into holy Orders and was made Library keeper to K. Ed. 6. who finding him to be a Person of Merit conferr'd the Deanery of Chichester on him about 1551. But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he left his preferments and as a voluntary exile went into Germany where accompanying other English Exiles that had fled thence for Religion sake continued there till the death of Qu. Mary and then returning was restored to what he had lost and without doubt was rewarded with more While he was beyond the Sea he exercised himself much in writing matters in verse and prose in both which he wrot several things with great happiness especially those to his Brother Thomas to embrace the true Doctrine of Jesus Christ that is to leave the R. Catholick Church turn Protestant and come over to him Among many things that he wrot were Paraenesis lib. 1. Written to his Brother Thomas Carmina in mortem Henrici Dudlaei Analysis Scoparum Johannis Cochlei Exposition of a part of S. John's Gospel made in sundry Readings in the English Congregation against the Arrians Printed the second time in an 1558. oct The Readings were ten and they were performed in the English Congregation beyond the Sea Exposition on the fourth Chapter of S. John's Revelations which treateth of the providence of God made before his Countrymen in Germany Printed 1557. in oct Lond. 1577. and 83. in oct Treatise of Repentance besides other things which are mention'd by Jo. Bate He also translated into English The Chirurgerie of Joh. de Vigo Lond. 1580. qu. 2 Edit and the said Vigo's Little Practice Lond. 1562. in octavo In which year which was part of the third and fourth of Qu. Elizabeth Barth Traberon was if I mistake not living HENRY PENDLETON a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Lancashire became a Student in Brasnose Coll. about the year 1538 took the Degrees in Arts and afterwards those in Divinity in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he being then beneficed and dignified in the Church In the Reign of Qu. Marie he shew'd himself so grand a Zealot for the Cause then professed in several Sermons by him preached that when in one by him delivered at Pauls Cross which was very sharp against the Hereticks as they were then called a Gun was discharged at but miss'd him Under his Name were these things following printed Homilies to be read in the Churches within the dioc of London Lond. 1554. 55. qu. Communication between him and Mr. Lour Sanders Disputation between him and Mr. Joh. Bradford Protestants an 1555. The Contents or part of which Communic and Disput you may see in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church c. and also Pendleton's Arguings with Bartlet Green and certain Protestant Martyrs Other things he hath written which I have not yet seen and was always accounted a learned Doctor of his time and so endear'd to the Cath. Religion that he made a solemn Protestation in Qu. Maries Reign that he would see the nntermost drop of his Grease molten away and the last gobbet of his Flesh consumed to Ashes before he would forsake God and his truth He lived after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown and was imprison'd for a time but when or where he died I know not PETER MARTYR who is to have a place in these Athenae was born in the great and rich City of Florence in Italy in Sept. on the Nativity of the Virgin Marie an 1500 educated in several sorts of Learning in that City by the great care of his Father Steph. Vermilius became a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin at 16 years of age in the Coll. at Fiesoli more than a mile distant from Florence After he had spent three years there he was sent to Padua to enlarge his Learning that University then being in a flourishing Condition and setling in the Monastery of St. John de Verdera of the same Order of S. Austin spent almost 8 years in philosophical Studies and all other Arts especially in the Greek Tongue and Poets which at length he conquered At 26 years of age he began to preach and the first time he performed that Office was in the Church of St. Afra in Brescia and afterwards frequently in the most famous Cities of Italy However all the time that he could obtain from his Function was spent in sacred Learning Philosophy and in obtaining the Hebrew Tongue At length being cried up for a celebrated Scholar he was made Abbat of Spoleto in the Duchy of L'Ombria in Italy where he continued three years Thence he was translated to Naples and there became Abbat of the Monastery of his Order called St. Peter ad aram being of greater profit and a far more pleasant place than Spoleto After he had been setled there for some time he began to see the verity of the Gospel especially after he had read some of the Works of Bucer and Zwinglius Three years being spent there also he fell into a dangerous Sickness but the strength of Nature overcoming it he was advised by his Physitians to take better Air than what Naples afforded To that end therefore that he might with convenience be absent from his Cure the Fathers chose him General Visitor of their Order that is of the Order of S. Austin and soon after was elected Prior of S. Fridian within the City of Luca which is a place of great dignity having Episcopal Jurisdiction in the middle part of the said City Being setled at that place he instituted a most admirable way of Studies for the younger sort at Luca but at length his Opinions as to Heresie then so called being discovered snares were laid for him so that being not in a capacity to speak his mind he by the advice of certain Friends committed the best part of his Library to the Custody of one of them gave another part to the Coll. and forthwith left Luca and went to Pisa whence he wrote Letters to Card. Pole shewing the Reasons of his Departure Afterwards he went into Schwitzerlands and fixed for some time at Zurich Thence to Strasburgh where for about five years he read and taught sacred Letters in which time he took to Wife he being near 50 years of Age one Cath. Dampmartin causing thereupon his Enemies to say that he left his Order and Monastic Vows purposely for the sake of a Woman Which Wife after she had lived with him about 8 years died at Oxon as I shall anon tell you In 1547 he was invited into England by Edward Lord Protector and Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury to the end that his Assistance might be used to carry on a Reformation in the Church In the Month of Dec. the same year he with Bemnardine Ochine another Italian arrived in England and retiring to Lambeth were kindly received by Archb. Cranmer and entertained there for some time About the latter end of the same year in Feb. or
the English Sectaries and of their foul dealing herein by partial and false translations c. Rhemes 1582. oct Answered in a book intituled A defence of the sincere and true translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue c. Lond. 1583. oct Written by Will. Fulke D. D. Master of Pembroke hall in Cambridge Treatise of Christian Peregrination and relicks Printed 1583. oct Epistles to certain of his friends The last of which which is the largest dat 15. Oct. 1575. was written to Dr. Tho. Whyte then lately Warden of New Coll. touching his following the world and dissembling in Religion against his conscience and knowledge Of the love of the soul with questions to the Protestants Printed at Roan in Normandy He hath also written other books which remain in MS. in several Libraries beyond the Sea as I conceive treating of Divinity In the Year 1584 was set forth a certain book which one calls a horrid piece of Popish malice against Queen Elizab. wherein her Gentlewomen were exhorted to act the like against the Queen as Judith had done with applause and commendations against Holofernes The Author was never discovered but the suspicion lighted upon Gregory Martin one very learned in the Greek and Lat. tongues as my Author before quoted saith but how he could be Author having been dead two years before that time I cannot say He also was the chief Man that translated the New Testament printed at Rhemes 1582 for which work his name remains precious to this day among those of his party He also made other translations which are preserved in MS. in certain Libraries among which is the Tragedy of Cyrus King of Persia which is as some say in the Library of St. Johns Coll. in Oxon. See the titles of other books which are remembred by one that knew him while I in the mean time tell you that our Author dying 28. year 1582 Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and two was buried in the Parish Church of St. Stephen at Rheimes There is an Epitaph over his grave comprehended in 16 verses the two first of which are these Quem tulit umbrosis tenerum Southsaxia sylvis Gallica qua spectat regna Britannus ager The rest I shall now omit for brevity