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
Delapre in Northamptonshire Esq was born there or at least in that County became a Commoner of Magd. coll in 1577. aged 17. where laying a foundation of leâ—rning for a greater structure to be erected thereon departed without a degree to the Middle Temple 〈…〉 became a noted Counsellour a person of great 〈…〉 in the Law and eminent for his knowledge in 〈◊〉 and in the Saxon Language In the latter â—nd of Q Elizabeth he was a Parliament Man and in the 5. Jac. 1. he was Lent-Reader of the Middle Temple and about that time one of the Justices Itinerant for S. Wales He hath written several matters relating to Antiquity which being crept into private hands the publick is thereby rob'd of the benefit of them However some of them I have seen which bear these titles Nomina Hydarum in com Northampton MS. much used by Augustine Vincent Son of Will. Vincent of Wellingborough and Thingdon in Northamptonshire in his intended Survey or Antiquities of Northamptonshire I have a copy of this lying by me Explanation of the abbreviated words in Domsday book Used also the by said Vincent who after he had been Rouge Croix and Windsore Herald as also had published A discovery of Errors in two Editions of the Catalogue of Nobility written by Raphe Brook did yield to nature on the 11. Jan. in 1625. and was buried in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls Wharf in London The said two MSS. of Franc. Tate were reserved as rarities in the Library of Christop Lord Hatton of Kirkly in Northamptonshire but where they are now I know not His opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England See more in Joh. Doderidge under the year 1628. Learned Speeches in Parliaments held in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen He lived a single Man and dying so on the 16. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 was buried I suppose in the Church belonging to the Temples He had a Nephew Son of his elder Brother Sir William Tate of Delapre called Zouch Tate who became a Gentleman Com. of Trinity coll in 1621. aged 15. but took no degree In 1640. he was chosen a Burgess for Northampton to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nov. the same year where siding with the Factious Crew took the Covenant and became a zealous Enemy to the King and his Cause Two or more Speeches of his are printed one of which was spoken in a Common Hall at London 3. Jul. 1645. containing Observations on the King and Queens Cabinet of Letters Lond. 1645. qu. Which Speech with that of John L'isle and Rich. Browne were animadverted upon by Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. as hereafter it shall be told you There were also Annotations printed at the end of the said Cabinet of Letters taken at Naseby Battle where the King was worsted Printed at Lond. 1645. qu. but who the author of them was I cannot tell RICHARD FIELD received his first being in this World in the County of Hertford was entred a Student in Magd. coll in 1577. where continuing in drudging at his book till he was about Bachelaurs standing retired to Magd. hall took the degrees in Arts and afterwards for about 7 years was not only a daily Reader of Logick and Philosophy but also a Moderator and every Sunday a discusser of controversies against Bellarmine and other Pontificians before his Fellow-Aularians and many others Afterwards being Bach. of Divinity he became first a Reader thereof in the Cath. Church of Winchester and afterwards in Lincolns Inn and when Doctor Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Elizab. and after her death to K. James the last of whom not only gave him a Prebendship of Windsore on the death of Jo. Chamber an 1604. but also the Deanry of Gloucester in 1609. in the place of Dr. Tho. Morton promoted to the Deanry of Winchester Both which he kept with the Rectory of Burcleere or Burrowcleere in Hampshire and all little enough for the encouragement of so right learned a Man as this our author Dr. Field was who in his time was esteemed a principal mountainer of Protestancy a powerful Preacher a profound Schoolman exact Disputant and so admirable well knowing in the Controversies between the Protestants and the Papists that few or none went beyond him in his time as it doth plainly appear in these his labours Of the Church four books Lond. 1606. fol. To which he added a fifth book Lond. 1610. fol. with an Appendix containing A defence of such passages of the former books that have been excepted against or wrested to the maintenance of the Romish Errours All which were reprinted at Oxon 1628. fol. He also published A Sermon Preached before the King at Whitehall on Jude ver 3. Lond. 1604. qu. He surrendred up his pious Soul to the great God that first gave it on the 21. Nov. in sixteen hundred and sixteen year 1616 being then reviewing the said books and about to give answer to such that had oppugned them and was buried in the outer Chappel of St. George at Windsore a little below the Choire Over his grave was soon after laid a plank of black Marble and thereon this inscription engraven on a Copper plate fastned thereunto Richardus Field hujus olim coll canonicus Ecclesiae Glocestrensis Decanus verè Doctor Theologiae author librorum quinque de Ecclesia Vna cum Elizabetha Harrisia Sanctissima Charissima conjuge ex qua sex reliquit filios filiam unicam Hic sub communi marmore expectant Christi reditum qui faelicitatem quam ingressi sunt adventu suo perficeat ac consummet Obierunt in Domino ille an sal 1616. aetatis suae 55. Haec an sal 1614. aetatis suae 41. In Dr. Field's Deanry of Gloucester succeeded Dr. William Land and in his Canonry of Windsore Edm. Wilson Doctor of Physick and Fellow of Kings coll in Cambridge RICHARD HAKLUYT was born of and descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Yetton in Herefordshire elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School in 1570. took the degrees in Arts lived for some time in the Middle Temple where I presume he studied the Municipal Law Afterwards he entred into holy Orders and at length became Prebendary of the fourth stall in the Church of Westminster in the place of one Dr. Rich. Webster an 1605. and Rector of Wetheringset in Suffolk But that which is chiefly to be noted of him is this that his Genie urging him to the study of History especially to the Marine part thereof which was encouraged and furthered by Sir Francis Walsingham made him keep constant intelligence with the most noted Seamen at Wapping near London From whom and many small Pamphlets and Letters that were published and went from hand to hand in his
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
degenerate into madness and frenzie and that the endeavours of others under the pretence of reformation was to bring in Anarchy and Sacrilege he published a learned Tract called by a certain Author notwithstanding P. Heylyn published a book with the same title A coal from the Altar And another learned book entit Noli me tangere Or a thing to be thought of printed 1641. qu. Against Anarchy he also declared himself for Episcopacy and the establish'd Liturgy and published another book entit Communion comeliness Wherein is discovered the conveniency of the Peoples drawing near to the table in the sight thereof when they receive the Lords Supper c. Lond. 1641. qu. In which book by many impregnable arguments he proves a high conveniency if not a necessity for that most laudable custome of having railes about the Lords Table So that this Person being discern'd by the faction to be a friend to the Protestant Religion established in the Church of England was look'd upon as their enemy and was by them branded with Popery or as popishly affected Yet his former reputation in the City bore him up against the obloquy of private discontent for a time At length when they came openly to defie their Sovereign the Lords anointed it was a fit time to silence and remove Mr. Vdall for neither Dr. Gouge his Church in the Black-friers or Mr. Jo. Goodwins in Colemanstreet were half so full before the Long Parliament began as Mr. Vdalls had been since First therefore they plunder his house take away his Library and Houshold stuff then remove him from the execution of his Ministry and sequester the profits thereof for a Levite of their own Afterwards they sought to commit him to Prison tho aged and very weak and infirm in body and at length carried his aged and decrepid Wife out of her doors by force and set her in the open street to shift for her self This most pious and meek Man who had been favoured in his Ministry by the Vincents of Stoke-Dawbernon in Surrey Baronets hath written other things among which is The good of peace Sermon on Psal 29. 11. Lond. 1642. qu. He surrendred up his most pious and devout Soul to God about the latter end of May 1647 at which time he desired that his body might be buried in the Chancel of Allhallows in Honey-lane in Cheapside in Lond. unless the Parishioners of St. Austin desire to have the disposing of it In a most unworthy Pamphlet entit The first century of scandalous malignant Priests c. print 1643. I find these matters of Ephraim Vdall viz. that he hath affirmed that the great reformers of the Church now are Hypocrites and hath made framed and published a book intit Noli me tangere without license charging the Parliament with Sacrilege in endeavouring to abolish Episcopacy and to take away the Lands of Deans and Chapters to amend therewith the maintenance of preaching Ministers and that thereby they have brought a national sin on the Land as was formerly done by them in taking away Monasteries c. For which and other passages in the said book he was thrown out of his rectory by the blessed Parliament as it was then called An. Dom. 1631. An. 7. Car. 1. Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Bishop of London Vicechanc. Dr. Smith of Wadh. Coll. again July 16. Proct. Atherton Bruch of Bras C. John Doughty of Mert. C. Apr. 20. Which Proctors being removed from their places by the Kings command in the month of August as I have told you at large elsewhere were elected for the remaining purt of the year Mr. Joh. Earle of Mert. Coll. Laur. Washington of Brasn Coll. Presented 26. Aug. Bach. of Musick Jul. 8. Will. Child of Ch. Ch. He was now one of the Organists of his Majesties Chappel at Windsore having before been one of the Gentlemen thereof I shall speak more largely of him in the year 1663. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 27. Thom. Wood Will. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 30. George 〈◊〉 of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Chester June 20. Rich. Allein of St. Alb. Oct. 20. Walt. Bushnell Joh. Wilkins Nich. Clagett of Mert. of Magd. Hall Dec. 10. Daniel Whitby of Brasn Jan. 17. Dudley Digges of Vniv. Feb. 9. Christop Fowler of Magd. Coll. The last of which was afterwards of St. Edm. Hall Mar. 22. Anth. Sadler of St. Edm. Hall 24. Joh. Shaw of Brasn Will. Rowland of Ex. Coll. All these will be mention'd at large elsewhere Admitted 249. Bach. of Law Oct. 11. Tho. Reade of New Coll. See more of him among the Doctors of this faculty an 1638. Besides him were 18 admitted among whom Will. Dowdeswell of Pemb. Coll. was one often commended by Sir Tho. Bâ—owne the Physician for a learned Man and Franc. St Barbe of Ball. Coll. another Tho. Heath of All 's Coll. was also admitted the same year but whether he was afterwards Doctor of his faculty of this Univ. I cannot tell When Dr. Sheldon became Archbishop of Canterbury he was made if I mistake not Controller of his Family and a Knight but after the said Archb. death he retired to Stoke near Guilford in Surrey and died in the beginning of the year 1680. Mast of Arts. Apr. 30. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch. May 4. Will. Sedgwick of Pemb. Coll. Jun. 18. Rich. Busby Jasp Mayne of Ch. Ch. Joh. Oxenbridge of Magd. Hall 22. Joh. Gregory of Ch. Ch. 25. Joh. Gough or Goffe of Magd. 30. Thom. Good of Ball. Coll. Oct. 17. Mirth Waferer of St. Albans Hall lately of Merton Coll. Nov. 10. Abraham Woodhead of Vniv. Dec. 10. Edm. Chilmead of Magd. Alex. Griffith of Hart Hall Coll. Jan. 24. Allan Blane Rich. Stannix of Qu. Coll. 27. Edm. Vaughan of C. C. C. Admitted 128. Bach. of Phys Six Bachelaurs of Physick were admitted this year of which Nich. Lamie a French Man of Pemb. Coll. was the junior who before this time had spent 7 years in the studie of the said faculty in the University of Caen in Normandy There was also one admitted to practise Physick and another Chirurgery named Will. Manowrier a French Man who in the publick register is stiled Dominus de Pratis Bach. of Div. March 30. Nathan Simpson of Trin. Coll. Apr. 21. Christopher Newstead of St. Alb. Hall May 12. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll. June… Will. Sherley of Ch. Ch. This learned Divine who was a Dorsetshire Man born became Rector of Huish Comb flower in the Dioc. of Wells upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Atherton to the See of Waterford in Ireland in Feb. 1636 and about the same time beneficed in his own Country He is Author of The excellency of the order of the Church of England under Episcopal Government set forth in a Sermon at the Visitation at Blandsord an 1640 on 1. Cor. 11. 34. Lond. 1662. qu. Published by Rich. Harris of the Inner Temple after the
