the English Sectaries and of their foul dealing herein by partial and false translations c. Rhemes 1582. oct Answered in a book intituled A defence of the sincere and true translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue c. Lond. 1583. oct Written by Will. Fulke D. D. Master of Pembroke hall in Cambridge Treatise of Christian Peregrination and relicks Printed 1583. oct Epistles to certain of his friends The last of which which is the largest dat 15. Oct. 1575. was written to Dr. Tho. Whyte then lately Warden of New Coll. touching his following the world and dissembling in Religion against his conscience and knowledge Of the love of the soul with questions to the Protestants Printed at Roan in Normandy He hath also written other books which remain in MS. in several Libraries beyond the Sea as I conceive treating of Divinity In the Year 1584 was set forth a certain book which one calls a horrid piece of Popish malice against Queen Elizab. wherein her Gentlewomen were exhorted to act the like against the Queen as Judith had done with applause and commendations against Holofernes The Author was never discovered but the suspicion lighted upon Gregory Martin one very learned in the Greek and Lat. tongues as my Author before quoted saith but how he could be Author having been dead two years before that time I cannot say He also was the chief Man that translated the New Testament printed at Rhemes 1582 for which work his name remains precious to this day among those of his party He also made other translations which are preserved in MS. in certain Libraries among which is the Tragedy of Cyrus King of Persia which is as some say in the Library of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon. See the titles of other books which are remembred by one that knew him while I in the mean time tell you that our Author dying 28. year 1582 Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Parish Church of St. Stephen at Rheimes There is an Epitaph over his grave comprehended in 16 verses the two first of which are these Quem tulit umbrosis tenerum Southsaxia sylvis Gallica qua spectat regna Britannus ager The rest I shall now omit for brevity sake and proceed to the next in order who was a Romanist also WILLIAM HART a most zealous young Man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Somersetshire entred in his puerile years into Lincoln Coll. an 1572 where after he had been instructed in Grammar and Logick left it without a Degree his relations and Country and going beyond the Seas to Doway compleated his studies in Philosophy Afterwards he travelled to Rome studied Divinity and was there made a Priest At length being sent into the mission of England before he was 24 years of age settled in Yorkshire where he administred comfort to the afflicted Catholicks for a considerable time with little or no interruption At length being taken and imprison'd at York he wrot Letters to certaine Catholicks Letters to his spiritual Sons Letters to the afflicted Cath. and to those that suffer in Prison Letters to a noble Matron All which at least 10 in number were as I presume written by him in the English tongue The Latine copies with many things of their Author you may see in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia p. 104. mention'd in Joh. Bridgwater among the writers following under the Year 1594. This Will. Hart was hang'd drawn and quarter'd for being a R. Priest at York on the 15 of March in Fifteen hundred eighty and two and his quarters afterwards hanged up in publick places In his time were several young Scholars of Lincoln Coll. educated and afterwards professed themselves openly to be R. Catholicks having received instructions from some of the Fellows that were inclined that way but chiefly from the Rector thereof Job Bridgwater before-mentioned who always at last his Rectory to prevent expulsion Some of them I shall mention as they lay in my way NICHOLAS HARPESFEILD an eminent Theologist well skill'd in both the Laws and in Greek History and Poetry in all or most of which faculties having written very well do report him renowned by those of his own perswasion His first being in this World he received in the Parish of St. Marie Magd. in Old Fishstreet within the City of London and his Grammaticals in Wykehams School near to Winchester In 1536 he was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served 2 years of probation there about which time having with great industry gone through all the parts of Philosophy he applyed himself to the study of the Civil and Canon Law wherein he became very eminent In 1544 he being then Bach. of the Civ Law of about an year standing was admitted Principal of an ancient hostle mostly for Civilians called White hall on the Site of which Jesus Coll. was afterwards partly built and in 1546 he was appointed by K. Hen. 8. to be the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue in the University In 1553 he left his Fellowship took the Degree of Doctor of his faculty and had then considerable practice in the Court of Arches In 1554 he was made Archdeacon of Canterbury in the place of Edm. Crammer Brother to the Archb. deprived for being married and in the beginning of Qu. Elizab. he was one of the 7 R. Cath. Divines who were to dispute with those of the Protestant party concerning matters of Religion when Qu. Eliz. was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England But that matter coming to nothing he was soon after imprison'd for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church and thereupon had opportunity given to write several books some of which follow Dialogi sex contra summi pontificatûs monasticae vitae sanctorum sacrorum imaginum oppugnatores pseudo-Martyres Antw. 1566. qu. Which book being put into the hands of his friend Alan Cope he put it out under his name lest danger should befall the Author in Prison See before in Alan Cope an 1580. Our Author Harpesfeild wrot also Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica à primis gentis susceptae fi dei incunabilis ad nostra fere tempora deducta Duac 1622. fol. published by Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit 'T is a book no less learnedly than painfully performed and abating his partiality to his own interest he well deserves of all posterity The original of this Ecclesiastical history written with the Authors own hand is in the Cottonian Library under Vitellius C. 9. num 12. and a copy of it in two volumes is in the Archbishops Library at Lambeth L. 3. and 4. But in that copy in the Cottonian are several things expunged by the Licenser and not at all remitted into the printed copy Among which are these to be in p. 422. cap. 2. lin 4. and to come in between the words inter exitialem and Qui omnis c. Non
went into Germany where setting on the work he finished it in the Year 1527 which was the first translation of it made into English Afterwards going on with the Old Test He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them besides other treatises written there Which being sent into England did as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof prove very mischievous to the whole Nation Insomuch that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations Afterwards the King and Council finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way they sent to the Emperors Attorney at Bruxels to have him seized Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp being snap'd by two Catchpoles appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man sent thither on purpose to find him out was after examination sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp where continuing for some time did at length suffer death notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country as I shall tell you anon He hath written Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies and the State of Souls after this life Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17. Prologue shewing the use of the Scripture Prologues to the five Books of Moses Certain hard words expounded in the first second and fourth Book of Moses Prologue upon the Prophet Jonas the four Evangelists upon the Epistles of St. Paul the Epistles of St. Peter and the 3 Epistles of St. John The Parable of the wicked Mammon Published 1527. May 8. The obedience of a Christian Man and how Christian Rulers ought to govern Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel Answer to Sir Tho. Mores Dialogues An. 1530. The practice of papistical Prelates An. 1530. 