the Allens or Allyns of Staffordshire from whom he is descended are Parted per Chevron Gules and Ermine two Lyons heads erased in the upper part or The next Card. that the English Nation hath been honoured with is Philip Howard third Son of Henry Earl of Arundel and younger Brother to Henry Earl of Norwich and Duke of Norfolk who at this day is living at Rome He was born in Arundel House in the Parish of St. Clement Danes without Temple-Bar near London an 1629. and there educated under several Tutors till he was 14 years of age At length upon the eruption of the Civil War he left the Nation and travelled with his Grandfather Thomas Earl of Arundel into Italy and at 15 years of age became a Dominician or Black-Frier at Cremona After several years spent there he returned into England and upon the Marriage of King Charles 2. with Katherine the Infanta of Portugal he became Lord Almoner to her and continued in her service several years Afterwards upon the People's being exasperated against Popery he quitted that Noble Office and went to Bornheim in Flanders where having a Convent of English Fryers of his Order had not continued there long but at the desire of his sometimes Tutor then Confessor to Pope Clement 10. had a Cardinals Cap sent to him by the said Pope in the month of May 1675. by his Messenger Seignior Con at which time Father Howard was at Antwerp with the Bishop of that place By vertue of which and the instrument with it he was made Cardinal Priest Sub tt Ecclesiae S. Mariae supra Minervam which Church was in most ancient time built upon the ruines of the Temple of Minerva at Rome where the said Card. is now generally stiled The Cardinal of Norfolk and by some The Cardinal of England Afterwards taking his journey towards Rome he was attended by his Uncle William Viscount Stafford beheaded in 1680. upon account of being engaged in the Popish Plot Mr. John Howard Son of the said William Lord Thomas Howard Nephew to the said Cardinal and younger Brother to the present Duke of Norfolk Seignior Con before-mentioned Dr. Joh. Laybourne President of the English or Clergy College at Doway then Secretary or Auditor to the Cardinal and others He took his journey through Flanders to Doway where he was with great solemnity received and lodged in the said Coll. The next day he designing to visit the College of English Benedictines at that place he was received by the whole Convent in their Church in a solemn procession with Copes a Te Deum and other Ceremonies as appointed in the Ritual for such receptions From the Church he was conducted into the Cloyster and entertained with a banquet and a Panigyrick spoken to him by a Student of that college All which was so well performed that Visâ— Staâ—â—ord was pleased to say that it was the only fit reception his Eminence had met with in all his journey Afterwards his Eminence went to Paris where he continued for some time incognito At length with other Nobility and Persons of Quality added to the former company he journeyed to Rome and made his entry for the defraying of which and his journey he had the assistance of the Pope and not of King Charles 2. and Queen Catherine as the common report then went ADAM HYLL a most noted and eloquent Preacher of his time was elected Fellow of Baliol Coll. in 1568. being that Bachelaur of Arts stood in the Act to compleat the degree of Master of that Faculty in 1572. and on the 12. of Jan. following he resigned his Fellowship About that time he being noted for his practical way of Preaching he became Vicar of Westbury in Wilts in which County he was as it is probable born Parson of Goosage in Dorsetshire and at length Prebendary of Gillyngham Minor in and Succentor of the Cath. Church of Salisbury In 1591. he took the degrees in Divinity and had he not been untimely snatched away by Death he would have been advanced to an high degree in the Church He hath written and published Several Sermons Among which are 1 Godly Sermon shewing the Fruits of Peace and War on 2 Cor. 20. 1 Lond. 1588. oct 2 Serm. On Gen. 18. 21 22. Lond. 1593. oct 3 Serm. concerning Christs descent into Hell Preached 28. Feb. 1589. but on what Subject I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it It was answered by Alex. Humo a Scot whereupon our Author Hyll came out with a Book intit A defence of the Article Christ descended into Hell with an Answer to the arguments objected against the truth of the said Doctrine by one Alexand. Hume c. Lond. 1592. qu Afterwards Hume came out with A Rejoinder wherein the answer to Dr. Hylls Sermon is justly defended Printed 1593. qu. But before our author Hyll could come out with another answer he gave way to fate which hapning at Salisbury about the 16. of Febr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Cath. Church there on the nineteenth day of the same Month. Soon after his dignity or dignities in the said Church were bestowed on one Tho. Crump As for the said Alex. Hume he was Master of Arts of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated here as I shall tell you in the Fasti and wrote besides what is before mentioned A Treatise of Conscience c. 2 Treatise of the Felicity of the World to come c. 3 Four discourses of praises unto God c. All which were printed at London in 1594. in oct JOHN THORIE or Thorius Son of John Thorius Doctor of Physick who intitles himself Balliolanus Flandrus was born in London matriculated in this University as a Member of Ch. Ch. 1 Oct. 1586. aged 18. but whether he took a degree it appears not though in one of his Books he writes himself a Graduat of Oxenford He was a Person well skilled in certain Tongues and a noted Poet of his time as several pieces of his then published shew All the things that I have seen of his writing or translating are these A Spanish Dictionary Lond. 1590. qu. Added to his translation into English of a Spanish Grammar written by Auth. de Corro which Dictionary contains the explication of all the Spanish Words cited in the said Grammer and is as a Key to open every thing therein Letters and Sonnets to Gabr. Harvey An. 1593. See at the end of a book entit Pierces Superarogation written by the said Harvey And at the end of another called Have with you to Saffron Walden c. written by Tho. Nash anoted Poet of his time and a Dramatick Writer as his published Comedies shew Our author Thorius also translated from Spanish into English a book entit The Councellour A Treatise of Councils and Councellours of Princes Lond. 1589. qu. written by Barth Philip. L. L. D. and another entit The Serjeant Major or a Dialogue of the
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
made Archdeacon of Winchester His Works are Carmina in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandon c. Lond. 1552. qu. De Pii V. Gregorii XIII furoribus contra Elizabetham Reginam Angliae Lond. 1582. oct An Exhortation to true Love Loyalty and Fidelity to her Majesty Lond. 1587. oct Treatise against Treasons Rebellions and such Disloyalties Printed with the Exhortation to c. Syntagma hortationum ad Jacobum Regem Angliae Lond. 1604. oct and translated from English into Latin An apology or defence of Priests Marriages written by Joh. Poynet or Ponet B. of Winchester The other Works done by him may be seen in a certain author who knew Rhenniger well which made him therefore say of him In omni bonarum literarum ac linguarum genere it a se exercuit ut famam non vulgarem inde meruit He died on the 26. of Aug. year 1609 in sixteen hundred and nine aged 89 years and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Crawley before-mentioned under the Communion Table Over his Grave was soon after a Marble Stone laid with an inscription thereon in prose and verse a copy of which you may see in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. b. This Dr. Rhenniger died rich left a fair Estate some of which laid in Lincolnshire and a Son named Samuel to injoy it In his Archdeaconry of Winchester succeeded Dr. Ranulph Barlow of Cambridge THOMAS SMITH was born of sufficient Parents in a Town called Abendon in Bâ—rkshire educated in Grammar learning there in the Free School founded by Joh. Royse Citizen and Mercer of London an 1563. became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 78. and six years after was elected one of the Proctors of the University About that time he being esteemed a religious and a discreet Gentleman was made Secretary to that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex who had an especial respect for him So that being thereupon introduced into the Court raised himself meerly by his own merits to considerable eminency as first to be Clerk to the High Court of Parliament afterwards to be one of the Clerks of the Council a Knight in 1603. Secretary of the Latin Tongue and one of the Masters of the Requests 'T is supposed by some and confidently reported by others that are learned that tho he lived not to publish any thing yet several matters he left behind him fit for the Press but of what Subject or Faculty they treat I could never learn He deceased in the prime of his years whereby a stop was given to his father promotion at his house called Parsons Green near to London 28. Nov. in sixteen hundred and nine year 1609 whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Fulham in Middlesex on the 7. of Dec. following Over his grave was soon after erected a comely monument by his disconsolate Widdow Frances the Daughter of William Lord Chandois afterwards the Wife of Thom. Earl of Exeter by whom he had a Son named Robert who was entred a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term an 1620. aged 15. and became an Inheritor for a time several Lands which his Father left to him particularly the Mannor of Barwick upon Tease in Yorks The said Sir Thomas bequeathed a considerable sum of Money to this University to buy books for the new or East part of the Publick Library as also a Mathematical instrument gilt besides 100 l. to the poor of Abenaon for their relief All which was accordingly done and setled by his younger Brother Rich. Smith sometimes a Member of Ch. Ch. also who had been prime Mourner at his Brothers Funeral I find another Sir Tho. Smyth to have been of Bidborough in Kent second Son of Tho. Smith of Ostenhanger in the same County Esq who dying 7. June 1591. was buried in the Church of Ashsord adjoyning Son of John Smith of Corsham in Wilts Gent. Which Sir Thomas who had sarmed the Customs in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth and therefore by some called Customer Smith was so much in favour with K. James that he sent him Embassador to the Emperour of Russia 19. Mar. 1604. From whence returning he was made Governour of the Society of Merchants trading to the East-Indies Musâ—â—ie the French and Summer Islands and Treasurer for the Colonies and Companies of Virginia There goes under this Man's name a book intit Sir Thomas Smith's voyage and entertainment in Russia with the tragical ends of two Emperours and one Empress within one Month during his being there c. Lond. 1605. qu. But him I take not to be the author because it was published unknown to him and without his consent What else I find of him is that his fair and magnificent house at Deptford near to London was burnt on 30. Jan. 1618. and that upon several complaints against him for certain frauds used by him in withdrawing sums of Money in his Rectorship and place of Treasurer before mentioned he was removed from those imployments in Apr. 1619. His eldest Son Sir Joh. Smith married Isabel Daughter of Rob. Earl of Warwick and another the Natural Daughter of Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy without the consent of his Father in Nov. 1618. but in the middle of July following he upon some discontent left England without taking leave of his Father or Wife Besides these two I find another famous Sir Tho. Smith who went before them not only in time but eminence His native place was Saffron-Walden in Essex his Parents John Smith of the same place and Agnes the Daughter and Heir of one Charnock Gent. and the place of Academical education Queens coll in Cambridge where at riper years he was made choice of such was his proficiency in learning to be sent into Italy at the King's charges and there to be educated in certain kinds of learning which our Universities at home could not then yield or rather for the compleat polishing of his parts and studies After his return he became so eminent for his acquired learning that he was not only made the publick Orator of Cambridge but also the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue and at length the King's Professor of the Civil Law in which Faculty he was incorporated Doctor at Cambridge in 1542. and afterwards at Oxon but the particular time when it appears not through the imperfectness of the Registers of that time In the Reign of Ed. 6. he found so much favour with the Duke of Somerset that he was made one of the Secretaries Sir Will. Cecill being the other to that King a Knight Steward of the Stanneries and Dean of Carlile in the place of one Lancelot Salkeld then ejected About the same time also he became Provost of Eaton coll whereof he had very well merited but when Q. Mary came to the Crown she deprived him of those dignities assigning
à Jesu printed at S. Omer in 1613. quarto Curry-comb for a Coxcombe Or Purgatories Knell In answer to a Libel by Jebal Rachel against Sir Edw. Hobies Counter-snarle intituled Purgatories Triumph over hell Lond. 1615. qu. Several motions speeches and arguments in the four last Parliaments in Queen Elizabeth Published in the Historical collections of Hayw. Townsend Esq He translated from French into English Politique discourses upon truth and lying An instruction to Princes to keep their faith and promises Lond. 1586. qu. Composed by Sir Mart. Cognet Knight one of the Privy-Councel to the most Christian King master of the Requests to his Houshold and lately Embassador to the Cantons of Zwitzers and Grisons And also from Spanish into English The Origine and practice of War Lond. 1597. oct Written by Don Bernard de Mendoza At length he giving way to fate in Queenburgh Castle on the first day of March St. David's day in sixteen hundred and sixteen his body was conveyed to Bysham before mentioned and buried there in a Chappel called Hoby's Chappel on the south side of the Chancel of the Church there near to the body of his Father Sir Thomas The said Sir Edward left behind him a natural Son named Peregrin Hoby born of the body of one Katherin Pinkney an 1602. From which Peregrin are the Hobyes now of Bysham descended THOMAS EGERTON the natural Son of Sir Rich. Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire was born in that County applyed his Muse to learning in this University about 1556. particularly as 't is said in Brasnose coll of which he was a Commoner in the year of his age 17 or thereabouts where continuing about 3 years laid a foundation whereon to build profounder learning Afterwards going to Lincolns-Inn he made a most happy progress in the municipal laws and at length was a Counsellour of note In 1581. June 28. he was constituted by the Queen her Solicitor General and soon after he became Lent-reader of the said Inn. In 1592. June 2. the said Queen made him her Attorney General in 1594. he being then a Knight he was made Master of the Rolls and two years after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal In which emiment office he continued during the whole remainder of Qu. Elizabeths happy Reign On 21. of Jul. 1603. he was raised to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of L. Ellesmere and upon the 24. of the said Month he was made Lord Chancellour of England In the beginning of Nov. 1610. he was unanimously elected Chanc. of the University of Oxon. and in 14. Jac. 1. dom 1616. he was advanced to the dignity of Vicount Brackley He was a most grave and prudent man a good Lawyer just and honest of so quick an apprehension also and profound judgment that none of the Bench in his time went beyond him He hath written Speech in the Exchequer Chamber touching the Post-nati Lond. 1609. in qu. in 16. sheets Certain observations concerning the office of Lord Chancellour Lond. 1651. oct and left behind him at his death four MSS. of choice collections fit to be Printed concerning 1 The prerogative Royal. 2 Priviledges of Parliament 3 Proceedings in Chancery 4 The power of the Starr-chamber He resigned up his last breath in York-house in the Strand near London 15. March in sixteen hundred and sixteen and was buried in the Church of Dodleston in Cheshire His memory was much celebrated by Epigrams while he was living and after his death all of the long Robe lamented his loss We have his Picture drawn to the life in the habit of Lord Chancellour setting in a Chair hanging in the Gallery belonging to the Bodleian Library called the School-gallery WILLIAM MARTYN Son of Nich. Martyn of the City of Exeter by his first Wife Mary Daughter of Leonard Yeo of Hatherley in Devon Son of Rich. Martyn of the said City and he the second Son of William Martyn of Athelhampton in Dorsetshire Knight was born and educated in Grammar learning within the said City of Exeter where making early advances towards Academical learning was sent to Broadgates hall now Pomb coll an 1579. aged 17. In which place falling under the tuition of a noted Master laid an excellent foundation in Logick and Philosophy Afterwards going to the Inns of Court he became a Barester and in 1605. was elected Recorder of Exeter in the place of John Hele Serjeant at Law But his delight being much conversant in the reading of English Histories he composed a book of the Kings of England as I shall tell you anon Upon the publication of which K. James as 't is said taking some exceptions at a passage therein either to the derogation of his family or of the Realm of Scotland he was thereupon brought into some trouble which shortned his days He hath written Youths instruction Lond. 1612. qu. dedicated to his Son Nich. Martyn then a Student in Oxon. In the said book is shewed a great deal of reading and consequently that the author was no loser of his time The History and Lives of the Kings of England from William the Conquerour to K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1616. and 28. fol. usher'd into the world with the copies of Verses of Nicholas William and Edw. Martyn the Sons of the author and by Pet. Bevis his Son-in-Law To this History was afterwards added the History of K. Edw. 6. Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth by B. R. Master of Arts Lond. 1638. fol. At the end of all the impressions was Printed The succession of the Dukes and Earls of this Kingdom of England from the Conquerour to the 12. of James 1. with the then Viscounts Barons Baronets c. which was drawn up by the author and continued after his death by R. B. before-mention'd What other books the said Will. Martyn hath either written or published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was buried in the Church of S. Petrock in the City of Exeter 12. year 1617 Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen The inscription which was on the Stone supposed to be laid for him is worn out and a new inscription cut thereon for one of the same family buried there The next who must follow according to time was a severe Puritan as Martyn was FRANCIS BUNNRY Younger brother to Edmund whom I shall anon mention was born in an antient House called the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks on the 8. of May 1543. became a Student in the University in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Mary an 1558. and perpetual Fellow of Madg. coll in 1562. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy Orders and began to preach Gods word on the first of Nov. 1567. Whose Sermons being noted among many he became soon after Chaplain to the Earl of Bedford but continuing with him not long he left his Fellowship in 1571. and retiring into the north parts of