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
taken into the Hands of all Catholicks are mostly these Expositio sive lectura accuratiss in questiones dialecticas Divi Johan Scoti in Isagogen Porphyrii Ferrar. 1499. Ven. 1512. c. fol. Commentaria Doctoris Subtilis Johan Scoti in xii lib. Metaphysicae Aristotelis Emendata Quotationibus Concordantiis atque Annotationibus decorata Venet. 1507. fol. These Comments were made to the new Translation of and the many Additions made to the said twelve Books by that most famous Disciple of Duns Scotus named Antonius Andreas a Franciscan of the Province of Aragon Epithomata in insigne formalitatum opus de mente Doctoris Subtilis c. Ven. 1514. fol. Dictionarium Sacrae Scripturae universis conoionatoribus apprimè utile necessarium Venet. 1603. fol. This Dictionary reaches but to the latter end of the Letter E. to the Word Exnitguere Enchiridion fidei Printed in 1509. Epistolae diversae ad Jo. Camersium with several other things besides his postillizing the whole Doctrine of Duns Scotus and his subtile Comments on his Vniversals as Ant. Possevinus in his Apparatus Sacer will farther tell you He gave way to fate at Galloway before he could reach to Tuam as it is already told you to the great reluctancy of all learned Men especially those of his own Country and of Padöua on the eighth of the Cal. of June in Fifteen hundred and thirteen year 1513 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans commonly called the Grey Friers at Galloway In the See of Tuam succeeded one Thomas O-Mullaly commonly called Laly which Sirname occurring often in our Registers and Records there is no doubt but that he had received some knowledge of good Letters among us HENRY BRADSHAW was born in the antient Town of West-Chester commonly called the City of Chester and being much addicted to Religion and Learning when a Youth was received among the Benedictine Monks of S. Werbergs Monastery in the said City Thence at riper years he was sent to Gloucester College in the Suburb of Oxon where after he had passed his course in Theology among the Novices of his Order he returned to his Cell at S. Werberg and in his elder years wrote De antiquitate magnificentia Urbis Cestriae Chronicon c. and translated from Latin into English a Book which he thus entituled The life of the glorious Virgin S. Werberg Also many Miracles that God hath shewed for her Lond. 1521. qu. He died in Fifteen hundred and thirteen 5. Henry 8 and was buried in his Monastery year 1513 leaving then behind him other matters to posterity but the subject of which they Treat I know not JOHN HARLEY of the Order of the Preaching or Dominican commonly called Black Friers did also pass his course in the supream Faculty among those of his Order in the College pertaining to them sometimes situated and being in the South Suburb of Oxon where making great proficiency in his Profession was at length honored with the Degree of Doctor of Divinity being then accounted one of the prime Theologists of his Order not only for Learning but for conspicuous Vertue sanctimony of Life and acuteness in all Subtilities and Scholastical Disputations He hath written according to Anton. Senensis a Brother of the said Order Bina Commentaria super 4. libros Sententiarum Tract de Praedestinatione Dei Quodlibeta varia The time when he left this vain and transitory life my Author Anton. Senen tells me not only that his name sounded high and was in great renown for his erudition and most refined sanctity of life in Fifteen hundred and fifteen which was the seventh year of King Henry 8. of England THOMAS FICH was an Irish Man born and a Student for some time in Oxon as certain imperfect Notes shew but what Degree he took I find not Afterwards upon his return into his Country being then if not some years before a Canon Regular he became Subprior of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Dublin and in his elder years wrote De rebus Ecclesiae Cath. SS Trinit Dublin lib. 1. It is in MS. and was sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware who saith it was usually called The White Book and takes it to be the same with the Obital Book of that Church for in his time it was written as by the Character it appears being at this day reserved as a great rarity in the Library of Trinity College near Dublin This person Tho. Fich who is supposed to have written other things gave way to fare on the sixteenth of the Cal. of Febr. in Fifteen hundred and seventeen year 1517 which was the ninth year of King Henry 8. and was buried in the aforesaid Cathedral Church GEORGE COGLEY another Irish Man but later in time than the former did spend some time in the study of the Civil Law among the Oxonians and after his return to his own Country became a Publick Notary and Registrary to the Bishops Court at Meath where having opportunity time and place to peruse the Registers of that Church wrote and commended to Posterity Catalogus Episcoporum Midensium MS. Sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware Knight This Catalogue commences with Simon Rochfort or de Rupe forti who was the first of English Men that obtained the Bishoprick of Meath in 1194. or thereabouts and reaches down to Hugh Ynge who became Bishop in 1511. A Copy of this Cataloge if not the Original was sometimes in the hands of the famous Dr. Usher Bishop of the said place who communicated it to Sir James Ware when he was composing his two Books De Script Hibern JOHN COLET the eldest Son of Sir Henry Colet sometimes twice Lord Mayor of London by Christiana his Chast and faithful Wife Son of Robert Colet of Wendover in Buckinghamshire was born in London in the Parish of S. Antholin as it seems in the year 1466. was Educated in Grammaticals partly in London or Westminster and being fitted for greater Learning was sent to the Habitation of the Muses the University of Oxon about 1483. at which time one or more of his Sirname were of S. Mary Magdalen College where after he had spent seven years in Logicals and Philosophicals was Licensed to proceed in Arts being about that time so exquisitely Learned that all Tullies Works were as familiar to him as his Epistles He was also no stranger to Plato and Plotinus whom he not only read but conferred and paralleled perusing the one as a Commentary on the other And as for the Mathematicks there was scarce any part thereof wherein he was not seen above his years Having thus obtained a most admirable competency in Learning at home he Travelled into Foreign Countries to improve it by seeing the variety of Learning As first into France where at Paris he advanced himself much in Divinity and in Italy he prosecuted his Studies therein so effectually that there were none of his
written in Parchment as Comments of Paul's Epistles and Abbreviations with many such other I Will shall be disposed at the disposition of my Executors c. His body which was closed up in a leaden Coffin of six feet and two Inches long and of three feet and two inches broad was laid up and inclosed in the Wall near to the place where his Monument was afterwards put In 1680. or thereabouts when the Wall was taken down the said Coffin was discovered for it laid in the said Wall about two feet and an half above the surface of the floor whereon was a plate of Lead fastned with an Inscription ingraven thereon shewing the name of the person thee deposited his Fathers name his Dignity Obit benefaction c. Some of the Royal Society who out of curiosity went to see it did thrust a probe or little stick into a chink of the Cossin which bringing out some moisture with it found it of an ironish tast and fancied that the body felt soft and pappy like Brawn JOHN CONSTABLE Son of Roger Constable by Isabel his Wife was born in London Educated in Grammaticals under William Lilye in Academicals in an antient Hostle sometimes called Byham afterwards corruptly Bohem Hall opposite to Merton Coll. Church under the tuition as I conceive of Mr. John Plaisted the chief Moderator thereof About the time that he had taken the Degree of Master of Arts which was in 1515. 7. Hen. 8 he left the University being then accounted an excellent Poet and Rhetorician and had some preferment conferred upon him but what I know not He hath written and published Querela Veritatis The beginning of which is Destinavimus tibi hunc nostrum c. Joh. Bradford the Protestant Martyr wrote a Book Entit The complaint of Verity c. Lond. 1559. in oct Whether in imitation of the former I know not Epigrammata Lond. 1520. qu. which Book of Epigrams I have seen in the Bodleian Library given thereunto by that curious collector of Books Democritus Junior Other things as I conceive he hath written but of what Subject I cannot yet tell nor can I say any more of John Constable only this that one of both his Names who was Doctor of Decrees fourth Son of Sir◠Rob. Constable of Flamburgh in Yorkshire Knight and Residentiary of the Church of Lincoln became Dean of the said Church in the Year 1514. who dying 15. Jul. 1528. recommended his Body to be buried in the Cathedral Church of our Lady of Lincoln near to the Corps of George Fitz-Hugh sometimes Dean thereof who was buried in the Body of the said Church What relation our Author Jo. Constable the Poet who was in great renown among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and twenty had to John Constable the Dean I cannot yet find In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth lived one Henry Constable a noted English Poet not unfitly ranked with Sir Edw. Dyer Chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter a poetical Writer and of good esteem in the said Queens time as living in the 39 Year of her Reign The said Henry Constable who had spent some time among the Oxonian Muses was a great Master of the English Tongue and there was no Gentleman of our Nation had a more pure quick and higher delivery of conceit than he witness among all others that Sonnet of his before the poetical Translation called The Furies made by King James the First of England while he was King of the Scots He hath also several Sonnets extant written to Sir Phil. Sidney some of which are set before the Apology for Poetry written by the said Knight THOMAS BRYNKNELL a Person of great Literature and a most skilful interpreter of the sacred Writ had most of his Education in Lincoln Coll. whence being taken to govern the Free-School joyning to that of S. Mary Magd. did exercise such an admirable way of teaching there that many were by him fitted for the University In 1507. he proceeded in Divinity and being afterwards a commoner for some time of University Coll. became so much known to and respected by Cardinal Wolsey who if I mistake not conferr'd some dignity on him that he was represented to the King as one of those most fit Persons in the University to encounter Mart. Luther Whereupon in the Year 1521. he being then Reader of the Cardinals Divinity Lecture which was by him founded in the University 3 or 4 Years before he wrot a Learned piece entit Tractatus contra doctrinam Martini Lutheri Whether Printed I know not sure I am that 't is commended for a good Book in one of our publick Registers What other Books he wrot I cannot tell nor when he died or where buried WILLIAM GROCYN a most singular light of learning in his time received his first breath in the City of Bristol in Somersetshire was educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School near Winchester made true and perpetual fellow of New Coll. after he had served two Years of probation in 1467 and in 1479 being then M. of A. he was presented by the Warden and Society of that House to the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks But his Residence being mostly in Oxon. the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Divinity Reade◠about the beginning of the Reign of King Rich. 3. which King coming soon after to Oxon and taking up his lodging in that College he was pleased to hear our Author Grocyn and some others of that House dispute And being much delighted with their disputations especially with those of Grocyn which were in Divinity he did most graciously reward them But Grocyn leaving his Readers place in Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the Year 1488 being then accounted excellent in the Latin and Greek Tongues according to the then knowledge of them he did for the farther accomplishment of himself in those critical studies take a Journey into Italy where by the helps of Demetrius Calchondile and Politian he obtained his design So that returning into his own Country and at length to Oxon he became a Sojournor in Exeter Coll. in the Year 1491. or thereabouts took a Degree in Divinity at it seems taught and read the Greek Tongue to the Oxonians after that way which had not before I suppose been taught in their University became a familiar Friend of or rather Tutor to Erasmus and a Person in eminent renown for his learning Recens tunc ex Italiâ venerat Grocinus saith Stapleton qui primus eâ aetate Graecas literas in Angliam invexerat Oxoniique publicè professus fuerat à cujus sodali Thoma Lynacro Morus Graecas literas Oxonii didicit In 1504 or thereabouts he resign'd his rectory of Newton Longvill being about that time made Master of the College of Allhallowes at Maidston in Kent yet continued mostly in Oxon for several Years after He hath written Tract contra hostiolum Jo. Wyclevi Epistolae ad
