The birth of this most noble Person was as a learned Author reports at Stoverton Castle in Staffordshire or as another who was a Forreigner tells us but false as I presume at London in the Month of March 1500. His education in Grammatical learning was partly in the Carmes House commonly called White Friers in the North suburb of Oxon and his Academical in the Coll. of St. Mary Magdalen where continuing for some time he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle that is to the Degree of Bach. of Arts an 1515. In which year he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might wear panni pretiosi and pellurae pretiosae and be admitted to enter into the Library How long he tarried in that Coll. after he had taken his Degree or whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts or a Degree in any other faculty it appears not in our Registers In the Year 1517. March 19. he was made Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury in 1519. Apr. 10. Preb. of Yatminster secunda in the said Church and on the 14 of Feb. 1523 he was admitted Fellow of Corp. Chr. College by command from the founder Which place I presume he never enjoyed being then absent if not happily Dean of Winbourne Minster in Dorsetshire from whence he was promoted to be Dean of Exeter Afterwards his life being chiefly spent in Italy he became by the favour of the Pope Cardinal of St. Nereus and Achilleus afterwards of St. Mary in Cosmedin and at length of St. Prisca was employed also by him in several Embassies to the French King and to the Emperor and lastly after the said Popes death Paul 3. he was in the Conclave of Cardinals chose twice by them to succeed him an 1549. But he upon some account refusing both the elections craved license to depart unto a certain Monastery in the Territory of Verona there to spend the remainder of his days To which place afterwards retiring he exercis'd himself for some years in great devotion and retiredness At length the news of K. Edw. death being brought of him and that Qu. Mary had obtained the Crown he procured of P. Julius 3. license to be sent his Legat into England to reconcile that Nation to the Romish See and the rather for this cause that being not in holy orders tho a Cardinal he might be in a capacity being one of the three that were named to marry the Queen Soon after coming into England the Queen being then married he was elected Chancellour of this University and was made Archb. of Canterbury in the place of Cranmer to which he was consecrated 22. March 1555. being about that time invested with the Temporalities of that See and kept it to his dying day He was a Person of great learning eloquence and judgment of singular piety charity and exemplary life as several Writers tell us who add also that he was an excellent Canonist and well read in the Laws of ecclesiastical polity as may partly be seen in the Books written by him which are these Pro unitate ecclesiastica ad Hen. 8. Rom. in fol. Oratio ad Imperatorem contra Evangelicos cum Scholiis Athanasii Print 1554. in qu. Oration of Speech in the Parliament House 27. Nov. 1554. The contents of which you may see in John Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under that year Letter to P. Julius 3. touching the restoring of the Realm of England dated on the last of Nov. 1554. See there again under the same year Unitatis Ecclesiasticae defensio c. lib. 4. Argent 1555. fol. Ingolst 1587. oct Oratio in materia de pace Ven. 1558. qu. Reformatio Angliae ex decretis Reg. poli an 1556. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1569. oct De concilio lib. 1. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1567. fol. 69. oct c. This is printed in Canones Decreta concilii Tridentini published by Philip Labbe Par. 1667. fol. De Baptismo Constantini Imperatoris Printed with the former Book De summi pontificis officio potestate Lov. 1569. oct A Treatise of Justification Lov. 1569. qu. in two Books This was found among the Writings of Card. Pole remaining in the custody of Mr. Hen. Pyning Chamberlain and receiver general to the said Cardinal then lately deceased at Lovaine With it were Printed and bound certain translations touching the said matter of justification viz. 1 The sixth Session of the generall Councel of Trent which is of justification with the Canons of the same Session 2 A Treatise of St. Augustin that famous Doctor by him intit Of faith and works c. Which translations were made by the Cardinal who sate several times in the said Council 3 A Sermon of St. Chrysostome of praying unto God 4 A Serm. of St. Basil of Fasting 5 Certain Sermons of St. Leo the great of the same argument 6 A notable Sermon of St. Cyprian of Almesdeeds He also Card. Pole had been several years gathering and obtaining from divers learned Persons the various readings emendations castigations c. of Cicero's works with intentions to have published a compleat Copy of them but death seizing on him unexpectedly that good work was stopp'd and what are become of the papers of corrections I know not This great Person who was in an high manner venerated by all Men tho extremely hated by K. Hen. 8. yielded to nature 18. Nov. early in the morning being the very next day that Qu. Mary died in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight aged 58. years Whereupon his body being carried to Canterbury in the latter end of Decemb. year 1558 following was buried with solemnity in the Cathedral there within the Chappel of St. Thomas the Martyr being as yet 1689. the last Archb. of that See that hath been there buried See more of him in his life written in the Italian tongue by Ludov. Bacatellus sometimes Domestick to this great Cardinal and afterwards advanced to the Archbishoprick of Rhaguse for his rare piety and learning translated into Latin by Andr. Duditius Sâ—ordellatus Episc Tininiensis Ven. 1563. qu. Who afterwards left his Religion and became a Protestant and Socinian HUGH WESTON was a Leycestershire Man born entred a Student in Balliol Coll. about 1526 took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1530 about which time being chose Fellow of Lincoln Coll. I mean into one of those Fellowships founded by Edw. Darby he proceeded in his Faculty studied Physick and was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University In 1538 he was elected Rector of the said College was admitted the year after to the reading of the sentences and in 1540. he proceeded in Divinity About which time he was made Margaret Professor Archdeacon of Colchester and Rector of Cliff in Kent In the first of Qu. Mary he had the Deanery of Westminster bestowed on him in the place of Dr. Ric. Coxe was made prolecutor
year 1533 July in Fifteen hundred thirty and three where he suffer'd Death by burning See more of him in Jo. Fox his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the Year 1533 and in Rob. Persons his animadversions on Fox's words concerning Fryth in The third part of a treatise entit Of three conversions of England Chapt. 11. p. 45. 46 c. as also in Joh. Gwynneth among these Writers under the Year 1557. JOHN ROPER born in Berks. in the Dioc. of Sarum was first a Semicommoner or Demy of Magd. Coll. and afterwards being M. of A. was admitted perpetual Fellow of that House in 1483. When he was some Years standing in that degree he was made Reader of Philosophy and when Bach. of Divinity Reader of the Sentences or Divinity in the said College In 1502 he was confirmed Margaret Professor by the Foundâ—ess of that Lecture was afterwards Vicar of St. Maries Church in Oxon Principal of Salesurry and George Hall in that Parish Doctor of Divinity Canon of the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. now Ch. Ch. in Oxon to which he was admitted 1532 and Rector of Witney Church in Oxfordshire This Person who was esteemed one of the eminent Theologists of this University was appointed by the King in 1521. to write Tract contra Doctrinam Mart. Lutheri Which whether ever printed I know not He was a zealous Enemy against the Kings divorce from Queen Catherine in the Year 1530 but did not dare to write openly or publish any thing against it tho Preach he did This learned Person died in the Month of May year 1534 in Fifteen hundred thirty and four and was as I conceive buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel JOHN ALLEN had his first Academical Education in this University whence going to Cambridge was there made M. of Arts as 't is said tho I rather think Bach. of the Laws Afterwards he was sent to the Pope at Rome by Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury about certain matters relating to the Church where remaining about 9 Years was in that time created Doctor of the Laws either there or in an University in Italy After his return he became Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey who knew him as I conceive while he was in Oxon was Judge of his Court as he was Legat à latere but in that Office he was thought to be a perjur'd and wicked Person and assisted him in visiting first and afterwards in that great matter of dissolving 40 little Monasteries at least for the erection of his Coll at Oxon and that at Ipswych In the latter end of the Year 1525 he was incorporated LL. Dr. of this University on the 13. March 1528. he was consecrated Archb. of Dublin and about that time was made Chancellor of Ireland He hath Written Epistola de Pallii significatione activa passiva Penn'd by him when he received the Pall to be Archbishop De consuetudinibus ac statutis in tuitoriis causis observandis Besides other things concerning the Church At length being taken in a time of rebellion by Tho. Fitz-Gerard or Gerald eldest Son to the Earl of Kildare was by his command most cruelly murder'd by being brain'd like an Ox at Tartaine in Ireland 28. Jul. in Fifteen hundred thirty and four year 1534 aged 58. The whole story of which several of the Irish Chronicles will tell you See more among the Bishops under the Year 1534. WILLIAM HORMAN was born within the City of Salisbury educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester made true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1477. which place he resigning in 1485 being then M. of A. he became Schoolmaster and Fellow of Eaton Coll. near Windsor and at length Vice provost of the same College In which place spending many Years in pleasant retirement became one of the most general Scholars of his time as may appear by the diffusiveness of his Learning and Books written in all faculties All the Academical Education that he received was in the University of Oxon where he also took the Degrees in Divinity So that whereas Joh. Baleus and Jo. Pitseus say that he was of Kings Coll. in Cambridge is false being led I presume into that error from one Godfrey Harman a Cantabrigian who from being a Junior Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon was made Fellow of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd where he died and was buried in 1533. As for our Author Will. Horman he hath written many things of which I can only give you an account of some as they follow Antibossicon ad Gul. Lilium Lond. 1521. qu. Apologeticon contra Rob. Whittintoni Protovatis Angliae incivilem indoctanque criminationem Lond. 1521. qu. part 2. Before the said Books is printed from a Wooden Cut the Picture of a Bear baited by six Dogs and at the end is some of Whittington's poety taken in pieces by Horman and by him severely answer'd Vulgaria puerorum c. They are elegant sentences written in English and Latin and dedicated to Will Atwater Bishop of Lincolne Compendium Hist Gul. Malmsburiensis Epitome Historiae Joh. Pici com Mirandulae Elegiae in mort Gul. Lilii Anatomia membrorum hominis In one Book Anatomia corporis humani In two Books The titles of the rest you may see in Jo. Baleus and therefore I can say no more of our Author Horman than this that he paid his last debt to nature on the 12. year 1535 Apr. in Fifteen hundred thirty and five and was buried in the Chappel of Eaton Coll. beforemention'd Over his Grave are certain Verses engraven on a brass plate the two first of which run thus Hâc Hormannus humo requiescit amice viator Pene annos numerant lustra vicena suos The rest you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 135. THOMAS MORE one of the greatest prodigies of Wit and Learning that this Nation ever before his time produced Son of Sir Joh. More Knight one of the Justices of the Kings Bench was born in Milk-street within the City of London an 1480. trained up in Grammar learning in St. Anthonies School there and afterwards received into the Family of Card. Joh. Moreton Archb. of Canterbury merely for the towardliness of his Person and the great hopes that the pregnancy of his parts then promised About the Year 1497. 't is said by some late Authors that that worthy Cardinal did send him to Canterbury College in Oxon to obtain Academical Learning but upon what grounds they report so it appears not Miles Windsore whom I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1624. who came to the University of Oxon in the time of Queen Mary doth tell us more than once that he had his Chamber and studied in the Hall of St. Mary the Virgin and constant tradition doth say the like and 't was never reported to the contrary before those two Authors here cited Tho. More and J. H. published their respective Books What
went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
from the riding tales of Bartello 'T is among Gascoignes Poems called Weedes And from Greek into English Jocasta a Tragedie written by Euripides This also was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted in Greys Inn 1566. In this translation the said Gascoigne had the assistance of Francis Kynwelmersh before mention'd who translated about half of it The Epilogue was written by an ingenious Gentleman of the said Inn called Christoph Yelverton afterwards an eminent Counsellour a Knight and a Judge who dying at Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire 1607 left behind him several Sons of whom Henry was the eldest afterwards a Knight and a Judge also as I shall tell you elsewhere This Trag is among Gascoignes Poems called Hearbes All which poems and translations being gathered together were printed in an English character in two vol. in qu. One of which was printed at London about 1577 and the other there after the Authors death an 1587 at which time it was usher'd into the world by various copies of verses written by the Poets of that time As for the Author of them he made his last exit or yielded to nature in his middle age at his house in Walthamstow before-mention'd in Octob. or Nov. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 and was buried as I suppose in the Church there I find another George Gascoigne Esq but later in time than the former of whom I know nothing only but that he was of the Middle Temple and that he dyed about 1619. JOHN HARPESFEILD a grand zealot for the Rom. Cath. Religion was born in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen in Old Fishstreet within the City of London educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1534 took the Degrees in Arts holy Orders was made Chaplain to Bonner Bishop of London and left his Fellowship about 1551 being then beneficed in London About 1554 he being then D. of D. he was made by his Patron Archdeacon of that place in the room of Joh. Wymesley of less activity by far than Harpesfeild and it was then temp Mariae Reg. observed that as Dr. Bonner B. of London shew'd himself the most severe of all Bishops against Hereticks as they were then called so our Author Harpesfeild of all Archdeacons which was the reason he fared the worse for it upon the change of Religion In 1558 some months before Qu. Mary died he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Norwych upon the resignation of John Boxall but forced to leave that dignity in the beginning of 1560 to make room for John Salisbury suffragan Bishop of Thetford who had been ejected in the first year of Qu. Mary I find published under this Doctor Harpesfeilds name these things following Concio ad clerum in Ecclesia S. Pauli 16. Oct. 1553 in Act. cap. 20. 28. Lond. 1553. oct Homelies to be read in Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554-55 At the end of Bonners Catechisme Disputations for the degree of Doctor of Divinity 19. Apr. 1554 Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church by Joh. Fox In which disputation Archb. Cranmer bore a part Disputes talkings arguings examinations letters c. Printed also in the said book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet where continuing for an year or more was released upon security given that he should not act speak or write against the doctrine of the Church of England Whereupon retiring to the house of a near relation of his dwelling within the Parish of St. Sepulcher in the Suburb of London spent the remainder of his days in great retiredness and devotion At length paying his last debt to nature in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight year 1578 was buried as I conceive in the Church of that Parish On the 5. Dec. in the same year one Anne Worsop the nearest of kin to him had a Commission granted to her from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods debts and chattels of Joh. Harpesfeild D. D. of the Parish of St. Sepulcher in Lond. lately deceased so that I presume he died either in Oct. or Nov. going before He had a brother named Nicholas whom I shall remember under the Year 1583. JOHN FOWLER was born in the City of Bristow educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation in 1555 resigned it in 1559 and the year after took the Degree of Master of Arts but did not compleat it by standing in the Comitia About that time leaving England he took upon him the trade of printing partly at Antwerp and partly at Lovaine whereby he did signal service for the R. Catholicks in printing their books for the vindication of their cause against the Protestants in England He was well skill'd in the Greek and Latin tongues a tolerable Poet and Orator and a Theologist not to be contemn'd So learned he was also in Criticismes and other polite learning that he might have passed for another Robert or Henry Stephens Printers He did diligently peruse the Theological sums of St. Thomas of Aquine and with a most excellent method did reduce them into a Compendium To which he gave this title Loca communia Theologica c. lib. 1. He wrot also Additiones in Chronica Genebrandi A Psalter for Catholicks Answered by Tho. Sampson sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. Epigrams and other verses He also translated from Lat. into English The Epistle of Osorius and The oration of Pet. Frarin of Antwerp against the unlawful insurrections of the Protestants under pretence to reform Religion Antw. 1566. oct answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge At length giving way to fate at Newmarck called by some Krainburg in Germany 13. Febr. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight was buried in the Ch. yard of St. John the Evangelist there near to the body of John Harrys sometimes Father to Alice his Wife GEORGE FERRERS seems to have been born at or near to St. Alban in Hertfordshire was educated for a time in Oxon. whence going to Lincolns Inn did after he was Barrester became as eminent for the Law as before he was for his Poetry having been as much celebrated for it by the learned of his time as any This Person tho he hath not writ much as I can yet find yet he is numbred among the the illustrious and learned Men of the Age he lived in by Joh. Leland the Antiquary He hath written Miscellany of Poems And translated from French into Latin The Statutes called Magna Charta The beginning of which is Hic habes candide lector leges c. He ended his days at Flamsted in Hertfordshire in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was as I conceive buried there You may see more of him his character and employments in the Author before quoted In the Year 1542 I find