'T is about the divorce of K. H. 8. A path way into the Holy Scriptures Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John Published in Sept. 1531. in oct Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg 1546. oct Fruitful treatise upon Signes and Sacraments Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the 6th of John and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth Written Apr. 5. an 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred thirty and six year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church c. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit of three conversions of England c. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS a great and wonderful light of Learning and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany Italy England and other Regions of Europe was born at Roterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person tho educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas yet he must have a place in these Athenae because he had studied in this University particularly in St. Maries Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn in the Years 1497. 98 and part if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19. when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University at which time Erasmus read certain Lectures in the publick refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here I have told you elsewhere and therefore all that I shall now say of him is that his works are printed in 9 Volumes in which are his dissertation De taedio pavore Christi and certain Epistles which he wrot in the said Coll. of St. Mary and that dying at Basil in Germany year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six was buried in the Cathedral Church there Soon after was a conspicuous Monument with an Inscription put over his Grave the contents of which I shall now for brevity sake omit His life is twice or more written in Latin tho not so well as it should be and once or more in English which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University Afterwards returning to his native place he set up the Trade of Printing being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning became intimate with Sir Tho. More whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife and by dayly conference with that most learned Knight he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematicks He was a zealous Man for the Catholick cause and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce and for his ejecting the Popes power from the Nation His Writings are Natura naturata 'T is a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World viz. Asia Africa and Europe adorn'd with Figures and Cuts Canones Astrologici Dialogues concerning Purgatory in 3. Books Apology written against Joh. Fryth Which two last were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester and Sir Thom. More The rules of a good life Anglorum Regum Chronicon with others but as for the Book of Law terms said by Bale to be written by this Author is false for they were written by his Son William as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned and John Rastall a Justice of Peace who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entred into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friers and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters At length in his last days being then esteemed a placid old Man when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England he became a zealous Protestant and wrot in the English Tongue The image of divine Love Against the blasphemies of the Papists And translated into English Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell Other things he wrot as my
one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held whether the same I know not WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower Son of Will. Whittyngham of Over Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire was born in the City of Chester became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts where being put under a careful Tutor did make great proficiency in learning In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College being then Bach. of Arts in which faculty proceeding two years after was made one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenish'd with the choicest Scholars in the University On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house whereupon he went into France and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time had intentions to go into Italy but being prevented by sickness which took him at Lyons he spent some time among the Students in Paris but chiefly in the University of Orleance About that time if I mistake not he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine by his Wife the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleance After he had spent more than an year there he went to certain Universities in Germany and thence to Geneva where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England But that King dying and Religion seeming to put on another face he went with other company into France where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort and were about with license from the Magistrate to settle a Church there did hasten thither and entred himself into their association But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion were forced to disjoyn and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva were to go to that place among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest as you may farther see in a book entit A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 Printed 1575 wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discern'd Soon after their settlement at Geneva John Knox a Scot Minister of the English congregation there was to leave that place and return to his Country so that Whittyngham being look'd upon as the fittest Person to succeed was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him but he alledging that in his former travels and observations with the learning of several languages he had fitted himself more for state employment than that he modestly denied it At length Calvin urging him farther he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him Soon after Miles Coverdale Christop Goodman Anth. Gilby Tho. Sampson Wil. Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible but before the greater part was finished Qu. Maary died So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England the exil'd Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolv'd to go through with the work did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown At the same time also he turned into meter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches inscribed with W. W. They are in number five of which the 119 Psalme is one as large as 22 other Psalmes as also the ten commandments and a prayer at the end of the book of Psalmes At length Whittyngham returning into England he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King an 1560 and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there while the said Earl defended it against the French Where tho he shew'd himself ready in his function yet he spared not to perswade the English from Uniformity and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church Notwithstanding this so great a respect had the said Earl for him that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham in 1563 in the place of Ralf Skinner Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham who enjoying it about 16 years was then succeeded by the said Wilson who enjoyed it not two years After Whittyngham had remained there for some time Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester he might have obtained it About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Church-men and so pressed that they that would not use the same should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry he then and not before submitted himself thereunto And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva he answered that he and others knew and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order they might not neglect their Ministry for so should they for tithing of Mint neglect the greater things of the Law And as concerning singing in the Church Whittyngham did so far allow of it that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queens Chappel to furnish his choire withal himself being skilful in Musick To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569 and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it an 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is stiled by certain Authors the false and unworthy Dean of Durham was because he was only Master of Arts the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England but of Geneva and that he was but a luke-warm conformist at the best The publick works that he hath done as to learning are 1 His Translation of the Geneva Bible 2 His turning into Meter several of the Psalmes of David as I have before told you 3 His translation into Latine the Liturgie of the Church of
another hand but not without the help of that translation of Turbervile though not acknowledged The person that performed it was Tho. Harvey who writes himself Gent. But whether the same Tho. Harvey who was Master of Arts the first Master of Kington School in Herefordshire founded 1620. and the author of The Synagogue in imitation of divine Herbert I know not As for George Turbervile he lived and was in great esteem among ingenious men in fifteen hundred ninety and four 36. Reg. Elizab. but when he dyed I cannot yet learn I find one George Turbervile to be author of 1 Essays politick and moral Printed 1608. in oct 2 The noble art of Venery or hunting and hawking Printed with figures in 1611. in qu. c. Whether George Turbervile before-mentioned was the author of the said two books or another of both his names who was a Dorsetshire man born and a Commoner of Glouc. Hall An. 1581. aged 18. or a third G. Turbervile who was born in the said County and became a Student in Magd. Hall 1595. aged 17. I cannot justly tell you unless I could see and peruse the said two books of which I am as yet totally ignorant HENRY WALPOOLE elder Brother to Mich. and Rich. Walpoole Jesuits was born in the County of Norfolk educated in both the Universities but in what College or Hall in Oxon it doth not appear because not matriculated so that his stay here being I persume but short nothing occurs memorable of him only that he was inclined to Puritanism which made Pasquil in his Apology to challenge Oxford men to enquire and tell him whether the said Walpoole was not a Puritan when he forsook them Soon after his retirement from the University he became so zealous a Roman Catholick that endeavouring to perswade others to his Opinion he was forced to leave his station whereupon going to Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus in 1584. aged 25 years where continuing for some time he went afterwards into Spain and when he had spent certain years there he journeyed into Holland where he suffer'd much upon account of Religion In 1593. he was sent into England was seized on at his first entry therein and carried to York where he was imprisoned for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Church of England The next year he was sent to London and committed Prisoner to the Tower where he suffered much misery After an years durance there in which time several Ministers were with to persuade him to recant but in vain he was sent back to York where he suffered death as I shall tell you anon He hath written in English Verse The Martyrdom of Edm. Campian the Jesuit and other things that are not printed having been secured by certain Protestants when the author was imprisoned at York at which place he was hanged drawn and quartered for Treason on the 17. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 See more of him in a book intit Bibl. Script Soc. Jesu written originally by Pet. Ribadeneira Lugd. 1609. in oct continued by Philip Alcgambc Antw. 1643. fol. and at length by Nath. Sotvellus commonly called Southwell of the Family of the Southwells in Norfolk Rom. 1676. fol. See also in Historia Provinciae Anglicanae Soc. Jesu lib. 5. nu 33 34. written by Henry More an English-man a descendant from Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England Which Hen. tells us that the said Hen. Walpoole was educated in Cambridge without any notice taken of Oxon. The learned Camden in his Annals of Queen Elizabeth doth make mention of one of the Walpooles an 1598. but which I cannot yet tell JOHN HARTE was educated in most kinds of literature in Oxon but in what College or Hall I cannot find One Mr. Harte was a Sojournour of Exeter College An. 1551. 5. Ed. 6. but him I take to be too soon for our author who was but a young Man when he encountred Dr. Jo. Rainolds in a disputation What degrees he took here it appears not though those of his Profession the Jesuits tell us that he was Bachelaur of Divinity of Oxon yet upon the strict perusal of our Registers I cannot find the least authority for it After he had left this University being then and before very unsettled and wavering in mind he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion took priestly Orders and was sent into the Mission of England but soon after taken and committed to Prison to a filthy dungeon as a noted author tells us who adds that after he whom he calls the happy young Confessor had been often by Famine tormented was unexpectedly brought out to encounter Joh. Rainolds before-mentioned An. 1583. or thereabouts Which disputation being smartly held on both sides those of Harte's Persuasion say that Rainolds was foiled though the opposite not upon some years after was published The summ of a conference between Joh. Rainolds and Jo. Hart touching the Head and the Faith of the Church c. Lond. 1588. qu. See more in Jo. Rainolds under the year 1607. Afterwards our Author Harte who is stiled by a learned Author Vir praecaeteris doctissimus being banished with divers other R. Priests in 1584. he went to Verdune where he entred into the Society of Jesus Thence he was called to Rome where making some stay till authority commanded him thence he went into Poland and settled for a time at Jareslaw At length giving way to Fate on the 14. of the Cal. of Aug. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 or thereabouts was buried at Jareslaw or Joreslaw Seven years after his Body was taken up and translated to another place belonging to the Jesuits who had an high esteem for his Person while living sanctity of Life and Learning and when dead for his memory I find another John Hart who was Chester Herald and wrote and published An Orthography containing the due Order and Reason how to write or paint the Image of Man's Voice most like to the Life or Nature Lond. 1569. And another Jo. Hart of later time who among other Books did publish The burning Bush not consumed wherein one may judge whether he be the Child of God or not Lond. 1641. 2. fourth edit But whether this last who was a zealous Puritan if not worse or the former who was an Herald were of this University I know not as yet THOMAS DIGGES Son of Leonard Digges mentioned before under the year 1574. by Sarah his Wife Sister to Jam. and Tho. Wilford two most valiant Knights of Hartridge in the Parish of Crainbrook in Kent was born in that County and for a time educated among the Oxonian Muses but in what House I cannot yet tell neither whether he be the same Mr. Digges which the famous Lampoon or Libel made by Th. Bulkley in the time of Q. Elizabeth on several Scholars and others of Oxon points at However of this I am sure he the said Tho. Digges did spend