2 Sermon of St. Cyprian of the mortality of Man 3 Picus Earl of Mirandula his rules of a godly life 4 The gathered Councils of Isidore Which four translations were printed at Lond. 1560. in 8vo He hath also written Epistolae variae ad Edw. Leium Nisenum Paynellum Written from C. C. C. in Oxon as by their dates it appears Those to Edw. Lee Archb. of York were written in behalf of Erasmus between whom and the said Lee were learned bickerings and are printed in a Book entit Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum ex quibus perspicuum quanta sit Edwardi Lei virulentia Basil 1520. qu. Which virulence was against Erasmus In Ciceronis philippicas Sermones ad Clerum Preached mostly at Calais See the titles of other of his labours in Pitseus This Tho. Lupset submitted to the stroke of Death 27. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred thirty and two year 1532 aged 36 or thereabouts having two Years before been admitted Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury on the Death of John Fox Archdeacon of Winchester and was buried in the Church of St. Alphaghe or Elphaghe within Cripplegate in London which Church was translated afterwards to the Church now called St. Alphaghe by Sion Coll. Over his Grave tho there be no memory of him by Inscription yet Joh. Leland celebrates him in his Encomia Trophaea c. Near to his Grave was the body of Alice Lupset his Widow buried in 1545. JOHN BOURCHIER Lord Berners Son of Humph. Bourchier eldest Son of Sir Joh. Bourchier Knight Lord Berners of Hertfordshire the fourth Son of William Earl of Ewe by Anne his Wife Daughter of Tho. de Wodestock Duke of Glocester the sixth Son of K. Edw. 3. was instructed in several sorts of learning in this University in the latter end of K. Edw. 4 in whose Reign and before were the Sons of divers of the English Nobility educated in Academical literature in Balliol Coll. wherein as 't is probable this our Author was instructed also After he had left the University he travelled into divers Countries and returned a Master of several Languages and a compleat Gentleman But that which made him first known to the World was his valour shew'd in quelling the fury of the Rebels in Cornwall and Devon under the conduct of Michael Joseph a Blacksmith about 1495 whereby he greatly gained the favor of K. Hen. 7. In the 6. Hen. 8. he was made Chancellor of the Kings Exchecquer for life and about that time attended the Lady Mary the Kings Sister into France in order to her Marriage with K. Lewis 12. Afterwards being made Lieutenant of Calais and the Marches adjoyning in France spent most of his time there and wrot Of the duties of the Inhabitants of Calais Comedie called Ite in vineam meam Usually acted in the great Church at Calais after vespers He also translated into English 1 The life of Sir Arthur an Armorican Knight 2 The famous exploits of Hugh of Bordeaux 3 The castle of Love a Romance And besides something of Marc. Aur. Ant. must not be forgotten that noted translation of his which he performed at the command of K. Hen. 8. viz. The Chronicles of France and England composed originally in the French Tongue by Sir Joh. Frossard Canon and Treasurer of Chinay Clerk and Servant to K. Edw. 3. as also to Queen Philippa These Chronicles have been more than once if I mistake not printed in English in an English Letter in fol. This worthy Lord Sir Joh. Bourchier died at Calais beforemention'd 16 March in Fifteen hundred thirty and two aged 63 or thereabouts Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of our Lady there where was if not still a comely Mon. over his Grave JOHN FRYTH Son of Rich. Fryth an Inholder of Sevenoake in Kent was born there some say at Westram in the said County and educated in Kings Coll. in Cambridge till he was Bachelaur of Arts. Afterwards being incited to go to Oxon for preferment was for his towardly parts made one of the junior Canons of Cardinal Wolsey's College and soon after viz. in Dec. 1525. he was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same degree of Bachelaur But before that time falling into the acquaintance of Will. Tyndale a zealous Lutheran they conferred together privately about the abuses in Religion So that in short time after he being by him converted to his opinion Fryth made a publick profession of it Whereupon being seized and examined by the Commissary of the University he was imprisoned within the limits of the said College At length being freed thence in 1528 or thereabouts he went beyond the Seas where improving himself much in his religious opinions returned into England about two Years after leaving his Wife behind But then again finding few Friends there that favoured his opinions he wandred to and fro and in fine was taken for a Vagabond at Reading in Berks. set in the Stocks and endured misery for want of relief At that time his condition being made known to Leonard Cox the Schoolmaster of that Town who presently understood the merits of the Person by his discourse procured his releasment refreshed his hungry stomack and gave him money Afterwards he went to London where endeavouring to gain Proselytes he was by the care of Sir Tho. More Lord Chancellor seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower where he had several disputes with Sir Tho. and others At length being examined by the Bishops sitting in St. Pauls Cath. who persuaded him to recant his opinions but in vain they condemned him to be burnt So that being delivered to the L. Mayor and Sheriffs was committed to Newgate where he remained in the Dungeon till he was conveyed thence to be burnt His works are Treatise of Purgatory Answer to Joh. Rastal's Dialogues of Purgatory This Jo. Rastal was Son in-Law to Sir Tho. More Answer to Sir Tho. More 's Dialogue concerning Heresies Answer to Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester The Subsidie or Bulwark to his first Book against Jo. Rastal His judgment upon Will Tracy of Todington in Glocestershire his Testament an 1531. Letter unto the faithful followers of Christ's Gospell Written from his Prison in the Tower 1532. A Mirror or Glass to know thy self Written in the Tower 1532. Mirror or Looking-glass wherein you may behold the Sacrament of Baptisme Written 1533. An Antithesis between Christ and the Pope Of the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ in answer to Sir Thom. More 's letter which he wrot against the first little treatise of Fryth made concerning the Sacrament c. an 1533. Lond. 1548. oct Articles wherefore he dyed Written in Newgate Prison 23. June 1533. All which treatises were reprinted at London in fol. an 1573. He also translated into English Patricks places written by Patr. Hamilton At length after he had remained in the said Prison about a Fortnight or more he was carried thence to Smithfield on the 4.
continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon or whether he took a Degree it appears not neither can we find means to resolve us because the University Registers of that Age are deficient However this is certain that at what time our Author studied in this University Grocynus read publickly the Greek Tongue there whom he constantly hearing became a great proficient in that Language and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor then if I mistake not Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws translated himself to Lincolns Inn where easily conquering those Studies was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning Wisdom Experience and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with conferr'd these honors and employments successively upon him viz. the Mastership of the Request the intrusting him in several Embrassies the honor of Knighthood the Treasureship of the Exchecquer Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster the Embassage to the Emperor and French King and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly or with greater liking to the generality of People than he On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Mannour House called York-place near Westminster in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King in his Mannour of Pleasaunce otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight After this Sir Thomas retired to his House at Chelsey near London where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse not without severe devotion was at length for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England committed Prisoner to the Tower of London where remaining several Months very close to the endangering of his health his Daughter Margaret Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent wrot a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State the contents of which I have seen intreating him to be good to her Father in Prison kept so close that his health is utterly decayed Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband whose close keeping destroys his body Also the be good to her and hers considering their necessity For my good Master saith she as I would be saved before our Lord I am driven to that point that I am fain to make sale of certain imployments and old stuff to find Mr. More and me and my poor houshold with c. with other like matters written by that whining Woman which I shall now for brevity omit and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient pious and severe in the course of his life than he He was also very meek humble charitable and a despiser of the things of this World and nothing was wanting in him to make a compleat Christian His parts were great and profound his skill in Divinity municipal Laws the Latin and Greek Languages in Poesie Mathematicks and what not was excellent and without compare All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles but of the lights of Learning of his time as Erasmus Colet Tonstal B. of Durham Fisher B. of Rochester Grocyn Lynacre Liyle Paice Elyot Lupset Leland c. most of which especially Foreign Writers have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations He hath written in English A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Fryer Written in Verse Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Fathers House Containing 9 Pagiants and Verses in each Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503. Verses on the Book of Fortune These four beforegoing being written in his Youth are not numbred among his Works History of K. Rich. 3. This which was never quite finished is the same I presume that is intituled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More 's Name at London 1651. in 8vo His Great Grandson saith that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated but in Latin also not yet printed Memorare novissima Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion Supplication of Souls made against the supplication of Beggars This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory written against that of Beggars made by Sim. Fish of Greys Inn Gent. The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More 's Dialogues The second part of the confutation Written 1533. Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament Written the same Year An Apology This was written against a Book intit A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality Against which Apology was published a Book called Salem Bizance written Dialogue-wise Lond. 1533. oct The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance Lond. 1533. oct Answer to the first part of the poysoned Book which a nameless Heretick hath named The Supper of our Lord. Treatise upon the passion of Christ A Godly instruction Godly meditation Devout Prayer Letter to his Lady his Wife Certain Letters written by him after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London an 1557. fol. Among them are A godly instruction written in Lat. His Epitaph In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book intituled Ancient funeral Monuments p. 522 523 and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English 1 The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula 2 An exposition of a part of the possion of Christ His Latin Works besides those two little things before-mentioned are these De optimo repub statu deque nova insula Utopia libellus aureus c. Basil 1518. there again 1563 both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct Translated into English with notes added to it in the Margin by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C. Lond. 1557. oct Published also at the same place 1639. in oct by one Bernard Alsop who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq one