person of unblameable life and conversation a profound Divine most admirably well read in the Fathers Councils and Schoolmen and a more moderate Calvinian than either of his two Predecessors Holland and Humphrey in the Divinity-chair were which he expressed by countenancing the Sublapsarian way of Predestination His works are The Mirrour of Popish Subtilties discovering certain wretched and miserable evasions and shifts which a secret cavilling Papist in the behalf of one Paul Spence Priest yet living and lately Prisoner in the Castle of Worcester hath gathered out of Saunders and Bellarmine c. concerning the Sacraments c. Lond. 1594. qu. The Exaltation of the Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ Sermons on 110 Psalm from the 1. to the 7. ver Lond. 1601. qu. Antichristi demonstratio contra fabulas Pontificias ineptum Rob. Bellarmini de Antichristo disputationem Lond. 1603. qu. 1608. oct Defence of the Reformed Catholick of Mr. Will. Perkins lately deceased against the Bastard Counter-Catholick of Dr. Bishop Seminary Priest The first part Lond. 1606. qu. The second part was printed at the same place 1607. qu. and the third part 1609. qu. The old way Serm. at S. Maries Oxon on Act-Sunday 8. July 1610. on Jerem. 6. 16. Lond. 1610. qu. The true ancient Rom. Catholick being an Apology against Dr. Bishops Reproof of the defence of the Reformed Catholick Lond. 1611. qu. See more in Will. Bishop an 1624. Antilogia adversus apologiam Andreae Endaemon-Johannis Jesuitae pro Henrico Garnetto Jesuitâ proditore quâ mendacissime c. Lond. 1613. qu. Exercitationes de gratiâ perseverantiâ Sanctorum c. Lond. 1618. qu. In Richardi Thomsoni Angli Belgici deatribam de amissione intercessione justificationis gratiae animadversio brevis The former of which two viz. Exerc. de gratia c. was printed at Francfort 1619. under this title Exercitationes Academicae de gratiâ perseverantiâ Sanctorum itâ—mque de intercessione justificationis in oct As for Rich. Thomson you may see more of him in the Fasti an 1596. De supremâ potestate regiâ exercitationes habitae in Acad. Oxon contra Rob. Bellarminum Franc. Suarez Lond. 1619. qu. He also wrote a most accurate Commentary in Latin upon the Epistle to the Romans with large Sermons upon every verse in which he handled as his Text gave him occasion all the controverted points of Religion at this day This Commentary which is in 4 volumes in MS. was given to Bodlies Library by Dr. Edw. Corbet Rector of Hasâ—ley in Oxfordshire who married Margaret the Daughter of Sir Nath Brent Knight by his Wife Martha the only Daughter and Heir of the said Dr. Rob. Abbot Other matters also he left behind him fit for the Press but whether they were all printed I know not At length through a too sedentary life which brought him to the terrible disease of the Stone in the Kidneys he gave way to fate on the second of March in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Cath. Church of Salisbury over against the Bishops seat having in less than two years before married a second Wife for which he gained the great displeasure of his Brother Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury I find another Rob. Abbot who was a frequent writer but after the former in time He was originally of Cambridge and afterwards a Minister of God's Word first in Kent then in Hampshire and at length in London as I shall more at large tell you in the Fasti 1607. WALTER WYLSHMAN a Cornish man born educated in Exeter coll took the degrees in Arts stood as a Member of Broadgates hall in an Act celebrated 1594. to compleat it being about that time Minister of Dartmouth in Devonshire and much resorted to for his frequent and practical way of Preaching He hath written and published The sincere Preacher Proving that in whom is adulation avarice and ambition he cannot be sincere Delivered in three Sermons in Dartmouth upon 1 Thes 2. 5 6. Lond. 1616. oct THOMAS BASTARD a most ingenious and facetious person of his time was born at a Market Town in Dorsetshire called Blandford educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1588. and two years after Bach. of Arts. But this person being much guilty of the vices belonging to Poets and given to libelling he was in a manner forced to leave his Fellowship in 1591. So that for the present being put to his shifts he was not long after made Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Suffolk Lord Treasurer of England by whose favour and endeavours he became Vicar of Beer-Regis and Rector of Amour or Hamer in his native Country being then M. of A. He was a person endowed with many rare gifts was an excellent Grecian Latinist and Poet and in his elder years a quaint Preacher His discourses were always pleasant and facete which made his company desired by all ingenious men He was a most excellent Epigrammatist and being always ready to versifie upon any subject did let nothing material escape his fancy as his compositions running through several hands in MS. shew One of which made upon his three Wives runs thus Terna mihi variis ducta est aetatibus uxor Haec juveni illa viro tertia nâ—pta seni Prima est propter opus teneris mihi juncta sub annis Altera propter opes tertia propter opem The things that he hath written and published are many but all that I have seen are only these Epigrams Which being very pleasant to the Reader that noted Poet Sir Joh. Harrington of Kelston made one or more Epigrams dedicated to the author of them Pocma intit Magna Britannia lib. 3. Lond. 1605. qu. Dedicated to K. Jam. 1. Five Sermons Lond. 1615. qu. The three first on Luke 1. 76. are called The Marigold and the Sun The two last on Luke 7. 37 38. are intit The Sinners Looking-glass Twelve Sermons Lond. 1615. qu. The first on Ephes 4. 26. is intit A Christian exhortation to innocent anger The second on Exod. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. is The calling of Moses c. This Poet and Preacher being towards his latter end crazed and thereupon brought into debt was at length committed to the Prison in Allhallows Parish in Dorchester where dying very obscurely and in a mean condition was buried in the Church-yard belonging to that Parish on 19. Apr. in sixteen hundred and eighteen year 1618 leaving behind him many memorials of his Wit and Drollery In my collection of Libels or Lampoons made by diverâ— Oxford Students in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth I meet with two made by his author One of which is intit An admonition to the City of Oxford or his Libel intit Marprelates Basterdine Wherein he reflects upon all persons of note in Oxon that were guilty of amorous exploits or that mixed themselves with other Mens Wives or with wanton Huswives in Oxon. Another also was made after his
will tell you He dyed in that parish in 1649. as I think but was not of the University of Oxon. PETER ALLIBOND an ingenious man in the opinion of all that knew him was born at Wardenton near to Banbury in Oxfordshire where his name and family had for some generations lived became a Student of Magd. hall in the beginning of 1578. aged 18. years or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts travelled for some time beyond the Seas and at his return became Rector of Cheyneys in Bucks Where continuing many years did much improve the ignorant with his found doctrine What he hath written I know not nor translations which he hath made only these two from French into English viz. 1 Comfort for an afflicted conscience wherein is contained both consolation and instruction for the sick c. Lond. 1591. oct written by John de L'espine 2 Confutation of the popish transubstantiation together with a narration how that the Mass was at sundry times patched and pieced by sundry Popes c. Lond. 1592. oct And a translation from Lat. into English entit The golden chain of Salvation Lond. 1604. qu. written by Harman Renecher This Pet. Allibond died on the sixth day of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Cheyneys before mention'd leaving then behind him three Sons one of which was called John a witty man of Magd. coll whom I shall mention elsewhere another named Peter of Linc. coll Proctor of this University in 1640. and a third Job who changing his Religion to which he had been carefully brought up for that of Rome which was the reason I presume why his name was omitted in his Fathers Will did at length get a place in the Post Office which kept him and his in a comfortable condition This Job was Father of Rich. Allibond a Barrester of Grays Inn who being also a Roman Catholick was not only Knighted by K. James 2. but also made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench to which Office he was sworn by the name of Rich. Allebone 28. Apr 1687. He dyed at his house near to the back part of Grays Inn 22. of Aug. 1688. aged 47 years of thereabouts and was buried on the fourth of Sept. following at Dagenham in Essex near to the grave of his Mother JAMES LEY a younger Son of Henry Ley of Teffont-Evias in Wilts Son of Henry Ley of Ley in the parish of Bere-Ferres in Devonsh Esq was born at Teffonts-Evias became a Commoner of Brasenose coll in the beginning of 1569. aged 17. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts and on the first of May 1577. he was admitted a Student of Lincolns Inn where making great proficiency in the Municipal Law which was much advanced by his Academical learning he became a Councellour of great repute was call'd to the Bench. 22. Eliz. and in the 44. of that Qu. was Lent reader of that Inn. After which his profound learning and other great abilities deservedly rais'd him to sundry degrees of honour and eminent employment For in the 1. of Jac. 1. he was called to the state and degree of Serjeant at Law and in the year following he was constituted Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in Ireland in which place he continued till Mich. term 6. Jac. 1. and then being a Knight he was made Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries in England Shortly after he obtained a Privy Seal from the Kings Maj. dat 15. May 7. Jac. 1. to take place in the said Court of the Kings Attorney General which till then was never used but since hath constantly been observed By virtue of that Seal and by appointment of Rob. Earl of Salisbury then Master of the said Court he took the place the same day of Sir Hen. Hobart Knight then Attorney General to his Majesty During his continuance in that place he was made a Baronet and in the 18. Jac. he was removed from that Court having been Attorney 12 years and upwards and was made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench in England In 22. Jac. he was made Lord High Treasurer of Engl. and a Counsellour of State and on the last day of the same month he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron by the title of Lord Ley of Ley before mentioned In the 1. of Car. 1. he was created Earl of Marlborough in wilts and in the fourth of that King he resign'd his place of Treasurer and was made Lord President of the Council He was a person of great gravity ability and integrity and of the same mind in all conditions He hath written Treatise concerning Wards and Liveries Lond. 1642. oct composed by the author while he was Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries Reports of divers resolutions in Law arising upon cases in the Court of Wards and other Courts at Westminster in the Reigns of King James and King Charles Lond. 1659. fol. He also collected with intentions to publish some of the historical writers of Ireland for which end he caused to be transcribed and made fit for the Press the Annals of John Clynne a Friâ—r Minor of Kilkenny who lived in the time of K. Ed. 3. the Annals of the Priory of St. John the Evangelist of Kilkenny and the Annals of Multifernan Resse and Clonmell c. But his weighty occasions did afterwards divert his purpose After his death the copies came into the hands of Henry Earl of Bathe who also did intend to make them publick but what diverted him I cannot tell Our author Sir Jam. Ley E. of Marlborough ended his days in his lodgings in Lincolns Inn on the 14. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and was buried in an Isle joyning to the Church of Westbury in Wilts in which Parish he had purchased an Estate Over his grave was soon after a stately monument erected by Hen. Ley his Son who succeeded him in his honour begotten on the body of his Father's first Wife named Mary Daughter of John Pettie of Stoke-Talmach and Tetsworth in Com. Oxon Esq THOMAS VICARS who writes himself Vicarsus and de Vicariis was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland made his first entry into Queens coll in the beginning of 1607. aged 16. where after he had been a poor serving Child Tabarder and Chaplain he was elected Fellow 1616. being then M. of A. Six years after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences about which time he being esteemed an able Theologist Preacher and well qualified with other learning was taken into the Family of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester and by him preferr'd after he had married his Daughter Anne to the Vicarage of Cockfield near Horsham in Sussex and as it seems to a Dignity in the Church of Chichester His works are Manuductio ad artem Rhetoricam ante paucos annos iâ— privatum quorundum Scholarium usum concinnata c. Lond. 1621. oct there again 1628.
the late Soveraign K. James Lond. 1625. a Poem and other things which I have not yet seen but he was not the author of the Appendix to the Commentary of Engl. Bishops as one or more think He died within the City of Westminster having always been in animo Catholicus in sixteen hundred thirty and three whereupon his body was buried in the Abby Church of S. Peter there near to the door entring into the Monuments or the door thro which people enter to see the Monuments on the three and twentieth day of July in the same year I have seen a copy of his Epitaph made by himself wherein he is stiled miserimus peccator musarum amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus c. and another made by a second person which for brevity sake I now pass by In my searches I find one Hugh Holland to have been admitted Bac. of Arts with Tho. Worthington afterwards a Jesuit in Mich. Term an 1570. and another Hugh Holland an Esquires Son of Denbighshire to be matriculated as a member of Ball. coll an 1582. aged 24. with others of that Sirname of the same house but whether any of them were authors I cannot yet tell or whether the last was the same with the Poet. Qu. GEORGE ABBOT younger brother to Rob. Abbot whom I have mention'd under the year 1617. was born in the same Town and house where Robert was bred also in the same School under Mr. Franc. Taylor entred a student in Ball. coll 1578. aged 16. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow thereof 29. Nov. 1583. being then Bach. of Arts and afterwards proceeding in that faculty he entred into holy Orders and became a celebrated preacher in the University In 1597. he was licensed to proceed in Divinity and in the same year being elected Master of Vniversity coll gave up all right that he had to his Fellowship In the latter end of 1599. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Martin Heton promoted to the See of Ely Which Dignity he keeping till 1609. succeeded then Dr. Thom. Morton Dean of Glocester On the third of Dec. 1609. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto made to him on the 29. of the same month In Febr. following he was translated to London and being elected soon after to the See of Canterbury had the Kings consent to it 29. March 1610. On the 9. of Apr. 1611. he was translated to the said See of Canterbury and on the 4. of May following had restitution made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto On the 23. of June ensuing he was sworn a member of his Majesties Privy Council and accordingly took his place So that he having never been Rector or Vicar of a parish and so consequently was in a manner ignorant of the trouble that attended the ministers of Gods word was the cause as some think why he was harsh to them and why he shew'd more respect to a Cloak than a Cassock He was a person pious and grave and exemplary in his life and conversation He was also a learned man and had his erudition all of the old stamp He was stiffly principled in the doctrine of S. Augustine which they who understand it not call Calvinism and therefore disrelish'd by them who incline to the Massilian and Arminian Tenets Those that well remember him have said that tho he was a plausible preacher yet his brother Robert was a greater Scholar and tho an able Statesman yet Robert was a deeper Divine The things that he hath written are these which shew him to be a man of parts learning vigilancy and unwearied study tho overwhelm'd with business Questiones sex totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theologicâ Oxomiae pro formâ habitis discussae disceptatae an 1597 in quibus è sacra scriptura Patribus quid statuendum sit definitur Oxon 1598. qu. Francof 1616. qu. which last edition was published by Abrah Scultetus Exposition on the Prophet Jonah contained in certain Sermons preached in S. Maries Ch. in Oxon. Lond. 1600. and 1613. The reasons which Dr. Hill hath brought for the upholding of Papistry unmasked and shewed to be very weak c. Oxon. 1604. qu. Which book was in answer to one intit A quartron of reasons of Cath. Religion with as many brief answers of refusal Antw. 1600. qu. written by Tho. Hill D. D. then living at Phalempyne beyond the Sea who a little before had left the Church of England to embrace the Doctrine of that of Rome He was also answer'd by Franc. Dillingham Bac. of Div. of Cambridge in a book intit A quartron of reasons composed by Dr. Hill unquartered and proved a quartron of follies Cambridge 1603. qu. Preface to the examination of George Sprot London 1608. qu. Sermon at Westminster 26 May 1608. at the funeral solemnities of Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord High Treasurer of England on Isaiah 40. 6. London 1608. qu. Brief description of the whole world Lond. 1617. qu the 9th edition Other editions in oct followed and the book is commonly called Abbots Geography Treatise of perpetual visibility and succession of the true Church in all ages Lond. 1624. qu. His name is not set to this book only his Arms empaled by those belonging to the See of Canterbury are put before it and 't is generally reputed to be his and none but his History of the Massacre in the Valtoline At the end of the third vol. of Joh. Fox hs book of Acts and Mon. of the Church Lond. 1631. 41. c. His Judgment of bowing at the name of Jesus Ham. 1632. oct Several Speeches and Discourses in Parliament and elsewhere At length he being found guilty of casual homicide the particulars of which are mention'd by Historians he retired for a time to Guildford in Surrey the place of his nativity where he had erected an Hospital for men and women Afterwards removing to Croyden he gave way to fate in his Pallace there on the fourth day of August year 1633 in sixteen hundred thirty and three aged 71. Whereupon according to his desire his body was buried in the Chappel of our Lady within Trinity Church in Guildford Over his grave was soon after built a sumptuous Altar or Table-monument with his proportion in his Pontificalia lying thereon supported by six pillars of the Dorick order of black Marble standing on six pedestals of piled books with a large inscription thereon beginning thus Sacrum memoriae honoratiss Archipraesulis c. At the east end of the said Mon. is another large inscript which begins also thus Aeternae memoriae Sacrum Magni hic Hospes Hospitis monumenta vides c. Besides this Dr. George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury I find another of both his names to have been a writer also but later in time and author of The whole book of Job Paraphrased c. London 1640. qu. Dedicated to