This is the first part The second part containeth the lives and characters of English Writers The third containeth an Appendix of which I shall speak more anon and the fourth fifteen indices which are as 't were the Epitomy of memorable things of the said first tome Concerning which I shall make these observations following 1 That according to the time wherein 't was written things are expressed in eloquent Latine 2 That the most part thereof especially concerning the Writers is taken from Joh. Bale's book De Scriptoribus majoris Britanniae notwithstanding he declares an abhorrence of him and his book 2 That therein he omitts Wycleve and all the Wyclevists Irish and Scotch Writers which Bale for the most part commemorates and in their room he gives us an account of R. Cath. Writers such for the most part that had left their Country upon the reformation of religion made by Q. Elizabeth and after which is the best and most desired part of his book 3 That several Writers in the Appendix are taken from a book entit Ecclogua Oxonio Cantabrigensis written by Tho. James of New coll Of which book also he makes use when he tells you in what Libraries the MSS. of certain authors which he mentions are preserved 4 That tho he pretends to give you an account only of R. Cath. Writers especially about the time that reformations were made or endeavoured to be made yet he sets down for want of full information I presume some that were sincere Protestants or at least more Protestants than Papists as Sir Anth. Cope who died 1551. Joh. Redman who died the same year Tho. Key or Cay Master of Vniv. coll who died 1572. Joh. Leland the Antiquary Rob. Record Mathematician Dr. Alb. Hyll an intimate acquaintance with Jo. Bradford the Martyr Joh. Cay the Antiquary of Cambridge Pet. Morwyn or Morwyng of Magd. coll c. and in the Appendix George Coriat rather a Puritan than a true Son of the Church of England Robert for Roger Taverner whom I have mention'd in Rich. Taverner an 1575. Timothy Bright of Cambridge Doct. of Physick and Rector of Methley in Yorkshire by the death of Otho Hunt in July 1591. Tho. Mouffet a Doctor of Physick contemporary with the former Joh. Huntington a zealous reformer and the beloved Son in Christ of Joh. Bale See among the Writers under the year 1556. c. 5 That whereas he pretends to follow Jo. Leland his Collectanea de Scriptoribus Angliae for very many times he familiarly mentions and quotes them 't is only that he may avoid the naming of Bale for whom all R. Catholicks nay zealous Protestants have little or no kindness at all because his book is stuff'd with revilings and such Language that befits rather a Huckster at Billingsgate than the meanest or worst of Scholars The truth is our author Pits never saw the said Collectanea he being but 20 years of age or little more when he left the Nation neither was it in his power afterwards if he had been in England because they were kept in such private hands that few Protestant Antiquaries and none of those of the Church of Rome could see or peruse them 6 That in the said tome are very many errors misnomers c. and so consequently in Bale whom he follows too many now to reckon and how he and Bale are most egregiously deceiv'd in what they mention of Amphibalus Junior and of Gildas Badonicus you may at large see in the learned Usserius in his book De primordiis Ecclesiarum c. printed in qu. an 1639. p. 539. 533 477. 539 557. and 1144. 7 That whereas Pits pretends to set down in the said book or tome only English Writers he hath mix'd among them some that are out landish among which are these Herbertus Losinga num 182. born as he saith in Suffolke but false for the MS. which I follow in my marginal notes and additions of and to the Bishops of Norwich mentioned by Franc. Bishop of Landaff in his book De Praesulibus Angliae Commentarius saith that he was born in Pago Oxinnensi or Oximensi in Normannia Jo. Erigena nu 133. said by him and many others to be born in the City of S. David in Wales but the generality say in Ireland c. At the end of the book of illustrious Writers our author Pits hath Appendix illustrium scriptorum trecentorum octoginta circiter ordine alphabetico per centurias continens Made up mostly from Bale and partly from Dr. Tho. James his Ecloga before-mentioned But therein are many authors put which are before in the work it self De script illust Angliae as 1 Godfridus Historicus cent 2. num 94. p. 844. is the same with Godfridus Arturius or de Monmouth in the body of the work nu 212. 2 Gualt Cepton cent 2. nu 4. p. 846. the same with Walter Catton in the body nu 550. 3 Guliel Califord cent 2. nu 18. p. 851. is the same with Gul. Cockisford nu 653. 4 Guliel de Dunclmo cent 2. nu 27. is the same with Gul. Shirwood in the body of the work nu 348. 5 Gul. Worcestrius c. 2. nu 53. the same with Gul. Buttonerus in the work it self nu 848. p. 648. 6 Joh. Anglicus cent 2. nu 78. seems to be the same with Joh. Hoveden nu 396. P. 356. 7 Joh. de Alton cent 2. nu 94. seems to be the same with Joh. Acton nu 416. p. 372. 8 Joh. Yorcus cent 3. nu 10. is the same with Joh. Eboracensis in the same Appendix p. 874. nu 1. 9 Joh. Vton cent 3. nu 35. is the same with Joh. Stone in the body of the work nu 862. p. 657. 10 Rich. de Montibus cent 3. nu 80. seems to be the same with Will. de Montibus nu 302. p. 285. 11 Rich. Ruys c. 3. nu 92. the same with Rich. Rufus nu 380. p. 348. 12 Rob. Bridlington c. 3. nu 100. the same with Rob. Scriba nu 244. P. 242. 13 Rob. Cestrensis c. 4. nu 2. the same with Rog. Cestrensis nu 514. p. 438. 14 Miserorum Simplissimus c. 3. nu 52. seems to be the same with Joh. Wethamstede nu 818. P. 630. 15 Rob. Dominicanus c. 4. nu 8. the same with Rob. Holcot nu 333. p. 463. 16 Rob. Herefordiensis c. 4. nu 11. the same with Rob. Foliot B. of Hereford nu 236. p. 236. 17 Robertus Prior c. 4. nu 13. is the same with Rob. Canutus nu 234. p. 234. Which R. Canutus also is supposed to be the same with Rich. Greekladensis p. 397. nu 448. and that Rich. to be the same with Rob. Greekladensis mentioned by Leland in vol. 3. collect p. 36. where 't is said that the said Rob. wrote 40 Homilies and a Tract De connubio Jacob which makes me think that the said Robert Prior may be the same with the said Rob. Greeklade and the same R. Greeklade to be the same with
relating to the Protestant Religion he entred into the Society of Jesus at Paris an 1588. aged about 30. Afterwards he taught Divinity in the University of Doll in Burgundy and at length was sent into the Mission of England to labour in the Harvest there He hath written The Garden of the Virgin Mary St. Om. 1619. oct Which contains certain Prayers and Meditations Other matters as 't is said he hath written but being printed beyond Sea we have few copies of them come into these parts LEWIS THOMAS a frequent Preacher in his time became a poor Scholar or Exhibitiner of Brasnose coll in 1582. or thereabouts took one degree in Arts holy Orders soon after and at length was beneficed in his native County of Glamorgan and elsewhere His works are Certain Lectures upon sundry portions of Scripture c. Lond. 1600. oct Dedic to Sir Tho. Egerton Lord Keeper of the great Seal who was one of his first promoters in the Church Seaven Sermons or the exercises of Seaven Sabbaths The first intit The Prophet David's Arithmetick is on Psal. 90. 12. The second called Peter's Repentance is on Matth. 26. 75. c. Which Seaven Sermons were printed at London several times in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth once in the Reign of K. James 1619. and once in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. 