much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing which he exercised as well in the publick Schools as at home Soon after he was licensed by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law but took no Degree therein in this University And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560 he went thereupon into Ireland where if I mistake not he was born and prosecuting his studies there as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues expert in the Mathematicks a proper Antiquary and an exact Divine His pen was not lazie as one saith but dayly breeding of learned books He wrot Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta And an oration also entit De Ligno Faeno Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College which was no other than a Christmas Lord or a Lord or King of misrule He hath written many other things which being done and printed beyond the Seas we see them but seldom or never in these parts JAMES WALSH an Irish Man born was educated in this University but what Degrees he took there I find not In the Year 1572 and belike before he had a Chamber and took his commons in Hart hall being then a Student in Divinity with Mr. Leonard Fitz-Simons his Countryman Both whom are entituled Magistri that year in the Matricula of the University under Aula cervina The said Jam. Walsh hath written Epigrammata diversa With other things of the like nature and translated into English The Topography of Ireland written in Lat. by Silv. Giraldus Which translation with Scholia's was made also much about the same time by Joâ— Hooker alias Vowell of the City of Exeter as you may see elsewhere In the time of this Jam. Walsh studied in Hart hall also divers of his Country men of Ireland some of whom having been afterwards Men of note or else writers you shall have their names as they follow 1 David Clere Bach. of Arts 1565. 2 Nich. Clere of the County of Kilkenny matriculated 1567. aged 19 3 David Sutton a Gentlemans Son of Kildare 1571 aged 16. 4 Pet. Nangle a Gent. Son of Dublin 1571. aged 15 5 Rich. Walsh a Merchants Son of Waterford aged 15. an 1572. 6 Rob. Boteler a Merch. Son of the said City aged 23. an 1572. 7 George Sherlock the Son of a Merchant also of the same City at 17. an 1572. 8 Rich. Masterson a Gent. Son of Wexford aet 15. an 1573. 9 Nich. Gaydon an Esq Son of Dublin aet 19. an 1574. 10 Tho. Finglas a Gent. Son of Finglas near to Dublin aet 18. an 1571. 11 Will. Nugent a Gent Son of Meath or of the County of Meath aet 21. an 1571. With several others of a later date as Alex. Barrington a Gentlemans Son of Ireland aet 18. an 1583. c. LEONARD FITZSIMONS was born in the Diocess and County of Dublin in Ireland admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll. from that of Corp. Ch. of which he was Clerk 17 June 1558 aged 17 and the next year was made Fellow being then Bach. of Arts. In 1563 he proceeded in that faculty but being a R. Cath. in his heart and therefore unwilling to take holy Orders according to the Church of England left his Fellowship and retired to Hart hall about 1571. At length going into his own Country had some employment confer'd upon him and was in his latter years as I conceive a Rom. Priest He is charactarized by one who knew him to be profundus clericus qui utrasque linguas Theologiam Mathematicam admodum caluit coluit And there is no doubt but that he hath written and published several Books which being printed beyond the Sea we seldom see them in these parts He was famous and noted for his learning in Ireland in Fifteen hundred and eighty but when he died or where his relicks were lodg'd I cannot tell One Hen. Fitzsimons a famous Jesuit was also educated in Hart hall as I shall tell you elsewhere JOHN SECURIS a Wiltshire Man born and a most noted Person for his admirable parts while he studied in New Coll. in the time of Ed. 6 but not in the condition of a Fellow did retire to Paris for the improvement of his studies where applying his muse to the faculties of Physick and Astronomy became a diligent hearer of the Lectures of Dr. Jacobus Silvius of high learning and famous memory the reader of the Physick lecture in that University who usually had a thousand auditors every time he read After he had compleated his studies there he returned into England and settled within the City of Salisbury where he was much frequented for his great knowledge in Medicine and wrot Several Prognosticons One of which for the Year 1580 I have seen and to it is joyned A compendium or brief instruction how to keep a moderate diet In the title of the said Prognosticon he writes himself Master of Arts and Physick but whether he took those Degrees in Oxon. I cannot tell because the register containing the acts of Congregation and Convocation is almost totally neglected during the Reign of Ed. 6. In the Preface to the said Compendium he tells us that in his time fell near to Salisbury hailstones as big as a childs fist of 3 or four years old Our Author Securis hath also written A detection and querimonie of the daylie enormities and abuses committed in Physick concerning the three parts thereof that is of the Physicians part the part of Surgeons and the part of Poticaries Lond. 1566. in oct Dedicated in a Lat. Epist to both the Universities Oxford of which he saith he was an Alumnus and Cambridge After which follows a Preface to the reader in old English verse and at the end of the book is a peroration to both the Universities Contemporary with this noted Author Securis was another Astrologer called Evans Lloyd a Welsh Man educated in Logicals and Philosophicals in Oriel Coll. but took no Degree here Afterwards retiring to the great City wrot several Ephemerides which were much valued in their time one of them written for the Year 1582. I have seen supputated especially for the elevation and meridian of London but may generally serve for all England It was printed there the same year and approved by Dr. John Dee with whom as also with Securis he had acquaintance NICHOLAS QUEMERFORD was born in the City of Waterford in Ireland took a Degree in Arts 1562 after he had spent at least 4 years in this University in pecking and hewing at Logick and Philosophy Which Degree being compleated by Determination he went into his own Country entred into the sacred function and had preferment there but turned out from it because of his Religion He wrot in English a pithie and learned
Sir Will. Cecill in Canon rew and the third in that of Sir John Cheeke at the Carmes or White fryers lately dissolv'd These three disputations which were well carried on with great vigour and dexterity especially by Feckenham were prorogu'd to other places as first to Pershore in Worcestershire in which town was then lately a famous Monastery of the Benedictines standing and in the said County was Feckenham then beneficed At which place I say Hooper Bishop of Glocester and Worcester did dispute with him he being then in visiting his Diocess and received satisfaction from what he then said The next was in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester where Jo. Jewell did as 't is reported but I think false oppose him When these things were done he was remanded to his Prison in the Tower where continuing till the first year of Q. Mary was then released and not only made Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral but soon after in Nov. 1556 Abbat of Westminster and Chaplain to that Queen In 1554 he was in Oxon and openly disputed with Cranmer Ridley and Latymer about matters of Religion before they were to sacrifice their lives in the fire and in the beginning of 1556 he was actually created Doctor of Divinity being then in wonderful esteem for his learning piety charity humility and other virtues All the time of Qu. Maries Reign he employed himself in doing good offices for the afflicted Protestants from the highest to the lowest and did interceed with the Queen for the Lady Elizabeth for which he gained her displeasure for a time After the said Lady Elizab. came to the Crown and Religion about to be altered he denied the Queens Supremacy over the Church of England in 1559. About that time he planted the elmes which do yet or did lately grow in the garden belonging to the Coll. of Westminster But the Queen having a very great respect for his learning and virtuous life as also for his former tenderness of her sent for and had private discourse with him but what it was none yet do positively know tho there be not wanting some that say that she offer'd to him the Archbishoprick of Canterbury if he would take the oath and conform to the Church of England which he refused The year after he was committed Prisoner again to the Tower and about that time did undergo several disputes with Protestant Divines about Religion but was not suffered to be one of those that were publickly to dispute with the said Divines when the Queen was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England In the winter time 1563 he was committed to free custody with Dr. Horne B. of Winchester who as the R. Catholicks say did deal uncivilly and falsly with him But tarrying with that Bishop only one Winter he was sent to the Tower again thence after some time to the Marshalsea then to a private house in Holbourn and in 1580 to Wisbich castle in Cambridgshire where he remained to the time of his death in great devotion and sanctity of life Under his name do go these things following A conference dialoguewise held between the Lady Jane Dudley and Mr. Jo. Feckenham four days before her death touching her faith and belief of the Sacrament and her Religion Lond. 1554. oct There again 1625. qu. Jo. Fox entitles this little book A communication between Mr. Feckenham and the Lady Jane Grey before she was to be beheaded 12. Feb. 1553. Speech in the House of Lords an 1553. Two Homelies on the first second and third article of the Creed Lond. in qu. Oratio funebris in exequiis Ducissae Parmae Caroli quinti filiae Belgii Gubernatricis Sermon at the Exequy of Joan Queen of Spayne c. on Deut. 32. 28. 29. Lond. 1555. oct The declaration of such scruples and staies of conscience touching the Oath of Supremacy delivered by writing to Dr. Horne of Winchester Lond. in qu. Answered by the said Horne an 1566. qu. refuted by Tho. Stapleton the year after Objections or Assertions made against Mr. Joh. Goughe's Sermon preached in the Tower of London 15. Jan. 1570. Soon after was published by the said Gough An answer to certain assertions of Mr. Fecknam which of late be made against a godly Sermon c. Lond. 1570. oct Caveat Emptor This I have not yet seen Commentarii in psalmos Davidis This was seen in MS. in the hands of the Author while he was a Prisoner at London by Rich. Stanyhurst but lost with other things as 't is conceived among which was his Treatise of the Eucharist written against Joh. Hooper At length after our Author had seen many changes in Religion and had continued stedfast in that wherein he was educated surrendred up his pious Soul to him that gave it within the precincts of Wisbich castle before-mention'd year 1585 in Fifteen hundred eighty and five and soon after was buried but where unless in the Parish Church there I cannot tell leaving then behind him this character that he was a Person full of offices of piety and humility and was always ready tho of a contrary opinion to do good to the Protestant party especially in the Reign of Q. Mary when they suffered Our celebrated Antiquary W. Camden tells us that he was a learned and good Man lived a long while did a great deal of good to the poor and always sollicited the minds of his adversaries to good will RICHARD CALDWALL or Chaldwell a Staffordsh Man born was educated in Brasenose College of which he was afterwards Fellow took the Degree of M. of Arts entred upon the Physick line and in the 32 year of his age became one of the Senior Students of Ch. Ch. a little after its last foundation by K. Hen. 8. an 1547. Afterwards he took the Degrees in the said faculty and became so highly valued for his learning and happy practice therein that he was examined approved and admitted into the Physicians Coll. at London and made censor of it in one and the same day Six weeks after he was chosen one of the Elects of the said Coll. and in 1570 President thereof He hath written several matters relating to his profession but whether extant I cannot tell All that I have seen of his labours is his translation into English of The tables of surgery briefly comprehending the whole art and practice thereof c. Lond. 1585. fol. Written originally by Horatio More a Florentine Physician As for his death which hapned in Fifteen hundred eighty and five year 1585 and other of his works let the learned Camden tell you in these words Nee inter hos licet minoris notae silendus hoc etiam anno fato fanctus Richardis Chaldwellus è Coll. Aenei Nasi Oxoniae Med. Doctor qui ut de reipub bene mereretur adscito in partem honoris Barone Lumleio lectionem Chriurgicam honesto salario in Medicorum collegio Londini à Thoma Linacro fundato instituit Juxtaque ad Sancti