of Arts to be the same with him who became perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1513 and was afterwards an eminent Schoolmaster Jul. 11. Will. Tresham of Merton Coll. March 15. John Rogers Quaere Bach. of Div. Six admitted of whom Richard Glocester and John Newbolt Benedictines were two and about 23 supplicated who were not admitted this year among whom were John Perrot a Minorite Thomas Hill B. of A. and a Bonhome c. Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 6. John Leffe of New Coll. He was afterwards Warden of the College at Maidstone in Kent Vicar General and Keeper of the Spirituality to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near to Winchester He died 19 Aug. 1557 aged 66 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to Wykeham's Coll. near to the said City of which Coll. he was Fellow For the said Degree supplicated Edward Orenge LL. B. and for the Degree of D. of Canon Law supplicated two who were afterwards admitted Doct. of Div. Jan… Leonard Huchenson Master of Vnivers Coll. Jan. ult Robert Law or Low a Carme now Prior of the College of Carmes in the North Suburb of Oxon. In 1505 he was made Provincial of the Carmes in the place of John Vynde or Wynde which honorable Office he keeping about 17 years was succeeded in it by Rich. Ferys Feb. 11. Thomas Mole or Molle a Carme 25. Thomas Francis a Minorite or Franciscan There also supplicated for the said Degree John Burgeis Bach. of Divinity of Magdalen College who was elected President of that House upon Dr. Laurence Stubbes his resignation an 1527 and by the name of President he doth occur in a Deed or Writing dated 10 Jul. the same year but soon after being removed Dr. Richard Knolles was elected Others there were that supplicated who were afterwards admitted except one Mabot Bac. of Div. Incorporations May… Father Robert Myles a Dominican Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge Oct… Fernandus or Ferdinandus de Victoria Doctor of Physick beyond the Seas now Physitian to King Hen. 8. and the Queen Consort He Dr. Thomas Lynacre and Dr. John Chambre were the first Founders of the College of Physitians at London Oct… William Arden a Dominican or Black Fryer Prior elect of the College or Convent of the Black Fryers in the South Suburb of Oxon and D. of D. in the Court of Rome Feb… Thomas Wellys or Wells Master of Arts of this University and Doctor of Divinity elsewhere Whether he be the same with Thomas Wellys mention'd in the Incorporations under the year 1510 I know not This year the month I cannot tell I find that there was a kind of a Supplicate made for one Magnus a Doctor beyond the Sea to be incorporated here but in what Faculty I cannot yet discover This Person was the same with Thomas Magnus who was a Foundling at Newark upon Trent in Nottinghamshire and had the Sirname of Among us given to him as being maintained among certain People there or as some say by certain Yorkshire Clothiers who occasionally travelled that way early in the Morning and first found him At length being brought up in Literature in one of the Universities in England became so much noted to King Henry 8. that he was by him not only promoted to several Dignities but sent Embassador into various Countries whereupon he was by the generality of People called Dr. Magnus and by some Magnus Doctor Among several Embassies that he was employed in was that into Scotland an 1524 where he was employed as the Kings Agent to procure his business and to encline the young Kings eat towards him as also to give intelligence c. Among the Dignities he enjoyed were 1 The Archdeaconry of the East-Riding of Yorkshire to which he was collated in June 1504 upon the promotion of Dr. Richard Mayhew to the See of Hereford 2 The Sacristship of the Chappel of our Lady and the holy Angels at York to which he was collated in Dec. the same year 3 A Canonry in the Church of Windsore an 1520 which he resigning in the latter end of 1547 was succeeded by Dr. Richard Cox 4 The Mastership of the hospital of St. Leonard at York c. And among the benefices he had was the rectory of Bedall in Yorkshire one Towards his latter end he founded a Free-school in the place of his nativity which he well endowed and paying his last debt to nature at Sesay or Sessay in Yorkshire 27. Aug. or thereabouts in 1550 was buried in the Church there Whereupon John Dakyn LL. D. was installed in his Archdeaconry of the East-riding 13. April 1551. I have seen a copy of his last Will and Test dated 8. March 1549. and proved 30. Apr. 1551 wherein he desires that if he dye at his house at Sybthorp or nigh those parts to be buried in the Trinity Isle of the Church of Newark upon Trent afore the midst of the altar there for there he was baptized c. He makes mention therein of his singular good Lord and Master Savage sometimes Archbishop of York and his singular good Lord the Earl of Wilts and Lord Treasurer of England An. Dom. 1521. An. 13. Hen. 8. Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury Commiss Richard Benger D. of Dec. Proct. Henry Tyndall of Merton College Bor. John Wilde Austr April 17. Grammar May 12. John Kendall 13. Richard Guissoll Jul. 8. Henry Golde Sec. Chaplain One George Marshall did also supplicate but was not admitted Qu. Bach. Musick Feb… John Sylvester did supplicate and was as it seems admitted in that month being at the same time accounted very eminent in his profession Bach. of Arts. About 60 were admitted and about 29. supplicated who were not admitted this year Jul. 8. John Mason about this time Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. was then admitted He was born at a mercate town called Abendon in Berks the son of a Cowherd by his Wife the Sister of a Monk at that place Which last Person finding him very apt to learn he caused him to be trained up in Grammaticals and Academicals in this University where he obtained for him a Fellowship in the said Coll. of All 's Soon after his pregnant and acute parts being taken notice of by great Persons he was upon the motion of Sir Thomas More sent by the King to the University of Paris to be accomplished with other parts of learning After his return thence he became a favourite to K. Hen. 8. who employed him in several Embassies and made him one of his Privy Council After that Kings death he was made a Privy-counsellour to K. Ed. 6. and tho he was a Knight and a perfect Lay-man yet he enjoyed several Church Dignities or as one saith he was a great intruder into Ecclesiastical Livings Among which the Deanery of Winchester Cathedral was one installed therein in the place of William Kingesmyll the last Prior of St. Swithins Monastery there and the first
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 yet he was a promoter and encourager of it by founding a Free-school at Agmondesham commonly called Amersam in Bucks and by giving 20 l. per an for the maintenance of a Divinity Lecture in Ch. Ch. or for three poor Scholars for their exhibition to be chosen out of Amersam of which place he was Rector or out of Goldesborough or Knaresborough in Yorkshire at one of which places he was as 't is said born Jul. 15. Thom. Holland of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards the learned Professor of the Kings Lecture of Div. Hen. Ledsham of Mert Coll. a compounder was admitted the same day March 8. Tho. White of Magd. hall He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Ch. This year Camillus Cardonius a Nâ—opolitan Son of a Baron and a Student in Glocester hall aged 40 did sue after a Degree to be confer'd upon him but in what faculty it appears not Incorporations May…Rich Vaughan M. A. of Cambridge He was a Caernaâ—vanshire Man born educated in St. Johns Coll. in Cambr. and afterwards was successively Bishop of Bangor Chester and London During which time he was accounted an excellent Preacher and a pious liver Jul. 14. Thom. Braddâ—ck M. A. of the said University He was Fellow of Christs Coll. and afterward Bach. of Divinity and translator of Jewell's Defence of the Apologie as I have told you in John Jewell among the Writers an 1571. Nathaniel Cole M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day He was afterwards Proctor of the said University Minister of Much Parrington near Harlow in Essex and at length of St. Leonards Bromley on the backside of Stratford-bow in Middlesex He hath published 1 The godly Mans assurance of his own Salvation Lond. 1615. qu. 2 Preservatives against sin or bow to live and not sin c. Lond. 1618. qu. 3 The Christians welcome to the Court of Heaven c. a Sermon Lond. 1625. qu. and other things which I have not seen Edw. Scambler M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the same day One E. Schambler Vicar of Râ—e in Sussex and a member of Peter house in Cambr. wrot and published A Medicine proved for a desperate conscience printed at Lond. in oct whether written by Edward Scambler M. of A. or Edmund Scambler who was afterwards Bishop of Peterborough and Norwich I cannot tell Quaere Andrew Willet M. of A. of Cambr. was also then Jul. 14. incorporated being in a congregation after the conclusion of the Act He was born in Ely in Cambridgshire educated in Christs Coll. succeeded his Father Mr. Thom. Willet in a Prebendship of Ely and in the Parsonage of Barley in Hertfordshire published divers books the titles of most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue and dying 4. Dec. 1621. was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Barley An. Dom. 1585. An. 27 Elizab. An. 28 Elizab. Chanc. the same viz. Robert Earl of Leycester who going into the Low Countries this year deputed Sir Tho. Bromley Knight Lord Chanc. of England to execute the office of Chancellour of the University 5. Decemb. Vicechanc. Edmund Lilye D. D. Master of Balliol College July 16. Proct. Tho. Singleton of Br. Coll. John Bennet of Ch. Ch. Apr. 21. Bach. of Musick June 26. Nathaniel Giles See more of him in an 1622. He was Father to Nath. Giles D. D. whom I shall mention under the year 1625. Jul. 14. Matthew Godwyn whether he hath published any matters relating to the fac of Musick I know not Bach. of Arts. Jun. 17. Alexander Cook of Brasnose afterwards of Vniversity College Oct. 27. Hen. Wilkinson of Queens Coll. He was afterwards Fellow of Mert. Coll. and Author of The Debt-book c. Feb. 1. Rich. Eaton of Lincolne Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Divinity in 1599. Admitted 128. or thereabouts Mast of Arts. Ap. 3. Hen Parry of C. C. Coll. Rich. Fownes of Ch. Ch. Jun. 3. Will. Hubbocke of C. C. 10. John Smith of St. Johns 14. George Carleton of Merton Coll. Jul. 6. Peter Allibond of Magd. hall 8. Richard Parks of Brasn Dec. 17. George Abbot of Ball. Coll. Admitted 67. Bach. of Div. June 21. Erasmus Webbe of All 's Coll. In 1589 he was made Archdeacon of Buckingham in the place of him who if I mistake not succeeded in that Dignity one Richard Porter deprived about 1560 and on the 30. Sept. 1590 he was installed Canon of Windsore in the place of William King Bach. of Div. and Prebendary of Canterbury deceased He died 24. March 1613 and was buried at Windsore whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Rob. Newell Bac. afterwards D. of Div. and his Canoâ—â—y on Dr. Tho. Sheafe of Cambridge Jun. 21. Thom. Pye of Merton Coll. Admitted 10. Doct. of Law July 13. Gabriel Harvey M. of A. of Cambridge where he obtained his grace this year to proceed in the Civil Law was then admitted Doctor of the Civ Law here He performed certain exercise in this University for the said Degree and stood in the Act to compleat it 11. Jul. 1586. This Person who made a great noise in his time was born at Saffron-walden in Essex and tho his Father was a Rope-maker as Thom. Nash a great scoffer and his Antagonist tells us yet he had rich kindred and was nearly allied to Sir Thom. Smith the great Statesman in Qu. Elizabeths Reign His first Academical breeding was in Christs Coll. in Cambridge where in short time he made great proficiency to the wonder and amazement of his Tutor Afterwards he became Fellow of Trinity hall and so excellent and learned an Orator and Poet that books of those faculties were dedicated to him Afterwards he was Proctor of that University and at elder years he applied his studies to Astrologie wherein he became eminent and wrot as 't is said Almanacks much in esteem in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth His other works are 1 Rhetor sive 2. dierum oratio de natura arte exercitatione Rhetorica Lond. 1577. qu. 2 Ciceronianus vel oratio post reditum habita Cantabrigiae ad suos auditores Lond. 1577. qu. 3 XAIPE vel gratulationum Valdenensium libri quatuor Lond. 1578. qu. in Lat. vers 4 Smithus vel Musarum Lachrymae pro obitu honoratiss viri c. Thomae Smith Eq. aur Majestatisque regiae Secretarii Lond. 1578. qu. 5 A new letter of notable contents with a strange sonnet entituled Gorgon Lond. 1593. qu. 6 Pierces superarrogation or a new praise of the old asse A preparative to certain larger discourses entit Nashes S. fame Lond. 1593. qu. with Letters and Sonnets before and after the said book made upon the Author Harvey by several Poets of that time 7 An advertisement for Pap-hatchet and Martin Marprelate printed with the former book with other things wherein he tramples much upon Rob. Green the Poet which I have not yet seen This Dr. Gab. Harvey was esteemed an ingenious Man and an excellent Scholar but 't was his and his Brother
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
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
antient copies particularly with a MS. in Vniversity Coll. Library entit Octoteuchus two Greek MSS. translated into Arabick in the Bodlcian Library and an antient MS. formerly in that of Sir Robert Cotton but lost in the hands of a French Man to whom it was lent the said Pat. Young did promise to publish with notes added thereto and accordingly had compared the said copy with the others above named to the 15 Chapt. of Numbers and no farther if Dr. Br. Walton saith right The effect of this undertaking being much expected and desired by learned Men especially beyond the Seas certain Brethren of the Presbyterian perswasion were very zealous with the Assembly of Divines at Westminster to have the business encouraged Whereupon in the latter end of the year 1645 they sent to the house of Mr. Pat. Young to desire him to go forward with the work and an ordinance was read for printing and publishing of the said Testament of the Septuagint translation At which time also John Selden and Bulstrode Whitlock did undertake the printing of it but what hindred them in going on with the work I find not In 1649 P. Young who had sided with the Presbyterians left his place of Library keeper to the King the books there being mostly embezell'd whereupon the said Whitlock succeeding Young continued still a sojournor at Bromfield in Essex where I think he died an 1652 for in Sept. that year his next relation administer'd Afterwards Dr. Walton beforemention'd printed Youngs notes and annotations with his own continuation of collations in the sixth vol. of his Polyglot Bible and Dr. Jo. Fell the first Epistle of St. Clement from Youngs edition and Latine translation with some short running notes added thereunto Oxon. 1669. in tw In 1638. Young put out Expositio in Cant. Canticorum in qu. written by Gilb. Foâ—iot Bishop of London in the time of Hen. 2. and was one of the three Gottefridus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius being the other two who interpreted S. Clements two Epistles to the Corinthians Lond. 1687. oct After his death all or most of his Greek and Latine MSS. collected and written with his own hand came into the possession of Dr. John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Oct. 21. Daniel Calendar M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland These Persons following were incorporated while K. James 1. was entertain'd at Oxon. Aug. 30. Alexander Serle LL. Bach. of Cambridge To whose name is this added in the publick register ad causas negotia ecclesiastica civilia maritima forinseca Procurator regius generalis Thom. Howard Earl of Suffolk Rob. Cecill Earl of Salisbury M. A. of Cambr. The first of these two Counts was afterwards Lord Chamberlain of the Kings houshold L. Treasurer of England after Cecill Knight of the Garter and founder of the stately house called Aâ—dley Inne near to Walden in Suffolk He died in 1626 and was buried at Walden The other Ro. Cecill who was Son of Will Lord Burleigh was now Chancellour of the Univ. of Cambridge afterwards Lord Treasurer of England and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter He died in 1612 and was buried at Hatfield in Hertfordshire George Thomson M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland He was born in that City and afterwards became Pastor of the reformed Church at Chastegneraye in France He hath written several books among which are 1 De pompa in Jac. 1. introitâ— in Londinum Sylva Lond. 1604. oct 2 Vindex veritatis adversus Lipsium lib. 2. Lond. 1606. oct 3 Quatre harmonies sur la Revelation print 1607. oct 4 La Chasse de la Beste Romaine etc. Rochel 1611. oct c. Tho. Dempster in his Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam hath two George Thomsons that were Writers viz. George Thomson a Priest an 1595 and George Thomson a Heretick as he calls him an 1599 which last I presume is our Author who was incorporated at Oxon and the same whom Joh. Dunbar a Scot doth celebrate for his learning in his book of Epigrams George Ruggle M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge One Ruggle of the said hall was Author of that celebrated Comedy called Ignoramus acted before K. Jam. 1. at Camb. 8. Mar. 1614. Whether the same with George I cannot yet affirm … Craig a Scot Doctor of Phys of the University of Basil This is all that appears of him in the publick register So that whether he be the same with Dr… Craig the Kings Physician who died in Apr. 1620 I know not or whether he be Joh. Cragg Dr. of Phys Author of a MS. intit Capnuraniae seu Comet in 〈◊〉 subâ—mationis refutatio written in qu. to Tycho Brahe a Dane I am altogether ignorant One Dr. Joh. Cragg was buried in the Church of St. Martins in the Fields near London about 1653. Barnab Gouge Goch or Gooche Doct. of the Civ Law of Cambr He was about this time Master of Magd. Coll. in that University afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Worcester and died at Exeter where he had an office or dignity in the latter end of 1625. One of both his names translated into English The pâ—pish Kingdom or Reign of Antichrist Lond. 1570. qu. written in Latine verse by Tho. Naogeorgius and Four books of husbandry Lond. 1586. qu. written in Lat. by Conr. Heresbachius and something of Palengenius But this translator if I mistake not was Barnab Gooche of Albin 〈◊〉 or Alvingham in Lincolnshire Grandfather to Barnab Gooche living there in 1634 and after John Hammond Doct. of Phys of Cambridge He was now Physician to Prince Henry and Father to Henr. Hammond afterwards the learned and celebrated Theologist Creations Jun. 28. Henry Rowlands Bach. of Div. and Bishop of Bangor was actually created Doctor of that faculty Aug. 13. Hen. Ashworth of Oriel John Cheynell of C. C. Coll. These two who were eminent and learned Physicians were then actually created Doctors of Physick because they were designed by the Delegates appointed by Convocation to be Opponents in the disputations to be had before the King at his entertainment by the Muses in the latter end of the said month of Aug. John Gourden Gordonius of Balliol Coll. was created D. of D. the same day Aug. 13. because he was to dispute before the King his kinsman After his disputation was ended he had his Degree compleated by the Kings Professor of Divinity purposely not that there was a necessity of it to shew unto His Majesty the form of that Ceremony This noble Person was born in Scotland of the house of Huntley was instructed in his youth in the Schools and Colleges as well in Scotland as in France in liberal Arts and Sciences and in the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Languages and other Orientals Afterwards he was Gentleman of three Kings Chambers in France viz. Charles 9. Hen. 3. and 4 and while he was in the flower of his age he was there assailed with many corruptions as well spiritual