1630. A short treatise upon the Commandments on Rev. 22. 14. Lond. 1600. c. oct This is sometimes called A Comment on the Decalogue I find another Lewis Thomas of Jesus college who took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of that house 1597. and that of Master as a Member of St. Edm. hall 1601. But what relation he had to the former or whether he hath published any thing I know not JOHN NORDEN was born of a gentile Family but in what County unless in Wilts I cannot tell became a Commoner of Hart hall in 1564. and took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1573. This person I take to be the same John Norden who was author of these books following some of which I have perused but therein I cannot find that he entitles himself a Minister of Gods word or Master of Arts. Sinful Mans Solace most sweet and comfortable for the sick and sorrowful Soul c. Lond. 1585. in oct Mirrour for the Multitude or a Glass wherein may be seen the violence the errour the weakness and rash consent of the multitude c. Lond. 1586. in oct Antithesis or contrariety between the Wicked and Godly set forth in form of a pair of Gloves fit for every man to wear c. Lond. 1587. Pensive Mans Practice wherein are contained very devout and necessary Prayers for sundry godly purposes c. Lond. 1591. in tw Printed there again 1629. in tw which was the fortieth impression Poor Mans rest founded upon motives meditations and prayers c. Printed several times in oct and tw The eighth edit was printed at Lond. 1620. in tw Progress of Piety whose Jesses lead into the Harborough of heavenly Harts-ease to recreate the afflicted Souls of all such as c. Lond. in tw Christian comfort and encouragement unto all English Subjects not to dismay at the Spanish threats Lond. 1596. Mirrour of Honour wherein every Professor of Arms from the General to the inferiour Souldier may see the necessity of the fear and service of God Lond. 1597. qu. Interchangeable variety of things Lond. 1600. qu. The Surveyors Dialogue very profitable for all men to peruse but especially for Gentlemen Farmers and Husbandmen c. in 6 books Lond. 1607. 10. and 18. in qu. Labyrinth of Mans life Or Vertues delight and Envies happiness Lond. 1614. qu. 'T is a Poem dedic to Rob. Carr Earl of Somerset Loadstone to a Spiritual life Lond. 1614. in sixt Pensive Souls delight Or a devout Mans help consisting of motives meditations and prayers c. Lond. 1615. in tw An Eye to Heaven in Earth A necessary Watch for the time of death consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose With the Husband's Christian Counsel to his Wife and Children left poor after his death Lond. 1619. in tw c. Help to true blessedness Pathway to patience in all manner of afflictions c. Lond. 1626. oct This John Norden lived at Hendon near to Acton in Middlesex in most of the Reign of King James 1. being patronized in his studies by or as some say was Servant to Will Cecil Lord Burliegh and Rob. Earl of Salisbury his Son I take him to be the same John Norden Gent. who hath written Speculum Britanniae or an Historical and Chorographical description of Middlesex Lond. 1593. in about 7 sh in qu. And of A Chorographical description of Hertfordshire Printed much about the same time in 4 sh in qu. JOHN BUDDEN Son of Joh. Budden of Canford in Dorsetshire was born in that County entred into Merton coll in Mich. Term. 1582. aged 16. admitted Scholar of Trinity coll 30. of May following took the degree of Bach. of Arts and soon after was translated to Glouc. hall for the sake and at the request of Mr. Tho. Allen where being mostly taken up with the study of the Civil Law yet he took the degree of M. of Arts as a Member thereof At length he was made Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll proceeded in the Civil Law 1602. made Principal of New Inn 1609. the Kings Professor of the Civil Law soon after and Principal of Broadgates hall He was a person of great Eloquence an excellent Rhetorician Philosopher and a most noted Civilian He hath written and published Gulielmi Patteni cui Waynfleti agnomen fuit Wintoniensis Ecclesiae Praesulis coll B. Mariae Magd. apud Oxon fundatoris vita obitusque Oxon. 1602. qu. Reprinted in a Book intit Vitae selectorum aliquot virorum c. Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Published by Dr. Will Bates a Cambridge Man a learned and moderate Nonconformist living then at Hackney near London an eminent writer and worthy of much praise Reverendiss Patris ac Domini Johannis Mortoni Cantuariensis olim Archiep. Magni Angliae Cancellarii trium Regum Consiliarii vita obitusque Lond. 1607. in 3 sh in oct He also translated from English into Latin 1 Sir Tho. Bodley's Statutes of the Publick Library which is remitted into the body of the Statutes of the University 2 Sir Tho. Smith's book intit The Commonwealth of England and the manner and Government thereof in 3 books Printed at Lond. in oct and beyond Sea in tw Also from French into English A discourse for Parents Honour and Authority over their Children Lond. 1614. oct written by Pet. Frodiuâ— a renowned French Civilian year 1620 This Dr. Budden died in Broadgates hall on the eleventh of June in sixteen hundred and twenty From which place his body being carried to the Divinity School Rich. Gardiner of Ch. Ch. the Deputy-Orator delivered an eloquent Speech in praise of him
neither any Register belonging to the Cathedral and therefore I have put him under the year 1620. wherein he was in great esteem for his learning MICHAEL WIGMORE was born of a gentile Family in Somersetshire entred a Commoner in Magd. hall 1602. aged 14. elected when Bach. of Arts as a native of the Dioc. of Gloucester Fellow of Oriel coll an 1608. After he had proceeded in his Faculty he took upon him the Sacred Function and became a painful and zealous Preacher and a publisher of Several Sermons as 1 The holy City discovered besieged and delivered on Eccles. 9. 14 15. Lond. 1619. qu. 2 The way of all flesh on Prov. 4. 1. Lond. 1619. qu. 3 The good adventure on Rev. 4. 2. 3. Lond. 1620. qu. c. one Mich. Wigmore was author of a Serm. intit The dissâ—â—tion of the brain on Isa. 9. 15. Printed 1641. which person I take to be the same with the former When our author Mich. Wigmore of Oriel died or where he was beneficed I cannot yet tell Quaere ROBERT STAFFORD a Knight's Son was born within the City of Dublin in Ireland entred a Sojournour in Exeter coll under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Prideaux an 1604. aged 16. but took no degree as I can yet find He published A Geographical and Anthological description of all the Empires and Kingdoms both of Continent and Islands in this Terrestial Globe c. Lond. 1618. and 34. qu. Usher'd into the World by the commendatory verses of Tho. Rogers Caspar Thomannus of Zuriche sometimes an Oxf. Student Joh. Glanvill and Joh. Prideaux Which last was supposed to have had a chief hand in the campiling the said book as the tradition goes in Exeter coll The said Rob. Stafford lived afterwards in Devon at Dowlton I think and had a Son of the same coll GEORGE GYFFARD or Gifford was a Student in Hart hall several years before 1568 10. Elizab. at which time did also study there others of his Sirname and allies as Humphrey Walter and Rob. Gifford but whether our author George was originally of this University or that he took a degree in Arts Law Physick or Divinity therein it doth not at all perhaps by the imperfectness of the registers appear Several persons in his time and before did tho they were beneficed retire to this University purposely to improve themselves in learning and by conversation and 't is supposed that this Gifford did the like Afterwards he became Minister of Maldon in Essex a very noted preacher and one most admirably well vers'd in several sorts of learning which were rare and much in esteem in his time but withal a great Enemy to Popery His works are Country divinity containing a discourse of certain points of Religion which are among the common sort of Christians with a plain confutation thereof Lond. 1581. 