on the 7 of the same month laid to sleep with his Fathers in a hole made in the Yard joyning to Old Bedlam near Morefields in the Suburbs of London attended with a strange medley of Fanaticks mostly Anabaptists that met upon the very point of time all at the same instant to do honour to their departed Brother Some years after came out a short account of his life and death c. but full of ridiculous and absurd Cantings to which is annex'd An Elegy on Mr. Will. Bridge Which Bridge had been sometimes Fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge was afterwards a Presbyterian one of the Ass of Divines and the independent Minister of Yarmouth in Norfolk He died a Nonconformist in 1670. See more of Hen. Jessie in Jos Caryl in the other Vol. of this work Creations May 25. Robert Lord Dormer
to that Declaration and not according to the antient Laws and Customs of the Land and Church Wherefore he being uncertain whether the Kings Declaration would stand or pass into a Law he delayed to see the certainty and when he saw that the Declaration was dead and Prelacy was as 't was before he utterly refused it So that continuing in the said Cure of S. Mary Aldermanbury till S. Bartholomew's day in 1662 he was then ejected for Nonconformity Notwithstanding which he preached soon after in the said Church on a Sunday and on the 28 of Dec. following when then among other dangerous passages he said the Ark of God was lost and the glory was departed from Israel For which his contempt to the then late Act of Parliament for Uniformity he was by virtue of the L. Mayor's Mittimus committed Prisoner to Newgate on the 6 Jan. 1662 where continuing for some time Dr. Rob. Wild the Presbyterian Poet made and published a Poem on his Imprisonment as did the Author called Hudibras Most of the things that he hath written and published are Sermons seven of which at least were preached before the Long Parliament as 1 Englands looking glass before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 22 Dec. 1641 on Jer. 18. 7 8 9 10. Lond. 1642. qu. 2 Gods free mercy to England before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 23 Feb. 1641 on Ezek. 36. 32. Lond. 1642. qu. 3 The Noblemans pattern of true and real thankfulness at a solemn Thanksgiving 15 Jun. 1643 on Josh 24. 15. Lond. 1643. qu. 4 Englands antidote against the plague of Civ War before the House of Commons at their Fast on Acts 17. latter part of the 13 verse Lond. 1645. qu. 5 An indictment against England because of her self-murdering divisions before the House of Lords at their Fast 25 Dec. Christmas day 1644 on Math. 12. 25. latter part Lond. 1645. qu. c. Afterwards he published The great danger of Covenant refusing and Covenant breaking c. preached before the L. Mayor Sheriffs Aldermen Ministers c. of London on 2 Tim. 3. 3. Lond. 1646. qu. Serm. at the funeral of Sam. Bolton another before the L. Mayor called The monster of self-seeking anatomized five Sermons entit The godly mans ark or a city of refuge in the day of his distress printed several times in tw The eighth Edition of which was printed at Lond. 1683. The first Sermon was preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Moore to which are added her Evidences for Heaven and the other four were preached on several occasions Another Serm. to the native Citizens of London called The City remembrancer in oct Sermon at the funeral of Rob. Earl of Warwick an 1658. Sermon at the funeral of Simeon Ash an 1662 and about the same time A farewel Sermon when he was to leave S. Mary Aldermanbury c. He hath also written A just and necessary Apology against an unjust invective published by Mr. Hen. Burton in a late book of his entit Truth still Truth though shut out of doors c. Lond. 1646. qu. Also The art of divine Meditation in oct and A leading case c. At length having lived to a fair age gave way to fate in Octob. 1666 being soon after the grand Conflagration of the City of London which hastned his end but where buried unless within the precincts of the Church of S. Mary Aldermanbury which a little before was consumed by the said Fire I cannot yet tell He left behind him a son named Benjamin afterwards D. of D. a loyal person excellent preacher and a zealous man for the Church of England Of Edm. Calamy see more in Jos Caryl in the other Vol. Jul. 10. Thom. Fleetwood Doctor of the Laws of Padua He was now or lately of All 's Coll. Oct. 12. George Hammond Scholar of Trin. Coll. near to Dublin and Bach. of Arts there Nov. 9. Dudley Loftus of Trin. Coll. before mention'd was incorporated Bach. of Arts as he had stood there which degree was confer'd upon him in that University Dublin 19 Jan. 1637. Dec. 17. Richard Rolle Bach. of Arts of Cambr. He was now of Gloc. Hall but originally of New Inn which is all I know of him March 16. Edw. Harrison Bach. of Arts of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge Creations Jun. 14. Joh. Birkenhead of Oriel Coll. was declared Master of Arts and admitted to the degree in the Congregation house by virtue of the Diploma of the Archb. of Canterbury dated 5 Octob. 1639. I shall make mention of this person at large in the second Volume of this Work An. Dom. 1640. An. 16 Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury Vicechanc. Christop Potter D. D. Provost of Queens Coll. and Dean of Worcester Proct. Peter Allibond of Linc. Coll. Nich. Greaves of All 's Coll. Apr. 15. But the senior dying in the Parish of S. Bride in London about the beginning of Feb. Will. Watson of the same Coll. was within few days after elected into his place and admitted according to the Caroline Cycle Bach. of Musick July 9. Arthur Philipps Organist of Magd. Coll. and publick Professor of the musical Praxis of this University Afterwards upon the change of the times and a perfect foresight of the ruin of the Church he changed his Religion for that of Rome and became Organist to Henrietta Maria Qu. of England From whose service being dismist he returned into England and was entertained by a Roman Catholick Gent. called Caryll of Sussex He hath made several vocal compositions of two and three parts which have been tried and commended by several great Masters of Musick but whether any of them are extant I cannot yet tell One Pet. Philipps an English man and Organist to Albert the Archduke of Austria hath composed and published Madrigals for eight voices Antwerp 1599. qu. dedicated to Sir Will. Stanley a Colonel of a Regiment of English and Walloons To which Peter Philipps Arthur before mention'd was nearly related if not descended from him Bach. of Arts. Apr. 22. Humph. Brooke of S. Johns Coll. June 4. Henr. Stanhope of Exeter Coll. Son of the Earl of Chesterfield George Jolliff of Pembr afterwards of Wadham College was admitted the same day 11. Sim. Ford of Magd. Hall July 7. Martin Llewellin of Ch. Ch. Oct. 24. John Fell Rich. Allestrie of Ch. Ch. Nov. 3. Will. Joyner of Magd. Coll. 6. George Strading of Jesus afterwards of Allsoules Coll. See among the created Doct. of Div. 1661. 10. Philip Stephens of S. Alb. Hall See among the Doct. of Phys an 1633. Feb. 9. Will. Jackson of Magdalen afterwards of Brasnose Coll. a noted Grammarian All which Bachelaurs except Stanhope will be at large mention'd elsewhere Adm. 181. Bach. of Law May 19. Rich. Whitlock of All 's Coll. 21. John Manley of Magd. Hall He afterwards as it seems studied the common Law and became eminent therein Besides these two were nine more admitted among whom Joh. Hall