at this day maintain against the Church of England and upon any good proof of any such one allegation to yield up the bucklers and reconcile himself to Rome Now tho Thom. Hardyng and some others undertook him about the controverted articles yet as those of the reformed party say they came off so poorly and Jewell on the contrary so amaz'd them with a cloud of witnesses in every point in question that no one thing in that age gave the papacy so deadly a wound as the said challenge at Pauls cross so confidently made and bravely maintain'd This say the Protestant writers but let us hear what a grand zealot for the Romish cause saith concerning the said matter After this Man meaning B. Nich. Rydley stepped to Pauls cross in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days about the Year 1559 and 1560 Mr. Joh. Jewell otherwise called Bishop of Salisbury and he proceeded yet farther in this brag and fiction meaning that what the Fathers said made for the Protestants for he protested there even with feigned tears that if any one authority place sentence or asseveration of any one Father Doctor Council or authentical History within the first 600 years after Christ could be brought forth by any man living for any one of those points of Catholick Religion which he there recited to be in controversie that then plainly and sincerely he would subscribe Against which vain and shameless bragg when Dr. Hardyng and divers other learned men of our side began to write from Lovayne and to bring forth authorities of all Fathers Doctors Councils and Histories in great abundance the first effect of this challenge that appeared to the world was a severe proclamation that no such book written in English by the Catholick party should be received or read in England under great punishments By which Provision Mr. Jewell thinking meetly well defenced he plyed the pulpit often and renewed his challenges many times and perceiving notwithstanding that Dr. Hardyngs confutation was come into England he answered the same with a long volume of Rhetorical words and stuffed the Margent thereof with the shew of infinite Authors as tho the whole world had been for him and none for the other side And with this he deceived the People then and doth to this day such I mean that have not commodity or learning or other means to examine those places and to find out the manifold lyes and falsifications therein contained And this was the gain by all likelyhood that Mr. Jewell pretended to his cause by that work knowing full well that this sort of Men is far the greater which would be gained and settled in his doctrine before the learneder sort who are but few in comparison of the other could have time books and commodity to discover and refute him and when they should do it they should hardly be believed c. How many learned Men lightly of our Nation have taken upon them seriously to go over that book of Mr. Jewells and to examine it by the Authors themselves with any indifferency of mind have for the most part been thereby converted to Catholick Religion though never so great Protestants before Of which sort I have heard relation of many but of some I can testifie my self for that I have heard it from their own mouths who of earnest Protestants were made most zealous Catholicks by that means principally of which number I think it not inconvenient to name here some two or three omitting others which for just respects may not be named The first of them is Sir Tho. Copley made Lord afterwards in his banishment by the King of France who oftentimes hath related unto one with much comfort of his soul how that being a zealous Protestant and very familiar to Robert the late Earl of Leycester in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeths days when Mr. Jewells book was newly come forth he being also learned himself in the Latin tongue took pains to examine certain leaves thereof and finding many falshoods therein which were inexcusable as they seemed to him he conferred the same with the said Earl who willed him that the next time Mr. Jewell dined at his table he should take occasion after dinner to propose the same which he did soon after And receiving certain trifling answers from Mr. Jewell he waxed more hot and urged the matter more earnestly which Jewell perceiving told him in effect That Papists were Papists and so they were to be dealt withal and other answer he could not get Which thing made the good Gentleman to make a new resolution with himself and to take that happy course which he did to leave his Country and many great commodities which he enjoyed therein to enjoy the liberty of conscience and so both lived and died in voluntary banishment c. The second example which I remember of mine own knowledge is Mr. Doctor Stevens a learned Man yet alive who being Secretary or Chaplain to Mr. Jewell and a forward Man in the Protestant Religion at that time espyed certain false allegations in his Masters book whilst it was under the print in London whereof advertising him by Letters for that he supposed it might be by oversight the other commanded notwithstanding the print to go forward and passed it over as it was Which this Man seeing that had a conscience and sought the truth indeed resolved to take another way of finding it out And having found it in the Cath. Church where only it was to be found he resolved also to follow it and so he did and went voluntarily into banishment for the same where yet he liveth to this day in France c. As for the third example which is Will. Rainolds I shall remember from my before quoted Author when I come to speak of him and in the mean time proceed to speak of Jewell In the beginning therefore of the Year 1565 he tho absent was actually created Doctor of Div. and the year following when the Queen was entertain'd by the Oxonian Muses he shew'd himself a profound Theologist in moderating at Divinity disputations in St. Maries Church The learned Camden saith that he was a wonderful great and deep Divine a most stout and earnest maintainer of our reformed Religion against the adversaries by his learned books That he was a Man of a singular ingenie of exquisite erudition in Theologicals and of great piety As for Jewells writings the titles of them follow Exhortatio ad Oxonienses See in his life written by Laurence Humphrey printed in 1573. p. 35. Exhortatio in Coll. Corp. Ch. sive concio in fundatoris Foxi Commemorationem See there again p. 45. 46. c. Concio in templo B. Mariae Virg. Oxon an 1550 in 1. Pet. 4. 11. preached for his Degree of Bach. of Div. A Copy of which is printed in his life written by L. H. before-mention'd p. 49. Translated into English by R. V. Lond. 1586. oct Oratio in Aula C. C. Chr. spoken to
THOMAS LEYSON an eminent Poet and Physician of his time received his first breath at Neath in Glamoâ—â—â—shire was educated in Grammaticals in the famous School of Will of Wâ—behm admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll 1569. took the degrees in Arts entred on the Physick line and in 1583. was Proctor of the University in which year he shewed himself an exact Disputant before Alb. Alaskie Prince of Sirad when he was entertained by the Oxonian Muses About that time taking one degree in Physick he setled within the City of Bath where he became as much noted for his happy success in the practice of Physick as before he was for his Lat. Poetry in the University He wrote in Lat. Poem describing the scite and beauty of St. Donats Castle in Glamorganshire Which Poem coming to the sight of Dr. John David Rhese his worthy acquaintance who stiles it Venestum Poema he turned it into Welsh and gave the author of it this character Vir cûm rci medicae tùm Poetices merilissimus I have seen much of his Poetry scattered in several books which if gathered together might make a pretty Manual Sir John Harrington the famous Epigrammatist had an especial respect for his learning and so had Sir Edw. Stradling of St. Donats Castle who never failed in all his life-time to incourage learning and ingenuity Joh. Stradling also whom I shall anon mention hath several Epigrams written unto him one especially upon the sending to him a Poem of a Crott which was paraphrased by Charles Thynne This Mr. Leyson died at Bath and was buried in St. James's Church there near to the body of his Wife but the year when I cannot tell I have been credibly informed by several Scholars of Wales that he hath written divers other things but what they could not justly tell me SIMON HARWARD whose native place is to me as yet unknown became one of the Chaplains of New coll in 1577. was incorporated Bach. of Arts the same year as he had stood elsewhere but in what Univ. or Academy it appears not Afterwards he proceeded in Arts as a Member of the said coll left the University soon after and became a Preacher at Warington in Lancashire Thence he removed to Bansted in Surrey about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth and thence having a rambling head to Tanridge in the same County where I find him in 1604. to be a Schoolmaster and as it seems a practitioner in Physick His works are these Two godly Sermons Preached at Manchester in Lanc. The first containeth a reproof of the subtile practices of dissembling Neuters and politick Worldlings on Rom. 10. 19. The other a charge and instruction to all unlearned negligent and dissolute Ministers on Luke 20. 2. Lond. 1582. oct Exhortation to the common People to seek their amendment by Prayer with God Printed with the two Sermons before-mentioned He purposed then also to write the second part of the aforesaid Text on Rom. 10. 19. but because he had occasion to intreat more at large of that article of Justification in another work which he did determine to publish he then thought good to omit it for that time Sermons viz. one Preached at Crowhurst on Psal 1. ver 1. Lond. 1592. oct and another on 1 Sam. 12. 19. Printed 1590. in octavo c. Solace for a Soldier and Sailor containing an Apology out of the Word of God how we are to esteem of the valiant attempts of Noblemen and Gent. of England which incurr so many dangers on the Seas to abridge the proud Power of Spain Lond. 1592. qu. Phlebotomy or a Treatise of letting Blood Lond. 1601. Oct. Discourse concerning the Soul and Spirit of Man wherein is described the Essence and Dignity thereof c. Lond. 1614 oct Discourse of the several kinds and causes of Lightning Written by occasion of a fearful Lightning 17. Nov. 1606. Which in short time burnt the Spire-steeple of Blechingley in Surrey and in the same welt into infinite fragments a goodly ring of Bells Lond. 1607. in three sh in qu. A most profitable new Treatise from approved experience of the art of propagating Plants Lond. 1623. qu This was published after the authors death as it seems by one Will. Lawson at the end of his New Orchard and Garden c. What other things our author S. 〈◊〉 hath written I cannot yet find nor do I know how to trace him to his grave because he died not at Tanridge as a worthy Knight of that Town Sir W. Hayward hath informed me but removed thence to another place which I think was Blechingley before-mentioned THOMAS SACKVILE a person born to good Letters received his first being at or near Withyam in the County of Sussex educated in this University in the time of Q. Mary in Hart hall as it seems where he became an excellent Poet. Afterwards he retired for a time to Cambridge where he had the degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him About the same time being a Student in the Inner Temple he became a Barrister travelled into Foreign parts and was detained for a time a Prisoner in Rome whence his liberty was procured for his return into England to possess the vast inheritance left to him by his Father an 1566. The next year he was advanced to the degree and title of the Lord Buckhurst and after he had been imployed in several Embassies particularly into France 1571. he was incorporated M. of A. of this University in Jan. 1591. having a little before been chosen Chancellour thereof In the 41. of Q. Elizabeth he was constituted Lord Treasurer of England and in the beginning of K. James was created Earl of Dorset From his puerile years to his last he was a continual favourer and furtherer of learning And having been in his younger days poetically inclined did write while he continued in Oxon several Latin and English Poems which tho published either by themselves or mixed among other Mens Poems yet I presume they are lost or forgotten as having either no name to them or that the copies are worn out He had also an excellent faculty in composing Tragedies and was esteemed the best of his time for that part of the Stage But what remains of his labours in that way that are extant I could never see but this following The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex Sons to Gorboduc King of Brittain Acted before the Queen by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple at White-hall 18. Jan. 1561. It was printed at Lond. without the consent of the authors and so consequently very imperfectly an 1565. Afterwards being made perfect it was printed there again in 1570. or thereabouts and after in qu. In the composure of this Tragedy written in old English rhime our outhor Sackvile had the assistance of Tho. Norton who made the three first Acts I mean the same Norton who made some of the Psalms of David to run in rhime as I have told you before However
he married was a Parliament man in the latter end of Qu. Eliz. and in 1603. received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds being then a person of repute in his own country At length being full weary of the vanities and fooleries of this world did retire to Doway in Flanders and there was by letters of confraternity dated in the beginning of Feb. 1617 received among the Brethren in the coll of English Benedictines who appointing him a little cell within the ambits of their house spent the remainder of his days therein in strict devotion and religious exercise After his settlement there he wrote Letters perswasive to his wife and children in England to take upon them the catholick religion Arguments to shew that the Rom. Church is a true Church written against Dr. R. Field his Four books of the Church Reply to the answer of his Daughter M. C. Mary Croft which she made to a Paper of his sent to her concerning the Rom. Church At the end of it is a little thing entit The four ministers of Charinton gag'd by four propositions made to the Lord Baron of Espicelliere of the religion prtended And presented on S. Martins day to du Moulin in his house and since to Durand and Mestrezat All these were published by Sir Herb. Croft at Doway about 1619. in tw containing 255. pages There were but eight copies printed viz. one for himself now in the libr. of the English Benedictines at that place formerly sent to me by a Brother of that order purposely to be perused for a time and then to be returned who for religion sake and in contempt of the world hath denied the inheritance of an Estate of at least three thousand pounds per. an Another copy was printed for Sir Herberts wife and the rest for his children but all without a title only dedicated to his wife and children with a short Epistle before them beginning thus I would have you know that although this ensuing discourse cometh to you in print c. The beginning of the book it self is this When it had pleased almighty God in his great mercy even after above 53. years of my mispent life c. At length after he had macerated his body with fasting hardship and devotion surrendred up his pious Soul to the Almighty on the 10 Apr. according to the accompt there followed in sixteen hundred twenty and two and was buried in the Chappel or Church belonging to the said English Benedictines at Doway Soon after was a monument put over his grave with an inscription thereon a copy of it you may elsewhere see in which he is stiled vir prudens fortis nobilis patriae libertatis amantissimus c. He left behind him a Son of both his names sometimes a R. Catholick but afterwards a zealous Protestant and a Bishop of whom I shall hereafter make mention in his due place JOHN RANDALL sometimes a frequent and painful preacher in the City of London was born at Missenden in Bucks sent by his relations to S. Maries hall in 1581. being then very young where spending some time in Trivial learning was afterwards translated to Trinity coll and as a member thereof took the degree of Bach. of Arts which he compleated by determination In 1587. July 6. he was elected Fellow of Lincoln coll and two years after proceeded in his faculty About that time entring into the sacred function he became one of the most noted preachers in the University In 1598 he was admitted Bach. of Divinity and the year after resigning his fellowship was made about that time Rector of the Church of S. Andrews Hubart in Little Eastcheap in London where after some time he became so great a labourer in Gods vineyard by his frequent and constant work in the ministry as well in resolving of doubts and cases of conscience as in preaching and lecturing that he went beyond his brethren in that City to the wonder of all But greater was the wonder especially to those of his parish and neighbourhood that this poor man who was for the most part strangely afflicted with sickness should undergo his duty so strictly and preach so many Sermons as he did for comfort and support in troubles This indeed did sound highly to his merit and plainly shewed that his great learning and parts could not be subdued with the pitiful afflictions here below He was accounted a judicious orthodox and holy man and by some a zealous and innocent puritan of a harmless life and conversation and one that was solely fram'd to do good acts His works are these Several Sermons as 1 The necessity of righteousness on Mat. 5. 20. Lond. 1622. and 1640. qu. 2 Description of fleshly lusts on 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. Lond. 1622. and 40. qu. 3 S. Pauls triumph c. eleven Sermons on Rom. 8. 38. 39. Lond. 1633. c. qu. published by Will. Holbrook preacher The great mystery of godliness or a treatise opening unto us what God is and Christ is Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1640. third edit Treatise concerning the Sacraments Lond. 1630. qu. c. Catechistical Lectures in number 23. upon the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Lond. 1630. qu. c. Nine and twenty lectures of the Church for support of the same in these times c. Ibid. 1631. c. qu. besides other things fit for the press as one shewing what a true visible Church is and another what Predestination is He concluded his last day in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred twenty and two being then about 54. years of age year 1612 and was buried in the Church of S. Andrew before mentioned By his last will and testament he bequeathed a tenement to Linc. coll called Ship hall situated on the west side of that Street antiently called Schediardstreet now commonly called S. Mary hall lane in Oxon. The picture of this Mr. Randall drawn to the life when he was fellow of Linc. coll is or at least was lately hanging in the Common room of that house JOHN OWEN or Audoenus as some call him the most noted Epigrammatist in the age he lived was born at Armon in Caernarvonshire educated in Wykehams School admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation there in 1584. took the degree of Bach. of Civil Law in 1590. and leaving his fellowship the year after taught School as some of his antient country men that remember him have told me at Trylegh near to Monmouth and at Warwick as the tradition goes there among the Schoolmasters in the School founded by K. Hen. 8. in the place of one Tho. Hall about the year 1594. He was a person endowed with several gifts especially with with the faculty of Poetry which hath made him famous for those books of Epigrams that he hath published wherein an ingenious liberty of joking being by him used was and is now with some especially forreigners