sake and proceed to the next in order who was a Romanist also WILLIAM HART a most zealous young Man for the R. Cath. Cause was born in Somersetshire entred in his puerile years into Lincoln Coll. an 1572 where after he had been instructed in Grammar and Logick left it without a Degree his relations and Country and going beyond the Seas to Doway compleated his studies in Philosophy Afterwards he travelled to Rome studied Divinity and was there made a Priest At length being sent into the mission of England before he was 24 years of age settled in Yorkshire where he administred comfort to the afflicted Catholicks for a considerable time with little or no interruption At length being taken and imprison'd at York he wrot Letters to certaine Catholicks Letters to his spiritual Sons Letters to the afflicted Cath. and to those that suffer in Prison Letters to a noble Matron All which at least 10 in number were as I presume written by him in the English tongue The Latine copies with many things of their Author you may see in a book entit Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia p. 104. mention'd in Joh. Bridgwater among the writers following under the Year 1594. This Will. Hart was hang'd drawn and quarter'd for being a R. Priest at York on the 15 of March in Fifteen hundred eighty and two and his quarters afterwards hanged up in publick places In his time were several young Scholars of Lincoln Coll. educated and afterwards professed themselves openly to be R. Catholicks having received instructions from some of the Fellows that were inclined that way but chiefly from the Rector thereof Job Bridgwater before-mentioned who always at last his Rectory to prevent expulsion Some of them I shall mention as they lay in my way NICHOLAS HARPESFEILD an eminent Theologist well skill'd in both the Laws and in Greek History and Poetry in all or most of which faculties having written very well do report him renowned by those of his own perswasion His first being in this World he received in the Parish of St. Marie Magd. in Old Fishstreet within the City of London and his Grammaticals in Wykehams School near to Winchester In 1536 he was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served 2 years of probation there about which time having with great industry gone through all the parts of Philosophy he applyed himself to the study of the Civil and Canon Law wherein he became very eminent In 1544 he being then Bach. of the Civ Law of about an year standing was admitted Principal of an ancient hostle mostly for Civilians called White hall on the Site of which Jesus Coll. was afterwards partly built and in 1546 he was appointed by K. Hen. 8. to be the Kings Professor of the Greek tongue in the University In 1553 he left his Fellowship took the Degree of Doctor of his faculty and had then considerable practice in the Court of Arches In 1554 he was made Archdeacon of Canterbury in the place of Edm. Crammer Brother to the Archb. deprived for being married and in the beginning of Qu. Elizab. he was one of the 7 R. Cath. Divines who were to dispute with those of the Protestant party concerning matters of Religion when Qu. Eliz. was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England But that matter coming to nothing he was soon after imprison'd for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church and thereupon had opportunity given to write several books some of which follow Dialogi sex contra summi pontificatûs monasticae vitae sanctorum sacrorum imaginum oppugnatores pseudo-Martyres Antw. 1566. qu. Which book being put into the hands of his friend Alan Cope he put it out under his name lest danger should befall the Author in Prison See before in Alan Cope an 1580. Our Author Harpesfeild wrot also Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica à primis gentis susceptae fi dei incunabilis ad nostra fere tempora deducta Duac 1622. fol. published by Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit 'T is a book no less learnedly than painfully performed and abating his partiality to his own interest he well deserves of all posterity The original of this Ecclesiastical history written with the Authors own hand is in the Cottonian Library under Vitellius C. 9. num 12. and a copy of it in two volumes is in the Archbishops Library at Lambeth L. 3. and 4. But in that copy in the Cottonian are several things expunged by the Licenser and not at all remitted into the printed copy Among which are these to be in p. 422. cap. 2. lin 4. and to come in between the words inter exitialem and Qui omnis c. Non
another hand but not without the help of that translation of Turbervile though not acknowledged The person that performed it was Tho. Harvey who writes himself Gent. But whether the same Tho. Harvey who was Master of Arts the first Master of Kington School in Herefordshire founded 1620. and the author of The Synagogue in imitation of divine Herbert I know not As for George Turbervile he lived and was in great esteem among ingenious men in fifteen hundred ninety and four 36. Reg. Elizab. but when he dyed I cannot yet learn I find one George Turbervile to be author of 1 Essays politick and moral Printed 1608. in oct 2 The noble art of Venery or hunting and hawking Printed with figures in 1611. in qu. c. Whether George Turbervile before-mentioned was the author of the said two books or another of both his names who was a Dorsetshire man born and a Commoner of Glouc. Hall An. 1581. aged 18. or a third G. Turbervile who was born in the said County and became a Student in Magd. Hall 1595. aged 17. I cannot justly tell you unless I could see and peruse the said two books of which I am as yet totally ignorant HENRY WALPOOLE elder Brother to Mich. and Rich. Walpoole Jesuits was born in the County of Norfolk educated in both the Universities but in what College or Hall in Oxon it doth not appear because not matriculated so that his stay here being I persume but short nothing occurs memorable of him only that he was inclined to Puritanism which made Pasquil in his Apology to challenge Oxford men to enquire and tell him whether the said Walpoole was not a Puritan when he forsook them Soon after his retirement from the University he became so zealous a Roman Catholick that endeavouring to perswade others to his Opinion he was forced to leave his station whereupon going to Rome he was entred into the Society of Jesus in 1584. aged 25 years where continuing for some time he went afterwards into Spain and when he had spent certain years there he journeyed into Holland where he suffer'd much upon account of Religion In 1593. he was sent into England was seized on at his first entry therein and carried to York where he was imprisoned for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Church of England The next year he was sent to London and committed Prisoner to the Tower where he suffered much misery After an years durance there in which time several Ministers were with to persuade him to recant but in vain he was sent back to York where he suffered death as I shall tell you anon He hath written in English Verse The Martyrdom of Edm. Campian the Jesuit and other things that are not printed having been secured by certain Protestants when the author was imprisoned at York at which place he was hanged drawn and quartered for Treason on the 17. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 See more of him in a book intit Bibl. Script Soc. Jesu written originally by Pet. Ribadeneira Lugd. 1609. in oct continued by Philip Alcgambc Antw. 1643. fol. and at length by Nath. Sotvellus commonly called Southwell of the Family of the Southwells in Norfolk Rom. 1676. fol. See also in Historia Provinciae Anglicanae Soc. Jesu lib. 5. nu 33 34. written by Henry More an English-man a descendant from Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England Which Hen. tells us that the said Hen. Walpoole was educated in Cambridge without any notice taken of Oxon. The learned Camden in his Annals of Queen Elizabeth doth make mention of one of the Walpooles an 1598. but which I cannot yet tell JOHN HARTE was educated in most kinds of literature in Oxon but in what College or Hall I cannot find One Mr. Harte was a Sojournour of Exeter College An. 1551. 