to Oxon again and was readmitted to his Fellowship of Vniv. Coll. by the Master and Fellows thereof an 1644 submitted to the Parliamentarian Visitors an 1648 and was the only Man of the old stock that was then left therein Afterwards going to London for a time died in Fetter alias Feuter lane near to Fleetstreet an 1651. in the Summer time whereupon his body was buried in St. Dunstans Church in the West Apr. 13. James Smith of Line June 17. Nath. Holmes of Exet. Coll. July 3. Tho. Twittie of Oriel Coll. This Person who was a Ministers Son of Worcestersh became a Student of the said Coll. of Or. an 1611. aged 17 years and after he had taken the Degrees in Arts became successively Schoolmaster of Evesham in his own Country Minister of St. Laurence Church there Vicar of North Leigh in Oxfordshire beneficed afterwards again in his own Country and at length became Minister of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey He hath published 1 Ad clerum pro forma concio habita in templo B. Mariae Oxon 13. Mar. 1634 in 1. Pet. 3. 8. Ox. 1640. qu. 2 The Art of Salvation Sermon at St. Maries in Oxon on Acts 6. 30. 31. Printed 1643. qu. He died at Kingston beforemention'd in the latter end of the year 1667 and was there buried July 10. George Hughes of Pembr Nov. 7. Rich. Toogood of Oriel Coll. 9. Joh. Sedgwick of Magd. Hall Jan. 28. Hen. Hammond of Magd. Coll. Admitted 24. Doct. of Law Jun. 3. Will. Nevill of Mâ—rt Coll. Tho. Temple of St. Edm. Hall The first of these two was Chancellour of Chichester and both the Sons of Knights 27. Joseph Martin of Wadham Coll. Doct. of Physick Jun. 21. Edw. Dawson of Line Anton. Saltâ—r of Exet. Coll. Both which were eminent Physicians of their time and age Doct. of Div. Apr. 3. Hen. Glemham of Trin. 13. Peter Heylyn of Magd. June…Rich Downe of Ex. Coll. July 16. Rich. Baylie President of St. Johns Coll. On the 7. of Feb. 1627. this Dr. Baylie who was then Bach. of Div. and one of the Kings Chaplains as also a Dignitary in the Church of St. David was collated to the Archdeaconry of Nottingham upon the promotion of Dr. Jos Hall to the See of Exeter Which Dignity he resigning was succeeded by Dr. Will. Robinson Brother by the Mothers side to Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Cant. who was installed therein 25. of May 1635 At which time Dr. Baylie was Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Edm. Mason whom I shall anon mention in the Incorporation He died in a good old age at Salisbury after he had suffer'd much for his loyalty to K. Ch. 1. on the 27. of July 1667 and was buried at the upper end of St. Johns Coll. Chap. on the right side of the grave of Dr. Will. Juxon somtimes Archb. of Cant. In the year 1662 he built a little Chappel at his own charge and not at that of St. Joh. Coll. as by a mistake is elsewhere told you situat and being on the North side of the said Chappel of St. Johns with a vault underneath In which Chappel was soon after his death a stately Monument erected with the Effigies of him the said Dr. Baylie lying thereon curiously engraven in alabaster from head to foot and much resembling him in his last days One Richard Baylie sometimes Minister of Crawley in Sussex wrot The Shepheards star or Ministers guide Conc. ad Cler. in Apoc. 1. 16. Lond. 1640. qu. At which time the Author as it seems was dead But where he was educated being quite different from the former I know not July 16. Thomas Lawrence of All 's Pet. Wentworth of Ball. Coll. The first of these two was afterwards Master of Balliol College and Margaret Professor of this University The other who was an Esquires Son of Northamptonshire and Fellow of the said College of Balliol was afterwards made Dean of Armagh by Tho. Earl of Strafford Lord Deputy of Ireland But when the rebellion broke out in that Kingdom he lost all and fled into England where living obscurely till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. refused to return to his Deanery or be made a Bishop there and accepted only of the rectory of Haseley in Oxfordshire He died in the City of Bathe 22. July 1661. aged 60 years and was buried in the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there on the north side of the stately tomb of Dr. James Mountague sometimes Bishop of the said City In his Epitaph engraven on a brass plate fastned to a plain white stone laying over his grave he is thus charactarized Patriciorum proles doctrinae maritus Summus Hyberniae Decanus Angliae Praeconum Primas c. One Peter Wentworth who was Rector of Much Bromley in Essex and Chaplain to Thomas Lord Darcie hath published A Sermon on Psal 2. 10. 11. Lond. 1587. in oct and is the same if I mistake not who wrot An exhortation to Qu. Elizabeth and discourse of the true and lawful successor printed in 1598. oct But whether he was of this University I cannot yet find or whether he took any Degree or was incorporated July 19. John Elly of Merton Coll. who accumulated In 1623. he was made Canon of Windsore in the place of Dr. Thomas Oates deceased 20. Thom. Walker Master of Vniv. Coll. and Preâ— of Litton in the Church of Wells Oct. 7. Arth. Wingham of St. Joh. Feb. 27. Hugh Williams of Jes Coll. This Dr. Williams who was Father to Sir Will. Williams of Greys Inn Baronet and several times Speaker of the House of Commons was now or afterwards beneficed at Kantrisant in the Country of Anglesie where he died in 1670. Incorporations May 9. Jam. Howson M. of A. of Cambridge Oct. 24 Will. Hatton Doctor of Physick of the University of Padua Sam. Bispham a Lancashire Man born and Doct. of Phys of the University of Leyden in Holland was incorporated about the same time Afterwards he practised his faculty in London where he died in 1664. Feb. 6. David Cunningham M. of A. of the Univ. of Glascow in Scotland He had lately received holy orders from James Spotswood Bishop of Clogher in the Church of Clogher in Ireland This year was a supplicate made for one Edmund Mason D. of D. to be incorporated but whether he was really so it appears not All that I can say of him is that he was Tutor to Prince Charles that he became Dean of Salisbury 20. March 1629 on the promotion of Dr. John Bowle or Bowles to the See of Rochester and dying in his house in Petty-France in the City of Westminster on the 24. of March 1634 was buried in the North cross part of the Abbey Church of St. Peter near to the Convocation House Creations Apr. 1. Thomas Turner Bachelaur of Divinity lately Fellow of St. Johns Coll. and now one of his Majesties Chaplains was actually created Doct. of Divinity being by his Majesties command to go with him in
beneficial in his generation July 5. John Nicholaus Vaughan a Cambra-Britaine sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University afterwards Doctor of the Laws of Padua was also then incorporated having spent 10 years in the study of that faculty He was the Son of Joh. Nich. Vaughan Esq 10. John Brownlowe sometimes of Brasnose Coll. afterwards of St. Maries Hall and at length in 1631 Doctor of Physick of Leyden was then taken into the bosome of this University Oct. 12. Daniel Brevint of the Isle of Jersey Master of Arts of the Univ. of Saumare in France 16. Antonius Aubertus Master of Arts of the University or Academy of Deinse Deia Augusta Vocuntiorum The said Degree was conferr'd upon him there on the Ides of Septemb. 1619. Nov. 7. George Ent Doctor of Physick of Padua This learned Person who was the Son of Josias Ent was born at Sandwich in Kent 6. Nov. 1604 educated in Sydney Coll. in Cambridge was after he had been doctorated Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London eminent for his practice during the times of Usurpation afterwards President of the said College and at length had the Degree of Knighthood conferr'd upon him by King Charles 2. He hath written 1 Apologia pro circulatione sanguinis contra Aemilium Parisanum Lond. 1641. oct Wherein he hath learnedly defended Dr. William Harvey against the said Parisanus and rendred a very rational account concerning the operation of purging Medicines c. 2 Animadversiones in Malachiae Thrustoni M. D. diatribam de respirationis usu primario Lond. 1679. oct before which is his picture in a long periwig What other things he hath published I cannot tell nor any thing else of him at present only that he dying 13. October 1689 was buried in a Vault under part of the Church of St. Laurence in the Jewry within the City of London Dec. 6. Charles Vane Mast of Arts of Saumaure He was a Cadet of the knightly Family of the Vanes of Fairelane in Kent and being nearly related to Sir Hen. Vane closed with the Faction and in 1650 was sent Agent into Portugal by the Parliament of England Jan. 19. Thom. Temple Bach. of Div. of Linc. Coll. sometimes M. of A. and Fellow of Trin. Coll. near to Dublin was then incorporated Bach. of Div. The said degree he took there 18. June 1630 and in the beginning of March following he was licensed to proceed in this University as 't is before told you This person who was Brother to Sir Joh. Temple Knight Master of the Rolls and one of his Majesties Privy Council in Ireland continued not long in Linc. Coll. for upon the turn of the times in 1641 I find him in London to be a forward Preacher and about that time Minister of Battersea in Surrey afterwards a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament and one of the Assembly of Divines which is all I know of him only he hath certain Sermons in print which he preached before the said Members one of which is entit Christs government in and over his people before the H. of Com. at their Fast 26 Oct. 1642 on Psal 2. 6. Lond. 1642. qu. Creations Apr. 11. John Juxon an Officer belonging to the Lord Treasurer qui ad cubitum summi totius Angliae Thesaurarii à computis est as the Register hath it was declared Bach. of the Civil Law by a Diploma then read and sealed He was nearly related to Dr. Juxon Bishop of London and Lord Treasurer of England Philip Warwick Secretary to the Lord Treasurer qui ad cubitum c. ab epistolis est as in the said Reg. was also diplomated Bach. of the Civ Law the same day This noted person who was Son of Thom. Warwick Organist of the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster and he the Son of Thom. Warwick of Hereford descended from the Warwicks or Warthwykes of Warwick in Cumberland was born in the said City of Westminster educated in Eaton Coll. School near Windsore and was for a time Chorister at Westminster Afterwards he travelled into France and was much at Geneva under the instruction and good counsel of Deodatus the famous Divine Thence returning into his native Country with many accomplishments became Secretary to the Lord Treasurer before mention'd one of the Clerks of the Signet and in 1640 was elected a Burgess for the Town of Radnor in Wales to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. the same year But perceiving soon after what desperate courses the Members thereof took he retired to his Majesty was with him at Oxon and sate in the Parliament there an 1643 at which time and after he had his Lodging in Vniversity Coll. and his Counsel much relyed upon by his Majesty Afterwards he was one of the Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon an 1646 and in 1648 he did attend his Majesty in his disconsolate condition in the Isle of Wight In the times of Usurpation he was involved in the same troubles as all Loyalists were but after his Majesties Restauration being then fix'd in the Clerkship of the Signet he became Secretary to Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer of England in which place he acted so much and so dexterously that he being then a Knight was usually called Sir Philip the Treasurer This person tho he hath published nothing yet he hath left behind him several things fit for the Press among which are 1 Memoirs or reflections upon the Reign of K. Ch. 1. in fol. 2 Of Government as examined by Scripture Reason and the Law of the Land or true weights and measures between Sovereignty and Liberty fol. c. He was esteemed by those that knew him to be a person of a publick spirit above the riches and preferments of the World and to be just in all his Actions and needed not therefore that Character which a certain nameless Author gives of him thus that he never lies more than when he professes to speak the sincerity of his heart He died on the 17 of the Cal. of Feb. 1682 aged 74 years and was buried in the Church at Chiselherst in Kent where he had an Estate I have seen an Epitaph made on him by Dr. Tho. Pierce Dean of Salisbury the first part of which runs thus Cavesis tibi viator ne legens lugeas nam cujus fidem veriverbio Carolus primus celebravit Carolusque secundus expertus est Nec majora quidem nec plura de se dici voluit Vir coelo natus bonorum in terris desiderium optimus veri aestimator aequi bâ—nique tenacissimus Philippus Warwick c. His â—on and Heir was Philip Warwick Esquire sometimes Envoy extraordinary from his Majesty to the King of Sweeden who returning post thence to the Court at Newmarket in order partly to take the last breath of his Father died suddenly of an Apoplexy there in his bed on Monday the 12
possession thereof being the first of all Loyal Heads that was restored to what they had lost in this University Soon after he was by his Majesties favour nominated Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Rich. Holdsworth who died 1649 in which Dignity being installed 12 Sept. 1660 kept it to the time of his death which hapning 27 Oct. 1661 was buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel This most learned meek and pious person was strangely desirous to leave this World tho few alive had then such temptations to stay in it That little which he had got since his Majesties return he gave to pious uses either to the poor or reparation of Churches viz. S. Pauls Winchester of which he was Prebendary Worcester and to his Coll. To which last his two immediate Predecessors Wilkinson and Goodwin who were thrust in by the Parliament and Oliver for their Saintship and zeal to the blessed Cause gave not a farthing but rak'd and scrap'd up all that they could get thence as the rest of the Saints then did in the University Dr. Oliver left also a Legacy seal'd up in a paper to Sir Edw. Hyde then Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chanc. of England sometimes his Pupil while he was in the University for upon his motion it was that he was made Dean of Worcester and Legacies to his Nephews Neece who had been kind to him in his wants and Servants There was some affinity between him and Tho. Oliver an eminent Physitian and Mathematician educated as I conceive in Cambridge a practitioner of his Faculty at S. Edmunds Bury where he died and was buried in 1624. The Titles of his Works you may see in the Oxford Catalogue May 9. Thom. Wykes of S. Joh. 17. Aaron Wilson of Queens Coll. The last was now Archdeacon of Exeter in which Dignity he was succeeded by Edw. Yonge D. D. who occurs Archdeacon 1660. Jun. 25. Bruno Ryves of Magd. Coll. Jul. 2. Joseph Henshaw of Magd. 4. Nich. Gibbon of S. Edm. Hall Hall That last of which accumulated 5. Walt. Clark of Magd. Nov. 29. Will. Hobbs of Trin. Coll. Incorporations June 13. Will. Mostyn M. of A. of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr. One of both his names occurs Archdeacon of Bangoâ— in 1640. and whether he succeeded in that Dignity Edw. Hughes D. D. Rector of Woughton in Bucks who died in Oct. 1633 I cannot yet tell Rob. Lesley a noble young man of great hopes Son of Henry Bishop of Downe and Connor and M. of A. of Aberdene in Scotland was incorporated the same day The degree of Bach. of Arts was confer'd upon him in the University of Dublin 23 March 1636 and that of Master at Aberdene 16 July 1638. Jul. 2. Rob. Price Doct. of the Laws of Dublin He was afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland 9. Edward Lane M. of A. of Cambridge This person who was educated in Pauls School and afterwards in S. Johns Coll. in the said University became Vicar of Northstrobury in Essex by the favour of the Lord Keeper Coventry 1630 and was thence removed by the same hand to the Vicaridge of Spersholt near to Rumsey in Hampshire He hath written Look unto Jesus or an ascent to the holy mount to see Jesus Christ in his glory c. Lond. 1663. qu. and Mercy triumphant the Kingdom of Christ enlarged beyond the narrow bounds which have been put to it by Dr. Lewis du Moulin in his most antichristian book called Moral reflections on the number of the elect c. Lond. 1680. qu. In which year the Author Ed. Lane was living at Spersholt The said Book was reprinted in the year following with this title Du Moulin's reflections reverberated being a full answer to a pamphlet entit Moral Reflections on the number of the elect together with several arguments about Transubstantiation not in any Author yet To which is added An answer to Mr. Edm. Hickeringil's scurrilous piece stiled The second part of naked truth Will. Gorton Bach. of Div. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated the same day He was now Vicar of Lower Gitting in Glocestershire Jul… Thom. Mocket Mast of Arts of Cambridge He was educated in Queens Coll. in that University was about this time Minister of Holt in Denbighshire and afterwards of Gildeston or Gildesden in Hertfordshire He hath published certain Sermons and Christmas the Christians grand feast its original growth and observation Also of Easter Whitsontide c. Lond. 1651. qu. besides other things Jul… Edm. Calamy Bach. of Div. of Cambridge After he had left that University he became a Preacher in S. Edmundsbury in Suffolk where as a certain Anonymus observes he complyed with Bishop Wren the Diocesan preach'd frequently in his surplice and hood read prayers at the rails bowed at the name of Jesus and undertook to satisfie and reduce such as scrupled at those ceremonies Thus the said nameless Author yet Calamy himself saith that while he continued there he never bowed to or towards the Altar never read the book of sports never read prayers at the high Altar and that he preached against Innovations c. But so it was let he himself say what he will that after he had continued 10 years at that place and had complyed as is before mention'd Robert the puritanical Earl of Warwick usually said He would be lost if he were not taken off and so removed him to Rochford in Essex where continuing till the Long Parliament began in Nov. 1640 removed thence to London and became Minister of S. Mary Aldermanbury About which time the Presbyterian growing dominant he became a great Evangelist of the new way encouraged the people to Rebellion was one of those that joyned in making Smectymnus which was the first deadly blow in England given to Episcopacy as divers thought that had hapned for many years before His house also in that Parish was a receptacle then for all Presbyterian Ministers and there was the Remonstrance framed against the Prelates and all or most things hatched to carry on the blessed and beloved Cause At that time he was a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament and he was the first that did openly defend before a Committee of Parliament that our Bishops were not only not an order distinct from Presbyters but that in Scripture a Bishop and a Presbyter were all one Afterwards he was made one of the Assembly of Divines took the Covenant to which he closely stuck ever after and was not wanting on all occasions to carry on the Cause whereby he gained to himself not only a name and repute among the Brethren but also wealth which was the chief thing he looked after After his Majesties Return in 1660 there were â—ome offers in private made to him of a Bishoprick conditionally that he would conform but made delays thinking to enjoy that honorable Function as to be alter'd by the Kings Declaration about ecclesiastical affairs and to be used according
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