Barrester and a Counsellor of note being then esteemed eminent not only in the Common but also in the Civil Law by which afterwards he obtained immortal fame among the Citizens of London Besides this his profound knowledge he was admirably well read in Philosophy and the liberal Sciences which made his company desired by Scholars and Clergy He lived always a single Man was an adorer of Chastity and chast Men and shew'd himself generous in his profession to those that stood in need of it for very seldom or never did he take a fee. What he got and what he could spare out of his paternal estate he expended in purchasing Books So that several Years before he died his Library exceeded any one or two that belonged to a Person or Persons of his profession Every night after his business was past he read a Chapter in the Bible to those that belonged to him and the Substance thereof he expounded to them By the doing of which and his interposing himself in matters relating to Religion and the Clergy some R. Catholicks have thought that he halted in his Opinion that is that he was inclined to the way of Hereticks His Writings are many partly written in Latin and partly in English the titles of some of which are these Dialogus de fundamentis Legum Angliae de conscientia Lond. 1528. 1598. 1604. 1613 c. oct This is the Book which is commonly called Doctor and Student being a Dialogue between a Doctor of Div. and a Student in the common Laws of England With the edition of the said Book 1528. I have seen this Book following bound with several Copies of it Principia five maximae Legum Angliae à Gallico illo ut fertur sermone collecta sic in Latinum translata non solum generosis studentibus verum etiam terrarum dominis possessoribus summè necessaria Printted by Rich Lant 24. Dec. 38. Hen. 8. Dom. 1546. in oct Whether this Book which is printed in an English Character as the Dialogue is was compiled by Seintgerman I know not certain I am that the English Copy of Dialogus c. called Doctor and Student c. Printed at Lond. in oct an 1604. contains two Books of Dialogues the first of which hath 32 Chapters whereas the Latin impression of 1528 and 1604. contains but 24 and the second 55 Chapters Among other things that the said Seintgerman hath written are Of the power of the Clergy according to the Law Treatise shewing that the Clergy cannot make Laws Treatise of the Church and the meaning thereof Treatise of the Sacraments thereof Apologie written to Sir Tho. More Dialogue concerning the power which belongs to the Clergy and the power which belongs to the People With several other things which are mention'd in another place At length this worthy Person dying in Sept. the 28 day saith Baleus who falsely adds 1539. in Fifteen hundred and forty year 1540 was buried not far from the Grave of Tho. Lupset in the Church of St. Alphage within Cripplegate in the City of London Which Church was afterwards translated to that Church now called St. Alphage near Sion College In the last will and Testament of the said Seintgerman dated 10. July 32. Hen. 8. Dom. 1540 and proved 30. May 1541. it appears that he was not only a Benefactor to the Church of Shilton before-mention'd but also to that at Laleford Lawford in Warwickshire and to the Church at Cathorp in Leicestershire at which Towns 't is probable he had Lands and Inheritances JOHN PALSGRAVF was born in London and educated in Grammar learning there studied Logic and Philosophy at Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he went to Paris where spending several Years also in Philosophical and other learning took the Degree of Master of the said faculty and became so excellent in the French tongue that he was thought fit to be Tutor to the Daughter of K. Hen. 7. called the Lady Mary when she was about to be married to Lewis the 12. K. of France But that King dying soon after the said Palsgrave came with her into England taught the French Language to divers of our young Nobility and became well benefic'd In 1531. he settled in Oxon for a time and the next Year being incorporated Master of the faculty of Arts was in few days after admitted to the reading of the Sentences that is to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity he being then Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and esteemed the first Author of our Nation or of the French Men that had reduced the French tongue under certain rules and the first in that kind of exercise that did begin to labour as it plainly appears by his most laborious piece intit Lesclarcissement de la Language Francois Lond. 1530. in three Books in a thick fol. Before which the Author hath a large Introduction in English after which follows 1 A table of Substantives 2 A table of Adjectives 3 The Pronoun 4 The Numerals c. I never yet saw but one Copy of this Book which being fill'd with Marginal Notes by whom I know not in a scribling hand was bought by the learned Selden and in his Library at Oxon. I perus'd it The said Joh. Palsgrave hath also written Several Epistles and published a translation of a Book intit Ecphrastes Anglica in comoediam Acolasti Or the Comedy of Acolastus translated into our English tongue after such a manner as Children are taught in the Grammar School first word by word as the Latin lyeth and afterwards according to the sense and meaning of the Latin sentences c. Lond. 1540. in qu. The said Comedy was made by one Will. Fullonius Hagiensis an 1529 and was living when it was put into English by Palsgrave who was in great renown among Men for his Learning in Fifteen hundred and forty which was the two and thirtieth Year of King Hen. 8. LEONARD COX second Son of Laurence Cox by Elizab. his Wife Daugh. of Willey Son of Job Cox of Monmouth was born in Monmouthshire educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts went to Oxon in 1528. where making some stay for the sake of study was incorporated in the same Degree in the Year following and intending to make a longer stay he supplicated for the Degree of Master of Arts but whether admitted it appears not About the same time he was a Schoolmaster at Reading in Berks. and was there in much esteem when Joh. Fryth the Martyr was taken for a Vagabond and set in the Stocks to whom for his learning and nothing else he shewed singular courtesies as I have already told you in John Fryth Afterwards he travelled into France Germany Poland and Hungary taught there the Tongues and became more eminent in Foreign Countries than at home which Joh. Leland the Antiquarian-Poet seems to intimate in these Verses written to him Inclyta Sarmaticae Cracovia gloria gentis Virtutes novit Coxe diserte
Probationer-Fellow of Merton College in 1536 he being then Masters standing or more and three years after proceeded in Arts. About that time he became a shagling Lecturer in Philosophy before the University in the publick Schools a profound Disputant in Philosophical matters and homo semper nimium Metaphysicus as one doth deservedly stile him He was the chief man that disputed with Bishop Rydley in the Divinity School an 1554. as I have elsewhere told you And Joh. Fox who hath a full relation of the said disputation saith of this our Author thus Mr. Ward amplified so largely his words and so high he climed into the Heavens with Duns his Ladder and not with the Scriptures that it is to be marvelled how he could come down again without falling c. But what Fox hath ironically said concerning this matter is fully answered by one of Wards perswasion As for the works that this our Author hath written I never saw any and therefore cannot give you the titles only say with our old and later Catalogue or Register of Fellows of Merton Coll. that he wrot Dialectica Philosophica quaedam c. Joh. Fo◠before-mention'd hath published His disputation with B. Nich. Rydley in the Divinity-School at Oxon. Which you may see in the Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church under the Year 1554. A little before Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown Mr. Warde who seems to have been then Bach. of Div. travelled to Rome where paying his last debt to nature on the 14. Oct. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 was there buried but in what Church or Chappel I know not Whereupon the report of it coming to Oxon his exequies were celebrated by the Society of Merton College 17. Novemb. following according to our accompt Of the same Family tho remote was Will. Warde alias Walker alias Slaughter Son of Mr. Rob. Warde of the County of Cumberland who having spent 7 years in studying the Arts in Brasnose Coll. travelled into Spayne with one Mr. Dutton a R. Cath. and there became one of his opinion Afterwards he returned into England to settle his concerns went beyond Sea again and upon a Commission received he returned into his own Country a second time to convert Persons to his profession but being taken after he had been a Priest 24 years was imprison'd in Newgate Soon after being tried for his life he was executed at Tybourne on Munday 26. July 1641. JOHN HOLYMAN a most stout Champion of his time in his Preachings and Writings against the Lutherans was born at Codyngton near to Hadenham in Buckinghamshire educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1512 took a Degree in the Canon Law afterwards that of M. of A. left the Coll. about 1526. being then Bach. of Divinity and beneficed But being desirous of the conversation of learned Men and Books entred himself in the condition of a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. where he continued for some time At length he became a Monk of St. Maries Abbey at Reading in Berks and in 1530 proceeded in Divinity at which time Hugh Abbat of the said Monastery wrot to the University in Epistle wherein our Author is thus charactarized Dominus Holymannus non vitâ minus quà m eruditione Theologus insignis Londini nuper è suggesto Paulino cencionatus est tam frequenti hominum conventu tantâ admiratione tam magnâ apud omnes gratiâ ut jamdudum nemo qui christum sincerè praedicat majorem ab illo populo vel laudem vel amorem consequutus est c. The said Epistle was written as I have elsewhere told you in the Year 1530. to the end that the University would be pleased to dispense with him from Preaching at Oxon for the Degree of D. of Divinity and that instead thereof he might Preach at London upon pretence that the City was much polluted with Luther's Doctrine In 1535 he was ejected from his Abbey because of the dissolution thereof for a profane use and lived afterwards partly at Hanborough near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire of which place he seems to have been Rector and partly in Exeter Coll. in 1554 he was promoted to the See of Bristow upon the deprivation of Paul Bush the first Bishop thereof the Temporalities of which See being given to him 28. Nov. the same Year sate there to the time of his death in good repute He hath written Tract contra doctrinam M. Lutheri Defensio matrimonii Reginae Catherinae cum Rege Henrico octavo lib. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen This Person who was a most zealous Catholick gave way to fate either in or near to Oxon much about the time when his Predicessor P. Bush died and was according to his will as I presume buried in the Chancel of the Church of Hanborough before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 Mr. Alexand. Belsire sometimes Fellow of New College afterwards the first President of that of St. John Bapt. who was his great Friend and Overseer of his last Will was buried near to him in 1567 being while living seldom from him The said Bishop Holyman in his last Will and Testament dated 4 June 1558 and proved 16. Feb. following did give to the College near to Winchester the works of St. Augustine St. Jerome St. Cyprian St. Cecill Tertullian Ireneus c. Which afterwards were chained in the Library there RICHARD TURNER a Staffordshire Man born was educated in Magd. College of which house he became afterwards Fellow and esteemed in the University especially by the reformed party a right godly and learned Man and a good Preacher Afterwards he belonged to the Church at Windsore where he helped Jo. Merbeck in making the Concordance of the Bible But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he fled beyond Seas and setling at Basil in Germany was a frequent Preacher among the English exiles for whose sake he composed An Exposition on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians Hebrews Expos on the Gen. Epist of St. James These expositions which were read at Basil were fit for the Press in 1558 but whether they were ever afterwards Printed I know not In the said Year Baleus tells us that he was living at Basil and Joh. Fox doth further inform us that he died in Exile So I presume that he concluded his last day between the beginning of Fifteen hundred fifty and eight year 1558 and the Month of Novemb. the same year in which Month Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown of England and soon after the exiles return'd to their Country REYNOLD POLE whose piety learning and integrity of life did make him more illustrious than the splendor of his royal blood was a younger Son of Sir Ric. Pole Knight of the Garter Cosin german to K. Hen. 7. by Margaret his Wife Daughter of George Duke of Clarence younger Brother to K. Ed. 4.
Bekinsau did dedicate it to K. Hen. 8. with whom as also with K. Ed. 6. he was in some value but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown and endeavoured to alter all what her Father and Brother had done as to the reformation of the Church then did he wheel about change his mind and became a zealous Person for the Church of Rome and a hater of Protestants After Queen Elizabeth was fetled in the Throne he retired to an obscure Town called Sherbourne in Hampshire where giving way to fate in great discontent was buried in the Church of that place 20. year 1559 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine aged about 63 years leaving then behind him this character among the R. Catholicks that As he was a learned Man so might he have been promoted according to his deserts had his principles been constant ALBAYN HYLL was a Britaine born as one that knew him tellus partly educated in this and partly in another University beyond the Sea as it seems where applying his studies to the faculty of Physick he proceeded Doctor and became famous for it at London not only for the Theoretic but practick part and much beloved and admired by all learned Men especially by Dr. John Cay and Dr. Joh. Fryer two eminent Physicians of Cambridge One that lived in his time stiles him Medicus nobilissimus atque optimus in omni literarum genere maxime versatus and tells us that he wrot several things on Galen which are printed and by others cited This is all that I know of this learned Person only that he died 26 Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 and that he was buried not far from the grave of his friend and contemporary Dr. Edw. Wotton in the Church of St. Alban situated in Woodstreet in London in which Parish he had lived many years in great respect and was esteemed one of the chief Parishioners Alice his Widow who died on the last day of May 1580. was buried by him and both had a substantial Grave-stone with an inscription on it laid over them but that of it which was left part in 1666. was utterly consumed in the grand conflagration of London NICHOLAS BRIGHAM Esquire was born if I mistake not at or near to Caversham in Oxfordshire where his elder Brother Thom. Brigham had lands of inheritance and died there 6. Ed. 6. but descended from those of Brigham in Yorks received his Academical education in this University particularly as I conceive in Hart Hall wherein I find several of his Sirname without Christian names before them to have studied in the time of Hen. 8. but whether he took a Degree it doth not appear in our registers that are somewhat imperfect in the latter end of that King's Reign When he continued in the University and afterwards in one of the Inns of Court he exercised his muse much in Poetry and took great delight in the works of Jeffry Chaucer For whose memory he had so great a respect that he removed his bones into the South cross Isle or trancept of St. Peters Church in Westminster in the Year 1556. Which being so done he erected a comely Monument over them with Chaucers Effigies and an Epitaph in Prose and Verse which to this day remains against the East Wall of the said Isle At riper years our Author Brigham addicted himself much to the study of the municipal Law became noted for it and without doubt had not death snatched him untimely away he would have communicated some Specimen of that faculty to the World His genie also was much inclin'd to English History in which faculty he published a Book which some entitle De venationibus rerum memorabilum It contains the discovery or finding out of several memories of eminent Men of and things done in England Which being perused by John Bale he hath cull'd out many things thence for his purpose and quotes it when he hath occasion to mention several eminent Writers See in his Book De Scriptorib Maj. Britan. cent 10. nu 72. cent 11. num 6. 42. 52. 95. c. and in cent 12. nu 24. 79. 82. 95. c. Memoires by way of Diaâ—e in 12 Books And wrot also his youth Miscellaneous Poems with other things which I have not seen being as I suppose irrecoverable and quite lost This ingenious and curious Person who was admirably well vers'd in Histories and Antiquities yeilded up his last breath to the great regret of all those that knew his worth within the City of Westminster in the month of Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine year 1559 which was the second year of Queen Elizabeth but where buried unless near to the bones of Chaucer I cannot tell JOHN WHYTE Brother to Sir Joh. Whyte L. Mayor of London an 1563. Son of Rob. Whyte of Farnham in Surrey Son of Joh. Whyte of the same place Son of Thom. Whyte of Purvyle in Hampshire was born at Farnham before mentioned educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1527 took the Degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated 23 March 1533-4 left his Fellowship in 1534. being about that time Master of the said School in the place of Rich. Tuchiner Afterwards he was made Warden of the College near to Winchester was elected Bishop of Lincolne upon the deprivation of Dr. Joh. Tayler the Temporalities of which were restored to him 2. May 1554 he being then Bach. of Divinity In the beginning of Octob. 1555. he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty and soon after upon the death of Dr. St. Gardiner he was translated to Winchester the Temporalities of which were also restored to him 30. May 1557. Of some of which gradual rises Dr. Christoph Johnson one of his successors in the Mastership of Winchester School made this distick Me puero custos Ludi paulo ante Magister Vitus hâc demum praesul in urbe fuit He was a Man of an austere life and much more mortified to the World than Step. Gardiner his Predecessor He was eminent also for piety and learning was an eloquent Orator a solid Divine a nervous Preacher poetica facultate ut tempora ferebant tolerabilis as Camden tells us His fame and actions did well answer his name and so did all Men say how contrary soever to him in Religion only for one black Sermon that he made he gave offence yet for the colour it may be said he kept decorum because it was a funeral Sermon of a great Queen by birth and marriage I mean Qu. Mary The offence taken against him was this His Text was out of Eccles 4. 2. Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes feliciorem utroque judicave qui nec dum damnatus est And speaking of Qu. Mary her high parentage her bountiful disposition her great gravity her rare devotion praying so much as he
