common use Printed 1588 in oct dedicated to Sir Jo. Horsey Knight Brief Treatise of the preservation of the Eye-sight Printed in the Reign of Qu. Eliz. in tw and at Oxon 1616 and 1654 in oct c. In that Edition of 1616 was printed another or second Treatise of the Eye-sight collected from Fernclius and Riolanus but by whom I know not They both now go under the name of Bailey who hath also written Directions for health natural and artificial with Medicines for all diseases of the Eyes Printed 1626 in qu. Explicatio Galeni de potu convaelescentium senum praecipuè de nosti ae Alae Biriae paratione c. MS. in qu. sometimes in the Library of Robert Earl of Aylesbury He the said Dr. Bailey surrendred up his last breath March 3. in fifteen hundred ninty and two aged 63 and was buried in the inner Chappel of New Coll. whose Epitaph you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. b. His posterity do live at this day at Ducklington near to Witney in Oxfordshire some of whom have been Justices of the Peace for the said County FRANCIS PUCCIUS Filidinus was born of the noble and renowned family of the Puccii at Florence from which had sprung before his time three Cardinals educated from his Childhood in good Letters and in the R. Cath. Religion exercis'd the trade of Merchandize at Lyons where many differences and disputes arising concerning Religion which were not then quite sopited our Author Puccius who was only a Spectator laid aside his trade and totally applied himself to the study of Sacred Letters to the end that he might perfectly understand the grounds of his belief and what was professed by the Protestants At length being satisfied in Conscience that those of the Ro. Church were in an errour he left France and Italy retired into England and being seemingly a Protestant he went to the University of Oxon got himself thro commendations of his sincerity to be entred into a Coll. or Hall wherein he studied Philosophy and Divinity very severely and took the degree of Master of Arts an 1574. About which time maintaining certain opinions contrary to those of the Grandees of the said University which were Calvinistical especially de fide in dcum quae qualis sit had many private disputes with Theologists there and at length publick Which disputes being altogether displeasing to them who esteemed them ridiculous and the author no better than an arrogant and an opinionative person they found means to remove him from the University much about the same time that he was endeavouring to be a Theol. or Catechistical Lecturer lest his Doctrine should take root among the juniors For at that time they being very zealous for a thro Reformation were jealous of all strangers that came among them and particularly of him whom they well knew to have been a zealous Papist and then no well-grounded Protestant From Oxford he went to London had several disputes there also and became acquainted with Ant. Corrano who living about that time in Oxon also his person could never be well relisht among them Afterwards Puccius went to Basil in Germany upon the invitation of Francisc Bettus a Roman then living there where meeting also with Faustus Socirus they had many discourses concerning the adventures of 〈◊〉 England and at length had several disputes 〈◊〉 himself with which he seeming 〈◊〉 Puccius wrote ten arguments de 〈…〉 primi hominis ante peccatum All which being answered by Socinus were by him with several disputations that had passed between them made publick Afterwards Puccius was forced to leave Basil because he had printed certain Theses to be disputed on in which he asserted universum humanum genus in ipso matris utero efficaciter particeps esse beneficiis Christi vitae immortalis beatae c. Whereupon he went into England and so to London where he began to publish his paradoxical opinions and that with such confidence as if Orpheus like he meant to charm all to follow him but his waters being narrowly watch'd he was seiz'd on imprison'd and suffered several calamities otherwise Oxford would have once more tasted of his Doctrine Afterwards being let loose he went into Flanders and Holland where he corresponded by Letters with Socinus From Holland he went to Antwerp where he did the like and had several cavilling disputes not only with such that he esteemed heterodox but with those of his own opinion Thence he removed to Cracaw in Poland where he had frequent disputes with the Jesuits and others nay and with some of his own perswasion Socinus being there also and wrote several matters in the Italian Tongue against the Church of Rome in 1585. While he continued in the said City of Cracaw it hapned that he became acquainted with two persons that had come to that place with Albertus Alaskie Prince or Vaywood of Sirad when he left England Their names were John Dee and Edward Kelley Magicians who having partly known Puccius in England did entertain and admit him into their secrets with great hope of some good to be done by his fellowship and in August the same year he was actually with them at Prague in Bohemia to which place they conveyed him while certain Spirits appeared to them Kelley being then Seer and d ee an observer or writer down of what was said by the Spirits and Kelley's seeing and interpreting At length Puccius did not deal truely and sincerely with them which much troubled Dee and thereupon he desired to be rid of him Puccius therefore perceiving it wrote a large and submissive Letter to the said Dee and Kelly and among other things gave him a very punctual account of what had passed between Philip Bishop of Placentià who was sent by the Pope as his Nuncio to have the said Magicians banished or else sent to Rome and himself concerning their cause apparitions high attempts c. But so it was that whither by the perswasions of the said Nuncio or some things utter'd by the Spirits that all the World should at length come to the Church of Rome he forthwith recanted before certain Rom. Priests and became a zealous Papist and at length a Priest All that I have seen of his works besides what are already mentioned are De Christi Salvatoris efficacitate in omnibus singulis hominibus quatenus homines sunt assertio Catholica c. Goudae 1592. oct Ded. to P. Clem. 8. Epistola ad Jo. Dee Edw. Kelly Dat. at Prag 15. Cal. oct 1585. 'T is a large Epistle in Latin and is the same with the submissive Letter before mentioned After the year fifteen hundred and ninty two he went to Rome and became Secretary to Cardinal Pompeius Arragon from whom he expected great matters but death snatching him untimely away in the midst of his aspiring thoughts about the year 1600 was buried in the Church of St.
He was afterwards Bishop of Corke Cloyne and Ross Archb. of Dublin Chancellour of Ireland and at length Archb. of Armagh Januar. 26. Martin Westcomb Bach. of Arts of the University of Toulouse in France Two Bachelaurs of Arts of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge named Nich. Frost and Tho. Lee were incorporated this year which is all I know of them only that the first proceeded M. of A. in the year following as a member of Ball. Coll. This year among several Cambridge Men that were incorporated Masters of Arts must not be forgotten John Cleaveland the Poet not that it appears so in the publick register but from the relation of a certain Person who was then a Master of this University This Mr. Cleaveland who was the Vicars Son of a Market-town called Hinkley in Leicestershire was born there and in the same town received his Grammatical education under one Mr. Rich. Vines a zealous Puritan where obtaining a perfection in Lat. and Greek learning was sent to Christs Coll. in Cambridge and in short time proving an exquisite Orator and pure Latinist was preferr'd to a Fellowship of St. Johns Coll. in the said University and as the delight and ornament of that house he continued there about nine years and from his Oratory became an eminent Poet. At length upon the eruption of the Civil War he was the first Champion that appear'd in verse for the Kings cause against the Presbyterians for which and his signal Loyalty he was ejected thence Whereupon retiring to Oxon the Kings head quarter lived there for a time and was much venerated and respected not only by the great Men of the Court but by the then Wits remaining among the affrighted and distressed muses for his high Panegericks and smart Satyrs From Oxon he went to Newark upon Trent where he was so highly valued by all especially by the then most loyal and generous Sir Rich. Willis Baronet the Governour of that Garison for his Majesty that he was made Judge Advocate and continued there till the surrender thereof for the use of the Parliament shewing himself a prudent Judge for the King and a faithful Advocate for the Country Afterwards being imprison'd at Yarmouth where he continued in a lingring condition and with little hopes of relief drew up an Address to Oliver Cromwell written in such towring language and so much gallant reason that upon his perusal of he was so much melted down with it that he forthwith ordered his release Afterwards he retired to London where finding a generous Mecaenas setled in Greys Inn in Holbourne and became much admired if not adored by all generous loyalists and ingenious Men. He hath written 1 Poems Lond. in oct there again with additions 1651. oct and several times after 2 Characters 3 Orations 4 Epistles c. Several times also printed At length an intermitting feaver seizing him brought him to his grave in the Church of St. Michael Royal commonly called College-hill Church within the City of London on the first day of May 1658. Soon after were published several Elegies on him particularly that entit Vpon the most ingenious and incomparable Musophilist of his time Mr. John Cleaveland A living memorial of his most devotional Brother and cordial mourner Printed at London on the broad side of a sheet of paper an 1658. 'T was written by his Brother Phil. Cleaveland who tells us there that the said John Cleaveland died 28. April 1658. I have another Elegy lying by me entit An Elegy upon the death of the most excellent Poet Mr. John Cleaveland Printed also on one side of a sheet of paper in May 1658. It was written by Francis Vaux a Servitour of Queens Coll. in Oxon of about 3 years standing the same who printed A Poem in praise of Typography which is all I know of him as having taken no Degree in this University An. Dom. 1638. An. 14. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. Vicechanc. Accepted Frewen D. D. President of Magd. Coll. and Dean of Glocester Proct. Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll. Joh. Nicolson of Magd. Coll. Apr. 4. Bach. of Musick July 5. Rob. Lugge Organist of St. Johns Coll. in this University He afterwards went beyond the Seas changed his Religion for that of Rome and was at length as 't is said made Priest Several vocal compositions for the Church go under his name Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. Anth. Palmer of Ball. Jam. Browne of Oriel Coll. 11. Will. Hughes of New Inn. Robert Mead Hen. Greisley Will. Towers of Ch. Ch. Job Hinkley of St. Alb. 20. Edw. Chamberlayne of S. Ed. Hall May 29. Sam. Harding of Exet. Coll. Job Osborne of New Inn. June 23. Job Biddle of Magd. July 3. Franc. Moore of Gloc. Hall The last of these two I take to be the same Person who was Author of A Funeral Sermon c. on Luke 8. 5. printed 1656. qu. Oct. 13. Tim. Baldwin of Ball. 30. Jam. Baron of Exet. Coll. Of the last of these two you may see among the created Bac. of Div. an 1649. Dec. 3. Miles Smith of Magd. 4. William Hill of Mert. Jan. 24. George Rogers of Line 29. Daniel Whistler of Trin. Coll. Feb. 1. Thom. Greenfield of Pemb. Coll. See among the Masters an 1641. 12. Tho. Jones of Oriel afterwards of Mert. Coll. Most of these Bachelaurs who were all afterwards Writers will be mentioned in the next volume or elsewhere Admitted 224. Bach. of Law June 26. Hen. Coventrie of All 's Coll. This honorable Person who was the only Bach. of Law that was admitted this year was a younger Son of Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England and was as it seems before the grand rebellion broke out Chancellour of Landaff Afterwards suffering much for his Majesties Cause was after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. made one of the Grooms of his Bedchamber in Decemb. 1661. and in May 1667 he with Denzill Lord Holles went Embassadors extraordinary from his Majesty of Great Britaine to Breda to consummate a certain Treaty there In Sept. 1671 he went Embassador to Sweden having been an Envoy extraordinary there in 1664 at which time he gave his helping hand to the breaking of the Triple-league and on the 3. July 1672. he was sworn Principal Secretary of State in the room of Sir Joh. Trever deceased Which honorable office he keeping till his body was much broken with business to the beginning of the year 1680 resign'd it with his Majesties leave and retired for health sake to Enfield for a time Whereupon the place of Secretary was bestowed on Sir Liolin Jenkins Knight At length Mr. Covencry giving way to fate in his house situated in the Hâ—ymarket near to Charing-cross in Westminster 5. Dec. 1686 aged 68 years or thereabouts was buried in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields which is all I can speak of him for the present only that he was a native of London Mast of Arts. Apr. 7. Franc. Bampfield of Wadh. 11.
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
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
matter after that Pope Sixtus 5. had bestowed on him the title of Cardinal and the Spaniard had gave him an Abbacy in the Kingdom of Naples and nominated him Archbishop of Machlin When the Bull of Excommunication against Q. Elizabeth at that time that the great Navy was provided for England came forth he brought it into the Low Countries and caused it to be printed in English Withal he wrote an Admonition to the Englishmen that they should stick to the Pope and Spaniard but being deceived of all his hopes he returned again back to Rome where being wearied with the discords hatreds and dissentions of the English Run-aways both Scholars and Nobles at last he dyed in the 63 year of his Age c. Another saith That he was so ill deserving to be accounted English as that like another Herostratus he endeavoured to raise a combustion in the Church and State c. But let Writers say what they please certain it is that he was an active Man and of great parts and high prudence that he was Religious and Zealous in his Profession restless till he had performed what he had undertaken that he was very affable gentile and winning and that his personage was handsome and proper which with an innate gravity commanded respect from those that came near or had to do with him His Works as to learning are these A defence of the Doctrine of Catholicks concerning Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead Antw. 1565. in oct Brief Reasons concerning Cath. Faith Treatise made in defence of the lawful Power and Authority of Priesthood to remit Sins Lov. 1567. oct The People's duty for confession of their Sins to God's Ministers Printed with the Treatise made c. The Churches meaning concerning Indulgences commonly called Pope's Pardons Printed also with the Treatise made c. Which three last were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge De Antw. 1576. qu Sacramentis in genere Sacramento Eucharistiae Sacrificio Euch. Apology and true declaration of the institution and endeavours of the two English Colleges the one in Rome the other now resident in Rhemes against certain finiste informations given up against the same Printed at Mounts in Heâ—â—cault 1581. in a large oct This Books is said by one to be a princely grave and flourishing piece of natural and exquisite English Apologia pro sacerdotibus Societatis Jesu Seminariorum alumnis contra Edicta Regia Printed in a Book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in oct 1594. in qu. part 3. Piissima admonitio consolatio verè Christiana ad afflictos Catholicos Angliae Printed also in the said Book A true sincere and modest defence of the English Catholicks that suffer for their Faith both at home and abroad against a slanderous Libel entit The Execution of Justice in England Not expressed where or when Printed but by the character and some passages therein is shew'd that it was Printed beyond the Seas about 1583. in oct Printed also in Latin at Ingolst 1584. in oct and in a Book entit Concertat Eccles Cath. in Anglia c. 1594. This defence was answered by Dr. Tho. Bilson in the third part of his Book of the Supremacy or in that Book called The true difference between Christian Subjection and Vnchristian Rebellion As for The Execution of Justice which the defence answers was written as it was then and since reported by Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh The second impression of which made at Lond. 1583. in five sheets in oct I have and bears this Title The execution of Justice in England for maintenance of Publick and Christian Peace against certain stirs of sedition and adherents to the Traytors and Enemies of the Realm without any persecution of them for questions of Religion as is falsly reported c. Epistola de Daventriae ditione Cracov 1588. in oct Printed also about that time in English It must be noted that in 1587. Will. Stanley and Rowl York Englishmen did traiterously deliver up a Fort near Zutphen and the strong Garrison of Daventry to the Spaniard whereupon our Author Dr. Allyn did being provoked by the Bull of Pius 5. against Q. Elizabeth not only commend the Treason but excited others in the said Epistle to the like exploit or perfidiousness as if they were neither bound to serve nor obey an excommunicated Queen At which time the said Allyn dispatched away divers Priests to Rowl York whose Regiment of 13 hundred consisted all of English and Irish to be Chaplains and Confessors to them In the year 1588. our author Allyn compiled a Book to be published when the Spaniard should arrive into England to stir up all the English Papists to take up Arms against the Queen The first part of the said Book was intit A declaration of the Sentence of Sixtus 5. Grounded on the said Pope's Crusaido whereby he gave plenary Indulgence and Pardon of all Sins to all that gave their helping hand to deprive Q. Elizabeth of her Kingdom The second part was entit An admonition to the Nobility and People of England Which Book or Books coming straightway to the knowledge of the Queen she dispatched away D. Val. Dale to the Prince of Parma Vice-Roy of the Low Countries for the King of Spain who being introduced into his presence he did mildly expostulate with him about the said Book or Books written by Allyn wherein as Dale said he exhorted the Nobility and People of England and Ireland to joyn with the Spanish Forces under him the said Prince to invade England c. but he pretended he knew nothing of such a Book and so sent him away unsatisfied However so it was that presently upon the overthrow of the great invincible Armado under their heroical Adlantado certain Roman Catholicks procured the whole impression to be burned saving some few that had been sent abroad beforehand to Friends and such as had otherwise been conveyed away by the Printer and others in secret wise What else our Author Allyn hath written Joh. Pitseus who speaks very honorably of him will tell you who adds that he gave up the ghost on the 6 of Oâ—â—ob according to our accompt in fifteen hundred ninety and four and was buried in the Church or Chappel of the English Colledge at Rome where there is an Epitaph for him which being printed by two several Authors at least I shall now pass it by The Jesuits triumphed openly as one saith at his Death and among other of the calumniations against him they said That God had taken him away in a good time for if he had lived longer he would have disgraced himself and lost the credit which he had got In one or more Books containing the lives or at least characters with the Arms of the Popes and Cardinals of Rome it appears that the Arms of Cardinal Allyn are Argent 3 Connies or Rabbets passant Sable yet the ancient Arms belonging to
written other things as I have heard Mr. Walton say but are kept private to the great prejudice of the publick He was slain in a Battle near Carlingford in Ireland between the English and the Rebels there on the 13. of Nov. in sixteen hundred year 1600 as it is attested by Camden speaking of the said Battle thus Cecidit tamen ex Anglis praeter alios Cranmerus Prorege ab Epistolis vir eruditissimus ipsi eo nomine longè charissimus I find another George Cranmer who was born at Wingham in Kent admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1559. and died in 1563. but he hath written nothing JOHN RASTELL a most noted Enemy in his writings to B. John Jewell was born within the City of Gloucester trained up in Wykeham's School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1549. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1555. and about that time Sacred Orders In 1560. he left his coll wherein he had always been accounted an excellent Disputant his Friends and native Country and went to Lovaine where and at Antwerp he published certain books against B. Jewell being then a candidate of the Fac. of Theology Afterwards he went to Rome and in 1568. he was with his Brother or near Kinsman admitted into the Society of Jesus Whereupon because a way had not then been opened for the Jesuits into England he went into Germany to perform offices pertaining to his Order But being initiated in the Priesthood before his ingress into the Society and having performed the office of Confessor in the place of one Hall was sent to Auspurge and at length became Rector of the coll of Jesuits at Ingolstadt He hath written Confutation of a Sermon pronounced by Mr. Jewell at Paul's Cross Antw. 1564. Copy of a challenge taken out of the confutation of Mr. Jewells Sermon Antw. 1565. oct Reply against an answer falsly intit A defence of the Truth Antw. 1565. oct Brief view of the false wares packed up in the nameless Apoloâ—y of the Church of England Lov. 1567. oct Treatise entit Beware of Mr. Jewell Antw. 1566. oct This Jo. Rastell who parhaps hath written other things died in a good old age at Ingolstadt about the year sixteen hundred year 1600 and was buried in the coll of the Jesuits there Several of these books before-mentioned are attributed by a certain author to Will. Rastell a Judge but false See more under the year 1565. where you will justly find what belongs to him HENRY PRICE was born in London became Scholar of St. John's coll in 1584. aged 18. afterwards Fellow M. of A. and Chaplain to Sir Hen. Lea of Oxfordshire At length taking the degree of Bac. of Div. became Rector of Fleetmarston in Bucks a noted Preacher and an elegant Lat. Poet. His Works are Epicedium in obitum Henrici Comitis Derbeiensis Oxon. 1593. qu. The Eagles flight Serm. at Pauls Cross on Luke 17. 37. Lond. 1599. oct He died at Woodstock in Oxfordshire 2. Feb. in sixteen hundred aged 34. or thereabouts and was buried in St. John's coll Chappel Over his Grave was a Mon. soon after erected at the charge of the President and Society who were his Heirs a copy of the inscription on which you may read in Hist Antiq. Vnivers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 312. He left behind him several Sermons which were esteemed by some worthy of the Press one of which I have seen written on Rom. 7. 24. Preached an 1594. THOMAS WILLIAMS a Welsh-man born did spend several years among the Oxonians but whether in Brasenose coll where one of both his Names took the degree of Master of Arts in 1573. I cannot tell Afterwards he entred on the Physick line but took no degree in that Faculty retired into his Country and practiced there This person who was also a curious Critick in his mother-tongue wrote Dictionarium Latino-Britannicum A work of many years labour which being left imperfect in some places was reviewed and corrected by Dr. Jo. Davies and by him published in 1632. who tells us that he said Williams was much encouraged in his studies by the Father of Sir RichWynne Knight and Baronet to whom he did intend to dedicate had he lived to have finished it He tells us also that the said Th. Williams was living and in great renown in his own Country in sixteen hundred but when he died he adds not I find another Tho. Williams who was elected Probat Fellow of Merton coll in 1562. studied Physick several years took the degree of Bach. of that Faculty in 1575. and died in his coll 1579. being then accounted a learned Physician But this person was no author and whether a Welsh-man I cannot yet find A third Tho. Williams was of Broadgates hall and as the eldest Son of an Esq took the degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of July in 1592. besides several others of a later date and another before who wrote Rules of the Italian Grammar Lond. 1567. c. HENRY CUFF a most excellent Grecian is said by an Historian of no great note to be base by Birth meaning I presume that his birth was mean If so then let it be known from the Records in the Coll. of Arms that his birth was gentile in Sommersetshire that his Predecessors for 4 Generations before him lived at Creech near to Taunton in the said County in good esteem and that his Ancestor Joh. Cuff who lived sometimes at Ilchester and sometimes at Creech where he had good inheritances had a Coat of Arms granted to him and his posterity by Christop Barker Garter King of Arms 36. Hen. 8. and so consequently was made a Gentleman At 26 years of age in 1586. he the said Hen. Cuff was chosen Prob. Fellow of Merton coll having a little before been forced to resign his Fellowship of Trin. coll for speaking certain matters tho true that redounded to the great discredit of the Founder Sir Tho. Pope and two years after was not only made Master-Fellow but also M. of A. In which time he occasionally shewed himself a rare Grecian Philosopher and Disputant Afterwards he was Greek Professor and Proctor of the University and at length Secretary to that unfortunate Count Robert Earl of Essex As he was a person of good parts so was he ambitious withal and pretended to be well seen in the rules of Policy believed by many that he was so because smothered under the habit of a Scholar especially by his great Patron which brought him the sooner to the block He wrote in the year 1600 The differences of the ages of man's life Lond. 1607. and 1633. in oct The original causes progress and end of Man's life Printed with the former book and other things which he left fit for the Press but never published Afterwards he being found guilty of Treason for conspiring with the said Rob. E. of Essex to seize on the Queen and change the
book written by the hand of Blackwell and subscribed by him as fit for the Press So that no other name being put to it hath caused our Librarians to insert him in the Catalogue of MSS. as the author of it whereas he was not but rather Franc. Tresham as I have told you elsewhere He the said Blackwell died suddenly having been much troubled with swooning fits on the 12. of Januar. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried as I conceive in some Church in London This next person according to time and order that must crave place is one who tho no writer worth the remembrance yet hath he been the greatest promoter of learning that hath yet appeared in our Nation THOMAS BODLEY another Ptolomey eldest Son of John Bodley of the City of Exeter by Joan his Wife Daughter and Heir of Rob. Hone of Otterie S. Mary in Devon Esq Son of Joh. Bodley of Tiverton second Son of John Bodley of Dunscumbe near Crediton in Devon Gent. was born in the said City of Exeter 2 Mar. 1544. partly educated in Grammar learning in the said City but mostly in Geneva while his Father lived there as a voluntary Exile in the time of Q. Mary where tho he was then very young yet he was an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew of Berealdus in Greek of Calvin and Beza in Divinity and of some other professors in the University there then newly erected besides his domestical teachers in the house of Philebertus Saracenus a famous Physician in that City with whom he was boarded where Rob. Constantinus that made the Greek Lexicon read Homer to him After the death of Q. Mary he returned into England with his Father and was sent to Magd. coll in 1559. where making great proficiency in Logick and Philosophy under Mr. Laur. Humphrey was admitted Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1563. and soon after being elected Probationer of Merton coll determined in the Lent following In 1565. he by the perswasion of some of the Fellows of that house and for his private exercise did read publickly for some years a Greek Lecture in the hall of that coll without expectation of any reward or stipend for his labour Nevertheless it pleased the Society to allow him soon after of their own accord four Marks by the year In 1566. he was admitted Master of Arts which degree being compleated he read Nat. Philosophy for an year in the Pub. Schools then situated on the East side of Schoolstreet In 1569. he was elected Junior Proctor of the University which office he performing with great commendations bestowed some time in the study of sundry Faculties without any inclination to profess any one above the rest At length being desirous to travel beyond the Seas for the obtaining of knowledge of some special modern tongues and for the increase of his experience in the managing of affairs to no other end but to imploy himself and all his cares in the publick Service of the State did with leave from the Warden and Society of his coll depart England with the allowance belonging to a traveller an 1576. and continued near 4 years in Italy France and Germany Afterwards returning to his coll he remained there for some time in studying politicks and historical affairs and in 1583. he was made Esquire of the Body to Q. Elizabeth At length in 1585. having about that time married Anne the Daughter of… Carew of the City of Bristow the rich Widdow as I have heard of one Ball was imployed by the Queen to Frederick K. of Denmark Julius Duke of Brunswyke William Lantgrave of Hesse and other German Princes Which imploymnet being faithfully performed he was sent to K. Hen. 3. of France at what time he was forced by the Duke of Guise to leave Paris In 1588. he was sent to the Hague for the better conduct of the Queen's affairs in the Vnited Provinces where making his residence for some years was admitted one of their Council of State took place in their Assemblies next to Count Maurice and gave a suffrage in all that was proposed In 1593. he returned into England for a time to look after his private Estate but was soon after remanded to the Hague again by the Q. where continuing near one year returned again to deliver some secret overtures to her and to perform thereupon an extraordinary service Soon after the applauding the fruit of his discoveries he was presently commanded to return to the States with charge to pursue those affairs to performance which he had secretly proposed At length all things being concluded and brought to the desired issue he procured his last revocation in 1597. At his return as before in his absence Burleigh the Lord Treasurer did several times tell the Queen that there was not any Man in England so meet as Bodley to undergo the office of Secretary by reason of his well-tryed Wisdom in the Low-Country affairs intending that he should be Colleague with his Son Rob. Cecill But the Earl of Essex commending him also to the Queen in a higher manner not without biting calumniations of Cecill Burleigh found means to divert the Queens mind from him supposing that Essex endeavoured to gain him to his party against Burleigh and Cecill So that Mr. Bodley being eased of ever expecting that troublesome office he retired from the Court and wholly commended himself to the care and provision for learning worthy indeed the care of the greatest King For about that time setting up his staff at the Library door in Oxford did restore or rather new found it the particulars of which I have elsewhere told you After K. Jam. came to the Crown he received the Honour of Knight from him and a few years before his death wrote His Life an 1609. Which being kept as a choice rarity in the archives of his Library was published at Oxon. 1647. qu. But this little thing is not the reason that I put him among the Oxford Writers but because by his noble and generous endeavours he hath been the occasion of making hundreds of publick Writers and of advancing in an high degree the Commonwealth of learning in which respect he should have craved the first place but I have put him here according to the time of his death which is the method I observe Letters of State Some of which I have seen published not in one vol. but scatteredly Letters relating to Books and Learning Written to Mr. Tho. James MS. in his Lib. He paid his last debt to nature 28. Jan. in sixteen hundred and twelve and was buried with very great solemnity at the upper end of Merton coll Choire The manner of which you may see at large in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 320. The Reader may be pleased now to understand that Dr. Joh. Morris Canon of Ch. Ch. did bequeath to the University of Oxon. a Rent-charge of 5 l. per an to be given to a Master of Arts that should make
him were about 52 admitted many of which were afterwards Prebendaries and Canons and but four who supplicated Bach. of Civ Law Oct. 27. Petrus Garsias de Laâ— M. of A. of the University of Parmuse and about this time a Lecturer or Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon. was then admitted Bach. of the Civil Law Feb. 8. John Lawrence of All 's Coll. He was afterwards made Archdeacon of Wiltshire upon the deprivation of John Pollard 10. Aug. 1554. being the second year of Qu. Mary He died in 1568 having before been deprived of his Archdeaconry See in an 1578. among the Doctors of Law Feb. ult Tho. Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Chauntor of St. David John Price of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day See in 1532. Besides these were 4 admitted in the Civil and about as many in the Canon Law Four also supplicated for the former and as many for the other Mast of Arts. March 9. John Sheyne Perhaps the same Sheyne an Irish Man who wrot a book De republica See among the Writers in Rich. Shaghens an 1570. Besides him were 24 admitted among whom John Tooker Rich. Champion and John Pierson Canons of Cardinal Coll. were of the number and about 3 that supplicated Bach. of Physick Jul. 21. Will. Freeman M. of A. The same day he was admitted to practice See under the year 1526. Bach. of Div. Ten at least were admitted among whom were Robert Wratton Richard Mychell Robert Norbury c. Benedictine Monks Thomas Krikham a Minorite Nicholas Cartwright Anthony Moâ—â—neaux c. Among these must not be forgotten William Hyberden of Exeter Coll. as it seems who was admitted 23. Nov. having been before as 't is said in the publick register Bach. of the Canon Law He was in these times and especially after a most eminent Preacher a Person of great devotion and of devout fasting and being a most zealous Bigot for the Church of Rome did while he was beneficed in or near Bristow make it his sole employment to preach against the hereticks as they were in his time so called viz. Luther Melancthon Zwinglius John Fryth William Tindall Hugh Latimer c. When King Ed. 6. reigned he withdrew and continued silent as much as he durst but when Queen Mary came to the Crown he made it his sole employment to ride about the Country and Preach in every Church that he approached against them See more of him in John Fox his book of Acts and Monuments of the Church under the year 1555 where you will find him called by him by the name of Hubberdin an old Divine of Oxford Seven also there were that supplicated for the said Degree of Bach. of Div. among whom were William Basyng a Benedictine Father Philip Davyes a Dominican William Swadell of the same Order c. Doct. of Can. Law Jan. 29. William Cuffold of New Coll. a learned Canonist Not one besides was admitted nor one that supplicated Doct. of Div. Apr. 24. Fr. John Mawdley or Maudlyn a Dominican or Preaching Fryer June 17. Fr. Richard Cromer an Austin Fryer He is stiled in his admission Compositor that is a Compounder because he paid double or treble fees for his Degree being then as it should seem a rich Dignitary Feb. 7. Nich. de Burgo a Minorite He is mention'd in the Incorporations in the beforegoing year Incorporations Oct. 26. Johan Ludâ—vicus Vives LL. D. beyond the Seas was then incorporated being this year a Lecturer in Oxon. as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1544. In the same month of Oct. Richard Wolman Doctor of Decrees of Cambridge and an Archdeacon supplicated to be incorporated but whether his supplication was granted it appears not See more in the Incorporations 1531. In the beginning of March one William Throckmorton LL. D. beyond the Seas supplicated also to be incorporated which was granted simpliciter In the Chancel of the Church at Shottsbrook in Berks. is an Epitaph for the said Throckmorton wherein he is stiled Gardianus istius Ecclesiae Which Church was a Collegiat Church and valued at the suppression of religious places in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. to be worth 33. l. 18 s. 8 d. per an He died 12. Jan. 1535 and was there buried About this time studied in Oxon Simon Grynaeus being then 30 years of age at least At which time but especially afterwards he was well skill'd in the Latin and Greek tongues in Philosophy and the Mathematick disciplines and therefore beloved of Erasmus who honourably mentions him in his Epistles Theod. Bibliander tells us that he really thinks that in him Christian piety all virtues and the muses had taken up their habitation He hath written several books the titles of most of which you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue and died in the prime of his years 1541. An. Dom. 1524. An. 16. Hen. 8. Chancellor the same Commiss Tho. Musgrave M. D. Proctor Edw. Leighton of Cardinal Coll. Philip Dale of Exet. Coll. Apt. 6. The Senior of which Proctors was made the ninth Canon of the College at Oxon founded by K. Hen. 8. an 1532. Grammarians Aug. 1. Tho. Lyonhyll Feb. 15. John Moreton Will. Gower Sec. Chapl. The said three Persons were admitted to inform in the faculty of Grammar Bach. of Musick Apr. 3. Will. Chell a Secular Chaplain Henry Young a Student in Musick supplicated for that Degree 25. of Feb. but was not as I can yet find admitted Bach. of Arts. May 30. Nich. Vdall of C. C. C. See among the writers under the year 1552. Jun. 20. John Fitzjames of Mert. Coll. afterwards of St. Albans hall He was of the same Family of which Jam. Fitzjames mention'd under the year 1516 was and by the name and title of John Fitzjames M. of A. was admitted Archdeacon of Taunton and Prebendary of Milverton in the Church of Wells on the death of John Redmayne 22. May 1554. Jul. 19. Richard Turner Whether the same who was of Magdalen College I know not This Richard Turner took not the Degree of Master if the publick register saith right See among the writers under the year 1558. Jul. 27. John Helyar of C. C. College a good Grecian and Hebritian Feb. 6. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Carlile c. About 50 were admitted and about 15 supplicated that were not admitted Bach. of Civ Law Aug. 1. Thom. Elyot of St. Maries hall Jan. ult John Twyne Who on the same day was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law Five were admitted in the Canon and 15 besides Elyot and Twyne in the Civil Law and five in each supplicated who were not admitted this year Mast of Arts. Jul. 27. Tho. Wode Whether he be the same Thomas Wood whom John Fox reports to have been elected Bishop of a certain See in England a little before Qu. Mary dyed an 1558. I know not Feb. 12. John Helyar of C. C. C. beforemention'd See among the
that the exercise to be performed for it might be deferr'd till Michâ—elmas Term following because he shortly after designed to return to his native Country But the Regents upon mature consideration return'd this answer that he might take the said Degree when he pleased conditionally that he perform all exercises requisite by the statute before he take it On the same day Giles Gualter M. of A. of 8 years standing in the University of Caen another Exile as it seems did supplicate under the same form but whether either of them was admitted it appears not Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 3. Griffith or Griffin Lloyd Principal of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of the Civil Law and Chancellour to the Bishop of Oxford He died in Doctors Commons 26. Nov. 1586 and was buried two days after in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf in London ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 10. Adam Squyre Master of Ball. Coll. This Person who was a learned but fantastical Man married the Daughter of Dr. Jo. Elmer Bishop of London by whose favour he was made Archdeacon of Middlesex but when I cannot tell Apr… John Bold of C. C. Coll. In the year 1578. Sept. 25. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland by Dr. Barnes Bishop of Durham on the resignation of Mr. Franc. Bunney who some years before had succeeded Mr. Ralph Lever in that Dignity After Dr. Bold had resign'd it Ralph Tonstall M. A. was collated thereunto 29. Oct. 1581 but who succeeded him the register of the Church of Durham which is deficient tells us not till Bishop Neyles time who collated to the said Archdeaconry Gab. Clerke DD 7. Aug. 1619. upon the resignation of Dr. John Craddock See more among the Masters of Arts an 1612. Jul. 6. Pet. Lozillerius Villerius a French Man Doctor of the Civil Law and Divinity of an University in his own Country was then admitted to proceed in Divinity and three days after did compleat that Degree by standing in the Act then celebrated He was an Exile for his Religion lived in Ch. Ch. for some time but whether he read a lecture or taught privately as other Exiles did I know not Sure I am he was a learned Man and had newly corrected and set forth Beza's New Testament in Greek Incorporations June 5. Tho. Hakeluyt M. A. of Cambridge 22. Will. Smyth M. of A. of the same University I take this to be the same Will. Smyth who was afterwards Master of Clare Hall Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth Vicechanc. of the said University an 1603 Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. and at length Provost of Kings Coll. to which he was elected 22. Aug. 1612. He died 26. March 1615 and became a considerable benefactor to the said College Jul. 10. Humph. Tindall M. A. of the same University He was afterwards Master of Queens Coll. there and became the fourth Dean of Ely in the place of John Bell D. D. who died 31. Oct. 1591 aged 61. The said Tindall was descended from the antient and gentile family of his name living in Norfolk and dying 12. Oct. 1614 aged 65 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Ely July 11. Peter Baro D. D. of Cambridge This learned and worthy Divine was born at Estampes in France left that Country upon account of Religion came into England for refuge setled in Cambridge by the endeavours of Dr. Andr. Perne and being afterwards of Trin. Coll. succeeded Dr. John Still in the Margaret Professorship of that University and read there several years to the great liking of many At length the Calvinistical Party disgusting certain matters which they looked upon as hetrodox vented by him in his readings and prints viz. in his Comment on Jonah and his book De Fide one of them named Lawrence Chadderton had a contest with him Their objections were 1 That in his readings upon Jonah he taught the Popish Doctrine of the cooperation of faith and works to justification which tho in terms a little changed yet the Doctrine was one and the same in effect 2 That he laboured to make Men believe that the reformed Churches Doctrine was not so differing from Popish Doctrine but that by distinctions they might be reconciled and therefore concluded that both professions might be tolerated And thirdly that in his said readings he taught that the Heathen may be saved without the Faith of the Gospel and other strange matters which they looked upon as damnable errors c. Besides also as they observed that after many years wherein he had sundry ways hurt the sincerity of the Doctrine he brought the Popish Schoolmen into credit and diminished the honour of the learned Writers of that age Since which time the course of studies in Divinity and the manner of preaching hath been much changed in that University by some who have followed that vain and left the study of sound Writers as they stile them and apply themselves to the reading as they father add of popish barbarous and fantastical Schoolmen delighted with their curious questions and quiddities whereby they draw all points of Christian faith into doubts being the high-way not only to Popery but to Atheisme c. For these I say and such like matters he was by the zealous travel of some of the Brethren in the said University removed from his place of Margaret Professor about the year 1596 not without the consent of Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury For so it was and they could not be beaten out of it that they thought that as a certain Spaniard named Ant. Corranus was brought to and setled in Oxon. purposely to corrupt the true Doctrine so Pet. Baro a French Man was for Cambridge which last is nevertheless reported in the following age by a high Church of England Man that tho he was a Forreigner by birth yet be better understood the Doctrine of the Church of England than many of the Natives his contemporaries in the Vniversity of Cambridge c. His writings are these 1 In Jonam Prophetam praelectiones 39. 2 Conciones tres ad clerum Cantabrigiensem habitae in templo B. Mariae 3 Theses publicae in Scholis peroratae disputatae Which Theses being only two were translated into English by John Ludham with these titles First Gods purpose and decree taketh not away the liberty of mans corrupt will The second Our conjunction with Christ is altogether spiritual Both printed at Lond. 1590. in oct 4 Precationes quibus usus est author in suis praelectionibus inchoandis finiendis All which were published at Lond. 1579. fol. by the care and labor of Osmund Lake Bach. of Div. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge who viewed and corrected them before they went to the press This Osm Lake by the way I must tell you had been Proctor of that University was afterwards Vicar of Ringwood in Hampshire and a publisher of several books besides others
down to Selden and Dugdale that his Title to that name might well be disputed if he should be without it 2ly The management of such a Work as this must necessarily depend as upon a search into ancient Records so upon a Commerce with those Relations and Friends of the deceased Authors which had survived them Those of the Ch. of Rome to which this Author applyed himself have been communicative and industrious in furnishing Materials for this Work and therefore if any thing more largely be said of the Members of that Communion than may be thought necessary it ought to be imputed to the ready concurrence of that party towards a Work of this nature rather than to any propensity of the Author to that Religion The Nonconformâ—sts who bear some sâ—are in this Work have been as usually so little Friends to the carrying on of a publick design and to that free intercourse which ought to be maintainâ—d between all learned Men that very few and those unsatisfactory relations could be obtain'd from them and therefore a true but no very large nor favourable account of their Writings ought to be expected from him And lastly as to those of the Church of England they have generally behaved themselves so well that they have no need to desire flattery noâ— have any reason hâ—â—e to complain of Calumny It is to be hoped therefore since this Author hath endeavoured to shew himself just and indifferent to Men of all professions his love of impartiality will not be mistaken for want of Religion All good Antiquaries Men of enlarged Souls and of an even temper however of divers professions have always been of the same Principle They all equally sacrificed to Truth and Learning and suffered not their private Opinions to put a biass on their History And whoever will compare the Cento's of Bale and Pits with the excellent Works of Leland and Camden must necessarily discern how near an Alliance there is between Zeal and Ignorance and between Learning and Moderation 3. As to the Language the Reader may expect such Words as are suitable to the character of the Work and of the Person It is impossible to think that men who always converse with old Authors should not learn the dialect of their Acquaintance An old Word is retain'd by an Antiquary with as much Religion as a Relick and few are by him receiv'd as English but such as have been naturaliz'd by Speneer Language is the dress of the Thoughts as well as Cloaths of the Person and therefore the Expressions of an Antiquary ought to be priviledg'd as well as his Garb. Words are neither good nor bad if abstracted from Things and therefore they as all Ornaments have no beauty in themselves but receive it by accidents as gracefully suited and apply'd to the Subject Originals are best express'd as found without Alteration and it is not only a mispent but ridiculous labour to change the old Expressions of a Deed and to put a new Stamp upon a Medal Thus much hath in short been said of the Book and somewhat that may prevent Objections may without suspicion of Vanity be added concerning the Author of it When this Work some years since was first undertaken he not only consulted all the Registers relating to the Vniversity but all other Writings and Records MS. and printed whether in the Bodleian Norfolk or Cottonian Libraries whether in the Tower Exchequer Paper Office or elsewhere that could give him any notice of these Authors or let him into the true knowledge of their Lives Preferments and Writings The Registers of the ancient Churches and Cathedrals were diligently consulted the Wills of the deceas'd persons were at the Prerogative Office examin'd the Windows of Churches Epitaphs and Inscriptions have been search'd the Genealogy of the Authors at the Heralds Office hath been nquir'd into and no method hath been unattempted which could contribute to a true History of these Writers or ascertain the least date and circumstance of their Lives This extraordinary care and unwearied industry was undertaken without any other motive than a love to Truth and without any other prospect than the benefit of Posterity The Author never enjoy'd any Preferment nor pursu'd any he liv'd as a Recluse from the World so independent of it and therefore it is not to be wonder'd if he takes such a liberty of Speech as most other Authors out of Prudence Cunning or Design have usually declin'd It might be fit perhaps that some harsh Expressions might be allay'd that a few severe Reflections might be softned and that some Passages at last which seem too hardly charg'd on men otherwise creditable might be wholly omitted but at the same time it is not to be denied That Faults ought no more to be conceal'd than Virtues and that whatever it may be in a Painter it is no excellence in an Historian to throw a veil on Deformities If lastly There should be any defect or failure if Truth which is often too strictly pursued should in one single instance or some little circumstance be mistaken it is at least certainly a just Request that in so great and tedious a Work which oftentimes and almost every where deserves praise any small Errors may be entitled to Pardon A farther discourse of the nature of these Books in general and of the use of this in particular is reserv'd to the second Volume in the mean time all judicious men must be satisfied that the History of Learning which hath hitherto been so much wanting in England is now at last so far advanced and that the Materials at least of so great and so useful a Work are ready and prepar'd In other Countries particularly in France Italy and the Northern Nations now above fifty years the most famous Writers have employ'd their care in the account of Authors and Books and have thought it more necessary to number and marshal than to increase the Forces of the Commonwealth of Learning In England in the mean time an Account of Learning was more defective even than our Civil History Our Authors had been as famous as our Heroes our Writings were as successful as our Battels and yet the Annals of both were so imperfect that either generally we had no representation of them at all or such an one as traduc'd the Original As to our Heroes indeed Tho an universal History to the discredit of this Nation be yet to be desired and in all probability will be long expected yet some independent Relations that give account of one great Action or perhaps of one particular Reign may with honour be remembred but as to our Author's after the ancient Discoveries of Boston and Leland there hath been nothing attempted but some rude and disproportionable draughts of mean and ignorant Designers However now at last it must be own'd That if this Essay may not be just and compleat yet the first Lineaments are so faithfully and exactly drawn that the finishing strokes may without difficulty
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
great Discretion and Prudence as well as of Learning he was Elected by them their Provincial Minister that is the chief Governor or Master of them and their Order in England which laudable Office he executed for some Years with great approbation He hath written according to Anton. Senensis Comment sup 4. libros sententiarum Tract de unitate formarum Lecturae Scholasticae and other things which I have not yet seen This William Beeth was in great renown among Learned Men especially among those of his Order in the Reign of K. H. 7. of England but when he died it appears not JOHN PERCEVALL discovered even in his Childhood an early affection to Learning and when at the Age of about Twenty he diligently applied his Muse to Philosophical Learning in the Universities of England especially in this of Oxon wherein he obtained a considerable competency in humane and Divine Learning At riper Years he upon mature consideration entred into the most Holy Order of the Carthusians and soon after by a severe and strict life among them mostly by fasting and a continual and religious contemplation his divine Soul was at length totally refin'd and fitted for the Society of the Saints in Heaven He hath transmitted to Posterity Compendium divini amoris Par. 1530. in Oct. This Book was Printed elsewhere before that time Epistolae ad solitarios besides other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen Theodor. Petreius in his Bibliotheca Cartusiana tells us that this John Percevall was Prior of the Carthusians at Paris in the Year 1550 but my Author Jo. Baleus before quoted mentions no such matter only that he was a bare Carthusian and that he was in great esteem among Men for his Piety and Learning Fifty Years before that time The Reader is now to know that contemporary with the former lived another John Percevall Doctor of Divinity of Oxon and by order a Franciscan or Grey Frier who being a Person of great note among his Brethren or among those of his Society was elected the Seven and Fortieth Provincial Minister of them but what relation there was between this and the former it appears not This John Percevall the Franciscan died at London and was buried in the Church of the Franciscans now commonly called Christ-Church within Newgate whereupon Hen. Standish D. D. whom I shall mention elsewhere succeeded him in the Provincialship It is also farther to be noted that whereas a Learned Author tells us that this John Percevall succeeded in that honourable Office one Will. Goddard a Doctor of Divinity of Oxon it is a great mistake for that Will. Goddard whom he sets down to have been Provincial Minister was only Warden or Guardian of the House or College of Franciscans at London before-mention'd to which he was a Benefactor who dying 26. Sept. 1485. was Buried in the Chappel of the Apostles joyning to the Church of the said House As for the famous Dr. Will. Goddard who was the Provincial Minister of the Franciscans he died 30 Octob. 1437. and was buried in the said Church on the right side of the Tomb of Sir John Hastyngs So that I believe two three or more were Provincials between this last Dr. Goddards death and the time when Dr. John Percevall took the Provincialship upon him ROBERT BALE called by some Robert Bale Junior because there was another of both his Names a Lawyer of London and before him in time was born in the County of Norfolk entred when Young among the Carmes or Carmelites commonly called White-Friers in the City of Norwych spent some time for the sake of Study among those of his Order living in the North Suburb of Oxon where he improv'd himself much in the faculty of Theology as I presume he did partly at Cambridge among those of his Society there Afterwards he became Prior of the Carmes at Burnham in his own Country where he was had in veneration by them and others for his great love towards Learning and Learned Men. All the time that he could procure he greedily spent in his beloved Study of Divinity and Histories both Divine and Profane and having to his great expence obtained a considerable Library of Books they at length came after his Death to that of the Carmes at Burnham He hath written Annales perbreves Ordinis Carmelitarum The beginning of which is Anno Mundi 3042. Helias Thesb c. Historia Heliae Prophetae The beginning of which is Ecce ego mitto c. Officium Simonis Angli The beginning of which is Simon pater inclytus c. This famous Simon was Simon Stock the most noted and religious Brother of the Carmes that ever was the first of all his Order that took a degree in this University as I have told you elsewhere and the same who many Years after his death was Canoniz'd Besides the said Books he the said Rob. Bale composed Several Sermons which went from hand to hand as one of his Order will farther tell you who addeth year 1503 that he giving way to fate in Fifteen hundred and three which was about the 18th Year of K. Hen. 7. was buried in his Monastery of Burnham before-mentioned RICHARD BARDNEY was born at or near to Bardney in Lincolnshire became when Young a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict in his own Country received his Learning in the supreme faculty among those of his Society in Oxon and afterwards retiring to his Monastery wrot in Verse Vita Roberti Grostest quondam Episcopi Lincolniensis 'T is as yet in Manuscript and was finished by the Author in 1503. he being then Bachelaur of Divinity and by him dedicated to Will. Smythe Bishop of Lincoln The beginning of this Book is Lincolniensis apex presul sacrate Wilelme c. Many fabulous things are inserted therein not at all agreeable to so profound and subtile a Philosopher as Grostest was who in his Life and Actions did very humbly imitate or at least endeavoured so to do St. Austin Archbishop of Canterbury The said Author Bardney tells us that Grestest was Born at Stow in Lincolnshire which no Author besides himself hath in the least mentioned and other matters of him which are false tho some are true and fit to be mention'd in History What else our Author Bardney hath written I know not as yet nor any thing else of him only that he was in good esteem for some parts of Learning especially by those of his Society during the time that King Henry 7. lived but when he died it appears not DONALD O-FIHELY a Person much valued among his Country-men for his unwearied industry in matters relating to History and Antiquity was Born of an Antient Family in the County of Cork in Ireland whence in his Youthful Years being sent to Oxon improved himself much in Academical Learning but whether he took a Degree we have no Register that testifies it Afterwards receeding to
written in Parchment as Comments of Paul's Epistles and Abbreviations with many such other I Will shall be disposed at the disposition of my Executors c. His body which was closed up in a leaden Coffin of six feet and two Inches long and of three feet and two inches broad was laid up and inclosed in the Wall near to the place where his Monument was afterwards put In 1680. or thereabouts when the Wall was taken down the said Coffin was discovered for it laid in the said Wall about two feet and an half above the surface of the floor whereon was a plate of Lead fastned with an Inscription ingraven thereon shewing the name of the person thee deposited his Fathers name his Dignity Obit benefaction c. Some of the Royal Society who out of curiosity went to see it did thrust a probe or little stick into a chink of the Cossin which bringing out some moisture with it found it of an ironish tast and fancied that the body felt soft and pappy like Brawn JOHN CONSTABLE Son of Roger Constable by Isabel his Wife was born in London Educated in Grammaticals under William Lilye in Academicals in an antient Hostle sometimes called Byham afterwards corruptly Bohem Hall opposite to Merton Coll. Church under the tuition as I conceive of Mr. John Plaisted the chief Moderator thereof About the time that he had taken the Degree of Master of Arts which was in 1515. 7. Hen. 8 he left the University being then accounted an excellent Poet and Rhetorician and had some preferment conferred upon him but what I know not He hath written and published Querela Veritatis The beginning of which is Destinavimus tibi hunc nostrum c. Joh. Bradford the Protestant Martyr wrote a Book Entit The complaint of Verity c. Lond. 1559. in oct Whether in imitation of the former I know not Epigrammata Lond. 1520. qu. which Book of Epigrams I have seen in the Bodleian Library given thereunto by that curious collector of Books Democritus Junior Other things as I conceive he hath written but of what Subject I cannot yet tell nor can I say any more of John Constable only this that one of both his Names who was Doctor of Decrees fourth Son of Sir◠Rob. Constable of Flamburgh in Yorkshire Knight and Residentiary of the Church of Lincoln became Dean of the said Church in the Year 1514. who dying 15. Jul. 1528. recommended his Body to be buried in the Cathedral Church of our Lady of Lincoln near to the Corps of George Fitz-Hugh sometimes Dean thereof who was buried in the Body of the said Church What relation our Author Jo. Constable the Poet who was in great renown among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and twenty had to John Constable the Dean I cannot yet find In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth lived one Henry Constable a noted English Poet not unfitly ranked with Sir Edw. Dyer Chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter a poetical Writer and of good esteem in the said Queens time as living in the 39 Year of her Reign The said Henry Constable who had spent some time among the Oxonian Muses was a great Master of the English Tongue and there was no Gentleman of our Nation had a more pure quick and higher delivery of conceit than he witness among all others that Sonnet of his before the poetical Translation called The Furies made by King James the First of England while he was King of the Scots He hath also several Sonnets extant written to Sir Phil. Sidney some of which are set before the Apology for Poetry written by the said Knight THOMAS BRYNKNELL a Person of great Literature and a most skilful interpreter of the sacred Writ had most of his Education in Lincoln Coll. whence being taken to govern the Free-School joyning to that of S. Mary Magd. did exercise such an admirable way of teaching there that many were by him fitted for the University In 1507. he proceeded in Divinity and being afterwards a commoner for some time of University Coll. became so much known to and respected by Cardinal Wolsey who if I mistake not conferr'd some dignity on him that he was represented to the King as one of those most fit Persons in the University to encounter Mart. Luther Whereupon in the Year 1521. he being then Reader of the Cardinals Divinity Lecture which was by him founded in the University 3 or 4 Years before he wrot a Learned piece entit Tractatus contra doctrinam Martini Lutheri Whether Printed I know not sure I am that 't is commended for a good Book in one of our publick Registers What other Books he wrot I cannot tell nor when he died or where buried WILLIAM GROCYN a most singular light of learning in his time received his first breath in the City of Bristol in Somersetshire was educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester made true and perpetual fellow of New Coll. after he had served two Years of probation in 1467 and in 1479 being then M. of A. he was presented by the Warden and Society of that House to the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks But his Residence being mostly in Oxon. the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Divinity Reade◠about the beginning of the Reign of King Rich. 3. which King coming soon after to Oxon and taking up his lodging in that College he was pleased to hear our Author Grocyn and some others of that House dispute And being much delighted with their disputations especially with those of Grocyn which were in Divinity he did most graciously reward them But Grocyn leaving his Readers place in Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the Year 1488 being then accounted excellent in the Latin and Greek Tongues according to the then knowledge of them he did for the farther accomplishment of himself in those critical studies take a Journey into Italy where by the helps of Demetrius Calchondile and Politian he obtained his design So that returning into his own Country and at length to Oxon he became a Sojournor in Exeter Coll. in the Year 1491. or thereabouts took a Degree in Divinity at it seems taught and read the Greek Tongue to the Oxonians after that way which had not before I suppose been taught in their University became a familiar Friend of or rather Tutor to Erasmus and a Person in eminent renown for his learning Recens tunc ex Italiâ venerat Grocinus saith Stapleton qui primus eâ aetate Graecas literas in Angliam invexerat Oxoniique publicè professus fuerat à cujus sodali Thoma Lynacro Morus Graecas literas Oxonii didicit In 1504 or thereabouts he resign'd his rectory of Newton Longvill being about that time made Master of the College of Allhallowes at Maidston in Kent yet continued mostly in Oxon for several Years after He hath written Tract contra hostiolum Jo. Wyclevi Epistolae ad
Musick easily his Genie therefore was born to greater Studies In short time after he sent him to Padöua in Italy which was then most flourishing in literature to obtain or rather advance himself in good letters and allowed him an yearly Pension to defray his Charges While he was conversant with the Muses there he was much instructed in his Studies by Cuthb Tonstall and Will. Latymer whom he calls his Praeceptores and whether he took a Degree there I find not After his return into England he retired to Oxon where as I conceive he had studied for some time before he travelled and settled for a time as 't is supposed in Queens Coll. of which his Patron T. Langton had been Provost and soon after was received into the service of Dr. afterward Cardinal Christopher Bambridge who succeeded his said Patron in that Provostship as I have elsewhere told you From the service of the said Cardinal he was received into the Royal Court where his parts being soon discovered and his accomplishments made known to the King was by him made Secretary of State and employed in matters of high concern In the beginning of 1514 he was admitted Prebendary of Bugthorpe in the Church of York in the place of Thom. Wolsey consecrated Bishop of Linc. and on the 20. of May the same Year he was made Archdeacon of Dorset upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll. in this University Afterwards he was sent in one or more Embassies by the King which he performed with very great honor to himself and the English Nation In 1519 he became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London on the Death of Dr. Joh. Colet and about that time Dean of Exeter but whether he was ever Dean of Salisbury it appeareth not 'T is true that Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury doth say in the Life and Reign of King Hen. 8. under the Year 1536. that Pet. Vannes then Archdeacon of Worcester was not long before that time made co-adjutor to Rich. Pace Dean of Salisbury being then thought commonly distracted and out of his Wits But how that can be I cannot find for 1 it doth evidently appear from the Registers of that Church that one Raymund Pade had that Deanery conferr'd upon him 19. Jan. 1522. 2 That in the said Registers no mention at all is made of R. Pace as Dean and thirdly that Pet. Vannes beforementioned became Dean of the said Church by virtue of the King's Letters on 3. Feb. 1539. in the place as 't is supposed of the said Pade at which time R. Pace had been dead 7 Years In 1521 he being made Prebendary of Combe and Harnham in the said Church of Sarum he shewed himself serviceable to the University of Oxon the Members of which would then have had him to adorn their Lycaeum with a degree if certain customs belonging thereunto did not hinder him Afterwards our Author Paice who was then esteemed by all ripe in wit learning and eloquence and very expert in Foreign Languages was sent in the Kings Affairs Ambassador to Venice which function there he so discharged that it is hard to say whether he procured more commendation or admiration among the Venetians both for dexterity of his wit and especially for the singular promptness in the Italian tongue wherein he seemed nothing inferior neither to Pet. Vannes here in England the Kings Secretary for the Italian tongue nor yet to any other which were the best for that tongue in all Venice For opinion and fame of learning he was so generally accepted not only here in England with Lynacre Grocin Sir Tho. More and others but also known and reported abroad in such manner that in the great Volume of Erasmus his Epistles he wrot almost to none so many as he wrot to this our Author Paice It must be now noted that while he continued at Venice he grew much out of favour with Cardinal Wolsey first for shewing his readiness to assist Charles Duke of Burbon with Money while the said Cardinal who had little or no affection for that Duke did under hand keep back a vast summ of Money which K. Hen. 8. had sent to the said Duke to carry on his War near Pavia against Francis 1. K. of France and secondly for his negligence in advancing the said Cardinals designs to succeed in the Papacy P. Adrian the 6. who died 1523. I say for these two reasons especially he was so much inflamed against Paice that he forthwith took such causes that for the space almost of two Years he had neither writing from the King or Council how he should proceed in his Affairs at Venice nor any allowance for his diet notwithstanding he had sent Letters for the same to England very often Upon this and especially upon some private intimation from his Friends at home he took such an inward thought and conceit that his wits began to fail him It is reported that the Venetian Ambassador residing in London repaired to the Cardinal and desired to know of him whether he would command any thing to the English Ambassador at Venice Whereupon he made answer Paceus decepit Regem Which words coming to Paice's knowledge so deeply pierc'd his stomach that he in a manner fell quite besides himself Soon after his frensie and the reason thereof being made known to the King he was forthwith sent for home and by the Kings command he was so carefully attended by his Physicians that in short time he came to his wits again and began to study the Hebrew Language with Rob. Wakfeld About that time the Cardinal being absent Paice's Friends found such means that he was brought to the King then residing at Richmond where they had private discourse for two hours or more not without great rejoycing to His Majesty to see him so well amended in his senses Afterwards the Cardinal hearing what had passed and suspecting that he had disclosed somewhat to the King which he would not have known as also doubting the King would take Paice into favour again began in short time after to quarrel and to pick up matters to lay to Paice's charge whereas he should have rather cleared himself of those things which Paice laid unto him before the King and then to have proceeded accordingly But so it was that when the King had willed the Cardinal to purge himself of those things which Paice had rightly charged him withal he sitting in judgment with the Duke of Norfolk and other States of the Realm not as a Defendant but as a Judge in his own cause did so bear out himself and weighed down Paice that he was forthwith commanded to the Tower of London as Prisoner where he continuing for the space of two Years or thereabouts was at length by the Kings command discharged While he was in his disconsolate condition he was so deeply sensible of his case that he was more distracted in his wits than
continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon or whether he took a Degree it appears not neither can we find means to resolve us because the University Registers of that Age are deficient However this is certain that at what time our Author studied in this University Grocynus read publickly the Greek Tongue there whom he constantly hearing became a great proficient in that Language and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor then if I mistake not Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws translated himself to Lincolns Inn where easily conquering those Studies was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning Wisdom Experience and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with conferr'd these honors and employments successively upon him viz. the Mastership of the Request the intrusting him in several Embrassies the honor of Knighthood the Treasureship of the Exchecquer Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster the Embassage to the Emperor and French King and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly or with greater liking to the generality of People than he On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Mannour House called York-place near Westminster in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King in his Mannour of Pleasaunce otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight After this Sir Thomas retired to his House at Chelsey near London where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse not without severe devotion was at length for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining several Months very close to the endangering of his health his Daughter Margaret Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent wrot a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State the contents of which I have seen intreating him to be good to her Father in Prison kept so close that his health is utterly decayed Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband whose close keeping destroys his body Also the be good to her and hers considering their necessity For my good Master saith she as I would be saved before our Lord I am driven to that point that I am fain to make sale of certain imployments and old stuff to find Mr. More and me and my poor houshold with c. with other like matters written by that whining Woman which I shall now for brevity omit and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient pious and severe in the course of his life than he He was also very meek humble charitable and a despiser of the things of this World and nothing was wanting in him to make a compleat Christian His parts were great and profound his skill in Divinity municipal Laws the Latin and Greek Languages in Poesie Mathematicks and what not was excellent and without compare All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles but of the lights of Learning of his time as Erasmus Colet Tonstal B. of Durham Fisher B. of Rochester Grocyn Lynacre Liyle Paice Elyot Lupset Leland c. most of which especially Foreign Writers have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations He hath written in English A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Fryer Written in Verse Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Fathers House Containing 9 Pagiants and Verses in each Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503. Verses on the Book of Fortune These four beforegoing being written in his Youth are not numbred among his Works History of K. Rich. 3. This which was never quite finished is the same I presume that is intituled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More 's Name at London 1651. in 8vo His Great Grandson saith that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated but in Latin also not yet printed Memorare novissima Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion Supplication of Souls made against the supplication of Beggars This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory written against that of Beggars made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn Gent. The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More 's Dialogues The second part of the confutation Written 1533. Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament Written the same Year An Apology This was written against a Book intit A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality Against which Apology was published a Book called Salem Bizance written Dialogue-wise Lond. 1533. oct The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance Lond. 1533. oct Answer to the first part of the poysoned Book which a nameless Heretick hath named The Supper of our Lord. Treatise upon the passion of Christ A Godly instruction Godly meditation Devout Prayer Letter to his Lady his Wife Certain Letters written by him after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London an 1557. fol. Among them are A godly instruction written in Lat. His Epitaph In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book intituled Ancient funeral Monuments p. 522 523 and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English 1 The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula 2 An exposition of a part of the possion of Christ His Latin Works besides those two little things before-mentioned are these De optimo repub statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus aureus c. Basil 1518. there again 1563 both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct Translated into English with notes added to it in the Margin by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. Lond. 1557. oct Published also at the same place 1639. in oct by one Bernard Alsop who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq one
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
Author saith who adds that he died at London in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 which was the eight and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. FRANCIS BYGOD a Yorkshire Man born spent some time among the Oxonian Muses but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood from the King and wrot A Treatise concerning impropriations of Benefices The Epistle before which dedicated to K. Hen. 8. is printed or reprinted at the latter end of Sir Hen. Spelman's Larger work of Tithes by the care of Jerem. Stephens an 1647. The said Treatise seems to have been written after the breach which K. Hen. 8. made with the Pope his Marriage with Anna Bolein and the Birth of Q. Elizabeth as 't is conjectured by circumstances The Author's purpose was chiefly bent against the Monasteries who had unjustly gotten very many Parsonages into their possession as it had been complained of long before his time especially be Dr. Tho. Gascoigne a Yorkshire Man born The said Bygod translated also certain Latin Books into English which I have not yet seen At length being found very active in the commotions in Yorkshire called The holy pilgrimage an 1536 at which time he with his party endeavoured to surprise Hull was thereupon apprehended imprison'd and at length executed at Tyburn near to London with other Knights and Esquires in the Month of June in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 which was the nine and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8. ROBERT WAKFELD a Northern Man born and the greatest Linguist of his time was as he saith ex fidelibus natus fidelis ex Christianis Christianus and afterwards being fitted for the University he was sent to Cambridge where he took one or more degrees in Arts. But his desire being solely bent to improve his natural Genie in the Tongues he went to travel and in short time attained to a very considerable knowledge in the Greek Hebrew Chaldaic and Syriac Tongues About that time he read and taught the said Tongues at Tubing in Germany at Paris and in 1519 I find him to be Hebr. Professor at Lovaine in Brabant in the place of one Matthew Adrian But continuing there only 4 Months he returned into England where being made known to the King by his great friend and admirer Rich. Paice Dean of St. Pauls he was made one of his Chaplams took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity was beloved of many and patroniz'd in his studies by Thom. Bulleyn Earl of Wilts When the unlawfulness of Matrimony between the King and Catherine of Spayne Widow of his Brother Prince Arthur was called into question he began to defend the Queens cause and therefore gained the love of many bâ—t being afterwards courted by fair promises to change his mind and the rather because of his great skill in the Tongues and Divinity and therefore able to say more than another Man he came over to the Kings Party whereby he gained the hatred of many I have seen a Letter written by him to the King dated from Sion in Middlesex 1527. wherein he tells him that he will defend his cause or question in all the Universities in Christendome c. and afterwards tells him that if the People should know that he who began to defend the Queens cause not knowing that she was carnally know of Pr. Arthur his Brother should now write against it surely he should be stoned of them to death or else have such a slander and obloquy raised upon him that he would rather dye a thousand times than suffer it c. Afterwards upon the intreaty of the University of Oxon made to the King Wakfeld was sent thither about 1530. and at his first coming he made a publick Speech in the Hall of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. since called Ch. Church before the University and afterwards read publickly the Hebrew Lecture there as his Brother Tho. Wakfeld did at Cambridge by the Kings Authority beginning to read there in 1540. In 1532 he was made by the King the twelfth or junior Canon of his College at Oxon founded on the site of that of the Cardinal and in the same Year he was incorporated B. of Divinity So that continuing there some Years after and-instructing many in the Tongues I have therefore put him among the Oxford Writers In 1536 when he saw the King make havock of Religious Houses he carefully preserved divers Books of Greek and Hebrew especially those in the Library of Ramsey abbey which were partly composed by Laur. Holbeach a Monk of that place in the Reign of Hen. 4. among which was his Hebrew Dictionary As for the works of Wakfeld they are mostly these that follow Oratio de laudibus utilitate trium Linguarum Arabicae Chaldaicae Hebraicae atque idiomatibus hebraicis quae in utroque testamento inveniuntur Printed by Winand Worde in qu. Paraphrasis in librum Koheleth quem vulgo Ecclesiasten vocant succincta clara atque fidelis Printed in a black char in qu. Kotser codicis quo praeter ecclesiae sacrosanctae decretum probatur conjugium cum fratria carnaliter cognita illicitum omnino inhibitum interdictumque esse tum naturae jure tum jure divino legeque evangelica atque consuetudine catholica ecclesiae orthodoxae Printed at Lond. 1528 in qu. This is the same with his Book entit by Bale and Pits De non ducenda Fratria Syntagma de hebraeorum codicum incorruptione Printed in qu. In which Book are several things against Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester concerning Matrimony and the unlawfulness of the Kings Marrying with his Brothers Wife Oratio Oxonii habita in Coll. Regio Printed with the former in qu. De Laudibus Agriculturae Epistolae ad D. Th. Bulleyn comitem Wilts Joh. Fisherum Ep. Roff. Rich. Paceum c. Besides other things mentioned elsewhere which I have not yet seen He died at London on the eighth day of Octob. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven leaving Thomas his Brother his Heir but where he was buried I cannot yet tell Jo. Leland in one of his Books gives him the name of Polypus noting thereby he way of contumely that he was a crafty man for craftily conveying away the Hebrew Dictionary before-mention'd Rich. Paice Dean of Pauls in a Letter to K. H. 8. dat at Sion 1527. saith that Rob. Wakfeld is a Person of excellent learning as well in Divinity as in wonderful knowledge of many and divers Languages The University of Oxon in an Epistle to the said King doth also say that besides his various accomplishments he gives place to none for his admirable knowledge in the Hebrew Syriac and Arabick Tongues JOHN CLAYMOND who used to write himself Eucharistiae servus because he frequently received the blessed Sacrament and in the latter part of his life took it every day was the Son of Joh. Claymond and Alice his Wife sufficient Inhabitants of
annotations thereon by Joh. Bale who hath added thereunto of his own A register of the names of English Writers whom the second part of his work De Scriptorib Britanniae shall comprehend Principum ac illustrium aliquot eruditorum in Angliâ virorum Encomia Trophaea Genethliaca Epithalamia c. Lond. 1589. qu. Published by Tho. Newton of Cheshire These are all the Books composed by him that are published Those that he left behind him in MS. are these following Collectaneorum volumen primum Collections from various Authors viz. from Chronologies ancient Charters Leiger-Books Histories Annals publick and private Writings c. Written with Lelands own hand mostly in Latin in folio containing 913 pages and all collected from MSS. and nothing from Authors that were then Printed There are in this Book many needless additions and illustrations put in by Will. Burton of Lindley whom I shall anon mention who hath written some part of the life of Leland before and has made a useful index to it Collect. vol. 2. Collections from various Authors in MS. viz. Chronologies Annals c. in fol. containing 382. pages Collect. vol. 3. Containing the Catalogues of MSS. in the Libraries of several religious Houses Cathedrals Colleges c. Collections also from Monkish Authors concerning the foundations restaurations c. of religious places and other matters of considerable moment In p. 117 is part of an Itinerary through Devonshire and p. 127 c. is something of Kent In p. 149 c. is something of Herefordshire and p. 204 of Lincolnshire Afterwards follow the meaning and original of words from several old Dictionaries This vol. contains in writing under Lelands hand 287 pages in fol. and hath at the end his New-years-gift to K. Hen. 8. Collect. vol. 4. Containing the lives and characters of most of the eminent Writers of England written in Latin with Leland's own hand an 1546. and containeth 354 pages in fol. One or more Copies of this Book are in private hands An Itinerary throughout most parts of England In five volumes in qu. This Iter was began about 38. H. 8. Dom. 1538 and the volumes were written with his own hand but by the negligence of those who have had the custody of them after the Authors death most of them have taken wet and are not legible About the Year 1631. Will. Burton before-mentioned caused all the said five volumes to be transcribed into one folio which with the originals were by him soon after given to the publick Library of Oxon. Collections concerning English Families and their originals of relations of matters of antiquity from divers Persons of Towns and religious Houses which he accidentally found in record or by tradition of Rivers in several Counties and also collections from various MSS. c. All which are contained in two quartoes under Leland's hand writing and go under the names of the sixth and seventh volumes of his Itineraries and stand and are mix'd with the other five in the Archives of the publick Library Collectiones ex antiquissimis authoribus desumptae quae ad Britanniam spectant MS. in Cotton ' s Library under Julius C. 6. Codrus sive liber contra Polydorum Virgilium de erroribus in scriptis suis MS. An exemplar of which I have seen Naenia in mort Hen. Duddelegi Dudley Equitis MS. in qu. Bononia Gallo-Mastix in laudem victoris feliciss Hen. 8. Anglici Francici Scottici c. MS. in qu. With other things which you may see in Balcus and Pitseus All which MSS. and collections with many other matters of moment were after Leland's death taken by command from Ed. 6 into the custody of Sir John Cheek Tutor to the said King who not long after gave the four tomes or vol. of his collections before-mention'd to Humph. Purefoy Esq afterwards of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth in the North parts of England whose Son Tho. Purefoy of Barwell in Leicestershire giving them to Will. Burtâ—n of Lyndley in the same County in the Year 1612 came many Years after by his gift when he had made use of them in compiling his Description of Leicestershire to the Bodlcian or pub Library at Oxon together with the Itinerary in five with the other two quartoes where they yet in the Archives of that Library remain As for some other of his Collections they came after the death of Sir John Cheek into the hands of Will Lord Pagit and Sir Will. Cecyll but to whom from them I find not Perhaps among the said Collect. were those that came afterwards into Sir Rob. Cotton's hands and the Itinerary into those of Will. Burton before-mention'd Howsoever it is sure I am that several eminent Antiquaries have made use of them especially Joh. Bale in his second edition of British Writer but not in the same words that Leland wrot For as he delivered things impartially and in smooth language so Bale quite contrary and full of scurrilities Camden also though now and then he doth mention his Author Leland yet he made considerable use of his Collections in the composing of his Britannia Sir Will. Dugdale hath perused them several times and made great use of them in his Antiquities of Warwickshire and in his volumes called The Baronage of England but withal quotes him honestly for every thing that he hath taken from them To conclude this great Antiquary J. Leland dying on the 18 day of April in Fifteen hundred fifty and two year 1552 was buried in the Church of St. Michaels in le Querne in London Which Church having been situated near to the old cross in West-cheap and not far from the East part of St. Paul's Cathedral was totally burnt down in the grand conflagration an 1666. So that soon after its Parish being united to another the foundation of the said Church was level'd and pitched with Stones as the rest of the street adjoining was and at the East-end where stood the Altar or thereabouts was erected a Conduit of stone to serve the inhabitants of the neighbourhood with water JOHN CLERKE who is reported by a learned Author to be descended from famous and noble lineage was educated in Grammaticals Logicals and Philosophicals among the Oxonians for a time but in what House I cannot as yet tell Afterwards he travell'd into several Countries fell into the company and acquaintance of Rich. Paice mention'd under the Year 1532. studied together in Italy and contracted between them such a faithful and constant friendship that the like could not be read in any Author All things were in a manner common between them and what was by either read or observed was forthwith communicated to each others great advantage After his return to his native Country he was highly esteemed for his accomplishments especially for his exact knowledge in the Latin French and Italian Tongues Whereupon being taken into the service of Thomas the great and mighty Duke of Norfolk was by him made his Secretary a
sent forth for his welfare and blessed proceedings in the Reformation then in hand This great Person who was also Duke of Somerset died on Tower-hill near London by the stroke of the ax 22. January in Fifteen hundred fifty and two which was the sixth Year of K. Ed. 6. but where he was buried I cannot yet tell NICHOLAS UDALL whom Leland stiles Odovallus was born in Hampshire and descended from those of his name living sometimes at Wykeham in the said County was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in June 1520. aged 15 or more Probationer Fellow in Sept. 1524. being then Bach. of Arts and two Years after supplicated for the Degree of Master but took it not at that time being as 't is probable denied because he was much addicted to the opinions of Luther Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of Eaton School near Windsor and proceeded in Arts 1534 but in 1540-41 had like to have lost that place as being suspected to be conscious to a robbery committed by two Scholars of his School who having stole images plate and other matters belonging to the College of Eaton were with Udall examined by His Majesties Council in the beginning of March that Year What became of the matter I know not sure 't is that our Author Udall was made Canon of Windsor in the beginning of Edw. 6. and is stiled by a certain Author to be Elegantissimus omnium bonarum literarum magister earum felicissimus interpres He hath written Flowers for Latin speaking selected and gathered out of Terence and the same translated into English together with the exposition c. newly corrected When this was first Printed I cannot tell That Edit which I have seen was Printed at Lond. 1568. in oct Which Book being esteemed good in its time and very useful for young Scholars Joh. Leland and Tho. Newton wrot Verses in commendation of it not only set before the Book but Printed in their respective Encomia's c. Commentary on the Apothegms of Erasmus Epistolae Carmina ad Gul. Hormannum Joh. Lelandum Comedies Epistles and divers Verses He also translated into English at the request of Qu. Cather Parr 1 Paraphrase on the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles Lond. 1551. fol. written by Erasmus 2 Pet. Martyrs Treatise wherein he openly in the Univ. of Oxon. declared his whole and determinate judgment concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Lond. in qu. and 3ly The Tragedy of Popery and other things as Bale will tell you When this our Author Udall died I know not nor any thing else of him only that his Memory is celebrated by polite Verses written by Joh. Leland Joh. Parkhurst and Tho. Newton of Chestire to which I refer to the Reader I have seen the Copy of a commission granted in the beginning of the Year 1572 to one Catherine Yerbury otherwise Udall Daugh. of Nich. Udall of Fenne in Somersetshire giving her power to administer the goods debts and chattels of him the said Nich. Udall lately deceased Whether this Nic. Udall be the same with him that was the Writer the Reader is to judge RALPH RADCLIFF was born of and descended from an ancient Family of his name in Cheshire received part of his Academical Education in this University particularly as I conceive in Brasenose Coll. about the time of its first foundation but whether he took a Degree it appears not The genie of this Person being strangely addicted to the instruction of Youth he obtained part of the Carme's House at Huchin or Hitchin in Hertfordshire an 1538. being about that time dissolved wherein he not only opened a School but framed out a lower room into a Stage for his Scholars to act Latin and English Comedies to the end that they might be emboldened for speaking and pronuntiation Which practice being used by them several Years his School was in great renown he grew rich and was had in much veneration in the neighbourhood He had many Tragedies Comedies Epistles Orations c. laying by him in the time of K. Ed. 6. which as he would often tell his Friends he would never publish till they had remained by him 9 Years And whether they were ever published I cannot yet learn The titles of some of his labours were these Dives and Lazarus a Comedy Patient Greseld Com. Friendship of Titus and Gisippus Com. Chaucers Melibie Com. Job's afflictions Trag. Delivery of Susanna from the Elders The burning of Sodom Pugna nominis verbi De pueroum institutione Epistolae ad Tyrones Epigrammata c. With other things which may be seen in Baleus who further tells us that he was in great renown at Huchin in Fifteen hundred fifty and three He lived several Years after died and was buried there but when I cannot yet learn One or more of his descendants for he was married and had issue were Knights particularly Sir Edw. Radcliff of Hitchin living in the time of K. James 1. JOHN RHESE or ap Rise or Prise or Priseus so many ways I find him written by Authors was born of a gentile and ancient Family in Wales but in what County is yet uncertain or in what House in Oxon educated unless in the ancient hostle called Broadgates now Pembroke Coll. wherein several of both his names and time have studied Among them was John Prise Bac. of the Civil Law who in the Year 1530. supplicated for the Degree of Bac. of Can. Law and two Years after John ap Rice a secular Chaplain was admitted to the same Degree which probably may be the same with Joh. Price Bach. of the Civil Law Farther also I find that in 1523. one John Prise of Allsouls Coll. was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law and that he died 1554 And in 1534. occurs another Joh. Price of Broadgates Hall I think who was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law without any title added to it which perhaps may be the Author that I am further to mention who being encouraged in his studies by William Earl of Pembroke made great advances therein especially as to the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country In 1546. March 2. he with many others received the honor of Knighthood from the hands of Edward Lord Protector of England About which time our Author observing the great and manifold errors which were made by Pol. Virgil in his Historiae Anglicae Libri 27 wherein many things redounded to the dishonor of the British Nation he thereupon published Fides Historiae Britannicae Defensio Regis Arthuri And wrot about the Year 1553. 1. Mar. a Book intit Historiae Britannicae defensio But the Author dying before he could have it published was at length in the Year 1573. put out in qu. under the name of Joh. Priseus by his Son Rich. Prise D. D. He the said Sir John did also write A description of Cambria now called Wales Augmented and made perfect by Humph. Lloyd and
Divinity proceeded Doctor therein an 1542. at which time he was one of the Fellows of Whyttingdon Coll. in London and having a Chamber in Brasenose took Commons there when he receeded to the University for conversation sake with Men and Books In the time of K. Edw. 6. he seemed to be a zealous Reformer was then if not before made Rector of Wygan in his own Country and took to him a Wife who lived not long with him for when Qu. Mary came to the Crown they were separated In 1550. Aug. 2. he was installed the second Canon of the eighth Canonry of the Church of Worcester in the place of Rog. Stanford deceased When Qu. Mary ruled the Scepter he wheeled about and seeing what great mischief was like to follow upon the translation of the Bible into the English tongue in the time of K. Ed. 6. and before bestirred himself so much about it that he found means to have the matter proposed in Parliament in the beginning of Queen Mary that all such Bibles that were in the English tongue should be prohibited and burn'd This being very displeasing to many he was hated of them and therefore one after his usual manner calls him Morio and Scurra and another as foul'mouth'd as he Dr. Inkpot and a blenking Coxcomb who married against his conscience as he saith more fit to make a riding fool than Chaplain for a King This being the language of two zealous reformers incited one of another opinion who was after them in time to characterize our Author Standish to be Vir doctrina pietate fide divinae gloriae zelo conspicuâ—s His works are A little treatise against the protestation of Rob. Barnes at the time of his death Lond. 1540. oct Which R. Barnes was burn'd in Smithfield 3. Jul. 32. Hen. 8. Dom. 1540. Soon after came out a confutation of the said little treatise in oct Treatise of the Union of the Church Lond. 1556. Written to Card. Pole Treatise against the translation of the Bible in the vulgar Language with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to nature about the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred fifty and six year 1556 but whether buried at Worcester or Wygan I know not In his Canonry succeeded one Leonard Pollard Bach. of Div. and Chaplain to Dr. Pates Bishop of Worcester who having written Five Sermons were after they had been revised by Dr. Bonner B. of Lond. printed there 1556 in qu. This Pollard who was not of the University of Oxon that I can find died about the beginning of March the same Year 1556 having enjoyed his Canonry but few Months Of the same Family of Standish I find another very active Person of his time named Rich. Standish LL. D. and Parson of Standish in Lancashire but his education had been in Cambridge who dying at London in his Lodging in or near to Pater-noster-row in the Winter time 1552 was as 't is probable buried in the Church of St. Faith under the Cathedral of St. Paul JOHN BYRDE received his first breath within the City of Coventrie descended if I mistake not from the ancient Family of his name in Cheshire educated in Theologicals in the House or Coll. of the Carmes he being one of that order in the University of Oxon. where making considerable proficiency in his studies was admitted to oppose in Divinity in the publick School of that faculty in the beginning of May 1510 and in June following was admitted to the reading of the Sentences In 1513 he proceeded in the said faculty and three Years after was made Provincial of his Order throughout England But he enjoying that office only three Years was succeeded therein by one Rob. Lesbury who keeping it till 1522 Byrde came in again and continued Provincial till the dissolution of Monasteries When the Pope was like to lose his Power in England be became a zealous Preacher for the King's Supremacy for which being rewarded with a Bishoprick in Ireland as Baleus saith who calls it Episcopatus Penricensis tho Waraeus remembers no such place was translated thence to Bangor an 1539 The temporalities of which See he received by the title of the King's Chaplain only without that of Episc Penricensis on the 9. Sept. the same Year In 1541 he was translated to Chester made the first Bishop thereof and paid his obedience to the Archb. of York 13. Apr. 1542 where he continued till the Reign of Qu. Mary He wrot and published Lectures on St. Paul De fide justificante lib. 1. Learned homelies With an Epicede on one Edmund in Prose At length when Queen Mary came to the Crown he was notwithstanding he complyed with that time deprived of his Bishoprick for being married and living at Chester with his Wife year 1556 till Fifteen hundred fifty and six then died but in an obscure condition Whereupon his Body was buried in the Cathedral Church there In the said See succeeded Dr. George Cootes as I shall tell you when I come to speak of the Bishops under the Year 1555. RICHARD MORYSINE or Morison was born in Oxfordshire as 't is reported spent several Years in this University in Logicals and Philosophicals took a Degree in Arts afterwards travelled and making great improvement in the Latin and Greek tongues became an accomplish'd Gentleman and well known among the great Men of his time In 1537 Jul. 17. he being newly return'd from Padöua was made Prebendary of Yatminster secunda in the Church of Salisbury on the promotion of Reginald Pole Which Dignity he keeping till 1539. Hen. Cole of New Coll. succeeded At length being commended for a Person of worth and parts to K. Hen 8. was by him sent Ambassador to the Emperor Charles the 5. as he was afterwards by K. Ed. 6. In whose Reign being a Person zealous for reformation was by him appointed one of the number of such that were to reform this University of Oxon an 1549. At which time he shew'd himself a great friend to and a Protector of Pet. Martyr when he encountred the Trimviri in a solemn disputation in the Divinity School Afterwards having the honor of Knighthood conferr'd upon him being then esteemed a great learned Man he went into Italy and in his return died in Germany as I shall anon tell you His works are partly these Apomaxis calumniarum convitiorumque quibus Johan Coclaeus homo Theologus exiguus artium professor c. Henrici 8. nomen obscurare rerum gestarum gloriam faedare nuper edita non tam ad regem quam in regis invidiam epistola studuit Lond. 1537. qu. Dedicated to Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State An exhortation to stir all English Men to the defence of their Country Lond. 1539. oct Invective against the great and detestable vice treason c. Lond. 1539. oct Comfortable consolation for the birth of Prince Edward rather than sorrow for the death of Qu. Jane
affirmed that her knees were hard with kneeling her justice and clemency in restoring noble houses to her own private loss and hindrance and lastly her grevious and patient death he fell into such an unfeigned weeping that for a long space he could not speak Then recovering himself he said she had left a Sister to succeed her a Lady of great worth also whom they were now bound to obey for saith he melior est canis vivus leone mortuo and I hope so shall Reign well and prosperously over us but I must say still with my Text Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes for certain it is Maria optimam partem elegit Afterwards Qu Elizabeth taking just indignation 〈◊〉 partly for his Sermon and partly for that he was a zealous Man for the R. Catholick cause and an enemy to the reformers of Religion commit him to custody and for threatning as 't is said to excommunicate her as Watson Bishop of Lincoln did was deprived of his Bishoprick for which he paid yearly 1000 l. to Cardinal Pole to keep up his state and dignity His works are Diacosio Martyrion i. e. ducentorum virorum testimonia de veritate corporis sanguinis Christi in Eucharistiâ ante triennium adversus Petr. Martyrem ex professo conscriptum sed nunc primum in lucem editum Lond. 1553. qu. in Lat. verse Epistola Petro Martyri This is printed with the former Book and treateth mostly of Martyrs disputation at Oxon. in K. Edwards days and is in vindication of Dr. Rich. Smith who disputed with and baffled him Epigrammatum lib. 1. Carmina in Matrimon Philippi Regis cum Maria Regina Angliae Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Qu. Mary 13. Dec. 1558. on Eccles 4. 2. MS. in the Libr. sometimes of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultrey-Compter You 'll find also several of his discourses in the Acts and Mon. of the Church c. published by Joh. Fox and also his discourse with Bishop Rydley at Oxon 30. Sept. 1555 when he was about to be burnt exhorting him to return from his Heresie as he then term'd it See also in Rob. Persons his animadversions on that discourse in The third part of a treatise intit Of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604. Chap. 14. p. 209. At length our Author Jo. Whyte being deprived of his Bishoprick in June 1559. he retired to his Sisters house at Southwarnborow in Hampshire where spending the little remainder of his days in great sanctity and recluseness gave way to fate on the eleventh day of January following Whereupon his body was soon after carried to Winchester and buried in the Cathedral there according to his will which partly runs thus My desire is to be buried in that my Cathedral of Winchester ut in novissima die resurgam cum patribus filiis quorum fidem teneo c. While he was Warden of the Coll. near Winchester and dream'd not in the least to be removed thence to a Bishoprick he provided a Tomb stone for himself to be laid on the ground in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. with intentions to be buried under it by the care of his Heir and Executor whensoever it should please God to call him out of this transitory life and caused to be engraven twenty long and short verses of his own composition under his picture engraven on a brass plate and fastned to the said stone The two first are these Hic tegor hic post fata Whitus propono jacere Scriptor Johannis carminis ipse mei But being afterwards contrary to all expectation promoted successively to two Bishopricks by Qu. Mary his mind was altered as I have before told you He gave to Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester his Miter and Crosier staff a silver tankard guilt a bason and eure of silver a Turkey-carpet and other choice goods and some years before his death he was a Benefactor to New Coll. as you may see in Hist Antiq. Univers Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. b. JAMES BROKES another most zealous Bishop for the Rom. Catholick cause was born in Hampshire in the Month of May 1512 admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 1528 and Fellow in Jan. 1531 being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he applyed his studies to Divinity took the degrees in that faculty that of Doctor being compleated 1546. The next Year he was made Master of Balliol Coll. and at length by Qu. Mary Bishop of Glocester to which See being elected after the deprivation of Joh. Hoper had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 8. May 1554 and in the Year following he was delegated by the Pope for the examining and trying of Cranmer Rydley and Latimer when they stood up for and were ready to dye in defence of the Protestant Religion He was a Person very learned in the time he lived an eloquent Preacher and a zealous maintainer of the R. C. Religion as well in his Sermons as Writings Some of which are published as Sermon at Pauls Cross in the first Year of Qu. Mary on Matth. 9. 18. Lond. 1553. 54 oct Oration in S. Maries Church in Oxon 12. March 1555 to Thom. Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury The beginning is My Lord at this present we are come to you as commissioners c. Oration in closing up the examination of Th. Cranmer Archbishop of Cant. The beg is Mr. Cranmer I cannot otherwise considering your obstinacy I am right sorry c. These two Orations are printed by John Fox in his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. wherein you 'll find some of his discourses with Rydley after they had been published by themselves What else is extant under his name I know not nor anything of him besides only that he dying in the beginning of Feb. about Candlemass in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine which was the second year of Qu. Elizabeth was buried in a stone Coffin in his Cathedral Church at Glocester but hath no memory over his Grave ROGER EDGEWORTH another zealot and a frequent Preacher against Protestants called in his time Hereticks was born at Holt castle within the Marches of Wales became a student in Oxon about 1503 took a degree in Arts in 1507 and the Year after was elected Fellow of Orâ—el College to which place he was a benefactor at the time of his death Afterwards proceeding in the said faculty he took holy orders and became a noted Preacher in the University and elsewhere In 1519 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and afterwards became very well dignified as Canon of Salisbury Well and Bristow being then D. of D Residentiary of the Cathedral of Wells and Chancellour of the same Church The last of which dignities was conferr'd on him 30. Apr. 1554 upon the deprivation of Joh. Tayler alias Cardmaker Besides all these he was Vicar also of St. Cuthberts Church in Wells to which he was admitted
variety of other mens labours in Grammar of whom Joh. Stanbridge Rob. Whittington Joh. Colet and Lilye were of the number sprang a great diversity in the course of teaching which King Hen. 8. intending to reform caused sundry learned Men of whom Dr. Rich. Cox Tutor to K. Ed. 6. is supposed to be one to reduce the former attempts in this kind into one body of Grammar which they jointly did in 1545 being that now in use and first authorized by K. Hen. 8. Howbeit soon after it was thought too prolix for in the Reign of Ed. 6. John Fox of Magd. Coll. did set forth Tables of Grammar subscribed in Print by eight Lords of the Privy Council which Tables were quickly laid aside as being far more too short than K. Hen. 8. his Grammar was too long Since which time many learned Men in England and far more abroad have spent much profitable study in this Art and the method thereof as we well know In the 3. of Ed. 6. Dom. 1549. he the said Thom. Robertson was one of the number appointed by the K. and his Council to compile and frame the Liturgy of the Church which we now call the Common-Prayers and in the Year 1557. Jul. 23. he had the Deanery of Durham confer'd on him by the Queen being then void upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Watson to the See of Lincoln who had been instituted in the said Deanery by Tonstall Bishop of Durham 18. Nov. 1553. upon the deprivation of Dr. Rob. Horne at which time being greatly in respect for his piety and learning the Queen would have had him taken a Bishoprick but he modestly refused it His works are Annotationes in librum Guliel Lilii de Latinorum nominum generibus de verborum praeteritis supinis c. De nominibus heteroclitis opusculum cum annotationibus De verbis defectivis append interjectis etiam sparsim ubi opus videbatur annotatiunculis Compendium sive de arte versificandi cum annotationibus additis All which Books were printed together at Basil 1532. qu. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was forced first to leave the Deanery of Durham to make room for Dr. Horne about the latter end of 1559 who being soon after made Bishop of Winchester Robertson might if he would have taken the Oath of Supremacy have came in again but he refused it whereupon Ralph Skynner of Oxon succeeded and secondly to resign his Archdeaconry of Leycester to prevent ejection so that the said Dignity lying void for some time Rich Barber LL. D. was installed therein 24. Dec. 1560. What afterwards became of Tho. Robertson or where or when he died let others seek for I am totally ignorant John Parkhurst B. of Norwich sometimes his Scholar hath an Epigram on him in praise of his learning which may serve instead of his Epitaph if you think fit WILLIAM CHEADSEY a Somersetshire Man born was admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 16. March 1528. aged 18. or thereabouts Probationer-Fellow 13. Oct. 1531 and two years after compleat Fellow In 1534 he proceeded in Arts and in 1542 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Bonner B. of London who having a special respect for his learning and zeal for the R. Catholick Religion he made him not only Archdeacon of Middlesex but Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral In 1546 he proceeded in Divinity having about that time subscribed to the 34 Articles and three years after did learnedly dispute with Pet. Martyr in the Divinity School From which time an 1549 he seemed so moderate in his Religion in the remaining part of the Reign of K. Ed. 6. that the Protestants took him to be one of their number In the beginning of Qu. Mary he was made Canon of Windsore shewed himself a zealous Man against the Professors of Protestancy and in 1557 had a Canonry of Ch. Ch. in Oxon confer'd on him after the death of James Curthopp In 1558 he was elected President of Corp. Ch. Coll. and on the 15. Sept. in the same Year he was admitted thereunto but removed from it the next Year by the Commissioners sent by Qu. Elizabeth to visit the University About that time he was appointed one of the number of the R. Catholick Divines to repair to London to dispute with those of the Protestant Party when the said Queen was setting on foot a Reformation in the Church of England He was by the Protestants accounted a very mutable and unconstant Man in his Religion but by the Rom. Catholicks not but rather a great stickler for their Religion and the chief prop in his time in the University for the cause as it appeared not only in his opposition of P. Martyr but of the three Bishops that were burnt in Oxon. He was a learned Man a deep Divine an excellent Disputant and a characterised by John Leland to be resonae Scholae columna His works are Serm. on Matth. 22. 15. Printed 1545. in oct Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento in Univ. Oxon habita contra D. Pet. Martyrem 29. Maii Jun. 1. an 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. Which disputation hath also been printed once at least among Pet. Martyrs works but whether true according to the Authors Copy I leave it to others to judge 'T is also translated into English Dispution with John Philpot concerning the real presence in the Sacrament in Octob. 1553. Disp with Archb. Cranmer at Oxon an 1554. Communication with B. Rydley an 1555. See more in the Acts and Monuments of the Church c. written by Jo. Fox wherein you 'll find several of his discourses with and examination of Protestant Martyrs At length he was deprived of most if not all of his spiritualities and committed a Prisoner to the Fleet in London where as 't is supposed by some he died soon after However in my searches into obscure Writings I find that one John Joanes a Priest living at or near Thame in Oxfordshire did by his last Will dated 27. of Aug. and proved the 16. of Oct. following an 1574 bequeath to Mr. Dr. Chedsey twenty shillings By which it appears that he was then living but where I find not nor when he died BARTHOLMEW TRAHERON commonly called Trahern was born in Cornwall or at least originally descended from an ancient Family of his name living in that County educated in Logicals and Philosophicals for the most part with us either in Exeter Coll. or Hart hall where he attained to some eminence in the Lat. and Greek Tongues But being desirous to improve himself in greater matters and to see the fashions of the World he travelled into Germany and thence into Italy where he was an auditor and an admirer of many famous Men By whose excellent Lectures and his indefatigable industry he became a compleat Person and much respected by Scholars Afterwards he returned into his own Country entred
Armamentario Romano These two last are printed at the end of Historiae Britannicae defensio written by Sir Joh. Prise Lond. 1573. qu. Chronicon Walliae à Rege Cadwalladero usque ad an Dom. 1294. MS. in Cottons Library under Caligula A. 6. He also translated from Lat. into English 1 The judgment of Urines Lond. 1551. oct 2 The Historie of Cambria now called Wales Afterwards corrected augmented finished and continued by David Powell Lond. 1584 qu. 3 The treasure of health containing many profitable Medicines Lond. 1585. oct written by Pet. Hispanus To which translation our Author Lhuyd added the causes and signes of every disease with the Aphorismes of Hypocrates These are all I think that he hath written and translated for among my searches I have seen no more nor do I know any thing else of the Author only that he paid his last debt to nature year 1570 about Fifteen hundred and seventy and was buried in the Church of Whitchurch near Denbigh before-mention'd Soon after was a Monument of Alabaster set up in the wall over his grave to his memory On which was portraied his Effigies in a praying posture with a desk and a book laying thereon before him a sword by his side but nothing else military in his habit Under his said Effigies is a plain free stone in the said wall whereon are engraven eight barbarous English verses The two first of which run thus The corps and earthly shape doth rest Here tomyd in your sight Of Humfrey Lloid Mr. of Art A famus worthy Wight In the last verse is mention made of an Epitaph annex'd but where that was written unless on the stone lying on his grave wherein probably the day and year of his death were set down I cannot tell Many years before his death he took to Wife Barbara Daughter of George Lumley and Sister to John Lord Lumley by whom he had issue Splendian and John who both died without issue Henry an inhabitant of Cheame in Surrey and Jane the Wife of Rob. Coytmore LAURENCE VAUS Vaux or Vaulx so many ways I find him written was born near to Blackrode in Lancashire received his Academical education in Oxon partly as it seems in Queens Coll. but mostly in that of Corp. Ch. were he was either Clerk or Chorister and much favoured by Jam. Brokes Fellow of that house How long he continued there or whether he took a Degree in Arts it appears not About the Year 1540 he applyed his studies to the Theological faculty and was made a Priest being then esteemed to be Vir eximiae doctrinae pro instruendâ in fide catholicâ juventute Afterwards he became Chaplain to the said Brokes when he was Bishop of Glocâ—ster Warden of Manchester Coll. in his own Country on the death of George Collier of the Family of the Colliers near to Stone in Staffordshire in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Mary and in 1556 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in this University Upon the coming to the Crown of Qu. Eliz. and the reformation of Religion that followed he left his preferment in which Will. Byrch of the Family of Byrch hall in Lanc. succeeded 2. Eliz. and went into Ireland where he was dispoiled of all he had by thieves and narrowly escaped death Thence he went into the Low Countries where at Lovaine he was made a Monk as one saith of the order of St. Dionyse meaning I suppose of the Cenobie of St. Dionyse because there is no such order where he wrot A Catechisme or a christian doctrine necessary for Children and ignorant People Lov. 1567. Antw. 1574. printed again 1583. 1599. c. all in oct and tw An instruction of the laudable customes used in the Cath. Church This is some editions is entit The use and meaning of holy Ceremonies in Gods Church Godly contemplations for the unlearned These two last are printed with one two or more of the editions of the Catechisme Certain brief notes of divers godly matters Printed with the Catechisme in 1583 99 oct At length our Author Vaux making a return into England to propagate his and strengthen others in Religion was apprehended and imprisoned in the Gate-house at Westminster where he dyed in great necessity about the Year as I find it reported year 1570 Fifteen hundred and seventy but where buried I cannot justly say because the register of St. Margarets Church wherein the Prison called the Gate-house before-mentioned is situated makes no mention of him in that Year three years before or three years after as I have been informed by the Letters of Dr. Simon Patrick Prebendary of St. Peters Church in the said City and Dean of Peterborough afterwards Bishop of Chichester RICHARD SHAGENS who is written in one of our registers Schaftnes was born in Ireland became Fellow of Balliol Coll. in 1556 being then Bach. of Arts a noted disputant and an excellent Philosopher In 1560 he took the Degree of Master and four years after resigniag his Fellowship he retired into his native Country where he gained a good report for his noted parts in speaking and penning Rich. Stanyhurst his countryman saith that he was afterwards Schoolmaster in Ireland and a learned and a vertuous Man but telleth us not what he hath written and therefore I suppose that what he did of that nature was after Stanyhurst had given the said character of him Contemporary with this Shaghens or a little before were Students in Oxon these Irish Men following 1 Patrick Cusack a Gentleman born who after he had left Oxon was a Schoolmaster in Dublin where his admirable learning gave great light to his Country but employed his studies rather in instructing of Scholars than in penning of Books He wrot in Lat. Diversa Epigrammata 2 One Dormer a Civilian who was born at Rosse and wrot in Ballad royal The decay of Ross 3 One Sheine who wrot De republica See more among the Bishops under the Year 1582 and in the Fasti 1523. 4 Peter Lombard a most learned Man of his time but did not take any Degree See more of him in Pet. White among the writers under the Year 1590. 5 Elias Sheth who wrote Divers Sonnets 6 One Taylor a Bach. of Arts who proceeded in the University and wrot Epigrammata diversa What his Christian name was I cannot justly say because many of his Sirname and time did proceed Masters in this University as Tho. Taylor in 1539. Will. Taylor 1541. and 1551. and Tho. Taylor of All 's Coll. 1563. Whether this last be the same Th. Taylor who was a Lancashire Man born and chosen Fellow thereof 1557. or another chosen in 1562 I know not Many other Irish Men were also conversant in studies here even till an University was founded at Dublin after which time we had but few JOHN STORIE a most noted Civilian and Canononist of his time was educated in Philosophical learning and in the rudiments of
at this day maintain against the Church of England and upon any good proof of any such one allegation to yield up the bucklers and reconcile himself to Rome Now tho Thom. Hardyng and some others undertook him about the controverted articles yet as those of the reformed party say they came off so poorly and Jewell on the contrary so amaz'd them with a cloud of witnesses in every point in question that no one thing in that age gave the papacy so deadly a wound as the said challenge at Pauls cross so confidently made and bravely maintain'd This say the Protestant writers but let us hear what a grand zealot for the Romish cause saith concerning the said matter After this Man meaning B. Nich. Rydley stepped to Pauls cross in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days about the Year 1559 and 1560 Mr. Joh. Jewell otherwise called Bishop of Salisbury and he proceeded yet farther in this brag and fiction meaning that what the Fathers said made for the Protestants for he protested there even with feigned tears that if any one authority place sentence or asseveration of any one Father Doctor Council or authentical History within the first 600 years after Christ could be brought forth by any man living for any one of those points of Catholick Religion which he there recited to be in controversie that then plainly and sincerely he would subscribe Against which vain and shameless bragg when Dr. Hardyng and divers other learned men of our side began to write from Lovayne and to bring forth authorities of all Fathers Doctors Councils and Histories in great abundance the first effect of this challenge that appeared to the world was a severe proclamation that no such book written in English by the Catholick party should be received or read in England under great punishments By which Provision Mr. Jewell thinking meetly well defenced he plyed the pulpit often and renewed his challenges many times and perceiving notwithstanding that Dr. Hardyngs confutation was come into England he answered the same with a long volume of Rhetorical words and stuffed the Margent thereof with the shew of infinite Authors as tho the whole world had been for him and none for the other side And with this he deceived the People then and doth to this day such I mean that have not commodity or learning or other means to examine those places and to find out the manifold lyes and falsifications therein contained And this was the gain by all likelyhood that Mr. Jewell pretended to his cause by that work knowing full well that this sort of Men is far the greater which would be gained and settled in his doctrine before the learneder sort who are but few in comparison of the other could have time books and commodity to discover and refute him and when they should do it they should hardly be believed c. How many learned Men lightly of our Nation have taken upon them seriously to go over that book of Mr. Jewells and to examine it by the Authors themselves with any indifferency of mind have for the most part been thereby converted to Catholick Religion though never so great Protestants before Of which sort I have heard relation of many but of some I can testifie my self for that I have heard it from their own mouths who of earnest Protestants were made most zealous Catholicks by that means principally of which number I think it not inconvenient to name here some two or three omitting others which for just respects may not be named The first of them is Sir Tho. Copley made Lord afterwards in his banishment by the King of France who oftentimes hath related unto one with much comfort of his soul how that being a zealous Protestant and very familiar to Robert the late Earl of Leycester in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days when Mr. Jewells book was newly come forth he being also learned himself in the Latin tongue took pains to examine certain leaves thereof and finding many falshoods therein which were inexcusable as they seemed to him he conferred the same with the said Earl who willed him that the next time Mr. Jewell dined at his table he should take occasion after dinner to propose the same which he did soon after And receiving certain trifling answers from Mr. Jewell he waxed more hot and urged the matter more earnestly which Jewell perceiving told him in effect That Papists were Papists and so they were to be dealt withal and other answer he could not get Which thing made the good Gentleman to make a new resolution with himself and to take that happy course which he did to leave his Country and many great commodities which he enjoyed therein to enjoy the liberty of conscience and so both lived and died in voluntary banishment c. The second example which I remember of mine own knowledge is Mr. Doctor Stevens a learned Man yet alive who being Secretary or Chaplain to Mr. Jewell and a forward Man in the Protestant Religion at that time espyed certain false allegations in his Masters book whilst it was under the print in London whereof advertising him by Letters for that he supposed it might be by oversight the other commanded notwithstanding the print to go forward and passed it over as it was Which this Man seeing that had a conscience and sought the truth indeed resolved to take another way of finding it out And having found it in the Cath. Church where only it was to be found he resolved also to follow it and so he did and went voluntarily into banishment for the same where yet he liveth to this day in France c. As for the third example which is Will. Rainolds I shall remember from my before quoted Author when I come to speak of him and in the mean time proceed to speak of Jewell In the beginning therefore of the Year 1565 he tho absent was actually created Doctor of Div. and the year following when the Queen was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses he shew'd himself a profound Theologist in moderating at Divinity disputations in St. Maries Church The learned Camden saith that he was a wonderful great and deep Divine a most stout and earnest maintainer of our reformed Religion against the adversaries by his learned books That he was a Man of a singular ingenie of exquisite erudition in Theologicals and of great piety As for Jewells writings the titles of them follow Exhortatio ad Oxonienses See in his life written by Laurence Humphrey printed in 1573. p. 35. Exhortatio in Coll. Corp. Ch. sive concio in fundatoris Foxi Commemorationem See there again p. 45. 46. c. Concio in templo B. Mariae Virg. Oxon an 1550 in 1. Pet. 4. 11. preached for his Degree of Bach. of Div. A Copy of which is printed in his life written by L. H. before-mention'd p. 49. Translated into English by R. V. Lond. 1586. oct Oratio in Aula C. C. Chr. spoken to
the society when he was ejected from among them in 1554. Epistola ad Scipionem Patritium Venetum de causis cur Episcopi Angliae ad concilium Tridentinum non convenirent an 1559. This also is printed in an appendix to the second edit of the translation of the Hist of the Council of Trent made by Sir Nath. Brent Lond. 1629. fol. Letters between him and Dr. Hen. Cole upon occasion of a Sermon that Mr. Jewell preached before the Queen and her Council Lond. 1560. oct This Letter-Combat began 18. March 1559 and continued till 18. May 1560. Sermon at Pauls cross the second Sunday before Easther an 1560 on 1. Cor. 11. 23. Lond. 1560. oct In which he gave out a bold challenge against the Papists as I have before told you Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae Lond. 1562. oct Which book was so much esteemed by the Men of Zurich and all Protestants that it was translated almost into all tongues to the end that it might be generally known The Council of Trent held at that time saw and censured it and appointed a Frenchman and an Italian to answer it but they hung back and would or rather could not It was several times printed in England and beyond the Seas and in Greek at Oxon. 1614. oct This book was soon after its first publication translated into English by Anon. with this title An Apologie or answer in defence of the Church of England concerning the state of Religion used in the same Lond. 1562. qu. But Tho. Hardyng coming out with a confutation of it our Author published A defence of the Apologie of the Church of England containing an answer to a certaine book lately set forth by Mr. Harding and entit A confutation c. in 6 parts Lond. 1564. 67. fol. Translated into Lat. by Tho. Braddock Bach. of Div. and Fellow of Christs Coll in Cambr. printed beyond the Seas 1600 fol. Soon after the first publication of the said Defence Hardyng publishing A detection of certaine errours in the said Defence our Author came out with An answer to Mr. Hardings book entit A Detection of certaine errours c. Lond. 1565. Lov. 1568. Afterwards followed A reply to Mr. Hardings answer By perusing whereof the discreet and diligent reader may easily see the weake and unstable grounds of the Rom. Religion in 27. Articles Lond. 1566. fol. Therein also is an answer to Mr. Hardyngs preface to his aforesaid answer This reply of Jewell is translated into Lat. by Will. Whitaker Fellow of Trinity Coll. in Camb. Genev. 1585. fol. and with it is printed his Apologie A view of a seditious Bull sent into England from Pius 5. Bishop of Rome an 1569. Delivered in certain Sermons in the Cath. Ch. of Sarum 1570. Lond. 1582. oct A treatise of the Holy Scripture gathered out of his Sermons preached at Salisbury 1570. Lond. 1582. oct Exposition on the two Epistles of the Apostle St. Paul to the Thessalonians Lond. 1594. oct A Treatise of the Sacraments gathered out of his Sermons Lond. 1583. oct Certaine Sermons preached before the Qu. Majestie at Pauls cross and elsewhere They are in number at least 13 viz. on Josh 6. 1. 2. 3. Haggat 1. ver 2. 3. 4. Psal 69. 9. c. All which Books the five first excepted Sermons and Apolgie are printed in one Vol. in fol Lond. 1609. with an abstract of his life set before them but full of faults written by Don. Featly Besides them he hath left behind him these MSS which as I conceive are not yet printed viz. A paraphrastical exposition of the Epistles and Gospels throughout the whole Year A continuate exposition of the Creed Lords prayer and 10 Commandements Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galathians Com. on the Epist of St. Peter At length this worthy prelate paying his last debt to nature at Monkton-Farley 23. year 1571 Sept. in Fifteen hundred seventy and one was buried almost in the middle of the Choire of his Cathedral at Salisbury At which time Giles Laurence Archdeacon of Wilts preached the funeral Sermon and Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks. formerly a Lay-preacher administred at the funeral See more of Joh. Jewells works in Job Garbrand under the Year 1589. DAVID WHITHEAD a great light of learning and a most heavenly professor of Div. of his time was of the same family with those of Tuderley in Hampshire and when at ripe years was educated in all kind of learning and virtue in this University but whether in Brasenose or All 's Coll. as some surmise I find not What Degrees he took it doth not appear or whether he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences because in the latter end of Hen. 8. and all the time of K. Ed. 6. the publick registers are very imperfect In the time of Hen. 8. he was Chaplain to Anna Bulleyne by whose means he had some preferment in the Church and in the beginning of Qu. Mary he among several zealous Protestants went to Frankfort in voluntary exile where being in great esteem with the English congregation wrot Lections and Homelies on St. Pauls Epistles In A brief discourse of the Troubles began at Frankfort in Germany c. printed 1575. you 'll find several of his discourses and answers to the objections of Dr. Rob. Horne concerning matters of discipline and worship See there in p. 128. 129. c. 146. 147. c. After his return into England he had a hand in the third edition of the English Liturgy in 1559 and was chosen one of the Disputants against the R. Cath Bishops So that in his discourses shewing himself a deep Divine the Qu. thereupon had so great an esteem for him that she offer'd him the Archbishoprick of Canterbury but he refused it as about the same time he did the Mastership of the Hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near to London affirming that he could live plentifully on the preaching of the Gospel without either So that whether he had any spiritualities of note confer'd on him is yet doubtful he being much delighted in travelling to and fro to preach the word of God in those places where he thought it was wanting His life was spent in celebacy as it became a true Theologist and therefore the better esteemed by the Queen who had no great affection for such Priests that were married He was conducted by death to the habitation prepared for old age in Fifteen hundred seventy and one year 1571 but in what Church or Chappel buried I know not Take therefore this for his Epitaph which was made by one of his acquaintance Nominis unatui est Album caput altera pars est Quadrant in mores scilicet ista tuos Candidius nihil esse potest nam moribus ist is Dulce vocant omnes te lepidumque caput THOMAS KEY or Cay whose name and the same bearers of armes tho they have continued for several generations at Woodsome or Wodersome and elsewhere in Yorkshire yet I