title Of Law or a discourse thereof in 4 books Lond. 1627. 36. 61. c. oct From the said book is mostly extracted another intit A summary of the Common Law of England Lond. 1654. oct done by another hand Our author Finch also wrote Of the calling of the Jews By which book it appears that the studies of the author were not altogether confin'd to the Common Law But his judgment therein as to the subject matter dissenting from the opinions of ingenious persons yet they cannot otherwise but allow him to have learnedly maintained an Errour He departed this life on the eleventh day of Octob. in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and was buried as I conceive in St. Martins Church near Canterbury leaving then behind him a Son begotten on the body of his Wife Vrsula Daughter and Heir of Will. Thwayts called John Finch born the 17. Sept. 1584. educated in the Common Law in Greys Inn afterwards a Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Finch of Fordwyche forced out of England by the severity of the Members of the Long Parliament an 1640. had leave afterwards to return and lived privately at the Mote near Canterbury and dying the 20. Nov. an 1660. was buried in the Church of S. Martin before-mentioned This John Lord Finch who had a younger Brother called Henry seems to have had some considerable knowledge in Mathematicks and Astronomy as it appears by a Manuale Mathematicum curiously written on Velom with his own hand preserved to this day as a rarity in Dugdale's Press among the MSS in the Ashmolean Musaeum RICHARD FOWNS a Ministers Son and a Worcestershire man born was elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1577. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts became Chaplain to Prince Henry Bach. and D of D. 1605. and about that time Rector of Stoke upon Severn commonly called Severnstoke in his own Country He hath written Trisagion or the three Offices of Christ Lond. 1619. qu. He was buried in the Church of Severnstoke 25. Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and five year 1625 and soon after was put a Mon. over his grave with an inscription thereon but so miserably defaced in the Civil War that brake out 17 years after that 't is not now as I have been informed legible otherwise I should have given you a copy of it here A Latin Sermon of one Rich. Fowns preached on 2 Thess 2. 34. was published in 1660. but whether preached by our author or another of both his names I cannot tell because I have not yet seen it CHRISTOPHER BAGSHAW was originally descended from the Bagshaws living at Ridge or Abney in Derbyshire but the name of the place wherein he received his first breath I cannot yet find In 1572 he was by the endeavours of Rob. Persons afterwards a Jesuit elected Probationer-Fellow of Balliol coll being then a Bach. of Arts and a celebrated Logician and Philosopher Soon after proceeding in his Faculty he was much noted for his zeal to Protestancy yet proved troublesome in his publick disputes and in his behaviour towards Persons About the year 1579. he was Principal or at least Deputy for a time of Gloucester hall where also being disliked he left that place soon after and his Fellowship in 1582. which was pronounced void the year following About that time he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion and being made a Priest in France and getting helps and directions from Fa. Persons he journied to Rome where for some time he lived in the English college But being troublesome there also and raising great garboyles among the Scholars of that place Cardinal Boncompagno Protector of the English Nation expelled him thence as one that had no good will for him saith Yet our author in his own vindication tells us that he had a Benedicessit and departed very orderly Afterwards he returned to Paris where as 't is said he was made Doctor of Div. and one of the Sorbon at which time and after the Jesuits used to stile him Doctor Erraticus and Doctor per Saltum Afterwards he was sent into England to gain Souls to his Religion but taken and committed Prisoner to Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire where I find him in 1593. among many other Priests and Gentlemen of the Rom. Cath. Religion that had some years before been secured in that place 'T is said while he continued there that he carried away the glory and fame of all that was heretofore laudably done in that Castle before Fa. Edmonds alias Weston a Jesuit began to shew his tricks and then that Party and those Lay-persons that favoured them would condemn Bagshaw as a man of no worth unruly disordered and a disobedient person not to be favoured or respected by any c. Afterwards being freed from that prison he went beyond Sea again where he ended his days He hath written An answer to certain points of a Libel called An Apology of the Subordination in England Par. 1603. oct He had a considerable hand also in writing a book intit Declaratio motuum ac turbationum inter Jesuitas Sacerdotes Seminariorum in Anglia Rothomag 1601. in qu. Set out under the name of one Joh. Mush a Yorkshire man born and a learned Priest who engaged himself much in composing the differences that happened among the Priests and Jesuits in Wisbich Castle Dr. Bagshaw had also a hand in A true relation of the Faction began at Wisbich by Father Edmunds alias Weston a Jesuit 1595 and continued since by Father Walley alias Garnet the Provincial of the Jesuits in England and by Fa. Persons in Rome Printed 1601. qu. This Dr. Bagshaw died and was buried at Paris after the year sixteen hundred twenty and five as I have been informed by Franc. Ã Sancta Clara who remembered and knew the Doctor well but had forgotten the exact time of his death JOHN GEE the Son of a Minister of Devon but whether of John or George Gee whom I have before mentioned in Edw. Gee under the year 1618. I cannot justly say was entred into Brasnose coll in 1613. aged 16. where making no long stay he entred himself a Batler among his Countrymen of Exeter college and having holy Orders confer'd on him after he had taken one degree in Arts became beneficed at Newton near to Winwick in Lancashire of which last place Mr. Josias Horne being then Parson Gee had oftentimes several conferences with him concerning matters of Religion but they savouring much of a mind inclining to Popery Mr. Horne and the neighbouring Ministers concluded among themselves that he had changed his Religion before he had left that place Thence taking his rambles he retired to London and became acquainted with the noted persons of the R. Cath. Perswasion that then lived there But at length being moved to leave them and his opinions newly embraced by the urgent letters of his Father and by the valid reasons concerning the vanity as he term'd
the Bishops of Exeter printed in the life of Qu. Eliz. in R. Holinsheds Chron. See also in Fr. Godwin in Com. de praesul Angl. in t Episc Exon. e In the Antiquities of Warwickshire by Will Dugdale p. 667 668. f Pat. 5. Ed. 56. p. 1. g Pat. 1. Mar. p. 2. h Ibid. i Pat. 1. Mar. p. 1. k Pat. 3. 4. Phil Mar. p. 1. l Pat. 33. Hen. 8. p. 3. 1555-6 * In Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxen. lib. 1. p. 265. b. g In Encomiâ—s Trophaeis c. eruditorum in Anglia virorum c. p. 107. Clar. 1555. h In Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 255. a. i Pat. 31. Hen. 8. p. 3. In Offâ—â— praerog Cant. in reg Kitchin Qu. 18. a Pat. 33. Hen. 8. p. 3. b Edit Lond. 1616. p. 594. in t Episc Petroburg a In the Acts and Mon. of the Church sub an 1558. †In his Description of England printed in the first vol. of Rap. Helinshed Chronicle lib. 2. cap. 2. ‖ Under the years 1552. and 56. See also under the year 1558. Clar. 1557. * Camden in Britan. in com Warwic a The publisher of The life of the 70. Archb. of Canterb. Printed in Holland 1574. in oct p. 28. in marg a Pat. 1. 2. Ph. Mar. p. 1. b In Offic-praerog Cant. in reg Chayney Qu. 62. c Reg. MS. p. 250. d Pat. 3. Elizab. p. 7. e Pat. â— Ed 6. p. 1. f Fr. Godwin in Com. de praesul Angl. in t Ep. Roff. g Pat. 1. Mar. p. 1. i Pat. 2. Eliz. p. 14. k Pat. 1. Mar. p. 1. l In his book of Acts and Mon. of the church under the year 1558. †In lib. 1. cap. 13. * In Offic. Praerog Cant. 〈…〉 l Math. Parker at the end of Antiq. Eccreâ— Bâ—tan published 15â—2-â— in the life of Ma. Parker p. 9. m Anon. in the Antient 〈◊〉 and monuments of the Monast and Cath. Ch. of Durhaâ— Lond. 1672. in oct p. 122. 1559-60 n Pat. 4. Elizab. p. 10. * In his Review of the Court of K. James written by Sir A. W. MS. p. 89. o Pat. 1. 2. Phil. Mar. p. 14. p Printed beyond the Yeas about 1583. in oct p. 51. 52 q Pat. 1. 2 Ph. Mar. p. 1. r In his book of Acts and mon. of the câ— an 1559. * Laur. Humfredus in Vitae mort Jc. Juelli edit 1573. p. 179. Clarâ— 1562. s Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 14. t Pat. 2. 3. Pb. Mar. p. 1. Clar. 1562. u Joh. Vowell alias Hooker in his Cat. of the Bishops of Exeter in the 3 vol. of Holinsheds chron p. 1309. b. w The author of The execution of justice in England c. printed 1583. in oct x Fr. Godwin in Câ—m de Praesul Angl. edit 1616 p. 476. y Printed at Lond. 1677. in oct in the Cat. of the Bishops of Exeter in the beginning of the book num 34. z Ibid. p. 127. a Pat. 37. Hen. 8. p. 5. b Fr. Godwin ut sup p. 641. †Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 14. * In fine lib. De entiq Eccles Britan. Edit 1572. 2. in Matheo pag. 14. a Godwin ut supr in t Episc Meneo p. 616. b Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 14. * Sir Jo. Harrington in his Brief view of the state of the Ch. of Engl. c. p. 171. c Ibid. in Godwin inc ep Peterb p. 594. d Pat. 4. 5. Phil. Mar. p. 1 e Lanc. Andrews in Tortura Torti c. p. 146. f Sim. Gunton in his History of the Church of Peterborough printed at Lond. in fol. 1686. p. 73. g Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 13. h Pat. 10. Car. 1. p. 10. i Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul Hibern edu 1665. p. 120. k Pat. 9. Elizab. p. 2. l Pat. 10. Elizab. p. 10. * In p. 1. Mar. p 1. †Ibid. in Godwin ut supr in t ep B. Wells p. 4. 156â— b Pat. 3. Elizab. p. 9. c Fr. Godwin ut sup inter Episc Carleol p. 153. 157â— a Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 11. * Thom. Hatcher in his MS. Catalogue of the Provosts Fell. and Schol. of Kings coll in Cambridge under the year 1536. d Pat. 8. Eliz. p 9 * Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 11. †Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praeful Hibem p. 38. 157677. a Fr. Godwin ut sup Int. ep Cestr b Pat. 3. Eliz. p. 9. 157â— c Reg. Dodsworth in collect suis MS. in bib Bod. d Jac. War ut supr p. 199. f Fr. Godwin ut sup in t ep Exon. g Joh. Vowell alias Hooker in his Cat. or Hist of the Bishops of Exeter 15â—8 †Vide Laur. Humfredum in Vita morte Jo. Juelli edit 1573. p. 72 73. in Hist. Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 1. p. 275. b. * Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 11. 157879. b Pat. 31. Hen. 8. p. 7. i Pat. 35. Hen. 8. p. 4. k Pat. 2. 3. Ph. Mar. p. 1 l In the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the year 1558 m Ut in lib. MS. Administrationum in Offic. Praerog Cant. incipiente 1. Jan. 1571. fol. 168. a. a Pat. 2. 3. Phil. Mar. p. 1. b In Britannia in Ordovicâ— â—ulgo Flintshire Ciar * Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul Hibâ—rn p. 213 158384. e In Offic. praerog Cant. in reg Waâ—son Qu. 1. f Jac. War ut supr p. 260. * Fr. Godwin in Com. de praesul Anglia in t ep Landav p. 641. a Idem in t ep B. Well p. 444. b Reg. Godwin ep B. Wells an 1584. c Sir Jo. Harrington in his Brief view of the State of the Church of England c. Lond. 1653. p. 111. alias 113. d Jac. War ut sup p. 199. e Pet. Heylyn in Exam. historic edit Lond. 1659. p. 221. a Brief view c. before-mention'd p. 149. b Vide Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 1. p. 301. b. 302. a. c See in the book entit The School master or plain and pleasant way of teaching children c. written by Rog. Ascham Lond. 1589. qu. p. 11. d Fr. Godwin ut sup in t Episc London p 252. e In Offic. Praerog Cant. in reg Dixy part 2. Qu. 81. f Tbom. Fuller in his Church History c. lib. 9. sect 10. a Brief view c. as before p. 17 18. b Camden in Annal â— Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1604. * See more of him in Illustrium aliquot Anglorum Encomia Written by Tho. Newton p. 115. a Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul Hibern edit 1665. p. 252. 1594-95 b Ibâ—d p. â—52 c Vide Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 〈…〉 d In Offic. Praerog cant in reg Hayes Qu. 62. e Jac. Waraeus 〈…〉 f Fr. Godwin ut sup in t ep Glouc. p. 591. g Ibid. in Godwin in t Ep. Asaph p. 664. h In Offic. Praerog Cant. in t reg Wallop part 2. Q. 69. 1601-02 i Ibid. in reg Weldon qu.
122. k Jac. War ut sup p. 26â— l Ibid. p. 130. m Ibid. p. 2721. a Fr. Godwin in Com. de praesul Angl. in t episc Elien b See the Brief view of the state of the Ch. of Engl. c. quoted before in Tho. Godwin p. 80. c Ib. in Fr. Godwin in t ep Gloc. d Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. sub an 1607. e In Jo. Stow's Survey of London printed 1633. and in W. Dugdales History of S. Pauls Cath. Ch. f Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul Hibâ—rn edit 1665. p. 260. Clar. 1611. * Bries view of the state of the Church of England c. p. 152. g Pat. 9. Jac. 1. p. 21. h Ibid. in War p. 140 a Ibid. p. 28. b Sir Joh. Harrington in his Brief view of the state of the Ch. of England p. 96. c Godwin in t ep Salisb. d By Sir Jo. Harr. ut sup p. 93. alias 95. 1â—16 e So it is on his monument in the Ch. of S. Pet. and S. Paul at Bathâ— f Pet. Heylin in his Observations on the History of the reign of K. Charles published by Ham. L'Estrange-printed 1656. oct p. 77. a Ib. in Godwin in t ep Bang b Vide Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon lib. 2. p. 316. b. c Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an 1616. d In Offic. 〈◊〉 cant in reg Cope part 2 Q 19. e Author of the 〈…〉 c. before mention'd p. 208. f Pat. 1â— Jac. â— p. 30. u Pat. 8. Jac. 1. p. 52. w Jac. War ut sup p. 224. 1617-18 a Idem Jac. War p. 213. 224. 1621 b Fr. Godw. ut sup in t ep S. Asaph c Pat. 2. Jac. 1. p. 31. d In Offic. praerog Cam. in reg Berkley part 2. Qu. 65. e See the Preface to Aulieus Coquinariae f Will. Sanderson in his Proem to the Reign and death of K. James 1. printed 1655. fol. g So in the said Preâ— to Aul. Coq 1625-6 a 〈…〉 p. 189. b In Britannia in 〈…〉 a Pat. 21. Jac. 1. p. 28. b 〈…〉 of England in Northampâ—â—â—shirc * Pat. 8. â—ar 1. p. 14 163â— 163â— a Pat. 10. Car. 1. p. 39. b Pat. 11. Car. 1. p. 14. c Pat. 11. â—ar 1. p. 17. c Jac. War ut supra p. 189. d Ibid. p. 130. e Pat. 11. Car. 1. p. 25. f Pat. 14. Car. 1. p. 35. g Ib. in Jac. War ut supra p. 20â— a Reg. antiq coll Aenean fol. 95. a. b Pat. 9. Car. 1. p. 1â— c Paâ— 1â— Car. 1. p. 15. †Iac. War ut up in 〈…〉 paâ—â—ul 〈…〉 * Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 13. 1640-1 †See in Canterburies Doom printed in fol. 1646. p. 353. * Dr. P. Heylin in his History of the life and death of Dr. Will. Laud lib. 3. part 1. †See more in Ballio-Fergus written by Hen. Savage printed at Oxon. 1668. p. 119. Clar. 1640. a 〈…〉 b 〈◊〉 Hobbes of Malmsbury in his Hist. of 〈…〉 of England printed 1680. pg. 54. c In reg Epistol Univ. Oxon. â— Epâ—â—t â— d 〈…〉 e Paâ— 4. Ed. 6 part 5. f 〈…〉 g 〈…〉 h 〈…〉 i 〈…〉 k 〈…〉 l 〈…〉 m 〈…〉 n 〈…〉 o Tho. Hatcher of Kings Coll. in his Catalogue of Provosts Fellows and Scholars of Kings Coll. in Cambridge MSâ— under thâ—â—ear 〈◊〉 p In Hist 〈…〉 q In 〈◊〉 Antiq Vniv. Oxon. lib…pag 417 〈◊〉 * Reg. Act. Congâ—â—g G. fol. 110. a. b. * In Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. a In the 〈◊〉 Office near S. Paul's Cath. Ch. in Lond. in Reâ— Hâ—â—der Qu. 18. in the Will of Rich Bishop of Hereford b In the Transcript of his Itineraries in bib Bod. fol. 172. 2. * Laur. Humfred in 〈◊〉 morte Jo◠〈…〉 p. 〈◊〉 a Camden in his Remains printed 163â— p. 14â— among the Sirnames a 〈…〉 an 1566. b Edit London 1589. p. 5â— c In reg 〈…〉 a In Visib Monarch edit 1592. lib. 7. pag. 666. b Reg. Congreg H. fol. 81. a. * See in The natural history of Staffordshire written by Dr. Robert Pâ—ot cap. 8. pag. 277. 296. * In lib Epist 26. Epist 39. †〈…〉 Communi omnium linguarum a Camden in Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an 1559. b At the end of the first Edition of Antiq. Britan. Ecclisia c. by Matth. Parker Archb. of Cant. c Pat. 26. Hen. 8. p. d In the Act. and Mon. of the Church under the year 1533. e In Offic. Armorum in lib. C. 10. fol. 96. f George carltonus in Vita Bern. Gilpin Edit 1628. p. 32. a Reg. Congreg H. fol. 1 4. b. 17â— b a In Principum cruâ—itorum in Aug iâ— Virorum 〈◊〉 Trâ—phâ—is c. Lond. 1589. p. 96. b In 〈…〉 Lond. 1573. p. 45. 4â— * In his Acts and Monumments of the Church under the year 1554. †See more of him in Jâ— Fox his Book of Acts and Mon of the Church c. under the year 1554. a 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 ‡ In Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. l. â— p. 〈…〉 a 〈…〉 p. 23. 45 c. * Lâ—ur Humfredus in Vit. 〈…〉 †〈◊〉 Univ. 〈◊〉 fol. 12. â— a 〈…〉 Monarch edit 1592. p. 6â—0 b 〈…〉 in 〈◊〉 Decanorum 〈…〉 Winds MS. pene◠〈◊〉 A. W. c Tâ—o â—ouchier in Hist Ecclesiastica de Martyrâ— fratrum 〈…〉 c. edit Ingolstad 1583. part 2. fol. 15. b. d Franc. a S. 〈◊〉 in Hist 〈…〉 Frotrum Minorum c. edit 〈…〉 1665. Sect. 15. p. 4. 〈◊〉 60. a 〈…〉 p. 690. * Vid. 〈◊〉 Saunders De 〈◊〉 Monarch edit 1592. lib. 7. p. 666. a â—d Grant in Orat de Vit. Ob. Reg. 〈◊〉 Edit 1577. b Gul. Camden in Annal 〈…〉 sub an 1568 c 〈◊〉 Fox in his Book of Acts and Moâ— c. under the year 1558. d Joh. pitt in Append. nom 2â— c. e In his Hist of Cambridge sect 6. p. 91. a 〈…〉 Coll. Magd. B. fol. 〈…〉 b In Cygn Cant. c Rich. Stanyhurst in Descript 〈◊〉 cap. 7 * George 〈◊〉 Bishop of 〈◊〉 c In the reg of Administrations in the 〈◊〉 near St. Pauls Cathedral beginning on the first day of Jan. 1571. fol. 42. a. d See in John Whytes 〈…〉 c. Lond. 1553. fol 95. e In his book of 〈◊〉 Acts and 〈◊〉 of the Church c. under the years 1556. and 58. * 〈…〉 c. Lond. 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 a See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 boo◠〈…〉 b The Author of 〈…〉 Justice in England printed the second time 1563. c 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 * In his Acts and Mon. of the Church c. under the year 1558. 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 †〈…〉 in his Review of the Court of K. 〈◊〉 by Sir A. W. MS. 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 in his last volume of 〈◊〉 Printed 15â—7 p. 1874. c. * See A view of 10 publick disputations published by Robert 〈◊〉 cap. 4. p. â—4 a In 〈…〉 S. Joh. Bapt. Oxon. Script per Christop 〈…〉 b 〈…〉 * 〈…〉 or his