1. oct Dialogue between a Papist and a Protestant applied to the capacity of the unlearned Lond. 1583. oct Against the Priesthood and Sacrifice of the Church of Rome wherein you may perceive their impiety in usurping that office and action which ever appertaineth to Christ only Lond. 1584. oct Catechism giving a most excellent light to those that seek to enter the path-way to salvation Lond. 1586. oct Discourse of the subtile practices of Devils by Witches and Sorceres c. Lond. 1587. qu. Short treatise against the Donatists of England whom we call Brownists wherein by answer unto their writings their heresies are noted Lond. 1590. qu. Plain declaration that our Brownists be full Donatists by comparing them together from point to point out of the writing of Augustin Lond. 1591. qu. Reply to Mr. Joh. Greenwood and Hen. Barrow touching read Prayer wherein their gross ignorance is detected These two last are dedicated to Sir Will. Cecill Lord Burleigh Chanc. of Cambridge Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcrafts In which is laid open how craftily the Devil deceiveth not only the Witches but many other c. Lond. 1593. and 1603. qu. Treatise of true fortitude Ibid. 94. oct Comment or Sermons on the whole book of the Revelations Ibid. 96. qu. Exposition on the Canticles Lond. 1612. oct Besides all these books he hath Several Sermons extant as 1 Sermon on the parable of the Sower on Math. 13. ver 1. to 9. Lond. 1581. oct 2 Sermon on 2 Pet. ver 1. to 11. Lond. 1584. oct 3 Serm. on Jam. 2. ver 14. to 26. Ibid. 86. oct 4 Sermon on the first four chapt and part of the 5. of Ecclesiastes c. Pr. at the same place 1589. oct 5 Serm. at Paul's cross on Psal. 133. Lond. 1591. oct 6 Two Sermons on 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. wherein is shewed that the Devil is to be resisted only by a stedfast faith c. Lond. 1598. oct 7 Four Sermons upon several parts of Scripture Lond. 1598. oct The first Sermon is on 1 Tim. 6 17 18 19. c. 8 Fiveteen Sermons on the Song of Solomon Lond. 1620. oct He also translated into English Prelections upon the sacred and holy Revolations Lond. 1573. qu. Written in latin by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge This George Gifford hath written and translated other things which I have not yet seen and lived to a good old age but when he died it appears not LUDOVISIO PETRUCCI or à Petruccioli or as he writes himself Ludovicus Petruccius infelix Eques Son of Ariodant or Aridante â—etrucci was born at Sienna à Petigliano in Tuscany educated partly in juvenile learning in his own country but before he had made proficiency in Academicals he became a Souldier of fortune first in Creet for the Venetians where he was Sarjeant-major in 1602. secondly in the Hungarian wars where he was Captain of a Foot-company in the regiment first of Count Salma and afterwards in that of Colonel Ferdinand de Colonitsch serving for the Emperour and at length in the services of the Prince of Brandiburg and Nuburgh But being unfortunate in all his undertakings he left the trade of war and retiring into England took a journey to Oxâ—â— in 1610. and was entred into the publick Library in the beginning of the year following About that time he was a Commoner of S. Edmunds hall as he was afterwards of Ball. coll wore a gown spent four years or more in Academical learning and frequented the Prayers and Sacraments according to the Church of England But being notwithstanding suspected for a Papist or at least popishly affected and to keep intelligence with that party were several objections made against him for the inconveniency and evil consequence that might happen for his long continuance in the University Whereupon he was forced or at least desired to depart such were the jealousies of the puritanical party in the University He hath written Farrago Poematum diversis locis temporibus conscriptorum c. Oxon. 1613. in Ital. and Lat. in qu. Oratio ad D. Joh. Bapt. Bernardum Praetorem Patavinum universam curiam in
University of Monreale in Italy Soon after he returned to Rhemes where remaining for some time eh went to Doway and in the English coll there taught and professed Divinity for about 10. years Afterwards he went into England to preach the word of God to administer to the distressed Catholicks and to gain Souls to his Religion where he was living in 1611. But his same for the exquisite writings that he published gaining him a great name was called thence and made Canon of the collegiat Church of S. Mary at Bruges in Flanders which he kept till the time of his death He hath written Justificationes de triplici hominis officio ex notione ipsius naturali morali ac Theologica in 3. libris Antw. 1602. qu. In the Preface to which the author having utter'd several matters against the learned Dr. Joh. Rainolds which were by the Protestants taken for great reproaches were animadverted upon by Wake the Orator of Oxon in these words Eat autem Westonus c. Let yet Weston that lewd and shameless Rabshake belch out what reproaches he pleaseth against him Rainolds and charge him not only with stupid dulness but also that he counterfeited sickness and pretended only to a disease to preserve his credit c. Notwithstanding which this Weston himself so like his Uncle in his ill conditions and ignominious flight when he challenged all the Heads of the University and branded them for inpure only for that some of them had entred into the state of Matrimony could not find any one act out of Dr. Joh. Raynolds in all his life to blemish him withal c. Juris pontificii sanctuarium printed 1613. in oct This I have not yet seen The trial of christian truth by the rules of virtues namely these principal Faith Hope Charity and Religion c. Doway 1614. qu. This is the first part which treats only of Faith The rest I have not yet seen Theatrum vitae civilis ac sacrae five de moribus reipub christianae commentaria in quinque libros distributa Brugis Flandr 1626. fol. Jesu Christi D. nostri coruscationes simulque â—orum vi dictorum factorumque quarundam personarum eodem Christo praesente in Evangelicâ historiâ recensitorum enarrationes c. Antw. 1631. fol. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing else of him only that he was living in sixteen hundred thirty and three as I have been informed by Franc. à S. Clara who told me also that he died and was buried at Bruges in Flanders Besides this Edw. Weston I find one Will. Weston born at Maidstone in Kent who was contemporary with Edm. Campian the Jesuit in the University of Oxon. which place he leaving he went beyond the Seas entred into the Society of Jesus 1571. aged 25. and after Jasp Heywoods departure out of England he was sent thither by Father Parsons from Paris to be his substitute in the place of Provincial and how he behaved himself in that Office let another tell you In 1587. he was taken and imprisoned in Wisbich Castle with others where I find him to be the prime promoter and carrier on of the faction between the Seculars and Jesuits see more in Christop Bagshaw under the year 1625. This Will. Weston is much noted in English Story by the name of Father Edmonds alias Weston especially upon the publication of a book written by Sam. Harsnet afterwards Archb. of York intit A declaration of egregious popish impostures to withdraw the hearts of her Majesties Subjects from their allegiance c. under the pretence of casting out devils practised by Edmonds alias Weston a Jesuit c. Lond. 1603. qu. He died 9 Apr. 1615. leaving then behind him a precious name among the Brethren of his Order This person tho evilly treated and disgracefully mentioned by the Secular Priests and certain Protestant writers yet Father Parsons in his Brief Apology or defence of the Catholick Ecclesiastical Hierarchie c. speaks very honourably of him as to his piety and mortified way of living WILLIAM