Geneva 4 Nich. Rydleys Declaration of the Lords Supper Genev. 1556. To which Whittyngham put a Preface of his own making 5 N. Rydlies protestation This I have not yet seen and know nothing more of it 6 His translation from Lat into English of The Book of prayer or the English Liturgie See more in A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 c. Printed 1575. p. 34. 35. He also wrot the Preface to Christoph Goodmans book entit How superior powers ought to be obeyed c. with several other things which are not yet as I conceive published As for the works of impiety that he performed while he sate Dean of Durham were very many among which I shall tell you of these Most of the Priors of Durham having been buried in coffins of stone and some in marble and each coffin covered with a plank of marble or free-stone which laid level with the paving of the Church for antiently Men of note that were laid in such coffins were buried no deeper in the ground than the breadth of a plank to be laid over them even with the surface of the pavement he caused some of them to be plucked-up and appointed them to be used as troughs for horses to drink in or hogs to feed in All the marble and free-stones also that covered them and other graves he caused to be taken away and broken some of which served to make pavement in his house He also defaced all such stones as had any pictures of brass or other imagery work or chalice wrought engraven upon them and the residue he took away and employed them to his own use and did make a washing-house of them at the end of the Centory-garth So that it could not afterwards be descerned that ever any were buried in the said Centory-garth it was so plain and straight The truth is â—e could not abide any thing that appertained to a goodly religiousness or Monastical life Within the said Abbey-church of Durham were two holy-water stones of fine marble very artificially made and engraven and bossed with hollow bosses upon the ouer-sides of the stones very curiously wrought They were both of the same work but one much greater than the other Both these were taken away by this unworthy Dean Whittyngham and carried into his kitchin and employed to profane uses by his Servants steeping their beef and salt fish in them having a conveyance in the bottoms of them to let forth the water as they had when they were in the Church to let out holy water c. He also caused the image of St. Cuthbert which before had been removed from its proper place by Dean Rob. Horne who also had a hand in such impieties and also other antient monuments to be defaced and broken all to pieces to the intent that there should be no memory of that holy Man or of any other who had been famous in the Church and great benefactors thereunto as the Priors his Predecessors were left whole and undefaced I say it again that he did this to the end that no memory or token of that holy Man St. Cuthbert should be left who was sent and brought thither by the power and will of Almighty God and was thereupon the occasion of the erection of the monastical Church of Durham where the Clergy and Servants have all their Livings and Commodities from that time to this day At length after his many rambles in this world both beyond and within the Seas and his too to forward zeal for the promoting his Calvinistical if not worse opinion whereby much mischief hapned to the Church of England he did unwillingly being then full of worldly troubles submit himself to the stroke of death on the tenth day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Durham Soon after was a tomb-stone laid over his grave with an Epitaph of 12 long and short verses engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto which with most if not all of the monuments which were set up after his time were miserably defaced by the Scots when they invaded England in 1640. The first four verses run thus Quae Whittinghami cernis monumenta sepulti Et vitae mortis sunt monumenta piae Anglia testis erat testis quoque Gallia vitae Exilis haec vidit Praesulis illa decus So that as he before had in a woful manner violated the monuments of his predecessors and others so was his by Invaders and nothing now left to preserve his memory or Person to shew the place where his carkase was lodg'd HENRY COLE a zealous maintainer for a time of the Rom. Cath. Religion was born at Godsbyll in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1523 studied the Civil Law travelled some years after into Italy was at Padöuo where he advanced his studies and afterwards notwithstanding all this he did acknowledge K. Hen. 8. to be the supreme head of the Church in England In 1540 he being then returned and settled in London he took the Degree of Doctor of the Civil Law and the same year resign'd his Fellowship being then an Advocate in the Court of Arches Prebendary of Salisbury and about that time Archdeacon of Ely in the place as it seems of Rich. Coxe In 1542 he was elected Warden of New Coll. and in 45 he was made Rector of Newton Longvill in Bucks Soon after when K. Ed. 6. came to the Crown he was altogether for reformation was an admirer of Pet. Martyr was a frequenter of Protestant service and a receiver of the holy communion according to their way did after preach up reformation in the Church of St. Martin commonly called Carfax in Oxon did approve of the proceedings of King Ed. 6. and other matters as a learned and puritannical Author tells you In 1551. 5. Ed. 6. he resigned his Wardenship and the year after the aforesaid Rectory In 1554 2. Mariae he was made Provost of Eaton Coll. in the place of Tho. Smith LL. D. of Cambridge of which house he had been Fellow and the same year had the Degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him Soon after he was appointed one of the Commissioners to visit the University of Cambridge became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral on the removal of Feckenham to Westminster an 1556 Vicar general of the spiritualities under Card. Pole Archb. of Cant. and in 1558 one of the overseers of the said Cardinals will I find extant under Dr. Coles name these things following Letters to Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury upon occasion of a Sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty and her honorable Counsell an 1560. Lond. 1560 in a pretty thick oct It was afterwards remitted into Jewells works I find also that divers letters of Dr. Cole were sent to Bishop Jewell after he had preached at
much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing which he exercised as well in the publick Schools as at home Soon after he was licensed by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law but took no Degree therein in this University And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560 he went thereupon into Ireland where if I mistake not he was born and prosecuting his studies there as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues expert in the Mathematicks a proper Antiquary and an exact Divine His pen was not lazie as one saith but dayly breeding of learned books He wrot Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta And an oration also entit De Ligno Faeno Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College which was no other than a Christmas Lord or a Lord or King of misrule He hath written many other things which being done and printed beyond the Seas we see them but seldom or never in these parts JAMES WALSH an Irish Man born was educated in this University but what Degrees he took there I find not In the Year 1572 and belike before he had a Chamber and took his commons in Hart hall being then a Student in Divinity with Mr. Leonard Fitz-Simons his Countryman Both whom are entituled Magistri that year in the Matricula of the University under Aula cervina The said Jam. Walsh hath written Epigrammata diversa With other things of the like nature and translated into English The Topography of Ireland written in Lat. by Silv. Giraldus Which translation with Scholia's was made also much about the same time by Joâ— Hooker alias Vowell of the City of Exeter as you may see elsewhere In the time of this Jam. Walsh studied in Hart hall also divers of his Country men of Ireland some of whom having been afterwards Men of note or else writers you shall have their names as they follow 1 David Clere Bach. of Arts 1565. 2 Nich. Clere of the County of Kilkenny matriculated 1567. aged 19 3 David Sutton a Gentlemans Son of Kildare 1571 aged 16. 4 Pet. Nangle a Gent. Son of Dublin 1571. aged 15 5 Rich. Walsh a Merchants Son of Waterford aged 15. an 1572. 6 Rob. Boteler a Merch. Son of the said City aged 23. an 1572. 7 George Sherlock the Son of a Merchant also of the same City at 17. an 1572. 8 Rich. Masterson a Gent. Son of Wexford aet 15. an 1573. 9 Nich. Gaydon an Esq Son of Dublin aet 19. an 1574. 10 Tho. Finglas a Gent. Son of Finglas near to Dublin aet 18. an 1571. 11 Will. Nugent a Gent Son of Meath or of the County of Meath aet 21. an 1571. With several others of a later date as Alex. Barrington a Gentlemans Son of Ireland aet 18. an 1583. c. LEONARD FITZSIMONS was born in the Diocess and County of Dublin in Ireland admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll. from that of Corp. Ch. of which he was Clerk 17 June 1558 aged 17 and the next year was made Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1563 he proceeded in that faculty but being a R. Cath. in his heart and therefore unwilling to take holy Orders according to the Church of England left his Fellowship and retired to Hart hall about 1571. At length going into his own Country had some employment confer'd upon him and was in his latter years as I conceive a Rom. Priest He is charactarized by one who knew him to be profundus clericus qui utrasque linguas Theologiam Mathematicam admodum caluit coluit And there is no doubt but that he hath written and published several Books which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom see them in these parts He was famous and noted for his learning in Ireland in Fifteen hundred and eighty but when he died or where his relicks were lodg'd I cannot tell One Hen. Fitzsimons a famous Jesuit was also educated in Hart hall as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SECURIS a Wiltshire Man born and a most noted Person for his admirable parts while he studied in New Coll. in the time of Ed. 6 but not in the condition of a Fellow did retire to Paris for the improvement of his studies where applying his muse to the faculties of Physick and Astronomy became a diligent hearer of the Lectures of Dr. Jacobus Silvius of high learning and famous memory the reader of the Physick lecture in that University who usually had a thousand auditors every time he read After he had compleated his studies there he returned into England and settled within the City of Salisbury where he was much frequented for his great knowledge in Medicine and wrot Several Prognosticons One of which for the Year 1580 I have seen and to it is joyned A compendium or brief instruction how to keep a moderate diet In the title of the said Prognosticon he writes himself Master of Arts and Physick but whether he took those Degrees in Oxon. I cannot tell because the register containing the acts of Congregation and Convocation is almost totally neglected during the Reign of Ed. 6. In the Preface to the said Compendium he tells us that in his time fell near to Salisbury hailstones as big as a childs fist of 3 or four years old Our Author Securis hath also written A detection and querimonie of the daylie enormities and abuses committed in Physick concerning the three parts thereof that is of the Physicians part the part of Surgeons and the part of Poticaries Lond. 1566. in oct Dedicated in a Lat. Epist to both the Universities Oxford of which he saith he was an Alumnus and Cambridge After which follows a Preface to the reader in old English verse and at the end of the book is a peroration to both the Universities Contemporary with this noted Author Securis was another Astrologer called Evans Lloyd a Welsh Man educated in Logicals and Philosophicals in Oriel Coll. but took no Degree here Afterwards retiring to the great City wrot several Ephemerides which were much valued in their time one of them written for the Year 1582. I have seen supputated especially for the elevation and meridian of London but may generally serve for all England It was printed there the same year and approved by Dr. John Dee with whom as also with Securis he had acquaintance NICHOLAS QUEMERFORD was born in the City of Waterford in Ireland took a Degree in Arts 1562 after he had spent at least 4 years in this University in pecking and hewing at Logick and Philosophy Which Degree being compleated by Determination he went into his own Country entred into the sacred function and had preferment there but turned out from it because of his Religion He wrot in English a pithie and learned
a copy of verses written to Thom. Legh of Adlington Esq must be understood of Bishop Coxe before mention'd NICHOLAS SAUNDERS the most noted defender of the R. Cath. cause in his time was born at Charlewood in Surrey educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1548 Bach. of the Laws 3 year after and about 1557 Shagling Lecturer or as he himself saith tanquam regius professor juris canonici But Religion putting on another face in the beginning of Q. Eliz. he left England about 1560 and going to Rome was made Priest and D. of D. and soon after went with Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius to the Council of Trent where he shew'd himself to be a Man of great parts by his several disputations and arguings Which Cardinal having an especial respect for made him his individual comparison in his journey into Poland Prussia and Lithuania As for the chief actions of his life that followed his Sisters Son John Pitseus will tell you But that which I must not forget now to let you know is that when he was a Nuntio from P. Gregory 13 into Ireland where he with 3 Ships full of Spaniards landed at Smerwick in Kerrey about the first of July 1579 to encourage the Irish there to take up arms and rebel against Qu. Elizabeth was after they with the said Spaniards had been overcome by the English forced to abscond in caves dens woods c. At length after two years time being not able to hold out longer did miserably perish by hunger and cold at the same time as my Author saith but as it seems false that Gerald Fitz-Gerald Earl of Desmond chief captain of the rebels was taken in a poor cottage and kill'd Of which matter hear what the learned Canmden tells us The principal of whom meaning the priests that persuaded the said Earlto forfeit his allegiance to his Prince was Nich. Saunders an English Man who very near at the same instant of time was miserably famish'd to death when forsaken of all and troubled in mind for the bad success of the rebellion he wandred up and down among woods forests and mountains and found no comfort or relief In his pouch were found several speeches and letters made and written to confirm the rebels stuffed with large promises from the Bishop of Rome and the Spaniard Thus the divine justice if a Man may judge stopped that mouth with hunger which had been always open to encourage rebellions and to belch forth malicious lies and slanders For to omit other things he was the first Man that broached that abominable lye concerning the birth of Qu. Elizabeths Mother which no Man in those days though the hatred and the malice of the Papists was then fresh against her and might remember it ever knew England in full forty years after never heard of the computation of time doth egregiously convince of falshood and vanity and he forgetting himself which a lyar should not do doth himself plainly confute c. The things that he hath written are mostly these The supper of our Lord set forth according to the truth of the Gospel and Cath. Faith with a confutation of such false doctrins as the Apologie of the Church of England Mr. Al. Nowells challenge or Mr. Jewells reply have uttered touching the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament In seven books Lovain 1566 in a thick qu. Answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge A Treatise of the images of Christ and of his Saints and that it is unlawful to break them and lawful to honour them With a confutation of such false doctrine as Mr. Jewell hath uttered in his reply concerning that matter Lov. 1567. oct Brief declaration which is the true Church of Christ This is written by way of preface to the Treatise of the images c. The rock of the Church wherein the primacy of St. Peter and of his Successours the Bishops of Rome is proved our of Gods word Lov. 1567 and St. Omer 1624. in oct Answered by the said W. Fulke Brief treatise of Usurie Lov. 1568. oct De typicâ honorariâ imaginum adoratione lib. 2. Lov. 1569. oct Sacrificii missae ac ejus partium explicatio Lov. 1569. oct Tractatus utilis quod Dominus in sexto capite Johannis de sacramento Eucharistiae propriè sit locutus Antw. 1570. in tw De visibili Monarchiâ Ecclesiae lib. 8. c. Lov. 1571. ' Antw. 1581. Wiceburg 1592. fol. In which book written before the Author went into Ireland he doth avow the Bull of P. Pius 5. against Qu. Elizab. to have been lawful and affirmeth that by virtue thereof one Dr. Nich. Moreton an old English fugitive and conspirator was sent from Rome into the north parts of England to stir up the first rebellion there whereof Charles Nevile Earl of Westmorland was a head captain And thereby it may manifestly appear to all Men how the said Bull was the ground of the rebellions both in England and Ireland De clave David seu regno Christi lib. 6. contra columnias Acleri pro visibili Ecclesiae Monarchiâ Wiceburg 1592. fol. De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani lib. 3. quibus historia continetur maxima ecclesiastica annorum 60 lectu dignissima c. Col. Agrip. 1585. Rom. 1586. Ingolst 1588. Col. Agrip. 1590. c. oct Which book being left in many places imperfect was supplied augmented and corrected by Edw. Rishton Afterwards the book being translated into French and printed 1673-4 gave occasion to Gilbert Burnet D. D. to write his two volumes of The Historie of the reformation of the Church of England In the appendix to the first of which you may read more of Saunders and his work de Schismate as also of Edw. Rishton and his corrections and additions of and to that book De justificatione contra colloquium Altenburgense lib. 6. in quibus c. Aug. Trev. 1585 in a thick oct This sometimes goes under the title of De Lutheranorum dissidiis circa justificationem Col. Ag. 1594. oct De militantis Ecclesiae Rom. potestate Rom. 1603. qu. De martyrio quorundam temp Hen. 8. Elizab. printed 1610. oct with other things which I have not yet seen the titles of which you may see in Joh. Pitseus who tells us that he died in Ireland about 1580. yet Edw. Rishton who was his contemporary and knew him well saith in the preface to the first edition of the book De orig progressu schism printed at Col. Agrip. 1585 that he died in Ireland in the County of Kerrey in Fifteen hundred eighty and one year 1581 So that how it comes to pass that Camden should say that he died in 1583 I cannot justly tell unless his information was that he died at that instant of â—â—me as is before said when the E. of Desmond was killed which was 1583 as he saith The reader must now know that whereas
Camden whom I follow in some things tells us that our Author N. Saunders was miserably ramish'd to death seems to be contrary to what a certain Author of Camdens time reports but he being one of Saunder's perswasion may perhaps not be believed by many He tells us that before the end of the said war wherein Desmond was kill'd Saunders was overtaken with the flux a usual disease with strangers in Ireland and tho he was strong and in the judgment of all near to him far from the approach of death yet in the beginning of the night he desired Cornelius the Bishop titular of Killaloa to give him the extreme unction for saith he this night I shall die having received a call from my Creator Whereupon Cornelius made answer that there was no need of it seeing that his body was strong and no sign of death near it Notwithstanding this his disease pressing forward he was anointed in the middle of the night and about the time of Cock-crowing he surrendred up his Soul to God In the night following he was carried to his grave by 4 Irish chevaliers whereof Dermitius Osullevan father to the Author whom I here quote was one and was buried by certain Priests according to their manner his body having been exposed to the sight of certain Persons as well of England as of Ireland who for privacy sake were prohibited their presence at his funeral Afterwards Cornelius went into Spain and died at Lisbon an 1617. Thus in effect the said Author who tells us not the name of the place where he died or was buried neither the time when EDMOND CAMPIAN another stiff defender of the R. Cath. Religion was born in London on St. Pauls day in Jan. 1540. educated in School-learning among the blew coats in Ch. Ch. Hospital within the said City spoke an eloquent oration before Qu. Mary there at her first coming to the Crown an 1553 put in Scholar of St. Johns Coll. by the worthy founder thereof at its first foundation took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1564 and was Junior of the Act celebrated on the 19. of Feb. the same year at which time speaking one or more most admirable orations to the envy of his contemporaries caused one of them who was afterwards an Archbishop to say that rather than he would omit the opportunity to shew his parts and dominare in una atque altera conciuncula did take the oath against the Popes Supremacy and against his conscience Soon after if not before he took holy orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Rich. Cheyney Bishop of Glocester who had encouraged him in his studies and became a florid Preacher In 1566 when Qu. Elizab. was entertained by the University of Oxon he did not only make an eloquent oration before her at her first entry but also was Respondent in the Philosophy Act in St. Maries Church performed by him with great applause from that Queen and the learned auditory In 1568 he was the junior Proctor of the University being the first of his Coll. who did undergo that office and in the Year following he took a journey into Ireland where improving his time very industriously did by the help of his admirable parts write in short time a history of that Country but then he being discovered to have left the Church of England and to labour for Proselytes was seized and detained for a time but getting loose from his keepers did with much ado obtain footing on the British shoare an 1571 where making but short stay took shipping again and went into the Low Countries and settling for a time in the English Coll. at Doway made an open recantation of his heresie as they there stil'd it studied Divinity and had the Degree of Bach. of that faculty conferr'd upon him Thence he went to Rome where he was admitted into the Society of Jesus in 1573 and being esteemed by the General of that order to be a Person every way compleat was sent into Germany where living for some time at Brune and afterwards at Vienna compos'd a Tragedy called Nectar Ambrosia acted before the Emperor with great applause Soon after setling at Pragne in Bohemia where had been newly erected a College for Jesuits taught there for about 6 years time Philosophy and Rhetorick and became amongst them a constant Preacher in the Latin tongue At length being called thence to Rome was with Father Persons sent at the command of P. Gregory 13 into England in 1580 where arriving at Dover on the day next following that of St. John Baptist was the day after that received with great joy by the Catholicks in London Afterwards he printed privately and by stealth his neat well penn'd book called Rationes decem of which many copies were dispersed in St. Maries Church at an Act-time an 1581. by one who was sometimes a Member of St. Johns Coll. in the time of Campian named Will. Hartley a R. Priest a native of Nottinghamshire and a learned Man who being taken in short time after was imprison'd and in Feb. 1584 being released was with other Priests and Jesuits put on Ship-board at Tower-wharf and thence at the Queens charge was wafted over the Seas to Normandy where he and his company were left to their shifts Afterwards it being commonly known that Campian was in England great inquisition was made after him At length at the desire and insinuation of Walsingham Secretary of State one George Eliot a Priest-catcher sometimes a zealous Catholick undertook for a considerable reward to find him out But all his searchings in London availing not he did at length upon some intimation received go into Berks. where with his attendants making great enquiries did with much ado find him out disguised like a Royster as 't is said in the house of Edw. Yates Esq at Lyford a little before which time Persons the Jesuit who had been with and accompanied him in his travels to and fro had left him and diverted his course towards Kent So that being carried as a Prisoner with triumph through Abendon Henly Colebroke and so through part of London with a paper fastned to his hat and a writing thereon to shew to the People that he was Edm. Campian a most pernicious Jesuit was chap'd up a close Prisoner within the Tower of London where he did undergo many examinations from several People abuses wrackings tortures and I know not what but scarcely answered the expectation raised of when certain Divines disputed with him About which time a little Pamphlet was published in oct containing a discourse of his apprehension which I have not yet seen All writers whether Protestant or Popish say that he was a Man of most admirable parts an elegant Orator a subtile Philosopher and disputant and an exact Preacher whether in English or Lat. tongue of a sweet disposition and a well polished Man A certain writer saith he was of a sweet nature constantly carrying
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
and quartered at Tyburn 1. year 1581 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one At the same time suffered Edm. Campian before-mentioned who was much pittied by all learned Men especially by his contemporaries in Oxon as Sherwyn was who had been very often a companion with Campian in his travels Alex. Briant also whom I am now about to mention did suffer at the same time and tho not so much commiserated by Scholars yet by many others because he was as the character went on both sides juvenis pulcherrimus vultu innocens prope angelico c. Contemporary with Ralph Sherwyn was one Martin Ayray who after he had left this University was one of the first that was brought up in the English Coll. at Rome and was companion there with the said Sherwyn Afterwards he became a good workman in England and of great edification for divers years as those of his opinion say both before he was taken and afterwards in Prison He was living in 1602 which was the last year of Qu. Elizab. at which time he was Provost of the English Church and residence of St. George in St. Lucar of Spain ALEXANDER BRIANT received his first breath in Somersetshire was admitted a Student of Hart hall about Lent-term in 1573-74 aged 17 or more where being trained up under a tutor sufficiently addicted to Popery left the University and went to Rheimes and afterwards to Doway At the last of which places taking the Priesthood on him he returned into his own Country an 1579. and settling for a time in Somersetshire converted the Father of Rob. Persons the Jusuit to the R. Cath. Religion On the 28. Apr. 1581 he was taken in the night time in his Lodging by one Norton who took away 3 l. in money from him besides cloathes and conducting him to a Magistrate was after examination committed close Prisoner to the Compter in London where enduring great misery till the morrow after the Ascension was removed to the Tower of London and there as 't is reported he was tormented with needles thrust under his nayles racked also otherwise in cruel sort and specially punished by two whole days and nights with famine which they did attribute to obstinacy but indeed sustained in Christs quarrel it was most honorable constancy While he was in Prison he wrot Literae ad reverendos patres societatis Jesu in Anglia degentes The beginning of which is Quoties mecum cogito reverendi patres c. They were written purposely that they would be pleased to receive him into the Order of Jesus before he died which accordingly they did to his great comfort Several Letters to his friends and afflicted Catholicks Whether extant I know not At length being found guilty of high treason at a Sessions in London he was hang'd drawn and quartered at Tyburn on the first day of Dec. year 1581 in Fifteen hundred eighty and one whereupon his quarters were hanged up for a time in publick places He had for his Tutor in Hart hall after he had continued there for some time one Rich. Holtbie born at Fraiton in Yorkshire educated for a time in Cambridge and afterwards going to Oxon settled in the said hall an 1574 aged 21. and more but departing without any Degree in this University he went beyond the Seas to Doway then to Rheimes and other places became a noted Jesuit and spun out his time to a fair age The reader is now to know that during the principality of Philip Rondell of Hart hall who had weathered out several changes of Religion tho in his heart he was a Papist but durst not shew it many Persons who were afterwards noted in the Rom. Church were educated under him but they having not exercised their pens upon any subject that I can yet find I can claim no pretence to set them down among such writers that that ancient house of learning hath sent into the learned world JAMES DYER second Son of Rich. Dyer of Wymaulton in Somersetshire Esq by his Wife the Dau. of one Waiton of the said County was born as I conceive at Wymaulton but in what house he was educated in Oxon for he was a Commoner for some time there it appears not notwithstanding tradition tells us in Broadgates hall From thence without the honor of a Degree he went to the Middle Temple where making great proficiency in the municipal Laws was after he had continued for some time in the Degree of Barrester elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that house 6. Ed. 6. and about the same time was by writ called to the Degree of Serjeant at Law In the Reign of Qu. Marie he was made a Justice of the Common pleas being about that time a Knight and Recorder of Cambridge and in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth Lord Chief Justice of that Court in the place of Sir Anth Browne and not Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings-bench as one doth falsly report As for his writings which shew him a great and eminent Sage of the Law and a Person of great abilities are these Reports or a collection of Cases with divers resolutions and judgments given upon solemne arguments c. and the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments in the Reigns of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Phil. and Mary and Qu. Eliz. Lond. 1601. 1621. c. fol. Abridged by Sir Tho. Ireland of Greys-Inn the same Person who abridged the Eleven Books of Reports of Sir Edw. Coke and by another with a table made to them printed by Rich. Tothill Learned reading upon the useful statute of 32. Hen. 8. chap. 1. of Wills and of 34 and 35. Hen. 8. chap. 5. for the explanation of that statute Lond. 1648. qu. At length this great Lawyer having arrived to a good old age paid his last debt to nature at Stowton in Hunting donshire where he had purchased an estate on the 24. March in Fifteen hundred eighty and one whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Much Stowton in the said County near to that of his Wife on the 9 day of Apr. 1582. His said Wife was named Margaret Dau. of Sir Maurice Abarrow of Hampshire Knight Widow of Sir Tho. Eliot of Carleton in Cambridgeshire by whom she had 3 Sons but all died without issue which Margaret died 25. Aug. 1569 but having had no Children by Sir James went after his death to Richard Son of his Brother Laurence Dyer whose posterity are at this time Baronets in Somersetshire RICHARD BRISTOW another most zealous Person for the R. Cath. cause was born of honest Parents within the City of Worcester educated in Grammar learning under one Rog. Golbourne M. A. the same I think who was a Reader in St. Bernards Coll. in the Year 1540 saluted the Oxonian Muses in 1555 but whether he was then entred into Exeter Coll. I know not One Bristow I find to be Chaplain of Ch. Ch. in 1549. 50. and 51. but him
Sir Will. Cecill in Canon rew and the third in that of Sir John Cheeke at the Carmes or White fryers lately dissolv'd These three disputations which were well carried on with great vigour and dexterity especially by Feckenham were prorogu'd to other places as first to Pershore in Worcestershire in which town was then lately a famous Monastery of the Benedictines standing and in the said County was Feckenham then beneficed At which place I say Hooper Bishop of Glocester and Worcester did dispute with him he being then in visiting his Diocess and received satisfaction from what he then said The next was in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester where Jo. Jewell did as 't is reported but I think false oppose him When these things were done he was remanded to his Prison in the Tower where continuing till the first year of Q. Mary was then released and not only made Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral but soon after in Nov. 1556 Abbat of Westminster and Chaplain to that Queen In 1554 he was in Oxon and openly disputed with Cranmer Ridley and Latymer about matters of Religion before they were to sacrifice their lives in the fire and in the beginning of 1556 he was actually created Doctor of Divinity being then in wonderful esteem for his learning piety charity humility and other virtues All the time of Qu. Maries Reign he employed himself in doing good offices for the afflicted Protestants from the highest to the lowest and did interceed with the Queen for the Lady Elizabeth for which he gained her displeasure for a time After the said Lady Elizab. came to the Crown and Religion about to be altered he denied the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England in 1559. About that time he planted the elmes which do yet or did lately grow in the garden belonging to the Coll. of Westminster But the Queen having a very great respect for his learning and virtuous life as also for his former tenderness of her sent for and had private discourse with him but what it was none yet do positively know tho there be not wanting some that say that she offer'd to him the Archbishoprick of Canterbury if he would take the oath and conform to the Church of England which he refused The year after he was committed Prisoner again to the Tower and about that time did undergo several disputes with Protestant Divines about Religion but was not suffered to be one of those that were publickly to dispute with the said Divines when the Queen was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England In the winter time 1563 he was committed to free custody with Dr. Horne B. of Winchester who as the R. Catholicks say did deal uncivilly and falsly with him But tarrying with that Bishop only one Winter he was sent to the Tower again thence after some time to the Marshalsea then to a private house in Holbourn and in 1580 to Wisbich castle in Cambridgshire where he remained to the time of his death in great devotion and sanctity of life Under his name do go these things following A conference dialoguewise held between the Lady Jane Dudley and Mr. Jo. Feckenham four days before her death touching her faith and belief of the Sacrament and her Religion Lond. 1554. oct There again 1625. qu. Jo. Fox entitles this little book A communication between Mr. Feckenham and the Lady Jane Grey before she was to be beheaded 12. Feb. 1553. Speech in the House of Lords an 1553. Two Homelies on the first second and third article of the Creed Lond. in qu. Oratio funebris in exequiis Ducissae Parmae Caroli quinti filiae Belgii Gubernatricis Sermon at the Exequy of Joan Queen of Spayne c. on Deut. 32. 28. 29. Lond. 1555. oct The declaration of such scruples and staies of conscience touching the Oath of Supremacy delivered by writing to Dr. Horne of Winchester Lond. in qu. Answered by the said Horne an 1566. qu. refuted by Tho. Stapleton the year after Objections or Assertions made against Mr. Joh. Goughe's Sermon preached in the Tower of London 15. Jan. 1570. Soon after was published by the said Gough An answer to certain assertions of Mr. Fecknam which of late be made against a godly Sermon c. Lond. 1570. oct Caveat Emptor This I have not yet seen Commentarii in psalmos Davidis This was seen in MS. in the hands of the Author while he was a Prisoner at London by Rich. Stanyhurst but lost with other things as 't is conceived among which was his Treatise of the Eucharist written against Joh. Hooper At length after our Author had seen many changes in Religion and had continued stedfast in that wherein he was educated surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it within the precincts of Wisbich castle before-mention'd year 1585 in Fifteen hundred eighty and five and soon after was buried but where unless in the Parish Church there I cannot tell leaving then behind him this character that he was a Person full of offices of piety and humility and was always ready tho of a contrary opinion to do good to the Protestant party especially in the Reign of Q. Mary when they suffered Our celebrated Antiquary W. Camden tells us that he was a learned and good Man lived a long while did a great deal of good to the poor and always sollicited the minds of his adversaries to good will RICHARD CALDWALL or Chaldwell a Staffordsh Man born was educated in Brasenose College of which he was afterwards Fellow took the Degree of M. of Arts entred upon the Physick line and in the 32 year of his age became one of the Senior Students of Ch. Ch. a little after its last foundation by K. Hen. 8. an 1547. Afterwards he took the Degrees in the said faculty and became so highly valued for his learning and happy practice therein that he was examined approved and admitted into the Physicians Coll. at London and made censor of it in one and the same day Six weeks after he was chosen one of the Elects of the said Coll. and in 1570 President thereof He hath written several matters relating to his profession but whether extant I cannot tell All that I have seen of his labours is his translation into English of The tables of surgery briefly comprehending the whole art and practice thereof c. Lond. 1585. fol. Written originally by Horatio More a Florentine Physician As for his death which hapned in Fifteen hundred eighty and five year 1585 and other of his works let the learned Camden tell you in these words Nee inter hos licet minoris notae silendus hoc etiam anno fato fanctus Richardis Chaldwellus è Coll. Aenei Nasi Oxoniae Med. Doctor qui ut de reipub bene mereretur adscito in partem honoris Barone Lumleio lectionem Chriurgicam honesto salario in Medicorum collegio Londini à Thoma Linacro fundato instituit Juxtaque ad Sancti
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
the north parts of England In 1560. the Queen design'd him to be Bishop of Norwich but he altogether refused it for no other reason as 't was suppos'd but that he was much disaffected to the Hierarchy and Ceremonies of the Church of England In the latter end of the said year in the beginning of March he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of this University that whereas he had for the space of 16 years studied Divinity he might be admitted to the reading of Epistles of S. Paul that is to the degree of Bach. of Divinity which was before the time of Reformation to the reading of the Book of Sentences This supplicat was granted by notwithstanding he had taken no Degree before among them as it appears from the publick Registers In the same congregation he supplicated also that after he was admitted Bach. of Divinity he might have liberty to proceed in the same Faculty but to that no answer was given Afterwards he supplicated that he might not only use the habit of Master of Arts in the time of his admission to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity but afterwards also while he continued in that state Which request though granted simpliciter yet it doth not appear that he was admitted to that Degree In Michaelmas term 1561. he was installed Dean of Christ Church in Oxon in the place of Dr. George Carew and soon after in the month of November he supplicated the congregation of Regents that it might be lawful for him to Preach within the limits of the University in a doctoral habit Which desire being as they thought unreasonable yet because he was a Dean they granted it only to continue till the Act following At that time there being a great scarcity of Divines in the University and but very few Masters he the said Sampson and Laur. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. another severe Calvinist preached by turns every Lords day either at St. Maries or elsewhere to the Academians and soon after got another brother of Allsouls Coll. as 't is said to joyn with them but who that was unless Andrew Kingsmyll LL. B. who afterwards out of pure sanctity went to Geneva I know not But Sampson being too severe a Calvinist if not worse to govern such a noted Coll. as Ch. Ch. for he was an enemy to Organs ornaments of the Church clerical vestments the square cap he always in imitation of Humphrey wearing the round cap and rather a perswader from than encourager to use them he was at length after a great many of admonitions from authority to conform and entreaties from certain Bishops so to do removed from his Deanery by the sentence of Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury an 1564. Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston at Leycester besides the Penitentiaryship or the Prebend of St. Pancras in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul where continuing for some time in teaching he was by the leave and favour of the Queen permitted to be a Theological Lecturer in Whittingdon Coll. in London but before he had enjoyed that place 6 years he was taken with the palsie Whereupon retiring to his hospital spent the remaining part of his days in preaching and writing Those works that go under his name are these Letter to the professours of Christs Gospel in the Parish of Allhallows in Bredstreet Lond. Strasburg 1554 oct A warning to take heed of Fowlers Psalter Lond. 1578. oct See in John Fowler under the Year 1578. Brief collection of the Church and Ceremonies thereof Lond. 1581. oct Prayers and meditations Apostolike gathered and framed out of the Epistles of the Apostles c. Lond. 1592. in 16o. He also corrected and caused to be published Two Sermons the first of repentance the other of the Lords Supper Lond. 1581. oct written by his friend Joh. Bradford with other things of that Author At length Tho. Sampson having lived beyond the age of Man in a perpetual motion as 't were for the carrying on of the holy cause laid down his head and gave up the ghost on the 9. Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston before-mention'd Over his grave was a monument soon after fastned to the South wall thereof with an inscription on it erected by his Sons John and Nathaniel Sampson A copy of which with other matters of the said Author which I have not here mention'd you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 254. From this Tho. Sampson is if I mistake not descended Tho. Sampson a pretender to Poetry Author of Fortunes fashion portrayed in the troubles of Lady Elizab. Gray Wife of Edw. 4. Lond. 1613. qu. a Poem dedicated to Henr. Pilkington of Gadsby in Leicestershire JOHN BROWNSWERD or Brunswerdus as he writes himself a most noted Master of the Latin Tongue was born as I conceive in Cheshire and had a considerable part of his education in this University but mostly as 't is thought in Cambridge where I presume he took one or more Degrees After his retreat thence he setled at Macclesfield in Cheshire where he taught the Free-school with very good success and having obtained a good report and honourable advancement in the Latin Empire was deservedly numbred amongst the best Latin Poets that lived in the Reign of Qu. Elizab. His works are Progymnasmata aliquot poemata Lond. 1590. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen He took his last farewel of this world on the 15. Apr. year 1589 in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Macclesfield before-mentioned In which year Tho. Newton his sometimes Scholar did publish a book of Encomia's of certain illustrious Men of England in which he hath this Distick of Brownswerd Rhetora Grammaticum Polyhistora teque poetam Quis negat is lippus luscus obesus iners And soon after the said Newton whose respect to his memory was great set up a Monument on the South wall of the said Chancel with an inscription thereon stiling Brownswerd Vir pius doctus and concluding with these two verses Alpha poetarum Coryphaeus Grammaticorum Flos Paedagogorâ—a hac sepelitur humo GEORGE PETTIE a younger Son of John le Petite or Pettie of Tetsworth and Stoke-Tatmach in Oxfordshire Esq was born in that County and at about 16 years of age an 1564 was a Scholar or Student of Ch. Ch. under Mr. Tho. Barnard Canon thereof and took one Degree in Arts as a member of that house in the latter end of the Year 1568. Soon after he left the University travelled beyond the Seas and at length became excellent for his passionate penning of amorous stories equal for poetical invention with his dear Friend Will. Gager and as much commended for his neat stile as any of his time He hath written a book intit A Petite pallace of Pettie his pleasure containing
Scotland thrice to John Basilides Emperor of Russia once to Charles the 9. of France and again to Hen. 3. The Queen of England who knighted him rewarded these his services with the Chamberlaines office in the Exchecquer heretofore a place of great honour and worth the Mastership or office of Comptroller general of the Post horses and with some small Land He hath written An account of his Embassage to the Emperor of Russia an 1568. Remitted into the first vol. of Rich. Hakeluyts voyages Lond. 1598. He then in 1568 procured privileges from the Emperor of Russia for the English Merchants trafficking there Instructions given to and notes to be observed by James Bassendine Jam. Woodcock and Rich. Browne for the searching of the Sea and border of the coast from the river Pechora to the Eastwards an 1588. There was then a commission granted to Sir Thom. Randolphe for the searching of those parts but he entrusted the matter with the 3 Persons before-mention'd See more in the said vol. of voyages by R. Hakeluyt At length after Sir Thomas had painfully spent his time in sundry and frequent Embassies and in continual services of his Prince and Country at home and abroad he quietly surrendred up his last breath in his house at St. Peters hill near to Pauls Wharf in London year 1590 on the 8. of June in Fifteen hundred and ninety aged 67 leaving then behind him several Children that he had by two Wives whereupon his body accompanied by one or two Heralds of armes was buried 6. July following in the Church of St. Peter near to the said Wharf Besides this Tho. Randolphe a Statesman hath been another of both his names of a later date and a most celebrated Poet of his time of whom by the way I desire the reader to know these matters following viz. that he was born at Newnham near to Daintry in Northamptonshire 15 June 1605 Son of Will. Rondolphe of Hams near to Lewis in Sussex Steward to Edw. Lord Zouch by Elizabeth his Wife Dau. of Tho. Smith of Newnham before mentioned educated in Westminster School and went thence being one of the Kings Scholars to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge 1623. of which he became Fellow Afterwards he commenced Master of Arts in which Degree he was incorporated at Oxon became famous for his ingenuity an adopted Son of Benj. Johnson and accounted one of the most pregnant wits of his age the quickness of which was first discovered when he was about 9 or 10 years old when then he wrot the History of the incarnation of our Saviour in verse which is at this day preserved in MS. under his own hand writing When he arrived to Mans Estate and perhaps before he wrot 1 Poems 2 The Muses Looking-glass a Comedy 3 Amyntas or the impossible dowry a Pastoral 4 Aristippus or the jovial Philosopher c. Trag. presented in a private shew 5 The conceited Pedler presented in a strange shew Lond. 1630. qu. 6 Jealous Lovers Tr. Com. 7 Hey for honesty down with knavery Com. Translated out of Aristophanes his Plutus Augmented and published by F. J. Lond. 1651. qu. All which except the last were gathered together and printed in one vol. by the care of his Brother Rob. Randolphe Student of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. being then commended to the world by divers Poets of the said University Several other things of the like nature were expected from the said young Poet Th. Randolphe but by indulging himself too much with the liberal conversation of his admirers a thing incident to Poets brought him untimely to his end in the House of Will. Stafford of Blatherwyke in Northamptonshire Esq having spent some time in that of his Father at Little Houghton in the said County in his delightful studies Whereupon his body being buried in an Isle joyning to the Church at that place among those of the Staffords on the 17 day of March an 1634 had soon after a Monument of white Marble wreathed about with laurel erected over his grave at the charge of Sir Christopher afterwards Lord Hatton of Kirby The inscription on which in Lat. and Engl. ver was made by the Poets Friend Pet. Hausted of Cambridge DAVID POWELL a learned searcher into the bowels of venerable antiquity and the most skilful Person in British histories that his time produced was born in Denbighshire entred a Member of this University in 1566 or thereabouts but in what Coll. or Hall resident I know not Sure 't is that as soon as Jesus Coll. was founded 1571 he translated himself thereunto took the Degrees in Arts as a Member thereof holy Orders and at length was made Vicar of Ruabon in his own Country About that time he had confer'd on him a Dignity in one of the Cathed in Wales St. Asaph I think grew famous for his learning and soon after took the Degrees in Divinity His works are Annotationes in itinerarium Cambriae scriptum per Silv. Giraldum Cambrensem Lond. 1585. oct Franc. 1603. Annot. in Cambr. descriptionem script per Silv. Giraldum De Britannica historia rectè intelligenda Epistola ad Gul Fleetwoodum civit Lond. Recordatorem Which two last books are printed with his Annotationes in Itin. Cambr. He also took a great deal of pains in making a Welsh Dictionary but died before he could perfect it corrected also and published Historia Britannica written by Ponticus Virunnius in 6 books Lond. 1585. oct And amended and augmented The History of Combria now called Wales which was translated into English by Humph. Lhoyd Gent. Lond. 1584. qu. This History of Cambria was originally written in Latin by Caradoc a Monk of Lancarvan and by him continued till the Year 1156. Afterwards being yearly augmented by several hands was as I have told you translated into English by H. Lhoyd as you may see under the Year 1570 but he dying before he could come near to the end of it 't was finished by our Author D. Powell and by him published What else he hath transmitted to posterity I find not nor any thing more of him only that he was buried in his Church of Ruabon as the Antients there say tho the register not because 't is imperfect about Fifteen hundred and ninety year 1590 and that his Son Sam. Powell succeeded him in the Vicaridge of that Village They add also that he had left behind him several things sit to be printed but what became of them after his death they could not tell The next that 〈…〉 is one who was accounted an eminent Scholar of his time as by the generality of writers is confess'd DANIEL ROGERS a most accomplished Gent. of his time who puts in some of his writings the addition of Albimontanus to his name was the Son of John Rogers by his Wife Adriana Pratt alias de Weyden Son of Joh. Rogers of Derytend in the Parish of Aston in Warwickshire was by his Fathers care strictly educated in juvenile learning but at the coming to the Crown of
will endeavour to stop Corrano from coming among us who is thought to be a Master of Puccius c. Thus in brief from Job Rainolds But notwithstanding all the endeavours to keep him out he was at length admitted after he had fleed himself from Heresie and became Reader of Divinity to the Students in Gloucester St. Mary's and Hart Hall lived as a Student in Ch. Ch. in 1579. if not before of which House he occurs Censor Theologicus in 1581 82 83 84 and 85. being then also Prebendary of the Prebend of Harlesten belonging to the Cathedral of St. Paul In 1579. he stirred again for the Degree of Doctor of Divinity but I cannot yet find that he was admitted notwithstanding he stiles himself Doctor of that Faculty in his Dialogus Theologicus an 1574. and in the year 1582. in April he laid under the censure of Heresie again upon which arose some trouble but soon after quieted and he restored to the good Opinion of the generality of Scholars and others His Works are these An Epistle or godly Admonition sent to the Pastors of the Flemish Church in Antwerp exhorting them to concord with other Ministers This was originally written in Latin but the Copy of it have not yet seen Translated into English by Geofry Fenton Lond. 1570. oct Tabulae divinorum operum de humani generis creatione Printed 1574. c. oct Translated also into English under the Title of Tables of God's Works c. Dialogus Theologicus quo Epistola D. Pauli Apost ad Romanos explanatur Collect. ex praelectionibus Corran Lond. 1574. oct printed in English there 1579. oct Articuli fidei orthodoxae quam ille perfectus est Printed with Dial. Theol. Supplication to the King of Spain wherein is shewed the Sum of Religion for the Profession whereof the Protestants do suffer Persecution in the Low Countries Lond 1577. oct 'T was written in Latin and French but who put it into English I know not unless the Author Notae in concionem Solomonis de summo hominis bono quam Hebraei cohelet Graeci Latini Ecclesiastem vocant Lond. 1579. and 81. in oct The version of which into Latin was done by Corranus also The said Notes were adorn'd with a learned Analasis by Abrah Scultet Printed at Francf 1618. oct Sermons on Ecclesiastes Abridged by Thomas Pitt Oxon. 1585. oct which is called by some Pitt's Paraphrase on Ecclesiastes A Spanish Grammer with certain rules for teaching both the Spanish and French Tongues Put into English by Joh. Thorius as I shall tell you when I come to him Printed at Lond. 1590. qu. What other things Corrano hath written I find not nor any thing else of him only that he dying at London March 30. or thereabouts in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 aged 64. was buried in the Church of S. Andrew but whether in that in Holbourn or in that by the Wardrobe I know not perhaps in the last leaving then behind him a Wife of no good repute and a Daughter named Susan which if the same that was at Woman's Estate in Oxon a little before her Father's Death was if any credit might be given to a Libel of that time made by an Oxf. Scholar of a light reputation JOHN MOLYNS Molens or Mullins so many ways I find him written was born in Sommersetshire elected Probat Fellow of Magd. College in 1541. and afterwards being Bach. of Divinity became a zealous Man for Reformation In the Reign of Q. Mary he left the Nation for Religion sake and setled at Zurick where he was esteemed a learned Man of credit and Authority being there as it is said Greek Reader among the Natives of England But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crwon he returned was made Archdeacon of London in the place of Jo. Harpesfield depriv'd and Canon of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul where he was much reverenced for his great Learning and frequent Preaching One that knew him well gave this Character of him Johannes Molinsaeus Archidiaeconus Ecclesiae Paulinae qui nulli injuriam fecerat qui prodesse omnibus studuerat qui Philosophiae Theologiae Linguarum studio sc totum tradiderat qui nihil commeritus est nisi quod ut Aristides justus ut olim Christiani veteres nunc meaning in the beginning of Q. Mary's Reign missae interesse recusaret eandem ancipitem fortunam subire compulsus est meaning also that he was forced to leave his Fellowship of Magd. College and seek his Fortune elsewhere with Arth. Saul Pet. Morwin and other learned and pious Fellows of that House who soon after went as voluntary Exiles into Germany He hath written and published several Books yet in all my searches I can only find extant Carmina Lat. Graec. in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandon c. Printed 1552. in two sheets in qu. Sermons c. He concluded his last day on the eleventh of the Cal. of June in one thousand five hundred ninety and one year 1591 and was buried in the North Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul within the City of London leaving then behind him a Daughter named Mary Wife of Walt Chetwind of Ingestry in Staffordshire Over his Grave was soon after a flat stone laid with his Image thereon engraven on a Brass plate and an Epitaph under it the beginning of which runs thus Clarus Johannes vitae moderamine Mullins Doctrinae insignis plenusque senilibus annis Qui. c. He gave by Will 200 l. to purchase Lands worth 12 l. per An. for an exhibition to be given to two Scholars of Magd. College in Oxon each to have 6 l. which if I mistake not continueth to this day In his Archdeaconry of London succeeded Theophilus Aylmer Son of Dr. Jo. Aylmer Bishop of London CHRISTOPHER HATTON Son of Will. Hatton of Holdenby in Northamptonshire Son of John Son of Hen Hatton by Eliz. his Wife Sister and Heir of Will. Holdenby of Holdenby before-mentioned was born at Holdenby became a Gentleman-Commoner of S. Mary's Hall in the Reign of Q. Mary at which time Will. Alan afterwards a Cardinal presided it Thence without a Degree he went to the Inner-Temple afterwards became successively one of the Queen's Gentlemen Pensioners Gentleman of the Privy Chamber Captain of the Band of Pensioners a Knight Vice-chamberlain of the Queen's Houshold one of the Privy Council Lord Chancelor of England Knight of the Garter and Chancelor of this University He was a Man to say nothing of him but that which in truth is due for Religion and Godliness right devout of approved faithfulness to the State of incorrupt Equity for Alms deeds of all others most bountiful and one which is not the least part of his praise that was most willing and ready to support and maintain Learning c. He was also somewhat enclined to the Popish Party by reason his Natural
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
carrere dignus Culleolo insutus si te mea musa sileret c. As for his Writings they were many but none of them only one were published till after his Death some of which are these Elenchus Annalium Regum Edwardi 5. Rich. 3. Hen. 7. 8. Lond. 1579. and 1597. in tw Dedicated to Sir Tho. Bronley Lord Chancelor of England This is called among the Lawyers Table to the Annals or Year-Book of Edw. 5. Rich. 3. c. The office of a Justice of Peace Together with instructions how and in what manner Statutes shall be expounded Lond. 1658. Oct. Observations upon the Eyte of Pickering Lambert's Areheion c. MS. Fol. sometimes in the Library of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultrey-Compter with other things which I have not yet seen This eminent Lawyer did mostly dwell in London in a street called Noble-street within Aldersgate-ward in an house which himself newly built wherein he dyed but was buried as I suppose in the Church at Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire where he had purchased an estate in the latter end of fifteen hundred nienty and three for on the 7th of March that year was a commission granted from the Prorogative Court of Canterbury to Mariana his Widdow daughter of Joh. Barley of Kingsey in the said county to administer the goods debts and chattels of her Husband Will. Fleetwood lately deceased He left behind him two Sons whereof Sir Will. Fleetwood Knight was one who succeeded him in the Estate at Missenden and the other was Sir Thomas of the Middle-Temple afterwards Attorney to Prince Henry He had also divers Daughters one whereof was married to Sir David Foulis Knight and Baronet and another to Sir Tho. Chaloner Tutor to the said Prince Son of the learned Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight JOHN WOOLTON was born at a Market Town in Lancashire called Wigan or Wiggen entred a Student in Brasnose Col. 26. Oct. 1553. aged 18 or thereabouts having perhaps wore a Gown in the University before that time supplicated for the Degree of Bach of Arts in the beginning of 1555. but it doth not appear that he was admitted Afterwards as it is said he went to or with his Uncle Alex. Nowel into Germany to which place several Protestants of England had receeded as voluntary Exiles In the beginning of Q. Eliz. he returned and in 1563. being about that time Canon Residentiary of Exeter he was admitted by the Name of John Wolton Bach. of Arts to the Church of Spaxton in the Diocess of Wells In April 1574. he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences but whether his desire was granted or he admitted it appears not In May 1575. being then Warden of Manchester College in his own Country he supplicated under the Name of John Wolton a Minister of Gods Word and sometimes a Student of this Vniversity that he might be licensed to proceed in Divinity but whether that also was granted it doth not appear Sure it is that he being then the designed Bishop of Exeter was consecrated thereunto in the beginning of August following He was a Person of great Piety and Reason and an earnest assertor of conformity against the Opposers thereof for which he was blamed by many but commended by more after his Death He hath written The armour of proof shewing the firm sortress of defence and haven of rest in these troublesome times Lond. 1576. oct Of the immortality of the Sou wherein is declared the Origin Nature and Power of the same c. Christian Manual Or the Life and Manners of true Christians wherein is declared how needful it is for the Children of God to manifest their Faith by their Works Castle for Christians and Fortress for the Faithful besieged and defended now almost 6000 years New Anatomy of the whole Man as well of his Body as of his Soul declaring the condition and constitution of the same in his first creation corruption regeneration and glorifiration Discourse of the conscience wherein is declared the unspeakable joys and comfort of a good conscience and the grief of an evil conscience All which six Treatises were printed at London in oct An. 1576. At length he having sate Bishop about 14 years with great commendations dyed on the 13th of March in fifteen hundred ninety and three and was buried in his Cathedral Church at Exeter on the South side of the Presbytery or Choire leaving then a Son behind him named John Fellow of Allsouls college Master of Arts and a Graduat in Physick Over his Grave was a Monument soon after erected with an inscription thereon containing six Verses two of which run thus Ingenium genium mores pietatis honore Eloquiumque pium busta perusta tegent THOMAS WATSON a Londoner born did spend some time in this University not in Logick and Philosophy as he ought to have done but in the smooth and pleasant studies of Poetry and Romance whereby he obtained an honourable Name among the Students in those Faculties Afterwards retiring to the Metropolis studied the Common Law at riper years and for a diversion wrote Ecloga in obitum D. Francisci Walsingham Eq. aur Lond. 1590. in two sheets in qu. Amintae Gaudia Lond. 1592. qu. Written in Lat. Hexamiter and dedicated to the incomparable Mary Countess of Pembroke who was a Patroness of his Studies He hath written other things of that Nature or Strain and something pertaining to Pastoral which I have not yet seen and was highly valued among ingenious Men in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth I shall make mention of another Tho. Watson who in his younger years was a Poet also in the Fasti following among the Incorporations of the year 1554. HENRY SMITH Son of Erasmus Smith of Bosworth Son of Joh. Smith alias Harrys of Withcock in Leicestershire was matriculated as a Member of Lincoln Col. in 1575. thus Henricus Smithe Leicestrensis generosus Aetat 15. What stay he made in the same House or whether he was the same Heâ— Smyth who received the Benefaction of Jo. Claymond in Bras Col. An. 1574. or took the Degre of Batchelaur of Arts it appears not Sure it is that having some Ecclesiastical employment conferred upon him was absent from the University for some time and at length in 1583. did take the Degree of Master of Arts as a Member of Hart Hall being then esteemed the Miracle and Wonder of his Age for his prodigious Memory and for his fluent eloquent and practical way of Preaching Afterwards he became Lecturer of St. Clements Danes without Temple-Bar near London where being much frequented by the Puritanical Party was by them esteemed as he was by the generality the prime Preacher of the Nation which his Sermons taken into the Hands of all People did shew Some of them were printed in 1591 92 and 93 while he lived but after his Death 40 or more were collected into one Volume
his younger years even from his Cradle in the Liberal Sciences especially in searching the most difficult and curious demonstrations Mathematical by the assistance of the practices observations monuments and conferences of his Father He was a Person of great Piety well skilled in matters relating to Soldiers and War having been Muster-master General of all Q. Elizabeth's Forces in the Low Countries and learned to a miracle in Mathematical Sciences which made him much esteemed by Joh. Dee Tho. Allen and others He hath transmitted to Posterity Alae sive scalae Mathamaticae Lond. 1573. qu. Of which Work Tycho Brahe giveth a favourable and ingenious censure An Arithmetical Military Treatise containing so much of Arithmetick as is necessary towards Military Discipline Lond. 1579. qu. Geometrical Treatise named Stratiaticos requisite for the perfection of Soldiers Lond. 1579. qu. This was first of all attempted by his Father but finished by this our author Thomas his Son afterwards corrected and amended and sundry additions put to it Lond. 1590. qu. Perfect description of Celestial Orbs according to the most ancient Doctrine of the Pythagoreans c. Lond. 1592. qu. set at the end of his Fathers Prognostication Humble motives for association to maintain Religion established Printed 1601. in oct To which is added his Letter to the same purpose to the Archbishops and Bishops of England England's Defence a Treatise concerning Invasion or a brief discourse of what orders were best for the repulsing of Foreign Enemies if any time they should invade us by Sea in Kent or elsewhere Written 1599. but not printed till 1686. which was at Lond. in 5 sheets in fol. Besides these and his Nova corpora c. he had several Mathematical Treatises lying by him which were fit for the Press and by him intended for publick view but being diverted by Law-sutes his intentions were not only stopped but the happy Society of the Mathematical Muses were discontinued He concluded his last day on the 24. year 1595 of Aug. in fifteen hundred ninety and five and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Mary the Virgin in Aldermanbury in the City of London On the North wall of the said Chancel was soon after set up a fair monument to his memory which continuing till 1666. was in the beginning of Sept. in that year consumed with the Church it self in the dismal conflagration that then hapned in London You may see more of this Tho. Digges in my discourse of his Father Len. Digges under the year 1574. EDWARD KELLEY otherwise Talbot was born in the City of Worcester at about 4 of the clock in the afternoon on the first day of Aug. in 1555. 3 of Q Mary whose Nativity being afterwards calculated it did appear that he was born to be a man of clear understanding quick apprehension of an excellent wit and of great propensity to Philosophical studies and the mysteries of Nature This Person being about 17 years of age at which time he had attained to a competency of Grammar Learning at Worcester and elsewhere he was sent to Oxon but to what House I cannot tell However I have been informed by an ancient Bach. of Divinity who in his younger years had been an â—manuensis to Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloucester Hall that he Kelley had spent some time in that House Whereupon I recurring to the Matricula could not find the name of Kelley only Talbot of Ireland three of which Name were Students there in 1573 74 c. about which time Mr. afterwards Sir John Davies was instructed in the Mathematicks by the said Allen. But this relation having been somewhat dubiously delivered to me I must tell you that Kelley having an unsettled mind left Oxon abruptly without being entred into the Matricula and in his rambles in Lancashire committing certain soul matters lost both his Ears at Lancaster and about that time caused by his incantations a poor Man that had been buried in the yard belonging to Law-church near to Walton in the dale to be taken out of his grave and to answer to such questions that he then proposed to him The story of which being to me incredible I shall refer you to the Writer of it who is too credulous in many matters About that time our author Kelley became intimate with Dr. John Dee the famous Mathematician with whom continuing several years in Philosophical Studies and Chymical Experiments they both became very famous among Scholars and therefore noted by Persons of high and noble extraction one for the Mathematicks and the other for Chymistry for though Dee was the most eminent man in his time for the first yet Kelly went far beyond him in the latter as by the sequel it will appear 'T is reported by a certain Rosacrucian that they were so strangely fortunate as to find a very large quantity of the Elixir in some part of the ruines of Glastenbury Abbey which was so incredibly rich in virtue that they lost much in making projection by way of tryal before they found out the heighth of that medicine In the beginning of 1583. Dr. J. Dee having contracted with certain Spirits to act and converse with them he appointed his Friend Kelley to be his Seer or Skryer or Speculator that is to take notice what the Spirits said and to tell it to d ee while he wrote down in a Book what was dictated to him Soon after Dee and Kelley being made known to and acquainted with the learned and most noble Polonian named Albert Alaskie Prince of Sirad who was come into England to see the fashions of the Court and to admire the Wisdom of the Queen he thereupon had so great respect for them himself being a Mathematician that in Sept. following when he left England he took them and their Wives with him in the same Ship and travelling with him afterwards by Land he saw them safely conveyed to Cracaw in Poland Where continuing for some time they removed to Prague and at length in Sept. 1586. to Trebona in Bohemia at all which places tho Kelley was several times troublesome inconstant and false to d ee yet he mostly performed the office of Skryer And further that notwithstanding Dee took the said Spirits to be Angelical yet Kelley not but rather meer delusions of the Devil which hath been since confirmed by Dr. Meric Casaubon who published the Relation of Dr. Dee's conversing with Spirits At Trebona Kelley made projection 9. Dec. 1586. with one small grain of the Elixir in proportion no bigger than the least grain of sand upon one ounce and a quarter of common Mercury and it produced almost an ounce of most pure Gold At another time he made projection upon a piece of mettal cut out of a Warming-pan and without his touching or handling it or melting the metal only warming it in the fire the Elixir being put thereon it was transmuted into pure Silver The said Warming-pan and piece were sent to Q.
time partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine He was a Person of a strict life and conversation as those of his Perswasion say of great gravity of severity and a lover of vertue and vertuous men He hath written A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholicks Lov. in oct and other things as I have been told but such I have not yet seen which if printed few or no copies come into England He dyed at Doway in Flanders in the house of Alice Fowler the Widdow of John Fowler an Englishman on the 9. year 1597 May in fifteen hundred ninety and seven and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Church of St. James there near to the horn of the Gospel leaving then behind him this character that he was a most fierce hater of Vice and a capital Enemy to Sects and Heresies CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON a most excellent Latin Poet Philosopher and Physician of his time was born at Kiddesley in Derbyshire education in Wykeham's School before-mentioned made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1555. 2. and 3. of Ph. and Mar. left it after he was M. of Arts and in 1560. became chief Master of the said School in the place of Tho. Hyde where by his industry and admirable way of teaching were many good Scholars sent to the Universities All the time that he could get at vacant hours he spent upon his beloved study of Physick which he practiced in the City of Winchester but not to the neglect of his School At length taking the degree of Doctor of that Faculty did shortly after resign his School and repairing to London practiced with good success in the Parish of St. Dunstans in the West where being accounted eminent was admitted as it seems a Member of the Coll. of Physicians He hath written and published Ortus atque vita Gul. Wykehami Winton Episcopi Written in 140 long and short Verses 14. Dec. 1564. Printed 1 on the broadside of a sheet of Paper with Wykehams Arms encompassed with the Garter before them 2 At the end of the Latin Poems of Rich. Willeius Lond. 1573. And 3 in a Book intit A brief view of the State of the Church of England as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James's Reign c. Lond. 1653. oct p. 37 38. Written by Sir Jo. Harrington Knight an 1608. and made publick by Joh. Chetwind his Daughter's Son then no Friend to the Church of England Custodum sive Praefidum Coll. Winton Series Written in Verse also and put at the end of the said Lat. Poems Didasculorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus In Verse also at the end of the said Poems Counsel against the Plague or any other infectious Disease Lond. 1577. oct Question Whether a man for preservation may be purged in Dog-days or no Printed with the Counsel c. Ranarum murium pugna Latino versu donata ex Homero Lond. 1580. in about 3 sh in qu. with other things as it is probable but such I have not yet seen See more of him in Rich. White under the year 1612. This Dr. Johnson died in the beginning of July year 1597 in fifteen hundred ninety and seven within the Parish of St. Dunstan before-mentioned whereupon his Body was buried in the Church there as it seems situated and being in Fleetstreet He dyed wealthy left several Sons and Daughters behind him and Mr. Joh. Heath his Son in Law a Student in Physick his Executor who had all his Physical and Philosophical Books and succeeded him in his Practice JASPER HEYWOOD a quaint Poet in his younger days Son of Joh. Heywood the Famous Epigramatist of his time was born in London sent to the University at about 12 years of age an 1547. educated in Grammar as well as in Logic there took a degree in Arts in 1553. and forthwith was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll where remaining about 5 years in all which time he bare away the Bell in disputations at home and in the publick Schools did upon a third admonition from the Warden and Society of that house for several misdemeanors for he and his Brother Ellis Heywood were for a time very wild to the great grief of their Father resign his Fellowship to prevent expulsion on the 4. Apr. 1558. In June following he took the degree of Master and in Nov. ensuing he was elected Fellow of All 's coll where abiding for a little while left the University and soon after England and entred himself into the Society of Jesus But before he left us he wrote and translated these things following Various Poems and Devises Some of which are Printed in a Book intit The Paradise of dainty Devises Collected and Printed by Hen. D'isle of London Printer an 1573. in qu. He also translated into English Verse 1 Thiestes the second Tragedy of Seneca Lond. 1560. oct Published again with other Tragedies of that author by Thom. Newton Lond. 1581. qu. as I shall tell you when I come to him in an 1607. 2 Hercules furens another Trag. of Seneca And 3 Troas a third published also by the said Newton 1581. qu. In 1561. our Poet left England and was made a Priest after the R. Cath. fashion and in 1562. being then at Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus 21. May in the then professed house of the Jesuits there After he had spent two years in the study of Divinity among them he was sent to Diling in Switzerland where he continued about 17 years in explaining and discussing controverted questions among those he called Hereticks in which time he was promoted to the degree of D. of Divinity and of the four Vows At length P. Gregory 13. calling him away in 1581. he sent him with others the same year into the mission of England and the rather because the Brethren there told his Holiness That the Harvest was great and the Labourers few Being setled then in the Metropolis of his own Country and esteemed the Chief or Provincial of the Jesuits in England it was noted by all that knew him That he kept many Men Horses and Coaches that also his port and carriage was more Baron-like than Priest-like c. At length going into France about publick matters relating to the Order was when ready to land in Normandy drove back by a contrary wind on the English shore where being taken and examined was with 19 more R. Priests put into a Ship and set on shore in France in Feb. 1584. Upon his being taken and committed to Prison and the Earl of Warwick's offer thereupon to relieve his necessity he made a copy of verses mentioned by a noted Poet of his time concluding with these two Thanks to that Lord that will me good For I want all things saving Hay and Wood. Afterwards he went to the City of Dole where he was troubled much with Witches thence to Rome and at length fixed in the City of Naples where as at Rome he became familiarly
of England to Geneva in the beginning of Q. Maries reign and there joined with Joh. Knox as quiet a spirit as himself that was the firebrand of his country of Scotland c. The truth is Goodman was a most violent Nonconformist and for rigidness in opinion he went beyond his friend Calvin who remembers and mentions him in his Epistles 1561. There was no man more ready than he as Knox was for Scotland to oppose in the beginning of Q. Eliz. the settlement of the Ch. of England according to the way used in the time of K. Ed. 6. What his preferments were when the said Queen came to the crown and where if any they were unless at Chester or in the county I know not Sure I am that when Sir Hen. Sydney was Deputy of Ireland and had much to do with the popish rebels there Goodman shewed his faithful diligence in that service His works are these How superiour powers ought to be obey'd of their subjects and wherein they may be lawfully by Gods word be disobey'd and resisted Genev. 1558. in tw c. W. Whittyngham hath a preface to it The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women Printed beyond Sea 1558. oct wherein Qu. Mary is called a wicked woman traitress bastard Proserpine c. But most of his doctrines in the said two books being destructive to the sacred persons of princes and their state and government were not only condemned by the Episcopal Clergy of England in the time of Q. Elizab. and after but also by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon past in their convocation held 21. Jul. 1683. Nay The first blast of the trumpet c. was esteemed by all especially the R. Catholicks a wicked seditious and base book and not fit to be taken into the hands of a Christian and the rather for this reason because as a Poet of that time saith No Queen in her Kingdom can or ought to sit fast If Knocks or Goodmans books blow any true blast He hath also written A commentary on Amos This I have not yet seen Nor can I say any thing else of him only that when he laid on his Death-bed at Chester year 1602 in sixteen hundred and two he was visited by Mr. Jam. Vsher afterwards Archb. of Armagh at what time he came from Ireland into England to buy books for Dublin Library several of whose stories he heard with great delight which he would afterwards when an ancient man repeat to his friends He the said Goodman died that year and was as I have been informed by some of his relations buried in the Church of St. Werberg in Chester His sometimes friend and crony Job Parkhurst hath an Epigram upon him which you may take instead of an Epitaph Nemo bonus Servator ait sed solus Olympum Qui regit is bonus est Gudmane nemo bonus Yet an English Presbyterian who saith that Goodman was a learned Scotch Divine was according to his name good and holy WILLIAM HARRYS became Fellow of Lincoln Coll. about 1567. being then Bach. of Arts Afterwards taking the degree of Master he left the Coll. his friends religion and the little all he had and went to the English College then newly erected at Doway where spending divers years in the study of Theology was at length made a Priest Afterwards returning to his native country to serve the afflicted Catholicks and gain Proselytes lived there several years and composed a large volume intit The Theatre or Mirrour of the most true and ancient Church of Great Britaine founded by Apostolical men and propagated from generation to generation even to our time by most holy Doctors and Catholicks in 10 books What else he wrote I find not not any thing material of him besides year 1602 only that he died in England in sixteen hundred and two Contemporary with him was Thomas Marshall Bach. of Arts 1562. and about that time Fellow of the said college but soon after leaving his Fellowship he went to Lovaine where he entred into the Society of Jesus Afterwards he went to Doway where he spent 9 years in reading and explaining Philosophy and at length became Confessor to the English coll at Rome where he died in 1589. leaving behind him the character of a learned person HAYWORD TOWNSHEND eldest Son of Sir Hen. Townshend Knight Justice of Chester by Susan his first Wife daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London Knight was a Shropshire man born became a Gentleman Commoner of St. Maries Hall about the beginning of the year 1590. took one degree in Arts being about that time a Student in the Municipal Law in Lincolns-Inn and was afterwards a Barrester In 1601. he was elected a Burgess for Bishops Castle in his own country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 27. Oct. the same year where shewing himself an observing man made an Historical collection of the proceedings therein to which adding other collections for three Parliaments preceeding viz. 1. For that which began 4. Feb. 1588. 2. For that which began 19. Feb. 1592. and thirdly for that which commenc'd 9. Feb. 1597. he made a compleat collection in folio At length when the press was open and the author had been dead many years his labours were published under this title Historical collections or an exact account of the proceedings of the four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth wherein is contained the compleat Journals both of Lords and Commons taken from the original records of their Houses As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy Members during all the last notable sessions c. Lond. 1680. fol. In the title of which book the publisher hath set down Heywood instead of Hayward Townshend whose time of death tho unknown to me yet sure I am that he died without Issue some years before 1623. See more in Will. Monson under the year 1606. In 1681. was published in octavo a book intit The connexion being choice collections of some remarkable passages in K. James his reign c. which may supply the vacancy between Townshend and Rushworths collections but who the author of it was I cannot tell 'T is a trite thing WILLIAM FULBECK a younger Son if I mistake not of Thom. Fulbeck who died in his Mayoralty of the City of Lincoln 1566. was born in that City particularly as it seems in the parish of St. Benedict wherein his Father lived and died became a commoner of St. Albans Hall in 1577. aged 17. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 23. January 1579. took the degree of Bach. of Arts two years after and then translated himself to Glocester Hall Where continuing a severe Student till he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had compleated it by standing in the Act 1584. he went to Greys-Inn in Holbourn near to London where he addressed himself to the study of the Municipal Laws and as 't is said had
they are descended from the said Family of the Savelli I cannot in the least conjecture being the name of a Town nor can I believe it no more than that the Corbets of Shropsphire are descended from the Corvini another ancient Family in Italy GEORGE CORYAT received his first being in this World in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City Salisbury educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1562. took the degrees in Arts and in June 1570. became Rector of Odcombe in Sommersetshire on the death of Tho. Reade and at length Bach. of Divinity In 1594 he was made Prebendary of Warthill in the Church of York and had some other Dignity but what I cannot tell He was a person much commended in his time for his fine fancy in Latin Poetry and for certain matters which he had written quoted by John Case the Philosopher Jam. Middendorp Joh. Cay and others All that I have seen of his composition are only these things following Poemata varia Latina Lond. 1611. qu. Published by his Son Thomas after his death and by him intit Posthuma fragmenta Poematum Descriptio Angliae Scotiae Hiberniae Written in Lat. verse as it seems and dedicated to Q. Elizabeth He died in the Parsonage house at Odcombe on the fourth of March in sixteen hundred and six whereupon his Son Tom upon some design preserving his body from stench above ground till the 14 of Apr. following was then buried in the Chancel of the Church at Odcombe at which time one Gibbs Gollop M. A. who was admitted to that Rectory 23. Mar. 1606 did officiate Gertrude Widdow of the said G. Coryate lived many years after at Odcombe and near to it where dying was buried near to the Reliques of her Husband on the 3. Apr. 1645. 21. Car. 1. as I have been informed by the searches by Mr. Humph. Hody M. A. of Wadham coll a Native of Odcombe At the same time that George Coryat was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll was elected also one John Mundyn born at Maperton in Dorsetshire who being a Civilian and not conforming himself to the Protestant Religion was ejected thence by the B. of Winchester in his Visitation of that coll 1566. Afterwards he went beyond the Seas was made a Seminary Priest and sent into the Mission of England But being taken on Hounslow-heath in his journey from Winchester to London was by Sir Fr. Walsingham Secretary of State committed to Prison Afterwards being convicted according to the Law against Seminaries was with 4 other Priests executed at Tybourne 12 Feb. 1583. See more in a book intit Concertatio Eccles Catholicae in Anglia Printed at Trier 1594. fol. 140 141. WILLIAM BURTON a Native of the City of Winchester was educated in Wykchams School there admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1563. and left that house after he had taken one degree in Arts. This person I take to be the same Will. Burton who was a Minister in Bristow and afterwards at Reading in Berks. And author of these things following Several Sermons as 1 Sermon Preached at Norwith 21. of Dec. 1589. on Jer. 3. 14. Lond. in oct 2 Davids Evidence or the assurance of Gods love in 7 Sermons on Psal 41. 11 12 13. Lond. 1592. oct 1602. qu. 3 A Caveat for Sureties two Serm. at Bristow on Prov. 6. from 1. to the 5. verse Lond. 1593. oct 1602. qu. 4 The rousing of the Sluggard in 7 Sermons on Prov. 6. from 6. to the 11. verse Lond. 1595. oct 5 Sermons on the Churches Love to Christ her Husband on Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. These Sermons are intit Gods Wooing his Church 6 Davids Thanksgiving for the arraignment of the Man of Earth two Sermons on Psal 10. 17 18. Lond. 1598. oct dedicated to Sir Will. Periam Knight Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer a favourer of the authors Muse 7 Ten Sermons on Matthew 5. 3 4. Lond. 1602. qu. 8 The Anatomy of Beliel in 10 Sermons on Prov. 6. 12 13 14 15. Lond. 1602. qu. dedic to Ralph Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esque a great favourer of the author Catechism containing certain Questions and Answers concerning the knowledge of God and the right use of the Law Lond. 1591. oct Conclusions of Peace between God and Man containing comfortable meditations for the Children of God on Prov. 7. 1 2. Lond. 1595. oct and 1602. qu. Exposition of the Lords Prayer drawn into Questions and Answers Lond. 1594. oct 1602. qu. Certain Questions and Answers concerning the attributes of God Lond. 1602. qu. second edit Questions and Answers concerning the right use of the Law of God Lond. 1602. qu. An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbath briefly yet fully and plainly set forth Lond. 1606. oct These are all and enough which I have seen published by Will. Burton a Minister in Bristow and afterwards in Reading Whether he be the same Will. Burton of the Parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate in Lond. Clerk who died in that Parish in Oct. or Nov. in 1612. 16. Jac. 1. and left behind a Widdow called Dorothy I know not WILLIAM MONSON a Lincolnshire Man born a Knight's Son and of the same Family with those of South Carleton in that County was a Gent. Com. or at least a Commoner of Balliol coll where he continued for at least two years But his mind being more Martial than Mercurial he applied himself to Sea-service wherein he attained to great perfection was a Captain in several Expeditions against the Spaniard Vice-Admiral and Admiral In 1594. he was actually created Master of Arts and in 1596. he received the Honour of Knighthood from Robert Earl of Essex at the Sacking of Cadiz In 1602. when Ireland was cleared of the Spanish Forces he was appointed Vice-Admiral under Sir Rich. Levison Admiral to carry on the War by Sea against the Spaniard lest they should invade England wherein he performed most admirable Service especially in the taking of a great Carack of 1600 Tun from them at Cezimbria against Barbarum the Promontory of Portugal This heroical person left behind him at his death written with his own hand A true and exact account of the Wars with Spain in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth being the particulars of what hapned between the English and Spanish Fleets from the year 1585. to 1602. shewing the expeditions attempts c. Lond. 1682. fol. dedicated to his Son John Monson In some copies of this book the Title runs thus A particular and exact account of the last xvii years of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign both Military and Civil Lond. 1682. fol. The first written by Sir Will. Monson the other by Heywood Townshend This worthy Knight was in great renown in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. and the last time I find him mentioned in his Sea-service is in 1605. in which year he conveyed over Sea
wall of the said Chancel by his Widdow I think wherein being nothing of him but what I have mentioned already I shall pass it by for brevity sake JOHN DAVID RHESE or Jo. David or Davis was born at Lanvaethley in the Isle of Anglesey elected Student of Ch. Ch. after he had been conversant among the Oxonians for 3 or more years in the month of Dec. 1555. aged 21. travelled beyond the Seas before he took a degree in this University became Doctor of Physick of Senes or Sienna in Tuscany and publick Moderator of the School at Pistoia in that Country whose Language there which is Italian he understood as well as any native Afterwards he returned to his Country where he practiced his Faculty with admirable success and was held in high esteem by learned men for his exquisite knowledge in all kind of literature especially for Physick Poetry the Grammatical part of the Welsh Tongue and curiosity in various Criticisms yet by the generality he being not understood his rare parts and curious learning was in a manner buried where he lived He hath written in the Florentine Language Rules for the obtaining of the Latin Tongue Printed at Venice And in Latin these two books following De Italicae linguae pronuntiatione Printed at Padua Both which were in their time held in great repute by the Italians and the last by Strangers that occasionally travelled into Italy Cambro-Britannicae Cymraecaeve linguae institutiones rudimenta c ad intelligend Biblia sacra nuper in Cambro-Brittannicum sermonum eleganter versa Lond. 1592. fol. Written to Sir Edw. Stradling of S. Donats Castle in Glamorganshire a great favourer and furtherer of learning as I have elsewhere told you Before which book is a large Preface written by Humph. Prichard of Bangor in North Wales sometimes an Oxford Scholar Our author Rhese hath also written in the British Language Compendium of Aristotles Metaphysicks MS. formerly in Jesus coll Library In which book the author saith that the British Language is as copious in expressing congruous terms as the Greek or any Language whatsoever He hath written other excellent things but are lost as I have been assured by Olor Iscamus and therefore I cannot say any thing else of him only that he died a Rom. Cath. as he had lived at or near Brecknock where he mostly dwelt and practiced Physick in the Reign of K. James 1. Scil. about sixteen hundred and nine and that he is much celebrated by Stradling the Epigiammatist for his learning while he lived who stiles him Novum antiquae linguae lumen and by Camden who calls him Clariss eruditissimus linguae vir D. Johannes David See more of him in Tho. Leyson under the year 1607. ROBERT PERSONS or Parsons a most noted and learned writer of his time and the ornament of the English Nation in the opinion of those of his Society must according to time have the next place to be mentioned Concerning whom several R. Priests and others who have written bitterly against and scurrilously of him have peremptorily said as Tho. Bell and Tho. James from them hath done the like that he was basely born of mean parentage at Stokersey in Sommersetshire that his supposed Father was a Blacksmith his right the Parish Priest of Stokersey by means whereof he was binominous sometimes called Rob. Parsons sometimes Rob. Cowbuck c. that he was one of the dregs of the Commonalty a Fellow of a most seditious disposition a Sycophant an Equivocator and one that would set Kingdoms to sale c. But these things with many other not now to be named having been written out of malice against him I shall by no means follow or embrace them for truths but receed to that collection of his life which I have made partly from his own writings partly from record and partly from impartial Writers Born therefore he was at Stowey commonly called Nether-Stowey near to Bridgewater in Somersetshire an 1546. His Father was a Plebeian of honest repute and an enemy to the Church of Rome but by Alex. Bryant reconciled thereunto His mother was a known grave Matron living divers years in flight and banishment for Religion dyed therein at London very aged about 1599. The Son Robert being a child of very great towardliness and exceeding apt to learn was by his Fathers edeavours trained up in the English tongue and having a good memory could repeat what he had read once or twice very readily About that time it hapned that one John Hayward a vertuous good Priest who before had been a Canon Regular in Devonshire became Vicar of Nether-Stowey who perceiving that Robert had pregnant parts did teach him the Latin tongue and after had a special affection for him for he living to the beginning of the year 1575. endeavoured to get him into Balliol coll did exhibit unto him as 't is said and was not against the resignation which he made of his fellowship In the latter end of 1563. our author R. Parsons being fitted for Academical learning was sent to the said coll but whether he was at his first coming a Servitour or Scholar I know not Sure it is that by the help of good natural parts accompanied with unwearied industry he became in short time a smart Disputant not only in the coll but publick Schools as occasion served In the latter end of May 1568. he was admitted Bach. of Arts and the same year Probationer-Fellow of the said college which being terminated he was made Chaplain-Fellow and so consequently I presume went into Orders being then a noted Tutor in the coll In Michaelmas-Term 1572. he was admitted Master of Arts stood in the Act celebrated 12. Oct. 1573. and on the 13. of Feb. following he resigned his Fellowship of his own accord as the Register of Bal. coll saith tho certain authors tell us that he resigned to prevent Expulsion being then if not before about to change his Religion In June 1574. he left England went to Calis and thence to Antwerp at which place after he had continued for some weeks he diverted himself for a time with a journey to Lovaine where being no sooner arrived but he fell into the company of Father Will. Good his Country man by whom he was kindly received and with him spent some days in spiritual exercise So that whereas then and before he had addicted his mind to the study of Physick and did intend to prosecute it at Padua to which place he had then intentions to go he by Goods advice made some doubt of that matter At length he went there and was for some time not only conversant in that faculty but also in the Civil Law Upon second thoughts he relinquished those studies went to the English coll at Rome was there admitted into the Society of Jesus 4. July 1575. went thro the several Classes of Dinivity and in 1580. journied into England with Edm. Campian and
others to advance the Romish affairs with power then given by P. Greg. 13. for moderating the severe Bull of P. Pius 5. While he continued there which was in the quality of a Superior he travelled up and down in the Country to Gentlemens houses disguised in the habit sometimes of a Souldier sometimes like a Gentleman and at other times like a Minister and an Apparator And being a person of a seditious and turbulent spirit and armed with a confident boldness tampered so far with the R. Catholicks about deposing Qu. Elizabeth that some of them as they afterwards confessed thought to have delivered him up into the Magistrates hands About which time Campian being seized and committed he made haste out of England for fear of being snap'd also and forthwith went to Rome where making profession of the four vows he was constituted Rector of the English coll there an 1587. Afterwards he went into Spain where by his great learning expressed in disputing writing and promoting the Cause he became known to and respected by the King of that place About 1597. he returned to Rome in hopes of a Cardinals Cap but missing it died as 't is said with grief He was a restless active man and tho of a violent fierce nature and rough behaviour yet he was more zealous for the promoting of the Jesuits interest than any of and perhaps before his time witness his unwearied endeavours of instituting Novices of the Society at Sevill Valladolid Cadiz Lisbon Doway S. Omers and at Rome Also his continual publishing of books as well in the Latin as in the English tongue which did no great good to the Church of England and the noted professors thereof And lastly his endeavours of keeping Spain and England in difference and of his inciting the Spaniard to invade England or Ireland again of breaking the lawful Succession of the Crown by confirming the right of it to a Daughter of Spain and what not to promote the interest of that Country and his Society As for those books which he hath written published either without a name or else in the names of other persons I shall here give you the titles of as many that have come to my hands and they are these A brief discourse containing the reasons why Catholicks refuse to go to Church Said to be Printed at Doway but really at Lond. 1580. in oct Published under the name of Jo. Howlet and dedicated to Q. Eliz. with a large Epist subscribed by the said J. Howlet See more in the Fasti 1569. I have seen a book in Bodlies Lib. being one of the Copies which was seized before the title page was printed intituled in the first page of the book it self thus Reasons that Catholicks ought in any wise to abstain from heretical conventicles The running title at the top of every leaf of the book is A Treatise of Schisme Printed at London by Will. Carter executed for Treason in the year 1584. who confessed when that book came to be seized on in his house on Tower-hill near London that there had been printed 1250. Copies of the said book At that time the Searchers found the original sent from Rheimes and allowed under Dr. Will. Allens own hand to be truly Catholick and fit to be published This book without doubt is the same which a certain author stiles Nine reasons why Catholicks should abstain from heretical Conventicles said by him to be written by Rob. Parsons The same year that the Brief discourse containing c. was published came out an answer to it intit A check to Mr. Howlets Shreechings to her Majesty c. but whether any reply followed I know not The next books that F. Parsons wrote were Reasons for his coming into the mission of England with a proffer or challenge to dispute with the Protestants This book or Treatise tho afterwards put under the name of Rob. Persons in the Bib. Soc. Jesu yet in the answer to it made by Mer. Hanmer and Will. Charke it is by them said to be written by E. Campian Brief Censure given upon the two books of W. Charke and M. Hanmer written against the Reasons and Proffer Lond. 1581. oct To which W. Chark made a reply Printed in oct A discovery of Joh. Nichols Minister misreported a Jesuit Printed 1581. in octav Answered by Tho. Lupton in a book intit Answer against a Jesuits book entit A discovery c. Lond. 1582. qu. See more in Joh. Nicholls an 1583. A defence of the Censure given upon two books of Will Charke and Meredith Hanmer Ministers which they wrote against Mr. Edmund Campian Priest of the Society of Jesus and against his offer of disputation Printed 1582. oct Taken in hand since the death of Campian Against this book came out another intit A treatise against the defence of the censure c. Cambr. 1586. oct De persecutione Anglicanâ Epistola Quâ explicantur afflictiones aerumnae calamitates gravissimae c. Rom. Ingolst 1582. Printed also in a book intit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Angliâ c. Aug. Trev. 1583. in oct p. 79. Both which editions the former I am sure were published under the name of the English coll at Rome See more in Joh. Bridgewater an 1594. A Christian directory or exercise guiding men to eternal Salvation commonly called The Resolution First published in 1583. in oct From which edition and book were framed two more published An. 1584. One of which was done by a catholick Gent. living at Roan in Normandy full of errors but in sense the same Another by Edm. Bunny of Merton coll in Oxon but all altered to the Protestant use as may be seen in the Preface to Rob. Persons's edition of the same book in the year 1585. The second part of a Christian directory or exercise c. Lond. 1594 92. in tw Printed also in 1650. in a large oct But these two parts as it seems being falsly printed at London the author came out again with them bearing this title A Christian directory guiding men to their Salvation divided into three books The first thereof pertaining to Resolution is only contained in this volume and divided into two parts and set forth now again with many corrections and additions by the author himself with reproof of the falsified edition lately published by Mr. Edm. Bunny Lovaine 1598. in a thick oct c. These books of Resolution won our author Persons a great deal of praise not only in the judgment of R. Catholicks but of very learned Protestants Yet not to heap more praises upon him than he justly deserves his Enemies and those of the Protestant party say that he was but a Collector or Translator at most and that the book was not of his own absolute invention but taken out of other authors They say farther also that his praise was for well translating close couching and packing it up together in a very smooth stile and singular good method
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
elected a Student of Ch. Church from Westminster School in 1574. took the degrees in Arts and afterwards entring on the Law line took the degrees in that Faculty also in 1589. About which time being famed for his excellencies therein became Chancellour of the Diocess of Ely and much respected by the Bishop thereof Dr. Martin Heton He was an excellent Poet especially in the Lat. tongue as several copies of verses printed occasionally in various books shew and reputed the best Comedian of his time whether it was Edward Earl of Oxford Will. Rowley the once ornament for wit and ingenuity of Pembroke hall in Cambridge Rich. Edwards Joh. Lylie Tho. Lodge Geor. Gascoigne Will. Shakspeare Tho. Nash or Joh. Heywood He was also a man of great gifts a good Scholar and an honest person and as it should seem by Dr. Joh. Rainolds's several answers and replies to what this Doctor hath written hath said more for the defence of Plays than can be well said again by any Man that should succeed or come after him The cause for the defence of Plays was very wittily and Scholarlike maintained between the said two Doctors for some time but upon the rejoynder of Rainolds Gager did let go his hold and in a Christian modesty and humility yielded to the truth and quite altered his judgment He hath written several Plays among which are Ulysses redux Rivales Both which were several times acted in the large Refectory of Ch. Ch. but whether ever printed I cannot yet tell The last was acted before Albert Alaskie Prince of Sirad a most learned Polonian in June 1583. in which year he purposely came into England to do his devotions to and admire the wisdom of Queen Elizabeth After he had beheld and heard the Play with great delight in the said Refectory he gave many thanks in his own person to the author Meleager Trag. Written also in Latin as the two former were and acted publickly in Ch. Ch. hall an 1581. or thereabouts before the Earl of Pembroke Rob. Earl of Leicester Chanc. of the Univ. of Ox. Sir Ph. Sidney and many other considerable persons This Tragedy giving great delight was shortly after acted there again and at length in 1592. 't was printed at Oxon in oct to the great content of Scholars A copy of the said Tragedy with two letters being sent by the author to Dr. Jo. Rainolds in which letters as I conceive were many things said in defence of Theatre sights Stage-plays c. the said Doctor drew up an answer dated at Queens coll 10. Jul. 1592. Whereupon our author Gager making a reply with a desire to Rainolds to forbear any farther writing against him yet Rainolds came out with a rejoynder in July 1593. As for Gagers letters and reply I think they were not printed for among my searches I could never see a copy of them The answer of Rainolds with his rejoynder I am sure were printed under the title of The overthrow of Stage-plays c. This is all that I know of our author Gager only that he was living in or near to the City of Ely in sixteen hundred and ten and that he wrote the Latine Epistle before the book of verses made by the University of Oxon. intit Exequiae D. Philippi Sidnaei Oxon. 1587. qu. In which book also he hath copies of verses on the death of that famous Knight who while he was in being had a very great respect for the learning and virtues of Gager of whom you may see more in Joh. Rainolds under the year 1607. and in Will. Heale who next follows In 1615. was published a book at London in qu. intit A refutation of the Apology for Actors but by whom written I know not for only the two letters J. G. are set to it WILLIAM HEALE a zealous maintainer of the honour of the Female Sex was a Devonian born being originally descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at South-Heale in the same County became a Sojourner of Exeter coll in 1599. aged 18. took the degrees in Arts and became Chaplain-Fellow of that house wherein he wrote and compiled An apology for Woman Or an opposition to Mr. Doctor G. Gager his assertion who held in the Act at Oxon. an 1608. That it was lawful for Husbands to beat their Wives Oxon. 1609. qu. What preferment he afterwards had in the Church or whether he wrote any thing else I find not He was always esteemed an ingenious Man but weak as being too much devoted to the fem Sex ALBERICUS GENTILIS the most noted and famous Civilian and the grand ornament of the University in his time Brother to the eminent writer Scipio Gentilis and both the Sons of Matthew Gentilis Doctor of Physick by Lucretia his Wife was born at La Chastell St. Genes in a Province of Italy called La Marca d' Ancona educated mostly in the University of Perugia where being made Doctor of the Civil Law in 1572. aged 21. soon after left his Country for Religion sake with his Father and younger Brother Scipio before-mentioned The Father and Scipio setled in Germany but Albericus going into England found relief from several persons in London and by recommendations obtained the patronage of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester Chancellour of the University of Oxon. But our learned author being desirous to lead an Academical life he procured the Chancellours letters for that purpose dated 24. Nov. 1580. wherein it appears that he left his Country for Religion sake and that his desire was to bestow some time in reading and other exercises of his profession in the Vniversity c. Soon after the date of the said letters he journeyed to Oxon and by the favour of Dr. Dan. Donne Principal of New Inn and his successor Mr. Price he had a convenient Chamber allowed to him in the said Inn and not only Monies given towards his maintenance by several Societies but soon after 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per an from the common Chest of the University In the latter end of 1580 he was incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law of this University as he had stood before in that of Perugia and after he had continued some years in the said Inn where he wrote certain books and laid the foundation of others of which the Students thereof have gloried in my hearing he receeded either to C. C. coll or to Ch. Ch. and became the flower of the University for his profession In 1587. the Queen gave him the Lecture of the Civil Law for his farther incouragement which he executed for about 24 years with great applause As for the books by him published which speak him most learned beyond the Seas were all written in the University of Oxon the titles of which are these De juris interpretibus dialogi sex Lond. 1582. qu. Dedicated to Rob. E. of Leicester being the authors first fruits of his lucubrations Lectionum Epistolarum quae ad
who writes himself Cocus received his first breath at Chale in the Isle of Wight his Grammatical education in Wykehams School his Academical in New coll of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1592. being then accounted a good Latin Poet as several of his copies which afterwards were printed testifie In 1608. he proceeded in the Civil Law being about that time Rector of Houghton in Hampshire and in good esteem for his profession and excellencies in the Greek tongue His works are Juridicum trium questionum ad majestatem pertinentium determinatio in quarum primâ ultimâ processus judicialis contra H. Garnetum institutus ex jure civili canonico defendetur c. Oxon. 1608. qu. Dedicated to Bilson Bishop of Winchester to whom he was then Chaplain Poematavaria year 1611 He gave up the ghost in sixteen hundred and eleven but where buried unless in his Church of Houghton I know not One James Coâ—k of Warwick Chirurgeon and a pretender to Physick hath published certain matters relating to Physick and Chirurgery in the Reign of Oliver and after and therefore not to be taken for the same with the Civilian JOHN BLAGRAVE the second Son of John Blagrave of Bulmarsh Court near to Sonnyng in Berkshire by Ann his Wife Daughter of Sir Auth. Hungerford of Downe-Ampney in Gloucestershire Knight was born in Berks. educated in School-learning at Reading in Philosophical among the Oxonians particularly as it seems in St. John's coll about the time of its first Foundation But leaving Oxon without the honour of a degree retired to his Patrimony which was at Southcote Lodge in the Parish of S. Mary at Reading and prosecuted with great Zeal his Mathematical Genie to so considerable an height that he was esteemed the flower of Mathematicians of his age He hath written and published these books following A mathematical Jewel shewing the making and most excellent use of an Instrument so called the use of which Jewel is so aboundant that it leadeth the direct path-way through the whole art of Astronomy Cosmography Geography c. Lond. 1585. fol. Of the making and use of the Familier Staff so called as well for that it may be made usually and familiarly to walk with as for that it performeth the Geometrical mensurations of all altitudes c. Lond. 1590. qu. Astrolabium Vranicum generale A necessary and pleasant Solace and Recreation for Navigators in their long journeying containing the use of an Instrument or general Astrolabe c. compiled 1596. Printed in qu. The Art of Dyalling in two parts The first shewing plainly c. Lond. 1609. qu. with other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen This worthy Mathematician who had a most generous love for his kindred gave way to fate in sixteen hundred and eleven year 1611 and was buried in the Church of S. Laurence within the antient Borough of Reading Soon after was a fair Monument erected in the Wall with his Bust to the middle over-against the Desk there where his Mother was before buried Part of the Epitaph which is engraven under his said Bust or proportion runs thus Johannes Blagravius totus Matthematicus cum matre Sepultus Obiit 9. Aug. 1611. Here lyes his Corps which living had a Spirit Wherein much worthy knowledge did inherit By which with zeal one God he did adore Left for Maid-Servants and to feed the Poor c. From one of the brethren of this Mathematician was descended Daniel Blagrave a Counsellour at Law who running with the rout in the beginning of the Rebellion was chosen a Burgess for Reading to serve as a Recruiter in the Parliament began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. About the same time he was made Steward of Reading and Treasurer of Berks and had given to him the Exegenters Office of the Common Pleas then esteemed 500 l. per an Afterwards he was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. bought the Kings Fee-Farm of the great Mannor of Sonnyng before-mentioned and other Estates at very easie rates was Master extraordinary in Chancery a constant Rumper and a great persecutor of the ministers in and near Reading especially when an Act of Parliament issued out for the ejection of such whom they then 1654. called Scandalous ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters At length upon the approach of his Majesties Restauration in 1659-60 he fled from the justice retired to Acon in Germany where living some years under a disguised name died in an obscure condition an 1668. and was buried in a certain piece of ground somewhat distant from that City appointed to receive the bodies of such whom they there call Hereticks RALPH BUCKLAND an Esquires Son was born of and descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living at West-Harptre in Somersetshire became a Commoner of Mag. coll in Mich. term 1579. aged 15 or thereabouts but before he took a degree he went to London and studied the municipal Laws for some time At length being inflam'd with a love to the Rom. Cath. Religion he left his Parents Country and the prospect of a fair Inheritance for he was the first Heir to his Father and went forthwith by the instigation without doubt of some Priest to the English coll at Rheimes in which place and at Rome he spent about 7 years in the eager obtaining of knowledge in Philosophy and Divinity Afterwards being made Priest and sent into the mission of England lived chiefly I presume in his own Country and spent above 20. years in doing offices belonging to his profession The things that he hath written and published are these Seven sparks of the enkindled Soul Four lamentations which composed in the hard times of Qu. Elizabeth may be used at all times when the Church happeneth to be extreamly pesecuted â—Drawn out of the holy Scriptures after the form of Psalms Printed in twelves In the Title or end of these two little things with which was printed A Jesus Psalter but by whom written or published it appears not there is no place or time mentioned where or when they were printed neither is the Epistle dedicatory to his Mother B. B. dated However that they were printed after K. James 1. came to the Crown of England appears in the first Psalm p. 12. thus By the hand of thy great Servant James Shake off our Yoake that we may find him an honourable Comforter Beautifie him with a name more precious than his Crown by the true name of a good King c. A Copy of the said two little things which contain Ejaculations very full of most servent devotion for the reconcilement of England and Scotland to the Rom. Church coming afterwards into the hands of the most learned Dr. Vsher Primate of Ireland he took occasion in a Sermon preached in S. Maries Church in Oxon 5. Nov. 1640. to tell the learned Auditory then present that the said two books having been printed at Rome in 1603. or thereabouts the Gunpowder-Treason
and speak a Speech in praise of Sir Tho. Bodley every year on the 8. of Nov. on which day the Visitation of his Library is commonly made to be nominated by the Dean of Ch. Ch. and confirmed by the Vicechancellour for the time being But the said gift was not to take place till the death of his Widdow At length upon her decease which was at Great Wolford in Warwickshire 11. Nov. 1681. she being then the Wife of Tho. Keyt of that place Gent. the said annuity fell to the University Whereupon the year following Dr. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. nominating one of his own house Tho. Sparke M. A. there was a solemn Speech made by him in the Schola Linguarum on the 8. Nov. 1682. Which Speech is yet continued by Ch. Ch. men without any regard had to those of Allsouls coll wherein Dr. Morris had much of his education and had been Chaplain thereof or to any Master of another coll or hall The said Sir Thom. Bodley had a younger Brother named Josias Bodley who having received part of his education in Merton coll became afterwards a Soldier of note in Ireland a Knight and Overseer of the Trenches when the English laid Siege to Kingsale Baltamore Berehaven and Castlehaven in Ireland holden against them by the Irish assisted by the Spaniard an 1601. at which time Bodley behaved himself bravely both in their Works and Battle He left behind him to posterity 1 Observations concerning the Fortresses of Ireland and the British Colonies of Vlster MS. fol. sometimes in the Library of Sir Jam Ware now perhaps in that of Henry E. of Clarendon 2 A jocular description of a journey by him taken to Lecale in Vlster an 1602. MS. Sometimes in the same Library WILLIAM WARMINGTON a Dorsetshire Man born was as a Member of Hart hall then presided by one who was always in animo Catholicus matriculated 20. Dec. 1577. aged 21. or more having been there a Student for some time before Shortly after he left the Nation and his Religion and spending some yeâ—s in a Seminary in Philosophical and Theological studies was made a Priest and sent into the Mission of England but being soon after taken he was with others conveyed on Shipboard in the Month of Feb. 1584. and sent beyond the Seas with great menaces of utter ruine if they return again Afterwards being noted in Foreign Countries by those of his own Nation for his learning and piety he was made Chaplain to Cardinal W. Alan with whom continuing till about the time of his death did return again into England being then as he stiles himself An Oblate of the holy Congregation of S. Ambrose and did execute his Function very zealously among the Brethren At length being apprehended by two Pursevants 24. Mar. 1607. and committed Prisoner to the Clinke in Southwark the next day according to the English accompt by the Bishop of Londons order he entred somewhat more deeply into consideration of the controversie about the Oath of Allegiance than he had done before while at liberty So that in the end making sufficient proof of his Loyalty towards his Majesty by accepting of the Oath when it was required of him he did thereupon premeditate and provide reasons for so doing and at length reducing into method for the help of his memory certain notes in scattered papers that he had collected concerning that matter did frame thence a compleat discourse At length after it had laid by him for some time did publish it under this title tho he knew 't would displease his Holiness who in his breves had either admonished or prohibited all Rom. Catholicks to take the Oath of Allegiance or to teach the lawfulness of it A moderate defence of the Oath of Allegiance Wherein the author proveth the said Oath to be most lawful notwithstanding the Pope's Breves c. Printed by permission of the Superiours in 1612. qu. Whereunto is added The Oration of P. Sixtus 5. in the Consistory of Rome upon the Murther of K. Hen. 3. the French King by a Fryer Strange Reports or News from Rome Printed with the former book Upon the publishing of these things the Friends of the author Warmington and his kindred of the Rom. Perswasion became his Enemies and withdrew from him all the benevolence they used to allow him Warmington therefore being put to his shifts for maintenance for this his Loyalty and Obediencce petitioned the King for some allowance His petition thereupon was received and he commended by his Majesty to Dr. Bilson Bishop of Winchester with order to take him to himself to his own house there to provide for him The Bishop obeyed Warmington lived with him wanted nothing had his liberty as he pleased and freedom of his Religion ROBERT WOLCOMBE or Wollocombe born of and descended from the antient and gentile family of the Wollocombes of Wollocombe in Devonshire was educated for a time in Exeter coll left the University without a degree and became beneficed in his own Country where he was much resorted to especially by the precise Party for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching His works are Sinners Salve which applied and practiced as well of impenitent may be moved to conversion as the penitent armed against disputation Lond. 1595. in tw Armour for the Soul against the assaults of Death Printed with Sinners Salve c. A glass for the Godly containing many comfortable Treatises to perswade man from the love of this World to the love of the world to come c. Lond. 1612. oct in two Parts The first dedicated to Sir Edw. Seymour of Bury-pomery in Devon containeth 7 Treatises which are no other than the effect of Sermons The first is entit The seeking of Heaven on Mat. 6. 33. The second part dedicated to Sir Edw. Giles Kt. containeth likewise 7 Treatises the first of which is entit Spiritual balm for the afflicted on Joh. 16. 20. A Letter to a pensive friend Printed and bound with the former parts He also translated from Lat. into English The restitution of a Sinner entit The restoring again of him that was fallen Lond. 1581. oct Written by St. John Chrisostome What other things he hath written and translated I cannot tell nor when he died I find one of both his names a Ministers Son of Devonshire to have been matriculated as a member of Exeter coll an 1584. aged 16. which I take to be Son to the Writer THOMAS TWYNE Son of Joh. Twyne mention'd under the year 1581. was born in the City of Canterbury admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 6. Jul. 1560. and Probationer 9. Nov. 1564. being then Bac. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty he applyed his Muse to the study of Medicine retired to Cambridge where he continued for a time and then setling at Lewes in Sussex where his Patron Tho. Lord Buckhurst lived practiced his faculty and became successful therein In 1593. he was admitted Bach. of Physick
a great influence upon the doctrine of Obedience Qu. Elizabeth therefore conceiving it convenient for her worldly designs to take on her the protection of the Low-Countries against the King of Spain did employ our author Bilson to write the said book of Christian subjection c. In which to justifie the revolt of Holland he gave strange liberty in many cases especially concerning religion for Subjects to cast off their obedience But this book which served her designs for the present did contribute much to the ruine of her Successor K. Ch. 1. which one calls a just judgment of God For there is not any book that the Presbyterians have made more dangerous use of against their Prince Ch. 1. than that which his predecessor commanded to be written to justifie her against the King of Spain However our authors Bilson Successor in Winchester I mean Dr. Morley saith that tho Bishop Bilson was in an errour yet he was not so much for the resisting of Kings as Mr. Rich. Baxter is Of the perpetual government of Christ his Church wherein are handled the fatherly superiority which God first established in the Patriarks and after continued in the tribe of Levi c. Also the points in question at this day touching the Jewish Synedrion c. Lond. 1593. qu. c. Printed in Lat. at Lond. 1610. The effect of certain Sermons touching the full redempton of mankind by the death and blood of Ch. Jesus wherein besides the merit of Christs sufferings the manner of his offering the power of his death the comfort of his Cross the glory of his Resurrection are handled c. Lond. 1599. qu. The clearing of certain objections made against the aforesaid doctrine The said Sermons being preached at Pauls Cross made great alarums among the puritanical brethren Whereupon they mustering their forces and comparing their notes sent them to Hen. Jacob an old Dessenter to have them published with his collections under his own name But the matter of the controversie coming to the Queens knowledge she being at Farnham castle belonging to the B. of Winchester she signified her pleasure to Bilson that he should neither desert the doctrine nor suffer the Function which he had exercised in the Church of England to be trodden and trampled under foot by unquiet men who both abhorred the truth and dispised authority Upon which command the Bishop did set himself upon the writing of that learned Treatise chiefly also delivered by him in Sermons entituled A survey of Christs sufferings and descent into Hell Lond. 1604. fol. See more in Hen. Jacob. He also published Sermon at Westm before K. and Qu. at their Coronation S. James day 28. Jul. 1603. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1603 oct and wrote MS. in my Libr. Orationes Carmina varia Vulgaria c. He also with Dr. Miles Smith added the last hand in the translation of the Bible commanded by K. James 1. At length after he had gone through many employments and had lived in continual drudgery as 't were for the publick good surrendred up his pious soul to God on the 18. year 1616 of June in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried saith one on the south side of Westminster Abbey Church near to the Monument of K. Rich. 2. or as the Register hath it near to the entrance into S. Edmunds Chappel One John Dunbar a Scot who writes himself Megalo-Britannus hath a learned Epigram on him which may serve for his Epitaph JOHN PITS or Pitsous as he writes himself a grand zealot for the Ro. Cath. cause Son of Hen. Pits by Elizabeth his Wife sister to Dr. Nich. Saunders was bron at a market Town called Aulton in Hampshire educated in juvenile learning in Wykeham's School near to Winton admitted Probationer-fellow of New coll in 1578. being then about 18. years of age but leaving that house before he was admitted perpetual Fellow which was to be in 1580. he went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile and going to Doway was kindly received there by the learned Tho. Stapleton who then gave him advice what course to take relating to his studies Thence he went to Rheimes and after one year spent in the English college he was sent to Rome and continued in the English coll there also in the zealous prosecution of the studies of Philosopy and Divinity for seven years and was made a Priest Thence he returned to Rheimes where he taught Rhetorick and Greek for two years But troubles arising in France he withdrew himself into Loraine and took the degree of Master of Arts which before he had neglected at Pont-a-musson and was soon after made Bach. of Divinity Thence taking a journy into High Germany he continued at Trier an year and an half where after he had performed certain exercise he was made a Licentiat of Divinity Thence after he had seen several of the best Cities in Germany he removed to Ingolstadt in Bavaria where remaining 3 years did in that time after he had performed solemn disputations take the degree of Doctor of his faculty So that by that time having viewed several parts of Italy and Germany and had learned their Languages he returned to Loraine where by Charles Cardinal of Loraine he was made Canon of Verdun After two years spent there he was called thence by the illustrious Princess Antonia Daughter to the Duke of Loraine and Wife to the D. of Cleve and was by her made her Confessor And that he might be the better serviceable to her he learned the French Tongue most accurately so that it was usual with him afterwards to preach in that Language In her service continuing about 12 years he had leisure to turn over the Histories of England whether Ecclesiastick or Republick Whence making several collections and observations he wrote and digested four great Volumes One was of the Kings another of the Bishops a third of Apostolical and a fourth of illustrious and learned men of this Nation At 12 years end the said Dutchess dying he went a third time into Loraine where by the favour of John Bishop of Toul sometimes his Scholar he was promoted to the Deanery of Liverdune of considerable value which with a Canonry and an Officialship of the said Church he kept to his dying day He hath written De legibus Tract Thâ—ologicus Trev. 1592. De beatitudine Tr. Th. Ingols 1595. De Peregrinatiene lib. 7. Dusseld 1604. in tw dedicated to Antonia Dutchess of Cleve Relationem Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis tom 1. quatuor partes complectens c. Par. 1619. in a thick qu. published by Dr. Will. Bishop of whom I shall speak elsewhere This book is the same with that De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus commonly called Pitseus de Scriptoribus And hath in the beginning of it certain prolegomina containing 1 De laudibus Historiae 2 De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britanniae 3 De Academiis tam antiquis Britonam quam recentioribus Anglorum
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
expulsion wherein he disclaimeth the aforesaid Libel beginning thus Jenkin why Man Why Jenkin fie for shame c. But the Reader must know that none of these were printed JOHN DOVE a Surrey Man born of Plebeian Parents was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an 1580. aged 18. and after he had taken the degrees in Arts became a Preacher of note in the University In 1596. he proceeded in Divinity being at that time well beneficed if not dignified but where I cannot yet tell His works are A perswasion to the English Recusants to reconcile themselves to the Church of Rome Lond. 1603. qu. Confutation of Atheism Lond. 1605. and 1640. oct Defence of Church-Government wherein the Church Government in England is directly consonant to the Word of God c. Lond. 1607. qu. Defence of the Cross in Baptism as 't is used in the Church of England Printed with the Defence Advertisement to the English Seminaries and Jesuits shewing their loose kind of writings and negligent handling the cause of Religion c. Lond. 1610. qu. The conversion of Salomon A direction to holiness of life handled by way of Commentary upon the whole book of Canticles c. Lond. 1613. qu. Sermons on Ezek. 33. 11. and S. Matth. 19. 9. Lond. 1597. 1601. oct c. See more in Alb. Gentilis an 1611. where you will find him author of another book but whether printed I know not He concluded his last day in Apr. about the 19. day in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 but where buried I know not as yet I find one John Dove to be author of Polydorian or a miscellany of Moral Philosophical and Theological Sentences Printed 1631. oct But whether he was the same with the Doctor or another I cannot tell unless I see the book it self which I have not yet done RICHARD MOKET was born in Dorsetshire in the Dioc. of Salisbury elected from Brasnose to be Fellow of Allsouls coll in 1599. being then near four years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts. Afterwards he proceeding in that Faculty took on him the Sacred Function became Domestick Chaplain to George Archb. of Canterbury Warden of Allsouls Rector of Monks-Risborow in Bucks and of Newington near Dorchester in Oxfordshire D. of D. and one of the Kings Commissioners concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs He published in the Latin tongue Lond. 1616. fol. The Liturgy of the Church of England Greater and Lesser Catechisms Thirty nine Articles Book of ordination of Bishops Priests and Deacons Doctrinal points extracted out of the Book of Homilies To which he added his own book written in Latin intituled De politiâ Ecclesiae Anglicanae Reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct Which collection he published in a pious zeal for gaining honour to the Church of England amongst Foreign Nations But this his zeal was so little accompanied in the Constitutions of the said Church or so much byassed towards those of Calvins Platform that it was thought fit not only to call it in but to expiate the errours of it in a publick flame And the true cause which was conceived why the book was burn'd was that in publishing the twentieth Article concerning the authority of the Church he totally left out the first clause of it viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus caeremonias statuendi jus in controversiis fidei authoritatem By means whereof the Article was apparently falsified the Churches authority disowned and consequently a wide gap opened to dispute her power in all her Canons and Determinations of what sort soever He yielded up his last breath with grief as 't is thought for what had been done to his book on the day before the nones of July year 1618 in sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried at the upper end of Allsouls coll chappel just below the steps leading to the high Altar In his Wardenship succeeded Richard Astley D. of D. who dying in Febr. 1635. was succeeded by Gilb. Sheldon who was afterwards Bishop of London and at length Archbishop of Canterbury JOHN GOLDESBURG descended originally from those of his name living at Goldesburg in Yorkshire was born 18. oct 1568. spent some time among the Oxonians for form-sake about 1584. went thence to the Middle Temple were after he had continued in the degree of Barrester and for some years been resorted to in matters relating to his profession was made one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas. He wrote and left behind him fit for the Press Reports or collection of cases and matters agitated in all the Courts in Westminster in the latter years of the reign of Qu. Elizabeth with learned arguments at the Barr and on the bench Lond. 1635. c. qu. Published by Will. Shepphard Esq Upon which cases and matters Sir Edm. Anderson and Sir Jo. Popham Judges wrote Resolutions and Judgments year 1618 Our author Goldesburg concluded his last day on the 9. oct in sixteen hundred and eighteen Whereupon his body was buried near to the high Altar of the Church belonging to the Temples He left behind him other things as 't is said fit for the Press but in whose hands they are I could never learn WALTER RALEIGH a person in his time of a good natural wit better judgment and of a plausible tongue Son of Walt. Raleigh Esq by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Philip Champernoon Kt. was born at a place called Hayes in Parish of East-Budeleigh in Devonshire an 1552. Which Hayes is a farm and his Father having had a remnant of a Lease of 80 years in it came after the expiration thereof to one Duke unto whom afterwards our author W. Raleigh having a desire to purchase it wrote a Letter dated from the Court 26. July 1584. wherein he says that for the natural disposition he has to that place being born in that house he had rather seat himself there than any where else c. His Father was the first of his name that lived there but his ancestors had possessed Furdell in the same County for several Generations before where they lived in gentile estate and were esteemed antient Gentlemen In 1568 or thereabouts he became a Commoner of Oriel coll at what time C. Champernoon his kinsman studied there where his natural parts being strangely advanced by Academical learning under the care of an excellent Tutor became the ornament of the Juniours and was worthily esteemed a proficient in Oratory and Philosophy After he had spent about 3. years in that house where he had laid a good ground and sure foundation to build thereon he left the University without a degree and went to the Middle-Temple to improve himself in the intricate knowledge of the municipal Laws How long he tarried there 't is uncertain yet sure I am from a Epistle or copy of Verses of his composition which I have seen that he was abiding in the said Temple in Apr. 1576. at which time his vein for ditty and amorous Ode was esteemed
fere plusquam humanâ perdius pernox he made it his chief endeavours tho troubled with the cumbrances of Marriage to improve it with riches and literature For the effecting of the last he always made choice of the best Scholars at the usual elections of Bach. Fellows In the first that he made after he was Warden which consisted but of four persons were Hen. Cuffe and Franc. Mason elected both noted for their learning tho the first was unfortunate In the last about three years before his death which consisted of six four of them whereof two were afterwards Bishops were esteemed eminent namely Dr. Reynolds of Norwych Dr. Earl of Salisbury John Doughty and Alex. Fisher the last of which tho he hath published nothing yet in some respects he was as able as any of the rest so to do had not a weak and timerous Spirit stood in his way Our author Savile also took as much care as he could to place noted men in Eaton college among whom were Tho. Allen Joh. Hales Tho. Savile and Jonas Mountague all of Mert. coll the last of which whom he made Usher of the School there helped him as Allen and Hales did in the edition of St. Chrysostome as I shall tell you elsewhere When K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown he had a great respect for Mr. Savile and his learning and as I have heard our Ancients say he would have advanced him to a higher place either in Church or State but he refused it and only accepted of the Honour of Knighthood from him at Windsore 21. Sept. 1604. Much about which time Henry his only Son and Heir dying and no hopes left of propagating his Name and of setling a Family he bestowed much of his wealth in publishing books and in founding two Lectures in this University which will make his memory honourable not only among the learned but the righteous for ever even till the general conflagration shall consume all books and learning Many are the Encomiums given of him by divers authors which if I should enumerate may make a Manual In one place he is stiled Musarum Patronus Mecoenas literarum fortunarumque Mertonensium verè Pater c. In another he is characterized by a zealous Rom. Cath. who seldom or never speaks well of a Protestant or at least by Dr. W. Bishop the publisher of his book to be Vir Graecè Latinè perinde doctus venerandae Antiquitatis ut videtur tam exquisitus indagator tam ingenuus liberalis editor To pass by the noble and generous characters given of him by Isaac Casaubon Joh. Boysius Josias Mercerus Marc. Meibomius Jos Scaliger and others among whom must not be forgotten the learned Rich. Mountague who stiles him The Magazine of all Learning I shall proceed to make mention of those things that he hath published and written which are these following Learned notes on and a translation into English of Corn. Tacitus his 1 End of Nero and beginning of Galba 2 Four books of Histories 3 Life of Agricola Lond. 1581. 98. c. fol. A rare translation it is and the work of a very great Master indeed both in our tongue and that story For if we consider the difficulty of the original and the age wherein the Translator lived is both for the exactness of the version and the chastity of the language one of the most accurate and perfect translations that ever were made into English The said notes were put into Latin by Is Gruter and printed at Amsterdam 1649. in tw A view of certain Military Matters or Commentaries concerning Roman Warfare Lond. 1598. c. fol. Put into Lat. by Marq. Fraherus printed at Heidleburg 1601. in oct and at Amsterd by Is Gruter 1649. in tw Fasti Regum Episcoporum Angliae usque ad Willielmum Seniorem These Fasti are at the end of the writers which Sir Hen. Savile published intit Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam praecipui c. viz. Gul. Malmsburiensis Hen. Huntingdon Rog. Hoveden c. Lond. 1596. fol. The best copies of which authors he collected viewed reviewed and corrected In his Epist dedic before which made to Q. Elizab. speaking of the History of England delivereth these matters after he had condemned Pol. Virgil Neostri ex face plobis Historici c. Our Historians being of the drâ—gs of the common People while they have endeavoured to adorn the Majesty of so great a work have stained and defiled it with most fusty fooleries Whereby tho I wot not by what hard fortune of this Island it is came to pass that your Ancesters most gracious Queen most puissant Princes who embracing a great part of this our World within their Empire did easily overgo all the Kings of their time in the Glory of great atchievements now destitute of as it were the light of brave Wits do lie unknown and unregarded c. These words being uttered by a Gent. excellently learned to a Soveraign Queen excellently understanding and in print were then understood and wish'd for by Historians and curious Men to have this meaning That the Majesty of handling our History might once equal the Majesty of the argument This was their opinion and the publisher Great Savile gave hopes to them that he should be the Man that would do it All the learned of England were erected and full of expectation but at length were grieved to find it vain Somewhat notwithstanding he is said to have attempted in that argument by making searches in the Tower of London for furniture out of the Records but if he did any such thing whether impatient of the harsh and dusty rudeness of the subject or despairing that he could deal so truly as the honour and splendour of his name and as the nature of the work required he desisted converting all his cares to the edition of St. Chrysostome in Greek Thus was he carried away by speculation of things Divine as it were in a Chariot of fire from this other immortal office to his native Country He also carefully collected the best copies of books written by St. Chrysostome from various parts of the World and employed learned men to transcribe and make annotations on them Which being done he printed them at his own charge in a most beautiful edition bearing this title S. Johannis Chrysostomi opera Gracè octo voluminibus Printed in Eaton coll 1613. fol. On several parts of which he put learned notes besides what the profound Joh. Boyse Andr. Downes Tho. Allen c. had done The whole charge of which edition and for the payment of certain Scholars employed beyond the Seas for the obtaining of the best Exemplars of that author cost him more than 8000 l. But the copy as soon as 't was finish'd coming into the hands of a learned French Jesuit named Fronto Ducaeus of Bordeaux he mostly translated it into Latin Which being so done he printed it in Gr.