kept in the School-Tower among the Books and Records of the said University The second Vol. which is written on Paper begins about the latter end of the 24. Hen. 7. Dom. 1508 and is continued to 1597 and hath added to it certain Epistles of a later date This Book endorsed with the Letters F F was borrowed from the School-Tower by Dr. Tho. James the first Keeper of the Bodleian Library who afterwards putting it into the Archives thereof did enter it as a Manuscript belonging thereunto into the Bodleian Catalogue of Books Printed in 4to An. 1620. The continuation of the University Epistles mostly Penn'd by the publick Orator are remitted into the Books of Acts of Convocation that follow F F. To pass by the Sentence or Opinion of the University of Oxon. concerning the divorce between King Henry 8. and Queen Catherine dated 8. Apr. 1530 and their Sentence in order to the expelling or ejecting the Popes Authority from England dat 24. July 1534. both which contain but little more matter than two Programma's I shall set down other things going under her name of a laterdate as An answer to the humble Petition of the Ministers of England desiring Reformation of certain Ceremonies and abuses in the Church Oxon. 1603. and 1604. in four or five Sheets in Quarto Decretum â—amnans propositiones Neotericorum sive Jesuitarum sive Puritanorum aliorum cujuscunque generis Scriptorum dat 6. Jun. 1622. Oxon. 1622. in one Sheet in 4to see the full Citation of the said Decree and Propositions in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 327. Epistola ad reverendiss in Christo patrem D. Gul. Archipras Cantuar. dat 10. Nov. 1640. It was Printed at the end of the said Archb. Letter which he sent with divers MSS. to the University of Oxon. Humble Petition to the Parliament in behalf of Episcopacy and Cathedrals dat 24. Apr. 1641. Oxon. 1641. Printed in one Sheet in 4to as also on a broad side of a Sheet It was answer'd by a certain Anonymus but very sillily Epistola ad ampliss reverendiss D. Gul. Archipraes Cant. dat 6. Jul. 1641. It was Printed at the end of the said Archbishop's Letter by which he resign'd his Office of Chancellor of the University of Oxon. This Epistle was published by command of the Chief Members of the said University upon occasion of a base Libel and Forgery that was Printed by Anon. under the said title Oxon. 1641. in one Sheet and half Reasons of their present judgment concerning 1 The Solemn League and Covenant 2 The Negative Oath and 3 The Ordinances concerning Discipline and Worship approved by general consent in a full Convocation on the first of June 1647. Oxon. 1647. in five Sheets and half in 4to These Reasons which were for the most part drawn up by the Profound and Learned Dr. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Coll. were afterwards translated into several Languages and published Answer to the Petition Articles of grievance and Reasons of the City of Oxon presented to the Committee for regulating the University of Oxford 24. July 1649. Oxon. 1649. and 1678. 4to This Answer was drawn up by Dr. Gerard Langbaine of Queens Coll. but published in the Name of the University of Oxon. The said Petition of the City of Oxon the general part of which were then Presbyterians or at least very Factious was for the diminishing and taking away several of the Liberties and Privileges of the University Judgment and Decree past in the Convocation 21. July 1683. against certain pernicious Books and damnable Doctrins destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes their State and Government and of all Humane Society Printed at the Theatre in Oxon. in Latin and English in three Sheets in Folio 1683. Humble Address and Recognition Presented to His Sacred Majesty James 2. King of England c. according to an Act of Convocation bearing date 21. Feb. 1684 'T is Printed in Latin and English and was set before the Verses made by several Members of the University on the said Kings coming to the Crown of Great Britain Fol. The Case of shewing that the City of Oxford is not concern'd to oppose the Confirmation of their Charters by Parliament presented to the Honourable House of Commons 24 Jan. 1689. Oxon. 1690. in 2 Sheets in Fol. and in two and an half in 4 to drawn up by Ja. Harrington M. A. of Christ Church Judicium decretum latum in Convocatione habita Aug. 19. an 1690. contra propositiones quasdam impias haereticas exscriptas citatas ex libello quodam infami haud ita pridem intra dictam Academiam perfidè typis mandato ac divulgato eui tit est The naked Gospel Quae praecipua fidei nostrae mysteria in Ecclesia Catholica ac speciatim Anglicana semper retenta conservata impugnant ac labefactant Oxon. 1690. in two Sheets in Fol. This Book called The Naked Gospel was written by Arth. Bury D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll. and by him was first made publick in the beginning in Apr. of the same Year And tho it is said in the Title Page to be Printed at London yet it was really Printed at Oxon by virtue of his Authority as being then Pro-Vice-Chancellor But before Twenty Copies of it had been dispersed the Author by the persuasion of some of his Friends made certain alterations for the best as he thought in one or more Sheets in the middle of the said Book and thereupon several Copies so altered were exposed to sale yet in the Month of May following the remaining Copies of the Impression not alter'd were dispersed abroad The said Book was publickly Burnt in the School-quadrangle just after the said Decree had passed Whereupon about three dayes after the Author of it dispersed in Manuscript his Apology for writing the said Book called The Naked Gospel the beginning of which is this The design of the Book and the occasion of it were as followeth when the King had called a Convocation to reconcile as it was hoped to the Church of England the several Sects c. In which Apology the Author saith that certain Persons to him unknown got a Copy of the said Book unaltered and Printed it at London As for the several Books of Verses which were published on various occasions under the Name of the University of Oxon are not to be remembred here because the Names of all or at least most of the Persons that had composed Copies of Verses have their Names set at the end of them WILLIAM BEETH a Person Famous for his great knowledge in the Theological faculty was Educated from his Youth among the Dominicans commonly called Black-friers then noted in England and elsewhere for their Religion and Learning and in the prime of his Years obtained much of his Learning in the College or Convent belonging to that Order in the South Suburb of Oxon. In his middle Age he being then accounted by those of his Society a Person of
in Arts in Jan. 1532 but whether it was granted or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time After he had left the University being then accounted a noted Poet of that time he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister and a Writer of divers Books the titles of which follow Of moral Philosophy or the lives and sayings of Philosophers Emperours Kings c. Several times printed at London in qu. Precepts and Councells of the Philosophers Phraiselike declaration in English meeter on the Canticles or Ballads of Salomon Lond. 1549. qu. The use of Adagies Similies and Proverbs Comedies When printed or where I cannot find A myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with how grevious plagues vices are punished c. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity In the Epistle to the Reader subscribed by the Author Baldwyn he tell us he had a second part to print reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Maries time but whether it was printed I know not for I have not yet seen it This Book or another bearing the same title written by John Higens is commended by several Authors particularly by him that wrot Hypercritica for a good piece of poety As for Baldewyn he lived as 't is said some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown but when he died it appears not WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer by Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight sometimes Lord Chancellour of England was born in the City of London and educated in Grammar learning there In 1525 or thereabouts being then in the year of his age 17 he was sent to the Univers of Oxon where laying a considerable foundation in Logick and Philosophy left it without a Degree went to Lincolns Inn and there by the help of his Academical education he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House But Religion being then about to be alter'd he with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement of whom I shall speak in 1572. left the Nation and went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where continuing all the time of that Kings Reign returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown was made Serjeant at Law in 1554 and a little before the said Queens death one of the Justices of the Common-pleas At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England he returned to Lovaine before mention'd where he continued till the time of his death He hath written The Chartuary Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord God and of the years of the Kings of England from the first of Will the Conquerour shewing how the years of our Lord God and the years of the Kings of England concurr and agree together by which table it may quickly be accompted how many years months and days be past since the making of any evidences Lond. 1563. oct Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct corrected and continued by the famous Almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clark under an Alderman of London who after he had published several matters of his Profession of which The bloody Irish Almanack was one printed at London 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu. gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place Lond. Whereupon a Marble-stone was soon after laid over-his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq The said Table of years is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entituled Chronica juridicalia or a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God and those of several Kings of England c. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellours and Lord Keepers Justices of the Kings-bench Common pleas Barons of the Exehecquer c. Lond. 1685. oct By whom this Book was transcrib'd I know not yet evident it is that it consists only of Rastalls Tables and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series c. at the end of his Origines juridiciales c. and published by some down-right plagiary purposely to get a little money Our Author Rastall hath also written and published Termes of the English Law Or les termes de la ley several times printed A collection in English of the statutes now in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta made 9. Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. c. fol. A collection of entries of declarations barres replications rejoynders issues verdicts c. Lond. 1566. 96. c. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit La Novel natura brevium Monsier Anton. Fitzherbert c. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment c. To which he also added a table This Book was printed several times one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct He also composed two tables one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgment of the Law Life of Sir Thom. More Knight Whether printed I cannot tell Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrot in English Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewell which go under the name of Rastall are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall as a certain Author would have it but by John Rastal a Theologist as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholick Religion died at Lovaine before-mention'd 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary near to the body of Wenefred his Wife who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace Father to Elizabeth Rastall the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN
Pauls cross on the second Sunday before Esther in the year 1560 which are also printed Disputation with Archb. Cranmer and Bish Rydley in the Div. School at Oxon an 1554 Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church Funeral Sermon at the burning of Dr. Tho. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury He hath also other things extant which I have not yet seen After Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he with Jo. Whyte B. of Winchester and five more most zealous Cath. Divines did dispute with as many Protestant Divines concerning matters of Religion when Qu. Elizab. was about to make a reformation in the Church of England But that disputation coming to nothing he was depriv'd of his Deanery to make room for Dr. Will May Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge who dying about the beginning of 1561. Alex. Nowell succeeded him About that time Dr. Cole was imprison'd but where I cannot tell Sure I am that he died in or near to the Compter in Woodstreet within the City of London in the month of Decemb. year 1579 in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine but where buried by his Executor Humph. Moseley Secondary of the said Compter I know not Joh. Leland the Antiquary was Dr. Cole's acquaintance and having had experience of his learning hath eterniz'd his memory among other learned Men of our Nation and of his time in his book of Encomia's to which the curious reader may recur if he please wherein he 'll find a just character of this our Author Dr. Cole and his learning PETER MORWYN or Morwyng a zealous reformer of his time was born in Lincolnshire made perpetual Fellow of Magd. Coll. in 1552 being then Bach of Arts and in the year after supplicating some few days before K. Edwards death that he might proceed in that faculty did obtain his desire But that King then dying and Morwyn foreseeing that Religion would alter he was not presented to that Degree Soon after he and others of his society consulting how to withdraw themselves in private obtained leave to be absent for a time but to what place Morwyn went beyond the Seas for he was a voluntary exile in Germany I find not Sure it is that after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he retired to his Coll. and in 1559 was presented to the Degree of Master and became renowned among the Academians for his great knowledge in the Lat. and Greek tongues and poetry When Dr. Bentham was promoted to the See of Lichfield he made him his Chaplain and upon the next vacancy Prebendary and Canon of the said Church and well beneficed near to that place He hath translated into English 1 A compendious and most marvellous history of the latter times of the Jews commune weale beginning where the Bible and Scriptures leave and continuing to the utter subversion and last destruction of that Country and People Lond. 1558-61 and 1593 in oct Written in Hebrew by Joseph Ben. Gorion 2 The treasure of Enonimus containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature touching the most apt times to prepare and distill Medicines Lond. 1565. qu. besides other books which I have not yet seen He was living at or near to Lichfield in the month of May in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine in which year he was appointed one of the administrators of the goods chattels c. of the said Bish Bentham but how long he lived after that year I cannot tell nor where his reliques were lodg'd JOHN LISTER was descended from those of his name in Yorkshire spent some years among the Oxonians and wrot A rule to bring up children wherein is declared how the Father opposeth the Son in the Holy Scripture whereby all Parents may be taught how to bring up their Children Printed at Lond. in oct about 1580. What other things he hath written and published I cannot yet JOHN ROGERS called by some Joh. Rogers the second because one of both his names of Pembr Hall in Cambr. was a writer in the Reign of Ed. 6. and a Martyr for the Protestant cause in the time of Qu. Mary was educated for some years in this University but whether in Qu. Coll. where one of both his names was Fellow and proceeded Master of Arts in 1556 or another Joh. Rogers of Mert. Coll. I think who was admitted Master in 1576 I cannot justly say Sure I am that Joh. Rogers of Oxon. wrot and published these treatises following The displaying of an horrible sect of gross and wicked hereticks naming themselves the Family of Love c. Lond. 1579. oct The lives of the Authors of the Family of Love Printed with the former Answer to certaine Letters maintaining the opinions of those of the Family of Love Printed also with the former and in the same year What else this Author hath published I cannot yet find nor when or where he died I find one John Rogers to be a Senior Student of St. Albans hall 1569 which perhaps may be the same with him of Mert. Coll. because that when any Postmaster or Student there taketh the Degree of Bach. of Arts they commonly receede to the said Hall which joyns to the Coll. of Merton ALAN COPE to whom the City of London gave his first breath was made perpetual Fellow of Magd. Coll. in 1549 and Master of Arts in 52 being that year Senior of the Act celebrated 18. July In 1558 he was unanimously chosen Senior Proctor of the University and in less than two years after when he saw that the R. Cath. Religion would be silenced in England he obtained leave to absent himself for a time from the said College Whereupon waiting for a prosperous gale ship'd himself beyond the Seas and at length went to Rome where tho he before had for the space of 5 years studied the Civil Law in this University he was actually created as 't is said Doctor or Bach. of Div. and became one of the Canons of St. Peters Church there Vir fuit eximii ingenii as one saith qui post magnos in Ecclesiâ dei per side Catholicâ tuendâ susceptos labores scripsit opus quoddam insigne intitulat Historiae Evangelicae veritas Seu singularia vitae Domini Jesu Christi eo ordine quo gesta fuerunt recensita ipsis quatuor Evangelistarum verbis contexta c. Lov. 1572 and at Doway 1603. qu. He also published under his name Sex Dialogi c. Antw. 1566. But those Dialogues were written by Nich. Harpesfeild as I shall tell you in my discourse of him As for A. Cope he surrendred up his last breath at Rome about Fifteen hundred and eighty year 1580 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the English Hospital or Coll. there leaving behind him a most admirable exemplar of vertue which many did endeavor to follow but could not accomplish their desires DAVID de la HYDE was admitted Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. 1549 proceeded Master of Arts four years after being then admired and
about him the charms of a plausible behaviour of a fluent tongue and good parts and another who was his most beloved friend saith that he was upright in conscience deep in judgment and ripe in Eloquence As for the works by him written and published under his name they are these Nectar Ambrosia Trag. Much praised by Greg. Martin Rationes decem oblati certaminis in causa fidei redditae Academicis Angliae Printed first of all privately in the house of one Stonor a Cath. Gent. living near to Henly in Oxfordshire an 1581 afterwards at least five times publickly beyond the Seas of which once was at Aug. Trev. 1583 in Concertat Eccles Cath. and at length were translated into English Lond. 1687. qu. These reasons were very learnedly answered by Will. Whittaker of Cambridge and replyed upon by John Durey a Scot which Durey was answered by Dr. Laur. Humphrey Nine articles directed to the Lords of the Privy Council an 1581 See more in Mer. Hanmer under the Year 1604 and in Rob. Persons an 1610. Various conferences concerning Religion had with Protestant Divines in the Tower of London on the last of Aug. and on the 18 23 and 27. of Septemb. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. Among those Divines that he disputed with were Alex. Nowell Dean of St. Pauls Cath. and Will. Day Dean of Windsore The History of Ireland in two books Written 1570. The MS. or original of which being in the Cottonian Library was afterwards published by Sir James Ware of Dublin Knight Dubl 1633. fol. Chronologia Universalis Much commended by Greg. Martin before-mention'd Narratio de divortio Hen. 8. Regis ab uxore Catherina Printed at the end of Nic. Harpesfeild's Ch. History at Doway by the care of Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit who also added thereunto a Lat. translation of John Speeds Catalogue of religious Houses Colleges and Hospitals in England and Wales Ingolst 1602. oct Orationes Epistolae Tractatus de imitatione Rhetoricâ Among which orations are those as I suppose which he made at the funeral of Sir Tho. Whyte and of the Lady Amey Robsert the first Wife of Robert Earl of Leycester whose body having been at first buried in Comnore Church near Abendon for there she died or rather was murdered in the mannor house there belonging to Anth. Forster Gent. 8. Sept. 1560 was taken up and reburied in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Oxon. Literae ad Rich. Chenaeum Episc Glocestr The beginning of which is Non me nunc alium c. Letters to Everard Mercurian General of the Society of Jesus giving an account of his proceedings in England an 1580. Printed in Lat. in Concertatio Eccles Cath. in Anglia part 1. p. 3. and elsewhere Besides all these are other things of our Author Compian which I have not yet seen that were collected and published among some of his works by Silvester à Petra Sancta a Jesuit of Italy printed at Antw. 1631. in tw but those things being scarce and rare to be had I can make no farther report of them nor their Author only that he with other Rom. Priests having been found guilty of treason according to the Act of 25. Ed. 3. and of adhering to the Bishop of Rome the Queens Enemy and of coming into England to disturb the peace and quiet of the Realm c. were executed at Tybourne near London on the first of Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 but what afterwards became of Campians carcass I know not Paul Bombin a Jesuit hath written his Life and Martyrdom published at Antw. 1618. in 12o. and afterwards at Mantua an 1620. in oct But that Pamphlet which I have several years look'd after but in vain is the Report of the death and martyrdom of E. Campian R. Sherwyn and A. Briant printed in English in oct soon after their death The two last of which I am now about to mention RALPH SHERWYN where born unless in the Western parts of England I know not was made Fellow of Exeter Coll. by Sir Will. Petre a principal benefactor thereunto in July 1568 went through with great industry the several classes of Logick and Philosophy and in 1574 proceeding in Arts was made Senior of the Act celebrated 26 July the same year being then accounted an acute Philosopher and an excellent Grecian and Hebritian Afterwards he with Joh. Currey M. of A. and Fellow of the said Coll. obtaining leave to travel beyond the Seas in July 1575 left the University utterly renounced the Religion in which he had been mostly educated went to Doway spent some time in the study of Divinity in the English Coll. there and was made Priest with Laur. Johnson who afterwards was hanged by the name of Richardson 23. March 1576 7. In that place and for a time in the English Coll. at Rome he continued in making progress in divine studies till about the beginning of 1580 and then instead of going into England with certain Persons of his society into the Mission he went to Rheimes upon publick concerns to be had with Thom. Goldwell Bishop of St. Asaph then there who being at that time in a sickly condition and therefore not able to serve Sherwin and his Brethren as to Episcopal confirmation and other matters relating to the mission he waited upon the said Bishop in the quality of a Chaplain during his sickness Afterwards being well and sent for to Rome Sherwin went into England and before he was quite settled in London he was taken in the house of one Roscarriot or Roscarrock committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea and had fetters fastned to his legs While he continued there he had notice once or twice that he should prepare himself to dispute with certain Protestant Divines whereupon shewing himself very ready to encounter them he was translated to the Tower of London where after he had many questions proposed to him concerning Campian Persons and other Priests he shew'd himself afterwards to be a Man of parts and one that needed not to be asham'd of his education in Exeter College At length after he had continued there more than an year in great misery was at length tried for his life and refusing several times the Oath of Supremacy and going to hear service in the Protestant Churches was condemned to die His writings are Discourse in the tower of London with Edm. Campian the Jesuit ◠account of the disputations in Wisbich Castle between Will Fulk of Cambridge and certain R. Priests who were Prisoners there These two are not printed but kept in MS. as choice reliques among R. Cath. beyond the Sea Where or else in the Tower Rich. Stanyhurst saw them Epistles and Letters to divers Persons Two of which are in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae Aug. Trev. 1594. fol. 71. 72. c. See more of him in the latter end of Pet. White under the Year 1590. At length being found guilty of high treason was hang'd drawn