in the Lâ—wcountries for the K. of Spain and William Prince of Aurange or Orange by the former of which tho at first he was lightly esteemed upon the account of his youth yet after some discourse he found himself so strucken with him that the beholders wondred to see what tribute that brave and high minded Prince paid to his worth giving more honour and respect to him in his private capacity than to the Embassadours of mighty Princes In the Year 1579 he tho neither Magistrate or Counsellour did shew himself for several weighty reasons opposite to the Queens matching with the Duke of Anjou which he very pithily expressed by a due address of his humble reasons to her as may be fully seen in a book called Cabola The said address was written at the desire of some great personage his Uncle Robert I suppose Earl of Leycester upon which a great quarrel hapned between him and Edw. Vere Earl of Oxford This as I conceive might occasion his retirement from Court next Summer an 1580 wherein perhaps he wrot that pleasant Romance called Arcadia In 1581 the treatise of marriage was renewed and our Author Sidney with Fulk Grevill were two of the tilters at the entertainment of the French Embassadour and at the departure of the Duke of Anjou from England in Febr. the same year he attended him to Antwerp On the 8. Janu. 1582 he with Peregrine Bertie received the honour of Knighthood from the Queen and in the beginning of 1585 he designed an expedition with Sir Francis Drake into America but being hindred by the Queen in whose opinion he was so highly prized that she thought the Court deficient without him he was in Octob. following made Governour of Flushing about that time delivered to the Queen for one of the cautionary towns and General of the Horse In both which places of great trust his carriage testified to the world wisdom and valour with addition of honour to his country by them and especially the more when in July 1586 he surprised Axil and preserved the lives and honour of the English Army at the enterprise of Gravelin So that whereas through the fame of his high deserts he was then or rather before in election for the Crown of Poland the Queen of England refused to further his advancement not out of emulation but out of fear to lose the jewel of her times What can be said more He was a Statesman Soldier and Scholar a compleat Master of matter and language as his immortal Pen shews His Pen and his Sword have rendred him famous enough He died by the one and by the other he 'll ever live as having been hitherto highly extolled for it by the Pens of Princes This is the happiness of art that although the sword doth archieve the honour yet the arts do record it and no Pen hath made it better known than his own in that book called Arcadia Certain it is he was a noble and matchless Gentleman and it may be justly said without hyperboles of fiction as it was of Cato Uticensis that he seemed to be born to that only which be went about His written works are these The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia Several times printed at London in quarto and fol. Which being the most celebrated Romance that was ever written was consecrated to his noble virtuous and learned Sister Mary the Wife of Henry Earl of Pembroke who having lived to a very fair age dyed in her house in Aldersgate-street in London 25. Sept. 1621. whereupon her body was buried in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury among the graves of the Pembrochian Family This Arcadia tho then and since it was and is taken into the hands of all ingenious Men and said by one living at or near the time when first published to be a book most famous for rich conceipt and splendor of courtly expressions yet the Author was not so fond a B. Heliodorus was of his amorous work for he desired when he died having first consulted with a Minister about it to have had it suppressed One who writes himself G. M. wrot the second and last part of the first book of the said Arcadia making thereby a compleat end of the first History Lond. 1613. qu. And in the eighth edit printed at Lond. 1633. Sir W. A. Knight made a supplement of a defect in the third part of the History and R. B. of Linc. Inn Esq added then a sixth book thereunto In 1662 came out the said Arcadia again in 6 books with several of his other works added to them In 1624 it was printed in French in 3. vol. or parts in oct and hath as I have been informed undergone several impressions in France It hath been also printed once or more in the Dutch language and in others Sir Philip also wrot A dissuasive Letter to Queen Elizab. her marriage with Monsier of France c. 'T is in a book called Scrinia Ceciliana Lond. 1663. qu. Astrophel and Stella wherein the excellencie of sweet poesie is concluded Lond. 1591. qu. Said to be written for the sake of one whom he entirely loved viz. the Lady Rich by whom was understood Philoclea in the Arcadia An Apologie for poetry Lond. 1595. qu. in prose There is a book in being called The Art of English Poesie not written by Sidney as some have thought but rather by one Puttenham sometimes a Gentleman Pensioner to Qu. Elizab. Sonnetts Remedie for love At the end of the 11th edit of Arcadia Lond. 1662. fol. Ourania a Poem Lond. 1606. published by N. B. An Essay upon valour so I find it mention'd in Cottoni posthuma yet others say it was written by Sir Thom. Overbury Quaere Almonzor and Almanzaida a Novel Lond. 1678. oct This book coming out so late it is to be enquired whether Sir Philip Sidneys name is not set to it for sale-sake being a usual thing in these days to set a great name to a book and to enhance the price of it by the esteem of the supposed Author Englands Helicon or a collection of Songs Sir Philip Sidneys name is also put to it as being the Author of most of the said Songs 'T was printed at Lond. in qu. Instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all nations states and countries This book which is printed in 12 o hath the names of Robert Earl of Essex and Sir Philip Sidney put to it but may be question'd whether either had a hand in it He also translated from French into English A work containing the trueness of Christian Religion against Atheists c. written originally by Philip Morney But the said translation being left imperfect by Sidney Arthur Golding finish'd it Lond. 1587. qu. He also Sidney turn'd the Psalmes of David into English verse which are in MS. in the Library of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton curiously bound in a crimson velvet cover left thereunto by his Sister Mary
many pretty stories in comely colours and most delightful discourses Printed at Lond. twice at least in an English character one of which editions bears date 1608. in qu. written in imitation of a book intit The pallace of pleasure beautified adorned and well furnished with pleasant histories and excellent Novells c. Lond. 1569. qu. written by Will. Painter Clerk of the ordinance and armory within the Tower of London The aforesaid Petite pallace c. I have in my study and for the respect I bear to the name of the Author he having been uncle to my Mother Maria la Petite I will keep it but 't is so far now from being excellent or fine that it is more fit to be read by a School-boy or rustical amoratto than by a Gent. of mode or language The said George Pettie translated from French into English with a preface of his own put to it The civile conversation of M. Stephen Guazzo in 4. books Lond. 1586. qu. written originally in the Italian tongue which I have also Three of the said books were translated by the said Pettie the fourth was begun by him but finished by Barthelm Young of the Middle Temple Gentleman being the same Barthelmew as I think who lived afterwards at Ashurst in Kent and died therein 1621. What other matters G. Pettie hath written or translated I cannot tell nor do I know any thing material of him besides only that he died in the prime of his years at Plymouth in Devonshire being then a Captain and a Man of note about the latter end of July in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 and was buried as I have been told in the great Church there The Lands which he had by his Fathers gift in Aston-Rowant in Kingston in the Parish thereof and at Tetsworth in Oxfordshire he gave to his Brother Christopher Pettie JOHN GARBRAND alias Herks Son of Garbrand Herks a Dutch Man and Bookseller living sometimes in St. Maries Parish in Oxon was born within the City of Oxon educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an 1562 being esteemed then a good Poet. Afterwards he by the favour of Bishop Jewell who had been well acquainted with his Father while he lived in the University became Prebendary of Yatesbury in the Church of Salisbury on the resignation of Tho. Whyte LL. D. in Nov. 1565 being then only Bach. of Arts and Prebendary of Minor pars Altaris in the said Church In 1567 he left his Coll. and on the 18. of March 1568 he was made Preb. of Chute and Cheesenbury in the said Church of Sarum on the deprivation of Joh. Fuller Garbrand being then Rector of North-Crowley in Bucks In 1582 he took the Degrees in Divinity was then accounted an eminent Theologist and a noted Preacher but withal a severe Puritan He hath gathered together corrected and compleated several things of the said B. Jewell whome he in a marvellous manner had admired as i A view of a seditious bull sent into England from Pius 5. Pope of Rome an 1569. 2 A short treatise of the Holy Scriptures Lond 1582. oct Both which Jewell delivered in divers Sermons in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury an 1570. 3 An exposition on the two Epistles to the Thessalonians Lond. in oct 4 Certain Sermons preached at Pauls Cross Lond. 1583. oct They are in number six 5 Treatise of the Sacraments gathered out of certain Sermons preached at Salisbury Lond. 1583. oct This Dr. Garbrand died in the Winter time about Christmas in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 and was buried in the Church of North-Crowley before-mention'd He gave by his will several books to New Coll. Library And all such books and papers that were given to him by B. Jewell as also all such loose sheets which he the said Garbrand had drawn for common places gathered out of that Bishops books he gave to Rob. Chaloner and John Rainolds Doctors of Divinity LAURENCE HUMPHREY or Humfredus as he sometimes writes himself was born at a mercate Town called Newport Paynell in Bucks educated in Latine and Greek learning at Cambridge made Demie of Magd. Coll. in Oxon 1547 perpetual Fellow two years after being then Bach. of Arts and Master of the said faculty in 1552. About that time he was made Greek reader of his Coll. took holy orders and became a zealous and forward student in the Theological faculty In June 1555 2. and 3. of Phil. and Mary the President Vicepresident Deans c. of that Coll. gave leave to the said Humphrey who in the opinion of all was much commended for his life and conversation as also for the excellency of his learning and wit that he might freely for the cause of study travel into trasmarine parts for one year conditionally that he contain himself from those places that are suspected to be heretical or favourers of heresie and that also he refrain from the company who are or were authors of heresie or heretical opinions c. Which leave being procured he went forthwith to Zurich and associated himself with the English exiles there that had fled from the Nation for Religion sake After the death of Qu. Mary he returned to his Coll. and was restored to his Fellowship having been expelled thence because he did not return thereunto after his time of leave was expired In the Year 1560 he was constituted the Queens Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxon being then about 34 years of age at which time was a very great scarcity of Theologists throughout the body of Students and in the year following he was elected President of his Coll. In 1562 he took the Degrees in Divinity and in 1570 he was made Dean of Glocester upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Cooper to the See of Lincoln In 1580 he was constituted Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Joh. Watson promoted to the See of Winchester which was the highest preferment he had among the Clergy and the reason for it as 't was guested was because that in matter of ceremony or indifferency he altogether consented not to the Church of England For the truth is that from the City of Zurich remarkable for the Preachings and death of Zwinglius and the correspondence that he had at Geneva he brought back with him at his return into England so much of the Calvinian both in doctrine and discipline that the best that could be said of him was that he was a moderate and consciencious Nonconformist Whence 't was that by his being many years President of Magd. College publick Professor of Div. in the University and several times Vice-chancellour he did not only upon advantage issuing from those place stock his Coll. with a generation of Nonconformists which could not be rooted out in many years after his decease but sowed also in the Divinity School such seeds of Calvinisme and labored to create in the younger sort such a
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