righteousness of Christ Treatise of the providence of God The book of Ecclesiastes briefly explained Printed 1628. qu. The period of the Persian Monarchy wherein sundry places of Ezra Nehemiah and Daniel are cleared Lond. 1631. qu. Exposition on the first nine chapters of Zacharie Lond. 1629. qu. Five godly and profitable Sermons Lond. 1628. 29. qu. Fruitful Sermons upon the 1 Cor. 15. 18 19. Lond. 1629. qu. Introduction to the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1628. 29. Lond. 1639. oct De formarum origine Ibid. 1629. in tw dedic to Dr. Accepted Frewen Printed also at Camb. in tw De sensibus internis Lond. 1629. Ox. 1647. in tw Enchiridion oratorium Ox. 1633. qu. c. A summ of moral Philosophy Oxon. 1630. qu. All which books or Treatises those only that were written in English were remitted into one volume and printed several times The third impression was at Lond. 1635. and the fourth impression at Ox. 1659. both in fol. Introduction to Geography Ox. 1685. qu. At length our author a zealous Calvinist retiring to the house of the before-mention'd Rich. Capell minister of Eastington alias Easton near to the City of Gloucester to make some continuance there for the sake of study and health died of a burning Feaver in sixteen hundred twenty and three and was buried in the yard under the great Yew-Tree year 1623 on the north side of Eastington Church Over his Grave was a stone soon after laid with these words engrav'd thereon Here lyeth the body of William Pemble master of Arts and preacher who died 14 Apr. an 1623. JOHN SPRINT Son of Dr. Joh. Sprint descended from those of his name living in the City of Bristow was born as I conceive there or in Glocestershire near to it elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592. took the degrees in Arts and some time after became Vicar of Thornbury in the said county Thence he removed to London was cried up by the Citizens for a godly and frequent preacher and by them much followed but was cut off in the prime of his years when great matters were expected from him He was a grave and pious Divine yet for the most part disaffected to the ceremonies of the Church of England while he continued at Thornbury At length upon the gentle perswasions of Mr. Sam. Burton Archdeacon of Glouc. he did not only conform but was a great instrument in perswading others to do the like by a book that he wrote and published call'd Cassander Anglicus which I shall anon mention His works are these Propositions tending to prove the necessary use of the Christian Sabbath or Lords day c. Lond. 1607. qu. and in 1635. in tw or oct The practice of that sacred day framed after the rules of Gods word printed with the former The summ of Christian religion by way of question and answer Lond. 1613. oct Cassander Anglicus shewing the necessity of conforming to the prescribed ceremonies of our Church in case of deprivation Lond. 1618. qu. dedic to Sam. Burton Archd. of Glouc. Whereupon came out a brief and plain answer to the first reason of it which was replied upon by Sprint but I have not yet seen it The Christians sword and buckler or a letter sent to a man seven years greviously afflicted in conscience and fearfully troubled in mind c. Lond. 1638. oct These are all the pieces I think that he hath written which are published and therefore I shall only let the reader know that he was buried within the precincts of the Church of S. Anne situated in the place called the Blackfriers in London of which he seems to have been Minister or Lecturer on the seventh of May in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 See more of him in Hist Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 309. b. His Father Dr. Sprint who was Dean of Bristow and a frequent preacher but a Calvinist I shall mention more at large in the Fasti under the year 1574. not as a Writer but as a D. of D. and rich Dignitary PHILIP CLUVER Cluverius the Son of a maker or coyner of money was born at Dantzick the chief town of the province of Prussia in Poland but descended from an antient and gentile family of his name living in the Dutchie of Bremen in Lower Saxony instructed in his puerile years at home in his youthful in the royal Court of Poland where he learned among the Courtiers the exact speaking of the Polish tongue and their manners Thence his Father sent him into Germany where he received a command from him to apply his mind solely to the study of the Civil Law Whereupon he journeyed to Leyden in Holland and did endeavour to follow it but his Genie being naturally enclined to Geography he followed for altogether that study especially upon the perswasions of Joseph Scaliger who had perused his Table of Italy which he had composed while he was a youth in Poland Thence partly to see the world but more for the conversation of Just Lipsius he took a journey into Brabant but missing him was dispoiled by thieves who left him in a manner naked Thence he returned to Leyden and afterwards went into Bohemia and Hungarie where coming to the knowledge of one Popel a Baron who had been closely confined by the Emperor for some misdemeanours did translate his Apologie written in his own defence into the Latine tongue Which coming to the ear of the Emperour Cluver was thereupon imprisoned Afterwards being set at liberty he travelled into Scotland England France Germany and Italy In England his chief place of residence was in this University particularly in Exter coll of which he became a sojournour for the sake of Holland and Prideaux in 1609. age 29 where being setled he wrote his book De tribus Rheni alveis as I shall tell you anon In Italy he became acquainted with some of the Cardinals who held him in great esteem for his curious and exact knowledge in Geography the Greek and Latine tongues and for his marvellous knowledge in the Dutch German French Italian Bohemian Hungarian Polonian and British Language Afterwards he returned to Oxon again being then highly valued by Mr. Prideaux for one or more of his things then published and had offers of promotion tender'd unto him But Leyden being the place of his delight he retired thither and tho he could get no place of benefit there yet the curators of that University gave him an yearly stipend for the encouragement of his studies as being a person repleated with all humane literature antient Histories and Geography He is stiled by a certain author vir stupendae lectionis curae and by another princeps aetatis nostrae Geographus and magnum Germaniae ornamentum His works are De tribus Rheni alveis ostiis item de quinque populis quondam accolis c. Lugd. Bat. 1611. qu. This book was written in Oxon with the helps of the
who was well known to John Sâ—â—w was living in Northampton in sixteen hundred twenty and three 21. J. c. 1. In his time was one Samuel Wastell a Master of Arts of New Inn 1628. but him I find not to be a writer or publisher of books WILLIAM BISHOP Son of John 〈◊〉 who died 1601. aged 92. was born of a gentile family at Brayles in Warwickshire sent to this University in the 17 year of his age in 157â— or thereabouts particularly as I conceive to Gloucester hall at which time it was presided by one who was a R. Catholick or at least suficieâ—tly addicted to the R. perswasion and that therein did then and especially after study 〈…〉 or else in 〈…〉 who was in anino Catholicus After he had continued in Oxon. about 3 or 4 years he left it his paternal estate which was considerable and all his friends and his native Country which was more So that setling himself in the English coll at Rheimes he applyed himself partly to the study of Divinity Soon after he was sent to Rome where making a fruitful progress in Philosophy and Divinity he was made Priest and sent into England to convert Souls but being taken in the haven was kept prisoner several years as one of his perswasion reports Afterwards being set at liberty an 1584. he went to Paris where he was honorably received and worthily numbred among the Sorbon Doctors At length he took another journey into England and laboured 9 years in the R. C. harvest Upon the expiration of which he was sent for to Rome about certain matters depending between the Jesuits and Secular Priests of which business a certain author hath a large story all which being determined he return'd the third time into England and after 8 years labouring therein to advance his religion was taken and committed prisoner to the Gate-house in Westminster where he was remaining in 1612. Afterwards being released and sent back beyond the Seas again lived at Paris in the Arras or Atrebatian coll newly rebuilt for Benedictin Monks by Philip Caverell Head or Prefect of the Monastery of S. Vedastus at Arras About the year 1622. our author being made Bishop of Chalcedon by the Pope he was sent into England to execute the office of a Bishop among the Catholicks and was by them received with great honour and respect He hath written Reformation of a Catholick deformed by Will Perkins Print 1604. in qu. Part 1. The second part of the reform of the Cath. c. Printed 1607. qu. An answer to Mr. Perkins's advertisement Pr. with the former A reproof of Dr. Rob. Abbots Defence of the Cath. deformed by W. Perkins Pr. 1608. in 2. parts in qu. Disproof of Dr. R. Abbots counter-proof against Dr. Bishops reproof of the defence of Mr. Perkins reform Cath. Par. 1614. in oct part 1. Defence of the Kings honour and of his title to the Kingdom of England He also published and added several things besides a Preface to Joh. Pits his book De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus and was one of the principal authors of the Libels written against the Archpriestship in England mentioned in George Blackwell an 1612. I find a book written by the Bp. of Chalcedon entit A treatise of the best kind of Confessors pr. in oct but whether written by this Bishop or Dr. Ric. Smith who was his Successor in that titular See I know not At length after this learned person who was in his latter time of the order of S. Benedict had lived 71. years he paid his last debt to nature near to London on the thirteenth day of April in sixteen hundred twenty and four year 1624 but where buried unless in S. Pancras Church near to the said City I know not One that remembers the man hath told my friend that he died at Bishops Court in London but where that place is unless in the Parish of S. Sepulchre I am yet to seek A Latine Manuscript containing the obits and characters of many eminent Benedictines since the reformation hath this character of Dr. Will. Bishop that he was carceribus exilio Apostolicis sudoribus inclitus qui a Sancta sede in patriam ad solamen Catholicorum missus clericis Religularibus ac ipsis laicis ob innatum unionis ac pacis affectum juxta charus extitit c. This obitat book which I have in my little Library was written by a Benedictin Monk of Doway named Tho. White alias Woodhop who having spent several years in the Sheldonian family at Beoly in Worcestershire in which County he was born retired at length in the time of the civil War to Doway was chosen Prior of the coll of English Benedictines and died there of the Plaâ—ue in 1654. From the said book wherein 't is said that Dr. Bishop died near to London was another composed in English with additions and therein is this said of that Doctor he was sent into England by the holy See for the comfort of Catholicks where he so modestly behaved himself that he was by all both Clergy and Seculars dearly beloved and honoured And after imprisonments and all sorts of afflictions patiently endured for the true religion died in peace near London c. This English obital was pen'd by another Benedictine named Tho. Vincent alias Vincent Sadler author of The Childes Catechisme c. pr. at Paris alias London 1678. in oct who died as I remember much about the time that K. Jam. 2. came to the crown He was nephew or near of kin to Fath. Vincent Sadler of the same order who died at Lond. 11. June 1621. after he had been Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury for some years MILES WINDSORE Son of Thomas Son of Andrew Lord Windsore was born in Hampshire at Stanwell I think elected from Balliol coll Scholar of that of Corp. Ch. in Jan. 1556. aged 15 or thereabouts made Probationer-Fellow 16 Feb. 1560 took the degrees in Arts left the coll soon after because popishly affected and spent the remaining part of his time within the City of Oxon. in a most retired condition He was a tolerable Latine Poet but a better Orator as was sufficiently witnessed by his speech intended to have been spoken in C. C. C. when Qu. Elizab. was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses 1566. and more especially by that which he most admirably well delivered before her at the Lord Windsores house at Bradenham a little after she left Oxon. Which giving the Queen great content she in an high manner did commend it before Dedicus Gosemannus de Sylva the Spanish Embassador then present and looking wistly on Windsore who then had a beard according to the fashion said to Goseman is not this a pretty young man At riper years he applyed himself to the study of Histories and Antiquities and had a hand as 't was frequently reported in the Apologia of B. Tuyne who stiles our author Windsore Antiquae Historiae artifex
peritus c. But before that Apologia was extant he wrote Academiarum quae aliquando fuere hodie sunt in Europâ— catalogus Lond. 1590. qu. contracted by the author and printed on one large sheet of Paper to be put into a frame At the end of the said book he published Chronographia sive origo collegiorum Oxoniensis Academiae This last was mostly written by Tho. Neal of New coll in Lat. verse and to it is added a description of the Divinity and publick Schools and an Epitome of the Halls Our author Windsore had intentions to write a book of the Antiquity of the Univ. of Oxon. and in order thereunto had made many collections but Twyne with his forward and natural genie undertaking that work Windsore forbore to proceed and imparted to him his collections At length after he had lived to a fair age he surrendred up his last breath in his lodgings near S. Michaels Church in Oxon. in sixteen hundred twenty and four and was buried in the outer Chappel of C. C. coll under the north wall behind the Vicepresidents seat At that time he left many if not all his collections of Antiquities containing many dotages and fooleries to Twyne before mentioned Legacies to the prisoners in the prison called Bocardo to the parishioners of S. Michaels Parish and to the Chest in the Tower of C. C. coll After Twynes death some of the said collections were put into the Libr. of the said coll and others were scatter'd about when the great fire hapned in Oxon. soon after Twynes death One vol. of which came at length into my hands wherein I find many vain and credulous matters not at all to be relyed upon committed to writing MILES SMITH a Fletchers Son received his first breath within the City of Hereford became a Student first in C. C. coll about 1568. whence translating himself soon after to Brasnose took the degrees in Arts as a member of that house wherein by the benefit of a severe discipline that was in his time exercised and by his indefatigable industry he proved at length an incomparable Theologist About that time he was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. and took the degree of Bach. of Div. as a member of that Royal foundation Afterwards he became Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral Ch. of Hereford Doctor of Divinity and in 1612. Bishop of Glocester to which See which was given him for his great pains in translating the Bible he received consecration 20. Sept. the same year From his youth he constantly â—â—plyed himself to the reading of antient Classical authors of the best note in their own Languages wherewith as also with Neotericks he was plentifully stored and lusted after no worldly thing so much as books of which tho he had great store yet there were none scarce to be found in his Library especially of the Ancients that he had not read over as hath been observed by those who have perused them since his death He ran thro the Greek and Latin Fathers and judiciously noted them in the margin as he went The Rabbins also as many as he had with their Glosses and Commentaries he read and used in their own idiom of speech And so conversant he was and expert in the Chaldaick Syriack and Arabick that he made them as familiar to him almost as his own native tongue Hebrew also he had at his fingers ends and with all stories of all times And for his rich and accomplished furniture in that study he had this Elogy given him by a learned Bishop of this Kingdom that he was a very walking Library For this his exactness of those Languages he was thought worthy by K. Jam. 1. to be called to that great work of the last translation of our English Bible wherein he was esteemed the chief and a workman that needed not be ashamed He began with the first and was the last Man in the translation of the work for after the task of translation was finished by the whole number set a-part and designed to that business being some few above 40. it was raised by a dozen selected from them and at length referred to the final examination on Bilson Bishop of Winton and this our author who with the rest of the twelve are stiled in the History of the Synod of Dort vere eximii ab initio in toto hoc opere versatissimi as having happily concluded that worthy labour All being ended this excellent person Dr. Smith was commanded to write a Preface which being by him done 't was made publick and is the same that is now extant in our Church Bible the original whereof is if I am not mistaken in the Oxonian Vatican He hath written besides what is before-mentioned Sermons Lond. 1632. fol. They are 15 in number and were transcribed out of his original MSS the first of which is on Jer. 9. 23. 24. He departed this mortal life in the beginning of Nov. year 1624 in sixteen hundred twenty and four having always before been very favourable to the Calvinian Party in his Diocess and was buried on the 9. of the same month in our Ladies Chappel in the Cath. Ch. of Gloucester leaving behind him two Sons which he had by his first Wife Mary Hawkins of Cardiff named Gervase of the Midale Temple Gent. and Miles Smith and this character by the zealous men of the Ch. of England that tho he was a great Scholar yet he was a severe Calvinist and hated the proceedings of Dr. Laud especially after he was made Dean of Gloucester Over his grave was afterwards a white stone laid without any inscription thereon only his Arms impaled by those of the See of Glouc. RICHARD CRAKANTHORPE was born of a gentile Family at or near Strickland in Westmorland became a Student in Queens coll in 1583. aged 16. and soon after a poor serving Child then a Tabarder and at length in 1598. Fellow of the said coll About which time being a noted Preacher and a profound Disputant in Divinity of which Faculty he was a Bachelaur was admired by all great men and had in veneration especially by the Puritanical Party he being himself a Zealot among them as having with others of the same coll entertained many of the principles of Dr. Joh. Rainolds while he lived there After K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the Lord Evers who in 1603. or thereabouts was sent Embassador extraordinary to the Emperour of Germany By which opportunity he as Tho. Morton his Brother Chaplain in that Voyage afterwards B. of Durham did advantage themselves exceedingly by conversing with learned men of other Perswasions and by visiting several Universities and Libraries there After his return he became Chaplain to Dr. Ravis B. of London Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty and by the favour of Sir John Levesen who had sometimes three Sons of Qu. coll Rector of Blacknotley near to
it of that Religion by Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury who sent for him upon notice received that he had been at the doleful Even-song in the Black-Friers in London 26. Oct. 1623. became a bitter Enemy to the Romanists and studied to do them what mischief he could by these books following The Foot out of the Snare with a detection of sundry late practices and impostures of the Priests and Jesuits in England c. Lond. 1624. qu. A gentle excuse to Mr. Greg. Musket for stiling him Jesuit These two which go and are joyned together were printed four times in the said year 1624. because all the copies or most of them were bought up by R. Catholicks before they were dispersed for fear their lodgings and so consequently themselves should be found out and discovered by the catalogues of all such Priests Jesuits Popish Physicians Chyrurgions c. with the names of the streets lanes c. in London where they mostly lived which were printed at the end of the Gentle Excuse before-mentioned Our author Gee hath also written and published Hold fast Sermon at Pauls Cross on Rev. 3. 11. Lond. 1624. qu. New shreds of the old Snare containing the apparitions of two Female Ghosts the copies of divers letters c. especially Indulgences purchased at Rome c. Lond. 1624. qâ— For the publishing of which books and for his mutability of mind he was very much blamed by both parties especially by those of the Rom. perswasion as I have been several times informed by a grave Bach. of Div. Mr. Rich. Washbourne Chanter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon who had been his contemporary in Exeter coll Which person having known Gee well and what he was as to his life and conversation blamed the writer of this book much for honouring the memory of such a sorry fellow as he was in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. He was afterwards beneficed at Tenterden in Kent where he died and was buried but when I cannot yet tell leaving then behind him a young Brother named Orlando Gee afterwards a Knight One Joh. Gee was Minister of Dunsford in Devon who died about the beginning of 1631. leaving a Relict behind him called Sarah Which Joh. Gee was perhaps Father to the aforesaid Joh. Gee the writer Qu. RICHARD VERSTEGAN or as some call him Rich. Rowland a great reviver of our English antiquities and a most admirable Critick in the Saxon and Gothick languages ought with all due ceremony to crave a place among these writers not only because he is little remembred among authors but also for that he had received part of his education among the Oxonians His Grandfather who was called Theodore Rowland Verstegan was born in the Duchy of Gelderlandt and there descended of an ancient and worshipful Family From which Duchy when it had been much ruined wasted and depopulated by the intestine Wars there raised and continued by Charles Duke thereof and Philip the Archduke and Charles the fifth his Son he the said Verstegan being then a young man and deprived of his Friends in the said Wars came into England about the latter end of Hen. 7. and there married and soon after died leaving behind him a Son but nine months old which gave cause of making his fortune meaner than else it might have been Afterwards when the said Son grew up to be about 16 years of age he was bound an Apprentice to a Cooper Nor is this any discredit Wolfgangus Musculus his Father being of that Trade This Cooper was Father to our author Rich. Verstegan born in the Parish of St. Catherine near to the Tower of London where his Parent mostly lived and gained so comfortable a subsistence by his Trade that he made shift to give his Son ingenious and Grammatical education which being improved by Academical in his University where he was mostly known by the name of Rowland became esteemed for some parts of learning that were not then among the Academians regarded Afterwards to avoid Oaths he left the University without a degree and being by that time a zealous R. Catholick he left England went into the Spanish Netherlands and setled at Antwerp where he composed Theatrum crudelitatum Hereticorum nostri temporis Antw. 1592. qu. in 12 sh Whether ever printed before as some say it was I cannot tell This book is full of Cuts representing the hanging quartering and beheading or butchering of Popish Martyrs engraven from the delineations made with the Pen of Verstegan who was observed while in England to be much delighted in drawing and painting The verses under to explain the meaning of them were made by one Joh. Bochius born at Bruxills and then 1592. Register if I mistake not at Antwerp Afterwards the Rebellious League beginning he conveyed himself and books to Paris where the English Embassadour complained of him to K. Hen. 3. and desired that he being born a Subject to the Q. of England and then a Fugitive and one that had abused her by his representation of Cruelties he might be delivered into his hands to be sent to England there to receive reward And the Embassador had reason for his request if that be true which is reported that K. Hen. 3. was so much possest with those cruel pictures and did put so much credit in them that he accused Q. Elizabeth of great cruelty calling her wicked and cruel woman Yet at the Embassadors desire Verstegan was imprisoned at which Jean Bouchier that active fire-brand of the League is not a little troubled and layeth it as an heretical fault on K. Hen. 3. At length Verstegan is released quits France and returns to Antwerp where as 't is said he reprinted his book exercised the Trade of Printing and by his rising up only as one tell us by Brocage and Spierie for the Hispanish'd Jesuits lived then and there 1602. as if he were an Hidalgo as who may not be a Gentleman who lives so far from home where he is not known c. At that time and before the Jesuits and Secular Priests falling out in England each party defended it self by the Pen. In this quarrel Verstegan concerns himself joyning with the Jesuits and writing in their behalf though not one of their number but rather a Secular shewing himself as zealous a railer as the best of them And indeed never was there quarrel composed of so many hard words either side considered yet whether Verstegan hath published any of his railings or whether they are done in other books I cannot tell for I have seen nothing of that nature Sure I am that about the death of Q. Elizabeth he employed his studies on a more noble subject which being finished he published it under this title A restitution of decayed intelligence in antiquities concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation Antw. 1605. qu. Before which Rich. Whyte of Basingstoke and Rich. Stanyhurst whom I have elsewhere mentioned have commendatory verses In this book are several
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.
an 1584. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining some months was at length released set on Shipboard with Dr. Jasp Heywood Edw. Rishton Joh. Colleton and others and waâ—ted over the Seas to the coast of Normandy where they were left to shift for themselves In 1587. he being about to return into England he was sent by Cardinal Alan to Sir will Stanley a Colonel to whose Regiment in the Low Countries he was by him made Chaplain In 1588. he was promoted to the degree of D. of D. in the University of Trier in Germany and in 89. he was sent for to Doway by the Jesuits whom he was always affraid to offend to assist Dr. Rich. Barret President of the English college in the Government of that place In 91. he was sent to Bruxells and remitted to the Camp to exercise the office of Chaplain again where with other Exiles they acted many things which tended much to the destruction of the Q. of England and not long after returned to Doway again and by the command of Cardinal Cajetan Protector of the English Nation he was made President of the English coll there ann 1599. At length being grown old and unfit to govern returned into England lived sometimes in London and sometimes in Staffordshire But that which is to be farther noted of him is that having for the most part of his life lived in the habit of a Secular Priest did about six months before his death take upon him the order and habit belonging to the Society of Jesus His works are Annotations on the Old Testament Duac 1609. in two Tomes in qu. Catalogus Martyrum pro Religione Catholicâ in Angliâ â—â—â—isorum ab an 1570. ad an 1612. Printed 1612. and 14. in oct Before which book is Narratio de origine Seminariorum de Missione Sacerdoâ—um in Anglia This Catalogue and Narration taken mostly from a collection intit Concertatio Eccl. Catholicae in Anglia c. could not be sold more than for six pence when it was published for it contains but 4 sheets in oct yet in 1682. when the choice Library of Mr. Rich. Smith mentioned before in Sir Joh. Davies was sold by way of Auction Dr. Tho. Marshall Dean of Gloucester and Rector of Linc. coll gave eleven shillings and six pence being then great bidding for before he could get it The Anchor of Christian Doctrine wherein the most principal points of Christian Religion are proved by the only written word of God c. Doway 1622. in two thick quarto's containing four parts viz. the first vol. one the other three These two quarto's were as one saith printed at London and sold by the author in his lodgings in Turnbull-street for 14 shillings which might have been afforded for five The Mysteries of the Rosary This I have not yet seen He also corrected and translated the Doway Bibles and translated into Lat. and published Anti-Haeretica motiva c. written by Rich. Bristow Attrebat 1608. in two Tomes in qu. before which he hath put a lame account of the author This person Tho. Worthington who was esteemed very learned among those of his perswasion and had hazarded his life and done great service for the Cause did quietly lay down his head and submit himself to the stroke of death in the house of one Bidulph Esq of Bidulph commonly called Biddles in Staffordshire near to Congleton in Cheshire year 1626 about sixteen hundred twenty and six and was buried in the Parochial Church there as I have been informed by one of his Society who was well acquainted with him having some years before his death been made titular Archdeacon of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire ALEXANDER SPICER a Minister's Son and a Somersetshire man born became a Batler of Exeter coll in 1590. aged about 15. took one degree in Arts was made Fellow of that house and proceeded in his Faculty At length entring into the Sacred Function was a Preacher for some years in these parts Afterwards upon an invitation he went into Ireland where by the savour of Sir Arthur Chichester Baron of Belfast and L. Dep. of that Country he became well beneficed and dignified and in great estimation for his learning He hath published Davids Petition on Psal 19. 13. Lond. 1616. oct The Pope at Babylon Serm. on the 5. of Nov. at Colerain in the North of Ireland on Dan. 3. 6. Lond. 1617. Elegies on the death of Arthur Lord Chichester c. Printed 1625. which Lord dying much about the time that K. Jam. 1. of England died was buried at 〈◊〉 in Ireland to the great grief of his Country because it was in such a time that it most required his assistance courage and wisdom which are often at odds and seldom meet yet in him shook hands as friends and challenged an equal share in his perfections Other things were written and published by the said A. Spicer as some of the 〈◊〉 of his coll have informed me but such I have not yet sâ—en nor do I know any thing besides of the 〈…〉 he left behind him the 〈…〉 lid Divine WILLIAM PELHAM the eldest Son of Sir Will. Pelham of Brocklesby in Lincolnshire Master of the Ordnance by Elianor his Wife Daughter of 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 was born in London near or 〈…〉 became Fellow-Commoner of New coll in the beginning of 1582. aged 14. continued a sedulous Student there for at least two years in a Chamber within one of the turrets of the College wall that encompasses the Garden Afterwards he travelled and improved his learning in the Universities of Strasburg Heidelburg Wittenburg and Lipswick in Germany as also in Paris and Geneva and returning to his native Country setled again for a time in this University till Mars distracted him from the studies of Minerva as he himself used to say But when that Planet was set he retired to a Country lise at Brocklesby where after he had received satiety of all worldly blessings did in his old age incline his heart to more supernatural contemplations Which being by him committed to writing for the benefit of his Children of which he had plenty were published under this title Meditations upon the Gospel of S. John Lond. 1625. in tw and other things as his Son Dr. Herbert Pelham sometimes Fellow of Magd. coll hath told me but whether printed I know not This Sir Will. Pelham who was Knighted by K. Jam. 1. at Newmarket 20. Nov. 1616. lived after the publication of that book two three or more years but when he died I cannot yet find Among the Sons that he left behind him was Hen. Pelham one sometimes a Student in this University afterwards in one of the Inns of Court and a Barrester At length being chosen a Burgess for Grantham in Lincolnshire to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. 1640. sided with the Presbyterians and was by that party elected Speaker of the House of Commons when the
the Doctors of Physick resident in Oxon. This Dr. Anthony died in S. Barthelmews Close where he had lived many years on 26. May 1623. and was buried in the Isle joyning to the north side of the Chancel of St. Barthelmew the Great in London leaving then behind him two Sons by Elizabeth his second Wise viz. John Anthony M. D. who succeeded his Father in his practice in London and Charles a Physitian of Bedford living there 1634. and after I find another Francis Antony to have been a writer of the same time with our author Dr. Anthony but he was by birth a Portugues and by profession a Jesuit and therefore the books of his composition must not be attributed to the other Our author Dr. Gwinne hath also written a book of Travels various Letters concerning Chymical and Magical secrets and also divers copies of Verses in English Italian and French occasionally set by way of commendation before the books published by his friends and acquaintance but none of these have I yet seen only some of the said verses He deceased in the month of Octob. or in the beginning of Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and seven in his house situate and being in S. year 1627 Mary Magdalens parish in Old Fishstreet within the City of London and was as I suppose buried in the Church there He had a Son named John Gwinne and lest behind him a Widdow called Susanna who had a Commission from the Prerogative Court dated 12. Nov. 1627. to administer the goods debts chattels c. of her Husband Dr. Gwinne then lately deceased RICHARD CARPENTER a Cornubian born became a Batler of Exeter coll in the beginning of of 1592. and four years after Fellow being then B. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he solely dedicated his studies to Theology by the advice and directions of Holland the Rector of his college and proved in few years after learned and profound in that faculty and an excellent preacher In 1611. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and about that time was made Rector of Sherwill and of Loxhore adjoyning near to Barnestaple in Devonshire both which he kept without any other preferment except the Benefice of Ham near unto Sherwill which he enjoyed for some years to the time of his death Afterwards he proceeded in Divinity and became much esteemed for his learning by Scholars and by others for those things that he published which are Various Sermons as 1 The Souls Sentinel c. at the funeral solemnities of Sir Arthur Acland Kt. 9. Jan. 1611. on Job 14. verse 14. Lond. 1612. oct 2. A Pastoral charge faithfully given and discharged at the Triennial visitation of William B. of Exon. at Barnstaple 7. Sept. 1616. on Acts. 20. 28. Lond. 1616. oct 3 Christs Larambell of love resounded c. on Joh. 15. 12. Lond. 1616. oct 4. The conscionable christian c. Three Assize Sermons at Taunton and Chard in Somersetshire 1620. on Acts 24. 16. Lond. 1623. qu. Which three Sermons are mostly concerning the keeping of a good conscience He paid his last debt to nature on the 18. year 1627 of Decemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and seven aged 52. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Loxhore before mentioned Over his grave is a large Epitaph in Prose and Verse some of which runneth thus Richardus Carpenter S. Theol. D. ab eruditione multiplici venerandus pietate vitae integritate morumque comitate valde clarus Hujus Ecclesiae Sherwillensis pastor fidus c. The reader is now to know that there was another Rich. Carpenter a Divine both after the former in time and much inferior as to learning He was educated in the School at Eaton coll near Windsore and thence was elected Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 1622. where continuing about two or three years left it his friends and Country went beyond the Seas and studied in Flanders Artois France Spain Italy and at length received holy Orders at Rome from the hands of the Popes substitute Soon after he was sent into England to gain Proselites being then as I have been told a Benedictine Monk In which employment continuing an year and upward return'd to the Protestant Religion and had by the Archbishop of Canterburies endeavours the Vicaridge of an obscure and small Village called Poling by the Sea side near Arundel Castle in Sussex bestowed on him But before he was warm in that Seat he received many abuses and affronts from certain Rom. Priests and Lay-men of their profession living in those parts particularly by Franc. a S. Clara who being sometimes in the neighbourhood by the name of Hunt would be very free with and expose him to scorn before his parishioners In the year 1642. and that of his age 33. or rather more he published a treatise intit Experience History and Divinity in five books Printed at Lond. in a thick oct and by the said author dedicated to the Parliament then sitting In which Treatise p. 32. 37. c. are many things spoken of himself This book came out again or rather had a new title to it of The Downfal of Antichrist c. an 1648. What preferment he had afterwards I cannot tell yet sure I am that in the time of the Civil War he left the Nation and retired to Paris where he became a railer against the Protestants Afterwards he return'd to his old trade of Independancy in England and about that time published The perfect Law of God being a Sermon and no Sermon preached and yet not preached Printed 1652. in oct He lived then and after at Aylesbury in Bucks where he had kindred living and would preach there very fantastically to the great mirth of some of his Auditors After his Maj. Restauration he published a Comedy intit The Pragmatical Jesuit with his picture before it represented in very gentile Lay-habit whereas his picture before his Experience History and Divinity represents him to be a formal Clergy man with a mortified countenance He was living at Aylesbury before mention'd in 1670. But before his death which was elsewhere he was as some of his acquaintance hath told me returned to Popery and caused his pretended Wife to be of his perswasion in which Faith he died Those that knew him have often told me that he was an impudent fantastical man that changed his mind with his cloaths and that for his juggles and tricks in matters of Religion he was esteemed a Theological Mountebank I find one or more of both his names that have been writers which I shall now pass by and one Rich. Carpenter who had a publick dispute with one Gibs concerning Infant Baptism in the times of Usurpation which probably may be the same with him before mentioned ADAM REUTER who intitles himself in some of his books Cotbusius L. Silesius did for his improvement in all kind of Literature retire to the University of Oxon in the beginning of 1608. being then
after he supplyed the place of Secretary to Christop Lord Hatton L. Chanc. of England and after his decease performed the like Office to his two Successors by special recommendation from her Majesty who also gave him a Prothonotaryship in the Chancery and in 1597. being then a Knight and one of the Masters of the Chancery was by the said Queen sent into Prussia to inform the K. and State of Poland and the prutenic Cities those things which she answered to Dzialine the last Embassador in England c. In which County and in other Nothern parts he underwent through unexpected accidents extraordinary perils but being freed from them by Gods great Providence he performed his duty in acceptable manner In January 1605. he was sent ordinary Embassador into France where he behaved himself to the credit of the English Nation and after his return the Commonwealth used his service in the places of trust which he then injoyed Whether he was the same Sir George Carew who was created Master of Arts with other persons of quality at Cambridge 30. Aug. 1571. I know not Qu. EDWARD HUTCHINS a Denâ—igâ—â—hire man born was admitted perpetual Fellow of Brâ—â—â—â— coll in 1581. being that year Master of Arts. Afterwards entring into the Sacred Function was in short time after numbred among the eniment Preachers of the University His works are Sermons as 1 Serm. against Recusants on Cantic 2. 15. Oxon. 1586. oct 2 Serm. concerning the true comfort of Gods Church truly Militant c. on the Song of Salomon ch 4. V. 7. Oxon. 1589. oct c. with which last is printed An Apology for the Church truly Militant He hath also published Jaw-bone against the spiritual Philistine Printed 1601. in tw and other things which I have not seen He afterwards being married became Prebendary of Chute and Cheesenbury in the Church of Salisbury and beneficed near to that City year 1629 He died in the beginning of sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was succeeded in his Prebendship by one Joh. Thorpe WILLIAM GIFFORD Son of John Gifford Esque by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Sir Geo. Throcmorton of Coughton in Warwickshire Knight was born in Hampshire in 1554. being the second year of Qu. Mary and in 1569. was by his Mother then the Wife of one Will. Hodgckin sent to Linc. coll at which time it was governed by John Bridgwater who in his heart was a R. Catholick and had under his government many of that profession After he had continued in the University mostly in the said coll and partly in the house of Geo. Etheridge a Physitian for the space of four years exercising himself in Grammar Musick Logick and Philosophy he was sent with his Tutor to Lovaine where soon after he took the degree of M. of A. Afterwards spending four years in Theological studies under Father Bellarmine he took the degree of Bach in that faculty But leaving the said University because of the Civil Wars in that Country he retired to Paris where continuing for some time in the study of Theology among the Sorbonists he was by Dr. Will. Alan sent for to Rheimes where continuing in the Eng. coll governed by the said Alan for some time was by him sent to the Eng. coll at Rome where consummating his divine studies was recalled by the said Alan and made publick Professor of Theology at Rheimes About which time being created Doctor of that faculty with great solemnity in the University of Pont-a Mousson in Loraine in Nov. 1584. managed with great credit his publick Professorship for about eleven years But Civil Wars breaking out in France he journyed to Rome and became Chaplain to Card. Alan as he was afterwards for a time to Card. Charles Borromeus at Millane at whose request to P. Clem. 8. he was made Dean of the Church of S. Peter at Ressell commonly called L'isle in Flanders which preferment he keeping for ten years was at length forced to leave it by the violence of the Jesuits because he took part with the Benedictine Monks when they prevailed so far with the Abbot of Arraâ— a good man to build a Cloister for them at Doway which was much opposed by the said Jesuits Afterwards Dr. Gifford return'd to Rheimes again and was made Rector of the Academy there which he governed with great praise and honour At length being above 50. years of age he gave a farewell to the World and its vanities entred himself into the Order of St. Benedict in June 1608. and became professed on the 14. Dec. in the year following in the coll of the English Benedictines at Diculward in Loraine Whereupon according to the manner he changed his name to Gabriel de S. Maria which he kept to his dying day became famous for his admirable Sermons preached there in Flanders Poiteu at Rheimes and in Britaine to which place as 't is said he was sent a Delegate by P. Clem. 8. to K. Jam. 1. concerning matters of Religion Afterwards being noted for his great piety and learning he was made Prior of the Benedictines at S. Maloes in France and President of the Congregation of that Order At length his great worth suffering him not to live in a Cell he was by Ludovic de Loraine commonly called Cardinal Guise Archbishop of Rheimes made his Suffragan in that See under the title of Episcopus Arâ—â—id â—liae in Greece Which place he enjoying till that Cardinals death the Duke of Guise thereupon because his second Son was but a Child and therefore not capable of the Archbishoprick of Rheimes fearing lest any other Nâ—bleman in France should beg it for any of their Sons did presently before the death of his Brother the Cardinal was known go to the French K. and beg'd the same for Dr. Gifford and procured the Pope to confirm the Kings grant Whereupon Gifford receiving Consecration in 1622. enjoy'd it about 7 years not without paying a considerable yearly pension from it as 't was thought to the then Duke of Guise By vertue of the said Archbishoprick he became a Duke and the first Peer of France And having a great yearly value coming in became hospitable liberal to all English Exiles and Travellers and a Founder of two Houses in France for the reception of the English Monks of the Order of S. Benedict namely one at Paris and another at S. Maloe He hath written and published Orationum lib. 1. Spoken mostly at the inauguration of Albert and Isabell in their inauguration at L'isle Also before Card. Burbon Vandome Guise c. at Rheimes and the Duke of Guise d'Aumale and others Printed at Doway Sermones Adventuales He also took a great deal of pains in perfecting and finishing a book intit Calvino-Turcismus c. written by Will. Rainolds and printed at Antwerp 1597. Answered by one who writes himself T. M. S. in a book intit De Turco-papismo c. Lond. 1598. 99. qu. In the Preface to which he falls foul on
several Faculties that he was esteemed by some a living Library He was also indefatigable in reading old MSS. and subtle in finding out the forgeries in them He and Allen of Glouc. hall were esteemed as most knowing in the ancient Statutes and Customs of this University and therefore their helps in the several attempts made of framing an intire and compleat body of them were often desired He was a Member of the Convocation held with the Parliament at Oxon 1. Car. 1. wherein he made a motion that some persons might be commissioned to peruse the Manuscript Fathers in all publick and private English Libraries that thereby the forgeries of Forreign Popish editions might be detected but what the event of it was I know not His designs were always for the publick benefit of learning and English Church which being well known to his learned friend Will. Camden he therefore saith thus of him He is a learned man and a true lover of books wholly dedicated to learning who is now laboriously searching the Libraries of England and purposeth that for the publick good which will be to the great benefit of Students Our author Dr. James saith also of himself thus in 1624. that if Cambridge will set up and set forward the like that is to collate and examine ancient MSS. as he hath done and will do I dare undertake more good to be done for the profit of learning and true Religion than by building ten Colleges I have of late given my self to the reading only of MSS. and in them I find so many and so pregnant testimonies either fully for our Religion or against the Papists that it is to be wondred at that the Religion of Papists then and now do not agree c. He also farther tells us that not only the Rabbins but the Thalmud in six volumes at Rome hath felt the smart of the popish indices would God we were but half as diligent to restore as they abolish and put out the truth I have restored 300 citations and rescued them from corruption in thirty quier of paper with sundry other projects of mine which if they miscarry not for want of maintenance it would deserve a Princes purse If I was in Germany the States would defray all my charges cannot our estates supply what is wanting If every Churchman that hath an 100. l. per an and upward will lay down but a shilling for every hundred towards these publick works I will undertake the reprinting of the Fathers and setting forth five or six volumes of Orthodox writers comparing of books printed with printed or written collating of popish translations in Greek and generally whosoever shall concern books or the purity of them I will take upon me to be Magister S. Palatii in England if I should be lawfully thereunto required c. As for his works that are printed they are these Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis lib. 2. Lond. 1600. qu. This Ecloga doth contain a Catalogue of all the MSS in each college Library in the University of Oxon but not of those in the publick and in each college Library in Cambridge and in that of the publick there In the making of which Catalogue he had liberty given to him by each coll in Oxon. to peruse their MSS. and from that Society which he perceived was careless of them he borrow'd and took away what he pleased and put them forthwith into the Publick Library Several such MSS were taken from Ball. coll and some from Merton and do yet bear in their respective fronts the names of the donours of them to those Houses This Ecloga is very useful for curious Scholars and is much commended by Joseph Scaliger in an Epistle to Rich. Thompson as I have told you elsewhere Cyprianus redivivus hoc est elenchus eorum quae in opusculo Cypriani de unitate ecclesiae sunt vel addita vel detracta vel lapsu Typographi vel alio quovis modo supposita c. Printed with the Ecloga Spicilegium D. Augustini hoc est libri de fide ad Pet. Diaconum cum antiquiss duob MSS. postremis ac ultimis editionibus excusis tam Basiliensi quam Parisiensi diligens collatio ac castigatio c. Pr. with the Ecloga Bellum paepale seu concordia discors Sixti v. Clementis viii circa Hieronymianum editionem Lond. 1600. qu. there again 1678. oct Catalogus Librorum in Bib. Bodleiana Oxon. 1605. in a large oct or rather a small qu. printed again with many additions in a thick qu. 1620. To which was added an Appendix 1635. 6. In this Catalogue is remitted the Cat. of all such MSS. that were then in the Bod. Library Concordantiae Sanctorum patrum i. e. vera pia libri Canticorum per Patres universos tam Graecos quam Latinos expositio c. Oxon. 1607. qu. Apology for Joh. Wicliff shewing his conformity with the now Church of England c. Oxon. 1608. qu. Written in answer to the slanderous objections urged against by Father Parsons the Apologist and others Life of Joh. Wicliff Printed with the Apology Treatise of the corruption of the Scripture Councells and Fathers by the Church of Rome Lond. 1611. qu. lb. 1688. oct Sufficient answer unto Jam. Gretser and Ant. Possevine Jesuits and the unknown author of the grounds of the Old Religion and the New Printed with the Treatise of the Corruption c. The Jesuits Downfall threatned against them by the Secular Priests for their wicked Lives accursed Manners heretical doctrine and more than Machiavillian Policy Oxon. 1612. qu. Life of Father Parsons an English Jesuit Printed at the end of the former book Index generalis sanctorum patrum ad fingulos versus cap. 5. secundum Mathaeum c. Lond. 1624. oct Notae ad Georgium Wicelium de methodo concordiae Ecclesiasticae cum Catologo authorum qui scripserunt contra squalores Ecclesiae Romanae Lond. 1625. oct Vindiciae Gregorianae c. Genev. 1625. qu. Manuduction or Introduction unto Divinity containing a confutation of Papists by Papists throughout the important articles of our Religion c. Oxon. 1625. qu. His humble and earnest request to the Church of England for and in the behalf of books touching Religion Pr. in one sh in oct 1625. Explanation or enlarging of the ten articles in his supplication lately exhibited to the Clergy of England for the restoring to integrity authors corrupted by Papists Ox. 1625. qu. Specimen corruptelarum Pontificiarum in Cypriano Ambrosio Gregorio M. authore operis imperfecti in jure canonico Lond. 1626. qu. Index Librorum prohibitorum a Pontificiis Oxon. 1627. oct Admonitio ad Theologos Protestantes de libris Pontificiorum caute legendis MS. Enchiridion Theologicum MS. Liber de suspicionibus conjecturis MS. These 3. MSS. I saw formerly in Lambeth Library under D. 1. 2 3. but whether printed I know not perhaps the Enchiridion is He also translated from French into English The moral
Philosophy of the Stoicks Lond. 1598. oct And published Two short Treatises against the orders of the begging Fryers written by Joh. Wicliffe Also as 't is said a book intit Fiscus Papalis Sive Catalogus indulgentiarum reliquiarum septem principalium Ecclesiarum urbis Romae ex vet MS. discriptus Lond. 1617. qu. The Latine out of the MS. is set down in one Colum and the English in another by the publisher This I say is reported to have been published by our author James tho others tell us that it was done by Will. Crashaw of Cambridge Howsoever it is sure we are that it hath supplyed with matter a certain scribler named Henry Care in his Weekly pacquet of advice from Rome when he was deeply engaged by the Fanatical party after the popish Plot broke out in 1678. to write against the Church of England and the members thereof then by him and his party supposed to be deeply enclining towards Popery c. I say by that Hen. Care whose breeding was in the nature of a petty Fogger a little despicable wretch and one that was afterwards much reflected upon in the Observators published by Rog. L'estrange which Care after all his scribbles against the Papists and the men of the Church of England was after K. James 2. came to the Crown drawn over so far by the R. Cath. party for bread and money-sake and nothing else to write on their behalf and to vindicate their proceedings against the men of the Church of England in his Mercuries which weekly came out intit Publick occurrences truly stated The first of which came out 21. Feb. 1687. and were by him continued to the time of his death which hapning 8. Aug. 1688. aged 42. was buried in the yard belonging to to the Black-friers Church in London with this inscription nailed to his Coffin Here lies the ingenious Mr. Henry Care who died c. This person I can compare to none more than to Marchemont Nedham whose parts tho he wanted yet they were Weather-Cocks both alike as I shall tell you more at large when I shall come to that person which will be in the 2d Vol. As for our learned and industrious author Dr. James he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the north Suburb of Oxon in the month of Aug. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged about 58. years and was buried towards the upper end of New college Chappel leaving behind him this character that he was the most industrious and indefatigable writer against the Papists that had been educated in Oxon since the Reformation of Religion Which character being made manifest by his writings it would have been esteemed as generous an act for the Society of that House to have honoured his reliques with a Mon. and Epitaph as they did those of Tho. Lydiat the Mathematitian I shall make mention of another Thomas James in my discourse of Hen. Gellibrand under the year 1637. ROBERT WAKEMAN Son of Tho. Wakeman of Fliford-Flavel in Worcestershire Minister of Gods word was born in that County became a student of Ball. col in the beginning of 1590 aged 14. made Chaplain-Fellow thereof 17. Jul. 1596. being then Bach. of Arts. About that time entring into Orders was a frequent preacher for some years in these parts At length being made Rector of Beer-Ferres and afterwards of Charlton in Devon took the degrees in Divinity He hath published Several Sermons as 1 The Christian practice at S. Maries in Oxon. on Act. Sunday 8. Jul. 1604. on Acts 2. 46. Lond. 1605. in oct 2 Solomons exaltation before the King on 2 Cor. 2. 8. Ox. 1605. oct 3 The Judges charge on 2 Cor. 19. 6. printed 1610. oct 4 Jonahs Sermon and Ninevehs repentance at Pauls Cross on Jonah 3. ver 4. 5. Ox. 1606. oct 5 The true Professor opposed against the formal Hypocrites of these times on Luke 10. 28. Lond. 1620. oct and others which I have not seen among which is a Serm. on Eccles 11. 1. printed 1607. he gave up the ghost in Septemb. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine and was buried on the South side of the Chancel of the Church at Beer-Ferres on the nineteenth day of the same month leaving then behind him several Children who were all in the beginning of the civil war as the Tradition goes there perswaded from their Religion to that of Rome by one Capt. Rich. Read as 't was supposed who quarter'd in the house where they lived and married one of the Doctors Daughters Afterwards they retired into Worcestershire where they or at least their issue now live JOHN SANFORD Son of Rich Sanford of Chard in Somersetshire Gent. descended from those of his name in Devon was born in Somersetshire entred a Commoner of Ball. college about the time of the Act in 1581. where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts was then made one of the Chaplains of Magd. coll At length having contracted a friendship with John Digby Commoner of that House did travel with him into France Spain and Italy whereby he did much advantage himself in the modern languages Afterwards he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the said Digby then known by the name of Sir John Digby at which time he as sent into Spain to treat of a marriage between the Infanta Sister of the King of that Realm and Prince Charles of England After his return Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. made him his domestick Chaplain and at length Prebendary of Canterbury and Rector of Ivychurch in Kent He was a person of great learning and experience and a Solid Divine well skill'd in several languages and a tolerable Lat. Poet. His works are Gods arrow of Pestilence serm on Psal. 38. 2. Oxon. 1604. oct Le Guichet Francois Janicula scu introductio ad linguam Gallicam Ox. 1604. qu. A brief extract of the former Lat. Grammar done into English for the easier instruction of the Learner Oxon. 1605. qu. Grammar or introduction to the Ital. tongue Oxon. 1605. qu. An entrance to the Spanish tongue Lond. 1611. and 1633. qu. and other things as 't is probable with I have not yet seen year 1629 He surrendred up his pious Soul to God on the 24. Septemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine aged 60. and more and was buried in the middle almost of the north Isle joyning to the nave er body of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury Over his Grave was soon after laid a white free-stone with an inscription engraven thereon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 199. b. wherein is mention'd his great charity to Widdows Orphans and the Poor EDWIN SANDYS Second Son of Edwin sometimes Archbishop of York was born in Worcestershire particularly as I suppose within the City of Worcester when his father was Bishop of that Diocess before his translation to York admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Sept. 1577. and
Poems and Epistles before mentioned and at the end are Elegies on the authors death Six Sermons Lond. 1634. qu. Fasciculus Poematum Epigrammatum Miscellaneorum Translated into English by Jasp Mayne D. D. with this title A sheaf of miscellany Epigrams Lond. 1632. oct Ignatius his Conclave or his inthronization in a late election in hell c. Lond. 1635. in tw there again in 1653. An edition of this came forth in 1626. in oct intit Ignatius his Conclave viz. of establishing a Church in the Moon Apology for the Jesuits Pr. with the former Eighty Sermons Lond. 1640. fol. Among which are involved the six Sermons before-mentioned These eighty Sermons are called The first vol. of Dr. Donns Sermons Declaration of that Paradox or Thesis that self homicide is not so naturally a Sin that it may not be otherwise Lond. 1644. 48. c. qu The original under the authors own hand I have seen in Bodley's Library dedicated to Edward L. Herbert of Cherbury Essays in Divinity c. Lond. 1651. oct Published by his Son John who tells us that they were written before his Father had entred into holy Orders Prayers Pr. with the former Paradoxes Problems Essays and Characters Lond. 1652. oct In which book are involv'd several or most of the Paradoxes Problems c. before-mentioned Various Sermons Lond. 1649. fol. vol. 2. Six and twenty Sermons never before published Lond 1660. 61. fol. This is called the Third vol. of Dr. Donns Sermons Letters to several persons of honour Lond. 1651. qu. Some of which I think were before printed He had also lying by him at his death many Sermon notes and other papers containing an extract of near fifteen hundred authors All which as his last Legacy he left to Dr. Hen. King afterwards B. of Chichester but what became of them after that Bishops death in 1669. I know not He also translated from Greek into English The ancient history of the Septuagint Lond. 1633. in tw written originally by Aristeus Which translation was revised and very much corrected by another hand Lond. 1685. oct He paid his last debt to nature on the last day of March year 1631 in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the South Isle behind the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul near to the Monument of Dr. Jo. Colet Both whose Epitaphs with the Pictures of their respective Monuments you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale lately Garter K. of Arms. Our Author Dr. Jo. Donne left behind him a Son of both his Names but of none of his virtues manners or generous qualities and therefore by many his memory is condemn'd to utter Oblivion while that of his Father flourisheth in the History of his life written by Isaac Walton the first edition of which printed 1653. coming into the hands of the best critick of the last age I mean Jo. Hales of Eaton he affirmed to his friends that he had not seen a life written with more advantage to the Subject or more reputation to the writer than it JOHN RAWLINSON a fluent and florid Preacher of his time was born in London educated in Grammaticals in Merchant-Taylors School elected Scholar of S. Johns coll 1591. aged 15. and was afterwards Fellow M. of A. and so great a frequenter of the Pulpits in Oxon that his name being cried up for an excellent Theologist became successively Rector of Taplow in Bucks Vicar of Asheldam in Essex Prebendary of Sarum D. of D. Principal of S. Edmunds hall Chaplain to Tho. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere L. Chanc. of England and in Ordinary to K. Jam. 1. Rector of Celsy in Sussex and of Whitchurch in Shropshire In all which places he was much followed for his frequent and edifying preaching great charity and publick Spirit He hath published Divers Sermons as 1 The four Summons of the Shulamite preached at Pauls Cross on Cantic 6. 12. Oxon. 1606. in oct 2 Fishermen Fishers of Men on Matth. 4. 19. Lond. 1609. qu. 3 The Romish Judas preached on the 5. Nov. 1610. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1611. qu. 4 Mercy to a Beast on Prov. 12. 10. Oxon. 1602. qu. 5 Vnmasking of the Hypocrite preached at S. Maries in Ox. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1616. qu. 6 Vivat Rex Let the King live or God save the King on 1 Sam. 10. 24. Ox. 1619. qu. 7 The Dove-like Soul on Psal 55. 6. Oxon. 1625. qu. 8 Lex Talionis on Judg. 1. 7. Ox. 1625. qu. 9 Surprising of Heaven on Mat. 11. 12. lb. 1625. qu. 10 The Bridegroom and Bride on Cant. 4. 8. lb. 1622. c. qu. Which four last Sermons viz. the 7 8 9 and 10. were all published together under the title of Quaâ—riga Salutis or Four Quadragesimal Sermons c. These are all the Sermons of his publication that I have yet seen and whether he be author of an Explication of the Creed Ten Commandments and Lords Prayer which is published under the name of Rawlinson in oct I know not He departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and one year 1631 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch in Shropshire before-mentioned where his name continues precious to this day among the inhabitants of that place and in the neighbourhood In his Prebendship of Salisbury called Netherbury in Ecclesia succeeded Thom. Fuller 18. Jun. 1631. the same who was afterwards the author of divers historical books and him Tho. Henchman 17. Aug. 1661. JOHN BUCKRIDGE Son of Will. Buckridge by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Tho. Keblewhyte of Baselden Son of John Keblewhyte Uncle to Sir Tho. Whyte the Founder of S. Johns college and he the Son of Henry some say John Keblewhyte of Fawley was born as I conceive at Draycot near to Marlborough in Wiltshire educated in Merchant-Taylors School became Scholar of the said coll in 1578. soon after Fellow and through the degrees in Arts Doctor of Divinity in the latter end of 1596. about which time he was Chaplain to Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury After he had left the University I find him to have been first of all Rector of North-Fambridge in Essex afterwards Chaplain to Robert E. of Essex Rector of North Kilworth in Leicestershire Vicar of S. Giles Church without Cripplegate London Archdeacon of Northampton Canon of Windsore and Hereford Chaplain to K. James and at length President of S. Johns college 1605. At which time his eminent abilities in the Pulpit had brought him into great credit with K. James insomuch that he was chosen to be one of the four Dr. Andrews B. of Chichester Dr. Barlow B. of Rochester and Dr. Jo. King then Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon were the other three who were appointed to Preach before his Maj. at Hampton Court in the month of Sept. 1606. for the reduction of the two Melvins and other Presbyterian Scots to a right understanding of the Church of England In
this University but in Cambridge and after he had taken the degrees in Arts he was presented by his Majesty to the Sub-deanry of Wells in the latter end of May 1638. upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Roberts to the See of Bangor In 1644. he among other Loyal Ministers retired to Oxon and in the month of Aug. was incorporated Master of Arts and afterwards had the degree of D. of D. confer'd upon him In 1646. I find him with the Marquess of Worcester in Ragland Castle which as a Commission-Officer he help'd to defend against the Parliamentarians But that Castle being surrendred on the 19. Aug. the same year upon good Articles mostly of Bayly's framing he travelled afterwards into France and other Countries where spending that considerable stock of money which he had gotten from the said Marquess he returned into England and published a book intit Certamen religiosum or a conference between K. Ch. 1. and Henry late Marquess of Worcester concerning Religion in Ragland Castle an 1646. Lond. 1649. oct but blamed by the true Sons of the Church of England for so doing because the Romish cause is there set out in great pomp he being then warping towards if not altogether drawn over to the Church of Rome and it was looked upon by some as nothing else but his Prologue in order to the declaring himself a Papist and thereupon the said conference was suspected by the Orthodox party to have nothing therein of the stile of K. Ch. 1. and that the Marquess had not those abilities in him to maintain a discourse of religious matters with the said King There was An answer with considerations on Dr. Bayly's parenthetical interlocution printed at Lond. 1651. in tw made unto it by Ham. L'estrange and also answered upon account as being fictitious by Christop Cartwright of York About the same time an Advertisement was put cut against it as a counterfeit thing by Dr. Pet. Heylyn in his Epistle to the Reader before his collection of his Majesty's works wherein the said conference is put intit Bibliotheca Regia c. but omitted in other impressions of it as also in the works of the said King printed in folio The same year 1649. Dr. Bayly published The Royal Charter granted unto Kings by God himself c. To which he added A treatise wherein is proved that Episcopacy is jure divino Both which were afterwards reprinted at Lond. 1656. and 1680. oct But in them the Doctor doth in many particulars egregiously err and as an unskilful builder diruit aedificat for what he rears with one hand he pulls down with the other And amongst many stories of his travels having freely rail'd at all the Commonwealths in Europe doth at last fall desperately on the new erection of that in Eng. Which angry and unpleasing history provoked strict examination whereupon the author being found out he was committed prisoner to Newgate where being kindly and easily used he penned a book intit Herba parietis Or the wall Flower as it growes out of the Stone-Chamber belonging to the metrapolitan Prison c. being a History which is partly true partly Romantick morally divine Whereby a marriage between reality and fancy is solemnized by Divinity Lond. 1650. in a thin fol. In the Epistle before which he falls foul on P. Heylyn whom he calls a fellow without a name c. for his advertisement before mention'd which charged him with six matters the first for wronging the late K. Ch. 1. very much and another that he composed the said Conference himself c. Bayly also tells us there of his great sufferings in the late Civil War that he had not only lost 1000 l. per an for his Majesties sake but also blood and liberty that he was a Peers Son and his Mother a Knights Daughter c. As soon as this book was published he made an escape out of Prison went into Holland and having rambled abroad much more in his mind than he had in his body he at last declared himself a Rom. Catholick and became a grand zealot in that interest wherein if he met with any occasion he would break forth into rage and fury against the Protestant Religion which he before had preached and professed Thence he went into Flanders and setling for a time at Doway he published this book The end to Controversie between the Rom. Catholick and Protestant Religions justified by all the several manner of ways whereby all kind of Controversies of what nature soever are usually or can possibly be determined c. printed at Doway 1654. in qu. and dedicated to Walt. Montague Abbot of Nanteul afterwards L. Abbot of Pantoise There also goes under his name The life and death of that renowned John Fisher Bishop of Rochester c. Lond. 1655. oct but he was not the author of it The true and genuine writer thereof was one Rich. Hall D. D. sometimes of Christs coll in Cambridge the same of which B. Fisher was a member afterwards Canon and Official of the Cathedral Church at St. Omer who leaving it behind him in MS. at his death an 1604. 't was as a choice rarity reposed in the Library of the English Benedictines at Dieuward in Lorain Afterwards several Copies of it going abroad one came into the hands of a person who call'd himself West From him it came into the possession of Franc. a Sancta Clara an 1623. and from his as he himself hath told me divers times to Sir Wingfield Bodenham who keeping it in his hands several years with an intention to print it in the name of the true author did impart it for a time to Dr. Tho. Bayly So that forthwith he taking a Copy of it and making some alterations therein he sold the said Copy to a Bookseller for a small sum of money who caus'd it to be printed at London under the name of Tho. Bayly D. D. I have seen a MS. containing the said Bishops Life beginning thus Est in Eboracensi comitatu octogesimo a Londino lapide ad aquilonem Beverleiae oppidum c. But who the author was I cannot tell 'T was written before Halls time and 't is not unlikely but that he had seen it There also goes under Tho. Baylys name The golden Apothegmes of King Ch. 1. and Henry Marquess of Worcester c. Lond. 1660. in one sh in qu. All which were taken from a book intit Witty Apothegmes delivered at several times and upon several occasions by K. James K. Ch. 1. and the Marq. of Worcester c. Lond. 1658. oct published by Anonymus After Dr. Bayly had left Flanders he went into Italy where as several Rom. Catholicks have told me he was received into the service of Cardinal Ottobon and that he died in his family while the said Cardinal was Embass or Nuntio at Ferrara from the Pope and also that Prince Cajetan had a care of his Son whom he took with him after his death But an English