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
Edward the old Earl of Hertford when he was sent Embassador to the Archduke for the confirming of a Peace In which Voyage it is observed by a certain person that the Royal Ships of England did then being the first time as he saith suffer an indignity and affront from a Dutch Man of War as he passed by them without vailing Of the same Family was Will. Monson a Knight or Esq Father to Will. Monson Visc Castlemaine who died in the Parish of St. Martins in the Fields near London in January or thereabouts 1642. EDWARD FORSET a Gentlemans Son of Lincolnshire and of the same Family with the Forsets of Billesby in that County became a Commoner of Linc. coll in 1590. or thereabouts aged 18. but leaving that house without the honour of a degree retired at length to his Patrimony and wrote A comparative discourse of the bodies natural and politick Wherein out of the principles of nature is set forth the true form of a Common-weal with the duty of the Subjects and the right of the Sovereign c. Lond. 1606. qu. and other things as 't is probable but such I have not yet seen The next person that must begin the year of 1607. was in his time esteemed a most excellent Latinist and Poet as was by all acknowledged THOMAS NEWTON the eldest Son of Edw. Netwon of Butley in the Parish of Presbury in Cheshire descended originally from the Newtons of Newtons by Alice his Wife was born in that County educated in Grammaticals under John Brownswerd whom I have mentioned under the year 1589. sent while very young to Oxon but making little stay there he went to Cambridge where he setled in Queens coll and became so much renowned for his Latine Poetry that he was numbred by Scholars of his time among the most noted Poets in that Language Afterwards taking Oxon in his way where he continued for some time he retired to his own Country taught School at Macclesfield or near it with good success practiced Physick and was encouraged in his undertakings by Robert Earl of Essex At length being benificed at Ilford in Essex taught School there also as it seems and continued at that place to the time of his death This person hath written several things and translated more the titles of which such that have come to my hands you shall have tho' he is rather to be numbred among the writers of Cambridge than of Oxon. A notable History of the Saracens c. drawn out of August Curio in 3 books Lond. 1575. qu. A summary or brief Chronicle of the Saracens and Turks continued from the birth of Mahomet to an 1575. Printed with the former book Approved Medicines and cordial Precepts with the Nature and Symptoms c. Lond. 1580. oct Illustrium aliquot Anglorum Encomia Lond. 1589. qu. At the end of Jo. Letands Encomia Trophaea c. Atropoion Delion Or the death of Delia with the tears of her Funeral A poetical excusive discourse of our late Elizabeth Lond. 1603. qu. A pleasant new History Or a fragrant Posie made of three flowers Rosa Rosalynd and Rosemary Lond. 1604. He also viewed and corrected Embryon relimatum written by Joh. Stanbridge and was author as a certain writer saith of two Tragedies viz. of the first and second parts of Tamerline the great Scythian Emperor but false For in Tho. Newtons time the said two parts were performed by Christop Marlo sometimes a Student in Cambridge afterwards first an actor on the stage then as Shakespeare whose contemporary he was a maker of Plays tho' inferior both in fancy and merit This Marlo by the way it must be known was author besides the said two Tragedies of 1 The rich Jew of Malta Trag. published at Lond. by Tho. Heywood 2 The tragical History of the life and death of Dr. Jo. Faustus several times printed 3 Lusts dominion c. Trag. Lond. 1661. oct then published by Franc. Kirkman Junior a Bookseller and a great Trader in Plays From which Tragedy was another stolen or at least the better part intit Abdelazer or the Mores revenge Lond. 1677. published under the name of Mistriss Aphora Behn 4 Trag. of K. Ed. 2. 5 Trag. of Dido Qu. of Carthage In the composure of which Tom Nash joyned with him But in the end so it was that this Marlo giving too large a swing to his own wit and suffering his lust to have the full reins fell to that outrage and extremity as Jodelle a French tragical Poet did being an Epicure and an Atheist that he denied God and his Son Christ and not only in word blasphemed the Trinity but also as 't was credibly reported wrote divers discourses against it affirming Our Saviour to be a deceiver and Moses to be conjurer The holy Bible also to contain only vain and idle stories and all religion but a device of policy But see the end of this person which was noted by all especially the Precisian For so it fell out that he being deeply in love with a certain Woman had for his Rival a bawdy serving man one rather fit to be a Pimp than an ingenious Amoretto as Marlo conceived himself to be Whereupon Marlo taking it to be an high affront rush'd in upon to stab him with his dagger But the serving man being very quick so avoided the stroke that with all catching hold of Marlo's wrist he stab'd his own dagger into his own head in such sort that notwithstanding all the means of surgery that could be wrought he shortly after died of his wound before the year 1593. Some time before his death he had began and made a considerable progess in the Poem called Hero and Leander which was afterwards finished by George Chapman who fell short as 't is said of the spirit and invention of Marlo in the performance thereof It was printed at Lond. 1606. in qu. and whether before that time I know not But all this I speak by the by Our author Tho. Newton whom and his works I am further to mention hath also translated from Latine into English 1 A direction for the health of magistrates and students namely such as be in the consistent age or near thereunto Lond. 1574. in tw written by Gul. Gratarolus 2 Commentary or exposition upon the two Epistles general of S. Peter and that of S. Jude gathered out of the lectures and preachings of Dr. Martin Luther by Anonymus Lond. 1581. qu. 3 Touchstone of Complexions containing most easie rules and ready tokens whereby every man may know as well the exact state habit disposition and constitution of his body outwardly as also the inclinations c. of the mind inwardly Lond. 1581. oct written by Levinus Lemnius 4 Third Tragedy of L. Ann. Seneca ent it Thebais Lond. 1581. qu. in old verse and printed in an English character Note that the fourth seventh eight and tenth Tragedys of the said author were in the like manner translated by
to and hated him Card. Allen and Sir Fr. Inglefield as bitter Enemies Of this Nic. Dolman who was a grave Priest and of a mild disposition you may read in a book intit A relation of a Faction began at Wisbich 1595 c. p. 12 13 14 c. 32. 47 c. A copy of a Letter written by a Master of Arts of Cambridge to his Friend in London concerning some talk passed of late between two worshipful and grave men about the present state and some proceedings of the Earl of Leicester and his Friends in England c. Written in 1584. but the certain year when prinâ—ed unless in 1600. I cannot tell It was also printed in oct as the other was in 1631. and hath this running title on the top of every leaf of the book A Letter of State of a Scholar of Cambridge The first edit and perhaps the second was printed beyond the Seas and most of the copies being sent into England bound with the outside of the leaves coloured with green the book was commonly called Father Persons Green-coat 'T is the same book with that intit Leicesters Common-wealth being a dialogue between a Scholar a Gent. and a Lawyer Lond. 1641. qu. This book tho' commonly reported to be Persons and that he had most of his materials for the composition thereof from Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh which I presume did arise from Dr. Tho. James his affirmation that he was the author of it yet Persons himself saith in his Preface to the Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword that he did not write Leicesters Commonwealth And certainly if he had been the author it Pitseus and Ribadeneira with his Continuators would have mentioned it in their respective Catalogues of our author's works whereas they are altogether silent in that matter Liecesters Commonwealth Lond. 1641. oct written in verse This is a small thing and containeth not the same sense with the former Leicesters Ghost in verse also To both which tho the name of Rob. Persons Jesuit is set in the title yet I cannot any where find that he was the author Apologetical Epistle to the Lords of her Maj. Council in defence of his Resolution in Religion Printed 1601. oct Brief apology or defence of the Catholick Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and Subordination in England erected these later years by P. Clem. 8. and impugned by certain Libels printed and published of late c. S. Omer 1601. in oct Soon after were certain notes wrote on this by Humph. Ely Manifestation of the folly and bad spirit of certain in England calling them Secular Priests Printed 1602. qu. This is called a Libel in a Reply made to it by W. C. printed 1603. qu. And it was animadverted upon by A. C. in his Second Letter to his dis-jesuited Kinsman concerning the appeal state Jesuits c. Printed 1602. qu. A Decachordon of 10 Quodlibetical Questions about the contentions between the Seminary Priests and the Jesuits Printed 1602. qu. De perigrinatione lib. 1. Printed in tw This I have not yet seen and therefore know not whether it be in Lat. or Engl. The Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword Pr. 1602. in oct Answer to O. E. whether Papists ' or Protestants be true Catholicks Pr. 1603. in ect Treatise of the three conversions from Paganism to Christian Religion Published under the name of N. D. that is Nic. Doleman in three Volumes in oct The first Vol. which containeth two parts of the said treatise was printed at S. Omers an 1603. The second Vol. which containeth the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the Kalender or Catalogue of Protestant Saints Martyrs and Confessors devised by Joh. Fox c. for the first six months was printed at the said place in 1604. And the third Vol. which containeth also the third part of the treatise and an Examen of the said Kalender of John Fox for the last six months was printed at the same place in the same year under the initial Letters of N. D. When the said three Volumes were first published they were sold in Oxon for 20 shillings but some years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. I bought them for 3 sh The same year 1604 came out Around answer to Parsons alias Doleman the Noddy in qu. but whither to any of the former treatises I know not A relation of a trial made before the K. of France upon the year 1600. between the Bishop of Eureux and the Lord Pleffis Mornay about certain points of corrupting and falsifying authors whereof the said Plessis was openly convicted S. Omers 1604 in oct Published under the initial Letters of N. D. A defence of the precedent relation of a conference about Religion Printed with the Relation of a Trial c. Review of ten publick disputations or conferences held within the compass of four years under K. Ed. and Q. Mary concerning some principal points in Religion especially of the Sacrament and Sacrifice of the Altar S. Omer 1604. in oct under the name of N. D. Fore-runner of Bells downfal or an answer to Tho. Bells downfal of Popery Pr. 1605. in oct An answer to the fifth part of Reports lately set forth by Sir Edw. Coke Knight the Kings Attorney Gen. c. S. Omer 1606. in qu. Published under the name of a Cath. Divine De Sacris alienis non adeundis quaestiones duae Ad usum praximque Angliae breviter explicatae Audomar 1607. in oct Treatise tending to mitigation towards Cath. Subjects in England against Tho. Morton Pr. 1607. qu. The said Morton was afterwards Bishop of Durham The judgment of a Catholick Gent. concerning K. James his Apology for the oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1608. in qu. Answered by Will. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln Sober reckoning with Mr. Tho. Morton Pr. 1609. qu. Discussion of Mr. Barlowes answer to The judgment of a Catholick Englishman concerning the Oath of Allegiance S. Omer 1612. This book being almost finished before Persons's death was afterwards compleated and published by Tho. Fitzherbert See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640. The Liturgy of the Mass of the Sacrament of the Mass Pr. 1620. in qu. A memorial for reformation or a remembrance for them that shall live when Catholick Religion shall be restored in England in 3 parts 'T is the same I suppose that is called The high Court or Council of Reformation for England The author of it tho twenty years as 't is said in compiling it all which time and after it was secretly kept yet it was never printed in his time 'T was finished by him 1596. and as I have been informed 't was published some years after his death At length a copy of it coming into his hands of Edw. Gee Rector of S. Benedict near Paul's Wharf in Lond. and Chaplain in Ord. to K. Will. and Qu. Mary he published it under this title A Memorial of the Reformation of England containing certain notes and advertisements which seem
most lofty insolent and passionate As for the remaining part of his life it was sometimes low and sometimes in a middle condition and often tossed by fortune to and fro and seldome at rest He was one that fortune had pickt up out of purpose of whom to make an example or to use as her Tennis-Ball thereby to shew what she could do for she tost him up of nothing and to and fro to greatness and from thence down to little more than to that wherein she found him a bare Gentleman not that he was less for he was well descended and of good alliance but poor in his beginnings and for the jest of Edw. Earl of Oxon. the Jack and an upstart Kt. all then knew it savoured more of emulation and his humour than of truth France was the first School wherein he learn'd the rudiments of War and the Low Countries and Ireland the military Academies of those times made him Master of that discipline for in both places he expos'd himself afterwards to Land-service but that in Ireland was a Militia which then did not yeild him food and raiment nor had he patience to stay there tho shortly after in 1580. he went thither again and was a Captain there under Arthur Lord Grey who succeded Sir Will. Pelham in the Deputy-ship of that Kingdom Afterwards gaining great credit he was received into the Court became a person in favour and had several boons bestow'd on him afterwards particularly the Castle of Shireborne in Dorsetshire taken from the See of Salisbury In the latter end of 1584. he discovered a new Country which he in honour of the Queen called Virginia received the honour of Knighthood from her and was afterwards made Captain of her Majesties Guards Senceschal of the Duchies of Cornwall and Exeter Lord Warden of the Stanneries of Devon and Cornwall Lord Leivtenant of Cornwall and Governour of Jersey In 1588. he shew'd himself active against the invincible Armada of the Spaniards and in 1592. being about that time a Parliament man wherein as in other Parliaments in the latter end of Q. Eliz. was he a frequent Speaker he went to America with 15. men of War to possess himself of Panama where the Spaniards Ship their riches or to intercept them in their passage homewards but returned successless and was out of favour for a time not only for that but for divirginating a maid of Honour Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Nich. Trockmorton whom he afterwards married and for some few months being kept under custody was at length set free but banished the Court. Afterwards to follow the directions of of his own Genie that was always inclined to search out hidden regions and the secrets of nature he undertook a navigation to Guiana that bears Gold in 1595. purposely for the improvement and honour of his Country both by getting store of wealth and by molesting the Spaniard within the inward coasts of America which he thought would be more profitable than on the Sea coasts where there are never any Towns laden with any riches but when they are conveyed thither to be carried over into Spain He set out from Plymouth on the 6. of Febr. and arrived at the Island Trinidada 22. March There he easily took a little City called S. Joseph and the Governour thereof Don Antonio de Bereo but sound not so much as a piece of Silver there Having enquired many things of this Antonio about the mines of Gold in Guiana he left his Ship in Trinidada and entred the vast River Orenoque with little Barks and some hundred Souldiers He searched up and down Guiana for the space of 4 Miles among the crooked and short turnings of the water several ways where being parched with the reflecting beams of the Sun just over his head and too much wet sometimes with Showers and having long wrestled with such like difficulties he yet continued so long till that it growing wintry cold in Apr. the waters all over-spread the earth insomuch that now he could pass away in no less danger of the waters than he came thither in danger of his enemies After his return he was constituted one of the chief persons in the expedition to Cadiz where he performed notable service and obtained to himself at home a great name In 1603 he presented to K. James at his entrance to the Crown of England a Manuscript of his own writing containing valid arguments against a peace to be made with Spain which was then the common discourse But the King being altogether for peace 't was rejected and the same year just after he had been deprived of the Captainship of the Guard which K. James bestowed on Sir Tho. Erskin Viscount Fenton in Scotland we find him in a plot against the King generally called Sir Walter Raleighs Treason for which being brought to his Tryal with others at Winchester in 1603. was at length found guilty and condemn'd to die But being repreived he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for life where he improved his confinement to the greatest advantage of learning and inquisitive men In Apr. 1614 he published the History of the World a book which for the exactness of its Chronology curiosity of its contexture and learning of all sorts seems to be the work of an Age. In 1617. power was granted to him to set forth Ships and men for the undertaking an enterpize of a golden Mine in Guiana in the southern parts of America and on the 28. March in the year following he left London in order for that Voyage notwithstanding Didacus Sarmiento de Acunna Earl or Count of Gundamore the Spanish Embassador to the K. of England endeavoured to hinder him with many arguments proposed to his Majesty But at length Sir Walter going beyond his Commission in taking and sacking the Town of St. Thome belonging to the Spaniard which was much aggravated by Gundamore the K. on the 9. June 1618 published his Royal Proclamation for the discovery of the truth of Raleigh's proceedings and for the advancement of justice Whereupon when Raleigh arrived at Plymouth Sir Lewis Steukeley Vice-Admiral of the County of Devon seized him and brought him up to London 9. Aug. following But Raleigh finding the Court wholly guided by Gundamore as 't is said notwithstanding I find elsewhere that he left England 16 July going before he could hope for little mercy Whereupon wisely contriving the design of an escape was betrayed by Steukley taken on the Thames and committed to a close Prison Afterwards being often examined by the Lord Chancellour and Privy-Councel was at length on the 24 Oct. warned by them as they had been commanded by the King to prepare for death The particulars of which proceedings as also of his Voyage to Guiana you may see at large in a book intit A Declaration of the demeanour and carrige of Sir W. Raleigh Knight as well in his Voyage as in and sithence his return and of the true
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