character given of him by one the knew him in Ireland I shall here insert for a conclusion of those things I have said of him which is this He was stately without disdain familiar without contempt very continent and chast of body no more than enough liberal learned and a great lover of learning perfect in blazoning of Arms skilful of Antiquities of wit fresh and lively in consultations very temperate in utterance happy which his experience and wisdom hath made artificial a preferrer of many a Father to his Servants and both in war and peace of commendable courage WILLIAM GOOD was born in the ancient Town of Glastenbury in Somersetshire educated in Grammar learning there admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 26. Feb. 1545 afterwards Fellow Master of Arts 1552 and about that time Humanity reader in the said College After Queen Mary came to the Crown being then a most zealous R. Catholick he was promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice in his own Country called Middle Chinnoke and to a little Prebendship in the Church of Wells called Comba octava in Nov. 1556 besides the rectory of a School in the said City All which he keeping till Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and for some time after he voluntarily left them and his native Country for Religion sake and retiring to Tourney in Flanders entred himself there into the Society of Jesus in 1562 aged 35. After he had served his probationship he went into Ireland with Father David the titular Archbishop of Armagh who left no stone unremoved there for the settling of that Kingdom in the Catholick faith and obedience Four years being spent in that Country not without some danger he went to Lovaine where he met with Rob. Persons about to enter into the said Society whom he strengthned with many arguments in order thereunto In 1577 he was called to Rome to take upon him the profession of the four vows which being done he went into Sweeden and Poland in the company of Anth. Possevin to settle certain affairs relating to the society Two years after he returned to Rome and became Confessor to the English Coll. there newly converted from an Hospital dedicated to the Holy Trinity to a Seminary for the educating the youth of England that profess the R. Cath. Religion Vir fuit probatae virtutis doctrinae as one of his society saith atque imprimis in historiis Sanctorum Angliae optimè versatus quorum res gestas in templo collegii Anglicani curavit coloribus exprimi quae subinde in aes incisae prodierunt tacito ipsius inscriptae Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophaea Robnae 1584. fol. In the Library also of the English Coll. at Rome there is extant a Manuscript digested according to the years of Christ and Kings of Britaine containing the Acts of the Saints of Britain Which book is said there among those of England to have been composed and written by our Author Good who dying at Naples 5. July according to the accompt there followed in Fifteen hundred eighty and six year 1586 was buried in the College of the Jesuits there who have yet a great respect for his name One or more of whom have promised me a copy of his Epitaph if there be any but no answer have I yet received PHILIP SIDNEY the short-liv'd Ornament of his noble Family and the Marcellus of the English Nation hath deserv'd and without dispute or envy enjoyed the most exalted praises of his own and of succeeding Ages The Poets of his time especially Spencer reveren'd him not only as a Patron but a Master and he was almost the only Person in any age I will not except Mecaenas that could teach the best rules of Poetry and most freely reward the performances of Poets He was a Man of a sweet nature of excellent behaviour of much and withall of well digested learning so that rarely wit courage breeding and other additional accomplishments of conversation have met in so high a degree in any single Person It is to be wish'd that his life might be written by some judicious hand and that the imperfect essay of Sir Fulk Grevill L Brook might be supply'd In the mean time I am forc'd to consider him only as an Author and to give him these short notes of his life and education He was Son of Sir Hen. Sidney before-mention'd by the Lady Mary his Wife eldest Daughter of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland was born as 't is supposed at Penshurst in Kent 29. Nov. 1554 and had his Christian name given to him by his Father from K Philip then lately married to Qu. Mary While he was very young he was sent to Christ Ch. to be improved in all sorts of learning and was contemporary there with Rich. Carew Author of The Survey of Cornwall where continuing till he was about 17 years of age under the tuition of Dr. Tho. Thornton Canon of that house he was in June 1572 sent to travel for on the 24 Aug. following when the Massacre fell out at Paris he was then there and at that time as I conceive he with other English Men did fly to the house of Francis Walsingham Embassadour there from the Queen of England Thence he went through Loraine and by Strasburgh and Heydelburg to Frankfort in Sept. or Oct. following as his said life written by Sir Fulk Grevill his companion and friend attesteth But what is added there that Hubert Languet accompanied him in the whole course of his 3 years travels is a great mistake as will appear by Languets Epistles to our Author Philip Sidney printed more than once For so it was that in the next spring in May 1573 Larguet removed to Vienna where our Author met him again and stayed with him till September when he went into Hungary and those parts Thence he journied into Italy where he continued all the Winter following and most of the Summer an 1574 and then he returned into Germany with Languet and next spring he returned by Frankfort Heydelberg and Antwerp home into England about May 1575. The like mistakes are in the said life concerning Languets coming into England in Februar 1578 at which time 't is said he was about 66 years of age whereas he was but 61 that also he and Sidney parted at Sea which could not be for Duke John Caâ—â—mire with whom he came went away so suddenly that Languet could not take leave of him In the Year 1576 he was sent by the Queen to Rodolph the Emperour to condole the death of Maximilian and also to other Princes of Germany at which time he caused this inscription to be written under his Arms which he then hung up in all places where he lodged Illustriss generosiss virs Philippi Sidneii Angli Proregis Hiberniae filii Comitum Warwici Leycestriae nepotis sereniss Reginae Angliae ad Caesarem Legati The next year in his return he saw that gallant Prince Don John de Austria Vice Roy
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
Onuphrius in Rome I have more than twice sent to that place for the day and year of his death with a copy of his Epitaph but as yet I have received no answer Therefore take this Epitâ—â— made for him which I have met with elsewhere Inveni portum spes fortuna valete Nil mihi vobiscum ludite nunc alios HENRY SALESBURY born of and descended from a right ancient family of his name living in Denbigbshire became a commoner of S. Albans hall in 1581 aged 20 years took one degree in Arts and no more in this University entred on the Physick line practiced afterwards in his own country and was esteemed by the learned not only an eminent Physician but a curious Critick especially as to matters relating to the Antiquities and Language of his country He lâ—th written Dictionarium Britannicum Which being left 〈◊〉 in MS came into the hands of Job Davies who made great use of it when he was 〈◊〉 his Dictionary in British and Lat. and in Lat. and British What our author Salesbury hath written besides or when he died I find not nor any thing else of him only that he was of the same family with and very nearly related to Will. Salesbury whom I have mentioned under the year 1567 from whose endeavours this H. Salesbury found divers materials when he was composing his Dictionary before-mentioned and perhaps had received instruction from his own Person in matters relating to British affairs ISAAC COLFE fourth Son of Amandus Colfe alias Coult of Callis in France and of the City of Canterbury in England was born in Kent particulary as I suppose in the said City become a Commoner of Broadgates Hall in the beginning of the year 1576. took the Degrees in Arts Holy Orders and was afterwards beneficed if not dignified in his own Country His Works are Sermon 17. Nov. 1587. on Psal 118. 22. to the end of 26. Lond. in oct A Comfortable Treatise of the Temptation of Christ Lond. 1592. in oct with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen His eldest Brother Rich. Colfe was born at Callis educated in Ch. Ch. in this University and was afterwards Doctor of Divinity as I shall elsewhere tell you He left behind him several Sons among whom were Isaac of Ch. Ch. and Jacob of All Souls Col. JOHN PENRY or ap Henry that is the Son of Henry better known by the Name of Martin Marprelate or Marpriest as having been a Plague to the Bishops and Ministers of his time than by his own was born and bred as he used to say in the Mountains of Wales particularly as others say in the County of Brecknock became a Sub-sizer of Peter House in Cambridge about 1578. At which time as one a saith he was as arrant a Papist as ever came out of Wales and that he would have run a false Gallop over his Beads with any Man in England and help the Priest for a shift to say Mass at midnight c. In 1583. or thereabouts he took a Degree in Arts in that University and afterwards did perform some or most of the Exercise requisite for Master but leaving the said University abruptly for what cause I know not he retired to Oxon and getting himself to be entred a Commoner of St. Alban's Hall notwithstanding the vigour of Puritanism did then Reign among the Heads of the University which makes me to think that Penry was not then inclined to Popery he continued there for some time finished the remaining part of his Exercise and in the beginning of July 1586. he was licensed to proceed in Arts as a Member of the said Hall and on the eleventh of the said Month compleated that Degree in an Act celebrated in the Church of St. Mary About that time he took Holy Orders did Preach in Oxon and afterwards in Cambridge and was esteemed by many a tolerable Scholar an edifying Preacher and a good Man but being a Person full of Welsh Blood of a hot and restless Head did upon some discontent change the course of his Life and became a most notorious Anabaptist of which Party he was in his time the Corâ—pâ—â—â—us and in some sort a Brownist and the most bitter Enemy to the Church of England as any that appeared in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth He hath written A view of some part of such Publick Wants and Disorders as are in the Service of God within her Majesty's Country of Wales with an Humble Petition to the High Court of Parliament for their speedy redress Printed 1588. in oct Therein is shewed not only the necessity of Reforming the State of Religion among that People but also the only way in regard of substance to bring that Reformation to pass A defence of that which hath been written in the questions of the ignorant Ministry and the communicating with them Printed 1588. in oct written against Rob. Some D. D. of Cambridge who published the same year A Treatise deciding several questions concerning the Ministry Sacrament and Church Lond. in qu. As also A confutation of some of Mr. Penry's Errours About that time J. G. of Oxon published a Book entit Mr. Some laid open in his Colours wherein the indifferent Reader may easily see how wretchedly and loosly he hath handled the Cause against Mr. Penry Printed in oct Penry hath also written Exhortation unto the Governours and People of her Majesty's Country of Wales to labour earnestly to have the Preaching of the Gospel planted among them Printed 1588. in oct Theses Martinianae i. e. certain demonstrative conclusions set down and collected by Martin Marprelate the Great serving as a manifest and sufficient confutation of all that ever the College of Catercaps with their whole Band of Clergy-Priests have or can bring for the defence of their ambitious and Antichristian relacy Published by Martin Junior 1589. in oct and dedicated to John Kankerbury that is John Archbishop of Canterbury At the end of which Book Martin Junior hath an Epilogue The just censure and reproof of Mart. Marprelate to Martin Junior Printed with the former Protestation of Mart Marprelate Wherein notwithstanding the surprising of the Printer he maketh it known unto the World that he feareth neither proud Priest Antichristian Pope Tyrannous Prelate nor godless Catercap c. Printed 1589. in 120. by stealth and very full of faults Dialogue wherein is plainly laid open the tyrannical dealings of the Lords Bishops against God's Children Printed 1589. in qu. Therein are several reflecting stories on Dr. Martin Culpeper Warden of New College and on Dr. Nich. Bond of Magd. College and on his excellent dancing This scandalous Dialogue which was reprinted when the Long-Parliament began An. 1640. purposely to spite Archbishop Laud and the Bishops was with other like stuff of the said Mart. Marprelate answered by T. C. that is Thom. Cooper in his Admonition to the People of England c. See more in Tho. Cooper under
the Roman Catholick Religion practised Physick in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign but soon after left the University and whether he went beyond the Seas and was Doctorated there I cannot tell Under this Hierom Rainolds our Author William who was the next Brother did receive most of his tuition while he was a Junior in Oxon. The third Brother was Edm. Rainolds before-mentioned Fellow of C. C. College also who leaving that House because he was in animo Catholicus retired to Glocester Hall where living many years in the condition of a Tutor dyed a wealthy Man The fourth Brother was James Rainolds Master of Arts and Fellow of Exeter Coll. The fifth and youngest was Nicholas who lived at Pynhaws on the Lands of his Ancestors Father to Will. Rainolds of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire Gentleman sometimes a Member of Glocester Hall under his Uncle Edmund from whom I formerly received a writing under his hand concerning his Ancestors and Relations for three Generations above him part of which is here mentioned WILLIAM ALLYN Allen or Alan so many ways I find him written was the second Son of John Allen by Joanet or Jennet Lyster his Wife Sister of Tho. Lyster of Westby in Yorkshire the Son of George Allen of Staffordshire who having an Uncle or near Kinsman called Allen Abbat of Delawise setled at Rossal in Lancashire by the endeavours of the said Abbat who demised to him divers Lands there which belonged to his Monastery At that place Rosial was Will. Allyn or Alan whome we are farther to mention born and being arrived to about the fifteenth year of his age was sent to Oxford in 1547. entred into Oriel Coll. and committed to the tuition of Morgan Philips the chiefest Tutor then in that House under whome having profited to a miracle in Logick and Philosophy was unanimously elected Fellow of that Coll. in 1550. 4. Ed. 6. Four years after he proceeded in Arts and stood in that Act wherein proceeded Tho. Hardyng and Nich. Harpesfield two noted Writers the former being then a Proceeder in Divinity and the other in the Civil Law In 1556. or thereabouts he became Principal of St. Mary's Hall and in that and the year following one of the Proctors of the University In 1558. or thereabouts he was made Canon of York but soon after upon the coming to the Crown by Q. Elizabeth and the alteration of Religion that followed he left his Country and Preferment about 1560. and going beyond the Seas he retired to Lovaine then an eminent Acamedy especially for the study of Divinity to which place did several eminent Theologists repair for a time as Saunders Harding Dorman Rastal c. purposely to avoid the places infected with Heresie as they called it While he continued at Lovaine he wrote a Book in the English Tongue against Mr. Jewel treating of Purgatory which afterwards was Printed About that time falling into a grievous disease by too careful attending a Pupil of his of gentile extraction in England had advice given him by his Physicians to retire to his Native Country for Health's sake Whereupon returning into England he kept himself unknown till he had recovered his former strength and then endeavouring to reconcile People to the Church of Rome and to terrifie them from going to the Meetings of Hereticks as he stiled them was forced by the Magistrates to leave that harbour Lancashire So that going to a certain place near Oxon he practiced the like and wrote two Books in English one Of the Authority of the Priesthood and the other Of Indulgences From thence he removed his Quarters to the County of Norfolk and lived sometimes in the House of the Duke of that Name and sometimes near it where he wrote Certain brief Reasons concerning Catholick Faith whereby the vanity of Heresie and excellency of Catholick Faith as therein it is said were evidently set down purposely to settle such who were wavering in other Opinion Afterwards tho advantage was given to him to return to Lovaine by the opportunity of a Ship then going from England yet he neglected it and went near to Oxon again went to the University and meeting with one of his Contemporaries did work so much upon him by his discourse that he promised him to abstain for the future from Protestant Company and their Meetings Which act of his being made known to the Parents of the said Contemporary they prosecuted Allyn so close that he was forced to leave England after he had continued there about three years So that retiring to a certain Monastery at Mâ—chlin in Brabant became a Divinity Reader there which Office he performed with great commendations for some time Afterwards being desirous to go to Rome in the company of Dr. Jo. Vendivile the King's Professor at Doway afterwards Bishop of Tournay did make some advance that way but for certain Reasons that then passed between them Allyn turned his Face and went to Doway at which place in Academy was setled about 1562. where he studied Divinity became Doctor of that Faculty and so much esteemed for his rare and active Parts that he was made Canon of the Church of Cambray Afterwards by his endeavours he began a Seminary at Doway about 1568. to receive all such learned English Catholicks that had fled their Country for Religion sake where soon after they framed for themselves a common Discipline after the manner of a College and got the Pope to assign them an yearly Pension Soon after our author Allyn being made Canon of Rheimes he procured another Seminary to be erected there by the Guises Kinsmen to Mary Q. of Scots For the Netherlands wherein Doway is situated being run into confusion the English Fugitives or Scholars were banished thence by the command of Don Lewis de Requesens so that thence going to Rheimes they setled there for a time Afterwards our active Author began another Seminary at Rome and two in Spain to the end that English Youths might be trained up purposely to keep up the Roman Catholick Religion in England At length for these his great and indefatigable labours he was created a Priest Cardinal of St. Martin in montibus by Pope Sixtus 5. on the 28. July according to our accompt An. 1587. and two years after was made Archbishop of Mechlin or Machlin the Metropolis of Brabant The character given of this Man by several of our English Authors of the reformed Party is That he with R. Persons the Jesuit and others did lay in continual wait for the destruction of Prince and People of England and who by exciting both Forreigners abroad and natural Subjects at home plotted the reducement of the R. Religion to its antient vigour c. Farther also That after he had put off both his love to his Country and his obedience to his Prince he incensed the Spaniard and the Pope of Rome to assault England And to that purpose adjoyned himself to all pernicious consultations about that