1566. 80. Translated into Engl. by Charles Glemham Gent. De votis monasticis coeleb Socerdotum Defensio sui contra R. Smithaei duos libellos de coelibatu sacerdotum vot monast Bas. 1559. oct Aristotelis Ethicae cum illis in Sacra Scriptura collatae c. Comm. in Lament Jer. Prophet Tig. 1629. qu. corrected and published by Joh. Rodolph Stuckius of Zurich somtimes a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. He the said P. Martir also wrote an Epist to Edward L. Protector of England translated into Engl. by Tho. Norton Lond. 1550. oct Also of The use and abuse of Dancing translated into Engl. by J. R. printed at Lond. in oct and lastly An Exposition on the Creed translated by T. E printed at Lond. in qu. At length after many Rambles and changes of Places he having been as it evidently appears a person of an unsetled Brain resigned up his last breath at Zurich on the 12th day of Nov. in fifteen hundred sixty and two year 1562 and was buried there with all the Solemnity fitting for so learned and great a Clerk as he was THOMAS GIBSON a noted Physitian of the Age he lived in was born at Morpeth in Northumberland and for a year or years was as I conceive educated here because that several of both his Names and Time were conversant with the Muses in this University but whether he took a degree or was licensed to practice Physick it appears not Afterwards he being noted for his extraordinary success in curing Diseases was very much resorted to by great as well as ordinary People especially by those of the reform'd Party he being one himself and a great Enemy to the R. Cath. Bishops in spite and envy to whom he wrot A History of the Treasons of the Bishops from the Norman Conquest to his time Whether this was printed I know not because had it been so there 's no doubt but inveterate Prynn would have found it to gain matter thence when he compos'd his Book of the same Subject He also wrot An Herball Treatise against unskilful Alchymists Treat of curing common Diseases Of the Ceremonies used by Popes besides other things and had laid the Foundation of a little Book to shew the Various States that Britanie hath been in which he divided into five Parts but whether he compleated it is uncertain He lived after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown being then in his middle Age but when he died it appears not 'T is said that because divers Persons had medled with the applying of dark Prophecies purposely to advance the Fame and Glory of Charles then Emperour so one Tho. Gibson did endeavour to do the like to promote the Glory of Hen. 8. of England which Th. Gibson we are to understand to be the same with Th. Gibson before mention'd PETER de SOTHO or Soto was born in a certain City in Spaine called Cordova became when young a Dominican in the House or Coll. of that Order dedicated to St. Stephen within the famous University of Salamanca where prosecuting his natural Genie with unwearied industry in the Faculty of Divinity became a Doctor thereof and a most eminent ornament to his Order Afterwards his fame being spread in the Royal Court he became Confessor to the King of Spaine and at length to Charles the Emperour of the Romans with whom going into Germany he shew'd himself in many respects very serviceable against such that were call'd Hereticks there At length Philip K. of Spaine marrying with Mary Qu. of England he was one of those noted Divines that came with him having then obtained Eminency among the Learned for his Books written against John Brentius accounted among the R. Catholicks a Person very well vers'd in matters of controversie Afterwards he with Joh. de Villa Garcia and one or more being sent to the University of Oxon by publick authority to read preach and teach there to the end that they might undo and invalidate all what Pet. Martyr and others had done in the Reign of King Ed. 6. he accordingly went preached often read Lectures on St. Thomas whose works had been with scorn cast out from all or most Libraries in this University in the time of Ed. 6. and was ready upon all turns and occasions to instruct and resolve doubts nay and for some time did read the publick Hebrew Lecture to the Academians while Mr. Bruerne the Reg. Professor was absent In a word there was nothing wanting on his part and tho he had no Canonry of Ch. Ch. or Headship bestowed on him yet he had a considerable revenue allow'd him out of the Kings Exchecquer His works are Institutiones Christianae Aug. 1548. Antw. 1557. in 16 o divided into 3 Books Adversus Job Brentium Antw. 1552. in 16o. Defensio Catholicae confessiouis Scholoiorum circa confessionem illustriss Ducis Wirtembergensis nomine editam adversus prolegomena Brentit Antw. 1557. Doctrinae Catholicae compendium in usum plebis Christianae recte instituend Diling 1560. in tw De sacerdotum institutione libri 3. With other things as 't is probable which I have not yet seen After the death of Qu. Mary he return'd with K. Philip into Spain and thence went according to command to the great Council or Synod held in the City of Trent called commonly among Forreigners Trento sometimes a part of Italy but since of Germany where by too much agitation and concernment he contracted a disease which brought him to his grave in that City in the Month of Apr. in Fifteen hundred sixty and three About three days before his death year 1563 and some time before the Synod began to be troubled among themselves for a small cause and did give much matter of discourse Which coming to the knowledge of Sotho he thereupon did dictate and subscribe a Letter to be sent to the Pope in which by way of confession he declared his opinion concerning the points controverted in Council and did particularly exhort his Holiness to consent that residence and the institution of Bishops might be declared to be de jure divino The Letter was sent to the Pope and Frier Ludov. Soto his companion kept a Copy of it who thinking to honor the memory of his Friend began to spread it which caused offence in some and curiosity in others to get a Copy of it when called in I find one Frater Petrus a Soto Major who wrot a Book entit Prima secundae Divi Thomae quam quarto nonas Junii interpretandum suscepit an 1563. The beginning of which is Quastio prima quae est de ultimo fine hujus vitae in communi c. But this Peter who was Author of the said Book which is in MS. in Bodley's Library must not be taken to be the same with the former Peter whom I have at large mention'd because as 't is before told you in the title the said Peter began to write the said Book on the fourth of the nones of June 1563
Geneva 4 Nich. Rydleys Declaration of the Lords Supper Genev. 1556. To which Whittyngham put a Preface of his own making 5 N. Rydlies protestation This I have not yet seen and know nothing more of it 6 His translation from Lat into English of The Book of prayer or the English Liturgie See more in A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554 c. Printed 1575. p. 34. 35. He also wrot the Preface to Christoph Goodmans book entit How superior powers ought to be obeyed c. with several other things which are not yet as I conceive published As for the works of impiety that he performed while he sate Dean of Durham were very many among which I shall tell you of these Most of the Priors of Durham having been buried in coffins of stone and some in marble and each coffin covered with a plank of marble or free-stone which laid level with the paving of the Church for antiently Men of note that were laid in such coffins were buried no deeper in the ground than the breadth of a plank to be laid over them even with the surface of the pavement he caused some of them to be plucked-up and appointed them to be used as troughs for horses to drink in or hogs to feed in All the marble and free-stones also that covered them and other graves he caused to be taken away and broken some of which served to make pavement in his house He also defaced all such stones as had any pictures of brass or other imagery work or chalice wrought engraven upon them and the residue he took away and employed them to his own use and did make a washing-house of them at the end of the Centory-garth So that it could not afterwards be descerned that ever any were buried in the said Centory-garth it was so plain and straight The truth is â—e could not abide any thing that appertained to a goodly religiousness or Monastical life Within the said Abbey-church of Durham were two holy-water stones of fine marble very artificially made and engraven and bossed with hollow bosses upon the ouer-sides of the stones very curiously wrought They were both of the same work but one much greater than the other Both these were taken away by this unworthy Dean Whittyngham and carried into his kitchin and employed to profane uses by his Servants steeping their beef and salt fish in them having a conveyance in the bottoms of them to let forth the water as they had when they were in the Church to let out holy water c. He also caused the image of St. Cuthbert which before had been removed from its proper place by Dean Rob. Horne who also had a hand in such impieties and also other antient monuments to be defaced and broken all to pieces to the intent that there should be no memory of that holy Man or of any other who had been famous in the Church and great benefactors thereunto as the Priors his Predecessors were left whole and undefaced I say it again that he did this to the end that no memory or token of that holy Man St. Cuthbert should be left who was sent and brought thither by the power and will of Almighty God and was thereupon the occasion of the erection of the monastical Church of Durham where the Clergy and Servants have all their Livings and Commodities from that time to this day At length after his many rambles in this world both beyond and within the Seas and his too to forward zeal for the promoting his Calvinistical if not worse opinion whereby much mischief hapned to the Church of England he did unwillingly being then full of worldly troubles submit himself to the stroke of death on the tenth day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine year 1579 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Durham Soon after was a tomb-stone laid over his grave with an Epitaph of 12 long and short verses engraven on a brass plate fastned thereunto which with most if not all of the monuments which were set up after his time were miserably defaced by the Scots when they invaded England in 1640. The first four verses run thus Quae Whittinghami cernis monumenta sepulti Et vitae mortis sunt monumenta piae Anglia testis erat testis quoque Gallia vitae Exilis haec vidit Praesulis illa decus So that as he before had in a woful manner violated the monuments of his predecessors and others so was his by Invaders and nothing now left to preserve his memory or Person to shew the place where his carkase was lodg'd HENRY COLE a zealous maintainer for a time of the Rom. Cath. Religion was born at Godsbyll in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire educated in Wykehams School near Winchester admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1523 studied the Civil Law travelled some years after into Italy was at Padöuo where he advanced his studies and afterwards notwithstanding all this he did acknowledge K. Hen. 8. to be the supreme head of the Church in England In 1540 he being then returned and settled in London he took the Degree of Doctor of the Civil Law and the same year resign'd his Fellowship being then an Advocate in the Court of Arches Prebendary of Salisbury and about that time Archdeacon of Ely in the place as it seems of Rich. Coxe In 1542 he was elected Warden of New Coll. and in 45 he was made Rector of Newton Longvill in Bucks Soon after when K. Ed. 6. came to the Crown he was altogether for reformation was an admirer of Pet. Martyr was a frequenter of Protestant service and a receiver of the holy communion according to their way did after preach up reformation in the Church of St. Martin commonly called Carfax in Oxon did approve of the proceedings of King Ed. 6. and other matters as a learned and puritannical Author tells you In 1551. 5. Ed. 6. he resigned his Wardenship and the year after the aforesaid Rectory In 1554 2. Mariae he was made Provost of Eaton Coll. in the place of Tho. Smith LL. D. of Cambridge of which house he had been Fellow and the same year had the Degree of Doct. of Div. confer'd upon him Soon after he was appointed one of the Commissioners to visit the University of Cambridge became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral on the removal of Feckenham to Westminster an 1556 Vicar general of the spiritualities under Card. Pole Archb. of Cant. and in 1558 one of the overseers of the said Cardinals will I find extant under Dr. Coles name these things following Letters to Joh. Jewell Bishop of Salisbury upon occasion of a Sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty and her honorable Counsell an 1560. Lond. 1560 in a pretty thick oct It was afterwards remitted into Jewells works I find also that divers letters of Dr. Cole were sent to Bishop Jewell after he had preached at
the north parts of England In 1560. the Queen design'd him to be Bishop of Norwich but he altogether refused it for no other reason as 't was suppos'd but that he was much disaffected to the Hierarchy and Ceremonies of the Church of England In the latter end of the said year in the beginning of March he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regents of this University that whereas he had for the space of 16 years studied Divinity he might be admitted to the reading of Epistles of S. Paul that is to the degree of Bach. of Divinity which was before the time of Reformation to the reading of the Book of Sentences This supplicat was granted by notwithstanding he had taken no Degree before among them as it appears from the publick Registers In the same congregation he supplicated also that after he was admitted Bach. of Divinity he might have liberty to proceed in the same Faculty but to that no answer was given Afterwards he supplicated that he might not only use the habit of Master of Arts in the time of his admission to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity but afterwards also while he continued in that state Which request though granted simpliciter yet it doth not appear that he was admitted to that Degree In Michaelmas term 1561. he was installed Dean of Christ Church in Oxon in the place of Dr. George Carew and soon after in the month of November he supplicated the congregation of Regents that it might be lawful for him to Preach within the limits of the University in a doctoral habit Which desire being as they thought unreasonable yet because he was a Dean they granted it only to continue till the Act following At that time there being a great scarcity of Divines in the University and but very few Masters he the said Sampson and Laur. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. another severe Calvinist preached by turns every Lords day either at St. Maries or elsewhere to the Academians and soon after got another brother of Allsouls Coll. as 't is said to joyn with them but who that was unless Andrew Kingsmyll LL. B. who afterwards out of pure sanctity went to Geneva I know not But Sampson being too severe a Calvinist if not worse to govern such a noted Coll. as Ch. Ch. for he was an enemy to Organs ornaments of the Church clerical vestments the square cap he always in imitation of Humphrey wearing the round cap and rather a perswader from than encourager to use them he was at length after a great many of admonitions from authority to conform and entreaties from certain Bishops so to do removed from his Deanery by the sentence of Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury an 1564. Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston at Leycester besides the Penitentiaryship or the Prebend of St. Pancras in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul where continuing for some time in teaching he was by the leave and favour of the Queen permitted to be a Theological Lecturer in Whittingdon Coll. in London but before he had enjoyed that place 6 years he was taken with the palsie Whereupon retiring to his hospital spent the remaining part of his days in preaching and writing Those works that go under his name are these Letter to the professours of Christs Gospel in the Parish of Allhallows in Bredstreet Lond. Strasburg 1554 oct A warning to take heed of Fowlers Psalter Lond. 1578. oct See in John Fowler under the Year 1578. Brief collection of the Church and Ceremonies thereof Lond. 1581. oct Prayers and meditations Apostolike gathered and framed out of the Epistles of the Apostles c. Lond. 1592. in 16o. He also corrected and caused to be published Two Sermons the first of repentance the other of the Lords Supper Lond. 1581. oct written by his friend Joh. Bradford with other things of that Author At length Tho. Sampson having lived beyond the age of Man in a perpetual motion as 't were for the carrying on of the holy cause laid down his head and gave up the ghost on the 9. Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine year 1589 whereupon his body was buried in the Chappel of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston before-mention'd Over his grave was a monument soon after fastned to the South wall thereof with an inscription on it erected by his Sons John and Nathaniel Sampson A copy of which with other matters of the said Author which I have not here mention'd you may see in Hist Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 254. From this Tho. Sampson is if I mistake not descended Tho. Sampson a pretender to Poetry Author of Fortunes fashion portrayed in the troubles of Lady Elizab. Gray Wife of Edw. 4. Lond. 1613. qu. a Poem dedicated to Henr. Pilkington of Gadsby in Leicestershire JOHN BROWNSWERD or Brunswerdus as he writes himself a most noted Master of the Latin Tongue was born as I conceive in Cheshire and had a considerable part of his education in this University but mostly as 't is thought in Cambridge where I presume he took one or more Degrees After his retreat thence he setled at Macclesfield in Cheshire where he taught the Free-school with very good success and having obtained a good report and honourable advancement in the Latin Empire was deservedly numbred amongst the best Latin Poets that lived in the Reign of Qu. Elizab. His works are Progymnasmata aliquot poemata Lond. 1590. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen He took his last farewel of this world on the 15. Apr. year 1589 in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Macclesfield before-mentioned In which year Tho. Newton his sometimes Scholar did publish a book of Encomia's of certain illustrious Men of England in which he hath this Distick of Brownswerd Rhetora Grammaticum Polyhistora teque poetam Quis negat is lippus luscus obesus iners And soon after the said Newton whose respect to his memory was great set up a Monument on the South wall of the said Chancel with an inscription thereon stiling Brownswerd Vir pius doctus and concluding with these two verses Alpha poetarum Coryphaeus Grammaticorum Flos Paedagogorâ—a hac sepelitur humo GEORGE PETTIE a younger Son of John le Petite or Pettie of Tetsworth and Stoke-Tatmach in Oxfordshire Esq was born in that County and at about 16 years of age an 1564 was a Scholar or Student of Ch. Ch. under Mr. Tho. Barnard Canon thereof and took one Degree in Arts as a member of that house in the latter end of the Year 1568. Soon after he left the University travelled beyond the Seas and at length became excellent for his passionate penning of amorous stories equal for poetical invention with his dear Friend Will. Gager and as much commended for his neat stile as any of his time He hath written a book intit A Petite pallace of Pettie his pleasure containing
the Allens or Allyns of Staffordshire from whom he is descended are Parted per Chevron Gules and Ermine two Lyons heads erased in the upper part or The next Card. that the English Nation hath been honoured with is Philip Howard third Son of Henry Earl of Arundel and younger Brother to Henry Earl of Norwich and Duke of Norfolk who at this day is living at Rome He was born in Arundel House in the Parish of St. Clement Danes without Temple-Bar near London an 1629. and there educated under several Tutors till he was 14 years of age At length upon the eruption of the Civil War he left the Nation and travelled with his Grandfather Thomas Earl of Arundel into Italy and at 15 years of age became a Dominician or Black-Frier at Cremona After several years spent there he returned into England and upon the Marriage of King Charles 2. with Katherine the Infanta of Portugal he became Lord Almoner to her and continued in her service several years Afterwards upon the People's being exasperated against Popery he quitted that Noble Office and went to Bornheim in Flanders where having a Convent of English Fryers of his Order had not continued there long but at the desire of his sometimes Tutor then Confessor to Pope Clement 10. had a Cardinals Cap sent to him by the said Pope in the month of May 1675. by his Messenger Seignior Con at which time Father Howard was at Antwerp with the Bishop of that place By vertue of which and the instrument with it he was made Cardinal Priest Sub tt Ecclesiae S. Mariae supra Minervam which Church was in most ancient time built upon the ruines of the Temple of Minerva at Rome where the said Card. is now generally stiled The Cardinal of Norfolk and by some The Cardinal of England Afterwards taking his journey towards Rome he was attended by his Uncle William Viscount Stafford beheaded in 1680. upon account of being engaged in the Popish Plot Mr. John Howard Son of the said William Lord Thomas Howard Nephew to the said Cardinal and younger Brother to the present Duke of Norfolk Seignior Con before-mentioned Dr. Joh. Laybourne President of the English or Clergy College at Doway then Secretary or Auditor to the Cardinal and others He took his journey through Flanders to Doway where he was with great solemnity received and lodged in the said Coll. The next day he designing to visit the College of English Benedictines at that place he was received by the whole Convent in their Church in a solemn procession with Copes a Te Deum and other Ceremonies as appointed in the Ritual for such receptions From the Church he was conducted into the Cloyster and entertained with a banquet and a Panigyrick spoken to him by a Student of that college All which was so well performed that Visâ— Staâ—â—ord was pleased to say that it was the only fit reception his Eminence had met with in all his journey Afterwards his Eminence went to Paris where he continued for some time incognito At length with other Nobility and Persons of Quality added to the former company he journeyed to Rome and made his entry for the defraying of which and his journey he had the assistance of the Pope and not of King Charles 2. and Queen Catherine as the common report then went ADAM HYLL a most noted and eloquent Preacher of his time was elected Fellow of Baliol Coll. in 1568. being that Bachelaur of Arts stood in the Act to compleat the degree of Master of that Faculty in 1572. and on the 12. of Jan. following he resigned his Fellowship About that time he being noted for his practical way of Preaching he became Vicar of Westbury in Wilts in which County he was as it is probable born Parson of Goosage in Dorsetshire and at length Prebendary of Gillyngham Minor in and Succentor of the Cath. Church of Salisbury In 1591. he took the degrees in Divinity and had he not been untimely snatched away by Death he would have been advanced to an high degree in the Church He hath written and published Several Sermons Among which are 1 Godly Sermon shewing the Fruits of Peace and War on 2 Cor. 20. 1 Lond. 1588. oct 2 Serm. On Gen. 18. 21 22. Lond. 1593. oct 3 Serm. concerning Christs descent into Hell Preached 28. Feb. 1589. but on what Subject I cannot tell for I have not yet seen it It was answered by Alex. Humo a Scot whereupon our Author Hyll came out with a Book intit A defence of the Article Christ descended into Hell with an Answer to the arguments objected against the truth of the said Doctrine by one Alexand. Hume c. Lond. 1592. qu Afterwards Hume came out with A Rejoinder wherein the answer to Dr. Hylls Sermon is justly defended Printed 1593. qu. But before our author Hyll could come out with another answer he gave way to fate which hapning at Salisbury about the 16. of Febr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four was buried in the Cath. Church there on the nineteenth day of the same Month. Soon after his dignity or dignities in the said Church were bestowed on one Tho. Crump As for the said Alex. Hume he was Master of Arts of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland was incorporated here as I shall tell you in the Fasti and wrote besides what is before mentioned A Treatise of Conscience c. 2 Treatise of the Felicity of the World to come c. 3 Four discourses of praises unto God c. All which were printed at London in 1594. in oct JOHN THORIE or Thorius Son of John Thorius Doctor of Physick who intitles himself Balliolanus Flandrus was born in London matriculated in this University as a Member of Ch. Ch. 1 Oct. 1586. aged 18. but whether he took a degree it appears not though in one of his Books he writes himself a Graduat of Oxenford He was a Person well skilled in certain Tongues and a noted Poet of his time as several pieces of his then published shew All the things that I have seen of his writing or translating are these A Spanish Dictionary Lond. 1590. qu. Added to his translation into English of a Spanish Grammar written by Auth. de Corro which Dictionary contains the explication of all the Spanish Words cited in the said Grammer and is as a Key to open every thing therein Letters and Sonnets to Gabr. Harvey An. 1593. See at the end of a book entit Pierces Superarogation written by the said Harvey And at the end of another called Have with you to Saffron Walden c. written by Tho. Nash anoted Poet of his time and a Dramatick Writer as his published Comedies shew Our author Thorius also translated from Spanish into English a book entit The Councellour A Treatise of Councils and Councellours of Princes Lond. 1589. qu. written by Barth Philip. L. L. D. and another entit The Serjeant Major or a Dialogue of the
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
1 The Song of Songs which was Solomons metaphrased in English heroicks by way af dialogue Lond. 1621. qu. dedic to Hen. King Archd. of Colchester Son to the Bishop of Lond. 2 The Brides ornament Poetical Essayes upon a Divine Subject In two books Lond. 1621. qu. The first dedic to Jo. Argall Esq the other to Philip Brother to Henry King 3 Funeral Elegy consecrated to the memory of his ever honoured Lord John King late B. of London c. 1621. He also wrote a Book of Meditations of Knowlege Zeal Temperance Bounty and Joy And another containing Meditations of Prudence Obedience Meekness God's Word and Prayer Which two books of Meditations were intended by the author for the Press at the same time with the former Poetry But the ever lamented loss of his most honoured Lord which did change all his Joys into Sorrows and Songs to Lamentation did defert their publication and whether they were afterwards published I know not HENRY BILLINGSLEY Son of Roger Billingsley of the City of Canterbury did spend some time among the Muses in this University as others did who were afterwards Traders in London particularly Benedict Burnham of St. Albans hall afterwards a rich Citizen Sheriff and Alderman of London But before our author Billingsley had continued there three years in which time as 't is probable he became known to an eminent Mathematician called Whytehead then or lately a Fryer of the Order of St. Augustine in Oxon he was taken thence and bound an Apprentice to an Haberdasher as it seems in London Afterwards setting up for himself he became so rich that he was made successively Sheriff Alderman one of the Queen's Customers in the Port of London and at length 1596. Lord Mayor thereof and a Knight But the chief matter which I am to let the Reader know concerning him is that when the said Whytehead was put to his shifts after the demolition of his house in the latter end of Hen. 8. he was received by Billingsley into his Family and by him maintained in his old age in his house in London In which time he learned Mathematicks of him and became so excellent in them that he went beyond many of his time whether Lay-men or profess'd Scholars When Whytchead died he gave his Scholar all his Mathematical observations that he had made and collected together with his notes on Euclids Elements which he had with great pains drawn up and digested Afterwards our author Billingstey translated the said Elements into English and added thereunto plain Declarations and Examples manifold additions Scholias annotations and inventions from the best Mathematicians both in time past and in the age he lived in Which being done he published them under this title The Elements of Geometry of the mos ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara faithfully translated into the English tongue Whereunto are added certain Scholias annotations c. Lond. 1570. fol. To which book Dr. Joh. Dce did put a large Mathematical Preface containing a great deal of Learning pertaining to that Science As for Billingsley he departed this mortal life in a good old age 22. year 1606 Nov. in sixteen hundred and six and some weeks after his body was buried in a little Vault under his Pew in the Church of S. Catherine Colman in London What or where was the end of Whytehead I cannot tell yet thus much I know that what I have said relating to him and Billingsley concerning Mathematicks I had from the Mathematical observations of our Antiquary Brian Twyne and he from the information of that noted Mathematician Mr. Th. Allen of Glouc. hall and he from an eminent Physician called Reb. Barnes M. D. who was elected Fellow of Merton coll 29. Hen. 8. dom 1537. and remembred and had some acquaintance with Whytehead and Billingsley I find also one Rob. Billingsley who was not long since a teacher of Arithmetick and Mathematicks and author of a little book of Arith. and Algebra called An Idea of Arithmetick c. Whether he was descended from or related to Sir Henry I know not JOHN SAVILE elder Brother to Sir Henry Son of Henry Savile of Over-Bradley in Staneland near to Eland not far from Halifax in Yorkshire Esq was born in that County particularly as it seems at Over-Bradley became a Commoner of Brasnose coll in 1561. or thereabouts where laying a considerable foundation of Acad. learning was taken thence before he could attain to a degree in the University and sent to the Middle-Temple where making great proficiencie in the Municipal Laws was called to the Bar fell into considerable Practice became Autumn-reader of that house 28 Elizab. dom 1586. Steward of the Seigniory or Lordship of Wakefield in his own Country called to the degree and honour of the Coif in 1594 made one of the Barons of the Exchequer 98. and about that time one of the Justices of Assize When K. James came to the Crown he not only continued him in his Barons place 4. Apr. but also conferred on him just before his Coronation the honour of Knighthood 23. July following an 1603. being then one of the Judges that was to attend that Solemnity He left behind him at his death certain things fit for the Press of which only this following is as yet made publick Reports of divers special Cases as well in the Court of Common Pâ—eas as of the Exchequer in the time of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1675. in a thin fol. Printed in old French in a black character and published by John Richardson of the Inner-Temple Sir Jo. Savile paid his last debt to nature at London on the 2. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and six aged 61. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of St. Dunstans in the West in Fleetstreet London and his heart carried to Medley in Yorkshire where it was buried in an Isle joyning on the South side of the Church belonging to that place Soon after was a very fair Monument erected over it with the Effigics thereon of the Defunct in his Judges Robes cut out from stone laying thereon The Reader is to know that there was one John Savile a great pretender to Poetry in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. patronized in his studies by his kinsman a young Spark called George Savile Son of Sir George Savile Knight which John wrote among several things K. James his entertainment at Theobalds with his welcome to London and a salutory Poem Lond. 1603. qu. This I thought fit to let the Reader know lest Posterity may take him to be the same with Sir Jo. Savile before-mentioned The Name and Family of the Saviles are numerous in Yorkshire and pretend to be descended from the Savelli in Italy a Family accounted by some to be the ancientest in the World having been in Italy about 3000 years some of which have been Consuls before and after the time of our Saviour But how any of our Saviles in England can make it out that