beginning of the year 1640. he was chosen a Member of the House of Commons for Newport in the Isle of Wight to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster on the 13. of Apr. the same year and again for the same place for that Parliament that began there also 3. Nov. following In which last he shewed himself a great reformer of divers abuses and a stickler for the Commons against the Kings Prerogative and Bishops But being taken off from those proceedings by being made one of the Secretaries of State he ever after adher'd to his Majesty was with him at York in 1642. and had a hand in most of those Declarations published by his Majesty's special command in all places in England to shew the reason of his intentions and proceedings Afterwards he was a constant follower of his Majesty was with him at Edghill fight and afterwards at Oxon where he discharged his office with a great deal of prudence While he lived and especially after his death he was esteemed by many a Socinian having been as 't is said strengthned in that opinion by Chillingworth and I know not what but one that knew him very well doth tho a zealous Papist clear him from being guilty of any such matter and tells us withal that he was the greatest ornament to our Nation that the last age produced Another also who had been intimate with him saith that he was the envy of this age and will be the wonder of the next that he honoured and served his Creator in the days of his youth that he was not a Candidate of Atheism c. The truth is all that knew the said Lucius L. Falkland were fully possessed with opinions to the contrary and have usually said that he was a sincere Christian that he always led a virtuous life and despised all worldly things in comparison of necessary divine truth that he was a lover of veracity and sincerity and what not for the accomplishment of a religious man As for his parts which speak him better than any Elogy they were incomparable and needed no supplies of industry His answers were quick and sudden and tho he had a great deal of true worth treasured up in him yet he had much of modesty withal So that all these things put together to which more might be added his memory ought to be precious especially with such who have any esteem for virtue heroical fidelity to their Prince or to incomparable learning Among several things of his that are printed are 1 A speech in Parliament concerning Vniformity 2 Sp. concerning ill Counsellours both spoken in 1640. 3 Sp. about Ship-money 5. Dec. 1640. 4 Sp. concerning John Lord Finch lately L. Keeper and the Judges 5 Sp. to the Lords of the upper House after the reading of the Articles against John L. Finch 14. Jan. 1640. 6 Sp. concerning Episcopacy 9. Feb. 1640 the beginning of which is Mr. Speaker he is a great stranger in Israel c. Which Sp. is said by Dr. P. Heylyn to be a bitter Speech against the Bishops upon which account it is much used and quoted by the Presbyterians I have seen another Speech also intit A draught of a Speech concerning Episcopacy found among the L. Falklands papers since his death written with his own hand Oxon. 1644. in 1 sh in qu. The beginning of which is Mr. Speaker whosoever desires this total change c. Also another thing of his intit A discourse concerning Episcopacy Lond. 1660. qu. Published then I presume by one who was not a Friend to Bishops being the same I think that was by Dr. Heylyn taken to be a bitter Speech against them He hath also written A dscourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome several times printed in qu. Whereupon an answer to it being made the Lord came out with a reply All published together by Tho. Triplet sometimes Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards D. of D. and Prebendary of Westminster printed at London 1651. qu. with a dedicatory epistle before them See more in Dr. Hen. Hammond under the year 1660. But before Triplets edition another was put out by Anon. to which J. P. put a Preface to it which is omitted in that of Triplet See more in Hugh Cressy under the year 1674. By this Discourse of infallibility it is apparent that the L. Falkland had framed a judgment touching the R. Cath. Church out of certain Cath. writers who represented it too disadvantagiously and not with such qualifications as the Ch. her self has done He also wrote An answer to a letter of Mr. Walt. Mountague who justifies his change of Religion an 1635. printed at the end of his Discourse of Infalibility an 1651. and A Letter to Mr. Fr. M. an 1636. printed at the end of Five captious questions propounded by a Factor for the Papacy Lond. 1673. qu. As also a Comedy called The marriage night Lond. 1664. qu. At length this learned author being with his Majesty King Ch. 1. at Newbury in Berks. when he was about to fight the Rebels he called for a clean shirt in the morning before the encounter began and being asked the reason for it he answered that if he was slain in the Battle they should not find his body in foul linnen Whereupon his friends endeavouring to disswade him from going into the fight as having no call to it or that he was a military Officer he said he was weary of the times and foresaw much misery to his own Country and did believe he should be out of it before night Into the Battle therefore he did go notwithstanding all perswasions to the contrary and was there slain 20 Sept. 1643. much lamented as a great Parliamentarian saith of all that knew him being a Gentleman of great parts ingenuity and honour courteous and just to all and a passionate promoter of all endeavours of Peace betwixt the King and Parliament Whether the Church of England lost a friend by his death some have doubted Sure it is learning it self had a loss and one of the greatest as many Clergymen have said that ever hapned in that or in the age before His body was conveyed to Oxon and afterwards to Great Tow before mention'd where it was buried in the Church without being carried into his house there Over his grave tho there be not yet any memory extant yet Sir Franc. Wortley of Wortley in Yorkshire Knight and Baronet an admirer of his virtues and learning who stiles him Musarum militumque patronus hath bestowed an Epitaph and an Elegy on him in his book intit Characters and Elegies printed 1646. in qu. His person was little and of no great strength his hair blackish and somewhat flaggy and his eye black and quick He left behind him a most disconsolate Widdow named Letice the Daughter of Sir Rich. Morison of Tooley-Park in Leicestershire Knight the most devout pious and virtuous woman of the time she lived in who dying about
University of Monreale in Italy Soon after he returned to Rhemes where remaining for some time eh went to Doway and in the English coll there taught and professed Divinity for about 10. years Afterwards he went into England to preach the word of God to administer to the distressed Catholicks and to gain Souls to his Religion where he was living in 1611. But his same for the exquisite writings that he published gaining him a great name was called thence and made Canon of the collegiat Church of S. Mary at Bruges in Flanders which he kept till the time of his death He hath written Justificationes de triplici hominis officio ex notione ipsius naturali morali ac Theologica in 3. libris Antw. 1602. qu. In the Preface to which the author having utter'd several matters against the learned Dr. Joh. Rainolds which were by the Protestants taken for great reproaches were animadverted upon by Wake the Orator of Oxon in these words Eat autem Westonus c. Let yet Weston that lewd and shameless Rabshake belch out what reproaches he pleaseth against him Rainolds and charge him not only with stupid dulness but also that he counterfeited sickness and pretended only to a disease to preserve his credit c. Notwithstanding which this Weston himself so like his Uncle in his ill conditions and ignominious flight when he challenged all the Heads of the University and branded them for inpure only for that some of them had entred into the state of Matrimony could not find any one act out of Dr. Joh. Raynolds in all his life to blemish him withal c. Juris pontificii sanctuarium printed 1613. in oct This I have not yet seen The trial of christian truth by the rules of virtues namely these principal Faith Hope Charity and Religion c. Doway 1614. qu. This is the first part which treats only of Faith The rest I have not yet seen Theatrum vitae civilis ac sacrae five de moribus reipub christianae commentaria in quinque libros distributa Brugis Flandr 1626. fol. Jesu Christi D. nostri coruscationes simulque â—orum vi dictorum factorumque quarundam personarum eodem Christo praesente in Evangelicâ historiâ recensitorum enarrationes c. Antw. 1631. fol. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was living in sixteen hundred thirty and three as I have been informed by Franc. à S. Clara who told me also that he died and was buried at Bruges in Flanders Besides this Edw. Weston I find one Will. Weston born at Maidstone in Kent who was contemporary with Edm. Campian the Jesuit in the University of Oxon. which place he leaving he went beyond the Seas entred into the Society of Jesus 1571. aged 25. and after Jasp Heywoods departure out of England he was sent thither by Father Parsons from Paris to be his substitute in the place of Provincial and how he behaved himself in that Office let another tell you In 1587. he was taken and imprisoned in Wisbich Castle with others where I find him to be the prime promoter and carrier on of the faction between the Seculars and Jesuits see more in Christop Bagshaw under the year 1625. This Will. Weston is much noted in English Story by the name of Father Edmonds alias Weston especially upon the publication of a book written by Sam. Harsnet afterwards Archb. of York intit A declaration of egregious popish impostures to withdraw the hearts of her Majesties Subjects from their allegiance c. under the pretence of casting out devils practised by Edmonds alias Weston a Jesuit c. Lond. 1603. qu. He died 9 Apr. 1615. leaving then behind him a precious name among the Brethren of his Order This person tho evilly treated and disgracefully mentioned by the Secular Priests and certain Protestant writers yet Father Parsons in his Brief Apology or defence of the Catholick Ecclesiastical Hierarchie c. speaks very honourably of him as to his piety and mortified way of living WILLIAM NOY Son of Will. Noy of S. Burian in Cornwall Gent. by Philippa his Wife was born there became a sojournour of Exeter coll in 1593. aged 16. where continuing a severe Student about 3 years left the University without a degree went to Linc. Inn studied the Common Law and by his unwearied industry and moyling day and night he became eminent in his profession In the latter end of the raign of K. Jam. 1. he was chose a Burgess for Helston in his own Country to sit in that Parliament that began at Westminster 30. Jan. 1620. and for that which began there 19. Feb. 1623. In both which he shewed himself a profess'd enemy to the Kings prerogative In 1625. he was elected a Burgess for S. Ives to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 6. Feb. wherein as in another following shewing himself an enemy as before he was at length diverted from his proceedings by being made Attorney General an 1631. He was as famous a Lawyer as ever this Kingdom bred as a certain author informs us who adds that formerly he was a great Patriot and the only searcher of Presidents for the Parliaments By which he grew so cunning as he understood all the shifts which former kings had used to get moneys with This man the K. sent for told him he would make him his Attorney Noy like a true cynick as he was did for that time go away not returning to the King so much as the civility of thanks nor indeed was it worth his thanks I am sure he was not worthy of ours For after the Court solicitings had bewitched him to become the Kings he grew the most hateful man that ever lived c. he having been as great a deluge to this Realm as the flood was to the whole world For he swept away all our priviledges and in truth hath been the cause of all these miseries this Kingdom hath since been ingulphed whether you consider our Religion he being a great Papist if not an Atheist and the protecter of all Papists and the raiser of them up unto that boldness they were now grown unto or if you consider our Estates and Liberties which were impoverished and enthralled by multitudes of Papists and illegal ways which this Monster was the sole author of c. He was a man passing humorous of cynical rusticity a most indesatigable plodder and searcher of ancient Records whereby he became an eminent instrument of good and ill to the Kings Prerogative His apprehension as 't is said was quick and clear his judgment methodical and solid his memory strong his curiosity deep and searching his temper patient and cautious all tempered with an honest bluntishness far from Court insinuation He left behind him several things fit for the Press and under his name were these books afterwards published A Treatise of the principal grounds and
of Sir Will. Finch of the Mote in St. Martins Parish in the County of Kent but the Widdow of one Morton of the same County Esq was born at Bocton hall in Kent 30. March 1568. educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester and thence in the beginning of 1584 he was transplanted to New coll where living in the condition of a Gent. Com. had his Chamber in Hart hall adjoyning and to his Chamber-Fellow there Rich. Baker his Countryman afterwards a Knight and a noted writer But continuing there not long he went to Queens coll where by the benefit of a good Tutor and severe discipline there practiced he became well vers'd in Logick and Philosophy and for a diversion now and then he wrote a Tragedy for the private use of that house called Tancredo On the 8. June 1588. he as a Member of Qu. coll did supplicate the venerable Congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of the Logick of Aristotle that is to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should determine in the Lent following but whether he was admitted or did determine or took any other degree it doth not appear in any of the University Registers which I have exactly searched and the more for this reason because the author of his life saith that at 19 years of age he proceeded Master of Arts and at that time did read three Lat. Lectures De Ocello which being learned caused a friendship between him and Alberic Gentilis who thereupon ever after called him Henrice mi Ocelle The said author also saith that the University Treasury was rob'd by Townsmen and poor Scholars of which such light was given by a Letter written to Hen. Wotton from his Father in Kent occasioned by a dream relating to that matter that the Felons were thereupon discovered and apprehended c. But upon my search into the University Registers Records Accompts c. from 1584. to 1589. in which time our author Wotton was resident in Oxon I find no such robbery committed To pass by other mistakes in the said life especially as to time which are not proper to set down in this place I shall go forward After our author had left Oxon he betook himself to travel into France Germany and Italy and having spent about 9 years in those places he returned into England and became Secretary to Robert Earl of Essex with whom continuing till towards his fall he left England once more and retiring to Florence became so noted to the Great Duke of Tuscany that he was by him privately dispatched away with letters to James 6. K. of Scots under the name of Octavio Baldi to advise him of a design to take away his life Which message being welcome to that K. he was by him when made K. of England honoured with the degree of Knighthood sent thrice Embassador to the Reipub. of Venice once to the States of the Vnited Provinces twice to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy once to the united Princes of Vpper Germany in the Convention at Heylbrune also to the Archduke Leopald to the Duke of Wittenbergh to the Imperial Cities of Strasburgh and Vlme as also to the Emperor Ferdinando the second On the 15. July 1619. he returned from his Embassie at Venice with a vain hope of obtaining the office of Secretary of State but missing his design I cannot yet tell to the contrary but that he was sent to Venice again Sure 't is that about 1623. he had the Provostship of Eaton coll confer'd upon him which he kept to his dying day being all the reward he had for the great services he had done the Crown of England He hath written these things following Epistola de Casparo Scioppio Amberg 1613. oct This Scioppius was a man of a restless spirit and a malicous pen who in books against K. Jam. 1. took occasion from a sentence written by Sir Hen. Wotton in a Germans Album viz. Legatus est vir bonus peregrè missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causâ to twit him in the teeth what principles in Religion were professed by him and his Embassador Wotton then at Venice where the said sentence was also written in several glass windows Epist ad Marc. Velserum Duumvir Augustae Vindelicae an 1612. The elements of Architecture Lond. 1624. qu. in two parts Reprinted in Reliquiae Wottonianae an 1651. 54. and 1672. c. oct Translated into Latin and printed with the Great Vitruvius and a great Elogy concerning Wotton put before it Amstel 1649. fol. Plausus vota ad Regem è Scotiâ reducem Lond. 1633. in a large qu. or rather in a little fol. Reprinted by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in a book intit by him Monarchia Britannica Oxon. 1681. oct 'T is in English also in Reliquiae Wotton Parallel between Rob. late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Bucks Lond. 1641. in four sh in qu. Short view of the life and death of George Duke of Bucks Lond. 1642. in four sheets and an half in qu. Difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Bucks and Robert Earl of Essex Characters of and Observations on some Kings of England The election of the new Duke of Venice after the death of Giovanno Bembo Philosophical survey of education or moral Architecture Aphorisms of education The great action between Pompey and Caesar extracted out of the Rom. and Greek writers Meditations on 22 Chap. of Gen. Christmas day Letters to and characters of certain personages Various Poems All or most of which books or treatises are reprinted in a book intit Reliquiae Wottonian◠before-mentioned Lond. 1651. 54. 1672. and 1685. in oct published by Is Walton at the end of Sir H. Wottons life Letters to the Lord Zouch Printed at the latter end of Reliq Wottom in the edition of 1685. The state of Christendom or a more exact and curious discovery of many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the times Lond. 1657. fol. Letters to Sir Edm. Bacon Lond. 1661. oct He hath also several Letters extant to George Duke of Bucks in a book called Cabala Mysteries of State Lond. 1654. qu. and others in Cabala or Scrinia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Journal of his Embassies to Venice -MS fairly written in the Library of Edw. Lord Conway Three propositions to the Count d'Angosciola in matter of duel comprehending as it seems the latitude of that subject MS. sometimes in the Library of my most worthy Friend Ralph Sheldon Esq now among the books in the Coll. of Arms. The first proposition is Quale sia stato c. The said Count was a Gentleman of Parma from whence he was banished and afterwards lived in the Court of Savoy where he was esteemed a very punctual Duelist and there managed many differences between Gentlemen Other MSS. also of his composition do go from hand
refectory at what time the said Doctor was returned from Salisbury after he had been installed Dean thereof an 1635. The said Pastoral is not printed but goes about in MS. from hand to hand Dr. Speed who was by all persons that knew him accounted an ingenious man year 1640 died in the month of May in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in the Chappel of S. John's coll leaving then behind him a Son named Samuel who was aftera Student of Ch. Ch. and M. of A. installed Canon of the said Church on the death of Dr. Seb. Smith on the sixth day of May 1674. and another named John afterwards Fellow of St. John's coll and Doctor of Physick living now at Southampton THOMAS FITZHERBERT Son of Will. Fitzherbert by Isabell his Wife Daughter and one of the heirs of Humph. Swinnerton of Swinnerton in Staffordshire fourth Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert Knight the famous Lawyer Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire was born in the said County of Stafford an 1552. in which County being initiated in Grammer learning was sent either to Exeter or Lincoln coll in 1568 But having been mostly before trained up in the Cath. Religion the college seemed uneasie to him for tho he would now and then hear a Sermon which he was permitted to do by an old Roman Priest that then lived abscondedly in Oxon for to him he often retired to receive instructions as to matters of Religion yet he would seldom or never go to prayers for which he was often admonished by the Sub-Rector of his house At length he seeming to be wearied with the heresie as he stil'd it of those times he receeded without a degree to his Patrimony where also refusing to go to his parish Church was imprison'd about 1572. But being soon after set at liberty he became more zealous in his Religion defended it against the Protestant Ministers and not only confirm'd and strengthned many wavering Catholicks therein but wrote also several valid reasons for the not going of Catholicks to Protestant Churches for which being like to suffer he withdrew and lived abscondedly In 1580. when Campian and Persons the Jesuits came into the mission of England he retired to London found them out shew'd himself exceeding civil and exhibited to them liberally Whereupon bringing himself into a promunire and foreseeing great danger to come on him and all Catholicks he went as a voluntary exile into France an 1582. where he continued a zealous sollicitor in the cause of Mary Queen of Scots with the K. of France and Duke of Guise for her relief tho in vain After her decollation and all hopes of the Catholicks frustrated for the present he left that Country and the rather because that he about that time had buried his Wife and forthwith went into Spain For some years there he became a zealous agitator in the Royal Court for the relief of Catholicks and their Religion in England but his actions and the labours of many more of that nature being frustrated by the Spaniards repulse in 1588. he under pretence of being weary with the troubles and toyles of this life receeded to Millaine with the Duke of Feria Whence after some continuance there he went to Rome where he was initiated in sacred Orders took a lodging near to the English college and observed all hours and times of Religion as they in the college did by the sound of their bell and there composed certain books of which that against Machiavel was one A certain author of little or no note named James Wadsworth tells us that the said Tho. Fitzherbert had been before a Pensioner and Spye to the King of Spain in France and his service being past and his pension failing him out of pure necessity he and his man were constrained to turn Jesuits or else starve And he being a worthy Scholar and a great Politician was very welcome to that Order But let this report remain with the author who is characteriz'd by a Protestant writer to be a Renegado proselyte-Turncote of any Religion and every trade now living 1655. a common hackney to the basest Catch-pole Bayliffs c. while I proceed In 1613-4 he took upon him the habit of the Society of Jesus on the feast of the Purification initiated therein on the vigil of the Annuntiation following and on the next day he sung his first Mass Afterwards he presided the mission at Bruxells for two years and at length much against his will he was made Rector of the English coll or seminary at Rome which he governed with great praise about 22. years He was a person of excellent parts had a great command of his tongue and pen was a noted Politician a singular lover of his Country men especially those who were Catholicks and of so graceful behaviour and generous spirit that great endeavours were used to have him created a Cardinal some years after Allens death and it might have been easily effected had he not stood in his own way He hath written A defence of the Catholick cause containing a Treatise in confutation of sundry untruths and slanders published by the Hereticks c. S. Omers 1602. Apology or defence of his innocence in a fained conspiracy against her Majesties person for the which one Edw. Squire was wrongfully condemned and executed in Nov. 1598. Printed with the Defence before mention'd This is the book which the learned Camden tells us was written by Walpole a Jesuit or one under his name Treatise concerning policy and religion Doway 1606. qu. Wherein are confuted several principles of Machiavel The second part of the said Treatise was printed also at Doway 1610. and both together in 1615. qu. A third part was printed at Lond. 1652. qu. being then cried up for a good book as the other parts had been An sit utilitas in scelere vel de infelicitate Principis Machiavellani Rome 1610. oct Suppliment to the discussion of Mr. Dr. Burlows answer to the judgment of a Cath. Engl. Man c. interrupted by the death of the author F. Rob. Persons Jesuit S. Omer 1613. qu. published under the two letters of F. T. Censure of Dr. Joh. Donnes book intit Pseudo-Martyr Additions to the Suppliment These two last are printed at the end of the Suppliment to the discussion c. against Dr. Will. Barlow B. of Line before-mentioned Confutation of certain absurdities in Lancelot Andrews's answer to Bellarm. Printed 1603. qu. and published under the two letters of F. T. instead of T. F. This was written in vindication of Card. Bellarmine's Apology for his answer made to K. James's book De jure fidel Whereupon came out a book intit Epphata to F. T. or a defence of the Bishop of Ely Lanc. Andrews concerning his answer to Card. Bellarmine's Apology against the calumnies of a scandalous Pamphlet Cambr. 1617. qu. written by Sam. Collins D. D. a Buckinghamsh man born Provost of Kings coll in Cambridge elected the Kings
person who mostly seemed to be a true Son of the Church of England a hater of Papists Arminians and Sectaries published 1 Seven Sermons on the 23. Psal of David Lond. 1603. oct 2 The Converts happiness Sermon on Rev. 3. 20. Lond. 1609. qu. 3 The raging tempest still'd The history of Christ's passage with his Disciples over the Sea of Galilee c. Lond. 1623. qu. 4 Help to the best bargain c. Serm. in the Cath. of Canterb. 26. Oct. 1623. Lond. 1624. in oct and other things which I have not yet seen He was living in Septemb. 1644. being then the Senior Prebendary of Christ-Church in Canterbury and died shortly after having before cast a stone against Archbishop Laud when he was to be tried for his life JOHN BALL Son of Will. Ball and Agnes Mabet his Wife was born of a plebeian family at Cassington alias Chersington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire in the beginning of Octob. 1585. and baptized the 14. of the same month educated in Grammar learning in a private School taught by the Vicar of Yarnton a mile distant from Cassington admitted a Student of Brasnose coll in 1602 where continuing under a severe discipline and Tutor about five years in the condition as it seems of a Servitour removed to S. Maries hall and as a Member thereof took the degree of Bac. of Arts in 1608. Soon after he was invited into Cheshire to teach the Children of the Lady Cholmondeley where continuing for some time fell into the acquaintance of several severe Puritans who working on his affections they brought him over to them About that time having gained a sum of money he went to London with some of them and made shift to be ordained a Minister there without subscription by an Irish Bishop Soon after he removed into Staffordshire and became Curate of Whitmore a Chappel of â—ase to Stoke where he lived and died a Nonconformist in a poor house a poor habit with poor maintenance of about 20 l. per an and in an obscure Village teaching School also all the week for a farther supply deserving as high esteem and honour as a noted Presbyterian observes as the best Bishop in England yet looking after no â—igher things but living comfortably and prosperously with these c. The Brethren report him to have been a excellent Schoolmaster and Schoolman qualities seldom meeting in the same person a painful Preacher and a profitable Writer And tho somewhat disaffected to Ceremonies and Church discipline yet he confuted such as conceived the corruption therein ground enough for a Separation He hath written A short treatise containing all the principal grounds of Christian Religion c. Fourteen times printed before the year 1632. and translated into the Turkish Language by Will. Seaman an English Traveller Treatise of Faith in two parts The first shewing the nature the second the life of Faith c. Lond. 1631. qu. 1637. qu. the third edition It hath a Preface to it in commendation of the work written by Rich. Sibbes Friendly trial of the grounds tending to Separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the unlawfulness of stinted Liturgy and set form of Common Prayer Communion in mixed Assemblies and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys c. Cambr. 1640. qu. The rude and imperfect draught of this book was first made for satisfaction of Mr. Rich. Knightley which by importunity of Ministers and others was afterwards enlarged into this treatise The answer returned to the first conceptions thereof is briefly examined in some marginal notes annexed p. 13. 15. 24. 33. An answer to two Treatises of Mr. Joh. Can the Leader of the English Brownists in Amsterdam The former is called A necessity of separation from the Church of England proved by the Nonconformists principles And the other A stay against straying Wherein in opposition to Mr. John Robinson he undertakes to prove the unlawfulness of hearing the Ministers of the Church of England Lond. 1642. qu. Published by Simeon Ash The Epistle to the Reader is subscribed by Tho. Langley Will. Rathband Simeon Ash Franc. Woodcock and Geo. Croft Presbyterians After our author Ball had finished this last book he undertook a large treatise of the Church wherein he intended to discover the nature of Schism and to deal in the main controversies touching the essence and Government of the Visible Church of which also 50 sheets of paper he left finished Notwithstanding all this yet by what our author hath written in his answer to Jo. Can and in his Friendly trial c. some dividing Spirits of his own party censured him as in some degree declining from his former profest inconformity in deserting the Nonconformists cause and grounds being too much inclined especially in the last of these two to favour the times in Ceremonies and the Service-book Yet if you 'll give credit to what these men deliver they 'll tell you that he lived and died a strict forbearer and constant opposer of all those pretended corruptions which the Nonconformists had commonly in their publick writings disallowed in the Church of England So that they of his own perswasion would willingly have it believed that altho he was in these his pieces against aggravating and multiplying conceived corruptions and that these were not of so great weight as to inforce the unlawfulness of our set forms or warrant a separation from our Churches and publick worship in regard thereof yet he acknowledged some things blame-worthy in the English Liturgy which he designed to have evidenced as these men tell us in some publick treatise had he lived but a little longer For all this he died abundantly satisfied in the justness of that cause which he so well defended against separation Trial of the new Church-way in new-New-England and Old c. Lond. 1644. qu. Treatise of the Covenant of Grace Lond. 1645. c. qu. Published by his great admirer Simeon Ash Of the power of godliness both doctrinally and practically handled c. To which are annexed several Treatises as 1 Of the affections 2 Of the spiritual combatâ— 3 Of the government of the tongue 4 Of prayer with an exposition on the Lords Prayer c. Lond. 1657. fol. Published by the aforesaid Simeon Ash sometimes of the University of Cambridge Chaplain to the Lord Brook afterwards to the Earl of Manchester an 1644. Minister of St. Michael Bashishaw and at length of St. Austins in London who dying 20. of Aug. 1662. being a little before the fatal day of St. Barthelmew was buried 23. of the same month in the Church of St. Austin before-mentioned Treatise of divine meditation Lond. 1660. in twelv published also by the said Ash These I think are all that have been written by our author Ball who dying 20. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 aged fifty and five or thereabouts was buried in the Chappel or Church of Whitmore aforesaid leaving then behind the character
of a learned and pious man and of one who by his daily labours had done eminent service to the private and publick WILLIAM JONES the eldest Son and Heir of Will. Jones Esq was born at Castellmarch in Carnarvonshire the ancient Seat of his Family educated in the Free-School at Beaumaris in Anglesey whence at 14 years of age he was transplanted to S. Edmunds hall an 1570. and continued there 5 years But taking no degree he went to Lincolns Inn and was there admitted a Student yet before he resided in that Society he spent two years in Furnivals Inn according to the course of those times After he had been a Counsellor of repute for some years he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn 13. Jac. 1. Serjeant at Law the year following and a Knight in order to the chief Justiceship in Ireland in which place he continued three years and then left it upon his own request In 19. Jac. 1. he was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in the room of Sir Augustin Nicolls and in the 22 year he was removed to the Kings-Bench He hath written and collected Reports of divers special cases as well in the Court of Kings Bench as of the Common Pleas in England as well in the latter time of the Reign of K. James as in the years of K. Ch. 1. c. Lond. 1675. fol. They contain the cases of greatest remark which hapned either in the Common Pleas or Kings Bench during the time our author was Judge in the said Courts which was from the 18. Jac. 1. to 16. Car. 1. In the said book also is reported three Iters together with the great case in Parliament between the Earl of Oxford and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby This book also coming into the hands after the authors death of Sir Jo. Glynn Serjeant at Law he made very good notes on it as it appears in the original copy sometimes in the hands of Dorothy Faulconberg and Lucy Jones Daughters and Executors of Sir Will. Jones Several Speeches in Parliament He concluded his last day in his house in Holbourne near London on the ninth of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 and was buried under the Chappel standing on pillars of Lincolns-Inn on the fourteenth day of the same month Over whose grave tho no writing or Epitaph appears yet his eminence in the knowledge of the Municipal Laws will make his name live to posterity more especially in these parts where he had his education and when Justice did constantly keep Oxford circuit WILLIAM CHIBALD or Chiball a Surrey man born was entred a Student into Magd. coll 1589. aged 14. but whether in the condition of a Servitour or Clerk I know not Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts entred into the Sacred Function became a Preacher in London and at length Rector of St. Nicholas cold Abbey in Old Fishstreet there where continuing many years was much frequented and admired for his edifying way of Preaching He hath written and published A cordial of comfort to preserve the Heart from fainting with grief or fear for our friends or own visitation by the Plague Lond. 1625. oct An humble thanksgiving to Almighty God for his staying of the Plague in the City of London and Suburbs thereof Printed with the former Sum of all namely Gods Service and Mans Salvation and Mans duty to God concerning both by way of dialogue Lond. 1630. oct Several Sermons as 1 The trial of Faith by the touchstone of the Gospel on 2 Cor. 13. 5. Lond. 1622. oct with others which I have not yet seen Apology for the trial of Faith Lond. in oct when printed I know not for I have not yet seen it He deceased in Febr. about the 25. day in sixteen hundred and forty and was buried in his Church of St. Nicholas before-mentioned leaving then behind him a Son named James who became a Student in Magd. coll 1623. afterwards a Minister in London and if I mistake not a sufferer there for the Royal Cause when the Grand Rebellion broke out in 1642. by the sedulous industry of such who were then called Presbyterians MARTIN WESTCOMBE sometimes a Monk at Toulouse in France and Bac. of Arts there left the Rom. Cath. Church and returned to his native Country of England At length being reconciled to the Reformed Church there was sent to Exeter coll among his Countrymen of Devonshire was incorporated Bach. of Arts in January 1637. and by the favour of the Chancellour of the University proceeded in Arts the next year as a Member of the said college He hath written Fabulae pontificiae Evangelicae veritatis radiis dissipatae Ox. 1639. oct Soon after the author of it went beyond the Seas returned to his former Religion as some of the Ancients of Ex. coll have told me and wrote certain matters there in vindication of himself but what they could not tell me ROBERT CHAMBERLAINE Son of Rich. Chamb. of Standish in Larcash Gent was born there or at least in that County and from being Clerk to Pet. Ball Esq Solicitor General to the Queen had his Poetical Genie so far incouraged by that generous person that he sent him to Exeter coll to compleat it with Academical learning in the beginning of the year 1637. aged 30 years What stay he made there or whether he was honoured with a degree it appears not Sure it is that he having about that time composed several poetical and other things had them viewed by the ingenious men of that house and published under these titles Nocturnal Lucubrations or meditations divine and moral Lond. 1638. in tw To which are added Epigrams and Epitaphs The former he dedicated to his honoured Master Peter Ball before-mentioned and the other to Will. Ball his Son and Heir He hath also written The swaggering Damsel a Comedy Lond. 1640. qu. Sicelides a Pastoral When printed I cannot tell for I do not remember I ever saw it In 1631. was published in qu. a book intit Sicelides a piscatory several times acted in Kings coll in Cambr. and therefore I presume 't was made by one of that house This Rob. Chamberlaine lived many years after but when he died I cannot justly tell One Rob. Chamberlaine proceeded Master of Arts as a Member of Pemb. coll but he being the Son of Dr. Pet. Chamberlaine a Physician must not be taken as some of this University have done to be the same with the Poet before-mentioned Will. Chamberlaine of Shaftsbury in Dorsetshire hath written Love's Victory Trag. Com. Lond. 1658. qu. and Pharonida an heroick Poem Lond. 1659. oct but whether he was ever an Oxford Student I am hitherto ignorant ATHENAE OXONIENSES The History of the Archbishops and Bishops of the University of Oxford from the year of our Lord 1500. to the end of the year 1640. â—_THOMAS JANE or Janne was born in a Market Town in Dorsetsh called Middleton educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School
Hen. 8. for which he incur'd that Kings displeasure He paid his last debt to nature on the sixth day of Apr. 1533. Whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Elye in the middle of a Chappel by him a little before erected on the south side of the same Church Soon after was a large marble laid over his grave with this inscription thereon Of your charytye pray for the Sowle of Nicholas West sometymes Bishop of this See and for all Christian Sowles For the whych prayer he hath graunted to every person so doying fortye days of pardon for every tyme that they shall so pray c. In the said See of Elye succeeded Thom. Goodrick D. of Div. Son of Edward Goodrick of Kirbye in Lincolnshire Son of John Goodricke of Bullingbrook in the said County which Thomas was educated in Kings colledge in the University of Cambridge JOHN THORNDEN sometimes written Thornton was Doctor of Div. and several times Commissary or Vicechancellour of this University while Dr. warham Archb. of Canterbury was Chancellour viz. between the years 1506 and 1514. in which time he is often stiled Episcopus Syrynensis and Syrymensis perhaps the same with Sirmium in Hungary as being a Suffragan to the same Archbishop which is all I know of him MENELAUS Mac-CARMACAN sometimes written among our imperfect Records Carmgan Hibernicus spent some time among his Countrymen in this University but whether he took a degree we have no Register to shew it Afterwards retiring to his Country he became Dean of Raphoe and at length Bishop of that place in 1484. He died in the habit of a Grâ—y-Frier on the seventh of the Ides of May in fifteen hundred and fifteen year 1515 and was buried in the Monastery of the Franciscans commonly called the Grey-Friers at Dunagall Whereupon one Cornelius O-Cahan succeeded him in his Bishoprick RICHARD MAYHEW or Mayo received his first breath in Berkshire in a Market Town if I mistake not called Hungerford was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1459. and on the 28. March 1467. took holy Orders from the hands of George Archb. of York Soon after he was elected one of the Proctors of this University and in 1480. was made President of Magd. coll by the Founder thereof W. Waynfleet and about that time D. of Div. In the beginning of May 1501 he was made Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorkshire in the place of Joh. Hole Bach. of Decrees deceased who on the first of May 1497. was from being Archdeacon of Clievland admitted to that Dignity on the resignation of Cornbull and being installed Archdeacon of Oxon on the 10. of the same month and in the same year was sent into Spain to conduct the Infanta Katherine to England to be wedded to Prince Arthur In 1503. he was elected Chancellour of this University and in the year after he being one of the Kings Council his Almoner and elected to the See of Hereford had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the first of Nov. 1504. He paid his last debt to nature on the 18. of Apr. in fifteen hundred and sixteen year 1516 and was buried on the south side of the high Altar within his own Cathedral near to the foot of the Image of the Glorious King and Martyr Ethelbert By his Will he gave to 50 Priests studying in the University of Oxon six shillings and eight pence a-peice to pray for him as also several books to New coll Library One Rich. Mayow Doctor of Decrees of this University and Canon resid of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter died in the year 1500. whose Executor then was Thom Harrys Archdeacon of Cornwall but what relation there was between this Rich. Mayow who was a Westâ—rn man and the Bishop before-mentioned I know not In the said See of Hereford succeeded Charels Bothe LL. D. of Cambridge who after election received the temporalities thereof 9. Feb. 1516. By his last Will and Testam proved 8. May 1535. he desired to be buried in the Cath. Ch. of Hereford juxta hostium ex parte boreali Ecclesiae ubi construxi as he saith sepulchrum meum After him succeeded in the said See Edw. Fox another Cantabrigian who had the temporalities thereof restored to him 4. Oct. 1535. This person who was an eminent Scholar of his time was born at Duresley in Gloucestershire educated in Eaton School near Windsore admitted Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 27. March 1512. became Provost of it 27. Decemb. 1528. and afterwards the Kings Almoner one of his Privy Council and a great promoter of the Kings divorce from Q. Katharine particularly in the University of Cambridge where he and Dr. Steph. Gardiner procured with much difficulty and earnest engaging of themselves the testimony of the Members of the said University for the Kings divorce before-mentioned an 1530. In Sept. 1531. he was installed Archdeacon of Leycester upon the resignation of Dr. Steph. Gardiner and in Nov. 1533. he was made Archdeacon of Dorset on the death of Will. Bennet About which time or rather before he had been Embassador divers times into France and Germany and afterwards was secretly a favourer of the reformed religion insomuch that Martin Bucer dedicated his Cemmentary on the Evangelists to him He the said Fox wrote a book De vera differentia regiae potestatis Ecclesiasticae quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque Lond. 1534-38 for which and other learned labours as his Annotations on Mantuan he is celebrated and numbred among the learned men by Joh. Leland There is also extant a short oration of his in the story of the Lord Thomas Cromwell which you may see in the Acts and Mon of of the Church and other matters elsewhere By his last Will and Test made the 8. May 1538. and proved 20. March following it appears that he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Church of S. Mary Hault in London now called S. Mary Mounthaw de monte alto the Patronage of which belongs to the Bishop of Hereford After him succeeded John Skâ—ppe D. D. sometimes of Gonvill coll in Cambridge who after his election to the See of Hereford had the Kings consent to it 7. Nov. 1539. He died in his house at Mount-hault in London in the latter end of the year after or on the 18. March 1551. Whereupon his body was buried near to that of his Predecessor Edward Fox before-mentioned JOHN HATTON a Yorkshire man born as it seems and among the Oxonians for a time educated became well beneficed in that County and at length Suffiragan Bishop to the Archbishop of York under the title of Nigrepont which is as I suppose near to the Archipelago In the year 1503. he was made Prebendary of Gevendale in the Church of York and in the year following Preb. of Vlleskelf in the same Church
with too great confidence transcribed the former narratives So that we yet want an exact and faithful History of the greatest most noble and most disinteress'd Clergy-man of that age His publick imployments gave him little leisure for the publication of any works of learning and if any were published they are dead with him excep perhaps those which I have seen which are the Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes in Ipswich School set before the Grammar of W. Lilye and printed in 1528. THOMAS DILLON was born in the County of Meath in Ireland studied here in Oxon several years but whether he took a degree it appears not At length retiring to his own Country became thro several preferments Bishop of Kildare where sitting about eight years year 1531 gave way to fate in fifteen hundred thirty and one In the said See succeeded one Walter Wellesley as I shall anon tell you WILLIAM WARHAM Son of Rob. Warham was born of a gentile Family at Okely in Hampshire educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1475. took the degrees in the Laws left the coll 1488. and about that time became an Advocate in the Court of Arches and soon after Principal or chief Moderator of Civil Law School then situated in S. Edwards Parish in Oxon. On the 2. Nov. 1493. he was collated to the Chantorship of Wells upon the death of Tho. Overey sometimes Fellow of All 's coll and on the 13. of Feb. following he was constituted Master of the Rolls Afterwards being elected to the See of London he had the Great Seal of England delivered unto him on the 11. of Aug. 1502 So that in few days after being consecrated Bishop of that See had restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the first of Octob. following In the beginning of January in the same year he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and in Nov. as one saith in 1504. he was translated to the See of Canterbury whose inthronization there appointed to be on the 9. March following was performed then with great and wonderful solemnity and magnificence as it may be partly elsewhere seen In 1506. May 28. he was unanimously elected Chancellour of the University of Oxon being then and ever after an especial friend to it and its members as may be discerned in several Epistles that passed between them In some the said members stile him Sanctissimus in Christo Paeter and in others they proclaim in an high manner his prudence profound understanding c. All which I presume was done because he had been a benefactor to the finishing of S. Maries Church and the Divinity School It must be now known that there was a young Knight called William Warham Godson and Nephew to the Archbishop as being Son to his Brother Hugh Warham that waited upon him in his chamber With him the Archb. being always ready to discourse did more than once seriously tell him that if ever after his death any should succeed him in the See of Canterbury called Thomas he should in no wise serve him or seek his favour and acquaintance for there shall said he one of that name shortly enjoy this See that shall as much by his vicious living and wicked heresies dishonour wast and destroy the same and the whole Church of England as ever the blessed Bishop and Martyr St. Thomas did before benefit bless adorn and honour the same c. This is reported by Nich. Harpessfield from the mouth of the said Sir Will. Warham being prophetically spoken by the said Archb. concerning the Thomas that succeeded him meaning Thom. Cranmer After Dr. Warham had sate in Canterbury in great prosperity about 28 years he concluded this life at S. Stephens near to the said City on the 22. of Aug. between the hours of 3 and 4 in the morning year 1532 in fifteen hundred thirty and two Whereupon his body was laid in a little Chappel built by himself for the place of his burial on the north side of the Martyrdom of S. Thomas of Canterbury and had there a reasonable fair Tomb erected over his body but defaced in the beginning of the grand Rebellion began and carried on by the Presbyterians Erasmus of Rotterdam having been a great acquaintance of the said Archbishop had the honour to have his picture sent to him by the owner Which being with great devotion received Erasmus sent him his and between them passed several Epistles In one of which or else in another place Erasmus who had the Parsonage of Aldington in Kent bestowed on him so commends him for humanity learning integrity and piety that in the conclusion he saith nullan absoluti Praesulis dotem in eo desideres The said Archb. left all his Theological books to All 's coll Library his Civil and Can. Law books with the prick-song books belonging to his Chappel to New coll and his Ledgers Grayles and Antiphonals to Wykehams coll near to Winchester See more of him in a book intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae c. Lond. 1572-3 p. 348. 349. c. THOMAS SKEVYNGTON was descended from a right ancient Family of his name living in Leicestershire but whether born in that County I cannot justly tell became when young professed in the Monastery of Cistercians at Merevale or Myrdvale in Warwickshire instructed in Theological and other learning in S. Bernards coll originally built for Cistercians in the north Suburb of Oxon being now S. Johns coll to which place he bequeathed on his death-bed twenty pounds towards its reparation Afterwards he was made Abbat of Waverley a house of the said Order in Surrey and on the 17. of June 1509. was consecrated Bishop of Bangor Where after he had sate several years much commended for the austere course of his life and great charity he submitted to the stroke of death in the month of June or thereabouts in fifteen hundred thirty and there year 1533 Whereupon his heart was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Bangor before the picture of S. Daniel whereon a stone was soon after laid with an inscription thereon shewing that it was the heart of Thomas late Bishop of Bangor and his body in the Choire of Monastery of Beaulieu under a Tomb which he had erected nigh unto the place where the Gospel used to be read In the See of Bangor succeeded John Salcot alias Capon Doct. of divinity of Cambridge translated thence to Salisbury in 1529 where dying in the summer time in August as it seems an 1557. was buried in the Cath. Church there under a Tomb which he in his life-time had provided and erected on the south side of the Choire JOHN ALLEN Doctor of the Laws of this University was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin in the place of Dr. Hugh Inge deceased in the year of our Lord 1528. and died on the 25. of July saith one and another the 28.
decease of the said W. Worslley who had held with it other dignities among which was the Archdeaconry of Nottingham in which he was succeeded by Thom. Crosley in Aug. 1499. In 1505. he the said Rob. Sherebourne being elected Bishop of S. Davids under the title of Consiliarius regius had restitution of the temporalities of that See made to him on the 12. of Apr. the same year done in requiral of the many services and embassies which he had performed for his Master K. Hen. 7. In 1508. he was translated to the See of Chichester and had the temporalities belonging thereunto delivered to him on the 13. Dec. that year He was a person much given to hospitality was very charitable to the poor munificent to the coll that had given him Acad. education as may elsewhere be seen and bestowed much mony in beautifying and adorning his Cath. Ch. at Chichester At length after he had resigned his Bishoprick he gave way to fate on the 21. Aug. in fifteen hundred thirty and six aged 86 years or thereabouts and was buried in the said Cath. Ch. in a poor remembrance that he had made there on the south side of the same Church A certain note which Sir Will. Dugdale Garter K. of Arms collected by himself and afterwards communicated to me informs that the said R. Sherebourne founded a Free School in the time of Hen. 8. at Rowlston in Staffordshire at which place he was born of mean parentage But this note which he could not then tell whence he had I reject because the register of New coll tells us that he was born in Hampshire where is a Town called Sherbourne in which he or at least his Father or Grandfather was as 't is probable born After he had resigned his Bishoprick Mr. Rich. Sampson Dean of the Kings Chappel being elected thereunto had the temporalities thereof given to him 4. July 28. Hen. 8. Dom. 1536. JOHN KYTE was born as 't is said within the City of London and for a time educated in this University but in what house or what degrees he took it appears not Afterwards he had several dignities confer'd upon him was made Subdean of the King's Chappel and by K. Hen. 7. was sent Embassador into Spain In the latter end of 1513. he was made Archb. of Armagh by provision from P. Leo 10. the temporalities of which were given to him on the 20. May in the year following But he resigning the said Archbishoprick on the third of Aug. 1521. being newly made Bishop of Carlile in England on the death of Joh. Penny was made Archbishop of Thebes in Greece All these things were done by the endeavours made to the Pope by Card. Wolsey whose creature Kyte was And because the Bulls of translation and of Carlile with the retention of his other benefices should be expedited and done to the desire of Wolsey and Kyte the fees came to 1790. duckets but whether all was paid I think not because it partly appears by the letters of Joh. Clerk the Kings Orator at Rome afterwards B. of B. of Wells that for the sake of the said Card. 275 duckets were released to Kyte tho the World was then very hard at Rome He the said Kyte took his last farewell of this World after he had bestowed much money on Rose-castle the Seat of the Bishop of Carlile on the nineteenth day of June in fifteen hundred thirty and seven year 1537 and was buried as 't is said in the middle almost of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Stepney near London Over his grave is a marble-stone yet remaining with an English Epitaph thereon contained in barbarous verses shewing that he was a person of great hospitality The five first run thus Under this ston closyde and marmorate Lyeth John Kitte Londoner natyff Encreasyng in vertues rose to high estate In the fourth Edwards chappel by his yong lyffe Sith whych the sevinth Henryes servyce primatyff Proceeding still c. How it came to pass that he was buried at Stepney I cannot tell Sure I am that by his Will and Test made the 18. June 29. Hen. 8 dom 1537. and proved 21. of the same month wherein he writes himself John Kyte Archb. of Thebes and Commendatory perpetual of Carlile he bequeaths his body to be buried by the body of his Father in St. Margarets Church in Westminster JOHN HILSEY a Dominican or Black Frier was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in 1535. and died in sixteen hundred thirty and eight year 1538 Under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Rochester succeeded Nich Heath whom I shall mention at large in his proper place JOHN STOKESLIE was educated in S. Mary Magd. coll of which he was Fellow and much noted for his excellent faculty in disputing whether in Philosophy or Divinity In 1502. he being then M. of A. of some years standing was admitted Principal of S. Mary Magd. hall and in the year following was elected the northern Procter of the University because he had been born in the north parts of England Afterwards he became Vicar of Willoughby in Warwickshire for a time and Rector of Slimbridge in Gloucestershire both by the gift of the said college Prebendary of the Kings Chappel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and S. Stephen within the Pallace of Westminster Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of Rich. Paice Doct. of Divinity and Chaplain to Rich. Fox B. of Winchester who gave him as I think the Archdeaconry of Surrey At length upon the translation of Tonstall to Durham he was made Bishop of London in 1530. In which See being installed 19. Jul. in the same year and about that time made the Kings Almoner fate there to the time of his death which hapning on the eighth of Sept. year 1539 in fifteen hundred thirty and nine was buried on the 14. of the said month in the Chappel of S. George within the Precinct of S. Pauls Cathedral Soon after was a memorial put over his grave running thus Hujus in obscuri tumuli c. Which in English is this as P. F. tells me Th'obscure recesses of this key-cold Tomb Do Stokeslies ashes and remains inhume Whose general name good life dexterity Of Pen Tongue Brain were known both far and nigh Who studied still to serve God and the King And benefit the publick in each thing What good he did in Forreign parts retrieve He brought it home like honey to his hive He knew the intreagues of Italy and Spain And of the Grecian Wyles did make much gain To many Kingdoms of the World being known And honour'd more returning to his own Who on our Blessed Ladies day being born Did on the self same day to dust return In 1529. he was sent to the Emperiour and Pope and to several Universities concerning the marriage of King Hen. 8. with his brother's Wife c. and was with Tho. Cranmer at
a secular or of any religious Order I cannot tell nor whether justly he took a degree in this University Certain it is that being made Suffragan Bishop of Hull under the Archbishop of York was made Prebendary of Langtoft and VVistow in the Church of York 1541. and in 1549. January 31. was installed Archdeacon of Nottingham on the death of Cuthbert Marshall D. D. who had succeeded Will. Fell D. D. in that dignity in Jan. 1527. He either died in the beginning of Q. Maries reign 1553. or was deprived because then or soon after I find one Rob. Pursglove to occur by the title of Bishop of Hull as I shall at large tell you under the year 1579. JOHN STANYWELL or Stonywell was born in the Parish of Longdon in Staffordshire within which Parish is a small Hamlet called Stonywell from a Well wherein is at the bottom a large stone which seems to be no more than a little Rock whence springs the water that supplies that Well This person being much addicted to learning and religion when a Youth was taken into a certain Monastery that at Pershore in Worcestershire as it seems and was bred a Benedictine Monk Thence he was sent to Glocester College in Oxon where the Monks of Pershore had an apartment for their Novices to be trained up in Academical learning of which College he was when in his elder years Prior for a time and was then noted among those of his profession for his learning and strict course of life Afterwards being Doctor of divinity he became Lord Abbat of the said Monastery of Pershore and at length a Bishop suffragan only as it seems under the title of Episcopus Poletensis He paid his last debt to nature after he had arrived to a great age in the beginning of fifteen hundred fifty and three year 1553 and was burled according to his Will in a new chappel built by him within the Parish Church of S. James in Longdon he bequeathed all his books his two Chalices his Crewetts holy water stock Vestmens Albes Altar-clothes with other things belonging to his private chappel in Longdon JOHN HOPER or Hooper sometimes either of Merton coll or S. Albans hall or of both successively was consecrated Bishop of Glocester in the latter end of the year 1550. and about two years after had the Bishoprick of Worcester given to him to keep in Commendam with the former He yielded up his last breath in the flames in the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and four year 1554 under which year you may see more of him among the writers In Glocester succeeded him James Brokes and in Worcester Rich. Pate Of the former you may read more among the writers under the year 1559. and of the other among the Bishops following an 1560. GEORGE BROWNE an Austin Frier of the convent of that order in London was educated in Academicals among those of his order in Oxon. Afterwards growing eminent among them was made Provincial of the said order in England and about the same time supplicated the Regents of this University that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1523 but whether he was really admitted it appears not Afterwards taking the degree of Doctor of divinity in an University beyond the Seas as it seems was incorporated in the same degree at Oxon 1534. and soon after at Cambridge On the 19. of March 1535. he was consecrated in England Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland and in 1551. he obtained leave from K. Ed. 6. that he and his successors for ever in that See may be Primates of all Ireland but recalled soon after by Queen Mary who in 1554. caused him to be deprived of his Archbishoprick for being married What became of him afterwards I know not nor when he died EDWARD STAPLE received his first breathings in this World in Lincolnshire studied Logic and Philosophy for a time in this University and went afterwards to Cambridge where he took the degree of Master of Arts. Thence returning to Oxon was incorporated in that degree and in the latter end of 1525. supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences being then one of the canons of Card. Wolseys college but whether he was really admitted it dot not appear In 1530. he by provision from P. Clem. 7. became Bishop of Meath in Ireland being at that time Warden or Master of S. Bartholomews Hospital in London which for some time he kept in commendam with his Bishoprick At length Qu. Mary coming to the Crown he was deprived of the said Bishoprick for being married as I suppose in the year 1554. and soon after died In the said See succeeded one Will. Walsh D. D. of whom I shall speak more under the year 1576. ROBERT FERRAR was born within the Vicaridge of Halyfax in Yorkshire within four miles of which place he gave Lands to his near relations and when a young man was made a Canon regular of the order of S. Austin but in what Priory or Abbey I know not Sure I am that he having partly received his Academical education in Cambridge did when he had entred into the same order retire to a nursery for the Canons thereof in Oxon named S. Maries college situated in the Parish of S. Michael and S. Peter in the Bayly where I find him in 1526. in which year Tho. Garret Curate of Honey lane in London and a forward and busie Lutheran did supply him with prohibited books or books which were written against the R. Cath. Ch. and the members thereof he being then esteemed one of that party that then opposed the established Church and Doctrine In 1533. he as a member of the said coll of S. Mary was admitted to the reading of the sentences having a little before opposed in divinity and about that time became chaplain to Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury by whose example as one saith he learned to get himself a woman also under the name of a wife and by his endeavours had some preserment in the Church In 1547. he being then in great favour with Edward Duke of Somerset he was by him appointed Bishop of S. Davids upon the removal of W. Barlow to the See of B. and Wells and accordingly was consecrated thereunto the same year But upon the fall of the said Duke in 1549. who was an upholder of him and his unworthy doings were 56. Articles drawn up against him by some of his neighbours viz. Hugh Rawlins Clerk and one Tho. Lee accusing him as an abuser of his authority a maintainer of superstition to be covetous wilfully negligent foolish c. All which he being not able to answer was committed to safe custody in London during the remaining part of the reign of K. Ed. 6. After Qu. Mary came to the Crown it being fully understood that he was a Lutheran Heretick as the men of those times stiled him
of Magd. coll in 1566. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1571 holy Orders and about that time a Wife by whom afterwards he had nineteen children In 1586. he being then Prebendary of Winchester and well beneficed supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences but whether he was really admitted it appears not On the 12. of Nov. 1598. he was consecrated B. of Salisbury and in the year following was actually created Doct. of div by certain Doctors deputed for that purpose who went to him then I think at Salisbury He was Godson to Q. Eliz. while she was Lady Eliz. who as 't is reported usually said that she had blest many of her Godsons but now this Godson should bless her He gave way to fate on the seventh day of May in sixteen hundred and fifteen year 1625 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Salisbury near to the body of his sometimes Wife In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd before among the writers under the year 1617. THOMAS BILSON sometimes fellow of New coll was consecrated B. of Worcester in 1596. translated thence to Winchester in the year following and concluded his last day in sixteen hundred and sixteen under which year you may see more of him among the writers In Worcester succeeded Gervase Babington of Cambridge of whom I have made mention in Will. Bradbridge among these Bishops an 1578. and in Winchester succeeded Dr. James Mountague sixth Son of Sir Edw. Mountague of Boughton in Northamptonshire Kt. who was translated thereunto from Bathe and Wells 4. Octob. 1616. This worthy person died on the twentieth day of July 1618. aged 50. and was buried 20. Aug. following on the north side of the body of the Church dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul within the City of Bathe Over his grave was soon after a high Altar-monument erected between two Pillars of the said Church with the proportion of the defunct painted to the life lying thereon by his brethren Sir Edw. Mountague of Boughton Sir Hen. Mountague Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Sir Charles Mountague his Executor and Sir Sidney Mountague Master of the Requests Kts. All which were lineally descended from the Earls of Salisbury The said Dr. Jam. Mountague was educated in the University of Cambridge was Master of Sydney coll and there noted for his piety vertue and learning Afterwards he was made Dean of the Royal Chappel then B. of Rathe afterwards of Winchester as t is before told you and for his faithfulness dexterity and prudence in weighty affairs the King chose him to be one of his Privy Council By his last Will and Testament he made choice of the said antient Church for the place of his Sepulture which among many other monuments of piety he repaired to his great charge When K. James came first to the Crown he was made Dean of his Chappel as before 't is told you which place he held not only when he was B. of Bathe and Wells but of Winchester also And being a great stickler in the quarrels at Cambridge and a great Master in the Art of insinuation had cunningly as one observes fashioned K. James unto certain Calvinian opinions to which the Kings education in the Kirk of Scotland had before inclined him So that it was no very hard matter for him having an Archb. also of his own perswasion to make use of the Kings authority for recommending the nine Articles to the Church of Ireland which he found would not be admitted in the Church of England HENRY ROWLANDS was born in the Parish of Mellteyrn in LLyn in Caernarvanshire educated in the School at Penllech was admitted a Student in the University about 1569. took the degrees in Arts as a member of New coll that of Master being compleated in 1577. and soon after became Rector of Laâ—â—ton near Bister alias Burchester in Oxfordshire In 1598. Nov. 12. he was consecrated B. of Bangor being then Bach. of div and in 1605. he was actually created Doct. of that faculty He bestowed on his Cath. Ch. four bells instead of those that were fold away by Arthur Bulkley his predecessor and in 1609. he gave lands to Jesus coll for the maintenance of two scholars or fellows there At length after he had bestowed much money on pious uses had spent all his time in celebacy and had govern'd his church and diocess with great commendations year 1616 surrendred up his pious soul to God 30. June in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Bangor among the sepulchres of the Bishops By his last Will and Test he bequeathed moneys for the erection of a School at Mellteyrn or Bottunog where he was born and christned In the See of Bangor succeeded Lewes Bayly whom I have mention'd at large among the writers under the year 1632. HENRY ROBINSON was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland became a poor serving child of Queens coll about the year 1568. afterwards Tabarder and at length Fellow being then esteemed an excellent Disputant and Preacher In 1581. he was unanimously elected Provost of his college which office he enjoying about 18. years restored it in that time and made it flourish after it had continued many years but in a mean condition occasion'd by the negligence of former Governours In 1590. he proceeded in div and in 98. being nominated and elected to the See of Carlile was consecrated thereunto by John B. of Lond. Joh. B. of Roch. and Anthony B. of Chich. on the 23. of July in the same year He was a person of great gravity and temperance and very mild in his speech yet as one observeth not of so strong a constitution of body as his countenance did promise He paid his last debt to nature on the 13. of the Cal. of July in sixteen hundred year 1616 and sixteen aged 63. years or more and was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. of Carlile Soon after was a brassplate set up on the wall over his grave by the care and charge of Bernard Robinson his brother and heir with an inscription and verses thereon running almost word for word or at least in sense with that inscription on a brass plate also fastned to the south wall near to the Altar in Qu. coll chappel in Oxon a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon lib. 2. p. 124. a. b. In which book p. 116. b. you may also see something of his benefaction to the said coll In the See of Carlile succeeded one Dr. Rob. Snoden or Snowden of Cambridge Prebendary of Southwell third Son of Ralph Snoden of Mansfeild Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire the temporalities of which See were given to him 20. Dec. 1616. He died at London while the Parliament was sitting in the latter end of