Carey He left behind him two Sons or more one was named Thomas of whom I shall speak elsewhere and the other Henry Lyte Gent. a teacher sometimes of Arithmetick in London who published a book entit The art of Tens and Decimal Arithmetick Lond. 1619. oct GABRIEL POWELL Son of Dev. Powell mentioned under the year 1590. was born at Ruabon in Denbighshire of which place his Father was Vicar and baptized there 13. Jan. 1575. educated in Grammar learning in those parts entred into Jesus coll in Lent term 1592. took the degree of Bach. of Arts and then departed for a time It must now be known that Gabr. Goodman Dean of Westminster having founded a Free School at Ruthyn in Denbighshire in 1595. he appointed one Rob. Griffith to be the first Master thereof To him succeeded Rich. Parry afterwards Dean of Bangor and B. of St. Asaph and to him as 't is said Gabr. Powell our author but in what year I find not Sure 't is that while he remained in the Country he did exercise himself much in the reading of the Fathers and in the studies of Philosophy and laid a foundation for several books that he intended afterwards to publish But being not in a possibility of compleating his endeavours where he remained he therefore retired to Oxon became a Commoner of St. Maries hall published certain books while he was there and supplicated to be Bach. of Divinity but whether really admitted it appears not So that his name being famous for those things he had published especially among the Puritans Dr. Rich. Vaughan B. of London called him thence and made him his domestick Chaplain gave him a Dignity and would have done much for him had he lived but he dying in 1607. our author lived not long after He was esteemed a Prodigie of Learning in his time being but a little above 30 years of age when he died and 't is thought had he lived to the age of man he would have gone beyond Jo. Rainolds or any of the learned Heroes of that age His works are these The resolved Christian exhorting to resolution c. Lond. 1602. oct third edit There again 1616. c. Prodromus A Logical resolution of the first Chapter of the Epist of St. Paul to the Rom. Lond. 1600. Ox. 1602. oct Printed there again in Lat. 1615. oct Theological and Scholastical Positions concerning Usury Pr. with Prodromus The Catholicks supplication to the King for toleration of Catholick Religion with Notes and Observations in the Margin Lond. 1603. qu. A Supplicatory parallel-wise or Counterpoise of the Protesatants to the said King Printed with the Cath. supplic Reasons on both sides for and against toleration of divers religions pr. with the Cath. suppl A consideration of Papists reasons of state and religion for a toleration of Popery in England intimated in their supplication to the Kings Maj. and the state of the present Parliament Oxon 1604. qu. The unlawfulness and danger of toleration of divers religions and connivance to contrary worship in one monarchy or kingdom printed 1605. qu. Refutation of an Epistle Apologetical written by a Puritan-Papist to perswade the permission of the promiscuous use and profession of all sorts of Heresies c. Lond. 1605. qu. Consideration of the deprived and silenced Ministers arguments for their restitution to the use and liberty of their Ministry exhibited in their late supplication to this present Parliament Lond. 1606. qu. Disputationes Theologicae de Antichristo ejus Ecclesiae lib. 2. Lond. 1605. 06. oct In the Preface to this book dedicated to the University of Oxford the author doth enumerate all those of the said University that have wrote or acted against the Pope and Court of Rome But therein having fixed most of them on certain colleges and halls as if they had studied and been educated in them hath committed many errours Among them are 1 That Gualo Britannus studied in the Kings hall in Oxon before 1170. 2 That John Baconthorpe was of Oriel college which cannot be because he was a Carme and was in great renown before that coll was founded 3 That Cardinal Philip Repingdon was of Merton coll whereas it appears from Record that he was of Broadgates hall now Pemb. coll 4 That Pet. Payne and Hen. Parker were of All 's coll whereas they were in great renown and far in years before that coll was erected c. De Adiaph â—is these Theologicae Scholasticae c. Lond 1606. Translated into English by T. J. of Oxon. Lond. 1607. qu. Rejoinder unto the mild defence justifying the consideration of the silenced Ministers supplication to the Parliament Comment on the Decalogue Printed in oct This I have not yet seen and other things which probably he hath written He departed this mortal life at London in sixteen hundred and seven year 1609 but where buried I know not yet His Patron Dr. Vaughan Bishop of London died in the beginning of that year and Gabr. Powell died very shortly after as I have been informed by one or more ancient Divines that remembred him JAMES BISSE a Somersetshire Man born was elected Demy of Magd. coll in 1570. aged 18. made Fellow when Bach. of Arts in 74. and proceeding in that degree three years after became a noted Preacher here and at London Subdean and Canon Residentiary of Wells where he was much followed for his fluent and eloquent way of Preaching and well beneficed in that Diocess This person who proceeded D. of D. in 1596. hath published several Sermons and perhaps other things but all that I have hitherto seen are only Two Sermons One at Pauls Cross on John 6. 27. The other at Ch. Ch. in London on the same subject Lond. 1585. oct He died about the beginning of Dec. in sixteen hundred and seven year 1607 and was buried as I presume at Wells He had a Son or near Kinsman of both his names who became Rector of Croscombe in the said Dioc. 1623. on the death of Will. Rogers RICHARD PARKS a Lancashire Man born was chosen Scholar Kings Scholar of Brasnose coll 1574. aged 16. entred into Holy Orders when Bach. of Arts and proceeding in that degree 1585. became a godly Divine a noted Preacher and admirably well read in Theological and Polemical authors His works are An Apology of three Testimonies of Holy Scripture concerning the Article of our Creed He descended into Hell first impugned by certain objections sent in writing by a Minister unto a Gent. in the Country and lately seconded by a printed Pamphlet under the name of Limbomastix Lond. 1607. qu. Answered by Andr. Willet of Cambridge in his Loidromastix A second book containing a Rejoinder to a reply made against the former book lately published in a printed Pamphlet intit Limbo-Mastix Lond. 1607. qu. The same year was published at Cambr. in qu. A Scourge for a Railer written by the said Willet against our author Parks What else he hath written it appears not nor any thing besides
and add that the platform of the said Resolution was laid to his hand by L. de Granada who gave him the principal grounds and matter thereof and the penning by one Brinkley c. Responsio ad Elizabethae Reginae edictum contra Catholicos Rom. 1593. in oct c. Published under the name of Andr. Philopater A conference about the next succession of the Crown of England in two parts Printed 1593 94. in oct under the name of N. Doleman and is known by the name of The book of titles The first part is for chastising of Kings and proceeding against them c. and was reprinted before the time that K. Ch. 1. was beheaded by Rob. Ibbotson living in Smithfield under this title Several Speeches made at a conference or Several Speeches delivered at a conference concerning the power of Parliament to proceed against their King for mis-government The second part was to prove that the Infanta of Spain was the legal Heir to the Crown of England the penning whereof did much endear him to the K. of Spain But so soon as this book peeped forth which was accounted a most hainous and scandalous thing the Parliament enacted 35. Elizab. that whosoever should be found to have it in his house should be guilty of High Treason And whether the Printer of it was hang'd drawn and quartered as some say he was I cannot affirm it K. Charles 1. in his Messages for Peace doth mention and insist upon that book called Several Speeches c. and Mr. W. Prynne in his Speech to the Committee 4. Dec. 1648. affirmed that he himself and others did complain of it but nothing was done to vindicate the houses from that gross imputation c. The said Conference about the next Succession c. put out under the name of Doleman was answered by Sir Joh. Hayward Knight LL. D. an 1603. under this title The right of Succession asserted c. Which answer was reprinted for the satisfaction of the zealous promoters of the Bill of Exclusion Lond. 1683. oct The Conference it self also was reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct purposely to lay open the author's pernicious Doctrines in that juncture of time when the Parliament was zealously bent to exclude James D. of York from the Imperial Crown of England And how much some of the then Fanatical applauded pieces in Politicks have traded with and been beholding to that Conference written by Doleman alias Persons notwithstanding their pretendedly great hatred of and seeming enmity to Popery by asserting many of the self same most damnable and destructive Principles laid down therein is at large by a just and faithful comparing of them together made apparent in a piece intit The Apostate Protestant in a Letter to a Friend occasioned by the late reprinting of Doleman Lond. 1682. in 8 sh in qu. Said to have been wrote by Edw. Pelling Rector of S. Martins Church near Ludgate in London Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset and a Wiltshire man born Among the said Fanatical applauded pieces in Politicks before-mentioned must be reckoned a Pamplet intit A brief History of Succession collected out of the Records and the most authentick Historians Written for the satisfaction of George Earl of Hallifax in 5 sh in fol. To which tho no place or time was set to shew when or where 't was printed yet as I then observed 't was published in 1680. It was answered by Rob. Brady Doctor of Physick Master of Gonvil and Caius coll and the Kings Professor of Physick in the University of Cambridge and Burgess for that University to sit in the Parliament that began at Oxon. 21. March 1680. in a book intit The great point of Succession discussed c. Lond. 1681. in a thin fol. and by another excellent tract written by Anon called Religion and Loyalty supporting each other Another Pamphlet also which was mostly borrowed from Doleman alias Persons was that intit The great and weighty considerations relating to the Duke of York or Successor of the Crown c. considered Lond. 1680. in 9 sh in fol. which is quoted also in the Brief History of Succession before-mentioned Which Great and weighty considerations c. consisidered were reprinted at Lond. 1682. in oct and annexed to the second edition of the Postscript written by Thom. Hunt of Grays Inn Esq who therein tho he makes use of Doleman'S Principles yet in a new Epistle before the said second edition of the Considerations he owns them to be his This person Tho. Hunt who had an ingenious Pen and was commonly called Postscript Hunt was forced to leave England in the Fanatical Plot which broke out 12. June 1683. Afterwards setling at Vtrecht in Holland we heard no more of him till Sept. 1688. and then an express coming to my hands dated 13. of that month I was thereby instructed that he then died lately at Vtrecht before-mentioned being big with expectation of returning shortly after to his native Country under the conduct of the Prince of Orange then about to make his expedition into England But to return I find other noted Pamphlets which were about that time published by some ill designed Scriblers who are shewn to have taken many of their dangerous tenets thence I mean from Doleman alias Persons which is a well furnished common-place-book for such turbulent authors to enlarge on as their respective projects and interests should suggest Also that John Bradshaws long Speech spoken at the condemnation of K. Ch. 1. and also the Treatise concerning the broken Succession of the Crown of England c. to make way for Oliver the Usurper were mostly taken out of Doleman alias Persons may be seen in Dr. George Hicks's Sermon on the 30. Jan. 1681. before the L. Mayor of London The truth of this as to the last a note placed at the end of the said Treatise hath put beyond all doubt At length several positions in the said Conference written by Persons being looked upon as dangerous and destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes their State and Government by the University of Oxford particularly that which saith Birthright and Proximity of Blood do give no title to Rule or Government c. the Members thereof condemned them and that in particular by their judgment and decree passed in Convocation 21. July 1683. Which being so done they caused the book it self to be publickly burnt in their School-quadrangle As for the other books that our author Rob. Persons hath written are these following A temperate Wardword to the turbulent and seditious Watchword of Sir Franc. Hastings Knight c. Printed 1599. qu. under the name of N. Dolman that is Vir dolorum in respect of the grief and sorrow that Fa. Persons bore in his heart for the affliction and calamity of his Country as a certain author tells me tho others say that the reason why he put the name of Doleman to some of his books was because he bore great malice
concerned in the matter Some time after Carre then Earl of Sommerset and his Lady Frances before-mentioned were brought to their trials for contriving his death and hiting others to make him away who being both found guilty had the sentence of death passed on them but through the clemency of the King being spared they were only banished the Court. As for our author Overbury who in learning and judgment excelled any of his years which as 't was generally thought made him while living in the Court to be proud to overvalue himself undervalue others and affected as 't were with a kind of insolence hath written A Wife Being a most exquisite and singular Poem of the choice of a Wife c. Printed several times at Lond. while the author lived In 1614 it was printed there again in qu. being the fourth or fifth impression bearing this title A Wife now the Widdow of Sir Tho. Overbury being c. Characters Or witty descriptions of the properties of sundry persons Which Characters as 't is observed were the first that were written and published in England To them are added 1 Certain Edicts from a Parliament in Eutopia written by the Lady Southwell 2 Newes from any whence or old truth under a supposal of novelty occasioned by divers Essays and private passages of Wit between sundry Gentlemen upon that subject 3 Paradoxes as they were spoken in a Mask before his Majesty at Whitehall 4 The Mountebanks Receipts 5 Songs Of the remedy of Love In two parts A Poem Lond. 1620. in about 2 sh in oct Observations in his travells upon the state of the 17. Provinces as they stood an 1609. Printed 1627. qu. This goes under his name but doubted by some whether he wrote it Observations upon the Provinces united And on the state of France Lond. 1651. oct with his picture before it an aetat 32. This also is doubted whether ever he wrote it The arraignment and conviction of Sir Walt. Ralegh at the King's Bench Bar at Winchester 17. Nov. 1603. c. Lond. 1648. in 5 sh in qu. Said to be copied by Sir Tho. Overbury but doubtful He yielded up his last breath occasioned by poyson as I have before told you on the 15. Sept. in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 and was buried as some authors say presently and very unreverently in a pit digged in an obscure and mean place But the Register of the Tower -Chappel dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula saith he was buried in the said Chappel 15. Sept. being the day of his death an 1613. as I have been informed by the Letters of that learned Gent. Sir Edw. Sherburne Knight late Clerk of his Maj. Ordinance and Armories within the Kingdom of England Over his Grave tho no memory by writing was ever put yet Ben. Johnson's Epigram written to him will eternize it and other verses by the Wits of his time set before his Poem called A Wife and in particular that Epigram written by Owen the Welsh Bard running thus Vxorem angelico describis carmine talem Qualem oratorem Tullius ore potens Qualem describis quamvis tibi nuberet Vxor Aequalis tale non foret illa viro Our author Sir Tho. Overbury had a Nephew of both his names a Knight and Justice of the Peace for the County of Gloucester who lived and injoyed the inheritance of the Overburies at Boorton on the hill before-mentioned He wrote 1 A true and perfect account of the examination trial condemnation and execution of Joan Perry and her two Sons John and Rich. Perry for the supposed Murder of Will Harrison Gent c. Lond. 1676. in 4 sh and half in qu. Written by way of Letter to Thom. Shirley Doctor of Physick in London 2 Queries proposed to the serious consideration of those who impose upon others in things of divine and supernatural revelation and prosecute any upon the aecount of Religion with a desire of their candid and christian resolution thereof Printed 1677. Answered by George Vernon Rect. of Boorton on the water the same year in his Ataxiae obstaculum Whereupon Sir Tho. came out with a reply intit Ratiocinium vernaculum or a Reply to Ataxiae obstaculum Being a pretended answer to certain Queries dispersed in some parts in Gloucestershire Lond. 1678. oct This Sir Tho. Overbury was not educated in any University only was a great Traveller in parts beyond the Seas and afterwards a favourer of Protestant Dissenters which is all I know of him only-that he sold his Inheritance at Boorton on the hill to Alex. Popham Esq about 1680. and afterwards retiring to an Estate that he had at Adminton in Queinton Parish in Gloucestershire died there 28. Feb. 1680. and was buried in Queinton Church JOHN HARMAR a most noted Latinist Grecian and Divine was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1574. took the degrees in Arts was made the Kings Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University 1585. being then in holy Orders one of the Proctors thereof two years after chief Master of Winchester School for nine years Warden of the coll there 17 years and at length Doctor of Divinity being always accounted a most solid Theologist admirably well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen and in his younger years a subtile Aristotelian The chief actions of his Life an account of his travels of his disputing at Paris with the great Doctors of the Rom. Party and also of the things that he had written and published his Nephew John Harmar whom I shall mention under the year 1670. promised to give unto me a full narration in writing but sickness and death soon after following prevented him He hath published 1 Chrysostomi Archiep. Constant Homeliae sex ex MSS. cod in bib coll Novi Oxon. 1586. 2 Chrysostomi Homeliae ad populum Antiochenum omnes exceptâ primâ cum Latinâ versione Homeliae decimae nonae quae in latinis etiam exemplaribus hactenus desiderata est Lond. 1590. He also translated from French into English Sermons on the three first Chapters of the Canticles Ox. 1587 qu. Written by Theod. Beza And from Lat. into English Sermons on the 10. Commandments Lord. 1581. qu. written by Joh. Calvin and had a prime hand in the translation of the New Testament into English at the command of K. Jam. 1. an 1604. At length paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh of Oct. in sixteen hundred and thirteen year 1613 was buried at the upper end of New coll Choire His Epitaph you may read in a book intit Historia Antiquit Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. a. He was a considerable Benefactor to the Libraries of both Wykehams colleges EDWARD BREREWOOD Son of Rob. Br. Wet-Glover thrice Mayor of the City of Chester was born and educated in Grammar learning there applyed his Muse to Academical studies in Brasenose coll in the latter end of 1581. aged