chief Master of the School at Manchester in Lancashire where also he practiced his Faculty with good success He hath written The Haven of Health made for the comfort of Students and consequently for all those that have a care of their health c. Lond. 1586. qu. there again 1605. and 1612. qu. A preservative from the pestilence with a short censure of the late Sickness at Oxford Printed with the former The said Sickness hapned in 1575. Epistolarum familiarium Ciceroâ—is Epitome secundâ—m tria genera libro secundo Epist 3. proposita Cantab. 1602. oct Epistolae item aliae familiares Ciceroâ—is 〈…〉 genera demonstrativum deliberativum 〈◊〉 redactâ—â— Orationes aliquot faciliores Ciceroâ—is in 〈◊〉 tria genera Rhetoribus usitata depositae What other things he wrote I know not nor any thing else of him only that he deceased at Manchester in sixteen hundred and seven and was buried in the Church there 10. June leaving behind him the character of an able Physician and Latinist a good Neighbour and an honest Man JOHN POPHAM second Son of Edw. Popham Esque of the ancient and gentile Family of his Name living at Huntwâ—rthy in Somersetshire spent some time in â—ludy among the Oxonians particularly as it seems in 〈◊〉 coll being then observed to be given at leisure hours to manly Sports and Encounters Afterwards he retired to the Middle-Temple lived a loose life for a time but taking up soon after his juvenile humour was reduced to gravity So that making great proficiency in his studies became a Barrester Summer or Autumn-reader of the said Inn an 1568. Serjeant at Law soon after Solicitor General in 1579. Attorney General two years after and Treasurer of the Middle-Temple In 1592. he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Kings Bench as Camden tells us tho' others say of the Common Pleas in the place of Sir Christop Wray deceased and the same year hereceived the honour of Knighthood from her Majesty While he held that honourable office of L. Ch. Justice he administred it towards Malefacters with such wholsome and available severity that England was beholding unto him a long time for a part of her private Peace and home Security For the truth is the Land in his days did swarm with Theeves and Robbers whose ways and courses he well understood when he was a young Man some of whom being condemned by him to die did gain their Pardons not from Qu. Elizabeth but from K. James which being soon discovered to be prejudicial to Justice and the Ministers thereof this our worthy Judge complained to the King of it Whereupon granting of Pardons were not so often afterwards issued out His works that are extant are these Reports and Cases adjudged in the time of Q. Elizabeth Lond. 1656. fol. To which are added Remarkable Cases and Reports of other learned Pens since his death These Reports were afterwards printed again Resolutions and Judgments upon Cases and Matters agitated in all Courts at Westminster in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth Lond. in qu. collected by Joh. Goldeshurg Esque one of the Protonotaries of the Common Pleas. At length our author Popham dying on the 10. of June in sixteen hundred and seven year 1607 aged 76 years was buried in the South Isle of the Church at Wellington in Somersetshire Which Town he had for several years before graced by his habitation By his last Will and Test dated 21. Sept. 1604. and proved 17. June 1608. wherein he stiles himself Chief Justice of the Pleas he makes provision for an Hospital to be at Wellington for 6 Men and 6 Women and for other works of Charity Afterwards was a noble Monument erected over his grave with a short inscription thereon wherein he is said to have been Privy Councellor to Queen Elizabeth and King James HENRY LYTE Esq Son of John Son of Tho. Lyte was born of and descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Lytes-Carey in Somersetshire became a Student of this University in the latter end of Hen. 8. about the year 1546. but in what coll or hall I know not as yet or whether he took a degree the Registers of that time and in Ed. 6. being very imperfect After he had spent some years in Logick and Philosophy and in other good learning he travelled into Foreign Countries and at length retired to his Patrimony where by the advantage of a good foundation of literature made in the University and abroad he became a most excellent Scholar in several sorts of learning as by these books following it appears most of which I have seen and perused Records of the true original of the noble Britains that sprang of the remains of the Trojans taken out of Oblivions treasure MS. The beginning of which is Isis the principal river of Britaine c. The copy of this that I saw was written with the authors own hand very neatly an 1592 the character small lines close some words in red Ink and others only scored with it The mystical Oxon. of Oxonford alias a true and most antient record of the original of Oxford and all Britaine Or rather thus Certain brief conjectural notes touching the original of the University of Oxon and also of all Britaine called Albania and Calydonia Sylva MS. The beginning of which is The antient City and famous Vniversity of Oxford in Britayne c. The copy also of this that I saw was written with the authors own hand in 1592. like the former The said two books being written in a small character and very close are contain'd but in a little quantity of Paper In the last of which are many pretty fancies which may be of some use as occasion shall serve by way of reply for Oxon against the far fetch'd antiquities of Cambridge They were both sometimes in the library of Miles Windsore formerly fellow of C. C. coll after whose death they came into the hands of Br. Twyne and after his to the University of Oxon. The light of Britaine being a short summ of the old English History Dedicated to Qu. Elizabeth He also translated from French into English The History of Plants wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of Herbs and Plants c. Lond. 1578. fol. written by Rembert Dodonaeus It was then printed with Sculptures from woodden cuts and without Sculptures by Ninion Newton Lond. 1589. qu. printed the third time in fol. at Lond. 1619. This book which hath been taken into the hands of curious Physicians had an Epigram made on its first edition by that noted Poet Tho. Newton friend to the Translator What else our author Hen. Lyte hath written and translated I know not nor any thing of him besides only that paying his last debt to nature in sixteen hundred and seven aged 78. was buried in the north Isle of the Church of Charlton-Makerel in Somerset-shire which Isle belongs to the Lytes of Lytes
Whereupon he wrote a vindication of himself in MS. now in the hands of a near relation of his At length after a great deal of pains taken for the benefit of the Church he gave up the Ghost at Horninger before mention'd otherwise called Horningshearth whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there under a rough unpolished and broken Gravestone without name or Epitaph 22. Febr. in sixteen hundred and fifteen as the Register of that Church tells us which I presume follows the English accompt and not the common as many country Registers do I find one Tho. Rogers a Cheshire man born to have been admitted Student of Ch. Ch. 1547. aged 24. or more being then Bac. of Arts and soon after made Master What relation he had to the former Th. Rogers I know not Another Tho. Rogers I find who was born in Glocestershire in or near to Tewksbury lived mostly in his latter days in the Parish of S. Giles in the fields near London and published a Poem entituled The tears or lamentations of a sorrowful Soul Lond. 1612. qu. written by Sir Will. Leighton Knight one of his Majesties band of Pensioners To which the said Tho. Rogers added of his own composition a Poem called Glocesters mite But this Tho. Rogers is quite different from the Divine before mention'd RICHARD NICCOLLS esteemed eminent for his Poetry in his time was born of Gentile Parents in London and at 18 years of age an 1602. was entred a Student in Mag. coll in Michaelmas-Term but making little stay there he retired to Mag hall and took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1606. being then numbred among the ingenious persons of the University After he had remained there for some time he retired to the great City obtained an employment suitable to his faculty and at length honoured the Devoto's to Poetry with these things following The Cuckow a Poem Lond. 1607. in qu. Dedicated to Mr. after Sir Thom. Wroth a favourer of his Muse The fall of Princes Lond. 1610. qu. A winter nights Vision Lond. 1610. qu. being an addition of such Princes especially famous who were exempted in the former History meaning in the History called The mirrour of Magistrates written in Verse by John Higens of Winceham an 1586. qu. This mirrour which was esteemed the best piece of Poetry of those times if Albions England which was by some preferred did not stand in its way contained the lives of some of our Kings and Queens and was exceedingly admired by ingenious Scholars and others Momodia Or Walthams complaint upon the death of the most vertuous and noble Lady late deceased the Lady Honor Hay Lond. 1615. oct I find another Rich. Niccolls who is stiled the Elder and of the Inner Temple Gent. who wrote 1 A Treatise setting forth the mysterie of our Salvation 2 A day Star for dark wandring souls shewing the light by a christian controversie Both which were published after the authors death at Lond. 1613. in oct But whether this R. Niccolls the Elder was ever of this University I find not as yet EDWARD EVANS a noted preacher of his time in the University was born in Denbighshire applyed his eager mind to Academical studies in Ch. Ch. an 1598. aged 16. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated 1607. and afterwards published Verba dierum Or the days report of Gods glory in four Sermons or Lectures upon one text in the University of Oxon. on Psal. 19. 2. Oxon. 1615. qu. Another of both his names I find to have been born at Westmeane in Hampshire admitted fellow of New coll 1595. and that he took the degree of M. of A. 1602. But this person leaving his fellowship in 1604. and so consequently the University he is not to be taken for the same who published the four Sermons before mention'd JOHN HEATH more famous for his Poetry than the former for his preaching was born at Stalls whether a hamlet or House I know not in Somersetshire educated in Wykehams School admitted Perpetual fellow of New coll 1607. aged 22. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1613. and three years after left his Fellowship But before that time when he was Bach. of Arts he wrote and published Two centuries of Epigrams Lond. 1610. in tw and had verses printed in several books that occasionly were published particularly in that on the death of Sir Th. Bodley Kt. He hath also made a translation from Spanish into English which I have not yet seen and wrote other matters fit for the Press but whether ever printed I cannot tell THOMAS BILSON Son of Harman Bilson the same I suppose who was fellow of Merton coll an 1536 Son of Arnold Bilson son and heir of Arnold Bilson a Native of High Germany by his Wife the Daughter natural or legitimate I know not of the Duke of Bavaria was born in the City of Winchester fitted for the University in Wykeham's School there admitted Perpetual fellow of New coll after he had served two years of Probation an 1565. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became a most solid and constant preacher in these parts and elsewhere Afterwards he was Schoolmaster say some then Prebendary of Winchester Warden of the coll there Doctor of Divinity and at length Bishop of Worcester to which See being consecrated 13. June 1596. was translated thence to Winchester in the year following and made one of his Majesties Privy Councellours He was as reverend and learned a Prelate as England ever afforded a deep and profound Scholar exactly read in Ecclesiastical authors and with Dr. Rich. Field of Oxon. as Whittaker and Fulke of Cambridge a principal maintainer of the Ch. of England while Jo. Rainolds and Tho. Sparke were upholders of Puritanism and Non-conformity In his younger years he was infinitely studious and industrious in Poetry Philosophy and Physicks and in his elder in Divinity To which last his genie chiefly inviting him he became so compleat in it so well skill'd in Languages so read in the Fathers and Schoolmen so judicious in making use of his readings that at length he was found to be no longer a Souldier but a Commander in chief in the spiritual warfare especially when he became a Bishop and carried prelature in his very aspect His works are Of the true difference between Christian subjection and unchristian rebellion wherein the Princes lawful power to command and bear the Sword are defended against the Popes Censure and Jesuits Sophismes in their Apology and defence of English Catholicks Also a demonstration that the things reformed in the Church of England by the Laws of this realm are truly Catholick against the late Rhemish Testament Oxon. 1585. Lond. 1586. in 4. parts in a thick oct In the third part of which is answer'd Dr. Will. Allens Defence of Engl. Cath. before mention'd It must be now noted that whereas in England the interest of the State had
Brayntrey in Essex which was the best preferment I think he had He was a person esteemed by most men to have been replenished with all kind of vertue and learning to have been profound in Philosophical and Theological learning a great Canonist and so familiar and exact in the Fathers Councels and Schoolmen that none in his time scarce went beyond him Also that none have written with greater diligence I cannot say with a meekermind because some have reported that he was as foul-mâ—â—ched against the Papists particularly M. Ant. de 〈…〉 was afterwards against them and the Prelatists or with better truth or faith than he as by those things of his extant do appear the titles of which are these Sermons As 1 Serm. of Sanctification preached on Act Sunday 12. Jul. 1607. on 1 Thes. 5. 23. Lond. 1608. qu. 2 Inaugurat Serm. of K. Jam. at Pauls Cross 24. Mar. 1608. on 2 Chron. 9. 5 6 7 8 9. Ibid. 1609. qu. 3 Serm. of Predestination on 2 Pet. 1. 10. Lond. 1620. 23. qu. Justinian the Emperour defended against Card. Baronius Lond. 1616. in 7 sh in qu. Introductio in Metaphysicam lib. 4. Oxon. 1619. in a little oct Defence of Constantine with a treatise of the Popes Temporal Monarchy Lond. 1621. qu. Logicae libriquinque de praedicalibus praedicamentis c. Lond. 1622. c. Ox. 1677. in a large qu. Appendix de Sillogismo Sophistico Tractatus de providentia Dei Cantab. 1622. c. qu. Defensio Eccl. Anglicanae contra M. Anton. de Dominis Archiep Spalatensis injurias Lond. 1625. qu. Published by Dr. Joh. Barcham Which book was held to be the most exactest piece for controversie since the time of the Reformation Virgilius dormitans Or a treatise of the first General Councel held at Constantinople an 553. under Justinian the Emperour in the time of Pope Vigilius Lond. 1631. fol. Popish falsifications Or an answer to a treatise of a Popish Recusant intit The first part of Protestants proofs for Catholicks Religion and Recusancy taken only from the writings of such Protestant Doctors and Divines of England as have been published in the Reign of K. James an 1607. MS. This book I saw at Oxon in the hands of Mr. Edw. Benlowes the Poet who in his younger days was a Papist or at least very Popishly affected and in his elder years a bitter Enemy to that Party Whether the said book was ever printed I cannot tell Animadversions on Cardinal Baronius his Annals MS. Either lost or embezil'd after the authors death MSS. The copies of which were formerly if not still in the Tabarders Library in Qu. coll De caelo Physica In Aristotelis Organon I have seen also several of his Epistles written to Dr. Hen. Airay Provost of Qu. coll stitch'd up with Dr. Joh. Rainolds his Declamations and other things among the MSS. in the Library of Dr. Thom. Barlow afterwards B. of Lincoln What else he hath written I find not nor any thing more of him only that he dying at Blacknotly before-mentioned for want of a Bishoprick as K. Jam. 1. used to say was buried in the Chancel of the Church there 25. year 1624 Nov. in sixteen hundred twenty and four At which time Dr. Joh. Barchem Dean of Rockyng in Essex did Preach his Funeral Sermon before several Gentlemen and Ministers of the neighbourhood shewing to them in the conclusion the great piety and learning of him who then lay as a spectacle of mortality before them Had that Sermon been printed I might have thence said more of this worthy author but it being quite lost I presume after that Doctors death we must be content with those things that are already said of him PETER BOWNE or Bounâ—â—u as he is sometimes written was a Bedfordshire man born admitted Scholar of C. C. coll in Apr. 1590. aged 15. of which he was afterwards Fellow and M. of Arts. This person having a great Genie to the Faculty of Medicine entred on the Physick line practiced in these parts and at length became Dr. of his Faculty Afterwards he wrote Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia Lond. 1624. qu. At which time he practiced Physick in the great City and was much in esteem for it in the latter end of King Jam. 1. and beginning of King Ch. 1. What other things he hath published I know not nor any thing of his last days GEORGE MORE Son of Sir Will. More beloved of Q. Elizabeth for his many services done in the Common-wealth was extracted from the Mores of Devonshire but whether born there or in Surrey in truth I cannot tell After he had spent some time in Oxon particularly as it seems in Exeter coll he went to the Inns of Court but took no degree there or here In 1597. he had the honour of Knighthood conâ—erâ—ed upon him being about that time a frequent Speakâ—â— in several Parliaments and much in esteem for his excellent parts In 1604. he being about that time Treasurer to Henry Prince of Wales did by the name of Sir George More of Surrey give several MSS. to the Publick Library at Oxon and 40 l. to buy printed books and in the year following he was actually created Master of Arts. In 1610 he became Chancellour of the most Noble Order of the Garter and about 1615. Lievtenant of the Tower in the place of Sir Jervase Elwaies imprisoned for the consenting to the poysoning of Sir Thom. Overbnry He hath written A demonstration of God in his Works against all such that deny either in word or in life that there is a God Lond. 1598. 1624. qu. Parliamentary Speeches and other things which I have not yet seen He was living at Losely or Lothesley near Guildsord in Surrey where he had a fair Estate descended to him from his Father in sixteen hundred twenty and four and after and there died and was buried He had a Son named Rob. More who was a Knight and a Daughter who was married to the famous Dr. Joh. Donne afterwards Dean of Pauls I have made mention of another George More in the Fasti an 1573. WILLIAM BROWNE Son of Tho. Br. of Tavystock in Devonsh Gent. was born there spent some time among the Muses in Exeter coll after K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown whence retiring to the Inner Temple without any degree confer'd upon him became famed there for his Poetry especially after he had published Britannia's Pastorals Esteemed then by judicious persons to be written in a sublime strain and for subject amorous and very pleasing The first part of it was printed at Lond. 1613. fol. and then usher'd into the World with several copies of verses made by his learned acquaintance as by Joh. Selden Mich. Drayton Christoph Brook c. The second part or book was printed at Lond. 1616. fol. and then commended to the World by various copies made by John Glanvill whom I shall mention elsewhere for his sufficiencies in the Common Law Joh. Davies of Hereford George Wither of Linc.