NOY Son of Will. Noy of S. Burian in Cornwall Gent. by Philippa his Wife was born there became a sojournour of Exeter coll in 1593. aged 16. where continuing a severe Student about 3 years left the University without a degree went to Linc. Inn studied the Common Law and by his unwearied industry and moyling day and night he became eminent in his profession In the latter end of the raign of K. Jam. 1. he was chose a Burgess for Helston in his own Country to sit in that Parliament that began at Westminster 30. Jan. 1620. and for that which began there 19. Feb. 1623. In both which he shewed himself a profess'd enemy to the Kings prerogative In 1625. he was elected a Burgess for S. Ives to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 6. Feb. wherein as in another following shewing himself an enemy as before he was at length diverted from his proceedings by being made Attorney General an 1631. He was as famous a Lawyer as ever this Kingdom bred as a certain author informs us who adds that formerly he was a great Patriot and the only searcher of Presidents for the Parliaments By which he grew so cunning as he understood all the shifts which former kings had used to get moneys with This man the K. sent for told him he would make him his Attorney Noy like a true cynick as he was did for that time go away not returning to the King so much as the civility of thanks nor indeed was it worth his thanks I am sure he was not worthy of ours For after the Court solicitings had bewitched him to become the Kings he grew the most hateful man that ever lived c. he having been as great a deluge to this Realm as the flood was to the whole world For he swept away all our priviledges and in truth hath been the cause of all these miseries this Kingdom hath since been ingulphed whether you consider our Religion he being a great Papist if not an Atheist and the protecter of all Papists and the raiser of them up unto that boldness they were now grown unto or if you consider our Estates and Liberties which were impoverished and enthralled by multitudes of Papists and illegal ways which this Monster was the sole author of c. He was a man passing humorous of cynical rusticity a most indesatigable plodder and searcher of ancient Records whereby he became an eminent instrument of good and ill to the Kings Prerogative His apprehension as 't is said was quick and clear his judgment methodical and solid his memory strong his curiosity deep and searching his temper patient and cautious all tempered with an honest bluntishness far from Court insinuation He left behind him several things fit for the Press and under his name were these books afterwards published A Treatise of the principal grounds and
at the same time Legat a Latere in England and soon after Bishop of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Salcot alias Capon on purpose to thwart Cardinal Pole whom that Pope took to be his Enemy or rather out of stomach to work that Cardinals displeasure whom he before had recalled to Rome to be accused and charged as suspected corrupt in Religion But Q. Mary albeit she was most affectionately devoted to the Ch. of Rome interposed or rather opposed her self so that Peto was forbidden to enter into England and the power Legantine left entire and whole to her Cousin Pole Whereupon Peto continued in France where he died in Apr. year 1558 in fifteen hundred fifty and eight leaving then behind him the character of a very godly and devout person yet simple and unknowing of matters of State or of the world which ought in some measure to accompany a person of his high degree See more of him in Historia minor provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum in the first tome of the Scholastical and Historical works of Franc. Ã Sancta Clara sect 25. p. 53. PAUL BUsh was made the first Bishop of Bristow in 1542 was deprived of it for being married in the beginning of the Reign of Q Mary and died in Octob. year 1558 in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers JOHN HOLYMAN sometimes Fellow of New college was made Bishop of Bristow in the place of Bush before-mentioned year 1558 an 1554. and died in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers In the See of Bristow succeeded Rich. Cheyney which he held in Commendam with Gloucester as I shall tell you anon in Jam. Brokes under the year 1559. REYNOLD POLE sometimes a Student in S. Mary Magd. coll afterwards a Cardinal and elected twice to the Papacy was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in the latter end of 1555. year 1558 and died in fifteen hundred fifty and eight under which year you may see more of him among the writers After him succeeded in the said Archiepiscopal See Matthew Parker who was born in the City of Norwych 6. of Aug. 1504. Son of Will. Parker who died 16. of Jan. 1516. by Alice Monings his Wife who died 20. of Sept. 1553. Which Will. Parker who was an honest poor Man as a Schismatical writer tells you and a scowrer or calender of worsteds in Norwych was the Son of John Parker and he the Son and Heir of Nich. Parker a Notary Publick of the dioc of Norwych principal Registrary belonging to the Archb. of Canterbury and keeper of the Registers belonging to the Court thereof As for Matthew Parker after he had been trained up in Grammar learning at home he was sent to the University of Cambridge at about 17 years of age and being placed in Corp. Ch. coll became soon after one of the Bible-Clerks in the said house Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts was made Fellow thereof took holy Orders and became a noted Preacher not only in the University but also in other publick places in the Kingdom Whereupon his fame being spred abroad he was sent for to the Court and made chaplain to Q. Anne about 1534. by whose favour and endeavours he was soon after made Dean of Stoke near to Clare in Suffolk and some time after Prebendary of Ely In 1538. he was made Doct. of div about which time by letters of commendation from the King to whom he was chaplain he was elected Master of C. C. coll before-mentioned now known by the name of Bennet college the Fellows of which soon after presented him to the Rectory of Landbeach near to Cambridge In 1545. he was Vicechanc. of the said Univ. and in 1549. he took to Wife Margaret the daughter of Rob. Harleston of Norfolk born 23. Jun. 1519. by whom he had Issue 1 Joh. Parker born 5. May 1548. who married Joan daughter of Dr. Rich. Coxe B. of Ely 2 Matthew who died young and thirdly another Matthew who married Frances dau of W. Barlow Bishop of B. and Wells and afterwards of Chichester but this Matthew dying 28. Jan. 1574. she was afterwards married to Dr. Tob. Matthews Dean of Durham the same who was afterwards Archb. of York In 1548. the said Dr. M. Parker was again elected Vicechanc. of Cambridge and in 1552. he was made by K. Edw. 6. to whom he was chaplain Dean of Lincoln in the place of Dr. Joh. Tayler promoted to the See of Lincoln But soon after when Q. Mary came to the Crown losing all his spiritualities because he was married he retired in private and spent all her Reign within the house of one of his Friends His headship of C. C. coll was thereupon bestowed on Dr. Laur. Mapted and his Deanery on Dr. Franc. Mallet an 1554. he being then Canon of Windsore Confessor to Q. Mary and Master of Michael-house in Cambridge of which University he had before been at least twice Vicechancellour This Mallet by the way it must be known was the same person who translated into English Erasmus's Paraphrase on John who dying in the latter end of Decemb. 