Delapre in Northamptonshire Esq was born there or at least in that County became a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. aged 17. where laying a foundation of leâ—rning for a greater structure to be erected thereon departed without a degree to the Middle Temple 〈…〉 became a noted Counsellour a person of great 〈…〉 in the Law and eminent for his knowledge in 〈◊〉 and in the Saxon Language In the latter â—nd of Q Elizabeth he was a Parliament Man and in the 5. Jac. 1. he was Lent-Reader of the Middle Temple and about that time one of the Justices Itinerant for S. Wales He hath written several matters relating to Antiquity which being crept into private hands the publick is thereby rob'd of the benefit of them However some of them I have seen which bear these titles Nomina Hydarum in com Northampton MS. much used by Augustine Vincent Son of Will. Vincent of Wellingborough and Thingdon in Northamptonshire in his intended Survey or Antiquities of Northamptonshire I have a copy of this lying by me Explanation of the abbreviated words in Domsday book Used also the by said Vincent who after he had been Rouge Croix and Windsore Herald as also had published A discovery of Errors in two Editions of the Catalogue of Nobility written by Raphe Brook did yield to nature on the 11. Jan. in 1625. and was buried in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls Wharf in London The said two MSS. of Franc. Tate were reserved as rarities in the Library of Christop Lord Hatton of Kirkly in Northamptonshire but where they are now I know not His opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England See more in Joh. Doderidge under the year 1628. Learned Speeches in Parliaments held in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen He lived a single Man and dying so on the 16. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 was buried I suppose in the Church belonging to the Temples He had a Nephew Son of his elder Brother Sir William Tate of Delapre called Zouch Tate who became a Gentleman Com. of Trinity coll in 1621. aged 15. but took no degree In 1640. he was chosen a Burgess for Northampton to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year where siding with the Factious Crew took the Covenant and became a zealous Enemy to the King and his Cause Two or more Speeches of his are printed one of which was spoken in a Common Hall at London 3. Jul. 1645. containing Observations on the King and Queens Cabinet of Letters Lond. 1645. qu. Which Speech with that of John L'isle and Rich. Browne were animadverted upon by Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. as hereafter it shall be told you There were also Annotations printed at the end of the said Cabinet of Letters taken at Naseby Battle where the King was worsted Printed at Lond. 1645. qu. but who the author of them was I cannot tell RICHARD FIELD received his first being in this World in the County of Hertford was entred a Student in Magd. coll in 1577. where continuing in drudging at his book till he was about Bachelaurs standing retired to Magd. hall took the degrees in Arts and afterwards for about 7 years was not only a daily Reader of Logick and Philosophy but also a Moderator and every Sunday a discusser of controversies against Bellarmine and other Pontificians before his Fellow-Aularians and many others Afterwards being Bach. of Divinity he became first a Reader thereof in the Cath. Church of Winchester and afterwards in Lincolns Inn and when Doctor Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Elizab. and after her death to K. James the last of whom not only gave him a Prebendship of Windsore on the death of Jo. Chamber an 1604. but also the Deanry of Gloucester in 1609. in the place of Dr. Tho. Morton promoted to the Deanry of Winchester Both which he kept with the Rectory of Burcleere or Burrowcleere in Hampshire and all little enough for the encouragement of so right learned a Man as this our author Dr. Field was who in his time was esteemed a principal mountainer of Protestancy a powerful Preacher a profound Schoolman exact Disputant and so admirable well knowing in the Controversies between the Protestants and the Papists that few or none went beyond him in his time as it doth plainly appear in these his labours Of the Church four books Lond. 1606. fol. To which he added a fifth book Lond. 1610. fol. with an Appendix containing A defence of such passages of the former books that have been excepted against or wrested to the maintenance of the Romish Errours All which were reprinted at Oxon 1628. fol. He also published A Sermon Preached before the King at Whitehall on Jude ver 3. Lond. 1604. qu. He surrendred up his pious Soul to the great God that first gave it on the 21. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 being then reviewing the said books and about to give answer to such that had oppugned them and was buried in the outer Chappel of St. George at Windsore a little below the Choire Over his grave was soon after laid a plank of black Marble and thereon this inscription engraven on a Copper plate fastned thereunto Richardus Field hujus olim coll canonicus Ecclesiae Glocestrensis Decanus verè Doctor Theologiae author librorum quinque de Ecclesia Vna cum Elizabetha Harrisia Sanctissima Charissima conjuge ex qua sex reliquit filios filiam unicam Hic sub communi marmore expectant Christi reditum qui faelicitatem quam ingressi sunt adventu suo perficeat ac consummet Obierunt in Domino ille an sal 1616. aetatis suae 55. Haec an sal 1614. aetatis suae 41. In Dr. Field's Deanry of Gloucester succeeded Dr. William Land and in his Canonry of Windsore Edm. Wilson Doctor of Physick and Fellow of Kings coll in Cambridge RICHARD HAKLUYT was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Yetton in Herefordshire elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School in 1570. took the degrees in Arts lived for some time in the Middle Temple where I presume he studied the Municipal Law Afterwards he entred into holy Orders and at length became Prebendary of the fourth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of one Dr. Rich. Webster an 1605. and Rector of Wetheringset in Suffolk But that which is chiefly to be noted of him is this that his Genie urging him to the study of History especially to the Marine part thereof which was encouraged and furthered by Sir Francis Walsingham made him keep constant intelligence with the most noted Seamen at Wapping near London From whom and many small Pamphlets and Letters that were published and went from hand to hand in his
as usually he did alone Upon which the Embassador willed him to stay longer with him but he then thankfully refused that offer and turned his face presently after towards Surat which was 300. miles distant from the place where the Embassador was and he lived to come safely thither But there being over-kindly used by some of the English who gave him Sack which they had brought from England he calling for as soon as he first heard of it and crying Sack Sack is there such a thing as Sack I pray give me some Sack and drinking of it moderately for he was very temperate it increased his flux which he had then upon him and this caused him within few days after his very tedious and troublesome travels for he went most on foot at that place to come to his journeys end as I shall anon tell you What became of his notes and observations which he had made in his long journeys I know not only these following which he sent to his friends in England who printed them in his absence Letters from Asmere the Court of the Great Mogul to several persons of quality in England concerning the Emperor and his Country of E. India Lond. 1616. qu. In the title of which is our authors Picture riding on an Elephant The first letter is written to Sir Edw. Philips of Montagâ—e in Somersetshire Kt. Master of the Rolls A Letter to his Mother Gertrude dated from Agra in E. India ult oct 1616. containing a speech that he spoke to the Gr. Mogul in the Persian Language See in the Pilgrimages of Sam. Purchase part 1. book 4. chap. 17. and also at the end of his Letters from Asmere before mentioned 'T is reported that in an Oration which our author Coryate did speak to the said Mogul he brought in that story of the Queen of Sheba 1 Kings 10. in which parts of that sacred History the Maâ—umetans have some knowledge and told him that as the Queen of Sheba having heard of the fame of K. Solomon came from far to visit him which when she had done she confessed that tho she had heard very much of him and many things beyond her belief yet now seeing what she did acknowledged that she had not heard half of that which she now saw concerning the wisdom and greatness and revenue and riches of Solomon So our Orator Coryate told the Mogul that he had heard very much of him before he had the honour to see him when he was very far off in his own Country but now what he beheld did exceedingly surmount all these former reports of him which came to his Ears at such a distance from him Then larding his short speech with some other piece of Flattery which the Mogul liked well concluded Afterwards the Mogul gave him one hundred Roopus which amounts to value of 12l 10s of our English money looking upon him as a Derveese or Votary or Pilgrim for so he called him and such that bear that name in that Country seem not much to care for money and that was the reason I conceive that he gave him not a more plentiful reward Certain observations from the Moguls Court and E. India See in Purchase before-mention'd Travels to and observations in Constantinople and other places in the way thither and in his journey thence to Aleppo Damasco and Jerusalem Ibid. part 2. lib. 10. cap. 12. His Oration purus putus Coriatus quintessence of Coryate Spoken extempore when Mr. Rob. Rugg dub'd him a Knight on the ruins of Troy by the name of Thomas Croyate the first English Knight of Troy Ib. cap. 12. Observations of Constantinople abridged Ib. cap. 12. Divers Lat. and Greek Epistles to learned men beyond the Seas Some of which are in his Crudities as those to Gasp Waserus Radolp Hospinian Hen. Bullinger descended from the famous Henry Bullinger Marc. Buellerus c. At length our author Coryate giving way to fate occasion'd by a Flux at Surat in E. India before-mention'd in the month of December in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 was buried there under a little Monument like to one of those that are usually made in one of our Chyards Sic exit Coryatus Hence he went off the Stage and so must all after him how long soever their parts seem to be For if one should go to the extremest part of the world East another West another North and another South they must all meet at last together in the field of Bones wherein our traveller hath now taken up his lodging and where I leave him to make way for the next as eminent almost for the Law as he for his Travels FERDINANDO PULTON alias Pâ—ulton Son of Giles Pulton Esq who died 1560. was born at Deusborough in Northampton-shire became commoner of Brasnose coll in the beginning of Q. Marys Reign laid there a foundation of Academical literature which he found useful to him afterwards when he grew eminent in the common Law But leaving that house before he took a degree he went to Lincolns Inn studied the said Law took the usual degrees and became eminent for the knowledge in and practice of it not only in London but the usual place of his residence in the country viz. at Borton in the Parish and County of Buckingham He hath written and published An abstract of all the Penal Statutes which be general Lond. 1600. qu. Digested alphabetically according to the several subjects they concern Abridgment of the Statutes of England that have been made and printed from Magna charta to the end of the Session of Parliament 4. Jac. 1. Lond. 1606. and 12. c. fol. Collection of Statutes repealed and not repealed Lond. 1608. fol. De pace regis regni declaring which be the general offences and impediments of Peace Lond. 1610. and 15 fol. Collection of sundery Statutes frequent in use with notes in the Margent and reference to the book Cases and books of Entry and Registers where they be treated of Lond. 1618. in two vol. in fol. theâ—e again 1632. fol. c. which collection reaâ—hes from 9. 〈◊〉 3. to 7. â—â—c 1. The Statutes at large concerning all such Acts which at any time heretofore have 〈◊〉 extant in 〈…〉 Charâ—a to the 16. of Jaâ— 1. c. divided 〈…〉 with marginal Notes c. Lond. 1618. c. fol. He departed this Life on the 20. January in sixteen hundred and seventeen aged 82. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Deusborough before-mention'd Over his grave was a large plain Stone soon after laid with an Epitaph engraven thereon wherein 't is said that he was Vir omni virtutis doctrinarum genere quondam illustrissimus necnon sedulus scriptor propagator legum hujus regni But if you are minded to read his English Epitaph see in Sir Joh. Beaumont's Tast of the variety of Poems at the end of his Bosworth-field Lond. 1629. oct The said Ferdinando Pulton left behind him
stone neither marble nor free with this engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto Here lyeth Author Lake Doctor in Divinity late Bishop of Bathe and Wells who died on the fourth day of May an 1626. His brother Sir Thomas before mentioned who was of Channous near Edgworth in Middlesex died at Chanous 17. Sept. 1630. and was buried on the 19. of the same month JOHN DAVIES the third person of both his names that I have hitherto mention'd among these writers was born at Chisgrove in the parish of Tysbury in Wiltshire being the Son of wealthy Tanner of that place became a Commoner of Queens coll about the beginning of Mich. Term in the fifteenth year of his age an 1585. wherein having laid a considerable foundation of Academical literature partly by his own natural parts which were excellent and partly by the help of a good Tutor he was removed having taken a degree in Arts as it seems to the Middle Temple wherein applying himself to the study of the Common Law tho he had no great genie to it was in fine made a Barrester But so it was that he being a high spirited young man did upon some little provocation or punctilio bastinado Rich. Martin afterwards Recorder of London in the common Hall of the Middle Temple while he was at Dinner For which act being forthwith expell'd he retired for a time in private lived in Oxon in the condition of a Sojourner and follow'd his studies tho he wore a cloak However among his serious thoughts making reflections upon his own condition which sometimes was an affliction to him he composed that excellent Philosophical and Divine Poem called Nosce teipsum Afterwards by the favour of Thomas Lord Ellesmore Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England he was again restored to his Chamber was afterwards a Concellour and a Burgess for that Parliament which was held at Westminster in 1601. Upon the death of Q. Elizabeth he with the Lord Hunsdon went into Scotland to congratulate K. James as her Lawful Successor and being introduced into his presence the King enquired the names of those Gentlemen who were in the company of the said Lord and naming Joh. Davies among who stood behind them the King straightway asked whether he was Nosce Teipsum and being answered that he was the same he graciously embraced him and thenceforth had so great favour for that soon after he made him his Attorney-general in Ireland While he held that place he was made Serjeant at Law having never been Reader an 1606. the Poesie of whose Rings that were then given being Lex publica lux est Notwithstanding the said degree he returned into Ireland by his Majesty's leave and dispensation kept his office of Attorney and received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall 11. Feb. 1607. Afterwards he came into England for altogether was made one of his Maj. Serjeants at Law here in 1612. and sundry times appointed one of the Justices of the Assize in divers Circuits At length being constituted Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench had his robes made in order to be setled in that high office as his Daughter hath several times reported but died suddenly before the ceremony of settlement or installation could be performed He was held in great esteem by the noted Scholars of his time among whom were Will. Camden Sir Jo. Harrington the Poet Ben. Johnson Jo. Selden Facete Hoskyns R. Corbet of Ch. Ch. and others who esteemed him to be a person of a bold Spirit of a sharp and ready wit and compleatly learned but in truth more a Scholar than a Lawyer His works are Nosce Teipsum This Oracle expounded in two Elegies 1. Of Humane Nature 2. Of the Soul of Man Lond. 1599. qu. dedicated to Q. Elizabeth There again 1622. in oct Hymus of Astrea in Acrostick verse Printed with the former Orchestra Or a Poem expressing the antiquity and excellency of dancing in a dialogue between Penelope and one of her Woers containing 131 Stanzaes unfinished This being also printed with Nosce Teipsum they were all three especially the first much extoll'd by Scholars of all sorts Among them I find one who hath dealt poetically with him by an ingenious copy of verses which begins thus Si tua legisset redivivus c. If Plato liv'd and saw these Heaven bred lines Where thou the Essence of the Soul confines Or merry Martial c. Sir Jo. Harrington also before-mentioned would not let his memory escape his Pen without an Epigram especially for his Orchestra besides other Poets of those times which for brevity-sake I shall now pass by Discover of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued nor brought under obedience of the Crown of England until the beginning of his Maj. happy Reign Lond. 1612. qu. Dedic to the King with this Latin verse only Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos Declaration of our Sovereign Lord the King c. concerning the title of his Maj. Son Charles the Prince and Duke of Cornwal c. Lond. 1614. in 14 sh in fol. Printed in columns one in French and the other in English Le primer Reports des cases matters on ley resolves c. adjudges in les Courts del Roy en Ireland Dubl 1615. Lond. 1628. fol. In the sec edit was added a Table which was not in the former From this book it was that Sir Joh. Pettus Knight did chiefly select matter for another intit Englands independency upon the Papal Power historically and judiciously stated by Sir Jo Davies Attorn Gen. in Ireland and by Sir Edw. Coke L. Ch. Just of England in two reports selected from their great volumes with a Pref. written by Sir Joh. Pettus Lond. 1674. qu. Perfect abridgment of the eleven books of Reports of Sir Edw. Coke Lond. 1651. in tw written in French by Sir Joh. Davies translated into English by another hand Jus imponendi vectigalia Or the learning touching Customs Tonnage Poundage and Impositions on Merchandizes c. asserted c. Lond. 1656. 59. c. oct I find one Sir J. D. Knight to have published Reasons Academy Or a new post with Sovereign Salve to cure the worlds madness expressing himself in several essays and witty discourses Lond. 1620. oct Written in prose and at the end of it is Reasons moan written in verse in eleven Stanzaes Whether the said Sir J. D. be the same with Sir Joh. Davies I cannot justly tell Besides the before-mentioned things as also Epigrams as 't is said which were published by and under the name of Sir Joh. Davies are several MSS. of his writing and composing which go from hand to hand as 1 Metaphrase of several of K. Davids Psalms 2 A large Epistle to Rob. E. of Salisbury of the state of the Counties of Monaghan Fennanagh and Downe and of Justices of the Peace and other Officers of Ireland written 1607. 3 Speech when he was Speaker of the H.