5. Ed. 6. but him I take to be too soon for our author who was but a young Man when he encountred Dr. Jo. Rainolds in a disputation What degrees he took here it appears not though those of his Profession the Jesuits tell us that he was Bachelaur of Divinity of Oxon yet upon the strict perusal of our Registers I cannot find the least authority for it After he had left this University being then and before very unsettled and wavering in mind he went beyond the Seas changed his Religion took priestly Orders and was sent into the Mission of England but soon after taken and committed to Prison to a filthy dungeon as a noted author tells us who adds that after he whom he calls the happy young Confessor had been often by Famine tormented was unexpectedly brought out to encounter Joh. Rainolds before-mentioned An. 1583. or thereabouts Which disputation being smartly held on both sides those of Harte's Persuasion say that Rainolds was foiled though the opposite not upon some years after was published The summ of a conference between Joh. Rainolds and Jo. Hart touching the Head and the Faith of the Church c. Lond. 1588. qu. See more in Jo. Rainolds under the year 1607. Afterwards our Author Harte who is stiled by a learned Author Vir praecaeteris doctissimus being banished with divers other R. Priests in 1584. he went to Verdune where he entred into the Society of Jesus Thence he was called to Rome where making some stay till authority commanded him thence he went into Poland and settled for a time at Jareslaw At length giving way to Fate on the 14. of the Cal. of Aug. in fifteen hundred ninety and five year 1595 or thereabouts was buried at Jareslaw or Joreslaw Seven years after his Body was taken up and translated to another place belonging to the Jesuits who had an high esteem for his Person while living sanctity of Life and Learning and when dead for his memory I find another John Hart who was Chester Herald and wrote and published An Orthography containing the due Order and Reason how to write or paint the Image of Man's Voice most like to the Life or Nature Lond. 1569. And another Jo. Hart of later time who among other Books did publish The burning Bush not consumed wherein one may judge whether he be the Child of God or not Lond. 1641. 2. fourth edit But whether this last who was a zealous Puritan if not worse or the former who was an Herald were of this University I know not as yet THOMAS DIGGES Son of Leonard Digges mentioned before under the year 1574. by Sarah his Wife Sister to Jam. and Tho. Wilford two most valiant Knights of Hartridge in the Parish of Crainbrook in Kent was born in that County and for a time educated among the Oxonian Muses but in what House I cannot yet tell neither whether he be the same Mr. Digges which the famous Lampoon or Libel made by Th. Bulkley in the time of Q. Elizabeth on several Scholars and others of Oxon points at However of this I am sure he the said Tho. Digges did spend
three year 1563 and was buried in the Parish Church of Matherne where the Bishop of Landaff hath a Palace in Monmouthshire after he had gone through several changes of times and had taken the Oath of Q. Elizabeths Supremacy over the Church of England which no Popish Bishop in the beginning of her reign did besides this man ROWLAND MERRICK was born in the Isle of Anglesey mostly educated in Academical learning in S. Edwards hall a noted place for Civilians sometimes situated near S. Edwards Church became Principal while he was Bachelaur of the Civil Law of New Inn afterwards Doctor of his faculty Chancellour of the Church of S. David Canon residentiary thereof in the time of K. Ed. 6. being then one of the persons that drew up Articles against Rob. Ferrar Bishop of that place and at length Bishop of Bangor to which See being elected and consecrated an 1559. aged 54 years received the temporalities belonging thereunto 21. of March the same year He died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred sixty and six year 1566 and was buried in the Chancel of the Cath. Church of Bangor under that place where the Table stood in the time of Communion Over his grave was an inscription afterwards put the contents of which I know not as yet He left behind him a Son named Gelly Merick of Hascard in Pembrokshire afterwards a Knight and a great Favourite of that most popular and generous Count Robert Earl of Essex in whose treasons having been deeply engaged suffered death at Tybourne in the beginning of the year 1601. In the See of Bangor succeeded Dr. Merick one Nich. Robinson a Welsh man and D. D. of Cambridge who after he had suffered calamities for the Protestant cause in the reign of Q. Mary became after her death domestick Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury and dignified Vir fuit prudens as 't is said of him illis humanioribus literis atque Theologia non minus excultus quam latina patriaque lingua facundus c. He died in the summer time an 1584. leaving then behind him a Widdow named Jane Robinson alias Brereton and several Sons After him followed Dr. Hugh Bellot of Cambridge who was consecrated Bishop of Bangor 25. Jan. 1584. THOMAS YONG a learned Civilian Son of John Yong of Pembrokshire by Elianor his Wife was born in that County became a Student in the Univ. of Oxon in Broadgates hall as it seems about the year 1528. where applying his muse to the study of the Civil Law took a degree in that faculty nine years after being then in sacred Orders In 1542. he was made principal of the said hall and soonafter Chantor and Canon of S. Davids where being much scandalized at the unworthy actions of Rob. Ferrar Bishop of that place did with others draw up articles against him which being proved before the Kings Commissioners the said Bishop was imprison'd in the time of K. Ed. 6. In the reign of Q. Mary Th. Yong fled from the nation for religion sake and remained in Germany in an obscure condition during her time But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown and H. Morgan another accuser of Rob. Ferrar had been depriv'd of his Bishoprick of S. Davids the said Yong was design'd to succeed him Whereupon being consecrated thereunto 21. January 1559. aged 52 years or thereabouts the temporalities of the said See were delivered to him on the 23. of March following Where sitting till Feb. 1560. was then translated to York and about the same time was made President of the Queens Council in the north parts of England In Feb. 1564. he was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law and dying on the 26. June in fifteen hundred sixty and eight year 1562 was buried at the east end of the Choire of his Cath. Ch. at York Over his grave was soon after laid a marble stone with this Epitaph on it Thomas Yongus nuper Eboracensis Archiepiscopus Civilis juris Doctor peritissimus quem propter gravitatem summum ingenium eximiam prudentiam excellentemque rerum politicarum scientiam illustrissima Regina septentionalibus hujus regni partibus Praesidem constituit quo magistratu quinque annos perfunctus est Sedit Archiepiscopus annos septem sex menses Obiit Vicessimo sexto die mensis Junii an 1568. He had taken to Wife in his elderly years one Jane daughter of Thom. Kynaston of Estwick in Shropshire by whom he had issue George Yong afterwards a Knight living in York 1612. for whose sake the father being covetous of wealth pulled down a goodly hall belonging to him as Archbishop for the greediness of the lead as 't is said that covered it Concerning which matter there is a large story extant related by an author who was no friend to married Bishops DAVID POLE or Poole of noble race as it seems became fellow of Allsouls coll in 1520. took the degrees of Civ and Can. Law that of Doctor being compleated in 1527. at which time being Archdeacon of Salop he was much in esteem for his great sufficiencies in those Laws Afterwards he was made Dean of the Arches Archdeacon of Derby and Chancellour of the diocess of Lichf and Coventry At length upon the death of Joh. Chambers being nominated to the See of Peterborough was consecrated thereunto on the 15. Aug. 1557. and on the 28. of January following had the temporalities thereof delivered to him In 1559. about the time of Midsummer he was deprived of his Bishoprick for denying the Queens supremacy being then esteemed a grave person and a very quiet subject Whereupon being committed to custody for a time was soon after set at liberty Principis beneficio as one tells us in agro suo matura aetate decessit He gave way to fate in the latter end of May or beginning of June year 1568 in fifteen hundred sixty and eight but where unless near to S. Pauls Cathedral in London or where buried I cannot tell All his books of Law and Divinity which were then at London and Peterborough he gave to the Library of Allsoules coll In the said See of Peterborough succeeded Edm. Scambler Bach. afterwards Doct. of div a native of Gressingham in Lancashire and Chaplain to Mathew Archb. of Canterbury to which being consecrated 16. Jan. 1560. held in commendam with it the Prebendship of Wistow in the Church of York and the first Canonry in the sixth stall in the Church of Westminster for the space of two or more years He was a learned man a zealous enemy against the Papists yet an impairer of the honour privileges and revenues of the Bishoprick of Peterborough After his translation to Norwych succeeded in Peterborough Dr. Rich. Howland Master of S. Johns coll in Cambridge who dying in 1600. was succeeded in the said See by Tho. Dove D. D. and Dean of Norwych sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge and one of the first Scholars of Jesus