Involved in a book intit Monumenta Westmon â—r an historical account of the original increase and present State of S. Peter's or the Abby Ch. of Westminster c. Lond. 1682. in oct Published by Hen. Keep of the Inner Temple Gent. sometimes a Gent. Com. of New Inn in Oxon. Remains concerning Britain their Languages Names Surnames Allusions c. Lond. 1604. 14. c. qu. Published at first under the two letters of M. N. which are the two last letters of the authors name To this book were several additions made by Jo. Philipot Herald of Arms under the title of Somerset Lond. 1637. c. qu. afterwards in oct with Camden's picture before all the editions Rerum 〈…〉 regnante Eli 〈◊〉 in 4 parts The first half with an Apparatus beâ—ore it reaching from the beginning of the Reign of Q. Elizab. to the end of the year 1588. was printed at Lond. in fol. 1615. having had several things therein before that time expunged especially such that related to the story of Mary Q. of Scots The other half reaching from the beginning of 1589. to the death of Q. Elizab. and an Appendix were printed at the same place in fol. 1627. Both printed in two tomes at Leyden in oct and in a thick oct at Amsterdam 1639. and all translated into English by B. N. Gent. and several times printed in fol. The last half was translated into English by Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. afterwards Canon of Windsore and by him intit Tomus alter idem or The History c. Lond. 1629. in qu. His opinion concerning the High Court of Parliament Lond. 1658. oct Printed with the opinions on the same subject of Joh. Doderidge Arth. Agard and Franc. Tate I have seen also a discourse of his concerning the High Stewardship of England but 't is not as I conceive printed Epistolae variae ad viros doctos Written mostly in Latin Annales Regis Jacobi These reach from the death of Q. Elizab. 24. of March 1602-03 to the 18. of Aug. 1623. and no farther because the author being then very ill in body remaining in that condition till his death he could not well continue them any farther So that there wants memories more than for a year to the end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. These Annals are written with the authors own hand in fol. being only a Skeleton of a History or bare touches to put the author in mind of greater matters that he had in his head had he lived to have digested them in a full History as that of Q. Elizabeth The original came after his death into the hands of Mr. Joh. Hacket afterwards D. D. and at length Bishop of Lichfield who as I have been divers times informed did privately convey it out of the Library of the author Hacket being then a Master of Arts of some years standing This original being communicated by the said Dr. Hacket while he was living at Lichfield to Mr. afterwards Sir Will. Dugdale then Norroy King of Arms he contrary to the Doctors knowledge took a copy of it which I have seen and perused at Sir Williams house called Blith hall in Warwickshire but therein I found many mistakes as it afterwards more evidently appeared to me when that Transcript was put into the Ashmolean Musaeum Another copy I have seen in the hands of Sir Hen. St. George Clarenceaux King of Arms which having been transcribed by one that understood not Latin are innumerable faults therein and therefore not at all to be relyed upon After Dr. Hacket's death the original was put into the Library of Trin. coll in Cambridge where it now remains Our author Camden did also put into Latin Actio in Henricum Garnet Societatis Jesu in Anglia Superiorem c. adjectum est supplicium de Hen. Garnet Londini sumptum c. Lond. 1607. qu. And also viewed corrected and published certain old writers to whom he gave this title Anglica Normanica Hibernica Cambrica per varios authores c. Francof 1603. 04. fol. The first of which writers is Asser Menevensis his book De vita rebus gestis Regis Aelfredi At length our author Camden paying his last debt to nature in his house at Chiseihurst in Kent on Sunday the ninth of Nov. about 4 or 5 of the clock in the morn in sixteen hundred twenty and three year 1623 his body afterwards was conveyed to Westminster to the house there where he used to dwell where laying in State for some time 't was on the 19. day of the same month carried to St. Peters commonly called the Abby-Church within that City accompanied by several of the Heralds in their formalities many of the Nobility Clergy Gentry and others All which being placed Dr. Christop Sutton a Prebendary of that Church stept up into the Pulpit and made a true grave and modest commemoration of his life Adding that as he was not sactious in Religion so neither was he wavering or inconstant of which he gave good testimonies at his end prosessing in the Exordium of his last Will that he died as had lived in the Faith Communion and Fellowship of the Church of England Sermon being ended the body was carried into the S. Cross Isle where it was buried in the west side or part of it As soon as the news of his death was certified to the Sages or Governours of the University they in gratitude of so worthy a Benefactor as he had been caused his memory to be celebrated in an Oration publickly delivered by the mouth of 〈…〉 M. of A. and Student of Ch. Ch. who was then the Deputy Oâ—â—tor To which Speech many of the Academians adding verses on the Benefactors death they were with the Speech printed under the title of Camdeni Insignia Oxon. 1624. qu. After these things were done was a Monument erected on the west Wall of the said S. cross isle with the bust of the Defunct resting his hand on a book with Britannia insculp'd on the Leaves thereof This Monument which was composed of black and white Marble was somewhat defaced in 1646. when the Hearse and Effâ—gies of Robert Earl of Essex the Parliamentarian General were cut in pieces and defaced The Inscription however being left intire I caused it to be printed elsewhere In the last Will and Testam of this great Scholar which I have more than once perused I find besides his publick benefactions his Legacies of 16 l. 10 l. and 5 l. to all his learned acquaintance then in being as to Ja. Gruter Library Keeper to the Prince Pal. Elector of Heidelberg 5 l. To Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloc. hall in Oxon. 16 l. To Jo. 〈◊〉 of the Inner Temple 5 l. c. besides a piece of plate to Sir 〈◊〉 Grevill Lord Brook Chancellour of the Exchequer who preferr'd him gratis to his Office and another of 16 l. price to the Company of Painter-Stainers of London and this to be engraven thereon Gul. Camden Clarenceaux
readings in an Inn of Chancery called New Inn in Lond. 1602. and 1603. History of the ancient and modern Estate of the Principality of Wales Dutchy of Cornwal and Earldom of Chester c. Lond. 1630. qu. The English Lawyer Being a treatise describing a method for the managing of the Laws of this Land and expressing the best qualities requisite in the Student Practicer Judges c. Lond. 1631. qu. Opinion touching the antiquity power order state manner persons and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England Lond. 1658. oct Published by John Doddridge Esq a Counsellour of the Middle Temple and Recorder of Barnstaple descended from or at least near of kin to our author Sir Joh. Doderidge With the aforesaid Opinion are published also the opinions of Arth. Agard Joseph Holland Francis Tate and Will. Camden all eminent Antiquaries and Historians the two last of which I have before mentioned and the two first I shall speake of anon Treatise of particular Estates Lond. 1677. in twelv printed at the end of the fourth edition of Will Noy's book called Grounds and Maxims of the Laws of this Nation A true presentation of fore-past Parliaments to the view of the present times and posterity This I saw in MS. in a thin fol. in the Library of Dr. Tho. Barlow now B. of Lincoln but whether it was ever printed I know not Our author Doderidge also did peruse and enlarge a book intit The Magazine of Honour or a treatise of the several degrees of the Nobility of this Kingdom with their rights and privileges Also of Knights Esquires c. Lond. 1642. oct The MS. of which I saw also in the said Library fairly transcribed and dedicated by T. S. of Wycombe to John Lord Lovelace an 1637. This book which is the collection of Will Bird I take to be the same which was afterwards published with a title something different from the former under our author Doderidge's name running thus The Law of Nobility and Peerage wherein the antiquities titles degrees and distinctions concerning the Peers and Nobility of this Nation are excellently set forth with the Knights Esquires Gent. c. Lond. 1657. 58. oct What else he hath written besides certain Speeches which are extant in books put out by others I know not and therefore I shall only say of him that he surrendred up his last breath at Forsters near to Egham in Surrey 13. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight and that his body was carried to the City of Exeter year 1628 where 't was reposed with great solemnity in our Ladies Chappel joyning to the Cath. Ch. there 14. Oct. following where at this time is visible a very fair monument over his grave and that of his Wise Now as for Arthur Agard whom I have before mentioned I desire the Reader to know of him these things that he was the Son of Clem. Agard of Foston in Derbyshire by his Wife Elianor Daughter of Tho. Middlemore of Edgbaston in Warwickshire that he was bred up to the Law got to be a Clerk in the Exchequer and at length to be Deputy-chamberlian thereof which office he held 45 years while these persons following were successively Chamberlains a place formerly of great honour and worth viz. Sir Nich. Throckmorton Sir Tho. Randolphe Postmaster Sir Tho. West after Lord La Warr Mr. George Young a Scot Sir Will Killigrew Knight Sir Walt. Cope Knight and in his last days in 1615. to Sir Joh. Poyntz Knight While he held that place he learned and received all his knowledge and learning in Antiquities from his faithful and dear friend Sir Rob. Cotton a singular lover of and admirably well read in English Antiquities to whom when Agard died he gave all his Leiger books and MSS. at least 20 in number to be reposed as choice things in his Library among which was Agard's book of his own writing intit Tractatus de usu verbis obscurioribus libri de Domesday which was afterwards put under the Effigies of Vitellius nu 9. The learned Camden stiles him Antiquarius insignis as having been well acquainted with him and his prodigious works collected with his own hand out of his Maj. Records in the Abbey of Westminster where the Exchequer-Office was and elsewhere He died 22. Aug. 1615. and was buried in the Cloyster of St. Peters Church in Westminster near to the Chapter-house door where he had set up a monument in his life-time for himself and his Wife At the time of his death his will and desire was that eleven Manuscripts of his writing and collection should for a small reward given to his Executor be reposed in the Exchequer because they were necessary both for the Kings service and readiness for the subject Also a book of his collection in the Treasury wherein is first contained what records are in the Kings Maj. four Treasuries and how the same are placed and especially how to be preserved And after is contained A collection of all leagues and treaties of Peace entercourses and marriages with Foreign Nations Which book was three years labour and was I think still very carefully preserved for the Kings service The writer and collector thereof took order that it should be preserved in his Maj. Court of Receipt under the charge and custody of the Officers there and to be delivered to them by Inventory because it is very necessary for the Kings use good of the Subject and readiness and light to the Officers As for the other person Joseph Holland whose Opinion concerning the antiquity power c. of Parliament before-mentioned which was also published I can say only this of him that he was a Devonian born an excellent Herald Genealogist and Antiquary as several things of his writing now in being in the Coll. of Arms commonly called the Heralds Office shew Among which is a very long roll of Parchment containing the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Devon before and to his time made in 1585. There also goes from hand to hand a folio MS. of his collection not only containing the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Devonshire but also of Somersetshire and Cornwall FULKE GREVIL descended from an ancient and knightly fam of his name living at Milcot in Warwickshire was born in that County an 1554 being the same year wherein Sir Philip Sidney received his first breath did spend some time in the condition of a Gent. Commoner in this University either before he went to Trin. coll in Cambridge or at his return thence but in what house unless in Ch. Ch. or Broadgates I cannot well tell nor doth it matter much seeing that he was more properly a Cambridge man to which University he was a Benefactor than an Oxonian After he had left the University he travelled and at his return being well accomplished was introduced into the Court by his Uncle Rob. Grevil a Servant to Q. Elizabeth where he was esteemed a most ingenious person and