after he had continued under a strict Discipline for about 3 years he went to the Inner Temple and pursuing his fathers steps in the laudable studies of the Municipal Laws was made choice of for the Autumn Reader of that House 14. Jac. 1. Dom. 1616. and on the 17. Nov. the same year was elected Recorder of London In 1617 about the 17. of March he was made the Kings Sollicitor General upon the promotion of Hen. Yelverton to be Attorney General and afterwards Knighted and made Attorney Gen. On the 30. of Oct. 1. Car. 1. he was advanced to that eminent Office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England tho' of no transcendent parts or same as the Puritans said and upon the 10. Apr. 4. Car. 1. was dignified with the degree of a Baron of England by the title of Lord Coventry of Ailesborough in his native Country He hath extant Several speeches as 1 Speech at the opening of the Parliament 6. Feb. 1625. 2 Sp. in Parl. 29. Feb. 1626. chiefly concerning the Duke of Bucks 3 Sp. at the openâ—ng of the Parl. 17. Mar. 1627. 4 Sp. to both Houses of Parl. 28. Apr. 1628. 5 Sp. at a Conference 26. May 1628. 6 Sp. in Parl. 2. June 1628. 7 Sp. at the delivery of a Message from the K. to the H. of C. 6. Jun. 1628. 8 Reply to Sir â—Jo Finch Speaker 9 Second Reply c. 10 Answer to the Petition against Recusants c. Besides these Speeches and several discourses goes under his name Perfect and exact directions to all those that desire to know the true and just fees of all the Offices belonging to the Court of Common Pleas Chancery c. Lond. in oct He ended his days in Durham House in the Strand near London in a seasonable time said the Puritan and discontented Party on the 14. Jan. in sixteen hundred thirty and nine and was buried in the Church of Crome D'abitot beforemention'd on the first of March following after he had enjoyed the Dignity of Lord Keeper about 15 years if it be not more proper to say that Dignity had enjoyed him so long His front and presence did bespeak a venerable regard not inferior to any of his Antecessors His train and suit of followers were disposed agreeably to shun both envy and contempt not like that of Bacon Visc S. Albans or of Williams B. of Lincoln whom he succeeded ambitious and vain his port was state their 's ostentation c. See more of his character in The Reign of K. Ch. 1. under the year 1639. written by Ham. L'Estrange Lond. 1656. fol. which being just I wonder he did not animadvert upon a certain Libel which tells us that had the Lord Coventries actions been scanned by a Parliament he had been found as foul a man as ever lived ROBERT BURTON known otherwise to Scholars by the name of Democritus Junior younger Brother to Will. Burton whom I shall mention under the year 1645 was born of an ancient and gentile family at Lindley in Leicestershire 8. Feb. 1576 and therefore in the titles of several of his choice books which he gave to the publick Library he added to his Sirname Lindliacus Leycestrensis He was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-School of Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire whence he was sent to Brasnose coll in the long vacation an 1593. where he made a considerable progress in Logic and Philosophy in the condition of a Commoner In 1599. he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. and for form sake tho he wanted not a Tutor he was put under the tuition of Dr. John Bancroft afterwards Bishop of Oxon. In 1614. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and on the 29. Nov. 1616. he had the Vicaridge of St. Thomas Parish in the West Suburb of Oxon confer'd on him by the Dean and Canons of Ch. Church to the parishioners whereof he always gave the Sacrament in Wafers which with the Rectory of Segrave in Leycestershire given to him some years after by George Lord Berkley he kept with much ado to his dying day He was an exact Mathematician a curious calculator of Nativities a general read Scholar a thro-pac'd Philologist and one that understood the surveying of Lands well As he was by many accounted a severe student a devourer of authors a melancholy and humerous person so by others who knew him well a person of great honesty plain dealing and charity I have heard some of the Antients of Ch. Ch. often say that his company was very merry facete and juvenile and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the Poets or sentences from classical authors Which being then all the fashion in the University made his company more acceptable He hath written The Anatomy of Melancholy First printed in qu. and afterwards several times in sol an 1624. 1632 38 and 1652. c. to the great profit of the Bookseller who got an estate by it 'T is a book so full of variety of reading that Gentlemen who have lost their time and put to a push for invention may furnish themselves with matter for common or scholastical discourse and writing Several authors have unmercifully stolen matter from the said book without any acknowledgment particularly one Will. Greenwood in his book intit A description of the passion of Love c. Lond. 1657. oct Who as others of the like humour do sometimes take his quotations without the least mention of Democritus Junior He the said R. Burton paid his last debt to nature in his Chamber in Ch. Ch. at or very near that time which he had some years before foretold from the calculation of his own nativity which being exact several of the Students did not forbear to whisper among themselves that rather than there should be a mistake in the calculation he sent up his soul to heaven thro a slip about his neck His body was afterwards with due solemnity buried near that of Dr. Rob. Weston in the north isle which joyns next to the choire of the Cath. of Ch. Church on the 27. of January in sixteen hundred thirty and nine Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument on the upper pillar of the said isle with his bust painted to the life On the right hand of which is the calculation of his nativity and under the bust this inscription made by himself all put up by the care of William Burton his brother Paucis notus paucioribus ignotus hic jacet Democritus junior cui vitam dedit mortem melancholia Obiit viii Id. Jan. A. C. M. DCXXXIX He left behind him a very choice library of books many of which he bequeathed to that of Bodley and a hundred pounds to buy five pounds yearly for the supplying of Ch. Ch. Library with books ROBERT MOOR was born at Holyard in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School
The life of the author Matthew Parker containing 29 pages 2 A catalogue of such books which he gave to the common Library at Cambridge containing 4 pages 3 A cat of Chancellours Vicechancellours Proctors of and Doctors of all Faculties that took their degrees in Cambridge from the year 1500. to 1571. containing 6 pages Before which catalogue are the Arms of every college and hall there with the area or platform of the common Schools the Arms and Seal of the University and Seal of the Chancellour thereof 4 A cat from 1500 to 1571. of all the Bishops that have been educated in Cambridge among which have been divers that have been bred in Oxon who have only taken one degree and perhaps that neither there 5 The titles of such Charters that have been granted to that University by divers Kings and Queens from Hen. 3. to the 13. or 14. of Q. Elizab. 6 An account of the particulars that are successively delivered to the Magistrates and Servants of the said University when they enter into their respective places 7 The foundation of each coll and hall in Cambridge with the building of the publick Schools and an enumeration of the old hostles All which contained under this seventh head were involved in the first book of the History of the Vniversity of Cambridge written by Dr. Jo. Cay printed at Lond. 1574. in qu. As for the life of the said Matthew Parker mentioned under the first head it was as soon as it peeped into the World translated into English under this title The life of the 70 tie Archbishop of Canterbury presently sitting Englished c. This number of seventy is so compleat a number as it is great pitty there should be one more c. Printed in Holland in a Dutch character 1574. in oct It was translated by a thro-paced Separatist with very vile notes added in the margin endeavouring thereby to bring an odium on the Archbishop and make him ridiculous for erecting his monument while he lived At length paying his last debt to nature on the 17. of May 1575. was buried in the chappel where he was consecrated situate and being within his Pallace at Lambeth in Surrey It must be now known that in the times of usurpation when the Bishops were put down and their lands sold the said Pallace was inhabited by several Lay-persons of whom Tho. Scot one of the Regicides and one Hardyng were two Which last having the chappel allotted to him as part of his share he divided it into two rooms making the upper part towards the east a dining-room on the bottom of which he laid joysts and on them a floor of boards At length he hearing that the corps of Archb. Parker had been there interr'd he took up the floor and pavement under it and having so done dug up the corps which was put into cerecloth of many doubles in a coffin of lead The coffin he sold to a Plummer and after he had caused the cerecloth to be cut open to the flesh which he found fresh as if newly dead he conveyed the corps into an out-house where he kept Poultrey and there privately tumbled it into an hole About the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. that base fellow the Brute that removed it was forced to discover where he had laid it whereupon it was brought into the chappel and buried just above the Litany-desk near the steps ascending to the Altar JOHN HOPTON was born in Yorkshire particularly as I conceive at Myrfield where his Grandfather and Father were buried became when a young man a Black Frier of the Order of St. Dominick had his Academical education among those of his Order in Oxon but what degrees he took there it scarcely appears only that in his travels to Rome taking the degree of Doct. of div at Ronmia he was incorporated here after his return in 1529. and soon after was made Prior of the Convent belonging to the Black Friers in Oxon. In 1532. he was licensed to proceed in divinity so saith the same Register which told us that he was incorporated Doctor in that faculty and in the Act celebrated the 8. of July the same year he did compleat that degree by standing therein Afterward he was chaplain to the Lady Mary who when Queen of England nominating him by the name of her chaplain to the See of Norwyck upon the translation of Dr. Thirlby one of her Counsellours to Ely he was thereupon elected and having the temporalities of that See restored to him 4. of Oct. 1554 safe there till the time of his death which hapning about the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 was buried in his own Cath. Church By his Will dated 24 of Aug. 1558. and proved 2. of Dec. 1559. he gave part of his study of books to the Black Friers of Norwych if they should be restored to their Convent again and another part to Norwyeh Church for a Library there He also gave 5 l. to buy ornaments for the Church of Myrfield before-mentioned several things also to the Church of Leedes in Yorkshire and a Legacy to Christop Hopton of that place Esque without naming him his Kinsman I find one John Hopton to be made Prior of Bridlyngton in Yorkshire an 1510. upon the death of one John Ynglish but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I know not This Prior died in 1521. and was succeeded by one Will. Brounflete About the 22. of June 1559. the Dean and Chapter of Norwych elected Dr. Rich. Cox to succeed Dr. Hopton in the Chair there as it appears in a certain Reg. or Ledger book of that Church but the Queens mind being alter'd she nominated him soon after Bishop of Ely CUTHBERT TONStALL sometimes of Ball. coll afterwards of Cambridge was consecrated Bishop of London 19. of Octob. 1522. translated to Durham 25. of Mar. 1530. year 1559 and died in Nov. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine leaving then behind him the character of a person of great reputation and of very quiet behaviour See more of him among the writers under that year In the See of Durham succeeded James Pilhyngton Bach. of div born of a Knightly family at Rivyngton in the Parish of Bolton in Lancashire Son of Rich. Pilkyngton of Rivyngton Esq was educated in S. Johns coll in Cambridge where he made proficiency in all kind of learning was much addicted to reformation and therefore in the Reign of Q. Mary became an Exile in Foreign parts but upon his return thence being elected to the See of Durham was consecrated thereunto 2. of March 1560 and thirteen days after had the temporalities thereof delivered to him In the eighth year of Eliz. he being then D. of D. he erected a Free School at Rivyngton sub nomine auspiciis R. Elizabethae and endowed it with lands and tenements to the yearly value of seven and twenty pounds fourteen shillings and ten pence This worthy
Brook I have spoken at large among the Writers under the year 1628. An. Dom. 1589. An. 31 Elizab. An. 32 Elizab. Chanc. Sir Christoph Hatton Kt. who by the death of Robert Dudley Earl of Leycester became also High Steward of the Univ. of Cambridge Vicechanc. Nich. Bond D. D. President of Magd. Coll. Jul. 16. Proct. John Harding of Magd. Coll. John King of Ch. Ch. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 12. Will. Thorne of New Coll. June 25. Sebast Benefeild of C. C. Coll. July 12. George Benson of Queens Coll. See more among the Doctors of Div. an 1607. Nov. 5. Clem. Edmonds of All 's Coll. Dec. 1. Tho. Frith of Magd. Hall afterwards of All 's Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Divin 1605. 17. Edmund Griffyth of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bangor Feb. 11. John Tapsell See among the Doct. of Div. 1617. Adm. 104. Bach. of Law June 30. Will. Gager July 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. See more among the Doctors of the Civ Law this year In the month of April this year Edwyn Sandys of C. C. Coll. did supplicate for the degree of Bach. of Law but was not admitted Adm. 10. Mast of Arts. June 9. George Warwick of Qu. Coll. He was afterwards Archdeacon of Carlile in the place as I suppose of Hen. Dethick 18. Christoph Sutton of Linc. 21. Griffith Powell of Jes Coll. 27. John Budden of Gloc. Hall lately of Trin. Coll. July 4. Rich. Brett Joh. Randall of Linc. Coll. 11. George Cranmer Dec. 5. Alexand. Gill. of C. C. Coll. Adm. 74. Bach. of Phys Nov. 4. John Case the noted Philosopher of S. Johns Coll. Besides him was only one admitted and another licensed to practise Medecine Bach. of Div. July 6. Thomas Ravis of Ch. Ch. Mar. 21. Giles Tomson of All 's John Spenser of C. C. Coll. Adm. 8. Doct. of Law Apr. 30. Hen. Manning of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Exet. and died in 1614. Jun. 30. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch. He accumulated the Degrees in the Civ Law Joh. Estmond of New Coll. was admitted the same day He was now Principal of Nâ—w Inn. Jul. 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. He was lately one of the Proctors of the University afterwards Vicar Gen. in Spirituals to the Archb. of York Prebendary of Langtoft in the Church of York Chancellour to Qu. Anne a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury In the beginning of 1617 he was sent Embassadour to Bruxelis to question the Archduke in behalf of his Master the King of Great Britain concerning a late famous Libel wrot and published as 't was supposed by Erycius Puteanus who neither apprehended the Author nor suppressed the Book untill he was sollicited by the Kings Agent there only interdicted it and suffered the Author to fly his Dominions Afterwards in 1621 the said Sir Joh. Bennet was for bribery corruption and exaction in his place of Judge of the Prerogative first committed to custody to the Sheriff of London then to prison afterwards fined 20000 l. and at length deprived of his place of Judicature till such time that he had restored what he had unjustly taken away He died in the Parish of Christ Church in London in the beginning of 1627 and was buried I suppose in the Church there July 11. Thomas Crompton M. A. of Merton Coll. His Grace had before been denied because he was suspected to have something of a Papist in him but afterwards making a protestation of his Religion according to the Church of England in a solemn Congregation of Regents he was permitted then July 11. to proceed He was afterwards a Knight Judge of the Court of Admiralty and one of the first Burgesses that the Members of this University chose to sit in after they had been impowr'd to send them to Parliament He died in the latter end of 1608 having before as I conceive been engaged in the Earl of Essex his Treasons Doct. of Phys June 30. John Bentley of Ch. Church Nov. 4. Joh. Case of S. Johns Coll. Both which accumulated the Degrees in Physick and were learned men Doct. of Div. July 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Dean of Worcester as I have before told you among the Writers Creations June 16. Sir Charles Blount Kt. He was originally of this University was afterwards Earl of Devonshire and dying in 1606 left behind him a natural Son named Montjoy Blount created Earl of Newport in the Isle of Wight by K. Charles I. which Montjoy dying in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon. 12 Feb. 1665 was buried in the south Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church near to the Grave of Will Lord Grandison the King with his Court having about that time left Oxon to which place he before had retired to avoid the Plague raging in London Sir Charles Danvers Kt. was actually created M. A. the same day He was afterwards beheaded on Tower hill near London for being deeply engaged in the Earl of Essex's Treasons an 1601. Sept. 17. Ferdinando Lord Strange He was soon after Earl of Derby and dying in the flower of his Youth not without suspicion of poyson on the 16 of Apr. 1594 having enjoyed his Earldom but for a little time was buried near to the body of his Father in a Chappel joyning to the Church of Ormeskirke in Lancashire Sept. 17. Sir George Carew Kt. He was afterwards Earl of Totness Sir John Spencer of Althorp in Northamptonshire Kt. All which were actually created Masters of Arts. An. Dom. 1590. 32 Elizab. 33 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Will. James D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 16 who in 1581 had undergone the same Office Proct. Jasp Colmer of Mert. Coll. Jeh Evelegh of Exet. Coll. Apr. 29. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 13. Tho. Bastard of New Jul. 9. Joh. Davies of Queens Coll. George Carew of Exeter Coll. was admitted the same day Quaere Dec. 14. Thom. Cooper or Couper of Ch. Ch. See among the Bach. of Div. 1600. Feb. 5. Sam. Page Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham of C. C. Coll. The two last I shall mention among the Writers in the second Volume Feb. 5. Mathew Lister Lionel Day of Oriel Coll. Of the first you may see more among the Incorporations an 1605 and of the other who was originally of S. Albans Hall among the Bach. of Div. 1608. 10. Lancelot Bulkley of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland Adm. 133. Bach. of Law May 2. John Owen of New Coll. the Epigrammatist Feb. 2. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. This person whom I have mention'd among the Masters in 1587 was Proctor of the University two years after and travelling beyond the Seas return'd an accomplish'd Gentleman In 1607 June 28. he received the honor of Knighthood at Richmond was sent Embassadour into the Low Countries soon after made Secretary of State 29 Mar. 1614 being the very day that Sir Tho. Lake was
to the University say also thus He hath not only gained a singular good report for his abilities but for his pious and sweet conversation and esteem among us meaning his Soldiers and Voluntiers in the Low countries where the said Sir Horatio was a Commander of a Regiment sent to joyn with the united Princes in Germany The said Dr. Hassall was installed Dean of Norwych in the place of Dr. Edm. Suckling on the 15. July 1628 which Dignity he obtained by the endeavours of the Lady Elizabeth beforemention'd He died and was buried at Creak in Norfolk in the times of Usurpation and was succeeded in his Deanery after the restauration of K. Charles 2. by Dr. Joh. Croft of Allsouls College Brother to William Lord Croft An. Dom. 1626. An. 2. Car. 1. Chancellour William Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Will. Juxon LL. D. President of St. Johns College July 22. Proct. Hopton Sydenham of Magd. C. Dionys Prideaux of Ex. C. Apr. 19. Bach. of Musick July 24. John Frith of St. Johns Coll. Some of his compositions and Anthems I have seen but whether extant I cannot tell Bach. of Arts. Apr. 28. George Bate of St. Edm. Oct. 21. Giles Workman of Magd. Philip Hunton of Wadh. Hall Nov. 20. Calybute Downing of Or. Coll. 25. Hen. Wilkinson of Magd. hall commonly called Long Harry Dec. 4. Rich. Napier of Wadh. Jan. 30. Edw. Hinton of Mert. Coll. Of the first of these two last I shall make larger mention among the created Doctors of Phys an 1642 and of the other among the created Doctors of Div. an 1649. June 30. Joh. Prichet of St. Edm. hall lately of Queens Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester 31. Henry Edmondson of Qu. Thom. Browne of Pemb. Coll. The last of these two was the first Man of note that was admitted to a Degree as a member of Pembroke Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician Vertuoso and Knight Feb. 1. Franc. Cheynell of Mert. Coll. Joh. Biscoe of New Inn. All which will be mention'd at large hereafter On the 15. of March Sir Charles Howard of Ch. Ch. had his grace granted for Bach. of Arts but whether admitted it appears not I take him to be the same Sir Ch. Howard who was lately made Kt. of the Bath and after the death of his Father became Earl of Berkshire He died about the beginning of the year 1679. Adm. 272. or thereabouts Bach. of Law Of nine Bachelaurs of Law that were admitted this year I cannot find one of them that was afterwards a Writer or Bishop or of any eminent place in the Church Mast of Arts. March 28. Edw. Pococke of C. C. Apr. 28. Hen. Tozer of Exeter May 4. George Griffith of Ch. Ch. Coll. June 27. Rob. Codrington of Magd. July 6. Arthur Salway of Brasn Coll. The last was afterwards Minister of Severne-stoke in his native Country of Worcestershire and hath published Halting stigmatized Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 25. Oct 1643. on 1. Kings 18. 21. Lond. 1644. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Feb. 26. Tobias Crispe of Ball. Coll. He is to be numbred among the Writers in the 2. Vol. of this work Admitted 134. Bach. of Phys Of Six Bachelaurs of Phys that were admitted this year I can not find one that was afterwards eminent Besides them were two Students in that faculty adm to practice viz. John Speed of St. Johns and Thom. Nourse of Lincoln Coll. both afterwards eminent Physicians Bach. of Div. May 6. John Morris Chaplain of All 's Coll. See more of him among the Doctors of Div. an 1634. Besides Mr. Morris were 10 more Bachelaurs admitted of whom I cannot as yet give any account ☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year nor one in Physick Doct. of Div. Dec. 14. Walt. Coningsbi◠of Exeter Coll. 16. Accepted Frewen President of Magd. Coll. a Compounder Feb. 17. Christopher Potter Provost of Queens Coll. Incorporations July 7. Edm. Layfield Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He hath published The Souls solace Fun. Serm. on Psal 73. 25 printed 1632. qu. And if he be the same Layfield who had been Chaplain to Geor. Earl of Cumberland in his travels he was Author of A large relation of Port Ricco voyage which is inserted in the fourth Vol. of Sam. Purchas his Pilgrims printed at Lond. 1625. p. 11. 55. One John Layfield D. D. had a hand in translating the Bible in the beginning of K. Jam. 1. but he you must know was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge and afterwards Parson of St. Clements Church without Temble-bar near London where he died in 1617. July 10. Thom. Aylesbury Bach. of Div. of the same University He hath published 1 Serm. preached at Pauls cross 2. June 1622 on Luke 17. 37. Lond. 1623. qu. 2 Treatise of the comfession of sin with power of the Keys c. printed 1657. qu. 3 Diatribae de aeterno divini beneplaciti ciroa creaturas intellectuales decreto ubi patrum consulta c. Cantab. 1659. qu. Edward Alston Doct. of Phys of the said Univ. of Cambridge was incorporated on the same day He was afterwards a Knight and President of the Coll. of Physicians at London He died in the Parish of Great St. Helens in Lond. in the Winter time 1669. July 24. James Vsher Archb. of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland was incorporated Doct. of Div. as he had stood in the Univ. of Dublin This was done while he lodged in Jesus Coll. purposely to peruse certain MSS. in the Publick Library and elsewhere In a Convocation held 10. March 1644. certain Doctors and Masters were by the Vicechanc. and Proctors appointed to take care and see that his Effigies should be engraven on a copper plate with an Elogium under it be prefix'd to his Annotations on Ignatius his Epistles then printing in Oxon. It was also then order'd that he said plate should be engrav'd at the charge of the University and in the name thereof The Elogium which was afterwards by their appointment made runs thus Jacobus Vsserius c. James Usher Archb. of Armagh Primate of all Ireland the most skilful of Primitive antiquity the unanswerable defender of the Orthodox Religion the maul of errors in preaching frequent eloquent very powerful a rare example of an unblameable life Rob. Pink Vicechanc. But this inscription with the Effigies was not put before the said Book but before that De Ro. Eccl. Symbolo Apost Lond. 1647. and some others since Jan. 31. Nich. Andrews was with Rich. Andrews both Masters of Arts of Cambridge incorporated here as they had stood there Nich. Andrews was afterwards Doct. of Div. Rector of Guilford and Vicar of Godalmine in Surrey where shewing himself a zealous Man for the Church of England and a great Loyalist was turn'd out of his livings by the Committee of Religion appointed by the Long Parliament an 1643. He is mention'd in The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests p. 8. Feb. 1. Tobias Crispe Bach. of