in Arts in Jan. 1532 but whether it was granted or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time After he had left the University being then accounted a noted Poet of that time he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister and a Writer of divers Books the titles of which follow Of moral Philosophy or the lives and sayings of Philosophers Emperours Kings c. Several times printed at London in qu. Precepts and Councells of the Philosophers Phraiselike declaration in English meeter on the Canticles or Ballads of Salomon Lond. 1549. qu. The use of Adagies Similies and Proverbs Comedies When printed or where I cannot find A myrroure for Magistrates wherein may be seen by example of others with how grevious plagues vices are punished c. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity In the Epistle to the Reader subscribed by the Author Baldwyn he tell us he had a second part to print reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Maries time but whether it was printed I know not for I have not yet seen it This Book or another bearing the same title written by John Higens is commended by several Authors particularly by him that wrot Hypercritica for a good piece of poety As for Baldewyn he lived as 't is said some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown but when he died it appears not WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer by Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight sometimes Lord Chancellour of England was born in the City of London and educated in Grammar learning there In 1525 or thereabouts being then in the year of his age 17 he was sent to the Univers of Oxon where laying a considerable foundation in Logick and Philosophy left it without a Degree went to Lincolns Inn and there by the help of his Academical education he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House But Religion being then about to be alter'd he with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement of whom I shall speak in 1572. left the Nation and went to the University of Lovaine in Brabant where continuing all the time of that Kings Reign returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown was made Serjeant at Law in 1554 and a little before the said Queens death one of the Justices of the Common-pleas At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England he returned to Lovaine before mention'd where he continued till the time of his death He hath written The Chartuary Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord God and of the years of the Kings of England from the first of Will the Conquerour shewing how the years of our Lord God and the years of the Kings of England concurr and agree together by which table it may quickly be accompted how many years months and days be past since the making of any evidences Lond. 1563. oct Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct corrected and continued by the famous Almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clark under an Alderman of London who after he had published several matters of his Profession of which The bloody Irish Almanack was one printed at London 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu. gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place Lond. Whereupon a Marble-stone was soon after laid over-his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq The said Table of years is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entituled Chronica juridicalia or a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God and those of several Kings of England c. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellours and Lord Keepers Justices of the Kings-bench Common pleas Barons of the Exehecquer c. Lond. 1685. oct By whom this Book was transcrib'd I know not yet evident it is that it consists only of Rastalls Tables and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series c. at the end of his Origines juridiciales c. and published by some down-right plagiary purposely to get a little money Our Author Rastall hath also written and published Termes of the English Law Or les termes de la ley several times printed A collection in English of the statutes now in force continued from the beginning of Magna Charta made 9. Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. c. fol. A collection of entries of declarations barres replications rejoynders issues verdicts c. Lond. 1566. 96. c. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit La Novel natura brevium Monsier Anton. Fitzherbert c. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment c. To which he also added a table This Book was printed several times one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct He also composed two tables one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgment of the Law Life of Sir Thom. More Knight Whether printed I cannot tell Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrot in English Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewell which go under the name of Rastall are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall as a certain Author would have it but by John Rastal a Theologist as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholick Religion died at Lovaine before-mention'd 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary near to the body of Wenefred his Wife who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace Father to Elizabeth Rastall the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you JOHN
against her The second doth handle her title to the Crown of England and the third doth answer the book of Joh. Knox the Scot entit Against the monstrous government of Women But not long after the said book was published John Lesley Bishop of Ross in Scotland who at that time was Embassador for the said Qu. of Scots in England did more largely handle in the second book of a treatise which he published her title to the Crown of England c. Thus he so that according to this Authors opinion here quoted Lesley had no hand in the said treatises but in another different from them which I think is most true At length after our Author Morg. Philipps had suffered about 17 years exile died at Lovaine year 1577 or rather at Doway in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven for on the 15. Feb. the same years was a Commission granted from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to George Farmour of Estneston in Northamptonshire Esq to administer the goods debts chattels c. of Morgan Philipps Clerk sometimes Chauntor of the Cath. Ch. of St. David who lately died in parts beyond the Seas THOMAS DORMAN was born at Berchamstede in Hertfordsh partly educated in the Free-School there under Mr. Rich. Reve a Protestant by the care and exhibition of his Uncle Tho. Dorman of Agmondesham alias Amersham in the Country of Bucks and partly in Wykehams School near to Winchester At length being made full ripe for the University he was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. but leaving that house before he was made compleat Fellow upon what account I know not was after Qu. Mary came to the Crown elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1554 where following his studies with indefatigable industry was admitted in the University to the reading of any book of the institutions of the Civil Law an 1558. But upon the alteration of Religion which soon followed in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. he left all he had in the University his friends country and patrimony and went to Antwerp where being encouraged in his studies by Dr. Tho. Hardyng then an Exile in those parts and therefore zealously took his part against Jewell became Bach. and at length Doctor of Divinity He hath written A proof of certaine articles in religion denied by Mr. Jewell Antw. 1564. qu. A request to Mr. Jewell that he keep his promise made by solemne protestation in his late Sermon at Pauls cross 15 June 1567. Lond. 1567. oct Disproof of Mr. Alex. Nowells reproof Antw. 1565 qu. Besides other things which being printed beyond the Seas we seldom see them in these parts As for the death of this our learned and pious Author year 1577 which hapned at Tournay in the Law Countries about Fifteen hundred seventy and seven this note following written in a MS. remaining in the English Coll. of Seculars at Doway doth intimate thus of it Thomas Dormannus vir doctus qui unum aut alterum librum edidit contra Haereticos postea fuit pastor in civitate Tornacensi ibidem obiit circa an 1577. GEORGE GASCOIGNE an Esquire and an Essex Man born had his education in both the Universities chiefly as I conceive in Cambridge whence being