in the year of his age 16 or thereabouts being then Pupil to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker who made use of his and the judgment of George Cranmer when he compiled his books of Ecclesiastical Policy In 1579. Jan. 23. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that House being then Bach. of Arts and on the 17. March 1581. he was collated to the Prebendship of Wetwang in the Church of York Afterwards proceeding in his faculty he left his Fellowship travelled into several Countries and at his return grew famous for his learning prudence and vertue In the month of May 1602. he resign'd his Prebendship on the 11. of May 1603. he had the honour of Knighthood confer'd upon him by K. Jam. 1. and was afterward by him imployed in several affairs of great trust and moment He was very dexterous in any great employment kept as constant time in all Parliaments as he that held the Chair did and was esteemed an excellent Patriot in all transactions faithful to his Country without any falseness to his Prince But this I must say that being found factious and too daring in the Parliament held 1621. he was with Selden committed to custody to the Sheriff of London 16. June in that year and not delivered thence till the 18. July following Which matter being ill resented by the House of Commons they on the eighth of Nov. following did dispute the matter tumultuously taking it for a great breach of their Privileges that any one of them should be imprison'd At length Secretary G. Calvert protesting before them that neither he or Selden were imprisoned for any Parliamentary matter a stop was thereupon put to the dispute What I find farther of Sir Edwin is that he was Treasurer to the undertakers for the Western Plantations which he effectually advanced that he was a person of great judgment and of a commanding Pen a solid Statesman and as my author saith ingenio gravitate morum insignis Farther also that he was as famous for those matters he published as his Brother George was for his Travels and Poems This worthy Knight Sir Edwin hath written Europae Speculum Or a view or survey of the state of Religion in the Western part of the World Wherein the Roman Religion and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same are notably displayed c. Written by the author at Paris and by him finished 9. Apr. 1599. A copy of which coming into the hands of an unknown person in England an impression of it full of errours stole into the world without the authors name or consent an 1605. besides another the same year or soon after Notwithstanding which the book was esteemed so much by Scholars and thereupon cried up at home for a brave piece of ingenuity that it was forthwith translated into French and printed I think at Paris But as soon as 't was finish'd the printer to his great sorrow received information that it would be called in and suppress'd as it was shortly after whereupon he dispersed most of the copies into remote parts before he did disperse any at home and so was a gainer by his Politicks At length after the author had taken great care that the English impressions should be called in and the Printers punished he caused a true copy thereof to be printed a little before his death anno 1629. From which were printed the impressions of 1632. and 37. at London in quarto and another there in 1673. in oct One copy under the authors hand as 't is said I have seen in Bodlics Library and another in that of Dr. Barlow which I suppose were dispersed to vindicate the author from spurious printed copies that flew abroad I find one Sir Edwin Sandys who paraphrastically turned in English verse Sacred Hymnes consisting of 50 select Psalms of David c. set to be sung in 5 parts by Rob. Taylor Printed at Lond. 1615. in qu. Whether this version was performed by Sir Edwin Sandys before-mentioned or by another of both his names of Latimers in Bucks I know not Our Sir Edwin Sandys author of Europae Speculum died about the beginning of Octob. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine leaving then 1500 l. to the Univ. of Oxon for the endowment of a Metaphysick Lecture and was buried in the Ch. of Nortbourn in Kent where he had a Seat and a fair Estate joyning to it Over his grave is a handsome monument erected but as I have been informed there is no inscription upon it He left behind him at the time of his death at least 5 Sons namely Henry Edwin Richard Robert and Thomas Who all one excepted proved zealous Parliamenteers in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642. The outrages of the Second then called Colonel Edwin Sandys which he made against the Church and the vengeance that followed him for so doing the common prints that in those times fâ—ew abroad do sufficiently testifie He published or rather one for him a Pamphlet intit Col. Sandy's travailes 〈◊〉 Kent which gives an account of the Sacrileges and outtages he had committed for the sake of the Blessed Parliament then sitting and another called His Declaration in vâ—nâ—icatiâ—n of himself from those calumnious aspersions cast upon him by Lucius L. Falâ—land and Secretary Nicholas 11. Oct. 1642. printed at Lond. 17. of the same month Which was followed with another Pamphlet intit A vindication of Câ—l Sandys's Honour and Loyalty from a Declaration pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester 11. Oct. 1642. But whether the said Colonel was educated in Oxon 't is not worth the enquiry nor any thing else of him And therefore I shall only let the Reader know that he died of his wounds which he had received in the Parliaments Cause near to Worcrster from the hands of a French-man called Arnold de L'isle a Captain of a Troop of Horse in Sir Joh. Byron's Regiment for which service he was soon after Knighted whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester in the month of Oct. 1642. I find one Edwyn Sandys an Essex man born and a Knights Son to be entred a Gent. Com. of C. C. coll in 1608. aged 17. But this person must not be taken to be the same with the Colonel who was then but one or two years of age WILLIAM PINKE a Hampshire man born was entred a Commoner in Magd. hall in Mich. Term 1615. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and soon after became Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll Which office he performing with great commendation was elected Fellow of that house in 1628. being then accounted by some a serious person in his studies devout and strict in his conversation and therefore a Puritan by others He had in him a singular dexterity in the Arts a depth of judgment acuteness of wit and great skill in the Hebrew Greek and Arabick languages which made him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reverenced by the Academians He wrote The
of proceedings in matters of Justice he briefly repeated the heads of his charge to the Grand Jury in good and elegant Latin and thereby informed the Strangers and Scholars there present of the ability of the Judges and the course of proceeding in matter of Law and Justice He understood the Greek very well and the Hebrew was vers'd in the Jewish Histories and excellently knowing in the Histories of his own Country and in the Pedigrees of most persons of honour and quality in England and much conversant also in the study of Antiquity and Heraldry He was not by any exceeded in the knowledge of his own profession of the Common Law of England wherein his knowledge of the Civil Law was a help to him as his learned arguments both at the Bar and Bench have confirm'd it for a truth His works are these Reading in the Middle Temple hall In which was so much solid Law and excellent learning express'd that copies were desired and taken of it but whether printed I cannot tell Several Speeches in Parliament One of which is extant in a book intit The Soveraign's Prerogative and the Subjects Privileges discussed c. in the 3. and 4. of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol. Of the antiquity use and ceremony of lawful Combats in England MS. The beginning of which is Combats are distinguished to be lawful and unlawful c. This MS. which I saw and perused in the choice Library of MSS. of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Esq had the name of James Whitlock set and subscrib'd to it and so consequently I took him to be the author who dying on the 22. of June in sixteen hundred thirty and two the King did lose as good a Subject his Country as good a Patriot the People as just a Judge as ever lived c. as his Son Bulstrode Whitlock tells us His body was afterward buried at Falley or Fawley not far from Great Wycomb in Bucks over which his Son before-mentioned not only erected a stately monument but also a Chappel which serves for a burial place for those descended from him ISAAC WAKE Son of Arthur Wake Rector of Billyng in Northamptonshire Master of the Hospital of St. John in Northampton and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon third Son of John Wake Esq of the ancient and honourable Family of his name living at Sawcy Forest was born in the said County of Northampton at Billyng as it seems became a Member of this University in the beginning of the year 1593. aged 18. or thereabouts elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll 1598. Orator of the University 1604. being then Regent ad placitum publickly known to the K. and Court at Oxon in the year following by his Orations of a Ciceronian stile delivered before them when entertained there travelled into France and Italy 1609. and after his return was entertained in the quality of a Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton one of the Secretaries of State and from his was advanced to the King 's service by being imployed Embassador to Venice Savoy and elsewhere The time when he went to Savoy was in the middle of Apr. 1619. being in few days before made a Knight whose Escocheon then or soon after which was hung up in all publick places where he came had this inscription written under it Sir Isaac Wake Knight Embassador Extraordinary in Savoy and Piemont Ordinary for Italy Helvetia and Rhetia select for France In 1623. he was elected Burgess by the Members of this University to serve in that Parliament which began the 19. Feb. the same year in which he was much admired for his excellent elocution I have been informed by some of the Ancients of Merton coll that this our author Wake had his Pen more at command in the Latin English and French tongue than any of his time in the University Also that his speaking was Majestick that he was better for Orations than disputing and that he employed his time more in reading political and civil matters than Philosophy or the great Faculties Further also that he was a gentile man in behaviour well spoken and therefore put upon Speeches at all Receptions and Funerals There is no doubt but that he was a man of exquisite learning strong parts of nature and of a most refined wit He hath written Rex Platonicus sive de potentiss Principis Jacobi Regis ad Academ Oxon. adventu an 1605. Oxon. 1607. qu. afterwards printed in oct Oratio funebris habita in templo B. Mariae Oxon quum maesti Oxinienses piis manibus Johannis Rainoldi parentarent Oxon. 1608. in tw c. Translated into English by Thom. Fuller in his Abel redivivus Lond. 1651. qu. Oratio funebris habita in Schola Theologica in obitum Clariss Equitis Tho. Bodley Oxon. 1613. qu. Wake 's name is not set to it only said in the title to be made by the publick Orator of the University which office Wake then injoyed 'T is reprinted in a book published by Will. Bates D. D. a Nonconformist-Minister intit Vitae selectiorum aliquot virorum qui doctrina dignitate aut pietate inclaruere Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Discourse of the 13 Cantons of the Helvetical League Lond. 1655. oct Discourse of the state of Italy as it stood about the year 1625. Printed with the former discourse Discourse upon the proceedings of the Kings of Sweden Printed also with the former These three last discourses were printed at Lond. in oct with this title put before them A threefold help to political observations I find another book going under his name that bears this title Disquisitions upon the Nativity of our Saviour Jesus Christ When printed I know not for I have not yet seen it And another called A relation of what hapned in the Dutchies of Mantoua and Montferrat from the beginning of the year 1628. unto the end of the year 1629. MS. among those given by the learned Selden's Executors to the publick Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of it is In the year of our Lord 1627. was closed with the death of Vincenzo Gonzaga c. He hath also Several Letters of State in the book called Cabala or Mysteries of State c. Lond. 1654. qu. and Several Letters in that intit Cabala or Scrinia Sacra Lond. 1663. fol. He took his last farewel of this World at Paris during his being there in the service of his Majesty Whereupon his body being embalmed was brought over into England and inter'd on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Chappel in Dover Castle in the month of July in sixteen hundred thirty and two At which time Mr. John Reading Minister of S. Maries Church in Dover preached his Funeral Sermon wherein he took occasion to speak very honourably of the person that laid dead before him whom he knew and well remembred in the University of Oxon. THOMAS ALLEN or Alleyn the Father of all learning and vertuous industry an unfeigned lover and furtherer of
had the applause of the learned respect from the rich prayers from the poor and the love of all He hath written A brief discourse of a disease called the suffocation of the mother c. Lond. 1603. qu. Discourse of natural Bathes and mineral Waters Twice printed Which being revised and corrected by Thomas Guidott Bach. of Phys. of Wadh. coll and a Practicioner in the City of Bathe he published it a third time at Lond. 1669. in oct To which he added an Appendix containing A treatise concerning the Bathe wherein the antiquity both of the Bathes and the City is discoursed c. Dr. Jorden died about the seventh day of January in sixteen hundred thirty and two aged 63. and was buried in the south Isle joyning to the great Church within the City of Bathe dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul He had a natural inclination to Mineral works and was at great charges about the ordering of Allum which succeeding not according to expectation he was thereby much prejudiced in his Estate as it appears in the 7. chap. of Nat. Bathes Mineral Waters wherein 't is said that Allum was the greatest Debtor he had and he the greatest Benefactor to it as he could make it appear when he thought fit to publish the artifice thereof JOHN BARLOW a Cheshire man born became a Student of Hart hall in the year 1600. aged 19. or more took one degree in Arts 8 years after being then in Orders and a Curate Afterwards upon an invitation he was made Minister of Plymouth in Devonshire where continuing to the great liking of the inhabitants yet notwithstanding he left them and went to Halifax in Yorkshire where as it seems he was a Curate or Lecturer He hath published Various Sermons as 1 The Christian's last day is the best day on 1 Thes 4. 18. Lond. 1618. qu. 2 Hieron's last farewel preached at Modbury in Devonsh at the Funeral of Sam. Hieron on 2 Tim. 4. 7. Lond. 1618. qu. 3 The good Man's refuge in affliction on Psal. 40. 18. Lond. 1618. qu. 4 The true guide to glory preached at Plymton-Mary in Devonsh at the Funeral of the Lady Strode of Newingham Widdow of Sir Will. Strode on Psal 73. 24. Lond. 1619. qu. 5 The good Mans privilege on Rom. 8. 28. Lond. 1618. qu. 6 Joy of the upright Man on Psal 97. 11. lb. 1619. qu. An Exposition on the second Epistle of S. Paul to Timothy the first chapter c. Lond. 1625. qu. To which was the Exposition of the second and of other parts of Scripture added Lond. 1632. fol. Among several Records in the Prerogative-office I once saw the last Will and Test of one John Barlow Clerk of Chiddingfield in Surrey which was proved 26. May 1641. the Testator having some weeks before been dead but whether this John Barlow be the same with the former Joh. Barlow who was the writer I cannot justly say nor whether he be the same with Joh. Barlow M. of Arts who in Sept. 1620. became Prebendary of Wivelscomb in the Church of Wells on the resignation of Will. Barlow The said Joh. Barlow of Chiddingfield doth mention his Brethren Edward Raphe Laurence William and Rob. Barlow FRANCIS GODWIN a passing great lover of venerable antiquity and of all good literature Son of Thom. Godwin D. D. sometimes Bishop of B. and Wells was born at Hannington in Northamptonshire 4. of Q. Elizabeth elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1578. took the degrees in Arts holy Orders and became Rector of Samford-Orcais in Somersetshire Prebendary of S. Decuman in the Church of Wells Residentiary there and Vicar of Weston in Zoyland in the same County which last he resigning became Vicar of Bishops Lidiard in 1595. being then Sub-dean of Exeter and about that time Doctor of Divinity In the year 1601. he was nominated to the See of Landaff by Q. Elizabeth to which being consecrated 22. Nov. the same year sate there about 16 years being a Bishoprick rather proportionated to his modesty than merits because much impaired by one of his Predecessors named Anth. Kitchin alias Dunstan whom I shall elsewhere mention and therefore had liberty allowed to him to keep one of his Dignities in Commendam with it and to take upon him the Rectory of Kingston-Scymour in the Dioc. of Wells Afterwards for the respect that K. James had for him and his learning he gave him the Bishoprick of Hereford to which he was translated the tenth and confirmed the 28. of Nov. an 1617. and kept it to his dying day He was a good Man a grave Divine skilful Mathematician excellent Philosopher pure Latinist and incomparable Historian being no less critical in Histories than the learned Selden A person also he was so celebrated by many in his time whether at home or beyond the Seas that his memory cannot otherwise but be precious in succeeding ages for his indefatigable pains and travel in collecting the succession of all the Bishops of England and Wales since the first planting of the Gospel among the Christians nor pretermitting such of the British Church or any that have been remembred by the care and diligence of preceeding writers or had been kept in memory in any old monument or record But as he hath in those his infinite labours endeavoured out of a Puritanical peak to bring a scandal on the ancient Cath. Bishops and to advance the credit of those that were married since the Reformation he being one of that number for the credit of the Protest cause so comes one afterwards by name W. Prynne the most inveterate Enemy to the Bishops that ever appeared in our Horizon who thence from his labours takes all advantages whether truth or not truth to raise arguments against or bring a scandal upon the prelatical function Take heed therefore of being partial lest others light Candles from your Torch and thereby in the end you lend a helping hand for the cutting your own Throat But to return to give therefore our author Godwin a farther character as I have received it from his Son he was esteemed a good preacher and a strict liver but so much employed in his studies and matters of Religion that he was as 't were a stranger to the world and the things thereof His works are these Concio Lat. in Luc. 5. 3. Printed 1601. qu. A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of Christian Religion in this Island together with a brief History of their Lives and memorable actions so near as can be gathered out of antiquity Lond. 1601. qu. in an English character For the writing of which Q. Elizabeth immediately preferr'd him to the Bishoprick of Landaff But this book being imperfect for therein are omitted the Bishops of Bangor S. Asaph c. the Author came out with another Edition with many additions an 1615. qu. and thereunto joyned A Discourse concerning the first conversion of this Island of Britaine unto the Christian