1570. had for his Successor in that Deanery Dr. Joh. Whitgift afterwards Archb. of Canterbury When Q. Elizab. came to the Crown Dr. Parker tho a married man for his Wife died not till 17. of August 1570. was nominated to the See of Canterbury after several persons had refused it whereupon being consecrated thereunto in the Archb. chappel at Lambeth 17. of Dec. 1559. after a Sermon invocation of the Holy Ghost and celebration of the Eucharist had been performed by the laying on of the hands of three Bishops viz. Will. Barlow B. of B. and Wells Joh. Scorey of Chichester and Miles Coverdale of Exeter assisted also by Joh. Hodgeskyn Suffragan Bishop of Bedford sate there with great honour to the time of his death He was a religious and a learned man and of modest manners and behaviour He was well read in English history and a diligent and curious collector of antient Mss. that had been scatter'd at the dissolution of Monasteries which he gave to the coll wherein he had been educated He is also reported to have been a person of great charity a noted benefactor to the publick and an eminent ornament to the places which gave him birth and education The chief book which he wrote and published assisted therein as 't is said by his servant or chaplain Joh. Jostine was that intit De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae privilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis cum Archiepiscopis ejusdem 70. Lond. 1572-3 fol. Most of the copies of this impression that were commonly fold conclude with the life of Reynold Pole Archb. of Canterbury who died 1558. The other copies which remained and were to be bestowed on publick Libraries or else to be given to special Friends had in the year 1574 added to them 1
was incorporated the same day Creations Oct. 1. Alex. Nowell Dean of S. Pauls Cathedral and Principal of Brasn Coll. was actually created Doctor of Div. in the house of Convocation An. Dom. 1596. An. 38 Elizab. An. 39 Elizab. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Tho. Ravis D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 17. Proct. Abel Gower of Oriel Coll. Rowl Searchfeild of S. Joh. Coll. Apr. 21. Bach. of Arts. May. 8. Josias White of New Coll. 24. Fran. Gorge of Ch. Ch. He was the eldest Son of the Marchioness of Northampton named Helen the Widow of Will. Parr Marq. of Northamption who had married Sir Tho. Gorge of Wilts Kinght Jun. 16. Joh. Bancroft of Ch. Ch. He was afterwards Bishop of Oxon. July 8. Rich. Carpenter Sim. Baskervile of Ex. Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Physick an 1611. 14. Joh. Hanmer of All 's Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph Dec. 2. Robert Bolton of Brasn Coll. Jan. 29. Henry Tilson of Vniv. Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Elphine in Ireland Jan. 31. Franc. Rous Charles Fitz-Geffry Feb. 3. Degory Whear of Broadgates Hall 23. George Calvert of Trin. Coll. H. Tilson will be at large remembred among the Bishops and Rouse and Whear among the Writers in the second Vol. Admit 133. Doct. of Musick Jul. 10. Robert Stevenson Bach. of Musick was licensed to proceed in the said Faculty but whether he did proceed or stood in the Act this or the next year it appears not See more in 1587. Mast of Arts. Apr. 29. Thom. Morrice of S. Maries Hall an Esquires Son and a Berkshire man born of an antient Family was then admitted M. of A. but whether ever he took the degree of Bach. of that Faculty it appears not I find one Tho. Morrice M. of A. to be Author of An apology for Schoolmasters c. Lond. 1619. oct who I presume is the same who had put out Digesta scholastica in gratiam puerorum edita c. Oxon. 1617. oct with the two letters of T. M. only and the Arms of the University of Oxon put in the Title Page Whether Tho. Morrice M. of A. be the same with T. M. of Oxon and both the same with Thom. Marrice of S. Maries Hall before mention'd I must leave it to the Reader to judge March 5. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. Adm. 53. Bach. of Physick Tho none were this year admitted Bachelaurs of Physick yet several were admitted to practise it among whom was a certain Millaneese called Scipio Balsam of Magd. Coll. one Dec. 17. and Joh. More sometimes of Vniv. Coll. another Bach. of Div. Mar 26. Alex. Cooke of Vniv. June 23. Rob. Tighe of Magd. Coll. The last was lately incorporated M. of A. See in the Incorporations following Jul. 7. Rich Kilbye of Line Dec. 4. Joh. Spot of S. Joh. Coll. The last of which was about this time Canon of Exeter Adm. 18. ☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Mar. 31. Edm. Watts of Brasn Joh. Bourne of Trinity Arth. Aubrey of S. Joh. Coll. The said Joh. Bourne was now Treasurer of the Cath. Church of Wells which Dignity he resigning Rob. Wright D. D. of Trin. Coll. was admitted thereunto 21 Dec. 1601. July 7. Rich. Kilbye of Linc. Coll. who accumulated Joh. Dove of Ch. Ch. 9. Joh. Perin of S. Joh. Coll. Greek Professor of the University He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Church Nov. 22. Rob. Abbot of Ball. Coll. Dec. 7. Rich. Field of Qu. Coll. sometimes of Magd. Hall Feb. 5. Rich Latewar Joh. Buckridge of S. Joh. Coll. Mar. 11. Joh. Harding of Magd. Coll. Hebrew Professor of the University He was afterwards President of that Coll. Incorporations Apr. 9. Francis Covert LL. D. of Leyden He died at Chalden in Surrey 1609. June 21. Rob. Tighe M. A. of Cambr. an excellent Linguist Jul. 1. Rich. Thomson M. A. of the same University This learned person who was a Dutch man born of English Parents and educated in Clare Hall is stiled by a noted Presbyterian The grand propagator of Arminianism and by another A deboist drunken English Dutchman who seldome went one night to bed sober Yet a noted writer who knew him well tells us that he was a most admirable Philologer that he was better known in Italy France and Germany than at home He hath written 1 Elenchus refutationis Torturae Torti pro reverendiss Episcopo Eliense adversus Matinum Becanum Lond. 1611. 2 Diatriba de amissione intercessione gratiae justificationis Lugd. Bat. 1618 and 18. oct and other things One of both his names was as a M. of A. of Cambr. incorporated in this University 1593 which I take to be the same with this Jul. 9. Joh. Sherwood Doct. of Phys of the University of Rheims He was about this time an eminent practitioner of his Faculty in the City of Bathe being much resorted to by those of the Rom. Cath. Religion he himself being of that profession He died in Feb. 1620 and was buried in the Church of S. Pet. and Paul in that City Thom. Playfere D. of D. of Cambridge was incorporated the same day He was a Kentish man born educated in S. Joh. Coll. in Cambr. of which he was Fellow and succeeded Pet. Baro in the Margaret Professorship of that University about 1596 at which time he was esteemed a person of great Eloquence and fluency in the Latin Tongue The titles of several of his Works which were collected into one Volume you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue He died in the latter end of the year in Jan. or Feb. 1608. and was buried in S. Botolph's Church in Cambridge Creations Apr. 2. Georg. à Missinbuck Embassador to the Queen of England from the Lantgrave of Hassia was actually created Master of Arts in the Convocation house and at the same time was with great civility treated by the chief Heads of the University An. Dom. 1597. An. 39 Eliz. An. 40 Eliz. Chanc. the same Vicechanc. Dr. Tho. Ravis again July 14. Proct. Joh. Purkhurst of Magd. Coll. Rich. Trafford of Mert. Coll. Apr. 6. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 12. Joh. White of New Coll. He was afterwards known by the name of the Patriarch of Dorchester 37. Aegeon Askew of Qu. May 9. Rob. Vilvaine of Exet. Coll. 12. Rog. Mathew of Qu. Coll. See among the Masters an 1600. 27. Rob. Barnes of Magd. Coll. See among the Bach. of Div. 1610. Jun. 4. Edmund Coffin of Exeter Coll. He was an excellent Greecian and afterwards Schoolmaster of Saltash in Cornwal for 40 years in which time he sent many Scholars to both the Universities especially this of Oxon. One Edw. Coffin a Devonian and a learned man was entered into the Society of Jesus in England an 1598 and educated as I have been informed in the English Coll. at Rome Jul. 15. Isaac Wake the noted Orator Oct. 20. Theophilus Higgons of Ch. Ch. Nov. 5. Will. Loe
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.