translated to Greys Inn to study the municipal Law made less progress in that profession than in Logick which was but little for having a rambling and unfixed head he left that place went to various Cities in Holland and became a Soldier of note which he afterwards professed as much or more as learning and therefore made him to take this motto Tam Marti quam Mercurio From thence he went into France to visit the fashions of the royal Court there where he fell in love with a Scottish Dame At length being weary of those vanities and his rambles in other Countries he returned into England and retiring to Greys Inn again was esteemed by all ingenious Men there to be a Person of breeding eloquent and witty the most passionate among them to bewail and bemoan by his dexterous Pen the perplexities of love and the best of his time for his activity in advancing the stage part Afterwards receeding to his patrimony at Walthamstow in the Forest within the Province of Essex at which place if I mistake not he was born he published several matters among which are these that follow Flowers Poems so called The first of which is entit The anatomie of a Lover The second The arraignment of a Lover The third The passion of a Lover and the last is The Lover encouraged by former examples determineth to make virtue of necessity Several of these Poems are contained in those made by him called The Devises The delectable historie of sundry adventures passed by Dan Barthelmew of Bathe This is written in verse The Reporter or the Reporters conclusion This is also a Poem Fruits of War written upon this Theame Dulce bellum inexpertis Began to be written at Delft in Holland Hearbs Poems so called In which are several translations as I shall tell you anon and several copies of verses that are in The Devises Weedes Poems so called with several things intermix'd in prose The Divises These are also Poems among which are various copies of verses made by our Author on certain Theams given by several Gentlemen among which are Francis and Anthony Kynwelmersh Essexians and noted Poets of their times the former having had several Poems printed in a Book entit The paradise of dainty Devises Lond. 1578 Alex. Nevill of Cambridge Richard Courtop c. The steele Glass A Satyre Lond. 1576. qu. Before which is the Authors picture in armour with a ruff and a large beard On his right hand hangs a musquet and bandileers on his left stands books and inkhorn and under him is written Tam Marti quam Mercurio Among several commendatory verses set before it Walt. Rawley of the Middle Temple hath one The complaynt of Phylomene An Elegie Lond. 1576. qu. This Elegy was begun in Apr. 1562 continued in Apr. 1575 and finished the 3 day of the same month 1576. Discourse of the adventures of Mr. F. J. Freeman Jones Written mostly in prose about 1572. Glass of government A tragical comedie so entit because therein are handled as well the rewardes of virtue as also the punishment for vice Lond. 1575. qu. Written partly in rhime but mostly in prose Princelie pleasures at Kenilworth castle A mask written in verse and prose 'T is a relation of the entertainment of Qu. Elizabeth given to her there by Robert Earl of Leycester 9. 10. 11. c. of July 1575. Certaine notes of instruction concerning the making of verse or rime in English This is written in prose He also translated from Italian into English 1 The suppeses a Comedy Originally written by Aristo This Com. was set out by Gascoigne and publickly acted at Greys Inn in 1566. 'T is among his Poems called Hearbes 2 The pleasant fable of Ferdinando Jeronimi and Leonora de Valesco Transl
one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held whether the same I know not WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower Son of Will. Whittyngham of Over Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire was born in the City of Chester became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts where being put under a careful Tutor did make great proficiency in learning In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College being then Bach. of Arts in which faculty proceeding two years after was made one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenish'd with the choicest Scholars in the University On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house whereupon he went into France and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time had intentions to go into Italy but being prevented by sickness which took him at Lyons he spent some time among the Students in Paris but chiefly in the University of Orleance About that time if I mistake not he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine by his Wife the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleance After he had spent more than an year there he went to certain Universities in Germany and thence to Geneva where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England But that King dying and Religion seeming to put on another face he went with other company into France where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort and were about with license from the Magistrate to settle a Church there did hasten thither and entred himself into their association But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion were forced to disjoyn and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva were to go to that place among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest as you may farther see in a book entit A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 Printed 1575 wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discern'd Soon after their settlement at Geneva John Knox a Scot Minister of the English congregation there was to leave that place and return to his Country so that Whittyngham being look'd upon as the fittest Person to succeed was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him but he alledging that in his former travels and observations with the learning of several languages he had fitted himself more for state employment than that he modestly denied it At length Calvin urging him farther he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him Soon after Miles Coverdale Christop Goodman Anth. Gilby Tho. Sampson Wil. Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible but before the greater part was finished Qu. Maary died So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England the exil'd Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolv'd to go through with the work did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown At the same time also he turned into meter those Psalmes that we to this day sing in our Churches inscribed with W. W. They are in number five of which the 119 Psalme is one as large as 22 other Psalmes as also the ten commandments and a prayer at the end of the book of Psalmes At length Whittyngham returning into England he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King an 1560 and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there while the said Earl defended it against the French Where tho he shew'd himself ready in his function yet he spared not to perswade the English from Uniformity and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church Notwithstanding this so great a respect had the said Earl for him that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham in 1563 in the place of Ralf Skinner Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham who enjoying it about 16 years was then succeeded by the said Wilson who enjoyed it not two years After Whittyngham had remained there for some time Sir Will. Cecill Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester he might have obtained it About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Church-men and so pressed that they that would not use the same should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry he then and not before submitted himself thereunto And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva he answered that he and others knew and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order they might not neglect their Ministry for so should they for tithing of Mint neglect the greater things of the Law And as concerning singing in the Church Whittyngham did so far allow of it that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queens Chappel to furnish his choire withal himself being skilful in Musick To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569 and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it an 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is stiled by certain Authors the false and unworthy Dean of Durham was because he was only Master of Arts the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England but of Geneva and that he was but a luke-warm conformist at the best The publick works that he hath done as to learning are 1 His Translation of the Geneva Bible 2 His turning into Meter several of the Psalmes of David as I have before told you 3 His translation into Latine the Liturgie of the Church of