Grammarian He was afterwards Prebendary of Wells Jan. 28. Thomas Nightinghall Vir lepidus poeta as Baleus saith See among the Writers under the year 1524. Besides these two five were admitted and about 16 that supplicated who were not this year admitted Bach. of Can. Law Thirteen were admitted and eleven there were that supplicated who were not admitted this year Many of which were without doubt afterwards Dignitaries in the Church Mast of Arts. June…John Constable of Byham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. See among the Writers an 1520. March 5. John Clark of Magd. Coll. Quaere Besides these two were about 25 admitted and eleven or more that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. April 29. Thomas Knolles of Magd. Coll. In the year 1507 he became Subdean of York upon the promotion of Dr. James Harrington to the Deanery of that Church and resigning in 1529 being then Prebendary of Aplethorpe in the said Church Will. Clifton LL. D. succeeded See more among the D. of D. an 1518. May 9. John Essex a Benedictin He was afterwards Lord Abbat of S. Austins at Canterbury Nine besides were admitted among whom was Roger Stanford a Benedictin Monk of Worcester afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there and about eighteen that supplicated Doct. of Law Not one admitted either in the Canon or Civil Law and but three that supplicated viz. William Barow John Blount and William Middleton Doct. of Physick Not one admitted only Malachias Arthur sometimes a Graduat of Oxon. and afterwards Doctor of Physick of Bononia supplicated to be admitted to practise in the said Faculty Oct. 23. which was accordingly granted Doct. of Div. June 10. Nich. Myles or Mylys of Queens Coll. He was a Benefactor to Learning See in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 115. b. Dec. 13. Fr. Will. Wetherall Prior of the College of the Fryers of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit in Oxon. In the year 1531 I find that he was Provincial of the Austin Fryers of England and whether he was the last that bore that Office I know not He is sometimes written but falsely Wodiall See among the Incorporations this year Jan… Edmund Smythesby a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin In another place in the Register he is said among the Bach. of Div. to be a Fryer of the Order of S. Austin Besides these who were admitted Doctors of Divinity supplicated for the said dagree about 20 among whom were 1 Will. Malvern Lord Abbat of S. Peters in Glocester as the publick Register stiles him whom I take to be the same that Jo. Leland calls Malvern alias Parker late Abbat of Glocester who made a Chappel joyning to the Church of Glocester to be buried in 2 Rob. Showldham or Shuldeâ—m mentioned under the year 1511. He was a Benedictin or Black Monk and now or soon after Lord Abbat of S. Saviour or S. Mary Overie in Southwark Also Tho. Marshall a Benedictin Will. Hoddeson a Dominican John a Pantry Bac. Div. and Provost of Queens Coll. John Holder and John Hoper Masters of Arts of Mert. Coll. Tho. Barton and Tho. Sellyng Bachelaurs of Div. and Benedictines c. did supplicate Incorporations Apr… Tho. Martyr M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge Oct. 26. Fr. Will. Wetheral Bach. of Div. of Cambridge He soon after was admitted Doctor of that Faculty in this University as 't is before told you Mar… Will. Clerke M. A. of Cambridge c. An. Dom. 1516. An. 8 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Cant. Commiss Laurence Stubbes D. D. and others Proct. Richard Walker of Merton Coll. Edmund Grey of New Coll. April 2. Bach. of Musick Not one appears admitted by the negligence of the Scribe On the 13 of Apr. Hen. Peter or Petre a secular Chaplain who had spent 30 years in Practical and Theoretical Musick supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Musick which being granted he was without doubt admitted One John Draper also a Student in the said Faculty supplicated also which was granted with one or more conditions Bach. of Arts. June 17. James Timbervyle of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter December 16. Thomas Wylson See in 1546 and 53. Besides these were about 38 admitted and about 21 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Law Six in the Canon and nine in the Civil Law were admitted Thirteen in the Canon Law supplicated who were mostly secular Chaplains among whom was Richard Newman a Canon regular of the Order of Premonstratenses as the public Regist saith and about twelve in the Civil Mast of Arts. June 27. Thomas Abell or Able See among the Writers an 1540. John Clerk of Magd. Coll. Besides these were about 34 admitted and about 9 that supplicated who were not admitted this year Bach. of Div. May 5. James Fitzjames of S. Albans Hall This person who was Son of John Fitzjames Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England was now Chancellor of the Church of Wells and had several Benefices in that Diocess whereof the Rectorship of the Collegiate Church of North-Cadbury was one In 1534 he was made Prebendary of Warmystre in the Church of Wells and in the same year by the death of Thomas Lovell Decr. Dr. he was made Subdean of Wells and Vicar General to the Bishop thereof He had other Preferments in the Cath. Church of S. Paul in London given to him by his Uncle Dr. Richard Fitzjames Bishop thereof was soon after a Doct. of Div. but whether of this University it appears not and died in the beginning of the year 1541. Besides him were about four admitted and about fifteen that supplicated who were not admitted among whom William York a Canon and Bac. of Arts was one Doct. of Can. Law June 21. William Burghyll a secular Chaplain John Morrice or Morres Peter Lygham or Lyngham February 7. William Clyfton In 1522 he became Succentor of the Church of York on the death of William Cooke and in May 1529 he was made Subdean of the said Church on the Resignation of Dr. Thomas Knolles In the former Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Nooke 1529 in which year Clyfton resigned and in the other by Rob. Babthorp D. D. in September 1548 in which year Clifton died Bapthorp dying in 1570 Edmund Buney succeeded him whom I have elsewhere mention'd Doct. of Div. Not one admitted only three or more supplicated viz. William Wall and William Germyn Minorites and Richard Doke all Bach. of Divinity whom I shall anon mention An. Dom. 1517. An. 9 Hen. 8. Chancellour the same Commiss Mr. Rich. Doke or Duck of Exeter College now Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey Proct. Thomas Irish of Exon Thomas Musgrave of Mert. Coll. Bach. of Arts. Thomas Garret was this year admitted but the Month or Day when appears not because the Register is imperfect however in the year following he occurs by the Title of Bach. of Arts. He
Vicar General to Gilbert Bishop of that place and at length Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Sarum He died about the month of Feb. in 1575 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Wells Oct. 18. John Croke of New Coll. He was now an eminent Advocate in the Court of Arches and about this time dignified in the Church Doct. of Div. July 6. John Ramridge of Mert. Coll. He was made Dean of Lichfield in the beginning of Qu. Maries Reign in the place of one Rich. Willyams deprived for having married a Widow in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. But the said Ramridge leaving England without any compulsion in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth being much troubled in mind upon a foresight of the alteration of Religion he went into Flanders where in wandring to and fro in great discontent he met with Thieves who first rob'd and afterwards murder'd him Only two supplicated for the said Degree this year viz. Will. Wetherton M. A. and Bach. of Div. and Edw. Sepham M. A. and Student in that Faculty but were not now or after admitted Incorporations Apr…Nich Grimoald Jul. 19. Laur. Nowell B. of A. of Cambr. Nov. 8. George Dogeson or Dogâ—on Chantor of Wells and M. A. of the University of Paris was then incorp M. of A. Which being done he was incorporated Bach. of Div. as he had stood in the said University of Paris An. Dom. 1543. An. 35 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. John Estwyke Will. Pye again Elected the first day of Easter Term. Bach. of Arts. Jul. 12. Tho. Godwyn of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bathe and Wells Dec. 14. Will. Johnson of All 's Coll. The Cat. of Fellows of that House saith that he was afterwards Dean of Dublin and Bishop of Meath in Ireland whereupon recurring to the Commentary of Irish Bishops written by Sir James Ware I could find no such Person nor Dr. Johnson of Christs Coll. in Cambridge who is reported by Th. Fuller the Historian to be Archb. of Dublin Feb. 20. Tho. Bentham of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Lichfield and Coventry In all about 35 besides about 7 who were Supplicators or Candictates for the said degree of Bac. of Arts. Bach. of Civ Law Jan. 4. Nich. Harpesfield of New Coll. Mar… John Plough The former was afterwards a zealous Writers for the Rom. Catholic the other for the Protestant Cause Besides these two were about twelve more admitted Mast of Arts. Jun. 6. Joh. Fox Hen. Bull Tho. Cooper Will. Dounham of Magd. Coll. The two last of which were afterwards Bishops At the same time was one John Redman or Redmayne of Magd. Coll. admitted But whether this be the same John Redman who was afterwards Archdeacon of Taunton or another mentioned under the year 1508 and 1524 or a third mention'd among the Writers an 1551 I cannot justly say June 6. Will. Hugh 20. George Ethoridge John Morwen of C. C. Coll. Feb. 21. Joh. Pullayne Mar. 18. Laur. Nowell 24. Nich. Grimoald In all thirty nine of New Brasn Mert. Coll. Bach. of Div. June 30. Gilb. Bourne of All 's Coll. Nov. 21. John Somer He was Can. of Winds in the time of Qu. Mary where he died 1573. Tho. Slythurst was admitted the same day He was made Canon of Winds and the first President of Trin. College in the time of Qu. Mary of which being deprived in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where he died about 1560. Feb. 8. Will. Pye of Oriel College now one of the Proctors of the University In 1534 he seems to have been admitted Bach. of Physick Besides these were ten more admitted and five that supplicated among whom was William Peryn one lately a Dominican or Black Fryer who was I suppose admitted because in a Book or Books which he soon after published he writes himself Bach. of Div. Doct. of the LL. Jul. 2. John ap Harry or Parry He was soon after Principal of Broadgates Hall and seems to be the same John ap Harry who was Successor to Gilb. Smith in the Archdeaconry of Northampton This Dr. Parry died in the beginning of 1549 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Castor in Northamptonshire John Williams lately Principal of Broadgates Hall was admitted the same day Doct. of Div. June 1. Philip Brode about this time a shagling Lecturer of Divinity in this University He was afterwards a Prebendary of the Church of York beneficed in the Diocess thereof and died in 1551. or thereabouts John Robyns the Astrologer and Mathematician sometimes Fellow of All 's Coll. and now Canon of Windsore did supplicate that he might be admitted to proceed in Divinity but whether he was admitted it appears not Rich. Cox also a D. of D. of Cambridge did supplicate that he might sit and take a place among the Doctors of Divinity tho it was unusual and out of order as being not incorporated See in the year 1545. Incorporations This year or thereabouts John Cheek of Cambridge was incorporated but in what degree unless in that of Master of Arts I cannot justly tell because of the imperfectness of the Registers He had studied before for some time in this University and was now one of the Canons of Kings Coll. in Oxon. I mean of that College founded by K. Hen. 8. on that of Card. Wolsey which continued from the year 1532 to 1545 at which time he was about to translate the See of Oxon from Osney to his said Coll. intended then by him to have it known by the name of Christ Church which was effected accordingly in the year following When the said Kings Coll. was dissolved by Hen. 8. in the beginning of the year 1545 he allowed most of the then Canons yearly Pensions in lieu of their Canonries and to Jo. Cheek who was then Tutor to his Son Prince Edward he allowed six and twenty pounds thirteen shillings and four pence He was afterwards a Knight and most famous for his Learning exprest in his Introductio Grammatices his Book De ludimagistrorton officio in another De pronunciatione Linguae Graeâ—â—c and in many more besides Translations the Catalogue of which mostly taken from Baleus you may see at the end of Sir John Cheeks Life written by Ger. Langbaine put by him before a Book written by the said Cheek entit The true Subject to the Rebel or the heart of Sedition c. Oxon. 1641. qu. This Sir John Cheek died at Lond. in the house of Pet. Osbourne Esq a great Comforter of afflicted Protestants in the month of Sept. 1557 and was buried in the Church of S. Alban in Woodstreet within the said City An. Don. 1544. An. 36 Hen. 8. Chanc. the same Commiss the same Proct. Nich. Alambrygg of All 's Coll. Will. Smyth of Brasn Coll. again Elected about the Ides of May. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 7. In an Act then celebrated Will. Fitzjames Dean of We'ls was
Perne in the book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. under the year 1557. written by John Fax wherein you 'll find him a zealous Man for the Cath. cause in the Reign of Qu. Mary One of both his names who was M. of A. and sometimes Fellow of Katherine hall in Cambridge afterwards Minister of Wilby in Northamptonshire was a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament that began at Westminster an 1640 ran with those times and published several Sermons I find another And. Perne LL. D. sometimes an Inhabitant of Westwratting in Cambridgshire who died in 1680. An. Dom. 1554. An. 1 2 Mariae Chanc. the same Vicechanc. John Warner Doct. of Phys and Warden of All 's Coll. was designed by letters from the Chancellour Proct. Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll. Christop Hargrave of Linc. Coll. Which Proctors taking their places on the nones of April Maur. Bullock and Gilb. Mounson of Ch. Ch substitute to Mr. Spencer receeded Bach. of Arts. Jul. 4. Will. Barker of Magd. Coll. One of both his names translated into English An exhortation to his kinsman to the study of the Scriptures Lond. 1557. oct written by St. Basil the Great Whether he be the same with the Bach. of Arts Quaee Anth. Russh of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day Jul. 11. John Bodye One of both his names supplicated to be admitted Bach. of the Civil Law an 1552 which I take to be the same with this who was Bach. of Arts but not the same who was executed at Andâ—ver in Hampshire an 1583 for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England See more in these Fasti among the Masters of Arts an 1575. Jul. 16. Tho. Atkyns He was elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Mert. Coll. this year in whose Cat. or Alb. of Fellows this addition is put to his name Fuit procurator generalis regius apud Wallos Reginae Elizabethae à consiliis ibidem ad audiendum determinandum malefacta cujuscunque generis justitiarius c. He was born in the Dioc. of Worcester but took no higher Degree in this University Mar. 13. John Bridgwater Aquepâ—ntanus either now of Brasnose Coll. or of Hart hall He was afterwards a learned Jesuit Admitted 48. Doct. of Musick Apr. 21. John Shepheard who had been a Studenâ— in Musick for the space of 20 years did then by his Dean supplicate the ven congregation that he might be licensed to proceed in that faculty that is to be admitted Doctor of Musick but whether he was admitted or stood in any Act following it appears not in our registers The words of some of his Church services are made publick in The Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in Cathedrals c. Lond. 1663. oct collected and published by James Clifford as I have told you under the year 1548. I have seen some of his compositions of six parts in six MS. Books remaining at this day in the Archives of our publ Musick School containing Church Musick or Anthems and certain Songs Mast of Arts. But 13 were admitted this year among whom Will. Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll. was one afterwards a Cardinal and Archb. as I have before told you and Sextus Quaterman of New Coll. another In an Act celebrated 16. July were 19 that stood of whom the said Allyn was junior whom we usually call Junior of the Act who with the Senior perform exercise in the name of the rest of the Masters Bach. of Div. Jun. 7. Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. sometimes Cross-bearer to Cardinal Wolsey now Fellow of Eaton Coll. and Canon of Windsore was adm to the reading of the Sentences by Dr. O. Oglethorp Dean of Winds in a certain Chamber belonging to his Lodgings there by power and authority given to him for that purpose by Dr. Rich. Smyth Provicechancellour of the University This Mr. Cole had his grace granted in order to the taking of that Degree in 1545 and in 1555 he succeeded the said Dr. Oglethorp in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll. Jul. 5. John Boxall of New Coll. He was now Archdeacon of Ely and Warden of the Coll. near Winchester c. Besides these two were but 3 more admitted this year Doct. of Civil Law Jul. 13. Tho. Huyck of Mert. Coll. He died at London 1575 having a little before been made the first and original Fellow of Jesus Coll. to which he was a Benefactor Rob. Raynold of New Coll. was licensed to proceed the same day He was now Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near to Winchester Prebendary of Linc. and Chichester and about 1557 Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near to Winton Will. Awbrey of All 's Coll. was admitted also on the same day See before under the year 1549. A Person he was of exquisite learning and singular prudence and therefore mention'd with honour by Thuanus and others He was born in Bricknockshire particularly as I conceive at Cantre wrot divers things but not printed among which are several letters to his Cousin Dr. John Dee concerning the Sovereignty of the Seas some of which I have seen and dying 23. Jul. 1595 was buried within the Cath. Church of St. Paul in London Afterwards there was a Mon. with his bust set over his grave which with the Cathedral it self was consumed in that dismal conflagration which hapned in that great City in the beginning of Sept. 1666. Doct. of Physick May 9. Rich. Master of All 's Coll. On the 14. of March 1562 he was installed Prebendary of Fridaythorpe in the Church of York being about that time Physician of the Chamber to Qu. Elizabeth His eldest Son George Master setled in the Abbey at Cirencester in Glocestershire where his posterity yet remaineth Another Son named Robert was Doctor of the Civ Law in 1594 as I shall tell you when I come to that year Rich. Caldwell or Chaldwall lately of Ch. Ch. but originally of Brasnose Coll. was admitted the same day Thom. Francis of Ch. Ch. was also admitted the same day After this Person had taken the Degree of M. of A. he applyed his studies to the Theological faculty but the encouragement thereof being in these days but little he transfer'd himself to the School of Physicians and with the consent and approbation of Dr. Wryght the Vicechancellour was entred on the Physick line 4. Aug. 1550. In the year after I find him supplying the place and office of the Kings Professor of Physick being I presume only Deputy for Dr. John Warner and on the 9. Mar. 1553 he was admitted Bach. of Phys In 1561 he succeeded Hugh Hodgson in the Provostship of Qu. Coll. and was afterwards Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much respected by her Jul. 14. John Symings or Symmings In what Coll. or Hall educated I know not Sure I am that he was one of the Coll. of Physicians in London where he was in great practice and dying in his house in Little St. Barthelmew in Smithfield 7. July 1588 was buried in the Church
Oxford He was Son of John Vere Earl of the said place who dying in 1562 left this his Son Edw. a vast Estate which he afterwards squandred for the most part away upon some distaste taken against his Wives Father Will. Lord Burleigh L. Treasurer of England who refused to endeavour when it laid in his power to save the life of his beloved and entire Friend Thomas Duke of Norfolk for what he was charged with relating to Mary Queen of Scots This most noble Earl of Oxon was in his younger days an excellent Poet and Comedian as several matters of his Composition which were made publick did shew which I presume are now lost and worn out All that I have yet seen are certain Poems on several Subjects thus entit 1 His good name being blemished be bewayleth 2 The complaint of a Lover wearing black and tawnie 3 Being in love he complaineth 4 A lover rejected complaineth 5 Not attaining to his desire he complayneth 6 His mind not quietly setled be complayneth thus with many such like things that were highly valued in their time He gave way to fate in a good old age 24 June 1604 and was as I conceive buried by the body of his Father at Earls Colne in Essex Will. Haward or Howard Baron of Effingham Lord Chamberlain to the Queen He was Son of Thomas the second Duke of Norfolk by Agnes his second Wife dau of Hugh Tilney and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Lincolnshire Kt. Tho. Butler Earl of Ormond This person is one of the Ancestors of the present Duke of Ormond was now in great favour with Qu. Elizab. and by her employed several times in matters of concern relating to Ireland especially in that of quelling the Rebellion there made by some of his house as Sir Edm. Butler Pierce and Edw. his Brethren Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick He was the eldest Son that survived of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland beheaded for High Treason in the Reign of Qu. Mary and elder Brother to Rob. Dudley Earl of Leicester Chanc. of this University Hen. Lord Strange Son of Edw. Earl of Derby He became Earl of Derby after his Fathers Death an 1572. Edw. Stafford Joh. Sheffield Barons The first of these two Barons was the true heir of the Staffords Dukes of Buckingham and is Ancestor to John Howard the present Viscount Stafford The other Joh. Sheffield died in 1568. leaving then behind him a Son of about two years of age named Edmund who was created Earl of Mulgreve or Mulgrave by K. Ch. 1. in the first year of his Reign Sir Will. Cicill Secretary of State He was afterwards Lord Burleigh and Father to Tho. Earl of Exeter Rob. Earl of Salisbury and Edw. Vicount Wimbleton … Rogers Controller What his Christian Name was I cannot yet tell Sir Franc. Knollis Knight Captain of the Halbertiers Sir Nich. Throcinorton Knight a wise and stout man lately leiger Embassadour in France and about this time chief Butler of England and Chamberlaâ—ne of the Exchequer He died suddenly in Leycester House in the Parish of S. Clement without Temple barre London on Munday 12 Feb. 1570. Whereupon his body was carried to his house in the Parish of Chree Church near Algate where resting till the 21 day of the said month was then buried in the Parish Church there See more of him in Camdens Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1570. John Tomworth or Tamworth Esq of the Privy Council to the Queen The same who in 1564 had been sent to Mary Qu. of Scots to interceed with her for the readmission of some of her Lords that had been against her Marriage with Henry Lord Darnley This Jo. Tomworth had spent much of his youth in travelling beyond the Seas These Nobles and persons of Quality before mention'd were I say actually created Masters of Arts in a Convocation held Sept. 6. in the public Refectory of Ch. Church in the presence of Robert Earl of Leycester Chancellour of the University Dr. Kennall Commissary Dr. Laur. Humphrey both the Proctors c. the Queen being then about to leave Oxon. Sept… Thom. Randolphe Bach. of the Civ Law sometimes Principal of Broadgates Hall had leave tho absent to be created Doctor of his Faculty but whether he was created it appears not Oct. 11. By vertue of a Commission from the prime Members of the University then bearing date and sealed directed to Dr. Lawr. Humphrey the Queens Professor of Divinity were these five Bishops following made Doct. of Divinity Oct. 30. Joh. Parkhurst Will. Downham Tho. Bentham Rich. Davies Joh. Best Bishop of Norwych Chester Lich. and Cov. S. David Carlile All which were actually created Oct. 30. in the House of one Steph. Medcalf at London in the presence of Will. Standish publick Notary and Registrary of the University Thomas Roberts John Pratt Archdeacon of S. David Walt. Jones Archdeacon of Brecknock afterwards Canon of Westminster in the place of Dr. Mathew Hutton and Thom. Huet Chantor of S. David Oct… Edward Earl of Ruâ—land was actually created Master of Arts at London Feb… Will. Smyth one of the Clerks of the Queens Council was also created M. of A. at London An. Dom. 1567. An. 9 Eliz. An. 10 Eliz. Chanc. the same Commiss Tho. Cooper D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. elected 26 March Proct. Adam Squyre of Ball. Coll. Henr. Bust of Magd. Coll. elected 9 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 18. John Chardon of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Downe and Connor in Ireland Jun. 7. Rich. Stanyhurst of Vniv. Coll. Jul. 12. Thom. Williams See among the Writers under the year 1600. Oct. 10. John Case the Philosopher of S. John's Coll. Dec. 16. Edward Lord Russell of Vniv. Coll. eldest Son of Francis Earl of Bedford Adm. 46. Bach. of Law Dec. 9. Michael Maschiart of New Coll. Besides him were 9 admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Bishop or Writer Mast of Arts. Apr. 21. Tho. Allen or Alan George Blackwell of Trin. Coll. Thom. Ford was also admitted on the same day This person who was Fellow of Trin. Coll. and a Devonian born did soon after leave the University Country and Friends went to Doway and became a R. Cath. Priest and Bach. of Divinity Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England was taken and imprisoned and at length executed at Tybourne near London 28 May 1582. Jun. 4. Will. Raynolds of New Coll. 20. Jo. Field See among the Writers under the year 1587. Jul. 9. Franc. Bunney of Magd. Coll. He is mentioned at large among the Writers p. 355 but the Printer hath set his name Bunne for Bunney Oct. 17. Nich. Bond of the same Coll. This person I set down here not that he was a Writer but to distinguish him from Nich. Bownd whom I shall mention among the Incorporations an 1577. Thom. Coâ—e of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day In the latter end of the year in March 1588 he became Archdeacon of the
learned Gentleman a man of excellent wit and fluent eloquence It is observed that tho he was not respected by Qu. Elizabeth yet he wrot a learned Book entit An apology for the government of Women which is in MS in Bodley's Library given thereunto by Ralph Radcliff Town Clerk of Oxon 1621. He was afterwards for his great Learning and Prudence so much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. that he was by him advanced to great places and honours among which was the Earldom of Northampton and dying 15 June 1614 was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to Dover Castle he having been Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports In his life time he published a Book entit A defensative against the poison of supposed Prophecies Lond. 1583 afterwards revised and published in 1620. fol. In 1609 he succeeded John Lord Lumley in the High Stewardship of this University May…Elize Bomlie Doct. of Phys of Cambridge Jul. 13. Will. Livyng Bach. of Div. of the same University Leonard Cassembrotus or Cassenbrotius LL. D. of Orleans was incorporated the same day He was descended from Leon. Cassenbrotius a learned man of Bruges who lived in the time of Erasmus Roterd. Creations Apr. 19. Thom. Haward or Howard Duke of Norfolk Knight of the Order of the Garter and Earl Marshal of England was actually created Master of Arts in a certain Chamber where he lodged in the house of Thom. Furse commonly called the Beare Inn in Allsaints Parish He was beheaded on Tower hill 2 June 15 Eliz. for endeavouring to marry Mary Qu. of Scots without leave or license from Qu. Eliz. Aug. 2. Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter and Lord Deputy of Ireland was created Master of Arts in the place where he lodged in Ch. Ch. I think in the Deans Lodgings at which time he solemnly promised to observe the Privileges and Liberties of the University I have made large mention of him among the Writers p. 180. nu 232. An. Dom. 1569. An. 11 Elizab. An. 12 Elizab. Chanc. the same Commiss the same viz. Dr. Thom. Cooper now Dean of Glocester but upon what account whether by a new Election made by the Masters his Office was prorogued it appears not At this time the Chancellour took upon him to nominate the Commissary which now began to be called Vicechancellour meerly by the great power he took upon himself Proct. Thom. Bereblock of Ex. Coll. Thom. Bodley of Mert. Coll. Apr. 20. Bach. of Arts. Dec. 1. Henry Holland of S. John 's Coll. Jonas Meredith of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day He was a Bristow man born was afterwards a R. Cath. Priest and a Prisoner in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire for stifly defending the Jurisdiction of the Pope He was expelled S. John's Coll super statutum quod tueretur Reum so are the words in the Register belonging to that house and as 't is supposed did afterwards publish certain matters in defence of his Religion Jan… Hen. Cotton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Exeter Mar. 11. Joh. Rogers of Mert. Coll. Admit 92. Mast of Arts. Jul. 11. George Coryat of New 8. John Smith of S. Joh. Oct. 21. Tho. Doylie of Magd. Coll. Nov. 21. John Howlet of Exet. Coll. He left his Fellowship of the said house before he stood in the Act to compleat his Degree went beyond the Seas was made a Jesuit and had one or more Books put out under his name See among the Writers in Rob. Person under the year 1610. p. 306. Adm. 36. Bach. of Div. But two admitted Philip Biss being one whom I shall mention in 1580 and two that supplicated of whom Joh. Watkyns of All 's Coll. Son of Watkin Howell was one He was afterwards Dean of Hereford in the place as it seems of Joh. Ellis and died in the month of May 1594. Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 6. Arthur Bedell of Christ Church He was a very learned Civilian of his time Doct. of Physick Nov. 21. Thomas Jesopp of Mert. Coll. He died at Gillyngham in Dorsetshire about the beginning of 1616 having been before a Benefactor to his College Doct. of Div. Jul. 14. Will. Hughes mention'd in the Incorporations an 1568. was admitted or licensed to proceed in Divinity Jan. 16. Thom. Bickley Warden of Merton Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chichester An. Dom. 1570. An. 12 Elizab. An. 13 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Robert Earl of Leicester Commiss Dr. Cooper designed to that Office as the rest of his Successours were by Letters from the Chancellour dated May 5. He became Bish of Lincoln about the latter end of this year Proct. Arth. Atie of Mert. Coll. Tho. Glasier of Ch. Ch. Apr. 5. Bach. of Arts. May 30. Rob. Temple See among the Bach. of Div. under the year 1588. June 25. Thom. White of Magd. Hall Oct. 17. Thom. Worthington of Brasn 23. Tho. Sparke of Magd. Nov. 15. Rich. Turnbull of C. C. Dec. 9. Thom. Holland of Ball. Coll. 13. Simon Wisdome of Gloc. Hall Jan. 29. Job Field In the month of June Will. Camden supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Arts having spent four years in the University in Logicals but was not admitted See in the years 1573 and 1588. Adm. 119. Bach. of Civ Law Apr. 26. Will. Say of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Chancellour of Winchester Nov. 24. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll. Dec. 5. Randal Catherall After he had left the University he setled in an obscure Village called Oddington alias Addington near to Bister in Oxfordshire where by a natural Genie advanced with great Industry he became an eminent and expert Antiquary His voluminous Collections from divers Leiger books concerning Monasteries especially in these parts and of Genealogies and Heraldry were much used by Dr. Robert Sanderson afterwards Bish of Lincoln who did transcribe many things from them for his use which I have seen But where those Collections are now I cannot yet learn This Mr. Catherall who was descended from those of his name living at Horton in Cheshire was buried in a little Vault under the Chancel of the Parish Church of Oddington before mention'd 9 June 1625. Admitted 9. Mast of Arts. Apr. 8. Cuthbert Mayne of S. John's Coll. Soon after he left the Nation went to Doway in 1572 and was promoted there to the degree of Bach. of Divinity Afterwards he was sent into the mission of England and setled for a time in his native Country of Devonshire In 1577 he was taken and on the 29 of Nov. the same year he was hang'd drawn and quarter'd at Lanceston in Cornwal being then accounted by those of his Profession the first Martyr of the Seminaries You may read more of him in Cardinal Alans book called A sincere and modest defence c. or An answer to a libel of English justice c. p. 2. also in Camdens Annals of Qu. Eliz. under the year 1571. Henr. Shaw of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day He afterwards went beyond
a Northamptonshire Man born I here set down least some unwary reader hereafter might take him to be the same Barthelem Clerke who became Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an 1554 afterwards Proctor of that University Dean of the Arches and a wise and eloquent Man He hath written De Curialâ— sive Aulico printed at Lond. about 1571. in oct being about that time favoured by Thom. Sackvill Lord Buckhurst and another book intit Fidelis servi subdito infideli responsio una cum errorum calumniarum quarundam examine quae continentur in septimo libro de visibili Ecclesiae Monarchia à Nicholao Sandero conscripta Lond. 1573. qu. He was living in 1593. Admitted 112. Mast of Arts. May 18. Joh. Philippus de alto saxo Franc. Puccius Florentinus June…Tho Spark of Magd. Coll. Jul. 2. Ralph Sherwyn of Exeter Coll. 24. Tho. Banks He is the same I suppose who published A Sermon against bad Spirits of malignity malice and unmercifulness on Luke 6. 37. 38. Lond. 1586. oct I find another Tho. Banks who writes himself metaphorically Piscator sed vere Theologus mere Praeco Evangelicus who published Concio ad clerum jamdudum Cantabrigiae habita in Luc. cap. 5. ver 10. Lond. 1611. qu. Admitted 49. Bach. of Phys Mar. 31. Thom. Cogan of Oriel Coll. He was the only Bach. who was admitted besides whom only one occurs that supplicated namely Thom. Twyne of C. C. Coll. Bach. of Div. May 27. Lewis Sweit of All 's Coll. He was about this time Archdeacon of Totness in the place as I conceive of Oliver Whiddon Two more besides him were admitted and nine there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom some were not at all admitted in this University as John Wâ—olton a Student in Divinity afterwards Bishop of Exeter Tho. Cole and Tho. Brasbridge of Magd. Coll. and Nich. Marston of Ch. Ch. now Residentiary of Exeter Brother to Will. Marston of the same house LL. D. and Chantor of the said Church of Exeter who died in Nov. 1599. Doct. of Civ Law Jun. 28. Will. Jones Vicar General to the Bishop of Bathe and Wellâ— and double or treble beneficed in the Diocess thereof Felix Lewys sometimes of Hart Hall afterwards made Bach. of the LL. at Doway now Principal of New Inn was admitted the same day He afterwards lived in the City of Bristow and died beyond the Seas in 1591. ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 22. Will. James Master of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards a Bishop May 27. Tob. Mathew President of St. Johns Coll. Afterwards an Archbishop Geffry or Griffith Lewys now Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Tho. Wilson promoted to the Deanery of that Church was admitted the same day In 1577 he was installed Canon of the sixth stall in the Collegiat Ch. of St. Peter in Westminster in the place of one Walt. Jones M. A. who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Matthew Hutton after he was made Dean of York an 1568. In 1594 he became Dean of Glocester in the place of Anth. Rudd promoted to the See of St. David and dying in 1607 Tho. Morton succeeded him in that dignity being the same most worthy Person who was afterwards Bishop of Durham I have seen a Copy of the will of this Dr. Lewys made 5. Feb. 1606 and proved 16. July 1607 wherein he desires that his body might be buried either in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester Worcester Hereford or in Westminster in all which Churches he had Dignities July 23. John Sprint of Ch. Ch. originally of C. C. Coll. was then admitted He was now Prebendary of Winchester Residentiary of Salisbury and a Person famed for an excellent Preacher In Feb. 1577 he succeeded Giles Lawrence in the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire who I suppose resign'd in 1580 he succeeded George Carew in the Deanery of Bristow in which City or near it he was born being the Son of John Sprint an Apothecary of the said place and in the beginning of Feb. 1583 he was made Treasures of Salisbury He died in the latter end in Feb. of 1589 and was succeeded in the said Deanery by Dr. Anth. Watson the same who was afterwards Bishop of Chichester Incorporations May 17. Griffith Toy Bac. of Arts of Cambridge He was now a Member of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. and soon after made M. of Arts of this University and Prebendary of Norwych Jun… Hector Viellius Bach. of Arts of the Univ. of Caen in Normandy Feb. 6. George Savage Bach. of the Civ Law of the University of Lovaine in Brabant He was originally a member of Ch. Church and was now Archdeacon of Glocester in the place of Guy Eaton but was not I presume the same G. Savage who was half Brother to Dr. Bonner B. of London and Chancellour of Chester Thom. Willoughby Bach. of Div. of Cambridge was incorporated but the day or month when I cannot yet find This year June 23 he was installed the third Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Edm. Freke and was succeeded in that dignity by John Coldwell M. D. of St. John Coll. in Cambridge installed therein 7. Januar. 1585. He was afterwards the first married Bishop that sate in the Cath. Chair of Salisbury In Apr. this year one Rich. Wills a Mast of A. of Mentz in Bavaria supplicated for incorporation but was not admitted See among the writers under the year 1574. An. Dom. 1575. An. 17 Elizab. An. 18 Elizab. Chancellour the same Vicechanc. the same without any nomination or election Proct. John Vnderhill of New Coll. Hen. Savile of Mert. Coll. Apr. 13. Bach. of Arts. May 17. Julius Caesar of Magd. Hall He was Son of Caesar Dalmarius of the City of Trevignie in Italy Doctor of Physick and Physician to Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth Son of Pet. Maria Dalmarius of the said City Doctor of Laws but descended from those of his name living at Frejus or Cividad del Friuli in the confines of Italy See more in 1583. Jul. 5. Giles Tomson of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards of All 's Coll. and Bishop of Glocester Jan. 27. Rich. Lewes See among the Bach. of Div. in 1584. Feb. 19. Edw. Hobie of Trin. Coll. 29. Edw. Transham or Stransham of St. Johns Coll. This Person who was born in Magd. Parish in the Suburbs of Oxon left all he had and went to Doway in 1577. Where after he had spent some time in the study of Philosophy and Divinity in the English Coll. he was made a Priest Afterwards he went into the mission of England and for a time continued in Oxfordshire At length being taken imprison'd and condemned suffered death at London with one Nich. Woodfen another Priest 21. Januar. 1585 aged 30 or thereabouts Admitted 109. Bach. of Civ Law Jun. 30. Thom. Emerford or Hemerford He afterwards left the Church of England and went to the English Coll. at Rome where being made a Priest returned into his own Country but being
Anth. Watson in the Deanery of Bristow and dying in May or June 1617 was buried in St. Augustines Church there whereupon Dr. Edw. Chetwind was elected Dean in his place 16. of June the same year Thom. Atkinson Bach. of Div. of Cambr. was incorporated also the same day He was afterwards D. of D. Subdean of St. Pauls Cathedral and died in Apr. 1616. Besides him were 13 Bachelaurs of Div. of Cambr. incorporated of whom I know nothing as yet There was also a supplicate made in the house of Congregation that Thom. Legg Doctor of the Civ Law of Cambr. might be incorporated but whether he was really so I find not He was a Norwich Man born was first of Trinity and afterwards of Jesus College in Cambridge in both which houses he had the name and repute of one of the best in England for composing Tragedies witness his Destruction of Jerusalem and Life of King Rich. 3. which last was acted with great applause in that University He was afterwards made the second Master of Gonvill and Caius Coll. was a Doctor in the Court of Arches one of the Masters of the Chancery the Kings Law Professor and twice Vicechanc. of Cambridge He died in July 1607. aged 72 and was buried as I conceive in the Chap. belonging to the said Coll. to which he was a benefactor An. Dom. 1587. An. 29 Elizab. An. 30 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Francis Willys D. D. constituted by the Chancellour now in England July 17. on which day he was admitted D. of D. Proct. George Dale of Oriel Coll. John Harmar of New Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Musick Oct. 20. Rob. Stevenson who had studied the faculty of Musick 33 years was then admitted Bach. of Musick On the same day he was admitted Bach. of Arts but did not compleat that Degree by Determination in the Lent following which is all I know of him Bach. of Arts. May 31. Will. Westerman of Gloc. hall Jun. 27. Rich. Jefferay of Magd. Coll. See among the Masters 1590. 28. John Aglionby Rich. Crackanthorpe of Qu. Coll. Nov. 7. John Vicars of Magd. Coll. Quaere One of both his names of Broadgates hall was admitted M. of A. Jul. 1. this year Nov. 29. Tho. Hutton Hen. Price of St. Jo. Coll. On the eleventh of March Clement Edmonds of All 's Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree but was not admitted this year Admitted 117. Bach. of Law Jun. 15. Henry Marten of New Coll. He is to be mention'd at large among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work Two more were admitted to and three that supplicated for the said Degree Mast of Arts. June 22. Sam. Fox of Magd. Coll. See at the end of John Fox among the Writers under the year 1587. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day This memorable person who was the Son of Richard Son of Lewis Winwood sometimes Secretary to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk was born at Ainhoe in Northamptonshire elected probationer Fellow of Magd. Coll. an 1582 and in 1590 took the degree of Bach. of Civ Law See more in that year Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day June 28. Charles Butler of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards publickly known by a book of Rhetorick that he published and other things Adm. 69. Bach. of Div. July 6. Rich. Potter of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Prebendary of Worcester and Father of an ingenious Son named Francis Author of the Interpretation of 666 c. whom I shall remember among the Writers under the year 1678. Will. Watkinson of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day 17. Francis Willys of S. Johns Coll. See among the Doct. of Div. this year Adm. 7. Doct. of Law June 17. Will. Wood of All 's Coll. This eminent Civilian died in the beginning of the year 1605 and was buried in the Chappel of Tallin in the Isle of Anglesey in which Isle he was born leaving Issue behind him William and Owen Wood. c. Feb. 13. Francis James of All 's Coll. He was yonger Brother to Dr. Will. James Bishop of Durham was Chancellour of the Diocess of Wells and Bristol and afterwards of London one of the Masters of the Chancery and Judge of the Court of Audience of Canterbury He died in the beginning of 1616 and was buried I presume according to his Will in the Parish Church of Barrow in Somersetshire in the upper end of that Isle which was formerly the Church or Oratory for the Nunns sometimes living at that place and is now belonging and appertaining to the Lord of the Mannour of Minchin-Barrow Will. Bird of All 's Coll. was admitted or licensed the same day This person who was Son of Will. Bird of Walden in Essex was afterwards principal Official and Dean of the Arches a Knight and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in the place as I conceive of Sir John Bennet Knight He died without issue and was buried in Ch. Ch. within Newgate in London 5 Sept. 1624 leaving behind him a Nephew of both his names whom I shall mention in 1622. ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. July 17. Francis Willys Canon of Bristow of which City he was a Native and President of S. Johns Coll. On the eleventh of June this year he was installed Dean of Worcester having that Dignity confer'd upon him in the year before on the death of Dr. Tho. Wilson and dying 29 Oct. 1596 was buried in a little Isle joyning to the south side of the Choire of the Cath. Church at Worcester near to the grave and monument of Dr. Wilson before-mentioned In his Presidentship which he resign'd in 1590 succeeded Ralph Huchenson and in his Deanery Dr. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. as I have elsewhere told you An. Dom. 1588. An. 30 Eliz. An. 31 Eliz. Chanc. Robert Earl of Leycester who dying 4 Sept. Sir Christop Hatton Knight of the Garter and Lord Chancellour of England was by the major part of the Academians elected into his place on the twentieth day of the same month In the vacancy between Death and Election there was no Cancellarius natus as formerly only the Vicechanc. this year mention'd who before had been nominated by the Earl of Leycester It is to be noted that at the Election of Hatton Robert Earl of Essex a popular and ambitious person was his Competitor having been incorporated M. of A. in April going before as I shall anon tell you thinking that if he might have obtained the said place of Chancellour he might be as powerful among the Gown-men as among the Gentlemen of the Sword But he being generally looked upon as a great Patron of the puritannical Party and consequently if he had obtained it he might do as much mischief in his Office as the Earl of Leycester had done before he was therefore especially upon the commendations to the University of Hatton by Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury laid aside Vicechanc. Martin
large and learned Pref. of about 16 leaves in oct written by the said Josselin and reprinted by L'isle 2 The words of Aeilfric Abbot of St. Albons and also of Maâ—â—sbury taken out of his Epistle written to Wulfine Bishop of Sâ—yrburne c. 3 The Lords Prayer the â—reed and ten Commandments in the Saxon and English tongue This W. L'isle died in 1637 and was buried as I presume at Wilburgham beforemention'd Creations Jul. 17. Matthew Gwinne M. A. of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon who had studied Physick ten years was then actually created Doct. of Physick by virtue of two Letters of the Chancellour of the University for that purpose Sept. 24. The most illustrious heroe Pre-Johannes de la Fri Eques Charnotensis so he is written in the publick Reg. Embassadour from the King of France to the Queens Majesty of England Nichol. Ruffus Dominus St. Aubin Ludovic Baro D'Orbee created the same day Which three Nobles were actually created Masters of Arts and were with great civility treated by the Heads of the University An. Dom. 1594. An. 36 Elizab. An. 37 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. Lillye to continue in the said office till the Chancellour otherwise please Proct. Hen. Foster of Brasn Coll. Hen. Cuffe of Mert. Coll. Apr. 10. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 5. Tobias Matthew of Ch. Ch. He was Son of Tob. Matthew who was afterwards Archb. of York and after he had taken the Degree of M. A. he became a Jesuit and at length a Knight as I shall tell you at large in the 2d vol. 22. Will. Burton of Brasn Coll. He is to be remembred also in the 2. vol. Jul. 1. Will. Laud of St. Johns Coll. He was afterwards Archib of Canterbury Dec. 11. Edm. Deane of Merton Jan. 27. Tho. Thomson of Qu. Feb. 22. Hayward Townshend of St. Maries hall Coll. Thom Ireland of Linc. Coll. was admitted the same day See among the Doct. of Div. an 1611. 28. Alexander Spicer of Exeter Mar. 1. Will. Vaughan of Jes Coll. 7. Thom. Cheast of Oriel Coll. See among the Masters an 1598. Adm. 195. Bach. of Law Jul. 1. James Whitlock of St. Johns Coll. Jul. 12. Franc. Clerke or Clarke Besides these two were 4 more admitted and two that supplicated who were not admitted this year Mast of Arts. Apr. 16. Tho. Fryth of All 's Coll. May 13. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Qu. Coll. 3. Walt Wylshman of Broadgates lately of Exeter Coll. Dec. 12. Rob. Burhill Joh. Barcham of C. C. Coll. Jan. 15. Rob. Moor of New Coll. Adm. 7â— Bach. of Div. May 16. George Carleton of Mert. Jun. 27. Joh. Williams of All 's Jul. 2. Rich. Latewarr of St. Joh. Coll. 4. Will. Tooker of New Dec. 16. Hen. Ayray of Qu. Coll. Adm. â—1 Doct. of Law Jul. 9. Christopher Helme of Merton Coll. In 1618 he became Chancellour of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Barnabas Goch or Gough Doct. of Law being about that time Rector of Bredon in the said Diocess in which office he was succeeded by Jam. Littleton Bach. of Law an 1628. The said Goch or Gough did succeed Tho. Wood LL. D. an 1610. and Wood Rich. Cosin the eminent Civilian an 1598. but whom Cosin succeeded in 1578 or thereabouts I cannot tell Dec. 10. Rob. Masters of All 's Coll. He was about this time Principal of St. Albans hall and afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Rochester and of the Dioc. of Lichfield and Coventry He died 10. Jul. 1625. aged 63 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Lichfield Jan. 25. Edward Spurroway of All 's Coll. On the sixth of July Ralph Winwood M. of A. and Bach. of the Civ Law of Magd. Coll. supplicated to be admitted Doct. of the faculty but whether admitted it appears not Doct. of Phys Jul. 1. Barthelmew Warner of St. Johns Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of Physick and superior reader of Lynacre's Lecture He was buried in the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of Oxford 26. January 1618 as I have else where told you Doct. of Div. Jun. 25. Rich. Lewys of Exeter Coll. July 4. Francis Cox Will. Tooker of New Coll. Henry Ball of New Coll. also was admitted the same day being about this time Archdeacon of Chichester 〈◊〉 He died in the beginning of the year 1603. Jul. 4. Miles Smith of Brasn Coll. The same who was afterwards Bishop of Glocester Incorporations Jul. 9. Hen. Nevill M. A. of Cambridge Son and Heir of Edward Nevill Lord Abergavenny Rich. Milbourne M. of A. of Qu. Coll. in the same University was incorporated the same day On the eleventh of Decemb. 1611 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Blague deceased and in July 1615 he being promoted to the See of St. David Rob. Scot D. D. was installed Dean 13. of the same month of whom by the way I desire the reader to know that he was born at Banston in Essex was originally a Fellow of Trin. Coll. in the said University and afterwards Master of Clare hall and esteemed by those that knew him a learned Man He died in Winter time in December I think an 1620. and was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Godf. Goodman Jul. 9. Joh Racster M. A. of Cambridge He was Author of a certain book entit The seven planets or wandring motives of Will Alabasters wit retrograded and removed Lond. 1598. qu. and perhaps of other things Joh. Hull M. of A. of Cambr. was incorp the same day He was of Gonvill and Caius Coll. in that University was afterwards Bach. of Div. and a Preacher of Gods word at Cork in Ireland He hath written and published 1 St. Peters Prephecy of these last days printed 1610. qu. 2 Christs proclamation to Salvation Lond. 1613. oct 3 Exposition on a part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah c. Lond. 1618. qu. c. Jul. 9. Richard Kilby M. A. of the said University The number of Cambridge Masters who were incorporated on that day comes to 30. Creations On the ninth of July being the day after the Act had been finished these following Persons were actually created Mast of Arts. Sir Joh. Hungerford Knight Anthony Hungerford Esquire Rich. Baker Esq He was afterwards a Knight and Author of that Chronicle that goes under his name Joh. Aske Will. Monson Esquire A proposal was made in the ven house of Convocation this year that the Degree of M. of A. should be bestowed on the honorable Sir Will. Russel Knight the design'd Lord Deputy of Ireland but whether it was accordingly confer'd upon him it appears not because it standeth not in the register He was the fourth Son of Francis Earl of Bedford and was with his brethren brought up in Magd. Coll. Oxon at the feet of Dr. Lawr. Humphrey Afterwards he travelled through France Germany Italy Hungary and other Countries and upon his return he spent not his time idely in the Court but
was incorporated the same day Creations Oct. 1. Alex. Nowell Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral and Principal of Brasn Coll. was actually created Doctor of Div. in the house of Convocation An. Dom. 1596. An. 38 Elizab. An. 39 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Tho. Ravis D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 17. Proct. Abel Gower of Oriel Coll. Rowl Searchfeild of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. May. 8. Josias White of New Coll. 24. Fran. Gorge of Ch. Ch. He was the eldest Son of the Marchioness of Northampton named Helen the Widow of Will. Parr Marq. of Northamption who had married Sir Tho. Gorge of Wilts Kinght Jun. 16. Joh. Bancroft of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. July 8. Rich. Carpenter Sim. Baskervile of Ex. Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Physick an 1611. 14. Joh. Hanmer of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph Dec. 2. Robert Bolton of Brasn Coll. Jan. 29. Henry Tilson of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Elphine in Ireland Jan. 31. Franc. Rous Charles Fitz-Geffry Feb. 3. Degory Whear of Broadgates Hall 23. George Calvert of Trin. Coll. H. Tilson will be at large remembred among the Bishops and Rouse and Whear among the Writers in the second Vol. Admit 133. Doct. of Musick Jul. 10. Robert Stevenson Bach. of Musick was licensed to proceed in the said Faculty but whether he did proceed or stood in the Act this or the next year it appears not See more in 1587. Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. Thom. Morrice of S. Maries Hall an Esquires Son and a Berkshire man born of an antient Family was then admitted M. of A. but whether ever he took the degree of Bach. of that Faculty it appears not I find one Tho. Morrice M. of A. to be Author of An apology for Schoolmasters c. Lond. 1619. oct who I presume is the same who had put out Digesta scholastica in gratiam puerorum edita c. Oxon. 1617. oct with the two letters of T. M. only and the Arms of the University of Oxon put in the Title Page Whether Tho. Morrice M. of A. be the same with T. M. of Oxon and both the same with Thom. Marrice of S. Maries Hall before mention'd I must leave it to the Reader to judge March 5. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. Adm. 53. Bach. of Physick Tho none were this year admitted Bachelaurs of Physick yet several were admitted to practise it among whom was a certain Millaneese called Scipio Balsam of Magd. Coll. one Dec. 17. and Joh. More sometimes of Vniv. Coll. another Bach. of Div. Mar 26. Alex. Cooke of Vniv. June 23. Rob. Tighe of Magd. Coll. The last was lately incorporated M. of A. See in the Incorporations following Jul. 7. Rich Kilbye of Line Dec. 4. Joh. Spot of S. Joh. Coll. The last of which was about this time Canon of Exeter Adm. 18. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Mar. 31. Edm. Watts of Brasn Joh. Bourne of Trinity Arth. Aubrey of S. Joh. Coll. The said Joh. Bourne was now Treasurer of the Cath. Church of Wells which Dignity he resigning Rob. Wright D. D. of Trin. Coll. was admitted thereunto 21 Dec. 1601. July 7. Rich. Kilbye of Linc. Coll. who accumulated Joh. Dove of Ch. Ch. 9. Joh. Perin of S. Joh. Coll. Greek Professor of the University He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Church Nov. 22. Rob. Abbot of Ball. Coll. Dec. 7. Rich. Field of Qu. Coll. sometimes of Magd. Hall Feb. 5. Rich Latewar Joh. Buckridge of S. Joh. Coll. Mar. 11. Joh. Harding of Magd. Coll. Hebrew Professor of the University He was afterwards President of that Coll. Incorporations Apr. 9. Francis Covert LL. D. of Leyden He died at Chalden in Surrey 1609. June 21. Rob. Tighe M. A. of Cambr. an excellent Linguist Jul. 1. Rich. Thomson M. A. of the same University This learned person who was a Dutch man born of English Parents and educated in Clare Hall is stiled by a noted Presbyterian The grand propagator of Arminianism and by another A deboist drunken English Dutchman who seldome went one night to bed sober Yet a noted writer who knew him well tells us that he was a most admirable Philologer that he was better known in Italy France and Germany than at home He hath written 1 Elenchus refutationis Torturae Torti pro reverendiss Episcopo Eliense adversus Matinum Becanum Lond. 1611. 2 Diatriba de amissione intercessione gratiae justificationis Lugd. Bat. 1618 and 18. oct and other things One of both his names was as a M. of A. of Cambr. incorporated in this University 1593 which I take to be the same with this Jul. 9. Joh. Sherwood Doct. of Phys of the University of Rheims He was about this time an eminent practitioner of his Faculty in the City of Bathe being much resorted to by those of the Rom. Cath. Religion he himself being of that profession He died in Feb. 1620 and was buried in the Church of S. Pet. and Paul in that City Thom. Playfere D. of D. of Cambridge was incorporated the same day He was a Kentish man born educated in S. Joh. Coll. in Cambr. of which he was Fellow and succeeded Pet. Baro in the Margaret Professorship of that University about 1596 at which time he was esteemed a person of great Eloquence and fluency in the Latin Tongue The titles of several of his Works which were collected into one Volume you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue He died in the latter end of the year in Jan. or Feb. 1608. and was buried in S. Botolph's Church in Cambridge Creations Apr. 2. Georg. à Missinbuck Embassador to the Queen of England from the Lantgrave of Hassia was actually created Master of Arts in the Convocation house and at the same time was with great civility treated by the chief Heads of the University An. Dom. 1597. An. 39 Eliz. An. 40 Eliz. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Tho. Ravis again July 14. Proct. Joh. Purkhurst of Magd. Coll. Rich. Trafford of Mert. Coll. Apr. 6. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 12. Joh. White of New Coll. He was afterwards known by the name of the Patriarch of Dorchester 37. Aegeon Askew of Qu. May 9. Rob. Vilvaine of Exet. Coll. 12. Rog. Mathew of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters an 1600. 27. Rob. Barnes of Magd. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1610. Jun. 4. Edmund Coffin of Exeter Coll. He was an excellent Greecian and afterwards Schoolmaster of Saltash in Cornwal for 40 years in which time he sent many Scholars to both the Universities especially this of Oxon. One Edw. Coffin a Devonian and a learned man was entered into the Society of Jesus in England an 1598 and educated as I have been informed in the English Coll. at Rome Jul. 15. Isaac Wake the noted Orator Oct. 20. Theophilus Higgons of Ch. Ch. Nov. 5. Will. Loe
Or. 31. Joh. Prideaux of Exeter Coll. The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Worcester Feb. 2. Joh. Meredyth of St. Maries hall lately of Oriel Coll. He was the eldest Son of an Esquire of Sussex but whether the same with Joh. Meredyth who was afterwards Doct. of Phys of another University and at length Subdean of Chichester an 1622. which he resigned 10. Oct. 1627 and retired to his cure of Bedhampton in Hampshire where heart-broken and purse-broken he soon after died I know not Sure it is that John Meredyth who was Subdean of Chichester wrot and published 1 The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost on Heb. 10. 16. Lond. 1622. qu. 2 The judge of heresies one God one Faith one Church out of which there is no salvation Lond. 1624. qu. As for Potter Duck Hakewill Twyne Parsons and Prideaux their lives and characters are to come into the second vol. of this work Admitted 111. Bach. of Law Jul. 2. George Russell of St. Johns Coll. This Person who was a Londoner born was afterwards Bursar of the said house but retaining in his hands the College money which he received as Bursar without paying it to the Persons who supplied it with necessaries slip'd away incognito went beyond the Seas changed his Religion and became Pensioner to the Archduke of Austria and a Man of note in his Dominions Philipp Cromwell of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day He was the fifth Son of Sir Hen Cromwell of Hâ—nchingbroâ—k in Huntingdonshire Uncle to Oliver Cromwell sometimes Lord Protector of England This Philip Cromwell who was a Knight was Father by Mary his Wife Dau. of Sir Hen. Townsend Knight to Thomas Cromwell a Major of a Regiment of Horse under K. Ch. 1. in the time of the grand rebellion and to Oliver Cromwell a Colonel under his Kinsman Oliver Cromwell beforemention'd when he went as General into Ireland to quell the Royal Party an 1649 in which year he died and to Philip Cromwell a Commander in the Parliament Army slain at Bristow Adm. 7. Mast of Arts. May 21. Joh. Bancroft Joh. Sprint of Ch. Ch. Joh. Rawlinson of St. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day Jul. 5. George Andrew of Magd. hall He was afterwards a Bishop in Ireland as I have before told you Jan. 17. Josias White of New Coll. Adm. 73. Bach. of Div. June 14. Edm. Griffith of Brasn Coll. Jul. 5. Rich. Eaton of Linc. Coll. He was about this time Pastor of Great Budworth in Cheshire in which County he was born and hath published A Sermon at the funeral of Tho. Dutton of Dutton Esque who yeilded to nature 28. Dec. 1615 on Psal 90. ver 12. Lond. 1616. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Adm. 5. Doct. of Law Jun. 23. Barthelm Jesop of Magd. Coll. This Person who was fourth Son of Walt. Jesop of Chilcombe in Dorsetsh Gent. was a learned Civilian and about this time Chancellour to the Bishop of Sarum He lived and died a single Man 21. July 1620 and was buried in Christ Church near Newgate in London 27. Zachar. Babington of Mert. Coll. who accumulated He was about this time Chancellour to the Bishop of Lich. and Coventry and died 1614 or thereabouts Jul. 6. Edmund Pope of Alâ—souls Coll. He was about this time Chancellour to the Bishop of Rochester and afterwards Surrogate to the Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury He died in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate London an 1630. James Baylic of All 's Coll. also admitted the same day being about this time Chancellour to the Bish of Hereford ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 2. George Ryves of New Coll. Prebendary of Winchester In Dec. following he was elected Warden of the said Coll. and dying on the last of May 1613 was buried as I conceive in the Chappel belonging thereunto 6. Giles Robinson of Queens Coll. Incorporations July 5. â—eonard Maw M. A. of Cambridge He was Fellow of Peter house and afterwards Master thereof Master of Trin. College Prebendary of Wells Doct. of Div. Chaplain to Pr. Charles on whom he waited when he was in Spain to Court the Infanta and at length Bish of B. and Wells upon the translation of Dr. Laud to London but enjoying that office for a little while died at Chiswick in Middlesex 2. Sept. 1629 whereupon his body was buried there on the 16 day of the same month He was the Son of Sim. Maw of Wrendlesham in Suffolk Gent. by Margery his Wife Dau. and Coheir of Thom. Wyld of Yorkshire and Alice his Wife Dau. and Heir of Joh. Jaye of Suffolk Robert Tounson M. of A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day He was about this time Fellow of Queens Coll. there was afterwards Doctor of Divinity Dean of Westminster in the place of Dr. George Mountaigne promoted to the See of Lincolne an 1617 and at length Bishop of Salisbury to which See he was consecrated at Lambeth by the Archbishop and his Assistants Lincolne Rochester and Chester on the 9 of July 1620. He died in a mean condition on the 15 of May 1621 and was buried on the South side of the long isle over against St. Edmunds Chappel in St. Peters Church within the City of Westminster leaving then behind him a Widow named Margaret and fifteen Children After him succeeded in the See of Salisbury Dr. John Davenant the Head or Master of Queens Coll. in and Margaret Professor of the University of Cambridge who was consecrated on the 18. of Nov. 1621 having received a command from the King that he should not take to him a Wife He departed this mortal life on the 20 of Apr. 1641 and was buried in the South isle joyning to the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury Hen. Butts M. of A. and Fellow of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Cambridge was incorporated also on the same day Jul. 5. and afterwards succeeded Dr. Sam. Walsall in the Headship of that House He hath written Diets dry dinner consisting of eight several courses 1 Fruits c. Lond. 1599. oct See more of this Hen. Butts in Dan. Price among the Writers an 1631. Jul. 10. Peter Turner Doct. of Phys of Heidleberg 28 years before this time afterwards incorporated at Cambridge where he had his first education was incorporated in this University as he had stood at Heidleberg and Cambridge He was the Son of Dr. Will. Turner sometimes Dean of Wells whom I have mention'd among the Writers under the year 1568 and dying on the 27 of May 1614 aged 72 years was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Olaves in Hartstreet London leaving then behind him several Sons of whom Samuel was one and Peter another as I shall tell you elsewhere One Mistress Anne Turner the Widow of a Doctor of Physick had an especial hand in the poysoning of Sir Tho. Overbury for which she was executed at Tybourne an 1615. whether she was the second Wife