two years after the Restauration of K. Charles 2. having for his sake and his Fathers suffered much in the time of Rebellion Jul. 8. Franc. Baber of Trin. Coll. Rich. Hart of S. Albans Hall The said Dr. Baber was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Gloc. for 39 years together who dying 17 of June 1669 aged 69 years was buried in a little Chappel on the south side of the Choâ—â— belonging to the Cath. Ch. at Glocester Doct. of Phys Mar. 26. Will. Taylour of S. Joh. Jun. 20. Joh. Saunders of Oriel Joh. Speed of S. Johns Coll. Which two last accumulated the degrees in Physick Jul. 3. Sam. Bave or Bavo of Ch. Ch. This person who was Son of Franc. Bave of Colen in Germany became eminent for his practice first in the City of Gloucester and afterwards in Bathe where dying in 1666 aged 80 was buried in the great Church there dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul Doct. of Div Jul. 7. Rob. Adams of New 9. Thom. Prichard of Jes Tho. Chafyn of Exet. Joh. Dâ—wle of Jesus Coll. Incorporations Jun. 19. Daniel Gotereus Bach. of Arts of Cambr. In his supplicate for Incorporation he is written Gotzer 20. Philip Parsons Doct. of Phys of Padua in Italy He was now or lately Fellow of S. Johns Coll. in Oxon and afterwards Principal of Hart Hall Jul. 10. Edm. Randolphe Doct. of Phys of Padua He was sometimes a Member of Vniversity Coll. 11. George Douglas a Scot M. of A. of Aberdene On the 15 July being the next day after the Act were these Cambridge men incorporated Will. Spurstow Bach. of Arts so he is written in the Register was then incorporated This person who was the Son and Heir of Will. Spurstow Citizen and Mercer of London but originally descended from the Spurstows of Spurstow in Cheshire was afterwards M. of A. grand Presbyterian one of the five Smectymni Steph. Marshal Edm. Calamy Tho. Young and Mathew Newcomen being the other four one of the Ass of Divines Minister of Hackney near London a Preacher before the Long Parliament Master of Catherine Hall in Cambr. wherein he had been educated in the place of Dr. Ralph Brownrig and Doctor of Divinity He hath published 1 Englands pattern and duty in its monthly Fasts Sermon to both Houses of Parliament 21 July 1643. on 1 Sam. 7. 6. Lond. 1643. qu. 2 Englands eminent judgments caused by the abuse of Gods eminent mercies Thansgiving Serm. before the H. of Lords 5 Nov. 1644 on Ezra 9. 13 14. Lond. 1644. qu. 3 Fast Serm. before the H. of C. 24 Jun. 1646. This I have not yet seen nor other Sermons on several occasions as one at the Funeral of Mr. Will. Taylor printed 1661. qu. another on the Lady Viner c. 4 Wells of salvation opened discovering the nature preciousness usefulness of Gospel promises and rules for right application of them Lond. 1655. 59. oct 5 Practical Treatise of the excellency and right use of the Gospel promises Lond. 1658. 6 Spiritual Chymist or six Deeads of divine meditations Lond. 1666. 68. oct c. In the year 1662 he was ejected from his benefice at Hackney for Nonconformity where and in the neighbourhood he lived exercising his parts in private among the brethren till his death which was at Hackney as I conceive in Jan. or Feb. 1665. Edward Rainbow Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. in Cambr. He was afterwards M. of A. Master of that Coll. 1642 Doct. of Div. four years after and in 1650 was ejected from his Mastership Afterwards he enjoyed two livings successively without examination by the Tryers and in 1660 being restored to his Mastership was soon after made Dean of Peterborough upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Cosin to the See of Durham and in Nov. 1662 Vicechancellour of Cambridge In 1664 Jul. 10 he was consecrated Bishop of Carlile in K. Hen. 7. Chap. at Westminster where sitting about twenty years gave way to fate in his Palace called Rose Castle near Carlile 26 March 1684 aged 76 years or thereabouts On the first of April following he was inter'd in the Yard belonging to the parochial Church of Dalston under the Chancel Wall at which time Mr. Thom. Tully one of his Lordships Chaplains and Chancellour of the Diocess of Carlile preached his Funeral sermon This Dr. Rainbow having been originally of C. C. Coll. in this University I shall in my other Vol. of this Work speak more largely of him Thom. Ball M. A. I take this person to be the same Thomas Ball who was born in Shropshire first of Queens under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Preston and afterwards Fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambr. Minister of the Gospel in Northampton and a publisher of several books as 1 The life of Dr. Joh. Preston 2 Pastorum propugnaculam or the pulpits patronage against the force of unordained usurpation and invasion in four parts Lond. 1656. qu. c. He was buried at Nâ—rthampton 21 June 1659 aged 69 years or thereabouts At which time his intimate acquaintance Joh. Howe 's M. of A. sometimes of Eman. Coll. Rector of Abbington near Nâ—rthampton preached his Funeral sermon wherein were several matters delivered in commendation of Mr. Ball. Râ—b Creyghton or Chrichton M. of A. of Trin. Coll. This person who was born in the north parts of Scotland was educated in Westminster School and thence elected into the said College 1613 took the degrees in Arts and became Orator and Greek Professor of Cambridge In 1632 Dec. 17. he was installed Treasurer of the Cathedral Church at Wells having been collated thereunto by Geor. Archb. of Canterbury upon the then vacancy of the See of B. and Wells in which Vacancy Dr. Rob. Wright who kept the said Treasureship in commendam with the See of Bristow was translated to Lichfield and thereupon forced to give up that Dignity In 1637 he became Dean of S. Burians in Cornwal in the place of Rich. Murray a Scot deceased and about that time Doctor of Divinity and beneficed in Somersetshire In the beginning of the Rebellion he suffered then and afterwards very much for the Royal Cause retired to his Majesty at Oxon became one of his Chaplains afterwards an Exile with K. Ch. 2. to whom being Chaplain at the Hague preached very liberally before him against the Presbyterians and the Murderers of K Ch. 1. After his Majesties return he became Dean of Wells the grant of which he had before and being then also Chaplain to the King he would freely preach before him against the Vices of the times which was well taken by some tho sneared at by others In 1670 Jun. 19 he was consecrated B of Bathe and Wells at Lambeth in the place of Dr. Will. Piers deceased at which Ceremony assisted the B. of London in the place of his Grace the Archb. of Canterbury with the Bishops of Winchester and Ely This Dr. Creyghton was a learned man as it appears by his translation from Greek into Latin and illustration
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
to and hated him Card. Allen and Sir Fr. Inglefield as bitter Enemies Of this Nic. Dolman who was a grave Priest and of a mild disposition you may read in a book intit A relation of a Faction began at Wisbich 1595 c. p. 12 13 14 c. 32. 47 c. A copy of a Letter written by a Master of Arts of Cambridge to his Friend in London concerning some talk passed of late between two worshipful and grave men about the present state and some proceedings of the Earl of Leicester and his Friends in England c. Written in 1584. but the certain year when prinâ—ed unless in 1600. I cannot tell It was also printed in oct as the other was in 1631. and hath this running title on the top of every leaf of the book A Letter of State of a Scholar of Cambridge The first edit and perhaps the second was printed beyond the Seas and most of the copies being sent into England bound with the outside of the leaves coloured with green the book was commonly called Father Persons Green-coat 'T is the same book with that intit Leicesters Common-wealth being a dialogue between a Scholar a Gent. and a Lawyer Lond. 1641. qu. This book tho' commonly reported to be Persons and that he had most of his materials for the composition thereof from Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh which I presume did arise from Dr. Tho. James his affirmation that he was the author of it yet Persons himself saith in his Preface to the Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword that he did not write Leicesters Commonwealth And certainly if he had been the author it Pitseus and Ribadeneira with his Continuators would have mentioned it in their respective Catalogues of our author's works whereas they are altogether silent in that matter Liecesters Commonwealth Lond. 1641. oct written in verse This is a small thing and containeth not the same sense with the former Leicesters Ghost in verse also To both which tho the name of Rob. Persons Jesuit is set in the title yet I cannot any where find that he was the author Apologetical Epistle to the Lords of her Maj. Council in defence of his Resolution in Religion Printed 1601. oct Brief apology or defence of the Catholick Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and Subordination in England erected these later years by P. Clem. 8. and impugned by certain Libels printed and published of late c. S. Omer 1601. in oct Soon after were certain notes wrote on this by Humph. Ely Manifestation of the folly and bad spirit of certain in England calling them Secular Priests Printed 1602. qu. This is called a Libel in a Reply made to it by W. C. printed 1603. qu. And it was animadverted upon by A. C. in his Second Letter to his dis-jesuited Kinsman concerning the appeal state Jesuits c. Printed 1602. qu. A Decachordon of 10 Quodlibetical Questions about the contentions between the Seminary Priests and the Jesuits Printed 1602. qu. De perigrinatione lib. 1. Printed in tw This I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether it be in Lat. or Engl. The Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword Pr. 1602. in oct Answer to O. E. whether Papists ' or Protestants be true Catholicks Pr. 1603. in ect Treatise of the three conversions from Paganism to Christian Religion Published under the name of N. D. that is Nic. Doleman in three Volumes in oct The first Vol. which containeth two parts of the said treatise was printed at S. Omers an 1603. The second Vol. which containeth the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the Kalender or Catalogue of Protestant Saints Martyrs and Confessors devised by Joh. Fox c. for the first six months was printed at the said place in 1604. And the third Vol. which containeth also the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the said Kalender of John Fox for the last six months was printed at the same place in the same year under the initial Letters of N. D. When the said three Volumes were first published they were sold in Oxon for 20 shillings but some years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. I bought them for 3 sh The same year 1604 came out Around answer to Parsons alias Doleman the Noddy in qu. but whither to any of the former treatises I know not A relation of a trial made before the K. of France upon the year 1600. between the Bishop of Eureux and the Lord Pleffis Mornay about certain points of corrupting and falsifying authors whereof the said Plessis was openly convicted S. Omers 1604 in oct Published under the initial Letters of N. D. A defence of the precedent relation of a conference about Religion Printed with the Relation of a Trial c. Review of ten publick disputations or conferences held within the compass of four years under K. Ed. and Q. Mary concerning some principal points in Religion especially of the Sacrament and Sacrifice of the Altar S. Omer 1604. in oct under the name of N. D. Fore-runner of Bells downfal or an answer to Tho. Bells downfal of Popery Pr. 1605. in oct An answer to the fifth part of Reports lately set forth by Sir Edw. Coke Knight the Kings Attorney Gen. c. S. Omer 1606. in qu. Published under the name of a Cath. Divine De Sacris alienis non adeundis quaestiones duae Ad usum praximque Angliae breviter explicatae Audomar 1607. in oct Treatise tending to mitigation towards Cath. Subjects in England against Tho. Morton Pr. 1607. qu. The said Morton was afterwards Bishop of Durham The judgment of a Catholick Gent. concerning K. James his Apology for the oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1608. in qu. Answered by Will. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln Sober reckoning with Mr. Tho. Morton Pr. 1609. qu. Discussion of Mr. Barlowes answer to The judgment of a Catholick Englishman concerning the Oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1612. This book being almost finished before Persons's death was afterwards compleated and published by Tho. Fitzherbert See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. The Liturgy of the Mass of the Sacrament of the Mass Pr. 1620. in qu. A memorial for reformation or a remembrance for them that shall live when Catholick Religion shall be restored in England in 3 parts 'T is the same I suppose that is called The high Court or Council of Reformation for England The author of it tho twenty years as 't is said in compiling it all which time and after it was secretly kept yet it was never printed in his time 'T was finished by him 1596. and as I have been informed 't was published some years after his death At length a copy of it coming into his hands of Edw. Gee Rector of S. Benedict near Paul's Wharf in Lond. and Chaplain in Ord. to K. Will. and Qu. Mary he published it under this title A Memorial of the Reformation of England containing certain notes and advertisements which seem
might be proposed in the first Parliament and National Council of our Country after God of his mercy shall restore it to the Catholick Faith for the better establishment and preservation of the said Religion Lond. 1690. oct To which the said Edw. Gee hath put before it an Introduction and added some Animadversions Controversiae nostri temporis in Epitomen redactae MS. in Baliol coll Library written with the authors own hand In the front of which is this written Compilator hujusce Epitomes est Robertus Personius ut patet ex Johanne Rainoldâ— in censura librorum Apochryphorum praelectione secunda pag. 22. ex editione Hieronimi Galleri in nobili Openhemio He also translated from English into the Spanish tongue A relation of certain Martyrs in England Madrid 1590. oct At length after he had spent his life in continual agitation for the cause gave up the ghost at Rome 15 Ap. according to the accompt there followed which is the fifth day of the same month with us in sixteen hundred and ten and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the English coll year 1610 there Soon after was a monument put over his Grave with a large inscription thereon which for brevity sake I shall now pass by In the Rectorship of the said English coll succeeded Tho. Owen a Welsh-man RICHARD KNOLLES of the same family with those of his name living at Cold-Ashby in Northamptonshire made his first entry into this University in 1560. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts four years after and then was elected Fellow of Lincoln college where after he had proceeded in that faculty did purpose to perform if God granted him life something that might be profitable to the Christian Commonwealth as in time God should give him means and occasions In the mean while Sir Peter Manwood of S. Stephens near to Canterbury Knight of the Bath minding to be a favourer of his studies called him from the University and was by 〈◊〉 preferred to be Master of the Free-School at Sandwich in Kent where being settled he did much good in his Profession and sent many Young men to the Universities And tho he was there in a world of troubles and cares and in a place that afforded no means of comfort to proceed in great works yet he performed much for the benefit of History at his vacant hours upon the desire of the said Sir Peter as it doth appear by these his works following The history of the Turks Lond. 1610. c. fol. which book he composed in about 12 years time And tho it all goes under his name yet some there be that think he was not the sole author of it because therein are found divers translations of Arabick Histories in which Language he was not at all seen as some that knew him have averr'd In other editions of this book for there have been at least five it beareth this title The general History of the Turks from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Ottomaâ— Family c. It hath been continued from Knolles's death by several hands and one continuation was made from the year 1628. to the end of the year 1637. collected out of the dispatches of Sir Pet. Wyche Kt. Embass at â—onstantinople and others by Tho. Nabbes a writer for the most part comical to the English Stage in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. A continuation of the Turkish Hist from 1623. to 1677. was made by Paul Rycaut Esq late Consul at Smyrna Lond. 1679. The Lives and Conquests of the Ottoman Kings and Emperours to the year 1610. Lond. 1621. Continued from that time 1610. to 1621. by another hand A brief discourse of the greatness of the Turkish Empire and where the greatest strength thereof consisteth c. Grammat Latine Graecae Hebr. compendium cum radicibus Lond. in oct He also translated from the French and Lat. copies into English The six books of a Common-wealth Lond. 1606. fol. written by Joh. Bodin a famous Lawyer At length this our author Knolles dying at Sandwich before he had quite attained to the age of Man in sixteen hundred and ten year 1610 was buried in St. Maries Church there on the second of July the same year leaving behind him the character of an industrious learned and religious person FRANCIS HASTINGS fifth Son of Francis Earl of Huntingdon was born as it seems in Leicestershire where his Father mostly lived educated in Madg. coll under the tuition of Dr. Laur. Humphrey in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign from whom sucking in many Calvinistical Opinions proved when he was ripe in years a severe Puritan and Predestinatian as his elder Brother George was who was trained up at Geneva under Theod. Beza and a most zealous Man for the reformed Religion Two other Brothers also were as zealous for the Church of Rome yet all for a time lived friendly together Afterwards our author Francis was Knighted by Q. Elizabeth and being several times chosen a Parliament-man in her Reign became a frequent Speaker in them and at first a violent Man against the Papists tho afterwards a favourer especially at that time when he and Sir Rich. Knightly of Northamptonshire presented a Petition to the Parliament for favour or a toleration to be given to them Whereby it appeared then to the observer that the Putitan could joyn with the Papist against the Church of England He was a learned Gentleman well read in authors especially in those relating to the controversies between the Protestants and Papists as it appears by his works the titles of which follow The Watchword to all true-hearted English-men Lond. 1598. oct Which title did imitate that belonging to a book printed at Lond. in qu. an 1584. running thus A Watchword to England to beware of Traytors and treacherous practices c. But the Watchword of Sir F. Hastings being answered by Nic. Doleman alias Rob. Persons in his Temperate Wardword our author came out with An aâ—â—logy or defence of the Watchword against the virulent and seditious Wardword published by an English Spaniard under the title of N. D. Lond. 1600 qu. In which year came out also another book in defence of Hastings intit A brief reply to a certain odious and scandalous Libel lately published by a seditious Jesuit calling himself N. D. c. entit A temperate Wardword Printed at Lond. in qu. but who the author of it was I know not Another also who writes himself O. E. published a second reply the same year against the said Temperate Wardword Against which or another book relating to the said controversie came out A confutation of a vaunting challenge made by O. E. unto N. D. Pr. 1603. in oct written by W. R. a Rom. Catholick Our author Sir Francis also wrote The Wastword c. Pr. at Lond. 1601. oct Answer'd by Persons's book called The Warnword an 1602. Meditations Printed several times in 16o. Several Speeches in Parliament Some of which are