of England to Geneva in the beginning of Q. Maries reign and there joined with Joh. Knox as quiet a spirit as himself that was the firebrand of his country of Scotland c. The truth is Goodman was a most violent Nonconformist and for rigidness in opinion he went beyond his friend Calvin who remembers and mentions him in his Epistles 1561. There was no man more ready than he as Knox was for Scotland to oppose in the beginning of Q. Eliz. the settlement of the Ch. of England according to the way used in the time of K. Ed. 6. What his preferments were when the said Queen came to the crown and where if any they were unless at Chester or in the county I know not Sure I am that when Sir Hen. Sydney was Deputy of Ireland and had much to do with the popish rebels there Goodman shewed his faithful diligence in that service His works are these How superiour powers ought to be obey'd of their subjects and wherein they may be lawfully by Gods word be disobey'd and resisted Genev. 1558. in tw c. W. Whittyngham hath a preface to it The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women Printed beyond Sea 1558. oct wherein Qu. Mary is called a wicked woman traitress bastard Proserpine c. But most of his doctrines in the said two books being destructive to the sacred persons of princes and their state and government were not only condemned by the Episcopal Clergy of England in the time of Q. Elizab. and after but also by the judgment and decree of the University of Oxon past in their convocation held 21. Jul. 1683. Nay The first blast of the trumpet c. was esteemed by all especially the R. Catholicks a wicked seditious and base book and not fit to be taken into the hands of a Christian and the rather for this reason because as a Poet of that time saith No Queen in her Kingdom can or ought to sit fast If Knocks or Goodmans books blow any true blast He hath also written A commentary on Amos This I have not yet seen Nor can I say any thing else of him only that when he laid on his Death-bed at Chester year 1602 in sixteen hundred and two he was visited by Mr. Jam. Vsher afterwards Archb. of Armagh at what time he came from Ireland into England to buy books for Dublin Library several of whose stories he heard with great delight which he would afterwards when an ancient man repeat to his friends He the said Goodman died that year and was as I have been informed by some of his relations buried in the Church of St. Werberg in Chester His sometimes friend and crony Job Parkhurst hath an Epigram upon him which you may take instead of an Epitaph Nemo bonus Servator ait sed solus Olympum Qui regit is bonus est Gudmane nemo bonus Yet an English Presbyterian who saith that Goodman was a learned Scotch Divine was according to his name good and holy WILLIAM HARRYS became Fellow of Lincoln Coll. about 1567. being then Bach. of Arts Afterwards taking the degree of Master he left the Coll. his friends religion and the little all he had and went to the English College then newly erected at Doway where spending divers years in the study of Theology was at length made a Priest Afterwards returning to his native country to serve the afflicted Catholicks and gain Proselytes lived there several years and composed a large volume intit The Theatre or Mirrour of the most true and ancient Church of Great Britaine founded by Apostolical men and propagated from generation to generation even to our time by most holy Doctors and Catholicks in 10 books What else he wrote I find not not any thing material of him besides year 1602 only that he died in England in sixteen hundred and two Contemporary with him was Thomas Marshall Bach. of Arts 1562. and about that time Fellow of the said college but soon after leaving his Fellowship he went to Lovaine where he entred into the Society of Jesus Afterwards he went to Doway where he spent 9 years in reading and explaining Philosophy and at length became Confessor to the English coll at Rome where he died in 1589. leaving behind him the character of a learned person HAYWORD TOWNSHEND eldest Son of Sir Hen. Townshend Knight Justice of Chester by Susan his first Wife daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London Knight was a Shropshire man born became a Gentleman Commoner of St. Maries Hall about the beginning of the year 1590. took one degree in Arts being about that time a Student in the Municipal Law in Lincolns-Inn and was afterwards a Barrester In 1601. he was elected a Burgess for Bishops Castle in his own country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 27. Oct. the same year where shewing himself an observing man made an Historical collection of the proceedings therein to which adding other collections for three Parliaments preceeding viz. 1. For that which began 4. Feb. 1588. 2. For that which began 19. Feb. 1592. and thirdly for that which commenc'd 9. Feb. 1597. he made a compleat collection in folio At length when the press was open and the author had been dead many years his labours were published under this title Historical collections or an exact account of the proceedings of the four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth wherein is contained the compleat Journals both of Lords and Commons taken from the original records of their Houses As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy Members during all the last notable sessions c. Lond. 1680. fol. In the title of which book the publisher hath set down Heywood instead of Hayward Townshend whose time of death tho unknown to me yet sure I am that he died without Issue some years before 1623. See more in Will. Monson under the year 1606. In 1681. was published in octavo a book intit The connexion being choice collections of some remarkable passages in K. James his reign c. which may supply the vacancy between Townshend and Rushworths collections but who the author of it was I cannot tell 'T is a trite thing WILLIAM FULBECK a younger Son if I mistake not of Thom. Fulbeck who died in his Mayoralty of the City of Lincoln 1566. was born in that City particularly as it seems in the parish of St. Benedict wherein his Father lived and died became a commoner of St. Albans Hall in 1577. aged 17. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll 23. January 1579. took the degree of Bach. of Arts two years after and then translated himself to Glocester Hall Where continuing a severe Student till he had taken the degree of M. of Arts and had compleated it by standing in the Act 1584. he went to Greys-Inn in Holbourn near to London where he addressed himself to the study of the Municipal Laws and as 't is said had
Watkin and Jeffry published in octavo perhaps written also by a canting and severe Lutheran who writes himself N. O. But so it was that he the said T. Wolsey being very apt to learn when he was a Child his Parents and other good Friends made shift to maintain him in Oxon particularly in Magd. coll where making a most wonderful progress in Logick and Philosophy be became Bach. of Arts at 15. years of age an 1485. Soon after he was elected fellow and when he had taken the degree of M. of A. was made Master of the Grammar School joining to the said College In the 14. Hen. 7. Dom. 1498. he was Bursar of that House in which year the stately Tower was finisht In the beginning of Oct. 1500. he became Rector of Lymyngton in Somersetshire on the death of Joh. Borde by the presentation thereunto of Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset which Rectory he conferr'd upon him for the great care he had of his Sons under his Tuition in the Grammar School before-mention'd But that great man dying in Sept. 1501. and his hopes of being introduced into the court frustrated he struck into acquaintance with one Sir Joh. Naphant Treasurer of Calais a Gent. of the said county who forthwith made him his chaplain And finding him to be a man of parts committed his employment to him he himself being grown old and consequently unfit for business At length he being mindful of his chaplains good service he never left him until he had found means to make him the Kings chaplain Which matter being according to his mind effected he became known to one of the Kings grave Counsellors and Favourites named Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester who finding VVolsey to be not only an active but a witty man did with one Sir Tho. Lovel another grave Counsellor commend him to the service of the King who also upon discourse with him finding him to be a man of Eloquence and to understand State affairs sent him in the quality of an Embassador to Maximilian the Emperour then abiding in Flanders not far from Calais Which Embassage he performed with so great dexterity and quickness that the K. taking especial notice of it did soon after confer upon him the Deanery of Lincoln void by the death of Jeffrey Simeon sometimes Fellow of New college Proctor of this University of Oxon and Dean of the chappel Royal to K. Hen. 7. which Jeffrey died 20. Aug. 1508. Of which Church I say being made Dean 2. Feb. 1508. was installed by proxy 25. March 1509. and in person 21. of Aug. 1511. After the death of K. Hen. 7. he quickly got into the favour so much of his successor Hen. 8. that he was by him presented to the Rectory of Turrington in the dioc of Exeter 28. Nov. 1510. being then Bach. of Div. and on the 17. Feb. following was made Canon of the collegiate church of VVindsore and about that time Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter In 1512. Jan. 31. he by the name of the Kings Almoner was made Prebendary of Bagthorp in the church of York by the favour of Cardinal Bainbridge Archb. thereof in the place of James Harryngton Dean of that church who died in Dec. 1512. and on the 21. Febr. following he was admitted Dean in the said Harryngtons place who had been installed in that dignity in the room of the said Bainbridge 31. Januar. 