person who mostly seemed to be a true Son of the Church of England a hater of Papists Arminians and Sectaries published 1 Seven Sermons on the 23. Psal of David Lond. 1603. oct 2 The Converts happiness Sermon on Rev. 3. 20. Lond. 1609. qu. 3 The raging tempest still'd The history of Christ's passage with his Disciples over the Sea of Galilee c. Lond. 1623. qu. 4 Help to the best bargain c. Serm. in the Cath. of Canterb. 26. Oct. 1623. Lond. 1624. in oct and other things which I have not yet seen He was living in Septemb. 1644. being then the Senior Prebendary of Christ-Church in Canterbury and died shortly after having before cast a stone against Archbishop Laud when he was to be tried for his life JOHN BALL Son of Will. Ball and Agnes Mabet his Wife was born of a plebeian family at Cassington alias Chersington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire in the beginning of Octob. 1585. and baptized the 14. of the same month educated in Grammar learning in a private School taught by the Vicar of Yarnton a mile distant from Cassington admitted a Student of Brasnose coll in 1602 where continuing under a severe discipline and Tutor about five years in the condition as it seems of a Servitour removed to S. Maries hall and as a Member thereof took the degree of Bac. of Arts in 1608. Soon after he was invited into Cheshire to teach the Children of the Lady Cholmondeley where continuing for some time fell into the acquaintance of several severe Puritans who working on his affections they brought him over to them About that time having gained a sum of money he went to London with some of them and made shift to be ordained a Minister there without subscription by an Irish Bishop Soon after he removed into Staffordshire and became Curate of Whitmore a Chappel of â—ase to Stoke where he lived and died a Nonconformist in a poor house a poor habit with poor maintenance of about 20 l. per an and in an obscure Village teaching School also all the week for a farther supply deserving as high esteem and honour as a noted Presbyterian observes as the best Bishop in England yet looking after no â—igher things but living comfortably and prosperously with these c. The Brethren report him to have been a excellent Schoolmaster and Schoolman qualities seldom meeting in the same person a painful Preacher and a profitable Writer And tho somewhat disaffected to Ceremonies and Church discipline yet he confuted such as conceived the corruption therein ground enough for a Separation He hath written A short treatise containing all the principal grounds of Christian Religion c. Fourteen times printed before the year 1632. and translated into the Turkish Language by Will. Seaman an English Traveller Treatise of Faith in two parts The first shewing the nature the second the life of Faith c. Lond. 1631. qu. 1637. qu. the third edition It hath a Preface to it in commendation of the work written by Rich. Sibbes Friendly trial of the grounds tending to Separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the unlawfulness of stinted Liturgy and set form of Common Prayer Communion in mixed Assemblies and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys c. Cambr. 1640. qu. The rude and imperfect draught of this book was first made for satisfaction of Mr. Rich. Knightley which by importunity of Ministers and others was afterwards enlarged into this treatise The answer returned to the first conceptions thereof is briefly examined in some marginal notes annexed p. 13. 15. 24. 33. An answer to two Treatises of Mr. Joh. Can the Leader of the English Brownists in Amsterdam The former is called A necessity of separation from the Church of England proved by the Nonconformists principles And the other A stay against straying Wherein in opposition to Mr. John Robinson he undertakes to prove the unlawfulness of hearing the Ministers of the Church of England Lond. 1642. qu. Published by Simeon Ash The Epistle to the Reader is subscribed by Tho. Langley Will. Rathband Simeon Ash Franc. Woodcock and Geo. Croft Presbyterians After our author Ball had finished this last book he undertook a large treatise of the Church wherein he intended to discover the nature of Schism and to deal in the main controversies touching the essence and Government of the Visible Church of which also 50 sheets of paper he left finished Notwithstanding all this yet by what our author hath written in his answer to Jo. Can and in his Friendly trial c. some dividing Spirits of his own party censured him as in some degree declining from his former profest inconformity in deserting the Nonconformists cause and grounds being too much inclined especially in the last of these two to favour the times in Ceremonies and the Service-book Yet if you 'll give credit to what these men deliver they 'll tell you that he lived and died a strict forbearer and constant opposer of all those pretended corruptions which the Nonconformists had commonly in their publick writings disallowed in the Church of England So that they of his own perswasion would willingly have it believed that altho he was in these his pieces against aggravating and multiplying conceived corruptions and that these were not of so great weight as to inforce the unlawfulness of our set forms or warrant a separation from our Churches and publick worship in regard thereof yet he acknowledged some things blame-worthy in the English Liturgy which he designed to have evidenced as these men tell us in some publick treatise had he lived but a little longer For all this he died abundantly satisfied in the justness of that cause which he so well defended against separation Trial of the new Church-way in New-England and Old c. Lond. 1644. qu. Treatise of the Covenant of Grace Lond. 1645. c. qu. Published by his great admirer Simeon Ash Of the power of godliness both doctrinally and practically handled c. To which are annexed several Treatises as 1 Of the affections 2 Of the spiritual combatâ— 3 Of the government of the tongue 4 Of prayer with an exposition on the Lords Prayer c. Lond. 1657. fol. Published by the aforesaid Simeon Ash sometimes of the University of Cambridge Chaplain to the Lord Brook afterwards to the Earl of Manchester an 1644. Minister of St. Michael Bashishaw and at length of St. Austins in London who dying 20. of Aug. 1662. being a little before the fatal day of St. Barthelmew was buried 23. of the same month in the Church of St. Austin before-mentioned Treatise of divine meditation Lond. 1660. in twelv published also by the said Ash These I think are all that have been written by our author Ball who dying 20. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and forty year 1640 aged fifty and five or thereabouts was buried in the Chappel or Church of Whitmore aforesaid leaving then behind the character
that the exercise to be performed for it might be deferr'd till Michâ—elmas Term following because he shortly after designed to return to his native Country But the Regents upon mature consideration return'd this answer that he might take the said Degree when he pleased conditionally that he perform all exercises requisite by the statute before he take it On the same day Giles Gualter M. of A. of 8 years standing in the University of Caen another Exile as it seems did supplicate under the same form but whether either of them was admitted it appears not Doct. of Civ Law Jul. 3. Griffith or Griffin Lloyd Principal of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards the Kings Professor of the Civil Law and Chancellour to the Bishop of Oxford He died in Doctors Commons 26. Nov. 1586 and was buried two days after in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf in London ☞ Not one Doctor of Physick was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Apr. 10. Adam Squyre Master of Ball. Coll. This Person who was a learned but fantastical Man married the Daughter of Dr. Jo. Elmer Bishop of London by whose favour he was made Archdeacon of Middlesex but when I cannot tell Apr… John Bold of C. C. Coll. In the year 1578. Sept. 25. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland by Dr. Barnes Bishop of Durham on the resignation of Mr. Franc. Bunney who some years before had succeeded Mr. Ralph Lever in that Dignity After Dr. Bold had resign'd it Ralph Tonstall M. A. was collated thereunto 29. Oct. 1581 but who succeeded him the register of the Church of Durham which is deficient tells us not till Bishop Neyles time who collated to the said Archdeaconry Gab. Clerke DD 7. Aug. 1619. upon the resignation of Dr. John Craddock See more among the Masters of Arts an 1612. Jul. 6. Pet. Lozillerius Villerius a French Man Doctor of the Civil Law and Divinity of an University in his own Country was then admitted to proceed in Divinity and three days after did compleat that Degree by standing in the Act then celebrated He was an Exile for his Religion lived in Ch. Ch. for some time but whether he read a lecture or taught privately as other Exiles did I know not Sure I am he was a learned Man and had newly corrected and set forth Beza's New Testament in Greek Incorporations June 5. Tho. Hakeluyt M. A. of Cambridge 22. Will. Smyth M. of A. of the same University I take this to be the same Will. Smyth who was afterwards Master of Clare Hall Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth Vicechanc. of the said University an 1603 Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. and at length Provost of Kings Coll. to which he was elected 22. Aug. 1612. He died 26. March 1615 and became a considerable benefactor to the said College Jul. 10. Humph. Tindall M. A. of the same University He was afterwards Master of Queens Coll. there and became the fourth Dean of Ely in the place of John Bell D. D. who died 31. Oct. 1591 aged 61. The said Tindall was descended from the antient and gentile family of his name living in Norfolk and dying 12. Oct. 1614 aged 65 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Ely July 11. Peter Baro D. D. of Cambridge This learned and worthy Divine was born at Estampes in France left that Country upon account of Religion came into England for refuge setled in Cambridge by the endeavours of Dr. Andr. Perne and being afterwards of Trin. Coll. succeeded Dr. John Still in the Margaret Professorship of that University and read there several years to the great liking of many At length the Calvinistical Party disgusting certain matters which they looked upon as hetrodox vented by him in his readings and prints viz. in his Comment on Jonah and his book De Fide one of them named Lawrence Chadderton had a contest with him Their objections were 1 That in his readings upon Jonah he taught the Popish Doctrine of the cooperation of faith and works to justification which tho in terms a little changed yet the Doctrine was one and the same in effect 2 That he laboured to make Men believe that the reformed Churches Doctrine was not so differing from Popish Doctrine but that by distinctions they might be reconciled and therefore concluded that both professions might be tolerated And thirdly that in his said readings he taught that the Heathen may be saved without the Faith of the Gospel and other strange matters which they looked upon as damnable errors c. Besides also as they observed that after many years wherein he had sundry ways hurt the sincerity of the Doctrine he brought the Popish Schoolmen into credit and diminished the honour of the learned Writers of that age Since which time the course of studies in Divinity and the manner of preaching hath been much changed in that University by some who have followed that vain and left the study of sound Writers as they stile them and apply themselves to the reading as they father add of popish barbarous and fantastical Schoolmen delighted with their curious questions and quiddities whereby they draw all points of Christian faith into doubts being the high-way not only to Popery but to Atheisme c. For these I say and such like matters he was by the zealous travel of some of the Brethren in the said University removed from his place of Margaret Professor about the year 1596 not without the consent of Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury For so it was and they could not be beaten out of it that they thought that as a certain Spaniard named Ant. Corranus was brought to and setled in Oxon. purposely to corrupt the true Doctrine so Pet. Baro a French Man was for Cambridge which last is nevertheless reported in the following age by a high Church of England Man that tho he was a Forreigner by birth yet be better understood the Doctrine of the Church of England than many of the Natives his contemporaries in the Vniversity of Cambridge c. His writings are these 1 In Jonam Prophetam praelectiones 39. 2 Conciones tres ad clerum Cantabrigiensem habitae in templo B. Mariae 3 Theses publicae in Scholis peroratae disputatae Which Theses being only two were translated into English by John Ludham with these titles First Gods purpose and decree taketh not away the liberty of mans corrupt will The second Our conjunction with Christ is altogether spiritual Both printed at Lond. 1590. in oct 4 Precationes quibus usus est author in suis praelectionibus inchoandis finiendis All which were published at Lond. 1579. fol. by the care and labor of Osmund Lake Bach. of Div. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge who viewed and corrected them before they went to the press This Osm Lake by the way I must tell you had been Proctor of that University was afterwards Vicar of Ringwood in Hampshire and a publisher of several books besides others