his Monastery dissolved went afterwards to Oxon and settled in Exeter coll in January 1545. in the condition of a Sojourner WILLIAM GILBERT a Canon Regular and Prior of Brewton or Bruton in Somersetshire in which county he was born became Doct. of Div. of this University in 1506. and in the year after was made Vicar of Mynhead in his own country on the death of Tho. Beaumont sometimes Fellow of Merton coll Afterwards being esteemed a man of note reverence and great Religion he was made Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Bathe and Wells under the title of Episc Majorensis which is in partibus Infidelium and by that title he was admitted Vicar of Southpertherton in the Dioc. of Wells 16. Dec. 1525. by the presentation thereunto of Jo. Herte Abbot of Athelney as also to other benefices and one or more dignities to keep up his port Afterwards or about that time he went to Rome and there procured of the Pope that the Priory of Brewton might be changed into an Abbey After his return he was always called Abbat Gilbert and with its name did so change the buildings of his Abbey that it was but little better than re-edified by him Whether he was the last Abbat I know not RICHARD FOX the worthy Founder of Corp. Ch. coll in this University of whom having made mention at large elsewhere I shall only say that he was born at Ropesley near to Grantham in Lincolnshire educated in Grammar learning at Boston in the said county in Academical for a time in Magd. coll in Oxon whence being transplanted to Cambridge became at length Master of Pembroke hall there Prebendary of Bishopston in the Church of Sarum and in Feb. 1485. Preb. of South Grantham in the same Church upon the resignation of Dr. Christop Bainbridge This person having been a constant Adherent to Henry Earl of Richmond against King Rich. 3. was by him when made King of England by the name of Hen. 7 made in the beginning of his reign one of his Privy Council he being then LL. D. and nominated to be Bishop of Exeter in Feb. 1486. On the 24 of the same month he had the custody of the Privy Seal conferr'd on him and being elected to the said See the K. restored to him the Temporalities belonging thereunto 2. Apr. 1487. On the 5. Jul. following he had by the Kings command twenty Shillings per diem allowed to him to commence from the 24. Feb. before-mention'd which was allowed to him as I suppose as Keeper of the said Seal And being elected afterwards to the See of B. and VVells had restitution of its temporalities made to him by the King 4. May 1492. In 1494. he was translated to Durham and afterwards was elected Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and being settled at Durham he forthwith out of a great vast Hall in the Castle there did take as much away as made a fair Buttery and a Pantry even to the Pulpits or Galleries on each side of the Hall wherein the Trumpeters or Wind-musick used to stand to play while the meat was usher'd in And on the Wall which parted the said buttery from the Hall was a great Pellican set up to shew that it was done by him because he gave the Pellican to his Arms. When Dr. Richard Neile became B. of Durham he took away part of the said hall at the other end to enlarge the great Parlour and yet the hall continued fair and large still At length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Langton he was elected B. of Winchester the temporalities of which being restored to him by the King 17. Octob. 1500. was soon after installed with great solemnity After he was settled there he performed many acts of piety and charity among which was the foundation and establishment of C. C. coll before-mention'd and dying in fifteen hundred twenty and eight year 1528 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at VVinchester on the South side of the high Altar After him followed in that See Card. Tho. VVolsey of whom I shall make mention anon HUGH INGE or Ynge was born at Shipton-Mallet in Somersetshire educated in VVykehams School made perpetual Fellow of New coll in 1484. took the degrees in Arts and left the coll in 1496. Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas where he was made Doct. of Divinity was successively made Preb. of East Harptrey in and Succentor of the Church of VVells Guardian of VVapulham in the Dioc. of Lincoln Preb. of Auste in the Church of VVestbury in the Dioc. of VVorcester to which the Vicaridge of VVellow in the Dioc. of B. and VVells was annexed by the Pope Vicar of Oldeston in the Dioc. of Lincoln of Dultying in Somersetshire by the presentation of Richard the Abbat and Conv. of Glastenbury on the death of Mr. VVill. Speckington and of VVeston alias Sowey by the presentation of the said Ab. and Conv. on the death of Mr. Rob. Stafford In the beginning of Apr. 1511. he was incorporated D. of D. in this University and in the latter end of that year was made Bishop of Meath in Ireland Thence he was translated to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin in the place of Dr. VVill. Rokeby an 1521. and about that time was made Chancellour of Ireland where he was accounted a person of great probity and justice He gave way to fate at Dublin 3 Aug. in fifteen hundred twenty and eight year 1528 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Patrick there In the said See of Dublin succeeded Dr. John Allen whom I shall mention in his proper place THOMAS BELE Beel or Beyll was bred a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austen and educated in Acad. learning among those of his Order studying in S. Maries coll in Oxon of which he became Prior about 1508. Afterwards taking the degrees in divinity he became Lord Prior of S. Mary Spytell without Bishopsgate in London and at length Suffragan Bishop to Rich. Fitz-James B. of London under the title of Episcop Lydensis which is under the Patriarch of Jerusalem In that titular See succeeded one Joh. Holt but whether educated in this University I cannot tell He lived mostly in the Town of Bury S. Edmund in Suffolk where dying about the 12. of Aug. 1540. was buried in the Church of our blessed Lady S. Mary there in our Ladies Isle near to the head of John Holt Gent. THOMAS WOLSEY the great and mighty Cardinal of the time he lived in whose life having been written several years after his death by Thom. Cavendish his Gentleman Usher we are informed therein that he was born at Ipswych in Suffolk but not that he was a Butchers Son as others have publickly reported as well in the Cardinals life time as since the first of which was he who wrote a Libel in English Verse against him a little before his fall called A dialogue between two Priests servants named
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
and in his Chauntorship by Rich. Boughton Besides these were four that supplicated for the said degree among whom were Thomas Summaster of All 's Coll. and John Chandler Incorporations July 11. Lancolot Andrewes M. A. of Cambridge He was of Pembr Hall in that University and lately one of the honorary or tituler Scholars of Jesus Coll. in this University Afterwards he became Master of the said Hall Doct of Div. and Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Richard Bancroft promoted to the See of London an 1597 Dean of the said Church of Westminster in the room of Gabriel Goodman deceased 1601. Soon after he was made Bishop of Chichester then of Ely and at length on the 22 Feb. 1618 was translated to Winchester He died in Winchester House in Southwark 26 Sept. 1626 and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Saviour there Several Authors having made mention of this worthy person I shall forbear to speak any farther of him only say this that he was the most eminent Divine of our Nation in his time William Pembertom M. A. of the said University was incorporated on the same day This person who was second Son of Hen. Pemberton of Moreton in Châ—shire Gent. was afterwards Parson of High Ongar in Essex Doctor of Div. and a Publisher of several Sermons among which are 1 The godly Merchant preached at Pauls Cross on 1 Tim. 6. 6. Lond. 1613. oct 2 Sermon on Deut. 1. 16. 17. Lond. 1619. oct He died 10 March 1622 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at High Ongar In the same month of July was a Supplicate made for one Will. Temple M. of A. of Cambridge to be incorporated but whether he was so it appears not He was the same person who was Fell. of Kings Coll. in that University afterwards Master of the Free School in the City of Lincoln Secretary to Sir Philip Sidney when he received his Deaths Wound at Zutphâ—n and after his death to Will. Davison one of the Secretaries of State and at length to Rob. â— of Essex Earl Marshal of England whom if I mistake not he served while he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland In 1609 he upon the importunate Solicitations of Dr. James Vsher accepted of the Provostship of Trinity Coll. near to Dublin after which he was knighted and made one of the Masters of the Chancery in Ireland He hath written 1 Pro Maldupetti de unica methodo defensione contra Diplodophilum commentatio Lond. 1581 oct 2 Nonnullarum â— Physicis Ethicis quaestionum explicatio pro Petro Ramo contra a Lieblerum 3. Epistola de Rami dialectica ad Johannem Piscatorem Argentinensem 4. Analysis Anglica triginta psalmorum à primo scilicet ad tricesimum primum Lond. 1611. oct He gave way to fate an 1626 or thereabouts aged 72 and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the said Coll. of the Holy Trinity leaving then behind him the Character of à person of great piety and learning An. Dom. 1582. An. 24 Elizab. An. 25 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Rob. Hoveden D. D. Warden of All 's Coll. July 12. Proct. Robert Cook of Brasn Coll. John Browne of Ch. Ch. The day when they were elected appears not because of the imperfectness of the Registers Bach. of Arts. March 28. Simon Presse of Broadgates Hall He was afterwards Minister of Egginton in Derbyshire and published A Sermon concerning the right use of things indifferent on 1 Cor. 8. ver 10 11 12 13. Oxon 1597 oct What other things he hath published I know not April 31. Geo. Abbot of Ball. Coll. He was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury July 4. John Buckridge of S. Johns Coll. He was made Bishop of Ely in 1627. 10. Tim. Willys of S Johns Coll. He was afterwards ejected from his place in that House for certain Misdemeanours but getting soon after into the favour of Qu. Elizabeth he was by her diploma made a Doctor Bullatus of the Laws I suppose and by her sent Embassador into Muscovy Nov. 15. Ralph Winwood lately of S. Johns now of Magd. Coll. See more among the Masters an 1587. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day March 18. Philip Jones One of both his names was Author of Three Sermons on Jam. 1. 9 10. Lond. 1588 oct Whether written by him or by Philip Jones who was admitted Bach. of the Civ Law an 1562 or by a third Phil. Jones who as a Bristol man born and a Member of Ch. Ch. was matriculated in 1581 aged 18 I know not Adm. 152. Mast of Arts. Mar. 30. Will. Warford of Thin May 4. Mathew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll. June 18. John Harmar John Terry of New Coll. July 2. Rich. Kilbye of Linc. Coll. 4 Isaac Colfe of Broadgates Hall Oct. 12. Will. Wâ—gge of New Coll. One Will. Wygge sometimes called Way was executed for being a Seminary and denying the Oath of Supremacy at Kingston in Surrey on the first day of Octob. 1588. Whether the same with him who was M. of A. I know not I have mention'd another Will Wygge or Wygges under the year 1566. Feb. 6. Edw Philipps of Broadgates Hall 7. Rob. Abbot of Baâ—l Coll. 15. John King of Ch. Ch. Mar. 23. Hen. Perry of Gloc. Hall Adm. 60. Bach. of Div. July 5. John Garbrand of New 10. Hen Robinson of Queens 13. Thomas Holland of Balliol Coll. Feb. 19. Dav. Powell of Jesus Coll. Joh. Argall of Ch. Ch. Adm. 10. Doct. of Law July 5. Will. Merick of New Coll. Chancellour of Bangor c. Clement Colmer of Brasn Coll. Chancellour of the Diocess of Durham was admitted the same day Miles Lee and Rich. Bellyngham both Bachelaurs of the Civ Law did supplicate for the said degree but were not admitted Doct. of Phys July 5. Anthony Aylworth of New Coll. the Kings Professor of Physick and Physitian to Queen Eliz. He died 18 Apr. 1619 and was buried in New Coll. Chappel 21. Will. Donne of Exeter Coll. Doct. of Div. July 5. William Souch or Zouch of Ch. Ch. On the 14 of Feb. 1583 he became Chauntor of Salisbury on the resignation of Tobie Mathews D. D. John Garbrand of New Coll. was admitted the same day He accumulated the degrees in Divinity Meredith Hanmer of C. C. Coll. was also admitted the same day On the 2 Apr. Tho. Blague a Student in Divinity and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to the Queen supplicated for the said degree of Doct. of Div. but whether admitted it appears not In 1591 Feb. 1. he being then D. of D. and about that time Master of Clare Hall in Cambridge was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of John Coldwell M. D. promoted to the See of Salisbury and in 1604 or thereabouts he became Rector of Bangor upon the Translation of Dr. Rich. Vaughan from Chester to London He died in Octob. 1611 and was succeeded in his Deanery by Rich. Miâ—bourne D. D. who was installed in that Dignity on the 11
raised by the Long Parl. against K. Ch. 1. was cast out of his Benefice of Austie by the Committee of Religion in 1643 as you may see in that diabolical Pamphlet entit The first Century of scandalous and malignant Priests c. pr. 1643. qu. p. 13. and lost other Spiritualities The said Dr. Tho. Mountfort had also another Son named James who succeeded his Father as it seems in the Rectory of Tewing before mention'd who also being a zealous man for the Church of England was thrown out of Tewing by the said Committee as you may see in the said Phmphlet p. 10. Jul. 4. Thom. Pye of Mert. 9. John Prime of New Coll. Incorporations Apr. 11. Rob. Devereux Earl of Essex and Master of the Horse to Queen Elizabeth was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge being then accounted one of the best Poets among the Nobility of England and a person adorned with singular gifts of Nature This Incorporation was the better to capacitate him to be Chancellour of this University when that honourable Office should become void as it shortly after did He had received his Academical Education in Trinity Coll. in Cambridge under the tuition of Dr. John Whitgift afterwards Archb. of Canterbury and hath written 1 Advice to Reger Earl of Rutland in his travels MS. the beginning of which is My Lord I hold it a principle in the course c. This MS. which I have in my Library was if I am not mistaken printed in a Book entit Profitable instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all Nations Lond. 1633. oct said in the title to be written by Robert Earl of Essex Sir Philip Sidney c. 2 His apology against those which falsly and malitiously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of his Country written to Sir Anth. Bacon which piece had such esteem among men that they thought that nothing could be more honourably utter'd nor more to the Writers praise so far as belongs to a noble Orator than it 3 Letters to Qu. Elizabeth and Lord Howard c. MS. in bib Bod. 4 His speech and prayer at the time of his Execution printed at the end of Dr. Will. Barlow's Sermon preached at Pauls Cross 1 Mar. 1600. Lond. 1601. oct with other things which I have not yet seen He left behind him when beheaded in 1600 a Son of both his names educated in this University whom I shall mention elsewhere Apr. 11. Abraham Hartwell M. of A. of Cambr. was also then incorporated He was Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University afterwards Amanuensis to John Archb. of Canterbury a Traveller and at length Rector of Tuddyngton in Bedfordshire He hath written 1 Regina literata seu narratio de regina Elizabetha carmine Lond. 1565. oct 2 Report of the Kingdom of Conge a region in Africa printed 1597 qu. and translated from french into English 4 A true discourse upon the matter of Martha Brossier of Romantin pretended to be possessed by a Devil Lond. 1599. qu. See another Translation made by him in Walt. Haddon mention'd in these Fasti an 1552. July… Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge was also then incorporated He was at this time a pastoral Sonnet-maker and Author of several things which were pleasing to Men and Women of his time They made much sport and were valued among Scholars but since they have been mostly sold on Ballad-mongers stalls The Titles of some of them are these 1 Euphues his censure to Philautas Lond. 1587. qu. 2 A quip for an upstart Courtier or a dispute between Velvet breeches and Cloth breeches Lond. 1592. qu. 3 His mourning Garment given him by repentance at the funerals of Love One Edition of this book was printed at Lond. 1616. qu. 4 His groats worth of wit bought with a million of repentance c. Lond. 1617. qu. second Edit The first Edit was printed after his death and hath at the end of it his Epitaph in six Stanzaes 5 Theeâ—â—s falling out true men come by their goods or the Belman Lady Fitzwaters Nightingale Several times printed 7 His nusquam sera est or a treatise deciphering those particular vanities that hinder youthful Gentlemen from attaining to their intended perfections Several times printed 8 The history of Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay 9 Greens Ghost haunting Cunny Catchers One Ed. of which was printed at Lond. 1626. qu. Other trifles he hath extant which he wrot to maintain his Wife and that high and loose course of living which Poets generally follow He assisted also Thom. Ledge in the composure of several Plays as I have told you in my discourse of that person among the Writers under the year 1625. He wrot against or at least reflected upon Gabriel Harvey in several of his Writings whereupon Harvey being not able to bear his Abuses did inhumanely trample upon him when he lied full low in his grave even as Achilles tortured the dead body of Hector This R. Green died about 1592 of a Surfeit taken by eating pickled Herrings and drinking with them Rhenish Wine At which fatal Banquer Tom. Nash his Contemporary in Cambridge was present who in his Apology of Pierce Penniless doth make excellent sport with him and some of his Works I have seen a witty Comedy called Greens Tu quoque or the City Gallant not pen'd by the said Green but by one John Cook Gent. published by Thomas Heyword an 1622. and another entit Planetomachia or The first part of the general opposition of the seven Planets c. Lond. 1585. qu. said in the Title to be written by R. Green but whether the same R. Green the Poet I cannot tell On the eleventh day of the said month of July supplicated to be incorporated one Joh. Osbourne Doct. of Physick of Leyden whose Grace being granted simpliciter I therefore think that he obtained his Option Creations When Robert Earl of Essex was incorporated these persons following who had formerly been partly educated in this University were actually created Masters of Arts Apr. 11. Which Creation was usually called the Essexian Creation because done upon his account Thomas Lord Clinton Son of the Earl of Lincoln Sir John Norris Kt. President of Mounster in Ireland second Son of Henry the first Lord Norris and one now celebrated among the famous Captains of our Nation He died discontented as being not rewarded according to his worth an 1597 or thereabouts Sir Robert Sidney Kt younger Brother to Sir Philip Sidney This Sir R. Sidney was afterwards the first Earl of Leycester of his name who dying at Penshurst in Kent 13 July 1626 was there buried Sir Hen. Norris Kt. younger Brother to Sir John before mention'd who died of a wound about the same time and place that his Brother Sir Thomas did which Sir Tho. was also President of Mounster Sir Philip Boteler Kt. Rob. Carew Fulke Grevil Francis Darcie Esquires Of Fulke Grevil who was afterwards Lord