1507. In 1513. he being then with the King at the taking of Tournay in France his Majesty not only gave him the revenues of the Bishoprick of that City but also made him actual Bishop thereof as some are pleased to say In 1514. March 26. he was consecrated B. of Linc. in the place of Will. Smyth deceased and in Nov. the same year he was made Archb. of York In 1515. Sept. 7. he was created cardinal of S. Cecilia and in the year following Dec. 7. he was constituted L. Chanc. of England and about the same time Legate a latere for the Kingdom of England In 1518. Aug. 28. he had the temporalities of the See of Bathe and VVells conferr'd upon him with liberty of holding the same See being perpetual Commendatarie thereof with the Abbatship of S. Albans and other Ecclesiastical Livings in commendum with York About the same time he laid in by his Factors at Rome for the Papacy especially upon the death of Leo 10. and Adrian 6. but the reasons why he was not elected were 1 That he would never to go to Rome in Person 2 That he was nimis potens 3 That he was not old enough as by the Letters of Dr. Tho. Hannyball and Jo. Clerk the Kings Orators and the Card. Agents at Rome appears In 1523. he had the Bishoprick of Durham given to him and thereupon resign'd B. and Wells and soon after began the Foundations of his two most noble and splendid colleges at Oxon and Ipswych as I have largely elsewhere told you In 1529. he had the See of Winchester conferr'd upon him whereupon renouncing Durham the profits and revenues of the said See were given to the Lady Anna Boleyne for the space of one year But before he was quite warm in Winchester he fell into the Kings displeasure and thereupon being soon after commanded to live in his dioc of York about the beginning of 1530. retired to the Archbishops Palace at Cawood where spending the Summer following in great Hospitality was about the latter end of Octob. ensuing arrested for High Treason Whereupon being to be conveyed to London to answer for it he died at Leycester in the way thither year 1530 on the 29. Nov. following and was buried in S. Maries Chappel within the precincts of the Abbey-church there Of all the Clergy-men of his time and before and after him Wolsey was indisputably the greatest He managed a most inflexible King with so great dexterity that of one who always threw his Riders none held the reins either so long or so succesfully He had a vast mind and a great sense of regulation and glory which by some is construed Pride He lived always with great splendour and yet left the most lasting and most noble monuments of his bounty No Prelate indeed especially in this Nation had ever so many and large but withal none ever imployed them more generously so that his vast revenues were hardly proportionable to his great and extraordinary designs His parts were prodigious and it must be owned that he wanted not a sense of his own sufficiency and therefore his demeanor and management of himself was such as was more fitted with the greatness of his mind and his fortune than to the meanness of his birth Many Historians of that time whether out of envy of his order or contempt of his birth or hatred of his Religion have not been very favourable to his fame and the traditionary reporters since who have pretended to an exact account of his actions have upon too slight enquiries and
of the Gentlemen of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. and Clerk of the Council In 1640 he was employed by his Majesty to go to Henry Frederick Prince of Aurange or Orange about the marriage of the Princess Mary to the Prince his Son as also to the Queen of Bobemia and the Prince Elector an 1641 to hinder that Prince his coming over into England at the then juncture of affairs with promise to take into his consideration the concern of the Palatinate and other matters of state In the same year the said R. Browne was sent to Paris where he continued Resident in the Court of France for K. Ch. 1. and Ch. 2. to the French King Lewis the 13 and his Son Lewis 14 till the Restauration of his Majesty an 1660. In which time which was 19 years I find these things following to occur relating to him 1 That divers important matters of state were transacted by him with those great Ministers Cardinal Richlieu and Mazarine 2 That many advantages were offer'd him by the Usurpers of England to be false to his Masters but he resisted them 3 That he did to his great expence but more to his everlasting glory keep up in the large house which he hired at Paris the publick Service and Liturgy of the Church of England whither his Maj. Ch. 2. and then Duke of York did constantly resort From whence divers Ministers of the Church of England Exiles for their Loyalty had many disputes with the R. Catholicks and others concerning the visibility of their Church which they then kept up while it was ecclipsed in England 4 That he was employed by his Maj. Ch. 1. to carry the George and Garter to Bernard Duke of Espernon 5 That he did negotiate about the Queens portion out of which he had I think 1000 l. which with 200 l. more was all he touched in the said 19 years whilst he spent of his paternal Estate much more than that yearly during his abode at Paris 6 That on the first of Sept. 1649 he was created a Baronet being the first that K. Ch. 2. made by virtue of a dormant Warrant sent to him by Ch. 1. dated 1 Febr. 1643 and on the 19 of the said Sept. he received the honour of Knighthood at St. Germaines from his said Maj. Ch. 2. he being then also Clerk of the Council to him In 1660 he returned into England with his Majesty and did execute the said Office for some time But years then coming on he resign'd it and retired to Charlton in Kent where he spent the remainder of his time in a pleasant retiredness and studious recess At length giving way to fate in a good old Age on the 12 of Febr. 1681 was buried according to his desire in the Churchyard at Deptford close to the Wall of the Church where is a black Marble ballastred over his body On the other side of the Wall in the Church lies buried his Father Christop Browne Esq who died in March 1645 aged 70 years and his Grandfather Sir Rich. Browne Knight a younger Son of an antient Family at Hitcham in Suffolk seated afterwards at Horsley in Essex who being a Student in the Temple was by Robert Dudley the great Earl of Leycester taken into the service of the Crown when he went Governour of the Vnited Netherlands and was afterwards by Qu. Elizab. made Clerk of the Greencloth In which honorable office he also continued under K. James 1. untill the time of his death which hapned in May 1604 aged 65 years The before mentioned Sir Rich. Browne Grandson to this last Sir Richard lest behind him a Daughter named Mary who being his Heiress was several years before married to the learned Vertuoso Joh. Evelyn of Says-court in the Parish of Deptford Esq in which house or at least in that Parish Sir Richard was born as also three folio's of his dispatches several Letters some in cypher c. as well from his Maj. Ch. 1. at Oxon as from his Royal Consoâ—t and other great persons Jun. 27. Geâ—v Warmstrey Rich. Hemmings of Ch. Ch. July 8. Oliver Thomas of Hart Hall The time when he took the degree of Bach. of Arts appears not nor when or of what house he was matriculated And therefore all that I can say of him is that he was afterwards perhaps now beneficed in Shropshire that he wrot and published a book in Welsh entit Carwry Cymru c. printed 1630 or thereabouts and that dying at Felton in that County was there buried In the year 1647 one Oliver Thomas Minister of Oswestry did subscribe among other Ministers of