was then actually created Master of Arts. An. Dom. 1608. An. 6 Jac. 2. Chanc. the same viz. Thomas Earl of Dorset but he dying the 19 Apr. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterbury succeeded in the Chancellourship on the 22 of the same month He was born at Farnworth in Lancashire in Sept. 1544 Son of Joh. Bancroft Gent. by Mary his Wife Daughter of Joh. Curwyn Brother to Dr. Hugh Curwyn Archb. of Dublin and after he had been severely trained up in Grammatical Learning he was first placed in Christs and soon after removed to Jesus Coll. in Cambridge Afterwards by the endeavours of his said Uncle Dr. Curwyn he became when young Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Dublin but the Uncle removing and dying soon after he was made Chaplain to Dr. Cox Bishop of Ely who gave him the Rectory of Teversham in the Country of Cambridge Being thus put into the road of preferment he was admitted Bach. of Div. 1580 and five years after Doctor About which time he put himself into the Service of Sir Christoph Hatton Lord Chancellour of England by whose recommendations he was made Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Mr. Joh. Wickham an 1592 from whence he had the easier passage to S. Pauls in London of which Cathedral he was Treasurer Vicechanc. Dr. King again Jul. 17. Proct. Edw. Vnderhyll of Magd. Coll. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch. Apr. 6. Bach. of Musick Dec. 13. Will. Stonard Organist of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. He hath composed certain Divine Services and Anthems the words of one or more of which are published in the Collection of Divine Services and Anthems put out by Jam. Clifford an 1663. We have also some of his Compositions in our publick Musick School at Oxon sent by Walter Porter to his Kinsman Joh. Wilson Doct. of Musick and the publick Professor of the praxis of that Faculty in Oxon to be reposed and kept for ever in the Archives of the said School In the Organists place of Ch. Ch. succeeded Edward Low of Salisbury about 1630 who was afterwards publick Professor of the musical praxis in this University and Author of Short directions for the performance of Cathedral Service printed at Oxon in oct an 1661. The second Edition of which came out at the same place in 1664 with a review and many useful Additions relating to the Common Prayer by the same hand This Mr. Low who was judicious in his profession but not graduated therein died on the 11 of July 1682. whereupon his Body was buried at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel joyning on the north side of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. near to the Body of Alice his sometimes Wife Daughter of Sir Joh. Peyton the younger of Dodington in the Isle of Ely Kt. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 13. Joh. Harrys of New Coll. 16. Charles Croke of Ch. Ch. See among the Doct. of Div. an 1625. 20. Will. Lewis of Hart Hall afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll. See among the Creations 1627. 31. Rich. Gove of Magd. Hall June 2. Gilb. Ironside of Tâ—in Coll. He was afterwards Bish of Bristow James Martin of Broadgates was admitted the same day See among the Masters 1611. 6. Joh. Wall of Ch. Ch. Jul. 7. Edward Bagshaw of Brasn Coll. 9. Joh. Barlow of Hart Hall Oct. 14. Isaac Colf of Ch. Ch. Nov. 19. Gilb Stâ—akes of Hart Hall See among the Bach. of Div. 1646. Jan. 25. Sam. Smith Will. Greenhill Accepted Frewen of Magd. Coll. The last of which three was afterwards Archb. of York Feb. 16. Hen. Lord Clifford Baron of Skypton eldest Son of the Earl of Cumberland was then admitted Bach. of Arts as a Member of Ch. Ch. After this man's time studied in the same house Henâ—y Clifford Son of Francis Earl of Cumberland who by the various Copies of Verses that he wrot but whether published I know not obtained the character of the best of Poets among the Nobility He was afterwards Earl of Cumberland and dying on the 11 of Decemb. 1643 was buried by his Ancestors in a Vault under the Church of Skâ—pton in Craven in Yorkshire Feb. 16. Nich. Guy of Hart Hall See among the Masters an 1611. 1â— Rich. Eedes of Brasn Coll. One of both his names who was a Warwickshire man born and afterwards the Presbyterian Curat of the rich Church at Cleve in Glocestershire hath written Christ exalted and Wisdom justified or the Saints esteem of Jesus Christ as most precious handled c. Lond. 1659. oct besides one or more Sermons which he before had published Whether the same with him of Brasnose Quaere 17. Joh. Ball of S. Maries Hall lately of Brasn Coll. 20. Thom. Howell of Jesus Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Bristow 23. Will. Slatyer of Brasn Coll. As for Harrys Gove Ironside Wall Bagshaw Greenhil Frewen Howell and Slayer before mentioned will be large mention made of them in the second Volume of this Work or elsewhere Adm. 213 or thereabouts Mast of Arts May 1â— Henr. Whistler of Trin. Coll. May 30. Sam. Fell Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch. Henr. Rogers of Jes June 2. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll. 6. Sampson Price of Hart Hall afterwards of Exeter Coll. July 7. Gabriel Richardson of Brasn Mar. 18. Hen. Jackson of C. C. Coll. Admitted 98 or thereabouts Bach. of Div. June 1. Lionell Day Fellow of Balliol sometimes of Oriel Coll. was then admitted He was younger Brother to John Day mentioned among the Writers under the year 1627 was Rector of Whichford near to Brailes in Warwickshire and Author of Concio ad Clerum habita Oxonii die Martis post Comitia an dom 1609. in Luc. 22. 31. Oxon. 1632. qu. besides other things as 't is said but such I have not yet seen He died in 1640 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Whichford before mention'd June 30. Joh. Davies of Lincoln sometimes a Student in Jesus College Jul. 7. Thom. Peacock of Brasn Coll. He was a Cheshire man born and Tutor to the famous Rob. Bolton the Author of whose Life doth much celebrate the said Peacock for his learning and great sanctity of life and conversation He was buried in S. Maries Church in Oxon 7 Dec. 1611. 13. Joh. Sandsbury of S. Johns Coll. Besides these four were 24 more admitted among whom Nich. Simpson of C. C. Coll. was one and Rich. Colfe of Ch. Ch. another both Accumulators Doct. of Law Apr. 16. James Cook of New Coll. He was the only Doctor admitted this year Doct. of Phys June 1. Rich. Andrews of S. Joh. Coll. He had improv'd himself much in his Faculty in his Travels beyond the Seas which afterwards made him highly esteemed among learned men and others Will. Turner of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day He was a Londoner born and was Master of Arts of Cambridge in which degree being incorporated with us an 1602 entred himself into Balliol Coll. having before spent some years in foreign Academies in the study of Phys and as a
after his Incorporation was buried in the Parish Church of S. Botolph in the tomb of his Mother lately deceased but in which of the Churches of S. Botolph in London 't is not said Creations Apr. 12. Francis Whiddon of Exeter Coll. and a Devonian born was actually created M. of A. He was afterwards Minister of Morton Hampsted in his own Country and published A golden topaze or a heart-jewel namely a conscience purified and pacified by the blood and spirit of Christ on Heb. 13. 18. Oxon. 1656. oct he being then conformable to the men in Authority and Power What other things he published I find not Jul. 1. Joh. Leigh of Brasn Coll. was actually created M. of A. in the house of Congregation 'T was four years since he took the degree of Bach. of Arts in which time he had studied in several transmarine Universities and had obtained such admirable knowledge in all humane learning and especially in Philosophy and other Arts that he was esteemed by the venerable Regents most worthy of the degree of M. of Arts. Sam. Bochartus of Roan in Normandy became a Sojourner this year in the University and was entred a Student in the publick Library in the beginning of Lent Term with the help of which and other Libraries he laid the foundation of most rare Books which he afterwards published His Geographia sacra hath made him famous in the learned World as also his Hierozoicon for both which eminent Authors do in an high manner celebrate his name He was Pastor of the Protestant Church at Caen in Normandy where he died in 1667. being ever esteemed a great lover of the Church of England An. Dom. 1623. An. 21 Jac. 1. Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke Vicechanc. Dr. Piers again Jul. 21. Proct. Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll. Will. Oldis of New Coll. Apr. 23. Bach. of Musick Jul. 12. Hugh Davys of New Coll. Organist of the Cathedral Church at Hereford He was eminent for the various Compositions of Church Musick that he had made which is all I know of him only that he died about 1644. Bach. of Arts. Jun. 18. Hen. Tozer of Exet. 23. John Price of Jesus Coll. Whether the last was afterwards the learned Critick who studied about this time in Oxon is as yet doubtful Jun. 26. George Griffith George Eglionbie of Ch. Ch. The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph the last Dean of Canterbury as I shall tell you among the Doctors of Div. an 1634. June 29. Hugh Cressy or Hugh Paulin de Cressy Oct. 29. Will. Erbury Feb. 6. Arth. Salway of Brasn Coll. Of the last you may see more among the Masters an 1626. 7. John Hoffman of Exet. Coll. See among the Bachelaurs of Div. 1634. Joh. Bird of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day Whether he be the same with Joh. Bird who was afterwards School-master in the City of Glocester and Author of Grounds of Grammar Oxon. 1639. oct I cannot lay to the contrary He that was Bach. of Arts was an Oxfordshire Man born and had been originally of St. Edm. hall All which Bachelaurs except Eglionbie Salway Hoffman and Bird will be mention'd in the 2. Volume of this work or elsewhere Adm. 233. of thereabouts Bach. of Law Apr. 24. Alexander Hyde of New Oct. 11. Nathan Brent of Mert. Coll. The first was afterwards Bishop of Salisbury the other was now Warden of Merton Coll. Besides these two were only two more admitted Mast of Arts. Apr. 2. Edmund Staunton of C. C. May 26. Nathan Simpson Hen. Gellibrand of Trin. Coll. Coll. Will. Gilbert of Glouc. hall was admitted the same day He was the younger Son of an Esq in Derbyshire and was now esteemed by his contemporaries a general Scholar and a rare Man One of both his names hath certain Sermons extant one of which is a Funeral Sermon on 1. Thes 4. 18. printed 1649. qu. Jun. 18. Edward Leigh Nath. Holmes Anth. Fawkner of Jes Coll. of Magd. hall Jun. 26. Thom. Case of Ch. Ch. July 10. Will. Crompton of Brasn Oct. 16. Edw. Stanely of New Feb. 6. Hen. Glemham Mar. 16. Will. Chillingworth of Trin. Coll. Admitted 157. Bach. of Div. Jul. 3. Thom. Goffe of Ch. Ch. 10. Gilbert Wats of Linc. Dec. 13. Nich. Vignier of Ex. 17. Will. Sclatyer of Bras Coll. Admitted 11. Doct. of Law Oct. 11. Nath. Brent Warden of Merton Coll. who accumulated the Degree in Law ☞ Not one Doctor of Phys was admitted this year Doct. of Div. Jul. 18. Tho. Worrall of Brasn Rob. Barcroft of Co. Chr. Coll. Oct. 14. Paul Hood Rect. of Linc. Joh. Wall of Ch. Church Dec. 17. Josh Aisgill of Co. Chr. Will. Sclatyer of Bras George Webb of Co. Chr. Coll. The last saving one viz. Solatyer accumulated and compounded Incorporations May 7. Samuel Baker M. of A. of Christs Coll. in Cambridge He afterwards became a puritannical Preacher in London and much followed but being taken off from those courses was made houshold Chaplain to Dr. Juxon Bishop of London and a creature of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury About which time being Rector of St. Mary on the hill and of St. Christophers in Lond. where his preaching was much applauded by some become Prebendary of St. Pauls Cathedral On the 20. of Sept. 1638 he being then D. of D. was install'd Canon of Windsore on the death of Dr. John King sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll. but he being soon after made Prebendary of Canterbury he resigned his Canonry and Tho. Broume Bach. of Div. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon was installed therein 28. May 1639. This Dr. Baker who was a great Licencer of Books but publisher I think of none gained a great deal of Envy from the Puritan for his partiality in that office for which and his great respect to the tenets of Arminius he was in the beginnig of the rebellion â—â—sâ—vanted and imprisoned and at length deprived of his Spirituâ—â—â— Thomes Harste M. of A. of the said University was incorporated the same day He was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and Minister of 〈◊〉 in Lincolushire He hath published The descent of 〈◊〉 the Magistrates patent from Heaven Sermon at Lincoln Assizes 13 March 1636. on Gen. 9. 6. Lond. 1637. qu. and other things as I conceive Quere On the 14 of July after the conclussion of the Act these Cambridge Men following were incorporated Joh. Harding M. of A. One of both his names who had been a Dominican or Black fryer did speak A recantation Sermon in the Gatchouse at Westminster 30. July 1620 on Psal 119. 71. Lond. 1620. qu. containing Motives why he left the Church of Rome Whether he be the same with the former who was M. of A. I know not Thomas Scot M. A. One of both his names also who was Bach. of Div. of the said University and a Preacher in the City of Norwych hath several things extant as the Oxford Catalogue tells you but he is not to be taken