exposition on Geneâ—is Whether the same with him who was incorporated I cannot yet tell Quâ—ere William Alabaster M. A. of the same University was incorporated on the said day He was bred in Trin. Coll. in that University was the rarest Poet and Grecian that any one age or nation hath produced Afterwards he attended as Chaplain on Robert Earl of Essex in Cadiz voyage where he changed his Religion and wrot Seven Motives for what he had done answer'd by one John Racster an 1598 and by Roger Fenton the year following But upon some discontent taken from the Rom. Party he return'd to the Church of England and was made Prebendary of St. Pauls Cath. in London D. of D. and Rector of Tharfield in Hertfordshire He hath written 1 Roxana Tragedia admirably well acted more than once in Trin. Coll. hall in Cambr. and was soon after published full of faults contrary to the Authors mind Whereupon he took great pains to correct and amend it Which being done 't was printed to the Authors mind at Lond. 1632. oct 2 Lexicon Pentaglotton Hebraicum Chaldaicum Syriacum Talmudico Raabinium Lond. 1637. fol. The titles of other books of his writing you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue He also began to describe in a Latin Poem intit Eâ—isaeis the chief transactions of Qu. Elizabeths Reign but left unfinish'd at the time of his death which hapning about the beginning of Apr. 1640. was buried according to the discretion of his dear friend Nich. Bacon of Greys Inn in Holbourn near London whom he made his sole Executor Rich. Her rick the Poet in his Hesperides doth highly celebrate Alabaster for his elaborate works Aug. 19. Hen. Wriothsley Earl of Southampton M. of Arts of Cambridge He was afterwards deeply engaged in the treasons of his entire friend Robert Earl of Essex and therefore by his Peers he was condemned to dye but by the favour of the Queen he was saved When K. James 1. came to the Crown he was restored by Parliament was made Knight of the Garter and Captain of the Isle of Wyght and of Caresbrook Castle He died in the Netherlands an 1624 and was buried at Tichfield in Hampshire by the bodies of his Ancestors Dec. 18. Thomas D'oylie of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. Doctor of Physick of the University of Basil in Germany Creations Aug. 19. Will. Somerset of Magd. Coll. in this University eldest Son of Edward Earl of Worcester was actually created Mast of Arts. These Persons following were created Mast of Arts 27. Sept. while the Queen was in Oxon being then entertained by the University Edward Earl of Worcester He was afterwards Master of the Horse to K. Jam. 1. and Knight of the Garter Geo. Clifford E. of Cumberl He was an excellent Mathematician a great Navigator and one that did more prodigious things at Sea to the great impoverishment of his estate than any Subject of this Realm had done before He died 30. Oct. 1605 and was buried at Skipton in Craven in Yorkshire by his ancestors Hen. Herbert E. of Pembroke Kt. of the most noble order of the Garter and President of the Council in the Marches of Wales He died 1601 and was succeeded in the Earldom of Pembroke by his Son and Heir called William afterwards the most noble Chancellour of this University Sir John Wingfield Tho. Coningsby Will. Knollis Knights The last of which who had been formerly of Magd. Coll. was afterwards Earl of Banbury Michael Stanhop Esq He was Brother to John Lord Stanhop of Harrington Tho. Knevet Esq He was afterwards as it seems Lord Knevet of Escricke Edward Darcey Joh. Stanhop Will. Pointz Rich. Brakenbury Esquires Thom. Lake Esq This Gentleman who was born at Southampton was bred a Scholar and afterwards was taken into the service in the condition of an Amanuensis of Sir Franc. Walsingham Secretary of State by whom being commended to Qu. Elizabeth he read to her French and Latin A little before her death she made him Clerk of her Signet and after her death he was chosen by this state into the place to attend K. Jam. 1. from Barwick who afterwards made use of his present service in some French affairs and confer'd upon him the honour of Knighthood After Sir Rob. Cecills time the place of Secretary was joyned in two Principals and not long after he was one of them and so continued with honorable esteem of all Men until that malice and revenge two violent passions over-ruling the weaker sex concerning his Wife and Daughter involved him into their quarrel the chief and only cause of his ruine Anth. Ashley He made additions for the use of English Men to The marriners mirrour c. written in Dutch by Luke Wagener of Ein husen set forth in English by the said Ashley in two parts adorned with variety of Sea-charts and Mapps printed at London in fol. 1588-89 and dedicated to Robert Earl of Leycester from St. James One Sir Anth. Ashley Knight was a courtier in the Reign of K. Jam. 1 and tho then a hater of Women yet he was induced to marry one of the Family and Relations of George Duke of Bucks which administred mirth to the Courtiers Whether this Sir Authony be the same with the former I know not Qu. Hen. Noell Esq He was younger Brother to Sir Andrew Noell of Leycestershire was one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to Queen Elizabeth a Man of excellent parts and well skill'd in Musick He died in the latter end of Feb. 1596 and was by the command of Qu. Elizabeth who had an especial respect for him buried in St. Andrews Chappel within the Precincts of the Abbey Church at Westminster In a convocation celebrated the same day after dinner for the former creations were made in a Convocation held in the morning were these following Persons actually created Masters of Arts also viz. Monsieur Beauvoys La Noude Embassador from the King of France to the Queen of England Monsieur Mauditor or Manditor Sir Edward Stafford an English Knight An. Dom. 1593. An. 35 Elizab. An. 36 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Edm. Lillye again July 17. Proct. Will. Aubrey of Ch. Ch. Rich. Latewarr of St. Job C. Apr. 26. Bach. of Musick Feb. 25. Arth. Cock Orgainst of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter Matthew Jeffrye Vicar choral in the Church at Wells Their Graces were then pass'd and no doubt there is but that they were admitted Some of the compositions of Arth. Cock I have seen in our publick Musick School and certain divine Services and Anthems were composed by one Jeffrye the words of which are extant but whether by this Matthew or George Jeffrye who were both eminent Musicians I cannot tell Bach. of Arts. May 21. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. June 20. Nathaniel Brent of Mert. Coll. Feb. 6. Joh. Marston of Brasn Coll. Qu. Whether not the same Person who was afterwards the celebrated Comedian Feb. 6. Rob. Wakeman 8. Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll.
England where he preached the word of God very constant as his brother Edmund did was inducted into a Prebendship of Durham 9. May 1572. made Archdeacon of Northumberland on the resignation of Ralph Lever 20. Oct. 1573. and on the eleventh of Sept. 1578. he was made Rector of Ryton within the Bishoprick of Durham This person was very zealous in the way he professed was a great admirer of Jo. Calvin a constant preacher charitable and a stiff enemy to Popery He hath written and published Survey and tryal of the Popes Supremacy Lond. 1590. qu. Written against Card. Bellarmine Comparison between the antient faith of the Romans and the new Romish Religion Lond. 1595. qu. This is commonly called Truth and Falshood Answer to a popish Libel called A petition to the Bishops preachers and Gospellers Oxon. 1607. oct Exposition on the 28. verse of the third Chapt. of the Epistle to the Romans wherein is manifestly proved the doctrine of justification by faith c. Lond. 1616. qu. Plain and familiar Exposition of the ten Commandements by questions and answers Lond. 1617. oct In Joelis prophetiam enarratio Written by the author an 1595. and by his Epistle dedicated it to Tobie Bishop of Durham in which he saith he hath preached Sermons at Berwick about 20. years before that time upon Joel of which this book is the summ And if printed for 't is in MS. would contain about 3 quire of Paper He departed this mortal life at Ryton before mention'd 16. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there year 1617 near to the Graves of 4 of his Sons which he had by Jane his Wife Daughter of Henr. Priestly Over his Grave was soon after set up in the Wall adjoyning a table or plate of Brass whereon are engraven certain trite Verses The first Stanza runs thus My bark now having won the haven I fear no stormy Seas God is my hope my home is heaven My life is happy ease c. By his will he bequeathed to the University of Oxon. 100 l. towards their building of the New Schools and 33 l. to Madg. college HENRY SAVILE Sometimes of Shawhill in Yorkshire commonly called Long Harry Savile was born of an antient family of his name living at Banke near Halyfax in that County entred a Student in Merton coll of which his kinsman Mr. Hen. Savile was Warden in 1587. and was soon after made one of the Portionists commonly called Postmasters After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts he left it and retired to S. Albans hall and as a member thereof he took the degree of M. of Arts in 1595. All which time being under the inspection of his kinsman he became an eminent Scholar especially in the Mathematicks Physick in which faculty he was admitted to practice by the University Chemistry Painting Heraldry and Antiquities Afterwards for the compleating and advance of his knowledge he travelled into Italy France and Germany where spending his time very profitable returned the most accomplished person of his time and therefore his company was desired and sought after by all learned and vertuous Men. He had written several things fit for the Press but whether ever published I find not as yet It must be now known that this Henr. Savile being an intimate friend with the learned Camden he communicated to him the antient exemplar of Asser Menevensis which contains the story of the discord between the new Scholars that Grimbald brought with him to Oxon at the restauration of the University by K. Alfred with the old Clerks that the said Grimbald found when he came to that place Which exemplar being discovered to be genuine by the said Camden who afterwards stil'd it Optimum exemplar Asserii he did therefore make it publick an 1602. But so it was that as soon as it peep'd forth certain envious Cantabrigians did not stick to report that the said story concerning the dissention between the old and new Scholars was foisted into Asser by the said Long Harry Savile and which is more that passage also was put by him into the printed History of Ingulphus which maketh much for the Antiquity of the University of Oxon. Ego Ingulphus c. pro literis addiscendis in teneriore aetate constitutus primum Westmonasterio postremo Oxoniensi studio traditus sum c. But for the clearing of the said vain reports much hath been said already and therefore I shall trouble the reader no more but only tell him that after the said Long Harry had lived for some years after his return from forreign Countries within the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields near London died there to be the great reluctancy of all learned men on 29. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen year 1617 aged 49. Whereupon his body being buried in the Chancel of the Church of that Parish had soon after a Monument set over his Grave on the north Wall with his bust to the middle carved out from stone and painted The reader is now to know that there was one Hen. Savile Esq who was employed as a Captain in one of her Majesties Ships called the Adventure under the conduct of Sir Franc. Drake and Sir John Hawkyns against the Spaniard in the West Indies Which Henry wrote a book intit A Libel of Spanish lyes found at the Sack of Cales discoursing the fight in the West Indies between the English and the Spaniard and of the death of Sir Franc. Drake with an answer confuting the said Spanish lies c. Lond. 1596. qu. But this Capt. Henry Savile must not be understood to be the same with Long Harry or with Sir Hen. Savile Warden of Merton college but another of the same House as I conceive for three Hen. Saviles of Yorkshire were atriculated as members of that coll in the time of Qu. Elizabeath viz. one who is written the Son of a Plebeian 1588. a second the Son of an Esq in 1593. and a third an Esq Son also in 1595. The said Capt. Savile or else Long Harry was engaged in the Earl of Essex his treasons for which he was forced to abscond and withdrew for a time WILLIAM JAMES Son of Joh. James of Little On in Staffordshire by Ellen his Wife Daughter of Will. Bolt of Sanabach in Cheshire was born at Sandbach admitted Student of Ch. Ch. in 1559. or thereabouts and took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entring into holy Orders he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences 1571 being then Divinity Reader of Magd. coll The next year he was elected Master of Vniv. coll and in 1577. Aug. 27. he became Archdeacon of Coventry on the death of Thom. Lewes In 1584. he was made Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon and in 96. June 5. he was installed Dean of Durham after that place had laid void for some time upon the promotion of Tob. Mathew to the See of Durham In 1606. he succeded the
University was resolved when in authority to reform them But his time being short only for an year and his Successor not of the same mind little or nothing could be done However John Sprint of his own house he called into question for uttering certain points of doctrine against the ceremonies and discipline then established according to Law which was an usual thing for many puritanical and discontented Divines in the Univ. to bark at and after him Rob. Troutbeck of Qu. college nay the most Calvinistical Provost thereof Hen. Airay who did not only maintain in their Preachings what Sprint had said and done but also spoke many things to the disgrace of the Vicechancellour Among which was that he had to no other end and purpose got the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Divinity without exercise done for them only but that he might sooner obtain the Vicechancellourship and consequently shew his authority in unjust proceedings c. From that time there were continual broils during his government which being too many now to enumerate and partly mention'd elsewhere I shall forbear to treat any farther of them Afterwards our author Howson was made Rector of Brightwell near to Watlington in Oxfordshire Fellow of Chelsey coll and at length Bishop of Oxon. To which See being elected 12. Sept. 1618. was consecrated at Lambeth with Searchfield B. of Bristow and Bridgman of Chester on the 9. of May following In 1628. Sept. 18. he was translated to the See of Durham in the place of Dr. G. Mountaigne translated to York where he remained to his dying day having always before been accounted a grave and learned man and a true Son of the Church of England His works are Several Sermons as 1 Sermons Preached at S. Pauls Cross 4. Dec. 1597 on Matth. 21. 12 13. wherein is discoursed that all buying and selling spiritual promotion is unlawful Lond. 1597. qu. 2 Second Serm. Pr. at S. Pauls Cross 21. May 1598. on Matth. 21. 12 13. concluding the former Sermon Lond. 1598. qu. 3 Sermon at S. Maries in Oxon 17. Nov. 1602. in defence of the Festivities of the Church and namely that of her Maj. Coronation on Psal. 118. 24. Oxon. 1603. second edit qu. Vxore dimissâ propter fornicationem aliam non licet superinducere Thesis tertia proposita disputata in Vesperiis Oxon. Oxon. 1602. oct and 1606. qu. The defence of which Thesis see in Rob. Burhill under the year 1641. Certain Sermons made in Oxon an 1616 wherein is proved that S. Peter had no Monarchical Power over the rest of the Apostles against Bellarmine Saunders Stapleton and the rest of that company Lond. 1622. qu. They are four in number and all on Luke 12. 41 42. c. commanded to be published by K. James to clear the aspersion laid upon him of favouring Popery which having not been yet replyed upon by any of the Rom. Cath. party have rendred their author famous to posterity He yielded up his last breath on the sixth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and one aged 75. or thereabouts and was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Paul within the City of London leaving then behind him the character of a very learned man and one plentifully endowed with all those vertues which were most proper for a Bishop The Reader is to know that there was one John Howesoun who wrote A short exposition of the 20. and 21. verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of St. John containing a profitable discourse of Conscience Edinb 1600. oct but him I take to be a Scot and to have no relation to Joh. Howson before-mentioned DUDLEY CARLETON Son of Anth. Carleton of Baldwin Brightwell near Watlington in Oxfordshire Esq was born there 10. March 1573. became a Student of Ch. Ch. under the tuition of Mr. afterwards Dr. John King an 1591. or thereabouts took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1600. being then returned from his travels Afterwards he went in the quality of a Secretary to Sir Ralph Winwood into the Low Countries where being very active when K. James resigned the Cautionary Towns to the States added thereby experience to his learning In 1610. June 25. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. James at Windsore who sent him Embassador Ordinary to the States of Venice where he remained five years and from thence Extraordinary to Emanuel Duke of Savoy where he continued half an year and after Ord. Embassador to the States of the Vnited Provinces where he was resident 10 years Towards the latter end of K. James he was made Vicechamberlain of the houshold which office he holding in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. his commission was renewed by that King for the latter part of that 10 years Afterwards that time being terminated he was sent Embassador Extraordinary at two several times to the most Christian K. Lewis the 13. and likewise Embassador Extraordinary to the aforesaid States of the Vnited Provinces In the 2. of K. Ch. 1. he was made Baron of Imbercourt in Surrey and the next year being accompanied by Sir Will. Segar Knight then Garter K. of Arms went into Holland and there presented the Garter to Henry Pr. of Aurange or Orange with the Ensigns of that most noble Order thereunto appertaining In the 4. Car. 1. he was created Viscount Dorchester in Oxfordshire and upon the 18. Dec. the same year he was constituted one of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State in which office he continued to the time of his death He was a person that understood several Languages well as also the Laws conditions and manners of most States in Europe He was an exact Statesman understood the intregues of State well yet just in his dealings and beloved by most men who much missed him after his death He hath written Balance pour peser en toute equité droicture la Harangue faite n'agurees en L'assemblée des illustres puissans Seignoures Messeigneurs les Estats generaux des Provinces unies du pais bas c. Printed 1618. qu. Harangue faite au counseile de Mess rs les Estats generaux des Provinces Vnies touchant le discord les troubles del Eglise la police causes par la doctrine d'Arminius 6. Oct. 1617. stil nov Printed with the former Besides these Speeches he hath extant Various Letters in the Cabala or Scrinia sacra Lond. 1663. fol. Various Letter 's to George Duke of Bucks in Cabala or Mysteries of State Lond. 1654. qu. and lastly Several French and Latin Letters to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius printed in Ger. Jo. Vossii Clarorum Virorum ad eum epistolae Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paulus Colomesius Besides these he hath also Several Speeches in Parliament an 1626. c. One or more of which you may see in the first vol. of Joh. Rushworths Collections p. 358. Memoires for dispatches of political affaires relating to Holland and England and 1618. with