Shropshire to the lawfulness of the Covenant who I suppose is the same with the former Jul. 11. Rich. Jones of Jesus Coll. Jan. 22. George Bate of S. Edm. Hall 29. Christop Ayray Guy Carlton Mich. Hudson of Qu. Coll. March 19. Joh. Price of Jesus Coll. This year Jun. 25. Joh. Davis of Magd. Hall sometimes of that of S. Edm was licensed to proceed Master of Arts and accordingly compleated that degree in the Act following which being all I know of him he therefore is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Davis M. of A. afterwards Lecturer of Christ Church in London and at length Pastor of a Congregation in Dover Author of Heaven and Earth shaken A treatise shewing hâ—w Kings Princes and their Government are turned and changed by Jesus Christ c. Lond. 1656. oct For this Joh. Davis the Author was originally of Cambridge where he took the degrees in Arts and afterwards siding with the Faction was first a Presbyterian and took the Covenant afterwards an Independent and took the Engagement for which he stickled in his Lectuers at Ch. Ch. At length being discovered by the then godly Party to be every way fit to carry on the trade of Faction he was translated to Dover where he kept a Conventicle in a noted Brewhouse by the Reer and soon after was made Chaplain to the Castle there by Col. Tho. Kelsey then Governour and preached constantly at S. James Church tho he was no setled Incumbent Where continuing officiating till after the Kings Return he was then outed and afterwards kept a Conventicle in S. James street in Dover where he continued to the time of his death which was about 1663. Adm. 149. Bach. of Phys I find but three admitted this year of whom John Speed a learned Physitian of S. Joh. Coll. was one Jun. 20. Bach. of Div. May 7. Rich. Lloyd of Oriel Coll. Jun. 14. Meric Casaubon of Ch. Ch. Nov. 11. Jerem. Stephens Gilb. Sheldon Rob Gomershall of Ch. Ch. of All 's Coll. Mar. 13. Will. Paul Tho. Lawrence of All 's Coll. Adm. 28. Doct. of Law Mar. 26. David Lloyd of All 's Coll. He was about this time Warden of Ruthin in Denbighshire Prebendary of Chester and afterwards Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Andr. Morrice sometimes Chaplain of All 's Coll. This Dr. Lloyd died about
returned and was made the first Canon of the seventh Stall in the collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster an 1560. and soon after about the beginning of the year 1561. he was made Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in the place of Will. May L. L. D. Master of Trin. coll in Cambr. the same who in 1549. had a hand in compiling the first Edition of the Common Prayer and in correcting the the third Edit in 1559. So that Nowell being settled in the Deanry of Pauls resigned Westminster and afterwards became a frequent and painful Preacher and a zealous writer against certain English Catholicks that had fled their Country upon account of Religion For 30 years together he Preached the first and last Sermons in the time of Lent before the Queen wherein he dealt plainly and faithfully with her without dislike In 1594. Apr. 28. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Rich. Reve Bach. of Div. deceased in the year after Sept. 6. he was elected Principal of Brasnose coll and in oct following he was actually created D. of Divinity with allowance of Seniority over all the Doctors then in the University not only in regard had to his age but Dignity in the Church He was in the time he lived a learned Man charitable to the poor especially if they had any thing of a Scholar in them and a great comforter of afflicted Consciences His Works are A reproof of a book intit A proof of certain Articles in Religion denied by Master Jewel set forth by Tho. Dorman Bach. of Div. Lond. 1565. qu. Reproof of Mr. Dormans proof continued with a defence of the chief authority of Princes as well in causes Ecclesiastical as Civil within their Dominions by Mr. Dorman maliciously impugned Lond. 1566. qu. Confutation as well of Mr. Dormons last book intit A defence c. as also of Dr. Saunder's Causes of Transubstantiation Lond. 1567. qu. Catechismus sive prima institutio disciplinaque pietatis Chistianae Latinè explicata Lond. 1570 71 74 76. qu. There again 1590. 1603. c. oct Translated into English by Tho. Norten Lond. 1571. and into Greek by Will. Whittaker an 1575. c. Catechismus parvus pueris primum qui ediscatur proponendus in Scholis Lond. 1574. 78. oct c. Written in Lat. and Greek Translated also into English by another person Lond. 1587. oct c. and into Hebrew by Anon but this last I have not yet seen Conference had with Edm. Campian Jesuit in the Tower of London ult Aug. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. See more in Joh. Redman under the year 1551. This reverend Dr. Nowell died in a good old age on the 13. Feb. in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Cathedral of St. Paul Soon after was a comely Monument set over his Grave with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse a copy of which you may see in Jo. Stow's Survey of London and elsewhere And of his benefaction to Brasnose coll and other matters you may read in Hist Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 214. b. 225. b. In his Deanty of St. Paul succeeded Joh. Overhall the King's Professor of Div. in Cambridge a general learned Scholar preferred to it by the commendations to the Queen of Sir Fulk Grevill his Patron HARBERT WESTPHALING Son of Harbert Westphaling Son of Harbert a Native of Westphalia in Germany from whom by a popular Errour the Son who lived mostly in London and this his Grandson were called Westphaling At 15 years of age in 1547. which was the year after K. Hen. 8. had put his last hand to the foundation of Ch. Church he was made one of the Students thereof took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1555. applied his studies to the Supreme Faculty was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in Dec. 1561. and in the beginning of March following he was installed Canon of the said Church being about that time Rector of Brightwell near Watlington in the County of Oxon. In 1565. he was licensed to proceed in his Faculty in the year following he learnedly disputed before Q. Elizabeth in S. Maries Church and in the beginning of 1577. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Ant. Rush deceased In 1585. Dec. 12. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford in which County he had several Lands and Inheritances where as throughout the Nation he was esteemed a person of great gravity integrity and most worthy of his Function He hath written Treatise of Reformation in Religion divided in seven Sermons Preached in Oxford on Matth. 21. 12 13. Lond. 1582. qu. Two Sermons touching the Supper of the Lord on 1 Cor. 11. 28 29. and on Matth. 26. v. 26 27 28. Lond. 1582. qu. and perhaps other things but such I have not yet seen He paid his last debt to Nature on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and one and was buried in the North transcept of the Cath. at Hereford In his Will he bequeathed the Mannour of Batche in Herefordshire to Jesus coll for the maintenance of two Fellows and two Scholars conditionally that his kindred be preferred to the said places before all others His picture is painted on the Wall in the School-Gallery at Oxon. next to that of Dr. Eâ—des as having in his time been a famous Theologist CHRISTOPHER GOODMAN was born in Cheshire particularly as I conceive within the City of Chester became a Student in Brasnose coll 1536. aged seventeen or thereabouts took one degree in Arts but was never as I can yet find Fellow of that House In 1544. he proceeded in that faculty and three years after was constituted one of the Senior Students of Ch. Church being then newly founded by K. Hen. 8. In the year 1551. or thereabouts he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time he was as 't is said Reader of the Divinity Lesson in the Vniversity but whether of that founded by the Lady Margaret or by K. H. 8. seems as yet doubtful In the beginning of Q. Mary he left the University and went with several Academians beyond the Sea for Religion sake but dissenting from the chief body of them assembled at Frankfort he did with Whittyngham Knox Gilby c. retire to Geneva as may be farther seen in a book intit A brief discourse of the troubles began at Frankfort c. printed 1575. qu. wherein as in other places the turbulent spirit of this person may be discern'd A noted author tells us that he was a most pernicious fellow for that he not only practiced against the life of Q. Mary but wrote also that most seditious known Libel against the regiment of Women c. This Goodman I say being a furious hot spirit and guilty in conscience of wicked attempts but especially as was thought of the conspiracy with Will. Thomas that would have killed Q. Mary ran out