the English Benedictines at Doway as one of them hath told me At length Doctor Pits coming into England for health sake left his preferment beyond the Seas and setled in the house of a R. Catholick named Stoner of Blounts Court near to Henley in Oxfordshire a younger family of those of Stomer near to Watlington year 1634 where dying about sixteen hundred thirty and four was buried in the Church of Rotherfield Pipard commonly called Pepper near to Henley before mention'd as I have been informed by an antient Catholick Gentlewoman who was born within a mile of and well acquainted with him yet in the register of that Church his own name appears not His Father Art Pits died at Eifley in 1579. and was buried on the north side of the Chancel there leaving a fair estate behind him to be enjoyed by four Sons then living viz. Robert Thomas Arthur and Philip. ROBERT JOHNSON a Londoner born became a Student in Magd. coll an 1595. and in the year after Demy aged 18. took the degrees in Arts that of Master being compleated in 1601. Afterwards he entred into the sacred function became one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary and Bach. of Divinity which is all I know of him only that he published The way to glory or the preaching of the Gospel is the ordinary means of our Salvation Sermon in St. Pauls Cathedral 10. Decemb. 1620. on 2 Thes. 2. 14. London 1621. qu. A confutation of our Adversaries opinion of the Popes defining and expounding Scriptures Ex Cathedra is to be believed as undoubted truth Printed with the former book Various Sermons as 1 The necessity of faith before the Prince at S. James on Heb. 11 6. Lond. 1624. qu. 2 Serm. on Psal. 119. 33. Pr. in qu. 3 Serm. on 1 Cor. 9. 14. London 1633. and a fourth if I mistake not intit Davids Teacher on Psal. 19. 30 Printed 1609. Besides this Robert Johnson hath been several of both his names that have been writers as 1 Robert Johnson Gent. author of Essaies Lond. 1607. oct dedicated to Will Earl of Pembroke whom I cannot say to be the same with Rob. Johnson of Qu. coll born in the County of Durham and Bach. of Arts 1599. 2 Rob. Johnson of York one of the Assembly of Divines an 1643. author of several Sermons preached before the members of the Long Parliament as one intit Lux Lex or the light of the Law of Jacobs house Fast Serm. before the H. of Com. 31. Mar. on Isay 2. 6. Lond. 1647. qu. Another preached before the Lords 24. Jun. 1646. being a Fast Sermon but I have not yet seen it 3 Rob. Johnson LL. Bac. who with Hen. Jolliffe sometimes Dean of Bristow wrote against Bishop Joh. Hooper a I shall tell you in the Fasti an 1551. 4 Rob. Johnson an eminent Musician living in the raign of Ch. 1. who with Tho. Ford were accounted famous and excellent in their faculties as matters of their composition which are extant shew 5 Robert Johnson author of Relations of the most famous Kingdoms and Commonwealths through the world Lond. 1616. qu. which is all I know of him as yet See another Rob. Johnson who was a benefactor to learning in the Fasti an 1564. JOHN DAVIES the fourth person of both his names whom I have mentioned among these writers was a Denbighshire man born bred up at the feet of Will. Morgan afterwards B. of S. Asaph became a Student in Jesus coll in 1589 took one degree in Arts four years after left the University without compleating it by Determination studied Divinity in the Country and in the year 1608. was admitted to the reading of the Sentences as a member of Linc. coll having been fourteen years a Minister of Gods Word and dispenced with for not ruling in Arts. But before that time he was Rector of Malloyd or Maynlloyd in Merionithshire which occasioned as I presume Sir Leolyne Jenkyns to tell me that he was that Countryman born and afterwards a Canon of S. Asaph by the gift of Doctor Parry B. thereof to whom he was Chaplain and a Dignitary if I mistake not in some other Church In 1616. he proceeded in his faculty as a member of the said coll of Lincoln being then esteemed by the Academians well vers'd in the History and Antiquities of his own Nation and in the Greek and Hebrew Languages a most exact Critick an indefatigable searcher into antient Scripts and well acquainted with curious and rare authors His works are Ant quae linguae Britannicae nunc communiter dictae Cambro-Britannicae à suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae ab aliis Wallicae rudimenta c. Lond. 1621. oct Dictionarium Britannico-Latinum Lond. 1632. fol. With this is printed Dictionarium Latino-Britannicum Which was in a manner finish'd by Tho. Williams a Physitian before the year 1600. Afterward compleated and published by Dr. Davies I have been informed that in the Library of MSS. sometimes belonging to Rob. Vaughan of Hengwrt in Merionithshire is a Welsh Dictionary that contains about two thousand words more than in the former Lond. 1632. printed at the end of the Dict. before mentioned Adagia Britannica Authorum Britannicorum nomina quando floruerunt Adagiorum Britannicorum Specimen MS. in bib Bod. He also assisted Will. Morgan B. of Landaff and afterwards of S. Asaph and Rich. Parry who succeeded him in the See of S. Asaph in translating the Bible into Welsh I mean in that corrected edition that came out temp Jac. 1. 1620. and also translated into the same language which he had studied at vacant hours for thirty years the book of Resolution written by Rob. Persons a Jesuit On the first of Feb. 1626. was one Joh. Davies a Doctors Son admitted Bac. of Arts as a member of Glouc. hall which I take to be Son of Doctor John Davies before mention'd at which time Sir John Davies the Mathematician had a Son of both his names who was Gent. Com. of that house ROBERT GOMER SALL the eldest Son of an Esquire was born in London applied his muse to Academical Literature in Ch. Ch. 1614. aged 14 of which house he was afterwards made a Student and at about seven years standing taking the degree of M. of A. he entred into holy Orders and became a very florid preacher in the University In 1628. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at which time he was esteemed excellent for Dramatick Poesie especially upon his publishing of The Tragedy of Ludov. Sforsa Duke of Millan Lond. 1628. oct Dedic to Mr. Fr. Hyde of Ch. Ch. Proctor of the University He wrote also The Levites revenge containing Poetical meditations on the 19. and 20. Chapters of Judges Lond. 1628. oct Dedic to Mr. Barten Holyday Archd. of Oxford Sermons on 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 15 16. London 1634. Dedicated to Sir John Strangwayes of Melbury in Dorsetshire who seemed to be a favourer of the authors studies Poems Lond. 1638. oct
that no other Church hath any salvation in it but only so far as it concurs with the Faith of the Church of Rome My body to be buried in S. Marg. Ch. in Westminster near to the Font in the meanest manner according to the deserts of my Sins Item I give 20 s. for the painting or otherwise of the said Font. It. I give my tenement in Yale and the two tenements in Caernarvanshire Cordmaur and Tudne to the Town of Ruthyn in Denbighshire where I was born c. The rent of the tenement in Yale he bequeathed to several uses and among the rest was 20 l. to be given to some Gentleman who should desire to travel and that he together with good security should undertake within the compass of two years to live two months in Germany two months in Italy two months in France and two months in Spain and that his own kindred be chosen before others for that purpose c. The books that he designed for Chelsey college he gave to Trin. coll in Cambridge but with this condition that if Chelsey coll be ever restored the books should be restored thereunto He gave 16 l. to outed and sequestred Ministers of the Loyal Party and a 100 l. to poor distressed Church-men Rom. Catholicks according to the discretion of his Executors Gabriel Goodman and Mrs. Sib. Eglionby He desired also that his collection of notes be perused by some Scholar and if any thing should be found worthy of printing that they be published c. It must be now known that in hate and detestation of Socinianism he did in his younger years examine all the mysteries in Religion and all the miracles in Scripture how far they agreed with natural reason and wherein they transcended and thereupon did publish a book intit The fall of man or the corruption of nature proved by natural reason Lond. 1616. and 1624. qu. And then he undertook to proceed in the rest of the Mysteries Together with these he drew up an History from the beginning of the World to his time and so he ended with the Church of England as seâ—led by Laws little regarding the opinion of particular men but Statutes Acts of State Proclamations Injunctions c. In which work he was much beholding to Sir Tho. Cottons Library But these with the rest of his goods were lost and whether they were ever recovered before his death I know not He hath also written Arguments or animadversions and digressions on a book intit An apology or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World c. written by Dr. George Hakewill Which arguments and digressions are with Hakewills answere involved in the sixth book of the said Apology printed at Oxon the third time 1635. fol. See more in G. Hakewill among the writers an 1649. Bishop Goodman also wrote The Court of K. James by Sir A. W. reviewed 'T is a MS. in a thin fol. in Bodl. Library and hath this beginning I cannot say that I was an eye and ear-witness but truly I have been an observer of the times and what I shall relate of my own knowledge God knows is most true My conjecturals I conceive c. The conclusion which is imperfect is this Yet notwithstanding I have given him Sir A. W. the name of a Knight because he hath pleased so to stile himself and that I might not offend him This manuscript book was made in answer to a published book intit The court and character of King James Lond. 1650. oct written and taken by Sir A. W. Which book being accounted a most notorious Libel especially by the Loyalists and Court-party was also answered in print by Anonymus intit Anlicus Coquinariae or a vindication in answer to a Pamphlet intituled The Court and Character of K. James c. Lond. 1650. The author of the said Court and Character was one Sir Anth. Weldon of Kent whose Parent took rise from Queen Elizabeths Kitchin and left it a legacy for preferment of his Issue Sir Anthony went the same way and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth in which place attending K. James into Scotland he practiced there to libel that Nation Which at his return home was found wrapt up in a Record of that Board and by the hand being known to be his he was deservedly removed from his place as unworthy to eat his bread whose birth-right he had so vilely defamed Yet by favour of the King with a piece of money in his purse and a pension to boot to preserve him loyal during his life tho as a bad creditor he took this course to repay him to the purpose In his life-time he discovered part of this piece to his Fellow-courtier who earnestly disswaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandal which as it seems in Conscience he so declined I have also been credibly informed that Sir A. Weldon did at the beginning of the Long Parliament communicate the MS. of it to the Lady Elizab. Sedley Mother to Sir Will. and Sir Charles accounted a very sober and prudent Woman who after perusal did lay the vileness of it so much to Sir Anthony's door that he was resolved never to make it publick Which perhaps is the reason why a certain author should say that with some regret of what he had maliciously written did intend it for the fire and died repentant tho since stolen to the Press out of a Ladies closet And if this be true our exceptions may willingly fall upon the practice of the publisher of the said libel who by his additions may abuse us with a false story which he discovers to the Reader in five remarkable passages and therefore in some manner gives us occasion to spare our censure on Sir Anthony who was dead some time before the said libel was published The second edition of it printed at Lond. in oct an 1651. is dedicated to the said noble Lady Elizab. Sedley and hath added to it 1 The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times c. 2 Observations instead of a character upon this King from his Childhood 3 Certain Observations before Q. Elizabeths death But these are not animadverted upon by Aulicus Coq or B. Goodman because they came out after they had written their respective answers The said Bishop Goodman hath also written The two mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity and wonderful incarnation explicated c. Lond 1653. qu. Dedicated by one Epist to Oliver Cromwell L. General and by another to the Master Fellows Scholars and Students of Trin coll in Cambridge Also An Account of his sufferings which is only a little pamphlet printed 1650. BERNARD ADAMS was born in Middlesex in the diocess of London admitted Scholar of Trinity coll in 1583. aged 17 years fellow five years after and when Master of Arts he went into Ireland where by the favour of the Lord
of Carlisle tho a Layman on the death of Sir Thomas Smyth and in 1589 Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter In 1592 he was made a Knight and about the same time one of the Privy Council to her Majesty being then a person most eminently perspicuous for his Learning Piety Integrity Goodness and Gravity He died at Pyrford in Survey where he had an Estate in the latter end of Feb. or beginning of March an 1591 whereupon his Body was buried in the middle of the Chancel behind the high Altar of S. Pauls Cathedral Over his Grave was soon after laid a flat stone with an Inscription thereon under which also Sir Franc. Wolloy his Son and Heir sometimes of Merton Coll. also was buried an 1611 as also Elizabeth Widow of Sir John All whose bodies were removed in 1614 and buried between S. George's Chappel and that of our Lady within the Precincts of the said Cathedral and had a very goodly Tombe with a large Inscription on it erected over them which was with the Cathedral it self consum'd in the dreadful Fire that hapned in London in the beginning of Sept. an 1666. Admitted 18. Bach. of Div. Only one was admitted this year viz. Hen. Henshaw alias Heronshaw of Magd. Coll. Dec. 3. In the next year he was elected Rector of Linc. Coll. There were also but two that supplicated for the said Degree one of which was named Will. Ely of Brasn Coll. who was made the second President of that of S. John by the Founder thereof an 1559. In 1563 or thereabouts he was removed from that place for maintaining the Pope's Authority and not the Queens over the Church of England whereupon leaving Oxon lived many years obscurely having if I mistake not entred into some religious Order beyond the Seas Afterwards being seized upon for a Seminary he was committed to the common Prison at Hereford where remaining several years died an aged man an 1609. being then accounted by those of his perswasion a most holy Confessour What I have farther to observe of him is this that when Archb. Cranmer was brought to the Stake to be burnt at Oxon. he took leave of some of his Friends standing by and seeing this Will. Ely among them went to stake him by the hand but he drawing back said It was not lawful to salute Hereticks and especially such an one that had falsly returned unto his Opinions that he had forsworn c. ☞ Not one Doctor of Law Physick or Divinity was admitted this year An. Dom. 1558. An. 5 Mariae An. 6 Mariae An. 1 Elizab. Chanc the said Cardinal Pole but he dying on the 18 of Nov. Dr. Will. Treshan became Cancellarius natus continuing in that Office till 24 Jan. following at which time Hen. Fitzalen Earl of Arundel High Steward of the University was chosen by the Suffrages of all the Electors and on the 6 of Feb. a Codicil of his Election was sealed and sent to him Commiss the same who was lately Canc. natus viz. Dr. Will. Tresham designed to that Office by Letters from the new Chancellour dat 24 Febr. to continue therein till the Feast of S. Michael following Proct. Alan Cope of Magd. Coll. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. elected 20 Apr. Gramm Jul. S. John Bedo an eminent Grammarian who had publickly instructed Youths in Grammar for four years in this University was admitted to inform and instruct in that Faculty Bach. of Arts. Nov. 18. Tho Brasbridge of All 's Coll. Dec. 12. John Merick of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man Besides these two were about 63 more admitted but none of them can I yet find that were afterwards Bishops Writers or eminent Dignitaries in the Church Bach. of Civ Law July 9. Tho. Dorman Rob. Lougber of All 's Coll. Of the last see in the year 1564. Feb. 21. Owen Lewes or Lewes Owen of New Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Cassana in Italy Dev. de la Hyde of Merton and Alan Cope of Magd. Coll. who had studied the Civ Law five years supplicated to be admitted but were not Admitted 14. Mast of Arts. Jun. 10. Jasp Heywood lately of Merton Coll. afterwards a Jesuit 20. Anth. Rush of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards a Writer and a Dean Dec. 5. Leonard Stopes of S. John's Coll. In the year following he either left his Fellowship of the said Coll. or else was ejected and going beyond the Seas was made a Priest much about the same time that Ralph Windon another ejected Fellows of that House was made a Priest also Afterwards they both came into England were taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire where they endured a tedious Imprisonment and therefore accounted by those of their perswasion Confessors Contemporary with them was one Thom. Bramston alias Brimston a young Fellow of the same Coll. who with leave from the Founder thereof lived with John Eâ—kenham Abbat of Westminster but upon the alteration of Religion which was made soon after he went beyond the Seas and was made a Rom. Cath. Priest Afterwards he returned into England was taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle where we find him 1595. Afterwards being set at liberty lived beyond the Seas to about the year 1608. Admitted 39. Bach. of Phys Feb. 6. Tho. Phaer See among the Doct. of this Fac. following 21. Walt. Baylie of New Coll. They were both learned Physitians and were also admitted then to practise Admitted 6. Bach. of Div. Jul. 5. John Piers of Magd. Coll. 9. Franc. Babington of All 's Coll. See among the Doct. of Div. an 1559. But two more besides the said two were admitted and three there were that supplicated one of whom was called Frat. Anton Reschius or Raschius who for the space of twelve years had studied Divinity in Paris and Oxford His Grace was granted simplicity in July but whether he was ever admitted it appears not He was one of the Fryers that was appointed by publick Authority to undo the Doctrine that P. Martyr and others had setled in the University in the time of K. Ed. 6. and is the same if I mistake not whom John Fox in his book of Acts and Mâ—n of the Church doth call Fryer Richard in his Discourse of the burning of Archb. Cranmer at Oxon. Doct. of Civ Law Jul 8. Thom. Powell On the second day of 〈…〉 he was admitted Archd. of Worcester in the place of 〈…〉 and resigning in 1579 was succeeded by 〈…〉 Thom. Keymis or Keymish was admitted the time day Doct. of Phys Mar. 10. Thom. Phaer The same who took the Degr. of Bach. of Phys on the 6 of Feb. going before For the same degree also did supplicate Rich. Slythurst M. A. and Bach. of Physick but was not admitted or licensed to proceed Doct. of Div. Jul. 6. Fr. Joh. de Villa Garcia or Garcina the Kings publick Professor of Div. in this University This person who was now very forward in promoting the