very uncouth Language to a Princes ears the particulars of which you may see elsewhere For the Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. 1640 he was elected again for the same place but being soon after fully satisfied what desperate courses the Members thereof took he left them and retiring to his Majesty at Oxon sate in the Parliament there 1643 and so consequently was a shater of Sufferings then incident to Royalists I have seen divers of his Speeches in MS. but whether made publick I cannot tell He died in 1647 or thereabouts leaving then behind a natural Son of both his names and the character of a man of very loose principles Adm. 65. Bach. of Div. Jul. 6. Will. Laud of S. Johns Coll. Jan. 18. John Burbadge of Linc. Coll. a rich Dignitary in the Church He was nearly related to Rich. Burbadge of the Parish of S. Leonard in Shoreditch near London which Richard who is stiled by the learned Camden to have been alter Roscius died 9 March 1618. Feb. 22. Robert Wakeman of Balliol Coll. On the second day of March this year Gabriel Powell Bach. of Arts of S. Maries Hall who had studied Divinity nine years supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Div. but whether his desire was granted it appears not I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1607. Adm. 12. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law Phys or Divinity was admitted this year Incorporations July 10. Rob. Hill Bach. of Div. of Christs Coll. in Cambr. He was about this time Parson of S. Barthelmew near to the Exchange in London was afterwards D. of D. and always esteemed a learned man and a good and painful Preacher He hath written 1 Life everlasting or the true knowledge of one Jehovah Cambr. 1601. oct 2 The path way to prayer and piety c. Lond. 1613. oct 3 A Communicant instructed c. printed 1617. oct with an Exposition on the Lords Prayer and other things which I have not yet seen See more among the Incorporations an 1598. This Dr. Hill died in 1623 and was buried near to the Body of his Wife in the Chancel of the Church of S. Barthelmew before mention'd One Rob. Hill was Parson of Tredington in the Dioc. of Worcester an 1604 but him I take to be different from the former I find only five Masters of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated this year and two Bach. of Div. of whom Rob. Hill the Writer before mention'd was one Daniel Plancius a Belgian born was this year a Sojourner in the Univ. for the sake of the publ Library and did soon after publish several Books which shew'd him a learned man one of which was answer'd and animadverted upon by Heribert Ross-weidus and Rob. Swertius Joh. Drusius also was a Sojourner not in a private House but in Gloc. Hall who being admirably well skill'd in the Hebrew Chalday and Syriack Tongue was recommended to the chief Heads of the University to read those Tongues either privately or publickly He soon after removed to Ch. Ch. and as a Member thereof took a degree in Arts as I shall tell you in the year following An. Dom. 1605. An. 3 Jac. 1. Chanc. Thom. Earl of Dorset Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again July 16. Proct. Rich. Fitzherbert of New Coll. Joh. Hanmer of All 's Coll. April 11. Bach. of Arts. June 11. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. Many year after his death were published by Dr. Sim. Patrick Dean of Peterborough his Works entit Reliquiae Raleighanae 20. Hen. Jackâ—on of C. C. Coll. 27. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. Pet. Turner Oct. 21. Hen. Rogers of Jes Coll. 23. Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch. Dec. 17. Joh. Andrews of Trin. Coll. Feb. 26. Franc. Stewart of Ch. Ch. Son of the Earl of Murray and of kin to his Maj. James 1. See more in the year 1616 among the Creations Joh. Drusius of Ch. Ch. Son of the learned Critick Joh. Drusius was admitted the same day 28. Sampson Price of Hart Hall lately of Exet. Coll. Of Raleigh Jackson Fell Turner Rogers and Ley will be large mention made in the second Vol. Adm. 190. Mast of Arts. Apr. 17. Daniel Fairclough commonly called Featley of C. C. Coll. 24. Benj. Culme of Linc. Coll. lately of S. Albans Hall He was the Son of Hugh Culme of Molland in Devonshire and going afterwards into Ireland became at length D. of D. and Dean of S. Patricks Church near Dublin where he was accounted a learned man and an excellent Preacher and Theologist But he being forced thence by the Rebellion that broke out in 1641 went into England lived several years in a retired condition at Mudghill near to Lidiard St. Johns in Wiltshire where dying in October an 1657 aged 76 was buried in the Church-yard of Lidiard before mention'd Over his Grave was soon after an Altar-tomb erected with a large Inscription thereon wherein 't is said he died 21 Octob. May 16. Joh. Bery or Bury of Balliol lately of Corp. Christ Coll. Jun. 16. James Rowlandson Lancelot Dawes of Qu. Coll. 9. Thom. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. This Gentleman who was a Londoner born was second Son of Will. Aylesbury by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Poole Esquire and from Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. 1598. After he had left the University he became Secretary to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and to George Duke of Bucks his Successor in that great Office By the endeavours of which last he was made one of the Masters of the Requests and Master of the Mint being about that time a Baronet which places he keeping till the grand Rebellion broke out in 1642 he adher'd to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and in 1649 when all things were in a Confusion as to the Royal Party he retired with his Family to Antwerp in Brabant where continuing till 1652 he removed to Breda and dying in 1657 aged 81 was buried in the great Chnrch there leaving behind him a Son named William of whom I shall speak elsewhere and a Daughter named Frances the Wife of Edw. Hyde of Pirtâ—n in Wilts since made Earl of Clarendon These things I mention because the said Sir Tho. Aylesbury was a learned man and as great a Lover and Encourager of Learning and learned men especially of Mathematicians he being one himself as any man in his time June 9. Rich. Corbet Rob. Burton Hen. Byam of Ch. Ch. 12. Joh. Warner of Magd. 23. George Webb of C. C. Jul. 3. Sam. Browne of All 's Coll. Dec. 16. Edw. Abbot of Vniversity Coll. In the year 1616 Jan. 13. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of Wells in the place of Rich. Boughton sometimes of Magd. Coll. in this University and dying in 1634 Sebastian Smith M. A. of Ch. Ch. was admitted to that dignity on the 9 of March the same year Will. Boswell of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day This person who was afterwards Chaplain to John
was then actually created Master of Arts. An. Dom. 1608. An. 6 Jac. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Thomas Earl of Dorset but he dying the 19 Apr. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterbury succeeded in the Chancellourship on the 22 of the same month He was born at Farnworth in Lancashire in Sept. 1544 Son of Joh. Bancroft Gent. by Mary his Wife Daughter of Joh. Curwyn Brother to Dr. Hugh Curwyn Archb. of Dublin and after he had been severely trained up in Grammatical Learning he was first placed in Christs and soon after removed to Jesus Coll. in Cambridge Afterwards by the endeavours of his said Uncle Dr. Curwyn he became when young Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Dublin but the Uncle removing and dying soon after he was made Chaplain to Dr. Cox Bishop of Ely who gave him the Rectory of Teversham in the Country of Cambridge Being thus put into the road of preferment he was admitted Bach. of Div. 1580 and five years after Doctor About which time he put himself into the Service of Sir Christoph Hatton Lord Chancellour of England by whose recommendations he was made Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Mr. Joh. Wickham an 1592 from whence he had the easier passage to S. Pauls in London of which Cathedral he was Treasurer Vicechanc. Dr. King again Jul. 17. Proct. Edw. Vnderhyll of Magd. Coll. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch. Apr. 6. Bach. of Musick Dec. 13. Will. Stonard Organist of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. He hath composed certain Divine Services and Anthems the words of one or more of which are published in the Collection of Divine Services and Anthems put out by Jam. Clifford an 1663. We have also some of his Compositions in our publick Musick School at Oxon sent by Walter Porter to his Kinsman Joh. Wilson Doct. of Musick and the publick Professor of the praxis of that Faculty in Oxon to be reposed and kept for ever in the Archives of the said School In the Organists place of Ch. Ch. succeeded Edward Low of Salisbury about 1630 who was afterwards publick Professor of the musical praxis in this University and Author of Short directions for the performance of Cathedral Service printed at Oxon in oct an 1661. The second Edition of which came out at the same place in 1664 with a review and many useful Additions relating to the Common Prayer by the same hand This Mr. Low who was judicious in his profession but not graduated therein died on the 11 of July 1682. whereupon his Body was buried at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. near to the Body of Alice his sometimes Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Peyton the younger of Dodington in the Isle of Ely Kt. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 13. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. 16. Charles Croke of Ch. Ch. See among the Doct. of Div. an 1625. 20. Will. Lewis of Hart Hall afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. See among the Creations 1627. 31. Rich. Gove of Magd. Hall June 2. Gilb. Ironside of Tâ—in Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bristow James Martin of Broadgates was admitted the same day See among the Masters 1611. 6. Joh. Wall of Ch. Ch. Jul. 7. Edward Bagshaw of Brasn Coll. 9. Joh. Barlow of Hart Hall Oct. 14. Isaac Colf of Ch. Ch. Nov. 19. Gilb Stâ—akes of Hart Hall See among the Bach. of Div. 1646. Jan. 25. Sam. Smith Will. Greenhill Accepted Frewen of Magd. Coll. The last of which three was afterwards Archb. of York Feb. 16. Hen. Lord Clifford Baron of Skypton eldest Son of the Earl of Cumberland was then admitted Bach. of Arts as a Member of Ch. Ch. After this man's time studied in the same house Henâ—y Clifford Son of Francis Earl of Cumberland who by the various Copies of Verses that he wrot but whether published I know not obtained the character of the best of Poets among the Nobility He was afterwards Earl of Cumberland and dying on the 11 of Decemb. 1643 was buried by his Ancestors in a Vault under the Church of Skâ—pton in Craven in Yorkshire Feb. 16. Nich. Guy of Hart Hall See among the Masters an 1611. 1â— Rich. Eedes of Brasn Coll. One of both his names who was a Warwickshire man born and afterwards the Presbyterian Curat of the rich Church at Cleve in Glocestershire hath written Christ exalted and Wisdom justified or the Saints esteem of Jesus Christ as most precious handled c. Lond. 1659. oct besides one or more Sermons which he before had published Whether the same with him of Brasnose Quaere 17. Joh. Ball of S. Maries Hall lately of Brasn Coll. 20. Thom. Howell of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bristow 23. Will. Slatyer of Brasn Coll. As for Harrys Gove Ironside Wall Bagshaw Greenhil Frewen Howell and Slayer before mentioned will be large mention made of them in the second Volume of this Work or elsewhere Adm. 213 or thereabouts Mast of Arts May 1â— Henr. Whistler of Trin. Coll. May 30. Sam. Fell Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch. Henr. Rogers of Jes June 2. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. 6. Sampson Price of Hart Hall afterwards of Exeter Coll. July 7. Gabriel Richardson of Brasn Mar. 18. Hen. Jackson of C. C. Coll. Admitted 98 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. June 1. Lionell Day Fellow of Balliol sometimes of Oriel Coll. was then admitted He was younger Brother to John Day mentioned among the Writers under the year 1627 was Rector of Whichford near to Brailes in Warwickshire and Author of Concio ad Clerum habita Oxonii die Martis post Comitia an dom 1609. in Luc. 22. 31. Oxon. 1632. qu. besides other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He died in 1640 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Whichford before mention'd June 30. Joh. Davies of Lincoln sometimes a Student in Jesus College Jul. 7. Thom. Peacock of Brasn Coll. He was a Cheshire man born and Tutor to the famous Rob. Bolton the Author of whose Life doth much celebrate the said Peacock for his learning and great sanctity of life and conversation He was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon 7 Dec. 1611. 13. Joh. Sandsbury of S. Johns Coll. Besides these four were 24 more admitted among whom Nich. Simpson of C. C. Coll. was one and Rich. Colfe of Ch. Ch. another both Accumulators Doct. of Law Apr. 16. James Cook of New Coll. He was the only Doctor admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 1. Rich. Andrews of S. Joh. Coll. He had improv'd himself much in his Faculty in his Travels beyond the Seas which afterwards made him highly esteemed among learned men and others Will. Turner of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day He was a Londoner born and was Master of Arts of Cambridge in which degree being incorporated with us an 1602 entred himself into Balliol Coll. having before spent some years in foreign Academies in the study of Phys and as a
Member of that Coll. he was admitted to practice his Faculty 13 July 1604. After he had been admitted Doctor he retired to London became one of the Coll. of Physitians and eminent for his practice One Will. Turner Doct. of Phys wrot a Pamphlet entit Ad nobilem Britannum or an abstract of Englands Royal Peers When written I cannot tell sure I am 't was printed at London in 1641. qu. Whether this Will. Turner be the same with the former of Ball. Coll. I cannot justly say nor whether he was one of the Sons of Dr. Pet. Turner mention'd among the Incorporations an 1599. yet that he was descended from William Father of the said Dr. Peter Turner 't is not to be doubted Doct. of Div. May 12. Sebast Benefield of C. C. June 1. Joh. Lea of S. Johns Coll. The last of these two who was of the gentile Family of the Leas or Lees of Quarendon in Bucks and of Dichley in Oxfordshire was Chaplain to the most noble Knight Sir Hen. Lea was beneficed in the said Counties and dying about 1609 was buried in S. Johns Coll. Chappel to the adorning of which he was an especial Benefactor He gave also many Books to that Coll. Library Rich. Thornton Canon of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day In the beginning of Sept. an 1611 he became Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Gervace Carrington deceased and dying 1 Jan. 1614 was buried in the Cath. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Jun. 6. Will. Laude Joh. Rawlinson of S. Joh. Rob. Wakeman of Ball. Coll. 25. Edw. Wickham of Ball. Coll. now Prebendary of Winchester and Archdeacon of Dorset This person who was of the Family of the Wickhams of Swacliff near Banbury in Oxfordshire died in 1620 or thereabous and was if I mistake not buried in the Chancel of the Church of Storington in Sussex near to the Bodies of his Father and Mother In his Archdeaconry succeeded as I suppose Rich. Fitzherbert Thom. Higgons of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day He was Father to Sir Tho. Higgons of Grewell in Hampshire 30. Nich. Simpson of C. C. Coll. who accumulated He was now Prebendary of Canterbury where dying in 1609 left behind him a Son named John who was afterwards D. of D. and Preb. of the same Church and dying 1630 aged 51 left behind him a Son named Nicholas who also was Prebendary there This last who was of C. C. Coll. in Oxon died 22 Aug. 1680. aged 56 and was buried in or near the graves of his Father and Grandfather in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury Over their Sepulchres was a stone soon after put with an Inscription thereon which for brevity sake I now pass by Rich. Colfe of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day He was now Prebendary of Canterbury and dying 7 Oct. 1613 aged 63 being then Subdean of that Church was buried therein 3 days after at which time Thomas Wilson a Member thereof preached his Funeral Sermon entit Christs farewel to Jerusalem on Luke 23. 27 28 29 c. To which a Testimony is added concerning the said Rich. Colfe of his great piety and learning June 30. Joh. Browne of Vniv. Christop Sutton of Linc. Tho. Alleyn of C. C. Coll. July 7. Tho. More 12. Will. Leonard of Exet. Coll. Mar. 11. Gerard Massie of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards nominated Bishop of Chester but died before consecration 14. David Ellis of Jesus Coll. These two last accumulated the degrees in Divinity Incorporations May 30. Rich. Butler Bach. of Div. of Cambr. He was formerly of S. Joh. Coll. in Oxon and now Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty which is all I yet know of him Jun. 14. Christop Musgrave Bach. of Arts of Cambr. One of both his names was about this time a Carthusian at Leige in Germany and afterwards wrot Motives and reasons for his secession and dissevering from the Church of Rome Lond. 1621. qu. But this last I cannot affirm to be the same with him who was Bach. of Arts because he saith that before he seceeded from the Church of Rome he had been a Carthusian Monk for the space of twenty years David Owen M. of A. of Clare Hall in the same University was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Bach. of Div. and Chaplain to John Ramsey Lord Viscount Hadington afterwards D. of D. and Chaplain to the said person when he was Earl of Holderness He hath written and published 1 The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion deposition and killing of Kings Cambr. 1610. qu. 2 Anti-Paraeus sive determinatio de jure regio habita Cantabrigiae in scholis Theologicis 19 Apr. 1619 contra Davidem Paraeum caeterosque reformatae religionis Antimonarchos Cantab. 1632. oct What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was born in the Isle of Anglesey July 8. Will. Eire Eierus Doct. of Phys of Leyden Will. Cavendish M. of A. of Cambr. Son and Heir of Will Lord Cavendish was incorporated the same day in the house of Convocation He was afterwards the second Earl of Devonshire of his name 12. Walt. Curle M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated again See among the Incorporations an 1601 and in 1636. Eliazer Hodson M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day See among the Incorporations 1615. Joh. Williams M. A. of Cambr. was also then incorporated This noted person who was the Son of Edmund Williams of Conway commonly called Aberconway in Caernarvanshire by his Wife Mary Daughter of Owen Wynn of Eglarsnache the sixth Son of William Williams of Cogh-Williams was educated in S. Joh. Coll. in the said University of which he was Fellow Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Lord Egerton Lord Chanc. of England and in 1611-12 one of the Proctors of the University of Cambridge in which Office he gave so noble and generous Entertainment as well in scholastical Exercises as in edibles and potables to the Spanish Embassadors conducted thither by his Patron the Lord Chancellour that when they took their leaves of him the Chancellour with the approbation of the Embassador told him that he had behaved himself so well in his Entertainment that he was fit to seâ—ve a King and that he would be glad to see him as welcome at the Court as they were in the Vniversity About that time he had several Benefices confer'd upon him of which the Rectory of Waldgrave in Northamptonshire was one Dinam and Grafton two more a Residentiaryship in the Church of Lincoln one or more Prebendships therein and the Office of Chauntor besides a Prebendship in the Church of Peterborough and a Donative in Wales Afterwards he was made sacerdotal Rector of the Savoy Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty and on Sept. 10 an 1619. Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Gourdon deceased Whereupon giving up the Savoy upon his Majesties desire it was by him confer'd on M. Ant. de Dominis Archbishop of Spalato
divers of his kindred relations and servants in mourning together with Oliver's Privy Council the Commissioners of the Admiralty and Navy the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London the Field Officers of the Army and divers other persons of honour and quality in a great number of barges and wherries covered with mourning marshal'd and order'd by the Officers of Arms who directed and attended the solemnity In that order they passed to Westminster bridge and at their landing proceeded in the same manner thro a Guard of several Regiments of foot Soldiers of the Army wherein he had been a Colonel in many eminent Services And so proceeding from the New Palace Yard at Westminster to the Abbey was interr'd in a Vault made on purpose in the Chappel of King Hen. 7. In that place it rested till the 12 Sept. 1661 and then by vertue of his Majesties express Command sent to the Dean of Westminster to take up the bodies of all such persons which had been unwarrantably buried in the Chap. of Hen. 7. and in other Chappels and places within the collegiate Church of S. Peter in Westminster since the year 1641 and to bury them in some place in the Churchyard adjacent His body I say was then Sept. 12. taken up and with others buried in a pit in S. Margarets Church yard adjoyning near to the back-door of one of the Prebendaries of Westminster in which place it now remaineth enjoying no other monument but what is reared by his Valour which time it self can hardly deface At the same time were removed the bodies of 1 Col. Rich Deane sometimes one of the Admirals at Sea for the Republick of England who was killed in a Sea-fight between the English and Dutch which last were worsted that hapned the 2 and 3 of June 1653. 2 Col Humph Mackworth one of Oliver's Council who was interr'd in Hen. 7. Chappel with great solemnity 26 Dec. 1654. 3 Dr. Isaac Dorisâ—aus 4 Sir Wilâ— Constable of Flamburgh in Yorkshire one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. sometimes Covernour of Glocester and Colonel of a Regiment of Foot who dying 15 June was buried in K. Hen. 7. Chap. 21 of the same month an 1655. 5 Col. Joh. Meldroma a Scot who received his deaths wound at Ailresford in Hampshire 6 Col… Buscawen a Cornish man 7 Col. Edw. Popham one of the Admirals of the Fleet belonging to the Parliament who dying of a Fever at Dover 19 Aug. 1651 was buried the 24 of Sept. following in S. Joh. Bapt. Chappel His body after it was taken up was not buried in the said pit but carried elsewhere into the Country I think by some of his Relations yet his monument was permitted to stand by the intercession of some of his Ladies friends with the stone wherein the Epitaph was insculp'd to be turn'd 8 Will. Stroude or Strode a Parliament man and one of the five Members demanded by K. Ch. 1. 9 Thom May the Parliamentarian Historian These with the bodies of Will. Strong and Steph. Marshall sometimes Members of the Assembly of Divines the last of which was buried in the south Isle of the Church 23 Nov. â—655 and of several Women also and others were re-buried in the pit before mentioned on the 12 and 14 of Sept. 1661. But after this long digression let 's return to the remaining part of the Admissions Feb. 13. Rob. Hegge of C. C. Coll. Mar. 22. Jonas Mountague of Mert Coll. This person who was a Berkshire man born became a Student in the said College 1604 aged 18 but before he took a Degree he was call'd away by Sir Hen Savile to drudge for him in his Edition of S. Chrysâ—stom's Works Afterwards Sir Henry procured for him the Usher's place in Eaton School and afterwards the degree of Bach. of Arts. One Rich. Mountague Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge who became Bishop of Norwich in 1638 was employed by the said Sir Henry to correct Chrysostome in Greek before it went to the Press at Eaton about which time Mountague was Fellow of the said Coll. but how nearly related Jonas was to this Richard Mountague who was a Ministers Son I know not As for Harvey Segar Heylyn Tipping and Shelden before mention'd will be large mention made elsewhere Admissions in all come to 225. Bach. of Law Dec. 10. Rich. Steuart Will. Skinner of All 's Coll. The last was afterwards Chancellour of Hereford Besides him and Steuart were only two admitted this year Mast of Arts. Jun. 23. Rich. Thornton of Linc. Coll. This noted Preacher who had newly been elected Fellow of that house in a Lincolnshire place became about the year 1626 Rector of Rowghton in the same County and afterwards published The Aegyptian Courtier two Sermons before the University at S. Maries Church in Oxon on Gen. 40. 23. Lond. 1635. qu. I have made mention of another Rich. Thornton in these Fasti 1608. Jun. 23. John Flavell of Wadham Coll. Tim. Woodroff of S. Alb. Hall lately of Ball. Coll. 25. Joh. Bayly of Exeter 28. Joh. Harmar of Magd. Coll. 30. Benj. Cox of Broadgates Hall Jul. 6. Will. Foster of S. Johns Coll. Oct. 29. Joh. Foxcroft of Magd. Hall He was afterwards Minister of Gotham in Nottinghamshire where he continued a puritanical Preacher several years At length closing with the Presbyterians when they grew dominant in 1641 he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines two years after So that residing mostly in London in the War time upon pretence of being molested by the Cavaliers at Gotham became a frequent Preacher there He hath published The Good of a good Government and well grounded peace Fast Sermon before the H. of Commons on Isay 32. 1. 2. Lond. 1646. qu. and perhaps other things Quaere Jan. 21. Henry Ramsden of Magd. Hall Feb. 4. Rich. Toogood of Oriel Coll. 13. Joh. Atkins of S. Edm. Hall Whether he took the degree of Bach. of Arts I cannot yet find however it appears that one of both his names entituled Master of Arts was admitted Rector of North Perrot in Somersetshire in the beginning of May 1618 who published The Christians Race c Serm. on Heb. 12. part of the first and second Verse Lond. 1624. qu. and not unlikely other things We have had several of both his names but before him in time yet never took the degree of M. of A. Adm. about 105. Bach. of Div. May 8. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. 19. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. 30. Edw. Chaloner of All 's Coll. Jun. 18. Hen. Jackson Jul. 11. George Webb of C. C. Coll. Adm. 24. Doct. of Law Jul. 11. John Cradock of New Coll. a Compounder and now much in esteem for his great knowledge in the Civil Law Doct. of Phys Jul. 16. Ralph Baylie of New Coll. He was afterwards an eminent practitioner in the City of Bathe where he lived many years in good repute and dying in 1645 was buried at Widcombe near that City Doct. of Div. May 8. Will. Osbaldeston George Hamden
among the Creations following 19. Ranulph Adams a Sect Bach. of Arts of the said University Feb. 24. Joh. Viccars Bach. of Arts of Cambridge now a Commoner of Linc. Coll. Creations Aug. 25. The honourable James de la Mariniere Baron of Montmartin Gruchy Borrivet le Vignies and Guhebert Ordinary Prefect of the Horse belonging to the most Christian King was actually created Master of Arts. Will. Browne of Exeter Coll. had leave then given to him to be actually created M. of A. but 't was not put in execution till 16 Nov. following He is stiled in the publick Register Vir omni humana literatura bonarum artium cognitione instructus This person is the celebrated Poet whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1024. num 516. Peregrin Langford had then also the degree of M. of A. given to him when he would be pleased to come to the University for it On the 11 of Dec. following he supplicated the ven Congregation being then absent that his Creation might be deferred till Trinity Term following but whether he was then created it appears not Jan. 18. Gilb. Primerose mention'd before among the Incorporations was actually created D. of D. in the house of Convocation just after he had been incorporated by vertue of the Letters of the Chancellour of this University wherein is contained a large testimony of his singular probity and great learning and that he had spent twenty years in the study of Theology backed by recommendations from the King in consideration of his learning and worth He was a Scotch man born had been one of the French Preachers of the Protestant Church at Bourdeaux in France but now of the French Church in London and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King In 1628 Jul. 21 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. John Buckridge promoted to the See of Ely for he had kept that dignity several years in commendam with Rochester which place he keeping till his death Mr. Hugh Cressy sometimes of Merton Coll. was designed by his Majesty to succeed him but was never installed because he afterwards changed his Religion This Dr. Primerose hath written many things as you may see in the Oxford Catalogue among which are 1 Jacob's vow opposed to the vows of Monks and Friers Bergerac 1610. oct in 4 Tomes or Vol. All which were written in good French and the first Vol. containing two books was translated into English by John Bulteel a Minister Lond. 1617. qu. 2 La Trompette de Sion c. Bergarac 1610. oct in 18 Sermons translated into Latin under this Title Tuba Sionis seu Exhortatio ad poenetentiam jejunium Dantsic 1631. oct 3 The righteous mans evils and the Lords deliverances Lond. 1625. qu. in 9 Sermons 4 The Christian mans tears and Christs comforts Fast-sermon 7 Oct. 1624 on Matth. 5. 4. and on Luke 6. 21. Lond. 1625 in two parts in tw 5 The table of the Lord whereof 1. The whole service is the living bread c. Lond. 1626. oct in 3 Serm. c. He paid his last debt to nature in his house in Chisell street near the Artillery Yard in the Suburbs of London in Oct. or Nov. 1642 leaving then behind him several sons viz. 1 James Primerose Doctor of Physick 2 David Primerose Minister of the French Church at Roan in Normandy 3 Stephen who was born 1606 Jan. 12 new stile who after he came to age always rejected his Fathers counsel and would never follow any calling Afterwards he became a presumptuous and vain glorious person tho very ignorant did precipitate himself into divers and damnable Heresies would abuse his Father at his own Table in the presence of his elder Brother and others and would several times tell him that Jesus Christ was come to put division between Father and Children c. upon which account his Father left him nothing in his Will but six pence 4 John Primerose born 24 Nov. 1608 who had spent so much money at Paris London and in the Low Countries that he could give him no more in his Will Joh Durie a Scotch man became a sojourner in the University in the month of July this year for the sake of the publick Library but how long he continued there I cannot tell He afterwards travelled into various Countries beyond the Seas especially thro most parts of Germany where he visited the chief recesses of the Muses and by long continuance spoke the German Tongue so well and fluent that many English men after his return took him to be a German Native He was by profession a Divine was in Orders and a Preacher but whether he took them according to the way of the Church of England which he always scrupled it doth not appear He was a great pretender towards the making of a reconciliation between the Calvinists and Lutherans beyond the Seas or as he himself used to say For the making and setling a Protestant union and peace in the Churches beyond the Seas c. In which work he received encouragement from Archb. Laud tho Pryâ—nâ— his inveterate Enemy saith not but found so small encouragement from him that he oft complained thereof to his friends You may be pleased to see more of these matters and of various Transactions of the life of the said Durie in a Letter written by him to his antient Acquaintance Sam. Hartlib Esq who published it when the said Durie fell into the displeasure of the Presbyterians for shewing himself false to them in several respects with this Title The unchanged constant and single-hearted Peace-maker drawn forth into the World Or a Vindication of Mr. Jo. Dury from the aspersions cast upon him in a nameless Pamphlet called The time-serving Proteus and ambidexter Divine uncased to the World wherein c. Lond. 1650 in three sheets in quarto Upon the turn of the times occasion'd by the Presbyterians an 1641 he sided with them was one of the Preachers before the Long Parliament the members of which appointed him one of the Assembly of Divines and took from them several places of Employment Afterwards he sided with the Independents took the Engagement as he had the Covenant before and all other Oaths that followed till his Majesties Restauration 1660 at which time and after he was living He hath written and published about twenty Books and Pamphlets among which are 1 Consultatio Theologica super negotio pacis Ecclesiast Lond. 1641. qu. 2 Epistolary discourse to Tho. Goodwin Ph. Nâ—e and Sam. Hartlib Lond. 1644 c. qu. This being written against Toleration was answer'd by H. Robinson 3 Of Presbytery and Independency c. print 1646. qu. 4 Model of Ch. government print 1647. qu. 5 Peace-maker the Gospel way print 1648. qu. 6 Seasonable discourse for reformation Lond. 1649. qu. published by Sam. Hartlib 7 Considerations concerning the Engagement print 1650. This being answered Dury came out with a Reply 8 The reformed School Lond. 1650 in
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
of the Gentlemen of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. and Clerk of the Council In 1640 he was employed by his Majesty to go to Henry Frederick Prince of Aurange or Orange about the marriage of the Princess Mary to the Prince his Son as also to the Queen of Bobemia and the Prince Elector an 1641 to hinder that Prince his coming over into England at the then juncture of affairs with promise to take into his consideration the concern of the Palatinate and other matters of state In the same year the said R. Browne was sent to Paris where he continued Resident in the Court of France for K. Ch. 1. and Ch. 2. to the French King Lewis the 13 and his Son Lewis 14 till the Restauration of his Majesty an 1660. In which time which was 19 years I find these things following to occur relating to him 1 That divers important matters of state were transacted by him with those great Ministers Cardinal Richlieu and Mazarine 2 That many advantages were offer'd him by the Usurpers of England to be false to his Masters but he resisted them 3 That he did to his great expence but more to his everlasting glory keep up in the large house which he hired at Paris the publick Service and Liturgy of the Church of England whither his Maj. Ch. 2. and then Duke of York did constantly resort From whence divers Ministers of the Church of England Exiles for their Loyalty had many disputes with the R. Catholicks and others concerning the visibility of their Church which they then kept up while it was ecclipsed in England 4 That he was employed by his Maj. Ch. 1. to carry the George and Garter to Bernard Duke of Espernon 5 That he did negotiate about the Queens portion out of which he had I think 1000 l. which with 200 l. more was all he touched in the said 19 years whilst he spent of his paternal Estate much more than that yearly during his abode at Paris 6 That on the first of Sept. 1649 he was created a Baronet being the first that K. Ch. 2. made by virtue of a dormant Warrant sent to him by Ch. 1. dated 1 Febr. 1643 and on the 19 of the said Sept. he received the honour of Knighthood at St. Germaines from his said Maj. Ch. 2. he being then also Clerk of the Council to him In 1660 he returned into England with his Majesty and did execute the said Office for some time But years then coming on he resign'd it and retired to Charlton in Kent where he spent the remainder of his time in a pleasant retiredness and studious recess At length giving way to fate in a good old Age on the 12 of Febr. 1681 was buried according to his desire in the Churchyard at Deptford close to the Wall of the Church where is a black Marble ballastred over his body On the other side of the Wall in the Church lies buried his Father Christop Browne Esq who died in March 1645 aged 70 years and his Grandfather Sir Rich. Browne Knight a younger Son of an antient Family at Hitcham in Suffolk seated afterwards at Horsley in Essex who being a Student in the Temple was by Robert Dudley the great Earl of Leycester taken into the service of the Crown when he went Governour of the Vnited Netherlands and was afterwards by Qu. Elizab. made Clerk of the Greencloth In which honorable office he also continued under K. James 1. untill the time of his death which hapned in May 1604 aged 65 years The before mentioned Sir Rich. Browne Grandson to this last Sir Richard lest behind him a Daughter named Mary who being his Heiress was several years before married to the learned Vertuoso Joh. Evelyn of Says-court in the Parish of Deptford Esq in which house or at least in that Parish Sir Richard was born as also three folio's of his dispatches several Letters some in cypher c. as well from his Maj. Ch. 1. at Oxon as from his Royal Consoâ—t and other great persons Jun. 27. Geâ—v Warmstrey Rich. Hemmings of Ch. Ch. July 8. Oliver Thomas of Hart Hall The time when he took the degree of Bach. of Arts appears not nor when or of what house he was matriculated And therefore all that I can say of him is that he was afterwards perhaps now beneficed in Shropshire that he wrot and published a book in Welsh entit Carwry Cymru c. printed 1630 or thereabouts and that dying at Felton in that County was there buried In the year 1647 one Oliver Thomas Minister of Oswestry did subscribe among other Ministers of Shropshire to the lawfulness of the Covenant who I suppose is the same with the former Jul. 11. Rich. Jones of Jesus Coll. Jan. 22. George Bate of S. Edm. Hall 29. Christop Ayray Guy Carlton Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. March 19. Joh. Price of Jesus Coll. This year Jun. 25. Joh. Davis of Magd. Hall sometimes of that of S. Edm was licensed to proceed Master of Arts and accordingly compleated that degree in the Act following which being all I know of him he therefore is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Davis M. of A. afterwards Lecturer of Christ Church in London and at length Pastor of a Congregation in Dover Author of Heaven and Earth shaken A treatise shewing hâ—w Kings Princes and their Government are turned and changed by Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1656. oct For this Joh. Davis the Author was originally of Cambridge where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards siding with the Faction was first a Presbyterian and took the Covenant afterwards an Independent and took the Engagement for which he stickled in his Lectuers at Ch. Ch. At length being discovered by the then godly Party to be every way fit to carry on the trade of Faction he was translated to Dover where he kept a Conventicle in a noted Brewhouse by the Reer and soon after was made Chaplain to the Castle there by Col. Tho. Kelsey then Governour and preached constantly at S. James Church tho he was no setled Incumbent Where continuing officiating till after the Kings Return he was then outed and afterwards kept a Conventicle in S. James street in Dover where he continued to the time of his death which was about 1663. Adm. 149. Bach. of Phys I find but three admitted this year of whom John Speed a learned Physitian of S. Joh. Coll. was one Jun. 20. Bach. of Div. May 7. Rich. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 14. Meric Casaubon of Ch. Ch. Nov. 11. Jerem. Stephens Gilb. Sheldon Rob Gomershall of Ch. Ch. of All 's Coll. Mar. 13. Will. Paul Tho. Lawrence of All 's Coll. Adm. 28. Doct. of Law Mar. 26. David Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Warden of Ruthin in Denbighshire Prebendary of Chester and afterwards Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Andr. Morrice sometimes Chaplain of All 's Coll. This Dr. Lloyd died about
ascended the Throne he became the Latin Secretary and proved to him very serviceable when employed in business of weight and moment and did great matters to obtain a name and wealth To conclude he was a person of wonderful parts of a very sharp biting and satyrical wit He was a good Philosopher and Historian an excellent Poet Latinist Grecian and Hebritian a good Mathematician and Musitian and so rarely endowed by nature that had he been but honestly principled he might have been highly useful to that party against which he all along appeared with much malice and bitterness As for the things which he hath published are these 1 Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in England and the causes that hitherto have hindred it c. Lond. 1641. qu. At which time as before the Nation was much divided upon the Controversies about Church Government between the prelatical party and Puritans and therefore Milton did with great boldness and zeal offer his judgment as to those matters in his said book of Reformation 2 Animadversions upon the Remonstrants defence against Smectymnus Lond. 1641. qu. Which Rem defence was written as 't is said by Dr. Jos Hall Bishop of Exeter 3 Apology against the humble Remonstrant This was written in vindication of his Animadversions 4 Against prelatical Episcopacy This I have not yet seen 5 The reason of Church Government nor this 6 The doctrine and discipline of divorce c. in two books Lond. 1644-45 qu. To which is added in some Copies a translation of The judgment of Mart. Bucer concerning divorce c. It must be now known that after his settlement upon his return from his Travels he in a months time courted married and brought home to his house in London a Wife from Forsthill lying between Halton and Oxford named Mary the Daughter of Mr. Powell of that place Gent. But she who was very young and had been bred in a family of plenty and freedom being not well pleas'd with her Husbands retired manner of life did shortly after leave him and went back in the Country with her Mother Whereupon tho he sent divers pressing invitations yet he could not prevail with her to come back till about 4 years after when the Garrison of Oxâ—n was surrendred the nighness of her Fathers house to which having for the most part of the mean time hindred any communication between them she of her own accord returned and submitted to him pleading that her Mother had been the chief promoter of her frowardness But he being not able to bear this abuse did therefore upon consideration after he had consulted many eminent Authors write the said book of Divorce with intentions to be separated from her but by the compromising of her Relations the matter did not take effect so that she continuing with him ever after till her death he had several Children by her of whom Deborah was the third Daughter trained up by the Father in Lat. and Greek and made by him his Amanuensis 7 Tetrachordon Expositions upon the four chief places in Scripture which treat on marriage on Gen. 1. 27 28. c. Lond. 1646. qu. 8 Colasterion A reply to a nameless answer against the doctrine and discipline of divorce c. printed 1645. qu. Upon his publication of the said three books of Marriage and Divorce the Assembly of Divines then sitting at Westmirster took special notice of them and thereupon tho the Author had obliged them by his pen in his defence of Smectymnus and other their Controversies had with the Bishops they impatient of having the Clergies jurisdiction as they reckon'd it invaded did instead of answering or disproving what those books had asserted cause him to be summoned before the House of Lords but that House whether approving the Doctrine or not favouring his Accusers did soon dismiss him To these things I must add that after his Majesties Restauration when the subject of Divorce was under consideration with the Lords upon the account of John Lord Ros or Roos his separation from his Wife Anne Pierpont eldest Daughter to Henry Marquess of Dorchester he was consulted by an eminent Member of that House as he was about that time by a chief Officer of State as being the prime person that was knowing in that affair 9 Of Education written or addressed to Mr. Sam. Hartlib In this Treatise he prescrib'd an easie and delightful method for the training up of Gentry to all sorts of Literature that they might at the same time by like degrees advance in virtue and abilities to serve their Country subjoyning directions for their obtaining other necessary or ornamental Accomplishments And to this end that he might put it in practice he took a larger house where the Earl of Barrimore sent by his Aunt the Lady Rannelagh Sir Thomas Gardiner of Essex to be there with others besides his two Nephews under his Tuition But whether it were that the tempers of our Gentry would not bear the strictness of his discipline or for what other reasons I cannot tell he continued that course but a while 10 Areopagetica A speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England Lond. 1644. qu. written to vindicate the freedom of the Press from the Tyranny of Licensers who for several Reasons deprive the publick of the benefit of many useful Authors 11 Poemata quorum pleraque intra annum aetatis vigesimum conscripsit author c. Lond. 1645. oct 12 A mask printed 1645. oct 13 Poems c. printed the same year Hitherto we find him only to have published political things but when he saw upon the coming of K Charles 1. to his Tryal the Presbyterian Ministers clamorously to assert in their Sermons and Writings the privileges of Kings from all accountableness or to speak in the language of that time Non-resistance and Passive Obedience to be the Doctrine of all the reformed Churches which he took to be only their malignity against the Independents who had supplanted them more than for any principles of Loyalty he therefore to oppose that Thesis which as he conceiv'd did encourage all manner of Tyranny did write and publish from divers Arguments and Authorities 13 The tenure of Kings and Magistrates proving that it is lawful c. to call to account a Tyrant or King and after due conviction to depose and put him to death c. Lond. 1649 50. qu. Soon after the King being beheaded to the great astonishment of all the World and the Government thereupon changed he was without any seeking of his by the endeavours of a private acquaintance who was a member of the new Council of State chosen Latin Secretary as I have before told you In this publick station his abilities and acuteness of parts which had been in a manner kept private were soon taken notice of and he was pitch'd upon to elude the artifice so it was then by the Faction called of Eikon Basilice Whereupon he soon after published 14
Bishop Mast of Arts. Jun. 25. Nathaniel Newbury of Magd. Hall He was afterwards Minister of Ludenham in Kent and published The Yeomans Prerogative Serm. on 2 Chron. chap. 26. ver 10. Lond. 1652. quarto 30. Charles Gataker or Gatacre of Pemb. Coll. lately of the University of Cambridge Jul. 5. Randall Sanderson of Qu. Coll. This person who was a Westmorland man born Fellow of the said Coll. and afterwards Rector of Weyhill in Hampshire and for many years Prebendary of Salisbury hath written and published An explication of the following direction for the reading of the Bible over in a year Also An explanation to the necessary use and practice thereof Both printed in one sheet of paper in qu. He died at Weyhill and was buried there about 1680. July 7. Charles Hoole of Linc. Thom. Hunt of Pembr Coll. 8. Edw. Gee of Brasn Jan. 24. Hen. Hall of Linc. Mar. 3. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll. Adm. 136. Bach. of Phys Jun. 30. Christop Merret of Glouc. Hall Besides him were seven more admitted of whom Nath. Chamberlaine of Pembr Coll. was one which is all I know of him Bach. of Div. Apr. 1. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. Coll. Jun. 25. Herbert Croft of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards B. of Hereford and is this year 1690 living Jul. 8. Edw. Pocock of C. C. 23. Tim. Woodroff of Ball. 28. Hen. Tozer of Exeter Coll. Adm. 18. Doct. of Law May 31. Sam. Gardiner of New Coll. was admitted being then accounted a learned Civilian Doct. of Phys Jul. 7. Valentine Broadbent of Magd. Coll. 15. Sim. Owen of Hart Hall who accumulated the degrees in Physick Doct. of Div. Nov. 18. Thom. Godwin of Magd. Mar. 9. Alexander Gill of Trin. Coll. Incorporations March 26. Assuerus Regimorterus Londino-Anglus Doct. of Phys of the Univ. of Leyden in Holland was incorporated Doctor of the same faculty This person who was educated in School learning under the famous Tho. Farnabie hath extant Disputatio publica de febribus intermittentibus Lugd. Bat. 1635. qu. had a hand in a treatise De Rachitide c. Lond. 1650. oct and hath written as I have been informed by one or more Doctors of his Faculty Principia medicinae He lived and practised in Limestreet in London during the Reign of Oliver One of both his names lived at Northâ—reake in Norfolk and died in 1671 who perhaps was Son of the said Dr. Regimorter Qu. Aug. 31. Walt. Curle Bish of Winchester Math. Wren Bish of Norwich D. D. of Cambr. Of these two I have made mention at large before CREATIONS Aug. 13. Robert Skinner Bishop elect of Bristow lately Fellow of Trin. Coll. and Chaplain in ord to his Majesty Ch. 1. was diplomated or actually created D. of D. by a Diploma then dated under the Seal of the University The King Queen and their respective Courts having been entertained this year by the University on the 29 and 30 of August it was his Majesties pleasure upon his leaving the University which was the 31 of the same month that there should be a Creation in several faculties Whereupon the names of those that made sute to be actually created being given into the hands of the Chancellour by one of the Secretaries of State was a Convocation celebrated on the same day in the Afternoon wherein were actually created two Bachelaurs of Arts two Bach. of Law five and forty Masters of Arts ten Bachelaurs of Divinity three Doctors of the Civ Law three Doctors of Physick and one and twenty Doctors of Divinity The names of some who were so created are these Bach. of Arts. Frederick Sagittarie a German of Queens Coll. Son of Fred. Sag. of Heregord in the Palatinat He was afterwards a created Doct. of Phys of this University and practised his faculty in Dorsetshire John Kingsmyll of Trin. Coll. Son of Sir Hen. Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire Knight Mast of Arts. Prince Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhyne and Duke of Bavaria second Son of Frederick Prince Elector of the Empire and King of Bohemia by Princess Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of James 1. King of England was the first person that was actually created Master of Arts. He was afterwards an heroick General under his Uncle K. Ch. 1. when the Civil Wars began in England an 1642 a Knight of the Garter Earl of Holderness and Duke of Cumberland He gave way to fate after he had performed great Exploits at Sea against the Dutch 29 Nov. 1682 aged 63 or thereabouts and was buried in a Vault on the south side of the Chappel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster leaving then behind him a natural Son usually called Dudley Rupert begotten on the body of one of the Daughters of Hen. Bard Vicount Bellomont which Dudley stiled in Prince Ruperts last Will and Test Dudley Bard was educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School being then a modest and meek-temper'd Youth as was by all there observed But he being not much made for Learning he was bred to Arms I think under Sir Jonas Moor at the Tower and after the Prince's death went into the Palatinate to look after a Legacy and a great House left him there and in Germany and was as 't is said kindly received by the Prince Palatine Soon after going to the Siege of Buda he was kill'd in a desperate Attempt made by some English Gentlemen there upon a breach made in the Walls or Fortifications of that City in July or Aug. 1686. At which time his signal Valour being expressed tho scarce twenty years of age his loss was much lamented Pr. Rupert had also a natural Daughter commonly called The Lady Ruperta begotten as I have been informed at the Office of Arms on the body of one Mrs. Margaret Hewes James Steuart Duke of Lenox in Scotland afterwards of Richmond in England sometimes a Student in Trin Coll. in Cambridge He was slain in the Battel at Keinton commonly called Edghill fight 23 Oct. 1642 and was buried at the upper end of Ch. Ch. Choire in Oxon. Will. Seymour Earl of Hertford He was afterwards Duke of Somerset See more among the Bachelaurs of Arts under the year 1607. Rob. D'evreux Earl of Essex who in the year 1605 had been created M. of A. was now actually created again He was afterwards made Lieutenant General of his Majesties Army when he went his Expedition against the Scots an 1639 Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold and soon after such was the mutability of the man Captain Ceneral of the Army raised by the Parliament against the King He hath Several letters extant written to the Speaker and Parliament during the time that he bore that Office He died 14 Sept. 1646 and was buried in S. Pauls Chappel northward of the Capella Regum in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster Thomas Howard Earl of Berks. He afterwards suffer'd much for the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and dying 16 July 1669 was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westm Thom. Bruce Earl of Elgin in
and afterwards to K. Ch. 1. was installed Dean of Glocester after Dr. Tho. Winniff's removal to the Deanery of St. Pauls on the eleventh of June 1631 and on the 25. of Aug. or thereabouts following became Dean of Wells on the death of Ralph Barlow He hath published King Melchizedek Serm. at Court at East-hamstead 2. Sept. 1623. Lond. 1623. qu. and whether any thing else I cannot yet tell In 1640 he went to London to attend the Convocation of the Clergy that began with the Long Parliament and dying in Drury-lane in the month of Dec. or thereabouts an 1641 was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Walt. Rawleigh James Hena or Hannay a Scot. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. He was admitted to the Deanery of Wells 13. January 1641. Edw. Burby of Linc. Coll. He was now Prebendary and Archdeacon of Winchester which Dignity was before enjoyed by Ranulph Barlow D. D. of Cambridge George Gillingham of Pemb. Coll. He was at this time one of his Majesties Chaplains and on the 2. Nov. 1639 was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Joh. Elly deceased He had other preferments and died 16. Dec. 1668 being then Rector of Chalton in Hampshire Daniel Escott Warden of Wadham Coll. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Morgan Owen of Jes Coll. The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lincolne and the last Bishop of Landaff Samuel Marsh of Trin. Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University and at this time Preb. of Roscombe in the Church of Sarum Steph. Goffe or Gough of St. Albans Hall lately of Mert. Coll. This Person who was Son of Steph. Goffe the puritanical Minister of Stanmer in Sussex travelled into the Low-countries after he had taken his Masters Degree and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Col. H. Vere whereby he gained good acquaintance and experience which wound him at his return so much into the favour of Hen. Jermyn afterwards Earl of St. Alban that he was made one of the Kings Chaplains by which title he was created Doctor of Divinity and afterwards employed in the quality of a minor Agent and Envoy into France then into Flanders Holland and other Countries c. In the time of the rebellion he also acted much for his Master in several Countries beyond the Seas and did him great Service but when he saw the English Church ruin'd and Monarchy declining he changed his Religion for that of Rome and was thereupon taken into the society of the Oratorians at Paris an order very famous there tho but little known among us The brethren whereof having liberty to improve their particular estates for things are not common among them as with other orders he grew rich upon the stock which he had formerly gathered together by his endeavours whereby he was in capacity sometimes to do courtesies for his exil'd Countrymen Abrah Cowley the Prince of Poets was while at Paris preferr'd and plac'd by him tho the story is perverted in the Family of the said noble Henry then Lord Jermyn Through whose heroical bounty he was afterwards design'd to the Mastership of the Savoy but by certain enemies to the Muses was depriv'd of it Afterwards Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother to whom Goffe was Chaplain committed to the said Goffs care the tuition of the natural Son of K. Ch. 2. known then by the name of James Crofts afterwards Duke of Monmouth with whom continuing till he was about nine years of age was taken from him and committed to the care of a Gentleman called Rose or Rosse who after his Majesties restauration went Secretary to Henry Coventry Esq in his Embassy into Sweeden This Doctor Goffe who was esteemed by some a learned Man and well read in the Fathers and therefore respected by Gerard Jo. Vossius and others died in the house of the Fathers or Brethren of the Oratory situated in the street called St. Howrè at Paris on Christmas day according to our account an 1681. aged 76 or thereabouts and was buried in the Chappel belonging to that house What writings of his are published besides Nine Latin Epistles to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius and his Negotiations taken by the Rebels at the battel at Sherburne in Yorkshire which with George Lord Digby's Cabinet and other things were published at Lond. in qu. 1646. I know not He had a younger Brother named John Goffe who was a true Son of the Church of England as I shall tell you among the Writers under the year 1661. and another called William originally a Salter or a Hatter as some day in London who closing with the Presbyterians in the time of the Rebellion became a Colonel great with Oliv. Cromwell one of the Judges of King Char. 1. and a member of the other house that is one of Olivers Lords See more in the Fasti an 1649. among the Creations Rich. Marsh of the University of Cambridge lately Chaplain to Archb. Laud afterwards to his Maj. Ch. 1. He was now Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York and soon after Vicar of Halyfax in the room of Hen. Ramsden deceased In Nov. 1644. he had the Deanery of York conferr'd upon him on the death of Dr. Job Scot who died in the Kings bench Prison in Southwark At which time his Majesty being at Oxon Dr. Pet. Heylyn endeavoured by his friends to obtain that Dignity but was put aside After his Majesties restauration he was elected 17. of Aug. and installed 20. of the same month an 1660. and dying 13. Oct. 1663. aged 78 was buried near to the grave of Matthew Hutton sometimes Archbishop of York in the South Isle joyning to the Cath. Church there In his Deanery succeeded Will. Sandcroft D. D. of Cambridge installed therein 26. Feb. 1663 who being removed to the Deanery of St. Pauls Cathedral in London Dr. Rob. Hitch of the same University succeeded in Dec. 1664. Dr. Marsh hath one or more Sermons extant Edw. Morton lately M. of A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge now Rector of Sefton in Lancashire Chaplain to the Lord Keeper and Prebendary of Chester He was born of an antient Family at Morton in Cheshire and was Father to Dr. Will. Moreton Bishop of Kildare in Ireland Samps Johnson of Magd. Coll. Thomas Whittington Thomas Manwaring of Brasn Coll. Meric Casaubon Edw. Thornborough of Ch. Ch. The last of these two was Son of Dr. Jo. Thornborough Bishop of Worcester was now Archdeacon of Worcester who dying in 1645 Will. Hodges Bach. of Div. of Oxon was admitted in his place 30. of May the same year Mich. Reade of Linc. Will. Haywood of St. Jo. Coll. Laur. Pay of Ch. Ch. These were all the Doctors of Divinity that were then created Afterwards these noble Persons were created in Oct. following Oct. 14. The most illustrious and high born Prince Christianus Landtgrave of Hassia Count in Catzenellebogen Dieza Ziegenhain and Nidda was diplomated Master of Arts. The most illustrious and high born Prince
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
Whereupon he wrote a vindication of himself in MS. now in the hands of a near relation of his At length after a great deal of pains taken for the benefit of the Church he gave up the Ghost at Horninger before mention'd otherwise called Horningshearth whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there under a rough unpolished and broken Gravestone without name or Epitaph 22. Febr. in sixteen hundred and fifteen as the Register of that Church tells us which I presume follows the English accompt and not the common as many country Registers do I find one Tho. Rogers a Cheshire man born to have been admitted Student of Ch. Ch. 1547. aged 24. or more being then Bac. of Arts and soon after made Master What relation he had to the former Th. Rogers I know not Another Tho. Rogers I find who was born in Glocestershire in or near to Tewksbury lived mostly in his latter days in the Parish of S. Giles in the fields near London and published a Poem entituled The tears or lamentations of a sorrowful Soul Lond. 1612. qu. written by Sir Will. Leighton Knight one of his Majesties band of Pensioners To which the said Tho. Rogers added of his own composition a Poem called Glocesters mite But this Tho. Rogers is quite different from the Divine before mention'd RICHARD NICCOLLS esteemed eminent for his Poetry in his time was born of Gentile Parents in London and at 18 years of age an 1602. was entred a Student in Mag. coll in Michaelmas-Term but making little stay there he retired to Mag hall and took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1606. being then numbred among the ingenious persons of the University After he had remained there for some time he retired to the great City obtained an employment suitable to his faculty and at length honoured the Devoto's to Poetry with these things following The Cuckow a Poem Lond. 1607. in qu. Dedicated to Mr. after Sir Thom. Wroth a favourer of his Muse The fall of Princes Lond. 1610. qu. A winter nights Vision Lond. 1610. qu. being an addition of such Princes especially famous who were exempted in the former History meaning in the History called The mirrour of Magistrates written in Verse by John Higens of Winceham an 1586. qu. This mirrour which was esteemed the best piece of Poetry of those times if Albions England which was by some preferred did not stand in its way contained the lives of some of our Kings and Queens and was exceedingly admired by ingenious Scholars and others Momodia Or Walthams complaint upon the death of the most vertuous and noble Lady late deceased the Lady Honor Hay Lond. 1615. oct I find another Rich. Niccolls who is stiled the Elder and of the Inner Temple Gent. who wrote 1 A Treatise setting forth the mysterie of our Salvation 2 A day Star for dark wandring souls shewing the light by a christian controversie Both which were published after the authors death at Lond. 1613. in oct But whether this R. Niccolls the Elder was ever of this University I find not as yet EDWARD EVANS a noted preacher of his time in the University was born in Denbighshire applyed his eager mind to Academical studies in Ch. Ch. an 1598. aged 16. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1607. and afterwards published Verba dierum Or the days report of Gods glory in four Sermons or Lectures upon one text in the University of Oxon. on Psal. 19. 2. Oxon. 1615. qu. Another of both his names I find to have been born at Westmeane in Hampshire admitted fellow of New coll 1595. and that he took the degree of M. of A. 1602. But this person leaving his fellowship in 1604. and so consequently the University he is not to be taken for the same who published the four Sermons before mention'd JOHN HEATH more famous for his Poetry than the former for his preaching was born at Stalls whether a hamlet or House I know not in Somersetshire educated in Wykehams School admitted Perpetual fellow of New coll 1607. aged 22. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1613. and three years after left his Fellowship But before that time when he was Bach. of Arts he wrote and published Two centuries of Epigrams Lond. 1610. in tw and had verses printed in several books that occasionly were published particularly in that on the death of Sir Th. Bodley Kt. He hath also made a translation from Spanish into English which I have not yet seen and wrote other matters fit for the Press but whether ever printed I cannot tell THOMAS BILSON Son of Harman Bilson the same I suppose who was fellow of Merton coll an 1536 Son of Arnold Bilson son and heir of Arnold Bilson a Native of High Germany by his Wife the Daughter natural or legitimate I know not of the Duke of Bavaria was born in the City of Winchester fitted for the University in Wykeham's School there admitted Perpetual fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1565. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a most solid and constant preacher in these parts and elsewhere Afterwards he was Schoolmaster say some then Prebendary of Winchester Warden of the coll there Doctor of Divinity and at length Bishop of Worcester to which See being consecrated 13. June 1596. was translated thence to Winchester in the year following and made one of his Majesties Privy Councellours He was as reverend and learned a Prelate as England ever afforded a deep and profound Scholar exactly read in Ecclesiastical authors and with Dr. Rich. Field of Oxon. as Whittaker and Fulke of Cambridge a principal maintainer of the Ch. of England while Jo. Rainolds and Tho. Sparke were upholders of Puritanism and Non-conformity In his younger years he was infinitely studious and industrious in Poetry Philosophy and Physicks and in his elder in Divinity To which last his genie chiefly inviting him he became so compleat in it so well skill'd in Languages so read in the Fathers and Schoolmen so judicious in making use of his readings that at length he was found to be no longer a Souldier but a Commander in chief in the spiritual warfare especially when he became a Bishop and carried prelature in his very aspect His works are Of the true difference between Christian subjection and unchristian rebellion wherein the Princes lawful power to command and bear the Sword are defended against the Popes Censure and Jesuits Sophismes in their Apology and defence of English Catholicks Also a demonstration that the things reformed in the Church of England by the Laws of this realm are truly Catholick against the late Rhemish Testament Oxon. 1585. Lond. 1586. in 4. parts in a thick oct In the third part of which is answer'd Dr. Will. Allens Defence of Engl. Cath. before mention'd It must be now noted that whereas in England the interest of the State had
the Seas changed his Religion was made a Priest and returning into England was taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle where with several others he endured a tedious Imprisonment and therefore by those of his profession accounted a Confessor Apr. 25. Thom. Bilson of New 28. Rob. Hoveden of Allsoules 30. Hen. Savile of Merton Coll. Jul. 4. Will. Harrys Rich. Knolles of Linc. Coll. Dec. 4. Barthelmew Chamberlayne of Trin. Coll. Adm. 53. Bach. of Physick Dec. 14. Christopher Johnson of New Coll. now the learned Master of Wykehams School near to Winchester Three besides were admitted but not one of them was a Writer Bach. of Div. Jul. 10. Edm. Bunney of Mert. Coll. Besides him were but two more admitted ☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul… John Withyns of Brasnose College Incorporations In the month of Jaly was a Supplicate made in the ven house of Congregation for Edm. Freke Dr. of Div. of Cambridge to be incorporated but whether he was really so I cannot yet find Those things that I am to observe of him are that he was an Essex man born had all his Acad. Education in the said Univ. of Cambr. was made Canon of Westminster in 1564 in the place of Will. Downham and about the same time Archd. of Canterbury In 1565 he was made Canon of Windsore and on the 10 of April 1570 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Walt. Philipps the first Dean deceased In the year following Sept. 18 he was made Dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Will. Bradbridge to the See of Exeter but before he had been setled in the said Deanery he was made Bishop of Rochester being then as one saith Vir pius doctus atque gravis Afterwards he was translated to Worcester where he was a zealous Assertor of the Church Discipline An. Dom. 1571. An. 13 Eliz. An. 14 Eliz. Chanc. the same Commiss Lawrence Humphrey D. D. President of Magd. Coll. and Dean of Glocester Apr. 2. by vertue of Letters from the Chanc. dat 28 March Proct. Anth. Blencow of Or. Coll. Edm. Fleetwood of Mert. Coll. Apr. 26. Bach. of Arts. Mar. 28. Ezechias Fogge. He translated into English Comfort for the sick in two parts The first for such that are visited with sickness the second to make men willing to dye Lond. 1574. in tw Nov. 22. Ralph Sherwyn of Exet. Coll. Dec. 1. Rich. Madox See among the M. of A. 1575. Jan. 17. Job Lister Feb. 20. George More See among the Masters 1573. 27. Edw. Graunt He was afterwards the learned Schoolmaster of Westminster Mar… Tho. Leyson of New Coll. now esteemed a good Latin Poet. Adm. 84. Mast of Arts. Mar. 24. Hen. Cotton of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Salisbury Besides him were but 16 Masters admitted tho 102 Bach. of Arts were admitted three years before Bach. of Phys But one admitted and five supplicated among which last Tho. D'oylie of Magd. Coll. was one whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1603. Bach. of Div. Mar. 10. Will. James of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of Durham Five there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom Tobie Mathew was one but not admitted till 1573. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 23. Christopher Johnson of New Coll. Rob. Bellamie of S. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day He was afterwards Master of the Hospital at Shirebourne near to the City of Durham 26. Martin Colepeper of New Coll. He was afterwards Warden of that College Dean of Chichester in the place as it seems of Dr. Anth. Russh deceased an 1577. and Archdeacon of Berks. upon the death of Dr. Tho. Whyte 16 June 1588. ☞ Not one Doct. of Div. was admitted this year nor any there were that supplicated to be admitted only Joh. Angelus Bach. of Arts who had his Grace granted for it six years before Incorporations Feb. 1. Henry Beaumont Bach. of Arts of the University of Cambridge This person who was descended from the noble Family of the Beaumonts in Leicestershire was about the beginning of Nov. going before elected Fellow of All 's Coll as a Founders Kinsman his Mother being of that Family He was afterwards Dean of Peterborough and Windsore as I shall tell you under the year 1616. An. Dom. 1572. An. 14 Elizab. An. 15 Elizab. Chanc. the same Commiss the same May 29. Proct. Anth. Blencow Edm. Fleetwood again Continued in their Offices by a decree in Convocation 17 March 1571. Bach. of Arts. Jul. 11. Rob. Coke or Cook of Brasn Coll. Jul. 12. Hen. Robinson of Qu. Christop Bagshaw of Ball. Coll. The first of which two last was afterwards Bishop of Carlile 15. Joh. Drusius of Mert. Coll. the most noted Critick and Linguist Dec. 2. Will. Wilkes of the same Coll. 9. Joh. Hudson See among the Masters of Arts an 1575. 15. Joh. Prime of New Coll. Jan. 31. Miles Smith of Brasn Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Glocester Feb. 20. Thom. Wilkes of All 's Coll. This person who was a Sussex man born and Fellow of the said Coll. was two years after Secretary to Dr. Valentine Dale Embassador from Qu. Elizab. to the K. of France While he continued in that Country he shew'd more than ordinary civility to the King of Navarr and the Duke of Alenson afterwards of Anjow when they were committed to custody by the Qu. Mother of France for plotting secretly to remove her from the Government For so it was that he comforted them in the Queen of England's name promising them that she would omit no opportunity to help and relieve them Of this civility the Qu. Mother of France having notice prosecuted Wilkes so much that he was fain to withdraw himself into England where she also followed him with letters of complaint insomuch that he was sent back into France and there humbly craved pardon of the Qu. Mother However the King of Navarr not unmindful of the consolation he gave him did when he came to be King of France honor him with the degree of Knighthood when he saw him in Normandy twenty five years after In 1577 Wilkes was sent Embassador to Spain and upon his return thence was about the beginning of 1578 sent to Don John of Austria In 1593 he was sent into France to know if the then French King was reconciled to the Church of Rome and in 1598 he was sent into France again with Sir Robert Cecil Secretary of State to Qu. Eliz. and John Herbert Master of the Requests but so soon as Wilkes landed he died there March 3. David Powell Afterwards the Welsh Antiquary 4. Rich. Meredyth He was afterwards a Bish in Ireland In Apr. this year supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Arts Edw. Rishton of Brasn Coll. but whether he was admitted it appears not On the 5 Dec. also the Principal and Fellows of Brasn Coll. gave leave to Law