several propositions made to the states MS. Particular observations of the military affaires in the Palatinate and the Low Countries an 1621. and 1622. MS. Letters relating to State affairs written to the King and Viscount Rochester from Venice an 1613 MS. He paid his last debt to nature in his house situated within the City of Westminster on the 15 day of Febr. between 10. and 11. of the clock at night in sixteen hundred thirty and one and was buried in the Chappel of S. Paul on the north side of the Abbey Church dedicated to S. Peter within the said City Over his grave was soon after erected against the east Wall a well composed plain Monument of black and white Marble with a half canopy supported by dorick Pillars with the image of a man in his robes of estate and Viscounts Coronet leaning on a Pedestall all formed of the like black and white marble He left behind him a Nephew of both his names who was admitted Scholar of Kings coll in Cambridge 1614. and had the degree of Master of Arts of that University confer'd upon him during his absence in the Low Countries being then Secretary to his Uncle while he was Embassador there In 1629. March 1. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at New-Market and in 1637. he was made one of the Clerks of the Councel NICHOLAS VIGNIER received his first being in this World at Bloys in France educated mostly in the University of Saumour retired to Oxon to improve his studies by the hearing and doctrine of Dr. John Prideaux an 1623. was incorporated master of Arts in Octob. the same year as he had stood at Saumour being about that time entred a Sojournour of Exeter coll of which house Prideaux was then Rector and numbred among the Academians Soon after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences as a member of the said college being at that time reputed to be a person of great erudition singular piety and of a most polite ingenie After he had tarried there for some few years he returned to the place of his nativity where he became a zealous Minister of and preacher to the Protestant Church Before he came to Oxon he published Theses Theologicae de satisfactione dei domini nostri Jes Ch. c. Lugd. Bat. 1622. qu. Highly commended by And. Rivet and by him annexed to his own disputations After he had left Oxon. he published several Sermons in the French tongue as 1 L'Art de bien mourir on Luke 2. 25. c. Rochel 1625. oct 2 La mere Ecclesiastique on Gal. 4. 19. 3 De la priere pou les Rois Magistrats on 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. 4 Le Trisagion on Esay 6. 1 2 3. 5 De la chente des Auges c. on the 6. ver of S. Jude 6 Two Sermons at Bloys on Rev. 2. 12. 7 Serm. of the call confirmation and authority of the Ministers of the Gospel on Joh. 20. ver 21. 22. 8 Panegyrique de la paix on Psal. 122. All which were printed at Rochel 1625. in oct 9 Practique de repentance twenty Sermons on Psal. 51. Bloys 1631. oct Besides several others which I have not yet seen This Nich. Vignier who was Minister of the Protestant Church at Bloys before mentioned was Son of Nich. Vignier of Bar on the river Sene a learned Frenchman Physitian and Historiographer to the K. of France while our Qu. Elizab. reigned and after several of whose works are in our publick Library at Oxon. Among which are 1 Theatre de l' Antichrist c. printed 1610. fol. 2 Dissertatio de Venetorum excommunicatione contra Caes Baronium Franc. ad m. 1607. qu. Which two books are said by a certain author but false to have been written by N. Vignier the Son GEORGE CALVERT Son of Leonard Calvert by Alice his Wife Daug. of John Crossland of Crossland was born at Kypling in the Chappelrie of Bolton in Yorks at which place he bestowed much mony in building in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. became a Commoner of Trinity coll in Lent Term 1593 and in the year of his age 15. took one degree in Arts and then leaving the college travelled beyond the Seas for a time At his return he was made Secretary to Sir Rob. Cecill while he was one of the prime Secretaries of State being then esteemed a forward and knowing person in matters relating to the State All which time and after for several years when Sir Robert was advanced to higher offices he retained him and made use of his prudence and faithfulness in many weighty matters In 1605. he was actually created Master of Arts when K. Jam. 1. was entertained by the University Afterwards by the endeavours of the said Sir Robert Cecill he was made one of the Clerks of the Council and in 1617. Sept. 29. he with Cl. Edmonds sometimes of All 's coll Albert Morton whom I shall anon mention both Clerks of the Council also received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Hampton Court On the 15. February 1618. he was made Secretary of State to his Majesty who as before he had used his help in many matters of moment so he did oftner afterwards to his great benefit and advantage At the same time also his Majesty judged it very convenient that he should assist and help Sir Robert Nauton the other Secretary who had not then that faculty of managing and expediting matters of State as Calvert had On the 2 May 1620. the King gave him an yearly pension of a thousand pounds to be received from the Customs and on the 16 Feb. 1624. he being then a Parliamentary Burgess for this University was by the name of Sir George Calvert of Danbywiske in Yorkshire Knight c. created Baron of Baltimore in the County of Longford in Ireland being then a Roman Catholick or at least very much addicted to their Religion As for his adventures into America where he was absolute Lord and Proprietary of Avalon in the New-found-land and of his first venturing and taking possession of a Peninsula lying in the parts of America between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesopeake on the West and divided from the other part thereof by a right line drawn from the Promontory or Cape of Land called Watkyns point situate in the aforesaid Bay near to the River Wighco on the West unto the main Ocean afterwards called and named by him Mary-Land let the Histories and relations of Travellers tell you while I acquaint you of his works which are Carmen funebre in D. Hen. Vntonum ad Gallos bis Legatum ibique nuper fato functum Printed 1596. qu. Parliamentary Speeches Various Letters of State The answer of Tom Tell-Troth The practice of Princes and the Lamentation of the Kirk Lond. 1642. qu. He hath also written something concerning Mary-Land but whether printed I cannot tell He ended his days on
of the Civil Law in the said University Thom. Beacon M. of A. and Fellow of St. Johns Coll. in the said Univ. He was afterwards Orator and Proctor thereof was made Prebendary of Norwych in Jan. 1574 and Chancellour thereof in the year following Ruben Sherwood M. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. He was afterwards Proctor of the said Univ. Schoolmaster of Eaton Doct. of Phys and a noted practitioner of that fac for several years in the City of Bathe where he died 1598 leaving behind him the character of a good Scholar and an eloquent Man Tho. Preston M. of A. and Fell. of Kings Coll. He acted so admirably well in the Tragedy of Dido before Qu. Elizabeth when she was entertained at Cambridge an 1564 and did so gentilely and gracefully dispute before her that she gave him 20 l. per an for so doing He was afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law and Master of Trin. Hall in that University Five more of the said University were then incorporated Masters of Arts also among whom Edw. Stanhop was one On the same day Sept. 6. were these Doctors following incorporated Thom. Wilson Doct. of the Laws beyond Sea incorporated at Cambridge was now incorporated also at Oxon. He was a Lincolnshire Man born elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in 1541 where he afterwards was Tutor and Servant to Henry and Charles Brandon Dukes of Suffolke Afterwards he was one of the ordinary Masters of the Requests Master of St. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London Embassador into the Low Countries in 1577 and in 1579. Feb. 5. had the Deanery of Durham confer'd upon him by the Queen void by the death of Will. Whittyngham he being then Secretary of State and Privy Counsellor to her While he enjoyed the Office of Secretary he became famous for three things 1 For quick dispatch and industry 2 For constant diligence and thirdly for a large and strong memory He hath written 1 Epistola de vita obitu duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici Caroli Brandâ—n Lond. 1552. qu. 'T is set before a book of verses made on their deaths by several Scholars of Oxon and Cambridge All which he collecting together did publish them and by an Epistle of his composition dedicated them to Hen. Grey Duke of Suffolke 2. The Art of Rhetorick Printed 1553 60. 67. c. qu. 3 The rule of reason containing the art of Logick First printed in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. afterwards at Lond. 1567. qu. 4 Discourse upon usury Lond. 1572. qu. much commended by Dr. Laur. Humphrey the Queens publick pref of Div. in Oxon He also translated from Greek into English The three Orations of Demosthenes chief Orator among the Grecians in the Olynthians Lond 1570. with other things which I have not yet seen He gave way to fate in 1581 whereupon his funeral was celebrated 17. June the same year in St. Catherines Church in East-Smithfield near to the Tower of London The Male issue which he left behind him begotten on the body of Anne Daugh. of Sir Will. Winter Knight setled at Sheepwash in Lincolnshire where the name did lately if not still remain Dr Tob. Mathew did not succeed him in the Deanery of Durham till August 1583. Rob. Furth or Ford LL. Doct. of the said Univ. of Cambridge Of whom I know no more Rob. Huick M. of A. of this University and sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll. afterwards Doctor of Phys of Cambridge and Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London and Physician to the Queen was then Sept. 6. incorporated Doct. of Phys in the house of Barthel Lant by the Commissary and two Proctors John Robinson Doct. of Div. of Cambridge sometimes a member of Pembroke Hall there now President of St. Johns Coll. in this University was also then incorporated In 1574 May 31. he was installed Archdeacon of Bedford in the place as it seems of Will. Rodde and about 1576 he succeeded John Aybner or Elmer in the Archdeaconry of Lincoln of which Church he was about that time made Chauntor Oct. 11. Nich. Bullyngham LL. D. of Cambridge and now Bishop of Lincoln was then incorp LL. D. 16. Edw. Eglionbie M. A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge He was now esteemed a good Grecian and Latin Poet was afterwards a Justice of Peace in Warwickshire and drawing the Pedegree of Qu. Elizabeth dedicated it to her for which she gave him 5 l. per an out of her lands for ever 26. John Porie Doct. of Div. and Master of Corp Ch. College in Cambridge One John Pory sometimes of Gonevill and Caius College in Cambridge did translate and collect A Geographical Historie of Africa written in Arabick and Italian by John Leo a More born in Granada and brought up in Barbary Lond. 1600. fol. What relation there was between this John Pory and the other who was Doct. of Div. I know not nor whether he be the same John Pory M. A. who was installed Canon of the seventh stall in the Church of Westminster on the resignation of John Hyll an 1568. Mar. 22. George Ackworth LL. D. and sometimes Orator of Cambridge was incorporated in that Degree He hath published 1 Oratio in restitutione Buceri Fagii Printed 1562. oct 2 Prolegoâ—â—nâ—n lib. 2. de visibili Monarchia contra Nich. Sanderi Monarchiam Lond. 1573. qu. Creations Aug. 27. Rich. Barber Bach. of the LL. and Warden of All 's Coll. was then actually created Doctor of the Laws in an upper Chamber belonging to him as Warden by Dr. Will. Awbrey and Dr. Rob. Longher by vertue of a Commission directed to them from the ven Convocation See more among the Bach. of Law an 1540. Edw. Atslow M. of A. and Fellow of New Coll. was actually created Doct. of Phys the same day in the house of Dr. Hen. Baylie situated in the Highstreet leading to the Quadrivium by Dr. Thom. Francis and him the said Dr. Baylie by vertue of a Commission c. Rob. Barnes Bach. of Phys sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. was also actually created Doctor of that Faculty in the same place and on the same day by vertue of a Commission c. Aug. 30. Roger Gifford Bach. of Physick sometimes Fellow of Merton College now or lately Fellow of that of Allsoules was actually created Doct. of that Fac. by Dr. Walter and Henry Baylie in the house of the said Henry by vertue of a Commission c. This Doctor Gifford was afterwards President of the Coll. of Physitians at London and Physitian to Qu. Elizabeth Note that the aforesaid four persons were created because they were appointed by the Convocation to dispute before Qu. Elizabeth when she was to be entertained by the Academians in the beginning of Sept. this year After she had been entertained these noble Persons following with others of quality were actually created Masters of Arts on the 6 day of the said month of Sept. viz. Edward Vere Earl of
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
Scotland He was afterwards made a Baron of England by the Title of Lord Bruce of Whorlton in Yorkshire and departed this life 21 Dec. 1663 leaving then behind him a Son named Robert created Earl of Aylesbury in Bucks by K. Ch. 2. who dying on the 19 of Octob. or thereabouts an 1685 he being then Lord Chamberlain to the houshold of K. Jam. 2. was buried at Ampthill in Bedfordshire where if I mistake not the body of his Father had been interr'd He was a learned Person and otherwise well qualified was well vers'd in English History and Antiquities a lover of all such that were Professors of those studies and a curious collector of MSS especially of those which related to England and English antiquities Besides also he was a lover of the regular Clergy as those of Bedfordsh and Bucks know well enough Henry Spencer of Magd. Coll. eldest Son of William Lord Spencer Baron of Wormleighton This Henry was afterwards Earl of Sunderland and taking part with K. Ch. 1. when he was opposed by his rebellious Subjects was slain in the Battel at Newbury in Berks 20. Sept. 1643. whereupon his body was carried to Braynton commonly call'd Brinton in Northamptonshire and there buried George Lord Digby of Magd. Coll. the eldest Son of John Earl of Bristow William Lord Craven of Trin. Coll. He was afterwards Earl of Craven and is now 1690 living Will. Herbert of Exet. Coll. a younger Son of Philip Earl of Pembroke Henry Coventrie Bach. of Arts and Fellow of All 's Coll. Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie Keeper of the great Seal See among the Bachelaurs of Law an 1638. Rich. Lovelace a Gentleman Commoner of Gloc. Hall Afterwards eminent for his valour and poetry as I shall tell you either in the next Vol. or elsewhere Hen. Jacob the curious critick of Merton Coll. Ralph Brideoakâ— of New Coll. sometimes a Student in that of Brasn He was afterwards Bishop of Chichester Frederick Schlâ—de of the Palat. in Germ. Nich. Oudart Esq This Person who was born at Mechlin in Brabant and brought from beyond the Seas by Sir Henry Wotton who afterwards trusted him with his domestick Affairs studied Physick of which faculty he was Bachelaur as I shall tell you among the Creations under the year 1642. About which time he became Secretary to Sir Edw. Nicholas one of the Secretaries of State at Oxon and afterwards attending King Charles 1. in the Treaty in the Isle of Wight an 1648. lived for some time obscurely At length he became Secretary to the Princess of Orange then Latin Secretary to William Prince of Orange and of his Council in which capacity I find him in 1669. and afterwards Latin Secretary to King Charles 2. He paid his last debt to nature in or near to Whitehall about the day of the nativity of our Saviour an 1681. One Nich. Oudart of Bruxells who was official of Mechlin died 1608 whom I take to be Father or Uncle to the former Paul Becker of the Palatinate George Kendall of New Inn. Joh. Suatosius c. Bach. of Div. Sam. Keme or Kem of Magd. Hall sometimes of Magd. Coll. Mark Zeiglier of Exeter Coll. who entitles himself Archipalatinus He was a learned Man and whether he hath published any thing I cannot justly tell He became a Sojournor in the University 1623. Doct. of Law Sir Dudley Carleton of Holcombe in Oxfordshire Knight He was soon after made one of the Clerks of the Council and whether Secretary of State as an Author of no good credit tells us I cannot tell See more of him in Sir Dudley Carleton among the Writers under the year 1631. num 519. Sam. Henton or Hinton He died at Lichfield in 1668. Will. Turner of Wadham Coll. He was now or soon after a Civilian of Doctors Commons and in the time of the rebellion he sided with those that were uppermost In the middle of Jan. 1659 he was appointed by the Rump Parliament then newly restored by General Geor. Monk one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and of the Court for Probat of Wills Dr. Walt. Walker and Mr. W. Cawley being the other two And after his Majesties restauration he became Chancellour of Winchester a Knight and Advocate to the Duke of York He died at Richmond in Surrey as I conceive an 1670. At the same time that these were created Doctors of the Civil Law was a proposal made in the Convocation that Sir John Finet Knight Master of the Ceremonies should be also created or at least diplomated Doctor of the said faculty but whether he was really so it appears not in the publick register However what I have to say of him shall be briefly this viz. 1 That he was the Son of Rob. Finet of Soulton near Dover in Kent Son and Heir of Thomas Son and Heir of John Finet of Siena in Italy where his name is antient who came into England in the quality of a Servant to Cardinal Laur. Campegius Legat a latere from the Pope by his Wife the Daughter of one Mantell sometimes a Maid of honor to Qu. Catherine the Royal Consort of K. Hen. 8. 2 That the said John Finet was always bred in the Court where by his wit innocent mirth and great skill in composing songs he pleased K. Jam. 1. very much 3 That he was sent into France an 1614. about matters of publick concern and in the year after he received the honour of Knighthood at Whitehall about which time he was made Assistant to the Master of the Ceremonies with reversion of that place 4 That upon the death of Sir Lewis Lewknore Master of the Ceremonies he had that office confer'd upon him 12. March 1626 being then in good esteem with his Majesty King Charles 1. 5 That he wrot Fineti Philoxenis Some choice observations touching the reception and precedency the treatment and audience the punctilio's and contests of foreign Ambassadors in England Lond 1656. oct Published by James Howell and by him dedicated to Philip Lord L'isle 6 That he translated from French into English The beginning continuance and decay of Estates c. Lond. 1606. qu. Written originally by R. de Lusing And lastly that dying 12. July 1641 aged 70 years was buried in the North side of the Church of St. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster by the body of Jane his sometimes Wife daughter of Henry Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead in Suffolk Sister to the Earl of Cleevland Doct. of Phys Peter Turner of Mert. Coll. lately Geometry Professor of Gresham Coll. now the Savilian Professor of Geometry in this University John Carter of Magd. Hall He was afterwards a practitioner of his faculty near to Chancery-lane in Lond. Gaspar Hopfius of the Palat. in Germany Doct. of Div. George Warburton of Brasn Coll. was the first and senior Theologist that was actually created Doct. of Div. He was a Cheshire man born of an antient Family had been Chaplain in Ord. to K. Jam. 1.