Oxford He was Son of John Vere Earl of the said place who dying in 1562 left this his Son Edw. a vast Estate which he afterwards squandred for the most part away upon some distaste taken against his Wives Father Will. Lord Burleigh L. Treasurer of England who refused to endeavour when it laid in his power to save the life of his beloved and entire Friend Thomas Duke of Norfolk for what he was charged with relating to Mary Queen of Scots This most noble Earl of Oxon was in his younger days an excellent Poet and Comedian as several matters of his Composition which were made publick did shew which I presume are now lost and worn out All that I have yet seen are certain Poems on several Subjects thus entit 1 His good name being blemished be bewayleth 2 The complaint of a Lover wearing black and tawnie 3 Being in love he complaineth 4 A lover rejected complaineth 5 Not attaining to his desire he complayneth 6 His mind not quietly setled be complayneth thus with many such like things that were highly valued in their time He gave way to fate in a good old age 24 June 1604 and was as I conceive buried by the body of his Father at Earls Colne in Essex Will. Haward or Howard Baron of Effingham Lord Chamberlain to the Queen He was Son of Thomas the second Duke of Norfolk by Agnes his second Wife dau of Hugh Tilney and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Lincolnshire Kt. Tho. Butler Earl of Ormond This person is one of the Ancestors of the present Duke of Ormond was now in great favour with Qu. Elizab. and by her employed several times in matters of concern relating to Ireland especially in that of quelling the Rebellion there made by some of his house as Sir Edm. Butler Pierce and Edw. his Brethren Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick He was the eldest Son that survived of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland beheaded for High Treason in the Reign of Qu. Mary and elder Brother to Rob. Dudley Earl of Leicester Chanc. of this University Hen. Lord Strange Son of Edw. Earl of Derby He became Earl of Derby after his Fathers Death an 1572. Edw. Stafford Joh. Sheffield Barons The first of these two Barons was the true heir of the Staffords Dukes of Buckingham and is Ancestor to John Howard the present Viscount Stafford The other Joh. Sheffield died in 1568. leaving then behind him a Son of about two years of age named Edmund who was created Earl of Mulgreve or Mulgrave by K. Ch. 1. in the first year of his Reign Sir Will. Cicill Secretary of State He was afterwards Lord Burleigh and Father to Tho. Earl of Exeter Rob. Earl of Salisbury and Edw. Vicount Wimbleton … Rogers Controller What his Christian Name was I cannot yet tell Sir Franc. Knollis Knight Captain of the Halbertiers Sir Nich. Throcinorton Knight a wise and stout man lately leiger Embassadour in France and about this time chief Butler of England and Chamberlaâ—ne of the Exchequer He died suddenly in Leycester House in the Parish of S. Clement without Temple barre London on Munday 12 Feb. 1570. Whereupon his body was carried to his house in the Parish of Chree Church near Algate where resting till the 21 day of the said month was then buried in the Parish Church there See more of him in Camdens Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1570. John Tomworth or Tamworth Esq of the Privy Council to the Queen The same who in 1564 had been sent to Mary Qu. of Scots to interceed with her for the readmission of some of her Lords that had been against her Marriage with Henry Lord Darnley This Jo. Tomworth had spent much of his youth in travelling beyond the Seas These Nobles and persons of Quality before mention'd were I say actually created Masters of Arts in a Convocation held Sept. 6. in the public Refectory of Ch. Church in the presence of Robert Earl of Leycester Chancellour of the University Dr. Kennall Commissary Dr. Laur. Humphrey both the Proctors c. the Queen being then about to leave Oxon. Sept… Thom. Randolphe Bach. of the Civ Law sometimes Principal of Broadgates Hall had leave tho absent to be created Doctor of his Faculty but whether he was created it appears not Oct. 11. By vertue of a Commission from the prime Members of the University then bearing date and sealed directed to Dr. Lawr. Humphrey the Queens Professor of Divinity were these five Bishops following made Doct. of Divinity Oct. 30. Joh. Parkhurst Will. Downham Tho. Bentham Rich. Davies Joh. Best Bishop of Norwych Chester Lich. and Cov. S. David Carlile All which were actually created Oct. 30. in the House of one Steph. Medcalf at London in the presence of Will. Standish publick Notary and Registrary of the University Thomas Roberts John Pratt Archdeacon of S. David Walt. Jones Archdeacon of Brecknock afterwards Canon of Westminster in the place of Dr. Mathew Hutton and Thom. Huet Chantor of S. David Oct… Edward Earl of Ruâ—land was actually created Master of Arts at London Feb… Will. Smyth one of the Clerks of the Queens Council was also created M. of A. at London An. Dom. 1567. An. 9 Eliz. An. 10 Eliz. Chanc. the same Commiss Tho. Cooper D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. elected 26 March Proct. Adam Squyre of Ball. Coll. Henr. Bust of Magd. Coll. elected 9 Apr. Bach. of Arts. Apr. 18. John Chardon of Exeter Coll. He was afterwards Bishop of Downe and Connor in Ireland Jun. 7. Rich. Stanyhurst of Vniv. Coll. Jul. 12. Thom. Williams See among the Writers under the year 1600. Oct. 10. John Case the Philosopher of S. John's Coll. Dec. 16. Edward Lord Russell of Vniv. Coll. eldest Son of Francis Earl of Bedford Adm. 46. Bach. of Law Dec. 9. Michael Maschiart of New Coll. Besides him were 9 admitted but not one of them was afterwards a Bishop or Writer Mast of Arts. Apr. 21. Tho. Allen or Alan George Blackwell of Trin. Coll. Thom. Ford was also admitted on the same day This person who was Fellow of Trin. Coll. and a Devonian born did soon after leave the University Country and Friends went to Doway and became a R. Cath. Priest and Bach. of Divinity Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England was taken and imprisoned and at length executed at Tybourne near London 28 May 1582. Jun. 4. Will. Raynolds of New Coll. 20. Jo. Field See among the Writers under the year 1587. Jul. 9. Franc. Bunney of Magd. Coll. He is mentioned at large among the Writers p. 355 but the Printer hath set his name Bunne for Bunney Oct. 17. Nich. Bond of the same Coll. This person I set down here not that he was a Writer but to distinguish him from Nich. Bownd whom I shall mention among the Incorporations an 1577. Thom. Coâ—e of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day In the latter end of the year in March 1588 he became Archdeacon of the
very next day after his Kinsman Sir Tho. Bodley was buried I shall make large mention of this Hakewell in the second Vol. of this Work or elsewhere It was then granted by the ven Convocation that Will. Camden Clarenceaux King of Arms who had served as an Herald at the burial of the said Sir Tho. Bodley might be created M. of A. but for what reason he was not unless his refusal as I have elsewhere told you I cannot tell Laurence Bodley M. of A. Canon residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter and chief Mourner at his Brothers Sir Tho. Bodley Funeral was actually created D. of D. the same day as a member of Ch. Church July 1. John Walter sometimes of Brasn Coll. now of the Inner Temple and Counsellour for the University of Oxon was created M. of A. He was afterwards Attorney to Prince Charles Serjeant at Law a Knight and chief Baron of the Exchequer He died 18 Nov. 1630 aged 67 and was buried in a little Vault under a north Isle which he before had built joyning to the Church of Wolvercote near Oxon where at this day is a splendid monument over his grave for him and his two Wives David Walter Esq one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 2. and Lientenant General of the Ordinance was his second Son who dying at London 22 Apr. 1679 was buried in the same Vault with his Father on the 30 of the same month Aug. 7. It was then granted by the ven Convocation that Sir Tho. Flemmyng Lord Chief Justice of England might be created M. of A. but whether it was effected it appears not Feb. 21. Sir Joh. Doderidge Knight one of the Justices of the Kings Bench was created M. of A. in Serjeants Inn in London A young man named Jacob Aretius who stiles himself Germano-Britannus studied now in Oxon and published 1 Primula veris seu Panegerica ad excellentiss Principem Palatinum This he calls Eidyllium 2 In augustiss gloriosiss Regis Jacobi inaugurationem carmen seculare c. written in Greek Lat. Dutch Ital. and Engl. 3 In nuptias illustriss principis Frederici Elizabethae Maletemata Which three things were printed at Lond. 1613. qu. He hath also Lat. Verses extant on the death of Prince Henry and perhaps other things This year also studied in the University Rob. Spotswood and Rob. Murrey Scots Of the first I shall speak at large elsewhere as also of the other if he be the same with Sir Rob. Murrey who was afterwards President of the Royal Society The most learned also Isaac Casaubon was entred a Student in Bodlies Library as a Member of Ch. Ch. in the month of May this year but died soon after to the great loss of learning He was a great Linguist a singular Grecian and an exact Philologer An. Dom. 1614. An. 12 Jac. 1. Chanc. the same Vicech William Goodwin D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 15. Proct. Jenkin Vaughan of All 's Coll. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. Bach. of Arts. May 23. Will. Jemmat of Magd. Coll. 28. Christoph Davenport of Magd. hall who for one year and three months had studied in Trin. Coll. near Dublin This Person who was no Writer as I can yet learn yet I set him down lest posterity take him to be Christoph Davenport who was now 1614 a Student in Merton Coll. I mean the same Davenport afterwards known by the name of Franc. Ã Sancta Clara and celebrated among Men of his perswasion and by many Protestants too for his elaborate books that are extant as you shall further see in the next vol. of this work June 16. Tho. Turner of St. Johns Coll. See among the Creations in 1633. 28. John Flavell of Wadh. 30. Edm. Wingate of Qu. Coll. Jul. 4. Will Stafford of Ch. Ch. See in the year 1617 under the title of Creations 7. Richard Thornton of Linc. Oct. 29. Christop Tesdale of New Coll. Of the first of these last two you may see more among the Masters 1617. and of the other in 1618. Nov. 4. Tim. Woodroffe of Ball. Dec. 15. John Harmar of Magd. Coll. 17. Hen. Ramsden of Magd. hall afterwards of Linc. Coll. Feb. 1. Rich. Toogood of Oriel Coll. Five of these Bachelaurs namely Jemmat Wingate Woodroffe Harmar and Toogood will be remembred at large in the next Volume or elsewhere Admitted 187. Bach. of Law June 30. Richard Zouche of New Coll. He was afterwards the great Ornament of the University for his singular knowledge in the Civil and Canon Law as you shall fully understand in the 2. vol. of this work Besides him were but four more admitted this year Mast of Arts. May 5. Richard Spencer of C. C. Coll. Son of Robert Lord Spencer 28. Brian Duppa of All 's Jun. 25. Rob. Skinner of Trin. 30. Hugh Lloyd of Oriel Jul. 2. Will. Page of Ball. afterwards of All 's Coll. 5. Michael Oldsworth of Magd. Coll. He was afterwards elected a Burgess to serve in several Parliaments for Sarum and old Sarum and tho in the grand rebellion he was no Colonel yet he was Governour of Old Pembroke and Mountgomery led him by the nose as he pleased to serve both their turns He had a share with his Lordship out of the office from which Sir Henry Compton was ejected in the time of the said Rebellion worth 3000 l. per an was keeper of Windsore Park one of the two Masters of the Prerogative Office and made the Bayliff of Westminster give him 50 l. per an to continue him there Jul. 5. Franc. White of Magd. Coll. He afterwards published Londons Warning by Jerusalem Serm. at Pauls Cross on Midlent Sunday 1618 on Micah 6. 9. Lond. 1619. qu. What other things he hath made publick I find not nor any thing else of him only that he was a Gentleman's Son of London I find another Franc. White who was D. D. of Cambridge afterwards Chaplain in ordinary to K. James 1. Dean of Carlile and at length Bishop of Ely the Titles of whose Works you may see in the Oxford Catalogue and among them the Sermon before mention'd as if it had been his Also a third Franc. White a Lawyer as it seems who became well read in the antient Histories and Laws of our Nation Author of a book entit For the sacred law of the land Lond. 1652. oct But whether he was of this University I cannot yet tell July 6. Edw. Terry of Ch. Ch. July 7. Gilb. Wats of Linc. Coll. Hen. King Joh. King Rich. Gardiner of Ch. Ch. Jan. 24. Rich Steuart of All 's Mich. Jermin Rich. James of Corp. Ch. Coll. Adm. 108. Bach. of Phys July 12. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll. Not one admitted besides him and but one that supplicated for the said degree viz. Rich. Berry of Linc. Coll. but whether admitted this or in any year following I know not He died in June 1651 and was buried by the name of Dr. Rich. Berry Bach. of Div. May 5. Rob. Harris
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
the Civil Law in an ancient hostle for Civilians called Henxey hall in St. Aldates Parish in Oxon where making great proficiency he was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1531. In 1535 when K. Hen. 8. first founded certain Lectures in the University he appointed Job Storie to read that of the Civil Law and in 1537 he became Principal of Broadgates hall being also about that time Moderator of one of the Civil Law Schools In 1538 he proceeded in his faculty and afterwards performing excellent service at the Siege of Bologne in Picardie in the administration of the Civil Law under the Lord Marshall there the King in consideration thereof did renew his former grant of the said Lecture in form of Letters Pat. for the term of life of the said John in the Year 1546 or thereabouts joyning with him for his ease Mr. Rob. Weston Fellow of All 's College When Qu. Marie came to the Crown she renewed his patent again but soon after resigning his professorship because he had got greater preferment at London and the Chancellourship of the Dioc. of Oxon. if I mistake not became a zealous Man in the Religion then professed and an eager enemy against the poor Protestants as the Histories of those times will tell you I find published under his name these things following Oration against Th. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury in 1556. Discourse with Joh. Philpot the Martyr about matters of Religion and with others Answer to Examinations during his imprisonment in the tower of London in 1570. Speech at his execution at Tybourne 1 o June 1571. with other things of which some relate to his profession that I have not yet seen When Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he was imprisoned but soon after broke out and going beyond the Sea continued an enemy to the Protestants there became a sworn servant to the Duke of Alva at Antwerp and from him received a special commission to search the Ships for goods forfeited and and for English Books in which service he did very great harm to the English Protestants At length being invited under hand to search the Ship of one Parker an English Man went unwarily therein Whereupon Parker causing the hatches to be shut when Storie was searching under deck he hoised sail and brought him Prisoner into England about the beginning of Decemb. 1570. So that being clap'd up close Prisoner within the Tower of London did undergo there several examinations At length being brought to a trial and stedfastly denying to take the Oath of Supremacy as he had done several times before within the Tower he was drawn thence on a hurdle to Tybourne on the first day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and one year 1571 having been prayed for and animated in his faith by Joh. Feckenham Prisoner in the said Tower where after he had spoken a large speech which was unexspected and therefore not interrupted he was for a little time hanged but before he was half dead he was cut down and when the Executioner cut off his privy members he rose up with alacrity and gave him a blow on the ear But his bowels being soon after draw'd out of his belly and his body quarter'd his head was set upon London bridge and his quarters were hanged on 4 gates of the City Several of his treasons and conspiracies against the English Nation you may see in a pamphlet printed in oct an 1571 bearing this title A copie of a letter sent by a Gentleman student in the lawes of the realm to a friend of his concerning Dr. Storie And what relates to him as praise worthy you may see in Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglica taken from Nichol. Sanders his seventh Book De visibili Monarchia His Martyrdom is imprinted or represented in the English Coll. at Rome and he is called with the two Notons Joh. Felton and others Saints The Franciscans have a great respect for his memory also because he had been a lay-brother of that Order and had done several signal services for them JOHN JEWELL one of the greatest lights that the reformed Church of England hath produced was born at Buden in the Parish of Berinerber in Devon 24. May 1522. His Father was Joh ' Jewell and his Mother of the Family of the Bellamies who sparing neither labour or charge for his education was at length by the care of Joh. Bellamie his uncle educated in Grammar learning first at Branton then at Southmoulton and at length at Barnstaple in his own Country under one Walt. Bowen In which last School being made ripe for the University he was sent to Oxon. in July 1535 and being entred into Merton Coll. under the tuition of John Parkhurst afterwards B. of Norwych was by him made his Portionist now called Postmaster and by his care and severe tuition laid the foundation for greater learning that followed In the Year 1539. after he upon examination had shew'd himself a youth of great hopes he was admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 19. Aug. and the Year after was made Bach. of Arts. So that being put into a capacity by that Degree of taking Pupills many resorted to him whom he mostly instructed in private in Protestant principles and in publick in Humanity he being about that time Rhetorick reader in his Coll. In 1544 he was licensed to proceed in Arts which he compleated in an Act celebrated 9. Feb. the same year When K. Hen. 8. was dead he shew'd himself more openly to be a Protestant and upon P. Martyr's arrival at Oxon to be an admirer and hearer of him whose Notary he was when he disputed with Tresham Cheadsey and Morgan In 1550 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences and during the Reign of K. Ed. 6. became a zealous promoter of reformation and a Preacher and Catechiser at Sunningwel near Abendon in Berks. Soon after Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was forced to leave the Nation and retire first to Frankfort with Henry the eldest Son of Sir Franc. Knollys Rob. Horne and Edwyn Sandys and afterwards to Strasburgh with Joh. Poynet Edmund Grindal Joh. Cheek c. After Qu. Maries death he returned in 1558 and in the Year following he was rewarded with the Bishoprick of Salisbury for his great learning and sufferings being about that time appointed one of the Protestant Divines to encounter those of the Romish perswasion when Qu. Elizab. was about to settle a reformation in the Church of England In 1560 he preached at Pauls cross on the second Sunday before Easter on 1. Cor. 11. 23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I have delivered unto you c. In which Sermon he shew'd himself the first who made a publick challenge to all the Rom. Catholicks in the world to produce but one clear and evident testimony out of any Father or famous writer who flourished within 500 years after Christ for any one of the many articles which the Romanists